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1722réf. 55261Offenbach Germany: Israel Ken 1722. Second edition. This is the copy of the Rabbi David Paul-Bernard Drach 1791-1868 who converted to Catholicism in 1823 and managed the library of the Propaganda Fide in Rome. The front endpaper has a note that is signed and dated by Drach: "Etudie et annote ce volume; supplee lets mots ronges par les vers et corrige les fautes typographiques." Notes to margins. Introductory note by Drach lauding the book: "Le calendrier juif dont les calculs sont d'une exactitude admirable etait deja en usage du temps de Rabbie Gamliel pas consequents a l'epoque ou le Verbe eternel caro factum est et habitavit in nobis." 8vo. 40 in Hebrew letters numbered leaves i.e. 80pp. re-cased in later vellum with leather strips. Engraved title page. Fascinating work on the Jewish calendar its estimation calculation of the New Moon methods of chronology et.al. Also contains a few pages on the Christian calendar. This work is one of the most profusely illustrated works of Hebraica and Judaica with charts ephemerides sketches and illustrations throughout. One volvell attached. In Hebrew. First ten leaves with one inch holes from bookworms. The rest of the volome with minor circular bookworm hole. Some loss of text on first ten leaves. "The volvelles as well as hand diagrams and tables were some of the tools used not just for calculating and identifying pivotal dates and worshipping times for Jews but also for ascertaining Christan holidays. This knowledge was a critical aid for protecting Jews from the danger posed by their having different worshipping times and habits from the dominant culture. The headings on the wheel denote the arrival of the new moon which marks the start of the Jewish month and the cycle of the sun. Whereas calendars appear in general to be a "convenient way to coordinate human movements with natural time" as Elisheva Carlebach points out the Sefer 'Evronot demonstrates that the methods for doing so are culturally and historically shaped. The wheel computing information with each push of a finger demands interaction from the reader in order to yield knowledge not just to use but to live by." Ref: brevigrapher.interactive book. Furst I 99 & 360 Steinschneider 4988.4. Israel Ken unknown books
1651réf. 40032London: John Macock for Giles Calvert 1651. 4to. 7 1/8 x 5 3/8 inches. 8 224 pp. Bound to style in half calf marble paper boards spine with raised bands in six compartments with ruled lines and center tool red lettering piece in second compartment. Rare first English edition of Jacob Böhme's a groundbreaking work of Christian mysticism translated by J. Ellistone which reveals the hidden connections between the material and spiritual worlds through its exploration of the signatures imprinted on all of creation. At once leatherworker mystic and founder of modern theosophy Böhme published little in his lifetime and what was published brought him endless trouble with the Church. Despite this Böhme had a profound influence on later philosophical movements such as German Idealism and German Romanticism with Hegel describing him as "the first German philosopher". Böhme was born in Alt Seidenberg now in present-day Poland. Deemed too weak for husbandry Böhme was sent to Seidenberg as an apprentice to become a shoemaker. While he lived with a family who was not Christian Böhme regularly prayed and read the Bible and consumed the works of visionaries such as Paracelsus Weigel and Schwenckfeld. After leaving his apprenticeship Böhme travelled as far as Görlitz before returning as a master craftsman to set up his own workshop and started a family. Böhme later joined the "Conventicle of God's Real Servants" - a parochial study group organized by poet and mystic Martin Moller. Since his youth Böhme often had spiritual experiences including one that occurred while he was travelling for business where as he later recalled was "surrounded with a divine light and stood in the highest contemplation and kingdom of joys." This title The Signature of All Things written in High Dutch in 1622 following a series of Böhme's mystic experiences appears here in the first English edition. In it Böhme explains systematically the cosmology that lies at the heart of his whole mystical approach and experience revealing his mystical pantheism and his dialectical conception of God in which good and evil are rooted in one and the same being. The book is a highly symbolic work that deals with the nature of God creation and the relationship between the spiritual and physical worlds. In brief Böhme's thesis can be summarised thus: everything in the material world bears the imprint or "signature" of its spiritual counterpart and that by understanding these signatures one can gain insight into the divine. The present work is the title for which Böhme is most famous and it is invoked by James Joyce in the Proteus episode in Ulysses "Ineluctable modality of the visible." Bohme's ideas had a significant influence on later mystics philosophers and theologians including Goethe Nietzsche and Jung. Signatura Rerum remains a classic work of Christian mysticism and esoteric philosophy and is still studied and debated by scholars and practitioners today. Wing B3419; Bach "Jacob Boehme" in Protestants and Mysticism in Reformation Europe; Hartman The Life and the Doctrines of Jacob Boehme the God-Taught Philosopher. John Macock for Giles Calvert unknown
1651réf. 40032London: John Macock for Giles Calvert 1651. 4to. 7 1/8 x 5 3/8 inches. 8 224 pp. Bound to style in half calf marble paper boards spine with raised bands in six compartments with ruled lines and center tool red lettering piece in second compartment. Rare first English edition of Jacob Böhme's a groundbreaking work of Christian mysticism translated by J. Ellistone which reveals the hidden connections between the material and spiritual worlds through its exploration of the signatures imprinted on all of creation. At once leatherworker mystic and founder of modern theosophy Böhme published little in his lifetime and what was published brought him endless trouble with the Church. Despite this Böhme had a profound influence on later philosophical movements such as German Idealism and German Romanticism with Hegel describing him as "the first German philosopher". Böhme was born in Alt Seidenberg now in present-day Poland. Deemed too weak for husbandry Böhme was sent to Seidenberg as an apprentice to become a shoemaker. While he lived with a family who was not Christian Böhme regularly prayed and read the Bible and consumed the works of visionaries such as Paracelsus Weigel and Schwenckfeld. After leaving his apprenticeship Böhme travelled as far as Görlitz before returning as a master craftsman to set up his own workshop and started a family. Böhme later joined the "Conventicle of God's Real Servants" - a parochial study group organized by poet and mystic Martin Moller. Since his youth Böhme often had spiritual experiences including one that occurred while he was travelling for business where as he later recalled was "surrounded with a divine light and stood in the highest contemplation and kingdom of joys." This title The Signature of All Things written in High Dutch in 1622 following a series of Böhme's mystic experiences appears here in the first English edition. In it Böhme explains systematically the cosmology that lies at the heart of his whole mystical approach and experience revealing his mystical pantheism and his dialectical conception of God in which good and evil are rooted in one and the same being. The book is a highly symbolic work that deals with the nature of God creation and the relationship between the spiritual and physical worlds. In brief Böhme's thesis can be summarised thus: everything in the material world bears the imprint or "signature" of its spiritual counterpart and that by understanding these signatures one can gain insight into the divine. The present work is the title for which Böhme is most famous and it is invoked by James Joyce in the Proteus episode in Ulysses "Ineluctable modality of the visible." Bohme's ideas had a significant influence on later mystics philosophers and theologians including Goethe Nietzsche and Jung. Signatura Rerum remains a classic work of Christian mysticism and esoteric philosophy and is still studied and debated by scholars and practitioners today. Wing B3419; Bach "Jacob Boehme" in Protestants and Mysticism in Reformation Europe; Hartman The Life and the Doctrines of Jacob Boehme the God-Taught Philosopher. John Macock for Giles Calvert unknown books
1672réf. 19314Nuremburg: Johann Daniel Tauber 1672. Enlarged edition. Hardcover. Later quarter vellum and boards. Very good. 30.5 x 21 cm. 312 22 a-d6 B-P6Q4. Full page engraving of ship at sea by Boner frontispiece portrait of Saar title page in black and red one leaf with two engravings 12 engravings in the text floriated chapter head designs. First published 1662 this an enlarged edition. Saar was employed as a mercenary for the East India Company spending 15 years in South East Asia including Indonesia and Ceylon. He died at age 38 in the battle of Mogersdorf. Most of Saar's descriptions relate to Ceylon. The publisher also added other contemporary accounts to help authenticate Saar's accounts. Scattered text toning ex-library stamp effaced from head of title page title page slightly chipped fore-edge and foot dampstain lower corners M-M4. Johann Daniel Tauber hardcover
1672réf. 19314Nuremburg: Johann Daniel Tauber 1672. Enlarged edition. Hardcover. Later quarter vellum and boards. Very good. 30.5 x 21 cm. 312 22 a-d6 B-P6Q4. Full page engraving of ship at sea by Boner frontispiece portrait of Saar title page in black and red one leaf with two engravings 12 engravings in the text floriated chapter head designs. First published 1662 this an enlarged edition. Saar was employed as a mercenary for the East India Company spending 15 years in South East Asia including Indonesia and Ceylon. He died at age 38 in the battle of Mogersdorf. Most of Saar's descriptions relate to Ceylon. The publisher also added other contemporary accounts to help authenticate Saar's accounts. Scattered text toning ex-library stamp effaced from head of title page title page slightly chipped fore-edge and foot dampstain lower corners M-M4. Johann Daniel Tauber hardcover books
1731réf. 620531731. Genevae : Perachon & Cramer 1731 Folio 1 587 1; 2 790; 2 570; 2 699 2 pp. 16 gestochene Portraits 4 Lederbände der Zeit mit Rückenvergoldung; minimnal fleckig; feienes Exemplar. Sehr selten - Erste Ausgabe! Die Bibliotheca scriptorum medicorum enthält ca. 4000 Bio-Bibliographien von medizinischen Autoren. Der vollständige Titel lautet: Bibliotheca scriptorum medicorum veterum et recentiorum Joannis Jacobi Mangeti Medicinae Doctoris . Bibliotheca Scriptorum Medicorum Veterum Et Recentiorum : In Qua Sub Eorum Omnium Qui A Mundi Primordiis ad hunc usque Annum vixerunt Nominibus Ordine Alphabetico adscriptis Vitae compendio enarrantur . Sicque Historia Medica Vere Universalis Exhibetur ; Opus Doctis Omnibus Maximeque Medicis Utile . Jean-Jacques Manget latinisiert Joh. Jac. Mangetus 19. Juni 1652 in Genf/Republik Genf; 15. August 1742 ebenda war ein Genfer Arzt der für die Herausgabe verschiedener Sammelwerke. Garrison & Morton No. 11172 unknown
1723réf. 030380Lugduni Batavorum Apud Petrum Vander Aa 1723. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Seventeen Folding Plates. Title Page 16 413 Pp 15 Pp Catalogus Librorum Followed By 17 Folding Plates At End Each With Many Figures. Full Vellum Early 18Th Century Blind Stamped Design At Center Of Covers Spine Stamped In Gilt. Hand Marbled Papers On Pastedowns All Edges Colored Red. Text Block 17.5 Cm Tall. Latin Exposition Of Newtonian Philosophy Addressed To Students. A Very Nice Example In Original Vellum Light Wear At Spine Ends A Few Tiny Holes In Bottom Spine Edge Of Rear Cover And In Gutter Edge At Bottom Of Plates 16 And 17 Not Affecting Text Or Illustrations. Red Color Of Edges Of Page Blocks Is Almost Entirely Unfaded And Still Shiny. No Marks Or Bookplates. Per Wikipedia Willem Jacob 'S Gravesande 1688 - 1742 Was A Dutch Lawyer And Natural Philosopher Chiefly Remembered For Developing Experimental Demonstrations Of The Laws Of Classical Mechanics. As Professor Of Mathematics Astronomy And Philosophy At Leiden University He Helped To Propagate Isaac Newton's Ideas In Continental Europe. In 1715 'S Gravesande Visited London As Part Of A Dutch Delegation Sent To Welcome The Hanoverian Succession In Great Britain. In London 'S Gravesande Met Both King George I And Isaac Newton And Was Elected A Fellow Of The Royal Society.In 1717 He Became Professor Of Mathematics And Astronomy In Leiden. From That Position He Was Instrumental In Introducing Newton's Work To The Netherlands. 'S Gravesande's Main Scientific Work Is Physices Elementa Mathematica Experimentis Confirmata Sive Introductio Ad Philosophiam Newtonianam "Mathematical Elements Of Natural Philosophy Confirmed By Experiments; Or An Introduction To Newtonian Philosophy" Published In Leiden In 1720. In That Book He Laid The Foundations For The Teaching Of Newtonian Mechanics Through Experimental Demonstrations. He Presented His Work Before Audiences That Included Voltaire And Albrecht Von Haller. The Book Was Soon Translated Into English By John Theophilus Desaguliers Curator Of Experiments For The Royal Society. In 1722 He Published The Results Of A Series Of Experiments In Which Brass Balls Were Dropped From Varying Heights Onto A Soft Clay Surface. He Found That A Ball With Twice The Speed Of Another Would Leave An Indentation Four Times As Deep From Which He Concluded That The Correct Expression For The "Live Force" Of A Body In Motion What Is Modernly Called Its "Kinetic Energy" Is Proportional To Its Mass And The Square Of Its Velocity. Lugduni Batavorum Apud Petrum Vander Aa hardcover
1982réf. 91371Museum. New. 1982. Paperback. 0938766589 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 154 pages. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Life and Work Raisonnee -- with a bonus offer . Museum paperback
2001réf. 91341Univ of Washington Pr. New. 2001. Hardcover. 0295979666 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 343 pages. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Life and Work Raisonnee -- with a bonus offer . Univ of Washington Pr hardcover
1962réf. 3185Éditions Cercle d'Art, Paris 1962. Un volume in-folio (390 x 330 mm) relié sous cartonnage toilé illustré, dans l'étui de l'éditeur décoré de deux compositions en couleur de Picasso. - 45 LINOGRAVURES DE PABLO PICASSO EN PLANCHES HORS-TEXTE réalisées d’après les linogravures originales. - PREMIER TIRAGE. Édition originale française, le texte de W. Boeck est traduit par Jacques Chavy. Remarquable publication d'art. Très bel exemplaire en parfait état. Infimes imperfections à l'étui, en excellent état. Très recherché.-- ENGLISH DESCRIPTION : 1 volume oblong folio in the original slipcase. Introduction by W. Boeck. Illustrated with 45 colour plates engraved and remarkably printed on one side only after the original linocuts by Pablo Picasso (approx. 13" x 15"). A state of the art production by Cercle d'Art in 1962. 1st printing. In perfect condition and complete. The decorated slipcase is in excellent condition. Scarce in this condition.
1812réf. K7BC7632IMESKiel 1812. 4to. Königlichen Schulbuchdruckerei printed by C.L. Wäser Contemporary half calf gold-tooled spine black spine label. With 6 engraved folding plates 3 partly handcoloured. xii 335 1 pp. Rare first edition of a botanical classic the principal work of Johann Moldenhawer published in 1812. This copy was part of the collection of the famous German botanist and explorer of Brazil Philipp von Martius 1794-1868 as the book-plate on the front pastedown shows. The Beyträge reflects the knowledge acquired in the field of plant anatomy during the period 1800-1812 when many new texts on the structure of plant organs were published and Moldenhawer made advances in his own research. This book contains important findings concerning plant anatomy based on Moldenhawer's own experiments where he isolated the cells and the vessels. By completely isolating the cells and vessels in his preparations Moldenhawer demonstrated that the cell wall is closed on all sides. Moldenhawers Beiträge zur Anatomie der Pflanzen the result of eighteen years of unremitting research on plant anatomy reflects his critical insights and methodical observations both in his own experiments and in his analysis of earlier and contemporary research on plant anatomy by others. This makes it a classic overview of the history of plant anatomy.With the bookplate of the explorer Philipp von Martius on the front paste-down. Some folds in the engraved plates not affecting the images binding slightly rubbed and discoloured head of the spine and foot of the black spine label chipped but still in good condition.l BMC NH III p. 1333; Bradley I p. 98; Pritzel 6357; for the author: DSB IX p. 455. unknown
réf. 020815New York: Limited Editions Club 1983. Hardcover. Mild even sunning to the spine. Near Fine in a close to Fine slipcase. Jacob Lawrence. Large octavo 9-1/2" x 12-1/4" bound in full coal-black aniline cowhide leather. With a poem by Robert Penn Warren that serves as the preface. Illustrated with 8 ORIGINAL SILKSCREENS executed in eleven colors by the noted late African-American artist Jacob Lawrence. Copy #27 of 1500 SIGNED by Hersey Warren and Lawrence. A starkly beautiful book richly bound and with three important signatures justly one of the most desirable books issued by this long-lived prestigious press. Monthly Letter laid in. Limited Editions Club hardcover
1730réf. H8R9L0YQ8MW6Delft: Reinier Boitet part 1; The Hague Johannes de Cros part 2 1730. Contemporary red half sheepskin. Folio. With engraved frontispiece engraved dedication in volume 1 and 3 and a total of 57 engraved plates mostly folding. 2 parts in 3 volumes. First and only edition of an extensive thorough and lavishly illustrated work on the history and topography of the city of The Hague. The beautiful frontispiece is explained in an allegorical poem by Hendrik Schim on the verso of the half-title. More laudatory poems on The Hague and the author Jacob de Riemer 1676-1762 follow in the preliminaries of the first part by Caspar Barlaeus Joannes Van Dam Constantijn Huygens and Hendrik Schim. The main text starts with the foundation of the city followed by descriptions of different buildings including several churches and monasteries the orphanage schools and much more most of them are shown in the engraved folding plates as well. The second part volume 3 of 1739 contains the description of the government of The Hague and its organization.Binding worn corners bumped and lacking the paper on the front side of volume three but the bindings are structually sound. Text and plates with some occasional spots and a few wormholes and some of the folding plates are reinforced with tape at the back; a good copy wholly untrimmed.l Nijhoff & V. Hattum 267. Reinier Boitet (part 1); The Hague, Johannes de Cros (part 2), unknown
1677réf. 63401677 Zurich, Johann Wilhelm, Simler, 1677-1678. In-16: 10 x 15.5 cm, 1f. de titre illustré, 1f. faux-titre, 1f. avertissement, 1f. frontispice grav. 2 ff. préface, 4 ff. de tables, 174 pp. de texte, 1 carte grav. de Jérusalem, 2 pl. grav. en taille douce. Première édition collective de ces textes et édition originale de trois d'entre eux, seul le récit de Hans Jacod Amman avait déjà été publié en 1618 et 1630. Ouvrage rare et recherché contenant quatre récits de voyages réalisés par des Zurichois: 1. en Terre-Sainte; 2. en Jamaïque; 3. aux Caraïbes et en Nouvelle Angleterre; 4. sur la Côte de l'or de l'Afrique de l'ouest. Reliure postérieure (fin 18e - début 19e) en demi-basane à petits coins. Dos lisse à filets dorés avec pièce de titre de maroquin rouge. Plats marbrés. Quelques légères rousseurs, sans défaut. Reliure en parfait état.
1780réf. 7599BB1780. 3. Aufl. 2 Bände. Regensburg 1780. 4°. 84 Bl. Mit 140 gest. Tafeln meist beidseitig bedruckt lose in separater Mappe gest. von J. N. Maag nach Loibel Neuer Halblederband mit Rückenschild. Nissen 3626. Horn-Schenkling 19051. Dritte Ausgabe dieses systematischen zweisprachigen Werkes zur Entomologie verfasst vom Theologen Jacob Christian Schaeffer 17181790 erstmal 1766 bei Weiss in Regensburg gedruckt. Es ist in vier Abteilungen gegliedert: Bau und Gestalt der Insekten Klassifikation Geschlechter Werkzeuge der Behandlung und Sammlung. Sauberes breitrandiges Exemplar. unknown
1780réf. 7599BB3. Aufl. 2 Bände. Regensburg, 1780. 4°. (84) Bl. Mit 140 gest. Tafeln, meist beidseitig bedruckt, lose in separater Mappe, gest. von J. N. Maag nach Loibel? Neuer Halblederband mit Rückenschild.
2000réf. 11530München/Basel, C. H. Beck/Schwabe, 2000-2017. 1. Auflage "Gr.-8° (22,5-25 cm). 641; VI, 829; VI, 505; IX, 533; 592; VI, 660; 529; 727; 695; 275; VI, 969; 1007; VI, 721; 1363; 636; VI, 741; 897; 1414; 1691; 1683 SS." OLeinwand mit OUmschlag
1890réf. 191014New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1890. One of the most important photobooks ever published First edition with an autograph letter signed from the author tipped-in to the front free endpaper thanking the recipient "for your kindness and for your good company - I had a bully day of it". He adds in a postscript: "Good luck with the trout. A good fisherman is a good fellow I will bet. Ask Grover!". The letter is dated 7 June and noted as received 8 June 1902. The reference is presumably to the keen fisherman and former president Grover Cleveland. The front free endpaper has the ownership signature of the recipient Elizabeth M. Brown of Belvidere New Jersey dated 25 April 1891. A lifelong campaigner for child welfare Riis exposed overcrowded tenements raised funds to send children into the countryside advocated city parks and pressed for better-funded public schools. His exposés of New York poverty and decades of campaigning helped drive Progressive Era reforms and forced the city's slum conditions into public view. How the Other Half Lives is his most important work. "His book is about the tenements of New York: the overcrowded slums of the Lower East Side that were home to boatloads of immigrants who had come to the United States to seek a better life. it is one of the most important photobooks ever published. It represents the first extensive use of halftone photographic reproductions in a book. These reproductions are rough to say the least but it is the beginning not of a photographic genre but a photographic attitude an ethos - humanist documentary photography - in which the photographic social document is employed to bear critical witness to what is going on in the world" Parr & Badger p. 53. Octavo. With 43 illustrations including 18 halftones from photographs by the author. Original blue quarter cloth spine lettered in gilt front cover lettered and decorated in red and blue. Tipped-in at rear is the pamphlet Jacob A. Riis: A Sketch of his Life and Work circa 1903. Rubbed and a little shaken and toned still a very good copy. Martin Parr & Gerry Badger The Photobook: A History Vol. I 2004. hardcover
1976réf. C92951Andre Sauret. As New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in French. 166 pages; 97 illustrations including 28 in color. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works La Vie et L'Œuvre Oeuvre Raisonnee -- with a bonus offer-- - May be EITHER: out of print OOP and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition; inquire for details . 1976. Andre Sauret hardcover
1758réf. 67012Philadelphia:: Printed by W. Bradford 1758. First edition. old sueded leather. Later additional ownership name on title page; a few neat old marginal annotations; some scattered inoffensive staining to text; several significant losses to the leather at the top of the spine and corners; nevertheless tight and sound. . Folio. One-time legislator Aaron D. Woodruff's copy with his 1785 ownership signature at the head of the title page and bookplate on pastedown. Printed by W. Bradford, hardcover
1970réf. 222j2632Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press. Good in Good dust jacket. 1970. First English Edition. Hardcover. 0674474805 . "The interaction of Jews and Freemasons began with the very first Masonic constitution which was compiled in England in the 1720s. Mr. Katz explores the process of the admission of Jews into the Freemasons in Europe especially Germany. He also traces the myth of Jews and Freemasons as bent upon world domination examining its various stages and how they led to the fabrication of the 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion'. He studied works concealed in Masonic libraries and archives which had never before been available and examined the anti-Semitic literature which supported Hitler and linked the Jews and Freemasons together." - dust jacket. "Highly recommended especially for its insights into the connections between the Asiatic Brethren and many wealthy European aristocrats royals financiers merchants and charlatans of mysticism peddling new varieties of occult 'Knowledge.' An impossible to find book by an Israeli academic heavyweight." - G. Burch in an online review. Translated from the Hebrew. viii 4 293 p. Extensive footnotes. Index. "Jacob Katz 1904-1998 was an acclaimed Jewish historian and educator." - Wikipedia. Creative dust jacket graphic depicts instersection of the Star of David with the Masonic square and compass. Gift greetings upon front free endpaper otherwise tight and unmarked with light wear to original chocolate cloth. Average wear to price-clipped dust jacket now in glossy new archival-grade protection. A sound and rare example of this revealing study. ; 8vo . Harvard University Press hardcover
1758réf. 39356Zyrich Zurich: Conrad Orell und Comp. 1758-1759. Two volumes bound in one complete. FIRST EDITION OF THE MANESSISCHE HANDSCHRIFT also known as the Grosse Heidelberger Liederhandschrift compiled in the 14th century and far and away the most important collection of medieval German lyric verse. Thus also the FIRST EDITION OF VIRTUALLY ALL OF THE SURVIVING CORPUS OF MIDDLE HIGH GERMAN POETRY. Includes the work of 140 poets including Walther von der Vogelweide Reinmar der Alte Gottfried von Strassburg Hartmann von Aue Niedhart von Reuenthal Kaiser Heinrich and Reinmar der Zweite. 4to. Attractively bound in contemporary calf. Spine gilt in six compartments with raised bands. Some wear to binding but structurally solid. Internally FINE AND BRIGHT. Brunet III 1362; Graesse IV 362. Very important and very rare especially in such good condition. Conrad Orell und Comp. hardcover
1818réf. 2603240008Hanover Guardian; Joseph Schmuck Hanover Pa 1818. Magazines & Periodicals. Good. A large run of an very early newspaper from York County Pennsylvania from James Monroe's Presidency. 62 issues printed on four pages 248 pages total. Unbound. Some minor stains but generally a clean and legible collection. The first issue has a tear at the center with some loss. The second issue has a closed tear at the rear page. Includes v.1. complete in 52 issues Sept 2 1818 - Aug. 25 1819; v.2. 6 issues 1819: no. 60 Oct 20 no.62 Nov. 3 no.65 Nov. 24 no.66 Dec 1 no.68 Dec 15 no.72 Jan 12 1820; v.3. 4 issues from 1820: no. 108 Sept. 27 no. 111 Oct. 18 no. 113 Nov. 1 115 Nov. 15. "Weekly. Established in August 1818 by Jacob H. Wiestling with the title of the "Guardian." In 1819 he sold the paper to Joseph Schmuck who continued it until after 1820 J. Gibson "History of York County" 1886 p. 382." - American Antiquarian Society. Includes advertisements for agricultural products real estate sales political news international news Revolution in e.g. Sicily Spain; local Democratic York county politics; support for President James Monroe; and many interesting news articles. One very interesting front page piece from the York's Democratic party includes resolutions against Gov. Joseph Hiester. The York Democrats opposed him because he voted against the gradual abolition of slavery in Pennsylvania "that curse and stigma on humanity; he also voted in effect in favor of slave trade against the punishment of kidnappers." An interesting early pro-abolitionist opinion from rural Pennsylvania. Includes James Monroe's 1819 message to Congress on the State of the Union. Also prints accounts of local murders and other crimes. Hanover Guardian; Joseph Schmuck, Hanover, Pa unknown
1747réf. 33199-1280Zürich H. U. Denzler 1747-65 and supplement: Zürich and Zug 1786-97. Titles mostly printed in red and black. With woodcut floral head-pieces and title-vignettes. Together 26 vols. 4to. Contemp. boards with title on spines supplement vols. modern boards and larger in size. With engr. exlibris G. Wüthrich fly-leaves stamped. Zürich H. U. Denzler 1747-65 and supplement: Zürich and Zug 1786-97. First edition of this famous encyclopedia published by the scholar and co-founder of the Banque Leu Johann Jacob Leu 1689-1768 here found together with the rare 6 supplement volumes. The work is a monumental alphabetical reference work of Swiss history and of family amd personal history in this country. It offers entries on genealogy and topography in particular as well as biographical data. Leu undertook the work at his own expense and paid for correspondents and collaborators. Despite some mistakes this present encyclopedia is reliable and undoubtedly influenced by ideas originating in the Enlightenment. Das "Lexicon ist ein grossartiges opferreiches Geschenk an Mit- und Nachwelt" Feller/Bonjour 436-437.- Nice complete copy. - Feller/Bonjour 436-437; Barth 9522-9523; Haller II 15; Lonchamp 1806 only 17 vols.; Collison Encyclopedias their History . 1964 102; cf. Zischka 6. LEXIKA ; HELVETICA: ALLGEMEIN ; GEOGRAPHIE REISEN ; GEOGRAPHY: GENERAL ; GENEALOGY - HERALDRY ; Zürich, H. U. Denzler hardcover
1785réf. 10224Bethlehem Pennsylvania ca. 1785-1835. 70 p. Contemporary Leather 8° The upper-spine-end is split on both sides 10 pages are left blank. Manuscript containing a catalogue of all the members of the 'Hernhutter Brüdergemeine' at Bethlehem Pennsylvania starting with the year 1785 and dating until the year 1835. Bethlehem, Pennsylvania hardcover
