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ref. Z1-C-058-00921Minerva Press. Used - Good. Spine hinge damaged. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library so some stamps and wear but in good overall condition. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. Minerva Press unknown
1771ref. 2004280011Philadelphia : William & Thomas Bradford 1771. First Edition. Hardcover. Acceptable. Early American Science: Governor Simon Snyder's copy interesting Pennsylvania Provenance Quarto. Bound in early American 1/4 calf over marbled boards. Rebacked with modern leather spine original spine label conserved. Snyder's leather name plate on front cover but chipped at the end. xxii 3 xxiv-xxviii xix 1 116 72 1 118-340 pages. Defective copy. Illustrated with only 3 of 7 engraved plates lacking plates 3-5 7. Preliminary pages have old dampstaining including title and laws of the society. Includes a list of members and subscribers. Founded by Benjamin Franklin the American Philosophical Society was one of the first scientific societies in America. Provenance: Simon Snyder 1759-1819 was the third Governor of Pennsylvania. This volume includes his morocco book plate on the front and his signature is on the title page. Snyder led the Commonwealth during the War of 1812. Evans 11959; Sabin 1181. Contents in this volume: A Description of an Orrery executed on a new plan finished by David Rittenhouse; Calculations of the Transit of Venus; Cultivations of the vine and the making and preserving of wine.suitable to North America by Edward Antill. Philadelphia : William & Thomas Bradford hardcover
1773ref. 2007280082London : Printed for T. Cadell in the Strand M. DCC. LXXIII 1773. 3rd. Hardcover. Good. Interesting Early Massachusetts / Revolutionary War Provenance: General Gridley's Copy Bound in contemporary polished calf. Good binding. Small chip from head of spine but sound. lii 386 2 p. ESTC T116279. Signed on title page by Richard Gridley. Gridley 1710-1796 was a soldier and engineer in the French and Indian Wars and in the American Revolution. He served as a the Chief Engineer for artillery in George Washington's Continental Army. He directed fortifications on Dorchester Heights and fought in the battle of Bunker Hill. Gridley is considered by the US Army Corps of Engineers to be America's First Chief Engineer. Later this book was owned by the Rev. Joseph Grafton 1757-1836 founder of Newton Theological Institution. Grafton served as a Baptist pastor in Newton for more than 48 years. Newton Theological Seminary stamp. Includes related ephemera about Gen. Gridley. London : Printed for T. Cadell, in the Strand, M. DCC. LXXIII hardcover
1965ref. 38032Barcelona: Tallers Gràfics de Guada S.R.C. 1965. A spectacular portfolio of 12 HUGE 66 x 52 cm PENCIL-SIGNED ORIGINAL COLOR PRINTS BY THE LEADING YOUNG CATALAN ARTISTS OF THE 1960S: Albert Ràfols-Casamada Tharrats Guinovart Subirachs Vilacasas Esther Boix Joan Brotat Todó Moisès Vilèlia Garcia Llort Grau Garriga and Torres Monsó. Vilacasas' print is an etching Todó's is a woodcut Tharrats' is a lithograph and the remaining 9 are linoleum cuts. Each print represents a month of 1966 and a profession: astronaut carpenter housepainter etc. ONE OF VERY FEW COPIES PRINTED ON FINE WOVE PAPER WATERMARKED "J ROMANI" with EACH OF THE PRINTS SIGNED IN PENCIL. Loose as issued. Fine and bright with no defects. An outstanding collection of large brightly-colored original prints. Tallers Gràfics de Guada S.R.C. unknown
1771ref. 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
1771ref. 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
2000ref. DADAX0124457606Academic Press 2000-10-25. 1. hardcover. New. 8.50x5.00x11.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Academic Press hardcover
1679ref. 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
1679ref. 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
ref. 95389London Yehuda Leib Bar Alexander 1792. . First edition; 8vo 20 x 12.5 cm; title printed within ornamental border; library stamp to title and on one or two other leaves occasional foxing restorations to corners of title and of the last three leaves; later 18th-century-style calf boards with gilt decorations; text in Hebrew. 3 52 ll. Book of kabbalistic readings and prayers for Friday nights customarily recited in the Eastern cities of Morocco. Moshe Edrehi c. 1774-1842 was a Moroccan scholar Kabbalist and itinerant preacher in North Africa who travelled to London in 1791 where he studied in the Sephardic Beit Midrash Etz Hayyim preaching there every Sabbath. A child prodigy he had started preaching at the age of 14. He published this work in order to support himself and his family in Morocco and after its publication left for Amsterdam. There he published two more works - 'Yad Moshe' a collection of sermons and 'Ma'aseh Nissim' tales of the ten tribes with a Yiddish translation. His final journey to the Holy Land took four years and led Edrehi through France Italy Malta and Smyrna where many of his writings were lost in a fire. The 'Tikun' here arranged according to the book 'Chemdat HaYamin'. ESTC N475360; Roth Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica B12 - 20. Vinograd London 135. London, Yehuda Leib Bar Alexander, 1792. hardcover
1904ref. 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
1904ref. 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
ref. 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
ref. Z1-U-019-01881Minerva Press. Used - Good. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library so some stamps and wear but in good overall condition. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. Minerva Press unknown
1786ref. 969Berkeley & Jefferson Counties Virginia now West Virginia: not published 1786 - 1842. Group of ten folio manuscript documents and one partially printed document completed in manuscript involving the real estate transactions of Charles & John Yates in the upper Shenandoah Valley. Approximately 29 pp. in total all docketed. Each exhibits expected wear including original folds with associated splits and separations one document with a small area of archival tissue repair creasing tears small losses occasionally briefly affecting text soiling toning and foxing. Charles Yates 1728 - 1809 emigrated from England in 1748 first to New York and then in 1752 to Fredericksburg Virginia. A prosperous merchant and importer he was also deeply involved in real estate speculation in Berkeley and Jefferson Counties now West Virginia. Advancing in years unmarried and childless he solicited his brother John Orfeur Yates of Liverpool to send one of his sons as heir apparent. Young John Yates 1779 - 1851 then 13 years old arrived in 1792. Educated at the College of New Jersey and William and Mary John with wife Julia took up residence about 1807 at Walnut Grove his uncle's hunting lodge on some 912 acres near Charlestown in Berkeley County. Yates remained in the vicinity until his death. Quoting from Memorials of a Family in England and Virginia AE Terrill 1887 page 337 "As a citizen in his adopted country Mr Yates was active and liberal using his means and his influence in the encouragement of public improvements; more especially the making a better roads the starting of manufactories and establishing the system of free schools." Most if not all of the documents revolve around 2071 acres of land originally granted in 1751 by Thomas Lord Fairfax to Thomas Rutherford. Encompassing what became known as the Flowing Springs tract the collection sheds light on a complicated history beginning with the acquisition in 1786 of 755 acres by Charles Yates via William Orr a proxy from Robert Rutherford who apparently defaulted on a loan. Particularly interesting is a survey with large plat map accomplished in December 1812 involving a division of the lands of John Peyton 1729 - 1804 Peyton a son in law of Robert Rutherford apparently acquired the land in 1795. Additionally the documents contain the signatures of several significant participants in the French and Indian War the American Revolution or the War of 1812 including Thomas Rutherford Philip Pendleton Moses Hunter James Singleton Henry St George Tucker and George Hite. Includes: Berkeley County December 1 1786 Indenture 4 pp Charles Yates & William Orr in which Yates conveys 755 acres to Orr part of a tract of 2071 acres which was the subject of a decree issued at County Court of Frederick "May sessions last" regarding default of Robert Rutherford. Orr purchased the the land at auction for "three thousand two hundred & sixty five pounds." Signed by Charles Yates Thomas Rutherford brother of Robert Rutherford Philip Pendleton Moses Hunter and William Simpson. Berkeley County December 2 1786 Indenture 3 pp Charles Yates & William Orr in which Yates buys back the 755 acres purchased the day before at auction by Orr "which said tract of land is part of the 2071 acres late the property of a certain Robert Rutherford and which was sold by him the said Charles Yates on the fourth day of August last part to the said William Orr by virtue of a decree of the County Court of Frederick in Chancery on a certain matter of controversy then and there depending between the said Charles Yates complainant and the said Robert Rutherford defendant and which now conveyed by him the said Charles Yates onto the said William Orr by deed …" Signed by Orr Philip Pendleton Thomas Rutherford Thomas Simpson and William Sovell. Jefferson County February 12 1811 Agreement 3 pp between John Yates and Jesse Stall in which "the true course of a dividing line between the lands of the subscribers" is established Signed by Yates Stall and George Hite. Jefferson County December 17 1812 Survey with large plat map 3pp Folio 32" x 26" two sheets joined "The above plat represents a survey and division of the lands of John Peyton commonly known by the name of Flowing Spring tract executed pursuant to a decree of the Chancery District Court holden at Staunton the whole containing one thousand five hundred & thirty-five acres …" Adjacent to the plat is a list of 8 beneficiaries to the division all Peytons. Signed by surveyor William Castleman John Yates James Singleton Joseph W Davis and Rich Baylor. Jefferson County 1813 Survey with plat map 2 pp "At the request of John Yates Esq a tract of land in Jefferson County …" The docket describes this as the "Washington tract" Signed by surveyor William M. McPherson. McPherson was the first surveyor of Jefferson County after the split from Berkeley Jefferson County December 11 1813 Survey with plat map 2pp reflecting the sale of 130 acres to Adam Gather by John Yates Signed by surveyor Mark Hornsey. Jefferson County December 11 1813 Survey with plat map 2pp reflecting the remainder of land 77 acres after sale of 130 acres to Adam Gather. "This tract of land of timber land purchased by John Yates from George S. Washington remaining after sale of the other part to Adam Gather …" George Steptoe Washington was the nephew of President Washington. Signed by surveyor Mark Hornsey. Jefferson County November 4 1814 Indenture partially printed completed in manuscript 2pp in which John Yates purchases 118 acres from Robert O. Grayson and wife Marguerite Susan Grayson. Signed by both Graysons George Hite Edward McGuire and Lewis Hoff Jefferson County January 23 1837 Indenture 4 pp in which John Yates purchases from Abraham Snyder wife Susannah and daughter Elisha "a certain tract or parcel of land lying and being in the said County of Jefferson which is part of a larger tract of land called the Flowing Spring tract formerly belonging to John Peyton deceased …" An interesting addendum suggests some controversy: "We Richard Williams and William F Lock Justices of the Peace in the county aforesaid in the State of Virginia do hereby certified Susanna Snyder the wife of Abraham Snyder partner to a certain deed bearing date on the 23rd day of January 1837 and hereto annexed personally appeared before us in our county aforesaid and being examined privately and apart from her husband and having the deed fully explained to her she the said Susannah Snyder acknowledged the same to her act and deed and declared she had willingly signed sealed and delivered the same and wished not to retract it …" Signed by the Snyders Rich Williams and William F Lock. Jefferson County April 1842 Survey with plat map 2 pp "Yates to Alexander Beginning at a point in the center of the Winchester and Potomac Rail Road …" Signed by surveyor James M Brown. Jefferson County May 5 1842 Indenture Deed of Release 4 pp Henry St. George Tucker trustee Ann T. Hite John S Davison and Philip Williams to John Yates regarding "certain lots of land in Jefferson County Virginia - being part of the "Flowing Spring Mill" tract late the property of John Peyton … containing three hundred and fifty acres …" Signed by Tucker Hite Davison and Williams and Justices of the Peace George Spooner and John K Jones Jefferson County and John Magill and Jas Neill Frederick County. not published books
ref. 44043Amsterdam: Yshak de Cordova 5466. Fifth printing. Hardcover. poor to g-. 16mo. 3.5x6". 167pp. missing final page. Original brown calf boards. The book is a complete Spanish-language translation of the biblical book Song of Songs Song of Solomon and Perkei Avot Ethics of the Fathers the famed collection Jewish ethical sayings taken from the Talmud. Both of these works feature Moses Belmonte's translations which had been printed in Amsterdam since 1644. The translations are interlinear with each passage printed in Hebrew followed by the Spanish and in the case of Song of Songs the translation is followed by Spanish-language commentary. These works are related in their connection to the Jewish observance of Passover. Song of Songs is read on the Sabbath during Passover and chapters from Perkei Avot are traditionally read one each week between Passover and Shavuot. Pages 1-91 contain Song of Songs and 92-167 contain the text of Perkei Avot. As stated in the preface this is the "Quinta Imprension" Fifith printing of the work based on Belmonte's translation and that it was printed for the congregation of Rabbi Jacob de Mesa in Amsterdam. Title page bordered with a decorative woodblock motif. Decorative head and endpeices at the beginning and end of sections. Some of the translated text of Perkei Avot contains numerous in-text hand-corrections and Hebrew marginal notes in ink from the period. Text in Spanish with passages in Hebrew and some Ladino. Binding with spine missing rubbing and light chipping to extremities. Covers with some creasing scratches and abrasions. Starting at interior covers and some other pages throughout. Some sporadic water stains foxing and smudges throughout. The final section of Pirkei Avot is wormed in the upper corner with minimal loss of text overall. Page 103-104 with a vertical closed tear. A few pages have notes in ink. The final page p.167 containing the final passage of Perkei Avot verse 14 in Hebrew and Spanish is missing. Interior back cover is partially torn away from the board. Name of the previous owner in ink on the interior covers and the bottom of the title page. Binding fairly tight overall. Binding in poor interior good- condition overall. Moses Belmonte 1619 - 1647 Amsterdam was a poet and translator of Portuguese Jewish origin. Alternative titles: "Paraphrasis Caldayca en los Cantares de Selomoh con el Texto Hebrayco y Ladino traduzida en lengua Española" "Paraphrasis Caldaica en los cantares de Selomoh: con el Texto Hebrayco y Ladino traduzida en lengua Española" This copy belonged to Jacob Alvarez-Pereira 1684-1754 who was a prominent Sephardic Jewish merchant. References: Kayserling p.181 under bible; Silva-Rosa 18. Yshak de Cordova hardcover
ref. 44043Amsterdam: Yshak de Cordova 5466. Fifth printing. Hardcover. poor to g-. 16mo. 3.5x6". 167pp. missing final page. Original brown calf boards. The book is a complete Spanish-language translation of the biblical book Song of Songs Song of Solomon and Perkei Avot Ethics of the Fathers the famed collection Jewish ethical sayings taken from the Talmud. Both of these works feature Moses Belmonte's translations which had been printed in Amsterdam since 1644. The translations are interlinear with each passage printed in Hebrew followed by the Spanish and in the case of Song of Songs the translation is followed by Spanish-language commentary. These works are related in their connection to the Jewish observance of Passover. Song of Songs is read on the Sabbath during Passover and chapters from Perkei Avot are traditionally read one each week between Passover and Shavuot. Pages 1-91 contain Song of Songs and 92-167 contain the text of Perkei Avot. As stated in the preface this is the "Quinta Imprension" Fifith printing of the work based on Belmonte's translation and that it was printed for the congregation of Rabbi Jacob de Mesa in Amsterdam. Title page bordered with a decorative woodblock motif. Decorative head and endpeices at the beginning and end of sections. Some of the translated text of Perkei Avot contains numerous in-text hand-corrections and Hebrew marginal notes in ink from the period. Text in Spanish with passages in Hebrew and some Ladino. Binding with spine missing rubbing and light chipping to extremities. Covers with some creasing scratches and abrasions. Starting at interior covers and some other pages throughout. Some sporadic water stains foxing and smudges throughout. The final section of Pirkei Avot is wormed in the upper corner with minimal loss of text overall. Page 103-104 with a vertical closed tear. A few pages have notes in ink. The final page p.167 containing the final passage of Perkei Avot verse 14 in Hebrew and Spanish is missing. Interior back cover is partially torn away from the board. Name of the previous owner in ink on the interior covers and the bottom of the title page. Binding fairly tight overall. Binding in poor interior good- condition overall. Moses Belmonte 1619 - 1647 Amsterdam was a poet and translator of Portuguese Jewish origin. Alternative titles: "Paraphrasis Caldayca en los Cantares de Selomoh con el Texto Hebrayco y Ladino traduzida en lengua Española" "Paraphrasis Caldaica en los cantares de Selomoh: con el Texto Hebrayco y Ladino traduzida en lengua Española" This copy belonged to Jacob Alvarez-Pereira 1684-1754 who was a prominent Sephardic Jewish merchant. References: Kayserling p.181 under bible; Silva-Rosa 18. Yshak de Cordova hardcover books
1820ref. B2235London: Rodwell and Martin 1820. Plates and text are clean and crisp an excellent copy. Binding: recent ½ calf with marbled boards. Spine with 6 compartments of raised bands gilt lettering on two. Notes: Henry Englefield was an antiquary and scientific writer. He was a made a fellow of the Society of Antiquites in 1779 and also served as the president for a brief period. National Bibliography Size: Large 4to Illustration: 39 beautifully engraved plates of ancient Roman and Greek vases 1 of which is hand coloured not including frontis and engraved title page. Pages: P. Frontis engraved title 1-7 Plates and descriptions unpaginated Category: ; Book Plate Books General; Book Antiquities; Book Art Architecture & Design; Rodwell and Martin hardcover
1880ref. 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
1880ref. 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
1905ref. 7558New York: Moses King 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Henry M. Pettit F.W. Jopling Richard Rummell. Folio. i ii-viii 5 2-72. With a history of Brooklyn by John W. Chadwick. Laden with illustrations and photography throughout. Two maps. Index to views and photographs. Uncommon original cloth binding beveled edges with title and design stamped on the front board in darker green black and gilt. A trifle soiling to front cover; light wear to extremities of cloth. The writing pen featured in the final photo was added to provide scale. "The Greatest of the Five Boroughs of Greater New York" as Chadwick's history is titled. Some-300 of the photographs are by George P. Hall and Son documenting commercial buildings cemeteries bridges banks public works houses and apartment houses schools hotels street and waterfront scenes churches etc. Printed by the Plimpton Press. Scarce in cloth. Moses King hardcover
ref. 51-3452Paris: 1934. . Original watercolor presumably by Moise Kisling. 173 x 115 mm. Part of a collection from his friend Thadé Thódore Tadé Bloch. Titled and dated on the front and annotated: "A Memory of Spring:1934" on the verso. This was the year Kisling had an exhibition at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh. Image shows an artist with his portfolio. This image not referenced in the major oeuvre catalogue which only included oils : "Kisling" Text by Joseph Kessel and Jean Kisling. NY: Harry Abrams 1971 Paris: 1934. unknown
ref. 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
ref. 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
1555ref. 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