Aussfuehrliche Antleitung zu der gantzen Civil Baukunst Worinnen Nebst denen fuenff Ordnungen von J. Bar. de Vignola, Wie auch dessen und des beruehmten Mich. Angelo ... gegeben von ... A. C. Daviler...
by AVILER, Charles d'
Amsterdam: Huguetan, 1699. hardcover. fine. Vignola. Engraved frontispiece, 126 exquisite full page copperplates, several text engravings, woodcut figures and tail- pieces. 344 pp. + register. Small 4to, handsomely rebound in 1/2 brown morocco. Amsterdam: Huguetan, 1699. Fine. Only one copy in NUC of this translation of Aviler's commentary on Vignol's Cours d'Architecture. Vignola (1507 - 1575) was the first to codify the rules of architecture, and is best known as Michelangelo's successor in charge of the work... Read More
Offered by Argosy Book Store
D.H. Lawrence Approves the Prospectus for His Privately Printed Book, “Paintings of D. H. Lawrence”
by D. H. Lawrence
6/3/29. This was formerly owned by journalist Virginia Travers, mother of Mary Travers of Peter, Paul, & Mary fameD.H. Lawrence is regarded as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. He published many novels and poetry volumes during his lifetime, including “Sons and Lovers” and “Women in Love”, but is best known for his infamous “Lady Chatterley's Lover”. That graphic and highly sexual novel was published in Italy in 1928, but was banned in England until... Read More
Offered by The Raab Collection, LLC
Portrait Gallery of Distinguished American Citizens, with biographical sketches
by BROWN, William Henry (1808-1883)
Hartford: E. B. and E. C. Kellogg, 1846. Folio. (15 7/8 x 12 inches). 27 tinted lithographed silhouette portraits, 27 tinted lithographed plates of facsimiles of handwriting. Publisher's half brown morocco, cloth boards with gilt device First edition of this impressive work, notable for its effective and evocative lithographed portraits of renowned Americans of the antebellum period, each depicted in full-length silhouette profile: "Almost the entire edition was destroyed by fire, and copies are extremely rare" (Harry Peters).... Read More
Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books
![Ben Sirah: Sententiae Morales Ben Syrae [WITH] Tobias Hebraice... omnia ex Hebraeo in Latinum translata, in gratiam studiosorum linguae sanctae (The Moral Aphorisms of Ben Sirah [with] Tobias, Translated from the Hebrew into Latin for the Benefit of Students of the Holy Language) [PUBLICATION SUPERVISED by ELIJAH LEVITA]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/726/648/1449648726.0.l.jpg)
Ben Sirah: Sententiae Morales Ben Syrae [WITH] Tobias Hebraice... omnia ex Hebraeo in Latinum translata, in gratiam studiosorum linguae sanctae (The Moral Aphorisms of Ben Sirah [with] Tobias, Translated from the Hebrew into Latin for the Benefit of Students of the Holy Language) [PUBLICATION SUPERVISED by ELIJAH LEVITA]
by Fagius, Paulus (ed. and trans.)
Isny: Paulus Fagius, 1542. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Two works, jointly issued, small quarto. Signed: A-H4 (B2 missigned A2); A-F4 (A2 missigned H2) (= 56 unnumbered leaves). Collective title and half title for the second part. First work arranged as a running text: Alphabet verse in Aramaic followed by Latin translation; Hebrew commentary on the verse, followed by Latin translation. The second work arranged with Hebrew text and Latin version on facing pages. Printed marginalia; large woodcut... Read More
Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller
![[Loyalty Oath Taken by an African American Man in Early Reconstruction Texas]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/391/393/1736393391.0.l.jpg)
[Loyalty Oath Taken by an African American Man in Early Reconstruction Texas]
by [Texas]: [African Americana]: Bell, Billie
New Orleans: Peter O'Donnell Stationer, 1867. Partially-printed broadside, completed in manuscript, approximately 10.25 x 8.5 inches. Minor edge wear, a few small edge chips. Very good. A fascinating document from Reconstruction Texas just two years following the end of the Civil War. Here, an African-American man named Billie Bell signs a loyalty oath in Travis County, swearing to "faithfully support the Constitution and obey the laws of the United States, and will, to the best of my ability, encourage... Read More
Offered by The Joe Fay Company
Facts About Sherry
by VIZETELLY Henry
1876. First Edition. Signed. VIZETELLY, Henry. Facts About Sherry, Gleaned in the Vineyards and Bodegas of the Jerez, Seville, Moguer, & Montilla Districts During the Autumn of 1875. London: Ward, Lock, and Tyler, 1876. Slim octavo, original gilt-stamped pictorial blue cloth. $3800.First edition, presentation copy, of this complete 19th-century guide to sherry, with over two dozen illustrations of vineyards and sherry production, inscribed on the title page to a well-known British journalist and playwright: ""Blanchard Jerrold Esq. with the... Read More
Offered by Bauman Rare Books
The New York Schooner Yacht "America" Commodore J. C. Stevens, sailing the Great Match with the English Schooner Yacht Titania Commodore Stephenson the 28th August 1851
by HANSON [or Hansen?], J. (artist and lithographer); - NAGEL & WEINGAERTNER (printers)
New York: Nagel & Weingaertner, 1851. Hand-coloured lithograph after Hanson, titled below the image. Expert restoration, closing tears. The first America's Cup: a rare hand coloured lithographed view of the winning yacht which gave its name to the cup. In 1851, the Royal Yacht Squadron proposed a race around the Isle of Wight. A group of New York Yacht Club members, led by Commodore John Cox Stevens, built a yacht designed to compete in such races. Designed by... Read More
Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books
![THE HILL OF DEVI [WITH AUTOGRAPH LETTER BY ROGER SENHOUSE AND ALS BY E. M. FORSTER]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/097/770/1473770097.0.l.jpg)
THE HILL OF DEVI [WITH AUTOGRAPH LETTER BY ROGER SENHOUSE AND ALS BY E. M. FORSTER]
by Forster, E. M.
London: Edward Arnold & Co, 1953. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 176 pages; VG/VG; spine orange with blue titling, dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price cut, mild fading to spine, mild wear and rubbing, primarily to extremities; Neat pencil note on the ffep, reading "with a 2 pp. note by Roger Senhouse describing one of Forster's Homosexual Affairs." Signed below the note in blue pencil by Roger Senhouse.; ... Read More
Offered by Second Story Books
Bananafish Magazine (Complete run in 18 issues plus book)
by Glass, Seymour [Editor]
San Francisco: Tedium House Publications, 2004. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Complete run in 18 issues with all music (first 7"s starting with #4, then CD compilations), plus book Bananafish Special (compiling the first four issues with a CD), plus an issue of the related zine Dump. Stapled wraps in two formats. Near Fine overall with toning to wraps of issues #1, #4 and #5; a little wrinkling to wraps of #18. Light wear to records and discs.... Read More
Offered by Burnside Rare Books
Eighteen bound volumes of miscellaneous books and pamphlets belonging to Franklin Benjamin Sanborn
by Sanborn, Franklin Benjamin
V.p., v.d., as below. Format ranges from large octavo to sextodecimo, all uniformly, or nearly uniformly bound in contemporary tan buckram; red morocco labels on spines; buckram slightly discolored; otherwise mostly very good. An interesting and informative look into the reading habits, pursuits, and interests of Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1831-1917), a New England reformer and abolitionist, and one of the "Secret Six" who underwrote John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry. He was friends with Emerson and Thoreau, the former... Read More
Offered by Rulon-Miller Books
Collection of rare early 18th century songs published in London ca. 1700-1735
by [VOCAL MUSIC - 18th Century - English]
Folio. Contemporary dark brown leather-backed blue/gray boards. Titled "A collection of Songs by several eminent Masters" in contemporary manuscript on recto of first page of music. Engraved throughout. Provenance With "Lucy Gregory July the 6th 1756" and "Prince Gregory" in contemporary manuscript to front pastedown. Manuscript titling and annotation "Ex dono Revd. Dr. Dawson For use of Musical Society, Windsor Castle to be returned to Dr. Dawson When ye club ceases viz when it is reduced to three... Read More
Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC
Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake (Original screenplay for the 1966 film)
by Mary Ellen Bute (director, screenwriter); James Joyce (novel); Romana Javitz, Mary Manning, Ted Nemeth (screenwriter); Martin J. Kelley, Jane Reilly, Peter Haskell (starring)
Los Angeles: Expanding Cinema, 1966. Shooting final for the 1966 film. Copy belonging to actor Peter Haskell, with his manuscript annotations throughout and his shooting schedule laid in. Mary Ellen Bute's final film, and the first cinematic adaptation of James Joyce's masterfully complex work of fiction. Shot over a two year period, Bute was tasked with transforming Joyce's impenetrable prose without losing any of the work's surreal, lyrical essence. The subsequent film maintains the original novel's oneiric... Read More
Offered by Royal Books, Inc.
ARCHIVE OF LETTERS AND BOOKS TO US FILM DIRECTOR TAY GARNETT FROM TRUFFAUT, KAZAN, et al.
by (Garnett, Tay). (Luis Bunuel, Francois Truffaut, Willaim Wyler, Frank Capra, Jean Renoir, Elia Kazan, et al0
various: various 0. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Tay Garnett (1894-1977) was one of the great American film directors of Hollywood's Golden Age. His six-decade career spanned silents for Mack Sennett, Hal Roach and Pathé, to major studio blockbusters like China Seas (1935), Mrs. Parkington (1944), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949), and the MGM film noir masterpiece, The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946). At the end of his career, he set out compiling views... Read More
Offered by Johnnycake Books Inc.
![[Manuscript]: In This Corner: 40 Boxing Titleholders Tell Their Own Stories. [Published title]: In This Corner: Forty World Champions Tell Their Stories](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/849/205/473205849.0.m.jpg)
[Manuscript]: In This Corner: 40 Boxing Titleholders Tell Their Own Stories. [Published title]: In This Corner: Forty World Champions Tell Their Stories
by HELLER, Peter (ALI, Muhammad)
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1973. Hardcover. Very Good. Bound manuscript. Introduction by Muhammad Ali. Quarto. Unpaginated. Typed carbon copies on pink and yellow carbon paper. Contemporary full cloth stamped in gilt with the title and author and: "Original Manuscript. March 16, 1973. To Sally... With Love." Dampstain mostly visible only on the front fly, a single word also on the front fly, else very good or better. Inscribed on the title page at a later date: "To... Read More
Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.
A Coffin for Dimitrios
by AMBLER, Eric
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Fine in an attractive very good dust jacket with a shallow crescent chip at the crown. Inscribed by the author to a noted collector of detective fiction. A nicer than usual copy, and very uncommon signed. A classic thriller, Ambler’s best known book and basis for the film *The Mask of Dimitrios* directed by Jean Negulesco, and featuring Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, and Zachary Scott. *Haycraft-Queen... Read More
Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.
Das Lob der Pfarrer von dem unnutzen Kosten der gelegt wirt von dem gemainen unverstendigen Volck auff Meß lesen, Volgungen, Begrebnus, sybent, dreysigst, Jartag etc. Und vo(m) Lob der Pfarrer unnd jrer nötigen Caplan
by Eberlin von Günzburg, Johann (b. ca. 1470)
[Augsburg: Sigmund Grimm and Marx Wirsung], 1522. ONE OF THREE EDITIONS printed in 1522. The first ed. appeared in 1521. Place, printer, and year from VD16. Hardcover. Fine. A very good copy in modern paste-paper wrappers. Small adhesion scar to blank portion of title, far from text. An early edition of Eberlin's "In praise of parish priests Concerning the useless sums paid out by the common, unsuspecting people for mass readings, funerals, internments, sevenths and thirtieths, etc. And... Read More
Offered by Liber Antiquus, Early Books & Manuscripts
De conceptu et generatione hominis
by RUEFF, Jakob
Frankfurt: [Peter Schmidt for Sigmund Feyerabend], 1587. Full Description: RUEFF, Jakob. De conceptu et generatione hominis, De matrice et eius partibus, nec non de conditione infantis in utero, et gravidarum cura et officio., Frankfurt: [Peter Schmidt for Sigmund Feyerabend], 1587. Third Latin edition and second edition to contain the woodcuts of Jost Amman which are the "first true anatomical pictures in an obstetrics book." (Garrison and Morton). These woodcuts were first used in the 1580 edition. Small... Read More
Offered by Heritage Book Shop, LLC
LORD OF THE FLIES
by Golding, William
London: Faber and Faber, (1954). First edition. In second issue or impression dust jacket with reviews for this title on both flaps (vs. description of this title on front flap and ad for another title on rear flap). His first and most famous book, which was not a great success when it first came out but went on to became a bestseller and, by the early 1960's, was required reading in many schools and colleges. On many lists of... Read More
Offered by Quill & Brush
San Francisco 1849
by FIRKS, Henry
1880. Tintstone lithograph with additional hand-colouring, sheet size: 18 1/8 x 33 3/4 inches. Firk's rare view of the city of San Francisco in 1849: "one of the best-known early San Francisco views" (Peters). Henry Firks was a painter and lithographer known primarily for his images of California during the mid-nineteenth century. His works are held by the Bancroft Library, California Society of Pioneers, and the University of California. This fine and rare lithograph depicts the city only... Read More
Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books
8 typed letters signed to Martin Davis, plus 2 drafts of one of Davis's replies
by Kleene, Stephen C.
1950. Kleene, Stephen C. (1909-94); Martin Davis (1928-2023). Collection of correspondence and other materials, consisting of: (1) 8 typed letters signed from Kleene to Davis. 8 sheets total. 1950-52. (2) Autograph letter signed from Davis to Kleene plus 2 draft versions of another of Davis's letters to Kleene. 15 sheets total. 1951-52. (3) Davis. Some preliminary remarks on recursively enumerable sets. Typed and autographed draft. 25 sheets total. N.d. [1952]. (4) Rice, Henry Gordon (1920-2003). Classes... Read More
Offered by Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc.
Correspondence re Kleene's "Origins of recursive function theory" and Davis's "Why Gödel didn't have Church's thesis
by Kleene, Stephen C.; Martin Davis
1981. Kleene, Stephen C. (1909-94); Martin Davis (1928-2023). (1) Group of 16 letters, including 8 typed letters signed and two autograph letters signed, pertaining to Kleene's 1981 paper, "Origins of recursive function theory," and Davis's 1982 paper, "Why Gödel didn't have Church's thesis"; see calendar of letters below. 26 sheets total. October 1981 - 19 February 1982. Very good. (2) Kleene. Origins of recursive function theory. Offprint from Annals of the History of Computing 3 (1981). 52-67pp. 282... Read More
Offered by Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc.
A PICTURESQUE AND DESCRIPTIVE TOUR IN THE MOUNTAINS OF THE HIGH PYRENEES
by (BINDINGS - CUNEO). (COLOR PLATE BOOKS, ENGLISH AQUATINTS). HARDY, JOSEPH
London: R. Ackermann, 1825. FIRST EDITION. 236 x 144 mm. (9 1/4 x 5 3/4"). vii, [1], 84 pp. STRIKING DARK GREEN MOROCCO, VERY ELABORATELY GILT, BY CUNEO (stamp-signed on lower front turn-in) for Mildred B. Davey (named stamped on upper front turn-in), covers with geometric Art Deco frame, smooth spine in compartments with triangle ornaments, gilt lettering, git-ruled turn-ins, marbled endpapers. Housed in matching green morocco-backed clamshell box lined with fleece. Engraved map and 24 FINE DELICATELY... Read More
Offered by Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books & Manuscripts
The Book of Mormon: An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon, Upon Plates taken from the Plates of Nephi
by Smith, Joseph
Liverpool: F.D. Richards, 1852. Third European edition, first state. Leather Bound. Good +. xii [1]-563 [1]pp. Sextodecimo [16 cm]. Full black leather with ornamental blind stamping to boards. Heavy restoration work to the spine. Blind stamped bands and title in gilt on the spine. Extremities bumped and rubbed. Front hinge cracked, with the front free endpaper, half-title and the blank page in between all partially detached. Textblock a bit wavy and very mildly foxed. Ownership mark of Peter... Read More
Offered by Ken Sanders Rare Books
The Complete Poems
by BISHOP, Elizabeth
London: Chatto and Windus, (1969). First English edition, produced by offset from the third impression of the American edition, published October 29, 1970, and is the same as the first American edition except for the copy on the flaps of the dust jacket. The front inner flap of the English edition notes that the book was the "Winner of the National Book Award" and the jacket design is by Roxanne Cumming; the back flap is entirely different from the... Read More
Offered by James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC
Grand Instructions to the Commissioners Appointed to Frame a New Code of Laws
by CATHERINE THE GREAT TATISCHEFF Michael
1768. First Edition. CATHERINE THE GREAT. The Grand Instructions to the Commissioners Appointed to Frame a New Code of Laws for the Russian Empire: Composed by Her Imperial Majesty Catherine II. Empress of All the Russias. To which is prefixed, A Description of the Manner of opening the Commission, with the Order and Rules for Electing the Commissioners. London: T. Jefferys, 1768. Quarto, contemporary marbled boards rebacked in period-style calf-gilt, red morocco spine label, raised bands; pp. (i-v), vi-xxiii,... Read More
Offered by Bauman Rare Books