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1989réf. 9009465Boston: Little Brown & Co 1989. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. The dust jacket is price clipped. Little, Brown & Co hardcover books
1994réf. 9009464Boston: Little Brown & Co 1994. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. Little, Brown & Co hardcover books
1867réf. 17461867. SCHENCK NOAH HUNT. Epochs of Transition. An Oration Delivered before the American Whig and Cliosophic Societies of the College of New Jersey . June 26th 1866. Philadelphia 1867. 53 p. Wrappers. unknown books
1969réf. 9003672New York: McGraw-Hill 1969. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Bound in the publisher's original black cloth with the front cover stamped in blind and the spine stamped in gilt. McGraw-Hill hardcover books
2008réf. 521242008. ISBN-13: 9781584778561; ISBN-10: 1584778563. Webster Noah. Sketches of American Policy. Under the Following Heads: I. Theory of Government. II. Governments on the Eastern Continent. III. American States; Or the Principles of the American Constitutions Contrasted with Those of European States. IV. Plan of Policy for Improving the Advantages and Perpetuating the Union of the American States. Hartford: Printed by Hudson and Goodwin 1785. xix 48 pp. Facsimile reprint The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. 2008. With a New introduction and notes "Noah Webster: Proposing and Promoting Stronger National Union Through the Power of the English Language" by John R. Vile Professor and Chair Political Science Department Middle Tennessee State University Murfreesboro TN. ISBN 9781584778561. Hardcover. New. $39.95 Remembered today as a lexicographer Webster 1758-1843 was equally active as a political writer. As is the case with his dictionary and grammar textbooks his political essays are strongly patriotic and embody a confidence that the United States would soon become a great nation. He composed Sketches of American Policy at a time when the nationally minded segments of the political class were beginning to pursue plans to create a strong federal government to replace the Confederation Congress. Seeing this as a necessary step to ensure the nation's progress Webster endorsed this cause and wrote this pamphlet to promote it. During his tours throughout the states he presented to several people who would become delegates to the Constitutional Convention including George Washington James Madison and Benjamin Franklin. It circulated widely among the delegates and was an important influence in their debates. Interesting for this reason it is also valuable as a contemporary critique of the Articles of Confederation by a gifted scholar who associated with the leading statesmen of the day. unknown books
1828réf. 375728New York: Published by S. Converse. Printed by Hezekiah Howe-New Haven 1828. First edition. Engraved frontispiece portrait. 962 ff. signed: A B-K including I and J1-113 in 4s 114 in 2; π2 first leaf is a blank 1-115 in 4s 116 in 2. 2 vols. Large thick 4to. Half-bound tan calf and marbled paper boards stamped in gilt on spines; front and rear boards rubbed at centers with light overall shelf wear to edges; exterior spines cracked along edges and split at top rear of vol. 1 and bottom front of vol. 2; tissue guard at frontispiece foxed with some transfer to facing pages; interiors otherwise clean. First edition. Engraved frontispiece portrait. 962 ff. signed: A B-K including I and J1-113 in 4s 114 in 2; π2 first leaf is a blank 1-115 in 4s 116 in 2. 2 vols. Large thick 4to. Webster's landmark achievement the most important American dictionary of prime importance as an early effort toward mass education eventually placing correct spelling and usage at the fingertips of the ordinary American citizen. This two-volume quarto unabridged dictionary represents the culmination of Webster's indefatigable dedication to providing his country with its first comprehensive modern dictionary. "Webster set a new standard for etymological investigation and for accuracy of definition 'a born definer of words' - Sir James Murray and included 70000 words as against the 58000 of any previous dictionary. The edition was 2500 copies and the price $20.00" Carpenter. "Webster was an ardent nationalist and he wanted to stress the political separation from England by the cultivation of a separate American language" PMM. Skeel 583; Grolier American 100 #36; PMM 291; Sabin 102335 Published by S. Converse. Printed by Hezekiah Howe-New Haven unknown books
1819réf. 1266971819. First Edition. NOAH Mordecai M. Travels in England France Spain and the Barbary States in the Years 1813-14 and 15. New-York; London: C. Kirk and Mercein; John Miller 1819. Octavo contemporary marbled boards rebacked in period style speckled calf-gilt red morocco spine label uncut. $3400.First edition of this fascinating travelogue by Mordecai Manuel Noah the most prominent Jew in America at the timeÑU.S. Consul to Tunis the first American Jew to receive an overseas diplomatic assignmentÑillustrated with engraved frontispiece portrait and four engraved plates one folding. An excellent uncut copy in contemporary marbled boards.One of the early American republic's most influential Jews Mordecai Noah 1785-1851 was a journalist editor of New York newspaper The National Advocate publisher of the New York Enquirer and a community activist. He held the position of United States Consul to Tunis in 1816 was the sheriff of New York in 1821 the Surveyor of the Port from 1829-33 and a judge of the Court of General Sessions in 1841. He is perhaps most remembered as the originator of the ambitious though never-realized Ararat Project on Grand Island near Niagara Falls in 1825Ña proposed utopian city of refuge for persecuted European Jews. ""In 1813 Noah became U.S. Consul to Tunis. The government hoped that he would be able to forge special ties with influential Jews in North Africa and entrusted him with an additional secret mission: to devise a 'means for the liberation' of 11 captive American seamen in Algiers. Noah's efforts to free American captives were mostly unsuccessful. Only two seamen were released the ransom paid was excessive and the secret agent Noah appointed Richard R. Keene turned out to have an unsavory past. Although Noah carried out his other consular duties successfully and also established ties with local Tunis Jews Secretary of State James Monroe recalled him in 1815É In the wake of the recall Noah published Correspondence and Documents 1816 in his own defense followed by Travels in England France Spain and the Barbary States 1819 his most important book. It describes his experiences abroad and contains valuable information on early 19th-century Tunisian Jewry"" ANB. The appendix includes letters from Thomas Jefferson John Adams James Madison and John Quincy Adams addressed to Noah. Rosenbach American Jewish Bibliography 205. Frontispiece and one plate ""Merchant Slave & Arab"" with expertly repaired margins not affecting image or text. Light foxing to text. A nicely refurbished uncut copy in contemporary marbled boards. hardcover books
1790réf. 371006Boston: Printed .for the author by I. Thomas and E.T. Andrews. At Faust's Statue no. 45 Newbury Street 1790. First Edition. xvi 1-414pp. 8vo. Later brown cloth inner hinge of title-page strengthened. First Edition. xvi 1-414pp. 8vo. "Early example of phonetic spelling" - Howes W203; Skeel 745; Evans 23053; Sabin 102344 Printed ...for the author, by I. Thomas and E.T. Andrews. At Faust's Statue, no. 45, Newbury Street unknown books
1876réf. 339724Brooklyn NY: Privately Printed 1876. 16 leaves printed recto only final leaf blank. 4to. Wrappers. 16 leaves printed recto only final leaf blank. 4to. Privately Printed unknown books
1839réf. 370306New Haven: Printed by S. Babcock 1839. First edition. 39 1pp. 12mo. Publisher's stitched wrappers upper wrapper chipped with minor losses. Minor foxing. First edition. 39 1pp. 12mo. "Language in man is next to reason the grand characteristic by which he is distinguished from the brutes" p. 3. Webster's oration largely concerns the field of etymology about which gives many examples concluding that the "evils proceeding from the improper use of words are greater than men generally suppose" p. 31. Scarce in commerce. Garner Taming the Tongue 88; Sabin 102371; Skeel 716 Printed by S. Babcock unknown books
1926réf. 333084Buenos Aires: Ediciones de Nosotros 1926. First edition. 603 2. Errata sheet present at end. 1 vols. 8vo. Later green cloth preserving front wrapper. Fine. First edition. 603 2. Errata sheet present at end. 1 vols. 8vo. Compendium of twentieth century Argentinian poets including Leopoldo Lugones Enrique Banchs Evaristo Carriego Fernández Moreno Martínez Estrada A. Storni Jorge Luis Borges Córdova Iturburu Oliverio Girondo González Tuñón Ricardo Güiraldes Francisco López Merino Leopoldo Marechal Conrado Nalé Roxlo Horacio Rega Molina etc. Borges appears at pp. 453-9 and has contributed a biographical notice later collected in in Textos recobrados 1919-1929 p. 234. Ediciones de Nosotros unknown books
1561réf. 677551561. 2nd & last edition. 2nd & last edition. Fascinating Sixteenth-Century Digest of Land and Hunting Laws: 1 Copy of This Edition Located in North America Meurer Noe 1525-1583. Spangenberg Cyriacus 1528-1604. Von Forstlicher Oberherrligkeit und Gerechtigkeit Was die Recht Der Gebrauch Und die Billigkeit Desshalben Vermog. Item: Von dem Waren Oder Gerechten Rechten Der Teutschen Gerechtigkeit Aequitate Oder Billigkeit Wie und Wenn die von Einem Jeden Gerechten und Nit zu Strengen Richter Nach Gestalt und Gelegenheit Furfallender Ungleicher Fall und Sachen Zuhalten Und Darnach zu Urteilen Sey. Alles Beschriben durch den Hochgelehrten Noe Meurer. Auch vom Rechtmessigen Jagen und vom Missbrauch Desselbigen Bestendiger Bericht durch M. Cyriacum Spangenberg. Frankfurt am Main: Weigand Han and Georg Raben 1561. c xxxvii 1 lxxx 4 ff. Three parts in one volume. Folio 11" x 7"; 27.94 x 17.78 cm. Recent paper-covered boards retaining earlier paper spine endpapers renewed edges rouged. Light soiling front joint just starting at head recent owner bookplate of Hans Dedi to front pastedown. Title page printed in red and black large woodcut coat of arms to verso. Light browning to text faint dampstaining to fore-edge of text block two small library stamps to foot of title page. A nice copy of a handsomely printed volume. $2500. THIS DESCRIPTION IS TRUNCATED DUE TO CHARACTER LIMITS. PLEASE CONTACT US FOR A COMPLETE VERSION Second and final edition. Early game forestry and land laws represent some of the western world's earliest statutory attempts at environmental regulation and resource management. Beyond their legal framework these early codes offer rich insights into early modern social history illuminating sixteenth-century class hierarchies seigneurial privileges property rights and regional foodways. First published in 1560 this compilation by jurist Noe Meurer and theologian Cyriacus Spangenberg provides a comprehensive survey of land-use timber fishing and hunting regulations as enforced across the various territories of the Holy Roman Empire during the mid-sixteenth century. This second edition is significantly expanded compared to the first edition of 1560 which contained only 100 leaves. It includes key treatises on: Forest Sovereignty & Customary Rights Forstliche Oberherrligkeit examining jurisdictiona. unknown books
1842réf. 309481New Haven: Published by the Author. Sold by Crocker & Brewster Boston etc. . Printed by B.L. Hamlen 1842. Second edition first octavo edition. Engraved portrait frontispiece to vol. I by Asher Brown Durand after Samuel F.B. Morse no printer's name given. lxxvi 938; 1004 pp. 2 vols. Large 8vo 10-1/2 x 6 7/8 inches; 269 x 174 mm. Contemporary speckled sheep contrasting morocco spine labels marbled endpapers marbled edges. Covers scuffed joints worn some light spotting to text some worming to vol. I not affecting text. Morse Samuel French B. Second edition first octavo edition. Engraved portrait frontispiece to vol. I by Asher Brown Durand after Samuel F.B. Morse no printer's name given. lxxvi 938; 1004 pp. 2 vols. Large 8vo 10-1/2 x 6 7/8 inches; 269 x 174 mm. A fine copy of the rare octavo edition of Webster's unabridged dictionary the last that Webster published before his death in 1843. This is the textually best edition published in Webster's lifetime incorporating his final revisions some 5000 new definitions and a preface and introduction "on the origin history and connection of the languages of western Asia and Europe with an explanation of the principles on which languages are formed." Skeel notes that 3000 copies of this edition were printed fewer than the 5 or 6 thousand that Webster wanted but more than the 2500 of the 1828 first edition. A prospectus Skeel 585 advertised the edition at $13 sheep and $14 calf gilt. The work was in the press for over a year; a note in Webster's hand on a copy in the Connecticut State Library states "First signature of this edition impressed Oct. 22 1839. Last sheet impressed January 30 1841 15 months & days." The edition sold slowly with nearly half of the run still in sheets at the time of Webster's death. An attractive copy bearing the ownership signatures of George W. Turner dated the year he bought the mansion and farm of Elmscourt now Elms Court in Natchez Mississippi. Skeel 586; cf. Grolier American 36; cf. PMM 291; cf. Sabin 102335. Provenance: George W. Turner of Elmscourt or Elms Court Natchez Mississippi inscription in both volumes dated 1842 Published by the Author. Sold by Crocker & Brewster, Boston, [etc.] ... Printed by B.L. Hamlen unknown books
1807réf. 307347New Haven CT: printed by Oliver Steele & Co for Brisban & Brannan booksellers New York 1807. First edition. 250 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Contemporary sheep. Rubbed worn stained but sound front flyleaf with old tear pen starts. Very good. First edition. 250 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. First edition of this scarce grammar by Webster which he would later consider to be one of his two most important works. A second edition appeared in 1822 and the text was reused in the introductory matter of his famed American Dictionary 1828. Webster wrote to a friend in 1829 "My 'Philosophical and Practical Grammar" . has been but little used: but except for my quarto Dictionary I consider it as altogether the most valuable work I have ever published." Skeel 433; Sabin 102375 printed by Oliver Steele & Co for Brisban & Brannan, booksellers, New York unknown books
1797réf. 35147Leominster: Printed by Charles Prentiss 1797. Second Leominster Edition. Pp. 91 2 pages publisher's advertisements. 1 vols. 12mo. Later half-sheep over marbled boards. Rubbed spine torn hole and tear in advertisement leaf affecting ads some browning and foxing notes on pastedown with the very precise near-contemporary signature of John D. W. Williams on blank and first page of text else very good. Second Leominster Edition. Pp. 91 2 pages publisher's advertisements. 1 vols. 12mo. An examination of such expressions as "When a man's name is up he may lie abed till noon" "She carries the Bell" "It is just as the fit takes him" "A Stitch in time saves nine" and "He has come out at the little end of the horn". Sabin 102383 for first edition Printed by Charles Prentiss unknown books
2021réf. 15373New York: Grand Central Publishing 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by Hawley on the publisher's tipped-in leaf. Fine in a Fine dust jacket unclipped $29.00 faintly bumped. White paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound clean internally. From the creator of the television show Fargo a novel with "vivid characters and a plot as fast and bright as pop cinema blend in a Vonnegutian story that is as timeless as a Grimm fairy tale. Grand Central Publishing hardcover books
1999réf. 83801Jersey City: Jensen/Daniels 1999. First edition. 28 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Jersey City: Jensen/Daniels unknown books
1991réf. vita5887Boston: Little Brown and Company 1991. First Edition. Octavo brown and cream boards hardcover gilt letters xix 514 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: The Last Citadel is the first full-length treatment of the most extensive military operation of the Civil War -- the siege of Petersburg Virginia. The Petersburg campaign officially began on June 9 1864 and ended on April 3 1865 when Federal troops at last entered the city. It was the longest and most costly siege ever to take place on North American soil yet it has been overshadowed by other actions that occurred in the same time period most notably Sherman’s famous “March to the Sea” and Sheridan’s celebrated Valley campaign. The ten-month Petersburg campaign witnessed many more combat actions than the other two combined and involved an average of 170000 soldiers not to mention thousands of civilians who were also caught up in the maelstrom. By its bloody end the Petersburg campaign would add more than 70000 casualties to the war’s total. Petersburg was the key to the war in the East. It lay astride five major railroad lines that in turn supplied the Confederate capital Richmond. Were Petersburg to fall these vital arteries would be severed and Richmond doomed. With the same dogged determination that had seen him through the terrible Overland campaign Union general Ulysses S. Grant fixed his sights on the capture of Petersburg. Grant’s opponent Robert E. Lee was equally determined that the city would not fall. The dramatic moving story of The Last Citadel is told largely through the words of the men and women who were there including officers common soldiers and the civilians of Petersburg. What emerges is an epic story rich in human incident and adventure. Based on exhaustive research into official records and unpublished memoirs letters and diaries as well as published recollections and regimental histories The Last Citadel also includes twenty-one maps and a choice selection of drawings by on-the-spot combat artists With The Last Citadel the Petersburg campaign at last emerges from the shadows to take its rightful place among the unforgettable sagas of the Civil War. Little, Brown and Company, (1991). First Edition. hardcover books
1880réf. 751751880. CHAM pseudonym of NO Charles Amde de. A la Guerre comme a la Guerre. BOUND WITH: Le Grand Magasin dÕImages bound first. Paris: Aubert circa 1880. Oblong quarto contemporary half green calf gilt marbled boards and endpapers. $2750.First edition of this suite of 30 full-page hand-colored lithographs of Cham caricatures documenting the French colonization of North Africa bound with an intriguing publication of 790 French magazine illustrations.Cham saw a career that would result in over 40000 drawings many of them caricatures and sketches of French and Algerian life. In 1843 he began to contribute to such newspapers as Le Charivari whose staff he eventually joined and remained for 30 years. These are ChamÕs parodies of war scenes apparently from the French colonies in North Africa 30 hand-colored lithographs similar to those he produced for the Album du SiÂge Charivari 1870Ñ in collaboration with Honor Daumier. ÒCham embued stories in Le Charivari with the comic force of his caricaturesÉ These in the future will remain when the fleeting stories are forgotten: the day after the stew evaporates and salt escapes us. People who have seen ChamÕs images will always remember the huge success of the cartoonistÓ Henri Beraldi. Bound with this is an ingenious publication of 790 small in-text wood-engravings produced by various engravers and appearing at different times in French magazines around which is woven a clever story line about the travels and adventures of the Lacroix family written to match the diverse engravings. Minor spotting to margins of a few plates not affecting imageslight expert restoration to contemporary binding. Extremely good condition. hardcover books
1911réf. 16927Paris: Masson 1911. Masson unknown books
2003réf. 30781Toronto: Insomniac Press 2003. First edition. 90 pp w/notes. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original. Leznoff's second collection. Toronto: Insomniac Press paperback books
1881réf. 50089Virginia City NV: John S. Noe 1881. Very Good. Virginia City NV: John S. Noe photographer 1881. Original albumen photograph 16x21cm affixed to card mount 23.5x28cm printed caption at bottom edge of mount. Mount toned and lightly warped else Very Good the image well fixed. Group shot of a party of twenty-three men emerging from the Bonanza Mines with their oil lamps. The party consisted of members of a delegation of Frenchmen who toured the United States in 1881 to mark the centennial of the battle of Yorktown VA the French and American armies having played a pivotal role in the siege against the British forces. A contemporary newspaper article from November 1881 noted that the French delegation had disbanded but that a smaller party of its members still intended to travel west "to study American life and manners on the frontiers of civilization." Presumably these men are from that party photographed by the young local photographer John S. Noe who died eight years later aged forty-four of dropsy. John S. Noe unknown books
1841réf. 021534New Haven CT: Published by the author 1841. First Octavo Edition. Hardcover. Light scattered foxing; stain at bottom margin of first volume not affecting text. Covers rubbed with some loss of leather and staining to first volume; binding tight and firm. Very Good. Two royal octavo 7" x 10-1/2" volumes in contemporary calf leather with gilt-lettered black morocco spine labels marbled edges and endpapers. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait. Webster's groundbreaking dictionary was originally published in New York in 1828 in a slightly larger format. Laid in is the Preface to the Revised Edition of 1847. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 291: "Webster was an ardent nationalist and he wanted to stress the political separation from Britain by the cultivation of a separate American language. Under the influence of his friend Benjamin Franklin he turned his attention to 'a reformed mode of spelling' and although he rejected the radical phonetic innovations proposed by Franklin he went far enough to give many printed American words a distinctive appearance." Published by the author hardcover books
2017réf. UHARHOM01drpHarper Perennial 2017. Very Good. Harari Yuval Noah. Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow. New York NY: Harper Perennial 2017. 449pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Paperback with flaps. Book condition: Very good with rubbed edges. Harper Perennial paperback books
2014réf. ULEVREF00ajsHarperOne 2014. Very Good. Levine Noah. Refuge Recovery: A Buddhist Path to Recovering from Addiction. NY: HarperOne 2014. 273pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with light soiling. HarperOne paperback books
