1949rif. 2322089Washington D.C: Department of the Army 1949. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 9x6x1. First edition. Binding tight and square pages clean bright and unmarked. 1949 Hard Cover. 899 pp. Includes: Leadership Drill and Exercise of Command; Hygiene and First Aid; Physical Development Methods; Maps and Aerial Photographs; Military Organization; Individual Weapons and Marksmanship; Small Unit Tactics; Military Teaching Methods; Military History of the United States; Index. Department of the Army hardcover books
1859rif. 2310187Boston: John P. Jewett and Company 1859. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First edition Sabin 80503. Corners rubbed with a few tape repairs to spine library bookplate and stamp on front endpapers a few pages lightly foxed. 1859 Hard Cover. vii 1 280 pp. 8vo. Two-column format. Engraved illustration of Cleveland Ohio jail where the prisoners were confined on title page. An account of escape recapture and rescue of a 'fugitive slave' and subsequent indictment of the rescuers. From Sabin: "An extraordinary case under the Fugitive Slave Act. Wellington is located thirty-six miles southwest of Cleveland; Oberlin is nine miles north of Wellington. In January 1856 a negro slave called John was missing from a plantation in Mason county Kentucky. In August 1856 a friend of the owner recognized John at Oberlin and with the aid of friends from Kentucky arrested him with the intention of taking him back. They took him to Wellington where he was rescued by a large body of persons from Oberlin and Wellington---hence the title. Thirty-seven of the rescuers were indicted by the State and confined for many months in the Cleveland jail while the trial progressed. They were finally acquitted and great was the rejoicing. The account of the affair is contained in 280 double column solidly printed pages."---THOMSON'S Bibliography of Ohio. John P. Jewett and Company hardcover books
1861rif. 2307958Stuttgart / Bonn / Berlin / Gotha. / Hamburg: J.G. Cotta'scher Verlag / Adolph Marcus / Ferd. Dummler's Verlagsbuchhandlung / C.F. Thienemann / Agentur des Kauhen Hauses 1861. Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Former library copy College of St. Scholastica and likely bound together by them with just a few marks on new end sheets. Marginalia throughout Grimm's work with a few instances of underlining. 1861 Half-Leather. 64; 81 1; 56; 23 1; 142; 8; 29; 22 pp. German text. A sammelband of seven pamphlets by German philologists including an essay by Jacob Grimm of The Brothers Grimm on the origins of language. While he is best known for his work with folklore and fairy tales he also wrote several important works regarding language with very detailed research about the history of the German language and its grammar and 'Grimm's law' is a set of statements about Germanic Sound Shift named after him. The scarce Dummler catalogue includes entries with brief prospectuses for 34 titles by Grimm Bopp Von Humboldt Steinthal and other notable German philologists; a similar Auszug of linguistic works published by Dummler caption title 8 pp. c. 1858 is present between pamphlets 5 and 6. Titles include: Goethe und die Erzahlungskunst; Chaucer in seinen Beziehungen zur italienischen Literatur.; Uber den Ursprung der Sprache; Verzeichniss von Werken aus dem Gebiete der Sprachforschung Erschienen in Ferd. Dummler's Verlagsbuchhandlung in Berlin. December 1852; Der Ursprung der Sprache in Zusammenhange mit den Letzten Fragen alles Wissens. Eine Darstellung Kritik und Fortentwickelung der Vorzuglichsten Ansichten; Auszug aus dem Linguistischen Verlagskataloge von Ferd. Dummler's Verlagsbuchhandlung in Berlin.; Schleiermacher seine Personlichkeit und seine Theologie.; Licht und Schattenseiten der gegenwartigen Culturentwicklung. J.G. Cotta'scher Verlag / Adolph Marcus / Ferd. Dummler's Verlagsbuchhandlung / C.F. Thienemann / Agentur des Kauhen Hauses hardcover books
1748rif. 2304868Augustae Vindelicorum Typis et Impensis Haeredum Ioannis Iacobi Lotteri 1748. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Boards lightly soiled and stained. 1748 Hard Cover. xvi 608 13 pp. 8vo. Vellum binding hand lettered spine sprinkled edges. An extensive history of philosophy by the author whose five-volume Historia Critica Philosophiae formed the basis of William Enfield's The History of Philosophy the first English language history of philosophy to treat thinkers beyond ancient history Locke Newton Hobbes Leibniz Descartes etc. Brucker is known primarily for his massive Historia Critica Philosophiae 5 volumes 1742-44 with an Appendix 1767. Passmore calls that work "the standard history of philosophy in the 18th century to which both Kant and the Encyclopaedists for example were very considerably indebted." 'The Idea of a History of Philosophy' in The Historiography of the History of Philosophy 'S-Gravenhage 1965. The present work contains 28 papers divided into three sections: Historico-Philosophica pp. 1-257; Historico-Literaria pp. 258-552; and Philologico-Critica pp. 553-608. The nine "observations" of the first part deal mainly with ancient philosophy with papers on: "number" in Plato and Pythagorian philosophy Brucker's dissertation; Pyrrhonism; Stoicism; the Alexandrian School et al.; as well as "Supplementa ad historiam de ideis exhibens" pp. 110-147 a supplement to Brucker's first book 1723. The second part opens pp. 258-290 with a paper that contains the first printing of six letters from Leibniz to Spizel Ravier 435. This section many of whose subjects appear to have connections with Augsburg also includes observations on Melanchthon's Hypotyposes theologicae 1521 sketches of the lives of Brucker's mentor Philipp Jakob Crophius the humanist Hieronymous Wolf and his student David Hoeschel as well as biographical sketches of several physicians. Osler 6614: "Bought 29.X.18 for the 3 medical lives i.e. J. Martius A.P. Gasser and L. Schroeck." To these three one might add a fourth "De Vita Matthiae Schenckii" pp. 334-351. Augustae Vindelicorum, Typis et Impensis Haeredum Ioannis Iacobi Lotteri hardcover books
1900rif. 21362Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company. Very Good. 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. no dust jacket an ex-library but nice-looking with only minor handling wear and with some interesting annotations on the rear pastedown see Notes for details. B&W photographic plates INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep: "Faithfully yours / Jacob A. Riis." An account of the author's anti-slum crusade during the decade following the publication of his most famous work "How the Other Half Lives." By 1900 this Danish-American social reformer photographer and muckraking journalist was nationally famous and in demand as a speaker -- which is amply documented by the various markings in this copy which was inexplicably withdrawn from the collection of the Nebraska State Historical Society and is stamped as such on the title page and the rear pastedown. Also on the rear pastedown the original librarian's I assume annotation provides both authentication of the signature and provenance of the book: "Bot bought of HW Brown: $1.10 Pd 2-24-1903 Sig. of author same date heard author lecture at Oliver Theater on 'Tony's Hardships.'" An additional ownership signature that of a Mr. and Mrs. Williams of Lincoln Nebraska appears on a second front endpaper also dated 2-24-1903. The referenced lecture in all its particulars is confirmed by an account in the Nebraska State Journal of February 25 1903 with the reporter commenting that "the unconscious naturalness of Riis's pose and gestures the sincerity of the man and the fact that his words were the outcome of years of keen personal observation and experience all combined to make the lecture one of exceptional interest with the unusual charm of being seemingly a spontaneous talk with an audience with whom the speaker was in full confidence and sympathy." And incredibly some idiot librarian chose to deaccession this book. Well that's Nebraska for you. And I'm from there so I can say that. This book is among the nearly 150 items offered in ReadInk's new Catalog Number 4 "Booking Passage: Books on the Immigrant Experience." You can access this catalog and its contents in any one of three ways: 1 email us to request a PDF to be emailed to you; 2 view or download the catalog from the link on our website's main page; 3 browse the books individually including a few that didn't make the cut for the catalog on our website under these two subject headings: "Immigration: Fiction" and "Immigration: Non-Fiction." Signed by Author . Houghton, Mifflin and Company hardcover books
1839rif. 1414519Boston: Carles C. Little and James Brown 1839. First American Edition. Hardcover. Small Quarto iv 724 pages. In Good plus condition. Bound in full leather. Spine has gilt titling and fillets with significant cracking and rubbing wear. Boards have light rubbing wear to edges minor bumping to corners scuffing and discoloration to surfaces. Textblock has age toning and minor soiling to the edges; a pencil inscription from a previous owner to the front free end page adhesive age toning to the edges of the end papers and foxing to pages throughout. Shelved in Room F. 1414519. Special Collections - Upstairs. Carles C. Little and James Brown hardcover books
1845rif. 1410519Dublin: Fannin and Co 1845. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo vi 2 126 16 32 plus four plates. In Good condition. Bound in cloth boards with gilt titling to the front boards. Spine has a complete loss of cloth exposing the paper. Boards have age toning to edges bumping and chipping to corners and wear throughout. Textblock has a label to the front pastedown pencil writing to the front pastedown age toning very light occasional foxing light offsetting to some plates and wear to edges. A presentation copy: "For Dr. Bullmore with Dr. Jacobs best wishes" written in ink to the title page. Shelved in Room A. 1410519. Special Collections - Upstairs. Fannin and Co hardcover books
1853rif. 1410570Boston: Ticknor Reed and Fields 1853. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo 28 pages. In Good condition. Wrapped in paper covers. Covers have chipping to the extremities ink writing and a stamp to the front cover a stain to the rear cover smudge marks throughout and age toning throughout. Textblock has light age toning and wear throughout. Shelved in Room A. 1410570. Special Collections - Upstairs. Ticknor, Reed, and Fields unknown books
rif. 124031Akron Ohio: The Superior Printing Company. Very Good-. Hardcover. An edition with aging soiling tanning to the pages and a sticker on the rear board; The story of Xerxes ruler of Persia and one of the most powerful men in the ancient world is a tale of ambition conquest and tragedy. This book tells the story of Xerxes' attempt to conquer Greece and the devastating consequences of his quest.; 8vo; 263 pages . The Superior Printing Company hardcover books
rif. 124033Akron Ohio: The Superior Printing Company. Very Good-. Hardcover. A Very Good- edition that has soiling and other general wear and tear ; Peter the Great is the most well-known and celebrated Russian emperor. He changed Russia from a backward country into a powerful empire.; 8vo; 327 pages . The Superior Printing Company hardcover books
rif. 124024Akron Ohio: The Superior Printing Company. Very Good-. Hardcover. A Very Good- edition that has soiling and other general wear to the boards and tanned pages ; The book Makers of History: Pyrrhus by Abbott tells the story of Pyrrhus a king in the Hellenistic period who fought against Rome.; 8vo; 264 pages . The Superior Printing Company hardcover books
rif. 123908Akron Ohio: The Superior Printing Company. Very Good. Hardcover. A heavily soiled edition with tanned pages in Very Good condition ; This book tells the story of Cyrus the Great one of the most influential and powerful rulers of ancient Persia. Cyrus was a visionary ruler who helped expand the Persian empire by conquering new territories. His achievements have been recognized by historians as some of the greatest in the history of the world.; Vol. 3; 8vo; 251 pages . The Superior Printing Company hardcover books
rif. 124028Akron Ohio: The Superior Printing Company. Very Good-. Hardcover. A Very Good- edition that is heavily soiled and worn around the edges with agewear to the pages as well; This book tells the story of the great Persian king Darius III and his conquests. It is an excellent resource for students studying world history. Darius is a fascinating figure and the book does a good job of explaining his motivations and how he managed his empire.; 8vo; 250 pages . The Superior Printing Company hardcover books
rif. 124029Akron Ohio: The Superior Printing Company. Very Good-. Hardcover. A Very Good- edition with tanned pages and soiling and other wear to the boards ; Julius Caesar is one of the most well-known and well-loved historical figures. This book tells the story of Caesar from his early years as a military general to his rise to power as the dictator of Rome. The book is full of interesting details about Caesar's life and it is sure to intrigue any reader.; 8vo; 239 pages . The Superior Printing Company hardcover books
rif. 123909Akron Ohio: The Superior Printing Company. Very Good-. Hardcover. A Very Good- edition that has tanned pages soiling to the boards and some chipping to the lower board edges ; A fascinating and well-researched biography of Alfred the Great king of Wessex from 871-899. Abbott does a great job of contextualizing Alfred within the changing political landscape of the 8th century and he paints a nuanced portrait of a ruler who was both brilliant and ruthless. Highly recommend.; Vol. 2; 8vo; 229 pages . The Superior Printing Company hardcover books
rif. 124026Akron Ohio: The Superior Printing Company. Very Good-. Hardcover. An edition that is Very Good- and has soiling and other general wear to the boards and pages ; This book tells the story of Mary Queen of Scots from her childhood to her time as Queen of Scotland. It describes her relationships with her father James VI of Scotland her husband Francis II of France and her half brother Charles I of Scotland. It also describes her rebellions against the English her imprisonment and her death.; 8vo; 233 pages . The Superior Printing Company hardcover books
rif. 124023Akron Ohio: The Superior Printing Company. Very Good-. Hardcover. A soiled aged and edgeworn edition in Very Good- condition ; Nero by Abbott is a book that tells the story of the emperor Nero from his childhood to his death. It provides a detailed analysis of Nero's reign his motives and actions and their impact on the Roman Empire.; 8vo; 265 pages . The Superior Printing Company hardcover books
rif. 123906Akron Ohio: The Superior Printing Company. Very Good. Hardcover. A volume in Very Good condition with much soiling to the boards and tanning to the pages ; William the Conqueror is one of the most famous British monarchs and is remembered for his conquests and for his role in the Norman conquest of England.; Vol. 7; 8vo; 248 pages . The Superior Printing Company hardcover books
rif. 123890Chicago: W. B. Conkey Company. Very Good-. Hardcover. A Very Good- edition that has agewear and soiling to the volume pages and their edges in addition to a previous owner's sticker affixed to the front flyleaf ; Rollo in Rome is the story of a young Viking boy who is taken in by an Italian family and learns about life in the city. He is taught to speak Italian and to love the culture of Rome. Rollo also meets other boys who are living in Rome and they all help him to become a more integrated member of society.; 16mo; 170 pages . W. B. Conkey Company hardcover books
rif. 123903Chicago: W. B. Conkey Company. Very Good-. Hardcover. A heavily aged and soiled volume with an owner's sticker placed on the front flyleaf and a starting spine hinge in Very Good- condition ; Rollo on the Rhine is a children's adventure book about a mischievous dog named Rollo who travels with his human family on a riverboat on the Rhine. Along the way Rollo causes all sorts of mischief but he always gets caught and has to apologize. The Abbott family's humorous and fun adventures along the Rhine are a great way for children to learn about European culture and history.; 16mo; 170 pages . W. B. Conkey Company hardcover books
rif. 124035Akron Ohio: The Superior Printing Company. Very Good-. Hardcover. A soiled and edgeworn Very Good- edition with tanning to the pages ; Josephine is the story of a woman who defied expectations and changed the course of history. Born into a wealthy and powerful family in the mid-1800s Josephine was expected to marry well and provide her family with an heir. Instead she chose to study and become an expert on art and history. She used her knowledge to advocate for women's rights and change the way society viewed women. Josephine's story is inspiring and shows that anyone can make a difference in the world.; 8vo; 285 pages . The Superior Printing Company hardcover books
rif. 124022Akron Ohio: The Superior Printing Company. Very Good-. Hardcover. A soiled aged and edgeworn edition in Very Good- condition ; Queen Elizabeth's life is a story of both greatness and tragedy. Born in 1533 Elizabeth was the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. Due to Henry VIII's numerous marriages Elizabeth was raised in a number of different houses finally settling in the court of her half-brother King James I of England. After James I's death Elizabeth asserted her claim to the English throne and was successful in suppressing any challenges to her rule. Elizabeth's reign was marked by both successes and failures. Her efforts to strengthen the English navy and economy were largely successful but her conflicts with the Catholic Church and her relationship with her heir Edward VI were not. Elizabeth died in 1603 at the age of 88 after a long and successful reign.; 8vo; 223 pages . The Superior Printing Company hardcover books
rif. 123891Chicago: W. B. Conkey Company. Very Good-. Hardcover. A Very Good- edition that has soiling to the boards and page edges a starting spine hinge foxing throughout and a sticker with some marking to the front flyleaf ; Rollo in Naples is the story of a dog who is abandoned by his family in Naples Italy and must find a new home. He travels through the city meeting new people and experiencing the culture. Along the way he learns about himself and how to be a good friend.; 16mo; 167 pages . W. B. Conkey Company hardcover books
rif. 124030Akron Ohio: The Superior Printing Company. Very Good-. Hardcover. A Very Good- edition with tanned pages and soiling and other wear to the boards ; Cleopatra is one of history's most fascinating and enigmatic queens. This book tells the riveting story of her life and times from her childhood in Egypt to her fateful relationship with Julius Caesar. With vividly written prose Abbott brings to life the epic saga of a woman who defied expectation defied history and ultimately defied death.; 8vo; 272 pages . The Superior Printing Company hardcover books
rif. 124032Akron Ohio: The Superior Printing Company. Very Good-. Hardcover. A soiled and edgeworn Very Good- edition with tanned pages ; Alexander the Great is one of history's most influential and celebrated figures. This biography tells the story of Alexander's life from his early years as the son of Philip II of Macedon to his dramatic conquests of Persia and India.; 8vo; 239 pages . The Superior Printing Company hardcover books
