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George Nassau [George Richard Savage Nassau (1756–1823) English country gentleman, known as a bibliophile]:
George Nassau; bibliophile Autograph Letter Signed "Geo Nassau" to unnamed correspondent but possibly Bryan Higgins see Note below. declining to subscribe to a new "institution".
6 Jan 1794. Three pages 4to bifolium some staining and aging but complete and legible. Text: The experiments & conversations to which you so kindly invite me to subscribe are I think calculated for those only who have made some advancxement in the study of the Chemical department of Natural Philosophy and my gleanings in this field of science have been sp very profitless that I cannot but be sensible how little qualified I am to become a member of such an institutionas the one proposed. From a sense therefore of my own insufficiency I am induced to decline the invitation held out to me - in addition however to this consideration an evening engagement is hardly compatible with the sacrifices I am in the habit of making to my friends & which meet with considerable interruption in the early months of the year by the relish I have for Italian song and the grander harmony of the sacred drama. I have strictly adhered to your injunctions and answered yourletter with that freedom of sentiment which you urged me to adopt - In your estimation I am satisfied I could not in any other way so strongly evince the sense I entertain of your kind motive for addressing me - accept my warmest thanks .".Note: "In 1794 the Irish physician lecturer and experimentalist Bryan Higgins M.D. 1741-1818 founded the Society for Philosophical Experiments and Conversations in London. Higgins who also ran a school of practical chemistry in Soho and famously clashed with Priestley over the distribution of credit for a series of experiments related to air distinguished his society from others and anticipated features of later chemical societies by supplementing club-like social opportunities with lectures and experiments." 6 Jan 1794 unknown
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Hiriguchi, Sutemi; Tatsuzo Sato (Photographs); Jiro Harada (English Resume)
The Katsura Imperial Villa
Tokyo Osaka & Moji: The Mainichi Newspapers 1957. Revised. Hardcover. Very good condition. Quarto. 14 1 83 2pp. 116 3 plates. Original umber cloth with gilt and debossed lettering on covers silver on spine; housed in matching umber board slipcase with printed label on cover. Orange endpapers. English and Japanese title pages printed in red and black. Beautifully illustrated with 116 plates of b/w photographs by Tatsuzo Sato and architectural plans with view of the exterior as well as interior including many art objects. "The Katsura Imperial Villa Katsura-no-Rikyu is situated at Shimo Katsura in the southwest suburbs of Kyoto on the banks of the Katsura River and occupies some 13000 tsubo of land about 11 acres. Originally it was Prince Katsura's villa but it finally became an imperial villa in 1883." Hiriguchi. Description of plates from pages eight to fourteen. Text in Japanese and English. Slipcase with light sunning on back and very light wear along edges. Pages seven through nine of English text with heavy creasing in margins but intact. Spine of slipcase missing. The Mainichi Newspapers hardcover
Bookseller reference : 47198
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English & Media Centre
Spotlight on Literacy: Creative Interventions in English and Across the Curriculum
English & Media Centre 2013-07-01. Spiral-bound. Very Good. 3.1980 29.5685 23.3756. English & Media Centre unknown
Bookseller reference : mon0000147919 ISBN : 1906101299 9781906101299
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(Bible English Illustrated:) McCallum, Gilbert (ed); Francis Frith (photographer)
The Holy Bible. The Old and New Testaments: Translated out of the Original Tongues and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised by His Majesty's Special Command. Illustrated with Photographs by Francis Frith. The Queen's Bible especially produced in honor of Queen Victoria and the finest photograpically illustrated bible ever produced With 57 albumin prints.
Glasgow Edinburgh and London: William Mackenzie 1862. Deluxe Edition. Two volumes folio 450 x 330 mm published between 1862 and 1863. 16 1344pp. 57 unnumbered leaves of albumin prints 230 x 160mm mounted on card stock. Crimson morocco over wooden boards elaborately tooled in gilt and blind; edges mounted in brass double brass clasps with thistle motif; covers with a broad blind-stamped border around a recessed central panel with the crowned cipher of Queen Victoria in gilt; gilt tooled spine with 5 raised bands; a.e.g. marbled endleaves with gilt dentelles. Covers with some mild traces of use; single crease in each marbled endleaf partially detached in second volume; occasional light to moderate foxing mostly confined to the plate mounts; albumin prints in fine condition often with foxing extending about 5mm from the edges into the mount. Overall a very good set with a fine series of photographs notable for their technical achievment.<br /> <br /> Deluxe edition one of 170 copies complete with all 57 albumen prints. Produced for the 1862 International Exhibition and dedicated to Queen Victoria then recently in mourning for the death of Prince Albert this work appeared at a time when photography though still a laborious and expensive process was just beginning to become a popular activity. Victoria herself was an amateur photographer and "the royal couple had been enthusiastic supporters of photography in England from the beginning; in 1853 they became founding patrons of the Photographic Society Club" K. Fiedorek. Francis Frith 1822-1898 the devout Quaker whose photographic images grace the present work was one of the best-known photographers to work in the Near East and the most commercially successful photographer of the nineteenth century. Finding his elementary studies tedious Frith left school at the age of ten apprenticed with a grocer and eventually started his own business. He later went into printing sold the grocery business to a competitor at a substantial profit and went on to devote himself to photography. "The growing Victorian interest in the East and its exotic and historic attractions caught the attention of this astute businessman" Perez. Between 1856 and 1860 Frith made three photographic expeditions to Egypt Ethiopia Sinai and the Levant accompanied by the engineer Francis Herbert Wenham who provided technical assistance in mechanics and optics. While Perez notes that Frith's "approach was always a strictly commercial one and his concern was to make truthful and accurate views of the area" he readily concedes that "the technical quality of Frith's photographs is superior." Frith employed the new wet collodion process in which glass plate negatives were sensitized exposed and developed while still wet. While technically demanding the process yielded rich detail and broad tones. "Frith's were the first original wet-plate photographs of Jerusalem and the Holy Land to reach a wide English-speaking audience and his pictures of the small Palestinian towns were most likely the first published anywhere" Nir p.66.<br /> <br /> Perhaps the most novel aspect of this celebrated edition of the Bible and certainly a harbinger of things to come was the way in which the photographer "presented the radical possibility of seeing photographs of the biblical sites alongside related verses of scripture. he sought to defend and promote his faith by conscripting the veracity of science and materialism to his cause and considered photography to be the most effective medium for his campaign" Foster et al. This vision is manifest even in such details as the re-captioning of prints previously offered for sale so that the new descriptions would more clearly reference the King James text. It should be noted that while the printing was still done by hand this was one of the earliest books for which machinery was used for composing. Original publisher's price = 50 guineas. Another version of this work was published at London in 1860-1862 by Eyre & Spottiswoode; sometimes confused with the present work it was issued in 20 parts each containing a single photographic print by Frith.<br /> <br /> K. Fiedorek A Photographic Bible Fit for a Queen NYPL Blog 2014. Foster Heiting and Stuhlman Imagining Paradise pp. 68-69. Gernsheim Incunabula of British Photographic Literature 1839-1875 p.36 no.184. Herbert The English Bible 1940 1217. Y. Nir The Bible and the Image The History of Photography in the Holy Land 1939-1899 esp. chap. 3: "Early Traveling Landscape Photographers". N. Perez Focus East: Early Photography in the Near East 1838-1885 pp.163-165. William Mackenzie unknown
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Schoneld, Josef (Nicolae) (preface); Toma Garai (English Primer); Eugen Gluck; George Kovacs (Eichner)
The Jewish People of Arad: Life and History
Haifa 2000. Softcover. vg- to near fine. Quarto. 8 208 pp. Glossy blue and white wrappers with black lettering on cover and spine back cover with b/w photographic reproductions. This memorial of the Jewish people of Arad chronicles their life and history and is illustrated throughout with b/w photographic reproductions. The book includes an index of notes and references including a roster of Jewish physicians practicing in Arad rosters of teachers lawyers and merchants. Addendum included at rear of book. <br /> <br /> Light scratches to covers light creasing along spine top of spine and upper left back corner bumped. Wrappers in very good- interior in near fine condition overall. unknown
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葛飾北斎 (Katsushika, Hokusai); Michiaki Kawakita (Japanese text); George Saito (English text)
北齋漫畵 Hokusai Manga: The Sketchbooks of Hokusai 15 vols. Booklet complete
æ±äº¬ Tokyo: èŠ¸è‰¸å ‚ Unsodo 1962. Revised edition. Softcover. vg- to near fine. Quartos. Unpaginated. 15 string-bound volumes in blue paper wrappers. White paper labels with gilt lettering on the front covers. Housed in a large dark blue cloth-covered clamshell portfolio with a printed paper label on the front cover and bone fasteners. English label on the spine of the portfolio. Gorgeous reproduction of the classic monumental work by Hokusai 1760-1849 originally issued in 15 volumes between 1812-1878. The first 12 volumes were issued by the artist during his lifetime while volumes 13-14 were issued posthumously from previously unpublished material. The final volume includes a compilation of some previously published material and of other work not even by Hokusai and is therefore not considered authentic.<br /> <br /> The vast amount of content covered in these "sketchbooks" consists of thousands of images ranging from domestic and social scenes animals landscapes plants architecture historical scenes legends and martial arts to masks as well as household and ritual objects. Of interesting note are some detailed close up images of firearms. Finely printed to reproduce the quality and look of the original editions with images printed in b/w and hues of light pink. The set includes a 22-page informative text booklet in Japanese and English. Additionally the final section of each volume contains text in Japanese and English relating to the specific content of the volume and giving additional technical and historical context. <br /> <br /> Text in Japanese and English.<br /> <br /> Portfolio with some light foxing to the label and on the interior. A few of the wrappers with minor rubbing to corners. Foxing to the edges of book blocks. Interiors with some sporadic minor to light foxing mostly to top margins with images almost entirely unaffected. Images clean bold and bright. Portfolio in very good wrappers in very good to near fine interiors in very good- to near fine. 芸艸堂 (Unsodo) unknown
Bookseller reference : 46618
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Naville, Edouard (Text by); D N Belaieff (English translation by)
Détails Relevés dans les Ruines de Quelques Temples Égyptiens: 1ère Partie: Abydos; 2ème Partie: Behbeit-El-Hagher - Appendix: Samanoud
Paris: Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner 1930. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Folio 15 1/2 x 11 3/4". 67 1pp Text uncut and unopened in blind wrappers XXXVII 17 loose leaves Plates. Original half tan cloth over marbled paper covered portfolio with black lettering to spine and red and black lettering to front cover. String ties. <br /> <br /> In this work Swiss archaeologist and field director of the Abydos excavations Edouard Naville 1844-1926 reproduces some spectacular bas-relief details found in the Egyptian Temples located at Abydos and Behbeit-El-Hagher.<br /> <br /> Abydos: The fragments of bas-reliefs found in the Temples of Seti I and Ramses II are reproduced in 5 in-text vignettes one color plate and 36 photolithographic plates.<br /> <br /> Behbeit-El-Hagher: Details of bas-reliefs found in the Temple of Isis are reproduced in 6 in-text vignettes 11 photolithographic plates and 6 phototype plates including Samanood<br /> <br /> Samanood Appendix: The last two plates 16 and 17 depict fragments of two corner stones 16 and fragments of a naos in dark green diorite 17 found in Samanood.<br /> <br /> Minor shelf wear. Text in French and English. Portfolio and interior in very good condition. Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner hardcover
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Aristophanes; Jack Brussel (English version by); Aubrey Beardsley & Ancient Athenian Artists (Illustrated by)
Lysistrata SIGNED
New York: Land's End Press 1968. Limited edition. Hardcover. g to vg. 1/1500. Folio 12 1/2 x 9 1/2". 90 2pp. Original gilt-stamped decorative cloth with gold lettering to spine. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece portrait of Aristophanes. Title page in orange purple and black lettering. Limitation page numbered and signed by Jack Brussel. Book housed in its original black slipcase with illustrated title to front panel. <br /> <br /> “Lysistrata†is a bawdy anti-war comedy by the ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes first staged in 411 BCE. It is the comic account of one woman's extraordinary mission to end the Peloponnesian War as Lysistrata convinces the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands as a means of forcing the men to negotiate a peace. Some consider it his greatest work and it is probably the most anthologized.<br /> <br /> This limited edition is lavishly illustrated throughout with erotic illustrations by Audrey Beardsley and ancient Athenian artists.<br /> <br /> One of 1500 signed copies of which this is No.340.<br /> <br /> Slipcase partly rubbed along edges. Binding slightly soiled along joints and spine. Corners slightly rubbed. Slipcase in overall good to good binding in good interior in very good condition. Land's End Press hardcover
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(Bible: English). Cullen, Paul
The Holy Bible Translated from the Latin Vulgate diligently compared with the Hebrew Greek and other Editions in divers languages. The Old Testament first published by the English College at Rheims A.D. 1582. With Annotations references historical and chronological Index & c. The whole revised and diligently compared with the Latin Vulgate & The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Translated from the Latin Vulgate diligently compared with the Original Greek; and first published by the English College at Rheims A.D. 1582. With annotations references and an historical and chronological Index. With the approbation of his Grace the most Rev. Dr. Cullen WITH STRIKING FORE-EDGE PAINTING
Dublin: James Duffy & Co 1865. Later edition. Hardcover. g to g. Large quarto. 2 764 222pp. Finely gold-stamped and gold-tooled contemporary black leather. All gilt edges. Striking fore edge painting of landscape with antique church complex. Silk-moire endpapers. Handwritten family registry in front. Frontispiece of Old Testament reproduction of a painting in monochrome by W. & A. K. Johnston. Frontispiece engraving in New Testament. "This New Edition of the English Version of the Bible printed with our permission by James Duffy.carefully collated by our direction with the Clementine Vulgate; likewise with the Douay Version of the Old Testament of 1609 and with the Rhemisch Version of the New Testament of 1582 and with other approved English Versions." Illustrated with 12 full-page monochrome plates in sepia-tone 2 full-page engravings as well as many b/w in-text illustrations. Some age wear and staining on binding. Wear along front joints and corners. Gutters at front and rear endpapers reinforced with fine red cloth band. Inscription on blank leaf following front endpaper: "Gift from Stephanie to Tom on the eve of their marriage October 3rd 1983." Sporadic foxing throughout. Overall good condition. James Duffy & Co hardcover
Bookseller reference : 30602
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Raskin, Saul; Dr IM Rubin [English] I M
Genesis: The First Book of Moses/ Bereshit: "Ha-tsiyurim ma`aseh yede Shaul Raskin
New York: Academy Photo Offset 1944. Hardcover. vg. Saul Raskin. 4to. 139 pp. Green cloth binding with embossed gilt lettering to cover and spine. Ex- library copy. Color printing: Title page in orange and black. Illustrations by Raskin throughout in b/w and monochrome color. Rubbing scuffing to boards with corners as well as head and tail of spine bumped and rubbed. Text in English and Hebrew. Very good condition. Academy Photo Offset hardcover
Bookseller reference : 16804
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de Ketham, Johannes; Luke Demaitre (English Translation by); Karl Sudhoff (Commentary by); Charles Singer (Translated and Adapte
The Fasciculus Medicinae
Birmingham: The Classics of Medicine Library 1988. Limited edition. Hardcover. vg. Folio.IX 1 128 4pp. Original brown leather with gold tooling on covers and gilt lettering on spine. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Remarkable facsimile of the first Venetian edition published in 1491 of the Fasciculus Medicinae a “bundle†of six independent and quite different medieval medical treatises. The collection which existed only in two manuscripts handwritten copies was first printed in 1491 in Latin and came out in numerous editions over the next 25 years. Johannes de Ketham the German physician routinely associated with the Fasciculus was neither the author nor even the original compiler but merely an owner of one of the manuscripts. The topics of the treatises cover a wide spectrum of medieval European medical knowledge and technique including uroscopy astrology bloodletting the treatment of wounds plague anatomical dissection and women’s health. The book is remarkable as the first illustrated medical work to appear in print; notable illustrations include: a urine chart a diagram of the veins for phlebotomy a pregnant woman Wound Man Disease Man and Zodiac Man. Binding and interior in as new condition. The Classics of Medicine Library hardcover
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Osorio, Jerome; James Gibbs (first translated into English by)
History of the Portuguese During the Reign of Emmanuel: containing all their discoveries from the coast of Africk to the farthest parts of China; their battles by sea and land their sieges and other memorable exploits: with a description of those countries and a particular account of the religion government and customs of the natives; including also their discovery of the Brazils and their wars with the Moors. 2-vol. set Complete
London: A. Millar 1752. First English language edition. Hardcover. vg. Large octavo. 4 376 2 388pp. Modern half calf over marbled paper covered boards with gold lettering and ruling on spines. All edges green. Gibbs' scarce English version of Osorio's important history of Portuguese exploration featuring Vasco da Gama Magellan Cabral Albuquerque and others. Osorio was well-regarded in his day as a stylist of Latin earning the sobriquet 'the Portuguese Cicero.' Previous owner's stamp on inside of each title page. Binding and interior in overall very good condition. A. Millar hardcover
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Foster, G G and Thomas Dunn English
The French Revolution of 1848: Its Causes Actors Events and Influences
Philadelphia: G. B. Zieber & CO 1848. Hardcover. poor. 8vo. 221 pp. 1 b/2 facsimile etching and 2 pp. of sheet music of the song "Mourir Pour La Patrie" by Alexander Dumas and F. Alphonse. "The present work is offered to the public as a timely exposition of the opening of a new era in history . ." from advertisement inside book. The February 1848 revolution ended the July Monarchy 1830-1848 replaced by the Second Republic 1848-1852 giving a lethal blow to the hopes of a "Social and Democratic Republic" "la République sociale et démocratique" or "La Sociale". In 1848 political gatherings and demonstrations were outlawed in France. Therefore activists held a series of fundraising banquets the Campagne des banquets to circumvent this restriction and provide a legal outlet for popular criticism of the regime. In February however the French government under Louis Philippe forbade such banquets partly leading to the revolution. This work was written the very year of the revolution. Illustrated throughout with a number of b/w facsimile etchings of important and prominent figures as well as soliders. Frontis piece. Spine absent and boards detached but present. In poor condition. G. B. Zieber & CO hardcover
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English China Clays Ltd
The China Clay Works in Cornwall & Devon
St. Austell Cornwall: NP n/d. Limited edition. Hardcover. fair. Folio. 70pp. Decorated stiff boards. Raised lettering on cover faded. Business card of "M. A. Gesner of Hammill & Gillespie Inc." pasted-in on front endpaper small stamp "2nd issue" on same page "No. 1029." Fascinating and thoroughly comprehensive company history of the "English China Clays Ltd." Profusely illustrated with reproductions of photographs in gravure one color map as well as decorated initials at the beginning of each chapter. A complete and exhaustively illustrated history of the company documenting: managing directors; head office and branches; 22 clay pits and workers settling pits and refining mica drags drying kilns and linhays; stone quarries; ground china stone mills; Lee Moor brick works; power plants; water wheels; employees' houses and cottages; horse motor lorry and tramline transport; workshops and stores; export and shipping; and descriptions of clay uses in paper making and pottery. Staining rubbing and scuffing to boards. Parts of decorated top-layer on boards chipped particularly on back. 1" x 2" piece near gutter on bottom of free front endpaper missing. Some age yellowing to pages. Pulling to top edge of last two pages. Binding in fair interior in good condition. Rare. NP hardcover
Bookseller reference : 16923
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Raskin, Saul; Dr IM Rubin [English] I M
Genesis: The First Book of Moses/ Bereshit: "Ha-tsiyurim ma`aseh yede Shaul Raskin
New York: Academy Photo Offset 1944. Hardcover. vg. Saul Raskin. 4to. 139 pp. Maroon cloth binding with embossed gilt lettering to cover and not embossed gilt lettering to spine in original dj. Owner's inscription to free front endpaper. Color printing: Title page in orange and black.Illustrations by Raskin throughout in b/w and monochrome color. Browning and creasing to dj with missing parts at head and tail of spine not affecting text or illustration. Some tears to middle of spine with missing text parts "First Book of Moses". Minor browning to page edges not affecting text or illustrations. Text in English and Hebrew. Very good condition. Academy Photo Offset hardcover
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Bearden, R; A Cober; R Hess; M English; E Mihaesco; Folon; W McLean; A Siegel; J Jampel; F Otnes (artists)
Expressions of Depression
Ciba-Geigy 1977. First edition. g. Elephant portfolio. Fascinating work containing 10 original colored prints from 10 internationally known artists who have portrayed their own interpretations of depression. Each original print is laid in a double sheet containing a picture and a biography of the artist. Portfolio slightly soiled and sunned along edges. Text in English French Spanish and German. Portfolio in overall good interior in very good condition. Scarce. Ciba-Geigy unknown
Bookseller reference : 23778
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Professor of English Paul Kane
Wanderings of an Artist Among the Indians of North America: From Canada to Vancouver's Island and Oregon and Through the Hudson's Bay Company's Territ
Hardback. New. hardcover
Bookseller reference : B9781258969516 ISBN : 1258969513 9781258969516
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English and Irish Law and Chancery Com
Second Report of her Majesty's Commissioners appointed to inquire into the Superior Courts of Common Law and Courts of Chancery of England and Ireland
Hardback. New. hardcover
Bookseller reference : B9783752555516 ISBN : 3752555513 9783752555516
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SOUSA, INGLES DE
CONTOS AMAZONICOS - 04ED/21
WMF MARTINS FONTES - POD. new. Ingls de Sousa 1853-1918 foi testemunha de uma �poca de transformaes pol�ticas religiosas e liter�rias no Brasil. questo social vista na chaga vergonhosa da escravido segue-se a questo religiosa abalando os alicerces do catolicismo at� ento intoc�vel. A guerra do Paraguai mostra as deficincias da organizao militar e faz a monarquia sofrer os primeiros abalos. O Segundo Imp�rio deixava escapar a sua falncia subjugado pelo esp�rito das campanhas abolicionista e republicana que se acentuam a partir de 1870. � nesse contexto que Ingls de Sousa escreve seus 'Contos amaznicos' publicados em 1893. Os contos so como cap�tulos seriados de um romance que situa e constr�i a regio amaznica aos olhos do leitor e em que o ex�tico � aos poucos transfigurado transformando-se na coisa como ela �. WMF MARTINS FONTES - POD unknown
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Freud, Sigmund; Brill, A A [authorized English translation by]
The History of the Psychoanalytic Movement
New York: Nervous and Mental Disease Publishing Company 1917. Softcover. Octavo; G-/paperback; dark tan spine with black text; previous owner's name to front; covers show noticeable wear to exterior; some staining to spine and edges; several chips to edges; mylar wrap; text block exterior edges have slight age toning; rough-cut edges; broken hinges; mild tone to interior edges; otherwise clean interior; pp 58<br /> <br /> <p>NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office Case #2 - New Ephemera Box #1. 1337144. FP New Rockville Stock. Nervous and Mental Disease Publishing Company unknown
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English, David
Karate: Start Here If You Want to be a Black Belt in Karate Puffin Books
Paperback. Very Good. paperback
Bookseller reference : GOR003230545 ISBN : 0140311491 9780140311495
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Helmond, Johannes; Translated into English and Edited by Gerhard Hanswille and Deborah Brumlich
Alchemy Unveiled: For the First Time the Secret of the Philosopher's Stone is being Openly Explained
Scarborough Canada: Merkur Publishing Co. Ltd 1991. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 182pp. Octavo 22.5 cm Navy blue cloth over boards. Covers just a trifle cocked. In the dust jacket with fading to the spine and edges of the panels. Extremities of jacket also a bit rubbed and chipped. Ancient Mysteries of the Christians Israel the Eleusians the Egyptians and also Alchemy explained. The book opens with a direct explanation of the Symbolic language of Alchemy. It points out the mistakes of many who were not in possession of the true knowledge in regards to this art. Merkur Publishing Co. Ltd hardcover
Bookseller reference : 68864 ISBN : 0969382049 9780969382041
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Khayyam, Omar; Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam The Astronomer Poet of Persia
Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Co 1886. Early printing with illustrations by Vedder. Hardcover. Good . Elihu Vedder. Quarto 32 cm Light gray cloth over boards with elaborate decorative stamping on the backstrip and front board. Top edge gilt. Beveled edges. The cloth at the edges of the spine and boards is a bit frayed. The front free endpaper is detached but present. Omar Khayyam's spiritual and poetic classic.<br /> <br /> Illustrated by Elihu Vedder.<br /> <br /> American symbolist artist Elihu Vedder 1836-1923 was born in New York City. He spent a vast portion of his life in Rome and went on to become one of the most imaginative American expatriate painters of the second half of the nineteenth century. His reputation is founded primarily on paintings derived from dreams and fantasies which often evoke a sense of melancholy. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam which so supremely demonstrates his imaginative style is his most famous work. Houghton Mifflin & Co hardcover
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Critical edition and English translation by Terence Scully, initially with the collaboration of Rudolf Grewe
Cuoco Napoletano : The Neapolitan Recipe Collection New York Pierpont Morgan Library MS Bühler 19
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Quarto oversize. Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 256 p. w/ appendices bibliography. An introduction and presentation of a late 15th century south Italian cookbook in both late medieval Italian and English focused on a noble household with some Catalan influence. <br/><br/> University of Michigan Press hardcover
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Aquinas, Thomas; Fathers of the English Dominican Province [trans]
Summa Theologica Volume Two: Containing Containing Second Part of the Second Part QQ. 1-189 and Third Part QQ. 1-90 Volume II only
New York: Benziger Brothers Inc. 1947. Book. Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Volume 2 of 3 only of the "First Complete American Edition in Three Volumes." Original blue cloth hard covers with gilt illustration to front and titling to spine. Handling wear to covers with bumping to extremities. Edges and endpapers toned; inner hinges neatly re-lined. Binding well worked but still firm. Otherwise clean tight and unmarked. Still a neat sound and very useful copy. . Benziger Brothers, Inc. Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 80460thjr
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Ludwig Wittgenstein English Translation by G E M Anscombe
Philosophische Untersuchunge von Ludwig Wittgenstein. / Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein. Bilingual Edition: German with English Translation.
<p>Philosophische Untersuchunge von Ludwig Wittgenstein. / Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein. Bilingual Edition: German with English Translation. English Translation by G. E. M. Anscombe. Published by The Macmillan Co. in 1953; 10th Printing 1965. Hardcover 464 pages.</p> The Macmillan Co. hardcover
Bookseller reference : L2 box190 b6od
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Neil English
Space Telescopes: Capturing the Rays of the Electromagnetic Spectrum
Paperback / softback. New. Space telescopes are among humankind's greatest scientific achievements of the last fifty years. This book looks at space telescopes not simply chronologically but also in order of the electromagnetic spectrum making it possible to understand better why they were made. paperback
Bookseller reference : B9783319278124 ISBN : 3319278126 9783319278124
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Neil English
Grab 'n' Go Astronomy
Paperback / softback. New. Written for amateur astronomers this book reviews portable equipment accessories and mounts describing which are best for different kinds of viewing. Shows how to use your grab 'n' go telescope to observe a wealth of solar lunar and planetary objects. paperback
Bookseller reference : B9781493908257 ISBN : 1493908251 9781493908257
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Caskoden, Edwin [Charles Major] - Rewritten and Rendered into Modern English from Sir Edwin Caskoden's Memoir - AUTHOR ALS
WHEN KNIGHTHOOD WAS IN FLOWER - JULIA MARLOWE EDITION With Scenes From the Play - Original 1890 Edition
Indianapolis IN: The Bowen-Merrill Company 1890. HC. good decorated olive green cloth teg hardcover SEE NOTE. B&W illustrations. Or the Love Story of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor the King's Sister and Happening in the Reign of His August Majesty King Henry the Eighth." Following the text is "The Author and The Book" by Maurice Thompson 8 pages. Signed by Julia Marlowe on front free endpaper "In remembrance - Julia Marlow - February 1903." Laid in is ALS by Charles Major dated December 27 1906. Nice clean and tight copy with a few stray pencil marks. Author's first book. 359pp. The Bowen-Merrill Company unknown
Bookseller reference : BOOKS040678I
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English Setter Association Of America
Kaleidoscope
Very Good. 1995. Hardcover. Regular shelf wear; Some bumping at corners and edges; 376 pages . hardcover
Bookseller reference : 47147
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Lewandowski, Jurgen with English Translation by John Christofer La Bonte
Mercedes-Benz 300SL art & car edition
Munich: Sudwest 1988. Limited Edition #2981/3000 copies; 4to.; cloth covered boards with illustrated endpapers and cloth covered slipcase hardcover; 168 pages; black and white and color photographic illustrations; Text in German and English; pamphlet in pocket on back endpaper with German text; very good in a very good dust jacket and lightly rubbed slipcase. Munich: Sudwest, 1988 unknown
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Budge, E A Wallis [The Ethiopic Texts Edited with English Translations, Etc, by - Sometime Scholar of Christ's College, Cambrid
Lady Meux Manuscript No. 1. The Lives of Maba Seyon and Gabra Kestos Limited Edition
London: W. Griggs Chromo-Lithographer to Her Majesty the Queen 1898 Limited Edition this being No. 201 of 300 Copies issued for Private Circulation. Lxxxiii 144pp printed on rectos only 65pp printed on rectos only and being in Amharic text printed on hard stock paper. Collated and complete with 33 b/w illustrations and 92 chromo-lithographic plates as called for colours still bright. OVERSIZED measuring 12 1/2 inches tall by 10 1/2 inches wide and 3 3/4 inches thick. Bound in the original blind stamped leather done in an Ethiopian style top edges gilt other edges marbled. Covers in Good Condition internally in Very Good Condition front cover detached foxing on back preliminary pages upper/lower spine edges shows some loss. Valerie Lady Meux 1852-1910 was a character in her own right being a banjo playing barmaid that married Sir Henry Bruce Meux 3rd Baronet who came from one of Britain's richest brewing dynasties - Meux's Brewery. The original Ethiopian manuscripts were brought back from the Abyssinian Campaign by a British officer who sold them to the antiquarian book dealer in London Bernard Quaritch. They were then purchased by Lady Meux and reproduced by E. A. Wallis Budge on her behalf. W. Griggs, Chromo-Lithographer to Her Majesty the Queen hardcover
Bookseller reference : 010053
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Budge, E A Wallis [The Ethiopic Texts Edited with English Translations, Etc, by - Sometime Scholar of Christ's College, Cambrid
Lady Meux Manuscripts Nos. 2-5. The Miracles of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Life of Hanna Saint Anne and the Magical Prayers of Aheta Mikael Limited Edition
London: W. Griggs Chromo-Lithographer to Her Majesty the Queen 1900 Limited to 300 Copies for Private Circulation this being No. 191. 4 lxv 1 158pp printed on rectos only 159-220pp double sided 116pp printed on rectos only and being in Amharic text printed on hard stock paper. Top edges gilt other edges marbled. Collated and complete with 111 chromo-lithographic plates as called for with the colours still bright. Not just oversized but MASSIVE measuring 15 1/4 inches tall by 13 inches wide and 5 1/8 inches thick. Bound in the original blind stamped leather done in an Ethiopian style. Covers in Fair Condition internally in Good Condition. Spine covering pulling away from the front cover front cover nearly detached lower spine edge loss corners of the book are bumped occasional fore-edge tear not affecting the text nor image. Valerie Lady Meux 1852-1910 was a character in her own right being a banjo playing barmaid that married Sir Henry Bruce Meux 3rd Baronet who came from one of Britain's richest brewing dynasties - Meux's Brewery. The original Ethiopian manuscripts were brought back from the Abyssinian Campaign by a British officer who sold them to the antiquarian book dealer in London Bernard Quaritch. They were then purchased by Lady Meux and reproduced by E. A. Wallis Budge on her behalf. W. Griggs, Chromo-Lithographer to Her Majesty the Queen hardcover
Bookseller reference : 010054
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Common English Bible
Premium Large Print Bible-CEB
Common English Bible 2012. Unknown. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding with general signs of previous use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Common English Bible unknown
Bookseller reference : 1579846322 ISBN : 1609260732 9781609260736
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Robinson, Professor of English and American Litera
When the Music's Over Lib/E: An Inspector Banks Novel Inspector Banks Novels
audioCD. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. unknown
Bookseller reference : 1504736427.G ISBN : 1504736427 9781504736428
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Brown, Abram English
Faneuil Hall and Faneuil Hall Market. Or Peter Faneuil and His Gift
Hardcover. Book Condition: Good. Lee and Shepard Boston MA 1900. First Edition. 1st Printing. 226 pages. Moderate general wear. Top of spine bumped showing creases on pages. In addition there is a 6 page article from 'The American Kitchen Magazine. A Domestic Science Monthly' December 1896 titled 'The Great Markets of the World. Faneuil Hall Market' and authored by Mabel B. Caffin. Size: 8vo. History::Localities New England::History New England::Biographies/Memoirs Biography 5943 hardcover
Bookseller reference : 138736
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English, Adrian
Latin America Regional Defence Profile
hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 0710605412.G ISBN : 0710605412 9780710605412
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H Edward English
Canada-United States Relations
hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 0275233006.G ISBN : 0275233006 9780275233006
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English, Robert G
Poetical Jest--My Gestful World
hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 0806245131.G ISBN : 0806245131 9780806245133
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( BIBLE in English ). [ Megilat Ester ]. SOLOMON, Bernard, Translator & Artist
THE BOOK OF ESTHER
Statesboro GA: The Boxwood Press 1992. First Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. In a mahogany and copper scroll case with vertical slot and hidden crank handle; with a protective velvet cloth <br/><br/>Only 16cc.Remarkable bilingual presentation / re-interpretation of this Biblical work placing it in the the Reagan / Bush era. Illustrated with 16 color etchings by Bernard Solomon the translator and etcher. He realized there were remarkable parallels between the Biblical story of Esther and that of Anita Hill Clarence Thomas and the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. This interpretation unfolds sequentially as each leaf is unrolled from the 33 in. high scroll holder. The body of the scroll holder is one of the original copper plates used for the etchings which is why it is limited to an edition of only 16. The top and bottom of the handcrafted minaret-style case is finely shaped and polished mahogany by Anthony V. Mann. Designed with a hidden crank to rewind the scroll into the case. Altogether remarkable! The Boxwood Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : DEMO006065I
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Bing Kung with translation by Xu Mingqiang and English text by Denis Mair
PROSPEROUS SUZHOU
Hong Kong: The Commercial Press 1986. Hardcover. fine. Folio. 15" x 10 1/2". Hardcover folding pages. Two softcovers included with this book. One with English text. The other is with Chinese text. All volumes in slipcase. The Commercial Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 79784
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Sussman, Elisabeth; David Joselit; Johanna Burton; Darby English; Maggie Nelson; Alexander Nemerov
Rachel Harrison Life Hack
New York: Whitney Museum of American Art / Yale University Press 2019. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 31 x 24 cm. 280pp. Red cloth in dust jacket. Extensively illustrated in color. Published on occasion of the exhibition of the same name held at Whitney Museum of American Art New York October 25 2019 - January 12 2020. Whitney Museum of American Art / Yale University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 79834 ISBN : 0300246854 9780300246858
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Richard Wagner with translation into English by Margaret Armour
The Rhinegold & the Valkyrie
London: William Heinemann 1912. Third Impression. Hardcover. very good. Small quarto. 10" x 7 1/2". Brown cloth with gilt lettering and design to cover and spine. 159pp. Pictorial endpapers. 34 color mounted plates by Arthur Rackham. Some light foxing. A few of the tissue guards show some damage. A nice copy. William Heinemann hardcover
Bookseller reference : 81370
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Straparola with first translation into english by WGWaters W G W
The Facetious Nights of Straparola Four Volumes
Society of Bibliophiles 1901. Hard Cover. vg. Four Volumes. Green cloth. Paper title labels to spines. From the Italian Novelists set. "Choicely" illustrated by Jules Garnier and E. R. Hughes. Split to front and rear inner joints of volumes I & IV. Some light bumping to edges. Society of Bibliophiles unknown
Bookseller reference : 82796
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Judie English
Pattern and Progress: Field Systems of the Second and Early First Millennia BC in Southern Britain
Paperback / softback. New. paperback
Bookseller reference : B9781407311951 ISBN : 1407311956 9781407311951
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RR "Dick" Wallin, J David Ingles R R
Central Illinois Rails Color Pictoral 1950s - 1970s
La Mirada CA: Four Ways West 2011. Hardcover. Near Fine. 29 x 22 cm 11.5 x 8.5 in Quarto. 144 pp. Some creases on the spine. Four Ways West hardcover
Bookseller reference : 63299 ISBN : 1885614888 9781885614889
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Holger Schmidt with English translation by Jean Olsen
Building Customs in Viking Age Denmark
Poul Kristensen 1994. Small quarto. 27cm x 20cm 178pp. Illustrated with black and white line drawings. Name of previous owner on front free endpaper. Poul Kristensen unknown
Bookseller reference : 64539 ISBN : 8774683853 9788774683858
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Guido Guastalla with English translation by Dermot T Cooke
Francesco Messina Graphic Works ; Drawings pastels and lithographs from 1930 to 1973
Graphis Arte Editore/Rizzoli international Pub 1975. First edition. Hardcover. near fine/near fine. Quarto. English text. This edition has been printed in three thousand copies of which 500 are in English. 117 pp of illustrations index of plates.Black and white and color illustrations. Color plates are tipped-in. A lovely copy in dust jacket and slipcase. Graphis Arte Editore/Rizzoli international Pub hardcover
Bookseller reference : 54620
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English, Thomas Dunn
The Boy's Book of Battle-lyrics
hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 1023454955.G ISBN : 1023454955 9781023454957
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Sackville West, V[ita]
Nursery Rhymes.
<p><i>First Limited Edition: Number 527 of 550. Dropmore Press. London. 1947. Royal 8vo. 6 66 blank 1pp. Printed on a hand press on hand-made laid paper by Portals of Whitchurch with title and historiated initial of the first page of text in pink and black. Binding by Evans of Croydon: decorative blue cloth gilt gilt back gilt inner dentelles. Untrimmed edges a lovely copy in the original unclipped protected dustwrapper lightly sunned to spine with spotting to the edges</i><br /></p> Dropmore Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : biblio39
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