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London: Hand and Flower Press, 1949 One of 260 copies printed on handmade paper by the Ditchling Press, Sussex, signed by the author. A charming production. Half brown crushed morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe over gray boards. Gilt spine with raised bands. Top edge gilt, others uncut. . Quarto. Title-page engraving by Alfred Richard Lane. With bibliography. A fine copy.
1678. FINE ENGRAVINGS. Opera Omnia by Graaf, Regner de - 1678
by Graaf, Regner de
1678. FINE ENGRAVINGS. Opera Omnia
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Leiden: Io. Ant. Hugetan, 1678. Second edition.
1678 COLLECTED WORKS OF NOTED DUTCH ANATOMIST AND PHYSIOLOGIST, ILLUSTRATED WITH FINE ENGRAVINGS OF MALE AND FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEMS.
7 3/4 inches tall hardcover, full leather binding, spine with raised bands, gilt compartments and gilt title to spine, expertly rebacked with original spine conserved, 8vo. xx, [4], 390pp. Engraved title, portrait, 41 copper plate engravings (most folding) of male and female genitourinary system, digestive system, clyster apparatus, and syringe. Includes images of ectopic human pregnancy and surgical preparation of a dog for physiologic study of digestive tract. Surface wear to covers and spine, bookplate of physician previous owner to front paste-down, ink signature of original owner top of front endpaper (Francisci Joannis Desmares Bonneville), scattered wormholes (mostly marginal), binding tight, pages crisp and unmarked, plates with small tears at base of folds, overall very good minus, in custom archival mylar cover. Includes 3 Garrison-Morton titles (974, 1209, and 1210), text in Latin.
REGNIER DE GRAAF (1641 – 1673) was a Dutch physician and anatomist who made key discoveries in the biology of the reproductive and digestive tracts. He studied medicine in Utrecht and Leiden, submitted his doctoral thesis on the pancreas, and went to France where he obtained his medical degree from the University of Angers. After returning to the Netherlands, since he was a Catholic in a mainly Protestant country, he was unable to follow a university career. After the early death of a son, De Graaf died in 1673 at age 32. The mature stage of the ovarian follicle is called the Graafian follicle in his honor. De Graaf also described the anatomy of the testicles and collected secretions of the gall bladder and the pancreas (all illustrated in the plates).
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An Herbarium for the Fair. Being a Book of Common Herbs with Etchings by Betty Shaw-Lawrence. Together with Curious Notes on their Histories and Uses for the Furtherance of Loveliness and Love.
by [ Hand and Flower Press ]. Fassam, Thomas
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Sur la Plage, a Bernaval
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United States and Mexican Boundary Survey; Cactaceae of the Boundary
by Engelmann, George; Emory, Lieut. Col. W. H.
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Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1858. Hardcover. Good. Good. Engelmann, G. Cactaceae of the Boundary. Washington, 1858 (Smithsonian Institution), 78p., 76 steelengraved plates by i.a. PICART, Rare book on cacti along the USA-Mexico border. actually almost very good considering its age., Engelmann, G. Cactaceae of the Boundary. Washington, (Smithsonian Institution), n.d. (1858), 78p., 76 steelengr. plates by i.a. PICART, contemporay. half leather w. gilt spine, 4to. - Restorations to spine. binding tight, slight browning to page edges. All pages and plates very clean. Plate 14 of a total 76 plates is missing (photocopy of page laid in) Rare book on cacti along the USA-Mexico border. Ships from Hawaii with Priority mail within US, not slow media mail.
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The Murdered Maiden Student : A Tribute to the Memory of Miss Josie A. Langmaid
by Keeler, Rev. S. C.
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Suncook, Pembroke, N.H., 1878. 12mo, original russet cloth, gilt title and decorative black stamping on front cover, lower cover with blind-stamped title and ornament. Frontis. portrait engraving, 63 pp., illus. On the morning of October 4, 1875, the beautiful 17-year-old Josie Langmaid did not show up for school. When Pembroke Academy staff notified her family, a search party was assembled. That night the party found her decapitated and violated body in the woods near the school and discovered her head the next morning. Following the initial arrest of innocent parties, the actual murderer was identified as French-Canadian woodcutter Joseph Lapage. Tried and found guilty, he admitted to his crime (as well as a similar murder in Vermont) on March 15th, 1878 and was hung the following day. The town of Pembroke placed a monument to the victim near the murder site, with directions to the sites where her body and head were discovered. Keeler's forty-page poetic eulogy is preceded by a brief account of…
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The Exorcism (Signed Broadside)
by ROETHKE, Theodore
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San Francisco, CA: Poems in Folio, 1957. First edition. Broadside printed in two color that measures 12" x 18." One of 150 copies on mould made Arches paper, though this is an out of series copy. A poem by Roethke with a woodcut initial by Mallette Dean. A clean near fine copy. Signed by Roethke. Information sheet also included and in clean near fine condition. A very nice copy.
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La Mort d'Arthure:The History of King Arthur and of the Knights of the Round Table
by Malory, Sir Thomas; Wright, Thomas
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London: John Russell Smith, 1865. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Three volumes. 12mo. Half dark red cloth. Introduction and notes by Thomas Wright, The Introduction is of bibliographical importance as it sketches the history of the early editions of Malory: Caxton (one complete copy; one incomplete); de Worde (two editions, one copy of each known); Copland; East; and finally the edition of 1634. Each volume with the engraved circular bookplate of Emily Morris Gallatin on the front pastedowns. The simple signature of Arthur Lewis, 1949, on each of the front free endpapers. And on the front free endpaper of volume 1 a nearly full page inscription dated 2018. Only volume 1 has been fully opened; the remaining volumes are partially unopened. Aside from the inscription and signatures, these volumes are in very good condition showing only traces of wear at the corners, edges and spine tips. This is a curious edition. We have marked it a first edition, but not without hesitation. The first printing…
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My Dear Runemeister A Voyage Through the Alphabet - Ltd. Ed. in Hardcover
by REYNOLDS, Lloyd J.
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Portland, Oregon: The Alcuin Press, 1981. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo. Unpaginated [Pp. 74]. Introduction by Bill Gunderson. Italic calligraphy reproduced in red and black, printed recto. Brown and buff cloth half binding stamped with dark brown and gilt lettering, tan endpapers. Edition limited to three hundred, this copy numbered 197. Laid in are printed four-page brochure for the Lloyd Reynolds exhibit "A Life of Forms in Art" at the Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, 2011, as well as a one-page prospectus for the exhibition catalog. During his last year the well-known Portland author, calligrapher and teacher wrote this history of the alphabet in the form of personal letters to his friend William Gunderson. Printed by John Laursen at Press-22. Preserved in a clear archival sleeve.
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NOCTURNE [SIGNED]
by Swinnerton, Frank
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London: Martin Secker, 1926. 1926 Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo, 219 pages; G+; contemporary full green cloth binding; spine with rubbed gilt lettering; some shelf wear and soiling; corners bumped; fading to spine; tide lines to spine, and over joints; spine cocked; previous owner's bookplate at front pastedown; inscribed by Swinnerton at front free endpaper, "This confiscated copy of a book which the author--according to Mr Somerset Maugham--has obviously never read. With warmest regards and in celebration of an outstandingly loquacious evening. Frank Swinnerton"; pages clean; CX consignment; NOTE: Shelved in Room G. 1347238. FP New Rockville Stock.
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NOCTURNE
by Swinnerton, Frank; Wells, H. G. [introduction]
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New York: George H. Doran Company, 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 250 pages; VG/G+; spine white, with tan lettering; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering; some shelf wear and soiling to jacket; mild shelf wear to volume; small chips missing from corners of flap folds; small chip missing from upper edge of jacket front; chips missing from crown and tail of jacket spine; crack to center of jacket spine; small closed tears to upper and lower edges of jacket back; large chip missing at upper left corner of jacket back; spine slightly cocked; pages clean; CX consignment; NOTE: Shelved in Room G. 1347239. FP New Rockville Stock.
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THE SWORD OF CONAN
by Howard, Robert E.
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Laurel, Maryland, United States
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New York: Gnome Press, Inc., Publishers, [1952]. First edition. Slight toning to text block, some scuffs to front cover, a very good copy in a very good dust jacket with shelf wear to the corner tips and spine ends. Small chips and tears to head of spine panel, tiny tears at the corners of the base of the spine panel, tiny closed tear at upper front panel, and some edge rubbing (28155). Octavo, jacket art by David Kyle, cloth. The second Gnome Conan. Collects "The People of the Black Circle," "The Slithering Shadow," "The Pool of the Black One" and "Red Nails," all first published in WEIRD TALES in 1933, 1934 and 1936.
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