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First edition of one of the most extraordinary travelogues of the 17th century, with the gilt supralibros of King James I. James I was a great bibliophile, declaring on a visit to the Bodleian that "there would be no greater pleasure than in being chained to the library" (cited in ODNB). By his late teens he "already had a substantial library, based partly on the remnants of Mary's, and partly on the books his tutors bought for him. it was heavily classical, but also included history, political theory, theology, languages, geography, mathematics - and also, for lighter reading and for sport, romances, bows and arrows, golf clubs, and hunting gloves. His passion for scholarship was utterly natural and deep-rooted" (Jenny Wormald in ODNB). The University of Toronto's database of British armorial bindings records 35 different examples of books with James's stamps. There are two marginal annotations in a contemporary had, possibly Coryate's: one at p. 577 and another at 581. Prince Henry, Coryate's patron and the book's dedicatee, was the first to receive a copy from the author's hand. Bound in crimson velvet, it was specially hand-coloured and had the errata carefully corrected in manuscript. This is now at the British Library, "its glories still undimmed" (Strachan, p. 130). Then it was the monarch's turn: "The king was at Theobald's his favourite residence near Royston, formerly Lord Burghley's country house. Coryate next travelled thither, and on the morning of 2 April in the Presence Chamber he presented the book and made his oration. His Majesty may have been startled to hear himself described as 'the refulgent Carbuncle of Christendom'". The author then proceeded to distribute copies of his bulky book to other members of the royal family and various noblemen, Strachan describing how Coryate, with typical flair, delivered them: "he decided to carry them in a box set upon a donkey's back, and he inscribed on the box in fair Roman capitals 'Asinus portans mysteria' the ass carrying the mysteries". Thomas Coryate (1577?-1617) was educated at Winchester and Gloucester Hall, Oxford, leaving without a degree but with "a retentive memory, much learning, excellent knowledge of Greek and Latin texts, fondness for rhetoric, aptitude for histrionics, curiosity to see the world, and a thirst for personal fame" (ODNB). Through good family connections he joined the household of Henry, prince of Wales, James I's eldest son, to whom he became an unofficial court jester. In May 1608 he sailed for Calais and made his way to Paris, then travelling, often on foot, to Venice, before returning to England in October, finally hanging up his shoes in the church at Odcombe in Somerset, the village in which he was born. His expedition had taken in France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, and the Netherlands; Coryate was "one of very few Englishmen from this period who travelled overseas for reasons unconnected to diplomacy, religion, or trade" (Beirouti). His narrative has many points of historical interest. His description of how Italians shielded themselves from the sun resulted in what is thought to be the first mention of "umbrella" in English literature. He acquired a table fork, almost unknown in England, and imitated the Italian fashion of eating. While in Switzerland he heard the story of William Tell, and his admirable rendering is cited as the earliest in English. The book is also celebrated for its selection of mock-panegyric verses by the most illustrious authors of the day, including Jonson, Chapman, Donne, Campion, Harington, Drayton and others. The "crudities" of the title is a punning reference to "half-digested food, awash in an alimentary soup" (Boehrer, p. 199), an expression employed by Coryate's fellow Bankside wit Ben Jonson in his play Bartholomew Fair (1614). Provenance: a) King James I; b) armorial bookplate to printed title verso of Robert Jocelyn, presumably first Viscount Jocelyn (1687/8-1756), lord chancellor of Ireland; c) bookplate of Boston banker-bibliophile Frank Brewer Bemis (1861-1935), engraved by Sidney Lawton Smith and dated 1925; d) morocco book label of Arthur A. Houghton (1906-1990), sale of his library, Christie's, 13 June 1979, lot 139. Pforzheimer 218; Wing C5808; Keynes Donne, 70. Charles Beirouti, "A Backpacker in the Age of Shakespeare: Thomas Coryate at the Court of the Mughal Emperor", MEMOs Medieval and Early Modern Orients website, 2021; Bruce Thomas Boehrer, The Fury of Men's Gullets: Ben Jonson and the Digestive Canal, 1997; Michael Strachan, The Life and Adventures of Thomas Coryate, 1962. Quarto (214 x 146 mm). Contemporary reversed calf, gilt supralibros of James I to covers, gilt edges. Housed in a custom dark green morocco gilt pull-off case by H. Zucker of Philadelphia. Engraved title page by William Hole incorporating a portrait of the author, 4 engraved plates (2 folding), showing the Heidelberg Tun, Strasbourg astronomical clock, amphitheatre at Verona, and Coryate meeting a Venetian courtesan, the last 2 by William Hole, full-page engraved portrait on p. 496 of Frederick IV, Elector Palatine, full-page woodcut of the Prince of Wales's crest, large crest of William Herbert, earl of Pembroke, on 2B2 verso, small woodcut of Coryate's shoes within a laurel wreath on k4 recto, woodcut initials and headpieces. Pull-off case variably sunned and with a few scuffs, signs of a previous attempt at well-intentioned but slightly maladroit colour restoration; engraved title mounted on stub, paper flaw at lower fore corner of gatherings h-k, neat old paper repair at fore corner of i3-k2, short closed tear in margin of C4, a few other minor paper flaws and pale stains. A very good copy.

Oblong folio. Fascicles 1-6 (out of 8) in 1 vol. Lithogr. title page (wanting lithogr. half-title), lithogr. dedication, lithogr. table of contents, lithogr. final leaf, IV, 28 (instead of 60) pp., 25 ff., 24 (instead of 31) double-page-sized coloured lithogr. plates in gilt and silver by Theobald and Clemens Senefelder. Contemp. brown morocco with elaborately gilt spine and covers, leading edges gilt; inner dentelle gilt, marbled endpapers; edges gilt. Stored in contemp. brown morocco slipcase with elaborately gilt spine by J. Mackenzie. Tournaments and hastiludes began in the 11th century as both a sport and to provide training for battle. The sport of jousting grew out of the tournament and, by the 15th century, the art of tilting became quite sophisticated. Horses - as shown here on the 24 spectacular plates heightened with silver and gold - were specially bred for the joust. The present work, a rare incunable of lithography hardly ever encountered complete, is also an early example of lithography used to produce a perfect facsimile, namely of a manuscript tournament book kept at the Royal Library in Munich. The facsimile was produced by Theobald and Clemens Senefelder, brothers of the famous Alois Senefelder who had invented the process. Most known copies are illuminated in the very highest quality and heightened in gold and silver; Dussler refers to these copies as "de-luxe editions". Our copy comprises fascicles 1-6 (out of 8), containing 4 (of 5) introductory lithogr. leaves, pp. I-IV and 1-28 (of 60) and 24 (of 31) coloured lithogr. double-page plates, each with descriptive text leaves. Wants fascicles 7 and 8 (plates 25-31 and their descriptive text leaves), a lithogr. half-title, and the introductory text of pp. 29-60 (chapters III and IV). Very slight brownstaining throughout; double-page plates show offsetting of the silver heightening to the opposite pages. - Sumptuously bound in gilt morocco by John Mackenzie, bookbinder to the King, in matching solid slipcase (the binding showing but very slight traces of wear, while the protective slipcase is rubbed and somewhat scuffed). "The work of our binder, John Mackenzie, spanned the whole of the first half of the 19th century. In a circular issued in 1840, he described himself as 'Bookbinder to their late Majesties King George IVth & King William IVth', as a binder with 40 years of experience, and as a craftsman with one of the largest collections of brass binding tools in London (Howe). His materials and work are consistently of very high quality, as the present volumes attest; the Schiff collection had two of his bindings" (Phillip J. Pirages, cat. 63, item 325, describing a ten-volume-set of Lysons's "Magna Britannia" bound by Mackenzie). - Of the utmost rarity: the last copy at any auction was recorded in 1976 (Christie's, 2 April, lot 121: the same number of plates as ours). - Dussler 256, 6. Maillinger I, 2590/91. Winkler 717, 1-2, 4-52 & 67. Cf. Lipperheide Tb 6 (note).

First edition. First edition. Engraved frontispiece (Griffith Variety 1 with "Dunci-" on second line of pendant). viii, [ii], 51, [1] pp. Collation: A-E^6 F^2. 12mo. The distinguished Hagen-Pforzheimer-Slater copy of the first edition of Pope's satirical masterpiece, a mock-epic reply to his critics (primarily Lewis Theobald) and other hack writers, as well as a broader critique of George II and Walpole. Published anonymously under a misleading imprint suggesting a Dublin first edition (which does not exist). Editions followed in 1729 (Dunciad Variorum), 1742 (A New Dunciad), and 1743 (Dunciad in four books). This 12mo impression is the first and precedes the 8vo printing of the same year. Bound with the second edition of Edmund Curll's Key, which spells out Pope's allusions and provides full names where Pope only supplies a first initial. Thus the close of the first stanza ("Still Dunce the second reigns like Dunce the first?") is glossed as "Meaning Mr. Theobald succeeds Mr. Settle, if he has not a worse Meaning," which of course he has, referring to the accession of George II the previous year. Also bound with the first edition of The Progress of Dullness, which takes Pope's original title to The Dunciad and the one used to announce a sequel on the final leaf of the first edition. [Bound with:] [CURLL, Edmund]. A Compleat Key to the Dunciad. London: E. Curll, 1728. Second edition. vi, [7]-22, [2, ads] pp. Collation: A^8 B^4 [and:] [STANHOPE, Hugh (i.e. William Bond?)]. The Progress of Dullness . which Will Serve as an Explanation for the Dunciad. London: [E. Curll], 1728. First edition. [iv], 34, [2, ads] pp. Collation: A^2 B-E^4 F^2. Foxon P764; Griffith 198; Hayward 147 (exhibiting the octavo issue); Rothschild 1596. Provenance: Winston H. Hagen (morocco booklabel); Carl H. Pforzheimer Library; Gerald E. Slater (bought through Quaritch, sold his sale, Christie's New York,12 February 1982, lot 135) Full red morocco gilt, a.e.g. by Riviere. Frontispiece restored at fore-margin, image with slight defect from paper flaw Engraved frontispiece (Griffith Variety 1 with "Dunci-" on second line of pendant). viii, [ii], 51, [1] pp. Collation: A-E^6 F^2. 12mo.

5 vols. Thick 8vo. 5 vols. Thick 8vo. Early 19th century American and Irish political library of Maryland Congressman Alexander McKim. Alexander McKim (1748-1832) fought in the Continental Army, serving under Lafayette. He was elected to the Maryland Senate and the United States Congress as a Democratic-Republican in the 11th through 13th Congresses (1809-1815). (See the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress). Irish-born Campbell P. White (1787-1859) was elected to represent New York in the 21st through 24th Congresses. He is most likely related to the Irish-born John Campbell White (1757-1847), a successful Baltimore banker whose signature also appears in some volumes. In all, the 5 volumes contain 51 political pamphlets from the time, and a full listing of the contents of each is available. Here is a brief sample: 1. Copy of the Duke of Richmond's Letter, on a Parliamentary Reform, addressed to Lieut. Col. Sharman. With the Strictures on the British Constitutional Rights of the People. Sheffield. Printed for the Constitutional Society, June, 1792. 32 pp. 2. A Report of the Trial on an Action for Damages, brought by the Reverend Charles Massy against the Most Noble The Marquis of Headfort, for Criminal Conversation with Plaintiff's Wife. Dublin: Mahon, 1804. Third edition. viii, 95 pp. 3. NEILSON, Samuel (1761-1803). Brief Statement of a Negotiation between Certain United Irishmen and the Irish Government in July, 1798. New York: Printed for the Author, 1802. 41 pp. Shaw & Shoemaker 2727. OCLC: 3 copies. 4. Trial of Mr. Peter Finerty, Late Printer of the Press, for a Libel against His Excellency Earl Camden, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, In a Letter signed Marcus, in that Paper. Dublin: J. Stockdale, 1798. 62 pp. McCoy, FREEDOM OF THE PRESS F114 ("The publisher of the Dublin Press was found guilty of a seditious libel, pilloried, and given two-years' imprisonment for criticizing the trial of William Orr, Court of King's Bench") 5. GRATTAN, Henry (1746-1820). The Speech of Henry Grattan, Esq. on the Subject of a Legislative Union with Great Britain. The Resolutions of the Roman Catholics of the City of Dublin; The Guild of Merchants; the Freemen and Freeholders of the City of Dublin, at a Aggregate Meeting held on the 16th of January last; the Celebarted Speech delivered on that Occasion by John Philpot Curran, Esq . Dublin, Stockdale, 1800. 32 pp. Signed "G. Douglas Philadelphia" on title page. 6. [PARNELL, William]. An Inquiry into the Causes of Popular Discontent in Ireland. By an Irish Country Gentleman. Second edition, with alterations and a Preface. London Printed, and Dublin Re-Printed by H. Fitzpatrick, No. 4, Capel-Street, 1805. xvi, 72 pp, with half-title. First Irish edition. 7. Keogh, John. Sketch of a Speech delivered by John Keogh, Esq. at the Meeting of the Catholics of Dublin . Reported by Edward Hay, Esq. Dublin, H. Fitzpatrick, 1807. 15 pp. Signed on title page, "W. Davison . Dublin 10 Feby (rest cropped)" 8. Plowden, Francis. An Historical Letter from Francis Plowden, Esq. to Sir Richard Musgarve, Bart. Frontispiece. London printed, and Dublin re-printed for the Author by H. Fitzpatrick, 4, Capel Street, 1805. Etched frontispiece; 99 pp. 9. Plowden Francis. A Postliminous Preface of the Historical Review of the State of Ireland. Second edition. Dublin, Printed by H. Fitzpatrick, 1804. 80 pp. Inscribed on title page "To G. Douglas, Baltimore." Francis Plowden (1749-1829), a Roman Catholic lawyer, was not finally called to the bar until 1796 following the removal of Catholic disabilities. 10. [Tone, Theobald Wolfe, 1763-1798] An Address to the People of Ireland on the Present Important Crisis. Belfast, 1796. iv, 28 pp. 11. [Drennan, William]. Letter to the Right Honorable William Pitt. Dublin: Printed by John Moore, College-Green, 1799. 48 pp. Signed at end: William Drennan. On the union between Great Britain and Ireland. Also issued as part of: 'Tracts on the subject of an union', v.3, Dublin, 1799. 12. [Drennan, William, 1754-1820] A Second Letter to the Right Honorable William Pitt. Dublin: Printed by George Folinsby, No. 59, Dame-street. 50 pp. Provenance: Alexander McKim (his signature and notes to flyleaf of each volume); John Campbell White and Campbell P. White (their signatures) Bound in contemporary AMERICAN half calf and marbled boards, red leather labels titled "Politics" and "American Papers"; spines cracked and worn; boards loose or detached, text generally very good with foxing in some places.

8vo. VIII, 117 pp. Original half calf with title to spine. First edition; no. 13 of 50 copies of the numbered luxury edition on wove paper: still without p. IX of the preface and the statement "1.-6. Tausend". Includes eight-line autograph poem on flyleaf, signed "Th. Tiger" and dated 1920: "Ich gucke freundlich um die Oecke und greife voller Seelenruh der Muse unter ihre Röcke . Und dabei, Leser, siehst du zu - ? Sie quitscht. Ich grinse. Sie verstehen: Nicht immer gilt der Klassik Maß. Denn was wir im Verborgnen drehen macht uns am allermeisten Spaß - ! 1920. Th. Tiger". - "This edition was printed in 50 copies, numbered, and provided by the author with an unpublished poem, signed". The book is so scarce that it is questionable whether fifty copies were indeed printed. The poem was first published by the Tucholsky Archive in 1978 (Bonitz/W. D 2790). - Slight staining to edges; spine and corners somewhat scuffed, otherwise well-preserved. - Bonitz/W. C 4. Wilpert/G. 3.

Whistler, James A. M. THE LITTLE COURT CLOTH FAIR. Spink 22. Lithograph, 1887. A lifetime impression, one of 12 printed by Way and signed in pencil with the Butterfly.Printed on Ivory colored wove paper without watermark. The sheet 11 9/16 x 6 inches. In very good condition with slight discoloration from the mat in the areas outside the mat window. Provenance: Collection of Otto Gerstenberg (see below) with his collectors stamp, Lugt 2785, the Secretary Montag's "M" and the inventory numbers 61248 KO5182 all on the verso; Horizon Gallery, Rockport, MA, with its label and annotations on the frame backing. Framed. Very rare. The following are translations from the entry on Gerstenberg in Lugt:Lugt 1921:O. GERSTENBERG (born 1848), director of the Insurance Company "Victoria", lives in Berlin. Old and modern prints. Otto Gerstenberg, born in Pyritz, studied mathematics and philosophy at the University of Berlin. After having been employed at the Prussian Statistical Office, in 1873 he entered the insurance company "Victoria" in Berlin as a mathematician-calculator, and became its director in 1888. He developed it in the following years and brought it up. to its present importance. Around 1900 he began to collect prints of which he now has a very large cabinet; as elders especially Schongauer, Dürer and Rembrandt, then Lucas de Leyde, Hirschvogel, van Dijck, Ostade and the French portrait painters. As modern it is necessary to point out, among the Germans »Greiner, Klinger, Leibl, Liebermann, Menzel, Stauffer-Bern; among the French, Corot, Daumier, Degas, Forain, Lepère, Manet, Meryon, Toulouse-Lautrec; among the English, Bone, Dodd, Goff, Haden, Strang; then an important work by Whistler and Goya and leaves by Rops and Zorn. Also has beautiful paintings.Lugt 1956:During the 1914-1918 war, the collectort had his collection transported to Switzerland and, when the war was over, he decided, quite reluctantly, to sell it. In the spring of 1922 the sale was concluded in Zurich with the merchants Gust. Mayer, of Colnaghi & C ° of London, and Mr. A. MacDonald, then a partner of Harlow & C ° of New York, who bought the set at a price corresponding roughly to the total prices paid by Gerstenberg. This was a large sum, because he had acquired several of his finest pieces in the big sales between 1900 and 1914 against the big enthusiasts of the time such as Morgan, Gutmann, Rothschild etc. It was Gaiser, of the firm H. G. Gutekunst in Stuttgart, who had generally carried out his orders in the sales. MacDonald believed he had a buyer for the set in America, but when the collection arrived there those hopes were dashed by a change in economic conditions. He then sold the parts separately.We will get an idea of the importance of this collection by the following enumeration of the most beautiful pieces: among the Dürer, the Adam and Eve (from the Buccleuch and Hubert collections), the Saint-Eustache, the Mélancolie (from the collection Behaim, Dumesnil and Scholtz), the Knight of Death (from the Barnard and Hubert collections) and the Life of the Virgin series (from the St. Aubin collection); Dürer's work was almost complete. Quite remarkable was the Rembrandts' series, in which we note the Piece aux cent florins, sur Japon (collection Weber and Hubert), the Three Crosses, 1st state and 2nd state (collection Artaria and Hubert), the Little Tomb ( coll. John Wilson) and another proof on Japan, Death of the Virgin in Irstate (Josi coll.), St. Jerome, B. 103, unstead (Josi, Aylesford, Buccleuch and Hawkins coll.), the St. François (coll. Theobald); the series of portraits by Rembrandt was superb: Rembrandt himself drawing, B. 22, Ir état (from the Worlidge, Brit. Mus., Dighton and Theobald collections) and the same in the second state on Japan (Morrison collection), all the states of Clement de Jonghe, Jan Asselijn, Irtat (Josi, Aylesford, Buccleuch and Hubert coll.), old Haaring, 2nd state (same sources) and the young, 2nd state in Japan (Brodhurst and Lanna collection) , the Lutma in 1st state on japan (Josi, Aylesford, Baccleuch and Hubert collection) and a superb 2nd state (from the Firmin-Didot and Hubert collections), the Six in 3rd state (Ploos van Amstel collection); in landscapes: the three Trees (coll. Theobald), the three Chaumières (coll. Morgan and Lesecq des Tournelles), the Landscape with the tower, Ir état (coll. Aylesford, Holford and Hubert), the Campagne du peseur d ' gold, on Japan (Barnard, Holford and Theobald collection) and a State of Landscape with the drinking cow, on Japan (Theobald collection). Then a series of 51 Schongauer, including several of the first order, 8 of Hirschvogel, the portraits by van Dijck himself in first states (except D. 10 and 15, the most beautiful of the collection Theobald), beautiful series by Claude and van Ostade.The purchase included neither the important modern prints that Gerstenberg owned, nor his beautiful prints by Goya, nor a few drawings by the latter and Rembrandt. Gerstenberg was an enthusiastic collector who passionately loved his collection. When in 1922 the buyers announced their decision to acquire his old prints at the agreed price, he could not contain his tears. He later consoled himself by developing his series of watercolors and drawings of the French school of the nineteenth century, and he managed to own a magnificent set of Delacroix, Daumier, Degas, Monet and, in general, the Impressionists. . We do not know, at the present time, what happened to this part of his collection, but it is feared that part of it was lost or destroyed in the offices of the insurance company "Victoria" in Berlin or in its property in Silesia during the Russian invasion in 1945. The Toulouse-Lautrec which had been evacuated to Denmark were sold out of court after the war from 1939 to 1945. Gertstenberg died ,very old in 1935.The mark reproduced by us in L.2785 has rarely been used, but the origin of the prints is more easily recognized by the initial M, fo.

8vo. IX, 117 pp. Original printed wrappers. First edition. - Author's autograph inscription signed on inside of front cover: "Dem großen Schweiger widmet dieses beschädigte Remittendenexemplar Tiger. Wrobel. Panter. Hauser und ick! 1919." - Cover slightly chafed, otherwise fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITIONS. 4to, 3 works in one, pp. (viii) 227 (i); 124; (viii) 64. Roman letter, astrological symbols, woodcut floriated and historiated initials, decorated headpieces, tailpieces and typographical ornaments. First t-p within ornate engraved border, several astrological tables and calculations in first work, 100 horoscope diagrams in second. Light age yellowing, old repair to one lower outer corner, small paper flaw hole to one fol. affecting a few words, small rust mark to one lower blank margin. A very good copy, beautifully bound in contemporary French morocco, gilt arms of Jacques Auguste de Thou (1553-1617) and his second wife Gasparde de la Chastre to covers, spine with gilt raised bands, de Thou s and de la Chastre s monogram and titles gilt in compartments, a.e.g. Modern bookplate C.M.P of Charles-Maurice de Pourtalès. The elegant armorial binding bears the arms of the French politician, historian and bibliophile Jacques Auguste de Thou (1553-1617) joined with those of his second wife, Gasparde de la Chastre. The monogram contains their initials interlaced. De Thou served Henry III and Henry IV as councillor of state, became director of the royal library in 1593 and president of the Parliament of Paris in 1595. His outstanding library, famous among contemporaries and open to scholars and foreigners, was one of the most important private libraries of the end of the 16th century, for the quality of its content and its size (it contained an estimated number of 9,000 volumes in 1617). Remarkably, for the first time, the volumes were systematically bound in rich armorial bindings, changing according to the marital status of their owner. After de Thou s death, the library was inherited by his son Jacques-Auguste II de Thou in 1642. The volume contains excellent copies of the first editions of three fascinating works on astrology. The first, Praecepta genethliaca is a treatise by the reformed theologian Christoph Pezel (1539-1604). It examines the twelve astrological houses of the horoscope (corresponding to the twelve signs) - with particular focus on the sixth, concerned with illness and it contains a section on the history of astrology and prediction. The engraved title page, possibly realised by Theodore de Bry or one of his school, has been defined as one of the most delightful in the early astrological books [ ] Beginning at the upper left and following around counter-clockwise are small vignettes showing first Mars, the planet and the two signs Aries and Scorpio, which it rules; next is Jupiter with the signs Sagittarius and Pisces; then Saturn with Aquarius and Capricorn. Centered below is an interesting heraldic device supported by angels; then comes the Moon with Cancer; followed by Mercury with Gemini and Virgo. At the upper right is Venus with Taurus and Libra. The design at the center above is the Sun accompanied by the sign of Leo. (Hall) The second work is the physician Johann Rudolph Camerarius s (b.1588) attack against false astrologers. It illustrates the principles of the true science of astrology through 100 horoscope diagrams identifying the celestial birth coordinates of (mainly German) royal, aristocratic and political figures as well as unknown people who had been his patients and even his own family members. Interesting is the case of two twins who died shortly after birth, in 1606, due to epilepsy. The third work is a collection of five academic Orationes , Disputationes and Quaestiones on astrology, astronomy and superstition, discussed at the University of Ingolstadt in 1514. The academic debates were chaired by the Austrian Jesuit theologian Adam Tanner (1572-1632), author of the first and third orations. The second oratio is by the theologian Otho Heinrich Bachmair against judicial astrology, and a quaestio by Friedrich Pirchinger discusses whether astronomical phaenomena are to be considered prodigia .

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. First Edition. The Robert Hoe copy, and as nice as one would expect. 4to. Full crushed red levant elaborately framed in gilt scrollwork, raised bands, compartments gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, dentelles gilt, gilt stamp signed by The Club Bindery, 1902. Provenance: Robert Hoe (1839 1909), notable bibliophile whose collection sold at auction in 1912; neat gift inscription dated 1925 (probably Anna Eugenia La Chapelle, second wife of William A. Clark) on one of the binder's blanks. FIRST COMPLETE EDITION of all four books of the Dunciad and an extensively revised edition replacing Lewis Theobald with Colley Cibber as the king of dunces. "R" of Thoms s list. This is a beautiful copy with only a couple of paper repairs and minor signs of use -- neither washed nor foxed. Collation: Half-title, "The Dunciad," etc., lettered A (verso blank). Title, A2 (verso Announcement, "Speedily will be publi h'd," etc.). "Advertisement to the Reader," signed W. W.[arburton], A3. "By Authority," with royal arms, A4 (verso blank). Half-title, "Martinus Scriblerus," etc., A5 (verso blank). Quotations, A6. Cleland's "Letter to the Publisher," A1 (repeated)-A4. "Testimonies of Authors," B1-D1 verso. "Martinus Scriblerus of the Poem," D1 verso-D3 verso. "Ricardus Aristarcus of the Hero of the Poem," D3 verso-E3 (verso "Argument to Book the First"). Text in four Books, E4-Z4 and Aa1-Cc4, in fours. Half-title of Appendix, Dd1 (verso blank). Appendix, Dd2-Gg2 (verso blank). Pages i-vi, two unnumbered leaves, ix-x, i-xxxvii, two unnumbered pages and 40-235. Author's Declaration before the Mayor, Dd1. "Index of Persons," Dd2-Dd3 recto. "Index of Matters," etc., Dd3 verso-Ee2. Various bibliographic items laid in.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Très bon. Francfort, Thomae Matthiae Gotzii, 1662. 2 tomes en 1 volume in-folio de (7) ff. pour le frontispice gravé par Daniel Theobald, le titre, la préface, la table?, 572 pp. ; (2) ff., 744 pp. et (69) ff. Quelques feuillets roussis ou brunis. Relié en vélin rigide de l'époque, dos lisse, titre manuscrit en haut du dos, tranches bleues. 316 x 190 mm. --- Rare édition originale de ce traité commercial consacré à l'Amérique et aux colonies. Leclerc 948 ; Sabin 44661 ; Brunet Supplément, I, 969. Il s'agit d'un « Ouvrage extrêmement important pour l'histoire du droit commercial dans tous les pays, contenant des articles relatifs au commerce des Indes et aux différentes Compagnies. Presque tous les documents originaux, qui ont servi à l'auteur, sont aujourd'hui perdus » Leclerc, 948. Principalement rédigé en latin, ce traité présente également des passages en français, en espagnol et en allemand. Les pages 375 à 540 du second tome contiennent la réimpression exacte de la rarissime édition originale de l'« Argonautica Gustaviana » de W. Usselinx (imprimé d'abord à Francfort en 1633). « Ce traité, écrit Leclerc, dont le titre est rapporté in extenso dans les « Historical Nuggets » de M. H. Steevens, où il est estimé L. 10.10 s., renferme de précieux documents sur l'histoire de la colonisation des Suédois en Amérique, et intéresse principalement la Pennsylvanie ». « Marquard, était jurisconsulte et magistrat de Lubeck, au XVIIe siècle. Il est l'auteur d'un très bon ouvrage intitulé « De Jure Mercatorum », dans lequel il résume avec beaucoup de netteté tout ce qui se rapporte au droit maritime » (Grand Larousse, X, p. 1240). Agréable exemplaire de cet ouvrage rare, conservé dans sa reliure en vélin rigide de l'époque. Aucun exemplaire de cet ouvrage n'est apparu sur le marché public anglo-saxon ces trente dernières années. /// Francfort, Thomae Matthiae Gotzii, 1662. 2 parts in 1 volume folio [316 x 190 mm], (7) ff. with the engraved frontispiece by Daniel Theobald, title, preface, table, ?, 572 pp.; (2) ff., 744 pp. and (69) ff. Some slight browning. Bound in contemporary stiff vellum, flat spine with handwritten title, edges blue. --- Rare first edition of this important commercial treatise dedicated to America and the colonies. Leclerc 948; Sabin 44661; Brunet, Supp. I, 969. Mainly written in Latin, this treatise also has some passages in French, Spanish and German. Pages 375 to 540 of the second part contain the exact reprinting of the exceedingly rare first edition of the "Argonautica Gustaviana" by W. Usselinx. Sabin describes it as follows: « A politico-juridical treatise on commercial law. It is one of those books whose importance is by no means indicated by the title, and is of interest for the history of the Swedish South Company and its settlement in Pennsylvania. The original editions of some documents reprinted in this collection are lost ». A fine copy bound in contemporary stiff vellum. None copy of this work has appeared on the public market for the last 30 years.

20 volumes. The important Bell s Shakespeare, with the Prefaces by Pope, Theobald, Hanmer Warburton and Johnson, and with both Rowe s and Malone s Life of Shakespeare, and with many other important essays, notes and emendations. Engraved frontispiece portraits of Shakespeare and of the Prince of Wales, of Pope, Warburton, Hanmer and Johnson as well as others, of Shakespeare s house and with a profusion of finely engraved plates throughout the volumes 12mo, beautifully bound in full red Regency straight-grain morocco with handsome gilt ruling to the borders of the upper and lower covers, the spine with compartments separated by gilt bands, gilt tooled Regency decorative motifs and lettering in gilt within the compartments, gilt tooled edges and gilt rolled turnovers, marbled end-leaves, all edges gilt. An excellent and important set, very handsome, beautifully preserved, fresh and clean. AN IMPORTANT PRESSING OF THE SHAKESPEARE PLAYS AND OF THE SCHOLARLY WRITINGS AND DISCUSSIONS UP TO THE CURRENT TIME. The plays are from Steevens' and Johnson's Scholarly Edition of Shakespeare (1773). This edition prints a two volume Prolegomena, which consists of prefaces written for Shakespeare's plays over many years. A PROLEGOMENA TO THE DRAMATICK WRITINGS OF WILL. SHAKSPER includes, along with all the most important prefaces, both Rowe s and Malone s Lives of Shakespeare , the 1623 preface of Heming and Condell, as well as Shakespeare's Will, Commendatory Verses, and an attempt to determine the original order of the plays. With 97 portraits, vignettes and character plates, including a foldout of signatures on Shakespeare's Will in Vol. II, "an example of fans" in the Merry Wives' Annotations, a foldout of the Morris Dancers in Henry IV part 1's Annotations, and an extra vignette in Titus Andronicus. This, the "Literary" Shakespeare, was published serially beginning in 1785, and collected in 20 vols. What distinguishes this edition from the others by Bell is the elaborateness of the presentation. This was the culmination of a 15 year effort to publish an edition of the Bard's works which had a high cultural value due to its edition, annotation, and beauty of its typography and illustration. Indeed, this edition proved a social triumph for Bell with his assembled 1800 subscribers, including the Royal Family (ex-cept for the Sovereign) along with the Queen of France, monsieur the Kings brother and a collection of 70 nobles. The edition was printed on smooth wove paper, gilt edges and handsomely bound in calf, probably in Bell's own bindery. In this edition Bell first replaced the long s ( ) with the modern small rounded s, an innovation which quickly caught on*. There are many more portraits in this edition, than in the earlier "acting" editions of Shakespeare. In the Prolegomena alone, there are 8 portraits, as well as several engravings of places and things related to Shakespeare. Throughout the rest of the collection, each play has between 2 and 4 character portraits, featuring prominent actors in the roles. In contrast to the engravings of the earlier edition, these portraits have oval borders and lush backgrounds. The actors themselves are rendered in a much softer, more romantic style. The artists Bell commissioned were all under the age of 25 and relatively unknown. Most notable among them was the young Johan Heinrich Ramberg, who had come to England from Hanover under the patronage of George III. It is because of these young artists that these portraits are so different from those in the "acting" edition. Ramberg brought with him a European aesthetic, and all the artists brought the burgeoning romantic artistic trends to the drawing boards.

Zusammen 6 SS. auf 13 Bll. Gr.-8vo. Freundschaftliche Korrespondenz mit Rebecka Dirichlet (1811-58), der Enkelin Moses Mendelssohns, Tochter von Abraham und Lea Mendelssohn (Bartholdy) und jüngeren Schwester von Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy und Fanny Hensel. - I: "Ich nehme Sie beim Worte, gnädige Frau! Wollen Sie es gütigst versuchen, ob die beifolgenden Blätter der Jahrbücher an Mstrs Sarah Austin billig zu befördern sind? [.] Sie sehen vielleicht einen Augenblick die beiden Bände der Mstrs Sarah an, die ich noch zu Hause habe. Im Thl. 2 S. 320 ist die schöne mündliche Mittheilung von Felix beigebracht. Für Frau Professorin Hensel lege ich andre gedruckte Bogen bei, worin meine Anzeige von Preuß Lebensgeschichte Friedrichs des Großen steht. Im Ganzen hoffe ich auf Beistimmung [.]" (9. IX. 1833). Die englische Schriftstellerin Sarah Austin (1793-1867) hat Pücklers "Briefe eines Verstorbenen" übersetzt (ersch. London 1832) und stand seit 1833 mit Varnhagen in Briefkontakt. Von ihrer dreibändigen Anthologie "Characteristics of Goethe" hatte Varnhagen vermutlich den ersten Band ausgeliehen. Seine Besprechung von Joh. D. E. Preuß' "Lebensgeschichte Friedrich des Großen" erschien in den "Jahrbüchern für wissenschaftliche Kritik" und als Wiederabdruck in seinem 1833 erschienenen Werk "Zur Geschichtsschreibung und Literatur". - II: "Ich freue mich, gnädige Frau, daß Ihr Absagebrief doch zugleich wieder ein Zusagebrief ist! Der Freitag ist mir sehr recht. Ich werde mich einfinden, und Ihrer Befehle gewärtig sein [.] Die Tutti frutti [von Pückler-Muskau] sind unvergessen: ich schäme mich der Verspätung, die ich doch nicht Macht habe ohne dringende Gewalt zu lösen! [.]" (11. III. 1834). - III: "Empfangen Sie den innigsten Dank für das willkommene Geschenk [wohl ein Autograph], für Ihr gütiges Gedächtniß! - Wenn es darauf ankommt, den Karakter aus der Handschrift zu erkennen, so giebt es nicht leicht eine die mehr Stoff anbietet, als die der unglücklichen Herzogin! [d. i. die von ihrem Ehemann ermordete Fanny de Choiseul-Praslin, 1780-1847] Ich bin zwar kein allzu sichrer Leser, allein eine gewisse vornehme Lässigkeit und Verwirrung glaub' ich doch herauszudeuten [.] Bei der Juli-Revolution [von 1830] waren wir täglich bei Ihnen, und tauschten Neuigkeiten und Betrachtungen. Ich fühlte das stärkste Verlangen, diese schöne Erinnerung jetzt, bei der Februar-Revolution [in Frankreich], zu erneuern! Es will mir nicht gelingen, seit vier Wochen leid' ich an Rheuma [.]" (11. III. 1848). - IV: Bezieht sich auf die gewaltsame Befreiung Gottfried Kinkels aus dem Spandauer Gefängnis am 6. November 1850 und dessen Flucht nach England, an der Rebecka Dirichlet und Varnhagen ideell beteiligt waren: "Hier überreiche ich Ihnen, Hochverehrteste, den verabredeten Brief - wie thut es mir wohl, wieder mit deutschen Lettern zu schreiben! - der hoffentlich seinen Zweck nicht verfehlen wird [.] Sie thäten doch vielleicht gut, der Frau Professorin [Johanna] Kinkel vertraulich zu sagen, daß Mrs. Grote [d. i. Harriet Grote, die Gattin des Historikers George Grote] eine Frau besonderer Art und nicht immer leicht zu behandeln ist. An Hrn. Chorley sollten Sie doch wohl einige Zeilen wenden, ich denke mir ihn wie unsre [Ludwig] Rellstab, [Theodor] Rötscher, [Friedrich Wilhelm] Gubitz, und daher für ein freundliches Wort sehr empfänglich. Die Adresse von Hrn. Richard Monckton Milnes, Dichter und Parlamentsmitglied, ist 26 Pall Mall, London, es wird nicht schwer sein, jemanden zu finden, der dort einführen kann [.]" (22. II. 1851). Das Haus von Milnes war ein Treffpunkt deutscher Schriftsteller und Emigranten in London. - V: "Hiebei erfolgt das gewünschte Blatt für Ihren Herrn Neffen, das er zur guten Stunde dem Dichter [d. i. Ludwig Uhland] abgeben möge, der unter äußerer Kälte die frischeste Wärme hegt, wie seine Poesien es herrlichst darthun. Weniger als Dichter, aber desto mehr als wunderlicher Kauz wäre vielleicht auch Justinus Kerner in Weinsberg Ihrem Neffen merkwürdig; auch er ist mein Jugendfreund, aber ich schreib' ihm nicht mehr, seitdem er in den letzten Jahren sich der rohen Unterdrückung schmeichelnd zu Füßen gelegt hat. Wenn aber Herr Hensel ihn sehen möchte, kann er nur geradezu in eignem Namen zu ihm gehen, er wird auf's beste von ihm aufgenommen werden. Trifft er den Sohn, Dr. Theobald Kerner, in Weinsberg, so möge er diesen herzlich von mir grüßen [.]" (4. X. 1851). Sebstian Hensel (1839-98) war das einzige Kind von Fanny und Wilhelm Hensel. 1851 bezog er die Landwirtschaftsschule in Hohenheim bei Stuttgart. - VI: "[.] Meine Nichte [d. i. Ludmilla Assing] bedauert mit mir ungemein, daß wir gestern Ihrer gütigen erfreuenden Einladung nicht folgen konnten, wir hoffen uns baldigst schadlos halten zu dürfen, und unser größter Gewinn ist mit Ihnen zu sein, der durch Nebengewinne nicht erhöht wird! [.]" (4. II. 1853). - VII: "Auf Ihre liebenswürdigen Zeilen [.] würde ich gleich gestern geantwortet haben, hätte ich nicht vorher mit Frln. Solmar Rücksprache nehmen müssen. Dies ist erst am Abend möglich gewesen. Wir kommen also morgen (Montag) [.]" (26. II. 1854). Mit Henriette (Jettchen) Solmar (1794 bis etwa 1890) verband das Ehepaar Varnhagen sowie seine Nichte eine lange Freundschaft. - Teils mit kleinen Randläsuren, insgesamt jedoch sehr gut erhalten. Varnhagens Briefe wurden 1869 in Marburg versteigert und zehn Jahre später erstmals von Konrad Feilchenfeldt im dritten Band der "Mendelssohn Studien" veröffentlicht sowie erschöpfend kommentiert (SS. 51-79).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. [2], 76 pages. 183 x 20 mm. From the book ?LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU AND HER TIMES by George Paston, pp. 475. ?In November young Wortley again comes to the fore as the hero of a gambling scandal. It appears that he went to Paris in the autumn with Miss Ashe, Lord Southwell, and Theobald Taafe M.P.Taaffe (c. 1708-1780) for Arundel. According to Horace Walpole Wortley and Taafe had frequently acted as pharaoh-bankers to Madame de Mirepoix, the French ambassadress, and having presumably made London too hot to hold them, they migrated to France in the hope of finding fresh victims. Shortly after their arrival, the two members of parliament, together with Lord Southwell, were accused of making a Jew drunk, and then cheating him out of 670 louis d'or. The victim, Abraham Paybas, alias James Roberts, declaring that they had forced him by menaces to give drafts for the money, and that after he had left Paris they broke into his lodgings and carried off gold and jewels. Both Wortley and Taafe were locked up in prison, pending the trial, but the Jew's action against them failed, and they afterwards sued him for false imprisonment. He was condemned to pay each of the injured parties 100,000 livers, and also to make 'reparation of honour' before twelve witnesses. It was stated that the judgment was reversed later, but no further proceedings were taken against the Englishmen. Young Wortley wrote an account of the matter, in which he complains bitterly of the treatment he had undergone, and asks whether it is probable that 'having lived hitherto without stain or reproach upon my character, I should start all at once into such a pitch of wickedness as to fuddle a man with a premeditated design to rob him of his money? Horace Walpole gives a lively account of the affair, and declares that the accused would be reduced to keep the best company on their return to England, because nobody else would converse with them. 'Their separate anecdotes are curious', he continues, 'Wortley, you know, has been a perfect Gil Blas, and, for one of his last adventures, is thought to have added the famous Miss Ashe to the number of his wives. Taaffe is an Irishman, who changed his religion to fight a duel; as you know in Ireland a Catholic may not wear a sword. . . He is a gamester, usurer, adventurer, and of later has divided his attentions between the Duke of Newcastle and Madame Pompadour; travelling with turtles and pine-apples in post-chaises to the latter - flying back to the former for the Lewes races - and smuggling Burgundy at the same time. I shall finish their history with a bon mot. The Speaker was railing at gambling and White?s a propos to these two prisoners. Lord Coke, to whom the conversation was addressed, replied, ?Sir, ll I can say is, that they are both members of the House of commons, and neither of them of White's.".

Hardcover. Quarto, vi, [4], ix-x, i-xxxvii, [2], 40-235, [13] pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in early full calf with modern rebacking, morocco label and gilt titling to new paneled spine. Some wear to boards with small burn mark to fore edge of Dd1-end. Signature X3 is a cancel, with 4 lines of asterisks. Text block interior is clean. Scarce. Shelved in Case 0. This issue of the Dunciad does not include 'An essay on man' and 'An essay on criticism' as the following text printed on the title page verso clearly states: "Speedily will be publish'd, in the same paper, and character, to be bound up with this, The essay on man, the essay on criticism, and the rest of the author's original poems, with the commentaries and notes of W. Warburton, A.M." Griffith: "Here, for the first time, the four Books of the Dunciad and all the critical apparatus are brought together in one volume. And in this edition, for the first time, Colley Cibber is substituted in the place of Theobald as hero of the poem. This is the earliest publication of the passage concluding the Dunciad, which Thackeray thought so eloquent, "In vain, in vain, - the all-composing Hour." ESTC: T5560; Griffith: 578; Foxon P-796. 1338871. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

First Edition. 2 volumes in one, folio (33 x 20cm), engraved allegorical frontispiece by Daniel Theobald, some engraved initials and in-text illustrations throughout; some errors in pagination, occasional browning to later leaves. Contemporary vellum with red morocco label to spine; a fine copy of this very scarce work. mba004 Very rare First Edition of this legal treatise on trade and commerce. Marquard (1610-68) was Mayor of Lübeck from 1663 until his death five years later. After being knighted by the Order of Knights of St. Mark in 1635 for outstanding diplomatic work in Padua, he returned to his native city and became a city council member. Having served as the town judge for many years he was appointed Mayor. First edition of this commercial treatise dedicated to America and the colonies. His work is considered "un ouvrage extremement important pour l'histoire du droit commercial dans tous les pays" [an extremely important work for the history of commercial law in all countries] (Leclerc). Marquard is thought to be the first writer to use the legal term ius mercatorum or 'the law of the merchant' which "constructed.a system that incorporated the specialism of merchantile usages and justice into the sphere- entirely judicial- of legal privileges". The text "considerably modified the perspective of previous commercial doctrine" by systematizing a set of legal rights for traders (Fortunati, 143). Volume One, written in Latin, also provides a mercantile history of Russia, Germany, England and other European countries. Volume Two is written in German and contains a variety of important documents including the text of the "Argonautica Gustaviana", which details the history of the Swedish South Company and its settlements in Pennsylvania under the leadership of William Usselincx. As well as including references to commerce with the New World it includes charters and agreements with colonial companies (European Americana). Brunet Suppl. I, 969; Sabin 44661; Kress 1097; Goldsmiths 1676; not in Einaudi. JCN (3) III: 80; Leclerc 948 gives an incomplete collation; European Americana 662/86: Asher 42, and pp. 83-85 and 93-97.

Condition: 0. Erstausgabe. - Der italienische Arzt und Botaniker P. Alpini (1553-1617) war Prof. d. Botanik in Padua, Arzt und Begleiter des venezianischen Konsuls nach Ägypten, gibt hier die erste wissenschaftliche Beschreibung und die erste bildliche Darstellung des Kaffees" (Mueller zu De plantis"). Pharmakologisch bedeutsames Werk" (Ferchl zu De plantis"). - Einband etw. bestoßen bzw. fleckig. Titel m. drei alten Besitzvermerken (Johann Albert Fabricius, Johann Friedrich Fettich u. Theobald Fettich). Vereinzelte Marginalien (wohl von Theodor Fettich). Etw. gebräunt u. stockfleckig. - Ad 1) Edit16, CNCE 1244; Adams A 803; BM STC, Italian Books 20; IA 103.853; Ibrahim-Hilmy I, 32; Gay 1678; Wellcome I, 233; Durling 179; Nissen 20; Pritzel 111; Mueller 5 (u. Tafel I); Hünersdorff I, 29-32. - Ad 2) Edit16, CNCE 1243; Adams A 802; BM STC, Italian Books 20 (irrig 1590); Durling 178; Garrison/M. 6468; Osler 1796; Waller 12509; Welcome 232.; vgl. Heirs of Hippocrates 240 (Ausg. 1646). ge Gewicht in Gramm: 1000 4°. Mit 2 Holzschn.-Druckermarken u. 50 (39 ganzs.) Textholzschnitten. 4 nn., 80 (recte 84) num., 8 nn. Bll. - Angeb. - Ders. De medicina Aegyptiorum. Libri quatuor in quibus multa cum de vario mittendi sanguinis usu per venas, arterias, cucurbitulas, ac scarificationes nostris inusitatas [.], & alijs chyrurgicis operationibus, tum de quamplurimis medicamentis apud Aegyptios frequentioribus, elucescunt. Ebda., 1591. Mit Holzschn.-Druckermarke u. 7 (2 ganzs.) Textholzschnitten. 11 (statt 12; fehlt das Erratablatt c1) nn., 150 num., 25 nn. Bll., Etw. späterer Pgmt.-Bd. m. durchzogenen Bünden, goldgepr. gekrönten verschlungenen Initialen als Supralibros, handschriftl. Rückentitel u. erneuerten Schließbändern.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. [2], 93, [1] pages. Title page repaired. Paste-down end paper at end of book has an exlibris of Albert M. Hyamson with the Hebrew phrase ? Ehov Musar Ehov Da?at? [= love ethics, love knowledge]. Laid in is a 2 page excerpt from the book ?LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU AND HER TIMES by George Paston, pp. 475. The 2 pages are typewritten, possibly by Hyamson, this book?s former owner. They providing the background of the episode recounted in the book offered here: ?In November young Wortley again comes to the fore as the hero of a gambling scandal. It appears that he went to Paris in the autumn with Miss Ashe, Lord Southwell, and Theobald Taafe M.P.Taaffe (c. 1708-1780). for Arundel. According to Horace Walpole Wortley and Taafe had frequently acted as pharaoh-bankers to Madame de Mirepoix, the French ambassadress, and having presumably made London too hot to hold them, they migrated to France in the hope of finding fresh victims. Shortly after their arrival, the two members of parliament, together with Lord Southwell, were accused of making a Jew drunk, and then cheating him out of 670 louis d?or. The victim, Abraham Paybas, alias James Roberts, declaring that they had forced him by menaces to give drafts for the money, and that after he had left Paris they broke into his lodgings and carried off gold and jewels. Both Wortley and Taafe were locked up in prison, pending the trial, but the Jew?s action against them failed, and they afterwards sued him for false imprisonment. He was condemned to pay each of the injured parties 100,000 livers, and also to make ?reparation of honour? before twelve witnesses. It was stated that the judgment was reversed later, but no further proceedings were taken against the Englishmen. Young Wortley wrote an account of the matter, in which he complains bitterly of the treatment he had undergone, and asks whether it is probable that ?having lived hitherto without stain or reproach upon my character, I should start all at once into such a pitch of wickedness as to fuddle a man with a premeditated design to rob him of his money? Horace Walpole gives a lively account of the affair, and declares that the accused would be reduced to keep the best company on their return to England, because nobody else would converse with them. ?Their separate anecdotes are curious?, he continues, ?Wortley, you know, has been a perfect Gil Blas, and, for one of his last adventures, is thought to have added the famous Miss Ashe to the number of his wives. Taaffe is an Irishman, who changed his religion to fight a duel; as you know in Ireland a Catholic may not wear a sword. . . He is a gamester, usurer, adventurer, and of later has divided his attentions between the Duke of Newcastle and Madame Pompadour; travelling with turtles and pine-apples in post-chaises to the latter - flying back to the former for the Lewes races - and smuggling Burgundy at the same time. I shall finish their history with a bon mot. The Speaker was railing at gambling and White?s a propos to these two prisoners. Lord Coke, to whom the conversation was addressed, replied, ?Sir, ll I can say is, that they are both members of the House of commons, and neither of them of White?s.? Albert Montefiore Hyamson (27 August 1875 London - 5 October 1954 London) was a Jewish British civil servant and writer who was chief immigration office in the British Mandate of Palestine from 1921 to 1934. In the 1910s and 1920s he espoused Zionism, but starting the 1930s he espoused a bi-national state in Palestine, to which Jewish immigration would be limited and controlled by the Arabs. He was more concerned with his status among British gentiles than the suffering of European Jews. Countless Jews ended up in the Auschwitz crematoria instead of in their ancient homeland thanks to British immigration policy he carried out. In Vilnius he was known as a Jewish anti-Semite. In 1937 Hyamson opposed a Jewish state, drafting the Hyamson-Newcombe proposal. . .

Couverture rigide. Condition: Bon État. Venundantur Lugduni apud Iacobum Giuntam, 1548 (Lugduni : excudebat Theobaldus Paganus, 1546). - Lyon, Theobald Payen, pour Jacob Giunta. Folio (35,5 x 25 cm), page de titre datée 1548, colophon daté 1546. Rare bible Lyonnaise. Reliure postérieure plein parchemin, dos lisse titres manuscrits. Titre avec Vignette gravée de l'éditeur, 3 (f), 601p texte sur 2 colonnes, 17 (f) index. Illustré d'environ 100 vignettes et majuscules gravées. Baudrier : "Les figures de cette bible appartiennent à deux suites très différentes dont l'une, d'origine italienne, est entourée d'un petit encadrement." Size: In Folio.

[8], 322, [2]; 228; 179, [9]; 107, [5] pp.Rare second, much enlarged and best edition of the first scholarly German-language history of the well-known Hussite Wars up to the entry of Sigismund in 1436, including the life of Johannes Huss (1373-1415), and the expansion of Huss's ideas and teachings in Bohemia and beyond. It gives a comprehensive history of the Hussite wars, written in the early 16th century from a Protestant point of view (as opposed to the work of Cochlaeus), by Zacharias Theobald (1584-1627), minister at Krathofen. He composed it with the general public in mind and it was indeed very popular in Germany at a time when common interests brought close relations between Bohemian and German Protestants.Together with the first German edition of the Czech Confessio, together with the exposition of the Church Order and the organization of the Prague Consistory, added to the present edition as part 4: Confessio Bohemica Evangelica: Das ist Böhmische Confession .The parts new to this second edition are part 2: "Was sich bey der Regierung Käysers Sigismundi, Käysers Alberti, und dann Königs Ladislai, von dem 1436. biß auff das 1458 Jahr, im Land zu Böheim in Fried und Unfried begeben"; part 3: "Was sich bey der Regierung König Girschicks, König Wladislai, vnd König Ludovici, von dem 1458. biß auff das 1517 Jahr, im Land zu Böheim in Fried und Unfried begeben'.Zacharias Theobald, historian and theologian, was pre-eminently suited for his task, since he was born in Bohemia of Protestant parents and from his youth deeply interested in the teachings of Huss and Hieronymus. Luther was in his eyes Huss's heir and successor. Studying the writings and the documents of the trial of Huss he found the treatment he had received at Konstanz "arbitrary and unchristian".The present second edition became the definitive text of this famous history and is enlarged with the first edition of the Bohemian Confession for the benefit of the German readers.Very good complete copy with the bookplate of Ferdinandus Sigismundus Kressy à Kressenstein (1641-1704), member of a Bavarian family noted for its military spirit.l Graesse VII, 113; STC (17th century) T 273; VD17, 3:004787T (part 4: 12:189760H); Thieme & Becker, 20, p. 552; Wegele, p. 377 ("evangelisch gesinnte verlässliche Darstellung in Deutscher Sprache"); ADB 37, pp. 682-684.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Très bon. Petit in-folio (266 x 195 mm), 14 ff. n. ch., CLII ff. Maroquin brun, plats décorés de filets à froid à la Du Seuil avec fleurons d'angle dorés, dos à nerfs orné de même, auteur, titre, date et lieu dorés, double filet doré sur les coupes, dentelle intérieure, tranches dorées, coiffes et coins légèrement frottés, cahier b placé entre les cahiers e et f (reliure du XIXe siècle). Rare première édition parisienne de cette bible de la géographie ancienne. Cette édition fut partagée entre quatre libraires, Claude Chevallon, Gilles de Gourmont, Hémon Le Fèvre et Olivier Senant. Elle est agrémentée d'un index et d'une épître dédicatoire de l'éditeur Théobald Pigenat à son maître Jérôme Aléandre, qui paraît pour la première fois. C'est un des premiers témoignages de la renommée acquise par l'érudit italien Jérôme Aléandre (1480-1542), invité à Paris en 1508 et nommé professeur de belles lettres puis recteur de l'université jusqu'en 1514. Le titre est orné d'un bel encadrement historié composé de plusieurs bois, provenant sans doute d'un livre d'heures ou d'une vie de Saints. Le texte est présenté sur deux colonnes, en caractères gothiques. Strabon, qui vécut vers l'an 60 de notre ère, rassembla vers la fin de sa vie des matériaux documentaires, ainsi que ses propres souvenirs de voyage à travers l'Orient (Syrie, Palestine, Égypte, Asie mineure) pour composer cette excellente description du monde connu, dont l'autorité fut incomparable tout au long du Moyen-âge. La reliure, non signée, est attribuée à Thompson par une note au crayon, ce qui est probable. Il s'agit certainement de l'exemplaire décrit dans L'Intermédiaire des bibliophiles de Durel en 1897, n°1074, à l'adresse de Le Fèvre et relié en maroquin La Vallière de Thompson. Installé à Paris au cours des années 1830, ce relieur exerça jusqu'en 1850 environ, avant que sa femme et son fils ne reprennent l'atelier. Ex-libris imprimé d'Henri Lambert au premier contreplat, avocat à Versailles. Très bel exemplaire en maroquin du XIXe siècle. Renouard, Inventaire chronologique des éditions parisiennes du XVIe siècle, II, n°459. Graesse, Trésor de livres rares et précieux, VI, 506. Ernest Jovy, François Tissard et Jérôme Aléandre, contribution à l'histoire des origines des études grecques en France, 2e fascicule, 1900, p. 97-100 (reproduit l'épître de Pigenat, datée par erreur de 1510).

4to. (16), 48 (recte: 44), 171, (16) pp., final blank page. Title-page with engraved border. With several woodcut illustrations in the text, and 2 folding plates. 17th century full vellum. Marbled endpapers. All edges marbled. Rare edition of the extensive commentary on Plutarch's essay "De virtute morali" by the humanist and Duke of Atri, A. M. Acquaviva (1458-1529), first published in 1526. The present edition, published nearly 80 years later, is a reprint of the first, and was edited by the humanist Giulio Belli (1570-1650). Apart from the four-book commentary, which makes up the largest part of the volume, it includes Plutarch's text in Greek type and Latin translation. The majority of the woodcut illustrations accompany the commentary on Plutarch's writings on astronomy (pp. 78-96), displaying the orbits of the sun, moon, Earth, and other planets, as well as the section on Pseudo-Plutarch's "De musica" (pp. 26-77), showing bells and musical scales. Attributed to Plutarch, "De musica" was included in several editions of the "Moralia", a text corpus of 78 essays and speeches ascribed to the first-century Greek scholar. - Handwritten ownership of the Venice senator and collector Giacomo Soranzo (1686-1761), dated 1736, to second flyleaf. His library, comprising 4,000 manuscripts and 20,000 printed books, was dispersed in 1780. The first flyleaf bears a handwritten note of acquisition, dated December 1803, as well as another note in a different handwriting referencing reviews of other works by the editor Belli. - Lower portion of spine somewhat rubbed; covers slightly soiled. Title-page duststained, margins worn, rebacked with paper; upper margins of flyleaves and of 3 first leaves of text flawed, the latter rebacked with paper strips; paper occasionally browned and brownstained; gutter slighlty waterstained in places. A single copy in auction records. Only 12 copies in libraries internationally, none outside of Europe. - VD 17, 12:188378T. RISM BVI 64. OCLC 844058263. STC (C17 German) P778. Houzeau/Lancaster 5038. Not in Gregory/Bartlett or Hirsch.

JOHNSON, Samuel (illustrator). . The Plays of William Shakespeare. In Eight Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; To Which are added Notes by Sam. Johnson. London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson, H. Woodfall., 1765. Full Description: SHAKESPEARE, William. [JOHNSON, Samuel, editor]. The Plays of William Shakespeare. In Eight Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; To Which is added Notes by Sam. Johnson. London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson, H. Woodfall., 1765. First Samuel Johnson variorum edition, first issue, with the unpaginated Johnson preface. Eight octavo volumes (8 x 4 3/4 inches; 204 x 122 mm). [78], ciii, [1, blank], [1]-488; [2], [1]-557, [1, blank]; [2], [1]-504; [2], [1]-589, [1, blank]; [2], [1]-493, [1, blank]; [2], [1]-627, [1, blank]; [2], [1]-547, [1, blank]; [2], [1]-473, [1, blank], [53, appendix], [1, blank] pp. Volume one with engraved frontispiece portrait. Bound without half-titles, except in volume IV, which is bound without general title. Contemporary full calf, rebacked with spines laid down. Boards tooled in gilt. Spines elaborately stamped in gilt. Each spine with one red, one green and one black calf spine label, lettered in gilt. Dentelles tooled in blind. All edges speckled brown. Marbled endpapers. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown of each volume. Some offsetting to endpapers. Dampstaining to fore-edge of final 100 leaves and back board of Volume III, some just barely touching outermost margin. Volume VI with a small repair to title-page and leaf B1, with no loss. Volume VII with repair to bottom margin of title-page and tear to bottom margin of leaf B1, no loss to of text to either leaf. Leaf G8 with a tear to the fore-edge margin, not affecting text. A small repaired closed tear to final leaf Nn2, no loss. Back inner hinge of this volume reinforced. Still an overall handsome set of this important edition. Johnson included the prefaces of Pope, Theobald, Warburton and Hanmer in this edition, along with Rowe's Life, and Shakespeare's Will, as well as his own sixty-eight page preface. Ebisch and Schücking, p. 54. Jaggard, p. 501. Shaksperiana, Part III, 16. HBS 69101. $4,500.

London, L. Reeve, [1870]-1876. 4to (27.2 x 20.8 cm). xviii, 65 pp.; 160 hand-coloured, lithographed plates. 20th-century dark green buckram. Gilt title on the spine. = The magnum opus of both authors, the British malacologist Sylvanus Charles Thorp Hanley (1819-1899), and the British-Indian malacologist William Theobald (1829-1908). The fine plates are by George Brettingham Sowerby II. Both the land and freshwater fauna are highly diverse and contain an unusual number of colourful and peculiarly shaped shells. Many are described and illustrated here for the first time. ADDED: Prashad's 1927 work On the Dates of Publication of Hanley and Theobald's "Conchologia Indica" (J. Asiatic Soc. Bengal N.S. 22 [1927]), showing the actual publishing data of the parts, between 1870 and 1876; and a photocopy of an additional work, by Coan and Kabat (2002) on dating Hanley's taxa (in The Festivus Vol. 34). Marginal repairs to the last plate, tiny chip in the title page fore edge; a few, light spots to a few plates; otherwise a very good, clean and complete copy. Nissen ZBI, 1828.

2 nn., 218 num., 26 nn. Bll. Mit Holzschnitt-Druckermarke auf dem Titel. 32 x 20 cm. IA 126.483. Moeckli 106. Nicht bei Adams. Zweite Auflage seines zuerst im Vorjahr erschienenen Spätwerks über die Geschichte Schottlands. Der aus der schottischen Grafschaft Stirlingshire stammende humanistische Philosoph und Historiker George Buchanan (1506-1582) schildert darin in 20 Büchern die Geschichte des Landes, beginnend im Jahr 330 v. Chr. bei Fergus I., dem mythischen ersten König Schottlands, bis ins Jahr 1553. Während sich Buchanan für die Frühzeit vor allem auf die sagenhafte Geschichtserzählung von Boece stützt, gebührt der Schilderung der von ihm selbst erlebten Zeit besonderer historischer Wert. Eine volkssprachige Übersetzung ins Englische erschien 1690 in London. Buchanan war u. a. Hauslehrer von Königin Maria Stuart. Die Drucklegung der vorliegenden Ausgabe ist nicht gesichert, die Bibliographen verweisen den Druck nach London, Lyon, Genf oder gar Oberwesel, keinesfalls jedoch nach Edingburgh in die Offizin von Alexander Arbuthnot, wie das Impressum vorgibt. Am wahrscheinlichsten ist wohl Genf als Druckort, da das Signet von E. Vignons Verwendung fand. Etwas gebräunt und braun- bzw. stockfleckig, letztes Blatt vom Index mit geklebtem Eckabriss. Titel mit (gestrichenem) Besitzvermerk des Christian von Weißenbach aus dem sächsischen Uradel, datiert auf das Jahr 1719. Exemplar aus der Bibliothek von Schloss Wildenfels nahe Zwickau in Sachsen, mit entsprechendem Stempel aus dem 19. Jahrhundert auf dem Titel. Beigebunden: I. (Goldast von Haiminsfeld. Willibald Pirckheimer). Tractatus politici, historici et philologici, quotquot in vetustis operibus et chartis Mss. reperiri potuerunt. Omnium nunc primum collecta et simul edita. 9 Bll., 406 SS., 10 Bll. (Index). Mit Holzschnitt-Druckermarke auf dem Titel. Frankfurt, Johann Theobald Schönwetter, 1613. - Vgl. Dünnhaupt III, 1666, 21.1. Offenbar eine mit neuem Titelblatt versehene Restauflage der 1610 bei Bringer und Fischer erschienenen ersten Ausgabe. "Omnia nunc primum collecta & simul edita" auf dem Titel täuscht hierbei eine Erstausgabe vor. Enthält seine gesammelten historischen, politischen und philologischen Schriften sowie den Briefwechsel. - Etwas gebräunt und braunfleckig. II. Reiner Reineccius (Reinhard Reineck). Methodus legendi cognoscendique historiam tam sacram quam profanam. 2 Teile in 1 Band. 8 nn., 78 (recte: 77) num. Bll.; 65 num. Bll., 1 w. Bll. Mit 2 Holzschnitt-Druckermarken, 2 Kupfertafeln und typographischer Falttabelle. Helmstedt, Jacob Lucius der Ältere, 1583. - VD16 R 890. ADB XXVIII, 18. - Erste Ausgabe seines damals vielbeachteten Werks über die Gesetze und Methoden der Geschichtsschreibung. Noch 1670 und 1685 erschienen Neuauflagen. Seine letzten Jahre verbrachte Reineccius (1541-1595) am Juleum in Helmstedt, wo er u. a. den jungen Herzog Heinrich Julius unterrichtete. Die beiden Kupfertafeln zeigen den mythenumrankten Widukind, Herzog der Sachsen und in den Jahren 777 bis 785 Anführer gegen Karl den Großen in den Sachsenkriegen, sowie dessen Wappen. Gedruckt wurde die Ausgabe in der Offizin des aus dem siebenbürgischen Kronstadt stammenden Jacob Lucius dem Älteren (um 1530-Oktober 1597), der 1578 vom Braunschweiger Herzog Julius zum ersten Buchdrucker der Universität Helmstedt ernannt wurde und aufgrund seiner Herkunft den Beinamen "Transylvanus" erhielt (s. Impressum). - Etwas gebräunt und braunfleckig. - Sammelband mit drei wohlerhaltenen, bedeutenden historischen Schriften in einem prächtigen zeitgenössischen Wappeneinband, wahrscheinlich mit Bezug zum sächsischen Adelsgeschlecht Weißenbach oder der Grafen zu Solms-Wildenfels. Bei Interesse senden wir Ihnen gerne Bilder dieses Titels per E-Mail. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 0 Blindgeprägter Schweinslederband der Zeit (etwas berieben) mit 2 Wappendarstellungen in den Mittelfeldern.

21 volumes. The First Edition of Boswell s Malone Edition, a highly important printing of the bard's works. This copy with very interesting and established provenance. The set was owned by Edward Weeks, member of an old Boston and New England family and long-time editor of The Atlantic where he wrote a column for many years entitled "The Perpatetic Reviewer." Previous to Mr. Weeks, the set was owned by the aviator, Louis Bleriot, the first person to fly across the English Channel. His signature is in one of the volumes. With engraved frontispiece portraits of Shakespeare in Volume I, II and III, engraved illustration of the Globe and folding leaves in Vol. III, with steel-engraved plate in Vol. VIII, a large folding engraved plate in Vol. XVI, and printed music in Vol. XVII. 8vo, handsomely bound in contemporary full smooth tan polished calf, the covers gilt decorated at the borders with a roll-tooled chain pattern, gilt decorated board edges, the spines attractively gilt decorated in elaborate panels within the compartments, raised bands gilt ruled, contrasting lettering labels in red and green in three compartments. A very handsome and stately set in proper bindings, internally very fresh, bindings with some minor age evidence, some restoration to some hinges on some volumes. A handsome and pleasing set. AN IMPORTANT AND EARLY PRINTING OF THE WORKS. This variorum edition not only forms a fine summery of the cumulative scholarship on Shakespeare during the 18th century but has time and again been called the foundation of modern Shakespearean scholarship. James Boswell, the son of Johnson s biographer, had a hard task in ordering Malone s papers - "I may add", he states in his 50 page introduction, "that it is not everyone who could have deciphered his notes." Along with all of Malone s material this set contains three full volumes of scholarly works including the prefaces of all of the major editions of the previous century, more then one life of Shakespeare, Boswell s life of Malone, histories of the stage, Shakespeare s will, Coat of Arms and other relative documents to the Bards life and extensive notes on and from the modern editions. In addition to all of this material is the extensive and very useful Glossarial Index and an Addenda. No less then 35 publishers joined forces to produce these volumes and it is alone among the variorum editions to include a volume of Poems. Its influence was such that many years later the Sette of Odd Volumes, a renowned bibliophile dining club, limited its membership to 21 stating this in its list of rules; "The Sette of Odd Volumes to consist of twenty one, this being the number of volumes of the variorum Shakespeare of 1821".

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Seven volumes in contemporary full leather, professionally re-backed. Volume one has later leather covers, exactly matching the other six volumes. Engraved portrait frontispiece. A very fine conditioned set of the first Theobald edition.

Seven volumes, 8vo, portrait frontispiece in volume I by Duchange after Arlaud (frontispiece a little shaved at foredge), and pp. [xiv], lxviii, [v], [xiii] subscribers, 487; [iv], 536; [iv], 541, [1]; [iv], 511, [1]; [iv], 472; [iv], 464; [iv], 494, [9] table of editions; somewhat browned and foxed in many places, but complete, and bound in uniform contemporary calf, soundly rebacked; with new endpapers. First Theobald edition. Lewis Theobald's was the first truly critical edition of Shakespeare's works, and in many respects the greatest edition of the eighteenth century, certainly greater than any before Johnson. His edition has often been preferred to that of any other editors of Shakespeare, but his true primacy was obscured by the bitterness of his conflict with Alexander Pope, who denounced and satirised him in the Dunciad for daring to challenge the readings and method of Pope's own edition of Shakespeare. A modern study by Peter Seary, Lewis Theobald and the editing of Shakespeare (OUP, 1990), shows in detail the true measure of Theobald's achievement, concluding that he was 'the first to edit Shakespeare systematically, and from his work flowed all successive editions of Shakespeare, such studies of the language as Johnson's Dictionary, as well as studies of Elizabethan thought, manners and society. The hero of The Dunciad is, in short, also the founder of modern scholarship devoted to Renaissance English literature' (p. vii). Ford, Shakespeare 1700-1740, pp. 26-8; Jaggard p. 499; Lowndes p. 2259; Franklin, Shakespeare Domesticated, p. 15.

21 volumes. The Boswell s Malone Edition, first thus. With engraved frontispiece portraits of Shakespeare in Volume I and II and III, engraved illustration of the Globe and folding leaves in Vol. III, with steel-engraved plate in Vol. VIII, a large folding engraved plate in Vol. XVI, and printed music in Vol. XVII. 8vo, handsomely bound in contemporary full smooth tan calf, boards gilt ruled, gilt decorated board edges, spines attractively gilt tooled in panels between raised gilt tooled bands, lettering labels in two panels of dark green and buff morocco, smaller morocco volume labels at the tails, all labels lettered in gilt, a.e.g. A very handsome and stately set in proper bindings, internally very fresh, bindings with some minor age evidence, some cracking to hinges on some volumes, one cover detached and easily repaired,still a pleasing and handsome set. AN IMPORTANT AND EARLY PRINTING OF THE WORKS. This variorum edition not only forms a fine summery of the cumulative scholarship on Shakespeare during the 18th century but has time and again been called the foundation of modern Shakespearean scholarship. James Boswell, the son of Johnson s biographer, had a hard task in ordering Malone s papers - "I may add", he states in his 50 page introduction, "that it is not everyone who could have deciphered his notes." Along with all of Malone s material this set contains three full volumes of scholarly works including the prefaces of all of the major editions of the previous century, more then one life of Shakespeare, Boswell s life of Malone, histories of the stage, Shakespeare s will, Coat of Arms and other relative documents to the Bards life and extensive notes on and from the modern editions. In addition to all of this material is the extensive and very useful Glossarial Index and an Addenda. No less then 35 publishers joined forces to produce these volumes and it is alone among the variorum editions to include a volume of Poems. Its influence was such that many years later the Sette of Odd Volumes, a renowned bibliophile dining club, limited its membership to 21 stating this in its list of rules; "The Sette of Odd Volumes to consist of twenty one, this being the number of volumes of the variorum Shakespeare of 1821".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. [A rare and important monograph on Mosquitos : The Control of Malaria : Tropical Medicine] 6 volume set. Octavos, 23 cm. Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. 424 + 391 + 359, 17 photographic plates + 639, 15 photographic plates + 646, 6 photographic plates + plate volume (37 color plates, photographic plates showing wing scales). The atlas contains the plates of v. 1-2. Theobald was the "distinguished authority on mosquitoes.".

Oblong 4to. [125 (unnumbered)] -- 58 sepia-tinted linen-backed silver gelatin photographs, 12 w/ linen hinges (46 preserved in archival mylar sleeves), an additional 67 silver gelatin photos, most printed on glossy photo stock, some backed in stiff paper all preserved in archival mylar sleeves, nearly all 8 x 10 in., some with pencil or ink annotations in lower fore-edge of the image, the majority of the York-Hoover photos with company stamp on verso identifying Plate Nos. and Model Nos., the Pitman factory photos w/ typed caption in lower blank margin, some w/ company stamps or annotations in lower margin. Recent cloth post-binder, gilt lettering stamped on front cover & spine (a few photos w/ minor dustsoiling, edgewear), still a NF copy, w/ nearly all the images having strong sharp contrast. This extraordinary factory sample photo catalogue for the York-Hoover Body Company, and Pitman Manufacturing offers an invaluable visual resource of many different commercial truck bodies from the Jazz Age through the mid-20th Century. The York-Hoover company began as two separate companies, the first being York Wagon Gear Co. founded by Peter Keller in 1892, who specialized in producing bodies, carriage gears, axles, and others for wagons, but quickly became the main supplier for truck bodies on Henry Ford's Model T. The second was founded in George W. Hoover who originally began as a manufacturer of electric delivery trucks for Wannamaker's Department Store chain, and later began producing hearses, caskets, and other limousine-style coach bodies. In 1928, the two companies joined, and began producing 50,000 auto commercial bodies annually, primarily on the newly introduced Ford Model A line-up, but also built on Dodge Brothers, Chevrolet, Brockway, Mack, and other manufacturers chassis. These images include a 1928 Special Horse Van; a 1928 Cariale, or Railroad Depot Hack built on a Ford Chassis; a 1928 Special Coal Hauler; a Bell Telephone truck; a 1929 Dodge Bros. Special Delivery truck; a 1928 Brockway flatbed; a specialized post-hole borer for telephone companies; a Dodge Bros. stave truck for flour & grain delivery; panel truck hearses; the Model 306 stave truck for beverage manufacturers; milk delivery, trucks, railroad depot buses, delivery trucks, and many others. York-Hoover also began producing special flatbed delivery trailers for cranes, and heavy road-building equipment, trucks for the US Army during World War II, along with Armorply Insulated metal/plywood panels for ice and dairy delivery trucks, taxicabs on 1933 Ford Model 40 bodies, and specialized trucks for the telephone companies. Although not depicted in this factory archive album, York-Hoover was the producer of the first Jeep Body for the American Bantam Company, and was one of the first 70 Jeeps ever produced in 1940. In 1958 the York-Hoover decided to concentrate on its lucrative casket-making business (non-union), and sold the Truck body Division to the Pitman Manufacturing Co. Pitman (1925-2014) founded Pitman Manufacturing as a producer of specialized snorkel fire truck and aircraft deicers. After serving with the 873rd Engineer Aviation Battalion in World War II, he founded Pitman Manufacturing which designed and built cherry picker, boom trucks, and utility trucks, along with the snorkel fire truck and aircraft deicers. The images here include cherry pickers, Ford bucket tucks for Bell Telephone; Pitman Aerial Platforms; Telescopic Hydra-Lift hydraulic digger; portable oil derricks, and more. See: Mark Theobald, York-Hoover Body Company, 1928-1958, York, Pennsylvania, Coachbuilt (2004); The Air Cooled 1914 Franklin Series 6 Tourer, Auto Museum Online (2016); Stephen H. Smith, York-Hoover Body and the Jeep, Yorks Past (Dec. 16, 2015); Aerial Lift Legend Ray Pitman Remembered: Construction News (2014).

Gebundene Ausgabe. Condition: Sehr gut. Sauberes Buch aus Nichtraucherhaushalt___Schönes Leseexemplar___Versand erfolgt im ein bis zwei Tagesrhytmus ____Zustand siehe Bilder; weitere Bilder/Infos gern auf Anfrage____Die von uns Angebotenen Bücher kommen aus Nichtraucherhashalten und sind, wenn nicht anders beschrieben, mit normalen Gebrauchsspuren____ Versicherter Versand mit Sendungsnummer Ihr Buchregal Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 500.

Softcover. Condition: Very good condition. First editions. Folio (15 x 11"). 52 issues bound in boards, backed with black library tape, featuring the cover of No. 40, 1930, on cover and protected by modern mylar. All issues are profusely illustrated with sepia-toned photogravures. This set of A-I-Z issues represents a rich as much as critical introduction to the year 1930. The AIZ content is political, worker and "Third World" related in general and represents the harsh, critical views of the publisher and contributors. It was published between 1924 and 1933 in Berlin, then in exile from Prague and eventually in Paris until 1938. The content exhibits a strict antifascist and pro-Communist stance and is known for its striking photojournalism and the photomontages of John Heartfield. It was published by Willi Münzenberg. Text in German. Issues with John Heartfield photomontages are: No. 6 Without subtitle as printed in issue five. Contains full page Heartfield photomontage: "Wer Bürgerblätter Liest Wird Blind und Taub. Weg mit den Verdummungsbandagen! (Whoever reads Bourgeoise Papers Turns Blind and Deaf. Away with the Dulling of the Mind) Evans, page 44. No. 10 With Heartfield photomontage: "Zwangslieferanten von Menschen Material! Nur Mut! Der Staat braucht Arbeitslose und Soldaten" (Forced Supplier Of Human Material. Take Courage. The State Needs Unemployed Workers and Soldiers). Article on French correctional system and poem "Frau aus dem Volke" by Alfred Prugel and "Body Culture" Duty for every Worker Woman. Evans, page 46. No. 11 Kapp-Putsch special issue. With full page Heartfield photomontage: Für treue Dienste (For Loyal Services. Our well-tested member of the supervisory board 1920 - 1930 Reich Minister Karl Severing). The Kapp Putsch was an attempt on March 13, 1920, to overturn the Federal Government of the Weimar Republic. With articles on carnival and the "Red Ruhr Front" including map of the advance of the "Red Army" in the Ruhr region. Contains poem by Theobald Tiger: Eyes of the Metropolis and elaborate cartoon depicting a soccer game. Includes partially solve crossword puzzle. Evans, page 48. No. 22 Contains full page (423) photomontage by Heartfield: Vandervelde oder Die vollkommene Schamlosigkeit (Vandervelde or the Absolute Lack of Shame). Evans. page 50. No. 28 With full page photomontage by Heartfield: Macdonald Sozialismus (Mac Donald - Socialism). Evans, page 52. No. 31 Full page photomontage by Heartfield (603): Sonnenfinsternis am "befreiten" Rhein (Solar Eclipse over the "Liberated" Rhine). Additional Heartfield photomontage: Spielereien eines pazifistischen Engels (Shenanigans of a Pacifistic Angel / 6 x 9 1/4") Evans, page 54. No. 40 Full page photomontage by Heartfield (783): "Millionen Naziwähler: Futter für ein großes Maul "Und den Fisch hab' ich gewählt!" (6 Million Nazi Voters: Fodder for a Big Mouth. "And is the fish! I elected!). Missing cover of this issue. Evans, page 56. No. 42 Full page photomontage by Heartfield (823): Das tote Parlament Das blieb vom Jahre 1848 übrig! (The dead Parliament. That's all that's left from 1848!). Evans, page 60. No. 52 Full page photomontage by Heartfield (1023): Ein neues Jahr! (A New Year! A year like all the others? No!! That must not be! So that from misery and pain the new world arises: Strike, proletarian!) Evans, page 64. Binding with some rubbing along edges and cover losened from spine but intact. The issues are trimmed with generally slight loss of images and text. No. 2 Small part of advertising on page 35 cut out, affecting ads on following page. Page 37 with cutout underneath "tied up Prometheus," at lower foredge. No. 12 Page 237 with cutout of lower right corner of page. No. 16 Cutout on page 313. No. 17 First of May issue missing pages 335/336. No. 38 Cutout on page 757. No. 39 Cutout on page 763. No. 42 Cutout on page 834. No. 51 Back cover with some chipping and partially detached from spine. Paper in general somewhat age-toned. [WITH] A-I-Z Jahrgang X Nr. 29, 1931. Photo-illustrated wraps, protected by modern mylar. The cover features young children at work in Africa. It includes contributions on the American miner's strike, the stigma of capitalistic production in relation to medical research, an installment of the novel "Eine Liebe kurz vor zwölf" by Gerhardt Pohl, a contribution on shoe production in Czechoslovakia, Karl Radek on the fight against spies, an entertainment and puzzle section and three pages on various sports and leisure activities. The back cover, in German and Esperanto, covers news from around the world. John Heartfield (1891-1968), born Helmut Herzfeld, is best known for his "Use [of] Photography as a Weapon" - this line was written on a banner above the entrance of the room especially dedicated to his work at the 1929 exhibition "Film und Foto" in Stuttgart. Heartfield saw photomontage, a term coined by the Berlin Dadaists, as a tool of political protest and was best known and admired for his more than fifty photomontage dustjackets for book publications. His vitae is "littered" with names instrumental in avant-garde movements of the 20th Century: George Grosz, Kurt Schwitters, Jan Tschichold, Herbert Bayer, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, El Lissitzky, Alexander Rodchenko, and famously Kurt Tuchosky in his work "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles," to which Heartfield contributed his photomontages. His publishing endeavors included the founding of the Malik Verlag, the Neue Jugend, a magazine published with George Grosz, and his 237 contributions to the AIZ (Illustrated Worker's Newspaper) between 1929 and 1938. During his stay in Russia, 1931-1932, Heartfield contributed to "Soviet Union in Construction," a collaboration between El Lissitzky and Rodchenko, experimenting with photography and photomontage. With George Grosz Heartfiel edited and contributed to the first Communist satircal magazine, Der Knüppel (The Cudgel), from 1923 to 1927. His success in the 1929 Stuttgart Film und Foto exhibition prompted othe artist to show interest for the us.

First edition, the dedication copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to his friend and predecessor as book critic for The Star, Clement Shorter (1857-1926). In his inscription, Le Gallienne (1866-1947) refers Shorter to the printed dedication page, which reads "To Clement Shorter, with admiration of a courageous critical gift too rarely employed, and in friendship". The author's inscription reads "To Clement Shorter - (for remainder of inscription see Dedication) from his friend Richard Le Gallienne. Indianapolis - Christmas, 1900". Nine years prior, Shorter assisted Le Gallienne in securing his first job in journalism, "the writing of a 'Books and Bookmen' column for the famous radical paper, the Star, a column that up to that time had been written by Mr Clement Shorter" (Le Gallienne, The Romantic 90s, p. 9). News of Shorter's departure from The Star in 1891 reached Le Gallienne via his publisher John Lane and the two immediately began planning how Le Gallienne could fill the vacancy. Both Lane and Shorter wrote a letter of recommendation for Le Gallienne to the paper's editor, Ernest Parke, who "referred to a note he had received from Shorter as 'encouraging'" (Nelson, p. 28), helping Le Gallienne secure his friend's role in what was a closely contested hiring process. Le Gallienne thus embarked on his writing career and the happiest period of his life - "those many coloured energetic years" (cited in Cozens-Hardy, p. 124). He adopted the "Logroller" pseudonym at The Star to supreme effect and his column was largely responsible for the paper's reputation as "the acknowledged organ of the literary world of London" (ibid, p. 123). Published between 1888 and 1960, The Star's book column was a staple feature under the tenures of both Shorter and Le Gallienne and they helped to cement the journal's "unique position in the history of morning and evening newspapers" (Goodbody, p. 141) as a dominant daily paper that promoted radical socialism. The author's Prose Fancies series was printed in the Yellow Book journal and in various collections in book form. The titular essay of this edition is a meditation on art and aesthetic rather than a retelling of the fairy tale. The volume's 21 essays also include "So This is America!", "The Dethroning of Stevenson", and "A Propos the Browning Love-Letters". Colbeck, I, p. 483. Harry Theobald Cozens-Hardy, The Glorious Years, 1953; John Goodbody, "The Star: Its Role in the New Journalism", Victorian Periodicals Review, vol. 20, no. 4, Winter 1987, pp. 141-50; Richard Le Gallienne, The Romantic 90s, 1925; James Nelson, The Early Nineties: A View from the Bodley Head, 1971. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, edges untrimmed. Blue morocco bookplate of Francis Kettaneh (1897-1976), business executive and trustee of the Morgan Library, on blank half-title verso, browning facing title page. Spine sunned to green, else bright, short frays to spine ends, tiny bump to corners, cosmetic split to front inner hinge, spotting to endpapers, contents clean. A very good copy.

10 vols. 8vo. Engraved portraits of Beaumont & Fletcher by George Vertue in Vol. 1. Contemporary calf, covers with the gilt coronetted ?MP? monogram of Mary, Countess Poulett; gilt spines with contrasting morocco labels (front joint of vol. 1 cracked, slight worm damage to a few joints, extremities slightly worn, a few minor scuffs, but a fine and bright set). London: for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, Preface by Thomas Steward. The second of three 18th Century editions of their works. Provenance: Bound for Mary, Countess Poulett (1732-1819); she married in 1755 Vere, 3rd Earl Poulett, of Hinton House, Somerset. Poulett sale, Sotheby, 17/2/1969, lot 169, £48 to Maggs.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. "First edition, decorated ornaments, slight browning, pp. 60, [4, including Tonson s editorial catalogue], 4to (194 x 122mm), near contemporary English crimson morocco, double gilt ruled, roll of gilt dentelles, deep gilt roll of fleurons, tendrils and palmettes to borders, raised bands, spine compartments double gilt ruled, one gilt-lettered, the others with gold-stamped fleuron, outer and inner edges gilt, marbled endpapers, head and foot of spine, corners and one band a trifle rubbed, bookplates of Charles-Marie d Irrumberry, Comte de Salaberry (late 18thC), and Hubert de Ganay (c.1900), to front pastedown. An exquisitely bound copy of the first edition of this 5-act drama by Hildebrand Jacob (1692/93-1739). Rarely seen on the market, especially in such very good condition. The tragedy - a Modern play, / Short, plain and simple, in the ancient way - is set in ancient Athens. It was performed six times at the Drury Lane Royal Theatre and twice for the Princess of Wales. In the early 18th century, together with Charles Johnson and Lewis Theobald, Jacob was one of the most appreciated playwrights. 'They had all written for the stage with great success, their names were seen in almost every paper, and their works in every coffee-house' (Goldsmith, p.447). The very handsome, near contemporary English binding, still remarkably fresh and unsophisticated, is decorated with a deep gilt roll of fleurons, tendrils and palmettes in the French style (e.g., Barber II, n.419). From the late 17th century, a plainer style was introduced [in France] comprising a deep regular tooled border with a completely plain central rectangle. This austere but elegant style [ ] soon spread to all sorts of books (Barber I, p.201). We have not traced any similar tooling on English bindings, and the present was perhaps the work of an English binder trained in France or who had access to French tools. In the late 18th century, this copy was in the Canadian library of the officer and statesman Charles de Salaberry (1778-1829). ESTC T68206. Not in Lowndes or Pforzheimer. O. Goldsmith, Citizen of the World , in Miscellaneous Works (1857); G. Barber, Catalogue of Printed Books and Bookbindings (2013).".

200 x 158 mm. (8 x 6 1/4"). li, [iii], 128 pp., [1] leaf.Edited and with an introduction by Israel Gollancz. ELEGANT DARK NAVY BLUE MOROCCO, GILT, BY DE SAUTY (stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in), WITH ELABORATE GILT FLORAL TOOLING AND VERY MANY ONLAID CITRON MOROCCO FLOWERS forming a quatrefoil design on lower cover, and a broad, encroaching frame on the upper cover, raised bands, spine gilt in compartments with gilt floral designs, gilt lettering, all edges gilt (expertly rejointed). With numerous black & white illustrations (including some full-page and a few double-page) throughout by Robert Anning Bell. â Spine slightly dulled, text a bit browned at edges because of paper quality, otherwise fine, the beautifully decorated covers lustrous and without signs of use. This charming illustrated edition of Shakespeare's fanciful comedy comes in a beautifully decorated binding that calls to mind the floral bower where the fairy Queen Titania entertains Bottom in "Dream's" unforgettable play-within-a-play. In this printing of the work, the great Shakespeare scholar Israel Gollancz (1863-1930) presents "this wonderful fairy-tale told three-hundred years ago by the greatest of story-tellers" without "those terrible Notes" added by Johnson, Theobald, and Steevens. A strong advocate for making Shakespeare accessible to a wider public, he offers in an introduction a brief synopsis of the action, including a diagram explaining the shifting affections between Hermia, Lysander, Demetrius, and Helena, and provides a glossary of unfamiliar or antiquated words at the end. The reader is free to enjoy the beauty of the poetry, accented by Bell's delightful illustrations. The enjoyment of our copy is particularly enhanced by its wonderfully decorated binding. One of the most accomplished binders at work in the first third of the 20th century, Alfred de Sauty (1870-1949) was the son of an engineer who had studied that discipline himself before taking up bookbinding, and he brings an engineer's precision to his handiwork. He not only possessed enormous technical skill (he made his own tools), but also had a refined imagination for design. He began his career as a finisher for the renowned Riviere bindery, and after leaving their employ in the late 1890s, he worked as a designer at the Hampstead bindery; in her essay "The Mysterious Mr. De Sauty," binding authority Marianne Tidcombe observes, "De Sauty was responsible for some of the best designs of the two binderies, and carried out all the stages of the craft himself, from sewing to the designing and exceptionally delicate tooling of the covers." Nixon and Prideaux both praise the brilliance of his finishing skills. In 1922, De Sauty left England for America: he had been recruited to become the manager of the Extra Bindery at RR Donnelly Co. in Chicago, where he did much to raise the standards of hand bookbinding in the United States.

Full Leather. Condition: Very Good. 16mo. 13 volumes. 15 cm x 9 cm. Full green Nigerian goatskin, 4 raised bands, ornate gilt-stamped spine compartments, double leather spine labels in maroon and black, marbled edges. Frontispiece engraving to volume 1 by Dublin engraver, Patrick Halpin (1755-1787), engraved title-page and head-piece in each volume, except volume 13. Expertly replicated spine labels to a few volumes, previous owner's signature, Bank of Ireland to front free endpaper of volume 3 only, last 50 pages or so of volume 13 blank (used to make size uniform), spines lightly faded, tanning to margins of endpapers, otherwise a very nice set, handsome on the shelf.

London: printed by H. & C. Graham for the War Office, 1916. Lithograph. Sheet 385 x 560mm. Remargined on sides, original folds flattened with repairs. Bookseller's ink stamp on reverse. A very scarce propaganda map, with the twin octopi of Prussia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire spreading their tentacles across central Europe. It was printed in London for dissemination in Italy: although Italy had joined the Entente powers against Germany and Austria in May 1915, public opinion was still divided. Not only did the Socialist parties oppose the war, but also the Italian government had existing diplomatic grievances with both Britain and France. This map updates Frederick Rose's famous 'Octopus Map' of 1877, with the Russia being replaced as the cephalopod. The text box top right quotes German Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, 'We do not threaten small nations', while the map demarks the areas annexed by Prussia and Austria from the Partitions of Poland (1772-1795) & Schleswig-Holstein (1864) to Belgium (1914) and Serbia & Montenegro (1915). According to the Imperial War Museum the map was also published in Swedish (with no effect on Sweden's policy of neutrality) and English. Hopefully the proof-readers of the other versions were more careful: 'Calamaro' is Italian for squid, not octopus. As we sourced this map from Italy it seems that this example was actually circulated at the time. IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM: IWM PST 13542.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. London: Printed by and for John Watts at the Printing-Office in Wild-Court near Lincoln s Inn Fields, 1729-1731, in Six Volumes, First Edition. Six vols., 8vo., each with an engraved frontispiece (two designs - half with the harp on the right (III, IV, V), the other on the left (I, II, VI), not alternating in this set), and woodcut head- and tailpieces; title-pages printed in red and black with wood-cut music throughout. Volumes I and II are melodies only, with volumes III-VI being melodies with basso continuo (unfigured). The flute part is printed separately after the tune and verses of each song. A very attractive set of volumes (7 inches tall) in half mottled calf by Zaehnsdorf with the binder's mark to the base of the front end paper. First edition of an influential collection of over 450 songs and ballads published in the years of the brief flowering of English ballad opera subsequent to The Beggar's Opera (1728). For each song, Watts prints the melody (and from volume III on a bass continuo), the lyrics, and a flute or violin setting. Eleven of the songs have been attributed to Handel, including two printed here for the first time; "Dull Bus'ness hence" and "As on a Sunshine Summer's Day" (Smith, p. 167). (BUC II, 719) In volume VI, an early contribution by Fielding: 'A dialogue between a Beau's Head and his Heels', as well as songs by Gay, Prior, Pope, Theobald, and settings by Handel, Daniel Purcell, Pepusch, Galliard etc. The music was printed from woodcuts rather than copperplates, unusual by this date but particularly useful for Watts, as it allowed him to set lyrics within the music, and to re-use the musical settings (perhaps with different lyrics) in his publication of ballad operas. Watts was responsible for the printing of almost all the ballad operas with music in the late 1720s and 1730s. Many used song settings that first appeared here, and the choice of songs used in these operas was often heavily influenced by whether Watts had woodcuts of the music. [BUC II, 719]. Vol I [xii], 175pp; Vol II [viii], 179pp; Vol III [xii], 200pp; Vol IV [viii], 204pp; Vol V [xii], 208pp; Vol VI [xii], 208pp. Approximately 7 inches tall [18cm x 12cm (11.5cm wide for Vol IV)]. Condition Report Externally Spine good condition title and vol numbers in gilt to red labels, with volume numbers to a red label, gentle wear and marks. Joints good condition gently worn. Corners good condition bumped and rubbed. Boards good condition marbled paper and leather quarters. Page edges good condition top edge gilt, slightly faded. See above and photos. Internally Hinges good condition solid and sound. Paste downs good condition marbled. End papers good condition marbled. Title good condition gentle tanning and minor foxing. Pages good condition some minor marks, tanning and minor foxing. Binding good condition solid. See photos Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 1729-31 Binding: Hardback.

Kein Einband. Condition: Sehr gut. Weinsberg, 14.III.1851., Oktav. 18,5 x 10,5. 8 Seiten auf Doppelbogen auf bläulichem Papier. Leiden an Körper und Seele: Erblindung und politische Umtriebe des geliebten Sohnes Wichtiger, inhaltsreicher und persönlicher Brief, vermutlich an seinen Freund, den Obertribunalrat Gustav von Pfaff in Esslingen gerichtet. ". Wie wohl wird es dir seyn daß du nun frey von allen diesem Schuldig- und Freysprechen bist, von dem Resolviren u. Redenhalten u. Anhörung medicinischer und anderer Prodigna . Mir aber geht es sehr übel. Mein Augenleiden an das du nie recht glauben willst, zu meiner großen Betrübniß nimmt immer mehr zu. Schreib ich einen Brief oder lese ich nur kurz etwas drehen sich mir die Augen schmerzhaft im Kopfe herum . Ich konnte nun nicht anders - ich kam um meine völlige Entlassung ein. Denn es wäre am Ende gewissenlos wenn ich in diesem Zustande in hohen Grad von Erblindung noch Sektionen u. Visitationen machen wollte. Ich that es mit Kummer u. Thränen - aber ich mußte es, ich kann nicht mehr, ist auch meine Pension von 220f. nach 36 Dienstjahren und mein Vermögen (will ich Haus und Garten nicht verkaufen) nicht groß." Kerner litt bereits ab 1840 an einer langsam fortschreitenden Abnahme seiner Sehkraft, deren Ursache der graue Star war. Größte Sorge bereiteten ihm auch die politischen "Umtriebe" seines einzigen Sohnes: "Theobald mußte gestern von Morgens 7. Uhr biß Nachts 7. Uhr in Heilbronn dem Inquisitor Ruff herhalten. Es lag ein hoher Aktenstoß vor ihm u. Ruff fragte ihn unendlich dummes Zeug. Mir scheint aber Theobald habe ihm auch sehr dumm geantwortet u. suche durch seine Antworten den Ruhm vor ein Geschworenengericht zu kommen, erlangen zu wollen . Ich kann in Buch mehr aufschlagen, keine Handschrift (=Akten) mehr lesen und kann für ein Schwurgericht nicht mehr gebraucht werden. Die Monate bringe ich gern eingesperrt zu dann hab ich Ruhe u. kann nur pflegen. So eine medicinische Predig[t] zu halten - das wäre doch etwas für mich. Zu jener Zeit wo die Gerichte wieder sind muß ich ohne dieß . eine Kur gebrauchten. Wenn du mein Freund bist so sorgst du hier für mich u. nimmst es für mich nicht wie du thatest auf der spöttischen u. lächerlichen Seite auf, es könnte dich selbst reuen. Man trieb mich vom 10' biß 12' zur Rekrutenaushebung nach Besigheim, aber sie hatten die übelsten Folgen für meine Gesundheit". in der Nachschrift kommt Kerner nochmals auf das Verhör seines Sohnes Theobald zurück, der wegen revolutionären Aktivitäten zu einer Haftstrafe auf dem Hohenasperg verurteilt worden war [Nov. 1850 - April 1851]: " . Hauff fragte den Theobald unter anderen Dingen, die doch in Wahrheit nicht in das Verhör gehören: Ob es ihm lieb gewesen wäre wenn Hecker gesiegt hätte u. er antwortete: 'Allerdings - unter gewissen Umständen.' Die Theobaldin ist äußerst besorgt u. du sollst doch schreiben ob du meinst dass Theobald nicht amnesiert werde." Theobald bereitete Justinus Kerner große Sorgen, so dass er verstärkt unter starken Depressionen litt und die körperlichen Beschwerden zunahmen. Der Sohn hatte sich von den konservativen politischen Vorstellungen seines Vaters gelöst und während der Revolutionsjahre Kontakt mit demokratischen Aufständischen in Baden aufgenommen. Er beteiligte sich an verschiedenen demokratischen Volksversammlungen. An der Volksversammlung in Heilbronn vom 18. September 1848 rief er zur "Revolutionären Tat" auf. Das Ludwigsburger Schwurgericht sprach ihn schuldig "das Volk zur gewaltsamen Abänderung der Verfassung aufgefordert zu haben" und verurteilte ihn zu einer 10-monatigen Gefängnisstrafe auf den Hohenasperg, die er am 1. November 1850 antrat". Justinus Kerner schrieb mehrere Briefe an das Württembergische Königshaus wergen der Begnadigung seines Sohnes. Der ihm freundschaftlich verbundene Wilhelm von Württemberg antwortete ihm schließlich am 22. April 1851: "Lieber Justinus Herzensfreund! Dein Sohn ist begnadigt. Jetzt soll aber auch Dein Herr Sohn endlich einmal vernünftig werden und von dem.

Leather. Condition: VG. Reprint. 12 mo. Eight (8) volumes in original gilt lettered brown calf. Red leather title labels to each spine. Wear and stains to leather. Gilt well worn and hard to read for volume numbers.Some work done on spine hinges at some point. A remarkable clean copy. " a rare edition much sought after for the plates which represent the dramatic costume of the time". Collectible set in reasonably nice condition.

Unusually lively Irish-flavoured pamphlet collection from the turn of the 18th century including the notorious sex scandal of Mervyn Touchet (second Earl of Castle Haven), two items attributed to Jonathan Swift and a scarce Dublin printing of An Inquiry into some of the Causes of the Ill Situation of the Affairs of Ireland. Full sheepskin binding, rubbed and worn but sound. Old pencilled casemark 'X6' to front pastedown; opposite, old inscription that begins 'Pret:.' torn away with corner of leaf. Second flyleaf has the ownership inscription of 'A W M Baillie' with 'left to Ian C Hannah' in a later hand (Alexander W M Baillie was a close friend and later correspondent of Gerard Manley Hopkins - Hannah an academic and Conservative politician). Though certainly bound together in the 18th century, most of these imprints have dusting and sometimes soiling to the title pages suggesting their separate used before being collected together - this is most marked with the account of Mervyn Touchet's trial on the charge of sodomy and abetting rape for which he became the first and only member of Parliament to be executed on a non-political charge. 1 James Peirce, The Western Inquisition. Dissenters in the West of England, 1720, John Clark, pp192, small chunk cut from title page to remove ownership inscription. Variant with the errata printed on pp 192 2. An Essay towards the Life of Lawrence, Earl of Rochester, 1711, John Morphew, [2] pp44 (doubtfully attributed to Jonathan Swift) half title present 3 The History of Mortimer, being a Vindication of the Fall of Mortimer, 1731, J Millan, pp28 (An adaptation, attributed to William Hatchett, of 'King Edward the Third, with the fall of Mortimer', a play variously attributed to William Mountfort and to John Bancroft.) 4 Miscellaneous Observations upon Authors, Ancient and Modern, 1731, Thomas Wotton, pp127-162 (No 5 of John Jortin's literary periodical) 5 [Edward Young] Two Epistles to Mr Pope Concerning the Authors of the Age, 1730, Lawyon Gilliver, 6 The Tryal and Condemnation of Mervin, Lord Audley Earl of Castle-Haven. for Abetting a Rape upon his Countess, Committing Sodomy with his Servants. 1699, [8] pp32, soiling to paper; text printed on irregularly sized sheets, most of which are untrimmed. 7 An Inquiry into some of the Causes of the Ill Situation of the Affairs of Ireland, 1731, George Grierson, Dublin, pp40 (not Oxford or Harvard) 8 A Proposal Humbly Offered to the P-------T, for the More Effectual preventing the further Growth of Popery, second edition, Dublin Printed, London Re-Printed for J Roberts in Warwick Lane, 1732, pp32 - despite sometimes being attributed to Swift on the last two poems are by Jonathan Swift, Teerinck-Souten 37A 9 [John Theobald] Miscellaneous Poems and Translations, 1724, J Roberts, [8] pp118, worming to final leaves; half title present. Very scarce: ESTC locates Oxford, Princeton, Uni California, Australia. JISC adds NLS, St Andrews, Strathclyde Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item.

Three vols. 1st - Thick square folio. 17 x 16.5 x 7 in. [8 pp (unpaginated).], thick durable plastic, canvas pages riveted to plastic, w/Army-green canvas guards, attached by brass zippers to leather hinges, with a staggering 512 genuine Ford parts sewn in with white thread, all with printed part numbers affixed below the parts (6 parts removed). Original FoMoCo Ford Company logo stamped leather covers, with belted leather cover sheets, and leather handles (minor scuffing, occasional rust to steel parts, ), still an excellent copy; 2nd -- 4to. vi, 52, [6] pp. With 100s of diagrams and text illustrations of parts, tables, and charts. Tan printed softcovers, cover art & lettering in brown, w/ parts printed on front (minor scuffing, dustsoiling, thumbing), still VG copy; 3rd -- 4to. vi, 128, [2] pp. With 100s of diagrams and text illustrations of parts, tables and charts. Army-green coloured softcovers, cover art in black, white & red, showing ford bolt, hex nut, and lock washer on front cover, FoMoCo logo in upper right corner, Ford Motor Co. car badges printed on back cover (minor scuffing, edgewear, dustsoiling), still VG copy. The original mailing tag still retained for the large FoMoCo salesman parts sample album, w/ order number and address printed on tag, sold originally to the Patchetts Motors, Inc. in Newman, California. Patchetts Motors survives as one of the longest-lived Ford Motor Co. dealers in the country (now Patchetts Ford in Turlock, CA), was founded in 1911 by Franklin Arthur Patchett (1881-1975) with his brothers and brother-in-law, and were awarded the Ford Motor Co. distributorship for western Stanislaus County, CA. Eventually by the end of World War II the company was not only a thriving Ford Dealership and parts distributor, but also one of the largest manufacturers of school buses, intercity buses, and luxury transit buses on the West Coast. The original Patchetts Motors Inc. dealership and Transportation Co. in Newman California, now serves as a school bus service depot for First Student. First edition of this exceedingly scarce Ford Motor Company parts sample catalogue, together with two first edition, thus, printed original catalogues. The Ford Motor Company always encouraged a high degree of dealer servicing of Ford vehicles, and 90% of all car and truck servicing involved replacement of bolts, nuts, washers, clips, cotter pins, and more with superior Ford standard parts. This large sample album offers a superb physical record, with each part carefully marked with Ford part number of all the original FoMoCo standard parts which not only proved essential for the precision and operation of the Ford automobiles, trucks, buses, and heavy equipment, but also an essential reference for restoration specialists, and Ford enthusiasts. In addition, the part numbers indicate that these could be used in Model A Fords, the 1930s Ford V8, the Mercury Brand Lincoln-Zephyr's, Mercury, World War II ford Jeeps, as well as the Ford F-1 to F-8 trucks. The very rare printed catalogues provide additional documentation, and a fuller listing of all possible sizes, and finishes (plain, Japan, cadmium, raven, nickel) available for Ford parts at the time. According to the November 20, 1948 trademark directory Ford filed a registration for the FoMoCo logo, which were to be used for Ford parts and products beginning with the 1949 Ford models. The 1949 Ford was the first all-new automobile designed and produced by the Big Three automakers after World War II, featuring the "Shoebox Ford" which ushered in a modern streamlined car design with integrated fenders, and an integrated steel structure. Worldcat locates 2 copies of 1954; No copies located of either the 1948 or the large sample catalogue; See: Mark Theobald, Patchetts-Hendy Co., Patchetts & Carstensen, Patchetts Ford, Coachbuilt (2015).

Hand-coloured folding engraved map. Age toned. Some margins 'chipped'. This is state four of the map. The imprint is unchanged, but 'Plantation House' is now labelled 'Plantation House The Residence of S.r H. Lowe The Govenor'. The island, situated in the South Atlantic, was chosen as the place for the Emperor Napoleon's second exile because of the ring of high cliffs that would make escape a virtual impossibility. The initial issue of this map was published in 1815 to capitalize commercially on his exile to the island.

First edition of Le Tourneur's monumental translation, instrumental in securing Shakespeare's reputation in France. Preceded only by La Place's pioneering but partial translations (1745-49) and by some individual translations by Voltaire and Ducis, Le Tourneur's is the first attempt at the complete works. Inspired by the 1769 Shakespeare Jubilee, Le Tourneur prefaces the collection with a long account of the Stratford celebrations presided over by David Garrick (taken without acknowledgement from Benjamin Victor's History of the Theatres of London, 1771) and with a biography drawn mainly from Rowe. There is also an important critical essay using materials from Rowe, Pope, Theobald, Hanmer, Johnson and Sewell. The extensive subscribers' lists (a second lists new subscribers since the start of publication) contains prominent names in both France and England.The story of Shakespeare's slow acceptance in France in the face of prevailing classicism, is well known - Le Tourneur's translations were the first to allow French readers to make their own judgements and they perfectly reflect the transition from classicism to romanticism in French culture. Indeed, the preface is considered to contain the very first printed appearance of the word 'romantique' in the French language, with Le Tourneur referring to the suitably romantic prospect of a clouded landscape and then stressing the need for both the word and the concept in French.The edition provoked the ire of the ageing Voltaire (always ambivalent to Shakespeare) who on receiving the first volume wrote in a letter to friend: 'I must tell you how upset I am for the honour of the theatre, against a certain Tourneur, who is said to be Secretary of [La Librairie], but who does not seem to me the Secretary of Good taste. Have you read two volumes by this miserable fellow, in which he wants to make us all treat Shakespeare as the only model of true tragedy? What is frightful is that this monster had a following in France; and the height of calamity and horror is that it was I who was once the first to speak of this Shakespeare, it was I who was the first to show the French some pearls that I discovered in his enormous dung-heap' (translated by Davidson, Voltaire: a Life, 2010, p. 439). 20 vols, 8vo (202 × 112 mm), I. pp. [48], cxl, 284; II. [4], 410, [2]; III. [12], 444; IV. [8], 478; V. [8], 268, 288, 304; VI. [6], 187, [1]; VII. [4], clxxx, 215, [1]; VIII. [4], xcviii, [2], 208; IX. [8], 491, [1]; X. [4], 22, lvii, [1], [4], 236; XI. [4], 223, [1], 230, [2]; XII. [4], 495, [1]; XIII. [4], 255, [1], 316; XIV. [4], 244, 227, [1]; XV. [4], 204, 186; XVI. [4], 144, 249, [1]; XVII. [4], 302, [2], 231, [1]; XVIII. [4], 237, [1], 259, [1]; XIX. [4], 500; XX. [4], 210, [3], 198, [2]. Engraved frontispiece to vol. 1, numerous typographical ornaments. Occasional spotting and light browning, usually at openings, sometimes affecting half-titles and (less frequently) titles, a few leaves with tears to margins with occasional loss (not affecting any text). Contemporary cat's paw calf, gilt panelled spines, tan and green labels, red edges. Rubbed, further wear to spines, most volumes with some chipping, some wanting headcaps. Apparently well-used copy, with occasional untidiness, but a good, if slightly unsophisticated, copy. From the books of the late Martin Stone (1946-2016).

Erste Ausgabe. 15 x 20 cm Battenberg Antiquitäten-Kataloge. Erste Auflage, Titelblatt und 20 nicht nummerierte Seiten. Neuerer marmorierter Papiereinband. Holzschnitt von Hans Springinklee. Dem Alter entsprechend erhalten, angestaubt, wenige Flecken. Einige bibliographische handschriftl. Notizen (Bleistift). Theobald Billicanus, auch Theobald Gerlacher oder Diepold Gerlacher (* um 1493 in Billigheim; ? 8. August 1554 in Marburg) war ein deutscher Theologe, Jurist und Reformator. (Wikipedia) Er studierte zunächst in Heidelberg, wo er mit Melanchthon Freundschaftschloss, und wurde später Prediger in Weil. Er setzte sich mit dem Grundgedankend er Reformation auseinander und wurde wiederholt der Ketzerei verdächtigt. - Hans Springinklee (* zwischen 1490 und 1495 in Nürnberg; ? um 1540) war ein Nürnberger Maler und Graphiker, der für seine Holzschnitte bekannt ist. Er gilt als Schüler und Mitarbeiter Albrecht Dürers. (Wikipedia).

Leather-bound. Condition: VERY GOOD PLUS. Revised Edition. Massively heavy tome (11 pounds) measuring 10 1/2" x 11" in width and height, respectively; Handsomely rebound in black pebbled leather, ruled in bright gilt with compartments containing short title, and authors' names. Easily readable text, in double-column format. Beige endpapers. Molded boards, a masterwork of floral, Irish Catholic-themed artistry: 5 ¼ in. oval cameo centerpiece featuring Irish heroine and hero with cherub, wolfhound, Irish harp, three-leaf clover-strewn laurels, gravestone marker, all behind a banner announcing "Catholic Emancipation." Light rubbing to extremities. All edges gilt. Two heavy-duty polished button clasps featuring clover cut-outs, Previous owner's dated inscription to original light-green endpaper (tipped in, post rebacking). Half-title with ornate Irish history-themed border in black-and-white, featuring castles and knights, Christian crosses and four-leaf clovers, fighting banners, etc. Original title page is a gob-smackingly gorgeous colored lithograph of a downcast Irish lass surrounded by reverent attendant males complete with lyre, obedient wolfhound, each possibly representing different epochs of Ireland's history. Tissue guards protect duotone engraving of Reverend Luke Wadding on verso, fleshed out with a poetry snippet from Moore. Preface by Patrick O'Kelly, then author's Dedication, Introduction, and Table of Contents listing 51 chapters and two sections -- "Pagan Ireland" and "Christian Ireland," that begin on pp. 25 and 137, respectively.)7 Arrestingly fine black-and-white engravings throughout, all tissue-guarded, of Bryain Boyroymhe, Monarch of Ireland, 1027 a.d.; Florence Conry, Bishop of Tuam, King Brian Boru, St. Bernard, BeJulius II, Gregory XIII, Urban VIII, Olive Plunkett, a trio of Arthur O'Connor, Duke of Leinster, and Earl of Charlemont, then John Sheares, Henry Sheares and Samuel Neilson, Theobald Malheur. Also, a fetching note written by previous owner regarding a flower taken from the grave of one Aunt Kate Griffin. Then begins John Mitchel's "continuation" of The History of Ireland . . . ," with xvi [1], 2-640 pp. Else and withal, a monstrous Irish beauty which will take its family pride of place on any bookshelf thus graced. Mac-Geoghegan first published this work at Paris in 1758 and "claims that during the fifty years following the Treaty of Limerick (1691) no fewer than 450,000 Irish soldiers died in the service of France. MacGeoghegan was shut out from access to the manuscript materials of history in Ireland and had to rely chiefly on John Lynch and John Colgan. John Mitchel's 1689 History of Ireland professes to be merely a continuation of MacGeoghegan, though Mitchel is throughout much more of a partisan than MacGeoghegan." (Wikipedia).

Condition: 0. Von Nikolaus Rücker überarbeitete und erweiterte Ausgabe; mit einer Vorrede des Frankfurter Buchhändlers Johann Spieß. - Einband etw. berieben u. fleckig. Schwach gebräunt, vereinzelt leicht stockfleckig u. die letzten Bll. leicht wasserrandig. - VD16, M 5011. ge Gewicht in Gramm: 2000 Fol. Titel in Rot u. Schwarz. Mit einigen Holzschn.-Initialen u. -Vignetten sowie einer großen Holzschn.-Verlegermarke am letzten Blatt. 4 Bll., 295; 224; 120; 102 S., 1 Bl., Pgmt. d. Zt. m. durchzogenen Bünden, überstehenden Kanten, blindgepr. Deckelbordüren, handschriftl. Rückenschild u. am Vorderdeckel den gepr. Initialen C.G.C. A. S. E. H." sowie der Jahreszahl 1599", dreiseitiger Farbschnitt.

35 Bände in 59 Teilbänden. Es fehlt in Band 36 der Reihe 2 (Die täglichen Losungen und Lehrtexte der Brüdergemeine). - Reihe 1: Quellen und Darstellungen zur Geschichte der böhmischen Brüder-Unität. Band 1-5 und zwei Ergänzungbände (komplett). Reihe 2: Nikolaus Ludwig Graf von Zinzendorf. Leben und Werk in Quellen und Darstellungen. Band 1-35 (es fehlt Band 36; Bände 19, 20 und 23 sind nicht erschienen). Reihe 3: Zeitschrift für Brüdergeschichte. Band 1-4 (komplett). Reihe 4: Die Gesangbücher Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorfs/Gesangbücher der Brüder-Gemeinen und hymnologische Untersuchungen. Band 1-6 (komplett). Hrsg. (als Ergänzung zu den Hauptschriften Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorfs) von Erich Beyreuther, Gerhard Meyer, Amedeo Molnár, Matthias Meyer und Peter Zimmerling. Reihe 1: Jan Hus: Dat bokeken van deme repe. De uthlegghinge ouer den louen. [Aus dem Tschechischen ins Niederdeutsche übertragen]. - Matthias Janov: [Opera]. [früher Jan Hus zugeschrieben]. - Bekenntnisse der Böhmischen Brüder. Apologia Sacre scripture. - Quellen zur Geschichtsschreibung der Böhmischen Brüder. - Peter Cheltschizki [sive Petr Chelcicky]: Das Netz des Glaubens. - Joseph Müller: Deutsche Katechismen der Böhmischen Brüder. - Zacharias Theobald: Hussitenkrieg. -- Reihe 2: August Gottlieb Spangenberg: Leben des Herrn Nicolaus Ludwig Grafen und Herrn von Zinzendorf und Pottendorf. - Ludwig Carl Frhr. von Schrautenbach [sive Ludwig Karl von Weitolshausen]: Der Graf von Zinzendorf und die Brüdergemeine seiner Zeit. - Johann Albrecht Bengel: Abriß der so genannten Brüdergemeine. - David Cranz: Alte und neue Brüder-Historie. Oder kurz gefaßte Geschichte der Evangelischen Brüder-Unität in den älteren Zeiten und insonderheit in dem gegenwärtigen Jahrhundert. - Erster Sammelband über Zinzendorf. Kleinere Schriften von Zinzendorf-Forschern aus dem 20. Jahrhundert. - Zweiter Sammelband über Zinzendorf: Kleinere Schriften von Zinzendorf-Forschern aus dem 20. Jahrhundert. - Antizinzendorfiana aus der Anfangszeit 1729-1735. - Antizinzendorfiana aus den Freien Reichsstädten Hamburg, Lübeck, Frankfurt am Main und der ehemals Freien Reichsstadt Straßburg. - Antizinzendorfiana aus der Hallenser und Jenenser Theologischen Fakultät im Zusammenhang mit "Siegfrieds Bescheidener Beleuchtung". - SIEGMUND JAKOB BAUMGARTENS ANTWORTEN AUF "SIEGFRIEDS BESCHEIDENE BELEUCHTUNG". - Bericht der Büdingischen Grafschaft zur Vertreibung der Herrnhuter aus der Wetterau. - Georg Heinrich Loskiel: Geschichte der Mission der evangelischen Brüder unter den Indianern in Nordamerika. - Schlesien und Herrnhut. - Herrnhut im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert. - Samlung der Loosungs- und Text-Büchlein der Brüder-Gemeine von 1731 bis 1761. - David Cranz: Historie von Grönland, Enthaltend Die Beschreibung des Landes und der Einwohner etc. insbesondere die Geschichte der dortigen Mission der Evangelischen Brüder zu Neu-Herrnhut und Lichtenfels. - Christian Georg Andreas Oldendorp: Geschichte der Mission der evangelischen Brüder auf den caraibischen Inseln S. Thomas, S. Croix und S. Jan. - Fritz Staehelin: Die Mission der Brüdergemeine in Suriname und Berbice im achtzehnten Jahrhundert. - Herrnhut im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. - Authentische Relation Von dem Anlass, Fortgang und Schlusse Der am 1sten und 2ten Januarii Anno 1741/2 In Germantown gehaltenen Versammlung Einiger Arbeiter Derer meisten Christlichen Religionen Und Vieler vor sich selbst Gott-dienenden Christen-Menschen in Pennsylvania. - Erich Beyreuther: Studien zur Theologie Zinzendorfs. - Peter Zimmerling: Gott in Gemeinschaft. Zinzendorfs Trinitätslehre. - Truus Bouman-Komen: Bruderliebe und Feindeshaß. Eine Untersuchung von frühen Zinzendorftexten (1713-1727) in ihrem kirchengeschichtlichen Kontext. - Mein Herz blieb in Afrika. Eine kommentierte Anthologie Herrnhutischer Missionsberichte von den Rändern der Welt am Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts. - Thea Olsthoorn: Die Erkundungsreisen der Herrnhuter Missionare nach Labrador (1752-1770). -- Reihe 3: Zeitschrift für Brüdergeschichte. -- Reihe 4: Berthelsdorfer Gesangbuch. - Marchesches Gesangbuch. - [Herrnhuter Gesangbuch]: Christliches Gesang-Buch, der Evangelischen Brüder-Gemeinen von 1735. - Londoner Gesangbuch. Alt- und Neuer Brüder-Gesang. - [Kleines Brüdergesangbuch] Hirten-Lieder von Bethlehem. - Joseph Theodor Müller: Hymnologisches Handbuch zum Gesangbuch der Brüdergemeine. - 35 Bände in 59 Teilbänden, zus. etwa CDLXXIX,38.072,1.608* Seiten sowie über 60 Tafeln und 9 Falttafeln, Leinen (Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf. Materialien und Dokumente/Olms Verlag 1970-2010) leichte Lagerspuren, einige Bände mit deutlichen Lagerspuren. Früher EUR 6212,60 43440 g. Sprache: de, la, nds.

Octavo, three issues, self wrappers, stapled. All published. "Another idea Lovecraft put forward to encourage amateur activity was the issuing of cooperative papers -- papers in which a number of individuals would pool their resources, both financial and literary. He attempted to teach by example by participating in such a journal, THE UNITED CO-OPERATIVE, which published three issues: December 1918, June 1919, and April 1921. Lovecraft had contributions in each issue: 'The Simple Spelling Mania' and the poem 'Ambition' [published under his pseudonym "Ward Phillips"] in December 1918; 'The Case for Classicism,' the poem 'John Oldham: A Defence,' and the prose-poem 'Memory' [published under his pen name "Lewis Theobald, Jun."] in June 1919; the collaborative story 'The Crawling Chaos' [with Winifred Virginia Jackson, as by "Elizabeth Berkeley and Lewis Theobald, Jun."] and 'Lucubrations Lovecraftian' in April 1921." - Joshi, H. P. Lovecraft: A Life, pp. 180. Joshi I-D-ii-9; I-B-ii-227, I-B-iii-2, I-B-ii-227, I-B-iii-94, I-B-a-34, I-B-iv-a-25, and I-B-ii-173. The first two issues have faint old mailing creases, but all are in fine condition. Rare. (#147860).