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LE TEMPLE DE GNIDE, SUIVI D'ARSACE ET ISMÉNIE by (FRENCH ILLUSTRATED BOOKS). (COLOR PRINTING). MONTESQUIEU, [CHARLES DE SECONDAT]

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Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts

Title: LE TEMPLE DE GNIDE, SUIVI D'ARSACE ET ISMÉNIE
Author: (FRENCH ILLUSTRATED BOOKS). (COLOR PRINTING). MONTESQUIEU, [CHARLES DE SECONDAT]
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: Paris: P. Didot l'aîné, 1796. ONE OF 100 COPIES. 330 x 235 mm. (13 x 9 1/4"). 2 p.l., 165, [1] pp. (Original?) gray boards, flat spine, dark gray paper title label, two-thirds of the leaves UNOPENED. Engraved printer's device on title page and SEVEN FINE COLOR-PRINTED ENGRAVINGS AFTER PEYRON BY CHAPUY AND LAVALLÉE, SOME FINISHED BY HAND. Cohen-de Ricci 730; Brunet III, 1860. ◆A couple of very small brown spots and just a hint of soiling as well as minor abrasions to covers, corners somewhat mashed (as expected), isolated trivial foxing to text, but A VERY FINE COPY, clean and bright internally, with vividly colored plates, and in a surprisingly sturdy and generally well-preserved original temporary publisher's binding. This is the fine Levy copy of a strictly limited Large Paper edition of a handsomely illustrated work, offered here in what seem to be the publisher's temporary boards, mostly unopened and virtually untouched internally. Attractively printed with enormous margins, the text of the first (and by far the most important) work here is a prose poem on love (supposedly translated from the Greek) by one of the great political philosophers of the Enlightenment, Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755). In its own day, the work was popular largely because of its racy content; today, it is considered as a more serious accomplishment by modern scholars, who are inclined to see it as a philosophical fable. The colophon informs us that this limited edition was printed with a new type cut and cast by Firmin Didot "with such perfection that up to this moment none other can equal it." The dramatic and animated plates are strikingly different from the Eisen engravings in other editions of this work, and are more modern in sensibility than the usual 18th century French engravings. The colophon notes that the plates were broken after the 100 copies of this edition were printed. Our copy was in the outstanding library of American bibliophile Jacques Levy (1905-80), a man of wide-ranging interests who assembled an eclectic collection over 40 years, always with a discriminating eye toward visually pleasing and historically important bindings and illustration. In his sale, Sotheby's described our binding as being publisher's boards, and although the volume seems almost too well preserved to be original, we are persuaded by the collector's reputation that this is the correct characterization..

Gold Rush Map Manuscript by GOLD RUSH

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Seller: Heritage Book Shop, LLC

Title: Gold Rush Map Manuscript
Author: GOLD RUSH
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, LLC (United States)
Description: Placer County, California, 1852. GOLD RUSH. [Gold Rush Map Manuscript. Being a Survey for the adjoining plots of land belonging to H.H. Watson and A.J. Polhill. Placer County, California: 1852]. Two pages on a single sheet (17 1/8 x 10 7/8 in.; 438 x 275 mm). Manuscript document with map, dated variously between 4-24 September 1852, and signed by H.H. Watson, A.J. Polhill, and others. Sheet with some mild staining and ink blots. Some minor chipping at edges and some separations at the creases. Creases reinforced with nearly invisible tape. Overall a very interesting piece of gold rush history. We could not find any other California mine surveys at auction in the past 50 years. "Survey for H.H. Watson and A.J. Polhill. A Tract of land laying near [?ville] bounded as described in the annex plot commencing point as the S.W. corner of J.H. Hancock survey..." "Survey made by N.O. Hinman [?], County Surveyor..." "In the present survey, the tracts of land being issued to Watson and Polhill are bounded on the right by the Volcano Mining Company Ditch and Volcano Canion [sic], with the Todds [sic] Valley Company Ditch running through each plot. The Volcano Gold Gravel Mining Company was one of the most extensive gravel mines during the Gold Rush, and hundreds of acres of valuable mining lands were drained by its enterprises. Placer County falls in both the Sacramento Valley and Sierra Nevada regions, in what is known as the Gold Country. The discovery of gold in this region in 1848 brought tens of thousands of miners from around the world, and thousands more settled in the area to provide goods and services to them. The name "Placer" is taken from the Spanish word for gravel or sand deposits containing gold." (From Sotheby's). HBS 68368. $3,500.

Kinsey Photographer: The Locomotive Portraits: Promotional Poster

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Seller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA

Title: Kinsey Photographer: The Locomotive Portraits: Promotional Poster
Seller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1984. Poster. Near Fine. Poster. First Printing. 17 3/4" x 24". SCARCE publisher's promotional poster, distributed in limited numbers at the ABA trade show in 1984. Near Fine, faint creases, 17 3/4"w x 24"h. Featuring a black and white portrait of a locomotive done by Darius Kinsey in 1926. Well suited for framing, will be shipped loosely rolled in a mailing tube..

SHOES; FALL & WINTER 1916-1917 by Simmons & Heaton Co.

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Title: SHOES; FALL & WINTER 1916-1917
Author: Simmons & Heaton Co.
Seller: J.B. Muns, Fine Arts Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Athol, MA, 1916. Paperback. Very Good. Color illus. covers, order blank laid in. Wonderful high-buttoned (& laced) shoes illus.,some with extra strap in color, one a color fold-out in red & black - very tylist. Also shoes for children. 34pp. 6 1/2" x 10".

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The Domestic Airline Industry by Wyckoff, D. Daryl and David H. Maister

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Title: The Domestic Airline Industry
Author: Wyckoff, D. Daryl and David H. Maister
Seller: McBlain Books (United States)
ISBN: 9780669013078
Condition: Very Good
Description: Lexington, Mass: Lexington Books, 1977. Paperback. Very Good. xciv, 191p. Wrapper. 23cm. Covers browned around edges. No jacket.

LEAVING THE LAND by Unger, Douglas

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Title: LEAVING THE LAND
Author: Unger, Douglas
Seller: Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA (United States)
ISBN: 9780345321121
Condition: Unread
Description: NY: Ballantine, 1985. First paperback edition, first prnt. Glossy pictoral wraps. Beginning page toning, otherwise an unread copy in Fine condition. Unger's first novel. The image is of the actual book described and not a stock photo.

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