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1960réf. 437994no place: no publisher 1960. Softcover. Near Fine. Limited first edition." Octavo. 28pp. printed rectos only. Side-stapled wrappers with a block-printed or silkscreened cover. Appears handmade. Two short tears through both wrappers and some light wear first page lightly toned very good or better. "Convolutions is omnifarious. It runs the whole length and breadth of ideas; it runs coexistently the risk of reprehension." An unattributed political zine containing several poems one editorial one piece of short fiction and one short play. Contributors are Ed Johnson Mason Baker Leon Noel Chuck Sutton Sheri Stern Mark Drucker and "Cataline." No year or place of publication is given. Given the relative quality and passion of the work one far outweighs the other along with lines like "A professor at our school wants to remove all literature he believes communistic sic from the shelves of the library." we are tentatively attributing it to a group of zealous undergrads circa 1960's who were just looking to make a little change happen. While the content might not stand the test of time it remains a charming piece of circa 1960's counterculture. A bound-in slip at the beginning asks the reader to "PLEASE PASS THIS COPY ON TO A FRIEND . This is a Limited First Edition by necessity and we would like everyone to have a chance to glimpse it." Won't you no publisher unknown books
1956réf. 269521Richmond Virginia: Dietz Press 1956. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. First edition. Volume 2 only. Spine label rubbed light spotty browning on endpapers and pastedowns else near fine in a good only chipped and soiled dust jacket with dampstain on bottom edge and some short tears. Dietz Press hardcover books
réf. 395823Mount Vernon: Peter Pauper Press. Hardcover. Very Good. Floral papercovered boards with printed paper spine label. Decorations by Anthony Amour. Spine tanned with extremities chipped a very good copy lacking the slipcase. Peter Pauper Press hardcover books
1900réf. 4432England 1900. Very good. Small 4to 250 x 194 mm. 20 pp. printed on glazed linen color printed text and illustrations throughout. Color printed wrappers backed with red cloth with text and illustrations on both sides affixed with three staples as issued. On front cover: a young child looking into or through an aquarium; on back cover: 4 children on the bank of a river one of whom is seated in a rowboat. Thumbing and signs of considerable use by small and large hands covers are soiled and worn SEE IMAGES. RARE CHILDREN'S BOOK PRINTED ON LINEN THE COVERS OF WHICH FEATURE UNSETTLING RENDERINGS OF CHILDREN'S FACES. WHILE THE PRESENT PUBLICATION IS LIKELY ENGLISH WE DRAW ATTENTION TO CERTAIN SIMILARITIES WITH THE STRANGE AND WONDERFUL ILLUSTRATIONS PUBLISHED IN AMERICA BY THE IMMORTAL MCLOUGHLIN BROTHERS. We suggest that the book dates from 1880 to 1900 and was published in England based on the illustrators who contributed to it and the selections of the rhymes one of which "On the Fence" mentions London four times. The names of the illustrators include: Ernest Griset d. London 1907; E.J. Walker English active 1878-1886 and the English wood engraver Paul Jonnard 1840-1902; unidentified monograms include "LL" "HJR" and "AH" are found on others. Some of the illustrations appear to have been inspired by or copied from Kate Greenaway's great work. Not in JISC Library Hub Discover. Worldcat locates just two copies worldwide: Univ. Kansas Kearney and Univ. Minn. although claiming "5" copies exist only two are actually identified. unknown books
1720réf. 4191London i.e. The Hague: Printed for the Company i.e. Thomas Johnson 1720. Good. 8vo. Contemporary Dutch marbled calf smooth spine gilt in six compartments red lettering piece "Tragedy" chipped in the second binding worn significantly at the foot and corners headcap missing; marbled endpapers red edges. CLANDESTINELY PUBLISHED BY THE KEY FIGURE IN THE SCOTTISH-DUTCH BOOKTRADE OF THE EARLY 18TH CENTURY. Excellent Sammelband of four English Restoration plays three tragedies and one comedy. All imprints are ficticious: the present volume was published -- and probably compiled -- by Thomas Johnson ca. 1677-1735 a Scotsman who was active as a bookseller in The Hague from 1701 to 1728; he then went to Rotterdam where he was active until his death. With Alexander Cunningham Johnson was the most significant agent of the Scottish Dutch book trade at that time. Johnson created and exploited Anglo-Dutch communications and retail networks and in doing so became one of the foremost publishers in The Netherlands during the Enlightenment Scottish or otherwise. "Johnson was probably born in 1677 in Edinburgh and he arrived in the United Provinces around 1700. It is not known what motivated him to move and there is no indication that he intended to become a bookseller. He was probably simply attracted by the significant Scottish presence in the United Provinces their economic successes and the tolerant Dutch climate. Soon after his arrival he established himself as a bookseller in The Hague after a brief cooperation with the French publisher Jonas l'Honore." SOURCE: Esther Mijers 'News from the Republick of Letters': Scottish Students Charles Mackie and the United Provinces 1650-1750" pp. 135-137. "Johnson brought out upwards of 60 English plays Pope's 'Works' and translation of the 'Iliad' and a number of other titles in the 1710s and 1720s. He did not own the rights to any of them. In the Netherlands that was not a problem; indeed he was providing a valuable service for expatriates. But in Britain Johnson's books were illegal and so had to be smuggled in sometimes bearing false imprints" as here. SOURCE: Allington et al. The Book in Britain: A Historical Introduction 2019 pp. 202-203. CONTENTS OF THE SAMMELBAND: 1. Rowe NIcholas. The Ambitious Step-Mother. A Tragedy. London i.e. The Hague printed for the Company of booksellers Thomas Johnson 1715. 92 4 pp. Early edition of the first work by Nicholas Rowe 1674-1718 first performed in 1700 and published in 1702. 2. Cibber Colley. The Non-Juror. A Comedy. London i.e. The Hague printed for Thomas Johnson & are sold by the Booksellers of London & Westminster 1718. 110 2 pp. One of several editions in the year of the first publication. Cibber's Whig-inspired version of Moli re's "Tartuffe" with a caustic foreword by Nicholas Rowe was dedicated to King George I who rewarded the author with 200 guineas and made him Poet Laureate in 1730. 3: Dryden John. All for Love: or The World Well Lost. A Tragedy. Written in Imitation of Sakespear's sic Stile. The Hague printed for T. Johnson 1720. 101 1 pp. final blank leaf. Later edition of Dryden's tragedy in blank verse first published in 1678 written in imitation of Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" and probably still his most frequently performed play. 4. Banks John. The Unhappy Favourite: or The Earl of Essex. A Tragedy. London i.e. The Hague printed for the Company of booksellers; Thomas Johnson 1711 or 1730. 85 3 pp. final page -- a blank -- pasted onto flyleaf. Later edition of Banks's first dramatic success "The Unhappy Favourite" a tragedy in blank verse first shown in 1682. John Dryden contributed the Prologue and Epilogue. Literature: Emil Rybczak "Thomas Johnson: the publisher as an agent of Enlightenment" in: Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Country Studies online accessed 5/2020. See also: B.J. McMullin "T. Johnson Bookseller in The Hague" in: An Index of Civilization: Studies of Printing and Publishing History in Honour of Keith Maslen 1993 pp. 99-112. Printed for the Company (i.e. Thomas Johnson) unknown books
1764réf. 3924Paris Grenoble and elsewhere 1764. Very good. Contemporary mottled calf; spine tooled in gold; red edges; marbled endpapers. The first Grenoble imprint lacking the first leaf half-title; both Grenoble imprints cropped close just shaving some text; occasional light foxing. Text block splitting from the bottom between two of the pamphlets roughly two-thirds into the volume. Modern armorial bookplate on the front paste-down. Later perhaps early 20th-century handwritten table of contents tipped in at front. An attractive Sammelband suitable for exhibition and study. SAMMELBAND OF 30 ANTI-JESUIT TRACTS ATTESTING TO THE "INTRACTABLE" RELATIONS BETWEEN THE FRENCH STATE AND THE JESUITS DOCUMENTING THE OFFICIAL SUPRESSION PROCESS. The earliest documents beginning in 1761 and running into 1762 demonstrate the French government's early steps toward suppression. Many of these edicts demand copies of the order's Constitutions for inspection. Of course it's clear the authorities had already made up their minds evidenced too by their numerous judgments against Jesuit books which appear to have provided abundant bonfire fuel in palace courtyards across the country. We find plenty of references to the Jesuits being kicked out of their homes the confiscation of their property and much on the closure of their schools and plans for their continued operation under state-sponsored control. The penultimate document in our volume is the French king's final blow to the Jesuit order followed by a final edict outlining conditions of Jesuit resettlement in France. If you're expecting sanitized administrative legalese from these documents the amount of invective animosity and hatred may surprise you. Endless referrals to the "so-called Jesuits" underscore a perception that the order must hardly be aligned with the teachings of Jesus. Grievance-laden dressing-downs are ubiquitous. The devastation to Jesuit lives seen here was enormous. Our brief commentaries below merely scratch the surface of what these contain. ¶ The suppression of the Jesuits was a global phenomenon that began with their expulsion from Portuguese territories in 1759. From there it spread not simply through the European continent but through its countries' vast overseas empires. The final blow landed with a papal decree of 21 July 1773 though the Jesuits found some sympathetic European pockets where they managed to continue their mission. The order's official restoration was enabled by a papal decree in 1814 from which the Jesuits eventually regained their European footing. ¶ The depths of blame for Jesuit suppression has been endlessly plumbed by scholars. The Enlightenment is an oft cited factor as was fear of outsize political influence from Rome and royal desires to seize control of Jesuit revenue sources. "Whichever way one analyses the surviving evidence any attempt to provide a single all-embracing explanation of the destruction and ultimate suppression of the Society is fruitless: there was a whole host of reasons which curiously coalesced into a wider international phenomenon" Whitehead. ¶ In France groundwork for Jesuit antipathy had been laid by a deep long-standing theological tension between them and the Jansenists. But everything came to a head with the well intentioned but ill advised trade dealings of one Father Lavalette in Martinique. In trying to improve the condition of his overseas community he found himself hopelessly indebted to French creditors. The Jesuits tried to cover the debts themselves but eventually found themselves in French courts. A Jesuit appeal to the French parlement stacked with individuals not favorably disposed to them was a fatal mistake. "The protracted court proceedings lasted from April to August 1761 and were to prove immensely damaging for the Jesuits as the Society's Institute was examined and ultimately denounced. During the winter of 1761 and the spring of 1762 the parlement of Paris and the fifteen provincial parlements of France deliberated independently on how to deal with the future of the Jesuits within their respective jurisdictions." This decentralized approach to their suppression is vital context for the broad geographic coverage of the volume here. "Enormous power struggles took place in various parlements but the detailed debates of their members were rendered largely irrelevant when on 1 April 1762 the parlement of Paris having found against the Society of Jesus forced the Jesuits to leave the thirty-eight colleges within its jurisdiction" Whitehead. Some provincial parlements continued to shelter the Jesuits-Artois for example from which we have a 1762 decree here-but Louis XV's edict of November 1764 ordered the Society's complete dissolution. ¶ The unusually broad geographic coverage of the volume is impressive. While eleven tracts were printed in Paris nineteen ! come from ten different provincial cities the latter often broadcasting the same language the same grievances and the same judgments as those issued from Paris. Even the spine title hints at the variety of origins: Arrets de divers parts Jesuites. The collection is a telling witness to how demotic anger towards the Jesuits developed into an official campaign of suppression in France. CONTENTS OF THE COLLECTION: 1. Declaration du roi qui ordonne que dans six mois pour tout délai les supérieurs de chacune des maisons de la Société des Jésuites seront tenus de remettre au greffe du conseil les titres de leurs établissements en France; donné a Versailles le 2 août 1761 - Paris: Pierre-Guillaume Simon 1761 - 8 p. 2. Arrest de la cour du parlement extrait des registres du parlement du 6 août 1761 - Paris: Pierre-Guillaume Simon 1761 - 16 p. - Opening in part "that the said priests and scholars of the said society Jesuits will be required to deliver within three days to the clerk of the said court a printed copy of the Constitutions of the said society." 3. Arrêt de la cour de parlement du 6 août 1761 - Paris: Pierre-Guillaume Simon 1761 - 12 p. - On the state examination of Jesuit literature. Includes a lengthy list of controversial Jesuit books with Claude Lacroix's expansion of Hermann Busenbaum's Theologia Moralis singled out: "They will be lacerated and burned in the courtyard of the palace" p. 7. 4. Arrest de la cour de parlement du trois septembre 1761 - Paris: Pierre-Guillaume Simon 1761 - 16 p. - Concerns the inspection of Jesuit books noting that Orazio Torsellini's "Historiae sacrae & profanae epitome" is also to be lacerated and burned in the palace courtyard p. 6. 5. Arreté du p. de Paris 26 mars 1762 - Manuscript copy of the printed text - 2 pp. 2 mostly blank pp. - More on Jesuit suppression. 6. Extrait des registres du parlement du 30 avril 1762 - Paris: Pierre-Guillaume Simon 1762 - 11 1 p. - On the seizure of Jesuit property. 7. Arrest de la cour de parlement - Paris: Pierre-Guillaume Simon 1762 - 105 1 p. - An extensive overview of Jesuit sins against the state including "dangerous and pernicious assertions of all kinds which the so-called Jesuits have at all times and perseveringly held taught and published in their books" p. 16. 8. Arrest de la cour de parlement extrait des régistres du parlement du six août 1762 - Paris: Pierre-Guillaume Simon 1762 - 16 p. - In part "concerning the keeping of schools and colleges by others than the aforementioned so-called Jesuits" p. 1. 9. Arrêt du parlement de Toulouse au sujet des Jésuites extrait des registres du parlement du 5 juin 1762 - Toulouse: Nicolas Caranove 1762 - 24 p. - Like many others opening with the requirement that the Jesuits are to provide a copy of their Constitutions to the court within three days. 10. Arrest de la cour de parlement qui juge l'apel comme d'abus . de l'institut de la Société se disant de Jesus; fait défenses aux soi-disant Jésuites & à tous autres de porter l'habit de la lite société; de vivre sous les loix de l'institut de ladite Société; d'entretenir aucune correspondance directe our indirecte avec le général & supérieure de ladite société . enjoint aux soi-disans Jésuites de vuider les maisons de ladite société dans quinzaine &c du 26 février 1763 - Toulouse: Widow of Bernard Pijon 1763 - 12 p. - Omitted from the above lengthy title is reference to the multiple the passages on the burning of Jesuit books deemed seditious and contrary to good Christian values p. 2. 11. Arrêt du parlement de Rouen rendu toutes les chambres assemblées du vendredi 12 février 1762 - Rouen: Jacques-Joseph Le Boullenger 1762 - 24 p. - Again demanding a copy of the Jesuits' constitution for inspection and again with a list of Jesuit books to be lacerated and burned in the palace courtyard p. 19-24. 12. Arrest du parlement de Rouen du samedi 27 mars 1762 - Rouen: Jacques-Joseph Le Boullenger 1762 - 7 1 p. - Remarks "that there is no way to reform a society that is essentially irreformable which counts among its strange privileges stated in its Constitutions that of being independent in its way of being" p. 3-4. 13. Arrêt definitif du parlement de Rouen contre les ci-devant soi-disans Jésuites du 21 juin 1762 - Rouen: Jacques-Joseph Le Boullenger 1762 - 19 1 p. - Referencing any government assistance the Jesuits might or might now receive. 14. Arrest et arretés de la cour de parlement seant a Rouen pour l'exécution des arrêts des 12 février 21 & 28 juin 1762 - Rouen: Jacques-Joseph Le Boullenger 1762 - 31 1 p. - On a letter sent by M. Plesse a Jesuit college official in Caen to the French authorities apparently in response to their indictment. 15. Arrêt du parlement de Rouen qui ordonne que dans un mois à compter du jour de la publication du présent arrêt tous les prêtres & ecoliers de la ci-devant société qui se disoit de Jesus seront tenus de sortir du royaume à peine d'être poursuivis extraordinairement si ce n'est qu'ils justifiassent avoir quitté ladite ci-devant société avant le douze février mil sept cent soixante-deux &c.; extrait des registres de la cour du 22 mars 1764 - Rouen: Jacques-Joseph Le Boullenger 1764 - 7 1 p. - Declaring that all Jesuits who do not renounce the Society before 12 February 1762 "will be required to leave the kingdom." 16. Arrest du parlement de Bretagne qui juge l'appel comme d'abus interjetté par Monsieur le Procureur Général du Roi des brefs bulles constitutions &c. concernant les sui-disans Jésuites; extrait des registres du parlement du 27 mai 1762 - Rennes: Guillaume Vatar 1762 - 24 p. - Requesting a copy of the Jesuit Constitutions from its college at Rennes plus more on the Jesuit college there. 17. Extrait des registres séant a Bordeaux du 8 mars 1762 - Bordeaux 1762 - 7 1 p. - Raises the question: "Does the Jesuit institution tend by its privileges to make this society independent of all spiritual and temporal authority such as it may be Have the views of dangerous politics taken in this institution and this regime the place of those of religion" A copy of the Jesuit Constitution is again requested. 18. Arrêt de parlement de Bordeaux qui reçoit le Procureur-Général apellant comme d'abus de la Bulle Regimini déclare le régime & l'institut de la société des soi-disans Jésuites attentatoire à toute autorité spirituelle temporelle & incompatible avec les principes & les regles de tout etat policé; & les voeux & faits par lesdits soi-disans Jésuites abusifs téméraires & inconsiderés; fait défense à tous sujets du roi de vivre déformais sous l'empire desdites régles; ordonne qu'au premier août prochain les soi-disans Jésuites vuideront toutes les maisons collèges & noviciats du ressort de la cour dudit parlement; & que lesd. prêtres & ecoliers soi-disans actuellement Jésuites ne pourront être admis à aucun bénefice aucunes charges civiles sans au préalable avoir prêté serment devant un juge royal d'être fidèles au roi de tenir & enseigner les quatre propositions du clergé de France de 1682; & ordonne la saisie & sequestration des biens de ladite société &c.; du 26 mai 1762 - Bordeaux: Jean-Baptiste Lacornée 1762 - 22 p. - The title summarizes the state's grievances against the Jesuits e.g. "incompatible with the principles and the rules of any policed state" and the hardships facing them during their suppression e.g. "priests and students who are currently called Jesuits cannot be admitted to any benefice or civil office without first having taken an oath before a royal judge to be faithful to the king". 19. Réquisitoire de M. le procureur-général du parlement de Metz au sujet des soi-disans Jésuites - Metz: Joseph Collignon 1762 - 28 p. - More on the Jesuit Constitutions. "The court has no doubt already seen with astonishment the horrible fabric of this body of Constitutions a monstrous work in all its content and which presents a society that one sees at birth humiliate itself" p. 2. 20. Arrêt du parlement de Dijon contre les soi-disans Jésuites du 11 juillet 1763 - Dijon: Chez Causse 1763 - 12 p. - Again declaring everything about the Society of Jesus incompatible with the French state. "The said court orders that on the first of next October the aforementioned Jesuits remaining within the jurisdiction of the court will empty each and every one of the houses colleges residences or other establishments which they occupy in order to withdraw to such places of the kingdom as they see fit other nevertheless than colleges seminaries or any other house intended for the instruction and education of youth" p. 3. 21. Avis dans l'affaire des Jesuites d'un conseiller du parlement seant en Bourgogne depuis la réunion à la couronne de cette ancienne pairie; du 11 juillet 1763 - Burgundy 1763 - 42 2 p. last leaf blank - A comprehensive account of the state's grievances against the Jesuits. 22. Arrêté du conseil souverain de Roussillon au sujet de l'edit du roit donné à Versailles au mois de mars 1762 tendant à modifier l'institut des Jésuites & à fixer leur état s'il étoit possible; du 17 mars 1762 - Roussillon 1762 - 3 1 p. - Demanding copies of the Jesuits' Constitutions and all other regulatory documents. 23. Arret du conseil souverain de Roussillon qui ordonne à tous les soi-disans Jésuites du ressort de la cour de sortir & vuider toutes leurs maisons dans huitaine &c.; extrait des registres de la cour du 12 juin 1762 - Perpignan: J.B. Reynier 1762 - 28 p. - Demanding the expulsion of Jesuits from their homes. 24. Arrest du conseil provincial et superieur d'Artois du 5 avril 1762 - Artois or Roussillon 1762 - 8 p. - Addressing the fate of Jesuit schools among other topics. 25. Arrest du parlement de Dauphiné rendu toutes les chambres assemblées le 21 mars 1763; extrait des registres du parlement - Grenoble: André Giroud 1763 - 12 p. - An exposition of the state's problems with the Jesuits and the fate that now awaits the Society including "seizure of all the goods furniture and buildings possessed by the said Jesuits" as well as "all the incomes and other annual products of the said houses" p. 11. 26. Arrest du parlement de Dauphiné du 29 août 1763 qui juge l'appel comme d'abus interjetté par M. le procureur général des bulles brefs constitutions & autres réglements de la Société de Jesus; fait défenses aux Jesuites & à tous autres de porter l'habit de ladite société de vivre sous l'obéissance au général & aux constitutions de ladite société & d'entretenir aucune correspondance directe ou indirected avec le général & les supérieurs de cette société ou autres par eux préposès; enjoint auxdits Jesuites de vuider les maisons de ladite société; leur fait défenses de vivre en commun; réservant d'accorder à chacun d'eux les pensions alimentaires nécessaires; comme aussi ordonne à tous ceux desdits Jesuites nés sous une domination étrangere de sortir du royaume au premier octobre prochain &c. &c. &c.; extrait des registres du parlement - Grenoble: André Giroud 1763 - 23 1 p. - "Enjoins the said Jesuits to empty the houses of the said society forbids them to live in common" &c. &c. 27. Arrest de la cour de parlement de Provence concernant les ci-devant Jésuites qui se trouvent dans le ressort; du 18 janvier 1764 - Aix-en-Provence 1764 - 16 p. - "Such gentlemen is the picture of this society which regards itself as dispersed rather than dissolved which claims to be persecuted and in not at all destroyed. The conduct of its children is consistent with their condition with their known character and with the spirit of their institution; each Jesuit who had some respect in his order reigns today in a circle of which he is the center" p. 4. 28. Arrest de la cour de parlement du 9 mars 1764 - Paris: Pierre-Guillaume Simon 1764 - 8 p. - More on the burning of Jesuit books not only for their seditious and morally destructive character but also for "teaching a murderous and abominable doctrine not only against the safety of the life of the citizens but even against sacred persons of the sovereigns" p. 4. 29. Edit du roi concernant la Société des Jésuites donné à Versailles au mois de novembre 1764 - Paris 1764 - 2 p. - Louis XV's final dissolution of the Jesuit order in France and the conditions for those who would remain. 30. Extrait des registres du parlement du premier décembre 1764 - Paris: Pierre-Guillaume Simon 1764 - 3 1 p. - Concerning the resettlement of the Jesuits ordering that they "will be required to reside in the diocese of their birth and nevetheless will not be able to approach the city of Paris closer than ten leagues" p. 1. CATALOGUER'S NOTE: We are grateful to Patrick Olsen for his detailed analysis of the present Sammelband. References: Maurice Whitehead "From Expulsion to Restoration: The Jesuits in Crisis 1759-1814" Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review 103.412 Winter 2014/2015 p. 448 454; Dorinda Outram The Enlightenment Cambridge University 2019 p. 36 "Jansenist concerns about returning to the simplicities of the early church fitted well with the concerns of governments struggling to diminish the power of the Catholic Church within their own dominion as is shown by the universal attack on the Jesuit order from 1759". unknown books
1991réf. 167569NY: Hudson Hills Press 1991. Hardcover. VG/VG. Teal cloth boards with stamped lettering. Glossy color-illustrated dust jacket with white lettering. 340 pp. 79 color and 109 BW illustrations. Contains a list of color plates foreword by Samuel Sachs II history of the collection by Nancy Rivard Shaw and annotated catalogue of paintings arranged alphabetically by artist including provenance exhibitions and references. Also includes biographies of the artists appendix bibliography index of works by accession number and an 8-page general index. Beautiful color plates sprinkled throughout. Hudson Hills Press hardcover books
1907réf. 698Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 2 volumes large 8vo. 2 x 4 504; 2 iv 2 538 pp. With numerous full-page photographic plates. Bound in original publisher's black cloth rebacked and recornered in very handsome dark brown morocco marbled endpapers top edges gilt. BEAUTIFUL COPY. ¶ This vast and comprehensive work covers the region of the State of Texas South and West of the Guadalupe River with particular emphasis on the Borderlands with biographical accounts of local leaders and early settlers to the region. Includes but is certainly not limited to accounts of the establishment of missions Spanish occupation Austin's colony LaSalle's colony the Alamo and Goliad San Jacinto the Republic of Texas Annexation and the new State of Texas the Civil war era the cattle industry the railroads and much more. ¶ Provenance: From the library of Rudolph L. Biesele author if the still-indispensable "History of the German Settlements in Texas" 1930 and numerous scholarly articles on the early development of the State of Texas. ¶ Rare such attractive condition as here. ¶ Suitable for exhibition and study. Lewis Publishing Company hardcover books
1938réf. 101276New York: American Institute of Graphic Arts 1938. Softbound. VG slightly soiled. Yellow printed wraps. appx. 60 pp with 50 bw reproductions. Includes reproductions of all the prints including many most actually with the social realist and WPA feel to them. Artists include all the biggies including Grant Wood Wanda Gag Doris Lee Yasou Kuniyoshi William Gropper Rockwell Kent Emil Ganso Anne Goldthwaite and a whole lot of others. American Institute of Graphic Arts paperback books
réf. 1382661Various: Various. Hardcover. Octavo; in Good plus condition. Bound in full vellum with faded handwritten ink lettering to the spine. Vellum yellowed and lightly stained with light wrinkling and warping. Small open tears to rear board and to tail of spine. Ties present but damaged. Splitting to both gutters. Text block with light plus to moderate age toning and light foxing. Front free endleaf with several tears; rear free endleaf lacking. A sammelband containing five works: TRIUNFO DEL AMOR Y DE LA LEALTAD. DIA GRANDE DE NAVARRA EN LA FESTIVA PRONTA GLORIOSA ACLAMACION DEL SERENISSIMO CATHOLICO REY D. FERNANDO. Zaragoza: N.p. 1746. 12 68 4 40 pages. Pi Y Vila-Rasa Joseph. CARTA PASTORAL QUE ESCRIBIO EL ILUSTRISSIMO Y RMO. SEÑOR DON FR. PEDRO MARIA GIUSTINIANIOBISPO DE VENTIMIGLIA EN EL ESTADO DE GENOVA EN ORDEN A LA SOCIEDAD DE LOS FRANC-MASSONES. Barcelona: Pedro Escuder n.d. 10 52 pages. Open tears to gutter of final leaf. Text block trimmed quite closely resulting in some loss to printed notes in margins. Fernandez de Messa Thomàs Manuel. ORACION QUE EXORTA A ESTUDIAR LAS LEYES DE ESPAÑA POR ELLAS MISMAS. Valencia: Joseph Thomàs Lucas 1752. 12 17 1 pages. Redal y Carrillo Joseph Lopez del. COMPENDIO THEOLOGICOMORAL ARREGLADO A LAS BULAS DE NUESTRO SANTISSIMO PADRE BENEDICTO XIV. Burgos: Julian Perez n.d. 14 55 pages. A few scattered ink annotations. CAESARAUGUSTANAE JUVENTUTI CUM FESTOS PARTHENICI SODALITII LUDOS EDERET IN THEATRO SCHOLARUM SOC. JESU. Caesar-Augustae: josephi Fort 1752. 12 pages. TG Consignment. 1382661. Special Collections - Downstairs. Various hardcover books
1959réf. 27881Various: The 1959 Eastern Joint Computer Conference for The National Joint Computer Committee 1959. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good. First Edition. 260 pages. Tan printed wrappers. Several stains to wrappers upper corner bumped. Clean internally. Staples rusted front cover glue cracked but not yet loose. Wraps. Sponsored by the Institute of Radio Engineers IRE American Institute of Electrical Engineers AIEE and The Association for Computing Machinery ACM this is the 16th conference held on the subject of computing. Contains articles by many pioneers including Eckert and machines including UNIVAC-Larc The STRETCH computer MIBIDIC B and many other ideas including magnetic drum memory for subminiature digital computers. One of the more interesting non-computer papers is "Critical-Path Planning and Scheduling" by J. E. Kelley Jr. and M. R. Walker. "The critical path method CPM is a project modeling technique developed in the late 1950s by Morgan R. Walker of DuPont and James E. Kelley Jr. of Remington Rand.in their paper found in this conference proceeding on pages 160-173. Kelley and Walker related their memories of the development of CPM in 1989. Kelley attributed the term "critical path" to the developers of the PERT which was developed at about the same time by Booz Allen Hamilton and the U.S. Navy. The precursors of what came to be known as Critical Path were developed and put into practice by DuPont between 1940 and 1943 and contributed to the success of the Manhattan Project. Critical Path Analysis is commonly used with all forms of projects including construction aerospace and defense software development research projects product development engineering and plant maintenance among others. Any project with interdependent activities can apply this method of mathematical analysis. The first time CPM was used for major skyscraper development was in 1966 while constructing the former World Trade Center Twin Towers in New York City. Although the original CPM program and approach is no longer used the term is generally applied to any approach used to analyze a project network logic diagram." In a nutshell the Critical Path Method can be used in large scale projects of all types to ascertain in combination with tools like PERT charts what deliverables depend on what other parts of the project and hence allow management to the critical path components without which the project won't get done on time. It also allows changes to be incorporated and can be used as a predictive tool to ascertain what changes in a project will do to the ultimate deliverables. These tools were used very effectively in large scale projects for years and became essential even while "improvements" and "new systems" were created. A milestone in project management approaches. See Origins of Cyberspace 740 which discusses the origin of these Joint Computer Conferences and their importance. The 1959 Eastern Joint Computer Conference for The National Joint Computer Committee unknown books
1922réf. 1403480Paris: Shakespeare and Company 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 62 plus 17 illustrated plates. In Fair condition. Gray and purple paper wrappers; both covers detached complete loss of material to spine. Text block remains intact. Light age toning and heavy chipping along all edges of both covers. Age toning to text block. with moderate wear along the edges and dust soiling on the top edge. Light soiling along the fore edge of several pages and plates; page contents unaffected. Housed in a card-backed archival sleeve. Shelved in Room A. . The Autumn 1922 issue of the celebrated and influential avant-garde literary magazine The Little Review. Includes photography by Man Ray a short piece by Gertrude Stein and an essay by the editor Jane Heap referred to in the magazine as "jh" reflecting on the The Little Review's past serialization of James Joyce's novel Ulysses the subsequent obscenity trial and the shift in public opinion after the full novel's release earlier that year. . 1403480. Special Collections. Shakespeare and Company hardcover books
2011réf. 010048Boston: Houghton Mifflin 2011 Hard cover with light shelf wear top corner bumped in illustrated dust jacket with light wear and creasing long deep scrape to rear panel original price intact $24.99. Stories written based on the pictures from Van Allsburg's imaginative picture book The Mysteries of Harris Burdick published in 1984. Authors: Lemony Snicket Tabitha King Jon Scieszka Sherman Alexie Gregory Maguire Cory Doctorow Jules Feiffer Linda Sue Park Walter Dean Myers Lois Lowry Kate DiCamillo M T Anderson Louis Sachar Chris Van Allsburg and Stephen King. First Printing. Cloth Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Chris Van Allsburg. Small Thick 4to. Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
1842réf. 66512Lincoln: printed by R. E. Leary bookbinder 20 Strait 1842. 12mo pp. 12; original printed pink wrappers; back wrapper with a vernacular stitch repair; original stitching intact; good or better. The "tale" is in verse. Newberry Oxford and the BL only in OCLC. printed by R. E. Leary, bookbinder, 20, Strait unknown books
réf. 298922Richmond Virginia. This lot of 19 early portrait photography originates from 11 photography studios around Richmond Virginia. The subjects represented range in age from infant to elderly and are mostly unnamed. 1 says "For Sammie" other named subjects are Mr. Warren Nunnamaker Marie Halzgrefe and Josephine Fillhaus. The portraits are largely 6 ½" x 4" with the print pasted onto stiff board decorated with the studio name. The largest are two in portfolios measuring 14" x 10". Studios represented include Thalhimer Bros Homeier-Clark Studio Colonial Studios Old Dominion Gallery The Carbon Studio Vernon Gallery W.W. Foster Campbell & Co. Foster Campbell & Co New York Art Gallery The Jefferson & Anderson Gallery. The condition is generally good or very good. Damage includes minor spotting or tearing to edges. ~~One of the most interesting portraits depicts an anonymous seated young woman in an elaborate black dress with crutches and holding a posy. Her expression appears hopeful despite the photograph suggesting circumstances of injury and grief.~. unknown books
1988réf. 200721Danville KY. / Saint Paul MN: publisher not identified / Shots Magazine 1988. Paperback. Good Issues are lightly toned overall but darker at the peripheries; there are address labels for former owner on each issue; interior is toned. Newspaper-esque publication with b&w photo illustration and black lettering; 5 volumes; richly illustrated. Very good copies of this bi-monthly publication that began in 1986. Each issue is filled to the brim with b&w photos articles and other writings by and about photographers. [publisher not identified] / Shots Magazine paperback books
2001réf. 12850Boston MA: Butterworth/Heineman 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover. Books include: Neurologic Complications in Organ Transplant Recipients 21. Edited by Eelco F.M. Wijdicks. Critical Care Neurology 22. Edited by David H. Miller Eric C. Raps. Clinical Trials in Neurologic Practice 25. Edited by José Biller Julien Bogousslavsky. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks the renowned neurologist author and educator. He was in his life celebrated for his contributions to the understanding of the human brain and his ability to communicate complex scientific concepts to a broader audience. In doing so he highlighted the profound impact of neurological disorders on human identity and experience. His library is a reflection of this remarkable polymath's questing mind. "Due to volume and weight of these collections a shipping surcharge may be calculated upon packing. Any shipping cost increase will be submitted for approval before the order is processed.". Like new mild scuffing else tight bright and unmarred. Bookplate pasted in. High glossy color boards. Butterworth/Heineman hardcover books
2017réf. 10880Charlottesville VA: Virginia Center for the Book 2017. Limited Edition. Fine in Fine Box. Limited Edition. Virginia Arts of the Book Center collaborative project of a 56-card deck "Pack of Lies." Never fall for falsehoods when this 56-piece letterpress printed card deck can be your guide to the many forms of fib deceit misrepresentation and hoax. Card back design by Lana Lambert Individual concepts designs and printing by individual artists from Virginia Arts of the Book Center. "The 2017 VABC collaborative project A Pack of Lies is an exploration of the history and phenomenology of untruths. This 52-card playing deck - with four jokers tossed in -- was letterpress printed by 25 participating artists with special suits stars arrows bangs question marks. Explore a list of fabrication forms historical hoaxes infernal liars and logical fallacies!" A Pack of Lies: A Full Deck of Half-Truths: "A sign of our troubled times when the distinctions between fact and fabrication reality and distortion honesty and bunk seem sinisterly shuffled. We might as well then acquaint ourselves fully with the lie in its many forms its argumentative acumen is historical high tides not to mention its infernal and eternal legends." The suits : Stars - Types of Lies; Question Marks - Hoaxes; Bangs - Fallacies; and Arrows - Falsifiers. Bright and clean in a sealed box. 56 cards including 4 jokers one of which is "No Trump." letterpress printed; housed in handmade letterpressed cardbox. 3.5 x 5". Illus. color and b/w plates. Numbered limited edition of 65 this being 47. Virginia Center for the Book unknown books
1890réf. 198372Philadelphia: H.L. Everett 1890. Hardcover. Good Folio boards are heavily edgeworn and bowed in at the corners; spine strip of folio is heavily worn and peeling; interior of folio is heavily worn; wraps of the individual parts are toned/chipped/scuffed/smudged; interiors are heavily toned around the edges with occasional foxing/scuffing/smudging. Brown illustrated folio with gilt lettering and design; 20 parts in portfolio; illustrations facsimiles portraits. Oversized. Text is written by 16 authorities. H.L. Everett paperback books
1951réf. 11046New York: Bell Telephone Laboratories 1951. First Edition. Original Wraps. Near Fine in Wraps. First Edition. Original Wraps. "The first compendium of information on the transistor and its applications." Introduction and 34 papers presented at a Bell symposium in September 1951. Includes work by the then greats and near greats.including papers from the likes of William Shockley who won the 1956 Nobel Prize for Physics Bell-Labs scientists John Bardeen and Walter Brattain. This is far and away the best copy of this work we have seen. Not in OOC. Minimal shelf/edge wear else tight bright and unmarred. Grey cloth wraps black lettering. 4to. 792pp. Ilus. b/w plates. Bell Telephone Laboratories unknown books
1952réf. 11047Institute of Radio Engineers 1952. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good in Wraps. First Edition. Original Wraps. A special issue containing forty-eight papers on the subject of transistors. Front wrap features a drawing of the Atomic Structure of Germanium Crystal. Includes papers by virtually all of the major figures of the time. Not in OOC. Light shelf/edge wear small closed tear at heel with related creasing light soiling to wrappers else tight bright and unmarred. Glossy printed wraps. 4to. pp. 1281 - 1632 351pp plus 176pp adverts. Illus. b/w plates. Institute of Radio Engineers unknown books
1916réf. 192871Philadelphia PA: Architectural Service Corporation 1916. Hardcover. Good boards highly scuffed smudged & rubbed; cloth spine & corners darkened scuffed & rubbed w/ creasing; interior flaps scuffed & smudged w/ deep tear to side flap upper flap missing. plates sheets & packets have light tanning scuffs & smudges; creasing to corners & edges; a few have tears to center but remain attached; tears to edges; instances of foxing. dark brown portfolio boards w/ light brown cloth spine & corners. approx 128 loose 17x19 bw plates 19 13x15 bw sheets & 4 4pg packets. Majority of the larger plates are double sided printed with architectural plans building designs and material samples. There is full color printed plate with various other plates with selective color highlighting. The smaller 13x15s are from The Architect Detail Series and illustrated with a variety of internal and externial decorative molding designs. The four packets are introduction sheets to various series of the publication. The large plates are variously dated 1916 through 1922; this appears to be an assortment of editions not necessarily from volume one of 1916. A scarce edition; a wonderful artificat with the architect designer and builder. Architectural Service Corporation hardcover books
1919réf. 191932Versailles France: Not Stated 1919. Softcover. Fair covers tanned/darkened dampstained scuffed & smudged; edges torn & chipped. covers detached. spine binding paper completely eroded. spine binding glue & three binding threads holding but there are numerous splits to textblock. opening smaller summary page detached but remains independetly bound. pgs various tanned; with occasional of scuffs smudges marks. pg edges & corners various rubbed & chipped. tan wraps w/ black printing. 415 pgs w/ four large fold-out maps. text in parallel French and English. Title page has the printed and glued plate of Max Ascoli the renowned Italian-American professor of political philosophy known for his assocation with The New School For Social Research. Appears to be the final revised copy with all four maps; maps remain precisely folded. These copies were printed specifically for delegates and those of global political influence leading up to the Treaty Of Versailles. A reading and rebinding copy; though remains a wonderful historical piece and those of Ascoli's work. Not Stated paperback books
1976réf. 189919Tokyo Japan: Kodansha International 1976. Limited. Hardbound. Like New. White linen cloth board w/ bronze embossed flower designs & spine printing. 319 pgs w/ 100 color mounted plates & 325 smaller bw illustrations. blue cloth clamshell case w/ blue flower designs & black printing. Removed from publisher's shipping carton for inspection. Clamshell case and book are held in the original blue and green printed carton. Copy 125 of 300. A wonderful bright limited production. Kodansha International hardcover books
1976réf. 189921Tokyo Japan: Kodansha International 1976. Limited. Hardbound. Like New. White linen cloth board w/ bronze embossed flower designs & spine printing. 319 pgs w/ 101 color mounted plates & 294 smaller bw illustrations. blue cloth clamshell case w/ blue flower designs & black printing. Removed from publisher's shipping carton for inspection. Clamshell case and book are held in the original blue and green printed carton. Copy 102 of 300. A wonderful bright limited production. Kodansha International hardcover books
