Search Results: Titles starting with E from Howard S. Mott, Inc

[FLACIUS ILLYRICUS, Matthias]. Eine Weissagung und ein schöner Herrlicher trost für alle hochbetrübte frome Christliche hertzen zu diser jtzigen trübselligen zeit Aus dem XIIII. Cap. Der offenbarung Johannis. 4to, old laid paper wrappers, pp. [8]. [Magdeburg: Michael Lotter] 1548.
Only Edition. By a Croatian-born (Istria) former professor of Wittenberg (1520-1575), the most prominent opponent of the "Leipzig Interim"; published in Magdeburg, where Flalcius was from 1549 a leader of the prolific Lutheran printed propaganda resistance. "In June 1546, only four months after Martin Luther died...Emperor Charles V launched a military campaign against the German Protestant princes to solve by force the problem of Christendom's split...Next spring, the victorious emperor tried to impose his provisional religious settlement, commonly called the Augsburg Interim, on Protestant territories in order to restore Catholic practices...Soon the Lutheran camp split into two… Read More

AN IMPORTANT PRESENTATION COPY
HASSLER, F[erdinand] R[udolph], F. A. P. S. [NICOLLET, Joseph Nicolas]. Elements of Arithmetic, theoretical and practical: adapted to the use of schools, and to private study. 12mo, original calf backed plain blue boards (rebacked), original leather label, pp. [viii], [9]-[214]. New York: Printed and Published by James Bloomfield, 1826.
First Edition. An interesting gift connecting two brilliant minds, probably presented ca. 1832. Presentation copy, inscribed: "Mr. Nicol[l]et astronomer royal of Paris with the respects of the author F. R. H." Importantly, Hassler, the head of the U. S. Coast Survey, supported Nicollet from the time of Nicollet's arrival in the United States, and later worked with him on his important Upper Mississippi River map. As far as we have been able to determine, books from the library of Joseph N. Nicollet are rare. Joseph Nicolas Nicollet (1786-1843), a French geographer,… Read More

HE COMMANDED THE FIRST U. S. NAVY WARSHIP TO CIRCUMNAVIGATE THE GLOBE
[FINCH, Captain W[illiam] B., U. S. Navy].
3 ½ x 3 ½" engraved bookplate in sepia of Capt. Finch. A handsome plate with Finch's shield bearing his name above "U. S. Navy," the shield resting on a pair of crossed cannons, cannon balls and ammunition at their base, with other artillery equipment and furled flags at the rear. N.p., n.d.
On 8 June 1830, the sloop Vincennes,
under Capt. W. B. Finch, completed an around the world voyage, the first U. S. Navy warship to do so. Fine.

[FRANKLIN, Benjamin and JACKSON, Richard, an answer to]. Examination into the Value of Canada and Guadeloupe, with an Impartial Account of the latter, In Answer to a late Pamphlet, entitled, The Interest of Great-Britain, considered with Respect to her Colonies. In a Letter to a Gentleman in England. 8vo, disbound, pp. [2], 40 [i.e. 41], [1] blank, iv. London: Printed for William White, 1761. $2000.00
First Edition. Rare, with only one copy at auction since 1924. Textually complete, with lower half of title-page in facsimile (with errata on verso), as is the last leaf, pp. iii-iv, being part of the "Appendix," giving "A Specification of the Sugar Works in Guadaloupe and Grand-terre, and to whom they belong." An anonymous 18th century owner has corrected the errata, and tipped-in a full page of manuscript about the French trade in furs with the Indians, worth 1,000,000 livres, with a breakdown of distribution to the nine named posts from Detroit to St. Joseph. Written in answer to Franklin's pamphlet,… Read More

A STUNNING VICTORIAN ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT POEM ON 26 LEAVES[VICTORIAN ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT]. A., E. J., Illuminator. The Exile's Home. 1859. 4to, original full green morocco by [J. Thomas] Proudfoot, 73 George Street, Euston Sq., panels alike ruled in gilt with fleurons at corners, spine richly gilt with repeated scroll pattern, tooled edges, inner gilt dentelles, coated yellow end papers, 26 leaves of heavy stock, one side only. Ornamented title-leaf, prefatory leaf with 2 lines from Byron, poem written in calligraphic Gothic text, ornamented with 30 historiated initials, 24 large & 6 small, the text incorporating 21 mostly large watercolor border vignettes, inside red ruled border, a.e.g. [Great Britain] 1859.

A choice illuminated poem, a work of art, confidently executed with watercolors of very high quality. The long poem is a medieval romance of lost love and a warrior's return, illustrated with figured… Read More

AN EXPOSITION OF FREE BEER IN 1887
[BEER EXPOSITION, FRENCH]. Republique Française Ministere de l'Agriculture. Exposition des Bières Française et de tous les produits et appareils servant a la fabrication de la Bière, a Paris, Palais de l'Industrie…du 29 Aout au 31 Octobre 1887…Large folio broadside in red and black, 22 ½ x 31". Paris: Imprimiere Nationale, July, 1887.
Beer was becoming more popular in France, despite the popularity of wine. Here is a large broadside advertising an exhibition devoted to French beer, and its accoutrements. We have been told this exposition was the first of its kind for French beer, but we have not confirmed that to be the case. Not in the 48-page list by Morna Daniels, Paris National and International Expositions from 1790 to 1900: A Finding List of British Library Holdings, in eBritish Library Journal, 2013. A few minor fold tears, with no loss, otherwise fine. Not in OCLC.