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Paris: Chez Gabriel Martin, Jean-Baptiste Coignard, Hippolyte-Louis Guerin, 1735. GALLON, Jean-Gaffin; GALON, M.|ACADÉMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES. editor]. [ACADÉMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES, association]. Machines et Inventions approuvées par l'Academie Royale des Sciences. Depuis son etablissement jusqu'a present; avec leur description. Dessinés & publiées du consentement de l'Académie, par M. Gallon. Paris: Chez Gabriel Martin, Jean-Baptiste Coignard, Hippolyte-Louis Guerin, 1735. First edition. Six quarto volumes (10 1/8 x 7 3/8 inches; 256 x 185 mm). Vol. VII, lacking as usual, is a supplement and printed later in 1777. [4], viii, [4], 215, [1, nlank]; [4], v, [3], 192; [[4], v, [3], 207, [1, blank]; [4], v, [3], 239, [1, blank]; [4], v, [3], 173. [1, blank]; [4], v, [3], 196, [35, table], [1, blank] pp. With a total of 433 engraved plates, all but two are folding, showing various machines and inventions. The plates are numbered as such: (1-429, plus 105*, 177*, 329*, 2 additional plates numbered…
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Machines et Inventions approuvées par l'Academie Royale des Sciences: depuis son etablissement jusqu'a present; avec leur description. Dessinés & publiées du consentement de l'Académie, par M. Gallon.
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Poetical Histories: Being a Compleat Collection of All the Stories Necessary for a Perfect Understanding of the Greek and Latine Poets, and Other Ancient Authors...Now Englished and Enriched with Observations concerning the Gods Worshipped by our Ancestors in this Island, by
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London: Printed by W.G. and are to be sold by M. Pitt, 1674. London, Printed by W.G. and are to be sold by M. Pitt: 1674. Third edition, corrected and amended. Octavo (6 3/4 x 4 1/4 inches; 172 x 108 mm). [18], 111, [3], 131-453, [15, index], [3, publisher's ads], [4, blank] pp. Contemporary speckled calf, elaborately gilt-stamped on spine with a red morocco label. Marbled edges. Outer hinges cracked, corner's a bit bumped. Two previous owner's bookplates on front pastedown. A small red sticker on spine. Very good. HBS 64642. $1,250.
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Sermon on the Sea: With an Introduction by John Haynes Holmes. Edited by Haridas T. Muzumdar.
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Chicago: Universal Publishing Co, 1924. Full Description: GANDHI, Mahatma. Sermon on the Sea. With an Introduction by John Haynes Holmes. Edited by Haridas T. Muzumdar. Chicago: Universal Publishing Co., 1924. First US edition, signed twice by Gandhi. Octavo (7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches; 198 x 134 mm). i-128 pp. Signed in ink by Gandhi on front cover and on top margin of title-page. A certificate of authenticity is included with this volume from MDA Forensic Examiners. Publisher's full yellow cloth. Front board and spine printed in blue. Boards with some mild discoloration. Pages xii-xiii with some toning. Overall a near fine copy. "Those who would know the life of Gandhi may find it set down in the biography by the Editor of this volume, called Gandhi the Apostle. The writings which have come from Gandhi's pen in the form of newspaper editorials and articles, occasional essays, letters, addresses, etc., in the years of struggle from 1919 to 1922, together with the record of the famous trial, may be…
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Atlas Geografico, Estadistico e Historico de la Republica Mexicana
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Mexico: Imprenta de Jose Mariano de Lara, 1858. First edition of the first atlas of Mexico written by a Mexican and printed in Mexico. Folio (21 3/4 x 14 3/4 inches; 553 x 370 mm.). 18, [2], [4], [2] pp. plus all thirthy-three double-page hand-colored ltihoragph maps and plates (one of the double-page spreads is comprised of two of the maps listed). Contemporary quarter brown morocco over marbled boards, spine with gilt lettering and devices. Small and old paper label on upper front cover. Small stamp on upper blank margin of title page (not offensive). Sinaloa plate browned. Some minor foxing but over all a wonderful copy of the first great scientific atlas of all of Mexico. This early lithographed atlas of Mexico includes the work of Mexican pioneer lithographers Iriarte, Decaen, and Salazar. The illustrations are signed "Muñ ozguren" and come from the lithographic shop of Iriarte & Cia., while the letterpress typography is by Lara. The atlas was created during the Golden Age of Mexican…
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Book of Sun-Dials: Originally Complied by the Late Mrs. Alfred Gatty. Now Enlarged and Edited by H.K.F. Eden and Eleanor Lloyd
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London: George Bell and Sons, 1900. Fourth and best edition. Printed by the Chiswick Press. Folio (10 7/8 x 7 1/2 inches; 274 x 189 mm). xvii, [1, blank], [errata slip], [1]-529, [1, colophon], [2, blank] pp. Frontispiece portrait and an additional eight photographic and engraved plates. Numerous black and white illustrations throughout the text. Plates with tissue guards. Beautifully bound by Worrall Birmingham in full green morocco. Boards double-ruled in gilt, single-ruled in blind with corner ornaments. Spine elaborately stamped and lettered in gilt. Gilt dentelles. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. Some toning to tissue guards. About fine. This fourth and best edition contains over 350 additional pages more than the previous three editions. HBS 65831. $1,250.
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Topography of Troy, and Its Vicinity: Illustrated and Explained by Drawings and Descriptions. Dedicated by Permission, to her Grace The Duchess of Devonshire.
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London: C. Whittingham, for T.N. Longman and O. Rees, 1804. Certainly the Most Beautiful Book on Troy Ever Published" GELL, W[illiam]. The Topography of Troy, and Its Vicinity; Illustrated and Explained by Drawings and Descriptions. Dedicated by Permission, to her Grace The Duchess of Devonshire. London: C. Whittingham, for T.N. Longman and O. Rees, 1804. First edition. Folio. [iv], 124 pp. Uncut in contemporary marbled boards, rebacked and recornered. (Measures 17 1/4 inches x 10 3/4 inches). With red morocco spine label. With twenty-eight plates and illustrations, including colored vignette-etching on title-page, nine colored etchings, nineteen colored aquatints (some folding), one uncolored aquatint, and the heads of eleven pages (see Abbey). One page with inner margin tape repair, minor toning throughout. Fine. Rare. "Gell visited the Troad between December 2 and December 7, 1801 on his first trip to Greece, in the company of Edward Dodwell (1767-1832) and a certain Mr. Atkins. He used with…
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George IV Document
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1821. GEORGE IV, King of England. England]: July 19, 1821, the day of his coronation. Document states that Mayor General Christopher Jefferson is now a Lieutenant in the army. Signed by Wellington and three other Lords. Affixed with 2 seals on the left hand side. One is a red circular wax seal and the other is a blue paper seal. Written on vellum, three creases from folds. (Measures 390 x 300 mm; 580 x 500 framed). Beautifully matted and framed. "George the Fourth by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and, Ireland; King, Defender of the Faith & Trusty and well Beloved Mayor General Christopher Jefferson. Greeting: We reposing special Trust and Confidence in your Loyalty, Courage, and good Conduct Do by these Presents, constitute and appoint You to be Lieutenant General in Our Army {and?] to take Rank from 19th July, 1821 and We do, hereby give and Grant you Full Power and Authority to Command and take your Rank accordingly; You are therefore carefully and diligently to…
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Account of Koonawur, in the Himalaya, etc.etc.etc: By the Late Capt. Alexander Gerard. Edited by George Lloyd. With a Large Map.
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London: James Madden & Co, 1841. Full Description: GERARD, Alexander. Account of Koonawur, in the Himalaya, etc.etc.etc.. By the Late Capt. Alexander Gerard. Edited by George Lloyd. With a Large Map. London: James Madden & Co., 1841. First edition. Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 220 x 140 mm). xiii, [3], 190, [2], 195-306, 305-308, [xxvi, Appendix], [2, ads] pp. Although there are some skipped numbers in pagination, this collates complete. With the large folding map bound in after the contents. With the publisher's 2 page advertisement dated August 1841. Publisher's original full brown cloth. Boards tooled in blind. Spine ruled in blind and lettered in gilt. Edges uncut and a few leaves unopened. Yellow coated endpapers. Some minor discoloration to cloth. Some splitting to cloth along the back edges out the spine. A few pages have been opened rough, including the half-title, but not affecting text. Map with some creasing to edges and two closed tears where it is bound in, with no loss. Previous…
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Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes: Gathered by John Gerarde of London, Master in Chirurgerie.
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London: Edm. Bollifant for Bonham and John Norton, 1597. Full Description: GERARD, John. The Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes. Gathered by John Gerarde of London, Master in Chirurgerie. London: [Edm. Bollifant for Bonham and] John Norton, 1597. First edition. Folio. (12 3/8 x 8 1/4 inches; 315 x 210 mm). [20], 1392, [34 index] pp. Engraved title-page by William Rogers with woodcut arms verso. Engraved portrait of Gerard by Rogers. With more than 2,000 woodcut illustrations of plants in the text, numerous woodcut historiated initials and head- and tailpieces. Bound without the final 19 leaves (5e2-5i4) which comprise all the English indexes. The Latin indexes are present. There are numerous mispaginations, but collation is correct and complete for the text. Full 19th century mottled calf, rebacked with original spine preserved. Spine with two original red morocco spine labels, lettered in gilt. Boards double ruled in blind. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. dentelles tooled in blind.…
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Dali De Draeger
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France: Draeger, Imprimeurs, 1968. DALI, Salvador. GERARD, Max. Dali De Draeger. [France: Draeger, Imprimeurs, 1968]. First edition, limited to 1500 copies. Presentation copy to "A Vitroff / Bon Jour!/ 1971" by Dali. This copy with a full page original illustration by Dali in black pen on verso of front free endpaper, depicting three men and their horses crossing a bridge, while another person off to the side has wings and is fishing. Large quarto. (Measures 12 x 11 inches). Profusely illustrated in color and in black and white throughout. Thick illustrated silver paper dust jacket. Jacket and book extremities lightly rubbed. Near fine. HBS 67602. $5,500.
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George Gershwin's Song-Book. Alajalov Illustrator
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New York: Simon and Schuster, 1932. GERSHWIN, George; ALAJALOV. composer]. ALAJALOV, [illustrator]. George Gershwin's Song-Book. Alajalov Illustrator.. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1932. Full Description: GERSHWIN, George, [composer]. ALAJALOV, [illustrator]. George Gershwin's Song-Book. Alajalov Illustrator.. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1932. First trade edition, first printing. With a full page signed inscription and musical quotation by Gershwin on the front free endpaper. Quarto (12 5/8 x 9 5/8 inches; 320 x 245 mm). xi, [1, blank], 167, [5, blank] pp. With eighteen songs of printed music, each which include a full or double- page color illustrations by Alajalov. Title-page with a illustrated vignette and printed in red and black. Inscription reads "For Ella-/In memory of many/ happy times together./With love,/from/George." Followed by a hand-drawn musical notation of four bars and six notes along with lyrics reading "No-body but you" and then dated "September 16, 1932." The printed music…
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ALS to his mother, Mrs. George F. Getty
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Berne, Switzerland, 1932. Berne, Switzerland: July 15, 1932]. Single stationary sheet, folded to make four pages. Letter written in blue ink on three pages. (7 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches; 185 x 265 mm). On stationary from Bellevue Palace & Bernerhof Hotel in Bern. Signed "Paul". With envelope addressed to "Mrs. George F. Getty/647 South Kingsley Drive/Los Angeles, Cal./USA" postmarked 15-Dic.32 in Mexico, D.F. From the Hotel Ritz, Mexico D.F. With light crease fold marks. Overall very good. "July 15, 1932. Dearest mama, As you see I am among the yodeling Swiss. I drove down from Paris the other day and expect to stay in Switzerland a week or two. I have been so anxious to get a letter from you. It has been quite a little while since you wrote. I told you about meeting June in Paris in June. She is just fine, has a lovely suite of two big rooms in the Mirabeau hotel and is just radiating health and prosperity. Quite a contrast from most people these days. I hope Georgie had a nice birthday. I was going to…
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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1776. London: Printed for A. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1776-1788. First edition. Six volumes, quarto (10 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches; 270 x 220 mm. Engraved portrait of Gibbon by Hall after Reynolds, not usually found (bound in volume II). With three engraved folding maps bound in volume II (one of them normally found in volume III). With all the half titles and the errata leaves in Volumes I, II, III, and VI (Volume VI errata covers volumes IV, V and VI). With twelve pages of Contents for Volume I at the beginning of Volume II. Volume I has more than half of the errata uncorrected which would make it an intermediate state. According to Sterling, " Vol. I only was published in 1776. It was originally planned to print 500 copies of this first edition, but after 26 sheets were completed, it was decided to increase the number to 1000. The type of the earlier sheets had by that time been distributed, so when they were set up again, the opportunity was taken to…
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Ten Signed Original Wood Engravings: With Nine from "The Canterbury Tales" and One from "Troilus and Cresida
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1928. GILL, Eric. . [Golden Cockerel Press, association]. Ten Signed Original Wood Engravings. With Nine from "The Canterbury Tales" and One from "Troilus and Cresida" [n.p. n.d. c.a. 1928-1930]. Ten original wood engravings by Eric Gill for the publication of the Golden Cockerel Press's "The Canterbury Tales" and "Troilus and Cresida." Most are two wood engravings on a single sheet, numbered and signed by Gil. Nine sheets for "The Canterbury Tales" are uniformly matted, framed and glazed in slim gold frames. Frames measure: 14 3/4 x 11 inches; 375 x 278 mm. All are about fine. The single sheet from "Troilus and Cresida" is matted, framed and glazed in a slightly smaller slim black frame. Frame measures: 12 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches; 311 x 237 mm. Some minor toning to mat and sheet to this single one. Still about fine. This set comprises: 1. Single sheet from page 98& 99 of "Troilus and Cresida" Girl turning into tree. [Skelton P456 and P457], on a single sheet, numbered 5/10, signed EricG. Visible…
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Table Ronde (No. III)
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Paris: Troisieme Cashier, 1945. KIPLING, Rudyard. WOOLF, Virginia. La Table Ronde (No. III). Paris: Troisieme Cashier, [1945]. Quarto. 229 pp. Limited to 150 copies, of which this is number 148. Original wrappers. With 8 photgravures and music score facsimile laid in. Loose as issued. Slipcase. Minor browning to spine and wear to slipcase. Very good. HBS 66560. $300.
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[Works] [Virginia Edition]
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. LANKES, J.J.. Works] [Virginia Edition]. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. Full Description: GLASGOW, Ellen. [The Works of Ellen Glasgow]. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. Virginia Edition. Limited to 810 numbered copies, signed by the author. This copy is one of twenty sets for presentation as stated on limitation leaf in volume I, this set being number 1. Twelve large octavo volumes (9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches; 240 x 157 mm). Comprising: Barren Ground; The Miller of Old Church; Vein of Iron; The Sheltered Life; The Romantic Comedians; They Stooped to Folly; The Battle-Ground; The Deliverance; Virginia; The Voice of the People; The Romance of a Plain Man; and Life and Gabriella. Photogravure frontispieces. Woodblocks by J.J. Lankes in Volumes VIII and XII. Full red morocco. Quadruple ruled in gilt on front and back boards. Elaborate gilt corner devices on boards. Spine stamped, ruled and lettered in gilt. Board edges tooled in gilt. Inner covers…
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Les Petits Livres Couleur de Rose: ou Lectures Graduées pour les Enfans de Six a Douze Ans. Traduit de L'allemand par Mad.e Elise Voiart.
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Paris: Chez F. G. Levrault, 1832. ou Lectures Graduées pour les Enfans de Six a Douze Ans. Traduit de L'allemand par Mad.e Élise Voïart. Paris: Chez F. G. Levrault, 1832. Three twelvemo volumes, out of four (?). (5 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches; 133 x 82 mm). vii, [1, blank], 185, [1, table]; [2], 162, [1, table], [1, blank]; [2], 138, [1, table], [1, blank] pp. Volumes I, III, and IV. Each volume has half-title, separate hand-colored vignette title-page and two hand-colored plates. Original pink paper boards. Boards stamped and lettered in black ink with a floral border and a colored vignette of the front board of each volume. Volume I edges speckled blue, volume II and IV edges speckled brown. Spines a bit sunned. Some light foxing and toning throughout. Each volume with a bookplate on front pastedown reading " Chambre d'etude." Overall a very good set. HBS 67528. $750.
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Essai sur l'inégalité des races humaines
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Paris: Librairie De Firmin Didot Freres, 1853. Hitler's French Mentor GOBINEAU, [Joseph-Arthur Comte] de. Essai sur l'inégalité des races humaines. Paris: Librairie de Firmin Didot Frères, 1853-1855. First edition. Four volumes, octavo (8 3/8 x 5 1/4 inches; 212 x 134 mm). Contemporary half mauve cloth over dark sprinkled boards. Spines ruled in blind and lettered in gilt. Spines a bit faded. Foxing throughout, front hinge of Volume I cracked but sound. Bookplates. A beautiful set. "The French Diplomatist and man of letters, Gobineau (1816-1882), has, through the ‘Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races'—his one excursion into the realms of anthropology and sociology—exerted an influence upon European thought and action which is quite disproportionate to its scholarly insignificance and inconsequential argumentation. The men of the Action Française, Lenin, Mussolini, and Hitler were, at one remove, the disciples and propagandists of Gobineau's most outrageous ideas. Gobineau's…
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Annales of England: Containing the reignes of Henry the Eighth. Edward the Sixt. Queene Mary. Written in Latin by the Right Honorable and Right Reverend Father in God, Francis Lord Bishop of Hereford. Thus Englished, corrected and inlarged with the author's consent, by Morga
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London: Printed by A. Islip and W. Stansby, 1630. First edition in English. A translation of Rerum Anglicarum Henrico VIII. Edvvardo VI. et Maria regnantibus, annales. Small folio (11 x 6 3/4 inches; 278 x 172 mm). [16], 394 [i.e. 294], 293-342, [2, blank] pp. With engraved ornamental woodcut title-page. The sections on Edward VI and Mary both have separate dated title page, with ornamental woodcut border, but pagination and register is continuous. With engraved portraits for each section. Henry VIII portrait is signed: "T. Cecill sculp.", the others are unsigned. With initial and final blank. Although entered to both pr[inter]s., the whole book was app[arently]. pr[inted]. by Stansby"-STC. There is also a reissue, printed the same year with cancel general title page with the imprint "printed by W. Stansby and are to be sold by I. Smethwicke." Contemporary full speckled calf, rebacked with original spine laid down and preserving original endpapers. Boards ruled in blind and gilt, with gilt central…
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Enquiry Concerning Political Justice: and its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness... In two volumes. Vol. I. [II.]
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London: G.G. & J. Robinson, 1796. Second edition. Two octavo volumes (8 1/16 x 5 1/16 inches; 207 x 131 mm). xxii, [2, errata], 464; ix, [1, errata], 545, [1, blank] pp. Half-titles present in both volumes. Full contemporary tree calf. Spines with red morocco spine labels, lettered in gilt. Spine numbers in gilt on onlaid morocco lozenges. Edges speckled red. Minor old ink notation on front pastedown of both volumes. Some minor rubbing to spines and edges. Corners slightly bumped. Internally very clean. Overall an almost fine set. "The Enquiry was, and remained, the work by which [Godwin] was best known. It was one of the earliest, the clearest, and most absolute theoretical expositions of socialist and anarchist doctrine. Godwin believed that the motives of all human action were subject to reason, that reason taught benevolence, and that therefore all rational creatures could live in harmony without laws and institutions. Believing in the perfectibility of man, he thought that ‘our virtues and…
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