1693réf. 25329Cologne Sumptibus Balthazaris ab Egmond 1693 -in-32 plein-veau un volume, reliure d'époque plein veau marbré havane in-32 (binding full calfskin 32mo - A book that is up to 5 tall.) (9,7 x 7 cm), dos long (spine with raised bands), décoré "or" (gilt decoration), titre frappé "or", pièce de titre sur fond vieux rose avec deux filets fins "or" en encadrement, toutes tranches lisses jaspées rouge, Ex-Libris manuscrit à l'encre brune en bas de la page de titre : J: L: Géanno, texte en latin, sans illustrations (no illustration) excepté une vignette au titre gravée en noir + un cul-de-lampe gravé in-texte en noir, 464 pages + 8 p. d' index, 1693 Coloniae Agrippinae [ Cologne ] Sumptibus Balthazaris ab Egmond Editeur [Egmondt, Balthasar von Libraire Editeur],
1693réf. 569041 vol. in-18 reliure plein cuir, dos muet, Sumptibus Balthazaris ab Egmond, Coloniae Agrippinae [ Cologne ], 1693, 4 ff., 464 pp. et 1 f.
réf. 312932vp vd. various sizes. Uniformly bound in three quarters polished tan calf for Asprey with the spine stamped in gilt red and green leather spine labels with gilt title in one and description of Edison association in the other at the top of the spine stamped in gilt "Edisonia" and with "Governor Charles Edison Library" stamped on the back pastedown; all edges gilt marbled endpapers. Overall condition fine. various sizes. An finely bound collection of books from the libraries of Thomas A. Edison and his son Charles Edison including two volumes with pencil annotations by Thomas Edison a many author-inscribed volumes to one of the two men or to their wives and many others with gift inscriptions to members of the Edison family. Complete list available on request Frank Glenn. The Politics of Industry. New York: The Century Co. 1919. 8vo. With pencil annotation by Thomas A. Edison in margin of p 66. Williams J.E. In Search of Reality. Organic Evolution. New York: Frank-Maurice 1926. 8vo. With pencil annotation to title in Thomas A. Edison's hand "Read - very good" and pencil annotations in margins in an unknown hand. Read Leonard E. Anything That's Peaceful. Inrvington-on-Hudson: Foundation of Economic Education 1964. 8vo. Inscribed by the author to Governor Charles Edison. Ackerman Carl W. George Eastman. London: Constable and Co 1930. 8vo. Inscribed: 'To my dear friends / Charles and Carolyn Edison / George Eastman / Rochester November 3d 1930." Parsons E. Bryham. Pot-Pourri Parisien. New York: Privately Printed 1916. 8vo. With presentation inscription to Thomas A. Edison from the author. Marillier H.C. Rossetti. London: George Bell & Sons 1906. 16mo. With boyhood ownership signature of Charles Edison. McKee J.R. and W.S. Andrews. Historical Notes. General Electric Company. Being a History of Thomson-Houston Co. and Edison General Electric Co. which were consolidated to for the General Electric Co. New York: privately printed 1930. 12mo. Original green cloth. Charles Edison's personal copy with his name stamped in gilt to upper cover. In half-morocco box. Holmes Edwin T. A Wonderful Fifty Years. New York: privately published 1917. 8vo. Inscribed: "Thomas A. Edison / With the compliments of / E.T. Holmes." Holmes was president of Holmes Electric Protective Company. Holmes is credited with commercializing the electromagnetic burglar alarm and with establishing the first burglar alarm networks. Stewart Charles D. The Fugitive Blacksmith. New York: The Century Co 1905. 8vo. In special presentation binding of cloth backed boards with "Thomas Alva Edison" stamped in gilt to upper cover. In half-morocco box. Wilde Oscar. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. New York: Duffield 1910. 12mo. With gift inscription and sketch of a man in profile by "H.N." Minnigerode Meade. Cordelia Chantrell. A Romance. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1926. 8vo. With gift inscription to Mina Miller Edison. Soule George. The Coming American Revolution. New York: The Macmillan Company 1934. 8vo. No gift inscription to C. Edison though so described on spine label. Somerville and Smith compilers. Ships of the United States Navy and Their Sponsors 1924-1950. Annapolis: U.S. Naval Institute 1952. Thick 8vo. Pages 338-339 reference Mrs. Charles Edison as sponsor of USS New Jersey. Jordan William George. The Kingship of Self-Control. New York: Fleming H. Revell 1899. 12mo. With gift inscription to Carolyn Hawkins Edison. Franklin William Suddards. Bill's School and Mine. South Bethlehem PA: Franklin Macnutt and Charles 1913. 12mo. Signed by the author and with a TLS of the author to Mrs. Thomas A. Edison presenting the book. Herold Don. So Human. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. 1924. With gift inscription to Charles Edison. Benham W. Gurney. A Book of Quotations. Proverbs and Household Words. Philadelphia: Lippincott 1907. Thick 8vo. With presentation inscription to Charles Edison "for excellence in English" presumably from his teacher Torrey R.A. Talks to Men about the Bible and the Christ of the Bible. London: James Nisbet 1905. 12mo. Bunner H.C. Airs from Arcady and Elsewhere. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1884. 12mo. With gift inscription to Mina Miller Edison. TAE'as second wife and mother of Charles Kane Harnett T. Plantation Parade. New York: William Morrow 1946. 8vo. Gift inscription to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Edison. Millikan & Gale. A First Course in Physics. Boston: Ginn & Co 1906 but later. From the Edison Laboratory Film Department. Thurston Katherine Cecil. The Masquerader. New York: Harper & Brothers 1904. 8vo. With girlhood ownership inscription of Carolyn S. Hawkins Edison dated 1905. Montgomery D.H. The Leading Facts of American History. Boston: Ginn & Co. 1902. 8vo. With boyhood ownership signature of Charles Edison including his attempts at his father's signature. Lee Gerald Stanley. Inspired Millionaires. Northampton Mass: Mount Tom Press 1908. 8vo. Roosevelt Franklin D. On Our Way. New York: John Day 1934. Gift inscription to Charles Edison from his staff at the National Recovery Association dated 1934. Parkman Francis. The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century. Boston: Little Brown 1899. 8vo. Anonymous. Autobiography of an Elderly Woman. Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1911. 8vo. With presentation inscription to Mrs. Thomas A. Edison. Pallister William. Poems of Science. New York: Playford Press 1931. 8vo. Inscribed: "With many good wishes from William Pallister. Chappell George. Through the Alimentary Canal with Gun and Camera. New York: Frederick A. Stokes 1930. 8vo. A gift to Charles Edison from Theodore Edison. Dorris Mary C. Preservation of the Hermitage 1889-1915. N.p.: Lady's Hermitage Society n.d. 8vo. Inscribed by the author to Thomas A. Edison. Rich Ben E. Mr. Durant of Salt Lake City. Salt Lake City: George Q. Cannon & Sons 1893. 8vo. With gift inscription to Thomas A. Edison from one D.H. Parr dated 1923. Social Register New York 1913. NY: Social Register Association 1912. 8vo. Listing both Thomas A. Edison and Charles Edison. Revelations of My Friends. New York: Stokes n.d. 8vo. Original cloth in half-morocco box uniform with bound volumes. A childhood book of Carolyn Hawkins Edison. Phelps Elizabeth Stuart. Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1904. 8vo. With gift inscription to Charles Edison dated 1905. Monroe Will S. Bohemia and the Čechs. London: G. Bell & Sons 1910. 8vo. With long gift inscription in Czech to Thomas A. Edison dated 1911. Remmers John Henry. Invincible Power. Cincinnati: The Co-Operative Publishing Co. 1922. 12mo. With TLS of author to Thomas Edison presenting the book. Miller Raymond. Kilowatts at Work. A History of the Detroit Edison Company. Detroit: Wayne State University Press 1957. Gift inscription to Governor Charles Edison. Brody Iles. The Colony. New York: Greenburg 1945. 8vo. Barclay Wade Crawford. A Book of Worship. New York: Abingdon Press 1923. 8vo. With gift inscription to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Edison. Dörfler Fricomarto. Aus dem Lande der Bibel. Pössneck i. Thür: Bruno Feigenspan 8vo. Inscribed by the author. Cerf Bennett. Try and Stop Me. New York: Simon and Schuster 1944. 8vo. Schriftgiesser Karl. Oscar of the Waldorf. New York: E.P. Dutton 1943. Signed "Oscar" in pencil on the title page. Forty Years of Edison Service. 1882-1922. New York: Press of the New York Edison Company 1922. 8vo. Murray. W.H.H. Holiday Tales. Christmas in the Adirondacks. Springfield Mass: privately printed 1897. Small 4to. With autograph sentiment signed of the author facing frontispiece. Perelman S.J. Westward Ha! Drawings by Hirschfeld. New York: Simon and Schuster 1948. 8vo. Later printing. With Christmas card of Ann and Theodore Edison loosely inserted. Talbot Henry P. The Electrolytic Dissociation Theory with Some of Its Applications. New York: The Macmillan Co 1907. 8vo. Buchan John Lord Tweedsmuir. Pilgrim's Way. Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1940. 8vo. With gift inscription to Charles Edison. Chapple Joe Mitchell. Warren G. Harding- The Man. Boston: Chapple Publishing Co. 1920. 8vo. Original cloth-backed illustrated boards. Presentation copy inscribed to Thomas Edison by the author. In half-morocco box. Kaempffert Waldemar. A Popular History of American Invention. Vol 1. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1924. unknown books
1924réf. 599730South Orange New Jersey: Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Edison 1924. Softcover. Fine. Printed flyer or handbill. Approximately 6" x 9". Printed rectos only. About fine. Handbill for the premiere of a now "lost film" hosted by the producers the Edisons. We could find little about the presumably silent film. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Edison unknown books
réf. 312932vp vd. various sizes. Uniformly bound in three quarters polished tan calf for Asprey with the spine stamped in gilt red and green leather spine labels with gilt title in one and description of Edison association in the other at the top of the spine stamped in gilt "Edisonia" and with "Governor Charles Edison Library" stamped on the back pastedown; all edges gilt marbled endpapers. Overall condition fine. various sizes. An finely bound collection of books from the libraries of Thomas A. Edison and his son Charles Edison including two volumes with pencil annotations by Thomas Edison a many author-inscribed volumes to one of the two men or to their wives and many others with gift inscriptions to members of the Edison family. Complete list available on request Frank Glenn. The Politics of Industry. New York: The Century Co. 1919. 8vo. With pencil annotation by Thomas A. Edison in margin of p 66. Williams J.E. In Search of Reality. Organic Evolution. New York: Frank-Maurice 1926. 8vo. With pencil annotation to title in Thomas A. Edison's hand "Read - very good" and pencil annotations in margins in an unknown hand. Read Leonard E. Anything That's Peaceful. Inrvington-on-Hudson: Foundation of Economic Education 1964. 8vo. Inscribed by the author to Governor Charles Edison. Ackerman Carl W. George Eastman. London: Constable and Co 1930. 8vo. Inscribed: 'To my dear friends / Charles and Carolyn Edison / George Eastman / Rochester November 3d 1930." Parsons E. Bryham. Pot-Pourri Parisien. New York: Privately Printed 1916. 8vo. With presentation inscription to Thomas A. Edison from the author. Marillier H.C. Rossetti. London: George Bell & Sons 1906. 16mo. With boyhood ownership signature of Charles Edison. McKee J.R. and W.S. Andrews. Historical Notes. General Electric Company. Being a History of Thomson-Houston Co. and Edison General Electric Co. which were consolidated to for the General Electric Co. New York: privately printed 1930. 12mo. Original green cloth. Charles Edison's personal copy with his name stamped in gilt to upper cover. In half-morocco box. Holmes Edwin T. A Wonderful Fifty Years. New York: privately published 1917. 8vo. Inscribed: "Thomas A. Edison / With the compliments of / E.T. Holmes." Holmes was president of Holmes Electric Protective Company. Holmes is credited with commercializing the electromagnetic burglar alarm and with establishing the first burglar alarm networks. Stewart Charles D. The Fugitive Blacksmith. New York: The Century Co 1905. 8vo. In special presentation binding of cloth backed boards with "Thomas Alva Edison" stamped in gilt to upper cover. In half-morocco box. Wilde Oscar. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. New York: Duffield 1910. 12mo. With gift inscription and sketch of a man in profile by "H.N." Minnigerode Meade. Cordelia Chantrell. A Romance. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1926. 8vo. With gift inscription to Mina Miller Edison. Soule George. The Coming American Revolution. New York: The Macmillan Company 1934. 8vo. No gift inscription to C. Edison though so described on spine label. Somerville and Smith compilers. Ships of the United States Navy and Their Sponsors 1924-1950. Annapolis: U.S. Naval Institute 1952. Thick 8vo. Pages 338-339 reference Mrs. Charles Edison as sponsor of USS New Jersey. Jordan William George. The Kingship of Self-Control. New York: Fleming H. Revell 1899. 12mo. With gift inscription to Carolyn Hawkins Edison. Franklin William Suddards. Bill's School and Mine. South Bethlehem PA: Franklin Macnutt and Charles 1913. 12mo. Signed by the author and with a TLS of the author to Mrs. Thomas A. Edison presenting the book. Herold Don. So Human. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. 1924. With gift inscription to Charles Edison. Benham W. Gurney. A Book of Quotations. Proverbs and Household Words. Philadelphia: Lippincott 1907. Thick 8vo. With presentation inscription to Charles Edison "for excellence in English" presumably from his teacher Torrey R.A. Talks to Men about the Bible and the Christ of the Bible. London: James Nisbet 1905. 12mo. Bunner H.C. Airs from Arcady and Elsewhere. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1884. 12mo. With gift inscription to Mina Miller Edison. TAE'as second wife and mother of Charles Kane Harnett T. Plantation Parade. New York: William Morrow 1946. 8vo. Gift inscription to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Edison. Millikan & Gale. A First Course in Physics. Boston: Ginn & Co 1906 but later. From the Edison Laboratory Film Department. Thurston Katherine Cecil. The Masquerader. New York: Harper & Brothers 1904. 8vo. With girlhood ownership inscription of Carolyn S. Hawkins Edison dated 1905. Montgomery D.H. The Leading Facts of American History. Boston: Ginn & Co. 1902. 8vo. With boyhood ownership signature of Charles Edison including his attempts at his father's signature. Lee Gerald Stanley. Inspired Millionaires. Northampton Mass: Mount Tom Press 1908. 8vo. Roosevelt Franklin D. On Our Way. New York: John Day 1934. Gift inscription to Charles Edison from his staff at the National Recovery Association dated 1934. Parkman Francis. The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century. Boston: Little Brown 1899. 8vo. Anonymous. Autobiography of an Elderly Woman. Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1911. 8vo. With presentation inscription to Mrs. Thomas A. Edison. Pallister William. Poems of Science. New York: Playford Press 1931. 8vo. Inscribed: "With many good wishes from William Pallister. Chappell George. Through the Alimentary Canal with Gun and Camera. New York: Frederick A. Stokes 1930. 8vo. A gift to Charles Edison from Theodore Edison. Dorris Mary C. Preservation of the Hermitage 1889-1915. N.p.: Lady's Hermitage Society n.d. 8vo. Inscribed by the author to Thomas A. Edison. Rich Ben E. Mr. Durant of Salt Lake City. Salt Lake City: George Q. Cannon & Sons 1893. 8vo. With gift inscription to Thomas A. Edison from one D.H. Parr dated 1923. Social Register New York 1913. NY: Social Register Association 1912. 8vo. Listing both Thomas A. Edison and Charles Edison. Revelations of My Friends. New York: Stokes n.d. 8vo. Original cloth in half-morocco box uniform with bound volumes. A childhood book of Carolyn Hawkins Edison. Phelps Elizabeth Stuart. Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1904. 8vo. With gift inscription to Charles Edison dated 1905. Monroe Will S. Bohemia and the Čechs. London: G. Bell & Sons 1910. 8vo. With long gift inscription in Czech to Thomas A. Edison dated 1911. Remmers John Henry. Invincible Power. Cincinnati: The Co-Operative Publishing Co. 1922. 12mo. With TLS of author to Thomas Edison presenting the book. Miller Raymond. Kilowatts at Work. A History of the Detroit Edison Company. Detroit: Wayne State University Press 1957. Gift inscription to Governor Charles Edison. Brody Iles. The Colony. New York: Greenburg 1945. 8vo. Barclay Wade Crawford. A Book of Worship. New York: Abingdon Press 1923. 8vo. With gift inscription to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Edison. Dörfler Fricomarto. Aus dem Lande der Bibel. Pössneck i. Thür: Bruno Feigenspan 8vo. Inscribed by the author. Cerf Bennett. Try and Stop Me. New York: Simon and Schuster 1944. 8vo. Schriftgiesser Karl. Oscar of the Waldorf. New York: E.P. Dutton 1943. Signed "Oscar" in pencil on the title page. Forty Years of Edison Service. 1882-1922. New York: Press of the New York Edison Company 1922. 8vo. Murray. W.H.H. Holiday Tales. Christmas in the Adirondacks. Springfield Mass: privately printed 1897. Small 4to. With autograph sentiment signed of the author facing frontispiece. Perelman S.J. Westward Ha! Drawings by Hirschfeld. New York: Simon and Schuster 1948. 8vo. Later printing. With Christmas card of Ann and Theodore Edison loosely inserted. Talbot Henry P. The Electrolytic Dissociation Theory with Some of Its Applications. New York: The Macmillan Co 1907. 8vo. Buchan John Lord Tweedsmuir. Pilgrim's Way. Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1940. 8vo. With gift inscription to Charles Edison. Chapple Joe Mitchell. Warren G. Harding- The Man. Boston: Chapple Publishing Co. 1920. 8vo. Original cloth-backed illustrated boards. Presentation copy inscribed to Thomas Edison by the author. In half-morocco box. Kaempffert Waldemar. A Popular History of American Invention. Vol 1. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1924. unknown
1924réf. 599730South Orange New Jersey: Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Edison 1924. Softcover. Fine. Printed flyer or handbill. Approximately 6" x 9". Printed rectos only. About fine. Handbill for the premiere of a now "lost film" hosted by the producers the Edisons. We could find little about the presumably silent film. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Edison unknown
1870réf. 21727Providence RI: Sidney S. Rider and Brother 1870. 1870. Fair. - Octavo. The remnants of a gilt-lettered leather spine are present but the covers are lacking. 53 pages with engraved head- & tail-pieces. The front & rear endpapers are soiled & there is an owner's ink name on the front endpaper. There is occasional soiling to the text & the front edges of a few overlapping pages are darkened. Good reading copy. Two nineteenth-century satiric pieces. The author of the mock-heroic "Dorriad" was anonymous. "The Great Slocum Dinner" according to the introduction was by the authors listed above. These pieces relate to the "Dorr Rebellion" a brief armed uprising 1841-1842 in Rhode Island led by Thomas Wilson Dorr. The insurrection was precipitated by the increasing disenfranchisement of the citizens of Rhode Island many of them recent Irish Catholic immigrants who were unable to vote because of a requirement that voters own at least $134 of landed property. Providence, RI: Sidney S. Rider and Brother, 1870. hardcover
1736réf. 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
1736réf. 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
2000réf. NF3007FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT'S STAINED GLASS & LIGHTSCREENS Gibbs Smith 2000 first edition fine in like dust-wrapper. Profusely illustrated wth full color photos on virtually every page. Gibbs Smith unknown books
2000réf. NF3007FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT'S STAINED GLASS & LIGHTSCREENS Gibbs Smith 2000 first edition fine in like dust-wrapper. Profusely illustrated wth full color photos on virtually every page. Gibbs Smith unknown
2019réf. 31166Bloodmington, Indiana, Gaslight Publications / Sherlock Holmes Monograph Series 1980. In-8 reliure éditeur pleine toile verte de 90 pages au format 22 x 14,5 cm. Couverture avec titre doré. Dos rond avec titre. Plats et intérieur frais. Préface de Max H. Fisch. Etude sur Sherlock Holmes et Charles Sanders Peirce, né le 10 septembre 1839 à Cambridge dans le Massachusetts et mort le 19 avril 1914 à Milford en Pennsylvanie. Sémiologue et philosophe américain, il est considéré comme le fondateur du courant pragmatiste et novateur dans de nombreux domaines, en particulier dans la façon de concevoir les méthodes d'enquête et de recherche, ainsi que dans la philosophie des sciences. Portrait de ce dernier en frontispice. Nombreuses illustrations et photographies en noir hors texte. Petit tirage. Rare édition originale en superbe état proche du neuf.
