Search Results: Titles starting with P from George Robert Minkoff, Inc.

Caresse Crosby. Painted Shores. Illustrated with three Watercolors by Franois Quelvée. Folio. Original wrappers printed in red and black. Editions Narcisse, Paris 1927. First Edition. One of 222 copies on Papier Vélin d'Arches. This copy # 39. Minkoff A-5. Original torn darkened glassine present. Spine darkened; cover slightly darkened at edges; o/w very nice.

Painting and Decorating. Working Methods. A Text Book for Apprentice Journeyman Housepainter Decorator. Produced under the directions of the International Association of Master Painters and Decorators. Illustrated. 8vo. Original black cloth, gold lettering on spine. Theo Audel, New York (1942). Second Edition. With 20 paint samples tipped-in. Very Nice.

No Binding. Fine. The Appointment is signed by Clinton at Albany on March 27, 1819; countersigned and sealed by the Secretary of State on March 31, 1819. Document is approximately 15½ by 10¼ inches. Official appointments of this vintage are quite scarce and those of Military connotation are especially desirable. Together with a steel engraving by J. B. Longacre taken from Clintons official portrait painted at Albany, New York, December 1824, by the famous artist George Catlin. Both pieces are framed under glass in gold highlighted document frames. Fine.

Illustrated. 8vo. Original cloth-backed cloth, in publisher's box. Harper Collins (New York 1995). First U.S. Edition. Limited to 175 numbered copies, signed by Thatcher. This copy #136. Mint. $850.00

Payment voucher for 1st Lieutenant John J. Scott, 16th Regiment, U.S. Colored Troops, dated August 11, 1865. Original folio sheet, approximately 11 by 17 inches, folded. Payment voucher #1397 for the amount of $140.88, covering the period from March 1st to March 31st 1865. The voucher, filled out in pen and ink, lists pay per month and total number of rations. It is signed by the paymaster, Chattanooga, Tennessee, and is signed twice by Scott. The voucher notes in ink that Scott has one black servant named Samuel Buckner [an enlisted private with the 16th U.S.C.T.]. They pulled duty in Tennessee and were with Gen. Hood and his men after the battle of Nashville. An interesting piece of black history. Document taped along fold lines, some slight soiling, o/w Very Nice.

Hardcover. Original blue cloth, faded and worn; enclosed in blue cloth box. New Directions (New York, James Laughlin 1949). New (Offset) Edition. Gallup A27B. Presentation copy inscribed from Pound to a literary critic. "Mr. . . . Aug. 56 Ezra Pound." With the recipient's notes in the text. A nice copy.

Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. (The 5x8 Press, New Jersey 1942). First Edition. Presentation copy from Paul Goodman to James Laughlin. For James Laughlin / Paul / May 1942. A wonderful association copy from Goodman to the owner of New Directions Press. In 1941 Laughlin published an anthology of five young American poets that included Paul Goodman. Very light water stain to edge of cover, o/w Fine.

Hardcover. Fine. 8vo. Bound in contemporary limp vellum with the title in 16th century manuscript upon the spine. Ex Officina Henrici Stephani Parisiensis typographi (Henri Estienne), AN. M. D. VII (1557). First Edition. (Schreiber 141, Renouard 116 and Adams 939). These lectures were eloquent exhortations to virtue, filled with quotations chiefly from Plato and Homer, their philosophical content deriving from Platonism and Cynicism. At the end are appended 19 pages of critical notes by Henri Estienne. (Schreiber). Maximus Tyrius (Maximus of Tyre) was a Greek rhetorician and philosopher who flourished in the time of the Antonines and Commodus, 2nd century A.D. After the manner of the sophists of his age, he travelled extensively, delivering lectures on the way. His writings contain many allusions to the history of Greece, while there is little reference to Rome; hence it is inferred that he lived longer in Greece, perhaps as a professor at Athens. Although nominally a Platonist, he is really an… Read More

Presentation copy.Signed by Yeats First EditionMacmillan and Company Limited, London, 1923. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Illustrated. Frontispiece, with tissue guard. 8vo. Original green boards, blind stamped design on cover, gilt letters on spine; enclosed in original brown printed dust wrapper. Wade 139. Presentation copy, signed by Yeats on the title page, with blind stamped Presentation Copy on title page. Although not stated, the book comes from the library of the translator Cecil Georges Bazile. Some very light foxing; 1½-inch chip missing on rear edge of spine; rear hinge starting; dust wrapper worn and chipped at edges; o/w Very Nice

Hardcover. Fine. Illustrated with engraved vignette on title page. 4to. Modern half-leather-backed boards. London: Printed for R. Dodsley . . . 1744. First Edition, first issue, with the presence of the footnote on page 9 and page 20 misnumbered 22. Anna Seward considered this blank verse poem the finest metaphysical poem in any language. Erasmus and Darwin preferred Akensides blank verse to that of Milton, and Dodsley agreed to publish the poem on the recommendation of Alexander Pope. Samuel Johnson, in his Lives of the Poets, comments on Akensides poem: Akenside was one of those poets who have felt very early the motions of genius, and one of those students who have very early stored their memories with sentiments and images. Many of his performances were produced in his youth; and his greatest work, The Pleasures of Imagination, appeared in 1744. I have heard Dodsley, by whom it was published, relate, that when the copy was offered him, the price demanded for it, which was an hundred and twenty… Read More

John Almon was an English journalist and writer on political subjects, notable for his efforts to secure the right to publish reports on the debates in Parliament. He was a reporter for the Gazetteer, and published "A Review of Mr. Pitt's Administration," which was popular with the opposition. From May of 1767 to December of 1769, he edited numerous pieces of political satire into The Political Register and Impartial Book Review. Offered here is the third volume, from July to December of 1768, with numerous pieces on political controversy and the American colonies. The 1768 issue is also important as it re-prints in England one of the key essays of the revolution "Parliamentary Power, American Considerations on the Nature and Extent of It" which had just been published in Philadelphia. During the American Revolution, he published a monthly series of papers entitled "The Remembrancer on Events in America." Frontispiece. Illustrated with 5 plates, 1 folding. 8vo. ¼-leather-backed marbled boards; spine… Read More

First Edition.Inscribed and signed by Cocteau with an original profile line drawing by Cocteau on the half-title. 8vo. Original printed wrappers, enclosed in modern cloth box. Paris: Gallimard 1948. Covers with splitting along spine, short tears and soiling, as usual, o/w Fine.

FIRST EDITION OF PEUCER'S TREATISE ON INTERNAL MEDICINE16mo. Bound in full mid-17th century vellum. Francofortti, Typis Nicolai Hoffmanni, Sumptibus Ioannis Bernerri, 1614. First Edition. Also included is Peucer's treatise on fever, "Tractatus de Febriburus" together with Gabriele Fontano's "Tetras Gravissimorum Capitis Affectuum" ["Four Very Grave Maladies Affecting the Head"], Printed at Lyons by Barbier in 1647. Caspar Peucer was a German reformer, physician, and scholar. He wrote several important treatises, of which the present is his leading medical work and one of the finer considerations of internal diseases published during the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Peucer was a follower of Paracelsus, son-in-law of Melanchthon, acquaintance of Copernicus and an important correspondent of Brahe. With the dedication inscription of Giesebrecht to A.F. Stoius on the front endpaper, dated 1781.Binding slightly worn at edges; 2-inch crack at heel of spine on front hinge; some minor toning to pages;… Read More

Plain Wrapper Press, 1985. 1st Edition, Limited Edition . Hardcover. Fine. Original Italian text followed by English version translated by William Weaver, Calvinos longtime translator. Illustrated with 4 multicolored woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi. 4to. ¼-leather-backed paste-paper boards, enclosed in publishers clamshell box, paper label on cover. Plain Wrapper Press, Cottondale, AL, 1985. First Edition. Limited to 75 numbered copies signed by Calvino and Frasconi. (Smyth 37.) This copy # 67. The second of two signed limited editions by Calvino in English. Without question, Calvino was one of the greatest of modern Italian writers. It was rumored he was about to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, but he died shortly before the announcement. Fine

JOHNSON, SAMUEL. The Prince of Abissinia. A Tale in Two Volumes. Small 8vo. Contemporary full calf, 4 raised bands, gilt title labels on spines; gilt rule on covers. London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall; and W. Johnston, in Ludgate-Street, 1759. First Edition. Second Corrected State. Leaf A2, vol. II, reads "Contents of the Second Volume;" "Indiscerpible" page 161; all blanks present. The Second State is almost identical with the extremely rare first edition issued a few weeks before it, on April 19, 1759. (Fleeman, I, 785-8; Courtney & Nichol Smith, p. 87; Chapman & Hazen, pp. 142-3; Rothschild 1242; Liebert 73).The Prince of Abissinia, Samuel Johnson's only novel, was written in the evenings of one week in an effort to raise funds for his mother's care, and eventually, to pay for her funeral. Its rapid execution is said to have been due to the fact that he had been pondering its chief topics all his life. It was published anonymously, and soon became his most popular work. Boswell says… Read More

No Binding. Very Good. Printed letter, signed in ink, from H. Johnson, Governor of Louisiana, to the Governor of New York (DeWitt Clinton), dated February 16th, 1826, stating that the state of Louisiana rejects Ohio's plan for the gradual emancipation of slaves. 2 pages, 8 by 10 inches. The letter reads: In compliance with the request of the Legislature of this State, I have the honor to transmit to you a copy of a resolution of the said Legislature, passed at their present session, and to request that you will be pleased to lay the same before the Legislature of the State over which you preside . . . Your Excellencys Obedient servant, H. Johnson. The address leaf carries a New Orleans circular cancel with a 25 ms rate. Together with the resolution: Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Louisiana in General Assembly convened, That this legislature does not concur in certain resolutions adopted by the General Assembly of Ohio, at their session in the year one thousand… Read More

8vo. Original blue cloth, in dust wrapper. Doubleday, Doran and Co., New York 1942. First Edition. Presentation copy inscribed by Hoover, "To Mr. and Mrs. Elliot Jones with the kind regards of Herbert Hoover." Dust wrapper stained on back cover, 3-inch tear at top of back cover; some chipping to head and heel of spine; 3 pages slightly stained by offsetting from papers laid-into the book; o/w a clean copy. Very Nice.

Engraved vignette of Europe and Northern Africa on title. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half-calf over marbled board, recently rebacked. London: Printed for J. W. 1714. First Edition. (ESTC T44576) English translation of the Abbé de Saint-Pierre's proposal for universal peace, widely seen as a precursor to the modern European Union and United Nations, and an important influence in its own time on both Rousseau and Kant. A fundamental text in the study of both modern and Enlightenment attitudes towards war. The existence of such translations of Saint-Pierre's work is significant: the scheme depended on wide adoption by the sovereigns of Europe, and the present translation suggests that some in England were prepared to take the Abbé's suggestions seriously. Saint-Pierre himself was evidently aware of this translation, as acknowledged in a letter from him appended to the end of the work, dated April 14, 1714. The translator, however, remains unidentified. The Abbé proposed the creation of a central… Read More

Soft cover. Fine. Folded Folio. Self cover. N.P. (London?) (1834). First Edition. 4-page prospectus for a naval station at Port William. The money to be raised by private bonds of 100 pounds each. The prospectus outlines the reason for the proposed safe harbor, noting that storms in the North Sea have claimed numerous lives. Such a site would also provide anchorage for the fleet in times of war, as well as safe harbor for cargoes, ships and crews. The proposal outlines what is to be built and the approximately cost. It lists The Committee of Management (Members of Parliament and others), Trustees, Bankers, Secretaries, Engineer, Solicitors, etc. A very rare piece of British maritime history. Fine.