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réf. 140942510New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company 1970. First Edition. Fine. First edition first printing. Signed by Robert Moses as Bob and inscribed to a former owner on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's original dark blue leather stamped in gilt with gilt spine titles blocked in pinkish-red top edge gilt. Fine in acetate wrapper. Books signed by Moses are scarce. McGraw-Hill Book Company unknown books
1940réf. 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
réf. 375138New York: Caedmon no date. Unbound. Fine. Original 33 1/2 rpm vinyl album. Liner notes by Jonathan Katz. Fine in a printed paper sleeve in a very good pictorial cardboard sleeve with rubbing and short tears. Includes autobiographies of Frederick Douglass Charlotte Forten Susan King Taylor and Nat Love. Caedmon unknown books
1961réf. 364964New York: Oak Publications 1961. Softcover. Good. Second edition. Illustrated by Woody Guthrie and York Cunningham Jr. Small Quarto. Old ink prices and some rubbing and erosion on front wrap a sound good or better copy. Oak Publications unknown books
1854réf. 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
réf. 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
1947réf. 1414648Disc Company of America c1947. Collection of folk music recorded live in the Soviet Union in late 1940s. Three 10 in. records in original hard-cover portfolio. Records in Very Good condition with a few fingerprints but no visible defects. Portfolio shows mild shelf wear. Shelved at 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. "Disc Company of America" aka "Disc Records" was founded by Moses Asch in 1946 but went bankrupt in 1948 paving the way for the "Folkways" label. 1414648. Special Collections - Upstairs. Disc Company of America unknown books
1947réf. 1414650Disc Company of America c1947. Collection of Haitian folk music from the "Disc Ethnic Series" recorded in late 1940s. Four 10 in. records in original "Disc Records" hard-cover portfolio. Records in Very Good condition with a few fingerprints but no visible defects. Portfolio shows moderate shelf wear with loss of spine material. Shelved at Rockville Room E. This set comes from the personal collection of famed folklorist and anthropologist Harold Courlander who was involved with Disc Records and Folkway Records as an editor and producer. The labels on the records read "Recorded under the personal supervision of Harold Courlander." "Disc Company of America" aka "Disc Records" was founded by Moses Asch in 1946 but went bankrupt in 1948 paving the way for the "Folkways" label. 1414650. Special Collections - Upstairs. Disc Company of America unknown books
réf. 1414546Smithsonian Folkways. Volumes 1-6. In Very Good condition. Discs cases and inserts 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. He is credited with coining the name for the label. 1414546. Special Collections - Upstairs. Smithsonian Folkways unknown books
1982réf. 27615New York: Jewish Theological Seminary of America 1982. Very Good. New York: Jewish Theological Seminary of America 1982. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's tan cloth black titling; xi31511155pp. Boards very slightly bowed ownership signature to front free endpaper else Very Good or better. Bilingual edition in English and Hebrew. Jewish Theological Seminary of America unknown books
1934réf. 624983Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America 1934. Hardcover. Near Fine. Second edition. Translated by Solomon Solis-Cohen from a critical text edited and annotated by Heinrich Brody. 16mo. xxxix 401pp. Facing English and Hebrew text with extensive endnotes. Owner name and stamp of a noted Jewish-American psychologist on the front fly binding slightly cocked a bright near fine copy. Issued as part of the Schiff Library of Jewish Classics. The Jewish Publication Society of America hardcover books
1930réf. ZZ1197New York:: Macmillan Company 1930. 1930. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. x xi 487 pp. 6 plates index. Navy cloth gilt-stamped spine title dust-jacket; front cover a bit spotted jacket spine ends a little chipped. Very good. Macmillan Company, 1930. hardcover books
1951réf. 29772New York Toronto London: McGraw-Hill Book Company Inc 1951. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. First Edition. viii 2 259 1 pages. 10 1/8 x 7 5/8 inches. Publisher's blue cloth. Ex-corporate library Anaconda Wire & Cable Co. with their checkout pocket in rear. Otherwise clean internally. Boards sunned unevenly corners bumped a sound working copy. Printed notice on front pastedown. This example is numbered 238. Cloth. "As there is no previously published information that contains all the whys and wherefores of electrical insulation under one cover it is believe that this book will cover a long-felt need in this important field.NavShips 250-660-33 has been assigned to this book for reference purposes and identification" from the printed notice on front pastedown. A very large number of companies who contributed to the details are noted by the author. The book covers everything from Insulation Theory and Basic Concepts to Winding problems to Varnish-treating processes testing and maintenance. We notes asbestos is one of the insulation materials. PUBLICATION NOTES: One of two versions of this book which were printed - a trade edition and one for the US Navy. Both state "first edition" on the title page and were published by McGraw-Hill. We are unaware of any precedence or differences between the two versions. US Navy copies can be distinguished by a printed notice on the front pastedown with information about the reason for the book and noting the book is the Property of the United States Government. McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc unknown books
1930réf. BBL1198New York:: Macmillan 1930. 1930. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. x 487 pp. 6 plates index. Navy cloth gilt-stamped spine title; mildly rubbed. Burndy bookplate. Very good. This book as reviewed by Charles Kofoid is "rather a selection of movements incidents and men dramatically presented by the writer. His discussion of "what if anything is scientific literature" leads to the conclusion that this literature as distinct from other forms of writing did not arrive until the 19th century when in English it became characteristic of the Victorian period and then largely in the field of the natural sciences. The writings of Darwin and Huxley exemplify this the first model of dispassionate clarity the second of forceful argument . . ." – Kofoid. ISIS volume 27 number 1. Macmillan, 1930. hardcover books
1985réf. AH1159Paris:: Presses Universitaires de France Quadrige 1985. 1985. Small 8vo. iv 428 pp. Red & black printed wrappers. Very good. Second edition this publisher. Presses Universitaires de France, Quadrige, 1985. unknown books
1930réf. PW1226New York:: Macmillan 1930. 1930. 8vo. x 2 487 1 pp. Figs. index. Magenta cloth with black-stamped spine titles; some fading to spine. Very good. Biographies of Darwin Jeffries Hudson Beebe and Eddington. Drachman was a rabbi. Macmillan, 1930. hardcover books
1679réf. 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
1937réf. NF3335BIG GAME ANGLERS' PARADISE Liveright 1937first edition slight fraying to the base of the spine else a vg/vg copy. Profusely illustrated with maps and photos including one of Ernest Hemingway with several pages mentioning his accomplishments as well as several pages noting those of Zane Grey as well. A complete non-technical narrative-treatise on salt water gamefishes and angling in Florida and elsewhere with comprehensive biographies of twenty prominent deep sea and coastal marine gladiators. Liveright unknown books
1972réf. 10385CALL TO LIFE BOOK 1 / WINDOWS AT DAYBREAK Privately published 1972 first edition just about fine in wraps with authors special printed "thank you for joining----" card as well as a TYPED LETTER SIGNED by the author laid in noting the poem entitled WALT WHITMAN among the contents. 1/1000 copies. Privately published paperback books
1973réf. NF0528GRANDMA MOSES Abrams 1973 first edition fine ln like dust-wrapper with 253 illustrations including 135 in full color plus 1203 documentary illustrations to the Catalogue of the Works. Abrams unknown books
1802réf. 55778Saloniki Thessaloniki: Mordekhai Nahman and David Yisraeliga 1802. Second edition. Modern cloth. Very good-. Quarto 25 by 16.5 cm. 2 136 leaves. Hebrew text in rabbinic font arranged in two columns. Title within elaborate letterpress borders with textual quotations; woodcut printer's device verso title approbations page; publication date in chronogram. Recent royal blue cloth; text block with speckled edges. Title leaf reinforced with tissue along fore-edge; title with tear along gutter 7 cm and small mostly marginal worm traces; worming vanishes by the sixth leaf with very minimal text loss; slightest marginal worm tracing at final 20 leaves; entry at bottom margins of the title and four other pages excised in black marker not affecting text; several leaves lightly toned else a very good copy with crisp clean text. Very scarce second edition of this collection of rabbinic responsa issued by Moses ben Isaac Segal Mintz 15th century. First published at Krakow in 1617 this is the author's only published work. Born in Mainz between 1420 and 1430 Moses Mintz studied with Jacob Weil and Israel Isserlein and while still quite young was appointed rabbi of Würzburg. Mintz led a peripatetic life which allowed him to investigate Jewish customs and communal regulations in many towns. After the 1453 expulsion of the Jews from Würzburg he returned to Mainz until the expulsion of 1462. He subsequently went to Landau and Ulm. In 1469 he was appointed rabbi of Bamberg. Four years later he was in Nürnberg and the following year in Posen. There he made preparations to emigrate to Palestine but for unknown reasons decided to remain in Posen until the end of his life. "Mintz's prominence and recognized authority resulted in may other rabbis turning to him with halakhic queries on such issues as issur ve-heter dietary laws and communal customs" Heller. His circle of correspondents included Israel Isserlein Joseph Colon Eliezer Treves and his cousin Judah Mintz. As the present collection notably deals with practical issues of contemporary importance especially civil and matrimonial law -- including customs and the enactments of Rabbenu Gershom -- they provide insight into Jewish life in fifteenth-century Germany. Issues of some notable responsa include taxes placed on Jews by local rulers; obligations of a wealthy man to his wife's poor relatives; a woman who committed adultery repented and swears the child is from her husband; if a person blind in one eye can be a judge in a case of halitzah when a man is released from the general obligation to marry his deceased brother's widow; and if one should mourn for a murderer. "Of special value are three responsa in manuscript entitled 'The Three Branches' which are an important source for the history of the yeshivot rabbinic schools of Germany in the 15th century. They depict the woeful condition of pupil-teacher relations which had broken down as a result of the arrogance of the teachers and their exaggerated concern for their dignity as well as because of the pupils' desire for greater freedom of activity and the acquisition of social status" EJ. Approbations of Istanbul rabbis: Ezekiel Refael Chaim Alfandari; Michael Ashkenazi; Moshe Frishko Provenance: Ink stamps of the Yeshiva Ha-Metivta ha-Gedolah Jerusalem at approbation page and bottom margin of one text page. References: Enc. Jud. 1st ed. 12: 65-66; M. J. Heller The Seventeenth Century Hebrew Book pp. 346-347 first ed. 1617; Vinograd Salonica 515; Cf. Steinschneider 6529.1 ed. Krakow 1617 - but not noting the present edition! Title and imprint Hebrew: תשובות ×ž×”×¨×³×³× מינץ נדפס פה ש××œ×•× ×™×§×™ ×™×¢×³×³× בדפוס מרדכי נחמן וחברו דוד ישר×ליג׳ה Date chronogram: 5562 = ×•×™×¨× משה Yeshiva stamp: ×”×ž×ª×™×‘×ª× ×”×’×“×•×œ× בית הר×ש׳׳ל ישיבה תיכון. Mordekhai Nahman and David Yisraeliga unknown books
1855réf. 3206Coyoteville: September 12 1855. Very good. 2pp. plus integral blank. Original mailing folds moderate toning staining and ink spotting but still easily readable. Bottom fourth of integral blank excised. An informative Gold Rush letter about mining in the long-vanished ghost town of Coyoteville which was an extraordinarily rich gold area for a couple of years in the early 1850s. A noted tunneling method nicknamed "coyoteing" was developed in the town and subsequently inspired the name of the town. In the present letter Moses Pine writes to "Catherine" in Branch County Michigan and signs his name simply as "Mose Esq" at the conclusion. The author informs Catherine presumably his wife or sister of his activities some of the economic realities and some of the practical details of prospecting for gold in California. Presuming that "it would be impossible for the whole of Branch County to raise $10 unless they sell a horse" Pine comments that he had ginger bread on the Fourth of July after working all day and yielding a "half Ounce Gold Dust." He then provides a detailed description of his mining: "I am now tunneling in a hill. We are 150 feet under the ground. Day before yesterday we got small respect 25 cents to the pan for the first and the bed rock pitching. I think we will find good pay in the going 100 feet further the expense is heavy as we have to blast and timber the tunnel." Pine also talks of his health and that "I work hard every day do my cooking and baking." He then expresses his hope to get back to Michigan to "rest a few months" but knows nothing of other Michigan folks in California: "Have not seen nor heard anything of them in a year. I guess they have all gone home with a fortune in a horn. Well good luck to the lucky. Old Mose will come home after a while with a pretty hat on." A nicely-detailed letter from an unusual and obscure Gold Rush location. September 12 unknown books
réf. 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
réf. 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
1956réf. 215972PA: JPS 1956. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Very good in very good dust jacket. Name on front endpaper. Pages very light brown. Corners slightly bent. Dustwrapper slightly brown and shelf rubbed. JPS hardcover books
