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1940ref. 173886London: Oxford University Press 1940. Hardcover. VG only light wear to extremities and minor soiling to boards. Green cloth boards with gilt stamped lettering. 279 pp. Illustrations. "The personal seal in Chinese of Mrs. Moore reproduced on the title-page."--Introduction. Includes index of Chinese names words terms and seals. Includes bibliographical references. Bibliography in English and Chinese. Oxford University Press hardcover books
2022ref. 138229Limited to 30 numbered copies signed by the artist / printer. The typefaces used were created by designers with a connection to Ukraine. The front cover title: Bifur - Adolphe Mouron Cassandre digitized by Richard Kegler; the front cover author: Arsenal - Andrij Shevchenko Berdyansk; poem and colophon: Genau - Aleksey Popovtsev Kyiv; and production Note: Bandera text - Andrij Shevchenko Berdyansk. From the artist: Writing shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24 2022 Britain's poet laureate Simon Armitage responded to 'what is coming at us in obscene images through the news' with a poem titled Resistance published in The Guardian Newspaper. On reading the poem I felt an immediate empathy and in particular with Armitage's repetition of the words "it's war again". This illustrated edition was created to show solidarity with the people of Ukraine and to highlight the recurrent ubiquitous nature and folly of war. The illustrations are montages of manipulated contemporary and archival photographs combinded with my own drawings and images. The calligraphic words sometimes cross-written are drawn from not only the poem but also other sources - e.g. transcripts of a British Pathé newsreel a list of wars spanning two thousand years Putin's declaration of his mission the Ukrainian national anthem news headlines and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's speech to the British parliament. The setting of the verse lines echoes closed captions of news reports and follows Simon Armitage's layout of the poem: three-line verses with the second line indented once and the third line indented twice. Decorah IA: Solmentes Press 2022; 4to. illustrated paper covered boards cloth clamshell box; unpaginated. Book # 138229 Solmentes Press books
1829ref. 47014Boston: S.G. Goodrich & Co 1829. Very Good. Boston: S.G. Goodrich & Co. 1829. First Edition. Octavo; bound in contemporary tree calf with gilt stamping to spine; edges stained yellow; 383pp. collated and complete. Minor wear and scuffing; front board slightly bowed; binding sound; preliminary blanks nearly detached; contemporary ownership inscriptions 1829 and 1846 to preliminaries and title; light spotting to interior; Very Good and sound. History of "El Libertador" and his military campaigns by Prussian officer Decoudray Holstein who served under Bolivar as a colonel and was a witness to the revolutionary years of 1814-1816 in South America. Decoudray Holstein later worked as a bookseller attempted to liberate Puerto Rico and became a professor of Modern Languages at the college in Geneva New York. Uncommon in retail. Sabin 32644. S.G. Goodrich & Co unknown books
1796ref. 262349Versailles: D. Pierres 1796. hardcover. very good. 21 sepia engravings small 4to original marbled boards rubbed brown leather spine label half title and title page have been repaired not affecting the text. Versilles: D. Pierres 1796. Very good . Nissen 2B1 995. D. Pierres unknown books
1938ref. 131891Paris: Paris Film 1938. Vintage oversize double weight reference photograph from the 1938 film a strong image of actor Jean Gabin in a train engineer's uniform lighting a cigarette. Shot by acclaimed portrait photographer Sam Levin who worked with director Jean Renoir on several other productions including "La Grande Illusion" 1937 and "The Rules of the Game" 1939 and whose early photographs of Brigitte Bardot helped craft her public image as a sex symbol. Based on Émile Zola's 1890 novel. Renoir's film remains true to the proletarian source material while grafting on elements of film noir and his own humanist philosophy. One of the director's biggest commercial successes with a powerful lead performance by Gabin. Remade in the US in 1954 by Fritz Lang as "Human Desire." 11.5 x 12 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 324. Paris Film unknown books
1871ref. 57533New Orleans. 1871. Attacking New York Life for Revoking Life Insurance for Confederate Soldiers An unrecorded broadside printing a lengthy diatribe by former Confederate General Simon Bolivar Buckner against the New York Life Insurance Company. While the company had initially promised to honor the policies of Confederate soldiers by 1870 they had begun using methods both open and discreet to avoid payments to policy holders "who had taken up arms against the Government." Buckner himself was not a customer but many of his friends had fallen prey to the company's new policy on policies. He wrote public letters in support of his friend one General R.M. Gaines in the New Orleans Times in which he denounced the company's duplicitous tactics and offered to review their documents himself in an attempt to expose their shady practices. The company ignored his letters instead responding indirectly by paying their local agent Dr. Joseph S. Copes to run an article attacking Buckner personally. This broadside is primarily a response to that attack although it also outlines the case in general. Buckner is incensed by the company's actions and more particularly by their attempts to justify them in the name of "equity": "I stated in my letter to Gen. Gaines that your conduct in withholding his money and at the same time rejecting his claims was a violation of equity. You could not controvert my position. But you flew into a passion; got Dr. Copes to call me names in your joint anonymous advertisement and said that my notions were not actuarial. I said that your action was not equitable.strangely confounding the 'letter of the law' with 'equity'.You seem to think it your highest duty to sit in your marble palace watch when the hands of your confiscation dial point to the moment when you can sweep the hard-earnings of some poor man's life into your swollen coffers and then insult the God of the orphan by boasting such conduct to be 'equitable.' Shame on such cold and calculating hypocrisy. Your theories would place the great business of life insurance in dignity and pretension to respectability even beneath that of a common gambler or thimblerigger." Buckner continues to list other examples of misconduct and enumerates the company's lies before reiterating his request that they submit to an examination of their records. He concludes by ever so courteously asserting that even though "I find you so 'wedded to a circuitous way of doing things' and it would probably be cruel in me to ask you to do such violence to your nature as to answer even so simple a question in a direct and straightforward way.I have the right to ask that your response shall not be like your last one - anonymous and printed at the expensive of your policy holders; but as nearly straightforward as your character and habits will admit." Simon Bolivar Buckner was the son of a Kentucky iron smelter distinguished himself in service in the Mexican-American War where he befriended Ulysses S. Grant and became a General in the Confederate army after Kentucky's neutrality fell apart. He is primarily remembered as the first Confederate general to surrender an army in the war giving in to Grant's demands for unconditional surrender at Fort Donelson although despite the harsh terms imposed by Grant their reunion at the surrender was apparently a warm one. Buckner would go on to become a pall bearer at Grant's funeral in 1885 as well as the thirtieth Governor of Kentucky in 1887. Not in OCLC. A rare interesting and colorfully-worded broadside written by a significant Confederate general in defense of his former comrades exposing yet another facet of the hopelessly tangled situation in Reconstruction-era America. Broadside 17½ × 12 inches printed in four columns. Light edge wear scattered faint stains two small holes in the sheet touching a couple letters of text. Very good. unknown books
1912ref. 7627Camden New Jersey: The Long Photographic Art Studios 1912. Very good. Inscribed by the author on the ffep. 12¼" x 9½". Blue cloth gilt. pp. 43 eight interspersed plates containing a map a chart and six original photographs. Very good: light wear that is stronger at spine tips and corners a few minor stains. This is a finely produced travelogue documenting the sites and peoples of several different Latin American countries. According to the book's forward the author created it because "The Panama Canal . . . should be the means of drawing this entire Western Hemisphere into closer bonds of commercial and social intercourse. Our neighbors . . . regret that their brothers of the United States do not understand them as they deserve to be understood . . . Let us not forget that they number nearly one hundred million strong and they and their respective countries are rapidly forging to the front ranks of modern nations. The opening of the Panama should be a day of rejoicing for the peoples of the Three Americas." Per the title over three months Long traveled to the listed countries and recorded detailed descriptions of each town or city he visited; he also provided brief histories of each country. In Cuba he spent time in Matanzas and Santiago as well as providing this description of Havana "visitors seem transported as they note the carefree throngs that eat drink and make merry in the brilliant cafes and places of amusement along the broad and handsome Prado . . . streets in the old section are exceedingly narrow . . . The metropolis contains several modern office buildings which appear like skyscrapers from the alleyways below and the mansions of the wealthy especially along the Malecon are homes of splendor. On the other hand the one-story dwellings of the working classes are devoid of ornamentation the iron barred windows giving them the appearance of penal institutions." From Cuba Long went to Jamaica where in Montego Bay "women display far more animation than men driving carts wheeling barrows hawking long ropes of tobacco and smoking big black cigars with the sang froid of a veteran." Next was Columbia with a first stop in Barranquilla with this lyrical description of the end of siesta "at the stroke of six the sunset gun sends forth its booming notes and with an hour the Zocala fills with people . . . Along the plaza they stroll and chat the señors emitting great clouds of the noxious weed the demoiselles flashing glances of Andalusian hue. They are of every rank and every class . . ." He also spent several pages describing Bogota. In Costa Rica he was impressed by San Jose "it is not hyperbole to say that there are but few cities of the same size that display more animation or progressiveness we find in San Jose." He briefly discussed Punta Arenas before heading to Mexico where he spent a couple of pages on Mexico City and Cuernavaca respectively while also providing much detail on rail travel in the country. There are short passages on Jalapa Orizaba and the last several pages are devoted to descriptions of Mayan ruins in the Yucatan peninsula. Also of note are the eight plates which include six original black and white photographs as well as a map of the Isthmus of Panama with the completed canal. The photos include a Cuban tobacco field a view of the canal from the Gatun Dam a giant Aztec calendar and ruins at Uxmal in the Yucatan. OCLC locates four copies over two entries; one has 17 plates the other has 15. With ours a third variant we imagine Long issued these books based on the number of photos or maps he had on hand. A rare travelogue documenting the sights and peoples of several Latin American countries and embellished with original photographs. The Long Photographic Art Studios unknown books
1809ref. NF3334ELEMENS D'ANALYSE GEOMETRIQUE ET D'ANALYSE ALGEBRIQUE APPLIQUEES A LA RECHERCHE DES LIEUX GEOMETRIQUES Paris : J.J. Paschoud 1809 first edition xii 309 pp. some rubbing/scuffing to the fore edge corner tips with light wear to the front lower fore edge corner tip some rubbing/scuffing to the spine hinges as well as some wear to the head of the spine else a tight vg copy with near fine contents bound in full leather which appears contemporary with publication and with the three geometric fold-outs at the rear present and in fine condition. J.J. Paschoud hardcover books
1682ref. 47526La Haye Paris: Adrian Moetjens 1682. Third French edition. Hardcover. vg to vg. Sextodecimo 5 1/2 x 3 1/2". 48 188 4 166 12pp. Original full vellum with gilt lettering and ruling on brown leather label on the spine. Additional engraved title page. Publisher's device on title page. Decorative head and tailpieces. Decorative initials. Contains catalog of books by Adrian Moetjens. Title translation: "Ceremonies and customs which are observed today among the Jews and translated from the Italian of Leon de Modena; with a supplement concerning the sects of the Karaites and the Samaritans of our time. Third edition revised corrected & augmented by a second part entitled 'Comparison of the ceremonies of the Jews and of the discipline of the Church: with a discourse concerning the various masses or liturgies which are in use in all the world' by the Sieur de Simonville." Early publication of the scholar Richard Simon containing his French translation of "Historia degli riti hebraici" by Rabbi Leon of Modena 1574 - 1654 Yehudah Aryeh Mi-Modena. An important source for the history of European Judaism. Modena's work was originally published in Italian first in Paris in 1637 and then in Venice in 1638. Both of these editions included Modena's supplement on the heretical Jewish sects the Karaites and the Samaritans as well as several other chapters on divinations and spells. The book was significant in that was the first work of the modern era aimed at non-Jewish readers to educate them on Jewish religious practice and customs. It was quite popular in the period went through numerous internationally translated editions. Simon's French edition of the work was first issued in 1674 including the supplement by Modena. In 1681 he issued both the second edition of his translation to which was added his work on comparative religion "Comparaison des Ceremonies des Juifs" and that work published separately. It suffices to recall that the work allowed among other things the rediscovery of the East and of non-Christian religions through an almost ethnographic vision which objectively described Judaism independently of the religious prejudices of the 17th century thus inaugurating what will make all the vocation of the great Oratorian. Table of contents a the rear. The final page contains an advertisement for the publisher at the bottom. Decorative bookplate of French author and economist André Morellet 1727 - 1819 pasted on the interior front cover. Binding with minor rubbing to covers and extremities. Brown label on the spine lightly chipped along the edges. Minor sporadic water stains and/ or foxing to a few pages throughout. P.23 torn along the side margin with no loss of text. Binding and interior both in very good to very good condition overall. Adrian Moetjens hardcover books
ref. 71552 p.l. ii 20 pp. 8vo 202 x 127 mm. modern marbled boards red morocco lettering-piece on spine. Paris: Pérignon & Chariot; Amsterdam: Coclers; Antwerp: Beckmans; Brussels: Marnef; Ghent: Spruyt; Manheim: Artaria; London: Wood Burn 1816. A scarce auction catalogue issued by the expert Alexis Nicolas Pérignon 1785-1864 who presided over a number of important sales — Constantin Denon J.L. David — in the 1810s and 1820s. He was also appointed the commissaire-expert des Musées Royaux a prestigious title once held by the leading dealer and taste-maker Jean Baptiste Pierre Lebrun 1748-1813. Dufresne the consignor to this sale was a wealthy stockbroker. This catalogue describes 65 lots including paintings by Bega N. Berghem Brauwer B. Breenbergh Dou Dujardin Metsu A. & I. van Ostade Steen Teniers Ph. & P. Wouwerman etc. Some of the entries have extensive notes and measurements are provided for most pictures. A nice copy. Sporadic and inoffensive foxing and the half-title is a bit soiled. With the engraved bookplate of the Parisian art dealer and collector of early art auction catalogues Georges Pannier 1853-1944 on the front paste-down and stamps of the Bibliothèque Heim on half-title and title. ⧠Lugt 8847. unknown books
1845ref. 540049London: William Pickering 1845. Hardcover. Very Good. First reprint of the original edition. 12mo. 29 3pp. Near contemporary quarter levant gilt lettered spine purple paper over boards. Head and tail of spine are rubbed corners a little scraped else near fine. A scarce reprint of the suppressed edition of 1524 reprinted by William Pickering “on account of its historical importance”. Two auction records note that the Pickering edition was limited to 100 copies. OCLC locates only three copies. William Pickering hardcover books
1810ref. 4185Mexico City: En la Imprenta Arizpe 1810. Fair. 1420117pp. plus twelve of thirteen plates. Quarto. Contemporary tree calf gilt ruled with gilt-lettered spine label edges painted red. Spine ends heavily chipped rear board separating from foot; boards rubbed moderate edge and corner wear. Defunct library ink stamp to title page. Some worming to initial sections of text slightly affecting printed area. Scattered staining and foxing. Plates trimmed close at fore-edge sometimes affecting images; second plate lacking. The first work on fencing written and published in Mexico featuring eye-catching engravings by Manuel Araoz. The author includes descriptions of various attacks defenses proper foot work posture and equipment including detailed descriptions of the fencing sword. He states that his motive in writing the book is to promote the art of self defense which he stresses is important not only for personal use but also for other causes such as the defense of one’s nation. The engravings depict over twenty positions and maneuvers as well as the critical pieces of equipment. According to Medina the volume was published in 1810 rather than 1809 as stated on the title page because of delays by the engraver. A wounded copy of an important work in a contemporary binding with attractive illustrations by a significant Mexican engraver. The Mathes copy brought $3750 at Swann in 2014. Medina Mexico 10251. Palau 95016. En la Imprenta Arizpe unknown books
1814ref. 19273Nottingham: H. Barnett 1814. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. With 1 large folding engraved plate. Modern boards spine label; interior clean. Overall an excellent copy from the library of Dr. Sydney Ross with his small book label on the paste-down. First edition in English the first effort at an English translation which presumably got no further. The complete English translation was done by the Nathaniel Bowditch and published Boston 1829-1839. In Laplace’s monumental Mecanique celeste first published between 1799 and 1827 all the laws of planetary motion are deduced from the concept of universal gravity. He argued that the universe was really a great self-regulating machine and that the whole solar system could continue on its existing plan for an immense period of time. This was a great step forward from the Newtonian uncertainties in this area. He also offered a brilliant explanation of the secular inequalities of the mean motion of the moon about the earth a problem which Euler and Lagrange had failed to solve. Specifically the first book treats the general laws of balance and motion and the universal law of gravity as well as the movement of the centers of gravity of celestial bodies. Laplace 1749-1827 considered the Isaac Newton of France was one of the most influential scientists in the fields of mathematics celestial mechanics and physics. Not much is known about the translator John Toplis. He lived in Nottingham and was likely acquainted with his neighbor the mathematician George Green. H. Barnett unknown books
1862ref. 14033Rostock: Stiller Hod Buchhandlung 1862. First Edition. original printed wrappers. Good copy; disbound from a larger volume; backstrip abraded. sm. 4to. Thirteen dramatic black and white lithographic plates and text illustrations. An important surgeon who wrote this landmark book establishing the technique and designing the instruments for this gynaecological operation. See Ricci and G-M for numerous citations. Stiller Hod Buchhandlung unknown books
1866ref. 1416991Boston: Little Brown and Company 1866. Twelfth Edition. Hardcover. 6mos Three Volumes. In Good minus condition. Bound in leather with red and green labels to spines and black volume numbering. Spines have red rot heavy rubbing and scuffing and scattered cracking and chipping to leather. Boards have red rot previous owner's name in pen to rear boards splitting to joints bumping to corners and peeling to leather rubbing and scuffing throughout; Vol. 1 has a black stain to bottom fore corner of rear board; Vol. 2 has a large stain to fore edge of front board and extensive staining to rear board; Vol. 3 has scattered staining to rear board. Text blocks have age-toning scuffing and tide marks to edges; have splitting to hinges adhesive toning to pastedowns and age-toning to margins throughout; Vol. 1 has book plate paper label and partially covered provenance marks to front pastedown and heavy pencil annotation throughout; Vol. 2 has provenance marks to pastedowns and tide marks to fore margins throughout; Vol. 3 has provenance marks to pastedowns provenance mark to front flyleaf and tide marks to fore margins of some pages near rear. Shelved in Room A octavo overflow. CONTENTS: Vol. 1 lxxi 1 675 pages-Vol. 2 lxxiii 1 637 pages-Vol. 3 xxxvii 1 518 pages. Originally published between 1842 and 1853 Greenleaf's treatise is widely considered the foundational 19th-century American legal text on evidence. It remained the standard reference work for courts and lawyers for over half a century. 1416991. Special Collections - Upstairs. Little, Brown, and Company hardcover books
1840ref. 2217Paris: Techener 1840. First Edition. Very good. 17 x 26.5 cm. 8vo. Hardcover. 83 pp. with 5 plates of which 3 are folding. Contemporary beige quarter calf patterned brown cloth sides hinges somewhat worn gilt armorial device of the Duc d'Arenberg on both covers some foxing throughout as is true in all copies. DUC D'ARENBURG - B.H. BRESLAUER COPY OF THIS ESSENTIAL HISTORY OF THE EARLIEST PRINTERS CONTAINING VERY SIGNIFICANT DOCUMENTATION OF GUTENBERG IN STRASSBURG THE MOST IMPORTANT BEING THE FIRST REPRODUCTIONS OF DOCUMENTS GIVEN AT THE MEMORABLE TRIAL OF 1439 IN WHICH GUTENBERG HIMSELF WAS PLAINTIFF. THE DOCUMENTS ARE NOW DESTROYED AND EVERY SUBSEQUENT REPRODUCTION DEPENDS ON THE PRESENT WORK. OUR COPY CONTAINS TWO EXTRA PLATES NOT FOUND IN ORDINARY COPIES. According to Pierce Butler Laborde's work is "of permanent historical scholarly value." This sentiment is shared by Frederick Goff who described Laborde's work as "valuable for us since it contains lithographic facsimiles of several of the important passages in the testimonies of the lawsuit then extant which is the nearest thing we have to the original documents." The text of the Gutenberg lawsuit is reprinted "verbatini et literatim" along with a French translation. Also included are reproductions of the WATERMARKS of said documents. All of these precious documents were incinerated during the Prussian bombardment of Strassburg in 1870. The additional full-page plates in the present copy are stylized reproductions of the woodcuts utilized as models for the steel engravings on pp. 16 and 17. "Whereas Laborde's conclusions have in great part been superseded these excellent and faithful reproductions will always possess a high historical interest. . The work opens with a bibliographical essay on the hypotheses of previous writers and concludes with the results arrived at by the author himself. These are: That 1410 is the probable date of the discovery of printing in the Low Countries; that 1423 is that of the invention of movable types by "Lorenz Coster" at Haarlem; that 1436 is the authentic date of the first experiments of Gutenberg at Strasbourg ; and that 1452 is the certain date of the invention by Gutenberg of cast types at Mayence sic. The rest of the book is occupied by an attempt to establish these theses and there are many facsimiles of type and woodcuts." Bigmore & Wyman I 410. Laborde transcribed not without errors the texts of the lawsuit of Strassburg resident Jerge Dritzehen against Gutenberg; these were derived from six entries in different parts of three several manuscript registers in the city of Strassburg. According to Laborde the first of these were written in a volume described by later scholars as "Vol. A" which consisted of two quires each of 42 sheets or 84 leaves in total; they were covered by a sheet of parchment which had become yellow and soiled; on the recto was written "Dicta. Testium magni consilij Anno Domini M.CCC. Tricesimo noni." The paper which had turned yellow and brown on the edge measured 10 x 9 inches. The second volume "Vol. B" was bound in parchment and consisted of 24 sheets or 48 leaves of paper sewn together 43 of the leaves being written upon. According to Laborde everything connected with the 1439 Lawsuit was written by the same scribe. Laborde's three illustrations of the watermarks two different bull's head and one balance were printed in sepia; the excellent facsimiles of eleven different passages from the Lawsuit were made from lithographic tracings. All were published here for the first time. THE AUTHOR: Marquis de Laborde 1807-1869 studied at Gottingen and afterwards travelled extensively in the East. He subsequently held several diplomatic positions and was curator of the antiquities in the Louvre from 1848 to 1854 and director of the Archives of the Empire from 1856 until his death. He wrote extensively on archeology art printing and engraving. PROVENANCE: From the library of the great Belgian bibliophile Prosper-Louis duc d'Arenberg d'Arschot et de Croy 1785-1878 for whom see Jonghe d'Ardoye et al. Armorial Belge du Bibliophile 1930 p. 645 with reproduction of the armorial device. -- subsequently in the famed bibliographical library of B.H. Breslauer Bibliotheca Bibliographica Breslaueriana Christie's NY 6/27/2005 lot 1235. REFERENCES: Butler "The Gutenberg Celebration of 1940: A Survey of the Literature" in: Library Quarterly vol. 13 no. 1 p. 64. Goff Review of Otto Fuhrmann's "Gutenberg and the Strasbourg Documents of 1439" in PBSA vol. 35 no. 1 pp. 76-7. NB: Fuhrmann relied heavily on the present work and reproduced all of Laborde's illustrations and transcriptions. COMMENT: At present the only other copy on the market does not contain the two additional plates and is apparently waterstained. In terms of completeness and provenance few copies in permanent collections are superior to ours. Techener unknown books
1968ref. 208421968. LGBTQ Drag Film & Entertainment Simon Frank. The Queen. New York: Grove Press. 1968. The Queen is a raw portrayal of the life of drag queens partaking in competitive drag shows in New York during the 1960s. Archive of 8 silver gelatin photographs containing stills from the film. The documentary was shown at Cannes and received positive American press for it's realism of an otherwise underrepresented group it has been referred to as the film that brought competitive drag to the public eye. The Queen follows and is narrated by Jack a 24 year old gay man who performs drag under the name Flawless Sabrina as he MC's the 1967 Miss All-America Camp Beauty Contest. In between rehearsing and performing the contestants discuss topics such as draft boards sexual identity sex reassignment surgery transgender identities and being a drag queen. One contestant Pepper LaBeija recounts receiving a draft notice and being turned away because of his feminine appearance despite requesting to serve and protect his country. One photograph shows Jack as Flawless Sabrina in an extravagant feathered and jeweled outfit with a blonde updo and heavy makeup as he presents the contestants to the audience and judges of which included Andy Warhol and writers George Plimpton and Terry Southern. Other photographs show behind the stage in the fitting room of the other contestants preparing for their on stage debut to the public. Some performers wear tall beehive hairdos popular of the 1960s. One photograph shows a dolled up performer meticulously applying lipstick using a compact mirror. Another shows one of the performers getting fitted into their evening dress by another person. Minor edge and corner wear archive is overall in very good condition. At the time both drag and homosexual relations were illegal in New York State. This groundbreaking documentary was overlooked for many years until it was restored and screened once again in 2019. unknown books
1800ref. 14404Paris: Printed by Langlois 1800. Rare colour-printed copper engraving on wove paper. Very good condition apart from some overall light soiling minor foxing and a tiny nick at the edge of the right margin. A beautiful plate with stunning early colour from Lacépède's "La Menagerie du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle" an important scholarly work and one of the finest examples of eighteenth-century French natural history illustration. A professor of zoology at the Museum of Natural History the French naturalist Bernard-Germain-Étienne Delaville Comte de Lacépède 1756-1825 was a versatile and precocious scholar who published a number of books on zoology physics and music. He was greatly influenced by the pioneering naturalist Georges Louis Marie Leclerc comte de Buffon whom he succeeded as Intendant at the Jardin du Roi which later became the Musée d'Histoire Naturelle in 1793. During his tenure Lacépède completed a comprehensive study of amphibians and reptiles Historie Naturelle des Quadrupèdes Ovipares et des Serpens which was published as a supplement to Buffon's magnum opus on animal classification Histoire Naturelle Générale et Particulière. In 1800-1 he published the first edition of La Menagerie du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle a thorough survey of the various species of quadrupeds reptiles and amphibians in the impressive collection of the Museum of Natural History. This magnificent work was comprised of descriptive text written by Lacépède and his colleague Georges L. C. Baron Cuvier 1769-1832 as well as a number of finely rendered plates after the most eminent natural history artists of the period Nicolas Maréchal 1753-1803 Nicolas Huet 1770-1830 and Léon de Wailly 1801-1824. Painted from life on vellum these beautifully detailed illustrations faithfully captured the appearance of the wondrous animals in the Paris menagerie. A pupil of J. G. Wille and C. N. Cochin Simon Charles Miger was a royal academician and a talented engraver who executed numerous portraits and natural history plates. Benezit Dictionnaire des Peintres Sculpteurs Dessinateurs et Graveurs vol. 9 p. 611; Anker 275; BMNH IV p. 1517; Brunet III 725; Nissen ZBI 2353. Printed by Langlois unknown books
ref. 160435N.p.: N.p. 2017. Archive of two Draft scripts for the 2020 film one undated and with the ownership name of screenwriter Christ Zois on the title page-this being from Zois' archive collection-with Zois' extensive annotations in manuscript ink throughout the other dated June 27 2017. From the archive of Christ Zois Abel Ferrara's frequent co-screenwriter. The sixth collaboration between actor Willem Dafoe and director Abel Ferrara a psychological thriller heavily based on the work of Carl Jung about an American living a largely solitary existence in Siberia. Undated script: Self wrappers. Title page present undated. 33 leaves with last page of text numbered 32. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus unbound. June 27 2017 script: Self wrappers. Title page integral with first page of text dated June 27 2017. 37 leaves with last page of text dated 37. Pages Very Good plus partially bound with a single binder clip on the top left corner. N.p. unknown books
1771ref. 68470Paris: A. P. et A. chez l'auteur ruë des Arcis maison du commissaire Valade libraire r. 1771. Paris: A. P. et A. chez l'auteur ruë des Arcis maison du commissaire Valade libraire rue St. Jacques vis a vis celle de la Parcheminerie; 1771. A reissue of the sheets to the 1770 edition with pages 17-18 canceled being the divisional title page "Recueil de contredanses et menuets nouveaux et choisis" the final number of the date on the title-page covered in ink and the price information removed from title-page. Twelvemo 6 x 4 inches; 153 x 105 mm. 2 16 19-31 1 pp. With 12 pages of music and 12 colored plates. With two additional leaves bearing the "Almanach d'agenda pour l'année 1771." Printed in red and black pasted to wrappers as endpapers. The Harvard copy notes "letterpress almanac for 1771 inserted following the t.p." Engraved title-page title within ornamental border all hand colored. And with 12 engraved color plates depicting a couple dancing the allemande. These plates were issued both hand- colored and uncolored. An additional 12 pages of engraved dance music by Sauton and Lahante; signed at end: Coulubrier sculp. Also of note our copy has the pages of music printed out of order. No copy at auction of any edition in over 40 years and less than a handful of of all editions on OCLC. Bound in newer cream wrappers. Some wear and fraying to page edges. A small red stamp on bottom margin of title-page. Some occasional soiling to plates generally not affecting image. Traces of glue residue on inner blank margins of a few plates. Music leaves with some dampstaining. Overall a very nice copy. Referring to the allemande "When the dance was introduced in Paris where it became popular in the 1760s and 1770s it was done quite differently from the German way at least according to the French dancing master Simon Guillaume. The main interest of the French version lay in a series of joined hand positions through which the partners moved by passing under each other's arms turning each other around and passing behind each other's back. The steps to the dance were of secondary importance judging from the perfunctory manner in which they are treated in French books describing the allemande and seem to have been subject to some variation.In his Almanach Dansant 1770 Guillaume described two allemande steps out of the several he said existed the main one in 2/4 time and another in 3/8." The International Encyclopedia of Dance. HBS 68470. $1250. A. P. et A. chez l'auteur ruë des Arcis maison du commissaire, Valade libraire r. unknown books
1659ref. 746071659. A Classic Roman-Dutch Treatise on Arrest Peck Pieter 1529-1589. Van Leeuwen Simon 1626-1682 Translator and Editor. Verhandelinghe van Handt-Opleggen ende Besetten: Dat is Arrest op Persoon Ende Goederen Eertijdts Beschreven door Petrum Peckium. Ende nu Vertaelt Ende Doorgaens met de Daghelijxsche Onderhoudinghe van Het Geene tot de Selve Stoffe Uyt de Nederlandtsche Rechtsoeffeninghe Bestaende in Allerhande Privilegien Handtvesten Statuyten Plackaten Ordonnantien Keuren Gewijsdens Ende Gewoonten op de Rijpsinnighe Bewerpsels van den Schrijver uyt den Rechten Ende Rechtsgeleerden Aenmercke Lijckheeft Kunnen by Gebracht Werden Bevesticht Ende Vermeerdert door Simon van Leeuwen. Dordrecht: Abraham Andriesz 1659. xxvi 573 36 pp. Main title page preceded by copperplate allegorical title page . Quarto 7-3/4" x 6"; 19.68 x 15.24 cm. Contemporary vellum with yapp-style fore-edges early hand-lettered title to spine speckled edges. Light rubbing light soiling to board edges spine ends bumped pastedowns beginning to loosen from boards. Moderate toning to interior underlining and brief notes in an early hand in a few places. An attractive copy. $1250. Second edition by Van Leeuwen. Peck was a professor at the University of Louvain the school where he studied law and a judge of the High Court of Mechelen. He was a prolific author; several of his works were standard texts. Verhandelinghe van Handt-Opleggen ende Besetten is a comprehensive treatise on arrest and seizure of property. First published in Latin in 1654 as De Iure Sistendi it went through several Latin editions into the seventeenth century and was one of the titles included in the Tractatus Universi Juris 1584-1586 the multi-volume anthology of key contemporary legal works edited by Francesco Ziletti under the patronage of Pope Gregory XIII. The translation edited by Van Leeuwen possibly the most widely read Dutch jurist of the late-seventeenth and eighteenth centuries expanded its audience. First published in 1653 it went through seven subsequent editions the last one in 1784. The striking title page in the 1659 edition features images of officials executing a seizure warrant flanked by Prudence and Lady Justice and a trial scene. The Van Leeuwen editions are scarce. OCLC locates 2 in North Ameri. unknown books
ref. 9818Engraved calligraphic title xii 199 pp. 8vo orig. cloth-backed printed slick orange boards a little worn. Berlin: September 1805. This is apparently the first catalogue of globes maps and printed geographical works issued by Schropp 1751-1817 the leading publisher and bookseller in cartographical materials in Berlin of his time. Approximately 2500 items are listed all priced. Due to Schropp’s successes the manufacture of globes shifted from Nuremberg to Berlin. Very good copy. WorldCat lists no copy outside of Germany. unknown books
1967ref. 55185Carbondale Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Very good to fine condition. Quarto. Original light brown cloth with gilt lettering and ruling on black leather labels of spine in original tan dustjackets with black lettering and ruling on spine. Top edges variant light reds or white. Inscribed "For Jim Richards friend and patron with many thanks. John Y. Simon October 9 1997" on front free endpapers of vols. 4 and 5 the latter dated December 23 1997. "For many Americans the eighteenth President of the United States has been an image rather than a man and because he embodied so many of the characteristic virtues and faults of his time and symbolized Union victory in the Civil War this image has reflected the somewhat mixed feelings of Americans about their past. and Grant's life before the Civil War once casually dismissed as "forty years of failure." can now be properly assessed as a series of experiences shaping a complex personality." Publisher V. 1. 1837-1861 -- V. 2. April-September 1861 -- V. 3. October 1 1861-January 7 1862 -- V. 4. January 8-March 31 1862 -- V. 5. April 1-August 31 1862 -- V. 6. September 1-December 8 1862 -- V. 7. December 9 1862-March 31 1863 -- V 8. April 1-July 6 1863 -- V. 9. July 7-December 31 1863 -- V. 10. January 1-May 31 1864.; V. 11. June 1-August 15 1864 -- V. 12. August 16-November 15 1864 -- V. 13. November 16 1864-February 20 1865 -- V. 14. February 21-April 30 1865 -- V. 15. May 1-December 31 1865 -- V. 16. 1866 -- V. 17. January 1-September 30 1867 -- V. 18. October 1 1867-June 30 1868 -- V. 19. July 1 1868-October 31 1869 -- V. 20. November 1 1869-October 31 1870 -- V. 21. November 1 1870-May 31 1871 -- V. 22. June 1 1871-January 31 1872 -- V. 23. February 1-December 31 1872 -- V. 24. 1873 -- V. 25. 1874 -- v. 26. 1875 -- V. 27. January 1-October 31 1876 -- V. 28. November 1 1876 - September 30 1878 -- V. 29. October 1 1878-September 30 1880 -- V. 30. October 1 1880-December 31 1882 -- V. 31. January 1 1883-July 23 1885 -- V 32 Supplementary documents. Vols. 1-6 price-clipped vols. 8 19-21 23-26 with white top edges. Else in near fine to fine condition. Southern Illinois University Press hardcover books
1861ref. 222517Paris: Delarue 1861. First edition variant issue. vi 7-288 pp. 1 vols. 16mo. Contemporary quarter brown morocco over marbled boards green vellum french tips spine gilt signed L. Pouillet. Near fine. First edition variant issue. vi 7-288 pp. 1 vols. 16mo. Rare first edition of Simon Blocquel's 1760-1863 history of tobacco and advice for its use. Sections include a discussion of its cultivation its introduction to Europe government control the advantages and disadvantages of its use and "Le Code du Cigare ou la politesse du fumeur." The Arents catalog identifies two issues of the first edition this being the issue without the folding plate but printed in the same year. Blocquel had no less than seven pseudonyms; he wrote on domestic economy for women gastronomy travel history white magic and literature. Arents 1696 Delarue unknown books
1819ref. 20079Paris 1819. FIRST EDITION. Modern boards uncut. First edition “excessively rare”- Dorbon. A refutation of Collin de Plancy’s Dictionnaire Infernal which the author believes trivializes and negates the true existence of the paranormal. Here Simonnet provides anecdotal evidence for ghost sightings miracles witchcraft werewolves demons and prophecies. In his conclusion he asserts that denying the existence of these things is heresy. The text concludes with an alphabetic table of the authors cited. This work was so incendiary to the Catholic Church that the Vatican invested huge sums of money to remove copies from private libraries. Caillet 10217; Yve-Plessis 76; Dorbon 977; Barbier Anon IV: 16. unknown books
