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1991rif. 132256Rome Italy: Altocontrasto / Furutra Grafica 1991. Original photobusta poster for the 1991 Italian film festival. From the collection of noted film historian Amos Vogel. Full provenance available. 26.5 x 37.75 inches rolled. About Near Fine. Altocontrasto / Furutra Grafica unknown books
1991rif. 132254Germany: Self published 1991. Original A1 promotional poster for the 1991 German film festival. From the collection of noted film historian Amos Vogel. Full provenance available. 23.25 x 33 inches rolled. Light creasing overall with a few tiny closed tears and edge rubbing and an ink notation on the verso. Very Good or better overall. Self published unknown books
1993rif. 132272Clermont-Ferrand France: Self published 1993. Original theatrical exhibition poster for the 1993 French film festival held in Clermont-Ferrand France. 47 x 62.5 inches folded. Near Fine. Self published unknown books
rif. 2292273Franklin Center Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library 1976. Reissue. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Includes all 100 volumes and 97/100 Notes from the Editors pamphlets in their original slipcases plus 19 of the original publisher's book supports some labeled with corresponding title by previous owner. Very good to near fine set with pamphlet edges lightly foxed scuffing to gilt of some volumes top edge of a couple volumes a bit foxed a few minor cosmetic blemishes to boards. Bindings tight and square interiors clean and unmarked. No additional cost for shipment within the contiguous United States. 1976 Full-Leather. All volumes bound in full leather with gilt titles and decorations all edges gilt silk moire endpapers ribbon markers bound in. Includes: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain; Aeneid by Virgil; Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll; Ambassadors by Henry James; Analects of Confucius; Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin; Basic Works of Sigmund Freud; Candide by Voltaire; Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer; Collected Poems 1909 - 1962 of T. S. Eliot; Comedies of William Shakespeare; Confessions of St. Augustine; Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky; David Copperfield by Charles Dickens; Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio; Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri; Don Quixote de La Mancha by Cervantes; Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams; Essays of Michel de Montaigne; Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson; Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen; Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway; Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev; Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Favorite Household Tales of the Brothers Grimm; Federalist by Hamilton Madison and Jay; Five Comedies of Aristophanes; Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire; Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais; Great Expectations by Charles Dickens; Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald; Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift; Histories of William Shakespeare; History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides; Iliad by Homer; Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte; Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper; Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman; Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad; Lyrical Ballads of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert; Mill on the Floss by George Eliot; Moby-Dick by Herman Melville; Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe; Nana by Emile Zola; Odyssey of Homer; Oresteia by Aeschylus; Origin of Species by Charles Darwin; Paradise Lost by John Milton; Pensees by Blaise Pascal; Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac; Philosophical Works of Rene Descartes; Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan; Plays of Anton Chekhov; Plays of Bernard Shaw; Plays of Euripides; Plays of Henrik Ibsen; Plays of Moliere; Plays of Eugene O'Neill; Poems of John Donne; Poems of John Keats; Poems of William Shakespeare; Poetry of Robert Frost; Political Writings of Jean Jacques Rousseau; Political Writings of John Stuart Mill; Political Writings of Thomas Paine; Politics by Aristotle; Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen; Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli; Red and the Black by Stendhal; Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane; Republic by Plato; Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy; Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe; Satyricon by Petronius; Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne; Selected Poems of William Butler Yeats; Selected Writings of Sir Francis Bacon; Six Tragedies of Jean Racine; Songs of Innocence and Experience of William Blake; Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner; Stories of Guy de Maupassant; Stories of Thomas Mann; Swann's Way by Marcel Proust; Tales From The Arabian Nights by Sir Richard F. Burton; Tales of Edgar Allan Poe; Tales of Henry James; Tom Jones by Henry Fielding; Tragedies of William Shakespeare; Tragedies of Sophocles; Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson; Trial by Franz Kafka; Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne; Twelve Illustrious Lives by Plutarch; Ulysses by James Joyce; Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray; Walden by Henry D. Thoreau; War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy; Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence; Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. The Franklin Library hardcover books
1957rif. 266098Paris: Éditions du Valois 1957. From an edition of 4569 copies this being number 1394. 225 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Printed paper wrappers in a slipcase. Fine. From an edition of 4569 copies this being number 1394. 225 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Éditions du Valois unknown books
rif. 60656bdVarious Concert Halls 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927. Eighteen programs total octavo stapled wrappers. All in Very Good condition. In addition to describing the performance the programs contain a number of adveritisements for New York city businesses and also for other musical performances and related musical products. unknown books
1912rif. 50255sNew York: The University Society 1912. Ten Volumes. Octavo olive pictorial cloth hardcover 205 468 pp. Very Good with edgewear light speckling to some volumes ffep stamped stating ‘For Library Sale.’ Volume Titles: Fun and Thought For Little Folk Parts I and II; Famous Tales and Laughter Stories Parts I and II; Nature and Outdoor Life Parts I and II; Historic Tales and Golden Deeds Parts I and II; Children’s Book of Fact and Fanc Parts I and II; Index. The University Society, [1912]. hardcover books
1699rif. 1400459Various: Various 1699-1709. Hardcover. Octavo. In Good minus Condition. Bound in full vellum with no text. Boards are browned and stained with moderate wrinkling and warping. Cracking to front hinges resulting in vellum partially detached from spine. Boards have yapped edges. Textblock has splitting to hinges underlined text in red yellow and black ink on some pages throughout soiling scattered on some pages throughout and wear to edges. AR consignment. Shelved in Room X. CONTENTS: A sammelband containing works published between 1699-1709: Olearius Johann. SUMMA DER GANZEN EVANGELISCHEN RELIGION UND WAHREN CHRISTENTHUMES. Joh. Christoph Brühl : Weissenfels 1709; 32 pages. Catechetical summary of Lutheran doctrine; popular devotional guide.-- Engelshaln Johann Christian. KURZE UND CATECHETISCHE ERLÄUTERUNG DER EPISTEL PAULI AN DIE RÖMER. Friedrich Lanckischens sel. Erben : Leipzig 1707; 8 264 pages. Verse-by-verse devotional commentary on Romans for catechism instruction.-- von der Lith Johann Wilhelm . STEINE DES ANSTOSSENS. Andreas Otto : Nürnberg 1707; 12 15 based on handwritten numbering 3 264 pages; Ten sermons explaining misused or confusing Bible verses.-- Fecht Johann. UNTERSUCHUNG ETLICHER OERTER DES NEUEN TESTAMENTS. Peter May : Mansfeld 1701; 8 198 pages includes an earlier edition of the title page 1699 verso of title page; Later edition of a critique of misleading Bible translations; Text in German.-- Fecht Johann. OBSERVATIONES AD SCRIPTUM NONNEMINIS UNTERSUCHUNG ETLICHER OERTER DES NEUEN TESTAMENTS. Peter May : Dantzig/ Mansfeld 1699; 80 8 pages including index; Original edition of a critique of misleading Bible translations; This title page corresponds to the title page found verso of the previous work; Text in Latin.-- Lütkens Franz Hulderich. SIEBEN LETZTE CÖLLNISCHE MONTAGS-PREDIGTEN VON DER SELIGKEIT. Johann Wessell : Berlin 1707; 8 303 9 pages; Farewell sermons preached in Cölln prior to Lütkens' move to Copenhagen.-- Feustking Johann Heinrich. HOPHNI UND PINEHAS DAS IST: DIE SÜNDEN DER KINDER ELI. Johann Ludewig Meisel : Leipzig 1708; 100 pages; Penitential sermon on 1 Samuel 2:23-25 for the Day of Repentance and Prayer in Zerbst.-- Wiegeleben Christophorus. PAUCITAS SALVANDORUM & MULTITUDO DAMNANDORUM. Christoph-Friedrich Zickel : Braunschweig 1705; 14 83 1 pages; Part One; Sermons on the fewness of the saved and the sin against the Holy Spirit.-- Wiegeleben Christophorus. DIE SÜNDE WIDER DEN HEIL. GEIST VON WEM/ WIE UND WODURCH. Christoph-Friedrich Zickel : Braunschweig 1705; 56 pages; Part two. A sermon about the sin against the Holy Spirit.-- Kössing Justus. MENSCHLICHES LEBENS-ZIEL. Johann Martin Gollner : Rudolstadt 1707; 117 3 pages; Fourth edition; a devotional reflection on life's divine purpose based on Psalm 39.-- Anonymous J.O.G. DIE UNBEFLECKTE GERECHTIGKEIT DER NACHFOLGER DES LAMMES. No publisher stated : No place stated 1707; 48 pages; Sermon contrasting true Christian righteousness with worldly Pharisaical piety. 1400459. Special Collections - Downstairs. Various hardcover books
2000rif. 37101Belluno Italy: Proposte d'Arte Colophon Belluno 2000. Softcover. Very Good. Softcover. IN ITALIAN This is a limited edition publication. This is copy #300. Includes articles by Sandro Parmiggiani about the books of Riccardo Licata; by Agostino Bonalumi about What do we do with a Titian; and 7 other articles. Black and white photographs and plates throughout text. Quarto. Cream colored paper wrappers with title in gray to front cover and spine. Pages are bright and clean. 45 pages plus additional unnumbered plate. Scarce. BOB/022124. Proposte d'Arte Colophon, Belluno unknown books
1913rif. 37129Apeldoorn The Netherlands: C.M.B. Dixon 1913. Softcover. Good. Softcover. IN DUTCH Contains an article by S. de Roos on printing an article by J Greshoff on the Baedeker travel-writing phenomenon and several other articles. Very scarce outside of The Netherlands. Small octavo. Tan paper wrappers with title in black to front wrapper. Wrappers are intact but worn with bumping and small tears to edges and some smudges. A few pages are lightly foxed. Numbered pages 81-112 with several pages of advertising. DUTCHLANG/030224. C.M.B. Dixon unknown books
1973rif. 36278Haarlem: Carlinapers 1973. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. 104 of 110 copies. "Met uitzondering van bladzij 7 - wij meenden te handelen in de geest van Schwitters en Van Doesburg door op deze pagina de lezer te stimuleren tot een eigen creatieve bijdrage - is de tekst van een artikel in het dagblad De Telegraaf van 11 januari 1923." Purple cloth boards with paper title label reading "Dada in de Residentie" in green to spine. Clean and bright. Printed in many colors and typefaces in unusual layouts. IN DUTCH. Unpaginated. 20 pages. PRI/011623. Carlinapers hardcover books
1982rif. 35657Oxford: Oxford University Press 1982. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Hardcover. This is the first volume of a 9-volume series covering different bird groupings. First published in 1977. The volume contains descriptions of 122 species. Each species is shown in color plates and maps show breeding and wintering areas. There is a small section of colored plates of eggs and plumage at the end of the book. Quarto. Dark blue cloth cover with gilt title to spine. Blue illustrated dust jacket with orange and white title to front and spine panels. Pages are bright and clean. Spine is slightly cocked. Dust jacket has minor wear to edges rubbing to front and back panels a short closed tear at foot of spine panel and British price label on inside front panel. 722 pages including index. NAT/061522. Oxford University Press hardcover books
1983rif. 35658Oxford: Oxford University Press 1983. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover. This is the third volume of a 9-volume series covering different bird groupings. The volume contains descriptions of 112 species. Each species is shown in color plates and maps show breeding and wintering areas. There is a special section of colored plates of eggs at the end of the book. Quarto. Dark blue cloth cover with gilt title to spine. Brown illustrated dust jacket with yellow and white title to front and spine panels. Pages are bright and clean with minor smudging to top/side edge of text block. Binding is cocked. Dust jacket has rubbing slight wear at top a small open tear to front panel a small closed tear to top of spine panel and creasing on bottom corner of back panel. 913 pages including index. NAT/061522. Oxford University Press hardcover books
1654rif. 35845London: Printed for G. Bedel and T. Collins 1654. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. The second part is titled: Scrinia Sacra; Secrets of Empire in Letters of illustrious persons. A Supplement of the Cabala. in which business of the same quality and grandeur is contained: with many famous passages of the late reigns of K. Henry 8 Q. Elizabeth K. James adn K. Charls. The name Cabala comes from the last initials of ministers to Charles II. In modern brown buckram binding with red leather title label and black leather year label to spine. The cloth is split along both hinges; however the boards remain attached. The top three inches of the spine cloth including a portion of the title label has been reattached; however the split is still visible. Minor rubbing and soiling to binding. Clean interior overall with occasional spots of foxing soiling and smudge marks. Several pages have large areas of penned lines and dots over the text; however text remains legible. Pagination: 16 347 21; 12 355 i.e. 255 9. Lacks ads after the second volume. Each volume has a separate index following the work. MON/072022. Printed for G. Bedel and T. Collins hardcover books
1787rif. 35890London: Harrison and Co 1787. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. First edition of James Harrison's eight volume compendium of important eighteenth century periodicals with essays by such figures as Samuel Johnson Richard Steele Joseph Addison George Lord Lyttelton Launcelot Temple Isaac Bickerstaff and Adam Fitz-Adam among others. As is evident in the reprinting of these essays letters and newspaper issues the eighteenth century was a time of great knowledge exploration rapidly growing technology and expanding archives of information made possible by advances in the printing press. Bound in contemporary leather in generally very good condition. Interior pages have spotting and foxing scattered throughout the eight volumes. An occasional loose page. Still very good. Volume I: Samuel Johnson's "The Rambler" in four volumes with 463 pages; and George Lyttleton's "Letters from a Persian in 81 pages. Volume II: "The Adventurer" - a newspaper with 140 issues that continued Samuel Johnson's prose with 366 pages. Volume III: "The Tatler" written by Isaac Bickerstaff in four volumes with 641 pages. Volume IV: "The Spectator" written by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele volumes 1-4 with 646 pages. Volume V: "The Spectator volumes 5-8 with 1260 pages. Volume VI: "The Connoisseur" written by Mr. Town with 313 pages; "The Citizen of the World" written by Oliver Goldsmith in two volumes with 208 pages; "The Babler" written by Hugh Kelly in two volumes with 199 pages. Volume VII: "The World" with 490 pages; Lord Lyttleton's "Dialogue with the Dead" with 96 pages. Volume VIII: "The Idler" written by Samuel Johnson with 146 pages; "Fitzosborne's Letters" with 124 pages; "Launcelot Temple's Sketches: with 45 pages; " The Lover" by Richard Steele with 86 pages; "Essays on Men and Manners" written by William Shenstone with 80 pages. LIT/080422. Harrison and Co hardcover books
1963rif. 35118New South Wales: Benevolent Society of New South Wales 1963. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Alfred Alf Conlon was an important and controversial figure in Australia during World War II. He was the head of the Australian Directorate of Research and Civil Affairs and was an influential figure in the Pacific region after the war through the Australian School of Pacific Administration which grew out of the directorate. He also helped to found the National Union of Australian University Students obtained a medical degree and practiced psychiatry before his untimely death from cardiovasular disease. This memorial contains tributes from 36 of his colleagues. Size: Octavo. In black paper wrappers with gilt title to front wrapper and to spine. Binding in near-new condition. Interior pages are bright and clean. Owner signature to front free end paper. AUS/042921. Benevolent Society of New South Wales hardcover books
1905rif. 33073Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1905. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Does NOT include contents or index. Lacks issues: 227 230 235 240 and 247. Topics include: Cotton insects in Texas Canadian Field Peas Forest Planting and Farm Management Production of Good Seed Corn Spraying for Cucumber and Melon Diseases Okra: Culture and Uses Guinea Fowl and its use as food Incubation and Incubators Citrus Fruit Growing in teh Gulf States the Corrosion of Fence Wire Butter Making on the Farm An Example of Modern Farming Fungicides and Their Use in Preventing Diseases of Fruits Renovation of Worn-Out Soils Saccarine Sorghums for Forage The Lawn Cereal Breakfast Foods Experiment Station Work XXVIII - XXXIIIand The Prevention of Stinking Smut of Wheat and Loose Smut of Oats. The name "Lynden Evans" is printed in gilt on the foot of the spine. Lynden Evans 1828 - 1926 was a teacher lawyer and U.S. Congressman from Illinois. Full marbled edges and marbled endpapers. Front endpaper is present but detached. Rear endpaper is partially detached. Minor wear to edges and hinges of boards. Clean interior with illustrations. An attractive book. Each bulletin has its own pagination. SCI/032119. Government Printing Office hardcover books
1900rif. 33074Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1900. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Does NOT include contents or index. Lacks issues: 123 124 125 129 130 132 135 136 141 143 145 146 147 148 151 and 153. Topics include: The Principal Insects Affecting the Tobacco Plant; Beans Peas and Other Legumes as Food; Experiment Station Work XVI - XX; Practical Suggestions for Farm Buildings; Important Insecticides; Eggs and Their Uses as Food; Household Tests for the Detection of Oleomargarine and Renovated Butter; Tree Planting on Rural School Grounds; The Angora Goat; Irrigation in Field and Garden; Emmer: A Grain for the Semiarid Regions; Pineapple Growing; Principles of Nutrition and Nutritive Value of Food; Clearing New Land; Scabies of Cattle; The Home Fruit Garden; and How Insects Affect Health in Rural Districts. The name "Lynden Evans" is printed in gilt on the foot of the spine. Lynden Evans 1828 - 1926 was a teacher lawyer and U.S. Congressman from Illinois. Full marbled edges and marbled endpapers. Front endpaper is present but detached and chipped. Minor wear to edges and hinges of boards. Clean interior with illustrations. An attractive book. Each bulletin has its own pagination. SCI/032119. Government Printing Office hardcover books
1904rif. 32940Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1904. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Does NOT include contents or index. Lacks issues: 189 191 197 199 201 207 208 211 212 214 - 217 Topics include: Weeds used in Medicine Experiement Station Work XXIV XXV XXVI XXVII Barnyard Manure Alfalfa Seed Annual Flowering Plants Usefulness of the American toad Importation of Game Birds and Eggs for Propagation Strawberries Turkeys Canned Fruit Preserves and Jellies: Household Methods and Preservation The Cultivation of Mushrooms Pig Management; Milk Fever: Its Simple and Successful Treatment Controlling the Boll Weevil in Cotton Seed and at Ginneries Raspberries The School Garden Lessons from the Grain-Rust Epidemic of 1904 Tomatoes and Fungous Diseases of the Cranberry. Bound in three quarter red leather over red cloth boards with gilt title "Farmers' Bulletins" to spine. The name "Lynden Evans" is printed in gilt on the foot of the spine. Lynden Evans 1828 - 1926 was a teacher lawyer and U.S. Congressman from Illinois. Full marbled edges and marbled endpapers. Both endpapers are present but detached. Minor wear to edges and hinges of boards. Clean interior with illustrations. An attractive book. Each bulletin has its own pagination. SCI/022219. Government Printing Office hardcover books
1875rif. 297861875. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. A collection of works in Latin Italian and English regarding the Catholic Church: "De Intolerantia Catholica seu de Sententia "Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus" Dissertatio Theologica" Taurini: Ex Tip. A. Vecco et Sociorum 1868 142 pages; "Lucubratio Prima de Sacra Hebraeorum et Christianorum Monarchia et de Infallibili in Utraque Magisterio ex Divina Scriptura et Vetusta Synagogae et Ecclesiae Traditione Comprobatis" by Prof. aloisium Vincenzi. Rome: Typis Bernardi Morini 1872 84 pages; "Lucubratio Altera de Persona Cephae ab apostolo paulo reprehensi distincta a simone petro seu Jacobus Cephas et Joannes" by Prof. Aloisium Vincenzi. Rome: Typis Bernardi Morini 1872 pages 87 - 201 plus index; "Enchiridion ad Sacrarum Disciplinarum Cultores Accommodatum" Rome: Ex Typographia Polyglotta 1877 83 pages; Sermon at the Month's Mind of the Most Rev. M.J. Spalding DD. Archbishop of Baltimore Preached in the Church of the American College by the Very Rev. Dr. Chatard Rector March 7th 1872" Rome: Press of the S.C. of Propaganda Fide 1872 30 pages; "S. Peter's Roman Pontificate" no date pages 345 - 357; "Accademia Poliglotta che gli alunni del pontificio collegio urbano de propaganda fide dedicano al sommo pontefice Pio IX nel faustissimo giorno del suo giubbileo episcopale" Rome: Tipografia Poliglotta 1877 30 pages; "Pontificium Collegium Urbanum de Propaganda Fide" 1875 15 pages; "De Rom. Pontificis Iure appelationes excipiendi dissertatio proposita" Rome: Ex Typographia Polyglotta 1878 44 pages; "Memorie Storiche della Basilica Costantiniana dei SS XII Apostoli di Roma e dei nuovi suoi ristauri " by Fr. Giovanni Antonio Bonelli Rome: Coi Tipi del Salviucci 1879 92 pages; "Effect on the World of the Restoration of the Canon Law; Being a Vindication of the Catholic Church against a Priest" by D. Urquhart London: Diplomatic Office of Review 1869 78 pages. The works are all bound in a three quarter vellum binding with marbled paper covered boards and leather title label to spine. Short splits to vellum along top of both hinges but binding remains secure. Ex-library with a call number to the spine. Chipping and wear to paper along edges of boards and where it overlaps vellum. Previous owner signature and stamp to early pages. There is a hand written table of contents to the rear. Hand written notes in English in pencil on multiple pages. Offsetting and a few small chips to endpapers. Minor browning to margins and a few pen markings but clean overall. REL/082616. hardcover books
1979rif. 28563Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society 1979. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. Very good in side stapled cream colored wrappers with brown title to front wrapper. Address and postage stamp to rear wrapper. Light rubbing to exterior. Pristine interior. 90 pages ads. MD/083115. Maryland Historical Society paperback books
1962rif. 28787Horizons de France 1962. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. 4to. Grey cloth covered boards with brown title to spine and illustration to front boards. Minor rubbing and soiling to edges of boards. Light damp stain to bottom corner of rear board of Vol. I. Interiors are clean and bright with illustrations throughout. In French. This set may require an extra shipping fee. FREHIS/110215. Horizons de France hardcover books
1878rif. 13444Boston: Houghton Osgood and Company 1878. Cloth. Near Fine. A tight very well-preserved copy of the 1878 2nd printing of this exhaustive history of Harvard complete in 2 volumes. Both volumes solid and Near Fine in their light-purple bevelled cloth. Bright unflecked gilt-insignia Harvard's crest and lettering along the front panels and spines. Small former owner inscription at the first blank endpaper of Vol. I rear inner hinge of same volume tender but still perfectly sturdy. Dozens of crisp black-and-white plates with their accompanying tissue-guards of the campus and a number of the key figures of 19th century Harvard. Thick folios all edges gilt. Imposing and very impressive. Houghton, Osgood and Company unknown books
1906rif. 010832Various 1906. Album. Very good. Small collection of alba amicorum compiled between 1850 and 1890. All measure approximately 6" x 7.5". Bound in leather 1 brown 1 black and 2 burgundy with gilt decoration and lettering. Each with about 100 pages; all appear complete. Legible inscriptions throughout each. Sound hinges some cracked and some perhaps tightened. All with cover-wear. One missing entire spine covering; other three wit partial covering. Overall a nice lot. Brown leather with debossed image of a woman strewing flowers; gilt cover decorations and cover title Love and the Flowers. Published by F. & S. Palmer a New York-based print shop operated by the English lithographer Frances "Fanny" Flora Bond Palmer and her husband Seymour Palmer. Includes several chromolithographs "petalled people" fantasy plates by Fanny. Owned by "Sarah" of Solon and "Skowgan" Skowhegan Maine and apparently passed on to her children. About 125 entries from the 1850s through the1880s almost all by adults but a few with a few childish scrawls. Several scraps laid in. Black leather with debossed decorations and a gilt image of "Jesus and the Samaritan Woman at the Well" John 4 and the cover title Sacred Album. Published by J. C. Riker of New York. All edges gilt. Title page features a lithograph of a women looking in a mirror with the caption "Can a maid forget her ornaments of a bride her attire Jerh. 2 c. 32 v." Other lithograph plates throughout. Calligraphic ownership page for "Miss Martha Jane Foote" of Bristol Vermont dated 1851. Two other owner's names inside front cover "Mrs M J Reynolds / Proctor / Vermont" and "Mrs J F Pritchard / Feb 1904". Several watercolor illustrations. One wreath of dried flowers. About 30 entries between 1851 and 1853. Burgundy leather with a Cosway binding featuring a bouquet of flowers on front and rear panels; Debossed cover decorations and gilt title Ruby Album. Published by J. C. Riker of New York. All edges gilt Colorful floral frontispiece plus several additional chromolithograph plates. Owner's dedication page by A. C. Fromm of Dayton Ohio. About 20 entries between 1858 and 1860. Many scraps laid-down and two more laid-in. Burgundy leather with gilt debossed decorations. Gilt title page The Gem Album. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. All edges gilt. Small chromolithograph illustrations throughout. Gift from "Aunt Amelia" to "Annie R. Scultze" 1882. About 40 entries from the 1880s. In the mid-to-late 1800s friendship albums were popular personal scrapbooks usually kept by young women where their friends family and classmates shared handwritten poems drawings watercolors autographs and sentiments as well as scraps mementos and clippings. Entries were often copied verses or paragraphs from popular or literary magazines. . Four very nice windows into the popular culture surrounding young women of the time. . unknown books
1790rif. 1418692Paris; Limoges; Nismes; Aux Sables: Imprimerie Nationale; Jaques Farne; Pierre Baume; J. Ferre; Baudouin; G.-F. Galletti 1790-1794. Other. Eleven Documents between 3 and 103 pages. In Very Good minus condition or better. This collection of pamphlets and addresses from various Jacobin clubs and political societies touches on key issues of the time such as clerical reform women's rights financial legislation and post-Thermidorian governance. Items are generally moderately age toned and lightly foxed with some shelving wear along the edges. Items are housed in a new archival mylar sleeve. Shelved in Room F Box 3. CONTENTS: Adresse de la Société des Amis de la Liberté et de l'Égalité Séante à Chambéry à la Convention Nationale de la République Française. In Very Good condition. By Doppel Bernier and Moras. Folded pamphlet 3 pages. In 19th century paper wraps which have ink handwritten titling and a paper label on the front cover. A message from Chambery's Society of the Friends of Liberty to the National Convention pledging support for the new French Republic and extoling the virtues of the revolution. Adresse Présentée à l'Assemblée Nationale par le Club des Amis de la Constitution Établi à Nismes du 28 Septembre 1790. In Very Good condition. By F. Aubrey Blanc-Pascal Germain Castanet and Noguier. Octavo 104 pages plus one fold-out table. In marbled paper wraps. Ink numbering and ownership inscription in top margin of title page. Here the Nismes Club of Friends of the Constitution alleges that another address in circulation is slanderous against them. Also includes Réponse du Club des Amis de la Constitution wherein the club provides its evidence that they are being slandered. Extrait des Registres des Délibérations de la Société des Amis de la Constitution Établie à Limoges. Séance Publique du Jeudi 27 Janvier l'An Second de la Liberté. In Very Good minus condition. By Laboulliniere. Folded pamphlet 8 pages. Faint tidemarks throughout. Includes Discours Pour la Prestation de Serment Relatif à la Constitution Civile du Clergé a speech in defense of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy which subordinated the Church in France to the government. Adresse de la Société des Amis de la Constitution aux Sociétés Qui Lui Sont Affiliées. In Very Good condition. By Bouche Salle and Anthoine. Folded pamphlet 3 pages. In marbled paper wraps. Some shallow chipping and closed tears on the fore edge of the wrap front cover. Discours Prononcé à la Société des Amis du Peuple de S. Gilles par le Citoyen Idt Grenadier au 9me Bataillon de la Gironde et Membre de Ladite Société; Dans la Séance du 2 Juin 1793. Folded pamphlet 23 pages. In Very Good condition. By Idt Le Citoyen. First page is toned somewhat darker than the rest with some faint penciling in the top margin. Adresse du Club des Amis de la Constitution de Nimes à l'Assemblée Nationale du 4 Mai 1790. Small quarto 7 pages. In Very Good condition. By Sarrasin. In marbled paper wraps. An account to the National Assembly of the bloodshed and civil unrest in the city of Nimes. Grand Retour des Jacobins En Masse & Sans Perte de la Vendée par la Galiote de Saint-Cloud. Folded pamphlet 12 pages. In Very Good minus condition. By Dechelle. Faint smudging to covers with faint penciling in top margin of the front cover. Verso of front cover bears a 20th century typed label from a former seller. Discours Prononcé par Audouin à la Société des Jacobins de Paris le 7 Vendémiaire l'An 3me de la République Une et Indivisible. Small Octavo 30 pages. In Very Good minus condition. By Francois-Xavier Audouin. In contemporary paper wraps. Pencil mark on front of wraps. Small faint tidemark in top margins throughout. Open tear in bottom margin of p. 21. A speech analyzing the political state of France after the fall of Robespierre warning against the conditions that led to his rise and reign. Essai sur l'Éducation et l'Existence Civile et Politique des Femmes dans la Constitution Françoise. Small Octavo 42 pages. By Charles-Louis Rousseau. In Very Good minus condition. Side-sewn pamphlet. Heavier foxing than other items mostly near the first and last pages. Treatise advocating for women's civic political and educational rights within the framing of the new French Constitution. Opens with a letter and dedication to Madame Bailly wife of Jean-Sylvain Bailly the first Mayor of Paris and former President of the National Assembly. Extrait des Registres des Procès-Verbaux de la Société des Amis de la Constitution Établie à Limoges together with Apperçu Civico-Critique de la Lettre de Monsieur M. Professeur de Théologie à Monsieur N. Curé des Environs de Limoges. Small Octavo 23 pages. In Very Good minus condition. By Foucaud Deperet Duclou and Rufin. Side-sewn pamphlet. Somewhat heavier foxing than other items with scattered faint stains. Adresse à l'Assemblée Nationale sur le Danger d'Établir des Douanes d'Entrepôts. Small octavo 13 pages. In Very Good condition. By Willermoz Guillin Jantet et al. . 1418692. Special Collections - Upstairs. Imprimerie Nationale; Jaques Farne; Pierre Baume; J. Ferre; Baudouin; G.-F. Galletti unknown books
