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1795ref. 41061Paris 1795. Uncolored oval bust portrait of a bespectacled Benjamin Franklin. 8-1/4" x 9-3/4" on a 10-1/2" x 13-3/4" sheet. Portrait surrounded by a black oval border. The portrait is captioned "Francklin." Directly beneath the oval border in small type is printed "Vanloo Pinxt" to the left and "P.M. Alex Sculpt" to the right. Very Good. According to Sellers's BENJAMIN FRANKLIN IN PORTRAITURE the engraving was done after an original portrait by the famed French painter Charles Philippe Vanloo in which Franklin was wearing fur-trimmed costume. The original portrait was painted while Franklin resided in Paris a "life portrait" dated between 1777 and 1785 and is now in the collection of the American Philosophical Society which was founded by Franklin. Sellers discusses our print: "the substitution a simple gray coat for the fur-trimmed costume of the original was undoubtedly in deference to the revolutionary feeling." It is one of a series of portraits begun in July 1790 and finished in September 1797. The 'Francklin' was exhibited in 1795 so the estimated date of the portrait is between July 1790 and 1795. This print was engraved after Vanloo's portrait by the noted French engraver Pierre-Michel Alix who was known for his portraits of leading French citizens and prominent personalities. Sellers Charles Coleman: BENJAMIN FRANKLIN IN PORTRAITURE Yale University Press: 1962 pp. 393-394. Charles Philippe Amedee Vanloo 1715 -1795 was the member of a Flemish family of painters that settled in France. He was known for painting landscapes and portraits and he had an affinity for scientific subjects. Pierre-Michel Alix 1762-1817 was a French engraver and printmaker specializing in multiple-platecolor printing. He studied under Jacques-Philippe Le Bas and was best known for his portraits of notable figures during the French Revolution and First French Empire. unknown books
2002ref. 16868New York: North Point Press 2002. First Edition First Printing. Cloth. Fine/near fine. Signed first edition of To Reach the Clouds: My High Wire Walk Between the Twin Towers by Philippe Petit. Large octavo xi 244pp. Gray hardcover title in silver on light green cloth spine. Full number line listed on copyright page. In the publisher's dust jacket $30.00 retail price on front flap touch of shelf wear a near fine copy. Inscribed by the author on the title page: "To Kathy and Bill / Here is a celestial adventure! / Philippe Petit / After tasting the earthy delights of POND HOUSE - May 11th 2008. North Point Press unknown books
1998ref. 1413751Cologne: Evergreen 1998. Hardcover. Quarto 157 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. Red spine with white titling. Dust jacket has light shelf wear. Boards have light scuffing. Textblock has light age toning to edges. Inscribed "To Susan & Neil Sheehan with most sincere thanks for everything they are doing for VN and also with the deepest affection and best memories." "DC July 1st 1998" and signed in Vietnamese by unknown hand on the half-title page. Shelved in Room A Oversized. Second Story Books is honored to offer this item from the personal collection of Neil and Susan Sheehan. Neil Sheehan 1936-2021 and Susan Sheehan born 1937 were a distinguished husband-and-wife team whose careers helped define American literary journalism in the second half of the twentieth century. Neil Sheehan a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times is best known for his role in bringing the Pentagon Papers to public attention and for his landmark book "A Bright Shining Lie" while Susan Sheehan built a parallel reputation as a leading voice at The New Yorker crafting deeply reported narrative nonfiction on subjects ranging from mental health to social institutions earning her own Pulitzer Prize in 1983. Their longstanding ties to major publications particularly The New Yorker placed them at the center of an influential cultural and intellectual network and the books from their library carry added provenance through this close connection to the magazine's editorial and artistic community. 1413751. Special Collections - Upstairs. Evergreen hardcover books
2002ref. 1417217New York: Alfred A. Knopf 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 328 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Spine pictorial mustard yellow and black with off-white lettering. Exterior has extremely slight wear. Boards have light wear. Text block has very slight wear. First edition. Signed by the author. NOTE: Shelved in Column L. 1417217. FP New Rockville Stock. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1828ref. 21077Paris: Pellicier et Chatet 1828. First Edition. Original printed blue wrappers. Good; a bit dusty and dog earred; some wear. 8vo xvi 1 - 448 pp. A comprehensive grammar and language study. Steinschneider 2500. Pellicier et Chatet unknown books
1893ref. 1416731Paris: Imprimerie Nationale 1893. Hardcover. Octavo xxii 462 pages. In Good minus condition. Spine is blue with gold print on brown leather title label. Boards quarter bound with blue cloth to spine and marbled paper to boards; light wear to spine caps corners worn and bare. Text block has speckled edges white ribbon marker; tanning to endpapers bookplate on front pastedown occasional faint foxing to page edges. Text in French. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column K ND-K. 1416731. FP New Rockville Stock. Imprimerie Nationale hardcover books
ref. 2344067Delegation au Tourisme de Guadeloupe Tourism Delegation of Guadeloupe. Large Softcover. Very Good. Giraud Philippe photographs. Handwritten gift note to previous owner laid in. Box lightly rubbed book in excellent condition. Portfolio of images on heavy 11 3/8 x 15 1/2 paper stock in publisher's black wraps with original box which shows a painting on the front which appears to bear the artist mark Wolf. Giraud is known for his travel photography and released several other portfolios of Guadeloupe. Delegation au Tourisme de Guadeloupe (Tourism Delegation of Guadeloupe) paperback books
2002ref. 2341610Italy: Flammarion 2002. First English Language Edition. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8x1x11. First edition in English. Light smudge on rear jacket panel. 2002 Large Hardcover. 149 pp. Edith Wharton's love affair with the French Riviera began in 1919 and continued to the end of her days. She found there a microcosm of the sort of society that had always fascinated her that she described in her classic novels. Between the two world wars the whole region was a playground for film stars magnates and princesses: her neighbors included Wallis Simpson Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Cole Porter and Dorothy Parker. For Edith Wharton the Riviera was at once a haven where she could write to her heart's content and a terrifyingly superficial world. This fascinating book is a study of this world as it existed when Edith Wharton arrived and how the region changed over the years. Richly illustrated with both contemporary and vintage photographs it is a hugely evocative portrait of the Golden Age of the Riviera. Edith Wharton on the Riviera is a rare treat: a taste of the fabulous lifestyle of the privileged classes that has now vanished forever. Flammarion hardcover books
1649ref. 138960Paris: Imprimerie Royale Sébastien Cramoisy 1649. full calfskin-covered boards seven raised bands gilt ornamentation on spine title in second compartment. folio 265 x 375 mm. full calfskin-covered boards seven raised bands gilt ornamentation on spine title in second compartment. 56-572 11 pages with two large genealogical tables printed on double-pages. Revues & corrigez sur divers manuscrits & anciennes impressions. Augmentez de plusieurs traistez contracts testaments autres actes & de diverses observations. Par Denys Godefroy Conseiller et Historiographe ordinaire du Roy. The Denys Godefroy edition with this copy being a somewhat larger paper copy 375 mm tall as opposed to the commonly found 350 mm tall. Small bookplate on front pastedown. Ownership name in ink on recto front free endpaper and ownership notes in ink on the verso of the front free endpaper. Front hinge cracked but firm. Loss of the leather spine in third compartment. Spine age-darkened. Rubbing to extremities. Minor foxing throughout. Dampstaining to title page. Philipe de Comines was a Statesman and one of the most interesting of the old French historians of the Middle Ages. Dibdin says that "no English Historical Collection can be complete without P. de Comines." A great visionary Comines 1447 - 1511 noticed and regretted the permanent antagonism between the European nations and aspired to a Europe united by Christianity. He advocated free trade the reform of the currency and the system of weights and measures as well as the consultation of the States General in order to avoid any despotism. After the first edition was produced by Denis Sauvage in 1552 which marked a notable progress this edition of 1649 produced by Théodore and Denis Godefroy was a great step forward. They printed at the prestigious Imprimerie Royale installed in the Louvre. In addition to the beautiful typographical quality it was established on two manuscripts and on the Sauvage edition. Many new lessons appear here for the first time and the editors attach to the text a valuable compendium of supporting material. this edition of 1649. Imprimerie Royale (Sébastien Cramoisy) unknown books
1956ref. 2422New York: Key Publishing Co. . Very Good in Very Good dj. Unstated ed. Hardcover. top of book a little soiled/dusty; jacket just mildly worn rear panel rubbed/soiled. Tacky cartoon-y jacket illustration. "To what depths can a virgin fall" . 1956. Key Publishing Co. hardcover books
1978ref. 55644New York: Summit Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1978. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 0671400282 . A first Edition/First Printing in Fine condition in a like dust-jacket; This book recounts the events leading up to and including the trial and execution of Adolf Hitler. It is an excellent read for anyone interested in history or the Holocaust.; 8vo; 334 pages . Summit Books hardcover books
1977ref. 107767New York: Putnam's. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1977. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. A Fine first printing of the first edition in alike dust-jacket; Blueprint is an action-packed thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat. When detective John Kruger is called to a crime scene he knows it won't be simple. The victim was found with a blueprints for a new security system clutched in his hand. As Kruger begins to investigate he soon realizes that the blueprints are for his own home. Someone is trying to kill him and they know exactly where he lives. Kruger must use all his skills to outwit his enemies and protect his family.; 8vo; $7.00 . Putnam's hardcover books
1978ref. 107171New York: Summit. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1978. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A Fine first printing of the first edition in alike dust-jacket; This book tells the story of Adolf Hitler's trial and the events leading up to it.; 8vo; $7.00 . Summit hardcover books
1984ref. 120535New York: Putnam's Sons. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1984. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. A Fine first printing of the first edition in alike dust-jacket; Den BergThe novel tells the story of a young girl Noémie who is sent from Paris to Berlin during the Holocaust. She is forced to work in a concentration camp as a slave laborer. In the last message she sends to her family Noémie describes the horrors she has seen and the hope she still has for the future.; 8vo; $7.00 . Putnam's Sons hardcover books
ref. B02742-5New York Crown 1962. 261pp. 60 tipped-in color plates numerous text figs. maps. Sm. 4to. Cloth. D.j. New York (Crown), 1962. hardcover books
1979ref. 94940New York: International Center of Photography 1979. 1st ed. Hardcover. Near Fine. photos some color 80p. Original white cloth with photos mounted on front and back. 31 cm. No jacket did it have one. SIGNED by Halsman on ribbed yellow sheet following front free endpaper which used the same ribbed paper ''With best wishes Philippe Halsman. June 8 79.". Halsman a celebrated portrait photographer died in a New York hospital on June 25th. This book was also published as an apparently much more common paperback. International Center of Photography hardcover books
1979ref. 82359New York: International Center of Photography 1979. Paperback. Near Fine. photos some color 80p. Wrapper. 31cm. International Center of Photography paperback books
1945ref. 627052Halsman 1945. Unbound. Fine. Silver gelatin photograph. Measuring 3¼" x 5¼". One minor crease else fine. Signed on the back in pencil "Weegee 1945" just below the printed photo credit: "Photo by Halsman." Nice image of Ascher Fellig better known as Wegee who helped legitimize journalistic photography as "Art. Halsman unknown books
1989ref. 143354Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1989. cloth dust jacket. large 8vo. cloth dust jacket. x 304 pages. First edition. Small tear along the bottom of the spine of the jacket else a near fine copy. Index at rear. Harvard University Press unknown books
2005ref. 55348San Francisco / Milan: Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco with 5 Continents Editions 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine condition. Folio. 629 206pp. Color illustrated dust jackets over dark blue cloth with silver lettering on spine housed in decorative slipcase with pull lever. Decorative endpapers. Three frontispieces. Removable color map of New Guinea and one color fold-out plate. Commemorating the inaugural exhibition of the Jolika Collection and the opening of the new de Yong. Profusely illustrated with over one thousand mostly color and b/w photographs of artifact by John Bigelow Taylor and Dianne Dubler. This remarkable collection provides an unprecedented look at artistic expression in New Guinea one of the largest longest inhabited and most isolated islands. Includes glossary bibliography and a catalog of objects with b/w illustrations and descriptions by John Friede. DJ binding and interior in near fine condition. Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco with 5 Continents Editions hardcover books
2007ref. 49378Minneapolis MN: Walker Art Center 2007. First edition. Hardcover. New in publisher's shrink wrap. Lg. 8vo. Light brown cloth stamped in dark brown on covers and spine. Publisher's vertical paper band on front cover. Illustrated with more than 200 full-color images. About the exhibition: "The first full-scale American museum survey of the work of artist Kara Walker premieres at the Walker Art Center February 17-May 13 2007. Organized by Philippe Vergne Deputy Director and Chief Curator and Yasmil Raymond Assistant Curator at the Walker in close collaboration with the artist Kara Walker: My Complement My Enemy My Oppressor My Love features works ranging from her signature black-paper silhouettes to film animations to more than 100 works on paper. After its presentation at the Walker the exhibition will travel to the ARC/Musee d'art moderne de la ville de Paris June 20 - September 9 2007 the Whitney Museum of American Art New York October 11 2007-February 3 2008 and the Hammer Museum Los Angeles February 17-May 11 2008. Kara Walker is among the most complex and prolific American artists of her generation. Over the past decade she has gained national and international recognition for her room-size tableaux depicting historical narratives haunted by sexuality violence and subjugation but made using the genteel 18th-century art of cut-paper silhouettes. Set in the American South before the Civil War Walker's compositions play off stereotypes to portray often grotesquely life on the plantation where masters and mistresses and slave men women and children enact a subverted version of the past in an attempt to reconfigure their status and representation. Over the years the artist has used drawing painting colored-light projections writing shadow puppetry and most recently film animation to narrate her tales of romance sadism oppression and liberation. Walker's scenarios thwart conventional readings of a cohesive national history and expose the collective and ongoing psychological injury caused by the tragic legacy of slavery. Her work leads viewers through an aesthetic experience that evokes a critical understanding of the past and proposes an examination of contemporary racial and gender stereotypes." - Publisher. Walker Art Center hardcover books
1629ref. 48838Paris: Antoine Vitré 1629. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Folio. Signed: a4 e2 A-3B6 3C4 = 298 leaves. 12 584pp. Paginated from right to left. Full title and imprint in both Hebrew and Latin with woodcut printer's device; title within decorative letterpress border; woodcut lettrines and head-pieces; printed marginalia. Text in two columns. Eighteenth-century calf scuffed especially at front cover; spine with raised bands and gilt morocco morocco labels; edges stained red; green silk ribbon marker. Title leaf skilfully mounted on eighteenth-century paper. Text crisp and clean with ample borders. Only edition of this rare and highly unusual Hebrew and Aramaic dictionary composed by the formerly Jewish convert to Catholicism Mordechai Cresque of Carpentras who derived his new name Philippus d'Aquin or Aquinas; 1578-1650 from the place of his baptism in Aquino Italy. Printed almost entirely in the fine bold rashi characters "grosse glose hebraicque" cut by Guillaume I Le Bé in 1592 only the vocalised quotations and the lemmata are in Le Bé's square Hebrew script. Apart from the Latin title dedication approbations a poetic encomium and the alpha-numeric leaf signatures the work is printed entirely in Hebrew characters. It ends with a short notice in Latin and Hebrew on the printing errors which are corrected on the last three pages. The author announces at the title that all Hebrew biblical and rabbinic-talmudic and Aramaic terms are to be found in Ma'arikh ha-Ma'arakhot including many that do not appear in any existing lexicons among Jews or Christians. D'Aquin notes in particular that rare and difficult terms in rabbinic and cabalistic literature along with obscure abbreviations are all clearly explained. "The work is called in Hebrew Maarik ha-maarikot i. e. "Survey of the orders" a term which in the plural is also applied to "battle-lines" Wolf 140 translates Disponens ordines sive acies. One cannot help wonder if there is not a connection with the political situation at the time when the Huguenot town of La Rochelle had to submit to the French Crown in 1628. The privilege for our book has "Données au Camp devant la Rochelle le 19. Septembre 1628" and the work is dedicated to Cardinal Richelieu whose conquest of La Rochelle is also extolled in a Hebrew poem by the author. But the types are also reminiscent of war: did not Le Bé cut them "après le siège de Paris pour passer l'ennui" see Carter & Vervliet p. 15. They were prominently displayed afterwards in Vitray's type-specimen of 1636" Smitskamp. Among the eleven scholars whose approbations grace the present volume are Gabriel Sionita 1577-1645; professor of Arabic and Syriac at the College de France; Gilbert Gaulmin 1585-1665; Orientalist; Denis Petau 1583-1652; Jesuit theologian; and Jean Morin 1591-1659; theologian and Orientalist. Morin offers quite extravagent praise: "nihil hactenus in eo studii genere comparandum vidit Europa." Provenance: A morocco label on the spine reads Me-izabin. Hirsch. Wolf Kola i. e. From the legacy of Hirsch. References: Baillet Jugement de Scavans 3 1685: 729. Fürst 1:47-48. Gesenius Geschichte 113: "umfasst auch das Chadaïsche und Rabbinische" Hebrew title incorrectly transcribed without the definite article and indication of plural. Smitskamp Cat. no. 611 but notably not in Philologia Orientalis. Steinschneider Handbuch 129: "Früher sehr gesucht und selten. Heidenheim wollte se zuerst wieder ediren s. Catal. p. 739." Wolf Historia lexicorum 140. For the interest of Richelieu in typographical matters and his foundation of the Imprimerie Royale in 1640 see Updike 1:238-40. Not in Goldsmith Hebrew title: מעריך המערכות. Antoine Vitré hardcover books
1903ref. 40884Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Co 1903. Later edition. Hardcover. g- to vg. Folio 12 x 10". 10pp Half-title Presentation leaf Frontispiece chromolithographic leaf and title page 32pp Gallery of Scripture Illustrations 104pp A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Bible 18pp A History of Religious Denominations 16pp Biblical Antiquities 32pp The Story of the Books of the Old Testament 16pp A Self-Pronouncing Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names VIII 9-667 3pp Old Testament 8pp Family section 24pp The Parables of the Lord 671-879 1pp New Testament 48pp Questions and Answers on the Sacred Scriptures 80pp Standard Concordance to the Bible. Full blind-stamped morocco with gold lettering to spine and front cover. Beveled edges. All edges gilt. Moire endpapers. Chromolithographic half-title. Engraved tissue-guarded frontispiece. Both title pages in red and black lettering. Lavishly illustrated throughout with hundreds of in-text and full-page wood and steel engravings b/w photographic reproductions color maps and 10 chromolithographs the Authorized Version has been strictly followed in this handsome Bible. The text has been carefully compared with that of the most accurate editions printed in England and in the United States. Previous owner's name on fly leaf David Robinson. Presentation leaf inscribed as followed: "Presented to my beloved friend David Robinson by Edward A. Reisler." Family section unused. Binding rubbed along front joint and at head and tail of spine. Some creasing to fly leaf. Fore-edge of pages 12 to 17 slightly and partly water-stained not affecting text or illustrations. Binding in overall good- interior in very good condition. The John C. Winston Co hardcover books
2014ref. 39062Baden Switzerland: Kodoji Press 2014. First edition. Hardcover. new. Signed in pencil by author on free back endpaper opposite imprint. Folio. Unpaginated. Original quarter cloth over heavy illustrated cardboard. Designed by Louisa Gagliardi and Winfried Heininger this beautifully produced book features extraordinary color photographs of snow sculptures many of them fold-outs was issued on the occasion of the Snowpark exhibition by Philippe Fragnière in the frame of the visual arts Festival IMAGES in Vevey Switzerland September 2014. New. Kodoji Press hardcover books
ref. 22941NP n/d. Hardcover. `. Volumes 1-3. Mèzeray Francois Eudes de. Abregè chronologique ou Extrait de I'histoire de France. Paris. 1668. Louis Billaine. Tome I: Commencant a Faramond & finissant a la fin du Regne Charles le bel. 852834pp. Tome II: Commencant au Roy Philippe de Valois & finissant a la fin du Regne de Henry II. 2529-98528pp. Tome III: Commencant au Roy Francois II. & finissant a la fin du Regne de Henry IV. 4987-148936pp. Rare first edition of Mèzeray's early work on the history of France. Includes biographies of the French kings. Title-pages with small engraving. Illustrated with 58 in-text portrait engravings. 4 empyt frames for first kings in Vol. 1 as issued. Head and tailpieces decorative initials. Indexes. Vol. IV: Limiers Henri Philippe de. Abregè Chronologique ou Extraict de L'Histoire de France sous les règnes de Louis XIII & Louis XIV; por servir de suite a celui de Francois de Mèzeray. Nouvelle Edition Augmentèe de la vie de Mèzeray. Amsterdam. 1728. Chez David Mortier. 600pp. Marbled endpapers. Title-page vignette. This volume was written 45 years after Mèzeray's death. It is the continuation of the first 3 volumes and covers the reigns of King Louis XIII and Louis XIV. Includes a biography of Mèzeray. Index. Francois Eudes de Mèzeray 1610-1683 was a French historian who was given the title of "Historiographer to the King of France" however his critisism of French kings for over-taxing their subjects led to the loss of his title and pension. This his most famous work went through fifteen editions between 1668 and 1717. 4to. All volumes bound in matching contemporary calf with gold decorated spine and title-label. Raised bands. Boards with all gold-tooled edges. Vol. 4 is one-inch smaller than volumes 1-3 with matching binding. Age wear abrasions and surface hairline cracks on binding. Gold lettering on spine faded. Head and tail of spines chipped. Typewritten summary by previous owner pasted on insides of front boards in Vol. 1 and 4. Split on parts of joints on front and back board of all volumes firmly holding. Title-page in Vol. I tipped-in and repaired along gutter "L'hotel Dieu D'abbeville" handwritten on half-title of all volumes. Worming from page 945 through rear in Vol. 4 expertly repaired. Bottom edges from front endpaper through page 1999 in Vol. 3 expertly repaired staining near bottom edge on first 3 leafs of same volume. "Robert Florey a Paris" in pencil on inside of front board in Vol. 3. Minor staining creasing and rippling to some pages in all volumes. Very few leafs chipped on edges. Text in French. Besides faults mentioned in overall good to very good condition. Rare as a complete set. NP hardcover books
