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Antibarbarorum D. Erasmi Roterodami, liber unus, quem iuuenis quidem adhuc lusit: caeterum diu desideratum, demum repertum non iuuenis recognouit, & uelut postliminio studiosis restituit. Ex quo reliquorum, qui diis propiciis propediem accedent, lector coniecturam facias licebit by Erasmus, Desiderius (ca.1466-1536)

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Title: Antibarbarorum D. Erasmi Roterodami, liber unus, quem iuuenis quidem adhuc lusit: caeterum diu desideratum, demum repertum non iuuenis recognouit, & uelut postliminio studiosis restituit. Ex quo reliquorum, qui diis propiciis propediem accedent, lector coniecturam facias licebit
Author: Erasmus, Desiderius (ca.1466-1536)
Seller: Liber Antiquus (United States)
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Description: Basel: Apud Ioan. Froben. Mense Xbri., 1520. SECOND FROBEN EDITION (1st ed. May 1520). Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary reversed-deerskin (with minor stains and surface wear). A fine, tall, and fresh copy. Woodcut border by Hans Holbein to title page, additional woodcut borders to second leaf and the opening leaf of the text. Woodcut Froben device on verso of final leaf. Neat contemporary annotations in the margins, a few trivial marginal stains, final leaf with light crease, light soiling to t.p. and final leaf. Provenance: 17th c. inscription on t.p. “Monasterii S. Albani Congregationis S. Mauri 1699.” 16th c. ownership inscription (struck through) on pastedown. Second Froben edition, printed within 6 months of the first, of a book begun by Erasmus when he was a young humanist monk in his twenties and completed twenty-five years later, by which time he had become a figure of international renown and controversy. As originally conceived in the 1490s, Erasmus’ “Antibarbarians” was to be a spirited defense of humanism, in particular the reading and study of classical literature and languages, against charges that such literature and pursuits are fundamentally un-Christian. In its final form, as published in 1520, the book was also a defense of Erasmus’ theological positions, his views on church reform, and his application of humanist principles and philological methods to the study of religious texts, in particular Holy Scripture. Erasmus conceived his “Antibarbarians” at about the age of twenty, while living as a monk at the monastery at Steyn. By the time the book was published, Erasmus was under attack from many quarters, especially from the monastic orders, whose members resented Erasmus’ criticisms of their abuses and accused Erasmus of heresy and Lutheranism. The threat to humanistic studies that Erasmus had perceived in the 1490s was still alive and well but had taken on new dimensions and implications. The Louvain theological faculty had condemned Erasmus’ Greek New Testament, the preeminent expression of Erasmian humanism, and had also attacked Erasmus for his part in the so-called Reuchlin affair, “long regarded as the first formal confrontation of the new scripture-based reform with the scholastic defenders of the theological faculties and the Vulgate.”(Levy, p. 177) Forced to defend himself on these fronts and to clarify his positions, Erasmus used the “Antibarbarians” as a vehicle to stage his defense and to launch new attacks on his enemies. The Genesis and Development of the Work: “Erasmus arrived in Paris in 1495 and soon after his arrival submitted the first book of his ‘Antibarbari’ to the historian Robert Gaguin. In 1499 Erasmus went to England and it was probably then that he showed the drafts of Books I and II to John Colet. During the penurious years in Paris that followed, he apparently went on with it during the time he could spare from his teaching. He took it with him to Italy in 1506, and revised Books I and II at Bologna. But when in 1509 he received an urgent invitation to come to England and share in the golden age that was opening with the reign of Henry VIII, he left Italy in a hurry and consigned his papers to the care of an English friend, Richard Pace, at Ferrara. Soon Pace had to leave too and the papers went to another Englishman, less conscientious, who sold what he could and gave the rest away. “Erasmus asked over and over again for the return of his brainchild. But he never saw most of it again. He got hold of Book I when he was in Louvain many years later, revised it again, and sent it to Froben, who published it in 1520. The reason given for this was that Erasmus had found the manuscript circulating from hand to hand, and he was conscious of its juvenile mistakes; the only way to deal with this was to produce a new and revised edition. A year or two later he had the beginning of Book II sent from England and found the end of the same book at Bruges. But nothing more ever emerged, and he never fulfilled his intention of rewriting it.”(Margaret Mann Phillips, ‘The Antibarbarians’, in The Collected Works of Erasmus, Toronto, Volume 23) The Printed Version: “The work is a spirited defense of the study of the classics, in the form of a dialogue between Erasmus and his friends: William Hermans, a monk like himself from the monastery at Steyn; an energetic character named Jacob Batt, town clerk of Bergen; the burgomaster of Bergen, Willem Conrad; and the town doctor Jodocus. They meet and talk, and their conversation develops into a debate on the reasons for the stiff resistance they find among the traditionalists to the introduction of classical studies. “Three of the interlocutors are young enthusiasts, considered by the older generation as revolutionary and subversive because they want to substitute the ‘abominable monsters of paganism’ (Horace, Vergil, and Ovid) for the accepted reading of the schools. The two others are in agreement with the younger men, and together they discuss the motives for this resistance and for the decline of true learning. “The doctor says it is because of the stars (he is addicted to astrology); the burgomaster says it is because of Christianity; Willem Hermans says it is the result of the ageing of the world. Batt, however, puts it all down to the terrible teachers who reign undisputed in the field of education. The others beg him to make this clear, and he explains himself in a long speech, punctuated by a few remarks from his hearers. He sketches the battlefield, divides the enemy into three camps –the ignorant, the narrow-minded, and those who wish to use learning for their own ends- and starts an eloquent attack on the first group, who know nothing about the classics and therefore regard them as harmful (‘Beware, he’s a poet, he’s no Christian!’) or who take their stand on apostolic simplicity. “Eventually the burgomaster’s wife sends a servant from their country house nearby to say that dinner is spoiling, and they decide to adjourn and take up the discussion in the afternoon. That afternoon, for us, has not arrived. The stage being set, Erasmus intended to develop the theme in three more books. After the refutation of the enemies of humanism, the second book was to provide an answer to this, in which a fictitious character used all the powers of eloquence to pour scorn on eloquence; the third book was to be a refutation of the second, and the fourth a defense of poetry.

Manuscript Medical Lecture Notebook of Dr. Robert K. Smith, one-time chief resident of Blockley Alsmhouse, a.k.a Philadelphia Hospital and Insane Asylum, kept while a student at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1835-1836 by Smith, Robert K.

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Title: Manuscript Medical Lecture Notebook of Dr. Robert K. Smith, one-time chief resident of Blockley Alsmhouse, a.k.a Philadelphia Hospital and Insane Asylum, kept while a student at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1835-1836
Author: Smith, Robert K.
Seller: Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Description: Small quarto, 124 manuscript pages, plus blanks, bound in original ¾ leather over marble papered boards, binding worn along edges, corners, spine and spine tips, boards rubbed and scuffed, some toning, entries written mostly in ink, a couple of pages in pencil, in a legible hand. Front flyleaf has the following ownership inscription in ink: "Notes on Lectures Delivered / at Jefferson Medical College / Taken by Robt. K. Smith T.M./ During the Session 1835.6 / Bohemia Manor Cecil County / Maryland / Robt. K. Smith Mem of Jefferson M. College." Robert K. Smith's notebook contains his notes on lectures of the session 1835-1836 from November 1835 to February 1836; and includes his notes on: Dr. Jacob Green, M.D. on Chemistry (includes a piece on Galvanic Electricity); Surgery by Dr. George McClellan, M.D.; Materia Medica by Dr. Samuel Colhoun, M.D.; Midwifery by Dr. Samuel McClellan, M.D.; Practice of Medicine by Dr. John Revere, M.D.; and Anatomy by Dr. Granville Sharp Pattison, M.D. An online 1835-1836 catalogue of Jefferson Medical College confirms the above listed physicians and their course of lectures at Jefferson Medical College for the year (1835-1836). At the time there were 233 students registered for the lectures, having grown from only 96 in 1832-1833. The fee for each course of lectures was $15.00, another $10.00 allowed you into the Dissecting Rooms and Demonstrations. The fee for your diploma was $15.00 and $5.00 to the janitor, plus another fee of $5.00 for admittance into the museum for instruction by the Curator in the Art of making Anatomical Preparations and to the privilege of attending the Clinical instruction of the Dispensary. In all, one year at the medical school cost $159.00. Robert K. Smith, listed as "of Pennsylvania", was listed as a student for the 1834-1835 lecture course year, and the notebook offered here shows him as a student for 1835-1836. The Jefferson Medical College catalogue for 1836-1837 shows him as a student in that 1835-1836 class, however this catalogue shows him being "of Delaware" and graduating in 1836 with the thesis "The Influence of Habit." Robert K. Smith (1817-1877) Robert K. Smith was born about 1817 in Pennsylvania (per the 1850 census) and apparently (from the notebook) moved to Bohemia Manor in Cecil County, Maryland by the time he took these lecture courses at Jefferson (1835-1836). By the 1840s he is found living in Delaware where his two oldest children were born and were he was found as a member of the Delaware Chapter of the Pennsylvania State Medical Society; and by at least 1850 he is found in Darby, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, which is on the southwest border of Philadelphia. Robert K. Smith held the "position of Resident-in-Chief" in 1855-1856 and again in 1858-1859 at Philadelphia General Hospital ("Blockley Almshouse" a.k.a. Philadelphia Hospital and Lunatic Asylum). He had general charge of all hospital affairs and besides routine work, lectured at times in the amphitheater. One such lecture given at the hospital in the winter of 1855-1856 was a lecture on the clinical course of the hospital and was published in pamphlet form in 1855. He was first elected to the position on 2 July 1855 and was selected by the guardians and is said to have co-operated most efficiently with the clinical board, delivering in October a most excellent introductory lecture, and participating in the clinical instructions communicated to the class. In a newspaper announcement for the lecture, he was listed as the President of the Medical Board. The 1860 U.S. Census found Dr. Robert K. Smith enumerated in Philadelphia's 24th Ward. It said he was born in 1817 in Pennsylvania, and that his wife Sallie was born in Delaware in 1819. Their two oldest children were born in Maryland, and the two youngest were born in Pennsylvania. Smith was listed as a physician. Dr. Robert K. Smith died on 21 November 1877 at the age of 60 and was buried at Great Valley Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Malvern, Chester County, Pennsylvania, again a Philadelphia suburb. His wife died on 17 May 1884 and was also buried at Great Valley. The couple married 27 September 1838 at the Church of the Beloved Disciple in Philadelphia. Sample quotes from the Notebook: "Midwifery by Dr. S. McClellan The ovaria lie between the fallopian tubes or rather underneath them & between the uterus & rectum. The fallopian tubes are sometimes enlarged which the semen pas to the ovarian. By the removal of the ovaria the function of reproduction is destroyed. The catamenia differ in colour & chemical property from the blood. It does not coagulate. Unless care be taken in warm weather it becomes acidic & injures the mucous membrane of the vagina. If the discharge coagulates it does not warrant us in saying that there is disease existing or that she cannot perform her part in generation. This discharge is from the uterus but perfect discharges sometimes occur from the vagina. When there is a derangement of the uterine functions, discharges from the nose, lungs and other membranes occur. Yet the true seat is the uterus & it comes from the capillary vessels of mucous tissue of that part…" "Chemistry by Dr. Jacob Green Galvanic Electricity when 2 different metals unite the galvanization is generated. When it was first discovered it was supposed that the nerve & muscle were in opposite states of electricity. But this was proved to be erroneous by subsequent experiments made by Volta who found it to be the metals that were in opposite states of electricity. The next discovery of Volta was his [Crown of Cups] & the next the Battery which is the same or upon the same principle. The 2 wires which are connected to the Batteries called the poles the one at the zinc side the positive & the one at the copper end the negative. Every change in the electrical state of a body produces an equal chemical change. Oxygen Iodine & Chlorine are negative. Nitrogen Hydrogen & the metals are positive. Any three substances coming together produces electricity. The pairing of potato beet & turnips placed in successive contact produce electricity. It is the contact of the plates that first generates the galvanism and it is through the medium of the acid that it is kept up…"

Rudiments of Elocution: Founded on Rush’s Philosophy of the Human Voice. With Fifty-Six Engravings for the Illustration of Gesture. by Weston, Sullivan H.

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Title: Rudiments of Elocution: Founded on Rush’s Philosophy of the Human Voice. With Fifty-Six Engravings for the Illustration of Gesture.
Author: Weston, Sullivan H.
Seller: Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Description: second edition, 12mo, 64 pp., folding plate, removed from bound pamphlet volume, lacking wrappers, else a very good, clean copy. American Imprints 42-5131, two locations, MH, NCH. OCLC locates a combined four copies of both the first and second editions.

The Long Count (Signed) by COLEN, Dan

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Title: The Long Count (Signed)
Author: COLEN, Dan
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Condition: Near fine in yellow paper wrappers with some sun fading to the spine.
Description: New York: Karma, 2014. Near fine in yellow paper wrappers with some sun fading to the spine.. Limited Edition. One of 500 copies. SIGNED in black marker by Colen, below a comic drawing of a cigarette butt. Published on the occasion of Colen's 2014 exhibition at the Walter de Maria Building in New York's East Village. Colen begins this clever artist book by making a personal connection to de Maria, Scooby-Doo, and the Mayan Calendar, followed by documentation of his cigarette butt sculptures on the streets of New York.

REINHART IN LOVE by BERGER, THOMAS

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Title: REINHART IN LOVE
Author: BERGER, THOMAS
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Description: Scribner's, 1962. BERGER, Thomas. RINEHART IN LOVE. NY: Scribner's, [1962]. 8vo., cloth in dust jacket. Author's second book. Signed by Berger on front endpaper. Nr. fine; usual rubbing (few short tears) d/j. $150.00.

A TREE IS NICE by Udry, Janice May; Simont, Marc

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Title: A TREE IS NICE
Author: Udry, Janice May; Simont, Marc
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ISBN: 9780064431477
Condition: Fine in fine jacket.
Description: (New York): HarperCollinsPublishers, 1984. Fine in fine jacket.. Lovely later printing of Udry's first children's book, signed by its Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator. 11'' x 6.5''. Original pictorial boards with black cloth spine. In original pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Simont. Unpaginated. Signed by Simont on illustrated front endpaper. Minimal edgewear.

TEN YEARS' CAPTIVITY IN THE MAHDI'S CAMP, 1882-1892 [FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS OF FATHER JOSEPH OHRWALDER] by Wingate, F.R.

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Title: TEN YEARS' CAPTIVITY IN THE MAHDI'S CAMP, 1882-1892 [FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS OF FATHER JOSEPH OHRWALDER]
Author: Wingate, F.R.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company, 1895. Revised, Abridged Edition. Hardcover. 10mo, vi, xiv, xvi, 471 pages. In Good condition. Bound in the publisher's maroon cloth bearing gilt lettering to the spine. Boards show slight wear including lightly sunned spine, few scratches and rubbing to the joints/edges. Cocking to the spine. Text block has slight age toning/foxing to the edges. Partial cracking to the gutter at the title page. Copious foxing/slight offsetting to some pages. Gift inscription to the front pastedown. Frontispiece. Illustrated. Fold out map at rear. Revised and abridged edition. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column M, ND-M. 1383595. FP New Rockville Stock.

The Poems Of Thomas Bailey Aldrich by Aldrich, Thomas Bailey

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Title: The Poems Of Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Author: Aldrich, Thomas Bailey
Seller: James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. 1st. Hardcover. Very good. Bound in full blue cloth, blindstamped, a.e.g. Slight wear to extremities, otherwise very good. BAL 262.

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