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Catalogue des Livres de la Bibliothèque de feu M. Fr. J.G. de la Porte du Theil...dont la Vente se fera le mercredi 17 avril 1816, et jours suivans by (AUCTION CATALOGUE: LA PORTE DU THEIL, François Jean Gabriel de)

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Title
Catalogue des Livres de la Bibliothèque de feu M. Fr. J.G. de la Porte du Theil...dont la Vente se fera le mercredi 17 avril 1816, et jours suivans
Author
(AUCTION CATALOGUE: LA PORTE DU THEIL, François Jean Gabriel de)
Seller
Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description
2 p.l., xix, 334 pp., one leaf of ads. 8vo, cont. green sheep-backed boards, flat spine decorated in gilt & blind. Paris: Crapelet, 1816. The very rare auction catalogue of the library of La Porte du Theil (1742-1815), French Hellenist and conservator of manuscripts at the Royal Library; he played a role in the early attempts to decipher the Rosetta Stone. The collection was particularly rich in rare Italian books along with a fine collection of bibliography (lots 3248-3326). The preliminary leaves contain a valuable bio-bibliography of the collector by Silvestre de Sacy. Very good copy and priced throughout in a contemporary hand. 3486 lots. ❧ Grolier Club, Printed Catalogues of French Book Auctions…1643-1830, 564. N.B.G., Vol. 29, cols. 560-63.
TO THE COMMITTEE APPOINTED BY THE BOARD OF FELLOWS TO REVISE THE COURSE OF STUDIES IN BROWN UNIVERSITY, THE PROFESSOR OF THE LATIN & GREEK LANGUAGES & LITERATURE BEGS LEAVE TO MAKE THE FOLLOWING REPORT IN ANSWER TO THE QUESTIONS WHICH THEY HAVE PROPOSED...

TO THE COMMITTEE APPOINTED BY THE BOARD OF FELLOWS TO REVISE THE COURSE OF STUDIES IN BROWN UNIVERSITY, THE PROFESSOR OF THE LATIN & GREEK LANGUAGES & LITERATURE BEGS LEAVE TO MAKE THE FOLLOWING REPORT IN ANSWER TO THE QUESTIONS WHICH THEY HAVE PROPOSED... by [Brown University] Elton, Romeo?

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TO THE COMMITTEE APPOINTED BY THE BOARD OF FELLOWS TO REVISE THE COURSE OF STUDIES IN BROWN UNIVERSITY, THE PROFESSOR OF THE LATIN & GREEK LANGUAGES & LITERATURE BEGS LEAVE TO MAKE THE FOLLOWING REPORT IN ANSWER TO THE QUESTIONS WHICH THEY HAVE PROPOSED...
Author
[Brown University] Elton, Romeo?
Seller
David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description
[Providence, RI?, 1840. [8] pp, written on two folded folio sheets in ink manuscript. A couple of closed tears, repaired with a few letters affected. This is likely Elton's draft of a final Report, as it has lines which have been crossed out and replaced with others. Very Good. Our candidate for authorship, Romeo Elton, was the longtime Professor of the Latin and Greek Languages and Literature at Brown. Elton identifies and analyzes the text books in use in his Department. The "practice of frequently changing authors accords with the practice in the most distinguished universities in Europe. It has been adopted in this Institution as far as practicable & is attended with beneficial results " He is critical of "the Greek Grammar now used in this Institution." It is "defective in many points." He suggests adding Eschenberg's Manual of Classical Literature to the curriculum. Elton lauds the study of the Classics, and denounces "the indolent student," who fails to understand "the vigorous exercise which they furnish to the intellectual powers.
The Works of Francis Thompson [Vols. I & II: Poems / Vol. III: Prose]

The Works of Francis Thompson [Vols. I & II: Poems / Vol. III: Prose] by Francis Thompson

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Title
The Works of Francis Thompson [Vols. I & II: Poems / Vol. III: Prose]
Author
Francis Thompson
Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
London: Burns & Oates Ltd, 1913. Very Good. London: Burns & Oates Ltd, 1913. First Edition. Three volumes; octavo; full contemporary polished calf by Riviere, gilt-tooled margins, gilt spines in six compartments with crimson and tan spine labels, marbled endpapers; engraved portrait frontispieces (tissue-guards). Leather rather rubbed and dried at margins, small loss at spine crown of Vol. I, raised bands scuffed and front joint of Vol. III starting; internally sound, with light foxing and finger-soil to preliminaries, contemporary pencil gift inscription to front free endpaper of Vol. I; overall a Very Good set in attractive, albeit flawed, Riviere bindings.
Greyhounds of the Sea

Greyhounds of the Sea by CUTLER, Carl C.

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Greyhounds of the Sea
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CUTLER, Carl C.
Seller
Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Condition
Some light wear at corners, a few leaves roughly opened with short tears, but otherwise a very clean and handsomely bound copy
Description
New York: G. P. Putnam's, 1930. Some light wear at corners, a few leaves roughly opened with short tears, but otherwise a very clean and handsomely bound copy. 4to (26.5 x 19.5 cm). xxvii, 380 pages. Color frontispiece and plates, with captioned tissue guards. Specially bound, presumably a gift binding, in quarter green morocco, decorated paper boards, the spine gilt-lettered and with gilt dolphin tool, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, "C.B.F.B. 1934" stamped in gilt on front turn-in. First edition.
Murder in Trinidad: A Case in the Career of Bertram Lynch, P.C.B.

Murder in Trinidad: A Case in the Career of Bertram Lynch, P.C.B. by Vandercook, John W.

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Murder in Trinidad: A Case in the Career of Bertram Lynch, P.C.B.
Author
Vandercook, John W.
Seller
ReadInk (United States)
Condition
Near Fine in Very Good+ dj
Description
New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.1933). Reprint. Hardcover. [a good sound copy, light foxing on bottom edge of text block but no other significant wear, one-time owner's name on front endpaper, more recent owner's initials plus date & place of purchase along edge of rear pastedown (beneath jacket flap); the attractive skull-themed jacket is a bit edgeworn, with a few small closed tears, slight fading at the spine] The first mystery to feature Bertram Lynch, ace investigator for the top-secret Permanent __________ of the League of Nations (does the United Nations have "ace investigators," I wonder?), who is here called upon to look into the murder of one of his colleagues. In so doing, he traces "the dangerous trail of murder through the little gin-mills in Port of Spain's underworld fringe, through guest houses in stately residential streets, through the tangled life of the tropical city into the hidden depths of the Caroni." The book was filmed (under the same title) by the Fox Film Corporation in 1933, with Nigel Bruce (later Dr. Watson to Basil Rathbone's Sherlock Holmes) as Lynch, and is also said to have loosely inspired two later films, MR. MOTO IN DANGER ISLAND (1939) and THE CARIBBEAN MYSTERY (1945). Issued a few years later in a Triangle Books editon of markedly inferior quality. .
Portrait of a Mixed-Race Kansan Family, c. 1885–1890

Portrait of a Mixed-Race Kansan Family, c. 1885–1890 by [Kansas – Race Relations] Dunham & Stidham

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Portrait of a Mixed-Race Kansan Family, c. 1885–1890
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[Kansas – Race Relations] Dunham & Stidham
Seller
Auger Down Books (United States)
Condition
Excellent to Near Fine.
Description
Jewell City, Kansas: Dunham & Stidham, 1890. Cabinet card measuring 6 ½ x 4 ¼ inches. Pencil verso reads “Dora”. Some foxing to mount; photo with excellent contrast. Excellent to Near Fine.. A family portrait appearing to show a mixed-race couple and their children, taken by Dunham & Stidham in Jewell City, Kansas. Newspaper records indicate that Dunham & Stidham were active in Jewell City (now Jewell) between 1885 and 1890. Interestingly, despite Kansas’ fraught racial history, it was early to get rid of anti-miscegenation laws, repealing its law—which forbade marriage only between white and Black people—in 1859, prior to statehood.
The Dream of Arcadia: American Writers and Artists in Italy 1760-1915

The Dream of Arcadia: American Writers and Artists in Italy 1760-1915 by Brooks, Van Wyck

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The Dream of Arcadia: American Writers and Artists in Italy 1760-1915
Author
Brooks, Van Wyck
Seller
De Simone Company, Booksellers (United States)
Description
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1958. 8vo.  205 x 135 mm., [8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches].  [16], 272 pp.  Gray publisher's cloth, embossed publisher's mark on upper board, blue label on spine, dust jacket.  Some very minor fraying to head and tail of spine, dust jacket with scrape to outer edge of front wrapper and tiny chips at head and tail of spine. First edition inscribed "For Julius Teller with affection Van Wyck Brooks/ 1958".   Van Wyck Brooks, the noted historian, Pulitzer Prize winner, and National Book Award recipient, investigates the  experience of American writers and artists in Italy before the WWI.  Focusing on Prescott, Bancroft, Cooper, Longfellow, Hawthorne, Adams, Twain, Wharton and Howells, and artists like West, Copley, Greenough and Powers, Brooks delves into the impact of Italy on the creations that came organically from this seductive country.  In doing so he offers insights into the changing nature of Italy over a century and a half since Americans began to travel to the cities of the ancient world and Renaissance period.
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A Public Service Report. The FBI: Tool of the Justice Department by The Church of Sceintology of California

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A Public Service Report. The FBI: Tool of the Justice Department
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The Church of Sceintology of California
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ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
S. l.: The Church of Scientology, 1978. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 8 1/2 x 5 1/2; pp. 1-12; green wraps, decorated with vignettes of the shields of the Department of Justice and of the FBI; previous owner's signature to half-title page; age-toning along margins of wraps and a few small creases; in very good condition. Begining with: "The Freedom of Information Act may well turn out to be the most stringent safeguard ever placed on Federal agencies and employees," the booklet presented scathing criticism and disapproval of the FBI, the Government, which supported it, etc. by the controversial Church of Scientology - the group of interconnected entities, often described as a "dangerous cult and a manipulative profit-making business."
Little Snow Bear, An Original American Tale (Flavia's Dream Maker Series)

Little Snow Bear, An Original American Tale (Flavia's Dream Maker Series) by Weedn, Flavia & Gilbert, Lisa Weedn

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Little Snow Bear, An Original American Tale (Flavia's Dream Maker Series)
Author
Weedn, Flavia & Gilbert, Lisa Weedn
Seller
E M Maurice Books, LLC, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780786800445
Condition
Fine
Description
New York: Hyperion, 1995 Pictorial boards in matching dust jacket with price intact ($10.95). A lonely little bear decides to make a friend out of snow. Illustrated in color throughout. . First Printing. Pictorial Boards. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Flavia Weedn. Oblong 12mo.
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Accent on Life by Armitage, Merle; foreword by John Charles Thomas

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Accent on Life
Author
Armitage, Merle; foreword by John Charles Thomas
Seller
James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
Condition
Book fine, Dust jacket fine.
Description
Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 1965. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine, Dust jacket fine..
The Collector's Book of the Locomotive

The Collector's Book of the Locomotive by ALEXANDER, Edwin P.

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The Collector's Book of the Locomotive
Author
ALEXANDER, Edwin P.
Seller
Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc. Publisher, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Includes over 150 black and white illustrations and an additional 44 in color. A tight near fine copy in a close to near fine dust jacket with some slight wear.
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COUNTER
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Description
Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Center for the Book, 1996. self paper wrappers. small 4to. self paper wrappers. 30 pages. Number 5, Fall 1996. Table of contents. Includes articles, reviews, notes on contributors. Tipped in paper specimens. Black and white illustrations.

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