‎Backbone‎

‎Chafetz, Morris E.‎

‎Liquor - The Servant of Man‎

‎236 pages including index. Seeks to prove that man can - and should - drink with pleasure and without fear! Average wear. Minor lean to spine. Book‎

‎CHYMIA MANUSCRIPTA :title on spine‎

‎Manuscript on paper written in German Latin and some Greek & Hebrew containing in a series of six texts many experiments preparations & procedures for both chemical & alchemical purposes‎

‎Written in three legible hands of the second half of the 17th cent. & the first quarter of the 18th. Paper: watermarks of a stag within a crown and "FV" apparently not found in the usual watermark reference books. Section I: 169 numbered pp. final two pp. blank 3 blank pp. 40 leaves; Section II: 100 numbered pp. lacking one leaf pp. 49-50 6 leaves final two blank; Section III: 16 leaves; Section IV: 12 leaves final leaf blank; Section V: 12 leaves; Section VI: 13 leaves. Small folio 325 x 204 mm. cont. vellum over boards spine lettered at head with title "Chymia Manuscripta" characteristic Chorinsky shelf mark "F.7." at foot. Germany: 1655-1725.<br /> An important Paracelsian chemical alchemical and pharmaceutical manuscript completely unstudied from the famous Chorinsky private library which was formed in the 18th century and remained intact until the 1930s. Our manuscript contains six different texts with a series of hundreds of alchemical chemical and pharmaceutical experiments and preparations as well as commentaries on published chemical and alchemical texts. It was compiled between 1655 and 1725. Clearly it is a "sister" manuscript to the one we offered in 2015 see below also from the Chorinsky library.<br /> Section I: The first text 126 leaves in total and written in a legible hand of the second half of the 17th century consists of comments on and summaries of many experiments of a chemical and alchemical nature. The beginning of the text is entitled "Notata.fein geschriben buch welches mir Hr baron Andrisch aus sonderbarer freundschafft communicirt hat" "Notata.nicely written book communicated to me in a gesture of special friendship by Baron Andrisch ". The text is rich in chemical and alchemical symbols for metals notably gold phosphorus and platinum other substances and processes especially distillation and sublimation. There are many references to Paracelsus Theophrastus and his various alchemical and chemical writings notably his Thesaurus Thesaurum Alchimi and Isaac Hollandus the mysterious early 17th-century writer on alchemy and chemistry see Ferguson. Also discussed are a "universal medicament" the macro- and microcosms mineral and vegetable substances a "panacea vegetabilis" chemical processes using feces a balsam of nature that can cure all terrible illnesses otherwise incurable in Galenic medicine niter the close relationship between the harmony of music and astronomy Hermetic philosophy etc. etc.<br /> It is signed on the final page by "Thomas Grünberger Med. Doctoris" dated 25 August 1655. We have been unable to learn anything about him.<br /> Section II: The text is written in the same hand and therefore presumably by Grünberger. Greek is often used. We find discussions of Paracelsus's concepts in alchemy and chemistry "metalla minora" putrefaction Rosicrucian ideas in alchemy fermentation Roger Bacon Arnald of Villanova the "saccharum saturni" mortification compounds including arsenic many pharmaceutical recipes etc. etc. Pages 49-50 have been removed at an early date.<br /> Section III: The third text perhaps also written by Grünberger is entitled "Notata.instructione.cujus opus est in . Theo. Paracelsus Chymiae Vol. VI p. 163." It is a discussion of Paracelsian theories and processes of alchemy and chemistry.<br /> Section IV: The fourth text dated 1721 and entitled "Arcana Specialia" is signed by Johann Gottman "Ord. Ros. Cruc." This is concerned with alchemical and chemical theories.<br /> Section V: This text written in an early 18th-century hand contains a series of "operations" or laboratory procedures to manufacture various oils used in the making of pharmaceutical products.<br /> Section VI: The sixth and final text is entitled "Descriptio de Lapide Philosophorum. Von 15 Martii 1725 von Monsr Nusdorff Communicirt.Dieser Kunst." The Wellcome Library also has two manuscripts with this text both dated 15 March 1722. This section of our manuscript is clearly written in the same - unidentified - handsome German baroque script as the first part of another alchemical manuscript from the Chorinsky library which we offered in our Cat. 213 item 66 in 2015.<br /> PROVENANCE: Our manuscript comes from the famous library of Ignatz Dominik Graf Chorinsky von Ledske 1729-92 with his armorial bookplate. The large Chorinsky library was sold at auction in 1930 by Antiquariat Hans Götz in Hamburg. Many of the books and manuscripts from the Bibliothek Chorinsky were identically bound in ivory vellum with the painted red compartment at the top of the spine and shelf mark written in red at the bottom. First leaf of text with the stamp of the antiquarian bookseller Rosicrucian and theosophist Heinrich Tränker 1880-1956.<br /> We have given only the merest suggestion of the contents of these texts and their research possibilities.<br /> In fine condition. A few ink splatterings and some ink show-through. hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 7261

‎Compiled Donald Duke with more than 115 illustrations decorated endpapers show brown stain near Spine Preface‎

‎Southern Pacific Steam Locomotives Revised Edition‎

‎Golden West Books. HBDJ February 1987 Quarto Oversized Brown cloth lettered Gold Gilt minor Soil & Sight Warp Interior Nice Tight Clean some slight wrinkling some pages minor light spots few pgs DJ minor Rub & Scu ff primarily Back Side VG-/VG. Hard Cover. Golden West Books hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 8360

‎Crack the Crack the Spine‎

‎Crack the Spine: XII‎

‎Crack the Spine 2016. Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks our motto is: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Crack the Spine paperback‎

Bookseller reference : G0692686223I5N00 ISBN : 0692686223 9780692686225

‎Crack the Spine‎

‎Crack the Spine: Spring 2014‎

‎Crack the Spine. Used - Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear and may have some markings on the inside. Crack the Spine unknown‎

Bookseller reference : GRP113574849 ISBN : 0988978261 9780988978263

‎crayon spine‎

‎Airport up and Away‎

‎waldman publishing 2000. Paperback. Very Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting but may contain a neat previous owner name. The spine remains undamaged. At ThriftBooks our motto is: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. waldman publishing paperback‎

Bookseller reference : G0866115781I4N00 ISBN : 0866115781 9780866115780

‎Cross, Rupert‎

‎Evidence‎

‎563 pages including index. An attempt to meet the undoubted need for an up-to-date account of the theory of the subject. Binding open at half-title page. Back hinge open. Damage to top half inch of spine. Average wear. Ink stamps upon front endpaper. Minor quantity of markings to text. Book‎

‎Currie, A.W.‎

‎Canadian Transportation Economics‎

‎719 pages including index. Describes and analyses the economics of transport in Canada whether by rail, highway, inland and coastal waterways, the high seas, air or pipeline. Written to be of interest to employees of railways, steamship companies, airlines, and pipelines, to operators of motor vehicles, to shippers, consignees, and other businessmen, to professional economists and to citizens generally. Students writing upon front endpaper. Minimal markings to text which remains bright and clean. Moderate wear and bumping to blue boards. Silver lettering upon front board and spine. Book‎

‎Daniels, Jonathan.‎

‎THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE. The Story of the Natchez Trace.‎

‎267 p. Pelican paperback. AMERICANA BX 10‎

‎DeBlieu, Jan‎

‎Meant to Be Wild : The Struggle to Save Endangered Species Through Captive Breeding‎

‎302 pages including index. Black and white illustrations. Tells the stories of North American animals that have been taken prisoner out of necessity and of the scientists who are struggling to save them. Moderate quantity of markings to text. Lean to spine. Book‎

‎Dewey, Carol McCurdy‎

‎Chinese Life Rhythms - Second Edition‎

‎52 pages of poetry including black and white sketches. Circa 1935. "This volume of verse has grown out of a deep human sympathy with life as lived each day in and around the small walled city of Changli (North China) and neighboring districts. Each poem imparts an experience of the writer, who has resided in North China for twelve years. As we read her poems they live for us, who know and love China." - from the foreward. Blue patterned cloth-covered boards show moderate wear and sunning at spine. Pages unmarked and moderately yellowed. Gilt title upon front board. Book‎

‎Dixon H. H. "The Druid" : Spine‎

‎Field and Fern or Scottish Flocks and Herds North‎

‎London: Rogerson and Tuxford 1865. 368pp; frontis portrait; fr ep inked author 's signed dedication to C H May; sl bumped at spine ends and bd cnrs; titles dulled; v sm split at lower hinge in cloth; ep hinges cracked; sl foxing and soiling in prelims o/w tight and clean inside. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Hardback. Rogerson and Tuxford Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 021686

‎Donovan, Mary Ann‎

‎Sisterhood As Power : The Past and Passion of Ecclesial Women‎

‎136 pages including index. Explores, in the figure of St. Catherine of Siena, the growing awareness of common sisterhood with all women of the church. Reflects upon the necessary qualities for apostolic religious women to realize the power of their sisterhood. Book in lovely clean, unmarked condition with faintest wear. Dust jacket price-clipped and sunned at spine and top. Nice copy. Book‎

‎Dunn, Patricia; Collins, Jerry; Bannerman, Gary‎

‎Collingwood School - The First Ten Years‎

‎128 pages. From an enthusiastic start in 1984, this West Vancouver institution has developed to march in step with the best independent schools anywhere. Starting with nothing, a determined group of parents have created a valuable capital plant. There are more than 600 students from kindergarten to Grade 12, and the first five graduating classes are beginning to bring great honour to the school as they pursue scholarship and professional standing far afield. Collingwood students have earned provincial and national recognition in academics, the arts, athletics and increasingly, service and citizenship pursuits. For faculty members, Collingwood on the personal resume has become increasingly respected... This is a celebration, the story of dedication, volunteerism and committment. We hope it will serve as an inspiration to groups of parents everywhere that education can be just as good as they make it." - from the Preface. Clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Lovely copy. Book‎

‎Edgar Wallace Front of DJ & SPINE DJ has 1/ NET OR 1 SHILLING EDITION BLANK ENDPAPERS FOX‎

‎The Book of All Power in Vintage Color Dustjacket OF FRIGHENING WEIRD MAN SCARING BEAUTIFUL WOMAN all-power SERIES #63 ON DJ SPINE WAS DESIRED BY SO MANY PEOPLE from Soviet Officials‎

‎HBDJ UNDATED 1939 VG/VG Not dated but rear fold-over has advert the Windsor Magazine which ended in 1939 so it must pre-date this.Hardback in chipped unclipped dust jacket now protected in removable plastic cover.Some shelf wear otherwise in good condition being clean and tight with no inscriptions.Small Red cloith black titles 256 PGS from Soviet Officials to His Imperial Highness the book contains something Special for from the moment when the hero gets his Appointment with an Oil Company in Russia TO HIS EMERGENCE FROM THAT COUNTRY WITH A GRAND DUCHESS as his Wife there is not a page empty of Pulsation & Excitement<br /><br /><br /> Ward Lock & CO. LONDON hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 29051

‎Editor David F. Fardon; Editor Steven R. MD. Garfin; Corporate Author North American Spine Society M. D.‎

‎Orthopaedic Knowledge Update: Spine 2 Oku Specialty Series‎

‎Amer Academy of Orthopaedic 2002-01. Paperback. Good. Amer Academy of Orthopaedic paperback‎

Bookseller reference : SONG0892032588 ISBN : 0892032588 9780892032587

‎Editorial Committee Cervical Spine Research Society‎

‎The Cervical Spine‎

‎Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 1989. hardcover. New. pp. 881 2nd Edition Lippincott Williams & Wilkins hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 6262920 ISBN : 0397508271 9780397508273

‎Elkin, Benjamin‎

‎The Big Jump and Other Stories‎

‎64 pages. Boards heavily worn but not so badly soiled. Spine leans to the right and shows major wear at top and bottom. Former owner's name printed on front endpaper. 2" tear to page 3. Average wear and soiling inside. Binding loose but still holding together. The King makes a deal with Ben the boy for ownership of a dog. Book‎

‎Elson, William H.; Gray, William S.‎

‎Elson Gray Basic Readers - Book Five: Life-Reading Service‎

‎447 pages. A rough but usable copy of this excellent reader. Binding intact but spine heavily twisted. Various other defects. Book‎

‎Farfor, Una C.M.‎

‎Aids to Ophthalmic Nursing - Nurses Aids Series‎

‎230 pages including index. Minor spine lean to right. Provides concisely, clearly and simply just that quantity of information which the nurse needs to possess, gathered together in a well-illustrated easily read and easily carried volume. Author, by virtue of her training and subsequent responsibilities at Moorfields Eye Hospital, and latterly as Matron of Bristol Eye Hospital, two of the only three centres in Britain to grant a special Opthalmic Nursing Diploma to student nurses, is well qualified to produce this book. Red boards with black writing thereon. Book‎

‎Feirer, John L.‎

‎General Metals‎

‎372 pages including index and abundant black and white photographs and diagrams. Widely accepted as a basic textbook in metalworking. Covers: bench and wrought metal, sheet metal, art metal and jewelry, forging, heat treating, foundry, welding, machine shop, and more. Number written upon spine and three school stamps upon front endpaper else unmarked. A well-used copy yet contents remain in decent shape. A solid working copy with binding intact. Book‎

‎FERRO MARIA ELENA‎

‎Il secondo giro di giostra‎

‎Cairo, 2016 - copertina rigida con sovracopertina, formato cm. 16 x 23, pag. 123 - ottimo stato‎

‎Finck, Henry T.‎

‎Gardening with Brains - Fifty Years' Experiences of a Horticultural Epicure‎

‎270 pages including index. Frontis is black and white plate of author with Luther Burbank, John Burroughs and Edith Simonds. Unmarked. "There are plenty of garden books giving all the facts - for reference... This book is for consecutive reading. The important facts are here, too, but sugar-coated with wise and witty remarks and spiced with anecdotes and other things that suggest the perfuned atmosphere of the gardedn and appeal to the garden maniac... The world's most famous gardener, Luther Burbank, wrote to the author of this book that its chapters are, in his opinion, "The best that have so far been written on garden subjects. You get the facts in such a pleasing, human way that they are irresistible." - from page xiii. Chapters include: Educated Strawberries and Burbank Plums; Commercial Value of Burbank's Creations; Japanese Burbanks and Morning-Glories; Must We Raise Our Own Fruits Too?; Do Apples Keep the Doctor Away?; Why Not Grow Papaws, America's Most Delicious Fruit?; The Retired Rich Need Not Die; The Joys of Creative Gardening. Above-average wear to exterior with lettering nearly gone from spine. Binding intact. Book‎

‎Frank L. Packard Red Endpapers DJ Spine & Back has 2/ NET PRICE with 1346 in back Rt. BTM corner Front Yellow Inner DJ Flap‎

‎Further adventures of Jimmie Dale The Jimmie Dale Returns BRITISH EDITION with mans handsome face with black eye mask in Black TUX white shirt On Dustjacket A precursor to Zorro The Shadow and Batman.‎

‎<p>UK by Hodder & Stoughton 1935. HBDJ 1935 10th Edition STATED Very Good copy in a Very Good wrapper The wrapper is generally bright and sound. It is worn and rubbed at the edges with Tiny Chips. The DJ spine and back panel are Lightly soiled. Unclipped. The book is bright embossed Red Cloth Title in Black on Spine Cvr. Very clean boards. Sharp corners. Clean pages. tight binding. Light Wear Fox. No cracked hinges no loose pages. 320 pgs NO ADS in Back DJ IN Clear Protective Mylar 4 1/2 X 7 in small Light creases btm front DJRed Topstain. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.</p> UK by Hodder & Stoughton, hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 28128

‎Franke listed on spine‎

‎Scrapbook of color illustrations of architecture throughout the world color travel postcards and graphic illlustration of the early 1900s. Produced during the Golden age of illustration‎

‎Brooklyn New York: Brooklyn Public Library 1920. Hardcover. Good ex-library with a few marks and stamps binding solid one or more postcards separated un-glued toning of old newspaper clippings pages wavy probably from glue moisture though there is an occasional localized dampstain. Blue library buckram silt spine titles unpaginated approx. 100 pages with with pasted color illustrations on both sites approx. 25 leaves blank. OVERSIZE GA2. A scrapbook of images of architecture and color images of many beautiful places and things produced the early 1900s. Many are of New York City but also around the country and world presumably collected by the Brooklyn Public Library. Includes many large samples of the work of illustrator Louis Biedermann 1874-1957 along with Clara M. Burd Charles Livingston Burd Adolph Triedler Wilfred Jones Fred Kulz Chum Vine Edmond Oakdale Vincent Lynch and Mary Bassett. News articles from the New York Herald show articles with large color illustrations of views of cities and bridges. Travel postcards from the era depict architecture throughout the world. Includes stained glass windows a real slice of life during an age when color images in magazines and periodicals were fairly new and illustrators. Artcyclopedia calls the years of 1880-1920 the Golden Age of Illustration: it "was a period of unprecedented excellence in book and magazine illustration. It developed from advances in technology permitting accurate and inexpensive reproduction of art combined with a voracious public demand for new graphic art." Probably a librarian's pet project. Brooklyn Public Library hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 134025