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1930réf. 47870Berlin: Rudolf Mosse 1930. First edition. Softcover. g to vg. Quarto 64pp. Original illustrated wraps designed in red cream and black and illustrated light brown belly band protected by modern mylar. Back cover foldout with map of Berlin and advertising on folding flap. Photographic guide to Berlin art treasures celebrities landmarks and recreational destinations. Profusely illustrated throughout with b/w photographs of the Berlin and the castles Charlottenburg Monbijou Bellevue and Sanssouci the Staatstheater Berlin museums the universities churches the Reichstags-building the stock Exchange exhibition grounds sports venues airports and various photo-illustrated advertisements. The idea and entire concept of the Key to Berlin texts photos and captions designed and carried out by Werner-Rades and staff. Photographs for the pamphlet provided by the State Photo-Archiv and A. Vennemann Berlin. Text in German and English. Belly band with light wear and few closed tears. Wraps with light wear along edges small creases and light partial foxing. Belly band and wraps in good interior in very good condition. Rudolf Mosse unknown books
1939réf. 48108New York: Nikola Press 1939. First edition. Hardcover. g to vg. Elephant Folio 15 7/8 x 13". Original light brown half cloth over illustrated paper-covered boards with black-border gray lettering creating the effect of thre-dimensionality. Cover illustration by Attila Gremigni. Photogravure by Oreste Cuppini. With portrait of Vittorio Emanuele III of Italy and bust of Mussolini at front. Italian title published in America to impress and stir the interest among Americans for the Fascist program in Italy. De Glauco in his preface suggest that the object of this publication is to make Italy known to the world through pictorial representation assuming that it will make Italians proud while foreigners indoctrinated by anti-Italian propaganda will feel regret in view of his prejudice. The object of this book is to make known some of the accomplishments of the Fascist Regime. The books is profusely illustrated with spectacular b/w photographs and full page photogravures in slightly changing tones. The first chapter depicts W.W.I. as a great victory for Italy and illustrates Mussolini's participation and experience during the war leading into the "red days" with anti-Italians fleeing the advance of the fascists during the March on Rome. A depiction in photogravure of tall fuming smokestacks in light burgundy color is headlined "This is the war which we prefer" - Mussolini. The forceful "blood and soil" propaganda tone is reflected throughout the publication as it is in the second photogravure reproduced in the same color tone "When the soil is fertile the people are happy." - Mussolini opening the extended chapter on Italian agriculture. The following chapters treat motherhood and childhood including subchapters on young Fascists sports in Italy housing and medical issues an extensive chapter on aviation the Italian Navy roads and bridges aqueducts railroads low-cost housing Rome and other major Italian cities as well as provinces including Italian Libya. The final chapter deals with the Italian Empire and its definition: A Will to Power Capable of Surmounting all obstacles with subchapters on Autarchy and the Duce. The final sixty pages contain advertisements and introductions of entrepreneurs. Text in Italian. Binding with some wear along edges some scuffing along edges and light scuffs on cover. Back cover with some soiling and one inch of cloth binding loose at top of spine but present not damaged. Binding rubbed. Front free endpaper with vertical crease but not damaged except for minor chip at top right corner. Endpapers with very light aerial foxing. Binding in overall good interior in good to very good condition. Nikola Press hardcover books
2006réf. 48140Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum 2006. First edition. Hardcover. New in publisher's shrink wrap partially. Folio. 264pp. Original black cloth with blind-stamped lettering on spine in original color-illustrated dustjacket white lettering on spine. Glossy orange endpapers. Color frontispieces. "From the ancient history of decorative stonework comes a very special artistic phenomenon and this richly illustrated large-format volume tells its fascinating story. The phenomenon is is pietre dure or polychrome hardstone marquetry which resurfaced in Rome in the sixteenth century during the artistic flowering of the Italian Renaissance. Rome where art took its inspiration from the cult of antiquity fell in love with the evocative power of hardstones such as verde antico from Thessaly breccia from the island of Skyros and imperial porphyry. The stones decorated table tops were inlaid into delicate floral panels and shone from ovals of opalescent alabaster." Publisher. Extraordinary volume with stunning color photographs throughout many of them double-paged or full page capturing the beauty and craftsmanship of this ancient technique brilliantly. Contains bibliography index and photo credits at rear. J. Paul Getty Museum hardcover books
1839réf. 48414Wien: Krotoschin; printed by B. L. Monasch 1839. Later printing. Hardcover. g to vg. Octavo. 392 3 8pp. Original three-quarter leather over marbled boards with gilt lettering on red label and gilt tooling and ruling on spine. Red edges. Light blue endpapers. Translated into German from Ebn Thybbon's Hebrew translation of the Arabic original annotated and with an epilog on the preface by R. I. Fürstenthal. The publication is an edition of Maimonides seminal work on Jewish philosophy "Guide to the Perplexed" written app. 1190 in Arabic using Hebrew letters and first translated into Hebrew in 1204. Originally written in a three-part letter to his student Joseph ben Juda of Ceuta. It was written to enlighten a religious man according to Maimonides to explain obscure figures appearing in the Prophets; and generally addressed to an elect educated readership. Text in German and Hebrew. Binding with wear along edges small chips along edges and red leather label on spine. Marbled boards with light scuffing. Light scuffing at front joint of the spine with light fraying at head. Light foxing of front and back part of block. Binding in overall good interior in good to very good condition. References: Cf. Fürst II p. 305: Krotoschin 1838. Krotoschin; printed by B. L. Monasch hardcover books
1933réf. 47731Berkeley: University of California Press 1933. First edition. Hardcover. g to vg. Quarto. xix 552pp. 20 plates 1 folding map. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering and ruling on spine. Frontispiece photograph. Translated from the original Spanish manuscript of Pedro Font With Anza to California and edited by Bolton. "The comments on the trail contained in the footnotes of this work are based on personal reconnoissance; for I have retracted exactly or approximately Anza's entire itinerary. The excellence of the diaries Font's is attested by the fact that I have been able to identify practically every water hole and camp site. Most of the photographic illustrations represent scenes along the way. They have been chosen to show the trail as Font and Anza saw it rather than to exhibit its present day cultural aspects." Bolton. Illustrated with striking b/w photographs facsimiles of Font's diary and plans including a folding map at rear. Binding with light wear along edges and some light water-staining. Ex Libris of George and Anne Barnett on inside front cover. Block slightly age-toned. Binding in overall good interior in very good condition. University of California Press hardcover books
1742réf. 47849Paris: Guillaume Cavelier Pere 1742. New edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. Duodecimo. Original mottled calf with gilt lettering tooling and ruling on spine; raised bands. Speckled edges. Decorative endpapers. Each volume with frontispiece. Titles printed in red and black with publisher's device. Decorative head and endpieces. Decorative initials. New edition divided into six volumes expanded and revised illustrated with copper engravings and maps many of them folding. Includes maps of Palestine Asia Minor Syria and others charts and tables. Text in French. Some light wear along edges of bindings volume one with one and a half inch closed tear at tail of spine at joint. Some fading of gilt lettering. Some very light sporadic foxing in blocks. One folding map with small closed tears at fold. Guillaume Cavelier, Pere hardcover books
1833réf. 46993Burlington: Edward Smith 1833. First American edition Ex Library. Hardcover. Good condition. Octavo 293 1 320pp. Original three-quarter calf over marbled boards with gilt lettering on red and green leather labels of spine. Speckled edges. With translator's and author's preface and the author's "Plan of the Work" at front: "The beautiful and justly celebrated work of Bp. Lowth de sacra poesi Hebraeorum is universally known and might seem to preclude the necessity of the present undertaking. A nearer comparison of its contents however will show that the present work is neither a translation nor an imitation of it. Whether the sphere it is at least sufficiently distinct and cannot be without its interest and use to the lovers of the most ancient simple and sublime poetry in general nor indeed to all who cherish a liberal curiosity respecting the progress of knowledge divine and human as connected with the earlier history of our race." Author. "The general purpose of the work required that this part should embrace the general and characteristick traits of Hebrew poetry which mark its essential outlines its cosmology the most ancient conceptions of God of Providence of Angels of the Elohim and of the Cherubim and individual objects and poetical representations of nature." Author. Rosenbach 358 Singerman 0548. Binding with light wear along edges small tears and chips leather spine with some scuffing from removed stickers and small chips at red and green labels. Binding rubbed. Usual library marking bookplates on inside front covers pockets and index cards at rear. Previous owner's name inked to inside front covers. Some underlining at beginning of volume one. Light to medium foxing of blocks throughout. Edward Smith hardcover books
1924réf. 45866London: British School of Archaeology in Egypt University College; Bernard Quaritch 1924. First edition. Hardcover. f to vg. Folio 12 1/4 x 10". xxxix 3 70pp Text 43 leaves Plates. Original 3/4 burgundy cloth over printed paper covered boards with gold lettering to spine. Discovered in 1923 about 27 miles south of Asyut halfway between Cairo and Aswan in a red pottery pot the papyrus referred to in this volume is named Q. It is a book in Codex form of which 43 leaves or fragments thereof are extant out of a volume which originally contained 100 numbered pages or 50 leaves besides in all probability one or two unnumbered leaves at beginning and end. The text begins at ch. II. 12 on a page numbered 7 and ends at ch. XX. 20 on page 96. Therefore it is clear that six numbered pages i. e. 3 leaves of text are missing at the beginning. The papyrus is entirely reproduced in 43 halftone plates each facing their transcription. Binding age-toned and partly rubbed with fraying along edges. Gold lettering on spine partly faded. Lower front and back joints bumped thus slightly affecting pages throughout. Ex-library bookplate on inside of front cover and pocket on inside of back cover. Ex-library stamp to top and bottom edges. Previous owner's name dated 1964 to front free endpaper. Very minor and sporadic foxing throughout. Binding in overall fair to good- interior in good to very good condition. British School of Archaeology in Egypt, University College; Bernard Quaritch hardcover books
1942réf. 45573New York/Port Jervis: The Furrow Press 1942. First edition. Softcover. fair to near fine. This scarce collection includes: "Song Book of the Cejwin Camps/The Camper's Song Pack". 1937. New York. The Furrow Press. Softcover publication. xii 91pp. 5. Green cloth tape over turqoise-colored wrappers with black lettering on the front cover. Printed in a two-column format the publication includes hundreds of songs both secular and Jewish songs with p.51-91 including Hebrew text as well as transliteration. Includes a table of contents at the front and an index at the back. WITH A collection of 45 pieces of ephemera mostly mimeographed: -12 programs for Music Theater Dance and/or marionette performances at the camp 1936-1942 - Seventh Maccabiad Program with song sheet 1940 - V-Day Event Program with song sheet 1942 - "Road to Democracy" event program 1939 - "Hadas News" 1938 vol. 2 #4-5 1939 Vol.3 #7 1940 vol.1 #2-4 plus one undated issue 7 issues - "Marching Song" Song sheet 1938 - 4 individual song sheet 1938-1942 - Undated single sheet - "Esther Echoes" newsletter 3 issues Aug 1941 and Aug 4th 1941 x2 copies - 2 scripts for camp productionsincluding 2 copies of 1 production 1940 - 11 packets or single pages of readings prayers and songs for Sabbath and weekdays services 1941-1942 Some items with some minor to significant chipping to extremities and/or creasing and minor close tears. Song book with some minor rubbing to extremities and creasing to covers. Some chipping to the top right corner of the back cover and a small closed tear on the side. Ink stamp on the back cover. Interior with some closed tears and light creasing to the corners of a few pages. Name of the previous owner in pencil on the initial title page. Book block fairly tight overall. Book in very good- ephemera collection in fair to near fine condition overall. There are no OCLC holdings of this Camp Cejwin version of the "The Camper's Song Pack" publication which includes the 12 preliminary pages of Cejwin material. First opened in 1919 the Cejwin Camps which stood for "Central Jewish Institute" were started by Jewish educators Albert and Bertha Schoolman to "integrate Judaism with the American way of life" - according to the Jewish Theological Seminary. The camps promoted Zionism Judaism and American outdoor and camping culture to the underprivileged children of New York's Jewish community. The organization was ultimately composed of seven camps serving more than 1000 campers. The camps ultimately closed in 1992 but are seem as instrumental and influential in the development of the now successful "Camp Ramah" network of camps. It is considered the first Jewish Summer Camp. The Furrow Press unknown books
réf. 44373Tokyo: T. Hasegawa n.d. Softcover. g to vg-. Small octavo. Unpaginated. Illustrated string-tied wrappers with red and white lettering. Printed on crepe paper in chirimen-bon ã¡ã‚Šã‚ん本 style. French fold double leaves. This work is #22 in the series of English-language translations of traditional Japanese folk tales published by Takejiro Hasegawa in the late 19th and early 20th century and marketed to a western audience. The work is illustrated throughout in boldly-colored Japanese woodblocks. Back cover with floral patterns. The work tells the story of two sons of a recently deceased father. One son eventually forgets to return to the gravesite while the other continues to remember and leave flowers. Eventually he is rewarded with good fortune wealth and his father's protective spirit. Text in English. Wrappers sunned with a few small closed tears and stains. Interior with a few sporadic light water stains throughout. Wrappers in good interior in very good- condition overall. Protected by modern mylar. This edition does not include the publisher's advertisements at the rear which is present in some other editions. Interior front cover with "All Rights Reserved" and Japanese characters at the lower left corner. Edition is unclear and there is no date listed. T. Hasegawa unknown books
réf. 43956Amsterdam: David Fereira y Mosseh Moreno Henriques/ David de Crasto Tartaz David de Castro Tartas 5423. Hardcover. g- to g. Duodecimo. 6.5x4.5". 479pp. Original brown calf boards with gilt-stamped motifs and raised bands on the spine. Blue ribbon marker. Edges of the book block in red. Marbled endpapers. The title page is illustrated with copper plate engravings in the form of small vignettes of biblical scenes surrounding the text. This is an early Spanish-language edition of the complete Jewish High Holiday prayer book Machzor based on the original translation by Abraham Usque originally printed in Ferarra Italy in 1553. This edition contains some added material not previously present including most prominently Solomon ibn Gabirol's famed philosophical poem "Keter Malkhut" Royal Crown which over the years has come to be read as part of the Yom Kippur service in some Jewish traditions. This edition of the Machzor was published by David Fereira and Mosseh Moreno Henriques to serve members of the then sizable Sephardic Jewish community in Amsterdam. A significant portion of the community would have been ex-Marranos Jews who had outwardly converted to Catholicism during the inquisition in Spain who then immigrated and were able to reestablished their Jewish identity and thus were unable to read Hebrew hence the text's publication in Spanish. As stated in the foreword this edition includes some additions to the text not included in previous versions and omits some material deemed to have been unnecessary. The prayer book starts with the penitential prayers Selichot p.3-47 which includes decorative head and endpeices. This section is followed by the Rosh Hashanah service p.48-195 and then the Yom Kippur service including "Keter Malkhut" p.254-289. The title page is illustrated with scenes from the biblical stories of King David Saul and Goliath and contain small captions underneath with corresponding biblical passages in Spanish. There are a number of pagination printing errors including: p.45-46 are misprinted as 54 and 36 p.264 is misprinted as 164. p.450 is misprinted as 350 p.414 is misprinted as 144. Like in the case of the earlier 1652 edition of the work pages 305-352 are misprinted as "321-368" but in this copy the leaf containing p. 353-354 directly following "368" seems to be missing. Overall this edition follows very closely the 1652 edition of the same work in terms of pagination content and organization. Includes large initials throughout the text. All text in Spanish. Binding with rubbing scratches and abrasions to the covers spine and extremities. Some chipping to the head and tail of the spine. Interior front covers with some starting and the loosening of the endpapers. Title page with starting light creases stains and and light chipping on the top left corner resulting in slight loss of image. Some light water staining along the top edge of the pages with some other sporadic light staining throughout. Page 365 torn along the side edge with no loss of text. Starting at a number of pages throughout the book. Binding in good- interior in good condition overall. Binding protected with modern mylar. David ben Abraham de Castro 1630-1698 was a French-born Portuguese Jewish printer/publisher in Amsterdam. Between 1662 and 1701 his press printed the "Gazeta de Amsterdam" a newspaper for the exiled Sephardic Jewish community in Amsterdam. He started his printing career as a typesetter at the printing house of Menasseh Ben Israel a printer and leading Rabbi in community who printed the earliest Amsterdam edition of this work in 1630. Castro started his own business in 1662 making this edition among his earliest publications. References: RODRIGUEZ 1781 p. 643 KAYSERLING 1890 p. 62 PALAU1923 202416 PEETERS1933 1038. David Fereira y Mosseh Moreno Henriques/ David de Crasto Tartaz (David de Castro Tartas) hardcover books
1930réf. 41643Paris: Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner 1930. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Folio 15 1/2 x 11 3/4". 67 1pp Text uncut and unopened in blind wrappers XXXVII 17 loose leaves Plates. Original half tan cloth over marbled paper covered portfolio with black lettering to spine and red and black lettering to front cover. String ties. In this work Swiss archaeologist and field director of the Abydos excavations Edouard Naville 1844-1926 reproduces some spectacular bas-relief details found in the Egyptian Temples located at Abydos and Behbeit-El-Hagher. Abydos: The fragments of bas-reliefs found in the Temples of Seti I and Ramses II are reproduced in 5 in-text vignettes one color plate and 36 photolithographic plates. Behbeit-El-Hagher: Details of bas-reliefs found in the Temple of Isis are reproduced in 6 in-text vignettes 11 photolithographic plates and 6 phototype plates including Samanood Samanood Appendix: The last two plates 16 and 17 depict fragments of two corner stones 16 and fragments of a naos in dark green diorite 17 found in Samanood. Minor shelf wear. Text in French and English. Portfolio and interior in very good condition. Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner hardcover books
1927réf. 40636Tel Aviv: Devir Dvir 1927. First Hebrew Edition. Hardcover. g- to vg. Small Folio. Unpaginated 17pp. White buckram spine over brown boards. Gold leaf debossed lettering on lithographic illustrated plate on front cover. The beautifully produced children's book is the Hebrew language translation of "Der Vogel Wandelbar" by German poet Richard Dehmel originally published in 1923. The book is illustrated with seven gorgeous full-page color lithographs cover image by J. Gleitsmann. The poem uses the image of the bird metaphorically to describe the trials and tribulations of growing up and being handicapped. Text in Hebrew. Binding with some staining to front and back with a 3 x 1/2" stain to upper left corner of front cover and a 1 1/2 x 1/2" stain to upper right corner of back cover. Corners lightly rubbed. Minor water stains to front lithograph else fine. Crease to upper right corner of front cover. Interior with some minor smudges. Binding in overall good- interior in very good condition. Devir (Dvir) hardcover books
1929réf. 35612Frankfurt a. M.: I. Kauffmann 1929. First edition. Paperback. g. Octavo. XVI 215 1pp. Original illustrated wrappers. Uncut and unopened copy. Remarkable autobiography of Jacob Teitel a social activist and judge in the czarist Ministry of Justice. From his position in the government in provincial Russia Teitel was able to aid Jews affected by legal restrictions by interceding with influential individuals. This work offers a window to view the changes in Jewish life and reflects the complexities of the Jewish experience during the late czarist period. Moderate shelf wear. Wrappers slightly age-toned along edges. Text in German. Wrappers in overall good- to good interior in good to very good condition. I. Kauffmann paperback books
1885réf. 30824Glasgow: David Bryce & Son 1885. First English language edition. Hardcover. g. Quarto. XXX 333 1 3pp. Original red cloth with gold lettering on spine. The present work is a captivating survey of the German Universities for the last 50 years between 1835 and 1885. It forms the second part of the third volume of a series of statistical inquiries in various departments of the national economy of Germany conducted by Dr. Conrad Professor of Political Science at Halle. Minor age wear on binding with spine slightly age toned. Previous owner's signature in ink on half-title page and dated 1885. Very minor age toning along paper margin. Binding and interior in overall good condition. David Bryce & Son hardcover books
1920réf. 28553London: Humphrey Milford; Oxford University Press 1920. First English language edition. Hardcover. vg. Octavo. XXII 161pp English 59pp Hebrew. Original blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. Berechiah ben Natronai ha-Nakdan "ha-Nakdan" meaning "the punctuator" or "grammarian" commonly known as Berachya 13th century was a Jewish exegete ethical writer grammarian translator poet and philosopher. His most famous works are Mishle Shualim Fox Fables and Sefer Hahibbur The Book of Compilation. Very little is known for certain about his life and much discussion has taken place concerning the date and native country of Berachyah. It is possible that he was a descendant of Jewish scholars of Babylonia. He is thought to have lived sometime in the 12th or 13th century with some placing him about 1260 in Provence. Other theories give Northern France as his home while Joseph Jacobs arrived at the conclusion that Berechiah should be located in England toward the end of the 12th century. This was confirmed by Neubauer's discovery that in the preface to his fables Berechiah refers to the "turning of the wheels of fate to the island of the sea = England for one to die and the other to live" clearly a reference to the English massacre of 1190 From WIKIPEDIA. Very minor age-toning on spine. Previous owner's sticker on free front endpaper Abraham Steinmeier. Binding in overall good to very good interior in very good condition. Humphrey Milford; Oxford University Press hardcover books
réf. 28731New York: Bloch Publishing Co 5705. Hardcover. vg. Quarto. XXIII XXXVI 80 VI 110 X 190 8 4pp. Original blue cloth with gold lettering on covers and spine. The Mishnah is the core text of rabbinic literature second only to the Hebrew Bible as the basic text of rabbinic Judaism. This edition contains the complete tractates of Berakoth Peah and Demai in the original Hebrew with an excellent English translation. Minor shelf wear. Text in Hebrew and English. Binding and interior in overall good to very good condition. Bloch Publishing Co hardcover books
1967réf. 293251San Francisco: Illuminations Press 1967. Magazine. 60p. 9.25x12.25 inches poetry prose illustrations missing the broadside insert called for mild scent else good in very worn slightly faded and soiled stapled pictorial tan wraps with heavily rusted staples. Poetry and art journal founded by Moser at the Blue Unicorn Coffeehouse in the Haight-Ashbury in 1965. Very early appearance by Darryl Ponicsan whose novel "The Last Detail" 1970 was filmed with Jack Nicholson. Illuminations Press unknown books
1967réf. 293250San Francisco: Illuminations Press 1967. Magazine. 60p. 9.25x12.25 inches poetry prose illustrations folded 12x18 inch broadside with two poems printed both sides inserted mild scent else good in very worn slightly faded and soiled stapled pictorial tan wraps with heavily rusted staples. Poetry and art journal founded by Moser at the Blue Unicorn Coffeehouse in the Haight-Ashbury in 1965. Very early appearance by Darryl Ponicsan whose novel "The Last Detail" 1970 was filmed with Jack Nicholson. Illuminations Press unknown books
réf. CNAP044aSan Francisco: The Arion Press 1994. Limited Edition. Hardcover. New. Thiebaud Wayne. Folio size 13 3/4" by 10 1/4" 356 pages plus 18 unnumbered pages for the prints 374 pages total. The text is Neo Didot in Monotype composition by Mackenzie & Harris. The display type is Bodoni Bold handset in foundry type. The drawings were printed by letterpress from photopolymer plates. The paper is French mould-made Lana Royale; a heavier weight of the same paper is used for the lithographs. The binding done in-house is hand-sewn in full blue-gray cloth with black titling on the front and spine and a drawing by Thiebaud across the bottom. The slipcase is covered in the same cloth with titling and a vignette on the spine. The color prints binding cloth and slipcase were printed lithographically. Edition of 200 copies plus 26 lettered copies hors de commerce signed by the artist. M.F.K. Fisher 1908-1992 contributed an introduction to the second Arion Press book "A Commonplace Book of Cookery" in 1975 but died before we were able to pay tribute to her by publishing her first major literary work a translation of Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin's 1755-1826 famous gastronomic essays. This book originally made for hire in 1948 for the Limited Editions Club formed her as an author on subjects relating to food wine dining and living well in the largest sense. She became a good friend of the Press extending invitations to "the crew" to come to her home in St. Helena for a hike and a swim followed by lunch where the conversation was always lively but never about food. The artist Wayne Thiebaud delivered to Hoyem a large pile of original ink drawings and told him to use what he wanted. Hoyem made photocopies of the drawings and sorted and combined them as he saw fit and Thiebaud immediately approved the selection. He also made the nine lithographs in color and drew a design for the cover of the binding that showed the skills he learned as a commercial graphic artist. A trade edition was published by Counterpoint in 1996. Note that while this copy is marked as a "Display" copy we do not believe it was actually used as such as both the book and slipcase are in fine condition. ___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. The Arion Press hardcover books
1923réf. 348322London: Eveleigh Nash & Grayson 1923. Hardcover. 121p. first English edition spine faded minor edge wear wear otherwise in good condition. Eveleigh Nash & Grayson hardcover books
1609réf. 625650Ginevra: Apud Iohan 1609. Hardcover. Very Good. Thick 32mo. 8 894pp. 40 index. Contemporary vellum flexible boards with the title faintly written on the spine. Parallel text in Greek and Latin. Boards worn and rubbed some soiling to the page edges pastedowns worn with some contemporary writing in pen minor edgewear to the pages and two pages of the index with tears still very good with the binding sound. Apud Iohan hardcover books
1962réf. 520780New York: Harcourt Brace & World Inc 1962. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition thus. Slight offsetting on the endpapers else near fine in a very good dust jacket with toning creasing and tiny tears. Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc hardcover books
1946réf. 140944760Ft. Eustis VA: Ordnance Department Army Service Forces 1946. Complete in three volumes all "Reproduced by Technical Information Branch BUAER Navy Department" marked "Restricted.". 1 572; 1 573-1147; 2 1149-1762 pp. printed on rectos only in March 1946. Along with related documents Index to Volume I II II 1 98 pp; and Glossary of English Guided Missile Terms unconventionally paginated approx 100 pages. All five of these volumes are mimeographed typescript on rectos only. 10½" x 8" printed boards tied through punch holes in spines with shoestring. Very Good with light foxing and soiling. A sixth document is included from a rocketry project involving German scientists: Report No. 55289 "Project Hermes": Investigation of Unsymmetrical Forces Due to Jet-entrained Air Produced During Launching of the V-2. Aeronautics and Ordnance. General Electric. Prepared by A.B. Gregg Jr. 2 20 leaves. Mimeographed typescript figures & graphs 3 full page halftone photographs. Dampstaining along bottom edge. Project Hermes was a missile research program that ran from 1944 to 1954. Includes two original snapshot photographs of a V-2 rocket attached to wheels for transport U.S. military personnel standing by. A scarce and significant documentation of the United States' absorption German rocket technology at the dawning of the Cold War and also its enlistment of German scientists including Werner von Braun and Major General Dr. Walter Dornberger. The three large accession lists the Index and the Glossary were produced by the Foreign Document Evaluation Branch Development and Proof Services Aberdeen Proving Ground Maryland. The five volumes were produced to streamline access to the massive array of engineering documents taken out of Germany and to facilitate the work of German and American scientists in jump-starting the American missile program. We could locate only three institutions with a set of all five volumes the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives; Museum of Flight Seattle WA; and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Library MD. These volumes document the orderly transfer of knowledge about rocketry weapons programs and the earliest stirrings of a space program from Nazi Germany to the United States. They are mostly bibliographies of technological literature in German with a focus on the V-2 rocket. Ordnance Department, Army Service Forces unknown books
1930réf. 140943679Paris: Chez F.L. Schmied 1930. Signed Limited Edition. Near Fine. Copy number 13 of 162 numbered copies from an edition of 172 total signed by Francois-Louis Schmied. Folio. A beautiful and lavish production with 28 wood engravings printed in colors each one signed by the artist; signed by Schmied on the colophon and with an additional presentation inscription from the artist on the blank front free endpaper. With an additional suite of plates printed in black being numbered 8 and signed by Schmied on the section's title page and with an additional suite of plates in color also numbered 8 and signed on the section title page and an additional suite of 20 pages showing the separation of the plates. Bound a beautiful art binding by the French master binder Madame Marot-Rodde in full golden morocco inlaid with a tan morocco panel and white vertical and horizontal striped. Inside boards with yellow watered silk pastedowns surrounded by gilt and white morocco inlay housed in a yellow marbled slipcase with morocco tips. Near Fine with rubbing to outer hinges. A stunning copy. Chez F.L. Schmied unknown books
