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Stirpium Historiae Pemptades sex Sive Libri XXX.

Stirpium Historiae Pemptades sex Sive Libri XXX. by DODOENS, Rembert

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Stirpium Historiae Pemptades sex Sive Libri XXX.
Author
DODOENS, Rembert
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Ursus Books (United States)
Description
1616. DODOENS, Rembert. Stirpium historiae pemptades sex sive Libri XXX. [xvi], 872, [66] pp. Illustrated with an engraved allegorical title (included in pagination), ca. 1330 botanical woodcuts after Pieter van der Borcht. Folio, 348 x 214 mm, bound in contemporary Dutch dark brown calf, sides paneled with double gilt fillet, spine compartments similarly paneled and with gilt lozenge ornament, author's name gilt-lettered in second compartment. Antwerp: Plantin-Moretus, 1616. Definitive Edition of Dodoens' most important work, containing Dodoens' corrections and additions plus 32 van der Borcht woodcuts not in the first edition of 1583. Bringing together material from several of his earlier works, including the popular Cruydeboeck (1554), the present work was Dodoens' most comprehensive botanical treatise. Considered the first great Flemish botanist, Dodoens (1518-1585) modeled his work after Fuchs, but possessed a superior grasp of plant structure. The woodcuts of this edition comprise the full suite of botanical illustrations commissioned by Christopher Plantin from the prolific and gifted Flemish artist Pieter van der Borcht (1545-1608) a pupil of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Van der Borcht had fled his native Mecheln after its destruction by the troops of the Duke of Alba in 1572, taking refuge in Antwerp. A series of albums containing van der Borcht's exceptionally-detailed watercolours survives in the Staatsbibliothek Berlin. Plantin issued the woodcuts in a somewhat simplified manner, focusing on the essential parts of the plant; they are nonetheless of very high quality; Nissen (p. 63) comments that while the scientific accuracy of the cuts is not surprising given the learned editors who supervised their production, the woodcuts, which exhibit some unmistakably Baroque stylistic elements, are also artistically excellent, and in certain aspects, superior to those of Fuchs. The engraved title is a reworking of the plate used for the 1601 edition of Clusius' Rariorum plantarum historia; it shows the musing figures of Adam, Solomon, Theophrastus and Dioscorides resting on a flower-bedecked architectural structure. A few sheets slightly browned, but a fine, tall and wide-margined copy of this important botanical work, in its original Dutch binding. Hunt 201. Nissen, BBI 517. Stafleu & Cowan 1489. Voet, The Plantin Press 1101.
II. Kongress der Arbeiter-, Bauern- und Soldatenräte Deutschlands; am 8. bis 14. April 1919 im Herrenhaus zu Berlin - Stenographisches Protokoll. Herausgegeben und verlegt vom Zentralrat, Berlin, Herrenhaus

II. Kongress der Arbeiter-, Bauern- und Soldatenräte Deutschlands; am 8. bis 14. April 1919 im Herrenhaus zu Berlin - Stenographisches Protokoll. Herausgegeben und verlegt vom Zentralrat, Berlin, Herrenhaus by (Germany)

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II. Kongress der Arbeiter-, Bauern- und Soldatenräte Deutschlands; am 8. bis 14. April 1919 im Herrenhaus zu Berlin - Stenographisches Protokoll. Herausgegeben und verlegt vom Zentralrat, Berlin, Herrenhaus
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(Germany)
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Locus Solus Rare Books (United States)
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Pages somewhat toned; few pencil notations and marginalia; short closed tear to title page; exlibris stamp from former East Germ
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Berlin: Zentralrat, 1919. First edition. Cloth. Pages somewhat toned; few pencil notations and marginalia; short closed tear to title page; exlibris stamp from former East German library on verso of title; extremities of covers rubbed; library label removed from base of spine, still very good.. 4to, 277pp; contemporary buckram. Original documentation from this dark moment in the history of modern Germany, the weeks of counter-revolution in Berlin that followed the murders of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg in January 1919. The councils that had been established by the 1918 revolution in the wake of Germany's disastrous defeat in the First World War were being swept aside by their own leadership. The rather hapless head of state Friedrich Ebert had allied himself with the armed forces, and, ominously, with the reactionary Freikorps militia bands commanded by Gustav Noske. It was a peculiar alliance that shortly solidified Ebert's power and set the stage for the creation of the Weimar Republic, even while simultaneously sowing the seeds of violent extremism that would emerge fully fledged in the National Socialist movement some years later. Along with a variety of nuts-and-bolts issues of procedure recorded in these stenographic minutes, are speeches and debates surrounding the bloody massacres of revolutionaries spearheaded by Noske. An important record of a fascinating, if murky, episode in modern German history.
The Book of Los

The Book of Los by Blake, William. (Trianon Press)

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The Book of Los
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Blake, William. (Trianon Press)
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John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller (United States)
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1976. London: Trianon Press, 1976. 4to, 5 color plates and commentary. Quarter brown morocco, slipcase. A fine copy. ß Regular copy #166. Limited to 538 copies including 32 de luxe copies numbered I-XXXII, 480 regular copies numbered 1-480, and 26 copies lettered A-Z reserved for the Trustees of the William Blake Trust and the publishers. Bentley, BBS, p. 62. The Book of Los is the companion volume to the Book of Ahania. The poem opens with a lamentation by Eno aged Mother over the loss of Edenic pleasures through Urizenic error and the world it creates. The narrative then centers on Los s anguished responses to that world, including his transformation of the void into matter and his binding of Urizen. The five plates of†The Book of Los†were etched in intaglio and printed in 1795. There is only one complete copy (A, British Museum), plus a separate impression of Plate 4. The designs on Plates 1-3 and 5 were color printed from the surfaces of copperplates bearing only etched outlines of the pictorial motifs. (The Blake Archive) (6288).
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HORSE, FOOT, AND DRAGOONS SKETCHES OF ARMY LIFE AT HOME AND ABROAD.; Illustrated by author by Zogbaum, Rufus Fairchild

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HORSE, FOOT, AND DRAGOONS SKETCHES OF ARMY LIFE AT HOME AND ABROAD.; Illustrated by author
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Zogbaum, Rufus Fairchild
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Bartlebys Books (United States)
Description
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1888. First edition. 8vo. 176 pp. Illustrated, plates, the frontispiece an India proof. “Zogbaum was willing to get off the beaten track and undergo rigors of life on the trail ... as a result secured material of more than of ordinary interest” (Taft). "Included herein are the accounts of the expedition of the Second Cavalry from Ft Ellis to the Idaho border, in 1884” (Midland Notes). Original gilt-stamped pictorial blue cloth, top edge gilt.
The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep

The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep by Block, Lawrence

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The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep
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Block, Lawrence
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Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
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9781562870638
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Fine
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New York: The Armchair Detective Library, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. One of 26 signed and numbered copies. Fine, complete in the issued slipcase. Red buckram with gilt lettering and designs on the spine and front board, with a pictorial paste-down on the front. Square and firmly bond, clean internally. Originally published in 1966, this is the first Evan Tanner novel.
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[Epic poems] Byliny ob Il'e Muromtse by Various

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[Epic poems] Byliny ob Il'e Muromtse
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Various
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ZH BOOKS (United States)
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Near Fine
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Moskva: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo Khudozhestvennoi Literatury, 1947. Soft cover. Near Fine. First edition in this format; staple-bound 5" x 8"; pp. 3-46, [1]; original stiff pictorial wraps; small piece chipped off upper corner of front cover, else near fine. Il'ia Muromets, depicted in numerous epic poems some of which were collected in this book, was a Kievan Rus epic hero and one of the greatest bogatyrs. Though most of his adventures appear to have been a work of fiction, scientists believe that he indeed was a historic person sometime in the 12th century. He is also the only epic hero to be canonized as a Saint by the Russian Orthodox Church.
The Address and Proceedings of the Friends of Daniel Webster, Assembled in Faneuil Hall, on Wednesday, September 15th, 1852, in Massachusetts Convention

The Address and Proceedings of the Friends of Daniel Webster, Assembled in Faneuil Hall, on Wednesday, September 15th, 1852, in Massachusetts Convention

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The Address and Proceedings of the Friends of Daniel Webster, Assembled in Faneuil Hall, on Wednesday, September 15th, 1852, in Massachusetts Convention
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Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
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Very Good
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Boston: James French, 1852. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Disbound pamphlet. 12pp. Some spotting and rubbing else very good.

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