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Allan Melville's Signature on a work of scrivener's art.Allan Melville was Herman Melville's brother, literary agent, and when this document was signed, adult roommate. Allan resided in New York with a law office at 10 Wall Street. In 1856, Herman still had several adventures to go before he too would be pulled into the world of documents and scriveners at the Custom House.. An interesting piece of Melvilliana. Fine.
1678. FINE ENGRAVINGS. Opera Omnia by Graaf, Regner de - 1678
by Graaf, Regner de
1678. FINE ENGRAVINGS. Opera Omnia
by Graaf, Regner de
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Leiden: Io. Ant. Hugetan, 1678. Second edition.
1678 COLLECTED WORKS OF NOTED DUTCH ANATOMIST AND PHYSIOLOGIST, ILLUSTRATED WITH FINE ENGRAVINGS OF MALE AND FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEMS.
7 3/4 inches tall hardcover, full leather binding, spine with raised bands, gilt compartments and gilt title to spine, expertly rebacked with original spine conserved, 8vo. xx, [4], 390pp. Engraved title, portrait, 41 copper plate engravings (most folding) of male and female genitourinary system, digestive system, clyster apparatus, and syringe. Includes images of ectopic human pregnancy and surgical preparation of a dog for physiologic study of digestive tract. Surface wear to covers and spine, bookplate of physician previous owner to front paste-down, ink signature of original owner top of front endpaper (Francisci Joannis Desmares Bonneville), scattered wormholes (mostly marginal), binding tight, pages crisp and unmarked, plates with small tears at base of folds, overall very good minus, in custom archival mylar cover. Includes 3 Garrison-Morton titles (974, 1209, and 1210), text in Latin.
REGNIER DE GRAAF (1641 – 1673) was a Dutch physician and anatomist who made key discoveries in the biology of the reproductive and digestive tracts. He studied medicine in Utrecht and Leiden, submitted his doctoral thesis on the pancreas, and went to France where he obtained his medical degree from the University of Angers. After returning to the Netherlands, since he was a Catholic in a mainly Protestant country, he was unable to follow a university career. After the early death of a son, De Graaf died in 1673 at age 32. The mature stage of the ovarian follicle is called the Graafian follicle in his honor. De Graaf also described the anatomy of the testicles and collected secretions of the gall bladder and the pancreas (all illustrated in the plates).
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4-page holograph Court of Appeals document, dated June 16, 1856,: Signed by Commissioner of Deeds, Allan Melville, brother of Herman Melville.
by Allan Melville
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Ulyssippo, poema heroico.
by (IN SHEETS AS PRINTED). SOUSA DE MACEDO, ANTONIO DE.
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Lavardin, France
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Nova ediçao, Lisboa, na typographia Rollandiana, 1848. 294 pp. Unbound and in sheets as published. Printed label for the binder to use on the temporary wrappers next to page 289. Some light staining throughout.
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Dreaming Woman [screen print poster]
by Hom, Nancy; artist
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San Francisco, California, United States
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[San Francisco]: the artist, 1982. Poster. 16x20 inch screen print poster on rag paper. Limited edition of one 41, with number penciled at lower left, signed by the artist at lower right. A lovely, fine example, from the holdings of the poet herself.
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Charmed Life
by Diana Wynne Jones
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New York, New York, United States
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JONES, Diana Wynne. Charmed Life. NY: Greenwillow [1977]. 12mo, [vi] 218pp. Orange boards stamped in black. A fine copy in original color pictorial dust jacket – practically as new. Signed by the author, Diana Wynne Jones.First US edition. The first book published in Diana Wynne Jones' beloved Chrestomanci series. Cat doesn't mind living in the shadow of his sister, Gwendolen, the most promising young witch ever seen on Coven Street. But trouble starts brewing the moment the two orphans are summoned to live in Chrestomanci Castle. Frustrated that the witches of the castle refuse to acknowledge her talents, Gwendolen conjures up a scheme that could throw whole worlds out of whack by changing worlds with her doppleganger. Scared he'll be thrown out of the castle, Cat now has to find a way to pass off the unmagical doppleganger as his very magical sister!
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Le Pavillon du Gant à l’Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes. Paris, Avril-Octobre 1925.: Art-Deco Glove Exhibit
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An elaborate volume serving as a statement on the glove trade at the time of this famous exposition, as well as an illustrated catalogue to the exhibits and the various exhibitors, prepared and published by the glove industries' main trade journal. Each catalogue page has various color-printed art-deco designs. Rare: not located in OCLC.
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The Forms of Fiction.
by Gardner, John and Dunlap, Lennis.
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Concord, California, United States
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NY, Random House, 1962, first edition, first printing.. No dust jacket, this is John Gardner's first book, preceding his The Resurrection by four years, it is essentially a text book written while he was an English professor at Chico State College, Signed by Gardner, it includes John Steinbeck's The Chrysanthemums, pages 248-258, text from The Long Valley, Goldstone & Payne B124, not recorded by Morrow, also includes Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Edgar Allan Poe, Anton Chekhov, James Joyce, and others. Very good plus.
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My Dear Runemeister A Voyage Through the Alphabet - Ltd. Ed. in Hardcover
by REYNOLDS, Lloyd J.
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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Portland, Oregon: The Alcuin Press, 1981. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo. Unpaginated [Pp. 74]. Introduction by Bill Gunderson. Italic calligraphy reproduced in red and black, printed recto. Brown and buff cloth half binding stamped with dark brown and gilt lettering, tan endpapers. Edition limited to three hundred, this copy numbered 197. Laid in are printed four-page brochure for the Lloyd Reynolds exhibit "A Life of Forms in Art" at the Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, 2011, as well as a one-page prospectus for the exhibition catalog. During his last year the well-known Portland author, calligrapher and teacher wrote this history of the alphabet in the form of personal letters to his friend William Gunderson. Printed by John Laursen at Press-22. Preserved in a clear archival sleeve.
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NOCTURNE [SIGNED]
by Swinnerton, Frank
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Rockville, Maryland, United States
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London: Martin Secker, 1926. 1926 Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo, 219 pages; G+; contemporary full green cloth binding; spine with rubbed gilt lettering; some shelf wear and soiling; corners bumped; fading to spine; tide lines to spine, and over joints; spine cocked; previous owner's bookplate at front pastedown; inscribed by Swinnerton at front free endpaper, "This confiscated copy of a book which the author--according to Mr Somerset Maugham--has obviously never read. With warmest regards and in celebration of an outstandingly loquacious evening. Frank Swinnerton"; pages clean; CX consignment; NOTE: Shelved in Room G. 1347238. FP New Rockville Stock.
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NOCTURNE
by Swinnerton, Frank; Wells, H. G. [introduction]
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Rockville, Maryland, United States
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New York: George H. Doran Company, 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 250 pages; VG/G+; spine white, with tan lettering; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering; some shelf wear and soiling to jacket; mild shelf wear to volume; small chips missing from corners of flap folds; small chip missing from upper edge of jacket front; chips missing from crown and tail of jacket spine; crack to center of jacket spine; small closed tears to upper and lower edges of jacket back; large chip missing at upper left corner of jacket back; spine slightly cocked; pages clean; CX consignment; NOTE: Shelved in Room G. 1347239. FP New Rockville Stock.
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Design and Construction of Pan American Highway Historical Monograph Volume II: Plates and Appendices
by War Department, Corps of Engineers
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Tucson, Arizona, United States
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Los Angeles, CA: U. S. Engineer Office, 1946. Wraps. Good. Oblong folio. 37 black and white maps and charts showing sections of the propsed and existing sections of the highway through Guatemala to Panama. This is the plate volume only, no text. Printed paper wraps bound with rivets. The item has been folded once vertically with wear and loss to the covers. The maps have age toning but are mostly in very good condition, the vertical crease being more a bend on the maps than a crease. The size is 10 by 15 inches; some maps are larger and are folded at the right edges to fit. Only a good copy, but very scarce.
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