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FLORA PEDEMONTANA SIVE ENUMERATIO METHODICA STIRPIUM INDIGENARUM PEDEMONTII by (BOTANY). ALLIONI, CARLO. PEYROLERI, FRANCESCO AND PIETRO, Illustrators. (BINDINGS - ANNIE BOIGE)

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Title: FLORA PEDEMONTANA SIVE ENUMERATIO METHODICA STIRPIUM INDIGENARUM PEDEMONTII
Author: (BOTANY). ALLIONI, CARLO. PEYROLERI, FRANCESCO AND PIETRO, Illustrators. (BINDINGS - ANNIE BOIGE)
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: Turin: Michael Briolus, 1785. FIRST EDITION. 410 x 270 mm. (16 1/8 x 10 5/8"). Volume II with pp. 3-4 bound before pp. 1-2, but complete. Three volumes.. INVENTIVE AND ELEGANT BROWN CRUSHED MOROCCO BY ANNIE BOIGE (stamp-signed "A. Boige" on front pastedown and dated 1996 on rear pastedown), upper covers cleverly encrusted with botanical specimens (leaves or branches), smooth spines with silver titling, leather hinges, watermarked light gray endpapers. Housed together in the original suede-lined brown cloth drop-back box, suede-covered separators preventing contact between volumes. WITH engraved frontispiece portrait of the king of Sardinia in volume I, engraved allegorical vignette on title pages, and 92 FINE ENGRAVED PLATES ILLUSTRATING 237 BOTANICAL SPECIES. A Large Paper Copy. Cleveland Collections 557; Dunthorne 6; Sitwell, "Great Flower Books," p. 67, 69; Nissen BBI 18. ◆One plate with minor repair to fore-edge margin, another with tiny rust hole (not touching image), half a dozen plates with insignificant smudges made during the printing process, other trivial imperfections, but A VERY FINE COPY, clean, fresh, and wide-margined, in a flawless binding. This is a major work of 18th century botany, describing more than 2,800 species of plants found in Italy's Piedmont region, illustrating 237 previously unknown specimens, and--crucially--classifying them all according to the new Linnean system, becoming one of the first regional botanicals to use that taxonomy; as a bonus, our copy comes in a particularly appropriate and charming binding with prominent botanical design elements. "Flora Pedemontana" was the chief work of Italian physician Carlo Allioni (1728-1804), professor of botany at the University of Turin and director of its natural history cabinet and botanical garden. The illustrations were drawn and engraved by the botanical garden's resident artist, Francesco Peyroleri, and his son Pietro. Our flora is also an important source of information on Alpine flowers. The modern binding is by an artisan who was proclaimed the "Grande Dame of French bookbinding" by the journal "Art & Métiers du Livre." Annie Boige trained at the Estienne School and at the Vésinet Applied Art Workshop before establishing her atelier in 1985. An art bookbinder, she is noted for her monochrome color schemes and her use of beautiful leathers and vegetal materials, a felicitous choice here..

AMORIS DIVINI ET HUMANI EFFECTUS VARII, SACRÆ SCRIPTURAE SANCTORUMQUE, PP. SENTENTIIS AC GALLICIS ILLUSTRATI by (VELLUM PRINTING). (EMBLEM BOOKS)

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Title: AMORIS DIVINI ET HUMANI EFFECTUS VARII, SACRÆ SCRIPTURAE SANCTORUMQUE, PP. SENTENTIIS AC GALLICIS ILLUSTRATI
Author: (VELLUM PRINTING). (EMBLEM BOOKS)
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: Antwerp: M. Snyders, 1626. FIRST EDITION. 135 x 82 mm. (5 1/4 x 3 1/4"). 39 [of 40] leaves (lacking C4). Two volumes (one as issued, the other a companion volume containing related plates, without any title page).. Very pretty late 18th or early 19th century red morocco, covers bordered by delicate cresting roll with leaf cornerpieces, smooth spine gilt in compartments with leafy centerpieces, gilt lettering, turn-in with gilt floral roll, pale blue watered silk endleaves, all edges gilt. Supplemental volume in late 19th century red half morocco over red paper boards, similarly tooled spine. Housed together in a custom-made modern wooden box with sliding panel closure, a heart mosaic in multi-colored hard-grain leather on its sides. Amoris Divini WITH engraved title page, and 38 (of 39; lacking plate XXXIV) ENGRAVED PLATES, 35 OF THEM ON VELLUM, ALL DELICATELY COLORED AND HEIGHTENED IN GOLD (plates 19, 29, 30, 31, and 36 bound after text pages for plates 31, 36, 29, 30, and 34, respectively); second volume with 45 plates on paper (though without any text), including many of these same emblems, apparently from a later edition of this work, ALL DAINTILY HIGHLIGHTED WITH GILT. Front pastedown of first volume with monogram book label in colors and gilt, verso of front free endpaper with oval armorial bookplate "Ex Museo Van Der Helle" (see below). De Vries, "De Nederlandsche Emblemata" 121; Landwehr "Low Countries" 33; Praz, p. 254; Brunet I, 240 (this copy?); Delbergue-Cormont, "Bibliothèque de M. Van der Helle," Paris, 10 Février 1868, lot 69 (this copy). Amoris spine very slightly dulled, occasional hints of marginal thumbing, but A LOVELY COPY, clean and fresh internally with rich colors and glistening gold, in a well-preserved binding; supplemental plates with faint marginal browning, but excellent internally, the engravings gently shimmering with gold, and the binding with few signs of wear. The main volume here comprises a collection of emblems illustrating concepts of human and divine love; it is made all the more special by being printed on vellum, beautifully hand colored, and then delicately highlighted with gold. The emblems depict Divine Love as a beardless young man with nimbus who always represents love in its purest form. Human love, or worldly love, is variously embodied in a winged Cupid (sometimes blindfolded) who represents erotic love and who is accompanied by symbols of treasure or power that represent worldly desires. Landwehr, Praz, and De Vries make no mention of a vellum edition, but Brunet describes one copy on vellum painted in colors and gold, which he says sold at the Duriez auction. That book appeared as lot 3216 in "Catalogue des livres imprimés et manuscrits, composant la bibliothèque de feu M. L.-M.-J. Duriez (de Lille), membre de la Société des Bibliophiles français" (Paris, J.-S. Merlin, 1827), where its binding description matches our copy. Having uncovered no other hand-colored copies on vellum in auction records or in OCLC, we think it quite likely that the present volume is, in fact, the Duriez copy. Louis Duriez (1753-1825) was a Lille lawyer of sufficient skill and cleverness to move without incident from serving as lieutenant provost for his district under King Louis XVI to becoming receiver of the district of Lille after the revolution (1791) and purchasing the estate of an aristocrat which had been seized by the state. He rose to successively more important and remunerative governmental positions and was named Knight of the Royal Order of the Legion of Honor in 1814. In 1820, he was one of the founding members of the Société des Bibliophiles français, an elite group limited to 24 scholarly collectors. After his death, his collection of more than 5,000 carefully chosen works was dispersed at 59 auctions held between 22 January and 1 April 1828 at Maison Silvestre in Paris. A perusal of the lots on offer finds a strong emphasis on fine bindings, works on vellum, and illustrated books, many noting hand coloring. The emblems in the second, thinner book here (on paper, without coloring--but with gold highlighting) allow the reader to experience the pleasure to be found in comparing the degrees of decoration and opulence of the two volumes. These illustrations likely come from one of the later printings of this title, each of which added new emblems to the original 39 called for in Landwehr and Praz. (It is not clear when or by whom this second volume was wedded to the first.) After its presumed residence in the Duriez collection, our copy of the 1626 edition (and perhaps its sidecar volume) moved to another distinguished library--that formed by the scholarly and erudite French collector, M. Van Der Helle of Lille, who amassed a collection particularly rich in illustrated books and works on vellum. In the catalogue for the sale of his library in 1868, Paris auction house Delbergue-Cormont described him as a bibliophile "of the school of Renouard . . . [who] only liked irreproachable copies." (We bought this item without being warned that it is [slightly] defective, but given its distinguished provenance and the many other features it has going for it, we did not ask the seller to take it back.)..

HEDDA GABLER: A DRAMA IN FOUR ACTS by IBSEN, HENRIK

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Title: HEDDA GABLER: A DRAMA IN FOUR ACTS
Author: IBSEN, HENRIK
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: New York: John W. Lovell & Co, 1891. FIRST AMERICAN PRINTING. No. 49 OF 100 COPIES of the Large Paper Edition. 210 x 165 mm. (8 1/4 x 6 1/2"). xv, 236 pp.Translated from the Norwegian by Edmund Gosse. Contemporary chocolate brown three-quarter morocco over marbled boards, raised bands, spine gilt in compartments with lily-of-the-valley sprig at center, volute cornerpieces, gilt titling, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. With frontispiece photogravure portrait of Ibsen, and two photo-mezzo-type pictures of actresses Miss Robins and Miss Lea in their roles in the London production. Front pastedown with bookplate of Henry Horner; front free endpaper with small gift inscription in green ink, dated 1923. PMM 375 (Norwegian Edition). ◆A VERY FINE COPY, with just a small, isolated dent to fore-edge of upper board; the contents extremely clean and fresh. This is a limited, Large Paper Copy of Ibsen's most famous play, very rare both institutionally and in commerce, with visually pleasing wide margins, tall proportions, and charming plates. "Hedda Gabler" tells the story of a strong-willed woman marooned in a marriage to a boring pedant, and the destructive results that follow when she refuses to accept society's role for her as the supportive wife. Britannica notes that this play "is remarkable for its nonjudgmental depiction of an immoral, destructive character, one of the most vividly realized women in dramatic literature." Although Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) began his career in the Romantic vein, he became a pioneer of the realist style, and each later play concentrates on the troubled psyche of a protagonist caught between individualism and social pressure. It is not an overstatement to say that Ibsen revolutionized the theater; PMM notes that "[his] influence on the whole course of modern drama may be indicated by the inclusion of his plays in the repertoire of every avant-garde theatre of his day." Our American edition is surprisingly rare on the market, with no copy listed on RBH in the last 50 years..

Untitled. Woman & Clown On Ferris Wheel by Circus Poster

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Title: Untitled. Woman & Clown On Ferris Wheel
Author: Circus Poster
Seller: Dawson's Book Shop (United States)
Description: 6 sheet lithographic poster measuring 80 x 84 inches, small area of image loss at lower middle of image, some chips and tears at edges. Blank section at top left edge was intended for the inclusion of the name and location of a particular event.This poster was acquired by a collector from the Majestic Poster Press of Los Angeles in the early 1970s. At the time, the company held inventory of unused posters printed by other presses as well as their own. Large multi-sheet posters are quite scarce today.

Changements by Michals, Duane

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Title: Changements
Author: Michals, Duane
Seller: Dawson's Book Shop (United States)
Condition: VG, label residue inside front cover
Description: Herscher, Paris, (1981). VG, label residue inside front cover. 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches, unnumbered pages, cloth, Dust Jacket (good, outer edges soiled).

Princeton Alumni Weekly Special Report on Coeducation Debate and Institutional Transition, 1968 by Princeton University

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Title: Princeton Alumni Weekly Special Report on Coeducation Debate and Institutional Transition, 1968
Author: Princeton University
Seller: Max Rambod Inc. (United States)
Description: 1968. Princeton Alumni Weekly special report, The Education of Women at Princeton, 1968, documents the institutional decision-making process through which Princeton University moved toward undergraduate coeducation and records the formal evaluation of admitting women at a moment of national transformation in higher education. Issued under authorization of the university's president and trustees, the report establishes a primary record of administrative, cultural, and pedagogical arguments surrounding gender integration, including comparative analysis with peer institutions and internal dissent. The inclusion of opposition viewpoints, notably from faculty resisting coeducation, alongside forward-looking projections of a mixed undergraduate body, situates the publication within the broader context of late 1960s educational reform and women's expanding access to elite academic institutions. Princeton Alumni Weekly. Vol. LXIX, No. 1. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Alumni Weekly, September 24, 1968. Entire issue devoted to "The Education of Women at Princeton: A Special Report; On the Desirability and Feasibility of Princeton Entering Significantly into the Education of Women at the Undergraduate Level." Inscribed on the cover by the author, reading: "With the complement of the author / 16 Sept 1968 / Princeton, N.J." Periodical format presenting a comprehensive institutional study, incorporating administrative analysis, case studies from other universities, and extended commentary on policy implications and campus life. The report directly precedes Princeton's formal adoption of coeducation in 1969, when the undergraduate body first included 148 women, placing this issue within the immediate documentary lead-up to a structural transformation in one of the United States' most influential universities. Its examination of feasibility, resistance, and projected outcomes aligns with contemporaneous developments across Ivy League and peer institutions, where coeducation became a central site of debate within the broader women's liberation movement. The survival of an author-inscribed copy strengthens its evidentiary value as a circulated and personally distributed document tied to the policy's architects. Light handling wear; internally clean; inscription clear and legible. Overall very good condition.

Hojas Sueltas: Viajes Ligeros Alrededor de Varios Asuntos by [Mexico]: Selgas y Carrasco, Jose

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Title: Hojas Sueltas: Viajes Ligeros Alrededor de Varios Asuntos
Author: [Mexico]: Selgas y Carrasco, Jose
Seller: The Joe Fay Company LLC (United States)
Condition: Good plus.
Description: Mexico City: F. Neve, 1868. Good plus.. 394,[2]pp. Contemporary quarter sheep and pebbled cloth, spine gilt. Light wear to corners and spine; boards lightly soiled. Front and rear free endpapers town away. Even toning, an occasional fox mark. Rare Mexican edition of these collected philosophical and political essays and journalism by Spanish author José Selgas y Carrasco. Selgas was principally known for his lyric poetry and short stories, and also authored several full-length novels. He was known as staunch supporter of the Conservative political faction in Spain during the mid-19th century, and served in at least one legislative administration. An interesting appearance of this conservative voice in Mexican print, as the republic under the supposedly liberal Juarez was being restored following the brief reign of Maximilian I. OCLC locates only two copies, at Kansas and UNC.

(ASSOCIATION COPY) In the Beauty of the Lilies by Updike, John

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Title: (ASSOCIATION COPY) In the Beauty of the Lilies
Author: Updike, John
Seller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. ASSOCIATION COPY, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at front end page -" for Patience and Jim, me co-evals and class of '54 Best Wishes, John Updike". In 1954, John Updike graduated from Harvard and, with his first wife, Mary Pennington, moved to Oxford for a year. Laid in is a 4 page program for the event where Updike signed the book - Spirit & Place, A Gathering of Voices, A Public Conversation with John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, and Dan Wakefield. November 17 & 18, 1996 at THE POLIS CENTER, IUPUI in Indianapolis. First Trade Edition stated. Light green cloth covered boards with silver and gold lettering and rules to the spine and silver lettering and rule to the front cover. Near Fine, page block edges foxed, in a Fine dust jacket designed by Carol Devine Carson. .

The Hereditary Register of the United States of America by Woodward, Warren Stanton, Ed

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Title: The Hereditary Register of the United States of America
Author: Woodward, Warren Stanton, Ed
Seller: Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA (United States)
Description: Washington: Hereditary Publications, 1975. [xix] 926p., colored front., original blue cloth.

In the finest Tradition; the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers & Greys); Its History and Treasures by Wood, Stephen

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Title: In the finest Tradition; the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers & Greys); Its History and Treasures
Author: Wood, Stephen
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Description: Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing Company, 1988. 160p., colored and b/w illus., dj, quarto format.

Over the Range to the Golden Gate; a Complete Tourist's Guide to Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon, Puget Sound, and the Great Northwest by Wood, Stanley

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Title: Over the Range to the Golden Gate; a Complete Tourist's Guide to Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon, Puget Sound, and the Great Northwest
Author: Wood, Stanley
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Description: Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons, 1904. Revised to 1904 by C. E. Hooper. 340p., b/w illus., original blue cloth.

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Balkan Tragedy; Chaos and dissolution after the Cold War by Woodward, Susan L.

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Title: Balkan Tragedy; Chaos and dissolution after the Cold War
Author: Woodward, Susan L.
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ISBN: 9780815795131
Description: Washington: Brookings Institution, 1995. xii, 536p., maps, stiff wrappers.

RE-CREATION OF BRIAN KENT by WRIGHT, Harold Bell

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Title: RE-CREATION OF BRIAN KENT
Author: WRIGHT, Harold Bell
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Description: CHICAGO, BK SUPPLY, 1919, 1919. WITH SCARCE DUST JACKET (1/2) FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD. F. Hardcover.

Simon Petliura by Prokhoda, Vasil

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Title: Simon Petliura
Author: Prokhoda, Vasil
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Description: New Ulm, Germany: Ukrains'kikh Vistei, 1968. Softcover. First edition; 6 x 8; pp. pp. 51; green wraps printed in black; a bit sun-faded along margins of wraps, else minor wear; illustrated with portrait frontis; very good.A well-written biography of Simon Petliura - controversial Ukrainian journalist, writer, politician, and national leader. Called by some "freedom fighter who tried to protect Jews" and by others a "bloody anti-Soviet terrorist' - he was assassinated in 1926 in Paris by Russian anarchist Sholom Schwartzbard. The author, Vasil Khomich Prokhoda, was an Army Colonel, social activist, and writer.

Nesmertelna slava. Povist z istorii Ukrainy i viiska zaporiskoho (Immortal Glory. A Novel on the History of Ukraine and the Time of Zaporizhzhia) by Tyrsa, Vasyl (pseud. for Fedenko, Panas)

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Title: Nesmertelna slava. Povist z istorii Ukrainy i viiska zaporiskoho (Immortal Glory. A Novel on the History of Ukraine and the Time of Zaporizhzhia)
Author: Tyrsa, Vasyl (pseud. for Fedenko, Panas)
Seller: ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition: Fair
Description: London: Nashe slovo, 1953. First Edition. Fair. First edition; 8 1/2 x 5 1/2; pp. [2], 5-158, [1]; light-brown wraps, printed in black and illustrated with a small vignette in blue; paper strips to spine and hinges; gift inscriptions and stamps of a Ukrainian youth organization to half-title and title pages; text block separating; in fair condition.Panas Fedenko (1893 - 1981) was a Ukrainian author, publicist, historian, and political activist. He was a member of the Ukrainian Social Democratic Workers' Party (USDRP) and the Central Rada in 1917 and 1918, a delegate to the Labor Congress in 1919, and a USDRP representative to the Socialist International. After the Revolution, he lived and worked in Prague, London, and Munich, writing numerous books on Ukraine's Liberaton Movement, as well as short historical novels, including the current one.

Ansel Adams in Color by ADAMS, Ansel & Harry M. Callahan (editor)

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Title: Ansel Adams in Color
Author: ADAMS, Ansel & Harry M. Callahan (editor)
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Description: Boston, MA: Little, Brown and company, 1993. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 131 pages. While perhaps best known for his iconic black and white photographs he also took beautiful color images as well. Includes 50 color plates and 12 color illustrations. A fine copy in cloth boards and in a fine dust jacket.

GROUND-WATER RESOURCES OF CAMAS PRAIRIE, CAMAS AND ELMORE COUNTIES, IDAHO by WSP 1609 -- Walton, William C.

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Title: GROUND-WATER RESOURCES OF CAMAS PRAIRIE, CAMAS AND ELMORE COUNTIES, IDAHO
Author: WSP 1609 -- Walton, William C.
Seller: Hoffman Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Washington, D.C.: GPO. Very Good. 1962. Softcover. USGS 1962. Wrappers, good condition (rubber stamp on cover).. Complete with all maps and plates. .

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