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1978ref. 597812Santa Cruz California: Kayak Books Inc 1978. Softcover. Fine. Issue 49. Colleges by Robin Calitri. Slim octavo. 72pp. About fine in stapled wrappers. Contributions by Raymond Carver Edouard Roditi Vasko Popa and others. Kayak Books, Inc unknown books
1756ref. 433811756 Paris. Au dépens de la Société. 1756. 1 volume in-12, plein veau tacheté, dos lisse orné, pièce de titre de maroquin rouge. XVI pp. ; 207 pp. ; (5) pp.
1977ref. 557283Sausalito Ca: Point 1977. Softcover. Very Good. Magazine. Cover art by R. Crumb. Small quarto. 144pp. Pictorial wrappers. Wraps and text block rippled lightly toned spine very good. Subscription form included. Contains: "Modern Dance Workship" by R. Crumb "The Ultimate City - Part 1" by J.G. Ballard "The Poem is that Voice in Between" Simon Ortiz with Lewis McAdams "Death Does Not Exist" by Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross "The Price of Marijuana Misinformation" by Russel Falck "The Death of Ivan Ilych" by Leo Tolstoy "Mushroom Hunting in Oregon" by Andrew Weil. Also includes articles on living with cancer dinghy building how to make old time radio plays design manual for solar water heaters hallucinogenic plants and much more. Point unknown books
1971ref. 553768San Francisco: The San Francisco Comic Book Company 1971. Softcover. Very Good. First printing with glossy cover stock and no nipple on cover. Octavo. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Very good with edgewear creasing and rubbing. Contributor include Robert Crumb Greg Irons Spain Rodriguez Simon Deitch Jim Osborne S. Clay Wilson Bill Griffith and Kim Deitch. The San Francisco Comic Book Company unknown books
1967ref. 329098Madison Wisconsin: Quixote Magazine 1967. Softcover. Near Fine. Magazine "The Potluck Issue." Quarto. 11113pp. About fine in lightly rubbed wrappers. Magazine with a 55-page transcription from a symposium featuring James Dickey Howard Nemerov Gregory Corso Jack Gilbert John Simon and Theodore Weiss held at the YMHA Poetry Center in New York on February 2 1964. Additional contributions from Norbert Blei Edward Ben Elson Robert Chute Stanley Cooperman Douglas Blazek Linda Chown Ray Crabtree Harvey Feinberg A.A. Fox Richard Grossinger Joan White Hugh Know Loren Loverde Joan Michelson Sol Newman Bernie Pyron Rock Proktos Ed Ochesier and Clayton Bailey. Quixote Magazine unknown
1967ref. 329098Madison Wisconsin: Quixote Magazine 1967. Softcover. Near Fine. Magazine "The Potluck Issue." Quarto. 11113pp. About fine in lightly rubbed wrappers. Magazine with a 55-page transcription from a symposium featuring James Dickey Howard Nemerov Gregory Corso Jack Gilbert John Simon and Theodore Weiss held at the YMHA Poetry Center in New York on February 2 1964. Additional contributions from Norbert Blei Edward Ben Elson Robert Chute Stanley Cooperman Douglas Blazek Linda Chown Ray Crabtree Harvey Feinberg A.A. Fox Richard Grossinger Joan White Hugh Know Loren Loverde Joan Michelson Sol Newman Bernie Pyron Rock Proktos Ed Ochesier and Clayton Bailey. Quixote Magazine unknown books
1992ref. ZZ6980Variorum 1992. Dustwrapper slightly faded on spine but unclipped. Robust packaging. Tracking is always added to USA orders. It can be added to other overseas orders on request. Used books are exempt from USA tariffs. 1st edition. No ownership marks. No ownership marks. Binding sound text unmarked. Fine/Near Fine. 333pp. Variorum Paperback
1988ref. 66656NY:: Knopf. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1988. Hardcover. 0394574273 . Black and white photographs throughout. First American edition. Remainder mark on bottom edge else near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . Knopf, hardcover books
1978ref. BING815AL011Jason Aronson 1978. Hardcover with D/J. Good/Good. Prompt shipment with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes Very good hardcover with Chipped and nicked dust jacket clean pages. 8vo 581 pages Jason Aronson hardcover
1964ref. 1253New York: Universal Publishing Beacon 1964. Paperback Original 1st. Original wraps. Near Fine. 4 1/8 X 7 Inches. 154 PP 6 PP ads. Original 1964 printing. From the front cover "Geraldine's bedroom was the crossroads of normal love. and the Lesbos path." Classic 1960's lesbian culture novel. Looks to be an unread copy. Two red lines to top gutter. Slight scuff to rear panel else a fine copy. OCLC locates only "1" copy. Universal Publishing (Beacon) unknown
ref. 87753The Hague H. Constapel 1760. 8vo. 56 16 pp. The last 14 pp. with printed music. Uncut in later paper boards. Charles-Simon Favart 1710-92 was an influential french opera-comique composer and writer. He was very succesful become director for the Opéra-Comique theatre and in 1783 a new theatre in Paris was named ”Salle Favart”. The play ”Raton et Rosette” was first performed in 1753 and first published in 1758. As famous as Charles-Simon was almost also his wife Marie-Justine 1727-72 who not only took part in the performances she plays here the part of Rosette according to the list of ”Acteurs” but was also co-writer and she is known for an important reform of the stage costumes. hardcover
ref. 1271269244.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
ref. 1279514833.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1648ref. 77545København 1648. Liten 4to. Originalt tresnitt med senere håndkolorering. Med passepartout i enkel ramme. Dansk. Fra Simon Paulli : Flora Danica. Trykt hos Plantin i Antwerpen. Paulli 1603-1680 dansk lege og naturforsker. unknown
1983ref. 257711London: J.M Dent 1983. First edition. Profusely illustrated with 130 duotone illustrations from photos taken at private country homes. 1 vols. 4to. In publisher's deluxe binding of three quarter brown morocco and linen Cockerell endpapers t.e.g. by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with the original dust jacket bound in. Prospectus laid in. Beautfully produced and illustrated social history of "the distinct hunting community" which continues to persist. First edition. Profusely illustrated with 130 duotone illustrations from photos taken at private country homes. 1 vols. 4to. Biscotti Six Centuries of Foxhunting p. 51 not noting this issue J.M Dent unknown
1983ref. 257711London: J.M Dent 1983. First edition. Profusely illustrated with 130 duotone illustrations from photos taken at private country homes. 1 vols. 4to. In publisher's deluxe binding of three quarter brown morocco and linen Cockerell endpapers t.e.g. by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with the original dust jacket bound in. Prospectus laid in. Beautfully produced and illustrated social history of "the distinct hunting community" which continues to persist. First edition. Profusely illustrated with 130 duotone illustrations from photos taken at private country homes. 1 vols. 4to. Biscotti Six Centuries of Foxhunting p. 51 not noting this issue J.M Dent unknown books
1929ref. C000010083Berlin: Springer 1929. Hardcover. Very Good. Bound volume of offprints from the multi-volume set that was published between 1926-1929 in 24 volumes. Tall 8vo bound in green cloth with red leather spine label and bearing the bookplate of Franz Pollitzer an important German physicist who was deported to Auschwitz where he perished in 1942. Several hundred pages total. Light wear to binding contents VG. The Simon and Meissner pieces are inscribed by the author two others bear presentation stamps Uberreicht vom Verfasser. RARE offprints from this famous serial publication with excellent provenance. Springer hardcover
1688ref. 368775Montreal 1688. In French. 2pp. recto and verso on a single leaf. Signed by Perrot Bleinz and notary Benigne Basset. With an English transcription. Quarto. Old folds. Near fine. Provenance: Archibald de Léry MacDonald; Lawrence Lande. Exhibition: An Exhibition of Early Documents and Printed Material Relating to the Beginnings of Trade in North America from the Private Collection of Dr. Lawrence M. Lande McGill University May 30-July 15 1985 with an 8-page exhibition catalogue. In French. 2pp. recto and verso on a single leaf. Signed by Perrot Bleinz and notary Benigne Basset. With an English transcription. Quarto. Scarce seventeenth century voyageur fur trade contract for an expedition to the wilderness to trade with the Ottawa signed by one of the most important early traders and explorers of Canada and the upper midwest. "Partnership agreements such as this one of Nicholas Perrot are of great rarity" Lande. Perrot 1644-1717 was an explorer interpreter trader commandant diplomat and seigneur. He was one of the best-known figures in the early fur trade of New France particularly during the latter part of the 17th century and took possession of large tracts of land in the Great Lakes region in the name of King Louis XIV. His travels commonly took him deep into unexplored territory and he was the first Frenchman to explore the Upper Mississippi in what is now Wisconsin and Minnesota. Perrot arrived in New France about 1660 as a young donné or contracted assistant in the company of Jesuit Missionaries and travelled to the western Great Lakes region where he gained the friendship of the local First Nations people by trading guns for furs believing that they were entitled to defend themselves from their enemies. He also took the opportunity to learn several Native languages which served him well during his career. Perrot soon entered the fur trade full time and began forming business partnerships. He enlisted himself as a translator with government authorities and participated in peacekeeping missions to bring warriors of several First Nations together to sign peace treaties. By 1685 he was appointed Commandant-in-Chief at Bais des Puants present day Green Bay Wisconsin and surrounding regions and travelled to the upper reaches of the Mississippi River in the territory of the Sioux tribes where he built Fort St. Antoine in present-day Minnesota. During the spring of 1687 in preparation for taking part in raids on Indian villages in the Seneca country Perrot left his store of furs with the Jesuits at St. Francois-Xavier mission in present-day Wisconsin. While out with the raid party a fire at the mission destroyed his entire fur inventory valued at more than 40000 livres. Financially ruined Perrot returned to Montreal to deal with creditors and renew partnership agreements like the present. In the summer of 1688 Perrot partnered with Simon Bleinz to undertake an expedition to trade with the Ottawa Indians and other Nations. Perrot had always been a staunch ally of Governor Frontenac and had obtained a fur trade license from the governor for this venture to ensure that his activities were in keeping with the rules and regulations of the trade. The agreement states that Perrot would supply Bleinz with goods food provisions a canoe and other necessary supplies for the voyage and that Bleinz would convey the goods to the trading area and do all that he was able for the success of the partnership. Bleinz had the option of taking at his own expense six shirts two capots or hooded coats of blanket cloth moosehide or other material and one rifle to trade for his own personal profit. The pelts resulting from the venture were to be distributed evenly amongst Bleinz another unnamed associate of the partnership and Perrot. An "apichimon" or bonus of six beaver pelts was to be paid to Bleinz by the partnership upon the successful conclusion of the expedition. "Perrot who was often unappreciated even during his lifetime was France's best representative among the Indians of the west. His knowledge of the languages of the country his natural eloquence the happy blend of daring and coolness that were the essence of his character had made it possible for him to win the esteem confidence and even affection of the Indians. The Potawatomis the Menominees the Foxes the Miamis the Mascoutens and the Sioux granted him with the honours of the pipe of peace the rights and prerogatives enjoyed by their own chiefs. His credit was not less among the Ottawas and the Hurons. During the last four decades of the 17th century at a time when alliance with the nations of the west was indispensable in order to ward off the Iroquois peril and allow access to new territories Perrot thanks to the influence that he had acquired rendered valuable assistance to the colony" Dictionary of Canadian Biography. The present document is from the famed collection of Lawrence M. Lande 1906-1998 detailed as item 107 in his second bibliography of his collection The Founder of our Monetary System John Law Compagnie des Indes & the Early Economy of North America Montreal: 1984. Lande began collecting manuscript material relating John Law the Compagnie des Indes and the fur trade - North America's first economy - as early as the 1960s principally working with dealers Izzy Ehrlich and Alfred Van Peteghem purchasing material from the collections of Thomas Phillips Philip Sang and historian Archibald Lery MacDonald the assemblage of which Van Peteghem termed an "unparalleled feat." All of the printed material and many of the documents were donated by Lande in his lifetime; however a grouping of the manuscript items including the present document were sold by his heirs after his death. Lande Founder of our Monetary System 107 unknown
1688ref. 368775Montreal 1688. In French. 2pp. recto and verso on a single leaf. Signed by Perrot Bleinz and notary Benigne Basset. With an English transcription. Quarto. Old folds. Near fine. Provenance: Archibald de Léry MacDonald; Lawrence Lande. Exhibition: An Exhibition of Early Documents and Printed Material Relating to the Beginnings of Trade in North America from the Private Collection of Dr. Lawrence M. Lande McGill University May 30-July 15 1985 with an 8-page exhibition catalogue. In French. 2pp. recto and verso on a single leaf. Signed by Perrot Bleinz and notary Benigne Basset. With an English transcription. Quarto. Scarce seventeenth century voyageur fur trade contract for an expedition to the wilderness to trade with the Ottawa signed by one of the most important early traders and explorers of Canada and the upper midwest. "Partnership agreements such as this one of Nicholas Perrot are of great rarity" Lande. Perrot 1644-1717 was an explorer interpreter trader commandant diplomat and seigneur. He was one of the best-known figures in the early fur trade of New France particularly during the latter part of the 17th century and took possession of large tracts of land in the Great Lakes region in the name of King Louis XIV. His travels commonly took him deep into unexplored territory and he was the first Frenchman to explore the Upper Mississippi in what is now Wisconsin and Minnesota. Perrot arrived in New France about 1660 as a young donné or contracted assistant in the company of Jesuit Missionaries and travelled to the western Great Lakes region where he gained the friendship of the local First Nations people by trading guns for furs believing that they were entitled to defend themselves from their enemies. He also took the opportunity to learn several Native languages which served him well during his career. Perrot soon entered the fur trade full time and began forming business partnerships. He enlisted himself as a translator with government authorities and participated in peacekeeping missions to bring warriors of several First Nations together to sign peace treaties. By 1685 he was appointed Commandant-in-Chief at Bais des Puants present day Green Bay Wisconsin and surrounding regions and travelled to the upper reaches of the Mississippi River in the territory of the Sioux tribes where he built Fort St. Antoine in present-day Minnesota. During the spring of 1687 in preparation for taking part in raids on Indian villages in the Seneca country Perrot left his store of furs with the Jesuits at St. Francois-Xavier mission in present-day Wisconsin. While out with the raid party a fire at the mission destroyed his entire fur inventory valued at more than 40000 livres. Financially ruined Perrot returned to Montreal to deal with creditors and renew partnership agreements like the present. In the summer of 1688 Perrot partnered with Simon Bleinz to undertake an expedition to trade with the Ottawa Indians and other Nations. Perrot had always been a staunch ally of Governor Frontenac and had obtained a fur trade license from the governor for this venture to ensure that his activities were in keeping with the rules and regulations of the trade. The agreement states that Perrot would supply Bleinz with goods food provisions a canoe and other necessary supplies for the voyage and that Bleinz would convey the goods to the trading area and do all that he was able for the success of the partnership. Bleinz had the option of taking at his own expense six shirts two capots or hooded coats of blanket cloth moosehide or other material and one rifle to trade for his own personal profit. The pelts resulting from the venture were to be distributed evenly amongst Bleinz another unnamed associate of the partnership and Perrot. An "apichimon" or bonus of six beaver pelts was to be paid to Bleinz by the partnership upon the successful conclusion of the expedition. "Perrot who was often unappreciated even during his lifetime was France's best representative among the Indians of the west. His knowledge of the languages of the country his natural eloquence the happy blend of daring and coolness that were the essence of his character had made it possible for him to win the esteem confidence and even affection of the Indians. The Potawatomis the Menominees the Foxes the Miamis the Mascoutens and the Sioux granted him with the honours of the pipe of peace the rights and prerogatives enjoyed by their own chiefs. His credit was not less among the Ottawas and the Hurons. During the last four decades of the 17th century at a time when alliance with the nations of the west was indispensable in order to ward off the Iroquois peril and allow access to new territories Perrot thanks to the influence that he had acquired rendered valuable assistance to the colony" Dictionary of Canadian Biography. The present document is from the famed collection of Lawrence M. Lande 1906-1998 detailed as item 107 in his second bibliography of his collection The Founder of our Monetary System John Law Compagnie des Indes & the Early Economy of North America Montreal: 1984. Lande began collecting manuscript material relating John Law the Compagnie des Indes and the fur trade - North America's first economy - as early as the 1960s principally working with dealers Izzy Ehrlich and Alfred Van Peteghem purchasing material from the collections of Thomas Phillips Philip Sang and historian Archibald Lery MacDonald the assemblage of which Van Peteghem termed an "unparalleled feat." All of the printed material and many of the documents were donated by Lande in his lifetime; however a grouping of the manuscript items including the present document were sold by his heirs after his death. Lande Founder of our Monetary System 107 unknown books
1815ref. 299403New York: Printed for the Author by Sherman & Pudney 1815. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Disbound. 176pp. Foxing on title page else very good or better. Bishop Henry Treadwell Onderdonk's copy with his ownership signature twice one of which is dated in 1816. Onderdonk was one of the most controversial figures in Episcopal history with his suspension by the Church for improper conduct with women but fueled at least in part for his supposed sympathy to Roman Catholicism still being debated to this day. Printed for the Author by Sherman & Pudney hardcover
1815ref. 299403New York: Printed for the Author by Sherman & Pudney 1815. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Disbound. 176pp. Foxing on title page else very good or better. Bishop Henry Treadwell Onderdonk's copy with his ownership signature twice one of which is dated in 1816. Onderdonk was one of the most controversial figures in Episcopal history with his suspension by the Church for improper conduct with women but fueled at least in part for his supposed sympathy to Roman Catholicism still being debated to this day. Printed for the Author by Sherman & Pudney hardcover books
1930ref. 52576Waltham Saint Lawrence Berkshire: Golden Cockerel Press 1930. Number 254 of 500 copies. Wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton. 1 vols. 8vo. Original cloth. Spine toned some discoloration of endpapers else Very Good. Number 254 of 500 copies. Wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton. 1 vols. 8vo. Golden Cockerel Press hardcover
1855ref. 53792Philadelphia: Bicking & Guilbert 1855. First edition. Softcover. Very good. Octavo. 43 1 blankpp; 2 maps 1 folding. Contemporary blue title wrappers lightly chipped at extremities lettered in black. Stain limited to top margin throughout latter half else a very good copy text clean and crisp. First edition of this rare Brief of Title. The Gratz family of merchants and community leaders in Philadelphia was founded by Barnard Gratz 1738-1801. As a young man he emigrated from Germany to London where he was briefly employed as a clerk. Shortly after relocating to Philadelphia in 1754 he went into business as a merchant in the coastal and West Indian trade and formed around 1760 a lasting partnership with his brother Michael who was involved in the Indian and fur trade as well as land speculation. The two brothers helped found the first synagogue in Philadelphia. Two of Michael's sons Simon Gratz 1773-1839 and his brother Hyman 1776-1857 carried on the family business. Apart from his ongoing involvement with the Jewish Congregation Mikveh Israel "Simon was among the founders of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts" Morais and "a director of the Pennsylvania Botanical Garden" Rosenbloom. Includes a three-page extract from the will of Simon Gratz dated February 16 1839 with his instructions for the disposition of the 71 acres of his estate contained in "the four tracts of land mentioned at the beginning of this Brief." As noted in the present brief p. 28 The Farmers and Mechanics Land and Building Association received its Charter of Encorporation on March 17 1852 acquiring by purchase the Willington Estate from Louisa Gratz Edward Gratz David Gratz and Elizabeth Gratz on April 16 1852. Provenance: The business card of Henry Tunison Jr. "Real Estate Agent and Collector of House and Ground Rents. S. E. Corner 18th & Spruce Streets Philadelphia" has been mounted at the bottom of the front wrapper; Mr. Tunison's manuscript entry appears at the top. A rare item not indexed in OCLC which does however locate two copies of an 1871 edition at Hebrew Union College and the University of Michigan; Singerman is also only aware of the 1871 printing noting copies at the American Jewish Historical Society and the Library Company of Philadelphia. References: Cf. Singerman Judaica Americana no. 2256 ed. 1871. For the Graz family see: H.S. Morais The Jews of Philadelphia 1894 p. 25. J.R. Rosenbloom A Biographical Dictionary of Early American Jews 1960 pp. 47-48. Bicking & Guilbert unknown
1855ref. 53792Philadelphia: Bicking & Guilbert 1855. First edition. Softcover. Very good. Octavo. 43 1 blankpp; 2 maps 1 folding. Contemporary blue title wrappers lightly chipped at extremities lettered in black. Stain limited to top margin throughout latter half else a very good copy text clean and crisp. First edition of this rare Brief of Title. The Gratz family of merchants and community leaders in Philadelphia was founded by Barnard Gratz 1738-1801. As a young man he emigrated from Germany to London where he was briefly employed as a clerk. Shortly after relocating to Philadelphia in 1754 he went into business as a merchant in the coastal and West Indian trade and formed around 1760 a lasting partnership with his brother Michael who was involved in the Indian and fur trade as well as land speculation. The two brothers helped found the first synagogue in Philadelphia. Two of Michael's sons Simon Gratz 1773-1839 and his brother Hyman 1776-1857 carried on the family business. Apart from his ongoing involvement with the Jewish Congregation Mikveh Israel "Simon was among the founders of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts" Morais and "a director of the Pennsylvania Botanical Garden" Rosenbloom. Includes a three-page extract from the will of Simon Gratz dated February 16 1839 with his instructions for the disposition of the 71 acres of his estate contained in "the four tracts of land mentioned at the beginning of this Brief." As noted in the present brief p. 28 The Farmers and Mechanics Land and Building Association received its Charter of Encorporation on March 17 1852 acquiring by purchase the Willington Estate from Louisa Gratz Edward Gratz David Gratz and Elizabeth Gratz on April 16 1852. Provenance: The business card of Henry Tunison Jr. "Real Estate Agent and Collector of House and Ground Rents. S. E. Corner 18th & Spruce Streets Philadelphia" has been mounted at the bottom of the front wrapper; Mr. Tunison's manuscript entry appears at the top. A rare item not indexed in OCLC which does however locate two copies of an 1871 edition at Hebrew Union College and the University of Michigan; Singerman is also only aware of the 1871 printing noting copies at the American Jewish Historical Society and the Library Company of Philadelphia. References: Cf. Singerman Judaica Americana no. 2256 ed. 1871. For the Graz family see: H.S. Morais The Jews of Philadelphia 1894 p. 25. J.R. Rosenbloom A Biographical Dictionary of Early American Jews 1960 pp. 47-48. Bicking & Guilbert unknown books
1648ref. 77546København 1648. Liten 4to. Originalt tresnitt med senere håndkolorering. Med passepartout i enkel ramme. Dansk. Fra Simon Paulli : Flora Danica. Trykt hos Plantin i Antwerpen. Paulli 1603-1680 dansk lege og naturforsker. unknown
