Search Results: Authors starting with H from Archway Books

Single sheet measuring 9.5 x 4.75 inches, very good condition. The work of Arthur E. Belyea, a Canadian-born Bostonian who hawked his poems door-to-door and also performed as a magician. WorldCat locates Brown and Harvard only.

12mo in contemporary leather, 3.5 x 6 inches; frontispiece, xii, 384, [30]; worn, rear board scorched with damage to last two leaves of text; binding loose. A well used non-institutional copy that has not been messed with.This is the first edition in English of the only parts ever published of Bacon's projected natural history -- his more or less complete natural history of the winds and fragmentary works on the history of life and death and the history of density and rarity. As described in the Dictionary of National Biography, "The section of the Instauratio magna that Bacon most urgently tried to accomplish was the natural histories... In November 1622 he published a volume entitled Historia naturalis et experimentalis ad condendam philosophiam; sive phaenomena universi. It contained the first installment of his natural history project—a natural history of the winds, Historia ventorum—and a plan for five others to be published on a monthly basis. In January 1623 the second part of the… Read More

Octavo, paper boards, 22 x 15 cm, [viii], 132 pages; backstrip chipped, paper toned and a little brittle, with torn title page and occasional chipping, decent condition overall. Half-tone photos throughout.A very evocative guide book to "Jewish excursions" in Frankfurt and Hessen, dedicated to "My wife, Bertha Lilienthal, née Fuchs. My hiking companion on rocky roads." The preface is dated almost exactly a year before Kristallnacht. The author was the chief cantor at the main synagogue in Wiesbaden. He and his wife fled to Amsterdam in June 1939. He was transported to Theresienstadt in 1943 and murdered in October 1944. His wife's exact fate is unknown.