1788ref. TK0149Nice:: Chez Piestre et Delamolliere 1788. 1788. 2 volumes. 4to. XVI 971; XXIV 1008 pp. Original full vellum gilt spine titles; covers heavily soiled. Internally very good – binding is stained not effecting the integrity of this original binding – holding firm. Third edition. Accompanied by an old manuscript for what reason it is preserved here is for someone else to figure – several pages in ink manuscript. "Francesco Alberti di Villanova sometimes referred to as Francesco D'Alberti di Villanuova was an Italian linguist and lexicographer. He integrated the French-Italian Italian-French dictionary of Annibale Antonini according to the doctrine of the Enlightenment with extensive encyclopedic material." Chez Piestre et Delamollie?re, 1788. hardcover books
1949ref. 95605Los Angeles 1949. 1st ed. Paperback. Near Fine. Inked inscription on front side of stationery. 14 x 22 cm. Verso unused. Some fading of ink. The Biltmore Hotel was listed in a couple 1960s editions of "The Green Book but seems likely to have been welcoming to African Americans as well as non-heterosexuals before that date but don't know if thas true before 1949. We also do not know when or whether Brown was in Los Angeles when she inscribed this and don't know whether she was staying or able to stay in that hotel at that time. Baron Long identified as President on the stationery acquired the hotel in 1933 which was almost a decade after Brown had ended her four year term as President of the National Association of Colored Women 1920-1924. We also don't know anything about the inscribee. paperback books
1996ref. 94828Bogota Colombia: Museo del Oro 1996. Paperback. Very Good. illustrations some color 139 143 184 and 152p. Softcovers in original wrapper. 26 cm. "Rejected Tozzer Library" stamp on first interior pages of two issues. Ceased print publication with No. 45 1998; continued as an online publication. Museo del Oro paperback books
1970ref. 94917Krakow: Panstwowe Wydawn Naukowe 1970. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. tipped-in frontis illustrations 275p. Original cloth-backed boards. dj. 31 cm. Original scuffed slipcase intact with significant scuffing. Polyglot vocabulary on laid in printed broadsheet. Polish text. Panstwowe Wydawn, Naukowe hardcover books
2002ref. 60855Washington DC & London: Smithsonian Institution Press 2002. First edition 8vo pp. xv 1 200; illustrations throughout much in color; fine copy in the dust jacket. This is Mead's personal copy but without signature or bookplate. He is the Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian. Smithsonian Institution Press unknown books
1805ref. 59752Waitsfield Vermont 1805. Narrow tall folio approx. 15½" x 6¾" 112 pp. in ink five separately sewn signatures; a few pages loose some pages darkened or chipped at edges; some entries faint. This account book is the record of the practice of either Stephen Pierce or Simeon Stoddard practicing in Waitsfield Vermont between 1795 and 1806. These were the second and third physicians to have settled and practiced in Waitsfield. Most likely it is the record of Pierce who is supposed to have settled in Waitsfield in 1795. The first physician in Waitsfield Moses Heaton remained there only between 1793 and 1796. Depending on the source Pierce was the third physician to practice in Waitsfield and/or the first to practice in Moretown a settlement to the northeast of Waitsfield. He farmed as well as doctored and his farm lay mostly in Moretown his office in Waitsfield. He was a respected and successful physician who served the community in other capacities: as selectman representative delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1814 and Assistant Judge of the County Court. One source claims that he succeeded Judge Kinne December 1 1814 and served one year and that he was a justice of the peace in Waitsfield. He died either in 1854 after living in Waterbury and Berlin Vermont or he died in Barnard in 1864. See: History of the Town of Waitsfield Vermont 1782-1908 by Matt Bushnell Jones Boston 1909 p. 182. Simeon Stoddard on the other hand was born December 12 1761 either in Saybrook Connecticut or in Waitsfield. On August 19 1784 he married Abiah Thompson who had been born in 1763 in Waitsfield. Some sources state that he moved to Waitsfield from Saybrook in 1794. He served the southwestern area of Waitsfield and died in 1841. This account book records each date of visit the householder's name the relationship of patient to householder the medicine prescribed and its price and the cost of the doctor's visit. The doctor whether it be Stoddard or Pierce treated thirty to forty patients each month and as many as fifty-six in December of 1801. He charged as little as 4 pence and as much as 42 shillings 10 pence for his services. As a comparison the tax on an acre of land in Waitsfield was 2 pence an acre. The poll tax list of 1795 showed fifty voters so the doctor seems to have treated the members of nearly every family. The diseases treated are not stated in the entries made but he seems to have prescribed antimonium tartaricum in many instances and also digitalis. Waitsfield was founded by Col. Benjamin Wait or Waite and others who were granted a charter on February 25 1782. Wait had served under Gen. Jeffery Amherst in the French and Indian Wars and had fought in the Revolutionary War. Both Waitsfield and Moretown are now somewhat renowned as the areas around Mad River a popular ski resort. Mad River has been remarkable from the settling of the area as the source of numerous sudden destructive and deadly floods. The Green Mountains the northern extent of the Appalachians rise just to the west of the town. The doctor records having treated members of the Wait family including Benjamin's wife Martha d. April 3 1804 Ezra Thomas and Gilbert. The family names of the community are listed making this a good source for early settlement history and genealogical research. Among the householders who required the doctor's services are Smolly Skinner Taylor Spalding Hitchcock Parkhurst Carpenter the family had a tannery and potash works Heaton Burdick Johnson Rider Fuller Symonds McNight Chamberlain Atherton Lyon Butterfield Barnave Osgood Foster Hobson Robinson Brun Latimer and Sherman. Many of the names appear often. unknown books
1862ref. 916131862. Poor. 20 cm x 25 cm single sheet folded to make 4 handwritten pages. Large patriotic color Illustration of a bald eagle with 2 U.S. flags occupies top third of first page of stationery. Two horizontal fold mark. Split halfway across on a fold on the last two pages. Pinkish color to much of the letter suggesting old damping. Ink quite faded and generally difficult to read. Many words are so indistinct that it was impossible for us to read them and some other words or phrases are just gone. Her letter is addressed to an otherwise unidentified cousin. Jones does not seem to show on standard lists of Civil War Nurses but the information in this letter suggests that she should. Here is our effort to transcribe this difficult-to-decipher letter: "Your letter of the 21st came to hand in due time but I had about made my mind that you was not going to write to me. I was glad to hear from you and hope that you will not fail to write again. I am well. Hoping you enjoy the same good blessing. We are situated on the same ground we occupied a part of last Fall and Winter. We have been here about four weeks. After spending the summer on the peninsula we are very glad to obtain old ground which seems almost like home. You want to know why I am in the hospital. It is not because I am sick but because others are sick and need care. I am what is termed nurse. My wages are $26.50 per month. The business is by no means delightful but I get along very well. We have got one fellow who is very sick I fear he will not recover. On the Peninsula my health became very poor but now I am well. I wish that I could hear that Grandmother is on the gain but fear I never shall. Tell hear I think of her nearly all of the time and and want to see but if I fail to see her I expect to see her in Heaven. I have wrote to your father. I presume he has received my last letter before now. I do not know that I can tell you anything about the war that would amount to anything more than you already know. As we are at present we are retired from the active field I am not as well posted as when we were aamid the turmoils of battle. I have not heard a battle sound since we came across the river. Apparently all seems quiet which seems good. top two lines at top of 4th page too indistinct to decipher My hospital service is every other day. Every other day and night. I have to work taking care of the sick of our regiment then I am idle twenty-four hours. . several lines gone or indistinct here and the I will have a chance to eat army rations wear army cloths and a few moremostly indistinct lines ." She ends the letter by requesting that her cousin write to her at Hospital 50th NY Engineer Regiment Washington D.C. Online information reports that the regiment composed mostly of men from New York and a small number from Pennsylvania lost by death 10 killed in action 7 from wounds received and 214 from disease and other causes. unknown books
1833ref. 57649V.p. 1833. A dozen or so items over half of which seem inconsequental. Ezbon or Esbon Sanford 1765-1846 was born in Newport worked in Washington County. He was a storekeeper innkeeper and cabinetmaker and is cited in various articles about Rhode Island furniture making. One receipt is from the "estate of Abigail Congdon" his mother-in-law which details payment for molasses and gin as well as a coffin for herself at $6.00. A detailed inventory May 15 1833 is included of the estate of Anna Buckingham of North Kingstown Washington County. All her belongings are listed including furniture: "eleven old fiddleback maple chairs" at $5. This type of chair is described in an article by Kathleen E. Johnson in Art & Antiques Magazine Sept/Oct 1981 as "an intentional translation of the elements of the carved mahoghany or walnut cabriole legged Queen Anne- style chair into the vocabulary of the turned chair tradition." A large floor plan for a house with its footprint neatly laid out is one of the more interesting documents with a detailed list of supplies joists ranging timber furing laths doors & frames roof boards shingles and nails each with prices. Ezbon Sanford held a local court office as Judge of the Court of Common Pleas and nother interesting document is dated 1830 from the state to the sheriff concerning the warrant for the arrest of George Young charging him as the father of Margaret Mitchel's "bastard child." The paper was signed by John H. Green Deputy Sheriff. Other names mentioned in his storekeeper receipts are Robert Hosford Robert Northrup Charles Douglas Weighty Underwood and Paul Austin. unknown books
1862ref. 899701862. Near Fine. Interesting content in this Maine Infantry Civil War Letter of almost 4 full pages written in a clear hand from Beaufort South Carolina and dated Aug. 22 1862. 25 cm. Envelope not present. The writer probably a Lieutenant references colored negro troops from Connecticut and gives a long opinion on how the north should win the war with the resources at its disposal. He also mentions troop misconduct at a "Negro Meeting: "Last night one of my sergeants attended a "Negro Meeting: in company with a few men belonging to the 6th Connecticut Vols. and as they had been drinking whiskey rather freely they thought to show their smartness by breaking in doors and windows of the meeting house and by kicking up a row generally. The sergeant was arrested and will probably be tried by a Court Martial. If he is found guilty I hope he will be punished to the full extent of the law. The sergeant George J. Card is quite young and smart and I have tried to make a man of him but it is of no use -- it can't be done. unknown books
ref. 87705Paperback. Good. Condition varies but all are sound. Rust stains from staples or proximity to staples on adjacent items. paperback books
ref. 87270Godl Coast: Government Press Accra n.d. Reprint of the 1920 edition. Paperback. Very Good. 61p. Softcover in light green wrapper which is backed in dark green binder's tape. 32cm. Appears to be an undated later photocopy of the original 1920 edition. Government Press, Accra paperback books
1979ref. 83006Moskva: Nauka 1979. Hardcover. Near Fine. 133p. Original black cloth. 26 cm. Minor wear. Facsimile reproduction of the unique scroll of a draft copy of the Arabic text of a waqf document dated 1299 from Bokhara and supplemented by an old Persian translation made before 1661. Brief 3 1/2 page English summary at end. Both documents were in the Central State Archive in Tashkent. Nauka hardcover books
1973ref. 83986Moskva: Izd-vo "Nauka" Glavnaia. red. vostochnoi lit-ry 1973. Hardcover. Very Good. 623p. Original black cloth. 22 cm. Russian text; English summary at pages 621-623. Translated into Russian by L. A. Khanlarian. Izd-vo "Nauka," Glavnaia. red. vostochnoi lit-ry hardcover books
1887ref. LV1834London & New York:: Macmillan 1887. 1887. 8vo. xiii 3 515 pp. Index. Original dark green blind and gilt-stamped cloth. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to "Prof. J.J. Thomson F.R.S. with the Author's kind regards Ap. 20th 1887." PROVENANCE: Harold I. Levine 1922-2017 Stanford University Dept. of Mathematics. PROVENANCE: 1 Sir Joseph John Thomson 18 December 1856 – 30 August 1940 was an English physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1906. 2 Harold I. Levine 1922-2017 Stanford University Dept. of Mathematics. Ibbetson B.A. F.R.A.S. was associated with Clare College where he was a Senior Scholar who worked at the Cavendish Laboratory in 1885 placing him in contact with J.J. Thomson. See: A History of the Cavendish Laboratory 1871-1910 London 1910. Macmillan, 1887. hardcover books
1971ref. 18176New York: Random House 1971. First edition 8vo. fine in like jacket. Random House unknown books
1966ref. 18177New York: Random House 1966. First edition 8vo. spine soiled; near fine. Random House unknown books
1910ref. 88688New York: Jerome H. Remick Co 1910. First Edition. Quarto. Baseball-themed sheet music; 6pp including covers. Cover illustration in color signed in plate "Starmer" depicting a stadium of fans cheering a baseball game. Very light wear and soil to covers; Very Good to Near Fine. Jerome H. Remick Co unknown books
1837ref. 202347Venice: In Insula S. Lazari 1837. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed. Full leather binding with gilt lettering & decoration to spine gilt ruled borders on both boards all edges gilt marbled endpapers engraved frontispiece and title page 6-1/4" x 4” 434 pp. Aucher’s name appears in three different versions on the first leaf: Armenian transliterated Armenian and Latin dated 1847. George Gordon Lord Byron traveled to the Island of St. Lazar where Father Pascal Aucher 1774-1854 taught him Armenian. Together they published Grammar of the English and Armenian Languages in 1819 and contributed to Aucher’s 1821 English Armenian Dictionary. Byron was devoted to the Armenian language writing: “I learned the language of the Armenians in order to understand how and what language the Gods spoke for the Armenian language is the language of the Gods and Armenia is the homeland of the Gods and the Gods come from the Ararat valley.”A translation of twenty-four prayers one for each hour of the day of St. Nerses the Graceful translated into twenty-four languages. This is the culmination of an effort that first had 6 10 14 and then 16 translations. This effort was likely from many of the Mekhitarist monks at San Lazzaro degli Armeni. The monastery was founded in 1715 by twelve monks; when Byron visited there were 70; today there are 12 monks and five novices. Despite the small population St. Lazzaro has been a major center of Armenian studies for centuries and still maintains the third-largest library of Armenian materials in the world. This polyglot prayer book is notable not just for its place in Armenian history and the spread of Orthodoxy but it is also a typographic success in acquiring the various fonts. In Insula S. Lazari hardcover books
1985ref. 9033361New Haven: Yale 1985. 1st. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Yale edition. Edited by Gold. 5 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches. 350 pages. Yale hardcover books
1999ref. 9033350London: Folio Society 1999. 1st. Hardcover. Fine. First Folio Society edition. Bound in brown cloth stamped in illustrated gilt. Illustrated endpapers brown topstain. Comes in matching slipcase. Illustrated with photographs in color and black and white. 6 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches. 240 pages. Folio Society hardcover books
1867ref. 46045London: T. Cautley Newy 1867. Â"Narrative of a Journal of a Yachting Expedition from Auckland to the South Sea Islands and a pedestrian tour in a new distric . London: T. Cautley Newy 1867. Narrative of a Journal of a Yachting Expedition from Auckland to the South Sea Islands and a pedestrian tour in a new district of New Zealand bush. Scarce yachting narrative. Not in Toy. "A slight account of Norfolk Island and the Pitcairners is found at pp. 73-95." - Hocken p. 250. Fergusson 12963. Bagnall 3578. Worldcat shows only six libraries holding copies - none in the US. Bound in publisher's blindstamped cloth. Two stans on front board else very good condition. 20 cm. 324 pp. Sepia toned lithos. . T. Cautley Newy hardcover books
1930ref. 59487New York: Horace Liveright 1930. Second Printing same year as the first. Octavo 21cm; black cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; illustrated endpapers; 1213-3093pp; illus. Inscribed by the author in year of publication the half-title page: "To Erskine and Sara / with never-ceasing affection / Sincerely & fraternally / Michael Gold." Further inscribed by Wood: "From Erskine & Sara to their dear friend Max Rosenberg - echoing the above - The Cats / July 1930." A tight clean copy in the original cloth binding; board corners lightly bumped and a few mild taps to board edges the endpapers illustrated after woodcuts by Howard Simon. Solidly Very Good lacking the scarce dustwrapper. A great association copy inscribed by Gold to one of the leading leftist intellectuals and authors of his time. Wood 1852-1944 was a self-styled anarchist aesthete and painter. As an attorney in the 1920s he defended a number of prominent figures on the left including the anarchist lecturer Emma Goldman and contributed prolifically to the radical periodicals of the period. With his second wife Sara Bard Field he was a long-time resident of Los Gatos California and was known for entertaining visitors at the estate "The Cats" mentioned in the present inscription. Interestingly Wood did not have a reputation for sympathy with doctrinaire Marxist thought; it seems unlikely that Gold would have written Wood such an effusive inscription even a few years later as during the Great Depression he would rise to become one of the leading apparatchiks in the CPUSA. Horace Liveright unknown books
1933ref. 19997Madrid: Editorial Fenix 1933. Second Spanish Edition. Octavo. Original pictorial wrappers lightly worn at extremities; faint vertical crease to front cover; Very Good. Spanish-language edition of Gold's classic portrayal of Jewish life in Manhattan's Lower East Side. First published in the US in 1929; the first Spanish edition followed in 1930 Madrid: Cenit; the current edition is uncommon with fewer than 5 holdings in North America according to WorldCat. Editorial Fenix unknown books
1966ref. 9018780Norman: University of Oklahoma 1966. 1st. Hardcover. Near fine/very good . Bound in the publisher's original red cloth covered boards spine stamped in black and gilt. Some shelf wear to dust jacket at the extremities particularly at the head & heel. Previous owners name and date in ink on ffep. University of Oklahoma hardcover books
1912ref. 9016606Wisconsin Historical Commission 1912. Wisconsin History Commission: Reprints No. 2. One or 2500 copies. Wisconsin Historical Commission unknown books
