Search Results: Authors starting with F from Jay Dillon Rare Books + Manuscripts

New York: Soho Press, 1990 ¶ Collation: 233 x 154 mm: Pp. [v], 296. Binding: Quarter blue cloth, dust-jacket. Reference: ISBN 0939149400. .

First edition, advance uncorrected proof issued about one month before the finished book (October 1999), which was reimposed. Rare on the market. Compare e Bay 382596775844 (12 December 2018, another posthumous Feynman proof) sold at $850. -- Collation: 210 x 137 mm, 8¼ x 5¼ inches: 152 leaves paginated (pi)[1–4], [i]–[xvii] [xviii blank], [1]–274 [275–282 blank]. Nine line-illustrations (diagrams, facsimiles). Binding: Printed wrappers. Condition: As new.

A unique dossier of unpublished materials concerning a certain Richard Feynman manuscript "Trying to understand what happens when protons collide"; comprising: (1) a complete transcript of the original owner's letter to Feynman, 124 words; (2) an English translation of the same, 120 words; (3) a complete photocopy (scan) of Feynman's autograph reply (including a Feynman diagram) enclosing the manuscript in question; (4) a complete transcript of the same, 114 words; and (5) a professional description of the manuscript itself (including its date, background, provenance, affiliations, and price), 608 words. Together seven pages quarto, copyrights reserved.

Shipston-on-Stour (Warks): Peter Finer, 1999     ¶ A typically lavish catalogue prepared by the leading dealers in the field; presenting forty-four exceptional helmets, swords, shields, maces, armors, pistols, daggers, guns, axes, walking-staffs, rapiers, rifles, cannon, etc, -- and even an iron prosthetic hand --, chiefly Continental, chiefly ca 1450 - ca 1800.   ||| Collation: In 8s (298 x 209 mm): Seventy-eight leaves, paginated [1-156] (ie, not paginated).  Illustration: Numerous full-page and smaller color illustrations throughout.  Binding: Color-pictorial wrappers lettered in gilt.  Condition: Fine.  Reference: MMA. .

Shipston-on-Stour (Warks): Peter Finer, 1997     ¶ A typically lavish catalogue prepared by the leading dealers in the field; presenting sixty-four exceptional swords, helmets, shields, crossbows, quivers, armors, maces, cannon, pistols, powder-flasks, daggers, knives, rifles, rapiers, fowling-pieces, saddles, bayonets, mortars, etc, chiefly Continental, chiefly ca 1300 - ca 1860; including an important large "Still life of arms and armour from the collection of Sir Richard Wallace" by Desgoffe 1883 (pages [11-18]).   ||| Collation: In 8s (297 x 210 mm): Eighty-four leaves, paginated [1-168] (ie, not paginated). Pages [1-2] and [167-168] are pasted down, as issued.  Illustration: Numerous full-page and smaller color illustrations throughout.  Binding: Publisher's black linen lettered in gilt. Color-pictorial dust-jacket.  Condition: Fine.  Reference: MMA. .

New York: Playbill incorporated, 2000 ¶ Includes Program notes (pages [34], [39-40], [45-46]); Meet the composer (page [47]); Meet the artists (pages [48], [51-54]); advertising. At head of title: The Metropolitan opera; Joseph Volpe, general manager; James Levine, artistic director; Saturday evening, January 15, 2000, 8:00-11:15. ||| Collation: 217 x 135 mm. Pp. [3]-[82]. Binding: Color pictorial wrappers. Condition: Fine. ||| For further details please contact Jay Dillon Rare Books + Manuscripts, as below. .

Istanbul: by P. K'irishchean, 1882 In 8s (189 x 122 mm): Pp [1-5] 6-22, [1] 2-168 [169-170]. Errata-list at end (page [169]), verso blank. Contemporary red textured cloth blocked in blind and lettered in gilt, yellow wove endpapers, no headbands, all edges gilt. Upper hinge broken, joint sound, cloth somewhat discolored, withal a very good copy. *** THIRTY-NINE FABLES IN ARMENIAN PROSE, translated by T'adeos Keziwrean. .

Providence (Rhode Island): American Mathematical Society, 1990     ¶ COMPLETE SET of four large posters reproducing three finished drawings 1967-86 and an oil painting 1971, by Anatolii Fomenko, professor of mathematics in the Moscow State University and a leading exponent of mathematics in art.   ||| Together four posters 812 x 601 mm (32 x 24 inches) upright (nos. 1, 3-4) or oblong (no. 2), printed in colors (nos. 1-2) or black and white (3-4) on thick coated stock.  Condition: Very good.  References: Cf Fomenko Mathematical impressions (1990), nos. 51, 233, 242, 253.  Provenance: Serge Gorodetzky (1907-1999), physicist..

New York, 2001 ¶ Only edition of this landmark catalogue: "[In] a charged salesroom, the Medical Library of Dr. Meyer Friedman brought an outstanding $5.8 million, double its high estimate of $2.9 million. The combination of provenance, quality and rarity resulted in frenzied bidding on numerous occasions, driving many prices to multiples of their high estimates. The sale was 100% sold, with all of the top ten lots soaring above their high estimates, and all but one shattering their previous record[s] at auction. Highlighting the sale was . . . Harvey's 1628 Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis, which announced the discovery of the circulation of blood and sold for $748,250, far surpassing a high estimate of $400,000, and establishing a record for this work at auction." (Sotheby's.) Dr Friedman was responsible for the theory of 'type A' behavior and its links to heart disease. 176 lots. (Sale no. 7732.) ||| Collation: 270 x 211 mm: Pp [1-7] 8-154. Illustration: Numerous color and… Read More