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Best.-Nr. 1414684Smithsonian Folkways. Collection of 37 Discs in Good Plus to Very Good condition. Collection includes: Negro Folk Music of Alabama Volumes I II III IV V and VI inserts included; two sets of Music of Haiti Volumes I II and III inserts included; two sets of The World of Man Volumes I and II inserts included; two copies of Cult Music of Cuba inserts included; two copies of Spirituals inserts included; two copies of Folk Tales from Indonesia inserts included; two copies of Folk Music of Ethiopia inserts included; two copies of Folk Tales From West Africa inserts missing; three copies of Calypso and Meringues inserts missing; two copies of Haitian Piano inserts missing; two copies of Radio Programme III: Courlander's Almanac inserts included; two copies of Ashanti Folk Tales From Ghana one insert missing; one copy of Andre Charles & His Quisqueya Ibo Combo Group insert included; one copy of Uncle Bouqui Of Haiti insert included. Discs and cases all intact. Shelved in Rockville Room E. This set comes from the collection of famed folklorist and anthropologist Harold Courlander who was involved with Folkway Records as an editor and producer. 1414684. Special Collections - Upstairs. Smithsonian Folkways unknown books
1846Best.-Nr. 13179New York: Moses Y. Beach 1846. Tenth edition. Softcover. Very good. Octavo 32pp. Removed with original stitching perished; still sound. Presumably wanting original wrappers. Thin dust-soiling to fore-edge else a nice copy otherwise; very good. Though a stated "tenth edition" this may be a slight exaggeration. The earliest edition in OCLC is the fourth and there are only records of a few in between. A wonderful compendium of the moneyed elite in mid-19th century New York a time when successful immigrants and their children were beginning to nip at the heels of the Mayflower descendants and their like. Snapshot biographies for each entry are followed by their estimated net worth all entries are over $100000 which is roughly $4000000 in today's currency. Moses Y. Beach unknown
1773Best.-Nr. 263320London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly 1773. Third edition. Engraved frontispiece of men fishing. xxxvii 2 136 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Nineteenth century calf gilt spine. Fine. Third edition. Engraved frontispiece of men fishing. xxxvii 2 136 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The author a poetical mainstay of "The Gentleman's Magazine" was a friend of Dr. Johnson and editor of The Complete Angler. Westwood and Satchell p. 43-44; ESTC T55148 Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly unknown books
1879Best.-Nr. 662G2876Dover New Hampshire: H.H. Metcalf. Good. 1879. First Edition. Paperback. Pages 159-192. Features: Politician Herbert F. Norris - article and full-page illustration of Mr. Norris; Early history of the Concord press; Decisions of Chief Justice Smith; Congressional Papers No. 4 - Illusions Dispelled; Manners and Customs in Hopkinton - No. 1 - Domiestic Social and Moral. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy.; Magazine; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; The Granite Monthly A New Hampshire Magazine Devoted to Literature History and State Progress March 1879 Vol. II No. 6 - Herbert F. Norris Politician Herbert F. Norris - article and full-page illustration; Early history of the Concord press; Decis . H.H. Metcalf paperback
1892Best.-Nr. 606011Philadelphia: T. & J. W. Johnson & Co 1892. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. vii 197pp. Brick red cloth stamped in blind and gilt. A trifle worn at the corners and spine ends still easily a bright fine copy. Born in Philadelphia Dropsie was a Jewish-American lawyer businessman and patron of Jewish learning who left his fortune to found Dropsie College in Philadelphia which was open until 1986; it is now part of Penn under the name "Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. T. & J. W. Johnson & Co hardcover
1892Best.-Nr. 606011Philadelphia: T. & J. W. Johnson & Co 1892. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. vii 197pp. Brick red cloth stamped in blind and gilt. A trifle worn at the corners and spine ends still easily a bright fine copy. Born in Philadelphia Dropsie was a Jewish-American lawyer businessman and patron of Jewish learning who left his fortune to found Dropsie College in Philadelphia which was open until 1986; it is now part of Penn under the name "Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. T. & J. W. Johnson & Co hardcover books
1911Best.-Nr. 10928Boston: Women's Educational and Industrial Union Department of Research and New York: Longmans Green and Co. Fourth Avenue and 30th Street 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. LAW. Ed. Susan M. Kingsbury. Contributors: Charles E. Parsons Mabel Parton Mabelle Moses Edwin F. Gay Caroline Manning et al. "Labor Laws and Their Enforcement with Special Reference to Massachusetts Studies in Economic Relations of Women II." Boston: Women's Educational and Industrial Union Department of Research and New York: Longmans Green and Co. Fourth Avenue and 30th Street 1911. First edition. English language. Hardcover with blue cloth boards lettered gilt on front and spine with blind stamped insignia on front. Nonfiction labor law text in six chapters with preface introduction index black-and-white illustrative plate and four folding plates including three large tables as well as numerous in-text statistical tables and charts. 8vo. 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches. 38 oz. xxii 420 pp. Shelf-wear and soiling to spine. Board corners rubbed. Toning. Text clean. Very Good Plus. No ISBN. No ASIN. OCLC: 800778498. Boston: Women's Educational and Industrial Union Department of Research, and New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., Fourth Avenue a hardcover
1767Best.-Nr. 42438Boston: N. E.: Printed and Sold by Kneeland and Adams and to the Treasurer's Office in Milk-Street 1767. 204pp. Disbound. Scattered foxing. Good plus. The book's title is the title of the first sermon. Succeeding sermons are identified by caption title and SERMON II. . . SERMON VII. "Hemmenway Moses D.D. a Congregational minister was born in 1735 at Framingham Mass. He graduated at Harvard College in 1755 and was ordained pastor in Wells Mass. Aug. 8 1759 where he labored until his death April 51811" McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia online article on Hemmenway. ESTC W29397. Evans 10643. Printed and Sold by Kneeland and Adams, and to the Treasurer's Office in Milk-Street unknown
1767Best.-Nr. 42438Boston: N. E.: Printed and Sold by Kneeland and Adams and to the Treasurer's Office in Milk-Street 1767. 204pp. Disbound. Scattered foxing. Good plus. The book's title is the title of the first sermon. Succeeding sermons are identified by caption title and SERMON II. . . SERMON VII. "Hemmenway Moses D.D. a Congregational minister was born in 1735 at Framingham Mass. He graduated at Harvard College in 1755 and was ordained pastor in Wells Mass. Aug. 8 1759 where he labored until his death April 51811" McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia online article on Hemmenway. ESTC W29397. Evans 10643. Printed and Sold by Kneeland and Adams, and to the Treasurer's Office in Milk-Street unknown books
1711Best.-Nr. 39540Fürth: Itzik Leib 1711. First edition. Wood cover. poor to good-. Folio. 50 leaves. Beige wooden boards. Illustrated title page with imagery of Moshe Aharon Jacobs dream of the ladder and King David playing the harp. Order of Slikhot prayers for forgiveness to be included in the Jewish observance during the month of Elul the month of the High Holidays between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. The book captures the custom of polish Jews Ashkenazi tradition which differs from Sephardi tradition in many ways. While Sephardi Jews include Slikhot throughout the month of Elul Ashkenazi Jews observe Slikhot for the ten days of Rosh Hashana to Yom Kippur. Text in Hebrew. Binding reinforced with brown library tape at spine staining and splintered corners at edges of front cover. Spine frayed at head and tail. Foxing inside front cover. Title page and first leaf detached but present creasing at inner margin affects decoration up to 0.5 inches staining from wax creasing and fraying at lower edge affects text up to 1 inch missing. Sporadic wax stains foxing age-toning and some water stains throughout block. Starting at leaf 49. Last two pages detached but present. Foxing inside back cover which is splintered in the middle of lower half. Back cover separated from block but attached at front joint. Binding in overall poor interior in fair to good- condition. Itzik Leib unknown
1711Best.-Nr. 39540Fürth: Itzik Leib 1711. First edition. Wood cover. poor to good-. Folio. 50 leaves. Beige wooden boards. Illustrated title page with imagery of Moshe Aharon Jacobs dream of the ladder and King David playing the harp. Order of Slikhot prayers for forgiveness to be included in the Jewish observance during the month of Elul the month of the High Holidays between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. The book captures the custom of polish Jews Ashkenazi tradition which differs from Sephardi tradition in many ways. While Sephardi Jews include Slikhot throughout the month of Elul Ashkenazi Jews observe Slikhot for the ten days of Rosh Hashana to Yom Kippur. Text in Hebrew. Binding reinforced with brown library tape at spine staining and splintered corners at edges of front cover. Spine frayed at head and tail. Foxing inside front cover. Title page and first leaf detached but present creasing at inner margin affects decoration up to 0.5 inches staining from wax creasing and fraying at lower edge affects text up to 1 inch missing. Sporadic wax stains foxing age-toning and some water stains throughout block. Starting at leaf 49. Last two pages detached but present. Foxing inside back cover which is splintered in the middle of lower half. Back cover separated from block but attached at front joint. Binding in overall poor interior in fair to good- condition. Itzik Leib unknown books
2014Best.-Nr. 653820Vintage / Playbill 2014. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Two items sold together: A SIGNED copy of the original June 2000 Playbill for the renowned off-Broadway run of The Laramie Project signed on the cover by Moises Kaufman at the Union Square Theatre; together with a SIGNED copy of the 2014 paperback edition of 'Laramie Project and the Laramie Project: Ten Years Later' signed by Kaufman on thr half-title. The book is near fine the Playbill in stapled wraps has some creasing and wear. Vintage / Playbill paperback
1895Best.-Nr. 325660Boston: moses King 1895. hardcover. very good. Large folding map 450 photographic illustrations 720pp. small 8vo decorative olive cloth. Boston: Moses King 1895. Very good . moses King unknown
1895Best.-Nr. 325660Boston: moses King 1895. hardcover. very good. Large folding map 450 photographic illustrations 720pp. small 8vo decorative olive cloth. Boston: Moses King 1895. Very good . moses King unknown books
1858Best.-Nr. 1848Philadelphia: Published by the Author 1858. First edition. 1848 COMPILATION OF MEDICAL HISTORY OF ANTEBELLUM AMERICA; PRIMARILY INFECTIOUS DISEASE. 8 ½ inches tall hardcover recent green cloth binding gilt title to spine incorrectly labeled as Vol. I only—actually 2 volumes bound as one 5 endpapers bound in front and back. Vol. I i-xvi 312 pp; Vol. II 336 pp. CONTENTS: Vol. I Epidemic Cholera Cholera Infantum Nursing Sore Mouth Medical Topography of the State of Illinois Malaria Epidemics of 1835 1855 Cholera Bilious Fever Scorbutus Scurvy; Vol. II Scorbutic Diathesis Cholera Chemistry of Medicines Climatic Influences Constitution of Seasons Laws of Epidemics Yellow Fever Doctrine of the Unity of Disease. Light foxing to preliminary pages light browning to text pages very good in custom archival mylar cover. MOSES LOWMAN KNAPP 1799 -1879 member of the first class graduated at Jefferson Medical College 1826 said that his "thesis was the first handed in to the Dean the first examined and he was understood by the professors and the class to be the first graduate." His thesis on "Apocynum Cannabinum Indian Hemp" was the first thesis published by Jefferson Medical College. He was professor of materia medica and president of the College of physicians and Surgeons of the University of Iowa also professor of materia medica in the Indiana Medical College. Published by the Author hardcover
1858Best.-Nr. 1848Philadelphia: Published by the Author 1858. First edition. 1848 COMPILATION OF MEDICAL HISTORY OF ANTEBELLUM AMERICA; PRIMARILY INFECTIOUS DISEASE. 8 ½ inches tall hardcover recent green cloth binding gilt title to spine incorrectly labeled as Vol. I only—actually 2 volumes bound as one 5 endpapers bound in front and back. Vol. I i-xvi 312 pp; Vol. II 336 pp. CONTENTS: Vol. I Epidemic Cholera Cholera Infantum Nursing Sore Mouth Medical Topography of the State of Illinois Malaria Epidemics of 1835 1855 Cholera Bilious Fever Scorbutus Scurvy; Vol. II Scorbutic Diathesis Cholera Chemistry of Medicines Climatic Influences Constitution of Seasons Laws of Epidemics Yellow Fever Doctrine of the Unity of Disease. Light foxing to preliminary pages light browning to text pages very good in custom archival mylar cover. MOSES LOWMAN KNAPP 1799 -1879 member of the first class graduated at Jefferson Medical College 1826 said that his "thesis was the first handed in to the Dean the first examined and he was understood by the professors and the class to be the first graduate." His thesis on "Apocynum Cannabinum Indian Hemp" was the first thesis published by Jefferson Medical College. He was professor of materia medica and president of the College of physicians and Surgeons of the University of Iowa also professor of materia medica in the Indiana Medical College. Published by the Author hardcover books
1793Best.-Nr. 47688Berlin:: In der Vossischen Buchhandlung 1793. Second edition. contemporary paper-covered boards. Old private ownership stamp and signature on title page which is slightly stained; front joint and corners rubbed; but tight and sound. . 12mo. In der Vossischen Buchhandlung, hardcover
1984Best.-Nr. 26019Tenafly NJ: MMI Americana Press 1984. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. A sharp very presentable copy of the 1984 1st edition. Tight and Near Fine a touch of spotting at the top and fore-edges in a bright Near Fine dustjacket with fading along the spine. Thick quarto crisp black-and-white and occasional color reproductions throughout. Cosponsored by Israel Sack Inc. MMI Americana Press unknown
1984Best.-Nr. 26019Tenafly NJ: MMI Americana Press 1984. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. A sharp very presentable copy of the 1984 1st edition. Tight and Near Fine a touch of spotting at the top and fore-edges in a bright Near Fine dustjacket with fading along the spine. Thick quarto crisp black-and-white and occasional color reproductions throughout. Cosponsored by Israel Sack Inc. MMI Americana Press unknown books
1902Best.-Nr. 16334New York NY: Moses King 1902 Rebound in green book cloth with the original cover cloth laid over the newer binding. Newer binding has light edge wear. Original old cloth laid over front spine and back is moderately worn so the book retains its original appearance but now has a strong tight binding with new end papers. Attractive gilt and black cover design. Owner's name label inside. Internal content is generally quite clean and free of marks but has a few small minor and widely scattered smudges. Old tape repair on page 105/106 of the index.The volume opens with a short historical and descriptive sketch of Philadelphia then is divided into two parts. The first part is about notable Philadelphians which runs from page 15 to 112. This contains 1560 portraits of living and deceased Philadelphians of note. The second part King's Views begins with new page numbering from 1 to 102 with photography of important buildings businesses churches and historic structures then finishes with a long photo sequence of prestigious homes in and around Philadelphia. This second part contains nearly 600 period photos. Excellent black & white photography. A detailed index of images is provided. Size: Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall Moses King hardcover
Best.-Nr. 04170104Unknown Binding. Good. 1912 Lilienthal. Attractively rebound in navy buckram with gilt title on spine. Boards show light surface wear. Text is lightly toned but remains clean and unmarked. unknown
1936Best.-Nr. 024240Baltimore: The Williams & Wilkins Company. xiii 106 pp. Moses was the Medical Director of the Baltimore Bureau for Contraceptive Advice; the Bureau became the Baltimore Birth Control Clinic which eventually became part of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Moses was pioneer in legitimizing the use of birth control. Green cloth gilt lettered on spine. With charts. Ink name flyleaf. Relatively scarce book. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1936. The Williams & Wilkins Company hardcover
1824Best.-Nr. 24378Septimus Prowett London 1824. 1st Edition. Hardcover Quarter Leather. Good Condition. bindings tight pieces of backstrip missing 3-volume set complete. spine/backstrip badly chipped/missing on all 3 vols. Moderately foxed throughout. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Art & Design; Sculpture; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 24378. . This is a SET of books therefore heavier than a standard volume and will involve extra shipping charges to some countries. Septimus Prowett hardcover
1877Best.-Nr. 662G2873Dover New Hampshire: H.H. Metcalf. Good. 1877. First Edition. Paperback. Pages 193-224. Features: The first church in Dover and its Pastor - with illustration of Rev. George B. Spalding; Ancient institutions in Concord - The New Hampshire Patriot The New Hampshire Statesman The New Hampshire Historical Society; Did John Lovewell of Old Dunstable live to be 120 years old; Hydrophobia or Rabies; The Old Farm - a story in three chapters; New Hampshire men at Bunker Hill and Bennington; Chohass - the name of the great invervals on the Connecticut River at Haverhill New Hampshire and vicinity - with journal entries of Deacon robert Walker's and Matthew Patten's journey from Bedford to up Peezumsuch River in October and November 1764; The rationale of free government; History of Education in Nashua; Ad inside back cover for the patented Standard Broiler for beefsteak made by D.Arthur Brown & Co. in Fisherville NH. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this early issue.; Magazine; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; The Granite Monthly A New Hampshire Magazine Devoted to Literature History and State Progress November 1877 Vol. I No. 7 first church in Dover and its Pastor - with illustration of Rev. George B. Spalding; Ancient institutions in Concord - The Ne . H.H. Metcalf paperback
1970Best.-Nr. 022564South Brunswick N.J.: A. S. Barnes 1970. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed and Signed By Moses Soyer. No. 10 of 100 with Orig. Lithograph. 47 1p. 127 plates and number 10 of a signed lithograph. A fine copy no d.j. in a fine slipcase. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. A. S. Barnes Hardcover
