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Philadelphia: David McKay Co, 1932. The overall condition is very good. There is the slightest hint of wearing on the spine and corner of the cover. Binding is tight. The pages are discolored due to age, otherwise minimal damage.. In a darker story for Beatrix Potter, she retells the classic folk tale of Bluebeard. It is told from the perspective of Anne, the sister to the eighth wife of Bluebeard. 154 pages. 12 full page illustrations done by Katharine Sturges. First edition, first issue. The frontispiece illustration incorrectly tipped in opposite page 7, instead of the title page, as it was in later copies. It is one of the lesser known of Beatrix Potter's work, and is different from her famous stories, like Peter Rabbit, in both style and subject. Blue cloth binding, hardcover, with glint stamping on spine and front board. 7 3/4" x 5 1/4" Sister Anne was the last story written by Beatrix Potter and published while she was alive. It was only published in the United States.
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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- Place of Publication Leiden
- Date Published 1678
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Sister Anne
by Beatrix Potter
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Tolland, Connecticut, United States
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€472.60
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Poems.
by [Fore-edge Painting] ROGERS, Samuel (1863-1855).
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Montreux, Switzerland
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London:: Printed for T. Cadell; and E. Moxon, 1834., 1834. 8vo. vii, 284 pp. Engravings throughout. Bound ca. 1890/1905 in full olive brown crushed morocco, gilt corner decorations, dentelles, a.e.g., marbled endleaves. Bookplates of Alfred Trapnell and Oscar Ehrhardt Lancaster (both owned fore-edge paintings). Very good. With a vertical fore-edge painting of a large urn or vase with a plant. The painting is not signed or dated. PROVENANCE: Alfred Trapnell bookplate, his library sold in NY ca. 1910 ["998" label]. The fore-edge was painted before Trapnell bought the book, as there was another ROGERS in the Phoebe Jane Easton collection that was a clear companion to this volume, also with Trapnell's bookplate. Alfred Trapnell was a famous collector of porcelains. [kmw]
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The Silver Moon" -- 1849 Song Sheet
by Emmons (sc.)
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- Used - Good. Toned with dust soiling, contemporary or slightly later paper repairs to verso, worming in lower left-hand corner.
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Tolland, Connecticut, United States
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€307.19
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Lowell, Massachusetts: J.H. Welton, 1849. Good. Toned with dust soiling, contemporary or slightly later paper repairs to verso, worming in lower left-hand corner.. Printed song sheet for "The Silver Moon", a song about love and mourning between a soldier and his lover. Song in five stanzas with wood-engraved illustration of the male lover on the left-hand side. Also sometimes appears as "Roll on silver moon" in other printings. Single leaf (10" by 6.5"), wood engraved image, typographic ornamental border, verso blank. Approx. 12 copies in OCLC (April 2023).
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Hickey-Hoyoscope
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Tolland, Connecticut, United States
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United States: C.P. Meier, 1930. Near-fine. Minor toning, vertical crease on lower leaf of card bifolium.. The "Hickey-Hoyoscope" is a whimsically illustrated volvelle fortune teller game. The directions instruct the user to turn the volvelle based on one's birthday several times, adding up the given numbers in window "B"; corresponding answer appear on the back of the card. The user can also ask a yes or no question using window "C". The fortunes on the back of the card include themes of love, happiness, and fortune in finances and business. Bifolium card with volvelle secured inside with brass fastening, printed on front and back with three windows cut on front to show three points of information on the volvelle. Measures 9" by 6
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Two (2) Books of Handmade "Fibre Doyleys
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- Used - Very good. Minor spotting, toning. Doilies in excellent shape. No major damage to any of the doilies. A couple short tears, one
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Tolland, Connecticut, United States
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United States, 1900. Very good. Minor spotting, toning. Doilies in excellent shape. No major damage to any of the doilies. A couple short tears, one larger (closed) short tear to left-hand margin of one of the books.. Two (2) handmade books by the same anonymous maker displaying twelve (12) handmade "fibre doyleys". Each doily is unique and measures approx. 5.5" in diameter; the fiber used appears to be a very, very fine organic fiber . Displays the anonymous maker's remarkably fine hand skills. Each octagonal book measures approx. 8.5" by 8.5" and is comprised of six leaves of blue paper secured within cream-colored card wrappers with ribbon. Title "Fibre Doyleys" handwritten in blue ink to upper wrappers. Doilies loose within leaves. Often created for the tourism industry in tropical locales.
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Alfred A. Knopf: Quarter Century
by (KNOPF, Alfred A.)
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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€425.34
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N.p.: N.p., 1940. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Green cloth with paper labels, slipcase. 52pp. Frontispiece. Very good/very good. Binding spine and edges ever-so-faintly sunned, else near fine. A tight and handsome first edition of this slim tribute volume, boldly signed and Inscribed by Knopf in blue ballpoint on the front flyleaf: "For Carl Haverlin / with sincere regard / Anfred a Knopf / 19 January 1960." (CARL HAVERLIN,1899-1985, was a noted Lincoln and Civil War scholar, radio pioneer and president of Broadcast Music, Inc.) Scarce collection of tributes published by a group of Knopf's friends called "The Book Table," consisting of "a few each of publishers, booksellers, librarians, authors, designers and producers of books and book materials." Two side-by-side rear flyleaves bear the boldly inked signatures of six of the book's ten contributors: Novelist Carl Van Vechten (who took the frontispiece portrait), critic/essayist Carl Van Doren, H.L. Mencken, New York Public Library director H.M. Lydenberg,…
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Dictionnaire raisonné universel des arts et metiers, contenant l'histoire, la description, la police des fabriques et manufactures de France & des pays étrangers: ouvrage utile à tous les citoyens.
by JAUBERT, ABBÉ.
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Lavardin, France
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€450.00
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Nouvelle édition, corrigée & considérablement augmentée d'après les mémoires & les procédés des artistes... 5 vols. Paris, chez P. Fr. Didot jeune, 1773. 8vo. Contemporary full calf (rubbed, corners & tops & bottoms of spine slightly damaged). xxvi,3,595pp; halftitle, titlepage, 622pp with 3 (folding) plates bound in; halftitle, titlepage,574pp; halftitle, titlepage, 556pp + 4 pages catalogue of books; 640pp. The last (fifth) volume contains a dictionary of all the terms used in all the arts and crafts.Interesting work that was first published in two volumes only. Pierre Jaubert (1715-1780) took it upon himself to revise and augment this universal encyclopedia of all the arts and crafts. An important part is dedicated to the professions related to the book. We find interesting articles on engravers, typefounders, papermakers, makers of decorated paper, bookbinders, gilders, printers, booksellers and bibliographers. The three (folding) plates that are to be found in the second volume all deal…
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La Mort d'Arthure:The History of King Arthur and of the Knights of the Round Table
by Malory, Sir Thomas; Wright, Thomas
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Tucson, Arizona, United States
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London: John Russell Smith, 1865. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Three volumes. 12mo. Half dark red cloth. Introduction and notes by Thomas Wright, The Introduction is of bibliographical importance as it sketches the history of the early editions of Malory: Caxton (one complete copy; one incomplete); de Worde (two editions, one copy of each known); Copland; East; and finally the edition of 1634. Each volume with the engraved circular bookplate of Emily Morris Gallatin on the front pastedowns. The simple signature of Arthur Lewis, 1949, on each of the front free endpapers. And on the front free endpaper of volume 1 a nearly full page inscription dated 2018. Only volume 1 has been fully opened; the remaining volumes are partially unopened. Aside from the inscription and signatures, these volumes are in very good condition showing only traces of wear at the corners, edges and spine tips. This is a curious edition. We have marked it a first edition, but not without hesitation. The first printing…
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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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