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Untitled [scene from Luxor].
by Beato, Antonio (photographer).
ca. 1880. Good. Large albumen-silver photograph on paper, 367 x 267 mm. Signed in plate. Lightly toned to sepia. Unmounted, a bit crinkled at the edges. Depicts a fellah in traditional dress and three camels before the columns at Luxor.
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Aboriginal Place Names of New York.
by Beauchamp, William M.
Albany: New York State Museum, , 1907. First edition. Very Good. 22 cm; 333 pages. In sturdy new blue cloth custom binding, and new endleaves. Printed paper title label on upper board and printed date label on spine. Spine a bit slanted. Text unmarked. Published as bulletin #108 by the New York State Museum. Consists of an exhaustive county-by-county list of every location in New York, political or geographical, whose name derives from... Read More
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A history of the New York Iroquois, now commonly called the Six Nations.
by Beauchamp, William M.
Albany: New York State Education Department, 1905. First edition. Very Good. 23 cm; pp. [125]-461, ads, 17 plates and folding map in pocket on front pastedown. In original green cloth, slightly scuffed and a little weak at the hinges, but very good overall. Ownership signature on front free endpaper.
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Dei delitti e delle pene.
by Beccaria, Cesare (1738-1794).
Milano: Luigi Mussi, 1812. Edition limited to 50 copies.. Very Good+. Milano: Luigi Mussi, 1812. Very Good+. Folio (47 cm); xv, 206, [2 blank] pages. Contemporary green cloth with green polished morocco backstrip titled and decorated in gilt. Vellum tips. Margins are remarkably wide. Some wear at spine ends and extremities. Negligible traces of finger-smudges here and there. Preserved in custom slipcase constructed of cloth-covered board. Justification page completed in manuscript, numbered and SIGNED by the publisher, Luigi... Read More
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Elettricismo artificiale di Giambatista Beccaria
by Beccaria, Giambattista (i.e., Giovanni Battista).
Torino: Nella Stamperia Reale, 1772. Very Good. Quarto (23 cm); viii, 417 pages, and XI folding copper-engraved plates. Bound "alla rustica" in publisher's pastepaper, lettered in manuscript on spine. Pages evenly toned, but an unblemished, unsophisticated copy of a seminal work. References: Gamba, 2150 ("Nella Fisica forma epoca il nome di Beccaria"); La Stampa Reale di Torino, p. 71; Second much-expanded and first illustrated edition of the seminal study of electricity by Giovanni... Read More
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Karnak. Pylones du temple de Koms.
by Béchard, Henri.
ca. 1880. Very Good. Albumen-silver photograph on paper, 270 x 212 mm, mounted on board removed from an album (board size375 x 290 mm). Signed and titled in plate. Lightly toned to sepia.
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Anonyme Skupturen
by Becher, Bernhard and Hilla.
New York: Wittenborn & co., 1970. Very Good. 29 cm; [216] unnumbered pages, principally photographic reproductions. Bound in blue cloth with dust jacket. Dust jacket with one closed tear near upper right corner, and two small gouge marks on upper flap. Protected in mylar chemise. Contents unblemished.
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Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des Sciences...
by Becquerel, Henri (1852-1908), and others.
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1887. January-June. Good. 26 cm; 1940 pages (Lacks index pages for letter N and following). In half brown morocco over marbled boards. Blindstamp of the Carnegie Institution. Contains three important papers on light by Becquerel: "Sur les lois de l'absorption de la lumière dans les cristaux, et sure une méthodenouvelle permettant de distinguer dans un cristal ceraines bandes d'absorption appartenant à des corps differents" (pp165-169); "Sur les variations des spectres d'absorption du didyme" (pp.... Read More
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Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des Sciences...
by Becquerel, Henri (1852-1908), and others.
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1900. July-December. Very Good. 26 cm; 1371pages. Blindstamp of the Carnegie Institution. Contains "Sur le rayonnement de l'uranium," considered among Becquerel's more important contributions to the understanding of radioactivity. DSB I, p. 559.
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Tropical Wild Life in British Guiana.
by Beebe, William; G. Inness Hartley; Paul G. Howes; Theodore Roosevelt.
New York: The New York Zoological Society, 1917. First edition. Fine. 24 cm; 504 pages. Four plates in color, and numerous half-tone plates and illustrations. In original green cloth stamped in gilt with the image of a chick. Top edge gilt. William Beebe (1877-1962), one of the premier ecologists of the first half of the twentieth century, pioneered enormous advances over 19th-century science. According to Stephen Jay Gould, He came to the astonishing realization... Read More
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Nonsuch: Land of Water.
by Beebe, William.
New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, under the auspices of the New York Zoological Society, 1932. First edition. Very Good. 23 cm; 259 pages, color frontispiece and 46 halftone plates. Pictorial endpapers. In original blue cloth, no dust jacket.
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Jungle Days.
by Beebe, William.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1925. First edition. Very Good. 23 cm; 201 pages, and 10 halftone illustrations from photographs by the author. In original green cloth, no dust jacket. Travelogue based on Beebe's trip to Guyana (then British Guiana) and South America.
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Pheasant Jungles.
by Beebe, William.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1927. First edition. Very Good. 23 cm; 248 pages, and 60 halftone illustrations from photographs by the author.. Pictorial endpapers. In original blue cloth, no dust jacket. Travelogue based on Beebe's trip to Southeast Asia, Borneo, and Tibet to study pheasants.
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Mr. Sammler's Planet.
by Bellow, Saul; Tommy John.
New York: Penguin Books, 1979. Acceptable. 286 p. Wraps. Paperback copy, later printing in used condition. Inscribed inside front cover by Yankee pitcher Tommy John, dated November 16, 1981. Left-hander Tommy John pitched for the Dodgers and later for the Yankees. Consequently he played in all three Yankee-Dodgers World Series of his era (1977, 78 and 81), but was on the losing team all three times. He won 164 games in his career.
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Velká zkouska demokracií
by Benda, Julien; Karel Teige.
Praha (Prague): Klub Socialisticke Kultury, 1947. Acceptable. 23 cm; 116, [2] pages. Printed wraps designed by Karel Teige. Wraps beginning to separate from text block at spine; digits penned in ink in corner of upper wrap, and small abrasion to wrap on spine. Text unmarked and unblemished. First edition in Czech of the French philosopher's 1942 essay on the principles of democracy. Cover design by avant-garde artist Karel Teige. After welcoming the Soviet... Read More
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Itinerarium D. Beniaminis cum versione et notis Constantini L'Empereur ab Oppyck...
by Benjamin ben Jonah of Tudela.
Leiden: Elzevir, 1633. First bilingual edition. Very Good. Octavo (16 cm).; [48], 234, [22] pages. Woodblock initials and vignettes. In marbled boards, circa 1900, renewed endleaves, spine artlessly reinforced in cloth, worn at edges. Paper label apparently original. Provenance: Salomon Jakob Florsheim (exlibris). Some light foxing. Reference: Willems 377; Blackmer 120. Hebrew text of "Ma'asot shel rabi Benjamin," accompanied by a Latin translation. This "travelogue" (first published in Hebrew in 1543 and... Read More
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Histoire de la Louisiane, de ses origines à nos jours.
by Bernard, Antoine.
Quebec: La Conseil de la Vie française en Amérique, Université Laval, 1953. Very Good. 8vo; 446 p. Original green printed wraps, negligibly worn. Unopened.
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Leçons sur le diabète et la glycogenèse animale.
by Bernard, Claude.
Paris: Baillière, 1877. Very Good. Octavo. viii, 576 pages. In half polished red morocco over marbled boards. Original wraps bound in. Spine faded to tan. Light dampmark in upper right margin throughout. Else clean, strong, entire.
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Il secondo libro dell'Opere Burlesche,
by Berni, Francesco, and others.
Florence: heredi di Bernardo Giunti, 1555. First edition. Lacks P2 to Q2. Octavo (16 cm); [4], 187, [1] leaves, LACKING leaves 114-122, with text by Pietro Aretino, excised at an early date. Giunti device on title page and on last page. One woodcut initial. In c18 sheep. Spine decorated in gilt. Marbled endleaves. Rather worn, joints cracked but holding, leather peeling from spine with slight loss. References: Pettas, Florence, #326; Gamba 159,... Read More
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Il primo Libro dell'opere burlesche.
by Berni, Francesco (1497-1535), Giovannni Mauro, and others; Anton Francesco Grazzini ("il Lasca"), ed.
Florence: Bernardo Giunta, 1548. First edition. Octavo (17 cm); [16], 132, [128], 129-293, [2 blank] pages. Unusual collation consisting of numbered pages 1-132, followed by an errata page, followed by unnumbered leaves covering signatures AA through HH (in-8s), resuming numbering with page 129 and continuing through the end of the volume to page 293. In this copy, leaves D3, F7, F8, and G1 appear to have been inserted from a later edition, without interrupting the... Read More
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Women in Their Beds : New & Selected Stories.
by Berriault, Gina.
Washington: Counterpoint Press, 1997. Trade Paperback. Very Good.
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Piemonte, Lombardia, Canton Ticino.
by Bertarelli, L V.
Milano: Touring Club Italiano, 1916. Second edition. Very Good. 16 cm; 513 pages. Flexible cloth in original printed dust jacket. Part 1 only, covering the area from Torino (Turin) through Cuneo, Le Langhe, Bra, Asti, Alessandria, Pavia, the Val d'Aosta, to Lake Orta and Domodossola.
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The three voyages of Martin Frobisher in search of a passage to Cathay and India by the north-west, A.D. 1576-8.
by BEST, George (d. 1584); Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879-1962); Eloise McCaskill; Wilberforce Eames.
London: The Argonaut Press, 1938. #86 of an edition limited to 475 copies.. 27 cm; 2 volumes. Color printed device on title pages, color folding map frontispieces in both volumes. Numerous color illustrations, facsimiles, and maps. Bound in 1/4 vellum over brick-red cloth, with Frobisher crest stamped in colors on upper board of both volumes. Deckled edges. Rare original slipcase present. Cloth bubbling a bit where it meets the vellum spines, as usual in this... Read More
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Opere dell'abate Saverio Bettinelli.
by Bettinelli, Saverio (1718-1808).
Venice: Antonio Zatta, 1780-1782. Very Good. Octavo (23 cm); 8 volumes. Engraved portrait. In publisher's wraps of woodblock-printed pastepaper of peach-red and white designs. Untrimmed, in original, unsophisticated state. Old printed ex-libris (of Antonio di Cento) at base of title page, along with di Cento's ownership inscription recording the occasion of receiving the set as a gift, dated 1802. Early 20th century bookseller's ticket in volume 1. Light stains in first gathering... Read More
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Novum testamentum graecum ...
by Bible; Benito Arias Montano .
Coloniae Allobrogum (i.e., Geneva) : Pierre de la Rovière, 1611. 16mo (13 cm); 2 volumes in one. 342, 239, [1] leaves. Printer's device on title page. Text in Greek with interlinear Latin translation and commentary. Text and commentary within ruled borders. Elaborately gilt-tooled morocco armorial binding of l'abbé Genesse (i.e., of Genoa), with arms within a central lozenge enclosed in a motto and filigreed in all corners and within ruled borders on both... Read More
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