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[Basle, Switzerland : Michael Wenßler (Wenssler), 1475], 1475. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. 169 Folio leaves ; 31 cm. ; 2° ; bound in quarter suede with three raised bands, hand-written titles on spine ; an incunable from the early and important press of Michael Wenssler of Basel, Switzerland ; this partial copy without title page or colophon ; Hain 12383, Proctor 7464, British Museum 15th century III, 722 (IB.37053), Polain 3034, Goff P-83, Walsh 1114 ; single column 36 line Gothic type, with conventional 15th century printing ligatures, and with rubricized initials throughout; some generally minor edge staining and tears ; a few worm holes in the margins ; a few pages with larger stains ; this copy with no chapter headings or signature marks ; begins at Quintæ Partis Principalis, Tractatus de Beatitudinibus, with the section on Patience and the temptations of demons and ends the Beatitudes with the discourse on Peace; rubics in the same hand that… Leer más

[Hong Kong : London Mission Society Press, c1861] ; ??????? [Shanghai : Shanghai Shangye Yingshuguan, n.d., 1861. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. [1], 298, 378 pp. ; bound in Chinese fashion, with folded sheets right to left, in a western-style, mid-nineteenth century cloth board cover binding with decorations ; James Legge, the famous Scottish sinologist and missionary of the London Missionary Society was born in Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland on Dec 20th, 1815. He graduated from Highbury Theological College in 1837, joined the London Missionary Society in 1838 and went to Malacca in 1839 as a missionary. In 1843 Legge arrived in Hong Kong and remained there until 1873 except for three short trips back to Scotland. In 1876, Legge became the first professor of Chinese at the University of Oxford, and died in 1897 ; This is the first volume of Legge's monumental translation of nine sacred books of Chinese literature, in a very probable 1st edition, 1st Chinese printing, with mixed asian and western… Leer más

St. Louis, Mo. : Students of Central High School, 1933, 1933. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 272 pp. ; profusely illustrated with artwork, drawings, and photographs ; red decorative cloth, no dustjacket ; ONE OF THE MOST AMAZING PSYCHIC OCCURENCES is preserved in this yearbook. A member of the graduating January class of 1933, GENEVA ABBOTT PATTERSON, (1916-2011) was asked at age 16 to imagine the city of St. Louis in the future, and she amazingly created a watercolor depicting the St. Louis cityscape and INCLUDED THE ST. LOUIS GATEWAY ARCH 15 YEARS BEFORE IT BECAME A CONCEPT IN THE MIND OF ITS DESIGNER, EERO SAARINEN IN 1947! The Gateway Arch was not completed until 1963. ; She added the following prophetic text spoken by Ulysses's wife Penelope from line 24 of Tennyson's Ulysses (1842): "Yet all experience is an Arch wherethro' gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades for ever, and for ever when I move" ; Geneva Abbott furthered her art studies at the Hadley Vocational… Leer más

[Columbia High School Yearbook Staff], 1973, 1973. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 31 cm., green and blue cloth ; numerous photos, several in color ; extremely rare Beatles-related collectible: This is the high school annual for the senior year of MARK DAVID CHAPMAN, the murderer of JOHN LENNON. Chapman is featured in the seniors section, with the photo that was first used in worldwide distribution during the breaking news story in 1980. Included are photos of Chapman's teachers, friends and siblings ; VG.

New York : Commerce Clearing House, 1913-1986, 1986. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 91 volumes ; A nearly complete run from 1913-1986 ; almost 75 years of tax litigation history ; At head of title: CCH./ Published: Chicago, IL : CCH Incorporated / Accompanied by separately numbered Consolidated volumes (vol. 1 (1913/1929)-v. 5 (1917/1940), published 1938-1940), which make available in permanent bound form the opinions originally reproduced and reported in the publisher's "court decisions" division of Standard federal tax service./ "The fifth vol. of the consolidated vols. presents court decisions handed down under the excess profits tax statutes which were effective from 1917 to 1921."--Foreword to v. 5 ; LC: KF6280.A2; HJ3251.A39; Dewey: 343/.73/0402643 ; OCLC: 3157871 ; ISSN: 0277-402X; Other format's ISSN: 1084-0125; National Library: 011150635; LCCN: 37-1000 ; without vols. for 79-2, 80-2, 81-83, 84-1, and duplicates of 74 & 75-1 ; As published in book form, we must point… Leer más

Basileae : Apud haeredes Nicolai Brylingeri, M. D. LXVII. (1567), 1567. Good. [26], 643, [1] p. (the last page blank) ; 17 cm. (8vo) ; References: Adams; T-361; VD16; T-466 ; OCLC: 35196231 ; preface by Desiderius Erasmus, (dated 1532) ; includes commentary on each play by Giovanni Calfurnio ; Title vignette; initials ; Signa tures: a-z8 A-T8 [Nota Bene: incomplete volume : A-B are missing, pages 339-375, comprising Actus II Scena I - Actus III Scena II of Adelphi] ; Contemporary panel-stamped cream/butter-colored pig-skin binding ; raised bands ; green speckled fore-edg e ; two-tone silk headband ; bookplate "E Bibliotheca Collegii Cremsensis" (dated 1818, with ownership written in ink across title page) ; large crayon pencil mark in red, "LVIII29", on lower portion of title page ; text in Latin, italic type font f or the text of the plays ; only one other known institution copy, held by the Newberry Library ; slight worm damage to top of spine ; soiling ; marginalia on some pages in a… Leer más

Washington : G.P.O., 1894-1937, 1894. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 37,352 pages ; scarce, complete run of 43 volumes to 1937 ; thousands of late 19th and early 20th century photographs ; nearly 100 full color plates ; various colored bindings ;Title varies; OCLC: 2288725 (1894-1922); OCLC: 2288694 (1923-1925); OCLC: 2289136 (1926-1937) ; Partial contents: Birds That Injure Grain--Danger of Importing Insect Pests--Hybrids and Their Utilization in Plant Breeding--Lawns and Lawn Making--Some Edible and Poisonous Fungi--The Agricultural Outlook of the Coast Region of Alaska--The Fruit Industry, and Substitution of Domestic for Foreign-grown Fruits--The Present Status of Flax Culture--Utilization of By-products of the Dairy--Agriculture in Puerto Rico--Cattle dipping, experimental and practical--Cyclones, hurricanes, and tornadoes--Insects injurious to beans and peas--Sand-binding grasses--Pruning of trees and other plants--The present condition of grape culture in California--The use of kites in the exploration… Leer más

London : Elliot Stock, 1895 ; 1893., 1895. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. [1st edition], 334 pp. (The Book-Hunter in London) ; [1st English edition], xxv, 232 pp. 31 cm. (The Book-Hunter in Paris) ; both volumes heavily illustrated ; OCLC: 317856824 ; OCLC: 256180 ; FINE copies of each of the two most important historical surveys of books, booksellers and book-collectors in London and Paris, both in the rare large-paper editions, uniformly bound by Tolbert in half-leather and marbled papers in brown, yellow and gold ; original, untrimmed edges preserved ; the origin al black and red prospectus for The Book-Hunter in Paris bound in ; the original publisher's boards included ; quoting from The Book-Hunter in Paris : "...these vocal days, when there are books about almost everything under the sun, no one need wond er that so quaint a fraternity as the stall-keepers on the quays of the Seine should have a volume all to themselves. They have a place in French history, these men; their trade,… Leer más

Stuttgart, gedrukt auf Kosten des Literarischen Vereins [gedrukt bei K. Fr. Hering & Comp.], 1847, 1847. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. [1st edition] ; xiv, 275 pages illustrations 22 cm. ; 8°; 1/2 red leather with beige and black Jugenstil patterned papers ; 4 raised gold bands and gold lettering ; mauve endpapers ; Bibliothek des Litterarischen Vereins in Stuttgart. [Bd.] 16 [1 ; LCCN: 02-9109 ; OCLC: 5014920 ; LC: PT1101; Dewey: 830.6 ; "Tabula carminum etc. initia ordine alphabetico exhibens": pages [263]-275. ; This is the first exposition of the famous 12th century manuscript of poems and songs by the goliards, or traveling student minstrels, here published with illustrations from the manuscript; texts in Medieval Latin, Mittelhochdeutsch (medieval German) and in Middle French; This is the edition that inspired Carl Orff in 1934 to write the now world-famous Carmina Burana (part I of his work, Trionfi). Orff relates in "Carl Orff und sein Werk in 8… Leer más

Berkeley : Asian Humanities Press ; Seoul : Po Chin Chai, 1983., 1983. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Inscribed by Author(s). 135 pp. : chiefly illustrations, some in color ; numerous photographs ; 35 cm. ; OCLC: 11766799 ; LC: ND2073.6.Z8 ; a rare collection of action photographs, ceramics and calligraphic paintings and lithographs executed by Jung Kwang, the Mad Monk ; " The present volume is an attempt to present a partial retrospective of his paintings including the latest work which has expanded into the use of lithographs....In 1980-81, he took an extended trip, his first to the U.S. and Europe, giving demonstrations of his painting style..."--preface ; "Jung Kwang, the painter, has his artistic roots firmly placed within a style of art that was nourished by the monastic communities of East Asia. Using only the brush and ink, monks made their art using rapid and yet disciplined brush strokes. The paintings only took seconds to complete; they could not be retouched or corrected;… Leer más

[Atlanta, GA] : [Isssued by various state publishers], 1937-1999, 1999. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. A 50 volume set ranging from 1937 to 1999 ; composed of various editions issued by various publishers ; Vols. for 1956- issued in 2 v.: v. 1. Acts and resolutions of the General Assembly of the state of Georgia; v. 2. Local and special acts and resolutions of the General Assembly of the state of Georgia. ; without volumes for 1957-2, 1958, 1959-2, 1961-2, 1969-2, 1972-2, 1980-2, 1985-1998, 1999-1 ; uniformly bound in tan cloth ; ex-lib, no labels ; condition ranges from fair (for the 1937-38 volume) to as new for later volumes ; A difficult to find set ; perfect and necessary for a Georgia legal office or library ; can be used without electricity, computers or the internet! ; VG.

A La Haye, Chez T. Johnson, MDCCXI, MDCCXII (1712-1713)., 1713. Good. 2 volumes in 1 ; 17 cm. ; OCLC: 43360329 ; contemporary banded leather, peeling at spine ; This is the complete collection of the 85 issued numbers of van Effen's Le Misantrope, considered the first magazine to be published in Europe, patterned on that of The Spectator of Addison and Steele ; Justus van Effen was born in Utrecht, and after a botched attempt to complete a scientific degree at the University of Utrecht, as well as a couple of wild love affairs, he made his way to London where he spent much time in the company of the literary circles that frequented the then-scandalous coffee houses ; upon his return to the Netherlands, he eventually makes his way to the Hague, where he is employed for a time. Here he publishes the magazine in numbers written anonymously, selling for half a stuiver. Although the magazine fails after just two years, and van Effen goes on to publish other, more lavish serial publications, this… Leer más

Tokyo ; New York : Kodansha, 1983., 1983. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st edition ; 9 large volumes ; illustrated ; 29 cm. ; uniformly bound in dark blue cloth with light blue designs and gold lettering ; ex-lib., stamps, labels, (3235 pp.) ; ISBN: 0870116207 (set) ; 0870116215 (v. 1); 0870116223 (v. 2); 0870116231 (v . 3); 087011624X (v. 4); 0870116258 (v. 5); 0870116266 (v. 6); 0870116274 (v. 7); 0870116282 (v. 8); 0870116290 (v. 9); LCCN: 83-80778 ; OCLC: 9854358 ; "the first comprehensive encyclopedia seeking to present the totality of a major world culture i n a foreign language...some 680 Japanese and 524 non-Japanese scholars from 27 nations have contributed articles to it...about 40 percent was produced by Japanese while the remaining 60 percent was produced by foreign scholars....It...contains the results of the latest scholarship as marshalled by acknowledged experts in each field, and has 9,417 entries covering 37 categories of information, from such standard ones as… Leer más

Lugd. Batav. (Leiden, Netherlands) : Apud Hackios, MDCLXXII. (1672)., 1672. Very Good. 4 pt. in 1 ; [24], 249, [27], 140, [22], 22, 65, [3] pp. ; 15 cm. ; (12mo) ; Text in Latin with sections in Greek ; Signatures: A-Z6 ; Title: Joh. Kirchmanni Lubeccensis De annulis liber singularis : accedunt Georgii Longi, Abrahami Gorlaei, et Henr . Kornmanni de iisdem tractatus absolutissimi.Tractatus de annulis signatoriis antiquorum / Dactyliotheca / Tractatus de anulorum origine / De annulo triplici : usitato, sponsalitio, signatorio ; OCLC: 23165998 ; LCCN: 48-31161 ; LC: NK7444 ; Title vignette: woodcut device of Hackius ; Added engraved title page ; Each section has a special title page and pagination ; collation is continuous throughout ; Includes bibliographical references and indexes ; contemporary vellum with bead clasps (one bead missing) ; heraldic stamp at top of textblock ; 1733 bookplate of Don Joseph Pardo de Figueroa, an early 19th century knight of the order of St. James, and writer of a 1819… Leer más

Boston : Ticknor and Fields, 1855., 1855. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 1st printing ; iv, 316, [4], [12] pp. ; First State copy with all points present ; brown, blind stamped cloth ; nick from corner of back endpaper ; p.27, line 9 "heron"; pg.32, line 11 "In the Moon"; pg.39, line 11 and pg.268, lines 11 and 14, "Wahonomin", not "wahonourn"; pg.96, "Dove" instead of "Dived"; pg.278 "Cooed the Omemee", not "pigeon" ; contains the 12-page catalogue of books for sale at back, with the date "November, 1855"; two owner names, one on front endpaper, the second on flyleaf ; slight knock ; slight foxing ; else a VG copy of this important title. ; Contents: Introduction -- I. The Peace-pipe -- II. The Four Winds. -- III. Hiawatha's Childhood . -- IV. Hiawatha And Mudjekeewis . -- V. Hiawatha's Fasting -- VI. Hiawatha's Friends . -- VII. Hiawatha's Sailing -- VIII.… Leer más

In Venegia, appresso Dominico de' Farri, M. D. LV. (1555), 1555. Very Good. [44], [1114, marked] 557, [1] pp. ; contemporary vellum with five raised bands ; spine marked in italic script, "Historie del Giovio Tom. I" ; Signatures: ABC,a-z,aa-zz,aaa-zzz,aaaa ; Title vignette, repeated on verso on last leaf ; Initials ; Ital ic type. ; OCLC: 26248172, OCLC: 17611061 ; page 144 (and its verso) in contemporary Italic manuscript hand, inserted and bound in the original binding ; the number, "13" inscribed on a small round label on the spine ; the number "136" written on th e upper textblock ; covers soiled ; a few worm-holes on the first three and last three pages ; last page of the Tavola starting ;This, the first Italian translation--five years after the first Florence Latin in 1550--of the massive History of His Own Times by Paolo Giovio, who set up what has been compared to the CNN of his time; Utilizing a prodigious, ongoing correspondence with writers across Europe and the Near East, Giovio was… Leer más

A Lyon : Chez Thomas Amaulry, rue Merciere au Mercure Galant, M. DC. XCIV. (1694), 1694. Fair. 2 of 3 volumes ; bound in vellum ; stamps of the African Mission Library, Blackrock, Cork [Ireland] ; 21 cm. ; OCLC: 28103952 ; only one set held by the Athenaeum of Ohio ; Title vignette; head and tail pieces ; covers soiled ; slight damage to top of spine of Volume 1; textblocks decorated in red ; detailed listings of contents ; Volumes 1 and 2 contain 18 sermons each ; FAIR

New York : Crown Publishers, 1964., 1964. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 9, [1], 15-184 pp. ; 32 cm. ; folio ; illustrated with 183 black and white photographs ; 28 cm. ; LCCN: 64-21769 ; OCLC: 1691744 ; LC: DS896.5; Dewey: 915.2135 ; black cloth with red and white lettering, in like-colored dustjacket ; edge wear to dustjacket ; slight edge wear to bottom of spine ; black ink mark-through of two lines on front ep ; This is one of the epoch-making photojournalistic photo-essays by photographer William Klein--who also photo-documented Moscow, New York and Rome as pa rt of this series--whose photos cut through the Japanese masks of tatame and hone to reveal the inner character of the Japanese people. ; A monumental photographic achievement that forever changed the approach to photojournalism ; text in English ; scarce ; VG/G .

Tutzing : Verlegt bei Hans Schneider, 1975-1983, 1975. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 8 volumes : illustrations, portraits, plates., music scores ; 31 cm ; textured light grey cloth with designs and lettering in gold with blue spine labels ; ISBN: 3795201543; 9783795201548 (v. 1: 1975) ; 3795201624; 9783795201623 (v. 2: 1975) ; 3795202027; 9783795202026 (v. 3: 1976) ; 3795202574; 9783795202576 (v. 4: 1979) ; 3795202949; 9783795202941 (v. 5: 1979) ; 3795203082; 9783795203085 (v. 6: 1980) ; 3795203082; 9783795203085 (v. 7: 1981) ; 3795203732; 9783795203733 (v. 8: 1983) ; LCCN: 75-504262 ; OCLC: 1342219 ; Comprehensive and monumental in scope, with contributions by the composer, along with important commentary, photographs many in color, and some complete scores ; the basis of most biographical and critical works about the world-famous composer of Carmina Burana, Carl Orff ; large format, heavy set ; with an article "Orff - daheim" [Orff At Home] by Josef Othmar Zöller, illustrated by two… Leer más

New York, Charles Scribner, [New York: Stereotyped by C.W. Benedict: 201 William St.], 1851, 1851. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st edition, 1st printing, 1st state with sterotyper's colophon on copyright page, 5 flat dots before "56" on page vi, broken "World" on page vii ; frontispiece ; 1 preliminary leaf, vii, [11]-286 pages frontispiece 20 cm ; textured blind-stamped green cloth with gold decorations and designs ; no dustjacket ; LC: PS2404; Dewey: 818 ; Ik. Marvel was the pseudonym of Donald Grant Mitchell ; BAL,; 13931; Wright, L.H. Amer. fiction, 1851-1875,; 1721 ; OCLC: 947726521 ; a beautiful copy ; copy of N. B. Heath, historian of Company E, 355th infantry, AEF, 1918 ; Contents: With My Aunt Tabithty - With My Reader - DREAMS OF BOYHOOD - Spring - Rain In The Garret - School Dreams - Boy Sentiment - A Friend Made & Friend Lost - Boy Religion - A New England Squire - The Country Church - A Home Scene - DREAMS OF YOUTH - Summer - Cloister Life - First Ambition -… Leer más