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2017réf. 65831Shanghai: Shang hai da xue chu ban she 2017. Large 8vo pp. 4 3 1 5 7 803 1; covers a little spotted else fine in original brown laminate boards lettered in gilt. This is a facsimile of the Shanghai 1900 edition both a dictionary and a spoken language textbook for missionaries to learn the local language. It more completely reflects the status of the Western Sichuan dialect at the end of the 19th century involving many aspects such as pronunciation vocabulary grammar folk customs etc. Shang hai da xue chu ban she unknown books
1983réf. 65927West Branch Iowa: Toothpaste Press for Bookslinger Editions 1983. Letterpress broadside edition limited to 70 numbered copies this marked 'os' - approx. 14½" x 10½" printed in brown and black; printed on the occasion of the author's reading at the Walker Art Center Minneapolis February 2 1982. This copy signed by Adam. Only 3 in OCLC: Buffalo San Diego and Delaware. Also included in the Bookslinger Twenty Broadsides portfolio 1981-82. Toothpaste Press for Bookslinger Editions unknown books
1981réf. 63997Archon Books 1981. First edition 8vo pp. xv 3 284; numerous tables in the text throughout; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Archon Books unknown books
1817réf. 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
1985réf. 55882West Branch Iowa: Coffee House Press 1985. Edition limited to 500 copies signed by the author and illustrator; 11" x 5½" pp. 24; illustrations by Ann Mikolowski; stitched as issued in pictorial tan wrappers; fine. Morning Coffee Chapbook 12. Coffee House Press unknown books
1982réf. 55648West Branch Iowa: Toothpaste Press 1982. Edition limited to 70 signed and numbered copies 14" x 10.5" poetry broadside printed for Bookslinger Editions on the occasion of the author's reading at Walker Art Center Minneapolis. Toothpaste Press unknown books
1796réf. 48977Avgvstae Vindelicorvm i.e. Augsburg: officinae librariae Joseph Wolffianae 1796. Thick 8vo pp. xxviii 3028 columns; engraved frontispiece; contemporary full calf gilt-paneled spine in 6 compartments old brown morocco label in 1 edges stained red; several old ownership inscription on the front flyleaf some cracking at the tops of both joints; good and sound. A comprehensive German-Latin dictionary. Vancil p. 139 cites the 1750 and 1754 editions; Zaunmuller col. 254. officinae librariae Joseph Wolffianae unknown books
1790réf. 48326Dublin: printed by P. Byrne 1790. 6 volumes 8vo engraved frontispiece 2 folding engraved maps and 5 folding tables; contemporary full mottled calf red and black morocco labels on spines 2 lacking; spine ends chipped extremities rubbed and worn but in all a good serviceable set. Engraved bookplates of Alexander Crofts. First published in 2 volumes folio in 1762. Anderson 1693-1765 was a Scottish economist and for 40 years was a clerk in South Sea House the headquarters of the South Sea Company. Late in his life Anderson traveled to the American colonies begetting a son Adam E. Anderson later noted for being an early settler and planner of the Ohio Territory. printed by P. Byrne unknown books
1870réf. 41127Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black 1870. Thick 12mo pp. xxiv 544 104 ads; engraved frontispiece and title page 50 plates of illustrations maps and charts many folding or double-paged; contemporary green cloth upper cover and spine elaborately stamped and lettered in gilt yellow endpapers printed in purple; ex-Hill Library with usual markings front free endpaper detached but present; general light wear else a very good copy. The advertisements are substantial. Adam and Charles Black unknown books
1881réf. 41032Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black 1881. Sixth edition 8vo pp. vi 218 112 ads; frontispiece 3 folding maps illustrations throughout text title-page vignette; MHS bookplate ads slightly browned hinges cracked small cracks in spine ends else good in original green cloth gilt lettering on spine and upper cover. Of this edition Edinburgh only in OCLC. Adam and Charles Black unknown books
1948réf. 24401London: Collins 1948. First edition 8vo pp. 49 1; color frontispiece 3 plates in color illustrations in b&w throughout; but for a slightly faded spine panel a fine copy in the original orange and white pictorial paper-covered boards and dust jacket. Collins unknown books
1783réf. 28002Dublin: printed for Price Whitestone Colles et al. 1783. First Dublin edition 3 vols. 8vo pp. 10 492 2; 8 608; 8 600; first page of table of contents in vol. I misbound at the back; all else very good in contemporary full calf red and brown morocco labels on spines. This edition is printed the same year as the first London edition. printed for Price, Whitestone, Colles, [et al.] unknown books
1845réf. 20195London: William Pickering 1845. 8vo pp. lxxx 372 1; bound by Riviere in half green morocco and marbled boards spine elaborately gilt in 6 compartments t.e.g. marbled endpapers; joints and edges lightly rubbed; dampstain to margins affecting text on only a few leaves otherwise a very good copy. Based upon the Scandinavian myth of the Edda. William Pickering unknown books
1994réf. 13478Glasgow Scotland: Adam McLean/Hermetic Research Series 1994. First Edition/Limited Editions. Hardcover. Near Fine. First Edition/Limited Editions. Hardcover. The author Adam McLean is a well known authority on and enthusiast for alchemical texts and symbolism the editor and publisher of over 100 books on alchemical and hermetic ideas. Based in the UK he has been writing and researching alchemical and hermetic literature for many years. Between 1978 and 1992 he edited the Hermetic Journal and during those years he also began publishing the Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks the important series of fifty five editions of key source texts of the hermetic tradition. From 1990 through 2002 he was supported by the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica to undertake research into hermetic texts. This enabled him to devote much of his time to research and projects making alchemical ideas available to people. In 1995 when the internet became more widely available he began to construct the alchemy web site in order to make alchemical ideas more accessible to the wider community. It is now recognised as the most important internet resource on alchemy."--Adam McLean. A handsome copy. From the personal library collection of Brian Cotnoir alchemist artist and award-winning filmmaker. Author of Practical Alchemy: Guide to the Great Work The Emerald Tablet a series of Alchemical 'Zines Alchemical Meditations Alchemy: The Poetry of Matter and most recently On Alchemy: Essential Practices and Making Art as Alchemy. He has presented seminars and workshops around the world on various aspects of the alchemy. Khepri Press was started in 2014 as a place to organize and distribute his work. It is a very small press dedicated to alchemical book arts. Some of this work is publishable and others may exist only in manuscript or object form - alchemical results or talismans. Light shelfwear else near fine. 8vo. 140pp. Bound in faux red leather with gilt spine title red papers. Former owner library stamp. Limited to 300 in each edition of which this is number 34. Signed and dated by author. Adam McLean/Hermetic Research Series hardcover books
2002réf. 13485Edinburgh: Adam McLean 2002. First Edition First Printing. Poster. Very Good. First Edition First Printing. Poster. The scroll is an English alchemical manuscript and is among the earliest alchemical works that incorporate allegorical imagery and text. It dates from the middle to late 15th century 1450-1500. 21 examples have survived and the earliest is in Oxford. It predates the well known Splendor solis illustrations. It has not yet been conclusively established that it was the work of George Ripley but his name has always been associated with this scroll. In the first few months of 2002 I worked on making a facsimile of this famous work basing it upon three of the best known and earliest versions of the scroll. I redrew and coloured the images. Most of the surviving scrolls are in poor condition and the colouring has consequently faded so making this facsimile provided the opportunity of recreating the scroll in its original vivid colours. I also have used my modern version of the text on the scroll.--Adam McLean. Scarce early example of Adam McLean's brilliant facsimile reinterpretation. Printed on one continuous sheet. From the personal library collection of Brian Cotnoir alchemist artist and award-winning filmmaker. Author of Practical Alchemy: Guide to the Great Work The Emerald Tablet a series of Alchemical 'Zines Alchemical Meditations Alchemy: The Poetry of Matter and most recently On Alchemy: Essential Practices and Making Art as Alchemy. He has presented seminars and workshops around the world on various aspects of the alchemy. Khepri Press was started in 2014 as a place to organize and distribute his work. It is a very small press dedicated to alchemical book arts. Some of this work is publishable and others may exist only in manuscript or object form - alchemical results or talismans. Light shelfwear rolled in very good condition. 6 feet unrolled. Illus. b/w. Full color printed on semigloss cardstock. Former owner library stamp. Adam McLean unknown books
2003réf. 13459Glasgow Scotland: Adam McLean/Hermetic Research Series 2003. First Edition/Limited Editions. Original Wraps. Near Fine in Wraps. First Edition/Limited Editions. Original Wraps. This collection includes: The Green Lion: Three Dialogues by Jacques Tesson 2003. Signed no. 48. The Philosophers' Stone by Georg Ernst Stahl" Signed no. 51. The Book of Cratès 2002. Unsigned. Thomas Charnock's Alchemical Letter to Queen Elizabeth 2002. Unsigned. Sendivogius: A Treatise on Salt by Michael Sendivogius 2002. Unsigned. Compounds of Compounds by Albertus Magnus 2003. Unsigned. The creator of the alchemy web site Adam McLean is a well known authority on and enthusiast for alchemical texts and symbolism the editor and publisher of over 100 books on alchemical and hermetic ideas. Based in the UK he has been writing and researching alchemical and hermetic literature for many years. Between 1978 and 1992 he edited the Hermetic Journal and during those years he also began publishing the Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks the important series of fifty five editions of key source texts of the hermetic tradition. From 1990 through 2002 he was supported by the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica to undertake research into hermetic texts. This enabled him to devote much of his time to research and projects making alchemical ideas available to people. In 1995 when the internet became more widely available he began to construct the alchemy web site in order to make alchemical ideas more accessible to the wider community. It is now recognised as the most important internet resource on alchemy."--Adam McLean From the personal library collection of Brian Cotnoir alchemist artist and award-winning filmmaker. Author of Practical Alchemy: Guide to the Great Work The Emerald Tablet a series of Alchemical 'Zines Alchemical Meditations Alchemy: The Poetry of Matter and most recently On Alchemy: Essential Practices and Making Art as Alchemy. He has presented seminars and workshops around the world on various aspects of the alchemy. Khepri Press was started in 2014 as a place to organize and distribute his work. It is a very small press dedicated to alchemical book arts. Some of this work is publishable and others may exist only in manuscript or object form - alchemical results or talismans. Light shelfwear else near fine. Glossy color wrappers. 8vo. var. pg. Illus. b/w. 5 volume set. Former owner library stamp. Limited to 300 in each edition that are handnumbered. Adam McLean/Hermetic Research Series unknown books
2025réf. 17148New York: MCD Farrar Straus and Giroux 2025. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Adam Johnson in ink to page specially bound in by the publisher. Stated first edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/4" X 6 1/8". 716pp. Gentle shelfwear to dust jacket. Bound in black paper over boards with upper board decorated in gilt stars and spine lettered in gilt. Binding is firm tight and sound. Pages are clean bright and unmarked. A highly presentable signed first edition of this "powerful and original epic" The New York Times by the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Orphan Master's Son. ABOUT THIS BOOK: A historical epic about a girl from a remote Tongan island who becomes her people's queen. Talking corpses poetic parrots and a fan that wafts the breath of life-this is the world young K rero finds herself thrust into when a mysterious visitor lands on her island a place so remote its inhabitants have forgotten the word for stranger. Her people are desperate and on the brink of starvation and the wayward stranger offers them an impossible choice: they can remain in the only home they've ever known and await the uncertainty to come or K rero can join him and venture into unfamiliar waters guided by only the night sky and his assurance of a bountiful future in the Kingdom of Tonga. What K rero and her people don't know is that the promised refuge is no utopia-instead Tonga is an empire at war and on the verge of collapse a place where brains are regularly liberated from skulls and souls get trapped in coconuts with some frequency. The perils of Tonga are compounded by a royal feud: loyalties are shifting graves are being opened and everyone lives in fear of a jellyfish tattoo. Here survival can rest on a perfectly performed dance or the acceptance of a cup of kava. Together the stranger and K rero embark upon an epic voyage-one that will deliver them either to salvation or to the depths of the Pacific. Evoking the grandeur of Wolf Hall and the splendor of Sh gun the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Adam Johnson conjures oral history restores the natural world and locates what's best in humanity. Toweringly ambitious and breathtakingly immersive The Wayfinder is an instant timeless classic. MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux hardcover books
2025réf. 17260New York: Author's Equity 2025. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good /very good . First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Adam Cohen to page specially bound in by the publisher. Stated first edition first printing. 9 1/2" X 6 3/8". xviii 357pp. A hint of shelfwear to unclipped dust jacket with Signed Copy label to front panel. Bound in blue paper over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Gentle bumping to head and tail of spine. Binding is firm tight and sound. Pages are clean bright and unread. A very presentable signed first edition of this account of a harrowing journey at sea and its legal aftermath by acclaimed journalist Pulitzer Prize juror and New York Times bestselling author Adam Cohen. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Four men in a lifeboat. Two weeks without food. One impossible choice that would reshape the boundaries between survival and murder. "A perfect enunciation of the classic philosophical conundrum: can you sacrifice one innocent life to save many" Yann Martel author of Life of Pi On May 19 1884 the yacht Mignonette set sail from England on what should have been an uneventful voyage. When their vessel sank in the Atlantic Captain Thomas Dudley and his crew found themselves adrift in a tiny lifeboat. As days turned to weeks they faced an unthinkable choice: starve to death or resort to cannibalism. Their decision to sacrifice the youngest-17-year-old cabin boy Richard Parker-ignited a firestorm of controversy upon their rescue. Instead of being hailed as heroes and survivors Dudley and his crew found themselves at the center of Regina v. Dudley and Stephens a landmark murder trial that would establish the legal precedent that necessity cannot justify murder-a principle that continues to shape Anglo-American law today. In Captain's Dinner acclaimed journalist Pulitzer Prize juror and New York Times bestselling author Adam Cohen masterfully depicts both the harrowing weeks at sea and the sensational trial that followed. "Is killing one innocent person justified if it saves the lives of three others Cohen's answer-in this riveting account-reads like a thriller" former U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken. Through this Victorian tragedy Cohen reveals an enduring conflict between primal instincts and moral principles. This book will "make you think long and hard about what you might do to survive" Ezekiel J. Emanuel M.D. Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania. Perfect for readers of David Grann's The Wager and Nathaniel Philbrick's In the Heart of the Sea this pulse-pounding true story has become a real-life example of one of life's greatest moral dilemmas. "Thoroughly researched and impeccably argued" Martel. Rich with narrative detail and real-life courtroom twists "brilliant and profound" bestselling author Amy Chua Captain's Dinner strikes at the heart of a question that haunts us all: When does survival justify murder Publisher. Author's Equity hardcover books
2014réf. 13270New Haven CT: Yale University Press 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine Dustjacket. First Edition. Hardcover. Underlined and annotations by Oliver Sacks on p.20: "I too." Dr. Sacks often wrote conversations with the author and reactions in the margins. Posthumously designed book plate by a friend of Oliver's incorporating his longstanding love of cephalopods. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks the renowned neurologist author and educator. He was in his life celebrated for his contributions to the understanding of the human brain and his ability to communicate complex scientific concepts to a broader audience. In doing so he highlighted the profound impact of neurological disorders on human identity and experience. His library is a reflection of this remarkable polymath's questing mind. Near fine. Red cloth. 8vo. 178pp.index. Illus. b/w. All underlining emphasis and notations are in the hand of Dr. Oliver Sacks. Yale University Press hardcover books
2024réf. 16788Brooklyn: Pacific Books 2024. Presumed First Edition. Paperback. Very good . Presumed First Edition. Paperback. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". 105pp. No further printings noted. Very mild shelf wear to covers corners and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm tight and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: "I am that thing that doesn't fit" appears early on in Joyspace architect Adam Rolston's vibrant sharp manifesto on the practice to which he has dedicated his life. Chronicling nearly four decades of a singular creative vision within which a brief history of modern architecture unfurls and is then critiqued Joyspace presents the reader with new definitions of art and value within the built environment. An act of personal and intellectual self-definition-that includes references as diverse as ACT UP Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's futurist manifesto and Rutger Hauer's chilling "tears in the rain" monologue from Blade Runner-Rolston's Joyspace is a transformative force capable of shaping a new interconnected global aesthetic that resists the boundaries of conventional design where nothing fits and everybody belongs. The Pacific Design Series explores design as an act of problem solving and alternative thinking. With contributions from some of today's most visionary thinkers in the mediums of art architecture photography and creative writing the series positions design as a gesture of hope-a belief that if we can imagine another way forward then we can create a better way forward.Publisher. Pacific Books paperback books
1991réf. 11569Duarte CA: Hope Press 1991. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good in Wraps. First Edition. Original Wraps. Posthumously designed book plate by a friend of Oliver's incorporating his longstanding love of cephalopods. Inscription on tp. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks the renowned neurologist author and educator. He was in his life celebrated for his contributions to the understanding of the human brain and his ability to communicate complex scientific concepts to a broader audience. In doing so he highlighted the profound impact of neurological disorders on human identity and experience. His library is a reflection of this remarkable polymath's questing mind. Minimal shelfwear else tight bright and unmarred. 8vo. 152pp. Mounted bookplate on endpapers. Hope Press unknown books
1992réf. 11544Silver Spring MD: Hope Press 1992. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good in Wraps. First Edition. Original Wraps. Foreword by OS. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks the renowned neurologist author and educator. He was in his life celebrated for his contributions to the understanding of the human brain and his ability to communicate complex scientific concepts to a broader audience. In doing so he highlighted the profound impact of neurological disorders on human identity and experience. His library is a reflection of this remarkable polymath's questing mind. Minimal shelfwear else tight bright and unmarred. Glossy paper wraps. 8vo. 206pp. Hope Press unknown books
1880réf. 187917Dresden: Gilbers'sche Konigl. Hof-Verlagsbuchhandlung 1880. Hardcover. VG- shelfwear to boards front end paper loose age toning overall chipping to page edges for the last approx 10 pages of plates not affecting plates. Oversized bound in 1/2 red leather and color illustrated paper over boards; spine has gilt lettering and five raised bands; top edge gilt color illustrated end papers; 76 pp with bw illustrations 69 bw plates many are mounted. Text is in German. Bookplate inside front cover belonging to Ogden Codman American architect. Saxon mansions and locksmiths; represented in views floor plans situation plans and an explanatory text. Gilbers'sche Konigl. Hof-Verlagsbuchhandlung hardcover books
1900réf. 188087London: E. Thezard 1900. Hardcover. VG- light shelfwear to boards; a few plates and text are missing as noted above. Light age toning; pages are otherwise clean and clear. Oversized 3/4 red and green portfolio boards with gilt lettering; tan ribbon closures; 6 pp of text missing pages 5-8 followed by 7 plates missing plate IV; 8 pp; 8 plates; 2 pp; 8 plates; 4 pp; 7 plates missing plate V; 4 pp; 6 plates missing plate VI and VII; 6 pp; 8 plates; 1 pp; 8 plates; 1 pp; 8 plates; 1 pp; 8 plates; 8 plates; 3 pp; 25 plates. Dual text in French and English. Vol. 1. pt. 1. The Seat of the Duke of Northumberland at Sion ; pt. 2. The Villa of Earl Mansfield at Kenwood ; pt. 3. The Seat of the Earl of Bute at Luton Park ; pt. 4. Public buildings ; pt. 5. Designs for the King and Queen and the Princess Dowager of Wales. Originally printed for the authors and sold by P. Elmsly 1778-1822. E. Thezard hardcover books
2002réf. 38908London: Tony Butcher 2002. Limited First edition. Hardcover. vg. 1/100. Large quarto. 134pp. Original black cloth with silver lettering on spine. Book housed in its matching publisher's slipcase. An original 9 1/2 x 7 1/2" silver gelatin print resting at pocket on inside of front cover. Half-title blind-stamped and hand-signed by the author. Tony Butcher showcases his photographs of the black male nude in this stunning limited edition book. Butcher's photographs glorify the black male. They are a celebration of texture the smoothness of skin and the warmth of the flesh. The choice of the subject creates images bursting with physical energy. One of 100 numbered copies of which this is No. 20. Slipcase binding interior and original photograph in very good condition. Tony Butcher hardcover books
