‎Thé‎

‎(BASS, Benny (The Little Fish) and Honey Boy Finnegan)‎

‎Unused boxing ticket Shibe Park Stadium Philadelphia 1926‎

‎Philadelphia: Shibe Park Stadium / Globe Ticket Company 1926. Unbound. Near Fine. Complete unused ticket measuring 7"x 2". Light soiling most notably on the verso a few gentle bumps near fine overall. An unused ticket to a boxing match held at Shibe Park Stadium in Philadelphia July 12 1926 between Benny "Little Fish" Bass and Honey Boy Finnegan. 25000 fans were in attendance to watch the 10-round draw purportedly the largest showing in Shibe Park history. The ticket is for the West Stand Lower Pavilion Row 2 Sec. F Seat 15. Shibe Park Stadium / Globe Ticket Company unknown‎

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‎(BERNOULLI, JEAN (JOHANN) & BERNOULLI, DANIEL. - THE MECHANICS OF THE HEAVENS.‎

‎Essai d'une nouvelle Physique celeste. Servant à expliquer les principaux Phenomenes du Ciel, & en particulier la cause physique de l'inclinaison des Orbites des Planetes par rapport au plan de l'Equateur du Soleil. Qui a partagé le Prix doub...‎

‎Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1735. 4to. Fine recent marbled boards. Printed titlelabel on frontcover. (6),144 pp. and 1 double-page folded engraved plate. Johann B's paper: pp. (1-) 91. - Daniel B's papers: pp. (93-) 122 and pp. 123-144. A few marginal brownspots.‎

‎First edition of these prize winning papers by father (Jean) and son (Daniel). - Both papers deals with the cause of the inclination of the planetary orbits relative to the solar equator. - In Daniel's paper he put foreward the hypothesis of the existence of an atmosphere, resempling air, and rotating around the solar axis, resulting in an increasing inclination of the planetary orbits toward the equator of the sun. Daniel was the first importent Newtonian outside Great Britain. The problems faced here (by Daniel) are treated in Newtonian manner.The publication of these papers by father and son resulted in a controversy between the two, forcing Daniel to leave his fathers house. - Poggendorff I:161.‎

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‎(Belasco, David) Selby, The Misses‎

‎Portrait photograph of David Belasco writing with quill pen‎

‎New York: The Misses Selby 1920. Gelatin silver print half-length view showing Belasco seated at his desk writing. 8-1/2 x 6-3/4 inches. Slightly toned. Gelatin silver print half-length view showing Belasco seated at his desk writing. 8-1/2 x 6-3/4 inches. Inscribed "To Isabelle Leighton with best wishes affectionately David Belasco. Nov. 22nd 1920. "<br /> <br /> Signed in pencil below image "The Misses Selby N.Y." and with their label "The Misses Seby 628 Fifth Avenue." on the back. The Misses Selby unknown‎

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‎(Bible: Bilderbibel; Illustration). Merian, Matthaeus, the Elder (engr)‎

‎Icones Biblicae praecipuas Sacrae Scripturae historias eleganter et graphicè repraesentantes AND: Noui Testamenti D.N. Iesu Christi praecipuae historiae et visiones picturis elegantissimis in aes incisis repraesentatae RARE SUITE "BEFORE LETTER" OF MERIAN'S BILDERBIBEL THE MOST CELEBRATED ENGRAVED BIBLICAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE 17th CENTURY‎

‎Frankfurt: Matthaeus Merian 1627. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Matthaeus Merian. Oblong folio leaves: 20.6 by 31.2 cm; plates: 10 to 11.5 by 14.5 to 15.5 cm. Engraved titlepage borders without letterpress; 231 of 233 engraved plates printed on the rectos with no printed text depicting biblical scenes from the Old and New Testaments lacks Gen. XIX: Lot and his daughters after the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah; Exod. VIII & IX: The plague of frogs. Recent marbled calf lightly rubbed at extremities bordered in blind; gilt-tooled spine with raised bands gilt lettering pieces. Occasional light stains and smudges especially at the outermost leaves and almost entirely restricted to the blank margins; old mostly marginal repairs and reinforcement of tears to about 30 leaves Matt. IV plate with loss of about 10 words of manuscript text. Protected by wide margins the plates are clean fresh and bright with relatively few minor blemishes. Housed and protected in a custom luxurious modern leather clamshell box.<br /> <br /> Rare suite of biblical illustrations printed before letter perhaps as proofs comprising 231 of 233 engraved plates from the Icones Biblicae of Matthaeus Merian the elder 1593-1650. The engravings are printed on large paper and lack any printed text. They are preceded by a leaf of the engraved title borders to the first part in which the central cartouche which would have contained a letterpress title and imprint is here blank. Neat manuscript annotations appear throughout: atop each engraving is a brief title along with a notation of the biblical book and chapters; beneath each engraving are six-lines of rhyming verse in German; at the top corners are leaf numbers in Arabic numerals. All are penned in black ink in the same old cursive German hand. The engraved title leaf is not included in the manuscript foliation. The first three leaf numbers and several others among the first 23 leaves are obscured by wear or later marginal repairs. The foliation ends at leaf 233 and is discontinuous where one would expect to find numbers 15 and 38 corresponding to the missing plates noted above. As noted by Wütrich only four of the 233 plates are signed by Merian all in the New Testament series. Each of these signed plates appears in our suite: Matthaei I. - page 7; Johannis VIII. - page 65; Matthaei XXVII. - page 101; Apocalyps. IX. - page 145 header titles and page numbers from the first edition.<br /> <br /> The first editions were published at Frankfurt in four parts between 1625 and 1627. The Pentateuch series was published in 1625. The second part illustrating the Old Testament books from Joshua to Kings appeared in 1626. These first two series were published under the name of Merian's father-in-law the printer and bookseller Johann Theodor de Bry 1561-1623 whose heirs retained title to the business. The third part illustrates the remainder of the Old Testament and Apocrypha; the fourth the New Testament. These last two parts were published in 1627 under the engravers's own name. Verses in Latin German and French accompany each plate in the three Old Testament series the French verses being omitted in the 1627 New Testament series.<br /> <br /> While the eminent Swiss draughtsman and engraver Matthaeus Merian is best known for his topographical depictions of the German speaking lands which appeared in the Theatrum Europaeum his novel selection of biblical stories and innovative stylistic approach revealed in the present series of plates proved highly influential ushering in a new age of copperplate engraving in Bible illustration. Merian broke with the century-long tradition of woodcuts which had accompanied countless editions of Luther's German Bible. Even as he drew on the Bible illustrations of Jost Amman Hans Holbein Virgil Solis and Tobias Stimmer Merian greatly expanded the traditional iconographic and compositional repertoire. The Old Testament alone contains 23 prints depicting stories that had never before been the subject of an engraver. While earlier New Testament woodcuts focused on the Book of Revelation Merian now provided a rich series of plates to illustrate the Gospels and Acts of the Apostles as well.<br /> <br /> Merian had an obvious preference for crowd scenes and battles along with some of the novelistic features of the Old Testament such as Jacob's lentil dish Solomon and Shulamit in the Song of Songs or the apocryphal story of the Dragon in Babylon. Merian sometimes provides local color from his home town of Basel as in his depiction of Solomon's Temple Consecration in which despite the baroque redesign the Basel Cathedral with the old choir is easily recognizable. The costumes and gestures of Merian's biblical characters display a baroque fantasy of the ancient Near East as reflected in the theater of his day; in depicting cities and buildings however Merian generally prefers to follow contemporary models. In individual cases such as Bathsheba's Bath he succumbed to the temptation as an engraver and artist to show off his skills in a magnificent fashionable palace and garden complex. All-in-all Merian's engravings initiated a development in Bible illustration "that led further and further away from the didactic Reformation purpose of Bible pictures to purely artistic-representational purposes and finally ended in the well-known pathos of the German Romantic Nazarenes" Schmidt.<br /> <br /> In the first few decades after their appearance these Bible plates were widely copied throughout Europe especially in the Netherlands and France Poortman. The first folio Bible to use Merian's copper plates to illustrate the text was published by the heirs of Lazarus Zetzner at Strasbourg in 1630. Subsequent editions of the "Merian Bible" were published at Frankfurt where Merian had taken over his father-in-law Johann de Bry's business. For over a century as Merian's heirs continued to publish new editions this would become "the most widespread German illustrated Bible in southern Germany Basel and Alsace primarily in wealthy households" Schmidt. After the demise of the Merian publishing house in 1727 the bookseller Philip Heinrich Hütter acquired the copper plates which he used to illustrate a Catholic Bible edition published at Frankfurt in 1740 Poortman.<br /> <br /> A very notable instance of transposing Merian's biblical engravings into another context occurs in the famous and oft-reprinted Amsterdam Haggadah the ritual for the Jewish Passover meal first published in 1695. The engravings were made by Abraham ben Jacob a former Protestant preacher who converted to Judaism. Introducing skills he had earlier acquired when working outside the Jewish community Abraham ben Jacob "widened the scope of Jewish book illustration" Rosenau and introduced new elements into the traditional iconography of the Haggadah. "He chose many of the same incidental scenes as had appeared in the Venice Haggadot 1599-1604 but he drew them afresh basing his work on the biblical pictures in the Icones Biblicae by Matthew Merian" EJ. Among them was the image of the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem. As Merian used a wide variety of prototypes Rosenau suggests that the two free-standing columns Jachin and Boaz depicted at the front porch of the Temple in Merian's engraving and Abraham ben Jacob's adaptation may have ultimately been derived from the woodcuts which accompany Estienne's Bible Paris 1540 based upon the scholarship of Franciscus Vatablus.<br /> <br /> In Das druckgraphische Werk von Matthaeus Merian d. Ae. 1993 L. H. Wüthrich describes a "Spezialausgabe ohne Drucktext" complete with 233 biblical engravings located in Darmstadt at the Hessische Landesbibliothek 31/643. This "separate edition without text or a series of proofs" which he describes has three notable features: 1 an undated first edition title page of the second part Pars II of the Old Testament which has been "corrected. by crossing out or shaving" to read "Pars I"; 2 the first edition title page of the New Testament series dated 1627; 3 an engraving of the The Fall of Man probably after Johann Theodor de Bry which later appears in Gottfried's Chronicle part 1 1629/1630 but which differs from that found in most copies of the first edition Wütrich 1a. The copies containing this plate after de Bry Wütrich 1aa. were likely printed in 1626. Further research perhaps locates only one other suite of Merian plates without text at the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel catalogued under two call numbers: the Old Testament series dated 1626-1627 comprising 157 leaves including an engraved title A: 30.1 Geom. 2 "Ausg. ohne Text von Ps. 1 und 2." = VD17 23:289608V and the New Testament series dated 1627 comprising 78 leaves including an engraved title A: 30.1 Geom. 3 "Ausg. ohne Text" = VD17 23:655618H. The catalogue entry for the Old Testament series references Wütrich's "Spezialausgabe ohne Drucktext." Surprisingly the key images provided for this entry illustrate the same three notable features of the "Spezialiausgabe" which Wütrich located at Darmstadt !. Our suite of plates is provided with a single blank engraved title leaf the one used for the first series of the Old Testament plates which lacks any letterpress. The third plate which depicts the Fall of Man is here in Merian's style and is the image more commonly found in the first printings Wütrich 1a.<br /> <br /> In the first edition of the Icones Biblicae the title page notes "Mit Versen und Reymen in dreien Sprachen geziert und erkläret Durch Johann Ludwig Gottfried" decorated and described with verses and rhymes in three languages by Johann Ludwig Gottfried. In the first three parts of Icones Biblicae Gottfried's German verses are in four lines with a rhyme scheme of ABBA. In the fourth part the New Testament the German verses are modified to six lines with a rhyme scheme of AABCCB. The manuscript verses in German which accompany each of the 231 plates in our suite differ from both of these formats being composed in six lines of iambic hexameter with a rhyme scheme of ABABCC. To give a sense of how these versions differ the four lines of the German printed verses which accompany the first plate The Creation may be compared with the following transcript of the written verses which describe this scene in our set.<br /> <br /> in the first edition of Merian's Bilderbibel<br /> <br /> Im Anfang Gott Erschuff den Himmel und die Erden<br /> Die Wasser und das Meer das Liecht der Sternenschein<br /> Die Vögel Fisch Gewürm alle Thier groß und klein<br /> Warauß sein Gütigkeit und Kraft erkant mag werden.<br /> <br /> the hand of anonymous versifier<br /> <br /> Im Anfang schuff der Herr den Himmel und die Erden<br /> Das Licht die Sonn den Mond die Sternen und das Meer<br /> Gras Bäume Laub und Kraut und was genannt mag werden<br /> Von Thieren Vögel Fisch in ihrem grosen Heer<br /> Nur durch ein einig Wort: Ich kan hieraus erkennen<br /> O Gott! dein ew'ge Krafft und dich den Schöpffer nennen.<br /> <br /> Watermark: flambeau surrounded by garland<br /> <br /> Provenance: laid-in typed description on a half-sheet bearing the early twentieth-century letterhead of Harry A. Levinson Rare Books: "There appears to be no record of another such copy of proofs before letter." References: L. H. Wüthrich Das druckgraphische Werk von Mattaeus Merian d. Ae. Basel: Bärenreiter 1993 vol. 3 p.16: "Spezialausgabe ohne Drucktext;" Enc. Jud. 2nd ed. 8:215; W. C. Poortman Bijbel en Prent 's-Gravenhage 1986 2:56-59; H. Rosenau Vision of the Temple London: Oresko 1979 pp. 135; 146f. Ph. Schmidt Die Illustration der Lutherbibel Birsfelden/Basel 1977 pp. 304-329; VD17 23:289608V and 23:655618H. [Matthaeus Merian] hardcover‎

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‎(Bible: Old Testament; Hebrew; Aramaic; Commentary). Buxtorf, Johann, the Elder (ed)‎

‎Ha-'Esrim ve-'Arba'ah The Twenty-Four Holy Books i.e. The Hebrew Bible BOUND WITH: Tiberias sive Commentarius Masorethicus triplex historicus didacticus criticus ad illustrationem Operis Biblici A Three-fold Historical Didactic and Critical Commentary on the Masora for the Illustration of the Hebrew Bible‎

‎Basel: Ludwig König 1619. First edition in part. Hardcover. Good. Eight parts in three volumes folio biblical texts and commentary in four parts continuously foliated; three supplemental sections each with separate foliation; Tiberias 1655 with separate pagination here bound after the Haftarot - Vol. 1: 6 title and prelims 1-228 1 sect. title 234-441 1 blank ff. Vol. 2: 1 sect. title 442-705 3 blank 707 sect. title-837 1 blank ff. Vol. 3: 839 half-title-881 1 blank 883-946; 8 Targum Yerushalmi; last leaf unfoliated; 67 Masorah 1 blank; 1 title 2-36 Haftarot ff.; 8 title and prelims 108pp. Despite the gap in foliation between the first and second parts and numerous errors in foliation throughout the Rabbinic Bible collates complete with all blanks noted in Prijs Die Basler hebräischen Drucke and the Haftarot bound at the end. Largely arranged in two columns of biblical texts in square font surrounded by commentaries in rabbinic Rashi font; biblical texts read from right to left. This copy with collective Hebrew title surrounded by biblical quotations in Hebrew set within elaborate woodcut architectural borders; brief preface in Hebrew by Abraham Braunschweig at the verso. Hebrew sectional titles set within the same woodcut borders for the three other biblical sections and the Haftarot with a plain letterpress half-title for the Five Megillot. Opening word of each biblical book set in large one-third to one-half page cartouche vignettes with elaborate woodcut borders and surrounding letterpress Hebrew text. Main title Jewish date chronogram = 5378 1618-1619. Near-contemporary half calf over speckled boards worn and rubbed; spines with raised bands gilt morocco lettering pieces and old paper labels heavily faded. About two-thirds of the text embrowned ranging from minimal to moderately heavy; worm tracing in a 1- by 2-inch section at leaves 541-553 affecting text. A good complete set notably containing the Ashkenazi Haftarot readings not found in all copies.<br /> <br /> Sixth Rabbinic Bible in Hebrew: Mikra'ot Gedolot edited by Johann Buxtorf I 1565-1629 professor of Hebrew at the University of Basel and the foremost Christian Hebraist of his era with the assistance of the Jewish scholars Abraham Braunschweig who served as the principal corrector and Mordechai Gumplin of Posen. This was "a truly audacious undertaking for his time" Burnett as no Christian scholar had yet attempted to edit the entire biblical corpus including the Aramaic versions Targumim and masoretic notes. Based mainly on the third Rabbinic Bible published by Daniel Bomberg at Venice in 1546-1548 the editor has carefully incorporated elements from two other Venetian editions. At the verso of the Latin title Buxtorf provides a detailed bibliographical excursus on the earlier Venetian editions and offers a tribute to Bomberg's industry by reprinting the colophon of the second Venetian Rabbinic Bible 1524-1525 at the conclusion of the masoretic appendix with text by the Hebrew grammarian and lexicographer Elijah Levita 1468 or 1469-1549 and a new introduction by Abraham Braunschweig. The design of the sectional titles and separate book title vignettes closely model those of the Venetian editions. "Buxtorf did not plan simply to reprint one of the existing Venice editions but rather to assemble the best features of them all into one work" and "to provide theologians with what he considered the most important tools for interpreting the Old Testament" Burnett. Buxtorf served in an official capacity as Basel's Hebrew censor charged with the oversight of all Jewish printing in the city and insuring that "no 'blasphemies' or slurs against Christians or Christianity appear in any book printed in Basel" Burnett. He carefully edited the Jewish commentaries in the Rabbinic Bible in accordance with this mandate "and removed many words and phrases which had escaped the attention of earlier censors" Burnett. <br /> <br /> The Rabbinic Bible contains the vocalized Masoretic text of the Hebrew Scriptures with accents and a vocalized Targum an Aramaic paraphrase of the biblical text: Onkelos for the Pentateuch; Jonathan b. Uzziel for the Prophets; and Targum Hagiographa for the Writings. The Hebrew and Aramaic versions are printed in square characters and presented in facing columns at the center of each page. The Jerusalem Targum of the Pentateuch appears as an appendix. In addition to the Aramaic paraphrases the Rabbinic Bible includes a massive scholarly apparatus of biblical commentaries by Rashi Ibn Ezra Baal ha-Turim Jacob b. Asher R. David Kimchi Radak R. Levi b. Gershon Ralbag Saadia Gaon and R. Isaiah along with the Masora a corpus of critical notes on the external form of the Biblical text compiled by Jewish scholars from late antiquity through the medieval era. As frequently occurs a copy of Buxtorf's work on the textual history of the Hebrew Bible Tiberias the 1655 revised edition is bound-in. This work was made possible by the publication in 1538 of Elijah Levita's Masoret ha-Masoret a commentary on the Masora which Buxtorf translated into Latin for his own private use in 1593. While "Buxtorf was concerned with the integrity of the consonantal text and the origin and integrity of the vowel points and accents of the Hebrew Bible from the very beginning of his scholarly career." While he had earlier published a long excursus on the age of the vowel points and accents in his 1609 Thesaurus Grammaticus "Tiberias is Buxtorf's fullest and most impressive work on the history of the biblical text" Burnett. Intended as a reference work for Christian students and scholars interested in studying the Masora Buxtorf was also keen to refute the view advanced by Levita that the Hebrew vowel points were early medieval innovations. Our folio version of Tiberias was intended to accompany the Rabbinic Bible and has the same architectural borders at the title. König also published a quarto edition in the same year but only the folio version includes a critical commentary on the Masora in which Buxtorf proposes various corrections to the Masoretic notes. <br /> <br /> As noted at the title Buxtorf's faithful study and tireless labor studio fido et labore indefesso yielded notably long-lasting results: "The Basel rabbinical Bible became a standard tool for research among Christian scholars and would remain so. until the end of the nineteenth century" Burnett. A vast array of early modern scholars including Protestants like Johannes Drusius and John Selden as well as Roman Catholics like Robert Bellarmine and Andreas Masius owned a copy or two of the Rabbinic Bible. "Johannes Buxtorf's thoroughly censored "Christian" version of the Rabbinic Bible Basel 1618-19 only made it easier for Hebraists to own copies of their own" Burnett Christian Hebraism in the Reformation Era p.163.<br /> <br /> A note on the date of publication: "The actual printing began between the mid-August and mid-September of 1618. According to the colophon production ended on the 24 of Ab 379 = August 4 1619 but since this date also appeared on the colophon of the Bomberg Biblia rabbinica edition of 1524-25 reprinted unchanged in the 1546-48 and 1568 editions it is suspect. Prijs suggested that the probable completion date was sometime during Ab of 379 between July 12 and August 10 of 1619" Burnett. References: Biblia Sacra: Burnett 7. Cowley 87. Darlow & Moule 5120 like our copy bound with the 1665 second edition of Tiberias cf. 5093. Davidson Otsar ha-shirah vol.1 p.406 no.8954. Prijs 219. Steinschneider 423 423b. VD17 23:675325G. S. Burnett Christian Hebraism in the Reformation Era Leiden: Brill 2012 p.163. Tiberias: Burnett 114. Prijs 272a. For detailed analyses of both works see: S. Burnett From Christian Hebraism to Jewish Studies Leiden: Brill 1996 pp.169-239 chaps. 6 & 7. Ludwig König hardcover‎

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‎(Billy Idol, The Cars, Tears for Fears, Sting, Power Stations, The Police, and U2)‎

‎Back Stage Passes or Patches for Various New Wave Music Tours 1980-1990‎

‎California 1980. Unbound. Near Fine. A collection of eight fabric sticker backstage passes or patches featuring new wave bands performing in San Francisco circa 1980s. The passes vary in size from 3½†x 3¼†to 5†x 3â€. Light soiling from the back of the stickers peeling with some fraying near fine. <br /> <br /> All items are near fine with light soiling and edgewear. The bands include several popular new wave artists such as Billy Idol The Cars Tears for Fears Sting Power Stations The Police and U2. The passes were previously owned by a back stage employee for concerts in the California area. The passes are for popular venues in San Francisco such as the Cow Palace and Bill Graham presents at the Fillmore. Many of the passes are brightly colored with printed pictures and band logos showing the typographic designs of the time. unknown‎

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‎(Billy the Kid)‎

‎Old flyer: Las Vegas 1882.NOTICE! To Thieves Thugs Fakirs and Bunko-Steerers among whom are J. J. Hardin Alias "Off Wheeler" Saw Dust Charlie Wm. Hedges Billy the Kid Billy Mullin.‎

‎Las Vegas 1882. Good. 11 x 8.5 in tanning wove paper good with some short repaired tears bottom edge with some staining and darkening. Possibly from 1882 but probably not however it does give off the vibe of having been printed at least a hundred years ago and is substantially different in typography from the modern reproductions being offered online. This is definitely OLD. unknown‎

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‎(Binding, The French Binders)‎

‎Caerimoniale episcoporum iussu Clementis VIII Pont. Max. reformatum. Omnibus ecclesiis praecipuè autem Metropolitanis Cathedralibus & Collegiatis perutile ac necessarium. Ad SS. D. Dominum N. Urbanum VIII. PP‎

‎Paris: Societatis Typographic Librorum Officii Ecclesiastici . 1633. Engraved title numerous small and large engraved vignettes head-and tail-pieces one full-page engraving; text printed in black running headlines and chapter headings in red numerous large decorated initial capitals. 1 vols. Folio. Full red crushed morocco covers decorated with single black and gilt fillets including a central diamond in black and gilt with a gilt-rolled frame spine in six compartments with raised bands gilt lettered in two others with simple frame of black and gilt fillets wide gilt turn-ins with large gilt cornerpieces a.e.g. gilt-stamped on the turn-in of the inside front cover "French Binders Garden City NY" and on that of the rear cover "H. Hardy Relieur 1934 G. Pilon Doreur." Very slight rubbing to extremities still near fine with some toning to text. In a quarter morocco slipcase with chemise. Engraved title numerous small and large engraved vignettes head-and tail-pieces one full-page engraving; text printed in black running headlines and chapter headings in red numerous large decorated initial capitals. 1 vols. Folio. Beautifully bound in full red morocco by The French Binders successors to The Club Bindery and signed on the rear turn in by two of the firm's most distinguished binders Henry Hardy and Gaston Pilon. <br /> The French Binders traces its lineage back to The Club Bindery founded in 1895 by members of the Grolier Club to provide exceptionally fine bindings for American collectors. The Club Bindery moved to Cleveland where it was successively renamed the Rowfant Bindery 1909-1913 the Booklover's Shop 1914-1917 and finally The French Binders 1918-1920s as in-house bindery to Doubelday in Garden City New York. Henry Hardy worked for all incarnations of the bindery starting with The Club Bindery; his brother-in-law Gaston Pilon worked with Chambolle-Duru in Paris and came over to America to join the Rowfant Bindery. Both Hardy and Pilon were named Officers of the French Academy in 1933 the highest recognition given by the French government to naturalized Americans see Martin Antonetti's essay in Bound to Be the Best: The Club Bindery. Provenance: Estelle Doheny red morocco booklabel; Carl C. Kalbfleisch brown morocco booklabel Societatis Typographic Librorum Officii Ecclesiastici .. unknown‎

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‎(BINDINGS - THE SECOND HANWAY BINDER). [HANWAY, JONAS]‎

‎MIDNIGHT THE SIGNAL‎

‎London: Sold by Dodsley 1779. 165 x 102 mm. 6 1/2 x 4". Complete with usual jump in pagination in volume II. Two volumes. <br/> Pleasant contemporary crimson morocco BOUND FOR JONAS HANWAY BY HIS SECOND BINDER covers gilt with twining border enclosing a frame of roses with sunburst cornerpieces upper cover with Greek cross at center encircled by the motto "O save us from ourselves" lower cover with winged hourglass and the motto "Revere the appointment of Nature"; raised bands spine compartments gilt in a checkerboard pattern punctuated by daisies one olive and one black morocco label gilt turn-ins marbled endpapers all edges gilt. Engraved title pages with emblem depicting Death hovering over socializing persons with a lutist in the background. A Large Paper Copy. Verso of front free endpapers with armorial bookplate from which the name has been excised. ◆Spines a bit darkened with muted gilt leather on covers varying in color from fading or soiling but the bindings entirely solid and with only trivial wear to the joints. Leaves with a hint of offsetting and isolated soiling faint dampstain to lower fore edge of one gathering otherwise extremely pleasing internally the text clean fresh and bright and with vast margins.<br/> <br/> These bindings were specially crafted for Jonas Hanway 1712-86 an eccentric philanthropist and prolific pamphleteer who designed custom bindings for edifying works usually his own which he often presented to libraries friends and even the king; our binding was in fact probably intended for presentation though the recipient is unknown. In his "English Bindings in the Library of J. R. Abbey" G. D. Hobson has done a census of 26 Hanway bindings but the present one is not listed there. Hobson states that Hanway has been unjustly overlooked whereas another 18th century eccentric "who took an interest in the art of decorating bookcovers Thomas Hollis has appeared in every account of English binding" after J. A. Arnett's "The Books of the Ancients" appeared in 1837. "The bindings executed for Hanway are of better material" says Hobson "and the tools which decorate them are more amusing than those of his contemporary; perhaps they have been neglected because they are comparatively rare." Hanway employed two different binders to translate his ideas into leather and the present volumes represent the work of his second binder who entered his employ in 1765. This binder has not been identified by name but his work is known as here by the appearance of a small number of tools used in various combinations. For example our winged hourglass rose ornaments twining roll sunburst and checkerboard design on the spine also appear on Hobson's "Abbey" #91 and on item #155 in Maggs Catalogue 1212. An enthusiastic and effective philanthropist concerned with child welfare Hanway founded schools to teach boys farming trades and seamanship. He also wrote some 150 books and pamphlets and perhaps his reputation as an eccentric derived from his being the first male in London to use an umbrella. Nixon notes in "Oldaker Collection" that he was "a highly estimable character but one of the greatest bores of his day." An advocate of such practices as the consumption of whole wheat bread and abstinence from tea drinking he inveighs in the present work against "nocturnal diversions" and the keeping of late hours. Midnight should be the signal to end dancing music and other amusements if one wishes to preserve one's health and virtue. Thankfully the author's bindings remain more interesting than the written works he produced. Sold by Dodsley unknown‎

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‎(BOSWELL) POTTLE, Frederick A (Prepared for the press, with introduction and notes by...)‎

‎Boswell's London Journal.‎

‎William Heinemann London. 1951. William Heinemann London. 1951. Reprint. Hardback NO DW. Large 8vo. Illustrated and with black and white frontis and fold out map. Full black morocco with gilt to spine and upper. Top edges gilt. Ribbon marker. Handwritten bookplate stuck to front end paper with selotape. A nice clean copy. hardcover‎

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‎(Brecknock, Timothy). A Member of the Society of Lincoln's-Inn‎

‎Droit le Roy or a Digest of the Rights and Prerogatives of the Imperial Crown of Great-Britain‎

‎1764. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 95 pages. Timothy Breckneck 1719-1786 was a controversial lawyer and writer who was executed for conspiracy to commit murder in 1786. This work which brought him national attention was described in the House of Lords as a “pestilent treatise†that was “Jacobitical†in nature. despite mild dissent from the Jacobite peer Hugh Hume-Campbell 3rd Earl of Marchmont Droit le Roy was ordered to be burned outside the gates of Westminster in 1764. First edition first printing. Very good copy rebound in brown paper covers. The top of the pages were trimmed for binding sometimes cutting a small portion of the page headings. Pencil marks in margins from prior owner. Inscription from prior owner at top of title page partially trimmed. WorldCat locates 2 copies.<br> paperback‎

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‎(British) Army Bureau of Current Affairs‎

‎Current Affairs, Number 47: Balkan Background, July 17th, 1943‎

‎16 pages. "Not to be Published - the information given in this publication is not to be communicated, either directly, to the Press or to any person not holding an official position in His Majesty's Forces." - from front cover. Reprinted in Canada, July, 1943. Contents: Talking points; Peoples of the peninsula; Land and plan; Centrefold map; The Eastern Question; The Question reopened; Nazi catspaws and victims; "Victors in Chains" - sabotage, ambush, train-wrecking. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book‎

‎(British) Army Bureau of Current Affairs;‎

‎Current Affairs, Number 39: Spain, March (Mar.) 13th, 1943‎

‎12 + iv pages. "Not to be Published - the information given in this publication is not to be communicated, either directly, to the Press or to any person not holding an official position in His Majesty's Forces." - from front cover. Reprinted in Canada, March, 1943. Contents: Spain's geography, farming, mining and industry, population, problems amongst her nationalities, the Spanish Civil War, organisation of the Falangist state, armed forces, religion, and education. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book‎

‎(British) Army Bureau of Current Affairs; Aris, Dr. R.‎

‎Current Affairs, Number 41: Germany's New Order, April (Apr.) 10th, 1943‎

‎12 + iv pages. "Not to be Published - the information given in this publication is not to be communicated, either directly, to the Press or to any person not holding an official position in His Majesty's Forces." - from front cover. Reprinted in Canada, May, 1943. Contents: This bulletin tells the story of how the Continent has been mobilised and provides an account of Germany's design for Europe; The release of the Big Lie; Promises Cost Nothing; Idealists and Traitors; The New Order; Sack of a Continent; The Theory Behind It All. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book‎

‎(British) Army Bureau of Current Affairs; Bennett, Lieut. Richard‎

‎WAR: Friends in Need - The Finns, Rumanians, Hungarians, Bulgarians. No. 43. May 1st, 1943‎

‎12 pages. "Not to be Published - the information given in this publication is not to be communicated, either directly, to the Press or to any person not holding an official position in His Majesty's Forces." - from front cover. Reprinted in Canada May, 1943. Contents: Friends in Need - The Finns, Rumanians, Hungarians, Bulgarians - article with map of Finland and two-page map of the 1939 and 1943 frontiers in the satellite states of Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Croation and Albania; Coastal Command Quiz; Go Anywhere, Do Anything - Field Security Personnel. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book‎

‎(British) Army Bureau of Current Affairs; Bennett, Lieut. Richard; De Polnay, Pte. Peter‎

‎WAR: The Trouble with Italians, No. 35, January (Jan) 9th 1943 - The Trouble with Italians‎

‎12 pages. "Not to be Published - the information given in this publication is not to be communicated, either directly, to the Press or to any person not holding an official position in His Majesty's Forces." - from front cover. Reprinted in Canada January, 1943. Contents: The Trouble with Italians - summary and estimate of the Italian Army with map showing where Italian troops were as of June 1940, and another map showing same as of January 1943; The First Time They Saw Paris - Peter de Polnay of the Pioneer Corps relates his experiences of witnessing German troops enter Paris; Dental Quiz and Answers. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality copy. Book‎

‎(British) Army Bureau of Current Affairs; Brodrick, Alan Houghton‎

‎Current Affairs, Number 32: North Africa/America's Colour Problem. December (Dec.) 5th, 1942‎

‎12 + iv pages. "Not to be Published - the information given in this publication is not to be communicated, either directly, to the Press or to any person not holding an official position in His Majesty's Forces." - from front cover. Reprinted in Canada, December, 1942. Contents: North Africa - article with one-page map of Tunis and vicinity; The Color (Colour) Problem as the American Sees it (Black/White Racial issues); Unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book‎

‎(British) Army Bureau of Current Affairs; Cotterell, Captain Anthony‎

‎WAR: Casualty Report - Survey Compiled with the Help of the R.A.M.C.. No. 44. May 15th, 1943‎

‎12 pages. "Not to be Published - the information given in this publication is not to be communicated, either directly, to the Press or to any person not holding an official position in His Majesty's Forces." - from front cover. Reprinted in Canada June, 1943. Contents: What are my chances of being wounded, and what happens if I am?; Casualty Report - Survey compiled with the help of the R.A.M.C.; Fire Quiz. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book‎

‎(British) Army Bureau of Current Affairs; Drew, Lt.-Col. J.N.‎

‎WAR: Sicily Summary. No. 52. September (Sept.) 4th, 1943‎

‎12 pages. "Not to be Published - the information given in this publication is not to be communicated, either directly, to the Press or to any person not holding an official position in His Majesty's Forces." - from front cover. Reprinted in Canada September, 1943. Contents: Sicily Battle Diary - article with map; Hoping This Finds You - The Soldier and his Mail; Index to issue Nos. 27-52 of this publication. Unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book‎

‎(British) Army Bureau of Current Affairs; Grigg, R. Hon. Sir James; Watkins, Captain Ernest‎

‎WAR: Mediterranean Journey. No. 50. August (Aug.) 7th, 1943‎

‎12 pages. "Not to be Published - the information given in this publication is not to be communicated, either directly, to the Press or to any person not holding an official position in His Majesty's Forces." - from front cover. Reprinted in Canada August, 1943. Contents: Mediterranean Journey - The Secretary of State for War Goes to Africa; Mine Kampf - an account of the Polish (electric) mine detector - this article illustrates the very close link between the war-worker and the man in the Services. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book‎

‎(British) Army Bureau of Current Affairs; Trooper Frank Owen; Watts, Captain Stephen‎

‎WAR: Life in the R.A.C. (Royal Armoured Corps), No. 27, September (Sept.) 19th, 1942 - Dieppe Transcript‎

‎12 pages. "Not to be Published - the information given in this publication is not to be communicated, either directly, to the Press or to any person not holding an official position in His Majesty's Forces." - from front cover. Reprinted in Canada October, 1942. Contents: Life in the R.A.C. - tank crews in training; The Tanks at Dieppe - actual dialogue of R.T. wireless conversation between members of the tank crews of B and C Squadrons of the 14th Canadian Army Tank Regiment (The Calgarys); Finding New Officers; Index for numbers 1-26 of this publication. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. A nice copy. Book‎

‎(British) Army Bureau of Current Affairs; Williams, W.E.‎

‎Current Affairs, Number 31: Taking Stock, November (Nov.) 21st 1942‎

‎12 + iv pages. "Not to be Published - the information given in this publication is not to be communicated, either directly, to the Press or to any person not holding an official position in His Majesty's Forces." - from front cover. Reprinted in Canada, November, 1942. Contents: A temperate assessment of the African victories; A reiteration of why the United Nations are in arms against the Axis; A series of reflections, mostly cautionary, upon the post-war prospects of thee average soldier. Centerfold map of North Africa, Southern Europe and most of the Middle East. Unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book‎

‎(BROWN, Aaron V) Collected and Arranged by the Editors of the Union and American‎

‎Speeches Congressional and Political and other Writings of Ex-Governor Aaron V. Brown of Tennessee‎

‎Nashville Tenn: John L. Marling and Company 1854. First Edition. Hardcover. Good -. Octavo 706pp. Good at best in the publisher's dark brown blind-stamped cloth. Front hinge cracked worn at the spine ends and the frontispiece has been excised. Otherwise a clean copy with mostly bright white pages throughout. INSCRIBED by Brown's wife on the front paste-down: " Charles G. Shill. Presented by Mrs. A. V. Brown. December 19th 1859." Includes a pretty nasty defense of Tennessee's laws prohibiting the free movement of free people of color within its territory and just following that speech an interesting condemnation of capital punishment. Despite notable flaws a desirable and scarce book with none in the marketplace at present and the last auction record appearing in 1959. John L. Marling and Company hardcover‎

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‎(BUKOWSKI, Charles, Charles Shaw, Louis McCarty, Ernest Redd, Jr, Olivia Davis, Vivian Yudkin, Stefan Andres, Michael Butler, Te‎

‎Vagabond – Vol. 1 No.2‎

‎Munich Germany: no publisher 1966. Softcover. Near Fine. Magazine. Quarto. 36pp. A bump to one corner near fine. Literary magazine produced in Germany with contributions from Charles Bukowski "I Will Never Ride a Horse." Charles Shaw Louis McCarty Ernest Redd Jr. Olivia Davis Vivian Yudkin Stefan Andres Michael Butler Terry Arthur Robert Bloom Curtis and others. [no publisher] unknown‎

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‎(By Authority of the Secretary of State for War)‎

‎Drill and Rifle Instruction for the Corps of Rifle Volunteers‎

‎London: W. Clowes & Sons 1860. 6th edition. Nice Copy. tall octavo. original boards iii 68pp. illusts. Nice early manual in original olive green boards W. Clowes & Sons hardcover‎

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