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Recherches sur Buddou ou Bouddou instituteur religieux de l'Asie orientale [Studies on Buddsou or Bouddou, Religious Teacher of Eastern Asia]

Recherches sur Buddou ou Bouddou instituteur religieux de l'Asie orientale [Studies on Buddsou or Bouddou, Religious Teacher of Eastern Asia] by [BUDDHISM]. OZERAY, MICHEL-JEAN-FRANÇOIS

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Title
Recherches sur Buddou ou Bouddou instituteur religieux de l'Asie orientale [Studies on Buddsou or Bouddou, Religious Teacher of Eastern Asia]
Author
[BUDDHISM]. OZERAY, MICHEL-JEAN-FRANÇOIS
Seller
The Manhattan Rare Book Company (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Paris: Chez Brunot-Labbe, 1817. First edition. contemporary morocco over marbled boards. Very Good. EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST WESTERN BOOK ON BUDDHISM. "Although the Western encounter with Asia's largest religion may be the vastest and most consequential spiritual encounter in human history, its protagonists and historical development are still barely known. Thus it comes as no surprise that even specialists have hitherto failed to appreciate the earliest Western book about Buddhism: Michel-Jean-François Ozeray's Recherches sur Buddou ou Bouddou, instituteur religieux de l'Asie orientale (Paris, 1817)... "... Ozeray's book represents a landmark in the history of the Western discovery of Buddhism. Published three years after the establishment of Europe's first academic chairs for indology and sinology and just before the organized academic study of Buddhist texts began, Ozeray's reliance on images and reports by embassies and European residents in Asian countries rather than missionary literature marks a watershed, as does the author's firm advocacy of a single historical founder, his unwillingness to engage in etymological and mythological flights of fancy, and his insistence on Buddhism's status as the largest of all religions of the Orient or even of the entire world. Though the book did not reach a large pan-European readership, it was read by intellectuals interested in Buddhism such as the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, Europe's first professor of Sinology Abel-Rémusat, and the linguist Julius Klaproth. Klaproth and Abel-Rémusat were around the time of publication expressing increasing interest in Buddhism and its history. Both were involved in the birth of France's earliest Orientalist journal, the Journal Asiatique, which from the early 1820s became one of Europe's most important sources of information about Buddhism. Ozeray's book thus stands near the end of the mythological speculation period and near the beginning of organized research on Asia's greatest religion" (Urs App, The First Western Book on Buddhism and Buddha). 
Paris: Chez Brunot-Labbe, 1817. Octavo, contemporary half-morocco, marbled boards and endpapers. Complete with half-title. Some scuffing to binding, small closed tear to half-title. Text in outstanding condition with large margins. SCARCE.
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Galapagos by VONNEGUT Kurt

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Title
Galapagos
Author
VONNEGUT Kurt
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Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description
1985. First Edition. Signed. VONNEGUT, Kurt. Galapagos. (New York): Delacorte, (1985). Octavo, original half black cloth, original dust jacket. $1850.First trade edition of the ""best Vonnegut novel yet"" (John Irving), signed by Vonnegut with his characteristic asterisk.To writer John Irving, Galapágos is the ""best Vonnegut novel yet."" Vonnegut tells ""the story, sort of, of a second Noah's ark… He is a postmodern Mark Twain: grumpy and sentimental, antic and religious."" Vonnegut, who died in 2007, ""caught the temper of his times and the imagination of a generation' (New York Times). ""First trade edition"" stated on copyright page; preceded by the same year's signed limited edition. Book fine, dust jacket near-fine with short closed tear to foot of spine.
TOBA-E SANGOKU-SHI

TOBA-E SANGOKU-SHI by [EHON] Anonymous

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TOBA-E SANGOKU-SHI
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[EHON] Anonymous
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Boston Book Company (United States)
Description
1793. [EHON]. TOBA-E SANGOKU-SHI. 3 Vols., Osaka, Kawachiya Kihei and Kawachiya Eisuke, Kansei 5 [1793]. 25.8 x 18.5 cm. Original dark blue covers, string-bound Japanese style, fukuro toji, with the pink printed paper title labels. A nice 18th century edition of this work in good impression. Originally published in the 1720's. Though the artist is unnamed, several candidates have been mentioned, including O^oka Shumboku. 18th century editions of Toba-e books are becoming increasingly uncommon. In a custom clasped chitsu case. The covers are worn, but overall a good copy of this book. An excellent example of the somewhat madcap humor of the Toba-e genre. With a bookseller's advertisement at the end which indicates this edition of the book was part of a series of Toba-ehon brought out by the same publisher - SANGOKUSHI, O^GI NO MATO and TO^BA GURUMA.
Les nouvelles idées sur la structure du système nerveux chez l’homme et chez les vertébrés

Les nouvelles idées sur la structure du système nerveux chez l’homme et chez les vertébrés by RAMON Y CAJAL, Santiago

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Les nouvelles idées sur la structure du système nerveux chez l’homme et chez les vertébrés
Author
RAMON Y CAJAL, Santiago
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Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description
Paris: C. Reinwald & Cie, 1894. FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH. With 49 text illustrations. Morocco-backed marbled boards, spine with gilt decorations and spine label; new endpapers. An excellent copy, clean and without any staining or soiling. First edition in french in book form of the enlarged version of a 1892 paper in Spanish summarizing Cajal’s findings in support of the neuron doctrine. Using Golgi’s staining technique on embryonic tissue, Cajal “established that nerve cell axons, although they ended in the gray matter of the central nervous system in many ways, did not link up with other axon terminals to form networks; and furthermore, that there was no physical continuity between one nerve cell and another” (Norman). Ramon y Cajal established the histological basis of modern neuroscience, for which he shared the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Camillo Golgi. Garrison-Morton 1287 (note); Norman, 1778 (original version in Spanish).
De Nova Quaestione: Tractatus Tres. I. Mystici in tuto. II. Schola in tuto. III. Quietismus redivivus

De Nova Quaestione: Tractatus Tres. I. Mystici in tuto. II. Schola in tuto. III. Quietismus redivivus by Bossuet, Jacques Begnine

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De Nova Quaestione: Tractatus Tres. I. Mystici in tuto. II. Schola in tuto. III. Quietismus redivivus
Author
Bossuet, Jacques Begnine
Seller
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Paris: Johannem Anisson, 1698. First Edition. Very Good. First edition. (xxiv), 440 (7, Indiculus Locorum), (1) pp. Period speckled calf, spine gilt. Woodcut title page device, head and tail-pieces and initials. In Latin. Very Good with worn head and tail, small sliver of biopredation to front joint also effecting front free endpaper, joints starting, bookplate on paste down with former owner's name in ink there and on title page, slight rippling to pages. Three tracts by theologian and renowned orator Jacques-Bénigne Lignel Bossuet (1627-1704) against Quietism, Jansenism, and other religious movements deemed heretical by the Catholic church.
Yosemite and the Range of Light

Yosemite and the Range of Light by Adams, Ansel; Paul Brooks [Introduction]

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Title
Yosemite and the Range of Light
Author
Adams, Ansel; Paul Brooks [Introduction]
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Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1980. Near Fine/Very Good+. Third printing. Signed by Ansel Adams on a bookplate mounted on the front free paper. [vi], 28 [text] pp. with 116 black and white photographic plates. Bound in publisher's maroon buckram cloth over blue linen with spine lettered in gilt. Oblong folio.Near Fine with light wear; rippling at front free endpaper from bookplate adhesive with associated spotting. In a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear ; small spot of dampstaining to crown at verso. Adams' striking collection of black and white photography of Yosemite National Park produced over the course of 60 years.
Olympia der Arbeit: Arbeiterjugend im Reichsberufswettkampf

Olympia der Arbeit: Arbeiterjugend im Reichsberufswettkampf by Axmann, Artur (text); Georg L. Hahn-Hahn (Photographs by)

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Olympia der Arbeit: Arbeiterjugend im Reichsberufswettkampf
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Axmann, Artur (text); Georg L. Hahn-Hahn (Photographs by)
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Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
Condition
g
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Berlin: Junker und Dünnhaupt, 1937. First edition. Paperback. g. Quarto. 86, [2]pp. Original photo-illustrated wrappers. Photographically illustrated propaganda publication glorifying the workers who, under the National Socialists, labor to reconstruct a new Germany. Early propaganda work on the Reichsberufswettkampf (National Vocational Competition) which was the annual vocational competition held in Nazi Germany as part of the Gleichschaltung of German society. The competition was organized by the German Labor Front with the aid of the Hitler Youth and the National Socialist German Students' League. It was held at the local, Gau and national level, and was subdivided into numerous vocational and academic branches. Competitors were tested in the theory and practice of their profession, as well as in their adherence to Nazi ideology. Women were also tested in housekeeping. The winners were presented to Labour Front head Robert Ley and to Hitler in person, and could expect substantial professional advancement. The number of competitors grew from some 500,000 in 1934 at the first competition to 3,500,000 in 1939. Students were admitted in 1935 and adults in 1938. The competition was suspended at the outbreak of World War II in 1939, with the exception of a wartime competition (Kriegsreichsberufswettkampf) in 1944. This volume features 72 full-page b/w photographs of almost exclusively young men being trained and at work in all branches of industry, agriculture and sports. Moderate rubbing along edges of wrappers. Front cover slightly rubbed. Corners bumped, thus slightly affecting pages throughout. Text in German, gothic script. Wrappers in overall good, interior in good+ condition.
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LEGEND OF A LADY: THE STORY OF RITA MARTIN by ANDREWS, Robert Hardy

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LEGEND OF A LADY: THE STORY OF RITA MARTIN
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ANDREWS, Robert Hardy
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Houle Rare Books & Autographs (United States)
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NY, COWARD-MCCANN, 1949, 1949. DUST JACKET (UNCLIPPED AND A FEW CHIPS); SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY ANDREWS TO AUTHOR AND DIRECTOR HARRIET PARSONS; ANDREWS, 1903-1976, NOTED WRITER OF OVER 40 SCREENPLAYS, INCLUDING: TARZAN GOES TO INDIA, THE HAIRY APE, SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE VOICE OF TERROR, AND IF I HAD A MILLION FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD. Signed by Author(s). F. Hardcover.
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VOGUE BOOK OF FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY. by Devlin, Polly

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VOGUE BOOK OF FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY.
Author
Devlin, Polly
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J.B. Muns, Fine Arts Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 232 illus., 25 in color, by Steichen, Horst Mfan Ray, Beaton, Huene, et. al.
A MONTH OF SUNDAYS

A MONTH OF SUNDAYS by Updike, John

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A MONTH OF SUNDAYS
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Updike, John
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Type Punch Matrix (United States)
ISBN
9780394497327
Condition
Fine in fine jacket and slipcase.
Description
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. Fine in fine jacket and slipcase.. Signed limited first edition of Updike's narrative of a dim clergyman obsessed with sex and with himself. 8'' x 5.25''. Original red and brown cloth with gilt-lettered spine. In original red and brown dust jacket (no price). In original slipcase. Black topstain. 228 pages. Edition of 450 copies printed on special paper and specially bound, this copy no. 262. Signed by Updike on limitation page.
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Suffragist Frances Willard Glimpses of 50 Years First Edition by Frances E.Willard

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Suffragist Frances Willard Glimpses of 50 Years First Edition
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Frances E.Willard
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Max Rambod Inc. (United States)
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1889. WILLARD, Frances. Glimpses of 50 Years, the Autobiography of an American Woman. By Frances E. Willard. As published by the Woman's Temperance Publication Association, Chicago. Chicago, IL: H. J. Smith & Co., 1889. First Edition. Bound in green decorated cloth boards with gilt globes and silver title. Over 700 pages. Sized 9x6 inches. . Green linen boards are scuffed and spine, silver lettering on front cover, spine bumped ate heal and head, pages are clean no damage. Binding is tight. Autobiography of an American Woman, Written by Order of the Womens Temperance Publication Association. Introduced by Hannah Whitall Smith, steel engraving with tissue, 29 pen and ink sketches, 5 photogravures with tissue protection, 2 chromo-lithographs. Appendix and 6 page ancestry. Endpages are decorated. Cover boards a bit scuffed and corners bumped. Inside front hinge cracked but still holding well. Overall good to very good condition Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard (September 28, 1839 - February 17, 1898) was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist. Willard became the national president of Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in 1879, and remained president until her death in 1898. Her influence continued in the next decades, as the Eighteenth (Prohibition) and Nineteenth (Women Suffrage) Amendments to the United States Constitution were adopted. Willard developed the slogan "Do Everything" for the WCTU, encouraging members to engage in a broad array of social reforms through lobbying, petitioning, preaching, publishing, and education. During her lifetime, Willard succeeded in raising the age of consent in many states, as well as passing labor reforms including the eight-hour work day. Her vision also encompassed prison reform, scientific temperance instruction, Christian socialism, and the global expansion of women's rights.
Couturier Dreams

Couturier Dreams by Adams, Katharine

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Couturier Dreams
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Adams, Katharine
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Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9781590051313
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Very good
Description
Tucson: Nazraeli Press, 2005. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1500cc. Very good hardback in a very good jacket that has a small closed tear to the bottom of the front joint.
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And Brave Men, Too by Lowry, Timothy S.

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And Brave Men, Too
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Lowry, Timothy S.
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Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA (United States)
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New York: Crown Publishers, 1985. x, 246p., dj. Interview with Congressional Medal of Honor winners from the Vietnam War.
France 1848-1945; Politics & Anger
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France 1848-1945; Politics & Anger by Zeldin, Theodore

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France 1848-1945; Politics & Anger
Author
Zeldin, Theodore
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Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780192850829
Description
Oxford, Etc.: Oxford University Press, 1979. xvi, 457p., b/w maps, stiff wrappers.
ODD MERCY

ODD MERCY by Stern, Gerald

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ODD MERCY
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Stern, Gerald
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Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA (United States)
ISBN
9780393038798
Condition
Fine
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NY: W.W.Norton, 1995. First edition, first prnt. Signed by Stern on the title page. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with n archival cover. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stern's tenth collection of poems.The images are of the book described and not stock photos.
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LANGUAGE OF THE PRINT- A SELECTION FROM THE DONALD H. KARSHAN COLLECTION by Mayor, A. Hyatt

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LANGUAGE OF THE PRINT- A SELECTION FROM THE DONALD H. KARSHAN COLLECTION
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Mayor, A. Hyatt
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L'Estampe Originale (United States)
Description
New York., Chanticleer Press, Inc., 1968. 4to. Hardcover with DJ. In fine condition.
Everyday Things (Photographers at Work, A Smithsonian Series)

Everyday Things (Photographers at Work, A Smithsonian Series) by WINOKUR, Neil

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Title
Everyday Things (Photographers at Work, A Smithsonian Series)
Author
WINOKUR, Neil
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Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9781560984139
Condition
Fine
Description
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Quarto wrappers. 63pp. Fine.
Bird print - American Bittern (2 birds) - Plate 5 - from Report on the Birds of Pennsylvania

Bird print - American Bittern (2 birds) - Plate 5 - from Report on the Birds of Pennsylvania by Warren, B.H.

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Bird print - American Bittern (2 birds) - Plate 5 - from Report on the Birds of Pennsylvania
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Warren, B.H.
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The Kelmscott Bookshop (United States)
Condition
Very Good
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Harrisburg: E. K.Meyers, 1890. Very Good. Chromolithograph. Minor chipping and creasing to edges. Minor browning. Size: 9.25 x 6 inches. PRINT/080620.

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