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1883Best.-Nr. 55787Paris: Gruel & Engelmann 1883. Fine. Lavish large-format chromolithograph production with facsimiles exceptional designs from illuminated medieval manuscripts redesigned around the text of Kempis's epochal work. Originally issued in 24 parts this extravagant Belle Époque production gathered examples of the finest known illuminated manuscripts then adopted and adapted them into this wholly original work. While Kempis's text dates to the 15th century here it is adorned with beautifully printed facsimiles of manuscripts from the 13th and 14th centuries pulled from collections at the BnF and elsewhere. Following the text is a long essay by Michelant on the history of illumination and an explanation of the plates. An unusual and elaborate French homage to the art of the book. 14'' x 11''. Contemporary full navy goatskin by Gruel raised bands gilt-lettered spine. Watered silk endpapers gilt dentelles all edges gilt yellow silk ribbon marker. 102 facsimile of ms.; 122 essay and subscribers list pages. Only light rubbing to binding; some faint spotting. Tight with vivid plates. Gruel & Engelmann unknown
1827Best.-Nr. 018378London: John Murray 1827. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Three quarter leather with owner bookplate owner signature and wear to the marbilized boards thus very good. All three maps and one plate though not a frontis are present. . John Murray Hardcover
2013Best.-Nr. SONG113393854XCengage Learning 2013-01-03. 3. paperback. Used: Good. 8.50x1.00x10.75. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Cengage Learning paperback
Best.-Nr. Z1-A-017-02254Univ Of Minnesota Press. Used - Good. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library so some stamps and wear but in good overall condition. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. Univ Of Minnesota Press unknown
Best.-Nr. Z1-F-034-01421Prentice-Hall. Used - Good. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library so some stamps and wear but in good overall condition. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. Prentice-Hall unknown
Best.-Nr. Z1-M-002-00810Reston Pub. Co. Used - Good. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library so some stamps and wear but in good overall condition. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. Reston Pub. Co unknown
Best.-Nr. 390224Softcover. Near Fine. A small of archive of material related to the filming and premiere of the film Edison the Man. As follows: 1. SLOANE Madeleine Edison. Inventor's Daughter on Location. Orange New Jersey: From The Bulletin - The Woman's Club of the Oranges. March 1940. Offprint. Quarto. One leaf folded to make four pages. Some foxing on the outer pages else very good or better. Offprint that contains the text of a long letter by the inventor's daughter about Hollywood and the MGM studio where they were making the film Edison the Man including an account of a visit to Louis B. Mayer's office a meeting with the costume designer Adrian a visit with make-up artist Jack Dawn and lunch at the Commissary with quaintly dressed ladies from Pride and Prejudice surrounded by Spencer Tracy Maureen O'Sullivan and Laurence Stallings. Sloane spent a good deal of time on the set of the Edison film and gives an account of the filming including Hedy Lamarr getting soaked while filming and that she ".had lost a great deal of glamour!" Sloane also gives an account of how the film was made and about the MGM sets. OCLC locates no copies of the offprint. 2. One page Typed Letter Signed from New Jersey Governor Harold G. Hoffman to Madeleine Edison Sloane dated 13 March 1940 thanking her for her offprint Inventor's Daughter on Location saying ".I got a big 'kick' in observing that you do not write at all like one of those 'Llewellyn Park stuffed shirts' to whom I refer once in a while." 3. One page Typed Letter Signed from the London correspondent of The Times Louis E. Hendricks to John Sloane dated 21 March 1940 thanking him for his wife's offprint Inventor's Daughter on Location saying "Will you tell her for me how greatly I enjoyed it even though it was written by a non-union journalist. ." 4. Two page Typed Letter Signed from MGM Publicist Howard Herty to Madeleine Edison Sloane dated 3 April 1940 thanking her for a gift and reporting on a visit to MGM by her father Thomas A. Edison and a luncheon given to him by Louis B. Mayer with singing performances by Mickey Rooney who had played Edison in that year's film Young Tom Edison and Judy Garland and begging Sloane to use her influence to have him attend the Orange New Jersey premiere of Edison the Man. One smudged area on the letter very good. 5. One page Typed Letter Signed from John W. Considine Jr. producer of Edison the Man to Madeleine Edison Sloane dated 8 April 1940 thanking her for a gift of a photograph of her parents reporting on a visit to the studio by her brother and reporting on the preview of the film a huge success "We have shortened the picture considerably and are going to preview it tonight after which we may decide to make a few retakes. In order to make Spencer Tracy available for the world premiere of Edison the Man in the Oranges our executives have postponed the general release date of the picture." 6. N.E.L.A. Bulletin. Lights: Golden Jubilee Number. Vol. XVI No. 9. New York: National Electric Light Association 1929. Quarto. Stapled wrappers. Copy number 179 of 200 copies on special paper. On the title page designated as "Concerning Mr. Edison" the issue devoted to him. Light wear near fine. Includes statements on Edison by Jane Addams Walter P. Chrysler General Pershing Henry Ford John D. Rockefeller Jr. and many others. A nice little collection of material connecting Edison's daughter to the creation of the two films about her father. unknown books
Best.-Nr. 390224Softcover. Near Fine. A small of archive of material related to the filming and premiere of the film Edison the Man. As follows: 1. SLOANE Madeleine Edison. Inventor's Daughter on Location. Orange New Jersey: From The Bulletin - The Woman's Club of the Oranges. March 1940. Offprint. Quarto. One leaf folded to make four pages. Some foxing on the outer pages else very good or better. Offprint that contains the text of a long letter by the inventor's daughter about Hollywood and the MGM studio where they were making the film Edison the Man including an account of a visit to Louis B. Mayer's office a meeting with the costume designer Adrian a visit with make-up artist Jack Dawn and lunch at the Commissary with quaintly dressed ladies from Pride and Prejudice surrounded by Spencer Tracy Maureen O'Sullivan and Laurence Stallings. Sloane spent a good deal of time on the set of the Edison film and gives an account of the filming including Hedy Lamarr getting soaked while filming and that she ".had lost a great deal of glamour!" Sloane also gives an account of how the film was made and about the MGM sets. OCLC locates no copies of the offprint. 2. One page Typed Letter Signed from New Jersey Governor Harold G. Hoffman to Madeleine Edison Sloane dated 13 March 1940 thanking her for her offprint Inventor's Daughter on Location saying ".I got a big 'kick' in observing that you do not write at all like one of those 'Llewellyn Park stuffed shirts' to whom I refer once in a while." 3. One page Typed Letter Signed from the London correspondent of The Times Louis E. Hendricks to John Sloane dated 21 March 1940 thanking him for his wife's offprint Inventor's Daughter on Location saying "Will you tell her for me how greatly I enjoyed it even though it was written by a non-union journalist. ." 4. Two page Typed Letter Signed from MGM Publicist Howard Herty to Madeleine Edison Sloane dated 3 April 1940 thanking her for a gift and reporting on a visit to MGM by her father Thomas A. Edison and a luncheon given to him by Louis B. Mayer with singing performances by Mickey Rooney who had played Edison in that year's film Young Tom Edison and Judy Garland and begging Sloane to use her influence to have him attend the Orange New Jersey premiere of Edison the Man. One smudged area on the letter very good. 5. One page Typed Letter Signed from John W. Considine Jr. producer of Edison the Man to Madeleine Edison Sloane dated 8 April 1940 thanking her for a gift of a photograph of her parents reporting on a visit to the studio by her brother and reporting on the preview of the film a huge success "We have shortened the picture considerably and are going to preview it tonight after which we may decide to make a few retakes. In order to make Spencer Tracy available for the world premiere of Edison the Man in the Oranges our executives have postponed the general release date of the picture." 6. N.E.L.A. Bulletin. Lights: Golden Jubilee Number. Vol. XVI No. 9. New York: National Electric Light Association 1929. Quarto. Stapled wrappers. Copy number 179 of 200 copies on special paper. On the title page designated as "Concerning Mr. Edison" the issue devoted to him. Light wear near fine. Includes statements on Edison by Jane Addams Walter P. Chrysler General Pershing Henry Ford John D. Rockefeller Jr. and many others. A nice little collection of material connecting Edison's daughter to the creation of the two films about her father. unknown
1919Best.-Nr. 53664West Orange NJ 1919. Very good. Single page 7.5x11" with type on both sides detailing the minutes of a meeting of the board of directors for Thomas A. Edison Inc. held January 21 1919 in reference to 498 shares of the capital stock of the Motion Picture Patents Company also known as the Edison Trust. Signed by Thomas A. Edison on the verso along with his son Charles and several others. unknown
2003Best.-Nr. __0415312191Routledge 2003. Hardcover. New. reprint edition. 2400 pages. 9.50x8.00x6.50 inches. Routledge hardcover
1629Best.-Nr. 50240Anvers Antwerp: l'Imprimerie Plantinienne 1629. Hardcover. l'Imprimerie Plantinienne. 64mo. Full black calf with raised bands brass clasps. 349pp. Illustration historiated woodcut initials. Very good. Binding worn but strong; center third of spine present while upper and lower thirds are crude but serviceable modern black calf replacements; internally tight and fully handleable. Quite intriguing near-miniature copy of this early French translation of the famed Christian devotional text "The Imitation of Christ" generally accepted as by German-Dutch cleric Kempis c. 1380-1471 and composed in medieval Latin around 1418-27. "Traduicts en francois du latin pris sur le manuscrit original de l'Autheur de l'an 1441" notes title page "Avec Ja Vie du mesne Autheur Recueille par Heribert Ros-vveyde de la Compagnie de Iesvs." Heribert Rosweyde 1569-1629 was a Dutch hagiographer with the Society of Jesus whose intent was to publish a large number of saints lives based on manuscripts found in Belgian libraries; he announced this intention and listed the works in a 1607 volume published by the Plantin Press in Antwerp; none of these grand plans were published by the time of Rosweyde's death for he was distracted by producing other religious and historical works such as this edition of "The Imitation of Christ." Publisher l'Imprimerie Plantinienne issued several editions of this title in the sixteenth century including one in Latin edited by Rosweyde in 1617 reissued in 1626 1627 and 1634 and a French edition in 1642; we find no reference to a Rosweyde French edition of 1629. Rosweyde introduces this edition and offers a brief biography of Kempis at the close while the bulk of the text consists of the four books chapters into which it is divided: "Helpful Counsels of the Spiritual Life" "Directives for the Interior Life" "On Interior Consolation" and "On the Blessed Sacrament." With its focus not on imitating Jesus Christ literally but rather on inner devotion and contemplation the book became wildly popular and hundreds of manuscript copies circulated before the advent of moveable type. The first printed edition was published in 1471-72 and before the end of the fifteenth century numerous editions had been published in eight languages. The unusual original binding dated shortly after its 1629 publication bears a crudely embossed large "PBB" and circular Jesuit "IHS" monogram on the front board and "1632" and this same monogram on the rear board. Surprisingly the dual brass clasps are present and functional. l'Imprimerie Plantinienne hardcover books
1629Best.-Nr. 50240Anvers Antwerp: l'Imprimerie Plantinienne 1629. Hardcover. l'Imprimerie Plantinienne. 64mo. Full black calf with raised bands brass clasps. 349pp. Illustration historiated woodcut initials. Very good. Binding worn but strong; center third of spine present while upper and lower thirds are crude but serviceable modern black calf replacements; internally tight and fully handleable. Quite intriguing near-miniature copy of this early French translation of the famed Christian devotional text "The Imitation of Christ" generally accepted as by German-Dutch cleric Kempis c. 1380-1471 and composed in medieval Latin around 1418-27. "Traduicts en francois du latin pris sur le manuscrit original de l'Autheur de l'an 1441" notes title page "Avec Ja Vie du mesne Autheur Recueille par Heribert Ros-vveyde de la Compagnie de Iesvs." Heribert Rosweyde 1569-1629 was a Dutch hagiographer with the Society of Jesus whose intent was to publish a large number of saints lives based on manuscripts found in Belgian libraries; he announced this intention and listed the works in a 1607 volume published by the Plantin Press in Antwerp; none of these grand plans were published by the time of Rosweyde's death for he was distracted by producing other religious and historical works such as this edition of "The Imitation of Christ." Publisher l'Imprimerie Plantinienne issued several editions of this title in the sixteenth century including one in Latin edited by Rosweyde in 1617 reissued in 1626 1627 and 1634 and a French edition in 1642; we find no reference to a Rosweyde French edition of 1629. Rosweyde introduces this edition and offers a brief biography of Kempis at the close while the bulk of the text consists of the four books chapters into which it is divided: "Helpful Counsels of the Spiritual Life" "Directives for the Interior Life" "On Interior Consolation" and "On the Blessed Sacrament." With its focus not on imitating Jesus Christ literally but rather on inner devotion and contemplation the book became wildly popular and hundreds of manuscript copies circulated before the advent of moveable type. The first printed edition was published in 1471-72 and before the end of the fifteenth century numerous editions had been published in eight languages. The unusual original binding dated shortly after its 1629 publication bears a crudely embossed large "PBB" and circular Jesuit "IHS" monogram on the front board and "1632" and this same monogram on the rear board. Surprisingly the dual brass clasps are present and functional. l'Imprimerie Plantinienne hardcover
1961Best.-Nr. 29516Boston MA: D. C. Heath & Company. 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-Baileyta . 1961. D. C. Heath & Company hardcover
2005Best.-Nr. 69449North York ON Canada: University of Toronto Press. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY BRAND NEW PRISTINE NEVER OPENED . A. Early English Metre ENGLISH LANGUAGE_OLD ENGLISH ca. 450-1100 . 2005. 080203831X . University of Toronto Press hardcover
2004Best.-Nr. 60404Chronicle Books. New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request – – IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 144 pp. With 167 col. Ills. 22 x 29 cm. -- with a bonus offer-- . 2004. 0811843149 . Chronicle Books paperback
2016Best.-Nr. 122919Chartwell Books. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened – with a bonus offer-- . 2016. 0785834427 . Chartwell Books hardcover
1992Best.-Nr. 11486Durham North Carolina U.S.A.: Duke Univ Pr. 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 - -- -- with a bonus offer--; 011486; Very good condition ex-library usual library inditia tight to the spine clean text with no writing highlighting. AVOID WEEKS OF DELAY ELSEWHERE. -- with no writing or markings to the text. . 1992. 0822311747 . Duke Univ Pr paperback
1997Best.-Nr. 54983Mcgraw-Hill. New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request – – IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 525 pages. -- with a bonus offer-- . 1997. 0070401438 . Mcgraw-Hill paperback
2001Best.-Nr. 61638Oxford University Press Distribution . New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request – – IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened - 120 pp. With 85 ills. 75 col. . 28 x 22 cm. -- with a bonus offer-- . 2001. 0892366265 . Oxford University Press (Distribution) hardcover
1981Best.-Nr. 27819Seattle Washington U.S.A.: Madrona Pub. 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 - . A few tears with some nicking abrading and curling to edges of DJ. -- with a bonus offer--; T-PRESTON; PHYSICIAN PATIENT MEDICAL . 1981. 0914842684 . Madrona Pub hardcover
1928Best.-Nr. 006042West Orange N.J. 1928. No Binding. Fine. Autograph. Edison Botonic Research Corporation business check 3 x 8.25 inches. Check number 1307 payable to N.J. Laboratory Supply Co. for $10.51 dated Dec. 29 1929 and boldly SIGNED by Thomas Edison as "Thos. A. Edison" at lower right. With cancel cuts not affecting the signature. Edison's umbrella signature is a high spot among autograph collectors. Edison was an American inventor and businessman. He worked in the fields of electric power generation mass communication sound recording and motion pictures. Displayed under four-scew clear with black border plexiglass dispay case which has some wear unknown
2003Best.-Nr. __0415147360Routledge 2003. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 1712 pages. 9.25x6.25x4.00 inches. Routledge hardcover
Best.-Nr. 123340London Printed by J.R. for John Williams at the sign of the Crown in St Pauls Church-yard 1677. . 8vo 16.5 x 10 cm; text in English engraved frontispiece woodcut headpieces green morocco bookplate to front pastedown; contemporary black goatskin tooled in gilt and blind to a 'semi-sombre' 'cottage-roof' design the corners and rectangular centrepiece of both covers with ruled lines and tooled in blind the other compartments tooled in gilt with tulip and paisley design gilt spine in 6 compartments contrasting red morocco lettering-piece to second compartment overlaying earlier blind-tooling all edges gilt a little rubbed with areas of slight fading some time varnished near fine; 42 326pp. A near fine example of an English 'semi-sombre' binding dating from the Restoration of Charles II. The covers have been tooled in blind to a 'cottage-roof' design composed of panels where the goatskin has been ruled with concentric lines and tooled in blind and alternately left untreated and tooled in gilt. Similar examples are exhibited in Howard Nixon's English Restoration Bookbindings see nos 113-116 and as no. 39 of his Five Centuries of English Bookbinding which belongs to a French New Testament owned by Samuel Pepys. As Nixon explains sombre bindings emerged in the 1670s 'for mourning use and Lenten observance' and were prevalent for the next 50 or so years see English Restoration Bookbindings p.45. Further examples of this style of binding can be seen in the Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College Cambridge Volume VI Bindings see no. 403. The text is an anonymous English translation of Thomas à Kempis' great spiritual meditation De Imitatione Christi an important work of Christian mysticism forming part of the Late Medieval Devotio Moderna movement which called for religious reform and apostolic renewal. This edition had earlier been printed in a smaller vicesimo-quarto format. Kempis d.1471 was born in Kempen in the Diocese of Cologne but received his education at Deventer in the Low Countries where he came into contact with the Fratres Vitae Communis a majority lay confraternity founded by the Dutch deacon Gerard Groot a leading figure in the Devotio Moderna movement. Members took no irrevocable vows but lived according to the monastic principles of poverty obedience and chastity with all earnings put into a common fund. Having completed his studies Kempis joined the reformed monastery of the Augustinian Canon Regulars at Mount Saint Agnes near Zwolle where he was ordained priest in 1413 later becoming Sub-Prior in 1429. From here he wrote lives of Groot and his associate Florentius Radwyn and composed the four disparate mystical tracts together forming the Imitation which began to circulate in manuscript in the 1430s. The first printed edition appeared in 1473 and the first English-language translation in 1503 it has never been out of print since and remains a mainstay in the canon of Western literature. ESTC R26293; cf. Howard Nixon English Restoration Bookbindings nos. 113-116; Howard Nixon Five Centuries of English Bookbinding no.39; Howard Nixon Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College Cambridge Volume VI Bindings no.403. London, Printed by J.R. for John Williams, at the sign of the Crown in St Pauls Church-yard, 1677. unknown
1921Best.-Nr. 25928New York:: Harper & Brothers 1921. Later edition with "C-A" on verso of title page. publisher's cloth with applied portrait of Edison to front panel. Shadow of former clipping to front pastedown and endsheet; otherwise a fresh near fine copy. 8vo. With Autobiographical Notes by Mr. Edison. With a 1927 inscription by Meadowcroft on the front free endpaper. Thomas Edison's signature appears above the inscription. Harper & Brothers, hardcover
1736Best.-Nr. 343534Oxford; London: Printed by John Baskett 1736. Hardcover. Fair. An early Oxford Bible printed by John Baskett in 1736 and owned by the Biddle family a prominent Quaker family from Philadelphia. Quarto. Three parts in one volume: 1. The Book of Common Prayer; 2. The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments with an engraved allegorical frontispiece plate and including the Apocrypha; the New Testament has a separate title page dated 1735; 3. A Brief Concordance or Table to the Bible of the Last Translation Printed for R. Ware 1732. Signed by Thomas A. Biddle on the front free endpaper with a later owner's signature just beneath. Bound-in after the Apocrypha are nine manuscript pages giving a record of the Biddle family and related Philadelphia families. Contemporary calf or sheep re-backed with parts of the original spine back laid down; later endpapers. The Book of Common Prayer lacks the title page and one or more final leaves; the Holy Bible has two partially damaged leaves and lacks one text leaf; the Concordance is lacking the final two leaves else overall a good closely trimmed copy with some headlines and catchwords slightly shaved. The nine-page Biddle family record begins in 1765 and spans the years from 1755 to 1830. The record also includes names from other prominent Philadelphia families including the Cadwalladers and Dunlaps. The first entries are in the hand of Rebekah Cornell. In 1774 she married Clement Biddle who was a close friend of George Washington and a Revolutionary War patriot. Their sons Thomas and Clement Jr. established the firm of Thomas A. Biddle & Co. Bankers and Brokers in Philadelphia. A well-read family bible with a notable Philadelphia provenance. ESTC T183429 Common Prayer; T81312 Holy Bible; T81465 Concordance. Printed by John Baskett hardcover books
