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1926Best.-Nr. 70839E-398: Clarendon Press. Good. 1926. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Oxford at the Clarendon Press Oxford UK. 1926. Xxxviii 191 pgs 345 b/w illustrations 19 bw plans and diagrams. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. This seminal work by Gisela Richter explores the development design and craftsmanship of furniture in the ancient Greek Etruscan and Roman cultures. Drawing on archaeological findings artistic depictions and historical texts Richter provides a comprehensive analysis of ancient furniture's aesthetics functionality and cultural significance. E-398; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 191 pages . Clarendon Press hardcover
1897Best.-Nr. 88173Westminster London: Archibald Constable and Company 1897. First Edition. First impression. Two tall octavo volumes 24.5cm. Publisher's gilt-pictorial blue-green cloth; xvi510; xvi671pp; gravure frontispiece to both volumes plus 125 unnumbered leaves of plates sixteen in color after Nansen's original sketches; the remainder in halftone or gravure mostly from original photographs; four color-printed folding maps. Collated complete. Contemporary gift inscription to front endpaper of v.1 dated 1897. Scattered mild foxing to texts; mild external wear and some wrinkling to cloth at spines; together a complete sound Very Good set of what is arguably the greatest 19th-c. narrative of polar exploration. ARCTIC BIBLIOGRAPHY 11983. PMM 384 the Norwegian edition. Archibald Constable and Company unknown
1822Best.-Nr. 1357889London: T. Cadell 1822. Hardcover. Octavo vii 548 pages with 15 plates. In Good condition. Bound in contemporary leather. Surface somewhat marked and scratched with wear to spine edges and corners and some chipping to top of spine. Binding tight. Text block age toned with foxing throughout. An ex-library copy with usual markings including a bookplate to front pastedown institutional stamps to several pages and call number written in pencil. Fifteen plates present and intact including one plate opposite title page. MF Consignment. 1357889. Special Collections. T. Cadell hardcover
1719Best.-Nr. 060509Paris: E Typographia Regia 1719. Book. Very Good. Full-Leather. 3rd Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Complete in two 3 volumes in two bindings uniformly bound in full brown leather borders ruled in gilt 5 raised spine bands w/ gilt-decorated compartments title and volume labels lettered in gilt on brown fields marbled endpapers speckled/mottled text block edges. Stated 3rd ed. vixxxiixvi695 vii58489 plates pp. Imperfect copy with plates bound thus: II 1-254; III 255-364 262 and 263 reversed 437-489 365-436 lacking pl. 24 93-95 97 102 109 133 151 164 167 194-196 230-231 256 307 411 412; Vol. II engraved half-title inexplicably bound in between pl. 2 and 3. Leather shows a few areas of minor rubbing creased along joints with mild rubbing to corners; book plate mounted inside front cover of each volume. Vol. I engraved half-title detached with some raggedness along edges. Plates generally clean and fully intact. E Typographia Regia Hardcover
1836Best.-Nr. 492441ª Edición Española.- Valencia: Imprenta de Cabrerizo 1836.- X 523 p. 1 h.; 8º menor 153 x 108 cm; Excelente impresión sobre papel blanco y fuerte; Enc. en Plena Piel pasta española de la época Lomo dorado con filetes grecas y estrellas título dorado sobre tejuelo verde. Excelente estado. Tras la portada en una zona en blanco el libro tiene manuscrito el nombre del anterior propietario el mes en que lo compró y lo que le costó. Parece que Peset en el apéndice que abarca desde la página 403 a la 523 entra directamente en la controversia española sobre la Medicina curativa de Leroy. Eso puede convertir esta edición de Cabrerizo en algo bastante más interesante que una mera traducción española. HISTORIA Y LITERATURA MÉDICAS CRUZ ROJA BENEFICIENCIA HOSPITALES DEONTOLOGÃA HIGIENE EPIDEMIAS Libro en español Imprenta de Cabrerizo hardcover
1876Best.-Nr. 016575D.Appleton and Company 1876. Book. Fine. Full-Leather. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine Copy In Full Dark Brown Leather. Great Classic Biography Of This Great Confederate General. Rare In This Condition And in Original Full Leather. Personal Library Label. D.Appleton and Company Hardcover
1925Best.-Nr. 140945616Berlin: Verlag von Julius Springer 1925. First edition. First edition. xiv 377 1 4 pp. Bound in publisher's orangish yellow boards. Near Fine with light rubbing and soiling to boards tiny pen squiggle to front board. Contents bright and unmarked. An uncommon German-language physics text with an appendix by Einstein. Verlag von Julius Springer unknown
1709Best.-Nr. 751196 191 1 ii 128 pages dedicated to Sir Francis Child Printed by J. Barber to be sold by S.Keble, B. Tooke, and D. Midwinter hardcover
1932Best.-Nr. 9130627The Society of Antiquaries 1932. Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London No. IX. In original grey paper covers which are scuffed marked and edgeworn. Cover pulling away from pageblock at front hinge. Occasional foxing. Coloured frontispiece. 3 Fold-Out Pages. 50 plates. 28 full-page figures. Most pages are unopened at top edge and some at side edge. Text very clean. Contains Appendix I: 6 page essay by J.R.R. Tolkien on the Name 'Nodens' and Appendix II Adam and Eve. This is an ex-library book library stamp on front cover no internal library markings found. Signature of previous owner J F Chanter FSA on front cover.This book has soft covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item800grams ISBN: The Society of Antiquaries paperback
1926Best.-Nr. 043474London: Methuen & Co. 1926. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Viii 124 Pp. Green Cloth White Spine Lettering. First Printing In Secondary Binding With White Lettering The First Binding Was Lettered In Gilt. Book Used But Still Near Fine Very Slight Rubbing Lettering Complete With Some Wear Small Areas Of Lightening Of Color On Front Cover Darkening To Lower Corner Of Page "V" First Page Of Preface. No Marks. Lacking The Very Scarce Dust Jacket. Methuen & Co. hardcover
1976Best.-Nr. 122182Milano: Rizzoli Editore 1976. Hardbound. VG/VG in VG slipcase. A large weighty book. Red maroon cloth with color pictorial glossy dustjacket all contained in a custom slipcase. Appx. 217 pp. 138 mostly color plates tipped-in to the text portion and 50 full sheet 13.5" x 16" color plates. A most impressive book both by it's content and it volumetric displacement. Vital in the study of Caravaggio. Another version of this appears to have been printed in 1971 and this edition has a few extra illustrations at least and likely some additional or revised text. Text is in Italian. Transit mass would be 272 ounces. A stunning production. Rizzoli Editore hardcover
1907Best.-Nr. 134985Letchworth Herts: Garden City Press 1907. First edition of Constance Smedley's rare feminist tract published under the pseudonym X and with an appendix by Ethel Snowden. Octavo original cloth morocco spine label lettered in gilt patterned endpapers. Appendix by Ethel Snowden. In good condition. Stamps throughout including to the front and rear panels and top edge. Bookplates to the pastedown. The mid-19th century women’s suffrage movement was broad made up of women and men with a wide range of views. In terms of diversity the greatest achievement of the twentieth-century woman suffrage movement was its extremely broad class base. One major division especially in Britain was between suffragists who sought to create change constitutionally and suffragettes led by English political activist Emmeline Pankhurst who in 1903 formed the more militant Women's Social and Political Union. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott were the first two women in America to organize the women's rights convention in July 1848. Susan B. Anthony later joined the movement and helped form the National Woman's Suffrage Association NWSA in May of 1869. Their goal was to change the 15th Amendment because it did not mention nor include women which is why the NWSA protested against it. Most major Western powers extended voting rights to women in the interwar period including Canada 1917 Britain and Germany 1918 Austria the Netherlands 1919 and the United States 1920. Author illustrator and campaigner for women's rights Constance Smedley published this feminist tract Woman: A Few Shrieks under the pseudonym ‘X’ in 1907 with an appendix by radical English suffragette Ethel Snowden. Garden City Press hardcover
2007Best.-Nr. 85999Leiden The Netherlands: Brill 2007. Presumed First Edition First printing. Hardcover. Very good. xii. 2 526 pages. Illustrations. Plates. Carian Glossary. Appendices. Abbreviations and Bibliography. Carian Alphabet. Carian signs in coin legends. Index. This is Volume 86 of the Handbook of Oriental Studies Section One The Near and Middle East. This handbook presents a complete and updated view of our current knowledge about Carian one of the Indo-European languages spoken in ancient Anatolia. This handbook provides a complete and updated view of our current knowledge about Carian one of the Indo-European languages spoken in ancient Anatolia. The decipherment of the Carian alphabet has only recently made it possible to analyze Carian inscriptions and to classify the Carian language linguistically. The book covers all major topics of research on Carian: the direct and indirect sources with an edition of the Carian inscriptions following a new classification system the history of the decipherment the Carian alphabet and the phonological morphological lexical and syntactic features of the language. It includes an annotated Carian glossary. The volume concludes with a special appendix on Carian coins and legends by Koray Konuk that will be of particular interest to specialists in ancient numismatics. The field of Anatolian languages is one of the liveliest branches of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics and needless to say one of the most important. Nowadays it is fairly rare to discover a new Indo-European language but this is exactly what happened in the eighties and early nineties when after some hundred years of vain research since the pioneering paper of Archibald Henry Sayce. Three scholars John D. Ray Diether Schürr and Ignacio J. Adiego managed to decipher the Carian script and to recognize Carian language as an Anatolian Indo-European language. Though our knowledge about Carian has remained and still remains very limited - on the one hand because of brevity of most of the inscriptions and on the other hand because of the impenetrable texts of the longer ones - the results of the last one and a half decade have reached the point when Carian research grew out of its infancy. Thus it seemed appropriate to summarize our knowledge of this language in a handbook available for a wider audience and for the purposes of scientific education too. This volume written by I. J. Adiego one of the decipherers who publishes extensively on Carian intends to fill this purpose. Brill hardcover
1774Best.-Nr. 7047London: W. Bowyer and J. Nichols 1774. Half Leather. Very Good binding. Octavo. xvi 144 2 adverts pp. First edition. In 19th century half speckled calf with corners and marbled papers over boards. Joints are moderately rubbed but sound; light shelfwear; a very few instances of early ink corrections or brief annotations in addition to Bowyer's name being added in ink to the title page in an early hand; additionally a 20th word in green ink on p. 1; one leaf M4 has been excised likely at the time of printing as the text is complete and the pagination is correct matching catalogued and digitized copies. In content this work comprises an abridged reprinting of Conyer Middleton's Dissertation 1734-5 correctly arguing that contrary to popular opinion William Caxton was the first printer in England. The second essay is an English translation of Gerard Meerman's Origines Typographicase in which the Dutch collector argues that the first printing was done by Laurentius in Harleim improved upon by Gutenberg and then Schoeffer in Mainz. Both essays are accompanied by intelligent commentary by the printers in addition to appendices on early Greek Hebrew and polyglot books. Bigmore and Wyman state "The book although it has been robbed of its authority by modern researchers at the time of its publication brought in great praise to its compilers the 'learned printers' of the age" p. 75. An important book delving into the history of printing in Europe that was reprinted several times in the 18th century. This copy of the first edition is from the library of American collector Albert A. Howard with his small monograph plate on the rear pastedown. Bigmore and Wyman p. 74-5; ESTC N10660; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. W. Bowyer and J. Nichols unknown
1926Best.-Nr. 043114London: Methuen & Co. 1926. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Viii 124 Pp. Green Cloth White Spine Lettering. First Printing In Secondary Binding With White Lettering The First Binding Was Lettered In Gilt. Book Used But Still Fine No Rubbing Lettering Complete And Entirely Strong. Spanish Owner's Name With His 1948 Receipt From H. K. Lewin For The Book Laid In Loosely. Lacking The Scarce Dust Jacket. Methuen & Co. hardcover
1652Best.-Nr. 279497United Kingdom: R & W Leybourn for Thomas Pierrepont 1652. Book. Very Good. hardback. 1st Edition. hardback small quarto measuring 7 1/2" x 5 1/4" bound in later red half morocco marbled boards. Leather a little darkened but a very good tightly bound copy with an unmarked text light browning to the paper Frontis illustrated throughout with diagrams ix 203pp. Uncommon first edition. Wing S5688. R & W Leybourn for Thomas Pierrepont Hardcover
1956Best.-Nr. 54815Doubleday Anchor. As New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request – – IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - appears unread - 260 pages. -- with a bonus offer-- . 1956. Doubleday Anchor paperback
1956Best.-Nr. 30582Doubleday Anchor. As New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - 260 pages. -- with a bonus offer--; T-Merber; Meredith George ; Bergson Henri ; Introduction & Appendix By Sypher Wylie Comedy : An Essay on Comedy by George Meredith ; Laughter by Henri Bergson . 1956. Doubleday Anchor paperback
1892Best.-Nr. 36028New York: D. Appleton & Co. . As New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request – – IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - -- with a bonus offer--; T-Schweg; Schwegler Albert; Seelye J. H. translator; Smith B. E. revisions appendix A History of Philosophy in Epitome Translated from the First Edition of the Original German By Julius H. Seelye; Revised from the Ninth German Edition With an Appendix By Benjamin E. Smith . 1892. D. Appleton & Co. hardcover
1858Best.-Nr. 2111902160200928Toeizan zohan 1858. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 7 books Toeizan zohan paperback
2013Best.-Nr. 2090202118205193Hanreijihosha 2013. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Hanreijihosha paperback
1603Best.-Nr. 025415London: John Winder 1603. Second Edition Enlarged . Hardcover. Fair. 7 1/4" Tall. Vii 579 Pp. Small Fragments Of Original Spine With Circa 1800 Boards With Quarter Calf Quite Worn And Both Boards Detached Marbled Endpapers Armorial Bookplate Circa 1800 Of William Griffith Motto "Do Good And It Pursue" On Front Pastedown. Title Page Mounted On Very Old Paper And Rebound In Page Block Cut To 7" Height With Loss Of Top Of Page Headings On Some Pages No Loss Of Text. The Dedication Pages Of The Book Are Addressed To Thomas Lee Mayor Of London. This Book With Pencil Signature On Front Endpaper Of Charlotte L Lee Fitzroy Favored Daughter Of Charles Ii By A Mistress And No Known Relation To Thomas Lee Whose Daughter Married Leonard Benedict Calvert I And An Old Ink Note On P. 580 "Sarah ----- At Mr. ------ ----M". Engraving On Title Page Thou Shalt Labor For Peace / Plentie" Engraved Initials And Finals. This Book With Light Even Foxing Of Page Block Some Aging To Pages. This Edition The Last By Stow And Greatly Enlarged From The 1597 First Edition Is A Basic Reference For Tudor London. Scarce Worldcat Locating 11 Institutional Holdings Only. John Winder hardcover
1984Best.-Nr. 2080502106504452publishing news company 1984. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 2 publishing news company paperback
1921Best.-Nr. 56000Rome: La Vita Italiana 1921. First Italian edition. Softcover. g- to g. Octavo. 190 1pp. Tan paper wrappers with text in black and red on covers and spine. Translator not credited. The first Italian edition of the infamous and influential anti-Semitic forgery is quite scarce and is the only edition to have been published prior to the Fascist takeover of the country which occurred the following year. The book includes the full text of the Protocols and introductory comments as well as an extensive 60-page appendix at the rear prepared by publisher Giovanni Preziosi. Initial text at the front of the publication also includes Italian translations of the preface from the original 1920 London edition and the original introductory text from the 1905 Russian edition. It is interesting to note that even this early in the publication history of the Protocols editors were already admitting to the questionable authenticity of the text that they were so rabidly promoting as can be seen in the introductory comments here. The publication was issued by the right-wing political journal La Vita Italiana which was headed by prominent Italian anti-Semitic and nationalist writer Giovanni Preziosi 1881-1945 who would go on to become a prominent figure in Italian Fascist publishing. Wrappers with light staining and sunning. Spine with closed tears and rubbing to the head and tail. Interior with foxing to the half-title pages as well as additional sporadic minor to light foxing to additional pages throughout. Book block loosening at the title page. Wrappers in good- interior in good condition overall. Subtitle: Versione Italiana con Appendice Scarce edition with only 2 holdings in North America per OCLC. La Vita Italiana unknown