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1822réf. H61BFWWJLAPYParis 1822. 18mo. Nepveu back of half-title: printed by dHautel Late 19th-century gold-tooled brown half morocco chemical-marbled sides marbled endpapers peacock pattern gilt edges. With 23 of 24 etched plates including 3 as frontispieces and 17 folding all but one in contemporary hand-colouring. 3 volumes. XXX IV 127 1 blank; 4 139 1 blank; 4 206 pp. The Dutch scholar Isaac Titsingh 1745-1812 was head of the Dutch trading post at Dejima and spent in total some 44 months in Japan in the years 1779-1780 1781-1783 and 1784. He collected material for a monumental work on Japan but published only several brief essays during his lifetime. The Paris-based publisher Nepveu posthumously issued two volumes of selections from Titsingh's papers translated into French: Cérémonies usitées en Japon pour les mariages et les funérailles 1819 and Mémoires et anecdotes de la dynastie regnante des Djogouns 1820. The present second edition combines these two works leaving out some short essays.The first volume consists of essays on Japanese marriage ceremonies the second is devoted to funeral ceremonies and some other feasts and includes an account of "dosia" a powdered recreational and medicinal drug while the final volume consists of a series of anecdotes about the shoguns.In very good condition with some plates slightly tattered at the edges. The bindings show some light wear.l Cordier Japonica col. 449; Landwehr & V.d. Krogt VOC 536; Tiele Bibl. 1096 note. unknown
1930réf. 84308New York: The John Day Company 1930. First edition of this work on American popular music. Octavo original cloth illustrated. Introduction by George Gershwin. Boldly signed "Sincerely George Gershwin" on the dedication page. Additionally signed by conductor Charles Previn and tenor James Melton. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Previn was an American film composer who was highly active at Universal in Hollywood during the 1940s and 1950s. Before going to Hollywood Previn had arranged music for over 100 Broadway productions. Melton was a popular singer in the 1920s and 1930s and later began a career as an operatic singer when tenor voices went out of style in popular music around 1932–35. Contemporary bookplate near fine in a very good dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed. American composer and pianist George Gershwin’s orchestral compositions spanned the genres of popular jazz and classical music and are now considered to be some of the most important musical works of the twentieth century. Gershwin began his career composing Broadway theatre works with his brother Ira Gershwin and soon became a major figure in musical theatre in New York City and later Hollywood. Gershwin's classic Song-Book is illustrated with full-page color lithographic plates after Constantin Alajalov and includes such Gershwin standards as “Swanee” “Fascinating Rhythm” “That Certain Feeling” “The Man I Love” “Strike Up the Band” and “I Got Rhythm” among others. “In one of his few prose writings George provided an introduction for the song book. What is most important… is that it contained the original published version of each song followed side by side by George’s ‘improvised’ versions of the songs” Carnovale 14. The John Day Company hardcover
réf. 06062London: Allen & West 1796. A Study of the Inhabitants of the Roundhouse and the Regular Attendants at the Police-Court" A Journey in Caricature through Early Nineteenth Century England. WOODWARD. George Moutard. CRUIKSHANK Isaac illustrators. Eccentric Excursions or Literary & Pictorial Sketches of Countenance Character & Country in different parts of England & South Wales. Interspersed with Curious Anecdotes Embellished with upwards of One Hundred Characteristic & Illustrative Prints. London: Allen & West 1796. First edition. Quarto 10 1/4 x 8 inches; 261 x 203 mm. ii i ii-iv i-iv 5-217 1 list of plates pp. Engraved title-page included in pagination Hand colored frontispiece and 100 hand-colored etched plates on ninety-nine leaves by Isaac Cruikshank after Woodward including three folding plates Plates 1 2 and 3. First folding plate with small portion 92/8 x 2 inches missing from fore-edge; second folding plate with neatly repaired marginal tear; third folding plate expertly repaired at folds and backed with linen. Plate 9 with small tape repair to verso of blank fore-edge; small inkstain on top blank margin of pp. 37/38 and following two plates. Some occasional light staining to text leaves only. Bound ca. 1820 in three quarter brown calf over marbled boards ruled in gilt. Spine with five decoratively tooled in gilt raised bands lettered in gilt in top panel. Early ink signature of Mary Austen on top blank corner of title-page. With the armorial bookplate of the noted collector Jacobus Cowan de Rosshall on front pastedown. Tip of spine chipped. Overall an excellent copy of this journey in caricature through early nineteenth century England. Aside from the aforementioned this is a very good example with the hand coloring rich and bright and far superior to the later editions. This satire amongst Moutard's earliest work enthusiastically depicts all types: high- and low-born rural and urban lawyers and peddlers coaching scenes misadventures on ice-skates Oxford dons gypsies etc. "The first and most celebrated of Woodward's books. The text describes an idiosyncratic ramble around the counties of England and Wales." Gordon p. 15. George Moutard Woodward 1760-1809 was "prolific and popular designer of social caricature much in the style of Banbury etched chiefly by Thomas Rowlandson and Isaac Cruikshank.his caricatures display a wealth of imagination and insight into character.extremely entertaining" DNB. "Another popular caricaturist of the day was George Moutard Woodward commonly called 'Mustard George.' Woodward according to his friend Henry Angelo was the son of a land agent and spent his youth in a country town where nothing was less known than everything pertaining to the arts. 'A caricaturist in a country town' said Mustard George 'like a bull in a china shop cannot live without noise; so having made a little noise in my native place I persuaded my father to let me seek my fortune in town.' Thanks to a small allowance from his father supplemented by his own earnings George was able to enjoy life in his own Bohemian fashion and ultimately took up his quarters at the 'Brown Bear' Bow Street where he was able to study the inhabitants of the roundhouse and the regular attendants at the police-court. At the 'Brown Bear' he died suddenly departing in character with a glass of brandy in his hand and was long mourned by his tavern associates. In his Eccentric Excursions which appeared in volume form in 1796 the designs engraved by Isaac Cruikshank there are several domestic subjects such as The Polite Congregation Showing Family Pictures and The Formal Introduction. Among other popular designs by Woodward are Raffling for a Coffin The Club of Quidnuncs Babes in the Wood A Goldfinch and his Mistress.and a series called Six Ways of Carrying a Stick. The majority are marred by extravagant hideousness but Angelo was of opinion that 'had this low humourist studied drawing and been temperate in his habits such was the fecundity of his imagination and perception of character that he might rivalled even Hogarth" Paston Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century pp. 137-138. Gordon BC-26; Widener 207; Not in Abbey or Tooley. London: Allen & West, 1796 unknown
réf. 06062London: Allen & West 1796. A Study of the Inhabitants of the Roundhouse and the Regular Attendants at the Police-Court" A Journey in Caricature through Early Nineteenth Century England. WOODWARD. George Moutard. CRUIKSHANK Isaac illustrators. Eccentric Excursions or Literary & Pictorial Sketches of Countenance Character & Country in different parts of England & South Wales. Interspersed with Curious Anecdotes Embellished with upwards of One Hundred Characteristic & Illustrative Prints. London: Allen & West 1796. First edition. Quarto 10 1/4 x 8 inches; 261 x 203 mm. ii i ii-iv i-iv 5-217 1 list of plates pp. Engraved title-page included in pagination Hand colored frontispiece and 100 hand-colored etched plates on ninety-nine leaves by Isaac Cruikshank after Woodward including three folding plates Plates 1 2 and 3. First folding plate with small portion 92/8 x 2 inches missing from fore-edge; second folding plate with neatly repaired marginal tear; third folding plate expertly repaired at folds and backed with linen. Plate 9 with small tape repair to verso of blank fore-edge; small inkstain on top blank margin of pp. 37/38 and following two plates. Some occasional light staining to text leaves only. Bound ca. 1820 in three quarter brown calf over marbled boards ruled in gilt. Spine with five decoratively tooled in gilt raised bands lettered in gilt in top panel. Early ink signature of Mary Austen on top blank corner of title-page. With the armorial bookplate of the noted collector Jacobus Cowan de Rosshall on front pastedown. Tip of spine chipped. Overall an excellent copy of this journey in caricature through early nineteenth century England. Aside from the aforementioned this is a very good example with the hand coloring rich and bright and far superior to the later editions. This satire amongst Moutard's earliest work enthusiastically depicts all types: high- and low-born rural and urban lawyers and peddlers coaching scenes misadventures on ice-skates Oxford dons gypsies etc. "The first and most celebrated of Woodward's books. The text describes an idiosyncratic ramble around the counties of England and Wales." Gordon p. 15. George Moutard Woodward 1760-1809 was "prolific and popular designer of social caricature much in the style of Banbury etched chiefly by Thomas Rowlandson and Isaac Cruikshank.his caricatures display a wealth of imagination and insight into character.extremely entertaining" DNB. "Another popular caricaturist of the day was George Moutard Woodward commonly called 'Mustard George.' Woodward according to his friend Henry Angelo was the son of a land agent and spent his youth in a country town where nothing was less known than everything pertaining to the arts. 'A caricaturist in a country town' said Mustard George 'like a bull in a china shop cannot live without noise; so having made a little noise in my native place I persuaded my father to let me seek my fortune in town.' Thanks to a small allowance from his father supplemented by his own earnings George was able to enjoy life in his own Bohemian fashion and ultimately took up his quarters at the 'Brown Bear' Bow Street where he was able to study the inhabitants of the roundhouse and the regular attendants at the police-court. At the 'Brown Bear' he died suddenly departing in character with a glass of brandy in his hand and was long mourned by his tavern associates. In his Eccentric Excursions which appeared in volume form in 1796 the designs engraved by Isaac Cruikshank there are several domestic subjects such as The Polite Congregation Showing Family Pictures and The Formal Introduction. Among other popular designs by Woodward are Raffling for a Coffin The Club of Quidnuncs Babes in the Wood A Goldfinch and his Mistress.and a series called Six Ways of Carrying a Stick. The majority are marred by extravagant hideousness but Angelo was of opinion that 'had this low humourist studied drawing and been temperate in his habits such was the fecundity of his imagination and perception of character that he might rivalled even Hogarth" Paston Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century pp. 137-138. Gordon BC-26; Widener 207; Not in Abbey or Tooley. London: Allen & West, 1796 unknown books
1719réf. 38274London, Impensis Gul. & Joh. Innys, 1719 (colophon: Londini: Ex Officina Gulielmi Bowyer, 1718). 8vo. Contemp. full calf. Corners, fronthinge and spineends professionally repaired. Inner hinges reinforced. Gilt lineborders on back. Titlelabel in red leather with gilt lettering. Old owners name stamped on titlepage (small).Instead of htitle is bound ""Catalogus Librorum prostantium apud Gul. & Joh. Innys"" (1 leaf), the Cataloque is furthermore bound at end, but with a different typography. (2),XI,(1),415 pp. and 12 folded engraved plates. Very light brownning to a few margins. Printed on good paper, in general fine and clean internally.
1719réf. 38274London Impensis Gul. & Joh. Innys 1719 colophon: Londini: Ex Officina Gulielmi Bowyer 1718. 8vo. Contemp. full calf. Corners fronthinge and spineends professionally repaired. Inner hinges reinforced. Gilt lineborders on back. Titlelabel in red leather with gilt lettering. Old owners name stamped on titlepage small.Instead of htitle is bound "Catalogus Librorum prostantium apud Gul. & Joh. Innys" 1 leaf the Cataloque is furthermore bound at end but with a different typography. 2XI1415 pp. and 12 folded engraved plates. Very light brownning to a few margins. Printed on good paper in general fine and clean internally. Scarce second Latin edition of Newton's "Optics: or a Treatise of the Reflections Refractions Inflections and Colours of Light. London 1704." one of the great books in the history of science. "Newton's Optics did for Light what his Principia had done for Gravitation namely placed it on a scientific basis." E.W. Brown. The translation was brought to light "At the request of Newton Dr. Samuel Clarke prepared a Latin edition of his Optics which appeared 1706 and he was generously presented by Sir Isaac with GBP 500 or GBP 100 for each of his five children as a token of the appreciation and gratitude of the author. DeMoivre is said to have secured and taken charge of this translation and to have spared neither time nor trouble in the task. Newton met him every evening at a coffe-house and when they have finished their work he took De Moivre home with him to spend the evening in philosophical conversation."Brewster in his "Newton" 1855"."In the accumulation of optical phenomena from his first paper the short memoir in Philosophical Transaction 1672 until the above book the Optics. 33 years later Newton had gathered explanations to many problems. The rainbow is fully explained and also "Newton's rings" produced by pressing the flat side of a plano-convex glass against a double convex lens of long focal lenght producing rings of alternating brightness and darkness; his explanation was not valid as he did not know optical interference. He speculated on the double refraction of Icelandic spar." Dibner in Heralds of Science No 148 - G.J. Gray No 180. hardcover
1546réf. 3314Basel: ex officina Ioannis Oporini / Johann Oporinus 1546. First separate edition of Alexandra Cassandra and first edition of Chiliades. Title and text in Greek and Latin. In contemporary limp vellum. Contemporary possessor’s inscriptions on title page crossed out illegible. Contemporary marginal notes in ink on p. 11 otherwise clean. Binding worn. First leaves worn. Damp stains throughout darker-toned at the lower margin. Lower edge with damages not affecting the text. Wormholes occasionally with no effect on text. In good condition. First separate edition of Alexandra Cassandra and first edition of Chiliades. Title and text in Greek and Latin. In contemporary limp vellum. 16 180 8 268 4 last 3 blank p. The first separate edition of Lycophron’s poem Alexandra Cassandra’s prophecies about Troy with commentaries by Isaac and John Tzetzes; and the first edition of John Tzetzes’ Chiliades. Although the authorship of Alexandra is questioned it is traditionally attributed to Lycophron of Chalcis the 3rd century BC Greek poet and scholar. The commentaries elucidating the otherwise rather obscure text were written by Isaac and John Tzetzes Byzantine scholars who lived in Constantinople in the 12th century. Alexandra was first published in 1513 by Aldus Manutius with texts by Pindar Callimachus Dionysius Periegetes the present one is the first separate edition of the text the second edition overall and also the first with the commentaries by the Tzetzes-brothers. The second part of the book is a lengthy political decapentasyllabic verse John Tzetzes’ most important work the Variarum historiarum liber Book of Histories or the so-called Chiliades edited Nikolaus Gerbel. Chiliades is a collection of literary historical theological and antiquarian miscellanies whose chief value consists in the fact that it to some extent makes up for the loss of works that were then accessible to Tzetzes. . [ex officina Ioannis Oporini / Johann Oporinus] unknown
réf. 60348Philadelphia: publisher not identified published at 1227 Walnut Street stereotyped by L. Johnson & Co. printed by C. Sherman and Son 5619. Second edition 4to pp. vi 4 3-1011 1 plus 2 pro-forma lithograph leaves of "family records" and a tipped-in printed slip extending the family record see below; original brown morocco tooled in black and gilt in a Grolieresque style two brass clasps all edges gilt; brown coated endpapers turn-ins tooled in gilt; bookplate and purple stamps of the Jewish Cultural Reconstruction including stamp to title page. Skillfully and sympathetically rebacked with original spine laid down lightly rubbed but generally clean and fresh: Very good and sound. Handsome edition of the first translation of the Hebrew Bible by an American Jew now known as the Leeser Bible. A prolific and ambitious religious leader Isaac Leeser had a "monumental" impact on the American Jewish community ANB. He elevated the status of Jewish religious leaders advocated for Jewish day schools and helped to established Maimonides College the first rabbinical school in the United States. He also taught and published extensively in vernacular English and organized the first American Jewish Publication Society in 1845 making Jewish scriptures and religious education texts broadly accessible to Anglophone Jews. The Leeser Bible was first published in 1853-54 at a time when many Anglophone Jews had to read the Hebrew Bible in the King James Version of the Hebrew Bible; Leeser provided a translation free of the influence of American Christianity. His translation "remained the standard Jewish translation of the Bible in North America for over 60 years" Fischel & Pinsker Jewish-American History and Culture p.349. This copy from the 1858-9 second edition with an extended nineteenth- and twentieth-century provenance. The family record at the rear lists births deaths and marriages of the Alexander-Steiger-Freeman-Gombrich family from the 1850s through the 1880s in both English and Hebrew. Also with the bookplate and stamps of the Jewish Cultural Reconstruction a short-lived organization founded by Salo Baron and assisted by Hannah Arendt that collected and redistributed heirless Jewish property from Germany in the wake of WWII. This edition is moderately scarce with only 11 copies recorded in OCLC and only one in the auction record. Hills 1540; Singerman 1271 2nd ed. [publisher not identified], published at 1227 Walnut Street, [stereotyped by L. Johnson & Co., printed by C. Sherman and Son] unknown
réf. 60348Philadelphia: publisher not identified published at 1227 Walnut Street stereotyped by L. Johnson & Co. printed by C. Sherman and Son 5619. Second edition 4to pp. vi 4 3-1011 1 plus 2 pro-forma lithograph leaves of "family records" and a tipped-in printed slip extending the family record see below; original brown morocco tooled in black and gilt in a Grolieresque style two brass clasps all edges gilt; brown coated endpapers turn-ins tooled in gilt; bookplate and purple stamps of the Jewish Cultural Reconstruction including stamp to title page. Skillfully and sympathetically rebacked with original spine laid down lightly rubbed but generally clean and fresh: Very good and sound. Handsome edition of the first translation of the Hebrew Bible by an American Jew now known as the Leeser Bible. A prolific and ambitious religious leader Isaac Leeser had a "monumental" impact on the American Jewish community ANB. He elevated the status of Jewish religious leaders advocated for Jewish day schools and helped to established Maimonides College the first rabbinical school in the United States. He also taught and published extensively in vernacular English and organized the first American Jewish Publication Society in 1845 making Jewish scriptures and religious education texts broadly accessible to Anglophone Jews. The Leeser Bible was first published in 1853-54 at a time when many Anglophone Jews had to read the Hebrew Bible in the King James Version of the Hebrew Bible; Leeser provided a translation free of the influence of American Christianity. His translation "remained the standard Jewish translation of the Bible in North America for over 60 years" Fischel & Pinsker Jewish-American History and Culture p.349. This copy from the 1858-9 second edition with an extended nineteenth- and twentieth-century provenance. The family record at the rear lists births deaths and marriages of the Alexander-Steiger-Freeman-Gombrich family from the 1850s through the 1880s in both English and Hebrew. Also with the bookplate and stamps of the Jewish Cultural Reconstruction a short-lived organization founded by Salo Baron and assisted by Hannah Arendt that collected and redistributed heirless Jewish property from Germany in the wake of WWII. This edition is moderately scarce with only 11 copies recorded in OCLC and only one in the auction record. Hills 1540; Singerman 1271 2nd ed. [publisher not identified], published at 1227 Walnut Street, [stereotyped by L. Johnson & Co., printed by C. Sherman and Son] unknown books
1851réf. 28907AB1851. London and other places of print Harper Collins / William Mackenzie / John Van Voorst and others 1851-1999. Octavo. More than 3000 pages with many illustrations for the Beginner as well as the Advanced Angler. Original Hardcover and Softcover publications often with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector's Mylar. Many of the publications with some signs of wear but overall and especially the collector's items in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. The historical publications are true gems for the collector and this collection would be the perfect foundation for a meaningful Fly-Fishing-Library. This collection is the perfect gift for the Fly-Fisher. Please ask for a full list with details and photographs of the books included in this collection. The price includes an upgrade to worldwide free shipping of the collection per UPS Express. paperback
1651réf. 89641Pierre DAVID | Paris 1651 | 10.6 x 16.8 cm | 4 volumes reliés en 1
1730réf. 187897London: Printed for William Innys 1730. The definitive edition of Newton's second great work Fourth edition the final edition to be revised and approved by Newton himself. The Opticks is Newton's definitive study of light the basis for the corpuscular theory of light rays that remained dominant into the 19th century. The Opticks's greatest achievement is showing that colour is a mathematically definable property. Newton demonstrates that white light is a mixture of infinitely varied coloured rays and that each ray is definable by the angle through which it is refracted. Other topics include colour circles theories of the rainbow and the phenomenon now known as Newton's rings. In his later years Newton made a sustained effort to tidy up his scientific legacy. This edition of the Opticks was published three years after his death by his long-time publisher drawing on corrections "by the Author's own Hand" preface. In those three years Newtonian devotees had published the Optical Lectures 1728 that he had delivered at Cambridge in the 1660s making public a work that he had only circulated in manuscript among close friends. The Lectures employed a more mathematical analysis of colour theory than did the Opticks and Innys' fourth edition harmonizes the two works by cross-referencing philosophical propositions in the latter with geometrical demonstrations in the former. Octavo 195 x 123 mm pp. viii 382 2. Complete with terminal advertisement leaf and 12 folding plates. Wood-engraved initials head- and tailpieces. Twentieth-century calf spine ruled and decorated in blind and with red morocco label marbled endpapers edges sprinkled red. Minimal foxing to contents paper flaw to lower outer corner of K1 text unaffected plates crisp: a very good copy indeed. Babson 136; ESTC T69138; Gray 178; Wallis 178. unknown
1838réf. 117632Paris: l'Imprimerie royale 1838. The classic treatment of the early history and doctrine of the Druze of Lebanon First edition of "one of de Sacy's principal works the classical treatment of the early history and doctrine of the Druze" which took more than 40 years to complete Daftary The Assassin Legends: Myths of the Ismailis p. 132. "The Druze religion. was initially an Isma'ili schismatic movement organized during the final years of the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim's reign 996-1021. But in time the Druzes came to represent a separate religious community beyond the confines of Isma'ilism or perhaps even Shi'i Islam. De Sacy's study of the Druzes dated back to the early 1790s. As in other areas of his scholarly endeavours de Sacy began his study of the Druzes on the basis of their own literature a sacred scripture consisting mainly of the writings and letters of the founders of the Druze religion notably Hamza and al-Muqtana" ibid. De Sacy 1758-1838 is remembered as "a monumental figure in the development of oriental studies in France" Atabey. Uncommon: six copies only listed at auction in the last 50 years including two at the Aboussouan sale in 1993 and the Atabey copy in 2002. 2 vols octavo 215 x 132 mm. Later 19th-century red-brown half morocco raised bands gilt tiles and brown rules to spines marbled sides and endpapers top edges gilt others untrimmed. From the library of British Arabist and colonial agent Colonel Samuel Barrett Miles 1838-1914 with printed bookplates noting his widow's bequest of the collection to Bath Public Library in 1920 and associated manuscript shelf-marks and blind-stamps as usual. With half-titles and the errata leaf; original printed wrappers bound in to rear of each volume. Spines sunned pale spotting a very good copy. Atabey 1134; not in Blackmer. hardcover
1799réf. 162628London: John Stockdale 1799. An enthusiastic admirer of the beauties of nature First edition with the index incorrectly identifying the fourth plate. This work handsomely illustrated from the author's sketches "was regarded as the great authority of the period on American subjects. There can be no question that the colonization of Canada was mainly promoted and influenced by this book" Bibliotheca Americana. Isaac Weld 1774-1856 left Dublin for Philadelphia in 1795 and "accompanied by a faithful servant sometimes on horseback sometimes on foot or in a canoe he made his way often under the guidance of Native Americans through the vast forests and along the great rivers. He narrowly escaped shipwreck on Lake Erie and experienced all the adventure incident to passing through an unsettled country while in the towns he mixed in the best society and had the privilege of meeting George Washington" ODNB. Aside from the attractive folding map the work includes plans of Washington DC and Quebec; maps of Canada and the Niagara Falls; three views of the Falls; and an illustration of an "American stage waggon" leaving a staging post. The work proved popular going through four editions by 1807 and being translated into French German and Dutch. The plate showing the Hudson River is labelled as "View of the Patowmac River from Mount Vernon". The index of the second edition is corrected. Quarto 270 x 207 mm pp. xxiv 464 8. Engraved frontispiece and 14 plates views and plates one folding map hand-coloured in outline; 8 pp. publisher's advertisements at end. Contemporary speckled calf smooth spine with gilt bands red morocco spine label covers ruled in blind. Brent Gration-Maxfield 1916-1983 book collector and scholar with his ownership signature dated 1969 on front pastedown and extensive neatly pencilled bibliographic notes on the front free endpaper; contemporary gift note loosely inserted. Binding refurbished with gilt retouched superficial abrasions to covers folding map with short tear at stub small paper tears to b3 and G1. A very good copy. Bibliotheca Americana 3282; Howes W235; Lowndes 2868; Sabin 102541. unknown
1910réf. 394188Bridgeport Connecticut 1910. Very Good. A small collection of four glass lantern slides 21 black and white photographs and additional ephemera from the library of Connecticut phycologist Isaac Holden founding editor and contributor to the Phycotheca Boreali-Americana: A Collection of Dried Specimens of the Algae of North America. The collection consists of miscellaneous materials documenting two of Bridgeport’s leading manufacturers Isaac Holden and William Skilling Mills and includes evidence of their ties to circus impresario P.T. Barnum. Two of the glass slides are partially damaged else very good overall. Born in 1832 Holden graduated from Dartmouth College and began his career as a teacher specializing in the preparation of young men for college and scientific schools. He gave up teaching in 1872 to join the Wheeler & Wilson Company in Bridgeport manufacturers of sewing machines becoming Vice President and in charge of the business until his death in 1903. His interest in botany was lifelong and he spent the last fifteen years of his life researching and collecting marine algae at Sea Island Park on the Connecticut coast and Long Island Sound as well as the inland fresh water streams and lakes. Among the photographs are several family portraits including the patriarch of the Mills family Dwight Phelps Mills and images of various family members and friends out and about in Bridgeport and Naugatuck. Also included are photographs of rugged landscapes and rocky coastline including Australia and Maine. The four glass lantern slides consist of a view of P.T. Barnum's elephants being paraded across Bridgeport’s new iron draw bridge 1888 and three unidentified portraits: a young woman in ballet slippers resembling one of P.T. Barnum's Circassian beauties; a very old woman with a remarkable furrowed face; and a very young boy. The ephemera consists mostly of printed and engraved cards etc.: Rewards of Merit religious and calling cards some of which are inscribed and woven keepsakes. Of special interest are several calling cards and identified family photographs that link the Holden family to the Stanley Brothers of Maine the earliest manufacturers of dry plate glass negatives and slides in the 1880s. A compelling small archive from this leading Bridgeport man member of the New England Botanical Club and president of the Bridgeport Scientific Society documenting the life of the city when Barnum was mayor and Olmstead had created Sea Island Park. A detailed list is available. unknown
1910réf. 394188Bridgeport Connecticut 1910. Very Good. A small collection of four glass lantern slides 21 black and white photographs and additional ephemera from the library of Connecticut phycologist Isaac Holden founding editor and contributor to the Phycotheca Boreali-Americana: A Collection of Dried Specimens of the Algae of North America. The collection consists of miscellaneous materials documenting two of Bridgeport’s leading manufacturers Isaac Holden and William Skilling Mills and includes evidence of their ties to circus impresario P.T. Barnum. Two of the glass slides are partially damaged else very good overall. Born in 1832 Holden graduated from Dartmouth College and began his career as a teacher specializing in the preparation of young men for college and scientific schools. He gave up teaching in 1872 to join the Wheeler & Wilson Company in Bridgeport manufacturers of sewing machines becoming Vice President and in charge of the business until his death in 1903. His interest in botany was lifelong and he spent the last fifteen years of his life researching and collecting marine algae at Sea Island Park on the Connecticut coast and Long Island Sound as well as the inland fresh water streams and lakes. Among the photographs are several family portraits including the patriarch of the Mills family Dwight Phelps Mills and images of various family members and friends out and about in Bridgeport and Naugatuck. Also included are photographs of rugged landscapes and rocky coastline including Australia and Maine. The four glass lantern slides consist of a view of P.T. Barnum's elephants being paraded across Bridgeport’s new iron draw bridge 1888 and three unidentified portraits: a young woman in ballet slippers resembling one of P.T. Barnum's Circassian beauties; a very old woman with a remarkable furrowed face; and a very young boy. The ephemera consists mostly of printed and engraved cards etc.: Rewards of Merit religious and calling cards some of which are inscribed and woven keepsakes. Of special interest are several calling cards and identified family photographs that link the Holden family to the Stanley Brothers of Maine the earliest manufacturers of dry plate glass negatives and slides in the 1880s. A compelling small archive from this leading Bridgeport man member of the New England Botanical Club and president of the Bridgeport Scientific Society documenting the life of the city when Barnum was mayor and Olmstead had created Sea Island Park. A detailed list is available. unknown books
1915réf. 46310Petrograd: M. M.Stasiulevicha 1915. Newton Isaac 1643-1727. Matematicheskiye nachala natural'noy filosofii. Translated from Latin with notes and explanations by Aleksei N. Krylov. 2 vols. vi 276; 4 277-620pp. 36 plates. Petrograd: M. M. Stasyulevich 1915-16. Original printed wrappers spines restored edges of wrappers repaired front wrapper of Vol. 1 a bit creased a few tiny chips. Library stamps on titles and last pages of both volumes some ink lines in the margins. Very good. First Edition in Russian of Newton's Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica 1687 made by Russian naval engineer and applied mathematician Aleksei Nikolaevich Krylov 1863-1945 who became internationally famous for his works on magnetic compasses ship floodability hydrodynamics and computational mathematics. He built the first machine in Russia for integrating ordinary differential equations and in 1931 published a paper on what is now called "Krylov subspace" dealing with computation of the characteristic polynomial coefficients of a given matrix. The first volume of Krylov's translation of the Principia unlike many Russian books of the period was printed on good-quality paper; the second volume however was printed on paper of lesser quality. The edition does not include information on the number of copies printed but it was likely a small edition. OCLC cites four copies in Western libraries-Stanford Huntington University of Oklahoma and Paris-BIUSJ-Mathematiques. Not in A Descriptive Catalogue of the Grace K. Babson Collection of the Works of Sir Isaac Newton. . M. M.Stasiulevicha unknown
1915réf. 46310Petrograd: M. M.Stasiulevicha 1915. Newton Isaac 1643-1727. Matematicheskiye nachala natural'noy filosofii. Translated from Latin with notes and explanations by Aleksei N. Krylov. 2 vols. vi 276; 4 277-620pp. 36 plates. Petrograd: M. M. Stasyulevich 1915-16. Original printed wrappers spines restored edges of wrappers repaired front wrapper of Vol. 1 a bit creased a few tiny chips. Library stamps on titles and last pages of both volumes some ink lines in the margins. Very good. First Edition in Russian of Newton's Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica 1687 made by Russian naval engineer and applied mathematician Aleksei Nikolaevich Krylov 1863-1945 who became internationally famous for his works on magnetic compasses ship floodability hydrodynamics and computational mathematics. He built the first machine in Russia for integrating ordinary differential equations and in 1931 published a paper on what is now called "Krylov subspace" dealing with computation of the characteristic polynomial coefficients of a given matrix. The first volume of Krylov's translation of the Principia unlike many Russian books of the period was printed on good-quality paper; the second volume however was printed on paper of lesser quality. The edition does not include information on the number of copies printed but it was likely a small edition. OCLC cites four copies in Western libraries-Stanford Huntington University of Oklahoma and Paris-BIUSJ-Mathematiques. Not in A Descriptive Catalogue of the Grace K. Babson Collection of the Works of Sir Isaac Newton. . M. M.Stasiulevicha unknown books
1782réf. 254941782 Isaac NEWTON Works OPTICS Ancient Kingdoms Gravity Mundi Systemate Horsley "Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world" ― Isaac Newton Opticks Few names in the course of the history of science have been as influential as Isaac Newton. His works such as 'Opticks' summarized great discoveries and theories concerning light and color reflections color wheel invention of the telescope early theories of the rainbow and Newtonian rings – one of the greatest works on optics. 'Opticks' in addition to his other famous treatises were published together in the 1782 collected works of Newton by Samuel Horsley. This set of three volumes from the Horsley collected edition includes not only 'Opticks' but works such as "Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms" correspondence with Boyle on gravity and "De mundi systemate" or "Systems of the World". Item number: #25493 Price: $4950 NEWTON Isaac Opera Quae Exstant Omnia Londini: Excudebat Joannes Nichols 1782-1785. Details: <!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Collation: 3 volumes <!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->Vol. III – 10 174 5 180-242 3 246-437 8 4-48 <!-- if !supportLists-->§ <!--endif-->plates no.2-11 <!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->Vol. IV – 9 6-264 5 270-617p <!-- if !supportLists-->§ <!--endif-->12 plates <!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->Vol. V – 11 550p <!-- if !supportLists-->§ <!--endif-->3 folding plates <!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Language: English <!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Binding: Modern Leather; tight and secure <!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Size: ~12in X 9.75in 30.5cm x 24.5cm Our Guarantee: Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide. Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving and we will offer a full refund without reservation! 163 Joannes Nichols hardcover
1799réf. 1299131799. First Edition. WELD Isaac. Travels through the States of North America and the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada During the Years 1795 1796 and 1797. London: John Stockdale 1799. Quarto contemporary full diced tan calf rebacked with original elaborately gilt-decorated spine laid down raised bands all edges marbled. $4800.First edition of this fascinating account of ""all the adventures incident to passing through an unsettled country"" with two maps one folding and hand-colored in outline plans of the cities of Washington and Quebec and 12 full-page copper-engraved plates of scenic views including ""The Horse-Shoe Fall of Niagara.""Weld arrived in America in 1795 at the age of 19 and ""accompanied by a faithful servant sometimes on horseback sometimes on foot or in a canoe he made his way often under the guidance of Indians through the vast forests and along the great rivers. He narrowly escaped shipwreck on Lake Erie and experienced all the adventures incident to passing through an unsettled country. While in the towns he mixed in the best society and had the privilege of meeting George Washington"" Cox. The journey took him through Virginia Pennsylvania and New York and then ""from Montreal to Quebec thence up to St. Lawrence and the lakes to Kingston Niagara and Detroit with comment on the country its settlement and administration. Weld an Irishman came to explore the possibilities of Canada and the United States as fields for Irish emigration"" Staton & Tremaine. Weld's travels are told through a series of 38 letters chronicling the two years he spent in North America and was one of the most popular narratives of the day. Translated into many languages Weld's account ""was regarded as the great authority of the period on American subjects"" Allibone III 2636. Includes examinations of taverns slave conditions tobacco cultivation and Indian tribes. ""In the first edition the view of the Hudson River is incorrectly designated on the plate itself and in the list of plates as 'View on or of the Patowmac River from Mount Vernon.' A number of copies have an erratum slip noting the error pasted at the foot of the list of plates or facing it"" Sabin 102541. This copy has no erratum slip suggesting it may be among the earliest copies preceding the discovery of the error. Without publisher's advertisements. A second edition in two volumes was also published in 1799. Sabin 102541. Howes W235. Cox II 176. Staton & Tremaine 708. Stevens 2808. Stiles 1921. Lowndes 2868. Rich 1799. In a royal armorial binding possibly from Carlton House the residence of George IV during the regency with a royal armorial bookplate.Mild dampstaining to top edge of frontispiece and title page text fairly clean with modest foxing to maps and plates one leaf with minor expert paper repair; handsome contemporary binding with light wear. hardcover
1799réf. 1299131799. First Edition. WELD Isaac. Travels through the States of North America and the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada During the Years 1795 1796 and 1797. London: John Stockdale 1799. Quarto contemporary full diced tan calf rebacked with original elaborately gilt-decorated spine laid down raised bands all edges marbled. $4800.First edition of this fascinating account of ""all the adventures incident to passing through an unsettled country"" with two maps one folding and hand-colored in outline plans of the cities of Washington and Quebec and 12 full-page copper-engraved plates of scenic views including ""The Horse-Shoe Fall of Niagara.""Weld arrived in America in 1795 at the age of 19 and ""accompanied by a faithful servant sometimes on horseback sometimes on foot or in a canoe he made his way often under the guidance of Indians through the vast forests and along the great rivers. He narrowly escaped shipwreck on Lake Erie and experienced all the adventures incident to passing through an unsettled country. While in the towns he mixed in the best society and had the privilege of meeting George Washington"" Cox. The journey took him through Virginia Pennsylvania and New York and then ""from Montreal to Quebec thence up to St. Lawrence and the lakes to Kingston Niagara and Detroit with comment on the country its settlement and administration. Weld an Irishman came to explore the possibilities of Canada and the United States as fields for Irish emigration"" Staton & Tremaine. Weld's travels are told through a series of 38 letters chronicling the two years he spent in North America and was one of the most popular narratives of the day. Translated into many languages Weld's account ""was regarded as the great authority of the period on American subjects"" Allibone III 2636. Includes examinations of taverns slave conditions tobacco cultivation and Indian tribes. ""In the first edition the view of the Hudson River is incorrectly designated on the plate itself and in the list of plates as 'View on or of the Patowmac River from Mount Vernon.' A number of copies have an erratum slip noting the error pasted at the foot of the list of plates or facing it"" Sabin 102541. This copy has no erratum slip suggesting it may be among the earliest copies preceding the discovery of the error. Without publisher's advertisements. A second edition in two volumes was also published in 1799. Sabin 102541. Howes W235. Cox II 176. Staton & Tremaine 708. Stevens 2808. Stiles 1921. Lowndes 2868. Rich 1799. In a royal armorial binding possibly from Carlton House the residence of George IV during the regency with a royal armorial bookplate.Mild dampstaining to top edge of frontispiece and title page text fairly clean with modest foxing to maps and plates one leaf with minor expert paper repair; handsome contemporary binding with light wear. hardcover books
1755réf. 000341Various: Various 1755. Bound volume containing six sermons dated from 1755 to 1788: I. Lyman Joseph. A Sermon Preached Before His Excellency James Bowdoin Esq. Governour; His Honour Thomas Cushing Esq. Lieutenant-Governour.of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts May 30 1787 Being the Day of General Election. Boston: Adams and Nourse 1787 61 pages front cover used as pastedown for the volume with some old insect damage to pastedown and margins of first two leaves. II. Cumings Henry. A Sermon Preached in Billerica on the 23rd of November 1775 Being the Day appointed by Civil Authority for a Public Thanksgiving Throughout the Province of Massachusetts-Bay. Worcester Massachusetts-Bay: I. Thomas 1775. 29 pages. Final two leaves dampstained but very readable next-to-last leaf has margin chip. III. Morrill Isaac. The Soldier exhorted to Courage in the Service of his King and Country from a Sense of God and Religion: in a Sermon Preach'd at Wilmington April 3 1755 to Capt. Philehas Osgood and his Company of Soldiers Before their going out into Publick Service. Boston New-England: J. Draper 1755. 23 pages. Large margin chip at bottom of one leaf not affecting text. IV. Bridge Ebenezer. A Sermon Preached before his Excellency Francis Bernard Esq. Governor.of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England May 27th 1767. Being the Anniversary for the Election of His Majesty's Council for the Province. Boston: Green and Russell 1767. 60 pages last three leaves have internal tears with the last two having some paper loss and affecting a small part of the text. V. Cumings Henry. A Thanksgiving Sermon Preached at Billerica November 27 1766. Boston N.E.: Kneeland and Adams for Thomas Leverett 1766. 32 pages. VI. Parsons David. A Sermon Preached Before His Excellency John Hancock Esq.of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts May 28 1788 being the day of General Election. Boston: Adams and Nourse 1788.46 pages. The group is bound into a full blind-tooled calf binding measuring 21.75 cm x 13 cm. Other than the noted issues with the individual sermons cited above the pages are mainly clean and free from significant chips or tears with age-tanning and intermittent foxing throughout. The binding is lightly shelfworn with some minor separation at the spine ends joints good with covers firmly attached. A good collection of mainly scarce sermons. Full Leather. Good/None. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Various Hardcover
1955réf. 13550Great Association Copy THE END OF ETERNITY Doubleday 1955 first edition some off-setting to the end-papers and paste-downs no doubt do to the dust-wrapper flaps else vg in like pictorial dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear to the dust-wrapper spine extremities. At one time Floyd C. Gold's copy with his humorous notation on the f.p.d. Writing under the pen name Floyd C. Gale he was the primary book reviewer for his brother Horace Gold's Galaxy Magazine from 1955-1963 and more than likely read this very copy for his review of this title. Inscribed by the author to one of his publishers on the title page. Great Association thus. A time travel novel. Doubleday unknown
1951réf. 14778ASSOCIATION COPY THE STARS LIKE DUST Doubleday 1951 first edition near fine in like dust-wrapper. Inscribed by the author to fellow SF writer Hal Clement along with with Clements bookplate on the f.p.d. Great association copy from one Grandmaster to another. Can't get much better than that! Doubleday unknown
1955réf. 13550Great Association Copy THE END OF ETERNITY Doubleday 1955 first edition some off-setting to the end-papers and paste-downs no doubt do to the dust-wrapper flaps else vg in like pictorial dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear to the dust-wrapper spine extremities. At one time Floyd C. Gold's copy with his humorous notation on the f.p.d. Writing under the pen name Floyd C. Gale he was the primary book reviewer for his brother Horace Gold's Galaxy Magazine from 1955-1963 and more than likely read this very copy for his review of this title. Inscribed by the author to one of his publishers on the title page. Great Association thus. A time travel novel. Doubleday unknown books
