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A SMALL COLLECTION OF DESIRABLE MINIATURE BOOKS, OFFERED AS A GROUP

A SMALL COLLECTION OF DESIRABLE MINIATURE BOOKS, OFFERED AS A GROUP by (MINIATURE BOOKS)

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Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts
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A SMALL COLLECTION OF DESIRABLE MINIATURE BOOKS, OFFERED AS A GROUP
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(MINIATURE BOOKS)
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Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
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1) FOUR EARLY 20TH CENTURY DIARIES. DE LA RUE'S CONDENSED DIARY AND ENGAGEMENT BOOK (FINGER SHAPE) FOR 1902, 1906, 1909, AND 1914. (London: De La Rue & Co., 1902-14) 77 x 24 mm. (3 x 1"). [34] leaves. Four separately issued annual volumes. Diaries with soft leather covers decorated in gilt (1902 in brown morocco, 1906 and 1906 in burgundy, 1914 in scarlet), 1902 diary IN A SILVER FILIGREE SLIPCASE, the others in matching morocco cases. 1902 diary with an address noted on Memorandum page, otherwise unused; other diaries with neatly written entries in pencil or pen. Front cover of 1902 diary slightly sunned, quarter-inch chip to tail of spine, corners and extremities of all books lightly rubbed from sliding in and out of cases, binding of 1914 book lightly soiled, but none of these issues significant, and the bindings and cases all generally very well preserved. 2) AVE MARIA. ([Budapest or Italy, ca.: 1970]) 10 x 11 mm. (3/8 x 7/16"). 6 unnumbered leaves, three of them blank. Charming burgundy calf, upper cover with the head of the Madonna tooled in gilt, flat spine with gilt bands. In a black pebble-grain morocco slipcase, nestled in fabric inside a 32 x 34 mm. metal box with latch. With a cross printed on the first leaf and a simple engraving of the Madonna's head on the second. Bondy, p. 156. Tiny (what else?) scratch to head of spine, otherwise A FINE SPECIMEN. This charming minuscule book contains the Latin text of the "Ave Maria" printed on one page. Bondy tells us there is some dispute about its origins, with Hungarian bibliophiles claiming it was printed in Budapest, and Italian collectors insisting it was Italy. Whatever its place of publication, it could scarcely be more charming, and it is certainly the most portable prayer book we have ever offered for sale. 3) CHURCH OF ENGLAND. BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. [with] HYMNS, ANCIENT AND MODERN. (Oxford: University Press, London: William Clowes, ca. 1920) 60 x 45 mm. (2 1/4 x 1 3/4"). 688 pp.; 859, [1] pp. Two works bound in one volume. Contemporary ivorine covers and spine, silk joints, metal (silver?) monogram mounted on upper cover, textured white endpapers, all edges gilt. Frontispiece of choir boys to first work, and of girls' choir to second. Upper corners of spine beginning to lift, silk joints a little worn, otherwise a fine specimen, clean and bright internally, in a well-preserved binding..
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Element geometriae infinitesimorum by SALADINI, D. Hieronymo

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Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts
Title
Element geometriae infinitesimorum
Author
SALADINI, D. Hieronymo
Seller
Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description
Bologna: S. Thomae Aquinatis, 1760. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Title-page in black and red with an engraved vignette of a putto with drafting instruments and an armillary sphere, 9 folding engraved plates. Contemporary boards; interior fine. An exceptionally nice uncut copy with very wide margins and an ownership inscription on the fly-leaf dated 1766. First and only edition. This was the first major work of the Italian mathematician Girolamo Saladini (1731-1813). Divided into three parts, various axioms and theorems are first proposed with 34 propositions and three scholia over the last two parts. Saladini makes several references to both Newton and Leibniz. Though little known today, Saladini together with the Venetian mathematician Vicenzo Riccati (1707-1775) published the first extensive treatise on integral calculus in their Institutiones analyticae (1765-1767), pre-dating Euler. Cajori, History of Mathematics, p. 221; DSB, XI, pp. 401-402 (Riccati).
Rapport sur le premier salon de l'aeronautique.; [Report on the first air show]

Rapport sur le premier salon de l'aeronautique.; [Report on the first air show] by Rives, Gustave

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Rapport sur le premier salon de l'aeronautique.; [Report on the first air show]
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Rives, Gustave
Seller
Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description
Paris: Librairie des Sciences Aéronautiques, 1908. Rives, Gustave. Rapport sur le premier salon de l'aeronautique. Grand Palais, Paris, Decembre 1908. 91, [5], [4, adverts.]pp. Text illustrations. Paris: Librairie des Sciences Aéronautiques, 1908. 285 x 230 mm. (partly unopened). Original printed wrappers, extremities of spine a little worn, light spotting. Very good copy. First Edition. Catalogue of the first international aeronautical exposition, held in Paris in December 1908. Included are descriptions, diagrams and photographs of the aircraft exhibited (biplanes, monoplanes, blimps, etc.), plus portraits of aviators / inventors, a timeline and a bibliography of aeronautical literature.
Pyramids of Geezeh, from the Nile

Pyramids of Geezeh, from the Nile by Roberts, D.

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Pyramids of Geezeh, from the Nile
Author
Roberts, D.
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Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description
London: F.G. Moon, 1846. 430 x 345 mm. Light toning.
All the King's Men (Limited Edition, signed by the author)

All the King's Men (Limited Edition, signed by the author) by Robert Penn Warren

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Title
All the King's Men (Limited Edition, signed by the author)
Author
Robert Penn Warren
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Royal Books (United States)
Description
Franklin Center: Franklin Library, 1984. Limited Edition, SIGNED by the author on the second blank. Tissue guard intact. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and basis for the Academy Award-winning 1949 Robert Rossen film, a film noir high spot. Fine, with no dust jacket as issued, bound in full black leather, all edges gilt, with five raised spine bands, and gilt title and rule.
Henry Slocum Writes About The Proceedings At Gettysburgh [Sic] Last July

Henry Slocum Writes About The Proceedings At Gettysburgh [Sic] Last July by HENRY SLOCUM

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Seller: Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc.
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Henry Slocum Writes About The Proceedings At Gettysburgh [Sic] Last July
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HENRY SLOCUM
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Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc. (United States)
Description
HENRY W. SLOCUM (1827-1894). Slocum was a Union Army General who saw action at First Manassas, Antietam and Chancellorsville, and then was a Representative from New York.ALS. 1pg. 5 x 7 . January 27, 1894. Brooklyn. An autograph letter signed H. W. Slocum to Mr. Polk: Yours of the 22d has been recd. The proceedings at Gettysburgh last July have not yet been published. As soon as they are I will send you a copy. 1893 marked the thirtieth anniversary of the massive battle.
Ascanio Opéra en 5 Actes et 7 Tableaux D'Après Le Drame "Benvenuto Cellini" de Paul Meurice Poème de Louis Gallet ... Partition Chant et Piano réduite par l'Auteur (Édition conforme au manuscrit original). [Piano-vocal score]

Ascanio Opéra en 5 Actes et 7 Tableaux D'Après Le Drame "Benvenuto Cellini" de Paul Meurice Poème de Louis Gallet ... Partition Chant et Piano réduite par l'Auteur (Édition conforme au manuscrit original). [Piano-vocal score] by SAINT-SAËNS, Camille 1835-1921

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Seller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC
Title
Ascanio Opéra en 5 Actes et 7 Tableaux D'Après Le Drame "Benvenuto Cellini" de Paul Meurice Poème de Louis Gallet ... Partition Chant et Piano réduite par l'Auteur (Édition conforme au manuscrit original). [Piano-vocal score]
Author
SAINT-SAËNS, Camille 1835-1921
Seller
J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Description
Paris: Durand et Schoenewerk [PN D.S. 4025], 1890. Large octavo. Quarter contemporary black morocco with textured red paper boards, rules and titling gilt to spine, marbled endpapers. 1f. (half-title), 1f. (illustration of a scene from the opera), 1f. (title), [i] (facsimile of 2 medallions under which the text "Benvenuto fecit" is printed), [i] (note regarding the mise en scène), [i] (named cast list for the first performance), [ii] (table of contents), [i] (blank), 391, [i] (blank) pp. Text in French. With publisher's handstamp to lower outer corner of half-title. Supplement ("Annexe") to pp. 388-391. Binding slightly worn, rubbed, and bumped; partially split at joints. Slightly browned; scattered foxing, heavier to some leaves; several corners slightly creased. With occasional performance markings including accidentals, slurs, and breath marks in pencil. First Edition of the first version. Ratner II, p. 205. Ascanio, to a libretto by Louis Gallet after Paul Meurice's play Benvenuto Cellini, was first performed at the Paris Opéra on 21 March 1890. "Composed in 1887-8, Ascanio makes a grand opera of a play of intrigue set in Paris in 1539. Meurice, whom Saint-Saëns knew well, had collaborated with Alexandre Dumas père on his novel Benvenuto Cellini, published in 1843, and had fashioned a successful play from the story in 1852. To avoid confusion with Berlioz's opera the title was changed (even though Cellini is still the principal character in the drama) and a scene in the play where Cellini runs out of metal when casting a statue was not included. The choice of an episode from Cellini's life that took place in France at the court of François I satisfied Saint-Saëns' longstanding desire to base his operas on French history, and by casting the third act as a fête at Fontainebleau (a departure from Meurice's play) he found an opportunity for an extensive divertissement of 12 dances very much in the spirit, and to some extent in the style, of French Baroque opera." Hugh Macdonald in Grove Music Online.
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COTTAGE BUILDING IN COB, PISE, CHALK & CLAY by WILLIAMS-ELLIS, Clough

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COTTAGE BUILDING IN COB, PISE, CHALK & CLAY
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WILLIAMS-ELLIS, Clough
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The Bookpress, Ltd. (United States)
Description
WILLIAMS-ELLIS, Clough. COTTAGE BUILDING IN COB, PISE, CHALK & CLAY. London: Country Life, 1920. 8vo. Cloth spine, boards. Frontispiece, 141, (3) pages, 32 plates. Second edition. Following in an English tradition begun by Gandy over a hundred years before. Williams-Ellis details the construction of cottages using non-traditional building materials, adapting them to modern housing. First published in 1919 this second edition has been expanded. Very good.
Crawdad cabal; vol. 1, no. 3

Crawdad cabal; vol. 1, no. 3

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Crawdad cabal; vol. 1, no. 3
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Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description
St. Louis, MO: Crawdad Alliance, 1980. Newsletter. [4p.], 8.5x11 inch corner stapled newsletter; some light mail-folds, address label on back, else in very good condition. News covers a Crawdad trial that sent 8 members (out of 26) to jail for a civil disobedience action, anti-draft news from the Boston Clamshell Coalition (anti-draft), and local affinity groups.
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San Francisco in the Seventies: The City as Viewed by a Mexican Political Exile [Signed and Inscribed by John Henry Nash to Author Joy Lichtenstein] by Prieto, Guillermo

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San Francisco in the Seventies: The City as Viewed by a Mexican Political Exile [Signed and Inscribed by John Henry Nash to Author Joy Lichtenstein]
Author
Prieto, Guillermo
Seller
ZH BOOKS (United States)
Description
San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1938. Hardcover. Limited edition of 650 copies; 11 x 8 1/4"; pp. 90; cloth-backed marbled boards; paper spine label; some rubbing along edges and corners of boards; very minor foxing to margin of first and last several pages; illustrated with portrait frontis, two plates, and head pieces at beginning of chapters (the latter by artist William F. Rauschnabel); bookplate to front board verso; lacking DJ; overall very good condition. The book reveals the impression and observations of California through the eyes of a Mexican politician in exile. The publisher, Canadian-born John Henry Nash, renowned for producing books, pamphlets, and broadsides of exceptional technical precision and beauty, has signed and inscribed the book to Joy Lichtenstein - author of the first full-length novel about the University of California, which describes campus life at UC Berkeley in the late 1890s - "For The Blue and Gold: A Tale of Life At The University of California."
The High Window

The High Window by Chandler, Raymond

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Title
The High Window
Author
Chandler, Raymond
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ReadInk (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
London: Hamish Hamilton. Very Good. 1949. 5th printing. Hardcover. (lacking the original dust jacket, but encased in a professionally-made facsimile reproduction of the first British edition jacket; see 2nd image posted with this listing) [lightly shelfworn, spine turned, some dust-soiling to top of text block, minor pencil notes on rear endpaper]. Philip Marlowe sets out to investigate a stolen rare coin, and gets mixed up in ever-so-much-more trouble. Filmed twice, oddly enough, in the 1940s, both times by 20th Century-Fox (getting their money's worth, I guess): as TIME TO KILL (1943), a breezy entry in the "Michael Shayne" series, with Lloyd Nolan; and again as THE BRASHER DOUBLOON (1947), with George Montgomery as the least interesting Marlowe of them all. .
Jacques Villon * Lyonel Feininger

Jacques Villon * Lyonel Feininger by Villon, Jacques & Lyonel Feininger

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Title
Jacques Villon * Lyonel Feininger
Author
Villon, Jacques & Lyonel Feininger
Seller
Royoung bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Orig. illustrated grey stiff wrappers. Fine
Description
Boston: Institute of Contemporary Art, 1950. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated grey stiff wrappers. Fine. 46 pages. 24.5 x 18.5 cm. Critical essays by George Heard Hamilton, Thomas B. Hess and Frederick S. Wright. Illustrated in black and white.
Isaac Asimov's Robot City. Robots and Aliens Book 5: Maverick [Inscribed]

Isaac Asimov's Robot City. Robots and Aliens Book 5: Maverick [Inscribed] by [ASIMOV] BETHKE, Bruce

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Isaac Asimov's Robot City. Robots and Aliens Book 5: Maverick [Inscribed]
Author
[ASIMOV] BETHKE, Bruce
Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
New York: Ace Books, 1990. First Edition. First printing (paperback original). Inscribed and signed by Bethke on title page to Minnesota poet and science-fiction writer John Calvin Rezmerski: "To Rez / ARF!," signed, undated but apparently contemporary with publication. Mass-market paperback; 184,(12)pp. Apparently unread, but with a hint of toning to wrapper edges; Near Fine. Publisher's "SIGNED COPY" sticker affixed to front cover.
Norman's New World Cuisine (First Edition)

Norman's New World Cuisine (First Edition) by Van Aken, Norman with John Harrisson

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Norman's New World Cuisine (First Edition)
Author
Van Aken, Norman with John Harrisson
Seller
The Kelmscott Bookshop (United States)
ISBN
9780679432029
Condition
Fine in Fine Dust Jacket
Description
NY: Random House, 1997. Hardcover. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto, Fine in an About Fine dustjacket. Cooking. COO1/4022.
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Pretending to be Asleep: Poems by Davison, Peter

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Pretending to be Asleep: Poems
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Davison, Peter
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Crooked House Books & Paper (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
Atheneum, 1970. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Trade paperback, 8vo, 53 pp.

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