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1991réf. 108575Cambridge: Harvard 1991. stiff paper wrappers. Harvard. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. iv 74 pages. Separate issue of Harvard Library Bulletin New Series Summer 1991 Volume 2 Number 2. Report of the Harvard University Library Task Group on Collection Preservation Priorities. With chapters on Book Collections and Other Types of Material Needing Preservation Treatment. Illustrated. Harvard) unknown books
1995réf. 102500Cambridge: Harvard University Library 1995. stiff paper wrappers. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 761 pages. A special issue of the Harvard Library Bulletin New Series Fall 1995 Volume 6 Number 3. Includes several essays on the importance of the Widener Library. Paper loss in corner front cover. Covers lightly soiled. Harvard University Library unknown books
1938réf. 1019968vo blue linen lettered in gilt Illustrated with black and white photographs 180 pp. Spine a bit yellowed light edge wear slight aging; otherwise very good.This copy is inscribed and signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Carpenter 1877-1949 was born in Wiles-Barr Pennsylvania and would become prominent industrialist. As an executive for DuPont helped turn the company into a modern scientific company and diversify from gunpowder and explosives. He was also an avid hunter and big game hunter and a member of the Boone and Crockett Club. As a director of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences he went on many trips to Africa to collect big game animals for the museum's dioramas. Game Trails from Alaska to Africa covers Carpenter's hunting trips from 1933 to 1938. He discussion includes hunting Pronghorn in Wyoming Mountain Lion in Arizona and Jaguar in Mexico. He also provides considerable detail about the places he hunted. Article by Theodore J. Holsten Boone & Crockett Club. Privately Printed, books
réf. 1863SCARCE COMPLETE SET OF ILLUSTRATED REPORTS OF FIRST BRITISH SOCIETY FOR DISEASE IN CHILDREN. Eight hardcover volumes all published 9 inches tall red cloth binding covers with blindstamped rulings gilt title to spines top edge gilt. Many figures in text black/white and color plates throughout. Handstamp of British Medical Association Library to all volumes. Vol. I handstamp to front free endpaper "Presented to the Library by" F. Jaffrey Esq. FRCS inscribed. xxxvii 2 238 pp; Vol. II xxxii 2 310 pp; xxxvi 361 pp; xxxvi 2 378 pp; xxxviii 2 341 pp; xxxvii 2 324 pp; lx 2305 pp; lxi 504 pp. Spines darkened light soil to covers light browning to pages very good minus. The Reports chronicle a wide range of pediatric disease with many examples of the ravages of infectious diseases now prevented by immunization tumors and malformations including congenital heart disease. There is a long discussion of "sudden and unexpected death in children" "delayed chloroform poisoning" following anesthesia and paralysis treated with muscle grafting. Dr. Stephenson's expertise in ophthalmology is responsible for numerous illustrations of funduscopic images of various systemic diseases. This is remarkable as the first fundus camera was not developed until 1926. SYDNEY STEPHENSON 1860 - 1923 earned his medical degree from Edinburgh University became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He was an ophthalmologist at Queen's Hospital for Children and editor of The Ophthalmoscope a review that had become the most important periodical in British ophthalmology. He made seminal contributions in the study of ophthalmia neonatorum summarized in his book of that title. He founded with George Carpenter the Society for the Study of Disease in Children and when the amalgamation of multiple societies resulted in the formation of the Royal Society of Medicine it became one of the constituent sections. GEORGE ALFRED CARPENTER 1859 – 1910 was an English pediatrician who described the Carpenter Syndrome. He earned his M.D. in London and became physician to the Queen's Hospital for Children. In 1900 he founded with Sydney Stephenson the Society for the Study of Disease in Children the first British society of its kind and compiled eight volumes of Reports offered here. When the society was incorporated in the Royal Society of Medicine in 1908 and became the section for the study of disease in children he was elected its president. His major publications were on congenital malformations of the heart which was also the subject of his Wightman lecture delivered in 1909 before the section for the study of disease in children Royal Society of Medicine and published in the British Journal of Children's Diseases in 1909. In 1901 Carpenter published The Syphilis of Children in Everyday Practice. A short work Golden Rules for Diseases of Infants and Children published in 1901 reached a fourth and revised edition in 1911. PROVENANCE: FRANCIS JAFFREY 1861 - 1919 was raised in Australia and earned his M.D. at St. George's Hospital London. He was surgeon to the Belgrave Hospital for Children and consulting surgeon to the Cripples' Home in Kensington. Fellow of the Royal College of Surgoens he became dean of the Medical School of St. George's Hospital while he was also Lecturer in Anatomy. J. & A. Churchill hardcover books
1911réf. 392916No place: Fannie Rouse Carpenter 1911. Unbound. Fine. First edition. Small broadside. Approximately 5½ x 8½. Old library stamp and release note else just about fine. Fannie Hallock Rouse Carpenter was a prominent New York City attorney as well as the president of the New York State Federation of Woman's Clubs. A 1906 newspaper article about successful women attorneys in New York lists her name first. OCLC locates a single copy at the California State Library. Fannie Rouse Carpenter unknown books
1851réf. 193804Boston: Massachusetts Temperance Society 1851. Hardcover. Good. First American edition. First few pages with several small owner stamps and numerous newspaper clippings affixed causing offsetting pages lightly soiled binding worn at edges with front board detached but present good only. Massachusetts Temperance Society hardcover books
1894réf. 22091894. As published in L'estampe Originale. Album VII. A four color embossed Gypsograph lithograph. 10 1/4 x 15 9/16 margins: 16 ¾ x 23 ½. Signed and numbered by Charpentier. Printed by Eugene Verneau. With the Blind stamp of L'estampe Originale. Stein and Karshan 14. Slightly mat burned in the margins but colors are excellent as original. One of the most important artists together with Pierre Roche to use gypsography in the 1890s. The process involves using plaster moulds and hand-colored damp paper to create the image after which ink is applied directly to the mould as with a wood-engraving. Later he replaced the plaster moulds with metal to achieve more detail in the relief. He used the method in book form for the first time here. The effect is one of medals set within the typographic layout L'Estampe Originale books
2010réf. 277715Laguna Beach: Bill LaPointe 2010. Magazine. 68p. includes covers 8x10 inches articles news events reviews services and resources photos lightly worn magazine in stapled red pictorial wraps. LA Pride in Pictures. Also AIDS Walk Long Beach. Bill LaPointe unknown books
1862réf. 1784London: Ray Society 1862. First edition. 1862 FOLIO VOLUME WITH PLATES OF MICROSCOPIC MARINE ANIMALS NOW PREDICTING THE DISTURBING FUTURE OF CLIMATE CHANGE. 13.5 inches tall hardcover folio volume green buckram binding i-xxii 47 wood engravings in text 319 pp 22 full page lithographic plates by George West with facing descriptive text. Light browning to pages unmarked very good WILLIAM BENJAMIN CARPENTER 1813 - 1885 was an English physician invertebrate zoologist and physiologist. He was instrumental in the early stages of the unified University of London. He attended medical classes at University College London 1834-35 and then went to the University of Edinburgh 1835-39 where he received his MD in 1839. His work in comparative neurology was recognized in 1844 by his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society. His appointment as Fullerian Professor of Physiology at the Royal Institution in 1845 enabled him to exhibit his powers as a teacher and lecturer. He worked hard as investigator author editor demonstrator and lecturer throughout his life; but it was his researches in marine zoology notably in the "lower" organisms as Foraminifera and Crinoids that were most valuable a beautiful example offered here. These researches gave an impetus to deep-sea exploration an outcome of which was in 1868 the oceanographic survey with HMS Lightning and later the more famous Challenger Expedition. He was an adept in the use of the microscope and his popular treatise on it stimulated many to explore this new aid. He was awarded the Royal Medal in 1861. In 1856 Carpenter became Registrar of the University of London and held the office for twenty-three years. Carpenter gave qualified support to Darwin but he had reservations as to the application of evolution to man's intellectual and spiritual nature. FORAMINIFERA are single-celled organisms with an external shell of diverse forms and materials. Most foraminifera are marine the majority of which live on or within the seafloor sediment. Over 50000 species are recognized both living ~10000 and fossil 40000. The most striking aspect of most foraminifera are their hard shells or tests. These may consist of one of multiple chambers and may be composed of protein sediment particles calcite aragonite or in one case silica. Test-bearing foraminifera have an excellent fossil record throughout the Phanerozoic eon. Dying planktonic Foraminifera continuously rain down on the sea floor in vast numbers their mineralized tests preserved as fossils in the accumulating sediment. Because certain types of foraminifera are found only in certain environments their fossils can be used to figure out the kind of environment under which ancient marine sediments were deposited; conditions such as salinity depth oxygenic conditions and light conditions can be determined from the different habitat preferences of various species of foraminifera. This allows workers to track changing climates and environmental conditions over time by aggregating information about the foraminifera present. Recent application of these data have led to disturbing predictions regarding current acceleration of climate change resulting from human-generated CO2 E. J. Judd et al. A 485-million-year history of Earth's surface temperature. Science Vol 385 Issue 6715 2024. DOI: 10.1126/science.adk3705. Ray Society hardcover books
1808réf. 40181Washington City Washington D.C.: Westcott & Co 1808. 8vo. 3 volumes. 8 1/4 x 5 inches. Vol. I: 147 2 4-135 3. 284 pp. Title Deposit Notice Publisher's Note. Vol II: 465 1. 466 pp. Title Deposit Notice. Vol. III: 418 I i-l 4. 472 pp. Title Appendix Index. Previous owner's small stamp on front pastedowns. Contemporary full sheep expertly rebacked spines in six gilt-ruled compartments with red morocco lettering-pieces in second compartments and volume numbers in fourth First edition of all three volumes of "the rarest and best account of the trial" Eberstadt which made US legal history in its interpretations of treason and executive sovereignty. This elusive set almost always found without the third volume is Burr's own report and is crucial to understanding early democracy in America. Of especial relevance today as other high-profile American politicans face their own accusations of treason. "The most exciting trial held in this country during the first half of the nineteenth century." Graff Aaron Burr Jr. was an American politician businessman lawyer co-founder of the Bank of New York and Founding Father who served as Vice President during Jefferson's first term and more recently served as the foil in Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical Hamilton. How Burr came to be arrested in Alabama in 1807 is bizarre and byzantine but in brief: Burr was rejected by his own party the Democratic-Republicans for opposing Jefferson in the 1800 presidential election runoff in the House and then was shunned by the Federalists for killing Alexander Hamilton in a duel. Burr went West to seek better fortunes which included a rogue military adventure to seize lands belonging to Spain in Louisiana and Mexico with incentive given to the Western states to join his adventure. However Burr's longtime friend General James Wilkinson decided to abandon this dubious plan and inform the Feds instead. President Jefferson did not look kindly on his former Vice President's conspiracy to entice the Western states to leave the Union and join with him as he colonized new lands with the support of England. Jefferson alerted Congress and ordered Burr's arrest. Firm in his belief that Burr was a traitor Jefferson had him charged as such. Luckily for Burr Chief Justice John Marshall was Jefferson's longtime political foe and would preside at Burr's trial because he was also the federal judge for the US Circuit Court in Virginia. Burr was acquitted and fled for Europe. Cohen Bibliography of Early American Law 14091 14092. Eberstadt 134-68. Graff 506. Howes B1013. Sabin 9433. Tompkins Burr 18. Westcott & Co unknown books
1797réf. List2527Cincinnati 1797. Cincinnati 27th June 1797. Folded stampless letter 12 ½ x 6 ½ inches. Some tape repairs and tearing at folds fair to good but legible. With twenty five cent manuscript rate on cover. Good. Joseph Carpenter 1774-1814 was born in Massachusetts and emigrated to Cincinnati in the Northwest Territory eventually publishing the first regularly printed journal in the city the “Western Spy and Hamilton Gazette” which he first published in 1799. The journal had 1200 subscribers at the time of Carpenter’s death in 1814. He held several posts in the city including Coroner and commanded a company of militia in the War of 1812 eventually dying due to exposure to extreme cold in a march from Fort Meigs to Urbana in 1814. Offered here is a significant letter from Carpenter to Irish-American publisher Mathew Cary in May of 1797 asking for Cary’s assistance in the opening of a stationary shop and printing press roughly two years before he would eventually publish the first issue of Western Spy and Hamilton Gazette. Carpenter writes to Cary “The probability is that I should in a short time be able to pay you Sir as my prospect is very good. There will be an edition of the Laws of the territory to print soon. If I get an office I shall have the job; otherwise it will be . to Freeman & Son. Mr. McCullagh seems to incline to . in the business however should you Sir make it convenient to assist me I have friends who would help me to pay part of it. If I had a small assortment of Books & Stationery they would fill very well. I would thank you if you would write me respecting the matter as soon as convenient. I am very anxious to know if I am to do anything in this country. If I cannot succeed in getting an office I intend to go to my father’s. I however hope for the best.” The first book printed in Cincinnati was William Maxwell’s edition of In 1796 The Laws of the Territory of the United States North-West of the Ohio published a year earlier. Overall the letter should be of interest to scholars of American territorial printing history and is also philatelically significant as an early postmark originating from the Northwest Territory. Full transcription follows: We have no Book or Stationery Store in this town. Could I be so fortunate as to procure a small office & a small assortment of Books & Stationery I should be in a fair way for making a very handsome living. I have advised a number of gentlemen of the town respecting it assure me they think it would answer a very good purpose they also assure me of all the support in their power. Some of them have offered to assist me in getting in an office. Having no other friend to write to but yourself in Philadelphia I beg you would pardon the liberty I take in writing you on this occasion The distance from my friends puts it out of their power to assist me; if this should be in your power to assist me in getting an office without embarrassing yourself you would confer an obligation on your humble servant that time never could wear off. The probability is that I should in a short time be able to pay you Sir as my prospect is very good. There will be an edition of the Laws of the territory to print soon. If I get an office I shall have the job; otherwise it will be . to Freeman & Son. Mr. McCullagh seems to incline to . in the business however should you Sir make it convenient to assist me I have friends who would help me to pay part of it. If I had a small assortment of Books & Stationery they would fill very well. I would thank you if you would write me respecting the matter as soon as convenient. I am very anxious to know if I am to do anything in this country. If I cannot succeed in getting an office I intend to go to my father’s. I however hope for the best. I saw Mr. McCullagh yesterday. He is well carries on business very briskly. He desired to be remembered to you. I am Sir with respect your most obedient and humble Servant Joseph Carpenter jun. to M. Cary. unknown books
2000réf. 1403374Norfolk: Crippen & Landru Publishers 2000. Limited edition 42/200; First edition. Hardcover. Octavo 250 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine is grey with yellow print. Price unclipped: “$40.00”. Boards in grey cloth. Illustrated: b&w frontispiece portrait. Pamphlet in rear pocket: “The Dreamer : a Slot-Machine Kelly Story” by Michael Collins 16 pages . Signed in ink by the author on the limited edition page. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column V. 1403374. FP New Rockville Stock. Crippen & Landru Publishers hardcover books
1975réf. 611660New York: E.P. Dutton & Company 1975. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Slight toning on the endpapers else near fine in a very good dust jacket with toning and some edgewear. E.P. Dutton & Company hardcover books
1975réf. 569032Nutley New Jersey: B. De Boer 1975. Softcover. Near Fine. Volume 126 Number 3. Printed orange wrappers. A bit of wear along the spine bumping and a small split at the base else about near fine. Contributions by Michael Anania Lloyd Bloom John Carpenter Alfred Corn and others. B. De Boer unknown books
1940réf. 1019978vo blue linen lettered in gilt Illustrated with black and white photographs 43 pp. Spine a bit yellowed edges a little rubbed slight aging; otherwise very good. This is a limited edition number 351 of 400 and is signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Carpenter 1877-1949 was born in Wiles-Barr Pennsylvania and would become prominent industrialist. As an executive for DuPont helped turn the company into a modern scientific company and diversify from gunpowder and explosives. He was also an avid hunter and big game hunter and a member of the Boone and Crockett Club. As a director of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences he went on many trips to Africa to collect big game animals for the museum's dioramas. This work is essentially a sequel to Game Trails from Alaska to Africa which was published a couple of years earlier. In this volume Carpenter gives details about hunting trips in 1939 and 1940 to Alaska and Idaho. This title contains some great black and white photographs including one of Carpenter with a Grizzly bear he shot. Article by Theodore J. Holsten Boone & Crockett Club. Privately Printed, books
1934réf. 68038Savannah: Review Printing Company 1934. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. Number 202 of an unspecified edition signed by the author. Souvenir Edition First Book Printed on Newsprint Made From Georgia Pine Pulp. Boards lightly rubbed else a very good copy. Review Printing Company hardcover books
1914réf. 610111New York: G. Schirmer 1914. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Quarto. Single bifolium with a single-sheet-insert making six pages. Foxing and light soiling to the front cover and light bumping to the corners still a very good and complete copy. For voice and piano. Plate number 24612. Gitanjali is a collection of Bengali poetry by Rabindranath Tagore whose own English translation of the work Song Offerings won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 just a year before the publication of this musical setting by American composer John Alden Carpenter. G. Schirmer unknown books
1958réf. 596550Portland Oregon: Portland State College 1958. Softcover. Very Good. Periodical. Illustrated in black and white. Stapled pictorial wrappers. Ink scrawls on one page lightly toned spine very good. Includes the poem "Mr. Mercury" and the short story "Adam and Evil" by Don Carpenter. Portland State College unknown books
1957réf. 596551Portland Oregon: Portland State College 1957. Softcover. Very Good. Periodical. Illustrated in black and white. Stapled pictorial wrappers. Slight spotting on a few pages toned spine very good. Portland State College unknown books
1985réf. 575566Vienna Virginia: Potomac Publishing Company 1985. Softcover. Fine. Mass market paperback. 180pp. Fine. Potomac Publishing Company unknown books
1981réf. 608590Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia 1981. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Owner name on front fly else fine in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on the title page. University Press of Virginia hardcover books
1896réf. 248London The Studio Magazine 1896. Embossed lithograph in colors. Contained within the bound edition of THE STUDIO AN ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE OF FINE AND APPLIED ART. 1894189618971898 and 1899 with their blind stamp lower right. 5 ¼ x 8 7/8 188mm x 226mm. The book is bound in green cloth with gilt letters on the cover and spine. In good condition. The Studio Magazine was an illustrated fine arts and decorative arts magazine founded in Britain in 1893 which exerted a major influence on the development of the Art Nouveau movement. The earlier editions usually had original lithographs and etchings bound into the publication as it is here. Charles Holme Editor. In the later 20th century the annuals gave increasing prominence to architecture and interior design and in the mid-1960s it was retitled Decorative Art in Modern Interiors. The annual ceased publication in 1980. THE STUDIO, AN ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE OF FINE AND APPLIED ART books
1944réf. 128698London: Tribune Publication 1944. Pamphlet. 16p. staplebound pamphlet. Paper lightly browned. Very Good. Much on the CIO and a section on African Americans. Tribune Publication unknown books
réf. JC14465Paperback. Good. 8vo. Part 6 of Half-Hour Recreations in Popular Science. Boston: Estes & Lauriat n.d. Original printed blue wrappers quite creased; rear wrap of ads. Scarce. paperback books
1990réf. 1399165New York: Rawson Associates 1990. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo vi viii 323 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine silver with black white and blue lettering. Exterior has slight wear including minor edge wear scratch to the front and faint age toning to the flaps. Small sticker to the lower spine. Boards have very slight wear including minimal edge wear. Text block has slight wear including faint age toning to the edges and light foxing to the head edge. First edition first printing. Inscribed by William A. Raftery president of MEMA Motor and Equipment Manufacturers Association as "Bill" with presentation card stapled to the front end paper. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column T ND-T. 1399165. FP New Rockville Stock. Rawson Associates hardcover books
