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Amsterdam: J.F. Rosart & Co., 1784 Contemporary calf. Gilt spine with black and burgundy morocco labels, edges stained red. Twelvemo. Joints tender, old ink signature on title-page, modern bookplate. A very pretty copy. Mably (1709-1785), elder brother of Condillac and influential political theorist, prophesied in this, the last book published in his lifetime, the downfall of America. His criticism of the United States Constitution is voiced in four letters directed to John Adams, then American embassador to the Netherlands.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983 First edition. Inscribed by the author on the half-title. Cloth. Quarto. Black and white illustrations throughout. Fine in near fine d.j. Jacket has minor soiling.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, [1980] Third printing. Cloth. Quarto. Black and white illustrations throughout. Fine in fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on the dedication page.

Seattle: The Book Club of Washington, 2015 One of 75 deluxe copies in cloth with hand-stenciled, hand-colored illustrations by Jennifer Kennard, signed and numbered by Kennard on the colophon. 25 deluxe copies in sheets were also produced for binding by independent bookmakers, plus 250 regular copies in paper wrappers.. Blue Japanese book cloth with white printed labels on cover and spine. White endpapers printed in grayish-blue with silhouettes of a man and woman, plus a patterned background. . Octavo. With eight text illustrations hand-stenciled and hand-colored by Jennifer Kennard. Also with a hand-colored border and title-page vignette by Kennard. A fine copy. "Their Families" was the first published work by the memoirist and children's book author Betty Bard MacDonald (1907-1958). The short story first appeared in The Town Crier, a weekly arts and culture magazine operating in Seattle, in 1933. MacDonald went on to publish the humorous memoir The Egg and I (1945) about her early life in… Read More

Philadelphia: David McKay, 1919 First edition. Tan cloth, stamped in gilt and blue, with illustration affixed to front cover. Quarto. Pictorial title-page and eight color plates. Some light fraying to spine ends, corners rubbed. Donor's inscription, dated 1921, bookplate of the same owner, neat ink note on back free endpaper. Spine a bit cocked. A good, tight copy, lacking the scarce dust jacket.

Monterey, California: Richard MacDonald Studio, 1999 First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by MacDonald: "To...with warm regards and best wishes...2006. Cloth. Quarto. Color illustrations throughout. Fine in fine d.j.

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1954 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in very good dust jacket. Jacket has goudge in spine. and spine is lightly browned.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1926 First edition of the author's first work, which she published shortly before opening her fifth coffeeshop.. Publisher's cloth attractively painted with floral pattern in red, blue, green, black, silver, and gold. Yellow labels on spine and front cover, printed in purple. Purple cloth spine. In the original yellow dustjacket, printed in purple, with chipping to spine. . Octavo. Offsetting from covers to inside of dust jacket. Light toning to leaves at gutter, but otherwise clean throughout. A very good, bright copy in a very good original dust jacket. Alice Foote MacDougall (1867 – 1945) opened her own coffee roasting business in 1907 after the bankruptcy and death of her husband. In the late 1920s, she signed a long term one million dollar lease for her fifth coffee house; by the early 1930s, she owned and operated nine restaurants in Manhattan. In the present work, MacDougall shares her recipes and tips for hosting guests, developed over years of… Read More

[London:] Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1913 First edition. Decorative black cloth. Quarto. Head and foot of spine lightly frayed, one inch split along back hinge at top. A little foxing, bookplate of bookman Paul Jordan Smith. A very good copy of a fragile book.

. Complete volume, in green cloth. Library stamps and bookplates. Otherwise very good. In the years following Venn's announcement of his diagrams (Philosophical Magazine, 1880) it became clear that, although they offer graphical vividness, the diagrams suffer from an inherent limitation; at most five variables can be represented by intersecting continuous regions. One of the earliest attempts to overcome this limitation was that of Alexander Macfarlane, a professor of physics at the University of Texas, who invented what today is called a "logic tree" or "decision tree." His tree, called "logical spectrum" allows a systematic way of enumerating all logical possibilities for any number of variables. "The system was first explained in an article titled 'The Logical Spectrum,' Philosophical Magazine, Volume 19, 1885, p. 182. Five years later, Macfarlane showed how easily his diagram solved an involved problem posed by Boole on p. 146 of his Laws of Thought" (Martin Gardner, Logic Machines and Diagrams,… Read More

London: Printed for the Bibliographical Society at the Chiswick Press, September 1900 for 1899 First edition. Illustrated Monographs VII. Original natural linen over brown paper boards, title in black on spine. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Quarto. With 79 facsimile woodcuts Corners rubbed. A near fine copy.

Philadelphia: MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan, 1970 Fifth edition. Cloth, faded and lightly stained, paper spine label, lettered in manuscript. Twelvemo. Title-page printed in red and brown, blown-toned frontispiece. Numerous black and white text illustrations. Old rubberstamp of Los Angeles book dealer Harry Ward. Bookplates removed from pastedowns. Spine ends worn. Still, a decent copy of classic American printing manual.

Edinburgh: John Grant, 1915 One of 250 copies, signed by the publisher. Dark blue cloth with gilt spine. Large octavo. Spine faded. A very good copy.

London: Prospect Books, 1981 Cloth. Large octavo. Plates, including many facsimile title-pages. Top of front cover worn. Otherwise fine in fine d.j.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, [1936[ Second printing, but signed by Macleish on the title-page. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in price-clipped d.j.

New York: Abrams, 1982 First edition, third printing. Cloth. With 2,320 illustrations including 61 plates in full color and 1,150 line drawings. Former owner's neat signature, otherwise fine in fine d.j. Provides a complete identification guide of all Steuben pieces made since 1933. The definitive work.

New York: Random House, [1997] Second impression. Boards. Octavo. Fine in fine d.j.

[San Francisco:] Printed at the Grabhorn Press for The Book Club of California, 1958 One of 400 copies. Folio. Numerous facsimiles of title-pages. Tan linen over decorative boards, paper spine label. Fine.

London: Macmillan and Cop., 1889 A New and Completed Edition. Cloth, gilt. 2 volumes, octavo. Old library stamp on title page of both volumes and slight speckling to bindings but still a very good, clean set.

Londres [i.e. probably Amsterdam]: John Adamson, 1777-8 First edition of an interesting collection of letters dealing with life in pre-revolutionary France. Topics include the monarchy, the legislature, the French economy, the clergy, the theatre, music and opera, salons, current scandals, d'Alembert, Voltaire, Rousseau, Benjamin Franklin, etc. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine with burgundy and black morocco labels, edges sprinkled blue. . Four volumes, twelvemo.`. Some light wear to edges. A little light browning. Overall a very good set. Mathieu Francois Pidansat de Mairobert (1727-1779) was born in Champagne and brought up in the house of Madame Doublet de Persan. He became a members of the literary society that held meetings there, and contributed to the society's manuscript journal, which was later used in the preparation of the Memoires secrets" (1770). He became 'censeur royal' and was elected an associate member of the Academy of Caen. His reputation suffered by his involvement in the… Read More