ALS, with envelope and newspaper article
by ROBERTS, Elizabeth
Springfield, KY, 1931. Single folded sheet, creases where previously folded, three small tears at folds. ROBERTS, Elizabeth, (1881-1941) American novelist and poet, to FIELD, Rachel (1894-1942), the American novelist and poet perhaps best known for Hitty, her first hundred years, which won the Newberry Medal in 1930. A most important and informative letter in which she metnions friends Julia Peterkin, a Pulitzer prize winning writer and Doris Ulmann, the celebrated photographer (Roll, Jordan, Roll, written by Peterkin and photographed... Read More
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The History of America
by ROBERTSON, William
Cork: Thomas White, 1778. SECOND EDITION. Folding etched map of South America, folding etched plate with a view of Mexico City, etched frontispiece portrait of the author. Contemporary mottled calf, expertly rebacked, gilt spine and labels, green edges; map with a short tear, no loss. A nice set with the ownership inscription of George Jackson dated 1788. Second edition (first printed the year before) and the first Cork printing, the “most highly regarded secondary source of its time” (Howes).... Read More
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Traité de chimie anatomique et physiologique normale et pathologique ou des principes immédiats normaux et morbides qui constituent le corps de l’homme et des mammifères
by ROBIN, Charles-Philippe, and VERDEIL, F.
Paris: J.-B. Baillière, 1853. tlas with 45 plates (26 hand-colored). Text volumes in original printed wrappers, atlas in original printed boards, rebacked with corners worn. Ownership signature on the atlas of F.A. Alves with his small stamp on title. Francisco Antonio Alves (1832-1873) was chair of physiology and medicine at the University of Coimbra in Portugal and a co-author of a paper on chemical analyses of the water of Coimbra in 1871. First edition of this pioneering work in... Read More
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Talks on graphology. The art on knowing character through handwriting
by ROBINSON, H.S. and M.L.
Boson: Lee and Shepard, 1892. FIRST EDITION. With 52 text “plates” containing handwriting samples. Original publisher’s cloth, author and title in gilt on front cover with additional handwriting in black; interior fine with some pencil underlining. First edition. The authors explain in detail the science of graphology and then proceed to identify various character traits based upon sample of handwriting in the text. Apparently based upon your handwriting you might be imaginative, enthusiastic, passionate, egotistical, intuitive, a miser, kind... Read More
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De acia dissertatio ad Cornelius Celsus
by RODE (RHODIUS), Johann
Patavia: Paul Frambotti, 1639. FIRST EDITION. With 4 full-page engraved plates. Contemporary calf; minor spotting throughout. Inscribed by the author on title. First edition of Rode's acclaimed study on the nature of the fibula and other forms of surgical sutures used by the ancients. This treatise is based on the works of Celsus, one of the first medical historians. The six pages of ancient and contemporary authorities are of special interest, as are the illustrations of the various sutures... Read More
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Sport & Politics under an Eastern Sky
by RONALDSHAY, The Earl of
Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1902. FIRST EDITION. Frontispiece photographic image of the author looking quite dashing with his costume and rifle, 2 folding maps and numerous full-page and text photographic illustrations. Modern cloth with the original illustrated cover pasted on, card of the Norfolk & Norwich Library on the bottom of the front cover and their large bookplate on the paste-down, new endpapers; interior very clean. First edition. The author gives a riveting account of his... Read More
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Eine Neue Art von Strahlen; Eine neue Art von Strahlen. II. Mittheilung (Fortsetzung und Schluss)
by RONTGEN, Wilhelm Konrad
Wurzburg: K. Hof, 1895. FIRST EDITIONS. Original printed wrappers, with the ownership signature of Dr. H. Michaelis (?) on front wrapper. Preserved in a folding clamshell box. PMM, 380. First edition of the first published reports on the sensational discovery of X-rays -- a form of light invisible to the eye which had never before been observed. With remarkable insight, Röntgen first suspected a new phenomenon while investigating the florescence produced near a Crookes tube in late 1895.... Read More
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Spectrum analysis
by ROSCOE, Sir Henry Enfield
London: MacMillan, 1885. FOURTH EDITION. With 6 plates and 119 text figures. Publisher’s decorated cloth, a bit worn on joints; some minor spotting, otherwise a very good copy from the library of Owen Gingerich with his bookplate. A 1-page letter from the author to The Rev. J. Summers dated February 25, 1888 is pasted onto the front paste-down. Fourth edition revised and considerably enlarged by the author of a valuable series of lectures detailing the development of the science... Read More
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The tourist in Italy
by ROSCOE, Thomas
London: Robert Jennings and WIlliam Chaplin, 1831. FIRST EDITION. Complete with 26 engraved plates (though some out of order as indicated on the “List of plates”), each with tissue guard, text block with gilt edges; rebound in modern green cloth, minor foxing on some of the plates, generally in the margins. Ownership Inscription of Selina Atherley on fly-leaf. First edition. Written in a romantic style, this work includes descriptions of buildings and places in Venice and Rome, together with... Read More
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Isaac Newton und seine Physikalischen Principien
by ROSENBERGER, Ferd
Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1895. FIRST EDITION. Complete with half-title and 25 text diagrams. Original cloth-backed marbled boards; in excellent condition. From the libraries of Stillman Drake and E.N. Da C. Andrade, with their bookplates. First edition and surprisingly quite scarce. OCLC locates numerous modern reprinted versions with a very few original editions such as our copy. The focus of the book is Newton’s work in optics. The author provides a detailed description of the state of physical optics... Read More
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George Rickey
by ROSENTHAL, Nan
New York: Abrams, 1977. FIRST EDITION. With 223 illustrations, including 66 color plates. Publisher’s cloth, image of a George Rickey sculpture in silver on cover, original illustrated dust jacket; in excellent condition. Presentation copy signed by Rickey to Norm Applebaum on the half-title and dated January 24, 2000. First edition. Rickey (1907-2002) was an American sculptor known for his abstract kinetic designs. He was one of two twentieth-century sculptors (along with the mobiles of Alexander Calder) to make movement... Read More
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Psychologies
by ROSS, Sir Ronald
London: John Murray, 1919. FIRST EDITION. With 1 page publisher’s advertisements. Original blue publisher’s cloth, in the original dust-jacket; some browning to end-papers. First edition of this collection of five short single-scene plays. “These five studies are parts of a series of which I hope to publish more examples at a later date.” The first two, Otho and The Triumph, appeared in the September and December 1913 issues of The Nation. The last, The boy’s dream, contains passages from... Read More
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Philosophies
by ROSS, Sir Ronald
London: John Murray, 1910. FIRST EDITION. Original stiff printed wrappers, small tear at foot of spine; some faint scattered spotting. Gilbert Murray’s copy, with his signature to title. First edition of this collection of verse, written by Ross while he was conducting his research on malaria. Written to help relieve himself from the stress of work and from the surrounding poverty, illness and despair, many of these verses reflect his thoughts and experiences of India. Titles include Ganges-born; Indian... Read More
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In exile
by ROSS, Sir Ronald
London: Harrison and Sons, Ltd., 1931. Second edition. Complete with the errata slip. Pebbled cloth. Inscribed and dated [19]31 to Arthur Keith from the author. Second edition. “These verses were written in India between the years 1881 and 1889, mostly during my researches on malaria.” Titles include Indian fever; Vox clamantis; and Death. Keith (1866-1955) was a Scottish anatomist and physical anthropologist who specialized in the study of fossil man. He was an ardent supporter of evolution, and studied... Read More
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The second Punick War between Hannibal, and the Romanes: the whoe seventeen books, Englished from the Latine . . . with a continuation from the triumph of Scipio, to the death of Hannibal
by ROSS, Thomas (translator); SILIUS ITALICUS, Tiberius Catius Asconius
London: Printed by Tho. Roycroft, 1661. FIRST EDITION. Title printed in red and black, additional engraved title, engraved portrait of Charles II by David Loggan, and 20 numbered engraved plates by Joseph Lamorlet, woodcut initials and headpieces, separate title for the Continuation. Text ruled in red. Early eighteenth century tree calf, red morocco spine label; an amazing large paper copy inscribed on the title page, “Edward Proger his booke presented him by the Translator his worthy freinde Thomas Ross... Read More
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“The genus dendrolagus.” In Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, Vol. XXI, Part 6
by ROTHSCHILD, Lord; DOLLMAN, Guy
London: Printed for the Society, 1936. FIRST PRINTING. With 16 color plates after Frohawk and 7 black & white photographic plates. Original printed front wrappers; an excellent copy. First printing, the complete part 6 of Volume XXI, of this beautiful monograph on the tree kangaroo, with fine colored plates after Frohawk. This was the first comprehensive taxonomy of the species, and features fourteen species from New Guinea and surrounding islands, as well as Lumholtz’s Tree-Kangaroo and Bennett’s Tree-Kangaroo, both... Read More
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“A monograph of the genus Casuarius.” (with) “A dissertation on the morphology and phylogeny of the Palaeognathae (Ratitae and Crypturi) and Neognathae (Carinatae).” From Transactions of the Zoological Society, Vol. XV, Part V., No. 1
by ROTHSCHILD, Walter & PYCRAFT, William Plane
London: for the Society, 1900. FIRST EDITION. Complete with 18 hand-colored lithographed plates of birds by Keulemans, 2 hand-colored lithographed maps, 4 duo-tone osteological plates, and 10 text illustrations. Half morocco, with the original blue printed rear wrapper bound in at the end. From the library of Dr. James M. Dolan, Jr., curator of the San Diego Zoological Society, with his bookplate and blind-stamp on lower blank margin of first leaf. An excellent copy with only very light browning... Read More
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The Avifauna of Laysan and the neighbouring islands: with a complete history to date of the birds of the Hawaiian possessions
by ROTHSCHILD, Walter
London: R.H. Porter, 1900. FIRST EDITION. With 83 plates, including 55 hand-colored lithograph plates by and after J.G. Keulemans and F.W. Frowhawk, 20 collotype plates from photographs (including one duplicate plate “Group of Four White Albatrosses”), and 8 monochrome plates, all tissue guards present. Red half-morocco and cloth boards, minor staining to a small portion of the front cover; other than some minor foxing to the paste-down and endleaves, an outstanding copy with the original pink printed wrappers bound... Read More
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De morbis navigantium...
by ROUPPE, Louis
Leiden: Theodor Haak, 1764. FIRST EDITION. Woodcut decorations throughout. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine; interior with light browning. First edition of this outstanding treatise devoted to diseases incident to mariners. Rouppe (1729-80), naval physician and surgeon, describes the conditions, environmental and otherwise, in which mariners are particularly susceptible (both on board ship and in port). In addition to a section on sanitation and sanitary measures, he covers scurvy and venereal diseases, and treats a variety of fevers, epilepsy, rheumatism,... Read More
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Los estratos araucanos y sus fósiles
by ROVERETO, Cayetano
Buenos Aires: Alsina, 1914. FIRST EDITION. With text illustrations and 31 folding plates, tissue guards present. Original printed wrappers, bound into calf-backed marbled boards; some slight foxing. First edition of this report on a paleontological exploration of regions in Argentina, such as the Valle de Santa María, considered one of the most important archeological research centers in the country. The text is complimented by the plates of photographs of fossils, and is complete with an index and bibliography. ... Read More
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Tratado de la estincion de incendios
by ROVIRA y TRIAS, Antonio
Barcelona: Imprenta de la Publicidad, 1856. FIRST EDITION. Complete with half-title and 14 folding plates. Contemporary calf-backed boards, worn on the edges; interior in excellent condition. Presentation to Mariano Lopez from A. Rovira, the author’s son. First edition of this historic treatise devoted to extinguishing fires and the job of a firefighter, the first work on the subject to be published in Spain. In this extremely rare work, the author describes in detail the organization and administrative side of... Read More
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Poetical sketches of Scarborough: illustrated by twenty-one engravings of humorous subjects, coloured from original designs, made upon the spot by J. Green and etched by T. Rowlandson
by [ROWLANDSON]
London: For R. Ackerman, 1813. With 21 hand-coloured aquatint plates etched by Rowlandson. Full sprinkled calf, neatly re-backed in decorative gilt; interior with a couple of insignificant marginal tears, otherwise an excellent copy from the library of physician and surgeon Ralph R. Ritzman, with his ownership inscription to fly-leaf. This second edition, with added dedication and contents, was the result of the collaboration of several authors, including John Buonarotti Papworth (1775-1847), who contributed fourteen chapters, the classical scholar and... Read More
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The fibrous plants of India fitted for cordage, clothing, and paper. With an account of the cultivation and preparation of flax, hemp, and their substitutes
by ROYLE, J. Forbes
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1855. FIRST EDITION. Original publisher's cloth, covers somewhat soiled, hinges loose; very minor foxing. First edition of Royle's valuable work on the fibrous plants of India, especially his study of hemp Royle (1799-1858) was a British botanist and teacher of materia medica. He was an assistant surgeon at the East India Company and devoted himself to studying botany and geology. Later he was professor of materia medica in Kings College, London. He was also... Read More
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Cours complet d'agriculture theorique, pratique...
by ROZIER, L'Abbe
Paris: Delalain, 1805. FIRST EDITION. Engraved frontispiece in Volume 10, title vignettes, large decorative headpiece at beginning of each chapter. With 20 folding tables and charts (a few oversized) and 269 engraved plates. Contemporary half-calf over hand-blocked marbled boards; a couple of signatures browned, otherwise a superb set, with a number of signature printed on blue paper. First edition of this celebrated work on agriculture and related subjects, written by the Abbé Rozier (1734-93), distinguished French botanist and president... Read More
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Essays, political, economical, and philosophical
by RUMFORD, Benjamin
London: T. Cadell jun and W. Davies, 1796. FIRST EDITION. With engraved chapter head-piece and 11 text figures. Contemporary half-calf over boards, spine label. An excellent copy from the library of Buddle Atkinson with his bookplate. First edition, quite uncommon. The five essays contained in this work include: An account of an Establishment for the Poor at Munich; On the Fundamental Principles on which General Establishments for the Relief of the Poor may be formed in all Countries; Of... Read More
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