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1941ref. 50221Princeton: Princeton University Press 1941. A fresh translation of a classic. A handsome book in very good condition. . Princeton.: Princeton University Press. 1941. A fresh translation of a classic. A handsome book in very good condition. 22 cm. xli; 166 pp. sepia tinted drawing on title page. Sepia facsimile illustration of original frontispiece. Sepia drawn chapter heading. Illustrated front board. Front and rear pastedowns and blanks illustrated with medieval sepia toned ink washed drawings. . Princeton University Press unknown books
1795ref. 1262351795. London: Johnson 1795-94. 2 vols. in one 4to xx 218 124 2 directions to binder and advertisement; 2 viii 200 2 directions to the binder lacking the errata and ads pp. With a frontispiece to each volume ten plates in vol. I and 8 in vol. II. Early half calf marbled boards newly rebacked in calf with gilt-lettered label. A very good copy if a little aged -- early manuscript note loosely inserted about the Portland Vase copied from the Morning Chronicle c. 1796. § Best edition. 6 plates are engraved by Blake the best known being Fertilization of Egypt and Tornado both after Fuseli. The third edition of part one is the only edition to include the striking Tornado plate. At page 87 appears the enigmatic circular image of an African man in chains titled "Am I not a man and a brother." Bentley 450B and C. Essick William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations XXI. The Morning Chronicle was a newspaper founded in 1769 in London. It was notable for having been the first steady employer of essayist William Hazlitt as a political reporter and the first steady employer of Charles Dickens as a journalist. unknown books
1745ref. 64270Amsterdam: Francois L'Honoré 1745. Nouvelle édition." 12mo 15.5cm. Disbound now in later cream paper wrappers titled in gilt on spine all edges stained red; xxiv34020pp; with 5 folding plates lacking the sixth numerous in-text woodcuts and an engraved portrait of Erasmus cut out and laid down on title page verso. Title page printed in two colors. Occasional minor chips to leaf edges closely trimmed and lacking one plate but otherwise pleasing: Good only. Erasmus's famous lampoon of religion tradition and superstition also known as Moriae Encomium or In Praise of Folly was published in 1511 and quickly became popular. An edition with illustrations by Hans Holbein the Younger was published in 1515-16; the illustrations in this edition are based on Holbein's work. This edition is a French translation by Nicolas Gueudeville 1652-1721 likely bearing a false imprint. 64270. Francois L'Honoré unknown books
1867ref. 9030839Chicago: E. Manford 1867. 1st. Hardcover. Good. Bound in publisher's original green cloth with spine stamped in gilt. Corners worn through cloth and three small chips to head and heel. Foxing to exterior of text block with minimal foxing inside. Signature of previous owner in crayon on front paste down end paper. 4 3/4 x 7 1/4 inches. 359 pages. E. Manford hardcover books
1797ref. 1978Derby: J. Drewry 1797. First edition. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards; spine ruled in gilt with red morocco label; all edges dyed yellow. Boards and spine rubbed; some chipping along edges. Original stab holes visible in gutter margins. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown; ink signature of Mary Wolley to front free endpaper; light foxing. Quarto collates complete with half title and engraved frontispiece: viii 9-128. Bound with: Fosbrooke T.D. The Economy of Monastic Life. Glocester: Printed by R. Raikes 1792. First edition dedicated to Edward Jenner who is also listed as a subscriber. Internally a copy in excellent condition. The grandfather of the illustrious Charles Darwin Erasmus Darwin wrote this treatise on the education of young women to support his own daughters' school at Ashbourne. Darwin's treatise takes a comprehensive view of women's education suggesting that it should reach beyond social skills such as the "perpetual appearance of attention" polite dancing and flattering dress and into formal intellectual pursuits including literature history mathematics and the natural sciences. While he promoted women's education in part to improve the likelihood of companionate marriages Darwin's text tentatively acknowledges that a marital partnership can only function happily when both parties have an intelligent understanding of the world and the ability to participate in it. "A radical campaigner for equality he condemned slavery supported female education and opposed conventional Christian ideas on creation" Farra. With a bookplate from the library of the Wolley family this particular copy has the ownership signature of female reader Mary Wolley. J. Drewry unknown books
1726ref. 23206London: J. Woodman and D. Lyon 1726. The second edition with additions after the first of the year before. An overview of British commerce from 1688 with consideration of the economic impact of wars with France. With references to American colonial trade silver mines in Peru and the "Asiento" or Spanish slave trading contract. Dbd. Titlepage a bit soiled tanning and very light foxing faint dampstain to lower gutter of last few gatherings. Good plus. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 726/165. SABIN 62455. GOLDSMITHS 6428. KRESS 3661. unknown books
1971ref. UERAPRA00araAnn Arbor 1971. Very Good. Erasmus Desiderius. The Praise of Folly. Ann Arbor MI: Ann Arbor 1971. 152pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Ann Arbor paperback books
1983ref. UHORBIB00tmmCrossroad 1983. Very Good. Hort Erasmus. The Bible Book: Resources for Reading the New Testament. NY: Crossroad 1983. 209pp. Indexed. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with gently rubbed edges. Crossroad paperback books
1880ref. 47410New York: D. Appleton and Company 1880. Very Good-. New York: D. Appleton and Company 1880. First American Edition. Octavo 19.5cm; publisher's decorative terracotta cloth stamped in black and gilt brown glazed endpapers; iv2168adspp.; portrait frontispiece. Ex-AAS with their faint pressurestamp to title page otherwise free of library markings moderate wear to margins with small chip at spine crown front hinge cracked with brief old tape repair; Good to Very Good overall. Ownership ex libris of the late chemist and bibliophile Sydney Ross to front pastedown. D. Appleton and Company unknown books
1897ref. RHAWUND01ECGovernment Printing Office 1897. Very Good. Haworth Erasmus. Underground Waters of Southwestern Kansas - Department of the Interior Water Supply and Irrigation Papers of the United States Geological Survey Number 6. Washington: Government Printing Office 1897. 63pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 12mo. Orange wraps. Book condition: Very good. There are small losses from the paper at the ends of the spine. The front cover has a former owner's name on the top edge. Government Printing Office paperback books
1897ref. RHAWUND00ECGovernment Printing Office 1897. Very Good. Haworth Erasmus. Underground Waters of Southwestern Kansas - Department of the Interior Water Supply and Irrigation Papers of the United States Geological Survey Number 6. Washington: Government Printing Office 1897. 63pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 12mo. Orange wraps. Book condition: Very good. There is a 1 and 1/2 inch tear in the paper at the head of the spine. Ink stamp on the front cover and again on the first title page. Government Printing Office paperback books
1943ref. 021599New York: Limited Editions Club 1943. Hardcover. Tasteful bookplate on front pastedown; contents clean. Light chipping to the tips of the spine which is rather fragile with a long vertical tear down the center. Good internally Near Fine in a Good slipcase with the bottom portion partly split. Lynd Ward. Quarto 7-1/4" x 10-1/2" bound in full black sheep leather with an ivory medallion inset on the front cover. Translated from The Latin text by Harry Carter with an introduction by Hendrik Willem Van Loon. Illustrated with 10 original mezzotints by Lynd Ward hand-pulled in the shop of Charles Furth in New York. Ward also contributes numerous marginal illustrations. Designed by George Macy letterpress composed and printed on special Worthy paper in black and rubric red by the J.Horace McFarland Company at the Mount Pleasant Press in Harrisburg. Copy #617 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1940ref. 629514New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company 1940. Hardcover. Good/Good. First edition. Illustrated by Carl Rose. 107pp. Good only with spotting and a stamp on the front free endpaper presumably from the publisher in a good only price-clipped dust jacket with a large chip tears and toning. Frederick A. Stokes Company hardcover books
1650ref. 124111650. ERASMUS DESIDERIUS. Adagiorum D. Erasmi Roterodami epitome. Amsterdam: Ludovicum Elzevirium 1650. 12mo. 24 622 72 p. final blank 2F12. Old calf. Title page in red and black with the Minerva vignette. Title somewhat soiled else a very nice copy. First Elzevir edition of the epitome or abridged text of Erasmus's Adagia a collection of Latin and Greek sayings arranged by topic. Willems calls this edition "tres bien imprimee." The text is printed in roman and a rather handsome Greek font with the authors referenced in sidenotes in a smaller roman. Willems 1109. unknown books
1877ref. 464591877. Autograph note signed to Thomas Madden Stone fl. 1838-82. 1 page on the blank leaf of Stone's letter to him. London 17 December 1877 both letter and note. 186 x 116 mm. A few minor spots but fine otherwise. From Erasmus Wilson one of the leading British dermatologists of the nineteenth century see Garrison-Morton.com 9921 who founded the chair and museum of dermatology at the Royal College of Surgeons; he also paid for the vast medical library at the RCS's Hunterian Museum. His correspondent Thomas M. Stone was the librarian at the RCS. Stone had sent Wilson "two Catalogues of the Autograph Sales where you will find the remainder of the Hunters which you told me to purchase for you. Let me know what to give per letter or will you leave it to me!!!" Wilson replied: "By all means leave it to you; you cannot fail to please; I will end as I began 'Buy all'." In a punning postscript Wilson wondered "if your autographs and music will ever fetch money-Not a bad mint not Badminton if they did." . unknown books
1791ref. 43999London: J. Johnson 1791. Darwin Erasmus 1731-1802. The botanic garden: A poem in two parts . . . 4to. xii 214 126 2; 2 ix 197 1pp. General title-leaf misbound before title-leaf to Part II. 20 engraved plates including 5 by William Blake 1757-1827; 2 of the plates are after drawings by John Henry Fuseli 1741-1825. London: J. Johnson 1791. 275 x 207 mm. Half calf gilt marbled boards in period style. Minor foxing and offsetting small marginal stains on two or three plates not affecting the images marginal tears in signature S and one plate repaired but very good. First Edition of Part I; third edition of Part II containing two more plates than the first edition of 1789. Darwin's first major literary work and the chief source of his fame during his lifetime. "The Botanic Garden an annotated scientific poem in Augustan couplets appeared in two parts of which the second The Loves of the Plants 1789 was published before the first The Economy of Vegetation 1791. Darwin decided to publish the second part of the work first because it was better suited 'to entertain and charm.' The first part of the work is more ambitious than the second covering all natural philosophy and embodying many of the researches and inventions of Wedgwood Watt Boulton and others. The design of the totality was Darwin wrote 'To enlist Imagination under the banner of Science . . . to induce the ingenious to cultivate the knowledge of botany . . . and recommending to their attention the immortal works of the celebrated Swedish naturalist-Linnaeus'" Dictionary of Scientific Biography. The Botanic Garden is also important for the five plates in Vol. I engraved by William Blake: four engravings of the Portland vase and the "Fertilization of Egypt" after a design by Fuseli. Keynes Blake 103. King-Hele Erasmus Darwin pp. 97-119. . J. Johnson unknown books
ref. 41242Margin: 75x44 mm. All sides trimmed. unknown books
1795ref. 41603London: J. Sewell 1795. Plate: 186x110 mm. Margin: 223x131 mm. Light soiling faint foxing edges trimmed. J. Sewell unknown books
ref. 41602Margin: 220x142 mm. Very minor tearing in bottom margin faint foxing. unknown books
1804ref. 41039London 1804. 468 x 376 mm. image size 282 x 241 mm. excluding caption. A few small marginal tears faint crease in lower margin but very good. Fine portrait of physician / naturalist Erasmus Darwin grandfather of Charles who himself included a statement of evolution in his poem "The Botanic Garden." The portrait was engraved by J. Heath after the portrait by James Rawlinson 1769-1848. unknown books
1942ref. 444017New York: Black 1942. Hardcover. Very Good. Book club edition. 254pp. A short life of the author and illustrated by Hendrik Willem Van Loon. Small nick on front joint corners lightly bumped very good lacking the dust jacket. Published for the Classics Club. Black hardcover books
1907ref. 382827Boston: The Merrymount Press 1907. Hardcover. Very Good. Tall octavo. Quarter cloth and papercovered boards with leather spine label. Printed in red and black. Two bookplates of husband and wife Mildred Bliss and Robert Woods Bliss both at Dumbarton Oaks label is chipped and corners are rubbed about very good. One of 303 copies printed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press. The Merrymount Press hardcover books
1856ref. 10839Philadelphia PA: Blanchard and Lea 1856. Fourth American From the Last London Edition. Hardcover. Good. Fourth American From the Last London Edition. Hardcover. A revenue stamp with a portrait of Henry Clay pasted to front pastedown with "Henry Clay" inscribed below not by his hand. Moderate shelf/edge wear a few minor pulls and scratches tips bumped minor tide marks touching bottom edge of text block revenue stamp at front pastedown ownership signature at ffep first signature shifted but tight news artical medical freak tipped in at rear pastedown else tight and unmarred. Full brown leather binding black leather spine label gilt lettering wonderful frontispiece. 8vo. 576pp plus 33pp adverts. Illus. b/w plates. Blanchard and Lea hardcover books
1791ref. 539715Germantown Pa.: Michael Billmeyer 1791. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition. Quarto. 8 785 3pp. Contemporary mottled calf with the original clasps and catches. Front joint partially cracked at head of spine lacking both free endpapers title page and first few text pages moderately toned a few scattered small stains very good overall with both clasps fully functional. A well-preserved copy in the original binding printed at Germantown in Philadelphia. Michael Billmeyer hardcover books
1668ref. 007387Nuremburg Nürnberg: J.A. Endters 1668. Half Leather sheep. Marbled paper pastedown on boards. Very Good. Three parts in two volumes. Folio 33 by 22 cm. 912 xxxxxx pp. J.A. Endters unknown books
