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La Science de la santé, soit pour le moral, soit pour le physique by [BROUTET, Guillaume de]

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Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts
Title
La Science de la santé, soit pour le moral, soit pour le physique
Author
[BROUTET, Guillaume de]
Seller
Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description
Avignon: Laurent Aubanel, 1813. FIRST EDITION. Woodcut and typographic ornaments. Untrimmed in contemporary pastepaper wrappers backed with printing waste from the same publication. A fine copy in genuine, original condition. First edition, an anonymous encyclopedic handbook of physical and moral health for laymen. Divided into two separate dictionaries, the first part contains terms related to the conservation of health and ethics, and the second addresses medicinal plants, foods, and compounds, complete with recipes and directions for use. Unlike a typical alphabetic index, though, each entry includes practical advice, historical information, and literary concordances. In keeping with the cerebral theme of the text, it has entries for surgeon, sleep, exercise, saliva, and vapors as well as love, laughing, vengeance, and usury. Guillaume de Broutet (1739-1817) was an often overlooked figure in the psychiatric reform movement in the late 18th century. He served as Administrator or the Hôspice des Insensés in Avignon and Rector of the Pénitents Noirs de la Miséricorde, a charity dedicated to prisoners and the mentally ill. In the Avertissement of this book, he indicates that it should not be sold for profit, and anyone who receives a free copy should make a charitable donation or give the book to a charitable person. OCLC locates three copies outside Europe: DeWitt, Yale, and National Library of Medicine.
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The Congo and the founding of the free state. A story of work and exploration by STANLEY, Henry M.

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Title
The Congo and the founding of the free state. A story of work and exploration
Author
STANLEY, Henry M.
Seller
Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1885. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. With frontispiece in each volume, 5 colored maps (including 2 very large folding maps in the pocket to each volume) 42 full-page engraved plates and dozens of text woodcuts. The folding maps are in excellent condition, without tears. Original publisher’s decorated cloth, very minor smudging but with bright colors; interior absolutely excellent. Withdrawn from the New Jersey Historical Society, with their bookplate indicating a gift from Marcus S. Ward and their inconspicuous blindstamp on each title. A wonderful copy. First American edition, published the same time in London. Already a famous explorer, Stanley was approached by King Leopold II of the Belgians to assist in opening up the Congo region for development and “westernization,” although his main intent was to exploit the natural resources of the region for himself. Between 1879 and 1894, Stanley built a road from the lower Congo to Stanley Pool, launching steamers on the upper river. Despite entering into treaties with local chieftains, he assisted Leopold to fully exploit the entire area, often with cruel acts against the indigenous population (including his own porters). In this, his journalistic recitation of his time spent there, he details the social and economic evolution of the area in the creation of the Congo Free State. Stanley (1841-1904), though born in Wales, spent many years in the United States, actually fighting in the Civil War for both the Confederate and Union armies. Most famous for his exploration of the African Continent and his locating the missionary and explorer David Livingstone, he was revered as a romantic explorer and journalist despite also being known for his cruelty and disregard of African natives.
Wyoming's Pioneer Ranches by Three Native Sons of the Laramie Plains

Wyoming's Pioneer Ranches by Three Native Sons of the Laramie Plains by Burns, Robert Homer, Andrew Springs Gilliespie, and Willing Gay Richardson

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Title
Wyoming's Pioneer Ranches by Three Native Sons of the Laramie Plains
Author
Burns, Robert Homer, Andrew Springs Gilliespie, and Willing Gay Richardson
Seller
Thorn Books (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
Laramie: Top-of-the-World Press, 1950. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very good. 4to. vii, (1), 752pp. Red buckram, spine title in gilt. Illustrated with photographs and facsimiles. Spine sunned, gilt darkened, else this is a very good copy. With the stamp of Revue Productions and the signature of Lillian Rose on the front pastedown. Rose was a scriptwriter for Revue, known for her scripts for Death Valley Days and The Lone Ranger. Limited edition, one of 1000 numbered copies; This is number 575. Signed by all three authors on the title page. The fairly definitive history of pioneer ranches and ranchers in the Laramie Plains of Wyoming in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
A New Song

A New Song by [AFRICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] HUGHES, Langston (poems); GOLD, Michael (introduction)

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Title
A New Song
Author
[AFRICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] HUGHES, Langston (poems); GOLD, Michael (introduction)
Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
New York: International Workers Order, 1938. First Edition. Slim octavo (21cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; [6],7-31,[1]pp. This is a duplicate from the Robert W. Woodruff Library, with their tasteful bookplate mounted on verso of front wrapper. Light wear to spine fold and extremities, tiny ink date (1938) at lower rear wrapper; a bright, Near Fine copy, without the usual toning and heavy wear associated with this title. An important pre-WWII collection, with Hughes firmly in his proletarian mode and at the height of his involvement with the American Communist Party. Includes Hughes's great Spanish Civil War poem "Song for Spain." Introduction by Michael Gold, and wrappers illustrated by Joe Jones. DICKINSON 10; SEIDMAN H377. 89298.
Charles Frohman Presents Maude Adams in Edmond Rostand's Play in Four Acts "Chantecler." Adapted by Louis N. Parker [Cover title: "Chantecler: Told in Words and Pictures]

Charles Frohman Presents Maude Adams in Edmond Rostand's Play in Four Acts "Chantecler." Adapted by Louis N. Parker [Cover title: "Chantecler: Told in Words and Pictures] by [ADAMS, Maude, Charles Frohman, Edmond Rostand, and Louis N. Parker]

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Title
Charles Frohman Presents Maude Adams in Edmond Rostand's Play in Four Acts "Chantecler." Adapted by Louis N. Parker [Cover title: "Chantecler: Told in Words and Pictures]
Author
[ADAMS, Maude, Charles Frohman, Edmond Rostand, and Louis N. Parker]
Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
[New York: Charles Frohman, 1911]. First Edition. Oblong folio (28x34.75cm.); original photo-illustrated string-bound card wrappers, yapp edges; unpaged; photographic illus. throughout. Some shallow chips and tiny losses to wrapper extremities, none affecting text or illustrations, spine nearly split, some foxing to contents, else About Very Good. Deluxe souvenir brochure issued in conjunction with one of Adams's last Broadway appearances. (The actress, who achieved fame in 1905 playing the lead role in J.M. Barrie's "Peter Pan," would retire in 1916.) "Chantecler", which criticised the modernist movement and promoted idealism, was considered rather unusual for being set in a barnyard, the protagonist, played by Adams, a rooster. The present item is illustrated with dozens of stills from the original Broadway production, showcasing the exquisitely realistic costumes and set design.
College Confidential (Original banner poster for the 1960 film)

College Confidential (Original banner poster for the 1960 film) by Albert Zugsmith (director); Irving Shulman (screenwriter); Steve Allen, Jayne Meadows, Walter Winchell, Mamie Van Doren (starring)

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Title
College Confidential (Original banner poster for the 1960 film)
Author
Albert Zugsmith (director); Irving Shulman (screenwriter); Steve Allen, Jayne Meadows, Walter Winchell, Mamie Van Doren (starring)
Seller
Royal Books (United States)
Description
Universal City: Universal International Pictures, 1960. Vintage full color banner poster for the 1960 film, with a "Classified By Ontario Board of Censors as Adult Entertainment" label on the lower right. Rare in this format. Steve Allen stars as a sociology professor accused of corrupting the students morals after conducting a survey about their lifestyles and sexual habits. An unofficial follow-up to the hit 1958 film "High School Confidential!" 118.5 x 24 inches. Very Good plus, with censor label partially detached. Bright and unfaded.
Border River (Original publicity photograph from the 1954 film)

Border River (Original publicity photograph from the 1954 film) by Yvonne De Carlo, Joel McCrea (starring); George Sherman (director); William Sackheim, Louis Stevens (screenwriter)

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Title
Border River (Original publicity photograph from the 1954 film)
Author
Yvonne De Carlo, Joel McCrea (starring); George Sherman (director); William Sackheim, Louis Stevens (screenwriter)
Seller
Royal Books (United States)
Description
Universal City: Universal-International, 1954. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1954 film, showing actors Yvonne De Carlo and Joel McCrea in a passionate moment. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. A Confederate officer journeys with his men to an outlaw town in Mexico, where they hope to use two million dollars in gold to acquire weapons and continue the war effort. A Union soldier determines to stop them. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1, 1901, Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s, and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935, where he worked well into the 1950s. Set in Zona Libra, Mexico, shot on location in Moab, Utah, and in Morelos, Mexico. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Pitts 450.
1940s Cotton Handkerchief of Young Women Athletes

1940s Cotton Handkerchief of Young Women Athletes

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Title
1940s Cotton Handkerchief of Young Women Athletes
Seller
White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
1946. Near Fine. Colorful and fun handkerchief depicting young women, college aged, playing tennis, basketball, and golf, riding horses, running and swimming. The single exception is a vignette of two women lying comfortable in a tree's shade, both reading a book, a Greek colonnaded building, suggestive of a university building, in the background. N.d., but from the hair styles and fashion clearly from the 1940s, and probably from just after the end of the Second World War. The design of the hankie is a deft and seamless collage. Supplementing the figurative vignettes of the active women -- we would say there are seven separate such vignettes, each with one or two women engaged in the particular activity -- the tree that forms the center is dotted with small vignettes of objects integral to some of the activities -- tennis racquets, golf clubs, books. Acting to separate the larger figurative vignettes from one another are enlarged abstracted oak leaves which we believe are deliberately shaped to suggest swans. This being a hankie celebrating active vigorous women, men may be absent from the artwork but are of clearly on the minds of the nubile women, as suggested by the carved initials and heart on the tree trunk! The hankie is about 50 cm square, or not quite 20 inches square. We do not know who made this hankie, nor how many might have been made. Surely there are few, if any, survivals of it. We spot two tiny pinprick holes in the fabric. Nothing of the design is lost, and the colors remain vibrant.
The Story of Little Black Quibba

The Story of Little Black Quibba by Helen Bannerman

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Title
The Story of Little Black Quibba
Author
Helen Bannerman
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Eclectibles (United States)
Condition
Very good. Light dust soiling.
Description
London, England: Nisbet & Co., Ltd, 1902. Very good. Light dust soiling.. An illustrated children's book published in London featuring a sympathetic, albeit stereotypical, depiction of a little African child encountering various animals on his quest to find food. Later edition; originally published in 1900. Approx. a dozen copies of various editions on WorldCat (May 2026). Single vol. (6.25" by 4.75"), pp. 143, illus., in original blue cloth with original dust jacket, not price-clipped.
Autograph Letter Signed, as Canal Commissioner, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, February 19, 1839, to his son, James C. Clarke student at Jefferson College, Canonsburg, Pennsylvania

Autograph Letter Signed, as Canal Commissioner, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, February 19, 1839, to his son, James C. Clarke student at Jefferson College, Canonsburg, Pennsylvania by Clarke, James

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Autograph Letter Signed, as Canal Commissioner, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, February 19, 1839, to his son, James C. Clarke student at Jefferson College, Canonsburg, Pennsylvania
Author
Clarke, James
Seller
Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Description
quarto, three pages, plus integral address leaf, some splitting along folds, repaired with archival tissue, else in good, clean and legible condition. Clarke the newly appointed Canal Commissioner writes his son disparaging the "mass" of job applicants besieging him seeking an "office, post or place" – after which he informs his son that he had secured appointments for his son Robert, and other relatives in the canal and engineering departments. "My Dear Son, … I am well and in good spirits but am – and has been very busy since I came here, and especially since I was appointed Canal commissioner I have been inveloped in a moving mass of importunate office hunters – and appointments are nearly all made and the crowd have pretty much dispersed. The very blind and the lame; the halt and the maimed were all ready patriotically to serve their country. Poor pitiable objects came imploringly seeking an office a post or a place, because they had "a wife and nine small children and one at her breast" The multitude attended with pretty much the same feeling of eager anxiety that is said to take place at the drawing of a lottery – each hoping that he would draw a prize. An inordinate lust for office – and an insatiable hungering and thirsting for money are at present crying evils in America. Ambition and Avarice and covetousness are predominant features in our republic. I hope my son, that you may never be left under the power of either the one or the other of those mean, wicked and deadly vices. I am getting along very well in my business. The present Board is not as well sorted as the old Board with Messrs Mitchell & McCoy in it. … Robert has got into business in engineering. I procured an appointment for Mr. W. Milnor Roberts as Engineer and he has taken Robert along with him as assistant I intend to assist James Moore to start a store this spring and intend putting John into it with him. I have procured situations for your uncle Wm Drips on the Rail road on the mountain; and for your uncle Wm S. McLean on the Canal, at or near Pittsburg. They both need assistance very much. We have an immense number of applications of young men wanting stations in the engineer corps. Robert Wms chance of getting employment (with his taciturn disposition) would be but slender – almost hopeless, if I was not at the source of the dispensing power. Hence my commission is worth my own pay, and his pay combined, not to speak of the employment of your two uncles. …"
Reflections Upon Some of the Subjects in Dispute, Between the Author of the Divine Legation of Moses, and a Late Professor in the University of Oxford

Reflections Upon Some of the Subjects in Dispute, Between the Author of the Divine Legation of Moses, and a Late Professor in the University of Oxford by A Layman [Andrew Wilson]

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Title
Reflections Upon Some of the Subjects in Dispute, Between the Author of the Divine Legation of Moses, and a Late Professor in the University of Oxford
Author
A Layman [Andrew Wilson]
Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
London: Printed for the Author; and Sold by W. Griffin, 1766. Very Good. London: Printed for the Author; and Sold by W. Griffin, [1766]. First Edition. Octavo. 118 pages. Bound in 19th century boards with leather spine and tips with gilt lettering to spine. Chipped at extremities with loss to bottom of spine. General scuffing and rubbing to boards. Ownership stamp to boards and preliminaries. Cracked at front hinge but binding is holding. Some toning to pages. Manuscript annotations to title page in pen and pencil identifying, apparently correctly, the subjects of the books as William Warburton and Robert Lowth, as well as the author, Andrew Wilson. The Warburton/Lowth controversy stemmed from the former's defense of orthodox Christian belief, the first part of which was originally published in 1738. No copies found in retail or auction records. [Halkett p. 2113].
Catalogue of A Collection of Engraved Portraits

Catalogue of A Collection of Engraved Portraits

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Title
Catalogue of A Collection of Engraved Portraits
Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
London: A. E. Evans and Sons, 1890. Hardcover. Good. In two volumes. Volume I is a list of nearly 20,000 portraits of persons connected with the history and literature of Great Britain; volume II is a list of nearly 30,000 portraits of persons connected with the history & literature of Great Britain, The Birish Colonies and The United States of America. Good in three quarter leather with cloth covered boards, leather on volume I well worn and scuffed, front endpaper through page 4 detached but present, volume II not nearly as worn, but corners worn through.
ORIGINAL "LADY SINGS THE BLUES" LOBBY CARD SET (x8)

ORIGINAL "LADY SINGS THE BLUES" LOBBY CARD SET (x8)

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Title
ORIGINAL "LADY SINGS THE BLUES" LOBBY CARD SET (x8)
Seller
Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
Cleveland: LPIU, 1972. Set of 8 lobby cards (14 in. x 11 in.) In Very Good condition. Light age toning and light wear to corners and edges, with yellow stain to back top right corner of all cards. FJ Consignment. Shelved in Rockville Room A. 1375693. Special Collections - Upstairs.
Industrial Effects: Twentieth-Century Photographs from The Art Institute of Chicago

Industrial Effects: Twentieth-Century Photographs from The Art Institute of Chicago by WOLF, Sylvia

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Industrial Effects: Twentieth-Century Photographs from The Art Institute of Chicago
Author
WOLF, Sylvia
Seller
Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
Chicago, IL: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1993. First edition. Softcover. [4 pages.] Exhibition catalog for a show that ran July 24 through October 17, 1993. Features text by Sylvia Wolf. Includes information about and an image by each of these photographers Charles Sheeler, Samuel Gottscho, Alfried Stieglitz, Thurman Rotan, Berenice Abbott, Man Ray, Germaine Krull, Robert Frank, and Lewis Baltz. A fine copy in stapled wrappers. Uncommon with only 3 copies listed in OCLC.
Why We Lost: A General's Inside Account of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars

Why We Lost: A General's Inside Account of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars by Daniel Bolger

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Title
Why We Lost: A General's Inside Account of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars
Author
Daniel Bolger
Seller
Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
ISBN
9780544370487
Condition
Fine
Description
First Edition/First Printing with the complete number line: A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket with no visible flaws. Not remaindered, not price-clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar cover and will ship securely wrapped in a sturdy box.
Paul Ching-Bor: Echoes in Steel -- New York Bridgescapes and Cityscapes

Paul Ching-Bor: Echoes in Steel -- New York Bridgescapes and Cityscapes by Zona, Louis A.

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Paul Ching-Bor: Echoes in Steel -- New York Bridgescapes and Cityscapes
Author
Zona, Louis A.
Seller
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition
VG, may have a bumped corner or two but otherwise all copies are clean and tight. Some copies do have a sticker on the front cov
Description
New York, NY: Spanierman Gallery, LLC, 2002. Softcover. VG, may have a bumped corner or two but otherwise all copies are clean and tight. Some copies do have a sticker on the front cover.. Grey & illus. stapled wraps. [12 pp.] 11 color plates. Issued in conjunction with a 2002 exhibition of artwork by Chinese-born artist Paul Ching-Bor (b. 1963). With an introduction by Louis A. Zona. Features 11 full-page, full-color paintings. Uncommon.

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