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S.P.E. tract No. 11 on English homophones

by BRIDGES, Robert

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[Oxford]: Clarendon Press, 1919. FIRST EDITION. Original printed wrappers, detached. THE COMING DESTRUCTION OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. First edition. Bridges, along with Henry Bradley and Walter Raleigh, founded the Society for Pure English in 1919 to help prevent what they saw as the destruction of the English language, publishing tracts on several different "linguistic" topics. The first part of Tract No. 11 is a rant on the destructiveness of homophones to the English language, some of the main points being: "The actual condition of the English language with respect to homophones"; "The serious nature of their inconvenience"; and ". . . Southern English dialect . . . is one chief source of this damage." In the second part, Bridges attacks the work of Daniel Jones, implying that Jones has helped contribute to the dereliction of the language through his work and research. Jones was one of the founding fathers of modern phonetics, the first professor of the subject, and ultimately chair of the… Read More
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S. Weir Mitchell, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S. 1829-1914. Memorial addresses and resolutions

by [THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIA]

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Philadelphia: [np], 1914. FIRST EDITION. Frontispiece. Purple cloth, silver lettering to upper cover and spine; top edges silver, others uncut. From the library of Alfred Heacock Whittaker, with his bookplate. First edition of this tribute to Weir Mitchell at a special meeting of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Includes speeches by several of the former presidents of the College, including Dr. James Cornelius Wilson as well as one by Mitchell's cousin and friend Owen Wister.
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SALT, Sydney. Christopher Columbus and other poems

by [WILLIAMS, William Carlos]

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Boston: Bruce Humphries, 1937. FIRST EDITION. including half-title. Two-tone cloth, in original pictorial dust-jacket. A fine copy signed by the author. First edition, number 11 of 500. Contains an introduction by William Carlos Williams on pages 7-10. Titles include You walk like Egypt; This is the flat cry; and Confession of Cain. Sydney (fl. 1937) was an American poet and good friend of Williams. His other works include New journey, a poem; Contemporary legends; and Thirty pieces. Wallace, B29.
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SERIES OF LANDMARK PAPERS MISSING FROM THE PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS

SERIES OF LANDMARK PAPERS MISSING FROM THE PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS: Philosophical collections...

by [HOOKE, Robert, editor]

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4to. 44; [ii], 48, [2]; 43-210 pp. With 7 engraved plates (6 folding). Bound together in contemporary marbled boards, rebacked; some top margins trimmed with occasional loss of page number only. First edition of the complete Philosophical collections, printed in a very small edition, and now exceptionally rare. The death of the Royal Society's secretary, Henry Oldenburg, in 1677 interrupted the publication of the Philosophical transactions. These scientific papers, edited by Hooke, were issued to fill the void in the Royal Society publication from the last number of the Philosophical transactions in 1679 until it resumed again in 1682/3. Hooke, who was also Curator of Experiments, contributed a couple of important papers, including An optical discourse, which proposed treatment for near-sightedness, and A mechanical discourse. . . . Other landmark papers include: Leeuwenhoek's announcement of the "discovery of spermatozoa"; Lana's "flying chariot"; Borelli's De motu musculorum; Tyson's Anatomy of a… Read More
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[SPEECHES OF UNITED STATES SENATORS & REPRESENTATIVES]

by [CIVIL WAR]

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Half-sheep over marbled boards. Spine label: Speeches. Presentation inscription on fly-leaf, from James B. Smallwood to the Hon. John P. Hale, U.S. Senator, dated April 4, 1861.
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STUDY GUIDE: A guide to the mathematical student in reading, reviewing, and working examples. Part I. Pure mathematics [all published]

by DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge

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8vo. [iv], 27 pp. Not bound and stab-stitched as issued. Preserved in a slipcase, author and title in gilt on a morocco label on the front. An excellent copy with the small morocco book label of Alfred Sutro attached to the verso of the title page. First and only edition. "Dodgson here tabulates by subject the whole of Pure Mathematics, in twenty-six divisions and about 500 subdivisions; and prints on pp. 19-27 an ingenious cycle of over 1,600 numbers which supplies a scheme for a sequence of working examples for students."
Rare; OCLC locates 6 copies in America (Morgan, NYU, Claremont, Harvard, Princeton, Texas); Williams, Madan, Green, 38.
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A STUNNING GROUP OF ART PERIODICALS
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A STUNNING GROUP OF ART PERIODICALS: CAHIERS D'ART

by CAHIERS D'ART

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Five issues of the famous art periodical Cahiers d'Art as well as monographs by two of its most important contributors. The collection includes the following five issues:
1. Vol. 8, No. 5-6 (1933). Folio. pp. [173-208], 209-252 (excluding the numerous pages of advertisements). Small tear to spine, text unglued from wrappers, some staining. This issue includes articles on a number of artists, including Jean Duvet, Juan Gris, Max Ernst, K. Ghika, and Alexandre Calder, among others.
2. Vol. 13, No. 3-10 (1938). Folio. pp. [69]-236 (again excluding ads). Tear in upper portion of spine, some foxing on cover; interior excellent. The Picasso-Le Greco issue.
3. Vol. 24, No. 1 (1949). Folio. 176 pp. Cover and lithography by Miró. This is a fine example of Zervos' collaboration with the artist.
4. Vol. 30 (1955). Folio. 279, [1] pp. Includes articles on Jacques Villon and Constantin Bancusi.
5. Vols 31-32 (1956-1957). Large folio. Publisher's cloth, original dust jacket, all in excellent condition.… Read More
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STUNNING ILLUSTRATIONS
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STUNNING ILLUSTRATIONS: A monograph of the tetraoninae, or family of the grouse

by ELLIOT, Daniel Giraud

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Folio (581 x 461 mm). [19] pp., including list of subscribers (65 names for 71 copies). With 27 fine hand-colored lithographic mounted on guards, all by C.F. Tholey after Elliot and J. Wolf with the exception of 2 hand-colored plates of eggs after W.S. Morgan, all printed by Bowen & Co. of Philadelphia. Contemporary half green morocco, edges and corners worn; interior excellent. First edition of one of the most important ornithological works printed in America. "Next only to Audubon's, the Elliot works are the most valuable American bird plates" (Bennett). This second of Elliot's three works printed in the United States focuses on the then-known species of grouse, who mostly inhabit temperate and subarctic regions of the Northern hemisphere. The text includes synonyms, data on the geographical distribution and the habits of the birds, and descriptions of their different plumage. Elliot's later works were printed in Europe, though some retained a New York imprint. Elliot (1835-1915) was a founder of… Read More
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SUPREME CONTROL RESTS IN THE LEGISLATURE (PARLIAMENT)
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SUPREME CONTROL RESTS IN THE LEGISLATURE (PARLIAMENT): The soveraigne power of Parliaments and kingdomes: divided into fovre parts together with an appendix ..

by PRYNNE, William

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4to. [viii] [iv], 56, 75-112 ; [iv], 79, [1]; [viii], 150 (ie, 152); [iv], 36; 112, 121-218, [1] pp. Complete and continuous despite pagination errors. General title (misbound between A2 and A3) and separate titles to each of the four parts. Woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Contemporary calf, rebacked and re-cornered, spine label; book label appears to have been removed from paste-down. First edition. Prynne, a Puritan, wrote extensively against the introduction of "papist" policies into the government during the English Civil Wars. In Soveraigne power, he argues that only the Parliament has supreme control over the law of the land, and he intends to "eternally silence ignorant, the most malicious Tongues and Pennes of all Royalists, &c. Anti-Parliamentary Malignants." Not difficult to see which side of the aisle Prynne occupied. Prynne (1600–1669) was a prolific pamphleteer and attorney who wrote on numerous subjects from theater to theology and published about 200 books and pamphlets during… Read More
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Sacred Geography: or,  gazetteer of the Bible
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Sacred Geography: or, gazetteer of the Bible

by PARISH, Elijah

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Boston: Samuel Armstrong, 1813. FIRST EDITION. Folding map of the "principal countries mentioned in the Sacred Scriptures" (torn at crease). Contemporary calf, worn and stained; interior browned and spotted as usual, though sound. Actually a very good copy of a book normally found in precarious condition. First edition of a wonderful reference to geographical localities mentioned in the Scriptures. In alphabetical order, the work describes the countries, kingdoms, nations and tribes with villages, towns, cities, provinces, hills, mountains, rivers, lakes, seas and islands mentioned in the Bible. The author includes an account of the religion, government, population, fulfillment of prophecies and conditions of the most important places. References are included; for example, Cabbon is a city in the tribe of Judah (Josh. xv, 40; Lat. 31, 37). Longer articles also appear (for example, a lengthy discussion of Ophir, the country peopled by the son of Joktan). This work is a invaluable resource for anyone… Read More
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Sacred poems, poems of love & romance, humorous and narrative poems

by WHITE, Albert

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Springfield: Horace S. Taylor, 1846. FIRST EDITION. With frontispiece and list of subscribers. Original publisher's cloth, decorated in blind, small split at spine; frontispiece foxed, some light scattered spotting, last few pages of text browned. First edition of this collection of verse. Titles include A thunder storm at sea; Amor patriae vincit; and The little girl and the dark grave. White (fl. 1840) was an American physician whose poetry was quite popular locally.
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The Sacrilege of Alan Kent

by CALDWELL, Erskine

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Portland: Falmouth Book House, 1936. FIRST EDITION. Illustrated with 8 gorgeous wood engravings by Ralph Frizzell. Original green cloth, author and title printed in red on spine, binding a bit sunned, no dust jacket; minor water stain to bottom of interior. Ownership signature of Leonard Shannon.
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Sahara et Sahel

by FROMENTIN, Eugene

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Paris: Librairie Plon, 1887. Third edition. With frontispiece plus 16 plates. Half red morocco over marbled boards, rebacked, somewhat rubbed, corners bumped, gilt edges, marbled endpapers (first free endpaper nearly detatched), backstrip beginning to detatch, binding split at pp. 176-177; text slightly toned but clean. Ownership of A.L. Roteh dated Algiers, Feb., 1890. Third edition of an important and detailed narrative of the author's two journeys in North Africa in 1845 and 1847. Each formed as a collection of letters, the two works contained in this one volume are Un été dans la Sahara and Un Anée dans le Sahel. Of the seventeen illustrations, twelve etchings are by Lerat, Courtry, and Rajon, and 4 are based on the Fromentin's own work. Enchanted by what he saw in North Africa, in the preface he "looks back and recalls that his skill as a painter was inadequate to what he saw and this awareness of a limit had pushed him to use his pen. Literature was to provide a form of representation… Read More
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Sainte-Beuve; a literary portrait

by GIESE, William Frederick

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Madison: [np], 1931. FIRST EDITION. Original printed wrappers. Uncut and partially unopened. Water-stains at spine of front wrapper, affecting first few gatherings; reddish stains as well as water-stains to spine of back wrapper affecting last few leaves. First edition. Giese was Emeritus professor of Romance Languages at the University of Wisconsin.This work is number 31 from the University of Wisconsin Studies Language and Literature series, which was a quarterly publication of the University of Wisconsin treating various literary and language related topics. Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804-69) was the foremost French literary critic of the nineteenth century, who abandoned his medical studies for literature. The present work studies not only the various roles that Sainte-Beuve played in his life, such as The Scholar, The Poet, The Novelist, The Moralist, and The Historian, but also his work and his contemporaries.
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Salt Rivers of the Massachusetts Shore

by HOWE, Henry F.

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New York and Toronto: Rinehart & Company, Inc, 1951. Blue cloth, author and title on spine in gilt lettering. Without the dust jacket. Ex-library. First edition, part of the Rivers of America series.
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San Francisco's literary frontier

by WALKER, Franklin

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. FIRST EDITION. Blue cloth, decorated in gilt. Includes a page of Walker's actual manuscript. First edition of this story of the literary publications that came out of the far west.
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Savage Africa: being the narrative of a tour in equatorial, southwestern, and northwestern Africa...

by READE, W. Winwood

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New York: Harper and Brothers, 1864. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Folding map plus 28 text illustrations. Publisher's original cloth, spine faded with very small tear at bottom; some browning on the first few (blank) leaves, otherwise an excellent copy. First American edition. At the age of 25, the author traveled to Africa using for the most part his own funds. He spent several months observing gorillas in South Africa and Angola, and provides some of the earliest depictions of gorillas and their habits, only a few years after the publication of Paul Du Chaillu's description of the first sighting of a living gorilla by a western explorer. In addition to gorillas, he describes the people, culture, and way of life in Western Africa, with chapters covering cannibalism, the slave trade, fever and malaria, Sierra Leone, drugged elephants, Niger, the Congo and more. A popular success, the book helped to create the popular notion that Africa, the "dark" continent, was replete with savage beasts as well as… Read More
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Say yes!

by MORGAN, Paula

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New York: Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co, 1977. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Red cloth with gilt lettering on spine, dustjacket slightly faded; overall a clean copy.
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Schloss Hainfeld; or, a winter in lower Styria

by HALL, Captain Basil

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Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1836. FIRST BRITISH EDITION. Later half-polished calf and marbled boards, spine in compartments with morocco labels; interior excellent. First British edition, published simultaneously in Philadelphia. Hall recounts his travels through Styria, a mountainous and forested state in southern Austria, and his visit to Schloss Hainfeld. In his very unique style, Hall provides an in-depth description of his travels and daily activities, from the Castle itself to the neighbors, other guests, and various events that occurred during his stay. His hostess was the Countess Purgstall, Caroline von Henikstein (1797-1844), the daughter of Austrian Jewish financier Joseph von Henikstein. A fascinating and readable book which truly takes the reader along with the writer on his wonderful adventures.Hall (1788-1844), a British naval officer, was the author of several books describing his extensive travels, primarily in North America, Southeast Asia, and South America. Throughout his naval… Read More
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School Book Dis[trict] No. 11 / Township No. 42 / North range 4 / DeKalb County, Ill. 1862-79

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Illinois: n.p., 1879. Black ink and pencil. The minutes of the Board of Directors of the Kingstown Township School District, and accounting book for the operation of the first school within the District. On August 10, 1862, a group of residents of what would become the Kingstown Township elected R.R. Denis as first school director, and chose the location of the school house ("on the hill on the east half of the North section of 39").The majority of the book consists of an account of the school's operations, including amounts paid for supplies and for the services of teachers.Members of the Board included Denis, Isiah Fairclo (president of the Board of the School District), Arial Fairclo, Theodore Fairclo, Marshall Fairclo, Moses Keath, and Isaac B. Garrison.According to information provided by the DeKalb County Historical Society, the County was originally divided into eighteen townships, each being responsible for their schools. Isaiah Fairclo was born in New Jersey, came to Illinois in 1835. He had… Read More
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