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ref. ria9780443068126_inpPaperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Orthopedic soft-tissue problems are common among the general population whether from sports occupational activities or chronic pain. This text presents a comprehensive look at the physiological nature of these conditions and the mass paperback
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2023ref. 015569Sphere 2023. Hardcover. Fine. Robert Gold. Eleven liars. First U.K. hardback printing . Sphere 2023. Fine jacket priced £14.99. Fine boards. Sharp and bright. Fine contents. No previous owner marks or names. Signed and publication dated on title page by author. Highly praised thriller. Very few with these attributes . Sphere hardcover
1906ref. 76610London:: John Long 1906. Fifth Impression. publisher's purple gilt cloth in dust jacket. Name and date heavily effaced from the front free endpaper with black felt-tip pen which has bled through to the verso; another 1907 notation below that; otherwise a bright copy in a slightly sunned dust jacket with a small abrasion on the rear panel. . 8vo. John Long, hardcover
2000ref. mon0003180761University Of Iowa Press 6/8/2023 12:00:01 AM. paperback. Like New. 0.9000 9.0000 6.0000. University Of Iowa Press paperback
2008ref. 1-0809328348Southern Illinois Univ Pr 2008. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 199 pages. 9.00x5.75x0.25 inches. Southern Illinois Univ Pr paperback
ref. 39764Circa 1885. Albumen print photograph 160 x 210 mm of two pages of music notation the original was most likely handwritten and then lithographically printed before it was photographed; generic title legible as Airs tahitiens at the head of the left-hand page with the title of the individual tune Arue! Arue! = Praise! Praise! at the head of the right-hand-page; the print was laid down on a sheet of folding card 175 x 220 mm by its original owner Papeete resident Mary Young see below to create a unique ""homemade"" piece of sheet music; the albumen print has a few small small surface scratches but is otherwise in good condition; the card mount is toned and lightly foxed. This unusual photograph of a transcription of traditional Tahitian music was probably taken in Papeete by either Charles Georges Spitz or Mrs Sophia Hoare the only two professional photographers working in Tahiti in this period. Provenance: Mary Young Stringer 1854 Tahiti - 1918 Auckland wife of merchant James Lyle Young 1849-1929; by descent through the Australian branch of the Young family. Mary journeyed by herself from Australia where she had been visiting relatives to San Francisco via Hawaii at the end of 1888. She gave birth to their son Walter Lyle in San Francisco on 2 June 1889 before returning with her newborn to Tahiti in August. Later in life Mary settled in Homebush Sydney. James Lyle Young 1849-1929 was a Pacific Islands trader based in Tahiti. He was the cousin of Irish politician diplomat and historian James 1st Viscount Bryce 1838-1922. Young was a founding member of the Polynesian Society. He collected many important Micronesian and Polynesian artefacts which were either donated to the Auckland Museum New Zealand or sold to the Bishop Museum Hawaii. His journals and miscellaneous papers are held in the Mitchell Library Sydney. unknown
1709ref. 4788Amsterdam Leeuwarden 1709. Small 8vo. Jan ten Hoorn Pieter Ruirds Contemporary vellum title in ink in manuscript on spine. With fine engraved frontispiece by J. Luyken. 2 parts in one volume. 8 320; 196 20 pp. Rare 3rd edition of the Dutch translation of a popular work on medicinal herbs plants minerals etc. with recipes. It starts with the Theatrum sympateticum divided into two parts by the English diplomat and philosopher Kenelm Digby 1603-1665. The first contains notes on medicinal herbs and plants curing everyday ailments the second explains how to make the "powder of sympathy" "a potion which allowed the healing of the wound by treating the weapon which caused it" MacDonald and includes extracts from works by Papinius and Sylvester Rattrat. The powder of sympathy could also be put on a bandage that had been in contact with the wound without ever touching the wound. Digbys work is followed by 't Groote licht der natuurkunde by Athanasius Kircher 1602-1680 a work on magnetic forces and the influence of the moon sun and planets on the earth. The book closes with extracts from Digby's memoirs containing recipes for "new" medicines including mostly household and cosmetic recipes like face powder for women and water to whiten teeth. The first Dutch edition was published in 1681.With bookplate of Kenneth Garth Huston 1926-1987 physician book collector and bibliographer of Digby on the front paste-down. Hinges weak with a very small wormhole in the outer margin of pp. 127-320 of the first part and the entire second part not affecting the text with some wormholes in the upper-outer corner of the leaves of the bladwyser and the index of the second part affecting the text and in some leaves repared with paper.l Caillet 10601; DNB V 970; DSB IV 95-6 ; Ferguson Bib. chem. I pp. 212-213; cf: Duveen pp. 172-173 & 574; Muller Pop. proza 763 2nd ed. 1697; De Vries Pop. proza 473 idem. hardcover
ref. ABC_46768Cairo: Government Press 1933. Original publisher's pink paper wrappers printed letterpress. Although the book is in quires of 8 leaves unwatermarked wove paper they are not sewn but stapled through the side 3 staples. Imperial 8vo 27 x 18.5 cm. With 14 rotogravure plates printed in sepia 1 folding facsimile letter 2 folding graphs a plate with 6 pie charts and 1 illustration also in red showing schematically a smuggling box. Rare work on drug trafficking in Egypt in the 1930s and an important example of the authors "war on drugs": he was director of the Central Narcotics Intelligence Bureau. Thomas Wentworth Russell 1879-1954 sometimes better known as Russell Pasha was a police officer in service of Egypt who was appalled by the increasing drug trafficking in Egypt and the large number of drug addicts in the country. He founded the Central Narcotics Intelligence Bureau CNIB making it his mission to rid Egypt of drugs especially what he called "white drugs" cocaine morphine heroin but also of "black drugs" hashish opium. Russell was one of the most important anti-drug campaigners in Egypt in his time and after greatly raising awareness of the rising problem. Here he describes how drugs are smuggled in large quantities from abroad to Egypt. In many chapters he extensively describes the foreign sources of supply discussing not only important drug barons but also mentioning specific ships and other means of transport used to smuggle drugs notes cases where weapons were used by traffickers discusses people involved in the trade traffickers and their methods of smuggling in shoes camel saddles etc. addiction and its social effects and death rates and much more. Although 3000 copies were printed the printers code for the job is printed on the back of the title-page: 10506-1932-3000 ex. it is a scarce and outstanding example of Russell's anti-drug campaign extensively describing drug trafficking in Egypt in the 1930s being well-illustrated with photographs of drug barons users traffickers and methods of concealment. We have located only four other copies but due to ambiguity between the year covered 1932 and the year of publication 1933 three further locations are uncertain.Authors presentation copy for the English poet and dramatist John Drinkwater with an inscription by Russell on the front wrapper "John Drinkwater With compliments from the director Tho Russell 24/3/33" insciption in Arabic script" and his red stamp next to the inscription.Spine of wrapper damaged and front wrapper detached and with light water stain. A rare survival.l KVK 1 copy; WorldCat 1780146 3-6 copies. Government Press, unknown
1837ref. ABC_47224Paris 1837. Folio ca. 35 x 26.5 cm. Dauty Contemporary half sheepskin maroon watered silk sides title in gold on the front board. With an engraved title-page and 11 of 23 engraved botanical prints: 4 showing 5 kinds of fruits each 3 showing 9 types of flowers each and 4 showing flower bouquets. All prints are stipple engravings and coloured by a contemporary hand some parts glazed with egg white. 12 ll. Extremely rare botanical print series showing both European and exotic fruits and flowers engraved by Jean-Baptiste Huet the younger 1772-1852 after designs of Benoît-Louis Prévost 1735-1804 or Jean-Louis Prévost 1760-1810. It also includes four plates showing bouquets from Europe America Asia and Africa. Only one complete copy is known at the Bibliothèque nationale de France we have traced no copy in sale or auction records and it is not mentioned in the usual botanical bibliographical works. The BnF copy is described in the Inventaire du fonds français après 1800 where the series consists of 23 prints issued all together under this title. The BnF and the IFF date the work ca. 1837-1839 but it is more likely that it is ca. 1837-1838 as Dauty died in 1838 and he printed at Rue de Bibliothèque no. 16 only in 1827 and 1835-1838. The BnF ascribes the designs for the prints to Benoît-Louis Prévost but Jean-Louis Prévost remains a possibility for he produced another famous print series of flowers and fruits in the same style of stipple engravings Collection des fleurs et fruits 1805.With a contemporary inscription "A M.elle Vincent" on the first free endleaf dedicating it to or belonging to the famous French 19th-century botanical painter Henriette Vincent 1786-1834 who was a student of Gerard van Spaendonck and Pierre-Joseph Redouté. Head and foot of the spine damaged and spine slightly worn boards a little rubbed edges slightly worn corners bumped. Some light browning and foxing throughout title-page a little more browned and with a light marginal water stain. Lacking 12 plates according to IFF. Otherwise in good condition. An extremely rare botanical print series vividly hand-coloured.l BnF FRBNF40503621; IFF Inventaire du fonds français après 1800 Huet p. 518; not in Nissen BBI; Pritzel; Stafleu & Cowan. hardcover
1961ref. 19935Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott 1961. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. BOOK FINE/JACKET VERY GOOD. 8vo - over 7¾"" - 9¾"" tall. 192 pages. AN EXTREMELY CLEAN ATTRACTIVE COPY WITH A BRIGHT BEAUTIFUL DUSTJACKET IN NEW GLOSSY BRODART. 1ST PRINTING. NOT PRICE CLIPPED. NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKINGS. Second in the Midge Heydon series. NOT an ex-library book. Stated first edition. Scarce in this edition and condition. J. B. Lippincott hardcover
1748ref. ABC_46957London 1748. Large 4to. printed for the author by John and Paul Knapton Bound by Marcus Ward & Co. founded 1833 with their bookbinder's label on the front paste-down in 19th-century calf gold-tooled and blind-tooled frame on both boards gold-tooled spine with red morocco spine label with title in gold gold-tooled board edges blind-tooled turn-ins red edges blue ribbon marker. With 42 engraved plates maps and plans all but one folding. 1 1 blank 32 1 blank 417 1 blank 2 pp. First edition of this important and popular account of the unfortunate and famous expedition of George Anson being considered as the one most sought after Borba de Moraes. It is an account of Ansons expedition to the western coast of South America to harass the Spanish trading territories and cutting off the Spanish supplies of wealth in this way after the outbreak of the War of Jenkinss Ear between Britain and Spain in 1739. Anson was the commander of 7 ships in 1740 including the Centurion but soon his expedition threatened to turn into a fiasco. His squadron was battered by storms and bad weather causing damage and shipwrecks and many of his crew died from scurvy typhus and dysentery. The remaining crew was transferred to the Centurion the last remaining vessel and Anson limped across the Pacific to Macao. In June 1743 he sailed to the Philippines were he achieved a substantial victory near Manila by capturing the Nuestra Senora de Covadonga a Spanish galleon filled with gold. After sailing around the world Anson returned to England in June 1744 and in spite of his enormous losses he returned with large profits.Ansons voyage being one of the greatest voyages in the history of exploration and naval warfare laid the foundation for British voyages and exploration of the Pacific and more specific for English trade in this area. The present account being based upon Ansons own ship journal describing this troubled expedition soon became highly popular in the 18th century and is even considered as the masterpiece of descriptive travel and the most popular book of maritime adventure of the eighteenth century Hill. With occasionally a correction of the text in brown ink and the name of Mr. Sweeting added to the list of subscribers. Binding slightly worn around the edges and with a few minor scratches on the boards some marginal foxing and staining to both the text leaves and plates especially in the first part barely affecting the plates except the map of the Pacific Ocean which is a little more stained folding lines of some plates especially all three large folding maps reinforced but sometimes still with some very small tears on the folding lines some corners of the folding plates slightly frayed but overall a copy of the first edition of this important 18th-century travelogue with all the plates which is still in good condition.l Alden/Landis 748/225; Borba de Moraes I p. 38; Cox I p. 49; ESTC T89475; Hill 1817; Howgego A-100; Kroepelien 1086; Sabin 101175 cf. 1625. hardcover
1818ref. ABC_45491Haarlem 1818. Large 8vo. A. Loosjes Pz. Contemporary half calf marbled sides. 4 IV 127 pp. Very rare first and only edition of the only Dutch translation of a Russian description of the United States of America. The title-page notes that it is translated from the German translation 1816 and the preface notes that the first edition in Russian appeared in 1815. A second Russian edition appeared at St. Petersburg in 1818 and has sometimes been described as the first.The great Russian author Pavel Petrovic Svinyin or Svin'in here westernized to "Paul Swinin" is best known for his Sketches of Russia published in the West under the name "Suinine". The identity of the Dutch translator of the present work is unknown. It gives an interesting "picturesque" travel account of the United States spanning the year 1813 and provides five main accounts covering different subjects: a statistical survey; a religious overview with descriptions of the several Christian communities naming Methodists Quakers Shakers Baptists and more; a description of the different types of steamboats used in North America; a biography of the French general Jean Victor Moreau who lived in exile in the United States from 1805 to 1812; and a description of the dancing rituals of indigenous American "Indians" naming the Osage Arkansas Sioux and Saki tribes which the Russian author interestingly compares with tribes in the Caucasus.With the bookplate of the society Doctrina & Amicitia on the front paste-down. Some browning on the first and last few pages. Covers very slightly rubbed. Otherwise in very good condition.l NCC; Sabin 93997; WorldCat 10553560 & 656756512; not in Howgego. ABE CAT Anthropology & Ethnography unknown
1951ref. 20506Honolulu HI: Honolulu Star-Bulletin Ltd. Very Good. 76th Edition. Softcover. A bit of darkening to boards.; A very thorough almanach and in the rear travel guide with many illustrations photos maps ads.; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 352 pages . 1951. Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Ltd paperback
1606ref. 63TA003RHVIKParis 1606. Small oblong folio 19 x 25.5 cm. Thomas de Leu Gold-tooled blue goatskin morocco ca. 1890 bound by Bernard David or his son Salvador David in Paris on 5 recessed supports each board with elegant double borders title and date reading up the spine with decorations above and below gold-tooled turn-ins and board edges curl-marbled endpapers signed with a stamp - in sans-serif capitals - in the corner of the first free endleaf DAVID. With an engraved allegorical title page including a 2-line quotation from Hebrews 11:37-38 and 29 engraved prints plate size ca. 15 x 19 cm: mostly numbered but a few unnumbered or irregularly numbered illustrating the lives of the early Christian hermits living in the desert 7 signed by Thomas de Leu as printer-publisher in 2 cases accompanied by the monogram NB the engraver Nicolaes de Bruyn. 1 29 engraved ll. Finely engraved title page and prints depicting the lives of hermits living in the desert as described by Hieronymus in his famous Vitae patrum. The engraved title page and prints were printed and published by Thomas de Leu or de Leeuw 1560-1612 a Flemish engraver in Paris who probably engraved many himself. He had begun his career in Antwerp and some of the prints signed by him excudit also bear the NB monogram of the engraver Nicolaes de Bruyn 1571-1656 in Antwerp. The Antwerp painter Maarten de Vos 1531/32-1603 had drawn numerous hermit scenes: four series engraved printed and published by Johannes I Sadeler ca. 1550-ca. 1600 and his brother Raphael I Sadeler 1560-1632 who continued alone with three further series making in total seven series containing 7 engraved title pages and 107 prints all published at Antwerp at least the first series in or before 1584. De Leu and De Bruyn very skillfully copied all seven series including the title pages and captions. The present selection includes the title page of the first series Solitudo which originally contained 29 prints but only 16 of the present 29 prints come from that series the other 13 are taken from series 2 Sylvae 1 3 Trophaeum 1 4 Oraculum 5 Sylvae 2 and 6 Trophaeum 2.Bernard David 1824-1895 studied under Lortic and other leading Paris bookbinders before setting up on his own there. His son Salvador d. 1929 took over the workshop in 1890. The laid endpapers show no watermark. With aa small marginal tear repaired occasional minor marginal spots and a few tiny and insignificant scuff marks on the edges of the binding. Book and binding otherwise in very good condition and with ample margins.l Hollstein XXI pp. 147-155 nos. 377-450 & pp. 240-245 nos. 118-157 the Sadeler eds. but noting the De Leu eds. at the end of each series; www.calcografica.it many of the prints in these De Leu series; USTC 6000645 3 copies; cf. for De Leu also: Benezit 6 p. 623; Thieme-Becker 23 pp. 143-144. unknown
1769ref. 85296Boston Massachusetts: Edes and Gill 1769. First American. Pamphlet. Good Plus. LACKS TITLE PAGE Octavo 8" x 5." This edition published in Boston by Edes and Gill Printers to the Honourable House of Representatives is a reprint of the London edition issued earlier in 1769 in London by George Kearsly. The first leaf shows ragged-edges spotting and toning; remainder shows light toning throughout. Several names scribbled ink-blotted out pen trials to page 3 and verso of p. 55. A detailed treatise outlining the defense of colonial rights and privileges based on constitutional principles original charters and the consequences of coercive parliamentary measures and cruel legislative and fiscal enforcement. This letter is sometimes misattributed to Samuel Adams but said misattribution perhaps issuing primarily from Joseph Sabin is considered by some historians to be insufficiently evidence-based. For one thing the first printing of this pamphlet was in London while at the time Samuel Adams was in Boston stirring the proverbial revolutionary pot. Hutchinson History of Massachusetts believes this "anonymous" author was James Bowdoin. An informative and important foundational document outlining point-by-point the unsound reasoning and lack of fairness in British policies regarding the colonies. Quite scarce on the market. Evans 11310; Sabin 31912. NOTE: LACKS TITLE PAGE. An important letter addressed to Wills Hill the1st Earl of Hillsborough then Secretary of State for the American colonies. Hill was "viewed by colonists and their sympathizers as a chief proponent of strict parliamentary taxation and military coercion" and a leading champion of economic oppressions levied upon the American colonists by Great Britain. Famously in order to extract itself from debts incurred from the Seven Years War the British Parliament imposed a direct tax upon American colonists; said "Stamp Act" set to begin in the fall of 1765 stated that all legal documents and printed materials must bear a tax stamp provided by commissioned distributors who would collect the tax in exchange for the stamp. This law applied not only to official documents such as wills and deeds but extended to newspapers pamphlets and even playing cards and dice." Further a provision of the act stated that violators would not be eligible for a trial by jury. After vocal and at times violent colonial resistance to the Act it was repealed in 1766. However the Stamp Act was supplanted by The Declaratory Act which essentially reaffirmed presumptions that the British Parliament wielded the power to pass any laws regarding the colonists which they so desired. The issues evinced by these acts simmered for ten years and had much to do with the events comprising the American Revolution. in part from History Dot Com 11/09/09. Edes and Gill unknown
1609ref. A86ACTMRTZ41Franc end al" = Amsterdam: Frederijck de Vrije" 1609. Disbound. Small 4to. Poems celebrating the truce with Spain though attributed to a former opponent of the truce with the Dutch poems in textura types and Latin marginal notes in roman. A political pamphlet in verse celebrating peace and dated less than a month before the signing of the Twelve Years' Truce between Spain and the Dutch Republic. The main poem takes the form of a "codicil" to War's "last will and testament." It recites the various legacies both good and bad that the War has left to people on both sides and even to people and countries not directly involved in the fighting. Asher mistakenly lists the present pamphlet as no. 11 in the Bye-Korf series: it was published about six months after the Bye-Korf was banned but later collectors often inserted it and the associated Testament in place of the earlier Testament which should have been Asher 26-28/10. The author place of publication and publisher given on the title-page are all word plays "Yemand van Waer-Mond" for example suggesting "someone of honest mouth." The STCN attributes the pamphlet with a query to Nierop who propagandized against peace in one of the Bye-Korf pamphlets Asher 28/37 but rejoiced in it once it came. Alden & Landis attributes the associated Testament ofte Wtersten Wille to Middelgeest. The poet's four-line verse on the back of the title-page is signed with the motto: "Yet Meer en mocht/Min en docht Niet."A nice view of popular feelings about the Truce just before it formally took effect.With some tears at the fold of the outermost bifolium and only slightly browned otherwise a very good copy.l Asher 26-28/11; Knuttel 1584; Simoni W 34; Tiele 751; OCLC WorldCat 3 copies. Frederijck de Vrije", unknown
1908ref. 18724CB1908. St. Peterburg 1908. Gr.8°. 262 pages. With several plates reproductions of photographs and four pages with facsimile signatures and an alphebetical list of more than 170 deputies. Contemporary half cloth binding. The binding a bit used. Very rare document of the Russian history of parliamentarism the first Duma which ran 73 days until July 8 1906. The first Duma opened 1906 with around 500 deputies. Most radical left partis had boycotted the election. The moederate Constitutional Democrats Kadets had the most deputies around 180. Sergei Muromtsev Professor of Law at the Moscow University was the elected chairman. Lev Urosov held a famous speech. Scared by this liberalism the Czar has dissolved the Duma. Pyotr Stolypin was named the new Prime Minister. Paul Miliukov and approximately 200 deputies mostly from the liberal Kadets party decamped to Vyborg part of Russian Finland since the parliament in St. Petersburg was closed. They discussed their plans for the future and issued the Vyborg appeal / manifest which called for civil disobedience. It ended with their arrest and the closure of the Kadet party offices. hardcover
ref. 92759Berlin Paul Cassirer 1914-16. 2° 48 x 32 cm je 2 Bl zahlreiche Abb. davon teilweise blattgrosse Orig.-Lithogr. Lose Hefte in Original-Flügelmappe Mappe etwas fleckig u. eingerissen. Hefte sauber 3 Hefte min. wasserrändig am Fuss. Die ersten Hefte auf sehr holzhaltigem sprödem Papier darum gebräunt u. kleine Fehlstellen am Rande - insgesamt gute Exemplare. Alle Lithographien im Stein signiert.Mit Beiträgen in Form von Originallithographien von Ernst Barlach Max Beckmann Hans Baluschek Erich Büttner August Gaul Rudolph Grossmann Franz Heckendorf Otto Hettner Dora Hitz Ferdinand Hodler Heinrich Hübner Willy Jaeckel Georg Kolbe Max Liebermann Hans Meid Oskar Nerlinger Max Oppenheimer Max Slevogt Ottomar Starke Max Unold Wilhelm Wagner E.R. Weiss und vielen anderen.Die überwiegend nationalistisch kriegsbejahenden Lithographien etwa Max Liebermanns erscheinen neben Arbeiten von Ernst Barlach Max Beckmann August Gaul Willy Jaeckel Käthe Kollwitz oder Wilhelm Trübner mit teilweise sogar chauvinistischem Unterton die speziell für diese Zeitschrift angefertigt wurden. Künstler die gemeinhin eher für eine oppositionelle Haltung zum politischen Establishment des Deutschen Kaiserreichs bekannt sind fügten sich nach Kriegsausbruch zunächst dem politischen „Burgfrieden“ und stellten sich freiwillig in den Dienst einer nationalen Begeisterung für den Krieg. Dieser Grundströmung folgte aber schon bald die Ernüchterung die ihren Niederschlag in veränderten Themen fand. Statt hurra-patriotisch stürmender Soldaten in Kampfszenen erschienen zunehmend eskapistische mit kritischen Untertönen versehene Bildwerke mit teils sogar auch verstohlen pazifistischen Ansätzen.Schon Mitte 1915 begann der Verleger die zunächst wöchentliche Erscheinungsweise des Periodikums auf einen zweiwöchigen Publikationsrhythmus zu strecken ehe es vor seiner Einstellung 1916 nurmehr unregelmäßig veröffentlicht wurde. Ihm folgte „Der Bildermann“ das neue Zeitschriften-Projekt Paul Cassirers das in gleichem Umfang und mit gleicher Ausstattung wie die „Kriegszeit“ aber mit anderer inhaltlicher Ausrichtung ab 1916 erschien. 010 Berlin, Paul Cassirer, 1914-16 unknown
1953ref. Alibris.0008135Gold Star Mother's Club of Genesee County 1953. First edition. . Hard cover. Very good. light shelfwear someone penciled in the age of many of the soldiers when they died in a very neat hand adds to the book I think. 191 p. Includes illustrations. Gold Star Mother's Club of Genesee County hardcover
1962ref. 19756Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott 1962. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. BOOK NEAR FINE/JACKET VERY GOOD. 8vo - over 7¾"" - 9¾"" tall. 185pp. A VERY CLEAN ATTRACTIVE COPY WITH A BRIGHT DUSTJACKET IN NEW GLOSSY BRODART. Discoloration to dustjacket. 1st printing. Previous owner name on front endpaper. Main character is Twink Elliott. NOT AN EX-LIBRARY COPY! Stated first edition. J. B. Lippincott hardcover
1835ref. H1EFLHU1E5LWEngland and/or Sweden 1835. 4to 24.5 x 18 cm. Each drawing mounted on or occasionally drawn on a card loose in a Swedish blind-blocked textured red cloth portfolio ca. 1860 title in gold on front board decorated endpapers purple on white red cloth ties. 36 pencil drawings of English thoroughbred race horses 7.5 x 11.5 to 11 x 16 cm 1 finished in ink washes and a few touched up with white or light brown. 36 loose ll. A collection of 36 pencil drawings of famous English thoroughbred race horses by at least three artists including one signed "Harry Hall" and several others clearly based directly or indirectly on his paintings. Some horses appear in their stables or grounds sometimes with a stable boy groom or owner others are shown carrying a jockey during a race at a track. The earliest horses shown include a beautiful pencil and ink-wash drawing of Camel 1822-1844 who raced from 1825 to 1827 and won the 1826 Port Stakes at Newmarket. He is better known as the sire of Touchstone 1831-1861 also shown one of the most famous thoroughbreds of all time who raced from 1833 to 1837. In very good condition with only some minor wrinkles in one drawing and faint stains in another. Portfolio good. A charming collection of horse drawings mostly from the early 1850s. ABE CAT Art History hardcover
1777ref. J8I9ZWYDE414The Netherlands 1777. 4to. Contemporary half roan sheepskin sewn on 2 vellum tapes red-sprinkled paper sides red-sprinkled edges with a heart-shaped paper label on the front board with the manuscript inscription J. Visscher above the date 1 above 28 flanked by 17 . 77. A scrap album containing about 330 cut-out images from engraved prints most neatly and uniformly coloured by a contemporary hand probably for the publisher or publishers. 1 170 1 ll. including integral paste-downs. A carefully and neatly assembled scrap album containing about 330 coloured engraved images each carefully cut out of a print close to the people animals plants and objects depicted so that the background in most images is entirely cut away. The images show people including costume figures caricatures and oriental figures boats and ships flowers architectural views including garden views fountains and sculptures theatre prints birds insects Aesop illustrations and other items. They include a large image nearly filling the quarto leaf of a man on a ladder picking fruit from a tree and a whaling scene with a man harpooning a spouting whale. The heart-shaped label with the name J. Visscher and date 28 January 1777 suggests that the album was assembled for Visschers betrothal or marriage on that date. This is supported by the final cut-out nearly filling the paste-down at the end which shows a well-dressed man sitting on a barrel left perhaps a merchant and a standing woman right with a grape vine full of ripe grapes growing up between them. He holds the vine with his left hand and she with her right. Buijnsters notes that 18th-century scrapbooks such as the present are very rare though he notes a Dutch print from ca. 1703/08 where the publishers Jacobus and Jan Bouman encourage people to clip out the images and paste them on red paper. From the collection of Piet Buijnsters & Leontine Smets with the Buijnsters-Smets bookplate. In the last image the man and woman with a grape vine the mans right arm and the womans right hand have been lost but the album leaves and engraved cut-outs are otherwise in very good condition. The binding is slightly rubbed but still good. A 1777 album of about 330 coloured engraved images apparently assembled to commemorate a marriage.l Piet J. Buijnsters "Het Nederlandse 'scrapbook' 1775-1900" in: Antiek XXXI pp. 50-58 at p. 52 & figs. 1 2 & 5 the last incorrectly described as from a 19th-century album; WorldCat 2 albums of Engelbrechts Aufschneidebilder plus his peepshows and other sets of his images; for Engelbrechts peepshows and privilege: B.M. Stafford & F. Terpak Devices of wonder p. 336. hardcover
1758ref. H6IG81I49TLCSaxony 1758. 8vo. Brown morocco Lyon ca. 1900 with gold-tooled turn-ins marbled end-papers headbands and ribbon marker in green red and yellow gilt edges signed by Louis GUÉTANT. With title-page printed in red and black and 16 numbered double-page engraved plates. 87 pp. First edition in French published one year after the first German edition of the first work attributed to David Cranz missionary in the Moravian United Brethren best known for his 1765 description of Greenland. The present work gives a history of the United Brethren their beliefs and their practices both in Europe and in their missions in America. The church was established in 1457 but the book concentrates on its history since its establishment in Herrnhut Saxony near the Moravian border under Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf in 1722. Under his guidance the church set up their mission in Greenland in 1733 and a 1747 act of Parliament under George II granted them permission to practice their religion freely in the British colonies in America. The illustrations show ordination induction baptism communion marriage exorcism an agape feast and other activities in the Moravian Church as well as their missionary work among black slaves in the West Indies 2 plates American Indians probably in Pennsylvania and native Greenlanders.With the gold-stamped leather armorial bookplate of Noé de Salvert. In very good condition with occasion light marginal foxing. The beautiful binding by the deluxe binder Louis Guétant active in Lyon ca. 1895-ca. 1920 is in fine condition with only a couple scratches on the back cover. A rare and important primary source for the Moravian United Brethren with remarkable plates of Greenland Eskimos American Indians and black West Indian slaves.l Brunet I col. 1258; James Ford Bell B-426; Sabin 7935 see also 97851 & note before 97846; KVK 3 copies; BN-OPALE plus 2 copies; Kirchenlexikon XVI cols. 324-336; not in Arctic Bibliography; Barbier; Church; Eberstadt; JCB; Quérard; Streeter. ABE CAT Alaska Canada & Greenland hardcover
1820ref. G62G5001U79OBordeaux 1820. Folio 32.5 x 21 cm & 4to 19.5 x 20.5 cm. Two signed autograph letters in dark brown ink on paper 1 laid watermarked B Dumas; 1 wove with no watermark. 2 2 blank; 2 2 blank pp. Two letters by Jacques René Pleuc or possibly Pleve officer of the infamous French 18-gun privateer Le Grand Décidé which had been operating out of Bordeaux since 1799 under its captain Duchesne Lasalle for its owner Pierre Leleu. With the capture of the English frigate Liverpool off the coast of Brittany near Brest in 1799 Jacques René was made Capitaine de Prise giving him responsibility for the captured ship. In the first letter he writes to Auguste-Anne Bergevin 1753-1831 the relevant authority at Bordeaux complaining that Leleu has still not paid the promised share of the proceeds from the sale of the booty which was carried out by the brothers Amédée and Joseph Eugène Larrieu in Bordeaux. The second letter is addressed to the Larrieu brothers still trying to secure payment referring to the earlier letter and naming the ship and the amount of money 5000 francs not noted in the first letter.The first letter somewhat tattered at the head with the loss of parts of 3 or 4 words and both were formerly folded for sending. Both are in good condition. A fascinating primary source providing a window into the logistics and finance of a privateering venture. unknown
