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réf. 8039Leidae & Gottingae =Leiden and Gottingen: Eliam Luzac 1755. First edition. A touch of light foxing to the title page and to the margins of a few other pages; a bright and clean copy in near fine condition in a very attractive binding. Pp. i-iv 1-72; 2 monochrome foldout copper-plate engravings by Jan Wandelaar unsigned. One-half red morocco leather over marbled boards sm 4to 20 cm width x 26.7 cm height bound by Fritz and Trudi of Philadelphia in 1976. This is Klein's best-known work to herpetologists because in it he was the first to use the word for their discipline herpetology specifically Herpeta in the nominative case on page 1 and herpetologiae in the objective case on page 1 and the title page. However his taxonomic reference to this word was far different than the use of the word today. For instance the animals making up the Herpeta included are legless animals such as earthworms tapeworms and leeches in addition to snakes. Left out are the four-legged frogs toads lizards. There is only one reptile illustrated in this book on plate 1. However it is not a snake but instead a two-legged lizard-like animal possessing large hind limbs. Klein had not seen this specimen and simply cited the authority of Hiob Ludolf 1624-1704 a German orientalist. Starting in 1999 this image was incorporated into the official logo of the International Society for the History and Bibliography of Herpetology. The author's preface was dated February 5 1752 so there likely a delay in printing the book. As an addendum pages 67-72 Klein included an essay on tapeworms by Johann August Unzer a German physician who trained in Halle and practiced medicine in Hamburg modified after notes by Kraig Adler. This addition fits the theme of Klein's concept of the Herpeta. See also Agassiz 1853 3: 366 9; BMNH 2: 992; Engelmann 1846: 428; Nissen ZBI: 227 2210 and Zool. Soc. London 1902: 336. This volume is very scarce; it seldom comes up for sale. Old small oval stamp with the following initials "T. L. B.M.P." on the title page. From the research library of herpetologist Kraig Adler with his signature on the title page and his small bookplate on the front pastedown. Leidae & Gottingae (=Leiden and Gottingen): Eliam Luzac, 1755. First edition. hardcover
réf. 16-4843Amsterdam : Printed for the Wetsteins and Smith MDCCXXXII. 1732. Folio. . Contemporary roan with gilt spine worn along edges of spine but tight Pages fresh and crisp. Very good. Bookplates and old ink inscription of previous private owners on inside front cover. 30 x 48.5 cm. Text in French and Latin. . See collation below.OCLC only lists the English language edtion of the same year.References : Brunet III: 599; Cohen de Ricci: 768. .In -folio relié pleine basane brune dos à nerfs orné et doré Reliure de l'époque. 5 ff. 247 pp. 1 f. 249 254 pp. 2 ff. Orné d'un frontispice une vignette armoriée de dédicace et de 130 figures in texte à mi-page d'après Lebrun Leclere Maas Picard Punt J. Romain Tosca de Wit and Vandelaar par divers sculpteurs. Edition bilingue francol-atine imprimée sur 2 colonnes. Bon état oxydation des ff. et rousseurs usures à la reliure. Amsterdam : Printed for the Wetsteins and Smith, MDCCXXXII. [1732] unknown
réf. 1300A La Haye: Chez la veuve d'Abraham Troyel 1711. Hardcover. Good. Duodecimo. xxiv 200 viii 38 iipp. 12 A12-K12 L4. First edition of author's first book. Contemporary mottled calf spine gilt. Top of spine chipped. With 78 diagrams on 32 folding plates. 0 A La Haye: Chez la veuve d'Abraham Troyel, 1711. hardcover
réf. 65446Delft Boitet 1730-1739. 2 parts in 3 volumes. A very good complete copy uniform contemporary full vellum with red title shields and gold decorated spines with blind stamped front covers.38 946 52 12 520 78 20 pag. Illustrated with 60 engravings a.o. the large bird's eye view of The Hague. hardcover
réf. 96471Kjøbehavn G. L. Lahde 1805. Tverr-Folio. Tilsammen 60 kobberstukne plansjer. 50 7 1 26 18 182 s. Bundet i ett fint priv. håndb. helskinnbd. Dansk og Tysk tekst. . Det danske topografiske verket “Novus Atlas Daniæ” ble utgitt av den danske kunstneren Johan Jacob Bruun i 1761-64. Verket ble aldri fullført. Etter hans død ble plansjene kjøpt av G. L. Lahde og verket ble utgitt på nytt i 1799 og 1805. Et meget fint eksemplar. unknown
réf. 238133Christiania C. S. Schwach 1779-80. 24 599 1 s. 38 2 XLVIII 76 14 s. Med Erindring til Bogbinderen og Efter-Erindring. Kobberstukket kart. 2 kobberstukne plansjer. Bundet i ett samtidig skinnbind med skinntittelfelt og ryggdekor i gull. Øvre del av rygg med håndskrevet nummerering. Tittelbladet med liten fuktskjold i øvre marg. Proveniens: Eksemplaret har tilhørt presten Henrik Christopher Glahn 1738-1804 med hans signatur på forsats. Komplett og fint eksemplar. Uvanlig. Opplaget var kun 300 eksemplarer. . unknown
réf. 238160Christiania C. S. Schwach 1779-80. 24 599 1 s. 38 2 XLVIII 76 14 s. Med Erindring til Bogbinderen. Kobberstukket kart. 2 kobberstukne plansjer. Bundet i 2 nyere skinnbind med sorte skinn tittelfelt og gulldekor på ryggen. Med Wilses kobberstukne eiermerke i første bind. Komplett og fint eksemplar. Uvanlig. Opplaget var kun 300 eksemplarer. . unknown
1716réf. 52920London printed by J. N. Assignee of Edw. Sayer for D. Brown et al. 1716. FIFTH EDITION OF PLEAS OF THE CROWN 1716 INCLUDING THE SECOND ISSUE OF THE TRYAL OF WITCHES AT THE ASSIZES HELD AT BURY ST. EDMUNDS 1716. 3 title pages at front and each part has a separate title page; 1 Pleas of the Crown 2 A Short Treatise touching Sheriffs Accompts 3 A Tryal of Witches at the Assizes held at Bury St Edmunds for the Country of SUFFOLK on the Tenth Day of March 1664 pages 5 78-104; 4 A Discourse touching Provision for the Poor 5 Pleas of the Crown The Second Part by Giles Jacob. 8vo approximately 190 x 115 mm 7½ x 4½ inches pages: 22 1-272 8; 4 5-143 1; 2 1-121. Bound in full contemporary calf gilt lettered label to spine. Age-browning to margins of first General title page heavy age-browning to pastedowns and endpapers occasional pale age-browning to text a very good tight copy. "The publication A Tryal of Witches related to the 1662 Bury St. Edmunds witch trial first published in 1682 and was used by the magistrates at Salem when looking for a precedent in allowing spectral evidence. Since the jurist Sir Matthew Hale had permitted this evidence supported by the eminent philosopher physician and author Thomas Browne to be used in the Bury St Edmunds witch trial and the accusations against two Lowestoft women the colonial magistrates also accepted its validity and their trials proceeded." Wikipedia under the headings "Salem witch trials Spectral Evidence". See: Geoffrey Keynes A Bibliography of Sir Thomas Browne pages 197-99: "The sheets of the Tryal of Witches whole volume were reissued in 1716 pages 5 78-104 and were added to Hale's Pleas of the Crown"; Diana and Jeremy Norman The Haskell F. Norman Library of Science and Medicine Volume 1 page 352 No. 966 listing the first edition of 1683; Leslie F. Maxwell A Bibliography of English Law 1651-1800 Volume 2 page 54 No. 4. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING ALL ZOOMABLE FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST. London, printed by J. N. Assignee of Edw. Sayer for D. Brown et al., 1716. hardcover
1858réf. 175736Bombay: Smith Taylor and Co. 1858. The thoughts of an influential British administrator in India on British policy in the east First edition of this important collection of Jacob's often controversial views; a London edition followed in the same year. The book covers general and civil administration military matters the North-West Frontier the Anglo-Persian War and Jacob's proposals for reorganizing India's civil and military administration. John Jacob 1812-1858 travelled to India in 1828 as a second lieutenant in the Bombay Artillery. He served in Gujarat before joining the Bombay column in the First Anglo-Afghan War. He was placed in charge of ordnance stores at Fort Bukkur and later appointed to command the Sind Irregular Horse under Sir James Outram. In this role he suppressed raiding in Sind and Kachhi though his support for Outram in a dispute with Charles Napier damaged his career prospects. Despite this Napier authorized him in 1846 to expand his force to 1600 horsemen. He successfully led campaigns against Bugti Baloch tribesmen and as political superintendent of Upper Sind developed frontier defences roads and canals. He also negotiated a treaty with the khan of Kalat. Promoted brigadier-general during the Persian War 1856 he commanded British forces in Persia after the fall of Muhammarah. He died of brain fever in Jacobabad in 1858 mourned by an estimated 10000 residents. The editor Lewis Pelly 1825-1892 a Bombay Army captain joined Jacob as aide-de-camp in Persia in 1857 and became brigade major of the Sind Frontier Force. After Jacob's death Pelly's career flourished under Sir Bartle Frere's patronage. He became chargé d'affaires at Tehran 1859 political agent and consul at Zanzibar 1861 and in 1863 replaced J. Felix Jones as British Resident in the Persian Gulf. Pelly relocated the residency from Bushire to Muscat expanding British influence in the Gulf. His impact is noted in Saudi Arabia's Memorial on the Muscat-Abu Dhabi territorial dispute: "Lieutenant Colonel Lewis Pelly became the British Resident in the Persian Gulf in 1863 and for the next nine years he played an important part in events there. Pelly came to the Gulf after a long association with General John Jacob whose forthright views on the position of the British in the East he admired to the point of collecting and publishing them in a volume for the enlightenment of the British public" Memorial p. 230. This first edition is scarce WorldCat showing six locations only plus the Oriental and India Office Collection British Library. We trace only a single copy of the London edition at auction. The book reflects both Jacob's strategic vision and Pelly's commitment to shaping British policy in the Gulf. Provenance: Charles Waddington 1796-1858 with his ownership inscription on the front free endpaper dated "Kurachee Karachi 19th Feby. 1858". Waddington served in the Bombay Engineers from 1813 and was superintending engineer for Bombay and southern southern provinces. He was ADC to Napier at Miani 1843 and in October 1847 was appointed superintending and executive engineer at Aden altered to chief engineer in April 1851. In 1854 he was appointed chief engineer in the public works department Bombay and "his services in preparing the Persian expedition received official acknowledgement. In November 1857 he was appointed to the command in Sind" ODNB; in September 1858 he left India due to ill health and died in London on 22 November. With the armorial bookplate of his son Horace Waddington 1834-1930to front pastedown. Octavo. Tables to the text 4 engraved plates on 2 leaves. Original green morocco-grain cloth gilt lettered on the spine embossed arabesque panels to the covers. A little rubbed neatly rebacked with majority of original spine laid down 3 letters partially replaced on the underlying cloth endpapers browned contents with pale toning and occasional light foxing overall a well-preserved copy very good. Memorial of the Government of Saudi Arabia 1955. hardcover
réf. 25051Delft Boitet 1730-1739. 2 parts in 3 volumes. Good complete copy. Richly decorated half leather with green shields. Spine of volume 1 damaged at the ends. All volumes rubbed at the edges. Name 'H. van Hall' in ink on first free end paper. 38 946 52 12 520 78 20 pag. Illustrated with 60 engravings a.o. the large bird's eye view of The Hague. Several engravings have creases. B407. hardcover
réf. EXE-195Paris, Au Sans Pareil, 1921. In-12, reliure décorée à dos de maroquin noir avec sur les plats motif central de veau blanc incrusté dans une forme découpée de box noir métallisé s’incrustant au centre d’un plat de daim noir en cadré de maroquin noir, dos orné de même , tête dorée, non rogné, couverture imprimé et dos conservés, chemise et étui (Martin, 1962). Edition originale. Tiré à 750 exemplaires, un des 20 exemplaires numérotés sur vergé d’Arches (n°45).
1811réf. 12709Amsterdam by derfg. C Stigter 1811. Almanach op t jaar ons Heeren Esus sic Christus 1811. Voorzien met eene aanwijz. van de jaar-/paard-/beest- en leerm. in Holland en de maans op- en onder-gang: berekend door Jacob de Gelder mathematicus. Full shark leather binding with two silver clasps with silver marks among one with three crosses for Amsterdam and the letter B still intact and working. In -24 size 75 x 55 cm. / 276 x 197 inch. Binding with two very small holes in the leather and is further in good condition. Guilt edges. Rare almanac printed in Amsterdam with 12 folding coloured woodcut illustrations for each month Sinterklaas in December and 4 folding coloured woodcut illustrations for each season text in German under the seasons. With calendar printed in red and black ink Verduisteringen en hemelverschynselen voor den jare 1811 Reys-Wyzer wanneer de veerschepen en trekschuiten moet afvaren gedrukt voor de reizende Aantekeningen van don Antonio Magino Korte Kronyk beginnende van den jare 1805 8 blank leaves white note pages prepared to write and delete writings or drawings and 10 laid blank leaves for notes. Both blank note pages and the laid paper leaves are of a later date than the almanac. The illustration for December is a very nice illustration of the Dutch feast Sinterklaas with people with a rod of Sinterklaas. The only known copy of this 1811 almanac features added colored illustrations for each month and season. The illustrations are trimmed slightly shorter than the original almanac. Likely bound at a later date. On the first page of the thickened specially prepared pages the following is written in pencil: Stamped not perforated. Jacob de Gelder 17651848 was an influential mathematician and educational reformer who played a key role in reforming mathematics education in the Netherlands. One of his well-known mathematics books is Eerste gronden der meetkunst. In 1815 he became a professor of mathematics at the newly founded Military Academy in Delft but conflicts over his theoretical approach led to his suspension in 1819. He subsequently became a professor at Leiden University until his retirement in 1840. Amsterdam, by derfg. C Stigter hardcover
1918réf. 75931Paris 1918. Fine. Paris s. d. ca 1918 13.30 x 21 cm 2 pages sur un feuillet Unpublished autograph letter signed by Guillaume Apollinaire addressed to Max Jacob. Two pages written in black ink on a sheet with the letterhead of the Chamber of Deputies. Folds inherent to mailing. Unpublished letter concerning the deputy Charles Régismanset then Director at the Ministry of Colonies: ""Veux-tu dire à ton ami que Régismanset m'a prié de te faire savoir que son cas ne comportait point d'atténuation au point de vue des sous-vêtements militaires."" ""La colonie a écrit en personne et émettant l'avis le plus défavorable car la maison en question a bénéficié pour l'heure d'une démobilisation importante."" ""These 'colonies' are hardly distant. He is seconded to Rue Oudinot to the office of Minister Henri Simon who was pleased to be able to assist a poet he had long admired. His duties are rather vague. Assigned to the Press Service he oversees the Bulletin d'Informations coloniales et étrangères occasionally contributing discreetly a task that leaves him sufficient freedom for his own work. His direct superior Charles Régismanset himself a writer calls upon him whenever a 'bushman' passing through might provide information on Bambara customs or Guinean witch doctors."" Pierre-Marcel Adéma Guillaume Apollinaire ""Viens tout de même me voir dirait le père Janvier qui doit pour le moins parler aussi bien que le père de Victor Hugo surtout viens avant janvier et toujours plus haut Excelsior viens j'ai quelque chose d'éditorial à te dire."" unknown
réf. #[25112]Delft Boitet 1730-1739. 2 parts in 3 volumes. Complete copy with broken bindings. 19th century half leather spines and covers loose but intact. Owner's mark cut out of all the end papers of all three volumes. 3894652125207820 pag. Illustrated with 60 engravings a.o. the large bird's eye view of The Hague. B0468. hardcover
1687réf. 5601Basel: Mechel 1687. First edition. First edition exceptionally rare of this dissertation which Bernoulli 1655-1705 submitted in order to secure the chair of mathematics at the University of Basel. This was the beginning of a remarkable career in mathematics in which he "greatly advanced algebra the infinitesimal calculus the calculus of variations mechanics the theory of series and the theory of probability and was one of the most significant promoters of the formal methods of higher analysis" DSB. EXCEPTIONALLY RARE DISSERTATION BY JACOB BERNOULLI. First edition exceptionally rare of this dissertation which Bernoulli 1655-1705 submitted in order to secure the chair of mathematics at the University of Basel. This was the beginning of a remarkable career in mathematics in which he "greatly advanced algebra the infinitesimal calculus the calculus of variations mechanics the theory of series and the theory of probability and was one of the most significant promoters of the formal methods of higher analysis" DSB. The dissertation 'The solution of a triplet of problems arithmetical geometrical and astronomical together with corollaries from general mathematics' treats three elementary problems in number theory one arising from arithmetic one from geometry and one from astronomy/navigation. "Jacob Bernoulli's research on elementary mathematics taken as a whole constitutes a work of no mean importance very diverse in content lacking organic unity to be sure but also of exceptional historic interest. Indeed only from very few of the mathematicians who have left a lasting mark do we have the documentation which allows us to examine carefully the process of their scientific education . However in contrast from Jacob Bernoulli we actually possess some 'exercises' that he wrote beginning during the early years of his education. This is how we might characterize some of his Meditationes which he worked on with great diligence and singular ability. The interest of these exercises lies not only in their relationship to the general state of mathematics of the time but also and perhaps more in the way in which they represent an almost complete psychological picture of the formation of a great mathematician - which he certainly was - toward the end of the XVIIth century" Werke 2 p. 15. These Meditationes remained unpublished until the twentieth century except for the three published with much additional detail in the present pamphlet. On the last page of the dissertation is a list of 'Corollaries' one of which concerns the values of expectations in a lottery and is of particular interest in view of Bernoulli's posthumously-published Ars conjectandi 1713 the founding work of mathematical probability. "The academic dissertation Solutionem tergemini problematis arithmetici geometrici et astronomici which was presented at the University of Basel 4.2.1687 secured him the desired teaching post. Therefore this paper has particular biographical interest" ibid. p. 18. OCLC lists only 5 copies worldwide Yale only in US; not on COPAC. "Let us recall briefly what we know of Jacob Bernoulli's education before he obtained at the age of34 the chair in mathematics in his hometown Basel. Jacob was born in this city on December27th 1654 according to the old calendar in a protestant family of spice traders who had fled theSpanish low lands after the fall of the Duke of Alba. Complying with the wish of his father NicolasBernoulli a state adviser and magistrate Jacob studied philosophy and then theology until 1676. Aswas common at the time he chose a motto. His came from Phaeton who drew the solar carriageInvito patre sidera verso which may be translated by 'Despite my father I am among thestars'. Rather than exaggerated modesty this motto was a proud affirmation of superiority. "The young Jacob fully benefited from what Daniel Roche calls 'culture de la mobilité' promoted in the second half of the XVII century by new institutions which facilitated the movement of individuals and the spread of knowledge. Starting in August 1676 he traveled by horse to Geneva where he remained for twenty months preaching instructing a blind young girl Elisabeth von Waldkirch and serving as an opponent during the theological disputations. He relates his experience teaching mathematics to the blind in an article published in the Journal des Savants in 1685. This article is probably a reaction to an account by Spon published in the same journal in 1680 in which the author attributes to the father of the blind girl the writing system that was in fact developed by Jacob. It is here that Jacob meets Nicolas Fatio de Duillier a life long friend who recalled in a letter dating from July 22nd 1700 that he had seen Jacob play court tennis in Geneva a game on which Jacob later wrote a famous letter . "In June 1678 Jacob continues his extensive traveling in France residing in the Limousin in Nède with the marquis de Lostanges where he constructs two sundials in the castle courtyard then in Bordeaux and a few weeks in Paris. During this journey he begins in 1677 to write his mathematical journal Meditationes annotationes animadversiones theologicae et philosophicae which contains 236 articles . The journal is a precious testimony from this early phase of Jacob's scientific training which only really began when he encountered the Cartesian environment initially in France later mainly in the Netherlands Amsterdam and Leiden and in England during a second journey April 1681- October 1682. In August 1682 Jacob attended a meeting of the Royal Society in London. Jacob started out by acquainting himself with the Cartesian philosophy of nature after which he turned to geometry . "After his return to Basel in 1682 Jacob gave up the idea of a career in the clergy and decided to devote himself to mathematics. At the University of Basel he gave courses in experimental physics as can be gathered by a pamphlet printed in Basel in 1686. From 1682 on he also submitted short articles to the Journal des Savants - reactions to the works of others that he presented or criticized - initially in the area of natural philosophy machines for breathing under water to elevate water to weigh air oscillation center then from 1685 in mathematics . "Jacob slowly acquired a knowledge of mathematics at first through his readings of the second Latin edition of Descartes' Géométrie 1659-61 later that of Arnauld and his Logique Malebranche and Prestet . Jacob is confronted with precise problems often stemming from the area of applied mathematics. Solving these leads him to discover general methods. He begins by a thorough study of previous works which will serve him as a springboard to make further headway and produce new results. On several occasions Jacob voices the opinion that it is necessary to base one's own progress on the knowledge of what has been done in the past. Accordingly in the memoir entitled Solutionem tergemini problematis arithmetici geometrici et astronomici offered here presented on February 4th 1687 in order to obtain the mathematics chair in Basel he describes his own way of proceeding in the following way: 'In reality he who embraces a career as a mathematician is not the one who copies the inventions of others remembers them and recites them on occasion but the one who is truly innovative and is able to invent by using the divine algebra and thus to revolutionize what has been studied by others'" Peiffer. "Like other graduates of the University of Basel in the seventeenth century Bernoulli had a broad if not deep knowledge of all the disciplines of the liberal arts - an education he would draw on in writing Ars conjectandi 1713. The university at this time had a small faculty of philosophy including only nine chairs in logic rhetoric eloquence Greek mathematics physics history ethics and Hebrew. So although he had only an elementary education in mathematics as an undergraduate Bernoulli had a knowledge of Greek logic rhetoric and other subjects and was able to write polished Latin. "It was not uncommon at this time for a man to take a university post in a less desirable discipline if the chair he would have preferred was not available. He would then move if the opportunity arose to the preferred discipline without having to do everything required of a new applicant for a university position such as paying to print lists of theses to be defended in a disputation . The lists of theses that Jacob Bernoulli proposed to defend publicly in the years after his return to Basel in October 1682 reflect this list of open positions. Thus in January 1684 of the 100 theses that Bernoulli proposed to defend 34 were logical and 18 oratorical . Again in September 1685 and in February 1686 Bernoulli's theses were heavily logical. Finally after the death of the professor of mathematics in 1686 Bernoulli applied for disputed and won the chair" Sylla pp. 6-7. The first of the three problems treated by Bernoulli in his Solutionem tergemini problematis is: 'to find without the aid of algebra with the help of numerical arithmetic alone a number such that if we divide it into the numbers 12 and 36 and then add 8 to each of these numbers the resulting sums are in the ratio of 3 to 5.' The problem is generalized to arbitrary sets of given numbers. The second problem is more challenging. It "calls for the construction of a quadrilateral inscribed in a semi-circle with sides and diagonals of rational lengths in other words commensurable to the radius" Werke 2 p. 18. The third problem is one which could arise in navigation: 'It is observed somewhere at the sixth hour of the sun that it has an altitude of 12 degrees above the horizon and that one hour and 12 minutes after the moment of this observation the sun sets. The question is at what latitude and at what time of the year was the observation made' On the last page of text under 'Corollaria' Bernoulli lists some of his other Meditationes - problems dealing with logic physics meteorology geometry referring to Propositions 55-57 of Euclid Book X stereometry mechanics perpetual motion machines dioptrics perspective referring to Bosse and Desargues gnomonics referring to Münster and Sturm ballistics 'ars conjecturandi' probability and figurate numbers giving the very large example 1580972. The problem on probability "concerned the slowness with which the values of expectations in a lottery increase as more and more blank slips are drawn out of the urn. In an urn containing 16000 slips if it initially cost 7½ to participate 1000 blank slips in a row would have to be drawn out before the person could sell his expectation to someone else for 8" Sylla p. 27. Peiffer 'Jacob Bernoulli teacher and rival of his brother Johann' Electronic Journal for History of Probability and Statistics 2 2006. Sylla tr. Jacob Bernoulli. The Art of Conjecturing 2006. Small 4to 198 x 156 mm pp. 16 including a full page of geometrical diagrams printed on title verso. Contemporary marbled wrappers. Mechel unknown
1775réf. 919London: T. Payne 1775. Second Edition. Fine Leather Large Quarto 11.75"x10" Bindings Bound by A.B. Buck. Near Fine. A New System or An Analysis of Ancient Mythology by Jacob Bryant - 3 Volume Set Second Edition 1775 Author: Jacob Bryant Publisher: London: Printed for T. Payne P. Elmsly B. White and J. Walter Publication Date: 1775 MDCCLXXV Edition: Second Edition Format: 3 Volumes Quarto 11.75"x10". Description: Presenting a striking and complete three-volume set of Jacob Bryant's magnum opus A New System or An Analysis of Ancient Mythology. In this highly influential 18th-century work Bryant attempted to trace the mythologies and traditions of ancient civilizations-including the Greeks Romans Egyptians and Babylonians-back to a common origin heavily linking them to the events of Genesis and the dispersal of nations following the Tower of Babel. This set is profusely illustrated with 32 striking copperplate engravings including detailed folding maps ancient coins architectural ruins and intricate depictions of mythological figures and symbols such as serpents and temple rites. Notably the renowned artist and poet William Blake was an apprentice to James Basire the principal engraver for this work and scholars frequently attribute several of the engravings in this edition to a young Blake. The set is masterfully bound in pristine full tan leather. The spines feature classic raised bands with contrasting dual black morocco labels elegantly tooled with gilt lettering indicating the title "BRYANT'S MYTHOLOGY" and volume numbers. The text blocks are solid and the pages remain wonderfully crisp pages with some light sporadic foxing pages overall are bright and clean showcasing the impressive typography and detailed plates that make this work so desirable. The immaculate condition of the binding makes this a stunning presentation piece perfect for an advanced collector of mythology early anthropology or 18th-century antiquarian works. T. Payne unknown
1961réf. 18040Various places and publications 1961-1965 Includes the following offprints: 1. JACOB François and Jacques Monod. "On the Regulation of Gene Activity." Reprinted from Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology Volume XXVI 1961 pp. 193-211; 2. MONOD Jacques and François Jacob. "General Conclusions: Teleonomic Mechanisms in Cellular Metabolism Growth and Differentiation." Reprinted from Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology Volume XXVI 1961 pp. 389-401; 3. JACOB François and Jacques Monod. "Determinisme et regulation specifique de la synthèse des proteines." Reprinted from "Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress of Biochemistry" Volume I Pergamon Press 1963. pp. 132-154l; 4. JACOB François and Jacques Monod. "Genetic Repression Allosteric Inhibition and Cellular Differentiation. Reprinted from Cytodifferential & Macromolecular Scynthesis New York: Academic Press Inc. 1963. pp. 30-64; 5. MONOD Jacques Jean-Pierre Changeux and François Jacob. "Allosteric Proteins and Cellular Control Systems." Reprinted from the Journal of Molecular Biology Volume 6 1963 pp. 306-329. All ten papers are in excellent condition. Also includes: 6. JACOB François Sydney Brenner and François Cuzin. "On the Regulation of DNA Replication in Bacteria." Reprinted from Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology Volume XXVIII 1963 pp. 329-348;7. JACOB François and Jacques Monod. "Mécanismes biochimiques et génétiques de la régulation dans la cellule bactérienne." Reprinted from Bulletin de la Société de Chimie biologique Extrait du Tome XLVI No. 12 1964 pp. 1499-1532; 8. MONOD Jacques Jeffries Wyman and Jean-Pierre Changeux. "On the Nature of Allosteric Transitions: A Plausible Model." From the Journal of Moleculary Biology Volume 12 1965 pp. 88-118; and 9. JACOB François A. Ullmann and J. Monod. "Délétions fusionnant l'Opéron Lactose et un Opéron Purine chez Escherichia coli." Reprinted from the Journal of Molecular Biology Volume 13 1965 pp. 704-719. Also with an extra paper by Jean-Pierre CHANGEUX collaborator of François Jacob and Jacques Monod: Effet des Analogues de la L-Thréonine et de la L-Isoleucine sur la L-Thréonine Désaminase." Reprinted from the Journal of Molecular Biology pp 220-255. December 1961.
1961réf. 18040Various places and publications 1961-1965 Includes the following offprints: 1. JACOB François and Jacques Monod. "On the Regulation of Gene Activity." Reprinted from Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology Volume XXVI 1961 pp. 193-211; 2. MONOD Jacques and François Jacob. "General Conclusions: Teleonomic Mechanisms in Cellular Metabolism Growth and Differentiation." Reprinted from Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology Volume XXVI 1961 pp. 389-401; 3. JACOB François and Jacques Monod. "Determinisme et regulation specifique de la synthèse des proteines." Reprinted from "Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress of Biochemistry" Volume I Pergamon Press 1963. pp. 132-154l; 4. JACOB François and Jacques Monod. "Genetic Repression Allosteric Inhibition and Cellular Differentiation. Reprinted from Cytodifferential & Macromolecular Scynthesis New York: Academic Press Inc. 1963. pp. 30-64; 5. MONOD Jacques Jean-Pierre Changeux and François Jacob. "Allosteric Proteins and Cellular Control Systems." Reprinted from the Journal of Molecular Biology Volume 6 1963 pp. 306-329. All ten papers are in excellent condition. Also includes: 6. JACOB François Sydney Brenner and François Cuzin. "On the Regulation of DNA Replication in Bacteria." Reprinted from Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology Volume XXVIII 1963 pp. 329-348;7. JACOB François and Jacques Monod. "Mécanismes biochimiques et génétiques de la régulation dans la cellule bactérienne." Reprinted from Bulletin de la Société de Chimie biologique Extrait du Tome XLVI No. 12 1964 pp. 1499-1532; 8. MONOD Jacques Jeffries Wyman and Jean-Pierre Changeux. "On the Nature of Allosteric Transitions: A Plausible Model." From the Journal of Moleculary Biology Volume 12 1965 pp. 88-118; and 9. JACOB François A. Ullmann and J. Monod. "Délétions fusionnant l'Opéron Lactose et un Opéron Purine chez Escherichia coli." Reprinted from the Journal of Molecular Biology Volume 13 1965 pp. 704-719. Also with an extra paper by Jean-Pierre CHANGEUX collaborator of François Jacob and Jacques Monod: Effet des Analogues de la L-Thréonine et de la L-Isoleucine sur la L-Thréonine Désaminase." Reprinted from the Journal of Molecular Biology pp 220-255. December 1961. books
réf. 51-5780London: Printed by Miles Flesher for Jacob Tonson at the Judge's-Head in Chancery-lane near Fleet-street . Folio. 23 x 37cm. Contemporary calf cover with moonscape mottling and new goatskin spine by the artisan binder Sasha Mosalov.4 219 1 219-250 151-196 mispagination but complete 297-343 7 pages 13 leaves of plates. Lacking the frontispiece.Condition report: pages with light toning and foxing marginalia occasional stain or soiling occasional small losses or chips not impacting text; damp staining throughout at upper half small wormhole that runs through most of volume with additional tiny wormholes at inner and outer margin small losses at margins small loss in 2L1 Book II plate cut short at outer margin several pages partially detached; lacking portrait frontispiece with 2 additional pages of manuscript.Twelve full-page engraved illustrations one for each book. Ten are signed by Michael Burghers or Burghese one of the subscribers; these are from designs of Medina . The fourth is by Peter.Paul. Bouche from the design of B. Lens Sr. The eighth plate . is anonymous."--Pforzheimer p. 730"The names of the nobility and gentry that encourag'd by subscription the printing this edition of Milton's Paradise Lost" Zz2r-²Aa2v.Wickenheiser p. 159; ESTC 15589; USTC 3113387Wickenheiser p. 159; ESTC 15589; USTC 3113387; OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:228722671. London: Printed by Miles Flesher, for Jacob Tonson, at the Judge's-Head in Chancery-lane near Fleet-street, unknown
1901réf. 1228141901. First Edition. Signed. RIIS Jacob. The Making of an American. New York: Macmillan 1901. Octavo modern full blue morocco gilt raised bands marbled endpapers top edge gilt with original gilt stamped cloth front cover bound in at rear. $4500.First edition of the pioneering photographer and reformer's autobiography published the decade after his influential work How the Other Half Lives with frontispiece portrait and 83 photographic illustrations many full-page in original bright gilt cloth inscribed to a prominent social reformer and close friend of Jane Addams mentioned in the text: ""Mrs Emmons Blaine with the admiration and respect of the author Jacob A. Riis. New York Dec 9 1901.""In this profusely illustrated autobiography Riis charts his life from his youth in Denmark to his immigration to America and his dedication to documenting the social injustice of New York's slums first as a police photographer and then as a newspaper photographerÑ""the first photographer to use the power of the image as a tool for reform"" McDarrah 381. His 1890 photobook How the Other Half Lives marks the landmark beginning of ""a photographic attitude an ethos-humanist documentary photographyÑin which the photographic social document is employed to bear critical witness to what is going on in the world"" Parr & Badger I:53. ""A pioneer in the development of the documentary"" to Theodore Roosevelt Jacob Riis was ""the staunchest most efficient friend the children of New York City have ever had"" and ""the ideal American citizen"" ANB. With rear leaf of publisher's advertisements. This copy is inscribed to Anita McCormick Blaine a famous Chicago philanthropist and the widow of Emmons Blaine. The son of a powerful political operative his father was a former Republican Secretary of State who lost the presidential race to Grover Cleveland Emmons Blaine was vice president of the B&O Railroad. However he died at just 33 years old leaving his 26-year-old wife a widow. Fortunately her family's intervention into the financial aspects of her marriage ensured that she was a wealthy widow while her late husband guaranteed that she was welcomed into the highest social and political circles. As a newly single mother Blaine became deeply interested in her son's education. She became acquainted with Col. Francis Parker and began to absorb and enact progressive ideas on education. She helped to found the Chicago Institute for teacher training. She also founded two additional schools including a free school for poor children. The success of Blaine's educational initiatives earned her a spot on the Chicago School Board. Blaine soon came to be recognized as a leading philanthropist and social reformer. Much of her work focused on Jane Addams' Hull-House and similar ventures aimed at improving the lives of the poor. Blaine's empirical mindset set her apart and the information and data she doggedly collected supported further social and legislative reform. As a result Blaine was welcome onto the Chicago Board of Charities and the United Charities. She also worked together with Jane Addams to create the City Homes Association dedicated to providing housing for the poor. Collaborating with Addams Blaine fought for labor reform particularly the eight-hour work day and peace. Peace soon became her primary interest after her son died from the 1918 flu spread by World War I. A supporter of the League of Nations and later the United Nations Blaine hoped that she could spare other mothers her fate. At her death Blaine was one of the greatest philanthropists of her time the acknowledged doyenne of the social reform world. She donated over 10 million dollars to social causes and left a huge fortune to the New World Financial Trust. Blaine is mentioned in the last chapter of The Making of an American which is essentially an acknowledgments chapter. Riis writes: ""Jane Addams and Mrs. Emmons Blaine leaven that shall yet leaven the whole unsightly lump out yonder by the western lake and let in the light"" page 436. Blaine's archived correspondence at the University of Wisconsin reveals a request from John Bogue to sell tickets for Riis' lecture ""How the other half lives"" and an invitation from Maud Warner McCormick to a lecture by Jacob Riis. Interestingly Warner McCormick was married to Alexander Agnew McCormick a Chicago alderman and Daily News editor who was a residential member of the University of Illinois' Chicago Literary Club and a member of Chicago Historical Society with possible relative Cyrus Hall McCormick Jr. Blaine's brother.Interior generally fine with a few leaves reinforced at gutter's edge. Attractive in blue morocco most desirable inscribed. hardcover
1901réf. 1228141901. First Edition. Signed. RIIS Jacob. The Making of an American. New York: Macmillan 1901. Octavo modern full blue morocco gilt raised bands marbled endpapers top edge gilt with original gilt stamped cloth front cover bound in at rear. $4500.First edition of the pioneering photographer and reformer's autobiography published the decade after his influential work How the Other Half Lives with frontispiece portrait and 83 photographic illustrations many full-page in original bright gilt cloth inscribed to a prominent social reformer and close friend of Jane Addams mentioned in the text: ""Mrs Emmons Blaine with the admiration and respect of the author Jacob A. Riis. New York Dec 9 1901.""In this profusely illustrated autobiography Riis charts his life from his youth in Denmark to his immigration to America and his dedication to documenting the social injustice of New York's slums first as a police photographer and then as a newspaper photographerÑ""the first photographer to use the power of the image as a tool for reform"" McDarrah 381. His 1890 photobook How the Other Half Lives marks the landmark beginning of ""a photographic attitude an ethos-humanist documentary photographyÑin which the photographic social document is employed to bear critical witness to what is going on in the world"" Parr & Badger I:53. ""A pioneer in the development of the documentary"" to Theodore Roosevelt Jacob Riis was ""the staunchest most efficient friend the children of New York City have ever had"" and ""the ideal American citizen"" ANB. With rear leaf of publisher's advertisements. This copy is inscribed to Anita McCormick Blaine a famous Chicago philanthropist and the widow of Emmons Blaine. The son of a powerful political operative his father was a former Republican Secretary of State who lost the presidential race to Grover Cleveland Emmons Blaine was vice president of the B&O Railroad. However he died at just 33 years old leaving his 26-year-old wife a widow. Fortunately her family's intervention into the financial aspects of her marriage ensured that she was a wealthy widow while her late husband guaranteed that she was welcomed into the highest social and political circles. As a newly single mother Blaine became deeply interested in her son's education. She became acquainted with Col. Francis Parker and began to absorb and enact progressive ideas on education. She helped to found the Chicago Institute for teacher training. She also founded two additional schools including a free school for poor children. The success of Blaine's educational initiatives earned her a spot on the Chicago School Board. Blaine soon came to be recognized as a leading philanthropist and social reformer. Much of her work focused on Jane Addams' Hull-House and similar ventures aimed at improving the lives of the poor. Blaine's empirical mindset set her apart and the information and data she doggedly collected supported further social and legislative reform. As a result Blaine was welcome onto the Chicago Board of Charities and the United Charities. She also worked together with Jane Addams to create the City Homes Association dedicated to providing housing for the poor. Collaborating with Addams Blaine fought for labor reform particularly the eight-hour work day and peace. Peace soon became her primary interest after her son died from the 1918 flu spread by World War I. A supporter of the League of Nations and later the United Nations Blaine hoped that she could spare other mothers her fate. At her death Blaine was one of the greatest philanthropists of her time the acknowledged doyenne of the social reform world. She donated over 10 million dollars to social causes and left a huge fortune to the New World Financial Trust. Blaine is mentioned in the last chapter of The Making of an American which is essentially an acknowledgments chapter. Riis writes: ""Jane Addams and Mrs. Emmons Blaine leaven that shall yet leaven the whole unsightly lump out yonder by the western lake and let in the light"" page 436. Blaine's archived correspondence at the University of Wisconsin reveals a request from John Bogue to sell tickets for Riis' lecture ""How the other half lives"" and an invitation from Maud Warner McCormick to a lecture by Jacob Riis. Interestingly Warner McCormick was married to Alexander Agnew McCormick a Chicago alderman and Daily News editor who was a residential member of the University of Illinois' Chicago Literary Club and a member of Chicago Historical Society with possible relative Cyrus Hall McCormick Jr. Blaine's brother.Interior generally fine with a few leaves reinforced at gutter's edge. Attractive in blue morocco most desirable inscribed. hardcover books
1729réf. ABC_45605The Hague widow of E. Boucquet H. Scheurleer F. Boucquet J. de Jongh 1729 vols. 1-3; 1729. 4to. Dordrecht Ab Blussé & son 1769 vol. 4. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum with manuscript titles on spines. Sprinkled edges. With an engraved frontispiece title pages in red and black and with engraved vignettes a folding portrait of Willem Karel Hendrik Friso 1711-1751 Prince of Orange and from 1747 hereditary Stadtholder Willem IV a portrait of the author 40 engraved plates by Houbraken with multiple portraits of artists on each plate 1 plate with a night scene 1 mezzotint and 118 engraved vignettes. 4 volumes. 16 412 6; 4 412 6 4 446 4. First edition of richly illustrated biographies of more than 100 Dutch painters male and female still of interest for the history of Dutch art. The author Jacob Campo Weyerman 1677-1747 was one of the foremost Dutch authors of the Enlightenment and was known for his merry style. For this history of Dutch art he leans on Houbraken's De groote schouburgh der Neder-lantsche konstschilders en schilderessen 1718-1721.The first three parts were all published in 1729; the fourth - 40 years later - is mainly devoted to the painters from the Art Academy at The Hague. All 40 plates with artists' portraits the frontispiece 2 other portraits and the night scene are in the first 3 volumes the later volume 4 has no plates. The lavish vignettes throughout the volumes are worth mentioning as well mostly executed by Picart and apparently made for the present publication.The plates seem to be from a rare early state avant la lettre: all other copies we have seen have lettering on the plates but the present copy has the information written on the plates in ink. The title-page lettering seems to be very slightly moved compared to other copies but positions of the quire signatures all match. Perhaps this was a first impression or proof.From the library of Belgian artist/curator Philippe Jacques van Brée 1786-1871 with his owner's inscription on the front paste-down of each volume: "P.J. van Bréé". He was curator of the Royal Museum of Fine Art in Brussels from 1831-1861.With a few neat annotations in pencil in the margins of the plates and a small tear in the foot margin of a text page. Vellum slightly thumbed. Otherwise in very good condition.l Kunst op schrift 243-245; Arntzen/ Rainwater H129. ABE CAT Art History hardcover
1699réf. 210071699. Ed. secunda. - Genf Chouet & Ritter 1699 Folio 28 124 1072 pp. 2 1233 pp. mit vielen Holzschnitten u. 124 davon 9 doppelseitig u. gefalt ganzseitigen Kupfertafeln Pergamenteinband d.Zt.; etwas gebräunt wie üblich. Second Edition! This edition contains significant additions and revisions to this "extraordinary storehouse of seventeenth century anatomical works" Russell 524 which was first published in 1685. The impressive collection with its striking engraved title and 124 plates based on original sources gathers in a single work the most important discoveries of the seventeenth century the period which laid the foundation for modern anatomy and physiology. ALL THE BST IN SEVENTEENTH CENTURY OF MEDICINE - "Here are Harvey's important embryological work 'De generatione animalium' 1551 as well as his treatise on the circulation of the blood with the four figures and also Malpighi's discovery 1651 of the capillary anastomosis in the lungs which supplied the missing link in Harvey's demonstration; . Olof Rudbeck's work on the lymphatics illustrated with nineteen figures on three folio plates; and the works of Pecquet and Bartholin. Here is given s short list of some of the more important works: Asseli discovery of the lacteal vessels 1617 Thomas Wharton's description of the duct of the submaxillary salivary gland Wharton's duct Zambeccari's proof that the spleen is not essential to life; Borelli's 'De moti animallium' 1680 on the application of mechanics to the motion of the limbs of animals Niels Stensen's papers on the muscular mechanics and his account of the excretory duct of the parotid gland Stensen's duct John Mayow's classic on the physiology of respiration 1674 DuVerney's account of the structure function and diseases of the ear and Schelhammer's account of the physiology of hearing Thomas Willi's on the circle of Willis; Richard lower treatise on the heart 1669 and the first blood transfulsion Francis Glisson's first accurate description of the capsulae of the liver Glisson's capsule Regnier de Graaf's detailed description of the male and female reproductive system including the first account of 'Grafiaan follicle' and his work on pancreatic secretion Malpighi's and Swammerdam's many excellent discoveries whit microscope to name but a few. Jean Jacques Manget 1652-1742 practised in Geneva with great success. In 1699 the Elector of Brandenburg made him his first physician. His literary work in which he was assisted by Daniel Le Clerc 1652-1728 chiefly consisted of collecting and reprinting in large volumes important treatises on medicine anatomy and chemistry. Le Clerc is sometimes called the "Father of the History of Medicine" because he wrote the first large history of medicine. That valuable and still consulted work was first published in 1696. Waller 5663; Haller Bibl. Anatomica I 803-04; Keynes Harvey no.45; Neu 2263; Hahn & Dumaitre 218; Osler 3192; Hahn & Dumaitre 218 describing the Baroque engraved title and reproducing it 226; Parkinson-Lumb 1422 lists complete content unknown
1758réf. 016251Philadelphia: William Bradford 1758. First Edition. Hardcover. Title page with a few repaired tears hinged with following Preface page; two adjoining leaves pages 441-444 of text lacking and supplied with facsimiles. Contents Very Good binding about Fine. Folio 7-1/4" x 11-1/2" bound in contemporary calf leather with a decorative blindstamped border recently rebacked with a new gilt-lettered and decorated spine preserving original paste-downs and free endpapers; 4 763 pages. Title within rule border decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces. An important compilation of the fundamental New Jersey charters and session laws of the proprietary period 1664 to 1702 up to Lord Cornbury's commission and instructions as Royal Governor when New Jersey became a crown colony under Queen Anne. Publication was ordered by the New Jersey Assembly in 1752 but two years were required to collect the documents to be included while the typesetting and printing took Bradford an additional three. By the date of publication some 170 copies had been subscribed. This title was the largest volume issued from Bradford's press and one of the largest from any eighteenth-century American press. Evans 8205; Sabin 39527. Early owner name on the title page and early twentieth century names on the front pastedown. W[illiam] Bradford hardcover
1917réf. 113145London: Constable & Co Ltd 1917. Rare with the extra signed plate Signed limited edition number 505 of 525 copies signed by the artist here retaining the rare extra plate signed by Rackham still in the original envelope. The signed plate was issued in all copies loosely inserted for which reason it is often found wanting. It duplicates the plate facing page 178 "He hurried away with long strides". A review in The Bookman noted that "Here is an ideal conjunction of author and artist - the fairy and folk tales of the Brothers Grimm could not have a more fitting illustrator than Arthur Rackham nor he more suitable authors to illustrate." Quarto. Colour frontispiece and 12 colour plates mounted on heavy white paper with loose tissue guards black and white illustrations in the text by Rackham. Original grey cloth spine lettered in gilt pictorial gilt titles on a white ground to front board pictorial endpapers top edge gilt others untrimmed. Presentation inscription dated 1941 on verso of front free endpaper; old pale stain on back cover light rubbing to extremities head and tail of spine only slightly bumped short closed-tear into margin at p. 209 light offsetting from tissue guards yet still an excellent copy. Latimore & Haskell pp. 46-47; Riall p. 129. hardcover
