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1835rif. 30583Geneve a.k.a. Geneva: Abraham Cherbuliez 1835. Very Good. Geneva: Abraham Cherbuliez 1835. Second edition. 12mo 16 cm; 5 256pp; collated complete. Boards quarter bound in brown and tan marbled paper and dark brown leather with gilt stamping. All edges stained chartreuse; red ribbon. Board paper scuffed with some rubbing away of color. All margins shelf worn with bumping to corners and spine ends and some paper rubbed away at edges. Burn mark to center of spine and small leather loss to the back upper hinge. Brief pencil markings on the first few pages and number in pen on first pastedown. Foxing throughout with creased corner on page 177. Abraham Cherbuliez unknown
1835rif. 30583Geneve a.k.a. Geneva: Abraham Cherbuliez 1835. Very Good. Geneva: Abraham Cherbuliez 1835. Second edition. 12mo 16 cm; 5 256pp; collated complete. Boards quarter bound in brown and tan marbled paper and dark brown leather with gilt stamping. All edges stained chartreuse; red ribbon. Board paper scuffed with some rubbing away of color. All margins shelf worn with bumping to corners and spine ends and some paper rubbed away at edges. Burn mark to center of spine and small leather loss to the back upper hinge. Brief pencil markings on the first few pages and number in pen on first pastedown. Foxing throughout with creased corner on page 177. Abraham Cherbuliez unknown books
1911rif. 997B4London: A & C Black Limited 1911 . Cloth. Good. 8.5" by 6". Charles Folkard. Beautifully illustrated edition of the classic Brothers Grimm fairy-tale collection featuring eight colour plates by Charles Folkard. In publisher's original pictorial cloth binding.Illustrated with eight colour plates including the frontispiece. Collated complete. From prominent British illustrator Charles Folkard best known as the creator of "Teddy Tail".Four pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear.Charming edition of the iconic Brothers Grimm fairy-tale collection. The first collection of folktales from Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm appeared in the original German in 1812 their popularity growing as the stories spread across Europe in the same century. Known for Hansel and Gretel Cinderella Little Red Riding Hood all of which appear in this volume and many more the Grimm's stories have become embedded in the public consciousness aided by prolific adaptions from Disney. In publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Inscription from previous owner to front free endpaper. Externally reasonably smart with moderate bumping and rubbing resulting in minor loss of cloth most noticably to joints and the odd mark. Internally especially weak to the first twenty pages the frontispiece being very delicate. Binding more fragile closer to plates for example to page 16 and pages 145-160 otherwise generally firmly bound. Reasonably bright and clean with light spotting throughout heavier to first and last few pages. Good A & C Black Limited hardcover
1896rif. 852Helgoland Germany: Jacob Kruss-Aeuckens 1896. Boards. Very good . 3 7/8" x 5" oblong; 13 accordion-folded panels; red textured board with title to front; table of contents and illustration titles in German; red printing; 12 b&w photographic illustrations with title; scuffing and sunning to boards; very good plus. Only 2 located in WorldCat both in Germany. Accordion style souvenir album of the German island of Helgoland now Heligoland in the North Sea. Historically the archipelago were possessions of Denmark in 1807 they transferred to United Kingdom and in 1890 to Germany. Photo illustrations include town and country scenes including harbor scenes with ships and a man and woman in traditional dress. Rear pastedown advertisement for the Konigin Victoria Hotel Restaurant and Bazar. Jacob Kruss-Aeuckens unknown
1896rif. 852Helgoland Germany: Jacob Kruss-Aeuckens 1896. Boards. Very good . 3 7/8" x 5" oblong; 13 accordion-folded panels; red textured board with title to front; table of contents and illustration titles in German; red printing; 12 b&w photographic illustrations with title; scuffing and sunning to boards; very good plus. Only 2 located in WorldCat both in Germany. Accordion style souvenir album of the German island of Helgoland now Heligoland in the North Sea. Historically the archipelago were possessions of Denmark in 1807 they transferred to United Kingdom and in 1890 to Germany. Photo illustrations include town and country scenes including harbor scenes with ships and a man and woman in traditional dress. Rear pastedown advertisement for the Konigin Victoria Hotel Restaurant and Bazar. Jacob Kruss-Aeuckens unknown books
Paris, Robert Laffont, 1946. In-12, broché, bande annonce conservée, 181 pp. Premier tirage. Envoi autographe de l'auteur à l'écrivain Richard Borel.
rif. 916812003. Hard Cover with dustjacket. Very good. l Monographs on Dutch photographers This serie is published at the initiative of the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds Amsterdam. Text in Dutch and English. 267 p. unknown
1868rif. Alibris.0032000Warsaw Poland: S. Orgedbranda. 1868. Full leather. Fair. leather binding is worn spine is tattered small area of insect damage to front cover & 1st two pages owners' names on title page all pages are firmly bound. 668 p. . Three volumes bound together. Hebrew title: ס פ ר פ נ י י ה ו ש ע ע ל מ ס כ ת ו ת Author: י ע ק ב י ו ש ע Publisher: С . О р г е д ь б р а н д а [S. Orgedbranda] hardcover
1768rif. 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
1720rif. AQ17466London In the Savoy: Printed by Eliz. Nutt and R. Gosling.for Bernard Lintot.and W. Mears 1720. 4 138pp 10. Contemporary blind-ruled sheep. Rubbed and marked some scoring to boards lower joint split. Pastedowns sprung without fly-leaves minute worm-track to foot of text-block early inked ownership inscriptions of William Kinsey and Thomas Kinsey to FEP and head of title respectively. An early revised and extended edition of a vade mecum designed to assist parish administrators in their interpretation and enforcement of increasingly complex laws surrounding social reform including the Poor Law Act of 1601 and its numerous amendments the duties of constables and highway surveyors and the statutes relating to hackney coaches. First published in 1718 the work is commonly attributed to legal writer Giles Jacob bap. 1686 d. 1744 author of The Compleat Court-Keeper 1713 ESTC N4920. Second edition. 12mo. Printed by Eliz. Nutt, and R. Gosling...for Bernard Lintot...and W. Mears hardcover
1723rif. AQ32419London: Printed and Sold by A. Bettesworth 1723. In two volumes. xxvi 6 444 i.e. 344; 2 vii 13 334pp 22. With an engraved frontispiece to each volume and a further 12 engraved plates. Errata slip pasted to verso of A8 Vol. I. Contemporary panelled calf later rebacked contrasting red morocco lettering-pieces. Heavily rubbed some surface loss to boards corners exposed. Leaves lightly browned scattered spotting small marginal hole to leaf R8 of Vol. I very occasional early manuscript annotations. A 'poetical register' composed by Giles Jacob 1686-1744 best remembered for his legal writings. It catalogues a canon of English poets in alphabetical order. Jacob's poetry and plays were less well received and his work earned him a place in Pope's Dunciad as 'the blunderbuss of the law'. ESTC T137465. 8vo. Printed, and Sold by A. Bettesworth hardcover
1720rif. 205887London: E. Curll 1720. First Edition. Armorial bookplates Lloyd Vincent Almirall; internally clean externally worn especially on spines. Two vols. 8vos frontispiece 2 vii 15 334 22; frontispiece xxvi 4 328 9; contemporary panelled calf recased and rebacked; gilt dentelles marbled edges. Large paper copy with engraved portraits and index in each volume. E. Curll unknown
1768rif. 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
1826rif. 63685Cumberland MD: Printed for the Author by J.M. Buchanan 1826. In Defense of Captain Cresap First edition of this biography of Captain Cresap defending him against charges that he slaughtered Indians before the beginning of the Revolutionary War. In particular Cresap became infamous in the case of the Indian Logan and the murder of his defenseless family in 1774. "This biography of Cresap was written to refute Jefferson's account in Notes on Virginia.The immediate occasion for this now rare book written by the revolutionary officer later clergyman who had married Cresap's widow was the reopening of old sores by Joseph Doddridge in his then recently published Notes on the Settlement and Indian Wars of the Western Parts of Virginia & Pennsylvania from the Year 1763 until the Year 1783 Inclusive of 1824. The defense is complete and the biography is of absorbing interest" - Streeter. Each copy of this edition we have handled features largely identical contemporary manuscript annotations and corrections to the text suggesting that they are made in the hand of the author or publisher. The Streeter copy was bought by Sessler for $650 in 1968. 12mo. Contemporary three-quarter roan over marbled boards spine gilt. Covers worn top outer corner abraded. 19th-century ownership inscription on front pastedown 19th-century gift inscription and authorship attribution on titlepage 19th-century inscription on rear pastedown. Top outer edge of text block abraded affecting only page numbers of first ten leaves. A few contemporary manuscript annotations in the text. Minor age-toning and a few minor dampstains. A decent copy. In a half morocco box. HOWES J32 "b." SABIN 35488. STREETER SALE 1335. FIELD 769. THOMSON 640. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 24967. DAB IV p.538 Cresap. hardcover
1826rif. 316088Cumberland MD: Printed for the Author by J.M. Buchanan 1826. First edition. 8vo. Contemporary half roan and marbled boards spine lettered in gilt. Covers scuffed and worn small semicircular portion of rear cover fire damaged with loss wear extending into final 25 pages at top margin touching a few letters text foxed and faintly dampstained some contemporary pen annotations 1839 ownership inscription on front free endpaper. First edition. 8vo. First edition of this defense of colonial frontiersman Captain Cresap 1742-1775 whom Jefferson echoing others blamed for the murder of the family of the Mingo war chief James Logan during Lord Dunmore's War. Cresap has since been exonerated and the Virginian Daniel Greathouse is now blamed for the massacre of Logan's family. "This biography of Cresap was written to refute Jefferson's account in NOTES ON VIRGINIA.The immediate occasion for this now rare book written by the revolutionary officer later clergyman who had married Cresap's widow was the reopening of old sores by Joseph Doddridge in his then recently published NOTES ON THE SETTLEMENT AND INDIAN WARS OF THE WESTERN PARTS OF VIRGINIA & PENNSYLVANIA FROM THE YEAR 1763 UNTIL THE YEAR 1783 INCLUSIVE of 1824. The defense is complete and the biography is of absorbing interest" Streeter. Streeter Sale 1335; Howes J32; Graff 2185; Sabin 35488; Siebert Sale 379 Printed for the Author, by J.M. Buchanan unknown
1881rif. 53922Cumberland Maryland: Book and Job Printing Establishment of J. J. Miller 1881. Third edition 8vo pp. 120; original brown cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover; spine a bit sunned else near fine. The Frank C. Deering copy with his leather bookplate on the front free endpaper. Bookplate removed from front pastedown but with a sheet bearing John J. Jacob's signature tipped in over it; laid in is an autograph manuscript poem by Jacob with 6 quatrains titled "The Lover to his Mistress on Her Birthday" signed "J.J.J."; also laid in is a one-page A.L.s. from Jacob's grand-daughter regarding her books and a photograph of him. "This biography of Cresap was written to refute Jefferson's account in Notes on Virginia of Cresap's tendency to murder Indians especially in the famous case of the Indian Logan and his defenseless family. The immediate occasion for this . book written by the revolutionary officer late clergyman who had married Cresap's widow was the reopening of old sores by Doddridge in his then recently published Notes of 1824. The defense is complete and the biography is of absorbing interest" Streeter III 1335 for the first edition of 1826. Book and Job Printing Establishment of J. J. Miller unknown
1970rif. 82264Glen Ellyn: Cat’s Pajamas Press 1970. First edition. Fourteen leaves stapled along the top edge. Near fine. One of “about” 50 numbered copies. Duane Locke Victoria McCabe Derek Pell Martha JacobDarrell Kerr John Jacob James Bertolino and Terry Stokes contribute. [Glen Ellyn]: Cat’s Pajamas Press unknown books
1826rif. 316088Cumberland MD: Printed for the Author by J.M. Buchanan 1826. First edition. 8vo. Contemporary half roan and marbled boards spine lettered in gilt. Covers scuffed and worn small semicircular portion of rear cover fire damaged with loss wear extending into final 25 pages at top margin touching a few letters text foxed and faintly dampstained some contemporary pen annotations 1839 ownership inscription on front free endpaper. First edition. 8vo. First edition of this defense of colonial frontiersman Captain Cresap 1742-1775 whom Jefferson echoing others blamed for the murder of the family of the Mingo war chief James Logan during Lord Dunmore's War. Cresap has since been exonerated and the Virginian Daniel Greathouse is now blamed for the massacre of Logan's family. "This biography of Cresap was written to refute Jefferson's account in NOTES ON VIRGINIA.The immediate occasion for this now rare book written by the revolutionary officer later clergyman who had married Cresap's widow was the reopening of old sores by Joseph Doddridge in his then recently published NOTES ON THE SETTLEMENT AND INDIAN WARS OF THE WESTERN PARTS OF VIRGINIA & PENNSYLVANIA FROM THE YEAR 1763 UNTIL THE YEAR 1783 INCLUSIVE of 1824. The defense is complete and the biography is of absorbing interest" Streeter. Streeter Sale 1335; Howes J32; Graff 2185; Sabin 35488; Siebert Sale 379 Printed for the Author, by J.M. Buchanan unknown books
1881rif. 53922Cumberland Maryland: Book and Job Printing Establishment of J. J. Miller 1881. Third edition 8vo pp. 120; original brown cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover; spine a bit sunned else near fine. The Frank C. Deering copy with his leather bookplate on the front free endpaper. Bookplate removed from front pastedown but with a sheet bearing John J. Jacob's signature tipped in over it; laid in is an autograph manuscript poem by Jacob with 6 quatrains titled "The Lover to his Mistress on Her Birthday" signed "J.J.J."; also laid in is a one-page A.L.s. from Jacob's grand-daughter regarding her books and a photograph of him. "This biography of Cresap was written to refute Jefferson's account in Notes on Virginia of Cresap's tendency to murder Indians especially in the famous case of the Indian Logan and his defenseless family. The immediate occasion for this . book written by the revolutionary officer late clergyman who had married Cresap's widow was the reopening of old sores by Doddridge in his then recently published Notes of 1824. The defense is complete and the biography is of absorbing interest" Streeter III 1335 for the first edition of 1826. Book and Job Printing Establishment of J. J. Miller unknown books
1826rif. 63685Cumberland MD: Printed for the Author by J.M. Buchanan 1826. In Defense of Captain Cresap First edition of this biography of Captain Cresap defending him against charges that he slaughtered Indians before the beginning of the Revolutionary War. In particular Cresap became infamous in the case of the Indian Logan and the murder of his defenseless family in 1774. "This biography of Cresap was written to refute Jefferson's account in Notes on Virginia.The immediate occasion for this now rare book written by the revolutionary officer later clergyman who had married Cresap's widow was the reopening of old sores by Joseph Doddridge in his then recently published Notes on the Settlement and Indian Wars of the Western Parts of Virginia & Pennsylvania from the Year 1763 until the Year 1783 Inclusive of 1824. The defense is complete and the biography is of absorbing interest" - Streeter. Each copy of this edition we have handled features largely identical contemporary manuscript annotations and corrections to the text suggesting that they are made in the hand of the author or publisher. The Streeter copy was bought by Sessler for $650 in 1968. 12mo. Contemporary three-quarter roan over marbled boards spine gilt. Covers worn top outer corner abraded. 19th-century ownership inscription on front pastedown 19th-century gift inscription and authorship attribution on titlepage 19th-century inscription on rear pastedown. Top outer edge of text block abraded affecting only page numbers of first ten leaves. A few contemporary manuscript annotations in the text. Minor age-toning and a few minor dampstains. A decent copy. In a half morocco box. HOWES J32 "b." SABIN 35488. STREETER SALE 1335. FIELD 769. THOMSON 640. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 24967. DAB IV p.538 Cresap. hardcover books
1944rif. 275135Naples Italy: British Military Authorities 1944. Pamphlet. 8p. staplebound pamphlet paper toned some faint fold creases. First three pages are a synopsis of the play by Naomi Jacob the British lesbian author who had long lived in Italy but returned to aid the Allied war effort. Real Teatro di San Carlo: Season 1944-1945 under the direction of the British Military Authorities Naples. British Military Authorities unknown
1944rif. 275135Naples Italy: British Military Authorities 1944. Pamphlet. 8p. staplebound pamphlet paper toned some faint fold creases. First three pages are a synopsis of the play by Naomi Jacob the British lesbian author who had long lived in Italy but returned to aid the Allied war effort. Real Teatro di San Carlo: Season 1944-1945 under the direction of the British Military Authorities Naples. British Military Authorities unknown books
rif. 201216731Paris, Stock, 1987 ; in-8, 233 pp., br.
rif. 200613280Monte Carlo, Regain, 1949 ; in-8, 635 pp., br. Non coupé.
1900rif. 5525Berlin: Fischer und Franke 1900. First edition. 8vo 20x17 cm unpaginated. Publisher's blue illustrated cloth beveled edges silver and orange decorated endpapers by Franz Hein. Full page and vignette black and white illustrations throughout by Franz Hein Hugo L. Braune Arpad Schmidhammer and Max Bernuth. Five full color illustrations representing each story in the collection are found at the rear along with publisher's advertisements for the series. Some rubbing and staining to fore edges of boards marginal moisture stain to rear endpaper and last advertisement leaf else clean internally and very good. From the publisher's Fountain of Youth series being the second volume of fairy tales and fourth volume overall. Stories include Der Reisekamerad by Andersen Die Gänsemagd by the Brothers Grimm Rübezahl and Stumme Liebe by Musäus and Zwei Märchen in Bildern by Max Bernuth. A beautiful and uncommon publication from the first years of the Jugendstil movement. . Fischer und Franke unknown