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![22, [2] p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Front cover included in pagination. Van Cliburn signed p. 9 along the right side of the program. The Amarillo Symphony Orchestra was conducted by Thomas Hohstadt. The program consisted of Wagner's Tannhauser Overture, Stravinsky's Fire-Bird Suite, and Tchaikovsky's piano concerto no. 1. In Fine Condition.](/classic/images/items/80x160/002279.jpg "Van Cliburn Autograph--program from 1966 Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1, Performance with Amarillo Symphony Orchestra")
Amarillo, Tx.: Amarillo Symphony Orchestra, 1966.
Price: $125.00
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![Third Edition. 33, [1] p.; 20 cm. Stitched pamphlet; pages have not been trimmed. Former owner's name inscribed in an old hand at head of title page: Wm. Rutherford. Parker had become minister of the 28th Congregational Church, Boston, in January 1846; his congregation included Elizabeth Cady Stanton, William Lloyd Garrison, and Louisa May Alcott. He was an abolitionist and strongly opposed the Mexican War, which began in 1846 after the United States annexed Texas. Although Mexico opposed the annexation because it considered Texas part of Mexico, in the United States it was very divisive because it was seen as increasing the strenth of the Southern states in the struggle over slavery. The United States declared war on Mexico on May 13, 1846; Parker preached this sermon less than one month later, explaining his opposition to war in general and the war with Mexico in particular. In Good Condition: original stitching lacking and was restitched at some distance time; soiled; corners are creased with chipping of some lower corners; complete.](/classic/images/items/80x160/002272.jpg "A Sermon of War, Preached at the Melodeon, on Sunday, June 7, 1846")
Parker, Theodore
Boston: I.R. Butts, 1846.
Price: $65.00
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![[6], 52, [8] p., frontispiece and 2 leaves of plates: illustrations, maps; 23 cm. Orange wrappers printed in black. Wrapper title: The Mask: An Illustrated Quarterly of the Art of the Theatre. Six unpaginated pages of advertisements precede text. Stamp of the North Carolina College for Women on front wrapper. Edward Gordon Craig, son of actress Ellen Terry, was a theater director, critic, and theater designer. He published the first international theater periodical, The Mask, from 1908 to 1929. In addition to obvious anonymous and pseudonymous contributions by Craig, contents include: A New Plan of Roma by Giovan Battista Nolli published in the Year MDCCXLVIII; The Pretty Theatre, part two; Imitation: A Note by Jan Klaassen with story by A. Dumas Pere; "The Sackbut" and the Need for Music by Gordon Craig; and book reviews. A number of these "authors" were also pseudonyms used by Craig. The final 8 unpaginated pages contain advertisements for theater-related publications. A scarce issue of this important theater publication featuring Giambattista Nolli's Pianta Grande di Roma, known as the Nolli Map. In Fair+ Condition: wrappers are detached but present; edges of wrappers are chipped; lacking 2 x 1 cm. piece of front wrapper along spine; wrappers are lightly soiled; sections are separating, as is typical of this issue because much of the New Plan of Roma is printed on glossy paper; pages and plates are clean and bright.](/classic/images/items/80x160/002265.jpg "The Mask: An Illustrated Quarterly of the Art of the Theatre Volume Eleven, Number One January 1925")
Florence, Italy: Edward Gordon Craig, 1925.
Price: $75.00
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![Title continued: "With an historical essay, and accounts of each company, its origin, constitution, government, dress, customs, halls, and trust estates and charities; including notices and illustrations of metropolitan trade and commerce, as originally concentrated in those societies; and of the language, manners, and expenses of ancient times; with attested copies and translations of the companies' charters." Printed by J. and C. Adlard. 2 volumes: 1 leaf of a table (folded), in-text illustrations and tables; 25 cm. 19th-century half polished calf with six spine compartments between raised bands. Gilt-tooled morocco spine labels in second and third compartments. Gilt-tooled rules between compartments and date at tail of spines. Reddish-brown cloth over boards. Small binder's stamp on verso of front free endpapers for Morrell of London [W.T. Morrell?]. All page edges marbled, matching the marbled endpapers. Vol. 1 dated 1837 and vol. 2 dated 1836. Index at the end of voll. 2. Additions and corrections": end of vol. 2. Includes bibliographical references. Contents: vol. 1: Mercers; Grocers; Drapers--vol. 2: Fishmongers; Goldsmiths; Skinners; Merchant tailors; Haberdasheries; Salters; Ironmongers; Vintners; Clothworkers. Former owner's name faintly at head of vol. 2 title page: Robert Sutton, Jr. In Very Good- Condition: edges rubbed; cloth is lightly soiled; small stain on back board of vol. 1; front board of vol. 2 partially detached; faint stain at upper corner of half title and title page of vol. 1; otherwise pages are clean and tight.](/classic/images/items/80x160/002200.jpg "The History of the Twelve Great Livery Companies of London; Principally Compiled from Their Grants and Records")
Herbert, William
London: William Herbert, 1837.
Price: $150.00
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![Title continued: "darinnen werden die vermainte unnd in dem andern Thail angezogne Argumenta unnd grunduesten, oder Freysteller, ein jedes in seiner Ordnung, Abgelainet." Volume 3 only (of 3 volumes): [4], 276, [8] leaves [i.e. 576 p.]; 22 cm. Signatures: A-Z4 a-z4 2A-3C4 (4to). Remains of contemporary binding showing five cords intact. All page edges blue. Printed on both sides but numbered by leaf not page. Last leaf is blank. Title page printed in red and black. Woodcut tail-pieces and initials. Includes errata and index. Inscribed in an old hand on title page: "Sum ex Libris Friderici Forneri The. D. Canci. S. Stephani Bamb. Concionat. Eccl. Cathedr. & Vicarij in Spiritualibus." In another hand: "Ex Eius Testamento Collegy Societa. Jesu Bamb. 10 Janu. 1631." The former owner, Friedrich Förner (1568-1630), led the Catholic Reformation in Bamberg, Germany. He was the author of a a collection of sermons on witchcraft, Panoplia Armaturae Dei (1625) and initiated the Bamberg witch hunts and trials, which resulted in the deaths of perhaps one thousand people from 1595 to 1631. Duke Wilhelm V of Bavaria, influenced by the Jesuits, ordered his private secretary, Andreas Erstenberger, to write this work (issued under the name of the recently deceased Roman Catholic apologist Burckhard). Most of original or early binding lacking; otherwise in Very Good+ Condition: hinges are tight; occasional creasing to fore-edges or corners; light soiling; otherwise clean and tight.](/classic/images/items/80x160/002199.jpg "Dritter Thail, dess Tractats De Autonomia, das ist von der Freystellung mehrerlay Religion und Glauben")
Erstenberger, Andreas
München: Adam Berg, 1586.
Price: $1,250.00
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![78 p. [incomplete, probably 96 p.]; 17 cm. Signatures: A-E8 (-E8) (8vo). The remains of a contemporary wrapper are attached along the spine, but lacking otherwise. The remaining paper cover is lined with part of a page of a German-language book. Several ink notations in the lower margins indicating that this belonged to David Beidleman of Mifflin Town [Mifflintown, Pa.]. A few ink corrections of errors. A translation of Verbesserte und Erleichterte Lateinische Grammatica by Johann Joachim Lange (1670-1744), a German Protestant theologian. The year prior to this publication the same printer (Christoph Riegels seel. Wittib) had issued a 96-page French edition of the work: Dialogues de Feu Monsieur Lang, Traduits du Latin Avec les Mots et Phrases de Chaque Dialogue: pour l'Usage des Jeunes Gens. In 1769 an English translation was published in London by Edward and Charles Dilly under the title: Easy and Pleasant Latin Conversations or, One Hundred and Forty-four Dialogues on Common Subjects, Morals, and the First Part of the Roman History. The edition offered here was intended to help German speakers learn English. Unfortunately, the translator, John Justin Herwig, had a less than perfect understanding of English. This may explain the scarcity of the item (only one copy is listed on Worldcat, with no physical description). The dialogues are grouped by "decades," or groups of 10 dialogues each. The final leaf of signature E is lacking and the text ends at the beginning of the 10th dialogue in the ninth decade (the 9th group of 10). Presumably a final signature is also lacking, which would have brought the page total to 96, which agrees with the size of the French edition issued one year earlier by the same printer. Extremely scarce and unusual 18th-century work. In Poor Condition: incomplete, as described above; old soiling and dampstaining; stitching is going.](/classic/images/items/80x160/002197.jpg "The Late Mr. Lang's Dialogues Translated Out of the French and Italian Tongues into the English, with the Words and Phrases of Every Dialogue, for the Advantage of Young Scholars, by John Justin Herwig")
Lange, Johann Joachim
Nurembergh [Nürnberg]: Christophre Riegel's Widow [(Christoph Riegels seel. Wittib], 1763.
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![Title continued: "Monarchia usq; ad Invictiss. D.D. Ferdinandum II. Roman. Imper. & annum Christi M.DC.XXIX. una cum eorum effigiebus & Symbolis ex probatissimis Historicis, aureis etiam, argenteis, & aeneis numismatibus delineatis. Accesserunt Historia et Series Belli Bohemico-Germanici, sive Commentarii de statu Reip. sub Imperio Invictiss. D. Ferdinandi II. Imper. Roman. Genealogia Seren. Ducum, Archiducum, Regum & Imperatorum, ex Illust. Familia Austriaca prognatorum." [2], 514, [8], 18, [2], 123, [1], p.: 1 folded leaf of a plate, 620 in-text medallion portraits from coins; 33 cm. Signatures: ):(2(+1) A-2U6 2X4 a4 b6 A-O4 P6 (folio). Contemporary full calf with seven spine compartments between raised bands. Double blind-ruled border on each board. All page edges red. Former owner's bookplate on front fixed endpaper of W.S. Appleton. William S. Appleton (d. 1903) served as the secretary of the Boston Numismatic Society and "was regarded as one of the most learned of American numismatists" (NYT, May 19, 1907). His collection of American coins was given to the Massachusetts Historical Society; his English and Canadian coins were sold at auction 1n 1907. Another former owner's name written at head of title page, with another name written over it. Also at head of title page: Collegii Paris: Soctis. Jesu [Collegii Parisiensis Societatis Jesu]. Genealogia et Series Serenissimorum & Potentissimorum Austriae has separate title page. Main title is within extensively engraved border; Genealogia title page has woodcut title vignette. Woodcut initials, and head- and tailpieces. In Very Good- Condition: leather is rubbed and apparently has old leather preservative or other treatment, primarily on spine and edges; front joint starting to separate, but stitching solid; folded plate has old repair of tear along one horizontal fold, without loss of image; upper corner of pp. 71-72 lacking without loss of text or illustration; pp. 145-46 lacking; old dampstain at foot of title page, not touching engraving; scattered foxing, soiling, and browning. Very scarce.](/classic/images/items/80x160/002154.jpg "Vitae Imperatorum Caesarumque Rom. Orient. et Occid. Uxorum & Liberorum eorundem, Item Tyran. qui Romanum Imper. occupare diversis temporibus conati sunt, à Caio Iulio Caesare, primo Roman.")
Strada, Octavius de, à Rosberg, the Elder
Frankfurt am Main: Eberhard Kiefer [Eberhard Kieser], 1629.
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![6 Acts of Parliament enacted in 1811, 1845, and 1847 and bound together with the cover title "Colchester Navigation and Improvement Acts." [approx. 260], xvi p.; 31 cm. Contemporary half calf with marbled paper over boards. Five spine compartments between gilt- and blind-tooled bands. Gilt-tooled title on red morocco label on front cover. The six acts have been continuously paginated by hand apparently to correspond to a printed edition of these acts. These versions of the acts were, however, printed at different times, with their own printed pagination. These have been edited by hand to indicate when sections were superceded or repealed. The final 16 pages contain a printed index that corresponds to the handwritten page numbers, which implies that a printed edition of these six acts was contemplated, but such a work has not been located. Contents: An Act for Improving the Navigation from the Hythe at Colchester to Wivenhoe in the County of Essex, and for better paving, lighting, watching, cleansing, and improving the said Town of Colchester [6th May 1811] (London: George E. Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode, 1839); An Act To amend An Act for Improving the Navigation from the Hythe at Colchester, to Wivenhoe, in the County of Essex, and for better Paving, Lighting, and Improving the Town of Colchester; and for making a New Channel and Deepening the River Colne from Wivenhoe to Ram's Hard, leading towards the Sea [Royal Assent, 22 July 1847] [lacking printing information]; An Act for consolidating in One Act certain Provisions usually inserted in Acts authorizing the taking of Lands for Undertakings of a public Nature [8th May 1845] (London: George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1854); An Act for consolidating in One Act certain Provisions usually inserted in Acts authorizing the making of Railways [8th May 1845] ([the same], 1853); An Act for consolidating in One Act certain Provisions usually contained in Acts with respect to the Constitution and Regulation of Bodies of Commissioners appointed for carrying on Undertakings of a public Nature [23d April 1847] ([the same], 1854); An Act for consolidating in One Act certain Provisions usually contained in Acts for regulating the Police of Towns [22d July 1847] ([the same], 1854); Index (Colchester: J.B. Harvey, Printer, n.d.). In Very Good- Condition: rubbed; some loss of leather on spine and on corners of boards; a few pages stained; ink annotations as described above. A unique item relating to transportation and other improvements in the town of Colchester, England, in the first half of the 19th century.](/classic/images/items/80x160/002153.jpg "Colchester Navigation and Improvement Acts [6 Acts of Parliament 1811, 1845, 1847]")
London: George E. Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode, 1839.
Price: $225.00
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![Title page continued: "In quorum Primo De Virtutibus: In Secundo de Vitiis: In Tertio de Sacramentis, Novissimis, alissque similibus materiis frequentius in Cathedra tractari solitis: in Quarto denique de materiis rariùs in praxi occurrentibus, Copiosa Et Selecta Pro Concionibvs, Exhortationibus, aliisque spiritualibus Instructionibus materia, Nempe Definitiones, Divisiones, Sententiae SS. Scriptvrae, & SS. Patrum . . . Typis, & sumptibus Joannis Caspari Bencard, per Joannem Federle." 4 volumes bound in 1: [12], 464 p.; [4], 183, [1] p.; [4], 288 p.; [4], 168, 59, [1] p.; 34 cm. Signatures: )(6 A-3M4; [pi]2 A-Z4; [pi]2 A-2N4; [pi]2 A-X4 a-b4 c6 d-g4 (folio). Contemporary pigskin over wooden boards; six spine compartments between raised bands. Title in ink in first two compartments. Both boards have blind-tooled center medallions with decorative borders. Half of one pair of leather and metal clasps remains. Woodcut initial letters, abd head and tail pieces. General title page in red and black; each volume has special title-page with title vignette. Former owner inscription on front free endpaper: "Ex libris Jos: Kreitmajer." Inscribed on title page: "Conventus Landishutanj Ord: Pradme:" [Conventus Landishutani Ordinis Praedicatorum (Landeshut in Schlesien, Ger.)]. In Very Good Condition: pigskin is rubbed and stained; separating at joints, but stitching solid; front free endpaper detached but present; most of clasp hardware lacking; scattered light foxing and old dampstaining; otherwise clean and tight.](/classic/images/items/80x160/002152.jpg "Instructissima Bibliotheca Manualis Concionatoria: Jn Qvatvor Divisa Tomos")
Lohner, Tobias
Dilingae [Dillingen an der Don: Joannis Caspari Bencard, 1681.
Price: $750.00
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![xii, [13]-394, [2] p.; 16 cm. Contemporary full speckled calf with five spine compartments between raised bands. All page edges lightly speckled. Front free endpaper inscribed in English by Elizabeth King, Manheim, Lancaster County, Pa., 1881. First Cent. of Ger. Language Printing in the USA, 2873. A scarce copy of a work associated with the Herrite branch of the Mennonites in Pennsylvania (the Reformed Mennonite Church), concerning the Sermon on the Mount. In Very Good Condition: lacking clasp; lightly rubbed; front joint more heavily rubbed but solid; light foxing throughout; pages are otherwise clean and tight.](/classic/images/items/80x160/002137.jpg "Erläuterungs Spiegel, oder eine Gründliche Erklärung von der Bergpredigt unsers Herrn Jesu Christi. Allen Liebhabern der Wahrheit zur Prüfung ihres Glaubens und zur Beförderung ihrer Nachfolge in der Lehre unsers Herrn und Heilandes Jesu Christi")
Herr, Johannes
Lancaster, Pa.: Johann Bär, 1827.
Price: $275.00
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![. "Et se vend à Paris. Chez Jacques Etienne Libraire." 94, 145, [7] p.; 15 cm. Contemporary full calf with six spine compartments between raised bands. Red morocco label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title: "L'Inec aux Hommes." Gilt-tooled decoration in remaining compartments and on boards edges. All page edges speckled red. Woodcut head pieces and initial letters. "par mr hecquet" in an old hand on the title page. First edition. Philippe Hecquet's important condemnation of men displacing women as midwives. The second part of the book advises women on feeding infants, including breastfeeding. In Very Good+ Condition: slight loss of leather at head of spine; edges are rubbed; back joint weak at head of spine; hinges are tight; pages are clean and tight.](/classic/images/items/80x160/002135.jpg "De l'Indecence aux Hommes d'Accoucher les Femmes, et de l'Obligation aux Femmes de Nourrir leurs Enfans: Pour montrer par des raisons de Physique, de Morale, & de Medecine, que les meres n'exposeroient ni leurs vies ni celles de leurs enfans, en se passan")
Hecquet, Philippe
Trevoux, France: L'Imprimerie de S.A.S., 1708.
Price: $375.00
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!["Verses by Richard Waylett"--at foot of front cover. [24] p., [10] leaves of color plates: 10 full-page drawings; 13 cm. Yellow cloth spine; paper over boards. Front cover illustrated in color; back cover blank. Endpapers printed in green with illustration and publisher's name and address. No year of publication; title vignette dated 1909, but it is listed in Publishers' Weekly in September 1913. Series title: The Playtime Picture Books, no. 5. Text printed in green ink. Bookseller's label on back fixed endpaper: H.W. Fisher & Co., Philadelphia. This is not Cecil Aldin's Painting Book No. 4., The Doggy Book. Extremely scarce. Wonderfully illustrated with Cecil Aldin's drawings of dogs. In Very Good- Condition: edges rubbed; ends of spine fraying; cover is slightly soiled; back cover has several small scrapes near upper edge; hinges are weak; pages and plates are clean and bright.](/classic/images/items/80x160/002123.jpg "The Doggie Book")
Waylett, Richard
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1913.
Price: $175.00
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Bullart, Isaac
Paris: Louis Bilaine, 1682.
Price: $65.00
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![[2], 787-788 p.; 32 cm. (folio). Disbound. Title page reads "Anno Regni Georgii III. . . . At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the Thirty-first Day of October, Anno Domini 1780, in the Twenty-first Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third . . . And from thence continued, by several Prorogations, to the Twenty-seventh Day of November, 1781; Being the Second Session of the Fifteenth Parliament of Great Britain." Woodcut royal coat of arms above the imprint. Woodcut headpiece and historiated initial at the beginning of the act. The act declaring that King George III could conclude a peace treaty with the "Colonies or Plantations, or any of them, or any Part or Parts thereof." This led to the signing of provisional articles of peace between the United States and Great Britain in November 1782, and the signing of the Definitive Treaty of Peace, or the Paris Peace Treaty, in September 1783. Extremely scarce. In Very Good+ Condition: disbound; small chip at tail of spine; 1-cm. tear from fold without loss; upper edges and fore-edges slightly darkened; otherwise clean and bright.](/classic/images/items/80x160/002000.jpg "An act to enable His Majesty to conclude a peace or truce with certain Colonies in North America therein Mentioned")
London: Charles Eyre and William Strahan, 1782.
Price: $1,450.00
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![3 volumes: x, [22], 350, [32] p.; [8], 354, [30] p.; [8], 409, [23] p., 13 leaves of plates (most folded), including 3 folded maps, 2 portraits; 21 cm. (8vo). Full calf (rebacked); boards are speckled. Gilt-tooled spine titles; gilt- and blind-tooled spine decoration. Gilt-tooled border on each board. Title pages printed in red and black. Volumes 1 and 2 have frontispiece portraits signed T. Spendelowe. Includes a list of subscribers in vol.1. Errata on last unpaginated page before p. 1 in vol. 1. Engraved head- and tail-pieces. ESTC, T135733. In Very Good+ Condition: rebacked: leather is crackled along edges of boards; edges rubbed; occasional foxing, primarily along edges of first and last leaves; otherwise pages and plates are clean and tight.](/classic/images/items/80x160/001779.jpg "The History of the Life of Peter I. Emperor of Russia: In Three Volumes")
Mottley, John
London: J. Read, 1739.
Price: $975.00
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!["To which is added, an appendix, containing a variety of precedents (adapted to the several acts) for the use of justices of the peace, sheriffs, attornies and conveyancers." "Printed for the Author." [4], lvi, [[3], 468, [28] p.; 22 cm. Full calf; red morocco spine label with gilt-tooled title: Read's Digest. Blind-tooled borders on both boards and blind-rules on spine. Shelf numbers on old paper labels at tail of spine. Former owner's name on front free endpaper: John Marshel. Bookplate on back fixed endpaper indicating that this volume was given to the Washington County Historical Society by Janet M. Clark in 1905. Early American Imprints, Second Series (Shaw & Shoemaker), 1214. This is the first volume only. A second volume was published in 1804 by H. Maxwell, Philadelphia. In Very Good- Condition: leather is somewhat stained and rubbed; loss of leather at head of spine; light foxing throughout; old dampstaining in upper portion of final 16 leaves (index) and back endpapers, with light tide mark on back board; otherwise pages are clean and tight; joints are solid.](/classic/images/items/80x160/001552.jpg "An Abridgment of the Laws of Pennsylvania, Being a Complete Digest of All such Acts of Assembly, as Concern the Commonwealth at Large")
Read, Collinson
Philadelphia, Pa.: 1801.
Price: $135.00
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![xii, 344, [4] p.; 20 cm. Signatures: [pi]2 a4 A-X8 Y6 (8vo). Contemporary full tree calf with five spine compartments between gilt-tooled decoration. Red morocco label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title: Essais sur le Phlogist. Gilt-tooled decorative border on each board. Blind-tooled decoration on board edges. Marbled endpapers with a horizontal combed pattern. Woodcut title vignette, and head and tail pieces. Includes errata. Blank leaf following front free endpaper bears inscription dated 16 Sept. 1805 (30 Fructidor an treize) indicating that this was a prize book awarded to Louis Cornelissen, a student at Ecole de Medecine a' Gand, Departement de l'Escaut, by Professor of Chemistry P. Beyts. A translation into French by Madame Lavoisier of Richard Kirwan's Essay on Phlogiston, and the Constitution of Acids. Kirwan defended the theory of phlogiston (a now disproved scientific theory that had posited the existence of an element called "phlogiston," which was released during combustion). References: Duveen & Klickstein, no. 243; Cole, 721; Ferguson, p. 472. In Very Good Condition: edges rubbed, in particular front joint; front board scraped; slight loss of leather at ends of spine; light foxing on first and last leaves; otherwise clean and bright.](/classic/images/items/80x160/001515.jpg "Essai sur le Phlogistique, et Sur la Constitution des Acides, Traduit de l'Anglois de M. Kirwan; Avec des Notes de MM. de Morveau, Lavoisier, de la Place, Monge, Berthollet, & de Fourcroy")
Kirwan, Richard
Paris: Rue et Hôtel Serpente, 1788.
Price: $1,400.00
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Utrecht: Willem van Poolsum, 1703.
Price: $425.00
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![T.p. cont'd: "From original drawings, taken from the objects themselves expressly for this work, by Mr. Thos. H. Shepherd . . . with historical, topographical, and critical illustrations." vi, [7]-12, 96, 16 p., [63] leaves of plates, each with two views: illustrations, map; 28 cm. Half red morocco with gilt-tooled spine title: Views in London. Marbled paper over boards. Added engraved title page dated 1827; the plates are dated 1827 and 1828. Pages after p. 96 are lacking (both 116-page and 172-page copies have been located). Issued in 16 parts. As bound, this volume has, following p. 96, pages 1-16 of Great Britain Illustrated, with 8 leaves of plates (published by Charles Tilt, 1828-29), apparently bound in instead of the final 10 pages in that section of Metropolitan Improvements. [This is the beginning of Great Britain Illustrated: a Series of Original Views of the Principal Towns, Public Buildings, and Remarkable Antiquities in the United Kingdom, from drawings by William Westall, engraved by E. Finden and with descriptions by Thomas Moule.] Rich with architectural commentary by the architect James Elmes. Lacking pages and plates after p. 96, as described above; otherwise in Good Condition: rubbed; slight loss of leather at head of spine; 3.5-cm. tear from fore-edge of first leaf of plates (showing a river view of London and the Bank of England) without loss; light foxing troughout, some plates unaffected and some affected more heavily than others.](/classic/images/items/80x160/001273.jpg "Metropolitan Improvements; or London in the Nineteenth Century: Displayed in a Series of Engravings of the New Buildings, Improvements, &c. by the Most Eminent Artists")
Elmes, James
London: Jones & Co., 1828.
Price: $195.00
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![T.p. cont'd: "Cum eiusdem Authoris Cynosura morum Evangelica, acceßit in hac editione magnus Exemplorum numerus, opera R. D. Bern. Dörhoff ... Monasterii Westphaliae, ex officina Typographica Michaelis Dallii." [16], 392, [20], 320, [104] p.; 21 cm. Signatures: *4 **4 A-Z4 Aa-Zz4 Aaa-Ddd4 Eee2 )(4 a-z4 aa-zz4 aaa-ggg4. Full vellum; handwritten spine title "Tympy Theatrum historici" and call number. Printer's device on t.p.; head and tail-pieces. Circular stamp on top page edges, title page, and back free endpaper verso: Ex Bibl. Paulina Monast (the former Benedictine monastery of Paulinzella?). Inscription on front free endpaper: "Karl Schaub 1.8.31 Hagen (Westf.)." Inscriptions by former owners on title page. Back free endpaper bears long undated inscription in German script headed "Ex manuscripto D. Cornelii Gertman." The first part of the Theatrum historicum is a new edition of Admirandum Vindictae Divinae Theatrum. Preceded by the "Epistola P. Petri Fabri quam scripsit de curatione haereticorum ad Iacobum Lainez" (4 p.). The author's Dormi Secure Concionatorum seu Cynosura Morum Evangelica and his Cynosura Clericorum: 87 pages and 9 pages respectively at end. In Very Good- Condition: vellum is soiled; back joint separating; foxing; scattered soiling and faint dampstaining; other than the inscriptions noted above, the pages are clean and tight.](/classic/images/items/80x160/001132.jpg "Theatrum Historicum, continens Vindictas Divinas, et Praemia Christianarum virtutum, Ex gravißimis Graecis, Latinis, Sacris ac profanis historicis, per Locos Communes iuxta Alphabeti seriem Dispositum")
Tympius, Matthaeus
Munster [Ger.]: Michael Dalius, 1625.
Price: $375.00
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![[32], [590] p. [the second group numbered as leaves, on the rectos only, as 295]; 16 cm. (6.25 inches). 8vo. Signatures: a-b8 c4 A-2O8. Contemporary vellum. Girolamo Franchi di Conestaggio may have been a pseudonym of Juan de Silva, Conde de Portalegre. Engraved printer's device on title page showing David carrying the head of Goliath, with the motto "Così volendo Iddio segue ogni bene." Woodcut tailpieces and decorated initial letters. A very scarce early edition of this important history of the Portugese empire. In Very Good Condition: vellum is somewhat soiled; old faint dampstaining along the margins of some leaves, including the title page; occasional foxing; a solid copy.](/classic/images/items/80x160/000957.jpg "Dell' Unione del Regno di Portogallo alla Corona di Castiglia")
Conestaggio, Girolamo Franchi Di
Venice: Paulo Ugolino, 1592.
Price: $850.00
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![3-7, [1] p.: music; 34 cm. Color front cover illustration of band instruments arrayed on ground with a sword in front of a military encampment, with a U.S. flag in the background. This composition by F.B. Helmsmüller portrays three military bands parading up Broadway in New York City: Graffulla's 7th Regiment Band [Claudio S. Grafulla], Dodworth's 71st Regiment Band [Allen Dodworth], and Helmsmüller's 22nd Regiment Band. Lower edge trimmed, with loss of most of the publication information. This sheet music for piano was published by New York City music publishers Firth, Pond & Co. in the 1882 or 1863 and re-issued by its successor Wm. A. Pond & Co. in the mid-1860s. This is more likely the printing by Wm. A. Pond & Co. issued in 1864 or 1865. In Good Condition: disbound; loss of some publication information, as described above; two old repairs of last leaf and one modern archival repais of lower edge of first leaf; lower corner of third leaf lacking without loss of music; 7-cm. tear from fore-edge of last leaf, without loss of music; old damp stain on first leaf; light soiling and foxing. A very scarce early printing of this popular Civil War-related piece celebrating military bands.](/classic/images/items/80x160/000917.jpg "Drums & Trumpets, or A Parade in Broadway of the 7th, 22d, & 71st regiments of N.Y.S. Militia")
Helmsmüller, F.B.
New York: Wm. A. Pond & Co., 1865.
Price: $95.00
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![Edited by Robert Keuchenius; printed by Pauli van den Houte in Harderwijk (Netherlands). [30], 416, [16] p.; 19 cm. Signatures: *-**8 A-DD8 (8vo). Contemporary full vellum with six gilt-ruled spine compartments. Gilt-tooled morocco spine label reading "Julius Frontinus" in the second compartment; "Amst. 1661" in ink in fifth compartment. Added engraved title page. Woodcut title vignette, decorated initials, and head and tail pieces. Armorial bookplate on front fixed endpaper of Gaddesden Library, Gaddesden Place in Hertfordshire, Eng., of the Halsey family. Sextus Julius Frontinus was the Roman military governor in Britain and in 95 AD was appointed superintendent of the aqueducts (curator aquarum) at Rome. Contents: Strategemata; Aquæductibus Urbis Romæ; De Re Agraria; Aggeni Urbici Commentarius; De Limitibus, a Petro Scriverio; De Coloniis Italiæ; Opera & Fragmenta Frontiniana. In Near Fine Condition: spine label rubbed and upper right-corner lacking; light wear, otherwise clean and bright.](/classic/images/items/80x160/000753.jpg "Sexti Julii Frontini, Viri Consularis, Quae Exstant")
Frontinus, Sextus Julius
Amsterdam: Joannis á Waesberge, 1661.
Price: $925.00
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Schmauk, J.G.
Philadelphia, Pa.: Wm. G. Mentz, 1847.
Price: $55.00
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![[36], 443, [1] p.: 57 leaves of paleographic engravings; 36 cm. Half calf with marbled paper over boards (possibly a 20th-century binding). Six spine compartments between raised bands; red morocco labels in the second and fifth compartments with gilt-tooled title "Letras Cursivas Antiguas y Modernas" and date "Año 1780." Gilt-tooled ornamentation in the other four compartments. Endpapers printed in a red floral pattern. Added engraved title page: Escuela de Leer Letras Cursivas Antiguas y Modernas . . . Gravadas las Letras por Don Francisco Assensio y Mejorada. The leaves of engraved paleographic examples are included in the pagination. Initial 36 unpaginated pages include 11 pages containing the names of subscribers and one page of errata. The versos of the title page and added engraved title page contain a handwritten list of contents in ink, with some bleed through onto the title pages. Designed as a guide to the reading of ancient Latin and Spanish manuscripts, this volume is beautifully illustrated with engraved plates showing the development of Latin and Spanish script from that used during the Roman empire up to the 18th century. The sample texts presented on the plates are transcribed in the accompanying pages. Lacking leaves 57 and 58; otherwise in Very Good Condition: edges of covers are rubbed, with slight loss of paper; upper corners bumped; added engraved title page is soiled; old repair between second leaf (title page) and third leaf; front hinge separating; worming throughout, largely confined to top margin, affecting ruled borders and text on a few plates. An attractive copy of this scarce and important work of paleography.](/classic/images/items/80x160/000185.jpg "Escuela Paleographica, ó de Leer Letras Antiguas, desde la Entrada de los Godos en Espanña, Hasta Nuestros Tiempos")
Merino de Jesu-Christo, Andres
Madrid: Juan Antonio Lazano, 1780.
Price: $1,500.00
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