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1729Best.-Nr. 782111729. with striking engraved frontispiece. with striking engraved frontispiece. Scarce Treatise on Exchange in the Holy Roman Empire with Striking Engraved Pictorial Frontispiece Beck Johann Adam 1686-1751. Tractatus Novus vom Wechsel-Recht: In Sich Begreiffend So Wohl die Persohnen Welche Diesem Recht Unterworffen Sind Als Auch die Verschiedene Arten und Gattungen Derer Wechsel und Wechsel-Brieffen Ingleichen was in- Order bey Ausstell- Verfertig- Versend- Und Versicherung der Wechsel-Brieffen Oder Sonst Insgemein . Zu Observiren ist Alles aus Denen Durchaus mit Allegirten Neuesten in- Und Ausser dem H. Romis. Reich Erfindlichen Vielen Wechsel-Ordnungen Mandaten und Decreten Wie Ingleichen Denen Best- Und Bewahrtesten Autoribus Mit Allem Flei Zusammen Getragen Nicht Minder mit Verschiedenen Kauffmanns Parere Auch Practicablen Casibus Illustrirt. Und Absonderlich Einer Lobl. Kauffmannschafft So Dann Richtern Advocaten Procuratoribus Notariis Solicitatoribus Und Andern die mit Wechseln Umgehen Zum Besten Verfa t Und cum Indice Rerum & Verborum Locupletissimo Auch Noch Einem Appendice Heraus Gegeben. Nuremberg: Verlegis Johann Georg Lochner 1729. xii 512 pp. Title in red and black copperplate pictorial frontispiece typographic folding table. Quarto 8" x 6-1/4". Contemporary mottled calf blind rules to boards gilt spine with raised bands and red and green lettering pieces marbled endpapers edges rouged silk ribbon bookmark. Light rubbing and minor scuffing and scratching to boards moderate rubbing to extremities somewhat heavier to joints chipping to spine ends front joint starting at foot corners bumped and lightly worn front hinge starting rear hinge cracked later bookplate of Otto Zeilinger to front pastedown. Woodcut head and tail-pieces. Moderate toning to interior occasional light foxing. $1500. First edition. This treatise discusses the law of exchange in the Holy Roman Empire with attention to bills of exchange promissory notes and foreign exchange. The frontispiece shows the busy work taking place in a Baroque exchange office with wooden paneling cornice statutes and pictures as well as the figure of Mercury famously the Roman god of trade and patron saint of merchants with a caduceus winged shoes and winged helmet. Apparently a well-received work a second edition was published in 1751. OCLC locates 5 cop. unknown books
2002Best.-Nr. 195289Santa Fe NM: Twin Palms 2002. First edition and first printing. Large hardcover. An often ethereal collection of 26 tritone and four color plates. A fine copy in blue cloth boards and in a near fine dust jacket with some very light wear. Signed by Fuss facing the colophon page. Twin Palms unknown books
2013Best.-Nr. 196136Syracuse NY: Lightwork 2013. First edition. Softcover. 48 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran January 14 through March 22 2013 and then traveled for additional dates. Features text by Hannah Frieser and with a brief artist statement by Magyar. Includes some color and numerous black and white images with some fold out plates. A very near fine copy in wrappers. Lightwork unknown books
1972Best.-Nr. 551968New York: Random House 1972. Unbound. Good. Uncorrected proof. Tall red wrappers. Good only with a chip on the spine head creasing and foxing. Random House unknown books
2000Best.-Nr. 191311San Francisco CA and New York: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Thames & Hudson 2000. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 215 pages. Monograph published in conjunction an exhibition that ran June 10 through September 3 2000 at Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco California Palace of the Legion of Honor and then traveled to Fort Worth Washington DC and New York for additional dates. Features text by Steven A. Nash and Adam Gopnik. Inclues 120 color illustrations and some additonal illustrations a chronology by Nash list of previous exhibitions and selected bibliography. A clean very near fine copy in cloth boards in a near fine dust jacket. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Thames & Hudson unknown books
1830Best.-Nr. 333547Montreal: Printed at the Office of the Herald and New Gazette 1830. First Edition. xii 13-216pp. Without the frontispiece portrait. 12mo. Bound in contemporary black straight grained morocco. gilt flat spine a.e.g. hole with loss at pp. 91/92. First Edition. xii 13-216pp. Without the frontispiece portrait. 12mo. Sabin 37700; Dionne III 22; Gagnon I 1864; Lande 1882; TPL 1585; Watters p. 104 Printed at the Office of the Herald and New Gazette unknown books
2013Best.-Nr. 185921Washington DC: National Gallery of Art 2013. First edition. Hardcover. 239 pages. Published in conjunction an exhibition that ran September 1 2013 through January 5 2014 at the National Gallery of Art and then January 28 through May 17 2015 at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio. Includes numerous illustrations of works by the likes of Richard Diebenkorn John Cage Chuck Close and others commentaries exhibition checklist and an index. A clean very near fine copy in very near fine. National Gallery of Art unknown books
2020Best.-Nr. 93018.202: Yale University Art Gallery 2020. 1st ed. Paperback. Near Fine. color photos 278p. Softcover in original wrapper. 30 cm. Yale University Art Gallery paperback books
1708Best.-Nr. 746351708. Leipzig : Verlegt von Johann 1708. Folio. Leipzig : Verlegt von Johann 1708. Folio. Beyer's Rare 1708 Folio Edition of Volckmann's Notariat-Kunst Guide to Notaries in the Holy Roman Empire With a Handsome Title Page Volckmann Adam 1612-1664. Beyer Georg 1665-1714 Editor. Volckmannus Emendatus Sive Manuale Advocatorum et Notariorum: Hand-Buch vor Advocaten und Notarien So Bisshero unter dem Titul: Adam Volckmanns Notariat-Kunst zu Vielen Mahlen Edirt und Gebessert Nunmehr aber Durch und Durch Geandert. Leipzig : Verlegt von Johann Grossens seel. Erben und Johann Friedrich Braun 1708. Three parts in one volume. Folio 13 1/4" x 8 1/4"; 33.5 cm x 21 cm. x 522 i.e. 514; ii 416; 14 200 22 pp. Sections of text in parallel columns. Second and third parts have title pages. Main title page preceded by copperplate pictorial title page featuring a court scene and Lady Justice. Contemporary calf gilt spine with raised bands and gilt title reading Volkmanni Notariat Kunst speckled edges. Moderate rubbing and a few minor scuffs to boards somewhat heavier rubbing to extremities chipping to head of spine front joint cracked corners bumped upper corners moderately worn hinges partially cracked small recent owner inkstamp to front pastedown. Main title page printed in red and black. Moderate toning to interior faint dampstaining to fore-edges of rear quarter of text block spark burns to a few leaves light soiling and fading to pictorial title page offsetting to margins of preliminaries final leaves of text and rear endleaves. A very good crisp copy structurally sound. $2000. Later edition of this foundational manual of early modern civil practice in the Holy Roman Empire. First published in 1624-1625 under the title Informatio Notariorum Volckmann's treatise served as the definitive encyclopedia for Central European notarial practice for well over a century. Unlike common-law notary publics a notary within the Holy Roman Empire was a highly trained jurist of immense stature responsible for drafting complex public instruments codicils and commercial treaties. This 1708 edition is particularly significant due to the extensive textual overhaul by Georg Beyer a towering legal scholar at Wittenberg who is historically celebrated for delivering the first academic lectures on indigenous German law Jus Germanicum separating it from the domi. unknown books
2006Best.-Nr. 187289Gottingen Germany: Steidl / Dangin 2006. First edition and first printing. Oblong hardcover. Features a preface by Geoff Dyer. Includes 59 color images by Bartos. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Still in the publisher's shrinkwrap slit open to verify edition. Steidl / Dangin unknown books
1572Best.-Nr. 4221Dillingen: Sebald Mayer 1572. 8vo 153 x 120 mm. Collation: A-Z8 a4 -a4 blank. 7 173 7 leaves. Title printed in red and black within 4-part metalcut border repeated on title verso shoulder notes; 121 woodcuts of which 17 flanked by type-ornament borders; the cut on f. 113v roughly colored. One-inch tear to title first few leaves loosening and slightly softened some minor soiling a few short marginal tears. Contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards covers with border of a Fides-Justitia-Prudentia-Spes roll approx. 166 x 14 mm. not in Haebler or the Einbanddatenbank pair of metal fore-edge clasps and catches plain endpapers rubbed knife slashes to front cover by an anti-Catholic. Provenance: partially legible early signature on back flyleaf Ex libris Andreas Zwy---; inscription in a different early hand on front flyleaf: ich läbte lebte und weiss nit wie / ich stirb und weiss nich wän / ich fahr und weiss nit wohin" this popular German saying incorrectly attributed to Martin von Biberach was called by Luther the "rhyme of the godless". First Edition of Walasser's modernized adaptation of a late medieval allegorical romance of the soul's marriage to Christ in an illustrated pocket edition from the first press of Dillingen. It is a previously unrecognized imitation of an Augsburg incunable. The compiler Adam Walasser was not a cleric but a writer for hire who worked as "content producer" editor and proofreader for Sebald Mayer from the time the press was founded in 1550 until 1573 when along with Mayer's son Johann Walasser helped the Tegernsee Benedictines set up their own monastic press. His charge for Mayer was to produce copy by editing translating reworking or completing existing printed or manuscript works in order to further the Counter-Reformation program of the press's patron and eventually owner the Cardinal-Prince-Bishop of Augsburg Otto von Waldburg. The hard-working Walasser who also had experience as a printer also produced a few works of his own and left dozens of works of Catholic religious devotion Counter-Reformation polemics and a couple of books on German heraldry and language. The Büchlein der geistlichen Gemahelschaft a didactic allegory in rhyming couplets by one "Konrad of Vienna" identified as the Viennese Franciscan Konrad Spitzer d. 1380 circulated in manuscript in the late 14th and 15th centuries. A prose version written ca. 1418-1430 known in a few illustrated manuscripts was printed in Augsburg by Johann Bämler in 1477-1478 GW 5666-5668 and later by Johann Schönsperger GW 5669. Bämler used the title Buch der Kunst dadurch der weltliche Mensch mag geistlich werden "the Book of art by which the worldly person can become spiritual" hence the word Kunstbüchlin usually reserved for practical manuals in Walasser's title. Walasser used one of the Bämler editions as his copy-text. In his dedicatory letter to the powerful Abbess of the Imperial Abbey of Buchau Maria Jakoba from the noble family of von Schwarzenberg und Hohenlandsberg he describes his labors after receiving an "old book" from an "honorable person in Konstanze" who suggested that he republish it; it "delighted him as if it were a noble precious treasure" for he found it filled with the Gold and Silver of Christ's teachings fol. A6r-v. Walasser followed the Bämler text modernizing the language omitting a few words and phrases and adding others and added chapter numbers and a final table. The tale of seven virgins one of whom is chosen to marry the King is an allegory of the eternal struggle between good and evil God and Satan. The bride is led through temptation and is accompanied on mystical visits by the allegorical figures of Hope Faith and Wisdom. The latter teaches her "the theocentric worldview" Verfasserlexikon through seven secret words. The final magnificent wedding prepared by ten more virtuous maidens represents the unification through baptism of the soul with God. The symbolic meanings of the plot developments are helpfully spelled out in printed shoulder notes. The story is used as a framework for teaching the basics of Christian doctrine of Creation the Passion and the Sacraments. Using this old tale for Counter-Reformation messaging was a way to beat the Protestants at their own vernacular game by instructing while diverting the literate lay reader unversed in Latin often a woman. The many woodcut illustrations are smaller copies some in reverse of the cuts used in Bämler's editions. Whereas Bämler used some of his blocks more than once there are no repeats in Mayer's edition and while the cuts showing the virgins in action are all copied from the incunable editions there are some divergences in the sections on the Passion and other "generic" passages. A few of the woodcuts which are more heavily shaded than the others and/or are narrower than the text-block may have come from Mayer's stock and been used in other works. The cut on 51v stylistically different from the others is signed BP; this monogrammist's woodcuts appeared in other books by Walasser cf. Nagler Monogrammisten I:1992. No doubt in part because of the rarity of the Dillingen editions the source of this work does not seem to have been previously recognized. Although four more editions appeared during the next 30 years all are rare with none represented in American libraries. USTC 703501; VD16 ZV 2620; Otto Bucher Bibliographie der deutschen Drucke des XVI. Jahrhunderts. I: Dillingen Bibliotheca Bibliographica I 648; cf. Bäumker Wilhelm "Walasser Adam" Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie 40 pp 640-643. Sebald Mayer unknown books
1985Best.-Nr. 47249New York: Farrar Straus Giroux 1985. First printing. Near fine in near fine jacket. Unique association copy first edition of the Polish New Wave poet's early works inscribed by Robert Hass - thanked in the translator's note - to American poet Stanley Plumly. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Translated by Renata Gorczynski. Preface by Czeslaw Milosz. Original white cloth. In original unclipped $12.95 dust jacket. 83 1 pages. Ink inscription on half-title page: "For Stan in Washington in February with friendship and affection / Bob Hass Feb 21 86." Minor edgewear; jacket toned. Farrar Straus Giroux unknown books
1989Best.-Nr. 45643San Diego New York London: Harcourt Brace 1989. First edition. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. First printing of this collection of songs to sing to and with young children including classics like "Eensy Weensy Spider" "Patty-Cake Patty-Cake" and "Hickory Dickory Dock" - with a tipped-in bookplate signed by Jane Yolen. Jane Yolen is a literary all-rounder. From Nebula-winning SF short stories to historical fiction to cookbooks to poetry Yolen has found success and accolades. Picture books are no exception: among her numerous works in the genre are two Caldecott Medal winners beautiful collaborations with some of the most pre-eminent illustrators and beloved bedtime story staples. In 2021 at age 83 she published her 400th book and showed no signs of slowing down - "my eye is on 500!" she gleefully reported discussing her ongoing projects Scalzi. 8.5'' x 11''. Original color pictorial boards. Original unclipped $15.95 color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color. 32 pages. Bookplate signed by Yolen tipped onto verso of front flyleaf. Jacket with a hint of edgewear tiny spot of soil to rear flap. Binding with a touch of soil to edges. Sharp and bright. Harcourt Brace unknown books
1986Best.-Nr. 45644San Diego New York London: Harcourt Brace 1986. First edition. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Inscribed first printing of this collection of classic sleepy-time songs including "Hush Little Baby" "Bye Baby Bunting" and "Rock-A-Bye Baby." Jane Yolen is a literary all-rounder. From Nebula-winning SF short stories to historical fiction to cookbooks to poetry Yolen has found success and accolades. Picture books are no exception: among her numerous works in the genre are two Caldecott Medal winners beautiful collaborations with some of the most pre-eminent illustrators and beloved bedtime story staples. In 2021 at age 83 she published her 400th book and showed no signs of slowing down - "my eye is on 500!" she gleefully reported discussing her ongoing projects Scalzi. 8.5'' x 11''. Original red cloth boards. Original unclipped $13.95 color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color. 32 pages. Inscribed by Yolen Mikolaycak and Stemple to front flyleaf dated 1986. Jacket with a touch of edgewear a bit of sunning to spine. Binding with a couple tiny bumps to tail edge tiny spot of soil to rear board. Sharp and bright. Harcourt Brace unknown books
1968Best.-Nr. 178001968. Powell Adam Clayton Jr. Harlem fundraiser handbill 1968 documents Black electoral politics entertainment and community mobilization in Harlem during a turbulent period in Powell's congressional career. Powell a Baptist pastor and Harlem congressman was the first African American elected to Congress from New York and the first from the Northeast; by 1968 he remained a nationally known civil rights spokesman after his 1967 exclusion from Congress and before the Supreme Court's 1969 decision in Powell v. McCormack. The handbill documents grassroots political fundraising through a community event combining a Powell appearance soul music a dance contest and cash prizes. Alfred E. Isaac Club for Democrats. Handbill for Adam Clayton Powell Jr. event. New York: Alfred E. Isaac Club for Democrats November 3 1968. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. The event was held at Harlem's Renaissance Ballroom an African American owned entertainment complex opened in 1921 and used for music boxing film social clubs and political meetings. The handbill situates Powell within a Black public venue deeply associated with Harlem cultural life and civic gathering. The Renaissance Ballroom's history as a "Rennie" community institution gives the handbill added value as evidence of how Harlem politics operated through entertainment spaces clubs and neighborhood fundraising. Minor creases and small ink scribble; very good. A compact Harlem political handbill linking Powell's late-1960s civil rights politics to the social infrastructure of Black New York. unknown books
1961Best.-Nr. 183003Los Angeles CA: Ward Ritchie Press 1961. First edition. Hardcover. 127 pages. A monograph on photographer Adam Clark Vroman edited by Ruth I. Mahood. Features an introduction by Beaumont Newhall. Includes over 100 black and white images. A very near fine copy in a very near fine acetate dust jacket. A fresh copy. Ward Ritchie Press unknown books
1817Best.-Nr. 59002Nieuwe Diep: Ministry of the Marine 1817. 8" x 5" pp. 18 2; self-wrappers stitched as issued; in a contemporary parchment chemise. Some wear to the first leaf causing minor holes no text lost early ownership signature on the verso of the last leaf of Martin Page. These regulations "enacted by Royal Decree" and clearly meant for British and American eyes consist of 34 articles giving instructions for entering the busy port of Nieuwe Diep serving Amsterdam. They specify such things as to how vessels should identify themselves where and how they should tie up priority of vessels in finding berths prohibitive activities such as heating pitch or other combustibles rules for keeping watch procedures for dealing with ships on fire quarantine regulations and penalties for failing to follow instructions. Signed in type: "Secretary at the Ministry of the Marine Stratenus." This would be Adam Anthony Stratenus 1779-1836 who was Secretary General of the Ministry of the Navy. Very rare English version of the port of Nieuwe Diep's harbor regulations. Not found in OCLC. Ministry of the Marine unknown books
1994Best.-Nr. 180008New York: Random House 1994. First edition. Softcover. First printing of the simultaneous paperback issue. Edited by Mary Shanahan. A monograph published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Whitney Museum that traveled to Minneapolis. A fifty-year retrospective look at Avedon's long career. Essays by Jane Livingston and Adam Gopnik. Includes many of Avedon's most iconic images. A fine copy in wrappers. As new and still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. Random House unknown books
1999Best.-Nr. 180327Durham NC: Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University 1999. First edition. Softcover. Spring 1999. 144 pages. Features contributions by Seamus Heaney Nicholas Nixon Cheryl Strayed Adam Bartos Philip Levine Mary Oliver john Berger and numerous others. A clean near fine copy in wrappers. Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University unknown books
2012Best.-Nr. 44616New York: Random House 2012. First edition stated. Fine in fine jacket. Inscribed first printing of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel set in North Korea. Handsome copy of this ambitious novel winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize and finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award inscribed by Johnson in the year of publication. Described by the author as a "sort of North Korean Casablanca" THE ORPHAN MASTER'S SON was praised by Michiko Kakutani as "harrowing and deeply affecting." 9.25'' x 6.25''. Original black boards. In original unclipped $26.00 dust jacket by Lynn Buckley. 443 7 pages. Signed by Johnson and dated Jan 20 2012 on title page. Light edgewear. (Random House) unknown books
1818Best.-Nr. 320164Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson & Son 1818. First edition. xxvii 1 803pp. Uncut. 4to. Original paper-backed boards letterpress label on the spine. Some losses to spine front joint starting. Minor toning and light dampstaining in the rear. Inscription on the front pastedown: "Presented to the German Society by Dr. Henry Seybert July 13/39. First edition. xxvii 1 803pp. Uncut. 4to. "Prior to the adoption of the present governement of the United States of America it was not practicable to collect the facts and data for a statistical account of our country; the more important civil institutions were then exclusively under the control of the states respectively and each state was soverign and independent of the confederated government . Our character and interests demanded the proofs to correct the numerous errors and misrepresentations industriously circulated concerning the nature of our government the condition of our institutions and the general progress of the United States . The views presented in the following pages embrace all the permanent subjects of national importance from the commencement of the government in 1789 to the 20th of April 1818 ." Advertisement. The thick quarto work which begins with a printing of the Constitution comprises a profusion of tables of statistical data divided into the following sections: Population Commerce Navigation Fisheries Public Lands the Post Office Revenues the Mint the Military the Navy Expenditures and Public Debt. "Especially useful on early financial history" Howes. Howes S309; Sabin 79631; Goldsmiths 22031; Kress C.169; Shaw & Shoemaker 45692; Rink 337 Thomas Dobson & Son unknown books
1785Best.-Nr. 318437London 1785. The Sixth Edition. First published in 1678 as 'Linguæ Latinæ liber dictionarius quadripartitus'. With 2 maps one of Italy coloured and the other of Rome. 1430pp. Thick 4to. Bound in modern three quarters mottled tan calf and marbleds boards. Fine minor worming in small part of margin. The Sixth Edition. First published in 1678 as 'Linguæ Latinæ liber dictionarius quadripartitus'. With 2 maps one of Italy coloured and the other of Rome. 1430pp. Thick 4to. ESTC T84402 unknown books
2002Best.-Nr. 167545Sacramento CA: Crocker Art Museum 2002. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran October 4 2002 through January 12 2003. Text by Elizabeth Adan. Includes 7 color illustrations. A near fine copy in stapled wrappers and with laid in exhibition postcard. Uncommon. Crocker Art Museum unknown books
1988Best.-Nr. 168433Woodstock NY: Center for Photography at Woodstock 1988. First edition. Softcover. 30 pages. Features articles by Gretchen Garner Julia Ballerini and John Matturri. Also Includes a portfolio and text by Shelby Lee Adams. A fine unused copy in stapled wrappers. Center for Photography at Woodstock unknown books
2003Best.-Nr. 168487New York: Cheim and Read 2003. First edition. Softcover. 103 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show from September 2003. A collection of 104 images. A very near fine copy in stapled wrappers. Cheim and Read unknown books
