1880Best.-Nr. 15524Paris: Privately Printed Sybille Hess 1880. Second edition. Hardcover. g. Scarce Only two libraries worldwide own this book according to OCLC. 8vo. 182 1 pp. Half maroon leather over marbled paper covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Raised bands. Modern endpapers. Inscribed by Sybille Hess post mortem to original free front endpaper. Gravure frontispiece. Lithographic illustrated throughout. Fold-out map. Rare second edition of of this scientific work by the "father of modern socialist Zionism" Moses Hess 1812-1875. A philosophic work on science the cosmos and mankind. It draws upon scientific and philosophical ideas with influence from Hegel and Feuerbach. Hess had worked in this field most of his life and it was posthumously published by his devoted wife in 1877 as a pious monument to his memory. He is best known as the Zionist author of "Rome and Jerusalem." Head of spine corners worn. Minor scuffing and rubbing to boards. In German. In overall good condition. Privately Printed [Sybille Hess] hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 8128N.P.: N.P. 1982. Very good. 11” x 8½”. Thin card wrappers/loose leaves three-hold and punched printed rectos only. pp. 61. Very good: front wrap with staining from paperclip otherwise bright and clean throughout. This is a screenplay for an African American soap opera which never aired Success. The title page mentions that “this story is created by the author from a true life experience with some fictional creativity.” The author's name is too common to successfully research and we'll note that IMDB has a listing for a Tom Moses who was a Black actor who appeared on McCloud and Columbo in the early 1970s. This script predates television's first Black soap opera Generations which premiered March 27 1989 and ran through January 1991. The plot of this pilot begins with flashbacks initially in Washington D.C. where we meet Angela Saunders a ten year old girl who overheard her parents arguing and learned that her father was not her biological father. The next scene took place in 1974 and Angela asked her mother about her birth father wanting to know who he was and it was revealed that he was “in Hollywood” and that his name was Tom Phillips. The action then cuts to 1983 with Tom reading a letter from Angela asking if he was her real father and we learn that Tom was an actor and also ran a performing arts school. Later Angela goes to California to meet Tom and stay with his family; on arrival she asks if her mother could visit as well. Tom's wife agrees setting up one of the story's major conflicts. Interspersed throughout is standard soap opera fare including sexual trysts a philandering producer familial misunderstandings searing hatreds blackmail and other juicy bits. OCLC locates no copies. N.P. unknown books
1555Best.-Nr. 48871Köln Cologne: Maternus Cholinus and Jakob Soter 1555. First Latin diglot edition. Hardcover. Good. Small octavo. A-L16 = 88 leaves signed on each side e.g. A8 verso is signed A16; H9 missigned G9. 16 157 2 epigram 1 blankpp. Pagination and register run from right to left. Modern quarter sheep over marbled boards gauffered edges endleaves renewed. Library stamps and old owner entries at title; early marginal annotation and underlinings in the "Epistola"; text toned with dampstain affecting bottom quarter of text throughout not impairing legibility; marginal tear at C7. A good complete copy with ample margins. Third edition per Steinschneider and the first Latin diglot version of this anonymous introductory work. First published at Venice in 1544 it is notable that a Latin translation appears so soon after a sixteenth-century editio princeps of a Hebrew work. It comprises a commentary on and explanation of difficult terms in Maimonides' Moreh Nevukhim Guide for the Perplexed with an elucidation of terminology in the translations of Arabic to Hebrew as well as the jargon of medieval philosophical literature in general. As the editor of the present edition notes at the title "Ru'ah Hen has been attributed to the renowned translator R. Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon c. 1120-c. 1190 and to R. Jacob ben Abba Mari ben Samson Anatoli 13th century also a translator of note. Ibn Tibbon known as the 'father of translators' was born in Granada Spain but relocated to Lunel in Provence France to escape the persecution of the Jews in the former location. He supported himself as a physician coming into contact with many sages one of whom R. Meshullam ben Jacob requested that ibn tibbon translate R. Bahya ibn Paquda's Hovot ha-Levavot into Hebrew. In addition to translating that work from Arabic ibn Tibbon also translated several other books into Hebrew among them R. Judah Halevi's Kuzari R. Saadiah Gaon's Emunot ve-De'ot and R. Solomon ibn Gabirol's Middot ha-Nefesh and Mivhar Peninim" Heller. While this is the fourth known printing of the work it is the first to include vowel points and the translation of the formerly Jewish convert to Christianity Johann Isaac Levita 1515-1577 a descendant of Elias Levita the most famous in his time of those Jews who sought scholarly contact with Christians and taught Christians Hebrew. As an added bonus the present edition includes Maimonides' De astrologia epistola elegans. The celebrated English jurist and Hebrew scholar John Selden is known to have had a copy of Ruah ha-Hen in his library Oxford Library note. Adams J-403. Cf. Heller The Sixteenth Century Hebrew Book 815 noting the present ed. Steinschneider 1 col. 639; no. 4038. VD 16 I1. Hebrew title: רוח החן. Maternus Cholinus and Jakob Soter hardcover books
Best.-Nr. SAV153Hardcover. Good. Italy possibly Piedmont 17th century. 181 leaves 96 x 140mm. A pocket-sized copybook written in a uniform italic script in brown ink recto only on laid paper. Each page with double ruled border framing Latin verse lines from De rebus gestis Alexandri Magni The Life and Exploits of Alexander the Great by Quintus Curtius Rufus with Italian translation and proverbial sayings in Italian on miscellaneous subjects signed intermittently Il Zangrandi or Gioseppe Zangrandi. Oblong contemporary sheep over pasteboard; some slight worming mostly at beginning and end some minor chips on spine and back cover otherwise good. Ownership signature of Moses Baruch Carvaglio on the last leaf in Italian Io Moise filgiolo sic di Jacob di Josef Baruch Carvaglio under an anecdotal note in his hand about an incident of extreme cold which froze over the lagoon and parts of the Venetian canal in 1708. An interesting 17th-century calligraphic copybook of excerpts from the great Roman history of Alexander the Great and with popular sayings written in Italian and Latin once owned by important Venetian Jewish coral merchant Moses Baruch Carvaglio. The regal Alexandrian history "De rebus gestis Alexandri Magni" by Roman historian Quintus Curtius Rufus was much appreciated in Italy during the early modern period. Adaptations for Alexander romances and an incunable tradition was in place from at least the 1470s. The name Il Zangrandi seemingly the writer of this collected verse could be Virgilio Giangrandi 1589-1630 a Piemontese typographer active in Savigliano at the turn of the seventeenth century. References to this printer under the name Il Zangrandi and working with works in Latin verse do exist if only fragmentary. We do know that along with his brother Giovanni Virgilio Giangrandi moved from Milan to Asti in 1588 and their printing company remained in operation until at least 1691. The Zangrandi press was also known to produce religious and biographical works. It is possible Virgilio or an apprentice was in part responsible for creating this eclectic copybook which celebrates portions of the Roman Alexandrian epic and intersperses sayings from his native Italian. An interesting layer to the history of this manuscript is the eighteenth century ownership inscription of Moses Baruch Carvaglio a successful merchant and Jewish man based in Venice. In the 1730s along with his father and brother Moses operated a well-known trade business in coral beads. The Carvaglio family would have been tied to profitable Venetian mercantilism for most of the eighteenth century. The scribal beginnings of this copybook remain mysterious nevertheless two plausible figures from early modern Italy contributed to its creation and care. hardcover books
1904Best.-Nr. 266665New York: Moses King 1904. First. paperback. good. 325 photo Illus. 72pp. Folio original printed wrappers spine ends worn small area of wear to middle of spine wrappers lightly soiled corners of wrappers chipped front wrapper lightly dampstained near edges. New York: Moses King 1904. First Edition Views include multi-story commercial buildings bridges banks municipal buildings private residences schools churches and hospitals. Internally a very good copy with bright illustrations. Moses King unknown books
1679Best.-Nr. 42560London: Peter Parker 1679. 4to. 7 1/2 x 6 inches. Reissue of the 1676 first edition with cancel title. xvi 204 4 pp. Illustrated with 4 engraved plates. Bound with: Gabriel PLATTES c.1600-1644. A Discovery of Subterranean Treasure: viz. Of all manner of Mines and Minerals at end. London: Peter Parker 1679. iv 24 pp. Period quarter calf and marbled paper boards An important early English treatise on forestry and designed woodland here in the 1679 issue with the rare addition of Plattes's tract on mines and minerals. Cook was gardener to the Earl of Essex at Cassiobury Park near Watford and laid out many woodland walks and avenues including reputedly an avenue of 296 lime trees. Cook wrote from practical experience as gardener to Arthur Capell first Earl of Essex at Cassiobury Park near Watford one of the notable Restoration landscapes outside London. His treatise treats trees both as productive estate assets and as elements of design giving directions for raising transplanting pruning grafting and ordering forest and fruit trees as well as for planting. The engraved plates and accompanying rules for measuring land and timber show the book's practical range joining arboriculture surveying estate management and landscape design. The work reflects a moment when English country-house landscapes were increasingly shaped through ordered planting axial walks avenues and managed woodland. Cook's association with Cassiobury gives the book particular interest: he is traditionally credited with laying out woodland walks and avenues there including a celebrated avenue of lime trees. His manual preserves the working knowledge behind such improvements before the broader eighteenth-century shift toward more naturalistic landscape gardening. The appended Plattes tract broadens the volume from woodland and estate improvement to the useful exploitation of natural resources. A Discovery of Subterranean Treasure gives practical directions for locating mines and minerals and for melting refining and assaying ores from gold to coal. Plattes an experimental writer on agriculture and practical science wrote for readers interested in applicable knowledge rather than scholastic theory. Bound with Cook's forestry manual the two works form a compact volume on improvement above and below ground: the ordering of trees woods and avenues followed by the discovery and testing of mineral wealth. Fussell pp.39-40; Henrey 39; Kress 1483; Wing C6033; Hoover 232. Peter Parker unknown books
1771Best.-Nr. 39601Boston: Printed and Sold by Kneeland and Adams next to the Treasurer's Office in Milk-Street 1771. 24pp but lacking the half title. Death's Head ornamentation on title page. Disbound and uniformly toned. Closed tear to title leaf no loss repaired; evidence of repair at outer margin. Inner margin of title page and page 24 with old wrapper remnants. Good. Shaw bludgeoned Edward East to death while both were inmates of the Springfield prison. This is the second of three editions of this title all issuing in 1771; AAS does not own our edition. Reverend Baldwin scolds Mr. Shaw "for the sin of intemperance. Have you not hereby dishonoured God and abused his bounty and goodness; wronged your own soul and body; wasted your substance; brought your self and family to poverty and distress. . . You are verily guilty of the crying sin of MURDER." Evans 11974. ESTC W1508.5- Yale NYHS Boston Public Williams Peabody-Essex. Not in McDade or Cohen. Printed and Sold by Kneeland and Adams, next to the Treasurer's Office in Milk-Street unknown books
Best.-Nr. X03OS-00049Z. Tehinka. Collectible - Acceptable. New York: Z. Tehinka 1943. Reprint of 1680 edition. Volume 1. Folio. 28pp. Maps. Fair book. Spine cover missing. Board covers considerably chipped though without text loss. Front board detached. Preface through p. 26 detached. Poland maps history travel Inquire if you need further information. Z. Tehinka unknown books
Best.-Nr. X03OS-00050Z. Tehinka. Collectible - Acceptable. New York: Z. Tehinka 1943. Reprint of 1680 edition. Volume 1. Folio. 28pp. Maps. Fair book. Bottom 6" of both boards dampstained. Poland maps history travel Inquire if you need further information. Z. Tehinka hardcover books
1834Best.-Nr. 436962Connecticut New York Ohio 1834. Very Good. A small archive consisting of one two-page narrative letter and 10 loose sheets about 20 holograph pages of miscellaneous writings by Moses Kimball including one page with pen and ink illustrations. Modest toning and a few tiny tears three manuscript sheets are partially split at the folds including one with a neat Japanese paper tape repair about very good overall. Born in Connecticut in 1741 Moses Kimball served in the Revolutionary War as a soldier under Brigadier General Samuel McClellan 1781-82. A devout Universalist he taught navigation and civil engineering and was a prosperous land owner in Norwich Connecticut. The letter and miscellaneous writings of poetry and short sermons retained here date from the last two years of his life when he left Connecticut to live with a grandson in Norwalk Ohio. In the letter written to a friend in Connecticut Kimball describes in detail his 15-day journey undertaken in May 1835 from Poquetanuck to Norwalk: He left via sloop for Albany then traveled along the Erie Canal and completed the last leg of the trip by steamer on Lake Erie. In his verse and short sermons he lays out his strong Universalist beliefs and philosophy of life. He died happy at the age of 93 in December 1835 just a few weeks after his arrival in Norwalk. A few extracts from the letter together with a sample of his verse follows: 1. ALS. 2pp. Small quarto. Norwalk October 14th 1835. Addressed to John Harkness at Preston Connecticut: "My good friend having an opportunity to give you some account of my journey to this place I gladly embrace it. It is a beautiful country suitable for farming a rich soil . We have an academy of learning for young gentlemen with 108 scholars and another for young ladies with 98 female scholars . We left Poquetanuck the 11 day of May & arrived at my Grandson Moses Kimball's the 25 of May. We went in a sloop . to Albany there I saw great improvements . They have made an Island in the river half a mile long . forming a basin between that & the main land with draw bridges at each end. There we left the sloop and entered on board a canal boat and past on our way drawn by horses day and night. Thus we past on up to Little Falls . and so on to Fort Stanwix . there at the height of land we left the Mohawk River and past a flat level country for 60 or 70 miles without a lock. The country all low and intersected with drowned land . and all along this wet country where the land rose a little . there would be some inhabitants settled with a bridge or two over the canal . when we got to Lake Erie at Buffalo we left the canal boat and got into a steam boat the largest vessel that I ever saw . this boat that cost thirty-five thousand dollars my grandson Moses owns one-tenth part . When we came over the lake . there were seven hundred passengers in her . So you see it is no wonder she earns money . ." 2. Miscellaneous Verses and Short Sermons 1834-35: 10 octavo sheets/about 20 holograph pages including one page with pen and ink illustrations. The following is quoted from a poem written by Kimball on his ninety-third birthday "May 17 A.D. 1834": This day my years are Ninety-three The time is past & gone from me Brought into being here to stay To wait for time to pass away . And when my earthly body dies To God my spirit will arise And live with him and there remain Till Souls to bodies join again . A compelling and historically important small archive of writings that also serve as a testament to Kimball's remarkable physical health and mental acuity. unknown books
1824Best.-Nr. 55402London: Henry Moses 1824. First edition. Hardcover. Very good to fine condition. Oblong Octavo. 20 etchings plus original illustrated wrappers. Bound in Royal blue leather retaining original wraps; gilt lettering and ruling on leather label mounted to spine. Cream endpapers. Tan wrappers with etching and brown lettering on front back cover plain. Our collection of "Sketches of Shipping" on the River Thames appears to be the earliest state published by Henry Moses with front wrappers dated Dec. 1 1824 and all twenty etchings dated in plates Oct. 1 1824. An 1826 advertisement in the Quarterly Review indicated that six parts of the Sketches with five engravings each had been published up to that time and announces the publication of two additional issues. The front wrapper stating publication date as Dec. 1 1824 as in our copy appears to have been used in various editions including some containing eleven plates dated March 1 1825 in plates or lettered in ink "Nos. 5 & 6" corresponding to the 1826 Quarterly Review advertisement. The irregularities and/or contradictions in tracing the publication of these Moses etchings suggest that due to the constrictions of the medium these popular etchings were published in limited numbers in variant editions as identified by the dates in these plates to satisfy the public demand of the time. In our copy all 20 etchings are dated in plates Oct. 1 1824 with two of the plates containing additional dates etched into the plates as indicated below: 1. Sailing Match Aug. 16 1824 2. An Indianian in Barnard's Yard Deptford 3. Trafalgar 120 G 125 4. Midway 5. Midway Aug. 9 1824 6. Blackwall. Dutches of M. 7. Blackwall Basin 8. Trafalgar P - 120 Guns 9. Sheerness Yard from a Window of the Fountain Inn 10. Sheerness 11. Sheerness Yard from a window of the Fountain Inn variant motif 12. Trafalgar 120 Guns 13. Trafalgar in the Basin Sheerness 14. Hulks at Sheerness 15. Blackwall 16. Untitled 17. City Canal 18. Basin at Blackwall 19. Blackwall - Wellington Indiaman 20. Surat Castle All etchings but plate 12 with H. Moses printed to plate. Plate twelve with Henry Moses. Printed by Chatfield and Coleman. Inked name and date on front free endpaper. "12/." inked to upper foredge corner of cover; this with a few small damp stains on front and back covers. OCLC lists an 1837 copy with 57 plates incl. 2 engraved title pages published in London by Ackermann a 1824 copy with nineteen plates 1825 and 1837 copies with thirty plates the latter published by Ackermann an 1837 copy titled "The Marine Sketch Book" with twenty-eight plates an 1826 copy with nine plates titled Sketches of Shipping: View in Portsmouth Harbour" and an 1827 copy with thirty plates titled "Shipping at Portsmouth and Spithead" publisher W. B. Cooke. Henry Moses hardcover books
1854Best.-Nr. List1708Philadelphia 1854. Ninth plate ambrotypes in a union case measuring 2 ½ x 2 ⅛ inches visible in larger case. With the identification of Isaac Rehn with his imprint and "Patented July 4 & 11 1854" imprinted on the case. A fine pair. A striking pair of ambrotypes of Mary and Moses Pennock who were members of the Kennett Square Underground Railroad network as well as active members of the Kennett Square abolitionist and Quaker community. Moses was one of the founders of the Longwood Progressive Meeting. In R.C. Smedley's History of the Underground Railroad in Chester and Neighboring Counties of Pennsylvania Lancaster Office of the Journal 1883 the Pennocks are mentioned on p. 301 as working as part of the network surrounding Isaac and Thamazine Meredity. Their son Samuel who would go on to secure important agricultural patents is also mentioned twice. The images are notable from a photographic history perspective as well as being early examples of the ambrotype process that had been patented in part by fellow Quaker and spiritualist Isaac Rehn. Rehn held a partial patent on ambrotypes along with James Ambrose Cutting of Boston and became unpopular among other photographers for his efforts to extend his patent. He later practiced spiritual photography and was a Professor of Chemistry at Pennsylvania Medical University in Philadelphia. Rehn was also involved in radical politics as a founder and leader of the Philadelphia section of the International Workingmen's Association which was later disenfranchised by Karl Marx along with several other American sections. Examples of Rehn's work are held at the National Gallery of Art the Library Company of Philadelphia and Yale's Sterling Memorial Library. Overall a very fine and significant pair of images. unknown books
1920Best.-Nr. 52940Moscow/Odessa: Omanut 1920. First edition. Softcover. g- to g. Oblong octavo. Unpaginated 8 double-sided leaves front and back wrappers printed on both sides. Stiff tan paper wrappers with beautiful chromolithographic illustrations in hues of green blue black and brown. Issued by the pioneering Hebrew-language published house Omanut. This lavishly illustrated work is a version of the Aesop's fable often known as "The Miller His Son and the Donkey" in a version said to have been adapted by Leo Tolstoy with Hebrew translation attributed to the acclaimed Hebrew-language writer and essayist Ahad Ha-Am Asher Zvi Ginsberg 1856-1957 although the work is completely uncredited. Here the work's title has been humorously translated into Hebrew as "To Please Everyone". The text is accompanied throughout by 8 large and vibrant chromolithographic images including the front and back wrappers. The illustrations are credited collectively to "Havurat Tsayarim" The Group of Painters a group of four young artists from the Odessa Art Academy who illustrated works for Omanut during the period comprised of Yakov Apter 1899-1941 Moses Mutselmakher 1900-1961 Aaron Keravatsov 1896-1942 and Efim Khiger 1899-1955. This work is part of the Gamliel Library series of beautiful picture books for children introduced by Omanut co-founder Shoshana Zlatopolsky Persitz and named after her son Gamliel. Persitz took inspiration from the rich tradition of Russian children's literature lavishly illustrated in chromolithographs produced by the likes of Ivan Bilibin and the publishing house of Iosif Knebel to create some of the earliest examples of comparable works in Hebrew. No publication date is given but the fact that this is one of a smaller number of earlier titles issued before the move of the publisher Omanut to Frankfurt points to the fact it could not have been published after 1921. Text throughout in Hebrew. Wrappers with some foxing and staining. Some rubbing and creasing to extremities. Back cover lightly soiled with a light vertical crease in the center. The binding has been re-cased with a sting-binding along the spine to secure the book block. Water staining and light foxing to pages throughout predominantly in the margins. Images still vibrant. Wrappers in good- interior in good condition overall. Quite scarce. Hebrew title: ‌לצ×ת ידי הכל Author/contributors: חבורת-×¦×™×¨×™× ×פטר מוצלמכר קרבצוב חגר ×יזופוס לב טולסטוי ×חד ×”×¢× Publication: מוסקבה-×ודיסה הוצ×ת ××ž× ×•×ª Series title: ספריה גמלי×ל Alternate transliteration: La'tset Yede Ha'kol. Omanut unknown books
1828Best.-Nr. 42606Boston: Pendleton's Lithography 1828. Uncoloured lithograph. Framed size: 19 1/4 x 15 5/8 inches. An early American marine lithograph depicting the steam packet Chancellor Livingston entering Newport Harbor issued at the outset of steam navigation on the New England coast. Published in Boston by Pendleton's Lithography after a design by Moses Swett this print presents the Chancellor Livingston under way as it enters Newport Harbor with passengers visible along the decks and flags flying from the rigging. The composition combines a detailed vessel portrait with a wider harbour view situating the steamer within a recognizable coastal setting and emphasizing both its scale and activity. The vessel itself held a prominent place in early American steam navigation. Originally associated with Robert Fulton's Hudson River operations the Chancellor Livingston was rebuilt in 1827 for service between New York and Providence. The lithograph records this later phase of its career when coastal steam travel was expanding rapidly and such vessels were becoming a familiar presence along the northeastern seaboard. The printed text beneath the image reinforces the promotional aspect of the print listing the vessel's dimensions horsepower boilers and fittings as well as its passenger capacity and accommodations. This combination of technical specification and visual representation places the image at the intersection of ship portraiture and commercial advertisement reflecting the contemporary interest in steam technology and its practical advantages. As a product of Pendleton's Lithography the print also belongs to the earliest phase of lithographic production in the United States. Established in Boston in the 1820s the firm was among the first to adopt the medium on a sustained basis and works such as this illustrate both the technical possibilities of lithography and its application to subjects of current interest. The present impression reflects that early moment when lithography was emerging as a flexible and effective means of producing images of modern life and technology. Pendleton's Lithography unknown books
1920Best.-Nr. 52932Moscow/Odessa: Omanut 1920. First edition. Softcover. g- to vg. Large quarto. Unpaginated 8 double-sided leaves front and back wrappers printed on both sides. Stiff tan paper wrappers with beautiful chromolithographic illustrations in hues of green blue red and gold. Issued by the pioneering Hebrew-language published house Omanut. This lavishly illustrated work contains the Hanukkah poem "For the Dreidel" written by acclaimed Hebrew-language poet Zalman Shneour 1887-1959 although the author is uncredited here. The text is accompanied throughout by 8 large and vibrant chromolithographic images including the front and back wrappers many with over-painting in lustrous metallic hues of silver and gold. Whenever the Dreidel appears it is in silver. The illustrations are credited collectively to "Havurat Tsayarim" The Group of Painters a group of four young artists from the Odessa Art Academy who illustrated works for Omanut during the period comprised of Yakov Apter 1899-1941 Moses Mutselmakher 1900-1961 Aaron Keravatsov 1896-1942 and Efim Khiger 1899-1955. This work is part of the Gamliel Library series of beautiful picture books for children introduced by Omanut co-founder Shoshana Zlatopolsky Persitz and named after her son Gamliel. Persitz took inspiration from the rich tradition of Russian children's literature lavishly illustrated in chromolithographs produced by the likes of Ivan Bilibin and the publishing house of Iosif Knebel to create some of the earliest examples of comparable works in Hebrew. No publication date is given but the fact that this is one of a smaller number of earlier titles issued before the move of the publisher Omanut to Frankfurt points to the fact it could not have been published after 1921. Text throughout in Hebrew. Front wrapper foxed and lightly water-stained with some additional minor staining to the back wrappers. Light rubbing chipping and/or creasing to extremities. Leaves disbound. Interior images and text overall still quite clean and vibrant with a few minor to light stains and/or smudges along the bottom margins of a few leaves. Ex-library ink stamps at the bottom of the first and last text pages as well as the back wrapper. Wrappers in good- interior in very good condition overall. Hebrew title: לסביבון Author/contributors: חבורת-×¦×™×¨×™× ×פטר מוצלמכר קרבצוב חגר זלמן ×©× ×™×ור Publication: מוסקבה-×ודיסה הוצ×ת ××ž× ×•×ª Series title: ספריה גמלי×ל Alternate transliteration: L'Sevivon This first edition is quite scarce with OCLC listing only two holdings worldwide. A slightly more common second edition of the work was published in 1922 after Omanut had moved to Frankfurt. Bibliographic reference: Ayala Gordon Hebrew Illustrations 2005 p.89-116. Omanut unknown books
1741Best.-Nr. 560322Gloucester Massachusetts 1741. Softcover. Very Good. Manuscript. 24mo. Three quarter leaves pinned inside two outer full leaves measuring about 3 ½" x 6". One quarter leaf is loose laid-in. The full front cover leaf titled in manuscript is trimmed above the title and has one horizontal cut below the title very good. The three-quarter leaves list the names of students 75 boys and 13 girls in ink on the rectos and versos. Born in Gloucester Massachusetts in 1716 Moses Parsons graduated from Harvard in 1736 and while pursuing his theological studies he taught a private school in his native town as noted in the catalogue from 1741-44. In 1744 he accepted a call to Byfield Parish where he was distinguished as a preacher until his death in 1783 having seen the Church through the Great Awakening led by George Whitefield and through the Revolutionary War. At his school Parsons taught a veritable Who's Who of early Gloucester residents - individual and family names such as Winthrop Sargent whose son was a prominent patriot and Governor of the Mississippi Territory William Ellery Nathaniel Haraden whose son served as the Sailing Master of the U.S.S. Constitution and many others. In addition to his pastoral responsibilities at Byfield Parsons was instrumental in founding Governor Dummer Academy now known as The Governor's Academy. During his tenure at his private school Parson's calculates that he taught 75 boys and 28 girls quite a few of whom would go on to be immortalized by Gloucester historians John Babson and James Pringle. An important early manuscript documenting an overlooked piece of Gloucester's local history. Reference: William Cutter. Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the State of Massachusetts. unknown books
1781Best.-Nr. 5187Derby CT 1781-1841. Hardcover. Tan calf. Very good. 85 numbered pages. 41 x 16.5 cm. A detailed record of work barter and neighborhood exchange in Revolutionary-era Derby Connecticut. Containing accounts dating as early as 1781 the account book of Moses Hotchkiss 1757-1799 documents the varied labor and practical skills that sustained a community situated at the confluence of the Housatonic and Naugatuck Rivers. Hotchkiss's entries record carpentry blacksmithing framing shaving shingles butchering shoveling dung picking corn branding whips splitting rails repairing rakes and plows smoking meat and working at cider mills and sawmills. A particularly notable entry records his framing of a "smallpox house" for Edward Craft in 1781. In exchange for his labor he received firewood rye a walnut tree barrels of cider cheese beef sheep lamb leather potatoes turnips flax and other goods. Many receipts bear the signatures of both Hotchkiss and the person with whom he dealt: others record payments made on a neighbor's behalf. Together these transactions offer a closely observed picture of an economy sustained by skilled labor agricultural produce and reciprocal obligations. Hotchkiss had served in the Revolutionary War; a record associated with the July 1779 alarm documents his return of horses used in the Holbrook Company of Militia. The account book also connects him with neighbors identified as Revolutionary War participants including Joseph Loveland Jeremiah "Jere" Burrell Samuel Hall John Coe Capt. Enos Smith Capt. Reuben Tucker and Benjamin Moulthrop the last also a veteran of the French and Indian War. Another associate John Humphreys was the brother of diplomat David Humphreys. The volume later belonged to Clifford L. French 1876-1942 of Derby whose signature appears within. French was the son of Civil War pensioner Samuel Hotchkiss French 1840-1885 and the grandson of Phoebe Hotchkiss French 1814-1886 suggesting that the book descended through the family. The final two pages of entries following the leaf bearing Clifford's signature are in a different hand and date from August 1838 to January 1841. These later accounts chiefly concern farm foodstuffs extending the volume's record of local exchange into the nineteenth century. Unidentified ex-libris bookplate affixed to verso of front cover. Covers heavily rubbed with some loss to spine. hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 6460Portland ca 1832. Engraving 13.5” x 14.5” sheet size. Previously unrecorded map by Moses Greenleaf of Washington County Maine intended for a never-realized second volume of his Survey of the State of Maine. The map is stripped to its essentials showing Washington County and its state-representative districts in outline presumably based on reapportionment following the Census of 1830. The voting population for each town and unincorporated “plantation” is given though only in the northern part of the county at left are their boundaries delineated. Given the map’s purely political purpose Greenleaf has entirely eschewed the topographical detail of his earlier maps of the state. The map’s unfinished appearance suggests it might be an early proof particularly when it is compared with a companion map of York County also produced by Greenleaf at the time and presently known in a single example discussed below. Moses Greenleaf Greenleaf was a towering figure in the mapping of the state of Maine devoting his life to ever-improved mapping of the region. The pinnacle of his career came in 1829 when he published his new and substantially updated wall map of Maine. This was complemented by a text volume A Survey of the State of Maine and accompanying atlas the first atlas of the state and the third of any state of the Union. The map is a remarkable achievement widely heralded but the Survey of the State of Maine is also of the first importance a wide-ranging summation of the present state of Maine particularly valuable for commercial and economic data. Greenleaf however ever the perfectionist acknowledged the deficiencies of the work and announced his intention of issuing a second volume: “…it was intended to devote some portion of the work to a distinct consideration of the absolute and relative wealth of the State and its different component parts – value and importance of its lands – facilities for – kinds extent and expediency of internal improvements and its general resources; but the time when the publication must be completed was limited and an important part of the materials for these subjects could not be obtained until after this time. It was thought better therefore to omit their introduction altogether for the present; in the hope that circumstances will permit at a future time a more extended notice of them and under greater advantages for useful results than was possible at present.” Preface to A Survey of the State of Maine The largest single handicap to Greenleaf’s career was simply that the market for high-quality maps of Maine was too small for his projects to be commercially viable. Consider for example the 1829 wall map text volume and atlas which had cost him six years of his time and more than $12000 out of pocket for surveys engraving printing &c. He had 565 sets printed and offered by advance subscription at $16 a set but by early 1830 barely 100 of these had been sold. At this point though only after much debate the State rescued him by stepping in and purchased 400 sets at the full subscription price. Seemingly undeterred by the parlous financial prospects of the project and by the number of sets still in circulation Greenleaf continued to work on improving his materials. In 1832 he republished the wall-map of Maine but very few examples of that printing can be traced. In parallel our map and the companion map of York County mentioned earlier are the only known evidence that Greenleaf started work on his projected second volume of the Survey of the State of Maine Although there might be reference amongst the papers in the Moses Greenleaf archive in the Maine State Archives. Unfortunately the volume was never completed – and it may not even have advanced very far – possibly due to Greenleaf’s financial struggles but certainly ending with Greenleaf’s death on March 20 1834 aged fifty-six. Rarity and references We are aware of an example recently acquired by the Osher Map Library but the map is absolutely unrecorded in the general bibliographic literature the specialized biographical and bibliographical literature on Greenleaf and the mapping of Maine and the standard databases for the antiquarian market. It must be noted however that we acquired five examples in a large lot of Greenleaf material purchased by a third party at a Vermont auction in 2020. Not in OCLC; Phillips Maps of America; Walter Macdougall Settling the Maine Wilderness Wilderness – Moses Greenleaf His Maps and His Household of Faith 1777-1834 2006; Edgar Crosby Smith Moses Greenleaf Maine’s first map-maker a biography … also a bibliography of the maps of Maine 1903; Edward Thompson Important Maine Maps Books Prints and Ephemera 2003; or Thompson Printed Maps of the District and State of Maine 1793-1860 2010. Neither Antique Map Price Record nor Rare Book Hub show any record of the map having appeared on the antiquarian market. Macdougall Smith and Thompson all provided useful background on Greenleaf and his work. It is also worth noting that Greenleaf’s companion map of the representative districts of York County see Thompson Printed Maps of the District and State of Maine p.96 is recorded in but a single example in the Benton L. Hatch Collection in the University of Maine’s Fogler Library Special Collections See Thompson Printed Maps of the District and State of Maine pp. 96-97. Hatch was Associate Librarian for Special Collections at the University of Massachusetts who built a substantial collection of material on the history of Maine and Massachusetts. In view of his lifetime interest it seems likely that given the opportunity he would have acquired any others of the series he encountered. Appendix: An accounting of Greenleaf’s 1829 project A rough balance sheet for the 1829 publications can be reconstructed from contemporary documents. The wall-map and text volume with atlas were offered by advance subscription at $16 a set. A report of proceedings in the state legislature recorded that “It appears that Mr. G. was induced by encouragement from the Legislature to extend his original plan and incur great additional expense in order to present a work more valuable to the state. The engraving printing &c. cost $8351 81 surveys &c. about 4000 and Mr. G has devoted more than 6 years of his time to the work. The Legislature of 1828 granted $1000 to aid him in his labors. 565 copies were printed of which 458 remain unsold.” Hallowell American Advocate February 27 1830. A second report estimated that Greenleaf’s personal contribution be valued at $9000 Portland Christian Monitor February 25 1830. This gives as a rough guide income of $2700 against an actual cost of $12350 or a notional cost of $21350. In view of the scale of the loss Greenleaf made an appeal for relief submitting a lengthy memorial in January 1830 Maine State Archives. After much debate in the legislature it was agreed that the state would purchase 400 sets at the subscription price of $16 and the state would give Greenleaf a “a notice for $2000 redeemable in no longer time than 15 years and to be paid out of the proceeds of the Public Lands” Portland Eastern Argus February 26 1830. While the Maine government acted partly out of realization of a debt of honor to Greenleaf there was also a general feeling that the success of Greenleaf’s mapping project would bring all manner of benefits not least in driving land sales by the state. However the state also ended up with more copies than it could use so there was a heavy drive to sell sets to the school districts in particular and offices and officers of state at Washington Hallowell American Advocate January 21 1832 but also to gift sets to to Maine’s representatives in Congress to all the other states and so on. CONDITION: Very good light foxing and creasing small hole in maring at top of vertical fold. Offered in partnership with Boston Rare Maps. [Portland, ca 1832] unknown books
1795Best.-Nr. 53585Erlangen: Printed by Christian Karl Gottlieb Kunstmann 1795. First edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. Elephant Folio. Unpaginated 10pp. Bound in dark half leather over light brown leather with gilt lettering and ruling on spine. Title page with engraved vignette. Engraved headpieces for both first pages in Hebrew and German. Engraved endpieces as above. Text printed in Hebrew and German throughout on facing pages. The hymn praises peace and the treaty alongwith the prudence of King Friedrich Wilhelm was sung by Moses Hochheimer Rabbi in Ansbach. It was printed by Christian Karl Gottlieb in Erlangen. This peace treaty between France and Prussia was rectified on April 5 1795 in Basel and was the first of three treaties that established France as the dominant power in Europe in effect breaking up the First Coalition. France was represented by François de Barthélemy Prussia by Karl August von Hardenberg. Minor wear to binding. Pages somewhat age-toned with some creasing small chips along edges and some light foxing. Printed by Christian Karl Gottlieb Kunstmann hardcover books
1940Best.-Nr. 180216005New York: New Directions 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Signed by John Berryman on front paste down and inscribed to novelist Frederick Boyden "so much skill much faith - signed John Berryman Boston 16 Dec 1941." 221 pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine in Very Good price-clipped dust jacket that is rubbed along edges slightly chipped at head and tail closed tear along front flap fold a few faint stains. The very first book appearance of John Berryman and quite rare signed by him as well as poet/ novelist/essayist Randall Jarrell and poet/translator of Sappho Mary Barnard. New Directions hardcover books
1894Best.-Nr. 013411Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1894. Later Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. A later printing 1894 of "A New Edition with Illustrations and a Bibliography of the Work by George Bullen" 1878. 8vo publishers plain green cloth black-endpapers with evidence of past reinforcement of hinges front and rear. Hartford bookstore ticket rear pastedown. Inscribed: "Harriet Beecher Stowe/ written for/ Miss Cleaveland/ June 30 1895" PROVENANCE: Heirs of the Cleaveland family whose genealogy goes back to colonial Connecticut. Penciled in the inscription before "Miss Cleaveland" are the letters "EW" which identifies the inscribee as Elizabeth Whittlesey Cleaveland one of Elisha Whittlesey Cleaveland's daughters and great great granddaughter of Moses Cleaveland 1754 - 1806 Connecticut lawyer politician soldier and surveyor who founded the city of Cleveland Ohio while surveying the Connecticut Western Reserve in 1796. During the American Revolution he served as the brigadier general of the Connecticut militia. Both Stowe and the inscribee were born in Connecticut where they both died Stowe's inscription here is in a shaky hand and dated a year and a day before her death on July 1 1896 at the age of 85. Houghton, Mifflin hardcover books
1940Best.-Nr. 417914Norfolk Connecticut: New Directions 1940. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Fine in modestly age-toned very good or better dust jacket. The first commercial book appearance of these five poets preceding Berryman's and Jarrell's own separate first books by two years. Inscribed by John Berryman to a philosophy professor at Columbia University: "To Irwin Edman: On page 45 a paper on aesthetics long overdue. with sincere regard John Berryman. Boston 18 Oct 1941." Laid in is the front of the original mailing parcel hand-addressed by Berryman to Edman with his name repeated in the return address. Page 45 contains Berryman’s introduction to the selection of his poems entitled “A Note on Poetry.” Both Edman and Berryman both belonged to the Boar’s Head Society at Columbia a social group devoted to poetry. Berryman graduated from Columbia in 1936 so indeed his paper whatever it was was long overdue. New Directions hardcover books
1695Best.-Nr. 871351695. JUDAICA ALSHEKH Moses. Romemot El. Amsterdam: Printed in the house of David de Castro Tartas published by Eliezer ben Haninah 1695. Small quarto period-style full red morocco gilt elaborately gilt-decorated spine and covers raised bands black morocco spine label; ff. 94. $3500.Second edition the first Amsterdam edition of AlshekhÕs esteemed commentary on the Psalms beautifully bound.Alshekh d. after 1593 rabbi and Bible commentator was born in Adrianople studied in Salonika and then emigrated to Erez Israel settling in Safed where he gained prominence as an halakhic authority a teacher in two talmudic academies and a preacher. He was active in communal affairs and was a member of the rabbinical court of Joseph Caro who ordained him. This is the text that Hayyim Alshekh published in Venice in 1605 claiming that it was his fatherÕs authoritative text and not merely a preliminary draft which had been published a decade earlier in Constantinople under the title Tappuhei Zahav. AlshekhÕs Biblical commentaries which are permeated with religious-ethical and religious-philosophical ideas supported by ample quotations from talmudic and midrashic sources became quite popular and have often been reprinted.With an introduction by the publisher citing Ephraim Luntschitz on the importance of the work and quoting the authorÕs intentions in originally presenting this book to the public. Approbation on last leaf by Moses Judah ben Kalonymus Kohen known as Leib Harif the Ashkenazic Rabbi of Amsterdam. In addition the publisher adds after the first approbation: ÒAlso by the authority and with the permission of the great sage the head of the rabbinical court of the Sephardim our master and teacher Jacob Sasportas who has not however added his signature to the approbation due to a lack of time.Ó The importance of receiving even without an actual signed approbation the blessing or perceived blessing of both the Ashkenazic and Sephardic authorities suggests the sharp divide between the two Amsterdam Jewish communities. With three leaves of text ff. 10-12 replaced in neat facsimile. Vinograd Amsterdam 637. Steinschneider 6431:13. A few early ink marginalia.Tiny repair to corner of title page not affecting border and first two leaves. A splendidly bound volume. hardcover books
1650Best.-Nr. 68492London: Printed by T.N. for Robert Bostock 1650. First and only edition. Small quarto 7 1/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 180 x 139 mm. 8 100 2 pp. Bound without final blank. With engraved initials head and tail pieces. Newer half calf over contemporary speckled paper boards. Spine stamped in gilt. Red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Some minor toning and foxing throughout. Top margin trimmed close occasionally affecting running headline. Previous owner's morocco bookplate on front pastedown. Overall a very good copy. "In early modern marriage conduct books wives are advised to submit to their husbands and husbands are advised as the 'lords of the house' to keep order by rebuking and controlling their wives. Most marriage books however do not condone wife beating. Moses a Vauts was one of the few who supported wife beating. In The Husband's Authority Unvail'd. wherein it is moderately discussed whether it be fit or lawfull for a good Man to beat his bad Wife he states 'If Wives will invent strange new Fashions and frisking strains of Disobedience. why should not their Husbands suit them with new Forms of Discipline" Vauts also declares 'It were well and better the wife could not deserve Blows; but if they be due or needful or best for her why should they be denied her'" Custome is an Idiot: Jacobean Pamphlet Literature on Women. Edited by Susan Gushee O'Malley ESTC R205920. HBS 68492. $3500. Printed by T.N. for Robert Bostock unknown books
1852Best.-Nr. 266899Boston 1852. unbound. Partial unsigned manuscript consisting of four pages 9.75 x 7.75 inches labeled "2" through "5" of a more extensive document all in the hand of Moses G. Farmer from 1852-1853 discussing the earliest trial-runs of the first ever Electric Fire Alarm System implemented in Boston. Though placed into service on April 28th 1852 Farmer's notes in diary form start on June 21st assessing the system while constantly citing ways to improve his new invention in very small part: ".Wednesday June 23 an alarm at 2:15.could not be easily read and caused a delay of 8 or 10 minutes.Saturday July 9th the circuit wheel of the key board needed repairs - the connector melted off by strong battery. July 10th Great Fire in Fort Hill. Alarm first came from Lower Boston plain. They tried to give it from Fort Hill & Persshar St. but both turned together turned too fast while ringing for So. Boston alarm came from Broad St. a delay in the time alarm of about 7 minutes.Friday Aug 6th Wanted! A Battery! Easy of manipulation. Constant & enduring in its operation. Powerful & certain in its effects & of small.cost! Sunday Aug 8th An alarm from D-7 at 12M. The operator did not understand it being the first one from that box & did not strike till the alarm came from I-4 at 12:15 P.M.Says he will recognize it next time. Oct 17th tried to raise an alarm from D-3 - S-3 4 & 5 but could not the lightning assertors were the cause of the difficulty.Friday Oct. 29th Put my newly invented battery on the South Boston signal circuit first time. Nov. 22nd Proceeded to try experiments on the velocity of sound for Captain C Wilkes.put my new battery on all signal circuit. Monday Dec. 20th Bad luck within two days at Three alarms. At one alarm the operator forgot to connect the South circuit. At Another the South end bells struck all sorts of ways on account of the key board running too fast. Atmospheric electricity probably had something to do with raising a false alarm at South End yesterday. Note: this is possibly the earliest recorded false alarm! Jan 11th 1853 Patent for my battery granted today. Sat. Jan. 15th 1853 Key board out of order. Made a substitute & had I repaired. Monday Jan. 17th Found wire broken at So. Williams St. did not intercept the circuit." This item has natural folds but is still in near fine condition. American electrical engineer and inventor of the Electric Fire Alarm System and several forms of the Incandescent Electric Light. He also patented an early light bulb which was later bought by Thomas Edison. Though a true pioneer of many aspects of 19th century electrical invention he and his wife were Spiritualists and felt that their talents were God-given and that they shouldn't take credit for any of his inventions. As a result he failed to carry his ideas to commercial success. unknown books
