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1996rif. 116127Chicago: The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art The University of Chicago 1996. stiff paper wrappers. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 64 pages. Exhibition at the Smart Museum in 1995 of furniture prints paintings etc. reflecting the worlds of the 19th century French middle class. Foreword glossary. Black and white illustrations. The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago unknown books
1951rif. 614771Boston: The Riverside Press 1951. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First American edition. Translated by Leonard Thomas. Introduction by Edmund Wilson. Slightly cocked spine and toning on the board edges thus very good in a good only price-clipped dust jacket with toning chips and tears. A novel written by Haitian brothers. The Riverside Press hardcover books
1837rif. 19200Bruxelles: Delfosse 1837. SECOND EDITION. Folding lithographed plate. Contemporary gilt sheep-backed marbled boards edges sprinkled red. A nice complete copy. Second edition an anatomical guide to human and animal teeth. The first chapters cover tooth formation parts of the tooth tooth loss functions of individual teeth and differences in teeth between men and women and among different races of people. The second part of the book focuses on animal teeth across four orders: mammals birds reptiles and fish. The plate features 8 figures and is accompanied by explanatory text. Blandin 1798-1849 was a French surgeon and anatomist. He was a pioneer in the field of plastic surgery and is credited with coining the term autoplasty. Delfosse unknown books
1801rif. 19588Paris: Richard Caille & Ravier 1801. FIRST EDITION. With 2 engraved plates and 1 folding table. Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards; spine gilt; a fine copy with an ownership signature on the half-title. First edition of what Garrison considered one of the foremost medical classics. Pinel 1745-1826 a Paris physician and founder of the French School of Psychiatry devoted his life to treatment of the insane. Shocked by inhumane conditions in mental institutions he dispensed with use of chains and placed his patients under the care of specially selected physicians. This classic work "located the origin of mental disease in pathological changes in the brain and gave great impetus to the humanitarian treatment of the insane" Heirs. G&M 4922. Richard, Caille & Ravier unknown books
rif. 6925Six folding engraved plates. Title in red & black. 1 p.l. 308 pp. 8vo cont. mottled sheep flat spine nicely gilt contrasting leather lettering piece on spine. Lausanne & Geneva: M.M. Bousquet 1744. First edition of this important book in which Cheseaux 1718-51 grandson of Crouzas and a fellow the Royal Society of London first stated what was to become known as “the paradox of Cheseaux”: “With an infinite and uniform distribution of stars throughout space the night sky should shine with a brightness corresponding to their average surface brightness.” A number of notable astronomers have struggled with this problem including Halley Olbers Struve and Herschel. “The magnificent comet of 1744 was both bright and unusual in that it was reliably reported that it had multiple tails spread out like a fan. The Swiss astronomer Jean Philippe Loys de Cheseaux after whom the comet is often named began his observations on December 13 1743 and computed a parabolic orbit based on his own observations through March 1 1744…Before morning twilight on March 7 and 8 1744 Cheseaux reported seeing a multiple-tail system with 6 distinct rays extending above the horizon.”–Yeoman Comets pp. 161-62. This work also contains the observations of Cassini and Jean Louis Calandrini. Nice copy. ⧠Lalande p. 425. unknown books
1994rif. 34533Editions La Boussole. 1994. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine hardcover photography of remote region of Nepal bordering Tibet. Text is in French. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Editions La Boussole hardcover books
1972rif. 609609Garden City New York: Doubleday & Company Inc 1972. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Quarto. 188pp. Heavily illustrated from black and white photographs. Topedge foxed first couple of pages with old creases and a bit of foxing very good in a rubbed and moderately wrinkled very good dust jacket with a few small bumps paper adhered to the inside of the rear flap. Doubleday & Company, Inc hardcover books
2000rif. 8899N.p.: Les Editions de l'If 2000. Quarto 159 1 pages. Illustrated throughout in color. Text in English and French. FIRST EDITION. A detailed manual of chocolate production from a French master of the art. Included are colour photos of chocolate confections with smaller photos showing techniques and stages in the progress of making chocolate confections: basic techniques moulding eggs desserts behind the scenes etc. Philippe Bertrand is the technical director at the ecole Cacao Barry in the Institut Barry Callebaut world leader in cocoa bean transformation. He was awarded the title of Meilleur Ouvrier de France in 1998. Philippe Marand is also a technical advisor at Barry Callibaut. Fine in pictorial cloth; in a fine unclipped dust jacket. Les Editions de l'If hardcover books
1998rif. 590927Tucson: The University of Arizona 1998. Unbound. Fine. Exhibition advertisement. Folded twice to make six 12mo pages. Illustrated with a photograph of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis on the front cover and a photograph of Georgia O'Keeffe inside. Fine. Produced for an exhibit at the Center for Creative Photography University of Arizona March 27 - May 30 1999. The University of Arizona unknown books
1970rif. 594093New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1970. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Introduction by Edmund Wilson. Translated by Eva Thoby-Marcelin. Just about fine in near fine dust jacket with very light wear and a faintly toned spine. Review copy with slip laid in. A novel of Haiti. Farrar, Straus & Giroux hardcover books
1964rif. 540888Lausanne Switzerland: S.E.L.A. 1964. Softcover. Near Fine. Single issue. Illustrated. Self wrappers. 213pp. Spine lightly age-toned near fine. Poetry drama art and more by Allan Kaplan Harry Mathews Philippe Sollers Keith Cohen William Berkson George Seferis Osip Mandelshtam Joseph Ceravolo Howard Sutton George Feldman David W. McKain Jane Brown Scott Burton Myfanwy Piper Robert H. Byington Glen E. Morgan Michael Benedikt Georg Christoph Lichtenberg and James Mechem. S.E.L.A. unknown books
1946rif. 535809New York: Rinehart & Company 1946. Hardcover. Fine/Good. First American edition of this translation. Translated from the French La Bête du Musseau by Peter C. Rhodes. Small octavo. 210pp. Trifle worn else fine in soiled good only dust jacket with slight loss at the folds and an aggressive price-clipping that affects the title on the upper flap. Rinehart & Company hardcover books
1946rif. 520573New York: Rinehart & Company 1946. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition of this translation. Translated from the French La Bête du Musseau by Peter C. Rhodes. Slight toning on the front hinge else near fine in a very good dust jacket with toning on the spine shallow chips and toning. Rinehart & Company hardcover books
2014rif. 1343895London: Giles 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 240 pages; VG-/VG; spine pictorial green with white lettering; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering; mild shelf wear and scuffing; spine cocked; profusely illustrated in full color; pages clean. Shelved Front Table. 1343895. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Giles hardcover books
1593rif. 1379537Cölln Köln: durch Johannem Gymnicum Johann Gymnich III 1593. Hardcover. Octavo 30 2 671 1 323 1 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over substantial bevelled wooden boards boards with blind tooled roll-stamps of figurines of "Dur" and "Hei" possibly by Paulus Velthof. Light shelfwear and rubbing. With two clasps one working and one broken in half. Title page with faded ink name dated 1608 other since ink name. Second leaf with pencil. Upper fore corner of title page worn some small chipping to upper fore corner and lower edge. Scarce. Shelved case 3. USTC: 683871. VD16 C 4631. USTC and VD16 recording 6 copies. Philippe de Commines was a writer and diplomat in the courts of Burgundy and France. His Memoirs cover most of the reigns of Kings Louis XI and Charles VIII of France and discuss the psychological insights into the behavior of kings. 1379537. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. durch Johannem Gymnicum [Johann Gymnich (III)] hardcover books
1891rif. 46342Paris: Imprimerie Nationale 1891. First edition. Hardcover. f to vg. Quarto 10 x 6 1/2". xviii 389 1pp. Contemporary half burgundy morocco over marbled paper covered boards with gold lettering to spine. Raised bands. Original printed wrappers bound in. Fly leaf inscribed and signed by the author to Charles Lévêque dated December 24 1891. Frontispiece. First inscribed and signed edition of Philippe Berger's remarkable history of writing in Antiquity. "Writing is the physical manifestation of a spoken language. It is thought that human beings developed language c. 35000 BCE as evidenced by cave paintings from the period of the Cro-Magnon Man c. 50000-30000 BCE which appear to express concepts concerning daily life. These images suggest a language because in some instances they seem to tell a story say of a hunting expedition in which specific events occurred rather than being simply pictures of animals and people. Written language however does not emerge until its invention in Sumer southern Mesopotamia c. 3500 -3000 BCE. This early writing was called cuneiform and consisted of making specific marks in wet clay with a reed implement. The writing system of the Egyptians was already in use before the rise of the Early Dynastic Period c. 3150 BCE and is thought to have developed from Mesopotamian cuneiform though this theory is disputed and came to be known as hieroglyphics. The phoenetic writing systems of the Greeks "phoenetic" from the Greek phonein - "to speak clearly" and later the Romans came from Phoenicia. The Phoenician writing system though quite different from that of Mesopotamia still owes its development to the Sumerians and their advances in the written word. Independently of the Near East or Europe writing was developed in Mesoamerica by the Maya c. 250 CE with some evidence suggesting a date as early as 500 BCE and also independently by the Chinese." For more information see: "The Origins of Writing" by Ira Spar. This work is illustrated throughout with numerous b/w in-text illustrations as well as 9 full and double-page plates including photogravures and one chromolithograph. Corners and joints of binding rubbed with closed tear to upper front joint. Original wrappers age-toned and foxed. Some foxing to very first and very last leaves. Ex-library copy with bookplate on inside of front cover and pocket on inside of back cover. Blind-stamp at lower margin of title page. Stamp at top and bottom paper edges. Text in French. Binding in overall fair interior in good to very good condition. Imprimerie Nationale hardcover books
1991rif. 45516Cambridge MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 1991. vg to near fine. Quarto. Vol. 1: ix 3 670 pp. Vol. 2: xiii 2 650pp. Vol. 3: 6 645 pp. Vol. 4: 7 713 pp. Vol. 5: 6 630 pp. Original illustrated dust jackets white lettering on covers and spines. Black buckram over brown green tan paper boards Black buckram over blue buckram on one binding. Gilt lettering on binding spines. This 5 book set published sequentially in 1987 1988 1989 1990 & 1991 spans from the Roman Empire to Modern times. Vol. 1: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium Vol. 2: Revelations of the Medieval World Vol. 3: Passions of the Renaissance Vol. 4: From the Fires of the Revolution to the Great War Vol. 5: Riddles of Identity in Modern Times. All volumes illustrated throughout in b/w and color. Dust jackets with minor rubbing to extremities. Two dust jackets with very minor tear. Dust jackets in very good bindings and interiors in very good to near fine condition overall. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press unknown books
1960rif. 38444New York: Universe Books Inc 1960. First American edition. Hardcover. g. Large quarto. Unpaginated. Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over brown cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. Color frontispiece. Publisher's logo on title page. This striking photo-book is an account of the authors' perilous journey deep into the forests of the Amazon and the high barrier of the Andes. There they found a succession of primitive Indian peoples survivors of the lost Incan civilization whose "faces of bronze marked neither by the lassitude nor the nightmare of existence in our own dreary cities" they have recorded in seventy-five dramatic photographs including frontispiece. Dust-jacket chipped at head of spine. Minor shelf wear. Offsetting on endpapers. DJ in overall fair to good binding and interior in good to very good condition. Universe Books, Inc hardcover books
1987rif. 26583Louvain; Paris: E. Peeters 1987. First edition. Softcover. g. Quarto. 72pp 4 leaves of plates. Original printed wraps. Illustrated title-page. Scarce and fascinating on Syriac incantations of late Antiquity amulets and magic bowls profusely illustrated with 4 leaves of b/w photographic plates. Minor age-toning on spine and slight soiling on covers. Minor pen underlining along pages 2 to 4. Text in French. Wraps in overall good interior in very good condition. E. Peeters unknown books
1976rif. 25157New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1976. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Folio. 50pp text 51 leaves of plates 4pp. Original pictorial wrappers over cloth with blind-stamped lettering on front cover and gold lettering on spine. Fascinating photographic work on Baron de Meyer whose camera defined the beauty and elegance of the 1920's and helped establish the new genre of fashion photography. It is profusely illustrated with 51 sepia-toned plates and additional illustrations finely printed in New York by Rapoport Printing using their "Stonetone" process. Minor age wear on wrappers with slight rubbing along upper edge of front cover and minor soiling on back cover. Wrappers in overall good binding and interior in very good to near fine condition. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1983rif. 8891Birmingham Alabama: Gryphon Editions 1983. Classics of Medicine Library. Hardcover. vg. 8vo. lv 288pp. Gilt decorated red leather binding with gilt edges. Marble endpapers. Facsimile of the 1806 edition. In fine condition. Gryphon Editions hardcover books
1976rif. 15075Ottignies Belgium: Le Cormier 1976. Limited ed. Softcover. g. 1/1000. 8vo. 332pp. Original wrappers with red and black lettering to front wrapper and spine. Staining to wrappers and spine. Head and tail of spine slightly rubbed. Corners bumped. Typed ex-libris and handwriting to inside of front wrapper. Top page edges untrimmed. Most pages unopened. Great poetry collection. In French. In good condition. Le Cormier unknown books
1924rif. 65283New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1924. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good /Very Good. 196pp. Duodecimo 20 cm 1/4 red cloth with patterned paper over boards and a paper title label on the spine. Publisher's black top stain. The rear board does not lay completely flat but almost so. In a dust jacket with darkening to the spine and moderate chipping to the edges. Translated from the French by Agnes Kendrick Gray. With woodcuts by Frans Masereel. The novels of Charles-Louis Philippe relate from personal experience the sufferings of the poor. The Flemish artist Masereel's woodcut series which were mainly of sociocritical content and of expressionistic formal concept brought Masereel international acknowledgment. Among them were his so-called image novels including 'Die Sonne' 'Passion eines Menschen' 'Mein Stundenbuch' 'Die Idee' and 'Geschichte ohne Worte' which all date from the 1920s. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1920rif. 53137München Munich: Kurt Wolff Verlag 1920. First German edition. Hardcover. Very good. 208pp. Duodecimo 18.5 cm 1/4 tan cloth with tan paper over boards. Publisher's black topstain. The spine is slanted. Mit zwanzig Holzschnitten von Frans Masereel. Ubersetzt von Camill Hoffmann. Kurt Wolff Verlag hardcover books
1995rif. 36046Wiesbaden Germany: Artware Edition 1995. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 99pp. Square octavo 20.5 cm Black paper covered boards with the title printed in white ink in English and with Japanese characters on the front cover. With the pictorial semitransparent dust jacket. Very good. The edges of the spine and covers are lightly rubbed and the covers are a little bit warped. The covers and free endsheets have subtle finger print stains. The pages are very slightly yellowed at the edges. The dust jacket is in very good condition with minor edgewear. Artware Edition Vol. 1. Number 875 of 999 The number is difficult to read. Translated by Sabine Reul. From the last page- "Death and lust were face to face and their features fused. Artware Edition hardcover books
