Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Of Unicornes Hornes. Illustrated by Alan James Robinson. Introduction by Jan van Dorsten
More from Uncategorized
Specimen album of German botanical samples, chiefly lichens and ferns
anon Samples laid loose into large (18" x 11") album with ties. Approximately 139 lichens and 76 ferms - some samples with degradation or breakage, but in generally very good condition. Many with collection dates ranging from 1841-1864. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science & Technology; Botany; Inventory No: 048525.- $850
- $850
Specimen Album of English Plants ca. mid 19th century
anon Two volume album of plants, many flowering, with common and scientific names and, in some cases, where they were found. Over 300 samples on 176 leaves. Mounted to sheets measuring around 7.25 x 11". Wear to bindings, volume two split at the spine, pages coming loose from bindings. Some degradation internally, as expected, but very well preserved samples from hedgerows, pastures, woods, roadsides, riversides, etc. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Inventory No: 048524.- $750
- $750
Specimen Album of British Mosses
E.W.M, W.C.; F. Ebermaier Cloth backed marbled boards, a few small tears to cloth. WIth over 150 well preserved moss samples on 51 sheets. WIth collection dates ranging from 1879-1885. An exceptionally well preserved and executed album with dates, place and scientific names on most samples. Some descriptions signed E.W.M or WC and E.W.M. and some typed descriptions attricuted to F. Ebermaier. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Science & Technology; Botany; Inventory No: 048526.- $950
- $950
Specimen Album of Mosses of Derbyshire
anon Pull, worn, purple morocco portfolio. Cover title is Ferns of Mosses of Derbyshire, but the ferns are missing. 52 fine samples of mosses on 25 sheets with typed labels. Sheets measure ca. 12" x 9" Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science & Technology; Botany; Inventory No: 048528.- $400
- $400
Specimen Album of British Mosses
Benson, Richard de Gylpyn Nicely bound specimen album of British mosses arranged according to the Student's Handbook (Dixon and Jameson, 1896). Over 125 samples on 50 leaves. Provenance: A.R. Perry, stamp on first page. Perry was the "Recorder of Mosses" in 1966 for the British Bryological Society The mosses were collected by the prolific amateur botanist Richard de Gylpyn Benson in Shropshire and North Wales. Benson (1856-1904) had retired from his work as a solicitor and taken up the full time colelcting of mosses. He wrote a definitive article on Shropshire mosses and his collections reside at The SHrewsbury Museum and The National Museum and Gallery of Wales in Cardiff and some at the National History Museum in London. (see: A Social and Biographical History of British and Irish Field-bryologists) Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science & Technology; Botany; Inventory No: 048527.- $950
- $950
The Little Towns of Flanders: Woodcuts and Descriptive Notes
Delstanche, Albert; Whitworth, Geoffrey Simple binding with numerous woodcuts inside all clean and unmarked. Light external wear Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Art & Design; Inventory No: 048533.- $20
- $20
The Song of Hiawatha
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth First Houghton edition with Maxfield Parrish cover illustration and Wyeth frontis. Reinforced at inner joints with cloth tape, binding a bit shaken, light cover wear, spine a bit faded. Old owner's name in pencil on endpaper and an old letter laid in. Size: Octavo (8vo). Illustrator: Frederic Remington; Maxfield Parrish; N.C. Wyeth. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Inventory No: 048531.- $75
- $75
AS THEY WERE.
Original white cloth and boards, octavo (6 x 8.5 inches), 261pp. Inscribed and signed by the author on front free endpaper: "For Alex and Bob from Mary Frances - always with good best wishes! Glen Ellen, 1983, MFK Fisher." Fine, quite clean and unworn in near fine pictorial dustjacket with minor soiling to rear jacket panelHugo PRATT : Corto Maltèse en Egypte, SERIGRAPHIE Originale signée, 500ex, 50×40 cm
Art, Affiches et Gravure Hugo PRATT (1927-1995). - Corto Maltèse en Egypte, 2020. - Sérigraphie originale. - Signée dans la planche + timbre sec + tampon officiel "Hugo Pratt" au dos. - 2 passages couleur. - Sur papier d'art Innova, 50 x 40 cm. - Numérotée sur 500 exemplaires (numéro du certificat donné à titre d'exemple). - Certificat d'authenticité Informations : édité en 2020 par les éditions Christian Collin En excellent état Né à Rimini en Italie en 1927 et mort à Pully (Suisse) en 1995, Hugo Eugenio Pratt est un auteur de bande dessinée italien. Son uvre la plus connue est Corto Maltese (1967-1991), qui a largement dépassé le champ de la bande dessinée.VISTA DE NAKASENDO DESDE LA ESTACION DE UENO
Materia: Xilografía japonesa de la segunda parte del siglo XIX. Grabado japonés. Ferrocarril - Utagawa Shigekiyo Publicación: Tokyo, Era Meiji, 1883. Dimensiones: Tríptico. Cada plancha: 35 x 23,5 cm. Las tres planchas: 35 x 70,5 cm. Técnica: Xilografía japonesa (El dibujo se crea con planchas de madera). Conservación: Muy buen estado. Utagawa Shigekiyo (activo entre 1860 y 1890) fue un artista ukiyo-e de la escuela Utagawa. Referencias: On Railway color prints, núm. 230. LBS1COLLECTION DES PLUS BEAUX NUMÉROS DE COMOEDIA ILLUSTRÉ ET DES PROGRAMMES CONSACRÉS AU BALLETS & GALAS RUSSES DEPUIS LE DÉBUT A PARIS 1909-1921
Folio, green silk over thick beveled boards with large inset color illustration from Natalia Goncharova's design for "Firebird". Endpapers color- stenciled with names of the dances, dancers, composers, and choreographers, and in the center that of the impresario Serge Diaghilev. Silk faded; a little edge wear to bottom of front board. An exceptionally nice copy of this magnificent book. A compilation of the most important special issues of the theatrical periodical "Comoedia Illustré" and souvenir programs for the 1909-1921 seasons of the Ballets Russes, compiled by the program publishers themselves, Maurice and Jacques de Brunoff, Explanatory forewords by the critic Valerian Svetlov. Lavishly illustrated with photographs and black and white and splendid color plates, some heightened with gilt and silver, of the dancers, costumes and stage decor. Work by Léon Bakst, Valentine Hugo, André Derain, Alexandre Benois, Mikhail Larionov. Natalia Goncharova, José Sert, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso. Dancers include Vaslav Nijinsky, Tamara, Karsavina, Michael and Vera Fokine, and Ida Rubenstein. Léon Bakst's brilliantly exotic and vivid designs for costumes and stage design revolutionized theater and fashion in the first quarter of the 20th century, drawing on Neo-Russian, Orientalist, and ancient Greek motifs. The May 1917 issue is devoted primarily to the ballet "Parade". In his introduction, "Parade et l'Esprit Nouveau", Guillaume Apollinaire coins the term "surrealism", laying the foundation for this movement. "Parade" is a collaboration among Erik Satie, Jean Cocteau, Pablo Picasso, Léonide Massine, and Serge Diaghilev. Picasso's costumes are depicted in two pochoir-colored plates: "Costume de Chinois" and "Costume d'Acrobate". A copy is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (rebound without the original cover plaque by Goncharova) and another copy is featured in the 2019 exhibition "Hymn to Apollo/The Ancient World and the Ballets Russes" at the NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World.Viridarium Gregorianum sive Biblia Gregoriana, New Testament (A Garden or Bible of Gregory); in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment
FOURTEENTH-CENTURY MANUSCRIPT OF A RARE NEW TESTAMENT COMMENTARY COPIED BY A NAMED SCRIBE. In Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment, Southwest Flanders or Hainaut (Tournai?), c. 1350. Dimensions 240 x 170 mm., 120 folios, complete, catchwords in red and brown ink, quire signatures, written by a single scribe in a university bookhand, scrolling cadels at top lines sometimes in human and animal forms, numerous red and blue/black penwork initials of five to seven lines. BINDING: Nineteenth-century marbled boards and doublures, parchment covering corners and spine, spine title in red and black with filigreed decoration in red. TEXT: A New Testament commentary, Jacobus Folquerius's Viridarium Gregoriana , mined from many of Gregory the Great's works, drawing occasionally on Alulfus of Tournai's Gregorialis . The text is known in only three other manuscripts; this copy was, until now, apparently unknown, and is certainly the only of its kind on the market. PROVENANCE: Based on the script, this manuscript was copied c. 1350 by a scribe trained in Southwest Flanders or Hainaut (Tournai?). The parchment's texture and penwork initials are also consistent with this region. The scribe, moreover, names himself on the final folio: "Hic liber est scriptus ludofus sit benedictus." Ludolfus is otherwise unknown. The Germanic name Ludolfus, coupled with the manuscript's northwestern physical features, is consistent with production in this region; an auction record indicates this manuscript was previously in a Bordeaux private collection, although the blue pencil note in English suggests an interruption in French ownership. CONDITION: some small spots and parchment discoloration occasionally clouding text, several original holes in parchment once stitched, rodent damage to bottom inner corner of last two quires, minor cockling of leaves due to tight binding, some chipping on binding cover, edges, and hinges, staining on front flyleaves and some ink transfer to flyleaves adjacent to book block, overall in good condition. Full description and images available. (TM 1054)Bemühung den Aberglaube zu stürzen.
FIRST EDITION, [12], 187pp., woodcut printers device, head and tail-pieces, slight foxing to first few leaves, marginal tear to 135/136pp not affecting text, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine gilt, red and green morocco labels, a.e.r., marbled endpapers, 8vo, Munich, Lentner, 1785. The Bavarian Witchcraft War First Edition of this important work on the witch hunt craze that was so endemic in Bavaria during the mid eighteenth century. Ferdinand Sterzinger (1721-1786), a Bavarian priest of the Theatine order and one of the leaders of the Bavarian attack on witchcraft in the 1760s, wrote this deeply sceptical work. As an Enlightened Catholic thinker, he found the notion of physically dangerous demons silly and unbiblical. As a prominent member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Sterzinger ignited a noisy discussion on witchcraft in his Academie Address which he delivered on 13th October 1766, a decade after the last execution of a witch in Bavaria. In a speech that was only sanctioned on a technicality, Sterzinger launched a full-frontal assault on witchcraft beliefs. He defined witchcraft beliefs as common prejudice, skirting around the Academys rule forbidding the discussion of religious topics. Sterzinger treated the belief in witchcraft as a laughable superstition, relegating the theological authority of St. Augustine and Thomas Aquinas into the era of fairy tales. Sterzinger was tactful enough to establish certain reservations to avoid offending church authorities. His concessions reveal some of the fundamental paradoxes of the early Catholic Enlightenment, which was considerably more tradition-bound than its Protestant counterpart. Sterzinger could not dare take the decisive step of rehabilitating all the victims of the persecutions as innocents. However this did not diminish Sterzingers resilient insistence that witchcraft is [ ] in and of itself an empty and vain nothingness, a prejudice and imagining of unstable minds. His speech, swiftly issued in printed form, touched on the Bavarian witchcraft war (Bayrischer Hexenkrieg), the last major public debate on the subject in early modern Europe. Sterzingers presentation was well received in all German speaking regions, winning approval from champions of the Enlightenment. [ VD 18 13823132;, Ackermann IV, 918;Exorcism and Enlightenment, Midelford, 2005; Witchcraft Persecutions in Bavaria, Behringer, 2002]Visions of Barsoom: 100 Years of John Carter (TM)
[Pasadena, CA]: Robert B. Zeuschner, 2012. 12 1/2 x 18". First edition. Outer orange envelope, slightly creased and marked, title and illustration in black, signed by artist Thomas Yeates, in very good + condition. Inside the envelope are 25 lithographed images printed on slick paper, some of them quite rare, celebrating Edgar Rice Burroughs' famed swordsman who traveled from Earth to Mars, sizes of image vary, 3 plates are signed by artist Thomas Yeates, stiff cardboard keeps plates in place, one page folded pamphlet describes the production and plates in detail, signed by the compiler, all in fine condition.This portfolio was published for the Edgar Rice Burroughs convention in Woodland Hills, California. The compiler, Robert Zeuschner) has published a scholarly book on Burroughs and has been the assistant editor of the Burroughs Bulletin. Most of the original images are the property of Edgar Rice Burrous, Inc. The plates range from 1913 to 2011. The art on the envelope is by Thomas Yeates and appears on page 69 of the combined volume, "John Carter of Mars", Fall River Press, 2009. It depicts a scene found in chapter 10 of A Princess of Mars: "Springing upward, I struck him full in the face as he turned at my warning cry, and then as he drew his short-sword I drew mine and sprang up again upon his breast, hooking one leg over the butt of his pistol and grasping one of his huge tusks with my left hand while I delivered blow after blow upon his enormous chest." (from the pamphlet inside)Lowell, James Russell. HEARTSEASE AND RUE. NewYork & Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1888. Firstedition, first printing, second state (page 63/4cancelled, as usual). Original white quartercloth, and boards, gilt. The first printing was3,060 copies, and the cancel was made on February28, before publication; from BAL's notes it wouldseem that only the 1,030 copies sent to London forthe English issue escaped being canceled. Somedust, but a very good copy, inscribed by Lowell tohis life-long friend: Charles W. Story in pencilon the front end paper: "To C. W. Story with theauthor's love. 7th March, 1888." Lowell's"compliments" card is also laid in. Thepublisher's binding on this copy was designed bySarah Whitman. Allen-Gullans, p. 100. BAL13194.
[Drop-head title:] The petition of Henry Holt Henley Esq; complaining of an Undue Election and Return for the Borough of Lyme-Regis
Single sheet. Docket title to verso. Lightly browned and spotted. A rare survival of a petition submitted to parliament by politician Henry Holt Henley (d. 1748) contesting the election results for Lyme Regis in 1727. Between 1710 and 1727, the representation of Lyme Regis was shared by two local Whig families, the Henleys and the Burridges. John Burridge (d. 1753), was a London-based merchant and shipowner, trading to Guinea and the West Indies. In 1727 he returned himself at the general election as Member of Parliament for Lyme Regis. However, as at that time he held the position of town mayor, his return contravened the resolution of the House of Commons on 2nd June, 1685 forbidding parliamentary candidates to stand during a mayoral term. Henley's petition saw to it that Burridge was swiftly unseated. OCLC and COPAC together record copies at eight locations (BL, Cambridge, Cardiff, Huntington, Liverpool, Oxford, Simon Fraser, and Trinity College Dublin). Size: Dimensions 200 x 320 mmThe Works of Joseph Conrad.
The Sun-Dial edition of the works of Joseph Conrad. Octavo, 24 volumes bound in three quarters morocco by Frost & Co., with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, frontispiece portrait of Conrad to vol. I. One of seven hundred and thirty-five numbered copies with the first volume signed by the author, this is number 478. In very good condition. Polish-British writer Joseph Conrad is widely considered one of the greatest novelists of the English language. Writing near the peak of the British Empire, Conrad drew, among other things, on his native Poland's national experiences and on his own experiences in the French and British merchant navies, to create short stories and novels that reflect aspects of a European-dominated worldâ"including imperialism and colonialismâ"and that profoundly explore the human psyche. Conrad's best known novels and short stories include Heart of Darkness (1899), Lord Jim (1900), Nostromo (1904), and The Arrow of Gold (1919).Lyndon B. Johnson Signing Pen for Voting Rights Act of 1965
"One of the pens used by the President, August 6, 1965, in signing S. 1564, An Act to enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and for other purposes," per original printed slip in original box. Clear barrel pen, "The President-The Whitehouse" printed in white, with "Esterbrook" on the nib, 6 3/8 in. long. With additional artifacts. This artifact came from Arnold "Pappy" Noel (1922-2009), a longtime news photographer who at that time was in the Public Affairs Office of the Secretary of Defense. Noel earned his nickname in World War II as a B-29 tail gunner. After the war and his retirement, he joined United Press International as a newsreel and still photographer, filming presidential and White House events, marches on Washington and Selma, fires and riots in Washington and Detroit, and early NASA events. At the 1968 Democratic Convention, he became part of the story when he was injured and arrested for refusing to hand over his film of "excessive abuse of law enforcement agents towards demonstrators." He was president of the White House Press Photographers Association for two years, leaving the press corps to work as a public affairs assistant to President Ford. Historical BackgroundThe Civil Rights Act of 1964 barred discrimination and segregation in education, public facilities, jobs, and housing. President Kennedy sent the Act to Congress in 1963, but the Judiciary Committee held it back. Gaining support after the September 1963 March on Washington, it still did not pass until July of 1964, after Kennedy's assassination. Even then, the job was still not done. On March 15, 1965, a week after Bloody Sunday, President Lyndon B. Johnson addressed the nation, declaring that "all Americans must have the privileges of citizenship regardless of race." He announced that he was sending a new bill to Congress with more power to prevent states and election officials from denying southern blacks the vote.The Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawed poll taxes, literacy tests, and other practices that had prevented southern blacks from voting. Where local authorities continued to disfranchise African Americans, it authorized the attorney general to send federal officials to register black voters and authorized the federal government to supervise elections. There was an immediate effect. By the middle of 1966, over half a million Southern blacks had registered to vote, and by 1968, almost four hundred black people had been elected to office.Silverfin
Signed Limited Edition No.772/1000. Illustrated boards in clear perspex box and glow in the dark feature in original sellophane bag with limitation sticker and finally covered by foam and in original limitation stickered cardboard box. A fine copy. Only taken out of original bag to take photographs. The first installment of the Young Bond series and follows his adventures at Eton College.De anima brutorum, quae hominis vitalis ac sensitiva est, exercitationes duae.
Two parts in one volume. 4to (197 x 149 mm). [56], 16, 33-565 (i.e. 563), 11 pp., 8 engraved plates of brain anatomy (5 folding); imprimatur leaf bound opposite title, longitudinal half-title g2 bound before the divisional title g1 for part one; page 563 misnumbered 565; general index at the end. Signatures: [pi]2 A4 b-f4 g2 2A-Z4 Aa-Zz4 Aaa-Yyy4 Zzz4(Zzz1 + "Zzzz Aaaa"4, Bbbb2). Bound in full contemporary speckled English calf, rebacked with new morocco spine label lettered in gilt, corners mended, endleaves renewed, dark sprinkled edges (rebacking rubbed, joints cracking). Text with light even browning, occasional spotting mostly to outer margins; instances of very faint blue vertical bands on some leaves, perhaps offsetting from bookmarks that are no longer in place; book block mostly split before p. 87; leaf Zzz4 with small patch of paper torn at fore-margin not affecting text. Provenance: Dr. Michael Stone's Psychiatry Collection. Complete except for the 4 publisher's advertisement leaves found in some copies. ---- FIRST EDITION, Oxford imprint, published shortly before the first octavo edition the same year, and thus the true first. In this earliest English work of medical psychology, Willis describes the phenomenon now known as paracusis Willisii, based on his observation of deaf woman who could hear only when a drum was beating. Willis recognized the difference between the symptoms of gross brain disease and those of mental illness. Because he postulated a disturbance of the brain and nerves in terms of disordered "animal spirits" in the absence of pathological findings, he is often considered the first to have equated mind disease with brain disease. Also includes probably the earliest description of general paralysis. References & Bibliography: Norman 2244. Garrison-Morton-Norman 1544; Hunter & Macalpine, pp. 187-92. - Visit our website to see more images!REMARKS On SOME Of The PROVISIONS Of The LAWS Of MASSACHUSETTS, Affecting Poverty, Vice, and Crime: Being the General Topics of a Charge to the Grand Jury of the County of Suffolk, in March Term, 1822
28 pp. Untrimmed & mostly unopened. 8vo. 9-3/8" x 5-7/8" Ex-lib, with small oval library blind stamp to 1st & 2nd leaf upper margin [no other apparent markings]. General wear & dust soiling to wrappers. Last leaf with paper loss to top margin [no text affected]. Withal, a VG copy. Original printed self wrappers, sewn. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve 1st edition (American Imprints 10058; Sabin 67236).Annual Report of the State Engineer & Surveyor of the State New York for 1868
23x15 cm. Original black cloth, moderately worn with small stains. 774 pp., large folding map, printed in blue, of New York State Railroads. Contains statistical reports for all railroads operating in New York State in 1868, from the huge Erie (Jay Gould as President, James Fisk and William Marcy Tweed among the directors) and New York Central railroads to lines like the 3-mile long Grand Street and Newtown Railroad. There are many such small lines listed in what is now the Greater New York area, including Brooklyn and the Bronx which were not part of New York City at the time. Also listed are the details of all fatal accidents on each railroad in 1868. 103 steam railroads and 54 street railroads are listed. A treasure trove of information about the state of railroads in New York during the Robber Baron era.Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Of Unicornes Hornes. Illustrated by Alan James Robinson. Introduction by Jan van Dorsten: https://rarebookinsider.com/rare-books/pseudodoxia-epidemica-of-unicornes-hornes-illustrated-by-alan-james-robinson-introduction-by-jan-van-dorsten-2/