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'Held over - Art exhibit. Nov. 29 - Mon. / 30 - Tue. / Dec. 1 - Wed. 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

[Minidoka, Idaho], [1943]. Broadside, approx. 8�" x 14", single fold in the middle; very good. Poster for art being exhibited at the Japanese Internment Camp at Minidoka, Idaho. Body of text in Japanese concerns the overwhelming response to the exhibit, address of the exhibit, and the types of art for sale.

Bookseller reference : 26989

[A] catalogue of the books, belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia; to which is prefixed, a short account of the institution, with charter, laws, and regulations.

Philadelphia, Bartram & Reynolds, 1807. Second catalogue of the Library Company (the first having been published in 1789) present here with eight rare supplements; 8vo, pp. xl, 616; the "A" has been cut off from the top of the title; American Imprints 12918. Bound with: Catalogue of books, belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia, volume II, part I, Philadelphia, Thomas T. Stiles, 1813, pp. 128; top blank margin of title cut away; American Imprints 28943. Bound with: [Supplement to volume II, part I of the catalogue of books belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia], [Philadelphia, not after 1818]; pp.[3]-40; lacking the title leaf and with half of the second leaf torn away; this supplement - possibly the second or third? - is not recorded in American Imprints. Bound with: Third supplement to volume II, part I of the catalogue of books belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia, Philadelphia: M. Carey & Son, 1818; pp. 34; American Imprints 44581 locating only a single copy at MWA. Bound with: Fourth supplement to volume II, part I of the catalogue of books belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, for Littell & Henry, 1820; pp. 27; American Imprints 1958 locating only a single copy at MWA; manuscript annotations on verso of final leaf. Bound with: Fifth supplement to volume II, part I of the catalogue of books belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia, Philadelphia: for E. Littell, 1822; pp. 34; top and bottom blank margins of title cut away; not found in American Imprints. Bound with: Seventh supplement to volume II, part I of the catalogue of books belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, E. Littell, 1828; pp. 47; not found in American Imprints. Bound with: Supplement to volume II, part I of the catalogue of books, belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia, Philadelphia: printed for the Library Company, 1825 - reprinted 1829. Siegfried & Coates, printers, 1829; pp. 46; neither the 1825 nor the 1829 editions are found in American Imprints; in all probability, this was the sixth supplement in order of original issue. Bound with: Eighth supplement to volume II, part I of the catalogue of books, belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia. (Including the books of the late William Mackenzie, Esq.), Philadelphia: Judah Dobson, 1829; pp. 113; American Imprints 40050 locating only a single copy at PPL. Bound with: Ninth supplement to volume II, part I of the catalogue of books, belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia, Philadelphia: Garden & Thomas, 1831; not found in American Imprints. There is some light foxing throughout most of the supplements, and the name of Isaiah Hacker appears on a number of the title-pp. Ex-Franklin Institute; the binding of the second volume shows some wear along the hinges, and the top of the spine has a small tear along the front hinge, but on the whole nice copies of these uncommon catalogues, including eight rare supplements, bound in contemporary full calf, red morocco labels on spines.

Bookseller reference : 22847

[GREEK-TURKISH DICTIONARY]

N.p., [late 18th century]. 4to, 445 columns & 159pp., lacking the title-p. and with several defective pp. at the back; contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine perished. Ex-MHS.

Bookseller reference : 11279

[Homerou poiesis. The Iliad.] [Title in Greek].

Munich, Bremer Presse, 1923. Edition limited to 615 copies, folio, unpaginated verse in Greek, supplementary end matter in Latin; original blue paper-covered boards and stiff chemise, printed paper label on spine; the spine faded to light brown, inch-long superficial break in paper at lower joint of front cover, the chemise a little rubbed and worn; internally fine. In 1924, the Bremer Presse produced the companion Odyssey volume.

Bookseller reference : 24046

[The Holy Bible.]

[Edinburgh, James Watson, 1719.]. 16mo, lacking all before Z2, the text beginning with The Proverbs; separate title-p. for the New Testament, ruled in red throughout; contemporary red goatskin with an all-over gilt design in the "cottage- roof" style, rebacked, the gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments neatly laid down, a.e.g.; the extremities are worn and rubbed but the binding is sound, and attractive.

Bookseller reference : 25279

[Title in Arabic.] Novum Domini Nostri Jesu Christi Testamentum Syriacum, cum versione Latina; cur‚ & studio Johannis Leusden et Caroli Schaaf editum. Ad omnes editiones diligenter recensitum ; & variis lectionibus magno labore collectis, adornatum.

Lugduni Batavorum [i.e. Leiden], apud Jordanum Luchtmans, & Joh : M¸llerum, Joh : Fil:, 1708. First edition, 4to, pp. [10], 749; engraved vignette title-p., Latin and Syriac text in parallel columns; Darlow & Moule 8969; OCLC find only the copies at Oxford and Cambridge; offered with: SCHAAF, CAROLO. Lexicon Syriacum concordantiale omnes Novi Testamenti Syriaci voces, et ad harum illustrationem multas alias Syriacas, & linguarum affinium dictiones complectens, cum necessariis indicibus, Syriaco & Latino : ut & catalogo nominum propriorum ac gentilium N.T. Syr., Lugduni Batavorum: same imprint, 1708, pp. [10, 644, [119]; engraved vignette title-p., historiated woodcut initials. Both are first editions and both are uniformly bound in 20th century calf-backed marbled boards, old red morocco labels on spines; occasional browning and foxing, assorted marginalia in an early hand in ink, but in all a very good set. "A critical edition of the N.T. undertaken by J. Leusden … and C. Schaaf of Leyden. J. Leusden died in 1699, when the work had reached Luke xv. 20, and his colleague completed the task alone … The Latin version is C. Schaaf's revision of Tremellius' translation" (Darlow & Moule)." These two books, according to Printing and the Mind of Man, 1963, no. 309: are the first two available books printed from stereotypes. M¸ller is said to have begun his experiments with a small prayer book printed in 1701, but that book apparently does not survive. This N.T. in Syriac and its companion Lexicon are said to be the first books printed from stereotype.

Bookseller reference : 26620

[Title in Greek.] Dabides emmetros, sive, Metaphrasis libri psalmorum græcis versibus contexta. Per Iacobum Duportum…

Cantabrigiæ, excudit Ioannes Field, 1666. 4to, pp. [72], 431; inserted engraved vignette title-p.; parallel text in Greek and Latin; 2 short tears in fore-edge of title-p. (not touching any letterpress), worm track (occasionally touching letters) in first 60 leaves; stains on G2-G4; lacking the portrait of Charles II; contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, red morocco label on spine; minor rubbing and wear, small cracks starting at the extremities of the joints, else generally a very good copy. Paraphrase in Homeric language and verse, and its translation in Latin prose, on opposite pages, with a prefatory treatise on the ancient versions of the Old Testament. Translated by Jacob Duport. "Immediately after the Restoration he was made one of the king's chaplains, and reinstated in the possession of his prebend at Lincoln, but not of the archdeaconry of Stow, as he preferred holding his fellowship and vice-mastership in Trinity College. Widdrington was now dispossessed of the Greek professorship and Duport restored to it, but he resigned the chair the same year in favour of his pupil, Isaac Barrow. On 19 July 1660 he was by royal mandate, with many other learned divines, created D.D. at Cambridge (Kennett, p. 251). He was installed dean of Peterborough 27 July 1664. In 1668, on the death of Dr. John Howorth, master of Magdalene College, Duport was recalled to Cambridge and appointed by James, earl of Suffolk, possessor of Audley End, to fill the vacant headship. In the following year Duport was elected vice-chancellor of the university… Bishop Monk says that Duport 'appears to have been the main instrument by which literature was upheld in this university [Cambridge] during the civil dissensions in the seventeenth century, and though seldom named and little known at present he enjoyed an almost transcendent reputation for a great length of time among his contemporaries, as well as in the generation which immediately succeeded" (DNB). Wing B2739a.

Bookseller reference : 25559

[Title in Japanese.] Chiushingura; or, the loyal league. A Japanese romance translated by Frederick V. Dickens … with notes and an appendix containing a metrical version of the Ballad of Takasago, and a specimen of the original text in the Japanese charac

London, Allen & Co., 1880. "New" edition, 8vo, pp. xiii-[xvi], 202; 24 plates in white, black and blue, after Japanese artists and printed on Japanese paper, facsimile of the "Preface" in original Japanese characters with accompanying leaf in Japanese in Roman characters; pages slightly browned, Japanese bookplate, covers slightly soiled, else very good in original yellow cloth, beautifully decorated with black and gilt stamping.

Bookseller reference : 15779

[Title in Japanese:] Domo eigaku shoho. [English studies.] [Edited by Messrs. Mondo, Jisaburo, Itokku.}

[?Tokyo], Shimaitokku, 1871. 12mo, pp. [94]; 1 full-p. illustration, alphabets, syllabaries, tables of numbers and roman numerals, and a brief vocabulary; original yellow wrappers folded and sewn in the Oriental manner, printed paper label on upper cover; some soiling but very good. Osaka Joshi Daigaiku Library, Selected Catalogue on Dutch and English Studies, B-16. Not found in OCLC.

Bookseller reference : 26944

[Title in Japanese:] Eigo jiyujizai. [English with freedom.] [Edited by Jyokichi Aida.]

Osaka, Isaburo Hamamoto, 1886. 12mo, pp. [63] folded in the Oriental manner; illustrated throughout, original pictorial blue paper-covered boards lettered in brown; small adhesion mark on upper cover, binding a little loose, and one small section of the first page (alphabet) where once was an ownership stamp neatly excised, otherwise a good copy, without a printed title, as issued. English vocabulary and conversation book for the Japanese student, with pronunciation and meaning in kangi and katakana. Not in OCLC.

Bookseller reference : 26957

[Title in Japanese:] Nichi Ei kaiwa. Free speaking guide of Japanese and English conversation.

[Tokyo], Asano Shoten, 1908. 32mo, approx. 4" x 3" (105 x 77 mm.), pp. [2], 3, [1], 248, [1]; purple coated endpapers, orig. printed gray wrappers, one small chip out of the top right corner; 2 previous Japanese owner's notations; good, sound, and rare. Not in RLIN or OCLC databases. Over 180 pages constitute an extensive vocabulary, arranged in double column, Japanese characters with English equivalents.

Bookseller reference : 21876

A blank album.

n.p., n.d., [ca. mid 19th century]. 4to, the album containing 22 blank leaves loosely laid in, on brown, pink, cream and yellow paper, and laid into a maroon straight-grain morocco binding, the rear cover opening up into a portfolio; the covers with double gilt rules on covers and rosettes in the corners, enclosing a floral border incorporating cherubs and urns, and a central ornate floral panel with engine-tooled fish-scale design, and a central parallelogram lozenge with lines radiating from a center rosette, moire endpapers; minor rubbing; about fine.

Bookseller reference : 30284

A brief description and historical notices of the island of Jersey, with some account of its military, civil, and ecclesiastical government, of its laws and privileges, and a concise numeration of its natural curiosities and antiquities, contained in a sh

Jersey, printed and sold by C. Le Lievre, 1837. 16mo, pp. [6], 110, [2]; engraved folding map; later mottled cloth, ex- Minnesota Historical Society with their plate and small label affixed to the front board; all else very good. This guide was first published in 1826, with a second edition in 1832, both of which with differing pagination. The preface refers to this as the third edition, "to correct and improve the former work." This edition not in OCLC.

Bookseller reference : 27827