Best.-Nr. M14400Rare set of 51 issues bound in 21 volumes. Alessandra Nibbi Oxford 1985-2005. First edition. In-8. Volumes 1-6 bound together vol. I in XEROX then another original copy of vol. 1 followed by 6 8 9 11 15 17 and 18 in their original softcover then volumes 25-63 in contemporary half-leather. A very nice set. From the library of Egyptologist Charles Cornell Van Siclen III VSX. Language: English - German/Deutsch - French/Français - Italian/Italiano. This set ships from the USA shipping costs will be updated accordingly TXR. Relevant subjects: Egypt: Journals Egypt. unknown
Best.-Nr. M14377Rare complete set of 13 volumes bound in 9 volumes. E.J. Brill Leiden 2008-2020. First edition. In-8. First 9 volumes in contemporary half-leather last volume #13 in its original softcover. From the library of Egyptologist Charles Cornell Van Siclen III VSX. Language: English. This set ships from the USA shipping costs will be updated accordingly TXR. Relevant subjects: Egypt: Journals Egypt. unknown
1797Best.-Nr. 013560Northampton 1797. The Northampton Mercury . Saturday January 7th 1797-1798. 2 full years. 104 issues.Each issue has 4 pages. Book measures 50x36.cm. January 7th 14 21st 28th February 4th 11th 18th 25th March 4th 11th 18th 25th April 1st 8th 15th 22nd 29th May 6th 13th 20th 27th June 3rd 10th 17th 24th July 1st 8th 15th 22nd 29th August 5th 12th 19th 26th September 2nd 9th 16th 23rd 30th October 7th 14th 21st 28th November 4th 11th 18th 25th December 2nd 9th 16th 23rd 30th. January 6th 13th 20th 27th February 3rd 10th 17th 24th March 3rd 10th 17th 24th 31st April 7th 14th 21st 28th May 5th 12th 19th 26th June 2nd 9th 16th 23rd 30th July 7th 14th 21st 28th August 4th 11th 18th 25th September 1st 8th 15th 22nd 29th October 6th 13th 20th 21st November 3rd 10th 17th 24th December 1st 8th 15th 22nd 29th. Bound in modern half cloth with black title lettering. Cloth dust/dirt marked. Binding in good firm condition. Internally small puncher hole throughout affecting a small section of text in each issue 1 page stained a few short tears tightly bound the inner margin has been trimmed to close to text which makes it hard to read the text along the inner margin . Generally pages in good clean condition thrioughout. . Cloth. Very Good. Folio. Hardcover
1862Best.-Nr. MW190London: James S. Virtue 1862. Original printed issue . Hardcover. Fine. 4to. 2 volumes complete for 1862 New Series Volume One. 24 ful pages steel engravings. viii 180 ; 180-244pp; Art Catalogue The Art Journal catalogue for the International Exhibition of 1862 1-208pp. 24 full page steel engravings including 12 Turners. Bound in the original red half calf. Five raised bands with dec. gilt decorated compartments. Trifle rubbed and minor occasional foxing but a sound and very clean set. New Series. A fine pair of volumes in a fine decorated binding. James S. Virtue hardcover
1970Best.-Nr. 29510HBDJ 1970 1ST EDITION SECOND Printing STATED. NEARFINE/NF SIGNED & Inscribed . NOT an Ex-Library copy. Tight square binding. Hinges solid. NO underlining notes hilighting or bookplate. The unclipped dust jacket now protected by a removeable Brodart mylar cover Pages bright & clean. Bright Green cloth Titled in blue Gilt on Spine CVR 258 pgs INDEX LIGHT Rub & Wear DJ Spine Sunned Second printing. SIGNED and inscribed by the author. Minor shelf and handling wear overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Boards betray fading and nicks and other signs of wear and imperfection commensurate with age. Binding is tight and structurally sound. Pages absent any extraneous marks. New mylar added to ensure future enjoyment. Guests include ALLA NAZIMOVA Dorothy Parker Errol Flynn Greta Garbo Humphrey Bogart Ernest Hemingway Scott Fitzgerald Jean Harlow Rudolph Valentino ETC inside story of a playground and a hideaway for Hollywood elite in the golden era. This was dreamt and brought to reality by the 1920s screen goddess Alla Nazimova. observes that in its 32 years of its existence the Garden witnessed despair drunkenness marriages & divorces sex & orgies fights suicides robberies and murders. Well known nightclubs such as; Mocambo Crown Publishers, Inc. hardcover
1989Best.-Nr. BIBLIO-57894Oxford University Press Oxford original journal issues 1989-2004. 32 journals pictorial wrappers 8vo 25 cm. typically between 90 and 120 pp per issue many ills. An unbroken run of the first 16 years of this semi-annual journal from the first issue in 1989 to 2004. The Journal of the History of Collections is a scholarly journal "dedicated to the investigation and documentation of all aspects of collecting activity". The range of subject-matter treated in the Journal is wide encompassing everything from the earliest universal collections to highly-specialized ones. Equally collections of all periods are covered from the Renaissance 'cabinets de curiosites' to 20th century collections; there have been occasional articles too on both medieval and Roman period collections. The approach is cross-disciplinary with the object of making papers in what may be specialized subjects accessible to a broad readership of non-specialists : 'it is well known that the mechanisms of collecting and classification developed in natural history for example came to influence practices amongst collectors and curators in the fine arts and in ethnography hence every opportunity is taken here to illustrate and to illuminate the common ground that exists between all those whose researches were founded on material collections.' The Journal regularly commissions reviews by established scholars of publications that have appeared within its subject-area as well as occasional reviews of exhibitions rendering it the most comprehensive source available on a subject of increasing interest and study. A Very Good set with just occasional minor wear to spine-ends. Oxford University Press, Oxford, original journal issues, 1989-2004 unknown
1862Best.-Nr. 280305Richmond: Richmond Examiner 1862. unbound. very good. 2 pages of text on a single sheet 23 inches x 16 inches. Folded down the center and twice across the sheet. Richmond: Richmond Examiner 1862. Very good On the front page is an extensive article on the Confiscation Act of 1862 and its passage by Congress. Included in the article is the text of Abraham Lincoln's Message on the act's constitutionality. The Confiscation Act gave legal authority to courts to implement the legal seizure of land and property from citizens who aided the Confederacy. Also in the act was a clause allowing emancipation of slaves in the Confederacy that lived in areas of Union occupation. Most of the rest of the text on both pages are small articles on Civil War battles and political news in the Confederacy. The publisher of the Richmond Examiner became anti-Jefferson Davis' political and military actions as the Civil War progressed. Richmond Examiner unknown
1971Best.-Nr. 2111902156202713Not Available 1971. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 3 Not Available paperback
1823Best.-Nr. 974F5London: J. C. Robinson; Knight and Lacey; M. Salmon 1823-1842 . First edition. Cloth. Good Only. 9" by 6.5". Not Stated. Eight informative and illustrated first edition volumes of 'The Mechanics' Magazine' a periodical from the nineteenth century covering important developments in the world of mechanics including the very scarce first volume. Eight volumes of this periodical bound in seven. Multi-volume sets of this work are scarce.Present here are volumes I III XX XXI XXIV XXXII and XXXVI-XXXVII.An interesting snapshot of the scientific and technological developments of this period towards the end of the Industrial Revolution including discussion of Tantalius's Cup a memoir of James Watt account of the London fires of 1833 hydraulic projectors the parallax of mars and further diverse subjects.With full page and vignette illustrations and diagrams throughout.Present here are:Volume I August 30 1823 - March 6 1824. Rebound in cloth with endpapers renewed. Lacking the volume title page to the start of the work.Volume III September 26 1824 - March 19 1825. In a half calf binding with a frontispiece.Vol. XX October 5 1833 - March 29 1834. In a half calf binding with a frontispiece.Vol. XXI April 5 1834 - September 27 1834. In a half calf binding with a frontispiece.Vol. XXIV October 3 1836 - April 2 1836. In the publisher's original half cloth binding with frontispiece.Vol. XXXII October 5 1839 - May 30 1840. In a half calf binding.Vols. XXXVI-XXXVII January 1st 1842 - December 31st 1842. In half calf. Library bookplate to front pastedown of volume III with library stamps to endpapers. Bookplate to front pastedown of vol XX. Five half calf volumes - one repaired with tape to the back strip - one half cloth volume and one full cloth volume. Endpapers of volume I renewed. Volume XX lacking back strip with joints starting and boards tender. Joint heads and tails of volume III starting with boards holding firm. Vol XXIV joints starting with boards a touch tender. Front joint head of vol XXXII starting with board firmly held. Rear joint of vols XXXVI- II starting with board tender. Hinges of vol XXI strained and a touch tender. Library bookplate to front pastedown of volume III with library stamps to endpapers. Bookplate to front pastedown of vol XX. Internally firmly bound. Pages of earliest volumes age toned with spotting throughout with later volumes generally clean and bright. Good Only J. C. Robinson; Knight and Lacey; M. Salmon hardcover
1946Best.-Nr. 51966Boston MA: The American Schools of Oriental Research 1946-2009. Library bindings. 39 volumes and 1 paperback. First 7 volumes 23x16 cm. rest is 28.5x22 cm. - trace of library tickets stamps Although very good see picture 'The Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research BASOR is a leader among peer-reviewed academic journals of the ancient Near East' - source University of Chicago Press. The American Schools of Oriental Research paperback
1944Best.-Nr. 15819Ft. McClellan Alabama: Special Service Office 1944. Newspapers. Paper. Near fine. The Daily War Flashes published in 1944 at the Infantry Replacement Training Center at Ft. McClellan Alabama. This archive begins on D-Day June 6 1944 with Daily News Release #135 through #229 September 23 1944. Lacking only #227. All printed on newspaper stock with punch holes along top edge. Text in black title banner in red print. A few previously folded along center line. A scarce archive of the early Allied invasion of Europe for the infantry soldier in training at Ft. McClellan Alabama. During World War II Fort McClellan in Anniston Alabama was a critical U.S. Army training center. Established in 1917 the base expanded significantly during the war to train hundreds of thousands of soldiers primarily for the infantry. It hosted the Chemical Warfare Service preparing troops to handle chemical threats and was a site for Military Police MP training. The Women's Army Corps WAC also had one of its primary training centers at Fort McClellan. The base featured extensive training grounds including firing ranges and obstacle courses along with barracks medical facilities and recreational amenities to support the soldiers. Special Service Office unknown
Best.-Nr. 1015SJIERJ7Good. London: Darton & Harvey 1833. First edition first printing with subtle X library Marks only on first two pages as pictured… Three-quarter leather…Hardback. Illustrated with one foxed plate As pictured.;Front board to lose otherwise stairwell bound and original binding. hardcover
1940Best.-Nr. 014787Freeman Journal Co 1940. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine Copy In Like Jacket Very Scarce in This Condition Beautiful Fresh Copy Without Wear. First Year of Cooperstown Induction. Freeman Journal Co Hardcover
2006Best.-Nr. 651692006. Yale Law Journal. New Haven Conn.: Yale Law Journal Co. Inc. Volumes 62 to 115 no.8 1952-2006. Bound volumes: 62 to 95 upper red and lower black spine labels; 99 to 101; 103 to 106; 108 navy blue buckram in 63 books. Paperback volumes. 107 no.1-8 109 no.1 to 111 no.8 115 no.1-8 in 40 books. Ex-library with stamps spine labels and letters "LL" marked to heads of spines on volumes 62 to 95 else good condition. Reprint Price USD 5695. Special $695. The Yale Law Journal is a student-run law review affiliated with the Yale Law School. Published continuously since 1891 it is one of the most cited legal publications in the nation and usually generates the highest number of citations per published article. unknown
1996Best.-Nr. 655081996. 16 linear feet. 16 linear feet. Yale Law Journal. New Haven Conn.: Yale Law Journal Co. Inc. Volumes. 69 to 105 1959-1996 bound books. Volume. 100 no.5 Paper back. Together 79 volumes. Ex-library with stamps dampstaining to margins of 9 volumes. Not effecting legibility else good condition. 16 linear feet of shelf space. $695. The Yale Law Journal is a student-run law review affiliated with the Yale Law School. Published continuously since 1891 it is one of the most cited legal publications in the nation and usually generates the highest number of citations per published article. unknown
1875Best.-Nr. ZB1347108Appleton 1875. Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday Nov. 2 weekend sale item 384 pp. rebound in buckram hardcover minor internal library markings else text clean & binding tight. All plates are present and in very good condition including 4 by J. M. W. Turner and 1 by Albert Bierstadt. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Appleton hardcover
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1990Best.-Nr. ZB512203Elsevier 1990. Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday Nov. 2 weekend sale item complete volume partly bound ex library overall near very good. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Elsevier unknown
1912Best.-Nr. 7149London and Liverpool: The Journal of Commerce 1912. Book. Good . Hardcover. First Edition. Somewhat worn copy bound into burgundy boards with worn extremities. This is the first one volume edition of the reports that were published serially in the Journal of Commerce at the time. The original paper cover is loose but easily re-attached. Advertisements interspersed among the daily reports. Internally very good. The first comprehensive account of the Titanic disaster. May - July 1912 . 272 pages. Scarce. The Journal of Commerce Hardcover
1949Best.-Nr. 2082702114910783Kochi Prefecture 1949. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 880 pages Size: 22cm Kochi Prefecture paperback
1851Best.-Nr. 218121851. Science Medicine & TechnologyMilitary & WarLabor Environment & Welfare Manuscript industrial journal documenting the British lead shot industry patent culture and metallurgical manufacturing during the height of the Victorian industrial economy. Primarily England and Wales 1851-1853. Approximately 50 pages written in ink in a highly legible hand bound in an octavo-format notebook measuring 8 x 6.5 inches. Quarter red leather over marbled boards. Ownership inscription to front endpaper: "John R. Tracy / Nov 1852." An unusually detailed firsthand record of mid-19th-century industrial innovation centered on the manufacture of lead shot at a moment when Britain's expanding military infrastructure mining economy and heavy industry were increasingly dependent on large-scale metallurgical production. Compiled by John R. Tracy the manuscript documents the development and attempted commercialization of what he repeatedly identifies as a "Shot Patent" likely an improvement to the production or grading of lead shot associated with the traditional shot tower process. Rather than functioning merely as a technical notebook the volume captures the broader industrial system surrounding invention in Victorian Britain: factory inspections patent negotiations industrial espionage concerns business networking licensing discussions and the competitive culture of ironmasters and lead manufacturers operating across England and Wales. The manuscript opens in October 1852 and proceeds through a sequence of dated entries recording Tracy's travel and meetings with manufacturers engineers and industrial firms. These entries reveal the practical realities of introducing a new industrial process into Britain's established lead trade where manufacturers guarded technical methods closely and approached outside inventors with skepticism. On October 26 Tracy records receiving "letters of introduction to Messrs. A. B. Brown & Green" and to "Platt Bros." illustrating the importance of personal industrial networks and recommendation systems within Victorian manufacturing culture. Another entry dated November 5 describes a meeting arranged through "Mr. Maxwell of Messrs. Norton Theakers" followed by Tracy's note of "Much of 'shot etc.'-a rather funny conversation but on the whole. appointment for tomorrow @ 10 1/2" capturing the uncertain and often informal negotiations surrounding industrial patents. Particularly revealing is Tracy's November 6 account of visiting the Flintshire lead smelting firm Newton Keates & Co. where he describes the guarded and competitive atmosphere surrounding lead shot production. Tracy recounts that permission to inspect the works was "at-first-refused in rather a John Bullish manner" before eventually being granted under supervision. He writes perceptively about the mixture of suspicion and curiosity that surrounded industrial patents noting that the proprietor "wished to know the price upon the Patent" but that he deliberately withheld a valuation because "there was no use to let him have the bait to look at before he was hungry enough to bite." The language throughout reveals how industrial innovation in this period depended not simply on invention itself but on strategic secrecy negotiation and control over proprietary manufacturing knowledge. One of the manuscript's most important sections is a full-page listing titled "Lead Works in the United Kingdom in 1852" identifying more than two dozen lead works and manufacturers across Britain. Firms including Walker Parker & Co. Newton Keates & Co. and Richmond Anchor Co. are listed alongside annotations describing their production specialties including "sheet" "pipes" "shot" "white lead" and "pig." The page functions as a rare industrial survey of Britain's lead industry during a period of rapid military and industrial expansion documenting the interconnected infrastructure supporting ammunition production construction materials piping paint manufacture and metallurgical processing. Later entries contain detailed observations of shot-manufacturing equipment at a Chester lead works including descriptions of shot towers ranging from 76 to 96 feet in height and the use of perforated metal grading systems to regulate molten lead as it fell into spherical form. Tracy records the operation with notable technical specificity: "The shot are dropped through a perforated metal-the holes being smaller at the upper end and increasing in size as you get to the lower cylinder." Accompanying diagrams depict feed bins drop tubes sieves and sorting mechanisms apparently intended to improve efficiency or shot-size consistency beyond earlier tower methods. Tracy critically evaluates the machinery as well remarking that certain sieve boxes "seem inadequate for the work" and comparing the process economically to that employed by "D. De Roy & Co.'s works." The notebook therefore preserves not merely abstract invention but active industrial analysis and comparative manufacturing study. The manuscript is documenting metallurgy patent culture and military-industrial production in the decades preceding the major arms expansions of the later nineteenth century. Lead shot remained essential not only for hunting and civilian markets but for military supply systems deeply tied to imperial expansion and industrial warfare. Tracy's notebook reveals the increasingly professionalized yet still highly personal world through which industrial technologies circulated in Victorian Britain where factory visits guarded conversations handwritten technical sketches and negotiated introductions formed the practical infrastructure of innovation. Spine mostly perished with binding delicately held together; boards rubbed and worn. Interior exceptionally clean and highly legible throughout. A substantial and unusually revealing manuscript documenting Victorian industrial manufacturing patent strategy and the lead shot trade during a formative period in British industrial history. unknown
1995Best.-Nr. 2090502113708892Not Available 1995. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
1952Best.-Nr. 2092902137703597Nagano Prefecture Food Distribution Public Corporation Journal Publishing Association 1952. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Nagano Prefecture Food Distribution Public Corporation Journal Publishing Association paperback
1683Best.-Nr. 59146Paris Florentin Lambert et Jean Cusson 1683. 4to. Contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Gilt spine. Wear to spine ends. A crack in leather along upper joint. Corners bumped. First edition. hardcover
Best.-Nr. M14392Very rare set of 22 issues bound in 20 volumes. About 10% of the set is in XEROX the rest is in the original first edition. Société Archéologique d'Alexandrie Alexandrie 1900-2003. First edition. In-4 & in-8. Later half-leather for all volumes except vol. 47 which is in its original softcover. A very nice set. From the library of Egyptologist Charles Cornell Van Siclen III VSX. Language: French/Français - English - German/Deutsch - Italian/Italiano. This set ships from the USA shipping costs will be updated accordingly TXR. Relevant subjects: Egypt: Journals Egypt Greco-Roman. unknown
