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rif. 50-0506ca. 1950s. Set of 19 watercolors 43 x 35 cm and 35 drawings 28 x 21.5 cm. Probably the artwork intended for a book. Includes scenes in a wine shop butcher patisserie cafes and along the Seine. ca. 1950s. unknown
1767rif. 45831Geneve 1767. Original blue cardboard binding with contemporary handwritten paper title-label to spine. Pencil-numbering to inside of boards. A very nice and clean copy. Woodcut vignette to title-page. With the ex-libris of the notes Danish book collector K.F. Plesner to inside of front board. Rare first edition of this interesting anonymously written continuation of Voltaire's Candide which wraps up the adventures of the hero. "Turning his back on both Voltarian satire and scepticism the novelist proposes a moralistic fable - the focal point of which is a rehabilitation of Leibniz's Theory of Optimism. The main body of the novel tells the story of Candide and his new wife the noble Zénoïde in their sumptuous Copenhagen townhouse. Before achieving this happy state however the couple endures various trials and tribulations reminiscent of the newly minted gothic genre. "Candide au Dannemarc" also features a satirical portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau." Éduard M. Langille from the introduction to the new edition of "Candide au Dannemarc" edited by him. Voltaire's "Candide" had inspired a sequel that appeared in 1760 which is attributed to Charles-Claude-Florent de Campigneulles but which might be by Henri-Joseph du Laurens. The present work is a direct continuation of that sequel although it ignores the happy ending of the previous work but evidently from the preface it is not written by the same author. It has still not been determined who the actual author is.The part on Rousseau pp. 148-167 in the present work has become quite famous portraying him satirically as trying to make a living in Copenhagen from copying music while plotting to escape to America. The novel ends with Candide leaving Denmark to be the Danish ambassador in Russia.A secoond edition appeared in 1769. paperback
rif. 013507021X-8-1Pearson College Div. Study Guide. Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting. Pearson College Div unknown
1927rif. 62150Hollywood CA: Hollywood Bowl Assoc. 7046 Hollywood Blvd. 1927. 4to. 32 pp unpaginated. decorated title w/ tinted background borders 28 Xavier Cugat illustrated plates throughout. Colour-illustrated softcovers Art Deco cover art of caricature conductor by Cugat yapp fore-edges minor wear dustsoiling slight scuffing still VG copy. First edition of this surprisingly scarce and splendidly illustrated caricature rendering of the stars and performers at the Hollywood Bowl for the 1927 Season. Caricatured among the “Hollywood Bowlsheviks” are Alfred Hertz who inaugurated the first Hollywood Bowl season of music in 1922 Bruno Walter Vladimir Shavitch Cecil B. De Mille Louis B. Mayer Pola Negri Hestelle Heartt Dreyfuss Lloyd Wright Pierre Monteux Douglas Fairbank and Mary Pickford. De Bru 1900-1990 was a child prodigy taken to Cuba where he trained as a classical violinist played with the Orchestra of the Teatro Nacional in Havana and after New York was hired as musician and caricaturist in Hollywood at the Bowl. He also put together a tango band in 1927 which performed at the Cocoanut Grove at the Ambassador and later took up a long term residency at the Waldorf Astoria in New York for 15 years and one of the noted performers was Desi Arnaz. His famed caricature “Curtain of Stars” measuring 40 x 60 feet hunt at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. Cugat’s brother Francis was a noted illustrator best remembered for his cover art of Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Worldcat locates 1 copy Cal. Hist. Soc. Lib.; Paul Spitzzeri Striking a Chord: A Program for Summer Concerts at the Hollywood Bowl 19-23 July 1927 Homtesead Museum July 20 2020. Hollywood Bowl Assoc., 7046 Hollywood Blvd., paperback
1850rif. DEMO014460IPhiladelphia: Printed by C. Sherman 1850. Popular Edition. Hardcover. Good. 64 excellent steel-plate engravings with 12 of 13 maps Samoa map apparently never inserted many vignettes and woodcuts. Octavos half brown calf blue marbled boards edges and endpapers; vol. 1 rebacked retaining original back and leather labels scuffing and wear to other spines corners worn. Wilkes' expedition was the first American scientific exploring expedition by sea voyage. His six ships sailed south around South America along Antarctica causing Wilkes to decide that Antarctica was indeed a separate continent. Other stops were at the Pacific islands of Tahiti the Samoas Australia and New Zealand. Maps of Tahiti & Australia and New South Wales Along the way they charted the coasts of California Washington and Oregon. Howes W414; Palau 375505; Sabin 103994 note; see Cowan p.683; Taylor PACIFIC BIBLIOGRAPHY p.13. "Wilkes' spectacular Antarctic and South Sea explorations - Goetzmann ARMY EXPLORATION IN THE . WEST p.61" 64 excellent steel-plate engravings many vignettes and woodcuts. Unlike the 1844 edition the following Sherman editions did not have a 6th volume - the Atlas but have 3 Tables and 11 maps Printed by C. Sherman hardcover
1658rif. 54802no publisher stated Lugduni ie Paris - Jacob L'Aîne Rue Philosophie N°6 Orleans 1658 ie 1793 . 1st edition. Hardback. Diced calf VG. 172iv94pp marbled endpapers gilt dentelles all edges gilt leather a little rubbed & upper hinge cracked but holding Ex Libris Caroli Waldstein with their armorial bookplate neat late 19th century annotation to the first blank pages of the second title a little browned a nice copy. Two political tracts published in France in the early days of the Republic which look back to the English protectorate & the lessons to be learnt. The first is a translation of 'Killing Noe Murder' 1658 a pamphlet which advocates the assassination of Oliver Cromwell. Authorship has been attributed to either Edward Sexby or Silius Titus. Cromwell is considered a tyrant equal to Caligula and Nero - the people must rise up & rid them selves of such a despot and tyrannicide can not be regarded as an act of murder. The second work published in 1797 is based upon the 'The Syracusan Tyrant or the Life of Agathocles' by Richard Perrinchief originally published in 1661 an attack on Oliver Cromwell presented as a biography of Agathocles. Both works probably relating to Thermidor & the the overthrow of revolutionary radical Maximilien Robespierre & a retreat from more radical goals and strategies during a revolution. no publisher stated, Lugduni [ ie Paris ] - Jacob L'Aîne, Rue Philosophie N°6, Orleans hardcover
1859rif. 42532London: John Henry and James Parker 1859. First edition. 4to. xii 243 1 pp. Contemporary brown half morocco over plum cloth sides spine with raised bands gilt lettered direct to two panels marbled endpapers early armorial bookplate to the front pastedown another early ownership inscription to the front flyleaf with a further more recent one underneath top edge gilt. 73 plates plus 43 woodcuts in the text. Very good. London: John Henry and James Parker unknown
rif. Bloomsbury-9781855674868Pinter. Hardback. New. 0 pages Pinter hardcover
rif. Bloomsbury-9781855674868Pinter. Hardback. New. 0 pages Pinter hardcover
1992rif. 12838E. J. GOLD'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY AND BEYOND THE UNKNOWN Sirius Science Fiction 1992 first edition as new without dust-wrapper as issued. Of 125 copies this is 1/20 of the deluxe edition with an original SIGNED serigraph by E.J. Gold acting as frontispiece. Illustrated. Collects stories by Fred Pohl Robert Sheckley Damon Knight & Daniel Galouye. Quite scarce. This copy SIGNED by Pohl at his contribution. Rare thus. Sirius Science Fiction 1992 unknown
1540rif. 250506002Venice Venezia: Comin Da Trino & Niccolo Zoppino 1540. Hardcover. Very Good. I sei primi libri del Eneide di Vergilio tradotti piu illustri & honorate donne.Et tra l'altre la nobilissima & divina madonna Aurelia Tolomei de Borghesi cui ancho indirizzato tutto il presente volume The first six books of the Aeneid by Virgil translated to the most illustrious and honored ladies. And among others to the most noble and divine Madonna Aurelia Tolomei de Borghesi to whom also the present volume is addressed. NOTE: Incomplete. Missing Title page Book 1 and first 8 leaves of Book 2. Normally this scarce edition typically sells between $2000-2500 when found complete. PROVENANCE From the Virgil Collection of Craig Kallendorf 1954 - 2023 who owned the largest private collection of Virgil works 1150 editions not including Incunable books in the world. Only a handful of prominent institutions like the British Library had larger collections. Eighth-nine of the books in his collection were the only known surviving copies 71 only had one other known copy. He worked closely with Princeton University in helping to assemble supplement and catalog its Junius Spencer Morgan Virgil collection. Craig Kallendorf was Professor of English and Classics at Texas A&M University. He was the author or editor of 27 books and more than 170 articles book chapters and reference work entries. Among Kallendorf's groundbreaking monographs on the Virgilian tradition special note might be made of his Virgil and the Myth of Venice: Books and Readers in the Italian Renaissance Oxford: Clarendon Press 1999 which shows how the wide reading of the Aeneid accessed in both Latin and Italian editions contributed to Venetian ideology and the so-called "myth of Venice." With its publication according to reviewer Diana Robin Renaissance Quarterly 55.4 2002 p. 1394 Kallendorf is to be recognized as "the leading authority on the Virgilian tradition in early modern print culture in Italy." ABOUT THE BOOK Post-Incunable edition of the first six books of the Aeneid by Virgil. In Italian. Published in 1540 by Comin da Trino & Niccolo Zoppino in Venice. Each book translated into Italian from Latin by a different individual: A2 Hippolito de Medici A3 Bernardino Borghesi A4 Bartolomeo Carli Piccolomini A5 Aldobrando Cerretani and A6 Alessandro Piccolomini. Rebound in modern 1/4-calf over marbled paper and gilt tooled spine bordering lettering and compartment devices. Marbled endpapers. Six parts in one volume. Octavo 6 1/2" x 4 1/8". Foliation in leaves: 15 20; 19 1; 27 1; 25 7. Fifteen vignette woodcuts and separate engraved title pages for Books 3-6. CONDITION REPORT Missing Title page Book 1 leaves and first 8 leaves of Book 2 including its title page. 15/22 woodcuts. The exterior is in FINE condition. Fresh supple unfaded leather and unblemished marbled paper. A few areas of light dust. Square spine very firm hinges and joints sharp corners and tight pages. Foxing to text block edges. The interior condition - refreshed endpapers and blank flyleaves. Trimmed pages. Light foxing to margins. Heavier foxing to preliminaries and last few leaves of the volume. Signs of handling - a few smudges bent corners and some creasing. No marginalia or underlining. One corner clipped. A few minor spots of worming in the margins. Rear blank flyleaf with period one-line Latin inscription in faded antiquarian ink claiming that the possessor of the book was a heteronymous eunuch! Front pastedown with the ex libris sticker "from the Virgil collection of Craig W. Kallendorf." In excellent shape for a nearly 500-year-old book - a beautifully bound and scarce post-incunable mostly complete edition of the first 6 books of The Aeneid by Virgil. Comin Da Trino & Niccolo Zoppino hardcover
1570rif. 33006-178Ingolstatt Alexander Weissenhorn 1570. Title printed in red and black within woodcut-border. 16 232 8 leaves. 8vo. Contemporary blind-ruled vellum 1 of 2 metal claps small old library stamp and owner's ms. entry on title. Ingolstatt Alexander Weissenhorn 1570. Fourth issue of one of the many polemics written by Johann Nas 1534-1590 a Franciscan monk and counter-reformation preacher and controversialist notably at the court of the Archduke Ferdinand in Innsbruck where he followed Petrus Canisius. In 1580 he became Bishop of Brixen. - VD 16 N 102; STC German 643. GERMANY ; RELIGION ; Ingolstatt, Alexander Weissenhorn hardcover
2016rif. 181612Nashville Tennessee: Third Man Books 2016. First edition signed limited issue number 294 of 400 copies signed by Iggy Pop on a certificate loosely inserted. It is complete with the "The Prime Movers" vinyl and loosely inserted reproductions of a Stooges poster and two handbills. Total Chaos is the story of Iggy Pop's first band The Stooges. Prolifically illustrated with over 200 images it includes contributions from the likes of Josh Homme Dave Grohl Joan Jett Johnny Marr and Jack White. This copy has the variant and more desirable black and gold covers; others were also issued in black and white. Quarto. With signed insert and reproductions of a poster and two handbills loosely inserted; vinyl LP in sleeve on rear pastedown. Photographic illustrations throughout. Original pictorial boards printed in black and gold titles to spine in white black endpapers. With dust jacket. A few spots of rubbing to extremities; jacket unclipped corners lightly creased faint marks: a near-fine copy in like jacket. hardcover
1708rif. 138568London : Printed For J. Beaver And B. Lintot In Fleet Street R. Knaplock In St. Paul's Church-Yard J. Sprint In Little Brittain A. Bell R. Smith And J. Round In Cornhill 1708. First Edition. Hardback. Very good copy in the original full blind-tooled aniline calf. Professionally and period sympathetically re-backed with the original label retained; very impressively finished. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. ; 759 pages; LACKS the frontis. Physical desc. : x 4 759 i. E.775 1 p. ; 2o. Subject: Josephus Flavius. - Peri tou Houdaikou polemou. Jews - History. Judaism. Referenced by: ESTC t090837. London : Printed For J. Beaver And B. Lintot In Fleet Street, R. Knaplock In St. Paul's Church-Yard, J. Sprint In Little Brittai hardcover
1953rif. 76489Barcelona: Edicions Hora 1953. First edition in Catalan Llull's native tongue and the first edition with Campany aquatints. One of XVI special copies. Text printed in Catalan Llull is known for being among the first authors to use his vernacular language Catalan to communicate his ideas. Folio . 175 1 pp. with 11 full page hand-colored etchings drawn engraved and colored by the artist and ten large chapter headings all signed in pencil by the artist. Loose as issued in vellum-backed chemise with gilt spine lettering. Housed in a custom acrylic slipcase. A wonderful copy.This is a Catalan translation of Llull's 1305 although first published in 1512 work entitled Liber de Ascensu et Descensu Intellectus The Book of the Ascent and Descent of the Intellect. Ramon Llull is often thought of as an alchemist of the first order but strictly speaking he was a philosopher/theologian. His magnum opus Ars Magna displays his chief theme; the understanding of eternal truths by way of the intellect. While not himself an alchemist the seekers of the philosopher's stone were very influenced by Llull's ideas. In this book Llull describes the movement of the intellect through the many levels of understanding which some Renaissance alchemists such as Heinrich Khunrath interpreted as analogous to the transmutation process in alchemy. This striking volume was issued in an edition of 165 copies. This copy is one of XVI #VII copies containing an original drawing of one of the plates or of 2 of the vignettes a complete set of the proofs a series of sanguine proofs of the plates and the vignettes and the final proof of all the plates. It is the most desired format. Ramon de Capmany y de Montaner 1899 - 1992 was a Catalan painter engraver and bibliophile. He trained as a painter at the Escuela de la Lonja where he studied under the supervision of Francesc Labarta. He was one of the members of the the Evolutionists and one of the regulars of the Sala Pares. The Evolutionists were an artistic group from Barcelona in the aesthetic sphere of Noucentisme and who rejected programmatic orthodoxy and influenced by Cezanne and the Fauvists developed a personal work constructed and of austere colors. Mainly a landscape painter he mostly painted the surroundings of the Montseny Massif and the old part of the city of Barcelonain a naturalistic style. He also illustrated bibliophile editions such as this one. He held the position of curator in the board of the Ateneo Barcelones during the presidency of Pedro Gual Villalbi between 1952 and 1962. Some of his works can be found in the National Art Museum of Catalonia.One of the proofs of the work apart from the one designated to be signed by the artist is dedicated by Capmany to a Mr. Riera with the following words: ‘Prueba dedicada al Sr. Riera por el artista. Ramon Campmany.’ An original steel etched plate one used in the making of this volume comes with the work. It’s an additional object and no other copies have such a plate. This plate was a gift from the artist to the same Mr. Riera. Edicions Hora hardcover
1851rif. 320912San Francisco: Joseph W. Gregory 1851. 20 blank leaves. 24mo. Original dark purple wrappers printed in gilt. Minor ink stains on inner wrappers otherwise a near fine copy with the original unused plain paper envelope. 20 blank leaves. 24mo. A lovely example of an unused Gold Rush letter book intended to advertise Joseph Gregory's California and New York Express Line by means of a convenient way for gold seekers in California to communicate with friends and family back home. According to the wrapper "this book is made of the finest letter paper and of the size of a folded letter which with an envelope will not exceed the weight of a single letter and is more convenient than paper in sheets Joseph W. Gregory unknown
1851rif. 58179San Francisco: Thompson & Hitchcock 1851. Lovely Unused California Gold Rush Letter Book A lovely example of an unused Gold Rush letter book intended to advertise Joseph Gregory's California and New York Express Line as a convenient way for gold seekers in California to communicate with friends and family back home. Gregory's California Express according to the wrapper is "one of the oldest established in the business dispatch messengers BY EVERY STEAMER leaving New-York and San Francisco in charge of Letters Parcels Packages Gold Dust and valuables for distribution throughout the United States and California." Also according to Gregory's text "this book is made of the finest letter paper and of the size of a folded letter which with an envelope will not exceed the weight of a single letter and is more convenient than paper in sheets." The inside rear wrapper prints two testimonials from the PANAMA STAR praising the express line's speed and volume. Gregory also published a pamphlet titled GREGORY'S GUIDE FOR CALIFORNIA TRAVELLERS; VIA THE ISTHMUS OF PANAMA 1850 primarily to promote his business. A scarce and well-preserved piece of Gold Rush ephemera here with the original unused envelope. 24mo. Original dark purple wrappers printed in gilt. Very minor wear to wrapper edges. Near fine with the original unused plain paper envelope. unknown
1939rif. 59792Gold Hill Jackson County OR: Murphy Murray Dredging Company ca. 1939-1941. Oblong 4to. 30 pp unpaginated. on thick black paper stock. With 43 silver gelatin photographs mounted w/ black corners sized from 2.75 x 3.75 in. up to 3.5 x 6 in. some date stamped on versos several w/ pencil annotations in cursive manuscript minor chipping to couple corners edgewear. Contemporary flexible ribbed black cloth post-binder nickel plated screwposts at gutter margins minor edgewear VG. This series of photographs captures the historic gold mining by the last gold dredge to operate on Foots Creek in Southern Oregon on the property of Edward Dole. Several dredges and placer mining operations mined Foots Creek from the 19th well into the 20th Century with one dredge owned by the Rogue River Gold Mining Co. known as the Ferry Dredge dredged both forks of Foots Creek until 1935 when it was moved to Graves Creek. Under the direction of “Wicks the Boss” this dredge was brought in unassembled by railroad in 1939 and “this was his 35th dredge.” The photos show the steel hull mass boom erecting the steel framework framing the steel gantries for the dredge installing the winches as well as the massive 67 bucket line ladder built by New York Engineering Co. Yonkers NY. The newly constructed dredge shown here proceeded to work it’s way up the creek digging 20 feet below the water line and moved 4000 yards daily through the screening and wash plant with conveyor belts stacking the tailings behind. In March 1941 just months before the attack on Pearl Harbor the dredge was dismantled and moved to another location by the Murray Dredging co. although mounds and walls of rock paralleling the creek still offer visible signs of its operation. See: Lillian Knoteck Nosik A Historical Review of Gold Dredging on Foots Creek Southern Oregon Sunrise July 1978 pp. 34-36; Gilbert Walter The Grave Creek Gold Dredge Daily Courier Dec. 12 1994 p. 4B. Murphy Murray Dredging Company, hardcover
1912rif. 64223Portland OR: American Map and Reproducing Company Corner E. Stark & E. 43rd 1912. One double atlas folio colour lithograph map sized 28 x 40.5 professionally mounted on archival linen sized 32 x 45 in. w/ scale of 1:24000 minor edgewear slight age toning at fore-edges and lower corner still a VG bright copy. First edition of this very uncommon Progressive Era map of Portland Oregon in the years between the Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition and World War I. The map depicts public lands including township range and section grids along with neighborhood and addition place names steam & electric interurban railroads and electric streetcar lines along with parks city limits and radial distances from point in downtown Portland included. Place names included Zion Town the old steel bridge built in 1888 followed by a new Steel bridge which opened later in 1912 the Plank/Old Canyon Road Laurelhurst and others. Of particular interest beyond most maps of Portland during the era this map delineates a significant portion of Vancouver Washington prior to the construction of the Interstate Bridge across Hayden Island as well as inroads into portions of Northwest Portland and Washington County in the Southwest. Fritsche 1877-1928 was an intrepid German-American photo-lithographer architect printer and later photographer who first arrived in New York before coming West to the Pacific Northwest in 1907 where he set up an architecture and engraving firm with his brother Rudolph Fritsche. Wenzel is perhaps best remembered as architect of the historic Henry C. & Wilhemina Bruening House Craftsman bungalow located at 5919 North Williams in Portland’s Humboldt neighborhood erected in 1910. However by 1914 Wenzel had returned to Manhattan with his family including one son and three daughters. Worldcat locates 5 copies U of IL Boston Pub. OHS Reed U of O. American Map and Reproducing Company, [Corner E. Stark & E. 43rd], unknown
rif. MD42Quarto bifolium ca. 245x205 cm or 9 ½ x 7 ¾ in. 4 pp. Brown ink on bluish wove paper; maker’s blind-stamped monogram in the left upper corner of the first leaf. Foldmarks and a couple of mild creases paper slightly age-toned but overall a very good letter written in a legible hand. An interesting early original letter with a contemporary account of Captain William Waldo’s efforts to deliver supplies in 1850 to starving gold prospectors in the Sierra Nevada Mountains who arrived there during the California Gold Rush 1848-1855. “William Waldo 1812-1881 was a candidate for Governor of California in 1853. He was born in Harrison County Virginia now part of West Virginia but spent most of his life in Missouri where he was a merchant and steamboat captain. In 1849 he joined the gold rush to California at the head of a wagon train. In California the next year reports arrived of impending starvation among numerous immigrants on the Nevada side of the Sierra Nevada mountains. Waldo put great effort into recruiting and delivering supplies for them and became well known for his relief attempts. In 1853 the Whig party nominated Waldo as their candidate for Governor but he narrowly lost to the incumbent John Bigler. Following his defeat he returned east first to Minnesota and then back to Missouri where his wife and children had remained. In his later years he moved to Texas where he died” Wikipedia. “About 1852 an act was passed by the California Legislature partly reimbursing Mr. Waldo for his relief and efforts were made in other states to have the legislatures repay him for aid to their citizens or to urge Congress to do so but these appeals were in vain” St. Clair County Personalities: William Waldo// St. Clair County Courier Osceola Missouri 27 June 1940 p. 2. The letter starts with the discussion of the compiler’s family issues and proceeds to local news including “a continuous railroad from this region to the East in a few years” the expenses of Captain William Waldo and his property stolen by “the emigrants” actions of other Waldo family members and the author’s initiative to raise awareness of William Waldo’s relief efforts in the Legislatures of Virginia Missouri Illinois and Kentucky as well as in the U.S. Congress. Excerpts from the letter: “Dear Father Thomas arrived here in good health three days since and your letter came to hand this morning. I think he intends to remain here with me but it is hard to tell what course he would pursue. You may rest assured I shall make every effect an send him to school. It would have been much better had he arrived a few months either sooner or later as I then could have given him a fair trial but I shall have to be absent from home most of the time for the next two months and he may have leave some time during my absence. I have not yet drawn from Thomas his views but shall in a day or two make some propositions to him for his future conduct. Jedidiah is well and making fine progress in his studies but seems somewhat restless and I must fear will be inclined to go to California or Santa Fe should he quit school this summer. I think he had better be kept at school until he graduates which will take one or two years longer by that time he might become more stable and firm in his views for it seems to be a crisis in all our family when passing from boyhood to complete manhood. I have had much conversation with him and write him frequently and think if he can be kept from committing some act of folly in the next two or three years that he may make a man of no little importance and if kept at school he would go forth to commence lide a complete scholar which I think of vast importance and not to be estimated in many. <…> I find he is very irratable sic! which it greatly increased by <…> of spirits occasionally <…> and my impression is that it would be better for him not to return home this summer <…> My love to Mother and she can rest assured that I will leave nothing under to take care of Thomas. There will be a continuous Railroad from this region to the East in a few years and then we shall look for you & mother if you do not come sooner. The kins are all well in this country. William Marten in Santa Fe at last accounts. Letters from W. Waldo in California to 8 January in good health and spirits but pretty well through in a many way. Spent sum 25 or 30 thousand dollars releasing the emigrants three months time had a large amount say 10 or 15 thousand dollars of property stolen during his absence and in any way got through about $50000 in assisting the emigrants. I have no ideas when he will return. His family are yet in Illinois but will return. Janus Marten is in bad health in California but quite rich. Joseph Waldo & Samuel Waldo in Oregon all well last accounts. Calvin and family are all well he has recorded his grand health but is lame. <…> I have had no letter from Mortimer this month. I sent him some papers giving accounts of W. Waldo’s opperations sic! in California & hoped he would have resolutions in his favor passed through the Legislation of Va. Missouri Illinois & Kentucky have all passed memorials to Congress in his behalf <…>” unknown
1881rif. 45183Flumine Januario / Rio de Janeiro: Typ. Economica 1881. First complete edition. Half black morocco over marbled boards gilt spine title. A very good copy boards rubbed repaired tear and closed tear on Volume V half title and title page. xii vii 467 1 pp. 4to. Published in and taking up the entire volume of Archivos do Museu Nacional do Rio De Janeiro. Volume V. 1880 1881. Added title page: Petro nomine ac imperio primo Brasiliensis imperii perpetuo defensore . jubente Flora fluminensis a' fr. Josepho Mariano a Conceptione Vellozo Ordinis monorum collecta descripta et elaborata anno M.D. CC. XC. Ex M.S. cod. Imperialis bibliothecæ eruta nunc primo etitur. Flumine Januario A.D.M. DCCC. XXV imperii IV. José Xavier Veloso 1742-1811 born in what is now Minas Gerais Brazil was ordained in 1766 in the convent of St. Anthony in Rio de Janeiro where he studied philosophy and theology later geometry in San Paulo and finally natural history. He collected plants animals and minerals in the Rio de Janeiro area from 1783 to 1790 at which time he moved to Lisbon where he worked at the Royal Academy of Sciences while preparing Florae Fluminensis his greatest work for publication. Using the Linnaeus’ system of sexual classification of plants he prepared very highly detailed texts and 1700 prints many of them of new species. But the publication of the work was beset by problems. First sent to Venice the plates were never completed. Later the French invasion of the Iberian peninsular sent the Portuguese government then Veloso and his manuscripts into exile in Brazil where he died in 1811. In 1825 an abbreviated version of the text was published followed by the eleven volumes of the Icones in 1827 of which few copies survive. The complete text was not published until this edition in 1881. Bound with and proceeded by Archivos do Museu Nacional do Rio De Janeiro. Volume IV. 1879. Rio 1881. viii 151 1 pp vii plates. Folded color plate split at fold. Volume subtitle: Insectologia. Includes Müller Fritz: A metamorphose de um insecto diptero among other works. Rodrigues 2473. Sabin 98833n. For the shorter version of 1825 see: Barba de Moraes II p. 343. Pritzel 468. Jackson 377. Innocencio V.5 4258; V.13 p.122. Also see Nissen BBI 2046. Typ. Economica hardcover
rif. 23533Address given in text 181 Grand-Lancy Geneva Switzerland; 17 Aug.1901. Two pages 8vo bifolium blank second leaf laid down on former album page 22 x 14cm good condition. Text: "The last time I saw you I spoke to you about the necessity of translating and printing in russian sic 'Barclay's Apology'. I think that the sooner it will be printed the better and ought to be printed in russian without any abriviations sic. But I have not the means of paying the translation and printing. Do you think the Society of Friends would give the necessary money for the translation and printing If the Society of Friends cannot pay the money then I think of making extracts from the book and will print them at my own expense but as the work is much the same I would like to earn the money for the printing of extracts by translating the whole book. There would be then two editions. 1/ The whole book and 2/ extracts. What do you think of my idea Some time ago I wrote about all this to Aylmer Maude and asked him to write to you about this affair but not receiving any answer from him I now write directly to you and hope you will soon give me a reply address given and plan for the winter for his family". Autograph Material by Hilkoff is scarce. Address given in text, 181 Grand-Lancy, Geneva, Switzerland; 17 Aug.1901. unknown
1672rif. QQ0466No publisher 1672. Original full dark brown mottled calf triple blind fillets framing boards triple fillets parallel to spine to front and rear boards. Raised bands blind decor and red gilt label to spine. Remains of blind decor to board edges. Hinges secure cords all holding firm though leather of front hinge cracked except for a 1cm section at base and rear board is cracked at top over hinge c. 3cm. Small loss to top spine. 8vo 11.8 x 18.4cm. All edges marbled faded. Endpapers cracked at gutters. Recent bookplate and minor pencil annots to inside front board. Typographic headpiece. Very minor tidemark to bottom margin of pp. 437-444. A response to Stillingfleet's 'notorious book on Idolatry among Catholics' Clancy the 1671 'Discourse concerning the idolatry practised in the Church of Rome' which was itself answered by Daniel Whitby and Stillingfleet himself. The 5pp. dedication to the queen is signed 'T. G.' for Thomas Godden pseudonym of Thomas Tylden or Tilden 1622-1688 Roman Catholic controversialist. The son of a tanner from Kent Tylden converted to Catholicism as a young man and by 1656 was president of the English College in Lisbon where he was created D.D. in 1660. In 1661 he was appointed chaplain and preceptor to Princess Catherine of Braganza: he accompanied her to England and was among the witnesses to her marriage to Charles II after which he remained a member of her household serving as chaplain and treasurer: 'it is said that he taught her to speak English' ODNB. According to Bishop John Russell Tylden 'spent his life at court as though in the cloister and "he was very dear to the Queen and not disliked by the King"' ODNB. His refutation of Stillingfleet in Catholicks No Idolaters was his 'most important work' ODNB. This copy has the separate section of 48pp. before the main body of the work called for in ESTC but according to Clancy 'not to be found in most . copies'. ESTC R16817; Clancy 962.3. Robust packaging. Tracking is always added to USA orders. It can be added to other overseas orders on request. Used books are exempt from USA tariffs. 1st edition. Very Good. 32 48 448pp. No publisher Hardcover
1722rif. 7302Londini London: Impensis Richardi Sare . 1722. Folio pp. xliv 468. Parallel Greek and Latin text contemporary panelled calf neatly rebacked retaining original spine corners and end-papers renewed. Nineteenth century book label: Bishopric of Cornwall. Second century Christian author probably martyred under Marcus Aurelius. Styan Thirlbys edition is described by Dibdin as splendid and carefully executed although Dibdin is cautious regarding Thirlbys achievements as editor: ingenious but vain seems to be his opinion. Book Impensis Richardi Sare [...] unknown
2010rif. DADAX1893951596Ripley Publishing 2010-11-09. 1. paperback. New. 7.75x0.40x5.25. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Ripley Publishing paperback
