Search Results: Authors starting with I from James Cummins Bookseller

London: Printed by Thomas Baskett, 1753. pp. [277]-280. 1 vols. Folio. Removed. Some marginal tears, reinforcement along spine, else a very good copy. pp. [277]-280. 1 vols. Folio. An Act for reducing the Number of Directors of the Corporation of the Governor and Company of Merchants of Great Britain trading to the South Seas, and other Parts of America; and for encouraging the Fishery; and for regulating the Election of the Governors and directors of the said Company.

Coloured lith. Signed in plate lower right. 11-1/2 x 10-/14 inches. Matted. Coloured lith. Signed in plate lower right. 11-1/2 x 10-/14 inches. Henri-Gabriel Ibels was a French illustrator, printmaker, painter and author. He collaborated with Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and became involved in avant-garde theater though that connection This lithograph shows three circus men, and is characteristic of Ibels' work and inspiration, which frequently came from the circus and boxing ring as well as street cafes.

New York: International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), 1936. First edition. With many diagrams and illustrations, in 23 individually paginated sections. 4to. Black cloth pressure binder. Light rubbing to extremities. Very good. Provenance: IBM. First edition. With many diagrams and illustrations, in 23 individually paginated sections. 4to. The Apogee of 1930s Information Processing. First Edition of this manual issued in separate parts by IBM during the period just before the invention of the electronic computer, when the company dominated the market for punch-card tabulators and other calculating and data-processing machines. The most sophisticated of IBM's electric punched card tabulators could be programmed by plug boards, and represented an intermediate step between traditional tabulating machines and the programmable computers that were developed during World War II. "Primarily, this book was written to provide a single volume from which employees of International Business Machines… Read More

London: William Heinemann, 1891. First edition in English, no. 66 of 100 copies of the Large Paper Edition. Photogravure portrait frontispiece on China paper. xv, [i], 236 pp. 4to. Publisher's wrappers with illustrated French-fold jacket. Spine defective, jacket chipped and worn with loss, textblock split. In a custom blue half morocco slipcase and chemise. First edition in English, no. 66 of 100 copies of the Large Paper Edition. Photogravure portrait frontispiece on China paper. xv, [i], 236 pp. 4to. The large paper edition of the first English edition of Hedda Habler, limited to 100 copies. First published in London in an edition of 12 copies to secure copyright followed by the Copenhagen edition in the original Norwegian. PMM 375 (Norwegian edition)

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. The Viking Edition. Number 20 of 256 numbered sets printed on Ruisdael hand-made paper, signed in Volume One by the Publishers. Each volume with a frontipiece on Japan vellum and other illustrations and photographs. 16 vols. 8vo. Bound in Publisher's three quarter's blue morocco and cloth, gilt spine with corn stalks and Viking ship, by Stilkeman and Co. for Charles Scribner's Sons. Volumes IX, X and XI have stains and in X & XI affecting text, spines fine, some joint rubbing. The Viking Edition. Number 20 of 256 numbered sets printed on Ruisdael hand-made paper, signed in Volume One by the Publishers. Each volume with a frontipiece on Japan vellum and other illustrations and photographs. 16 vols. 8vo. Volume 1, Lady Inger of Östråt; The Feast at Solhoug; Love's Comedy. With an Introduction by William Archer and C.H. Hereford. Volume 2. The Vikings at Helgeland; The Pretenders. With an Introduction by William Archer. Volume 3. Brand. Translation and… Read More

Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, 1894. First edition. 219 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green pictorial cloth gilt, a.e.g. Slightly rubbed, else fine. First edition. 219 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First edition of Little Eyolf.

Copenhagen: P. Jónssyni for S.L. Møller, 1838. New edition, originally published in 1739. 17 full-page woodcuts of hand mnemonics. 256 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Contemporary thin wooden boards, sheep spine and corners (paper perished). Light wear, early institutional stamp to front blank. Clean and sound. New edition, originally published in 1739. 17 full-page woodcuts of hand mnemonics. 256 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Mnemonic guide to religious and secular dates of the Gregorian calendar using finger counting and rhymes. Cornell/Fiske-Icelandic, p. 18

Washington, D.C., 1948. One page on personal letterhead. Small pinholees in upper left corner, text unaffected. In brown cloth folder. One page on personal letterhead. Paul Douglas vs. Carl Sandburg for the Senate. Ickes (1874 -1952), former Secretary of the Interior under FDR (and briefly under Truman) and the administrator of the Public Works Administration, grew up in Chicago himself, and after leaving the administration, remained active not only in nationa but in Illinois politics. Here, in a letter to the newspaper columnist Harry Barbard of the CHICAGO DAILY NEWS, Ickes opines: "A man whom I don't know has sent me a tear sheet from the CHICAGO DAILY NEWS of January 23 in which appears a communication from you with reference to the Senate situation in Illinois. I believe that I will not fall behind in my esteem for Carl Sandburg, but the suggestion of support for him for the Senate seems to me to be entirely futile. Neither can I understand your expressed opposition to Paul V. Douglas. I have… Read More

Leipzig: G. J. Göschen, 1800. 196; 166 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Nineteenth-century half calf and cloth, all edges marbled. Some rubbing at edges, else a clean, tight, very good copy. 196; 166 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Two works by the prolific Iffland (1759-1814), the most popular dramatist of his day. The first is a drama of murder and love, the second a comedy.

[Great Britain], 1761. 2pp., plus integral blank. Docketed on verso "King's Warrant / Province of Massachusetts / Bay £60,634 in part / of £200,000 Granted for / the North American / Provinces." Signed by George III at the head of the first page, countersigned on the second page by William Wildman Barrington, James Oswald and Gilbert Elliot. Folio (14 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches). Usual folds. 2pp., plus integral blank. Docketed on verso "King's Warrant / Province of Massachusetts / Bay £60,634 in part / of £200,000 Granted for / the North American / Provinces." Signed by George III at the head of the first page, countersigned on the second page by William Wildman Barrington, James Oswald and Gilbert Elliot. Folio (14 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches). Towards the end of the French and Indian War, William Pitt started a specie grant program to reward colonies for raising troops, thus putting the colonies in competition with each other for a share of an annual 200,000 pounds. With specie scarce in the colonies, the… Read More

Paris: Pour la Vesue Jean Dalier & Nicolas Rosset, 1578. 8 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Disbound, leaves separated, some light browning, else very good. 8 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. The King's proclamation settling the public debts occurred the previous year at a rate of 60 sols per écu. Not cited in Kress

London: Printed for the Editor; and sold by J. Bew, 1779. First edition. Pp. [iii]-57. Lacking half-title. 1 vols. 8vo. Red morocco-backed green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Rubbed, some light spotting. Bookplate of John Carter Brown, ex-library with stamp on title, else very good. First edition. Pp. [iii]-57. Lacking half-title. 1 vols. 8vo. Financing the Revolution. A satire. Often attributed to Richard Tickell as it imitates the tone of Tickell's "Anticipation" published the year before. Purports to contains speeches made in the Houses responding to the King's speech on the war in America and his need for more monies to pay for it. Adams "American Controversy" 79-3a; Sabin 1685

Rimini: Tip. Fratelli Ercolani, 1853. 2 lithographic portraits of Napoleon III and his wife Eugénie, by Turgis, Paris.Each portrait with accompanying title page and 3 pp. of laudatory verse, printed in 5 colors. Folio. Contemporary decorated paper over boards. With stamps of "Cabinet de L'Empereur, Donaine Privé." Portraits erratically trimmed, with some loss to margins of image. 2 lithographic portraits of Napoleon III and his wife Eugénie, by Turgis, Paris.Each portrait with accompanying title page and 3 pp. of laudatory verse, printed in 5 colors. Folio.

Peoria, Illinois: Transcript Book and Job Printing Establishment, 1859. 31 pp. 8vo. Printed yellow wrappers. 31 pp. 8vo. Thorough survey of Peoria from its history to its present business leaders, with additional information on, among other things, the educational system, railroads, trade and commerce, and the fairgrounds. Howes P218 "aa.

[Joliet, Ill.], 1839. 5pp. Folio. Old folds. Separation at many folds, most repaired with tape. Light soiling and foxing. Some small paper loss due to wax seals. Still, quite legible. About good. In a green half morocco and cloth clamshell case, spine gilt. 5pp. Folio. An Early Agreement of Western Newspaper Ownership. A manuscript purchase agreement for the JULIET [sic] COURIER, the Chicago-area's oldest newspaper, and the sixth oldest paper in Illinois.  The JULIET COURIER was founded April 20, 1839 by thirteen investors in Juliet, Illinois (changed to Joliet in 1845).  They hired an editor named Balch (variously referred to as P.O. Balch, O.H. Balch, and C.H. Balch), who abandoned the project a few months later, resulting in the present document.  The paper was then edited by David L. Gregg, a local attorney who rose to prominence and later served as Illinois Secretary of State; in 1853, Gregg was appointed United States Commissioner to the Sandwich Islands, where he served for the next ten… Read More

London: Blackie & Son, Limited...F.W. Devoe & C.T. Reynolds, Co., New York, 1890. First edition, in the original four parts, as issued. Nine Chromolithographic tipped-on plates. 4 vols. 4to. Original printed wrappers. Fine. First edition, in the original four parts, as issued. Nine Chromolithographic tipped-on plates. 4 vols. 4to. In Parts.

Vienna, 1874. Partly printed calligraphic document on vellum, black ink within printed ornamental borders, ornamented in gold, with polychrome coat of arms. 4 ff. 1 vols. Folio. Purple velvet with Habsburg arms on upper cover, silk pastedowns, with gilt cord and red wax seal in 12 cm diameter brass case. In tin dispatch case, with two partly printed Imperial documents, 1873 and 1874, the second with paper seals. Fine. Partly printed calligraphic document on vellum, black ink within printed ornamental borders, ornamented in gold, with polychrome coat of arms. 4 ff. 1 vols. Folio. Patent of noblility issued to Adolph von Baeuerle, landowner, who was active in the 1873 International Exposition in Vienna. The richly engrossed document is signed by the Emperor Franz Joseph I (1830-1916) and countersigned by the minister of the interior, Josef Freiherr von Lasser Zollheim.

[Confederate States of America, 1861. Printed broadside of poem within ornamental border, signed "B.". 9-3/4 x 5-1/2 inches. Minor creasing, else fine. Printed broadside of poem within ornamental border, signed "B.". 9-3/4 x 5-1/2 inches. "Next come we to Old Daniel Tyler, Whose only synonym is 'riler,' But as he's beaten let him pass, He always was a stupid ass ..." The title is adapted from Horace and translates as, "In its boldness to dare all things, Lincoln's people rush into that which is wicked and forbidden.". Parrish & Willingham 6222; Worlcat locates 6 copies and P & W adds an additional location

Richmond: George Dunn & Company, 1864. [3]pp. Folio. Self-wrappers. Lithograph title and sheet music. Moderate foxing and minor dust soiling. Good. [3]pp. Folio. Self-wrappers. Variant issue, without priority. One of the most popular Confederate songs, lamenting the losing cause. Words and music by the prolific team of Charles C. Sawyer and Henry Tucker. Scarce. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 7630

[Richmond], 1864. 2pp., printed on Confederate "necessity" paper. 12 x 8 1/2 inches. Minor toning and wrinkling. 2pp., printed on Confederate "necessity" paper. 12 x 8 1/2 inches. This partly printed form accepts payment in taxes by supplying the Confederate government with crops, i.e. wheat, oat, sheaf oats, rye, cured hay or wool. The verso includes a listing of 5 "Special Exemptions." Though partly accomplished in manuscript, the handwriting is quite faded. OCLC locates three examples.