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1908Best.-Nr. 11528Paris: Boivin & Cie 1908. Very good plus. First edition of this amusing Punch and Judy-style interpretation of the history of France from the ancient Gauls to Napoleon's exile to St. Helena. Job and Montorgueil teamed up numerous times over their careers. Job's interest in military history shines through even in the uniforms of the dolls in this title which are depicted in surprising detail and accuracy. One of his less common titles its full-bleed color images beautifully convey the jovial atmosphere. 12.25'' x 9''. Original blue publisher's cloth binding elaborately stamped in various colors. Edges stained black. 30 full-page color illustrations printed full bleed. Text in French. 70 pages hinged at joints as issued. Rear hinge repaired. Light soil to binding at margins spine lightly sunned and soiled. Occasional light soiling to text. Cloth design bright. Boivin & Cie unknown books
1797Best.-Nr. 56850New-York: printed and sold by Isaac Collins no. 189 Pearl-Street 1797. 12mo pp. xii 2 360; contemporary and likely original full sheep; rubbed and worn hinges cracked; good and the binding remains sound. Early ownership signature of Hannah Winslow. A small typed note on the front pastedown notes: "Bought Libbie Sale Jan. 24 & 25 1911." "In this travelogue and account of American Quaker practice Scott recounts how he traveled from his home in Rhode Island to congregations of Friends throughout the United States as they then existed before making an expedition to Europe to attend meetings in England Wales and Ireland. Though evocative place names are abundant travel-detail is limited. His diary is divided between his soul-searching and specific accounts of his experiences at various meetings. Although Scott often records feeling compelled to remain silent in these meetings he was a notable speaker and his writings although they became controversial after his death were highly influential" OCLC. Not in Bartlett; Evans 32810; Howes S228; Sabin 78288. printed and sold by Isaac Collins, no. 189, Pearl-Street unknown books
1843Best.-Nr. 55252Providence: B. Cranston and Company 1843. First edition 8vo pp. 52; removed from binding wrappers wanting; very good. Durfee here propounds the theory that "the recent revolutionary development of steam power was not merely an instance of man making progress it was a revelation of the divine 'law of progress' and of a 'higher destiny' planned by God himself for the new age" Schneider History of American Philosophy. These ideas were adumbrated by Durfee in The Panidea; Or An Omnipresent Reason Considered as the Creative and Sustaining Logos 1846 "a pretentious work that nobody read" DAB. More charitable comments are made by Joseph Blau in his collection of American Philosophic Addresses 1700 to 1900 page 381 ff where the Oration is reprinted in full. An important aspect of Durfee's deterministic theory of history is that "there is no absolute undefinable popular sovereignty which can in a manner its own and at any moment carry a certain supposed natural equality into social and political life and thereby elevate poor human nature however rude and degraded in condition at once as by a sort of magic into a state of supreme and absolute perfection" quoted by Blau. This is because the advances of science and technology impose conditions upon society which democracy cannot control and to which it must adapt. Blau notes that Durfee's views were influenced by German transcendentalism as mediated by Coleridge and Cousin. Not surprisingly given his skepticism on the efficacy of popular sovereignty Durfee as Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court played a prominent role in opposition to the Dorr forces. Not in American Imprints Bartlett or Parks; Sabin 21427 note. B. Cranston and Company unknown books
1849Best.-Nr. 56158Providence: Gladding and Proud 1849. First edition 8vo pp. xxvi 523 1; contemporary half brown morocco over marbled boards; binding scuffed ex-Brown University with an Ives Collection bookplate withdrawn call slip on the rear pastedown; no external markings; good and sound. Durfee was the jurist who first called the Dorr Rebellion illegal and treasonable. Includes two lectures "History of the Subjection and Extermination of the Narragansetts" and "The Idea of the Supernatural among the Indians." Bartlett p. 115. Gladding and Proud unknown books
1800Best.-Nr. 711841800. London: Printed for J. Wright 1800. London: Printed for J. Wright 1800. Intended to Expose the Brutality of the French Revolution Ayme Jean-Jacques. Narrative of the Deportation to Cayenne And Shipwreck on the Coast of Scotland Of J.J. Job Aime Written by Himself. With Observations on the Present State of that Colony And of the Negroes; And an Account of the Situation of the Deported Person at the Time of His Escape. London: Printed for J. Wright 1800. ii 282 12 pp. Lacking half-title and final publisher advertisement leaf. Octavo 8-1/2" x 5-1/4". Contemporary three-quarter calf over marbled boards lettering piece and gilt fillets to spine marbled edges. Light rubbing to boards moderate rubbing to extremities front hinge starting three early library bookplates to front pastedown. Moderate toning to text occasional light foxing. $950. Second and final English edition. First published as Deportation et Naufrage de J.J. Ayme Ex-Legislateur the first English Translation followed later that year. Ayme was a member of the Directory who was arrested after the Coup of 18 Fructidor and sent to the penal colony in Cayenne commonly known as Devil's Island. He managed to escape and eventually made his way to England. His narrative details the inhuman behavior of the colony's masters towards their prisoners and slaves. Produced to promote opposition to the Revolution in Great Britain the English translation was intended to expose the brutality of the Directory and the hollowness of its stated commitment to political freedom and human rights. The second edition was also issued in a composite volume with two other books critical of the French Revolution titled History of the Revolution of the 18th Fructidor. Sabin A Dictionary of Books Relating to America 545. English Short-Title Catalogue T87787. unknown books
1833Best.-Nr. 55435Philadelphia: William Brown printer 1833. Second edition revised same year as the first with a new preface and expanded text; 8vo pp. 105 1 errata; removed from binding wrappers wanting; "duplicate" stamp and adhesion residue on title page title page also clipped at the lower corner; good sound copy. "The history extent and pernicious consequences of that species of gambling" i.e. lotteries. American Imprints 21595 for the first edition of only 48 pages; Sabin 97643. William Brown, printer unknown books
1810Best.-Nr. 54074Baltimore: published by Joseph James 1810. Second edition 12mo; pp. 3 iv-vii 1 2-200; full contemporary mottled calf gilt-paneled spine in 6 compartments red morocco label in 1; joints starting with leaves moderately browned; good and sound. In the 1820s Scott's views became controversial among Quakers and were adopted by the Hicksite faction. First published in 1793 this is only the second American edition. American Imprints 21291. published by Joseph James unknown books
1846Best.-Nr. 54235Boston: Thomas H. Webb & Co 1846. First edition 8vo pp. 176; original printed wrappers backed with red cloth at an early date manuscript paper label on spine; wrappers lightly soiled and worn with minor loss to back wrap; a few corners creased and curled but text generally clean. A good sound copy. A work of Emersonian pantheism by the Chief Judge of the Rhode Island Supreme Court who presided over the Dorr trials. In an earlier work The Influence of Scientific Discovery and Invention on Social and Political Progress 1843 Durfee believed that he had found in the advent of steam power a sign of divine intervention indicating a "law of progress" in man's development. Panidea adumbrates this theme: all is eventually assimilated into the "Theanthropoid" Durfee's term for the Divine Mind. See Schneider History of American Philosophy. DAB offers a concise assessment: "a somewhat pretentious philosophical work which nobody read." American Imprints 2262. Thomas H. Webb & Co unknown books
1822Best.-Nr. 53342Sharon Connecticut 1822. Broadside approx. 9" square; docketed on the verso in ink with 7 apparently unrelated names; very good. An act to incorporate the New York and Sharon Canal Company was passed April 19 1823. Not found in OCLC. unknown books
1843Best.-Nr. 85836Providence: B. Cranston and Company 1843. Paperback. Very Good. 52p. pamphlet. 22 cm. Disbound removed from a bound volume. Stitch marks along left side. Wrapper not preserved. Durfee served as Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court for the last 12 years of his life 1835-1847. B. Cranston and Company paperback books
1900Best.-Nr. 12240N.p. 1900. 1 vols. 13 x 10 1/2 inches. Matted and framed. 1 vols. 13 x 10 1/2 inches. Fine heroic portrait of Leopold of Austria on a throne in a flowering field sword half drawn with Justice and Clemency seated beneath. JOB a French artist is best remembered for his picture-albums for youth commemorating monarchs and military campaigns for which this drawing must have been intended. unknown books
1836Best.-Nr. 48178Philadelphia: M'Carty & Davis 1836. First Edition. Octavo ca. 22cm.; removed; 24pp. Light foxing and dust-soil blue paper remnants along spine else Very Good and sound. Short biographical address on the life and career of Thomas C. James 1766-1835 leader in scientific obstetrics in the United States who in 1810 presented a paper describing the first successful case of premature labor artificially induced. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 40622a; SABIN 97649. M'Carty & Davis unknown books
1935Best.-Nr. 13411Cambridge UK: W. Heffner & Sons Limited 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. First Edition. Hardcover. Job of Edessa c. 760 - c. 835 called the Spotted Arabic: al-Abrash was a Christian natural philosopher and physician active in Baghdad and Khur s n under the Abbasid Caliphate. He played an important role in transmitting Greek science to the Islamic world through his translations into Syriac. Encyclopaedia of Philosophical and Natural Sciences as taught in Baghdad A.D. 817. 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. Bumped corners light shelfwear and foxing else tight bright and unmarred. Green cloth with gilt titling. 8vo. xlviii 470pp. Index. Former owner library stamp. Lacking dj. Text in Syriac and English. W. Heffner & Sons, Limited hardcover books
1942Best.-Nr. 32002New York: Samuel French 1942. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Samuel French 1942. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket retaining original price $1.50; 8119p.; photographic frontispiece three plates. Moderate wear to jacket margins including small loss at spine crown not affecting text light foxing and dust-soil spine panel darkened some bumping to cloth spine ends else a Very Good and sound copy. The Broadway hit production starring Eve Le Gallienne and Joseph Schildkraut adapted into the 1945 film noir "The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry" directed by Robert Siodmak. Samuel French unknown books
1737Best.-Nr. 49261Leiden: Jean Luzac 1737. First edition. Two volumes large quarto. 52 544; 2 545-1232 63 indices 1 corrigendapp. Text in two columns with Hebrew text and facing Latin translation interspersed with commentary. Titles in red and black with engraved vignettes. Contemporary speckled calf; gilt-tooled spine with raised bands and morocco lettering pieces; gilt dentelles; edges daubed in red and green. Light scuffing to boards and fading to spines. A very good set with crisp clean text throughout. First edition of this comprehensive commentary to the biblical Book of Job by the Dutch scholar of Semitic languages Albert Schultens 1686-1750 who maintained "that the true nature of the Hebrew language and the meaning of many of its words and idioms are to be found chiefly in the Arabic" Orme. Fifty-five pages of the indices constitute a brief lexicon and provide Latin as well as Arabic equivalents for more than 1000 Hebrew words. Schultens studied theology and eastern languages at Groningen where he received his degree in theology in 1709. After a brief career as a preacher in Wassenaar he was nominated professor of Hebrew and Jewish antiquities at Franeker in 1713. In 1729 he decamped for Leiden were he was first appointed reader in eastern languages and finally full professor in 1732. At this time a chief concern of Calvinist theologians was to liberate Old Testament exegesis from the Jewish Rabbinic as well as Catholic traditions. Schultens' influential and controversial solution was revealed as early as 1706 in his first public thesis Disputatio theologico philologica de utilitate linguae Arabicae in interpretanda S. Scriptura A Theologico-Philosophical Dissertation on the Utility of the Arabic Language for the Interpretation of the Holy Scriptures "a forceful attack" Brugman & Schröder on the Protestant sola scriptura methodology of Biblical exegesis. "With the help of Jacobus Golius' Arabic dictionary he perused with zeal and fervour the Old Testament and wrote prolifically. The lexical superiority of Arabic had led him to a reconsideration of the position of Hebrew: at first he had called Arabic 'the most splendid daughter of mother Hebrew' but in his oration of 1729 he proclaimed Hebrew and Arabic cognate twin sisters. This shocked conservative theologians as an outright profanation of God's Word" Brugman & Schröder. "In 1737 he applied his theories in his bilingual edition of the book of the prophet Job whom he regarded as an Arab. The Hebrew text and the Latin translation are all but totally submerged by the extensive commentary in which Schultens draws abundantly on Arabic texts such as the Hamasa an anthology of early Arabic poetry by the ninth-century poet Abu Tammam" Vrolijk & van Leeuwen. Schultens was not without his critics and by 1824 William Orme notes a turning of the tide: "Different opinions are entertained of the correctness of his views and also of his success in applying them; but it is now generally admitted that he carries his notions of the advantage of Arabic learning to the interpretation of the Scriptures too far." Jean Luzac 1728-1777 was a member of a well-known Huguenot family of printers; he published many works for the University of Leiden including three Hebrew books of Albert Schultens. Isaac van der Mijn is noted as the printer at the colophon of the second volume. Provenance: printed label of the Bibliotheca Seminarii Warmondani at the front endleaf of the first volume. Full title: Liber Jobi cum nova versione ad Hebraeum fontem et commentario perpetuo in quo Veterum et Recentiorum Interpretum cogitata præcipua expenduntur: genuinus sensus ad priscum Linguae genium indagatur atque ex filo et nexu universo Argumenti nodus intricatissimus evolvitur. Curavit et editit. Albertus Schultens. Tomus Primus. -Tomus Secundus References: J. Brugman & F. Schröder Arabic Studies in the Netherlands Leiden: E.J. Brill 1979 p.26f. Fuks/Fuks-Mansfeld 78. Orme Bibl. Biblica p. 390. A. Vrolijk & R. van Leeuwen Arabic Studies in the Netherlands a Short History in Portraits 1580-1950 Leiden: E.J. Brill 2014 pp. 73-79. Jean Luzac unknown books
1809Best.-Nr. vas545Bridgeport: Printed and Sold by S. Backus & Co. 1809. G. L. Austen Printer. First American Edition. Duodecimo original sheep leather hardcover x 2 13-309 vi pp. Very Good. Printed and Sold by S. Backus & Co., 1809. G. L. Austen, Printer. First American Edition. hardcover books
1832Best.-Nr. bas27Providence RI: Cranston & Hammond 1832. First Edition. Octavo tan cloth hardcover paper label 200 pp. Fair with edgewear that includes chipping to spine; foxing age darkening throughout. Cranston & Hammond, 1832. First Edition. hardcover books
1930Best.-Nr. 54291Tours: Maison Alfred Mame & Fils 1930. 4to; 54 pp. First edition. Exquisitely illustrated by Job. An ABC reader with a word from each letter of the alphabet serving as the basis of a story e.g. P = "Pois" -- followed by the story of the princess and the pea. Very good in original illustrated boards slightly shaken with scuffing and abrading to corners some fraying and sunning to spine. Maison Alfred Mame & Fils unknown books
1908Best.-Nr. 23492Paris: Boivin & Cie 1908. JOB. A handsome tight copy of the 1908 1st edition with the date printed on the last page of text. Solid and VG in its pictorial gilt-titled and designed blue cloth. Wonderful chromotypogravures throughout by the great French illustrator JOB. Very light wear at the spine ends just a touch of soiling to the rear panel. Very decorative bookplate at the front pastedown. Tall quarto all edges gilt. Boivin & Cie unknown books
1902Best.-Nr. 372746Paris: Combet & Cie 1902. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Text in French. Publisher's cloth boards with a front cover illustration signed by A. Poënsin. Large quarto. iv 80pp. with many color "chromotypogravure" in-text illustrations and plates designed by Job. Ex-library copy with spine letters bookplate pocket and perforated stamp on the title page and first text page only else a good or better copy with light toning throughout. A beautifully designed and printed book with all of its illustrated text pages and color plates included some double paged tipped-in on stubs at the gutter. Combet & Cie hardcover books
1947Best.-Nr. 74055New York: Samuel French 1947. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in a very near fine dustwrapper with the slightest of tanning on the spine and a couple of tiny tears. A play adapted from Zola's Therese Raquin. A very attractive copy. Samuel French hardcover books
1905Best.-Nr. 6543Paris: Ancienne Librairie Furne/Boivin & Cie Editeurs 1905. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine. No DJ as Issued. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Part of the series "Collection d'Albums Historiques". Text in French. 36 chromolithograph illustrations 4 double-page some with text overprinting. A handsome copy. Light shelf/edge wear upper tips bumped else tight bright and unmarred. Blue cloth boards gilt lettering color pictorial elements blue endpages chromolitho plates text overprinting textblock on tabs aeg. Small fo. 80pp. Illus. color plates. Ancienne Librairie Furne/Boivin & Cie, Editeurs hardcover books
1910Best.-Nr. 6542Paris: Ancienne Librairie Furne/Boivin et Cie Editeur 1910. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. No DJ as Issued. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Part of the series "Collection d'Albums Historiques". Text in French. 36 full full page chromlitho plates 4 double page. A very handsome copy. Minor shelf/edge wear hint of fraying at head gilt at spine toned touch of foxing at prelininaries else tight bright and unmarred. Grey/olive cloth gilt lettering full color pictorial elements blue endpages textblock on tabs aeg. Small fo. 84pp. Illus. color plates. Notes. Ancienne Librairie Furne/Boivin et Cie, Editeur hardcover books
1910Best.-Nr. 6540Paris: Librairie Felix Juven 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. No DJ as Issued. First Edition. Hardcover. Part of the series "Collection d'Albums Historiques". Text in French. Overall a handsome copy. Light shelf/edge wear new endpages and reinforced spine light toning to leaves else tight and unmarred. Blue cloth boards gilt and black ink lettering and decorative elements red grey and green ink decorative elements full page chromolitho plates with text overprinting red edgestains. Small fo. np. Illus color plates. Librairie Felix Juven hardcover books
1834Best.-Nr. 41915Philadelphia: Printed for the Society 1834. 63 1 pp. Disbound remnants of wrapper in blank inner margin of title page. Else Very Good with a clean text. Tyson was a Philadelphia lawyer and Whig and a prominent public citizen who spoke out on a number of contemporary issues. Believing that Negroes were inferior in "moral virtue" he nevertheless opposed Slavery and proposed voluntary African colonization as the solution to their presence in this country. Much information is presented on the doings of the Colonization Society. LCP 10520. Printed for the Society unknown books
