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1872Best.-Nr. S6291Cambridge:: John Wilson and Son 1872. 1872. 8vo. 21 pp. Original printed wrappers. Ex library notations on title. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on top cover. Very good. Houzeau & Lancaster II col. 38. John Wilson and Son, 1872. unknown books
Best.-Nr. 140949773New York: The Museum of Modern Art New York and The Phillips Collection 1993. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing. Signed on the first preface page by Jacob Lawrence. Unpaginated 48 pp. illustrated in color. Oblong quarto bound in publisher's red-brown paper-covered boards over black spine cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Exhibition brochure and obituary clipping laid in. A very nice signed copy of this combination storybook and exhibition catalogue. Jacob Lawrence painted his 60-panel Migration Series between 1940 and 1941 on the eve of a war that increased the demand for Black labor in Northern factories. The panels were reunited for a landmark traveling exhibition in 1993 and the poet Walter Dean Myers wrote an accompanying poem included at the end of this book. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and The Phillips Collection unknown books
1988Best.-Nr. 305922Koln: Taschen 1988. hardcover. near fine/near fine. Chagall. Illustrated with color photographs. 279 pages. 4to glossy blue boards with white vignette dust wrapper. Koln: Taschen 1988. A near fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper. Taschen unknown books
1839Best.-Nr. 38269Washington: Printed at the Madisonian Office 1839. 8pp a folded folio leaf untrimmed and uncut. Lightly foxed else Very Good. This is the first edition reprinted in 1840 for the presidential campaign. Burnett had been a Senator from Ohio having succeeded Harrison in that office. He was an authority on Ohio's early history see e.g. Howes B96. Burnett praises Harrison fulsomely. Miles 77. Haynes 2516. AI 54745 5. Printed at the Madisonian Office unknown books
1788Best.-Nr. 34809Boston: Thomas and John Fleet 1788. 42pp with the half title a couple of spots but lacking the final blank. Page 37 is incorrectly paginated as "39." The next page is correctly paginated "38" and pagination is correct thereafter. Disbound a few spots. Good The Right Hand of Fellowship was given by Elijah Brown; the Charge by the Reverend Mr. Clark of Lexington emphasizes that "The right of private judgment in matters of Faith and Conscience ought ever to be held sacred.-- Claiming it to yourself and as cheerfully allowing it to others to think and judge for themselves." Evans 21035. ESTC W29268. Thomas and John Fleet unknown books
1771Best.-Nr. 34808Boston: Thomas and John Fleet 1771. 30pp with the half title but lacking the final blank. Disbound light rubberstamp at blank portion of half title chip to upper blank corner of half title. Good. Evans 12023. Sabin 18105. Thomas and John Fleet unknown books
1768Best.-Nr. 32180New York: Hugh Gaine 1768. pp iv 289 13 as issued. Boards detached. Old rubberstamp on front free endpaper and title page. Scattered foxing one leaf tape-repaired no loss. Good. This first American edition from the seventh London edition is considered the first layman's self-help law guide printed in America. Jacob calls his book "an instructive treatise writ in the easiest method and adapted to every capacity whereby the unskilful and those who are ignorant in the practice of the law may in some measure be their own advisers and readily avoid the common errors too often happening in the prosecution of suits." It "has been revised and corrected and many valuable additions inserted." FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Evans 10935. I Harv. Law Cat. 1035. Marke 248. Marvin 300 8th London 1787. Hugh Gaine unknown books
1859Best.-Nr. 28994Columbus Ohio 1859. Caption title as issued. 16pp untrimmed. Margin-foxing Good. The occasion was a celebration of German Democrats "whose thrifty and pleasant homes are mostly in the Fifth Ward." In this scarce pamphlet Cox lauds the German opposition to tyranny their love of "Constitutional government and law;" and their distrust of anarchy and disorder particularly those annoying "Woman Rights Free Love and Abolition Conventions." Most recently such destructive "egotistical faith" has shown itself in the John Brown Invasion and in the doctrines of the Republican Party. "When Brown shoots down the citizens at the Armory he appeals to the God of the oppressed as his judge and all the Ismatics of New England and Ohio applaud the murderer as a martyr." And when Republicans deny the right of territories to decide whether to permit slavery "they deny to majorities the right to rule." OCLC 34559434 3- OH Hist. Soc. U TX Heinz Hist. Ctr as of March 2023.Not in Thomson Sabin Eberstadt. unknown books
1814Best.-Nr. 28139Elizabeth-Town: Printed for the Author by R. and P. Canfield 1814. 12mo. 2 404 pp. Bound in original sheep with gilt-lettered title on red morocco spine label. Text foxed pages 375-382 bound out of order but present. Good. Joe Felcone's long note on this title explains how "Barclay's 'little troubles' as he called them began to develop into a major crisis." Barclay had a weakness for the ladies and was charged with having attempted to seduce several of them; as well as lying horse stealing baptizing a horse and "of inhumanely beating his 'negro wench' Chloe." Though exonerated he was nevertheless "admonished and his pastoral connection was dissolved." Kerr who was a member of Barclay's congregation appealed and though rebuffed continued to press his case so persistently "that he was barred from attending church." He wrote this book in order to vindicate his position. FIRST EDITION. Felcone 820. Cohen 11959. AI 31861 2. Sabin 37628. Printed for the Author, by R. and P. Canfield unknown books
1766Best.-Nr. 20573Boston New-England: Richard and Samuel Draper 1766. Half title 39 1 blank pp Disbound with some loosening light to moderate foxing a closed tear no loss at one leaf Good The Charge is by Reverend Balch and the Right Hand of Fellowship by Reverend Barnard FIRST EDITION Evans 10275 NAIP w003011. Richard and Samuel Draper unknown books
1862Best.-Nr. 13202Corning N.Y.: Printed at the Journal Office 1862. Original printed wrappers spine wear stitched 24pp. Tanned two small binding holes in blank inner margin. Good or so. Butler argues that the City of Muscatine Iowa is not liable to bondholders because the bonds on which payment was defaulted were issued in violation of the Constitution of Iowa which forbids municipalities from issuing railroad bonds; and that the bonds were in fact issued by the railroad which is solely responsible for paying them. Printed at the Journal Office unknown books
1580Best.-Nr. LLV2606Basle:: Peter Perna 1580 1572. 1580. Two volumes bound as one. Quarto. Pagination: 8 236 12; 16 267 20 pp. including blanks. Two printer's devices on title pages full-page portrait of Paracelsus on N3r of second work decorated initials; minor stains. Contemporary limp vellum yapp fore-edge covers lightly curled one tie of four. Title in old hand on bottom edge old owner's seven-line ink note on front free end paper on "Diogenes" minor marginal dampstain on two leaves otherwise a fresh clean crisp copy. WRITTEN ON THE BOTTOM EDGE OF THE VOLUME: "De astrolog: divinatrice. Erasti.Disputation. / De medicina Paracelsi.Pars I." VERY RARE. First edition. THOMAS ERASTUS' DISTPUTATIONS CONCERNING ASTROLOGY AND THE NEW MEDICINE OF PARACELSUS. First Editions. bound with: DISPUTATIONUM DE MEDICINA NOVA PHILIPPI PARACELSI PARS PRIMA: IN QUA QUAE DE REMEDIIS SUPERSTITIOSIS & MAGICIS CURATIONIBUS ILLE PRODIDIT PRAECIPUE EXAMINANTUR. . . This is one of two books written by Erastus concerning divining astrology especially directed to certain persons named in the letter of Erastus in this case the primary being Christopher Stathmion whose last letter is dated from 1559. A second part was issued for the DE MEDICINA not present here. Thomas Erastus 1524-1583 Swiss Protestant theologian a physician whose original name was Luber Lieber or Liebler. As a follower of Huldreich Zwingli he supported the Swiss leader's view of the Lord's Supper at the conferences of Heidelberg 1560 and Maulbronn 1564 and in a book 1565. In spite of his vigorous opposition to the Calvinist doctrine Presbyterian Church discipline and government were introduced in Heidelberg in 1570. In 1574 Erastus was excommunicated by the Heidelberg consistory but a year later the edict was removed. . .The term Erastianism has come to represent approval of the dominance of civil authority in all punitive measures and by extension complete dominance of the state over the church though Erastus himself never held such an extreme view. Erastianism achieved its definitive expression in the Leviathan of Thomas Hobbes. / ". . .On his return from Italy to Germany Erastus was shocked at the extent to which men were addicted to vain predictions of astrologers and at the astrological restrictions under which medical practice labored. . .as an antidote to the superstition poisoning Germany he had made a translation from the Italian into German of the book of Savonarola against astrologers. This aroused some opposition among German astrologers and the aforesaid physician of Coburg Chrsitopher Stathmion had contended that Savonarola's work did not apply to divination or astrology which was based on natural causes. . .He adopts the usual theological position that divination is the work of demons. He joins Pico and Savonarola in their wholesale onslaught upon astrology to which he would appear to leave almost no field of activity. . .In the first volume of his Disputations Concerning the New Medicine of Paracelsus . . . Erastus has more to say against astrology. It holds first place in magic of which he utterly disapproves and is the offscouring of all impious arts. . .Erastus denied the possibility of natural magic. Nor would he admit that the Magi of ancient Persia had been priests or sages. Their magic too he regarded as diabolical. He showed himself even more incensed at Pomponnazzi for his favorable attitude toward magic in De incantationibus than at Paracelsus. . . Astrology he condemned as the foundation of all other magic arts. He censured Paracelsus for speaking approvingly of augury prodigies geomancy pyromancy and necromancy and for condoning the receiving from demons' remedies to be employed for good ends." Thorndike V5 pp. 652-660 FURTHER: Regarding the second tract the Disputations "concerning and against the new Paracelsan medicine composed by Erastus illustrate on the one hand his opposition to the medical views of Paracelsus and his followers and on the other hand his opposition to various occult arts and sciences most of which he accuses Paracelsus of countenancing." "Erastus commends Paracelsus for one thing namely his careful preparation of medicines and revival of distillation." p. 657. REFERENCES: Astrologiae: VD 16 E3669; Adams E905 & E910; Cantamessa I1401; DSB IV388; Durling/NLM 1383; Antoine Faivre & Jacob Needleman Modern esoteric spirituality London 1992 p. 181; Houzeau/Lancaster 4932; Herbert Jaumann Bio-bibliographisches Repertorium p.253; Rosenthal Magica 3397; Medicina: VD 16 E3679; Sudhoff 247; Wellcome I 2057; Waller 2778. Peter Perna, 1580, 1572. hardcover books
1976Best.-Nr. 338944New York: Rizzoli 1976. First. hardcover. fine/fine. Delvaux Paul. 97 illustrations throughout some in color. 166 pages. Thick 4to natural cloth pictorial d.w. an original lithograph printed in Paris by Mourlot printed acetate overwrapper a bit crinkled at head. New York: Rizzoli 1976. First American edition. A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper; sadly lacking the tinted lithographic frontispiece and the cardboard slipcase. Rizzoli unknown books
1882Best.-Nr. 338389New York: Scribner 1882. hardcover. near fine. 10 maps. ix 265 pages 12mo blue cloth with embossed front cover and gilt-lettering. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1882. A near fine copy. Campaigns of the Civil War --X Scribner unknown books
1726Best.-Nr. D21122Amsterdam 1726. Ephemera. Good. Folio illustrated leaves. Folded but creases not affecting emblems. unknown books
1967Best.-Nr. 230173Hill and Wang 1967. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8x6x0. Hardcover First edition with dust jacket. Jacket has a few chips to the edges and general shelf wear. Exterior top edge has foxing due to dust soiling; internally Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Prompt shipping. S.U. Hill and Wang hardcover books
1947Best.-Nr. 349559New York: International Universities Press 1947. Hardcover. 254p. offsetting to endpapers else very good condition in a price-clipped and lightly shelfworn dj. Recounts a lengthy visit to the Polish death camps and what was left of the ghettos and cities. International Universities Press hardcover books
2015Best.-Nr. 627855New York: The Museum of Modern Art 2015. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Folio. 191 1pp. Heavily illustrated. Fine in fine dust jacket. The Museum of Modern Art hardcover books
2000Best.-Nr. 627857Seattle: University of Washington Press in association with the Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation 2000. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition trade issue. Two volumes. Quartos. 287 344pp. Heavily illustrated. Both volumes fine in fine dust jackets housed in fine publisher's translucent plastic slipcase with label and facsimile signature. Over The Line edited and with an introduction by Peter T. Nesbett and Michelle DuBois and essays by Patricia Hills Paul J. Karlstrom Leslie King-Hammond Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins Richard J. Powell Lowery Stokes Sims Elizabeth Steele and Elizabeth Hutton Turner. Catalog Raisonné by Peter T. Nesbett and Michelle DuBois with assistance from Stephanie Ellis-Smith. A handsome production the result of six years of work. University of Washington Press, in association with the Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation hardcover books
1750Best.-Nr. 26078Reutlingen: Gedrukt mit Fischers-und Lorenzischen Schriften nd - but ca1750. Vermehrte und verbesserte Auflage. Original blind-stamped pig-skin flap binding with an additional purse pocket available as designed at the rear cover; a lengthy "strap" secured to the flap in order to carry paper records & notes to encircle and wrap the binding & purse. Very good; some soiling to the binding; early repair to end of the strap work; close lower margin on several leaves but no real loss. Front hinge cracked but firm. 8vo 80 pp.; some additional blank leaves bound in. A commercial artifact intended to provide ready and accurate calculation results. The text consists of one explanatory leaf that assumes the reader's familiarity with the subject and the balance are printed tables. Near the end of the text is a separate set of tables dealing with wine and beer and finally lumber. Reference is made to "Durlacher" and "Unterwisheimer Wein - Rechnung". During the eighteenth century wine measurements usually relied on regional volumetric units. Durlach in the state of Baden was known for its vineyards and wine and is appx. 100 kilometers from Reutlingen - where the book was printed. OCLC cites one location in Germany. Gedrukt mit Fischers-und Lorenzischen Schriften books
1834Best.-Nr. 25072Philadelphia: William Brown Printer For Members of the Class 1834. First Edition. Disbound. Very good. 8vo 6 2 11 - 30 pp. Green was elected the first professorship of chemistry at Princeton. He was also the author along with his friend Erskine Hazard of one of the earliest monographs on electricity published in America. He moved to Phila. and was a part of founding Jefferson Medical College eventually being named professor of chemistry at that institution. DSB V 517-518; S&S #24715. William Brown, Printer [For Members of the Class] unknown books
1795Best.-Nr. 24030Nazareth PA October 1795. Neatly hinged and matted. Very good; some toning to the paper. Watercolors meas. appx. 110 x 190 mm. one somewhat smaller; on laid paper with no watermark; sheet size appx. 210 x 265 mm. Three are in color one in black and white. Each is identified and dated in the same hand. The smaller black and white drawing has the following legend: View of Nazareth Hall from the school garden / Prospect von Nazareth Hall gegen Westen. Nazareth Hall 17521929 was the Moravian school in Nazareth Pennsylvania. It was established by master mason Melchior Rasp in 1754. In 1759 it became the central boarding school for sons of Moravian parents. Later it attained wide fame as a "classical academy." This eventually led to the founding in 1807 of Moravian College and Theological Seminary at Bethlehem PA. The original school was divided into "rooms"; each contained only fifteen or eighteen pupils; these pupils were under the constant supervision of a master; and this master who was generally a theological scholar was the companion and spiritual adviser of his charges. Jacob Cist graduated at the school and worked with the post office department Washington D. C. 1800-08 when he removed to Wilkes Barre PA. There he was appointed postmaster and retained the position until his death 1825. He devoted much of his time to painting and literature contributing for years to The Literary Magazine The Portfolio and to the local papers of Pennsylvania. He invented and patented a mill to grind colors for paints and in 1808 secured a patent for manufacturing a mineral black for printer's ink from Lehigh anthracite coal as a substitute for India ink. For many years he was interested in the mining and the uses of anthracite coal. In 1815 published a pamphlet on the subject. Ludwig Schweinir has evaded the historical record. unknown books
1737Best.-Nr. 23044Leipzig: Friedrich Lanckischens Erben 1737. Later Printing. Early 19th century linen backed marbled boards. Good; title professionally backed at an early date to repair two horizontal tears no loss; the first six leaves have been expertly remargined along the blank fore-edge no text loss at an early date; some spotting; small tear at the head of the spine. Small stout 4to. 6 1 - 1035 67 - indices pp. engraved frontispiece. A massive lexicon of pharmaceutical science and chemistry with an exhaustive index of subjects and an alchemical/chemical symbol dictionary. The author was a professor of medicine at Konigsberg. The book went through many printings in the 18th century. Later editions being far more detailed and under the editorial direction of J E Hebenstreit. Neville II 640 - pointing out that most collections have only later editions - he had a Dutch printing of 1741. Friedrich Lanckischens Erben hardcover books
1869Best.-Nr. 22025Philadelphia: H C Lea 1869. First Edition. Original publisher's green bevelled edge cloth. Bright fine copy. 8vo iv 3 - 150 pp. Text illustrations throughout. "Bigelow was the first to describe in detail the mechanism of the ilio-femoral Bigelow's ligament and to show its importance in the reduction of dislocation by the flexion method." Bigelow's "major contribution to orthopedic surgery." G-M #4424; Rutkow OR22; Heirs of Hippocrates #1862; LeVay p. 389. H C Lea hardcover books
1875Best.-Nr. 22024Boston: Boston Medical and Surgical Journal 1875. OFFPRINT. Original printed paper wrappers. Good; wear to the wrappers. 8vo 9 pp. consecutive pagination 4 unnumbered plates. Bigelow's contributions to orthopedic surgery in America are well documented see G-M #4424; Rutkow OR22; Heirs of Hippocrates #1862. The offprint offered here is an adjunct. It is a detailed examination - and correction - of Merkel's research in Germany on the structure of the femur including Bigelow's septum and an explanation of its capacity to support human body weight. Rutkow ORp107 - illustrating a portion of plate IV. Boston Medical and Surgical Journal unknown books