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1993réf. green156716Fundacio Joan Miro. Very Good. 8878134821. 1993 bright clean copy no markings Professional booksellers since 1981 . 1993. Paperback. Fundacio Joan Miro paperback
1742réf. 302543Hen. Clements 1742. Hardcover. Good. 14 to 17 cm tall 16mo. Previous owner's personal bookplate. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Hen. Clements hardcover
2000réf. mon0004064530Naval and Military Press 2/13/2009 12:00:01 A. paperback. Good. 0.3000 7.8000 4.9000. Naval and Military Press paperback
réf. 144652762X.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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1839réf. 11585John W. Parker. London. 1839. SECOND EDITION. Small 8vo. 5.5 x 3.7 inches. Fully illustrated with many full page and smaller wood engravings throughout the text. A very good copy finely bound in contemporary full green calf binding with raised bands to spine each with gilt dotted lines. Compartments double ruled and fully decorated in gilt. Brown leather label ruled and lettered in gilt. Gilt ruled border on boards. Front board with gilt stamped illustration of a building with Latin motto and the date 1830 within an oval gilt line. Plain green endpapers. Neat previous owners presentation inscription on front blank endpaper. A small blemish to the gilt on the front board and couple of light scratches to the leather but overall a pretty little binding. ----- Published under the direction of the Committee of General Literature and Education appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. John W. Parker. London. 1839 hardcover
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2001réf. 9134no place: Random Words Press. Fine. 2001. Limited Edition. Softcover. No. 4 of ten copies appears to be pencil signed but not legible. 9 pp. accordion fold panels in patterned brick red card portfolio; 3 illustrations two full page. Dedication page "To Alexander." Not located anywhere so far.; Signed by Authors . Random Words Press paperback
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1963réf. mon0001615056D C Thomson 1963T. hardcover. Good. . No dust jacket. D C Thomson hardcover
réf. mon0001538329Office Of The Law Times. Hardcover. Good. . The Law Times The Journal And Record Of The Law And The Lawyers. All are in good but worn condition. Pages are secure to the bindings. Solicitors stamp to end papers. No obvious annotation. Office Of The Law Times hardcover
réf. 3734355Grimma Saxony Germany: Verlags-Comptoir 1835. vi 1 1 blank 38 2pp. 6¾ x 4 inches. Self-wrappers with period paper-covered spine. Contemporary ownership inscriptions “C.W. Longs’” and “Karl P. indistinct surname”. Small losses no text loss in final leaf’s margins; two leaves loosened some others starting; scattered foxing; good. Apparently unrecorded this is the first and only edition of a rare 1835 work on mashing and distilling brandy. The text reveals the secret methods of distillers Schneefuss and Gall detailing processes such as malt preparation use of fermentation agents mashing techniques distillation and the removal of fusel oils. The anonymous author an experienced distillery manager and “Enemy of All Secrecy” “Feinde aller Geheimnißkrämerei” promises readers valuable trade secrets. Published in Grimma at a price of 16 groschen the work is aimed at distillers in the Kingdom of Saxony and the surrounding duchies. The publisher warns against the return of cut or soiled copies and the final two pages advertise additional works including a treatise on Jamaica rum by Christian Neubert and an illustrated work Der Selbstlehrende Tanzmeister The Self-Taught Dance Master by F.G. Häcker. Unrecorded in OCLC KVK and Deutsch National Bibliothek. Full-title page in German: Oeffentliche Ueberlieferung des geheimen und theuren Einmaischverfahrens der Herren Schneefuss und Gall nebst schlichter Belehrung über die einzig mögliche Art in sämmtlichen Zollvereinstaaten mit Vortheil guten und preiswürdigen Branntwein zu brennen. Zunächst für das Königreich Sachsen und die sächsischen Herzogthümer verfaßt von einem praktischen Brennerei-Verwalter und Feinde aller Geheimnißkrämerei. Preis 16 Groschen. Grimma 1835. Verlags-Comptoir. Aufgeschittene und beschmuzte Exemplare werden nicht zurückgenommen. Approximate English translation: Public disclosure of the secret and expensive mashing process of Messrs. Schneefuss and Gall together with simple instructions on the only possible way to distill good and price-worthy brandy with advantage in all the Customs Union States. Written primarily for the Kingdom of Saxony and the Saxon duchies by a practical distillery manager and enemy of all secrecy. Price 16 groschen. Grimma 1835. Publisher’s office. Cut and dirty copies will not be taken back. For a similarly rare work published for the firm of Herren Gall und Schneefuss see Die Einmaischungsgeheimnisse der Herren Gall und Schneefuss enthüllt und beleuchtet von einem praktischen Brenner: nebst dessen eigner Einmaisch-Methode welche einen dreimal größern Gewinn als das Schneefuߑsche Verfahren gewährt Breslau 1834 held in the collection of Munich’s Deutsches Museum. unknown
réf. 3734344America. np.1876. 12¼ by 9½ inches. Tanning; minor staining and margin wear; very good. This rare anonymous broadside from 1876 attacks Governor Samuel J. Tilden the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate by citing excerpts from Southern newspapers in Alabama Georgia and Virginia. Popular argument at the time stated if the Democrats should come into power that they would spend two billion dollars in Southern war claims which would ruin the credit of the United States abroad. Northern voters would likely be outraged by the broadside’s illustration which shows a Missouri governor’s scrip for thirty-five dollars payable to one Woodford M. Paris for losses attributed to “the cotton tax damages to land and property during the war the emancipation of slaves” among other claims. The 1876 presidential election was highly contentious. Although Tilden won the popular vote he ultimately lost to Rutherford B. Hayes in the electoral college. The Hayes-Tilden Compromise led to the removal of federal troops from the South diminishing the hopes of African Americans in their struggle for civil rights and equality. The Reconstruction Era came to a close. unknown
réf. 3734140America: N.p. no backmark n.d. 19th c. after 1863. 3¾ x 2¼ inches. A rich and sharp image; light surface wear; very good. An expression of Confederate sympathetic folk art this printed souvenir CDV portrait of Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson was turned into an object of mourning. This transformation likely occurred shortly after Jackson’s death by friendly fire on May 10 1863. An exceptionally strong image with dark tonal contrast. unknown
réf. 3731167London: Printed. Boston; New-England Re-printed and sold by Green & Russell at their Printing-Office near the Custom-House and next to the Writing School in Queen-Street. MDCCLVI. 1756. half-title 23 1 pages. 8vo. “The Second Edition.” In fact the First American Edition preceded by printings in London and York both dated 1755. Expertly washed conserved and stitching renewed; scattered staining. A very good copy housed In a custom cloth clamshell box with a gilt-stamped leather spine label. Partly-untrimmed. First American edition of this eyewitness account of this terrible disaster on All Saints Day November 1 1755 that shook perspective views in the Old World and the New. The Lisbon Earthquake alarmed New England clergy and perplexed philosophers in France. For the former some ministers interpreted the event to show God expressing his angry will. For the latter some thinkers saw the disaster as evidence that no such will existed. The Lisbon Earthquake is estimated to have been 8.5–9.0 magnitude on the Richter scale and lt triggered a tsunami. The devastation was enormous: "“Not long after…a general Panic was raised from a Crowd of People’s running from the Waterside all crying out the Sea was pouring in and would certainly overwhelm the City. This new Alarm created such Horrors in the agitated Minds of the Populace that vast Numbers of them ran screaming into the ruinated City again where a fresh Shock of the Earthquake immediately following many of them were buried in the Ruins of falling Houses. This Alarm was however not entirely without Foundation. For the Water of the River rose at once above twenty Feet perpendicular and subsided again to its natural Pitch in less than a Minute’s time.”" From the Rev. Thomas Prince to John Winthrop in to Voltaire to Rousseau —the intellectual luminaries of the world weighed in. Years later Goethe would write in his autobiography of his memory as a six-year old of the event: “Perhaps the Demon of Fear had never so speedily and powerfully diffused his terror over the earth.” The earthquake was the “subject of anxious Church sermons across the Atlantic in New England. In fact an earthquake had also occurred in Massachusetts on the 18th of November 1755 centered east of Cape Ann. In Boston most of the damage occurred where buildings had been constructed over landfill near the wharves. John Adams who was at Braintree wrote in his diary: ‘The house seemed to rock and reel and crack as if it would fall in ruins…’” Kenneth Maxwell The Lisbon and Boston earthquakes became in tandem seismic cultural events as ministers philosophers and scientists contextualized one to the other. Some ministers compared the heavy damage of the Lisbon quake to the minimal damage from Boston’s and drew conclusions of moral American exceptionalism. Others used the Lisbon earthquake’s date of All Saint’s Day to suggest that God was punishing the Catholics. At Harvard professor and astronomer-scientist John Winthrop blamed volcanoes. By and large An Account of the Late Dreadful Earthquake and Fire… is written from neither a secular nor philosophical viewpoint. Rather it is a richly-detailed moment by moment account. It is a linear timeline written by an eyewitness who was literally on the shaky ground —when and where the dramatic event transpired. Charles Edwin Clark’s “Science Reason and an Angry God: The Literature of an Earthquake” in The New England Quarterly describes this narrow field of literature of the New England earthquake of 1755 —from the sermons to accounts such as the present example— as documenting a “science struggling to be born; a vigorous aggressive Protestantism on its way to becoming humanized and rationalized; a continuing consciousness of the uniqueness and special mission of America; and a scholarly approach in the best Puritan tradition to the problems of this world and the next.” Clark also provides an excellent and granular timeline of Boston’s printing and publication history concerning these two earthquakes. The verso of the half-title has an advertisement for the Boston edition of the Indian captivity of William and Elizabeth Fleming which is worth quoting at length: “A NARRATIVE of the Sufferings and surprizing Deliverances of William and Elizabeth Fleming Howes F-183 who were taken captive by Capt. Jakob Commander of the Indians who lately made the incursions on the frontiers of Pennsylvania as related by themselves. A NARRATIVE necessary to be read by all who are going in the Expedition The Kittanning Expedition a.k.a. the Armstrong Expedition as well as every British subject. Wherein it fully appears that the Barbarities of the Indians is owing to the French and chiefly their Priests. Price six Coppers.” After Braddock’s Defeat Capt. Jacob had terrorized the Pennsylvania population until a force armed Pennsylvanians killed Jacobs September 8 1756 in an retaliatory raid. The reader of this pamphlet would not have known of Jacob’s death because according to Clark it was published on April 1 1756. Evans 7602. ESTC W10073. Howes L-371 ref. ESTC records only 6 institutions all in America owning this. The “third American edition” i.e. the second is likewise rare. Ref. Maxwell Kenneth V — Lisbon 1755: The First ‘Modern’ Disaster but if modern how is it so accessed online. unknown
réf. 3731482Tamworth England: Cotton Printer n.d. ca. 1780s; pre-1783. 12½ x 7½ inches. Woodcut two ornamental chain lines. Printed in four columns. Three old manuscript corrections in last column; two lines of text are mostly worn off at the top one partly legible. Archival mat window mylar sheet. An unrecorded 18th century broadside commemorating Sir Lancelot du Lake and Sir Tarquin’s hand-to-hand combat battle. The sheet was sold to tourists at Tamworth Castle in Tamworth Staffordshire where a 16th century mural on the castle’s Great Wall depicted the fight. The mural was whitewashed over in 1783. Friends of Tamworth Castle and Museum The broadside states: “If Travellers who pass that way Tamworth Castle On Serjeant Willcox call He to this Day can shew these Knights Fighting against a Wall.” Prefatory text wraps around a woodcut of Sir Tarquin falling to the ground mortally wounded by Lancelot. Based on Thomas Deloney’s The Noble Acts newly found Of Arthur of the Table Round the verse has has 144 lines consisting of 36 hymnal stanza quatrains. A lesser-known character in Arthurian lore Tarquin had imprisoned 44 knights of King Arthur’s court. When Lancelot confronts him Tarquin at first does not recognize him as the slayer of his brother: "“If thou be of the Table Round Quoth Tarquin furiously Both thee and all thy Fellowship I utterly defy. / Tarquin that’s over bold reply’d Du Lake courageously; Then clapping Spurs unto their Steeds They at each other fly. /. Both wounded were and bled full sore For breath they both did stand. Leaning upon their Swords awhile Quoth Tarquin Hold thy hand /. Why that’s well said quoth Lancelot then Thy motion likes me well; But who’s this Knight thou so do’st hate. His name I pray thee tell / His name quoth Tarquin is Du Lake He slew my Brother dear… / Strait at each other like two Boars They both enraged fly; And two long Hours by Tamworth They fought most furiously. / The Ground besprinkled was with gore Long Time was hard to say Which of these knights the bravest was Or which would win the day; / Till Lancelot with one mighty Stroke His foe did so assail That Tarquin stagger’d and his strength Therewith began to fail; / With loss of blood he then grew faint Which when Sir Lancelot found With all his Force a blow he gave Which brought him to the Ground. / Then forthwith taking off his Helm Smiting his Neck in twain His Body and his Bason threw Into the River Tame. /. God bless our King and may his Knights When put upon the Trial Approve themselves as Lancelot did As Valiant and as Loyal.”" We find no 18th century items with this imprint in OCLC or ESTC. Not in ESTC or OCLC and no entries in either of any items having this imprint. Not to be mistaken for ESTC N8306 i.e. A famous battle fought between Sir Lancelot du Lake and the famous giant Tarquinwhich begins: “Within this ancient British land…” unknown
réf. 3732887London: Sold by A. Becket . and R. Faulder 1779. Half-title 71 1 advert.pp. Bound into green gilt-lettered cloth. A very good or better copy. With contemporary manuscript annotations on two pages. First English edition of this American Revolution era political satire and bibliographical hoax. Anonymously written by Richard Tickell the text purports to publish the letters of Benjamin Franklin the “trading Ambassador” with de Sartine among others and various secret state papers. The sum of it all exposes France’s motives for aiding America and satirizes Benjamin Franklin’s activities in Paris. In the margins of p69 a brief indistinct sentence is scribbled. On p51 at the end of a “Franklin” letter this is written in a contemporary hand: "“What was the Effect strikethrough Consequence of all this silly indistinct word lined out flattery to our Ministers No-Body was concerned by it & our affairs went from bad to worse. Scarce was this Pamphlet out of the Press when Spain took part in the War & we lost indistinct word & Grenada British naval loss at the 1779 Battle of Grenada the combined Keels off Plymouth.”" It seems unlikely that a reader writing marginalia in the spur of the moment would have struck out words and replaced them for their own private benefit. Of the subsequent revised editions that we examined none printed the above commentary. From the collection of Matt B. Jones who likely bought it from Goodspeed’s “1239” penciled beneath his bookplate. Michael Walsh wrote that Jones “chose things with the finest judgment. They always had to be in good condition; they had to be significant. A Matt Jones book in an American institution today is a book to be proud of….” The Green Box went through multiple editions and became popular in both England and on the continent. Ford 973 gives no priority to the so-called French original edition La Casette Verte… or the English edition both undoubtedly printed in London. Sabin 95796. Adams Controversy 79-107g. ESTC T035872. Butterfield L.H. Anticipation by Richard Tickell pp90–91. unknown
réf. 3731940Boston: Pinkham Press 1917–1918. 22 x 14 inches printed on cardstock. Illustrated. Lightly soiled; near fine. “Our Fathers are Fighting in France.” A rare and unrecorded first World War photo-illustrated broadside documenting a little-known display of Franco-American friendship. Across America various patriotic societies often organized by women raised funds and sent baby clothes and necessities to France. These funds went to help babies orphaned by the War or to help French mothers with children whose fathers were fighting with the American solders. As one American soldier described it: “We will say for instance that this is Baby No. 4000. She wears wooden-soled shoes and half-length woolen stockings and a blue calico dress and her mother does the washing for the Sammies who are billeted out in the barn with Toto….” “Right in Touch with the Babies” in Life Magazine 1918. Here at the French Baby Fund Festival Exhibition the Boston community lent a benevolent hand and declared “May Day” to be “Baby Day” as part of a three day festival at Liberty Cottage Boston Common. The raised funds were likely funneled to the Fraternité Franco-Américaine. The broadside is printed with the colors of France and all of its text is printed in a pale lavender. unknown
réf. 3731978Chicago Atlanta Dallas and New York: Scott Foresman and Company ca. 1920s–1930s. 2 39 1 pp. Bound by two large rings along top. One sheet with small crayoned area all cloth reinforcement strips very rubbed; scattered stains and toning; overall very good. Rare. Our Big Book is catalogued by Princeton as a Dick and Jane precursor; a series of wall charts issued ca. 1920. The stories are displayed in strong colors across twenty-one large sheets each 30 x 22 inches. They feature the soon-to-be ubiquitous Dick and Jane Baby Spot and Little Mew later Puff. The Dick and Jane primers had a landmark impact upon the millions of children that were taught to read by using the look-and-say method. In the classroom setting Our Big Book would have educated that very first wave of American children to “See Spot run” and to learn a host of other catchphrases —phrases now engrained burned into the subconscious minds of literate Americans everywhere. Outside of Princeton’s copy we find only one other example in the Osborne Collection. They date the text to the 1930s. Not to be confused with much later common and smaller Dick and Jane charts/posters. unknown
réf. 3732652Blitar East Java Indonesia. Circa 1890s albumen photograph 8¾ x 10¾ inches on its original card mount 12½ x 15¾ inches with pencil caption titling to photograph. Old glue stains along edges of mount. Save for light fading along edges of photograph a clean clear image. Circa 1890s photograph showing the Javanese ceremony “rampok macan” rampokan a ritualized big cat fight typically occurring at the end of Ramadan and the beginning of the Muslim new year. In a gladiator-like setting this public spectacle pitted men against tiger and it likely contributed to the population decline and eventual extinction of the Javanese tiger. We find one example of this image at the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam. See Wessing Robert. “A Tiger in the Heart: The Javanese Rampok Macan.” Bijdragen Tot de Taal- Land- En Volkenkunde 148 no. 2 1992: 287–308. unknown
