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1847ref. 452736Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard 1847. Hardcover. Very Good. Later American edition. Illustrations by George Cruikshank. 12mo. Red cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Contemporary neat gift inscription moderate edgewear on the boards a sound very good copy. Lea and Blanchard hardcover books
ref. 11773Late 19th century view of the Avenue de l'Opéra records pedestrian and carriage traffic along one of central Paris's major thoroughfares. The street scene shows people in period dress sharing the avenue with horse drawn carriages preserving visible evidence of transportation dress and daily activity in nineteenth century Paris. Sepia toned albumen photograph 11 x 8.25 inches showing the Avenue de l'Opéra in Paris France. The composition looks along the broad avenue with pedestrians visible at street level and horse drawn vehicles occupying the roadway. The image documents the avenue during the era before motor traffic transformed movement through the city and provides a contemporary visual record of the built environment and street life of Paris. The Avenue de l'Opéra was created during the extensive nineteenth century reconstruction of Paris and provided a direct approach to the Paris Opera. This contemporary view records how the completed avenue was occupied in daily use with its architecture pedestrians and horse drawn transportation visible within a single urban scene. In excellent condition. unknown books
1885ref. 140511885. Neurdein Frères Paris Opera circa 1887 to 1890 documents the Palais Garnier and the concentrated carriage and pedestrian traffic surrounding one of the principal public buildings of late nineteenth century Paris. Completed in 1875 the opera house stood within the rebuilt urban landscape of the Second Empire and early Third Republic while the traffic visible before its façade records the everyday movement of people and horse drawn vehicles through the surrounding streets. Albumen print approximately 8 x 11 inches mounted on paper. The view centers on the elaborately ornamented façade of the Palais Garnier with numerous horse drawn carriages and pedestrians filling the foreground and the square before the building. The "X Phot." mark identifies the image with Neurdein Frères who used the mark from 1887. The firm produced extensive photographic views of Paris for circulation as tourist and architectural images including monuments civic buildings streets and other recognizable features of the capital. The combination of monumental architecture and active street traffic preserves both the appearance of the Palais Garnier and the transportation patterns of Paris before the widespread replacement of horse drawn vehicles by motor traffic. Excellent condition. A sharp late nineteenth century view combining architectural documentation of the Paris Opera with closely observed evidence of everyday movement through the surrounding urban space. unknown books
1885ref. 140501885. Neurdein Frères Place de la Concorde late nineteenth century records one of Paris's principal civic spaces during the period when the Neurdein photographic enterprise was producing views of French cities monuments and architecture for an expanding tourist market. Place de la Concorde carried several layers of French political history: renamed Place de la Révolution during the French Revolution and used for executions by guillotine it was subsequently reshaped as a monumental public square with the Luxor Obelisk erected at its center in 1836. By the later nineteenth century views of the square formed part of the photographic documentation and commercial circulation of modern Paris. Albumen print measuring 8 ½" x 11" mounted to a stiff light blue paper mount measuring 9 ½" x 12". The image presents a broad view of the Place de la Concorde in Paris preserving the appearance of the square and its surrounding urban setting in the nineteenth century. The lower portion of the print bears the photographer's mark "X Phot." The mark is associated with Neurdein Frères the Paris photographic firm established by Étienne Neurdein and Louis Antonin Neurdein. The firm increasingly concentrated on architectural monument and city views beginning in the 1870s; "X Phot." was among the commercial marks used for its photographic production during the later nineteenth century. The photograph belongs to the extensive nineteenth-century production of Paris views made for travelers and the international photographic market when albumen prints enabled images of the capital's monuments boulevards and public spaces to circulate well beyond France. Place de la Concorde occupied a particularly recognizable position within this visual geography connecting the Tuileries and Champs Élysées and retaining physical associations with both the French Revolution and the nineteenth-century reconstruction of Paris. Very clean with a few marks; very good condition. An early photographic record of Place de la Concorde associated with one of the principal commercial producers of architectural and urban views in nineteenth-century France. unknown books
1912ref. 1440431912. FUTURISM. BERNHEIM-JEUNE & Cie. Les Peintres Futuristes Italiens: Boccioni Carra Russolo Balla Severini. 32 pp Illustrated with black-&-white plates. 8vo bound in publisher's orange wrappers. Paris Chez Mm. Bernheim - Jeune & Cie. 1912. The first major exhibition of the major artists of the Futurist movement outside Italy. The wrappers are slightly soiled but it is nevertheless a sound copy. unknown books
1960ref. 435322New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1960. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Selected and edited by John Hall Wheelock. Fine in a very near fine dustwrapper with modest toning to the spine and a tiny bit of edgewear. A handsome copy. Previously unpublished poetry by the three authors most notably James Dickey his first book. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1925ref. 396549New York: The Haddon Press 1925. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Three quarter white and green cloth top edge gilt. Cloth soiled minimal ex-library markings front hinge cracked a good only copy. The Haddon Press hardcover books
1980ref. 390374San Francisco 1980. Softcover. Near Fine. Photomechanically reproduced flyer on 8.5" x 11" paper. Near fine with some creasing and slight toning. An original flyer promoting a New Years Eve party at the San Francisco punk venue The Sound of Music with The Dark Side of Pop Chill Factor Vauxhall Combo and Paris Working. The Sound of Music began as a club for female impersonators run by "Celso" until Linda Barnhizer and Alan Naldrett convinced him that punk would bring a crowd and they started booking bands in the beginning of 1980. unknown books
1816ref. 1435761816. PARIS. Graphic Illustrations of the Most Prominent Features of the French Capital; with Characteristic Figures in the Foregrounds comprised in Twelve Stroke Engravings From Accurate Designs Taken in Paris during the Imperial Reign of Buonaparte. With Descriptive Notices and Interesting Anecdotes. 26 pp. illustrated with 12 double-page engravings. Folio 430 x 380 mm. bound in contemporary French three-quarter black morocco over marbled boards gilt title and floral vignettes on spine paper label with ms. number "20" on front cover and spine. London: Harper and Co. 1816. A fine copy of this extremely rare collection of views of Paris consisting of twelve artistically conceived views of Paris engraved by English artists. The large double-page engravings incorporate local Parisians participating in daily routines within the setting of each view. Panoramic views include: the Military School and the Church of the Invalides; View of Paris from the South Boulevard; View of Paris from Montmartre; South View of the Old and New Louvre; The Mint and The Façade of the Louvre; View of La Place de la Concorde; The Garden of the West Front of the Tuileries; Palace of the Tuileries Facing La Place du Carrousel; Garden of the Tuileries; The Luxembourg or Palais du Senat with the Gardens; The Elysian Fields Distant Gardens of the Tuileries; Entrance to Les Champs Élysées and La Place de la Concorde. Each plate is followed by two pages of text giving historical details and anecdotes about the site illustrated. Minor wear to outer edges of binding plates and text clean. Rare: OCLC lists 6 copies worldwide of which only one is held in America Bowdoin College. hardcover books
1935ref. 334200Paris: no publisher 1935. Near Fine. Hand colored lithographic print on fine wove paper. Image size approximately 7" x 11". Likely removed from a folio volume as indicated by a thin stub tipped-in along the left edge of the sheet. Near fine. Possibly one of the eight original Eres prints for the pornographic novel Aventures d'une satyre attributed to Jane de Rozat published in Paris in the mid-1930s. no publisher unknown books
1930ref. 334203not indicated: not indicated 1930. Unbound. Near Fine. Hand colored pochoir print on fine wove paper. Image size height preceding width measures approximately 28 x 18 cm. Near fine. Signed "ERES." Could be one of the eight original prints also signed "Eres" for the pornographic novel Aventures d'une satyre attributed to Jane de Rozat published in Paris in the mid-1930s. not indicated unknown books
1802ref. 1277861802. PARIS. Le Guide du Promeneur aux Tuileries. By Louis Philipon de la Madelaine. 198 pp. frontispiece and 35 engraved plates. Small 8vo 150 x 105 mm. bound in modern half brown sheepskin over marbled boards uncut. Paris: Chez Favre 1802. Second edition of this scarce guide to the sculptures in the Tuileries Garden together with a description of the palace and the gardens by the French philologist Louis Philipon de la Madelaine 1734-1818. Rear 18 pages browned but overall an acceptable copy. hardcover books
1956ref. 110011New York: New York University 1956. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Near fine in lightly soiled wrappers. New York University unknown books
1946ref. S14326Paris :: Observatoire de Paris 1946. 1946. Square 8vo. VII 1 75 1 pp. 6 plates. Original black & red printed wrappers; some wear to extremities but well-preserved. Rubber-stamp upper cover of the Carnegie Institution of Washington Mount Wilson Observatory Pasadena. Very good. Exhibition regarding the discovery of Neptune through newspapers and contemporary periodicals. Urbain Le Verrier 1811-1877 French astronomer and mathematician specializing in celestial mechanics founder of modern French meteorology is best known for predicting the existence and position of Neptune using only mathematics. He was elected to the Academy of Sciences for his work on the stability of the solar system. Observatoire de Paris, 1946. unknown books
1995ref. S13588Cambridge:: Cambridge University Press 1995. 1995. Royal 8vo. xiii 1 281 1 pp. Illus. index. Black gilt-stamped cloth dust-jacket. Near fine. ISBN: 0521351685 Hardcover issue. Part B of Planetary Astronomy from the Renaissance to the Rise of Astrophysics continues the history of celestial mechanics and observational discovery through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It provides a synoptic view of the main developments and furnishes details about the lives ideas and interactions of the various astronomers involved. Twelve different authors have contributed their expertise to this book that begins with the reception of Newton's inverse-square law. In the remainder a large place is given to the development of the mathematical theory of celestial mechanics from Clairaut and Euler to LeVerrier Newcomb Hill and Poincare. This emphasis is balanced by other chapters on observational discoveries and the rapprochement of observation and theory for instance the discovery of Uranus and the asteroids use of Venus transits to refine solar parallax introduction of the method of least squares and the development of planetary and satellite ephemerides. Lists of "Further Reading" provide entry to the literature of the several topics. This book will be of great interest to historians of science and astronomers." TABLE OF CONTENTS: Part V. Early Phases in the Reception of Newton's Theory: 14. The vortex theory in competition with Newtonian celestial dynamics Eric J. Aiton / 15. The shape of the Earth Seymour L. Chapin / 16. Clairaut and the motion of the lunar apse: The inverse-square law undergoes a test Craig B. Waff / 17. The precession of the equinoxes from Newton to d'Alembert and Euler Curtis Wilson / 18. The solar tables of Lacaille and the lunar tables of Mayer Eric G. Forbes and Curtis Wilson / 19. Predicting the mid-eighteenth-century return of Halley's Comet Craig B. Waff. Part VI. Celestial Mechanics During the Eighteenth Century: 20. The problem of perturbation analytically treated: Euler Clairaut d'Alembert Curtis Wilson / 21. The work of Lagrange in celestial mechanics Curtis Wilson / 22. Laplace Bruno Morando. Part VII. Observational Astronomy and the Application of Theory in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century: / 23. Measuring solar parallax: The Venus transits of 1761 and 1769 and their nineteenth–century sequels Albert Van Helden / 24. The discovery of Uranus the Titius-Bode and the asteroids Michael Hoskin / 25. Eighteenth–and nineteenth century developments in the theory and practice of orbit determination Brian G. Marsden / 26. The introduction of statistical reasoning into astronomy: from Newton to Poincare Oscar Sheynin / 27. Astronomy and the theory of errors: from the method of averages to the method of least squares F. Schmeidler. Part VIII. The Development of Theory During the Nineteenth Century: / 28. The golden age of celestial mechanics Bruno Morando. Part IX. The Application of Celestial Mechanics to the Solar System to the End of the Nineteenth Century: / 29. Three centuries of lunar and planetary ephemerides and tables Bruno Morando / 30. Satellite ephemerides to 1900 Yoshihide Kozai. Cambridge University Press, 1995. hardcover books
1742ref. SS13441London:: Printed for John and Paul Knapton. . . 1742-53. 1742. 5 volumes. 8vo. Vol.1: 4 x 11-456 16; Vol.2: 2 407 15 10; Vol.3: 2 422 16; Vol.4: 2 410 14 11-26; Vol.5: 2 426 14 pp. The first 10 pages of the "Addenda" are bound at the end of vol.2 pp.11-26 are bound at the end of vol.4. 44 of 45 engraved plates mostly folding I: 17; II: 6; III: 6; IV: 6; V: 9 of 10 plates pl. 10 supplied in facs. see p. 422 TOTAL: 44 2 folding tables vol. I tables some folding addenda indexes; 2nd wasp plate vol. V with small scrape effecting some of the image. Original speckled calf; rebacked and with later endleaves vols. I III & V with joints gently mended with kozo. PROVENANCE: Bookplates of Henry and Carol Faul mounted on top of the following engraved bookplate for the American Academy of Arts & Sciences: "Sub libertate Florent" dated 1780 "The Gift of . . ." -- also with their gilt-stamp applied to the foot of the later spines "American Academy"; Rubber stamps discarded of the Linda Hall Library Kansas City MO. Very good. HENRY FAUL'S COPY -- WORKED FOR ENRICO FERMI & BIKINI ATOLL TEST. A collection of early scientific papers from leading figures all belonging to the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris the French equivalent to the Royal Society of London. The abridged papers all appeared between 1699 and 1720 and include diverse topics such as anatomy apiculture astronomy incl. Moon chemistry electricity entomology gases geography geology herpetology invertebrates magnetism medicine meteorology mineralogy monsters music mollusks natural history optics physics scientific instruments including the barometer microscope zoology and more. / AMONG THE NUMEROUS CONTRIBUTORS OR NOTABLES MENTIONED: Agricola Amontons Baert Juan de Barros Bernoulli Bignon Borelli Bouvet Robert Boyle Carre Cassini Chazelles Chevalier Coronelli Dampier Descartes Dodart Fermat Fontenay Fontenelle Galileo Gandolphe Gassendi Gesner Gouye Halley Van Helmont de la Hire du Hamel Huygens Jeaugeon Kepler Kircher Leibnitz Lemery Leuwenhoek Malpighi de Marca Mariotte Mollard Gregory Nazianzen Isaac Newton de Nointel Ortelius Parent Picard Renau Riccioli Sanctorius Strabo Tournefort Varignon etc. PROVENANCE: 1 American Academy of Arts & Sciences bookplate: The Academy seal features Minerva the goddess of wisdom science and trade and the arts. Her temple on the Aventine Hill was a meeting place for skilled craftsman writers and actors. She is also depicted as a warrior a symbol appropriate for an organization created in the midst of the American Revolution. Around Minerva are representations of the new country—on her right a field of Indian corn a stand of oaks and the outline of a town; at her feet a hoe a plow and a sickle; on her left a quadrant and a telescope a ship heading for shore and the sun completely risen above the cloud. Over the whole is the motto SUB LIBERTATE FLORENT which suggests that arts and sciences flourish best in. -- 2 Rubber stamps discarded of the Linda Hall Library Kansas City MO. -- 3 Henry and Carol Faul. Henry Faul was a geologist working on Enrico Fermi's team at the University of Chicago. He was responsible for prospecting uranium ore in Colorado and Utah. He also travelled to Manhattan Project sites at Los Alamos and in Washington DC. Following the war Faul continued to work on nuclear projects and participated in the Bikini Atoll test. He received his M.S. from the University of Chicago during the war and went on to get his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ESTC T131275. Printed for John and Paul Knapton. . . , 1742-53. unknown books
1902ref. 353977Ka Papa Hawaii Honolulu; Hoopukaia e L. Laiana paiia e Biglow & Main New York: 1902 1902. First edition. 4 216 8; 304pp. Oblong 8vo. Publisher's maroon cloth-backed tan cloth boards upper cover lettered in gilt. Custom morocco clamshell box. First edition. 4 216 8; 304pp. Oblong 8vo. Published in 1902 by the Hawaiian Evangelical Association this collection of 298 hymns was compiled by Theodore Richards and Ella H. Paris. This edition bound with presumably as issued a reprint of Lorenzo Lyons's Hoku Ao Nani a collection of Sunday school hymns. [1902] unknown books
1512ref. 372103Paris: Philippe Pigouchet for Simon Vostre 1512. Title page printed in red and black with woodcut device of Simon Vostre; full page woodcuts of St. Jerome crucifixion old coloring. Text in gothic type in two columns ornamental initials some colored text ruled in red throughout. 15 340 28 leaves. Terminal black dd6 present. 1 vols. Folio. Modern linen conservation binding. First leaf toned ownership marks struck out early bibliopole's description in ink at bottom of title. Some minor worming at end. Very good. Title page printed in red and black with woodcut device of Simon Vostre; full page woodcuts of St. Jerome crucifixion old coloring. Text in gothic type in two columns ornamental initials some colored text ruled in red throughout. 15 340 28 leaves. Terminal black dd6 present. 1 vols. Folio. Large folio Bible printed for Simon Vostre by Philippe Pigouchet the famous printer of some of the most beautiful Books of Hours. Uncommon in institutions and in the trade. Renouard ICP II 248; Delaveau & Hillard 778 Philippe Pigouchet for Simon Vostre unknown books
1839ref. 366272London: Printed for Longman and Co. 1839. A New and Improved Edition. Illustrated with Engravings of the Egyptian Antiquities &c and a Complete set of Maps of Ancient Geography. Portrait of Rollin and Engarved title page 3 folding maps one other map 10 other plates. 6 vols. 4to. Bound in full polished tan calf heavily gilt spine marbled edges. A New and Improved Edition. Illustrated with Engravings of the Egyptian Antiquities &c and a Complete set of Maps of Ancient Geography. Portrait of Rollin and Engarved title page 3 folding maps one other map 10 other plates. 6 vols. 4to. Printed for Longman and Co. unknown books
1817ref. 314563London: Printed for F. C. And J. Rivington; J. Nunn; J. Cuthell; Lackington etc. 1817. The Thirteenth edition Revised corrected and illustratted with a set of maps. Illustrated folding maps. 8 vols. Half contemporary brown calf gilt spine and marbled boards all edges marbled. Very Good. The Thirteenth edition Revised corrected and illustratted with a set of maps. Illustrated folding maps. 8 vols. Printed for F. C. And J. Rivington; J. Nunn; J. Cuthell; Lackington etc. unknown books
1934ref. 30156New York: Harrison of Paris 1934. No. 439 of 895 copies; signed by Porter. 1 vols. 8vo. Original brown cloth fine in original labeled slipcase. No. 439 of 895 copies; signed by Porter. 1 vols. 8vo. The thirteenth publication of Harrison of Paris designed by Monroe Wheeler. Ransom Check Lists p. 380 Harrison of Paris unknown books
1817ref. 29207Paris: Chez l'Auteur 1817. Second edition. Large folding engraved map some short tears along gutter small hole along fold else very good. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards. Boards rubbed some staining and starting of joints rubbing of spine some light spotting of text else very good. Second edition. Large folding engraved map some short tears along gutter small hole along fold else very good. 1 vols. 8vo. Chez l'Auteur unknown books
1823ref. 29769London: Printed for Longman Hurst Rees Orme Brown and Green 1823. First book edition. According to the preface many of the letters had been published in the "European Magazine. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary marbled boards recently rebacked with brown morocco. Some light rubbing light spotting of text mostly at front and back else very good. First book edition. According to the preface many of the letters had been published in the "European Magazine". 1 vols. 8vo. The Marquis de Vermont and Sir Charles Darnley Bart are both pseudonyms. Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green unknown books
1812ref. 29210Paris: De L'Imprimerie de J. G. Dentu 1812. First edition. Large folding engraved map. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards. Head of spine pulled some rubbing label rubbed else fine. First edition. Large folding engraved map. 1 vols. 8vo. De L'Imprimerie de J. G. Dentu unknown books
1878ref. 29001Paris: A. Quantin 1878. One of 330 copies. Some illustrations each with introduction by L'Abbé Valentin Dufour. 4 vols. 8vo. Recent red morocco gilt backed blue cloth by G. Gauché. Some light discoloration but generally very good. One of 330 copies. Some illustrations each with introduction by L'Abbé Valentin Dufour. 4 vols. 8vo. A. Quantin unknown books
