Authors starting with E from G. Gosen Rare Books & Old Paper

R. Ackermann, London: June 1, 1815. First edition, [1 blank; frontispiece, Greco-Roman style painted title page with an aquaforte from Pompeii, looking towards a smoking Mt. Vesuvius; fold-out hand-colored map of the country, islands in the vicinity of Naples; vi; 400 pages; x; 1 blank] Nine hand-colored plates by Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827), delt., sculpt., two hand-colored maps (one of Capri), a hand-colored schematic of the barracks and theaters at Pompeii, a hand-colored view of the Temple of Isis in ... more information

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Charles Scribner's Sons, New York: 1896. First edition, 312 pages, 18.5cm, cloth, bluish-green pin-striped with a Dutch Colonial design stamped on the front cover. Top edge of page block slightly soiled, but a fine, tight bright, clean copy signed by twentieth century American photographer-historian Elizabeth G.C. Menzies. Dedicated to the Society of Colonial Dames of the State of New York, this book is a depiction of life in New Amsterdam, covering education and child-life, courtship and weddings, town li... more information

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The Macmillian Company, New York: 1905 449 pages, 23cm, extra-illustrated presentation copy, inscribed, and signed by the American genre painter and book illustrator, E(dward) L(amson) Henry (1841-1919): "To Mrs Marie L. Hewlett, E. L. Henry April 1913;" also, the five full-page illustrations reproducing Henry's paintings are signed by him; in addition, 5 photographic prints on paper (albumen and cyanotype) of Henry's paintings have been pasted in, 4 are signed and retouched by him in varying degrees. They ... more information

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Horizon Press, New York: 1957 Presentation copy from the author to David Stander in appreciation of his devotion to the United Jewish Appeal, signed on a paste-down to the half-title. 304 pages, 21.5cm, orange cloth spine on blue boards with a silver facsimile of the author's signature on the front cover and silver lettering on the spine. Front end papers are a modern scale map of the Middle East, and back end papers are an enlarged map of Israel. The dust jacket is brown and blue with a front panel photogr... more information

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London, MacMillan and Co.: 1899. First edition, publisher's embossed presentation copy stamp, [vi; 470 pages], bluish-green cloth with black lettering, 17.5cm, front cover signed by Prof. Alan W.C. Menzies, back end paper and inside back cover with Menzies' notes and calculations. Two corners bumped, otherwise a good clean tight copy. Illustrated throughout.... more information

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University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia: 1970. First edition anthology, selections from periodical writings of Donald Drew Egbert, 28.5cm, frontispiece portrait of Prof. Egbert, 183 pages, dark green cloth, this copy inscribed to his friend and protegée, Elizabeth G.C. Menzies. A very fine copy in a very good dust jacket. Trained as a mediaevalist under Charles Rufus Morey at Princeton, Egbert soon developed the significance of early art as evidence for history and the sociological significance o... more information

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Universal, Wien: 1947 Libretto in German, 36 pages, 20cm, stapled yellow wrapper. U.E. publisher's number 11695. An opera in two parts, Opus 6 of Von Einem, after Büchner's drama of 1835. First produced in Salzburg in 1947. An interesting collaborator with Einem, Blacher was himself a composer, born and studied in China and Siberia. Later he studied in Berlin, music being among his other intellectual pursuits. Einem dedicated DANTONS TOD to Blacher. Later printing. Condition fine.... more information

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Berliner Handpresse bei Propyläen: October 1971 First printing of a text by Carl Einstein in the Archive of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin with the permission of Nina Aproux-Einstein. 33cm, turquoise paper boards with black lettering on the front cover, with "Lorenz" in larger red letters. [31 pages, verso of p. 31 blank; 11 unpaginated page essay by Walther Huder dated Lugano 17 Juli 1971 titled "Über 'Laurenz' und seinen Autor"; followed by the limitation page on the verso. This copy is numbered in pen... more information

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Salvat, Duch Y Ferre, Barcelona: 1922. 165 pages, paper bound, Biblioteca Tierra Y Libertad. A compilation of writings and speeches by Delesalle (LA ACCION SINDICAL Y LOS ANARQUISTAS), Mella (LA COOPERACION LIBRE Y LOS SISTEMAS DE COMMUNIDAD), Girard (LA PRODUCCION LIBRE), Cafiero (COMUNISMO Y ANARQUIA), Malatesta, (ANARQUISMO Y COMUNISMO), Grupo Estud. S.R.I. de Paris (EL COMUNISMO Y LA ANARQUIA), and Kropotkin (COMUNISMO Y ANARQUIA). Condition good but pages browning.... more information

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Henry Holt and Company, New York: 1991. Inscribed copy, [xii; 180 pages], 21.5 cm, white cloth with red spine, book and dust jacket both are as new, signed and inscribed by the author, "I hope you like the story of Kate and the mysterious dragon! Anne Leo Ellis April 2000." First edition, first issue. Dust jacket price of $14.95 is unclipped. ISBN: 0-8050-1713-5.... more information

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Bridgeton, New Jersey, George F. Nixon: 1869. First edition, 139 pages, brown cloth covers with gold lettering on the front cover, now slightly flaky, some light foxing in the introductory pages. Signed in pencil by New Jersey photographer-historian Elizabeth Menzies.... more information

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Elwe, Amstelodami: 1792. Two folia joined, copperplate engraved map of Germany, showing Central Europe to the North Sea, with titular seats. Hand-colored. Slightly browned, otherwise very good. Sheet measures 26in X 21 3/4in, image 22 1/2in X 19 1/2in.... more information

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Schwetschke un Sohn, Halle: 1837 First edition, German language, [viii; 131 pages; final blank], 8vo, 20cm, manuscript note in ink on the inside back cover, ownership stamp of Karl Eduard von Liphart on title page, lower right-hand corner. Still bound in original glazed brown paper boards. Slight occasional foxing, front hinge has exterior reinforcement, cracked lower 5cm but holding. Printed on fine laid paper. A good copy of the first edition of Erdmann's (1805-1892) first book.... more information

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Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis: 1928. 19.5cm, black cloth with red lettering and a publisher's decorative device of a Greek soldier holding the reins of the Trojan Horse on the front cover and on front panel of the dust jacket, decorative end papers by D. Putnam Brinley showing the map of the Odyssey, 275 pages, dust jacket in brown, black, and red with original price of $2.50 unclipped. Both the jacket and book are fine. A beautiful, tight copy.... more information

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Antuerpiae, Ioannem Baptistam Verdussen: 1682 [1l; iv; 635; xiv; xxvi; xxi] Commentary on the entire Roman Catholic Bible book by book, in Latin, of selected phrases crucial to a citation. The second edition dates from 1631, the third edition from 1652, and the fifth edition from 1683. This copy is believed to be the fourth edition. Condition good. New backstrip, endpapers replaced. Remarkably free of foxing, pages appear to have been trimmed in the 19th c. when the present boards were put on. Ex Libris: Bi... more information

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Unpublished map, drawn and signed on parchment by the surveyor. Original hand-drawn map, black and red ink on parchment, drawn, dated, and signed by Newton Evans Mar. 10, 1884. The tract began N37.5W/55ft. 9in., S59.25W/64ft., Birch Run 268ft. 7in., S55.25E 36ft. 3in., N40ft.E/ 240ft. 5in., 26,408 square feet. Document measures: 33cm x 29.5cm. Slight wear at folds, the wear does not impair readability, as these small openings occur in blank areas. Otherwise clean and white.... more information

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Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, State Printers, 1848. First edition, 22cm, 71 pages, the eulogy followed by the order of the service held by the Massachusetts Legislature. Remembered for being the long-winded 'other Speaker at Gettysburg,' Dr. Everett did his reputation as an orator-for-hire no harm with this eulogy. Condition very good, back cover slightly chipped, no foxing. Disbound, pencil annotation indicates this was a duplicate copy.... more information

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Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London: [no date] 52 pages, ornamental paper covers, front cover illustrated, 17 illustrations of Randolph Caldecott, this copy dedicated to Mary Dickson from Helen Carnegie May 1889. Good condition, spine slightly chipped.... more information

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Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London [no date]. 55 pages, ornamental paperboards, all the stories (6 in all) originally appeared in AUNT JUDY'S MAGAZINE, except "The Trinity Flower," and this story appeared in THE MONTHLY PACKET under the title of "The Blind Hermit and the Trinity Flower." Most of the illustrations here are by Gordon Browne except for four German woodcuts reproduced on pages 9, 17, 26, and 50. This copy inscribed to Mary Dickson from Helen Carnegie May of [18]89. Good condition... more information

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Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London: [no date] 47 pages, paper covers with cloth spine, color illustrations on front and back covers. This copy inscribed from Helen Carnegie to Mary Dickson 1889.Very good.... more information

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