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London: Henry Lintot and John Osborn, 1746. Folio. An extract of pp. 467-478 of Vol. VI of the third edition of Churchill's Voyages. Bound to style in quarter leather, red leather lettering piece, gilt; marbled paper boards. A near fine copy. Translated from the High-Dutch original. Backhoff traveled from Moscow to China via Siberia in 1654. Wagener traveled throughout Europe, Asia, Africa and America. This account is taken from his diary. He was in China in 1653. The account is quite short. .
A new method of hanging the old style double-hung window sash, which gives lasting service with the advantage of reversibility of sash, easy and smooth operation -- and automatic locking. [A.I.A. File No. 17-B]. by [ARCHITECTURE -- WINDOWS]. [LEWIS, Claude Alexander (Eng.)] - [ca. 1925].
by [ARCHITECTURE -- WINDOWS]. [LEWIS, Claude Alexander (Eng.)]
![A new method of hanging the old style double-hung window sash, which gives lasting service with the advantage of reversibility of sash, easy and smooth operation -- and automatic locking. [A.I.A. File No. 17-B]. by [ARCHITECTURE -- WINDOWS]. [LEWIS, Claude Alexander (Eng.)] - [ca. 1925].](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/962/156/1469156962.0.m.jpg)
A new method of hanging the old style double-hung window sash, which gives lasting service with the advantage of reversibility of sash, easy and smooth operation -- and automatic locking. [A.I.A. File No. 17-B].
by [ARCHITECTURE -- WINDOWS]. [LEWIS, Claude Alexander (Eng.)]
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Houston, TX: American Window Co., [ca. 1925]. 4to. 44 pp. Illust. title, photo illustrations, blueprints in black & tan (several large double-page folding). Printed illustrated green-gray softcovers, w/ raised embossed window logo for AWCO on front cover, lettering in black & orange, yapp fore-edges (minor dustsoiling, edgewear), still VG copy, retaining original printed thumb tab for A.I.A. First edition of this very scarce, and well-illustrated work on the newly invented windows produced by AWCO in Houston, TX which allowed for both upper and lower sections of double-hung window sashes to be pivoted in and cleaned. In the years before air conditioning became standard equipment for commercial buildings, and residences, the AWCO windows were installed in the Loew Theatre in Houston, Memorial Hospital in Louisiana, MO, the La Salle Hotel in Beaumont, TX, and Doctors and Hospital Building in New York. Lewis (1889-1944) was an oil engineer for the Texas Oil Company who when frustrated with being unable to just open windows a crack in order to work in the Texas summer heat, invented a double-hung window which could pivot open, and contracted with the short-lived American Window Co. to produce the window commercially. No copies in Worldcat; See: The New American Window, Civics for Houston, Vol. I, No. 5 (May, 1928), pp. Publications of Interest, Progressive Architecture, Vol. VI (Jan., 1925).
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A Account of Two Voyages ... into China
by Backhoff, Feodor Iskowitz, and Zachary Wagener
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A Water Retreat (painting)
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THE CONDOR AND THE COWS
by Isherwood, Christopher
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NY: Random House, 1949. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Isherwood, Christopher THE CONDOR AND THE COWS NY: Random House, 1949 First edition. A fine, unused copy in near fine unclipped dustjacket. Isherwood's travel writings through Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina. Laid-in is a ANS on a personal mailing card, postmarked June 25, 1949, with Isherwood's residential California address and phone number with old exchange printed at the top verso for message - 333 E. Rustic Road Santa Monica, California S. M 43913. Isherwood writes a chatty note to friend Hamilton Wright, confirmed "bachelor" with Manhattan address and Connecticut country house, wishing him well at Ham's Florida summer residence ("too hot for me. Here it's perfect" (meaning Santa Monica). He concludes " 'The S. American book will be appearing in the fall.
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La Mort d'Arthure:The History of King Arthur and of the Knights of the Round Table
by Malory, Sir Thomas; Wright, Thomas
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London: John Russell Smith, 1865. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Three volumes. 12mo. Half dark red cloth. Introduction and notes by Thomas Wright, The Introduction is of bibliographical importance as it sketches the history of the early editions of Malory: Caxton (one complete copy; one incomplete); de Worde (two editions, one copy of each known); Copland; East; and finally the edition of 1634. Each volume with the engraved circular bookplate of Emily Morris Gallatin on the front pastedowns. The simple signature of Arthur Lewis, 1949, on each of the front free endpapers. And on the front free endpaper of volume 1 a nearly full page inscription dated 2018. Only volume 1 has been fully opened; the remaining volumes are partially unopened. Aside from the inscription and signatures, these volumes are in very good condition showing only traces of wear at the corners, edges and spine tips. This is a curious edition. We have marked it a first edition, but not without hesitation. The first printing…
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On the Frontier: Reminiscences of Wild Sports, Personal Adventures and Strange Scenes
by Campion, J. S.
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London: Chapman and Hall, 1878. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo. 372pp plus publisher's catalogue dated November, 1877. Gray cloth, gilt spine title, boards printed in black. Endpapers partially pasted down, first two pages partially detached, and others reinforced with what appears to be archival tape. A purple War Srvices stamp on the title page, and a longer one on the front free endpaper. Light wear to the spine tips, edges and corners. Still gives a good appearance. Illustrated with eight full page Woodburytype plates. .
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Autograph Document Signed
by WELLES, Gideon (1802-78)
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Secretary of the navy under Lincoln and Johnson. ADS, 1p, 8" X 9½", n.p., 1848 August. Very good. Attractive pale blue lined sheet. Welles, at this time chief of the bureau of provisions and clothing for the U.S. Navy, requests a $150 advance for costs incurred in traveling from Washington to Auburn, New York, to attend the case of United States vs. L. Caldwell, as well as reimbursement for two past trips. Signed with his usual cramped "GWelles." This item is accompanied by an exceptional and scarce 8" X 10" glossy photograph, a full-length portrait (possibly from a Mathew Brady negative?) made circa 1950 by pioneering photography historian FREDERICK HILL MESERVE (1865-1962), "America's first great photograph collector" who assigned numbers to Lincoln photographs ("Meserve numbers") that are still used today. This striking image was quite likely made from the original glass plate negative, as was Meserve's habit. It is identified on the verso in pencil in Meserve's distinctive hand: "Gideon Welles /…
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Italy, a Poem.
by [Fore-edge Painting] ROGERS, Samuel (1863-1855).
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London:: Edward Moxon, 1842., 1842. 8vo. vii, 320 pp. Numerous engraved illus.; lacking frontispiece portrait. Original full maroon blind- and gilt-stamped morocco, raised bands, gilt compartments, all edges gilt. Bookplate of Oscar Ehrhardt Lancaster (fore-edge painting collector). With a fore-edge painting of "Sadler's Wells Theater", London, ca.1813, after Thomas Hosmer Shepherd (1792-1864); engraved by J. Garner, 1830. This is a "modern" painting (20th century).
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Pompei
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Napoli (Naples). Full Cloth. Very Good. N.d., circa 1880s. Leporello of the ruins, including one of the museo and a photogravure of local paesane carrying baskets generally over head in the ruins. Closed, 18 by 13 cm. 22 panels with photographs. Probably missing two photos. Giogio Sommer (1834-1914) was a well-known, and extremely prolific, German-born photographer who made a successful business out of photographing and selling photographs of Italian scenery and ruins, and most specifically, in and around Naples, where he came to have multiple storefronts operating simultaneously. Condition: as noted, probably missing two photos. Soiling of the spine. Some fraying of the cloth along the joints, and a few folds reattached discreetly on the blank backs. Some scattered minor soiling within.
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Selected Shorter Poems 1950-1970
by WILLIAMS, Emmett
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Stuttgart: Edition Hansjorg Mayer, 1978. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket, black cloth over boards slipcase. 410pp. Illustrations (some color). Signed print laid in. Fine/near fine/very good. Quite minor slipcase wear only. Handsome and tight first edition to this large collection by the noted American poet and visual artist (1925-2007), limited to 1000 copies and with a lovely, vibrant original print signed and dated by Williams laid in.
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Scopolamine-Morphine Anaesthesia. A Psychological Study of "Twilight Sleep" Made by the Giessen Method.
by Van Hoosen, Bertha
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Chicago: The House of Manz, 1915. Octavo. Brown cloth library binding, titles to spine and upper board in black. Tipped-in photographic frontispiece and 8 plates from photographs. From the library of the Los Angeles Medical Association, with partially removed numbers at the tail of the spine, blind stamp to the title and page 49, pencilled library notes to the contents list, remnants of a bookplate to the front pastedown, and abraded spots on the rear pastedown where the the card pocket was removed. Cloth a little rubbed and marked with a small knock to the edge of the lower board and a scuff affecting the same board. Contents clean. A very good copy. First edition of this important book on the use of "twilight sleep" anaesthesia during labour by the female surgeon who first advocated its use in the United States. Rare, with WorldCat listing only electronic copies, and only one copy appearing in auction records (Bonhams 2020). Born into a Michigan farming family, Bertha van Hoosen (1863-1952)…
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