Lettres sur l'Italie, en 1785.
by Dupaty, Charles-Marguerite-Jean-Baptiste Mercier .
Paris: Jean Mourer, 1789. Good. 12mo (19cm); 2 volumes: half-titles, viii, 230, 236 pages. Title page vignettes. Typographical headpieces. Bound in original two-color woodblock decorated paper covers, worn. Decorated paper restored along spine in volume II. Preserved in custom-built slipcase. Untrimmed copy, with many sheets unopened. A leading Parisian magistrate records his travels in Italy at the height of the age of the Grand Tour, paying less attention perhaps to art than to political systems... Read More
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Observations in the East, chiefly in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, and Asia Minor.
by Durbin, John P. (1800-1876).
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1845. First edition. Good. 21 cm; 2 volumes. xii, 347; 299 pages, four folding maps, and 18 full-page steel-engraved plates with tissue guards. Bound in original publisher's cloth, blind-stamped on both boards. Title stamped in gilt letters on spine. Covers somewhat stained, continued as a damp mark on the fore-edge of volume one (diminishing after first 15 leaves). Crown and heel of volume one torn and repaired.... Read More
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The conquest of Canaan.
by Dwight, Timothy.
Hartford: Elisha Babcock, 1785. First edition. Acceptable. Octavo (17 cm); [viii], 304 pages. LACKS errata leaf at end. 'L' signature marking present. Contemporary full sheep, worn away at edges. Upper board detached but present. Pages toned, with occasional spots. Text block strong. References: BAL 5040; Evans 18996; Sabin 21548; Sowerby 4304. Called "America's first epic poem," the narrative is a "roman a clef" in which Joshua's conquest of Canaan... Read More
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Ze sveta do sveta: 1921-1924
by Dymes, Ladislav (1901-1971); Karel Teige.
Prague: R. Rejman, 1929. Second edition. Wrappers. Very Good. 20 cm; 47 pages. Signed by the poet on title page. Bound in original wrappers printed in red and black, in a design by Karel Teige that typifies the Czech avant-garde "Devetsil" style. Typography also by Teige. Paper covers foxed, and somewhat cracked and frayed at edges and on spine. Scarce volume of Czech avant-garde poetry in a setting designed by Karel Teige (1900-1951). ... Read More
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Die Hieroglyphischen Schriftzeichen der Egypter. (i.e., Liste der Zeichen der heiligen Schrift).
by Ebers, Georg.
Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1890. Very Good. 24cm; 55, [1] pages (including portrait and facsimiles) . Colored ornamental borders. Added title page in hieroglyphic characters. Half title present. Bound in original boards, with polychrome ornamental border. Boards worn and knocked at extremities. Pages unblemished
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Child of the Sun: a Pharaoh of Egypt.
by Edwards, Margaret Dulles.
Boston: Beacon Press, 1947. Cloth. Very Good. Bookplate (?) removed from rear blanks.
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Vie de Charlemagne.
by Einhard; Louis Halphen.
Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1967. Fine. 20 cm; xxiv, 129 pages. Printed wraps, unopened. Series: Les classiques de l'histoire de France au Moyen Age. Text in Latin and French.
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Two-body problem in general relativity theory"
by Einstein, Albert; Nathan Rosen.
Lancaster, PA: American Physical Society, 1 March 1936. Second series, volume 49, number 5. Very Good. ppl 341-422. Original green wraps. Slight nick at bottom edge of lower wrap, else better than very good. Includes the retort by Einstein and Rosen (originators of speculation on the existence of "worm-holes" in spacetime) to objections made to the general theory of relativity. According to Galina Weinstein: "Between 1935 and 1936, Einstein was occupied with the Schwarzschild solution... Read More
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Einheitliche Feldtheorie un Hamiltonsches Prinzip.
by Einstein, Albert.
Berlin: Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Kommision bei Walter de Gruyter U. Co, 1929. First separate edition. Fine. 6 pages in printed wraps. Not exactly an "offprint," since the pages are numbered from 1, and the pamphlet is given its own title page, this is considered the first separate edition of a paper Einstein published in the periodical of the Prussian Academy. It is considered Einstein's initial effort, having established general and special... Read More
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
by Einstein, Albert; Edward Teller; J. Robert Oppenheimer; Andrei Gromyko; William O. Douglas; Harry S. Truman; et al.
Chicago: The Atomic Scientists of Chicago, 1948. Original edition. Ex-library.. Very Good. 28 cm; 384 pages. Cloth-bound volume of 12 issues. Duplicate surplus stamp of Library of Congress on front free endpaper. Later owner's stamp on free endleaves blacked out. Lively forum of discussion of various scientific, social, and political implications of atomic energy as the post-war radioactive dust settled over the Pacific (and wherever else open-air tests of atomic weaponry... Read More
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Out of my later years.
by Einstein, Albert.
New York: Philosophical Library, 1950. First edition. Very Good in pretty good dust jacket. 21 cm; 279 pages, portrait frontispiece. Turquoise cloth in plain cream-colored dust jacket. Dust jacket chipped at top of spine. Of the variant dust jackets and issues, this is the one with the fewest number of titles advertised on the rear, and the price of $4.75 on the inside flap.
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Über die spezielle und die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie:
by Einstein, Albert.
Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg, 1917. Ninth printing. Acceptable. 23 cm; iv. 79 pages. Three figures in text, along with numerous equations. In original printed wraps. Acceptable only, with paper peeling from the spine and sewing tender. Paper cover is completely detached in front, and hanging by a thread in back. The pages are yellowed. There is an ownership autograph of one E. Bodländer. That said, a clean, unmarked copy in original state.... Read More
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Drawings of the Masters: German Drawings form the 16th century to the Expressionists.
by Eisler, Colin.
New York: Shorewood Publishers, 1963. Cloth. Very Good. 25 cm. Illustrated. Cloth in slipcase. Slightly discolored slipcase.
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Le temple de Dandour, volume I: Architecture.
by El-Achirie, Hassan.
Cairo: Centre de documentation et d'études sur l'ancienne Egypte,, 1972. Very Good. 29 cm; iv, 35 pages, and 59 plates, mostly folding. Bound in red library cloth. Original wraps bound in.
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Report on the Human Remains.
by El Batrawi, Ahmed M.
Cairo: Government Press, 1935. First Edition. Very Good. 35cm; xi, 200 pages, with 27 plates. Wraps. Bumped a little but very good. Produced under the auspices of the Mission archéologique de Nubie.
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Collected Poems, 1909-1935.
by Eliot, T. S.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1936. Later printing. Good. 23cm; 220 pages. Bound in black cloth. No dust jacket present. Pages lightly toned. Shelf wear. Apparently a 1947 printing.
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Art in Arnhem Land.
by Elkin, A. P.; Catherine and Ronald Berndt.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1950. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 25cm; 123 pages, color frontispiece, plates (some in color). Bound in original cloth. Blemish on upper board near heel and on lower board along bottom edge; some light toning to endleaves. Front free endleaf cropped at upper corner. Aboriginal art in the Northern Territory of Australia.
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El Lissitzky:
by El Lissitzky; Galerie Gmurzynska.
Cologne (Köln): Galerie Gmurzynska, 1976. Original edition. Very Good. 25 cm; 1`64 pages, mostly illustrated, some in color. In photo-illustrated wraps. Page 3 loose but present. Else VG. Catalogue of the exhibition.
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Revolt on the Nile.
by El Sadat, Anwar.
New York: John Day, 1957. Cloth. Very Good. Foreword by Gamal Nasser. Very Good in Very Good (Price-Clipped) DJ. A little dusty.
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![[Enchiridion.] Manuale di Epitteto con la tavola di Cebete Tebano. Versione dal greco del p. Giuseppe Maria Pagnini tra gli arcadi Eritisco Pilenejo.](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/056/367/1264367056.0.l.jpg)
[Enchiridion.] Manuale di Epitteto con la tavola di Cebete Tebano. Versione dal greco del p. Giuseppe Maria Pagnini tra gli arcadi Eritisco Pilenejo.
by Epictetus; Cebes of Thebes; Giuseppe Maria Pagnini, trans.; Anania Coen.
Reggio Emilia: G. Davolio for Anania Coen, 1805. Very Good. Octavo (185mm); 40, [2], 36 pages. Bound in contemporary green pastepaper wraps, worn and perished at spine (reinforced with strong Japanese paper on spine and edgers). Pages untrimmed. Text block lightly foxed in places, but generally clean and unblemished. References: CLIO III, 1721; cf Brooks, #489-90; not in Oldfather. After decades of ghetto confinement and yellow-hat stigmatization, the Jews of Reggio in Emilia enjoyed a period of liberalism... Read More
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V prutocné ulicce: román.
by Erenburg, Il'ia; Karel Teige.
Praha (Prague): Odeon, 1928. First edition. Acceptable. 20 cm; 196 pages. Bound in full cloth with panel design in red and gilt on upper board by Karel Teige. Shaken in binding, splitting at crown and heel. Some gilding worn away from upper board. Cover design by avant-garde artist Karel Teige. After welcoming the Soviet army as liberators, Teige was silenced by the Communist government in 1948. In 1951 he died of a heart attack,... Read More
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Pétrarque :
by Essling, Victor Masséna, prince d'; Eugène Müntz; Charles Ephrussi.
Paris: Gazette des beaux-arts, 1902. First edition. Leather. Very Good. 39 cm; viii, 290 pages, and 21 leaves of plates. Numerous illustrations in text. Edition limited to 260 copies, this copy out of series, "exemplaire spécialment tiré pour Monsieur Charles Éphrussi." Bound in recent half calf, polished, over pebbled cloth-covered boards. Gilt-tooled borders, ornaments and title. Gauffered edges. Few superficial chips along joints and at spine ends. Plates variously foxed,... Read More
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Etnologiska studier / Ethnological Studies.
by [Ethnology] Walter Kaudern; C. G. Santesson; Henry Wassen; Stig Ryden.
Göteborg (Gothenburg): Kaudern, 1937. #4. 24 cm; 126 pages, in text illustrations and five color plates. Original plain gray printed wraps. About fine. Number four in the Swedish periodical. Contents: C. G. Santesson, Notiz über Piule, eine mexikanische Rauschdroge; Henry Wassen, Some Cuna Indian Animal Stories, with Original Texts; Stig Ryden, Primitive Types of the Peruvian Aryballos; Ryden, Brazilian Anchor Axes; and Walter Kaudern, Anthropological Notes from Celebes
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De gli elementi d'Euclide libri quindici. Con gli scholii antichi
by Euclid.; Valerio Spacciuoli; Federico Commandino .
Urbino: Domenico Frisolino, 1575. Hard cover. Very Good. Folio; [16], 278 pages. Title page and all text pages ruled in typographic border. Typographic ornament on title page, 18 historiated initials (some duplicates) showing putti with geometer's instruments against a background of Italian hill towns. Numerous geometric figures in text. Bound in c19 (?) full mint green sheep, with red leather title label lettered and tooled in gilt. Edges stained indigo. Binding somewhat scuffed,... Read More
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Souvenirs entomologiques.
by Fabre, Jean-Henri.
Paris: Librairie Delagrave, 1924-25. Edition definitive illustrée. Very Good. Quarto (25 cm); 10 volumes. 176 fine half-tones from photographs, each with tissue guard. Each volume bound in publisher's quarter calf over marbled boards; gilt spine (with insect motifs) in six compartments, red leather labels. Marbled endleaves. Pictorial bookplate of Umberto Bardelli. Generally very good to fine; volume one abraded on upper board, volume three chipped at head of spine, some hinges weak at... Read More
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