Search Results: Authors starting with W from Bibiliophilia Books

Altdorfi Noricorum: Jodoci Wilhelmi Kohlesii, 1697. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Title continues: " . Origine, Praestantia, Utilitate, et Institutis, Sermone Vernaculo Liber". - Thick square 12mo. - 576 pp. plus plates and musical score. - Contemporary full calf; covers with gilt borders, spine with 3 raised bands with gilt borders (some of the gilt faded, lower edge of spine and part of back cover somewhat worn, edges of endpapers partially darkened; else fine - interior and plates very fine). - COMPLETE WITH 14 ENGRAVED PLATES (some double-page or folding) and 10 engraved head- pieces and tail-pieces; AND after Page 544, a 12-PAGE MUSICAL INSERT, entitled: "Der Meisterliche Hort in vier gekronten Thonen": and after Page 564 and the portrait, a 2-page "NB. Des Wilhelm Webers Bildnis pag. 564 beyzufugen". - The engraved plates include a portrait of Wagenseil by J. Sandrart; a magnificent multiply folding birds-eye view of Nurnberg by Cornelius Nikolaus… Read More

Londini: Excudebat J.C. & Prostant venales apud T. Davies & T. Sadler. sub insigni Bibliorum juxta ostiolum boriale D. Pauli, 1660. Hardcover. Very Good/not applicable. 16mo. (16.5x10.5 cm). - [16], 288 pages. - Contemporary full calf with gilt borders; spine with 4 raised bands, and title and decoration in gilt. Small cracks at top (2 cm) and bottom (1 cm) of front cover, one corner is bumped. Lacks front free end-paper, back free end-paper somewhat frayed; edges of title-page and last text page are slightly browned. - A comprehensive medical primer. - Ths last section on the circulation of blood is addressed to Thomas Bartolinus, and deals with Harvey and his work.

Chicago: Warner, Higgins and Beers, 1871. Hardcover. Fair. Wide folio (46.5x39.5 cm). - 3, {3].5-91. 2 blanks, and additional pages marked 6 and 7. - In publisher's embossed cloth, title embossed in gilt. - Binding in quite poor shape, interior and maps are very good. - With 30 single-page and 6 double-page engraved maps, all in many colors, except for the map of Charlotte, which is in all light-blue. - First edition. - The atlas includes the "Official Rail Road Map of Illinois", "Map of the City of Chicago", maps of all Illinois counties, a double map of the United States, maps of all U.S. states, concluding with a double-page map of the two hemispheres. - On Page 77 there is, what is described by Old World Auctions, an "uncommon map of Texas", with "good detail throughout the settled part of the state, and the western third comprised of large unsettled areas of Presidio, El Paso., ...".

Boston: Sewell Philips, 1819. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. Political Tract 22 pages. Tight binding, cover tears, otherwise very good. see photos. "Summary of Content: Memorial from the citizens of Boston. "Prepared in pursuance of a vote of the inhabitants of Boston and its vicinity, assembled at the State house, on the third of December, A.D. 1819." Committee composed of Daniel Webster, George Blake, Josiah Quincy, James T. Austin, and John Gallison. Printed by Sewell Phelps, printer, no. 5, Court Street, Boston. " "Daniel Webster, (born January 18, 1782, Salisbury, New Hampshire, U.S.-died October 24, 1852, Marshfield, Massachusetts), American orator and politician who practiced prominently as a lawyer before the U.S. Supreme Court and served as a U.S. congressman (1813-17, 1823-27), a U.S. senator (1827-41, 1845-50), and U.S. secretary of state (1841-43, 1850-52). He is best known as an enthusiastic nationalist and as an advocate of business interests during the period… Read More

Solithurn: C. Gassmann, 1905. Soft cover. Near Fine/not applicable. 12mo (17x12 cm). - XV, 116 pages and XVII plates. - Original printed stiff wrappers; almost fine. - Interior very fine. - Armors, swords, firearms and other weapons.

Leipzig: Crusius, 1784. Hardcover. Good. Emandata et Aucta Cura Io. Iacobi Eberti. - Lipsiae / Sumtibus Siegfr. Leberecht Crusii - MDCCLXXXIV. - Editio sexta. - Thick 12mo. - xxxii,816,44 pp., plus plates. - Contemporary 3/4-leather, title on red leather label on spine with blind-stamped figurative decorations (small [about 1/2"] split on top of spine). marbled paper boards (worn). - Interior fine. - Ownership signature. in old ink: "Johannis Meszoly / Anno 1813". - With 459 illustrations on 52 plates. - With a 44-page section consisting of logarithmic and trigonometric tables, as well as 14 astronomical and 2 geographical tables (all printed in Wittenberg by Adam Christian Charisius). - Weidler was Professor at the University of Wittenberg. The first edition of this popular textbook appeared in 1718. No copies in WorldCat 10/18

Oldenburg: Stalling. Hardcover. Fair. Oblong quarto (27x32.5). - 14 pages. - a strong cardboard leporello, front cover with illustration in green, yellow and red. Worn, disbound. - A famous children's book, in which a typical middle-class home is shown in many colors, exhibited on 7 double pages. including hallway, sitting room, children's room, bedrooms, kitchen and gardens. - Movable flaps to play with, for opening doors and closets [14 (of 16) of he flaps are present, one loose]. Slits are missing. - WorldCat locates 7 copies, only 2 in the U.S. (Princeton, NYPL)

Pressburg (Pozsony): Anton Lowe, 1784. Hardcover. Good/not applicable. Title continues: . Geschichtschreibern und glabwurdigen Handschriften zusammengetragen. - Large 12mo. - xvi,568,(48) pp. - Contemporary full polished calf; spine with 5 raised bands and extensive gilt floral decorations, title in gilt on leather label. Marbled floral endpapers in red and blue. Engraved title-page vignette, and some engraved tail-pieces. - Both binding and interior very fine. - Neue, vermehrte, und verbesserte Auflage. - Windisch (1725-1793) was Mayor of Pressburg.

Coloniae (Koln): Sumptibus Bernardi Gualteri, 1607. No Binding. Fair/No Jacket. Large 24mo. - 143,(1) pp. - Disbound, title-page and last page somewhat soiled and scuffed, else very good. - In Latin. - First and only edition. - "Gebetsammlung fur Rundgange fur Kolner Hauptkirchen". - A collection of prayers to be said while walking through the Cathedral of Cologne. - Quite rare: OCLC locates only 3 copies (2 in Germany and 1 in The Netherlands).

Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas, 1968. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Royal octavo (25x17 cm). - XIV, 258 pages/ - Publisher's dark red cloth, title in gilt on front cover and spine. Very fine. D/j, fine. - Profusely illustrated with photos, graphs and tables. - Includes 19 Temple Fay manuscripts, 5 of which had never been published before. - Essays on neurosurgery, cerebral palsy, human walking patterns, reflexes, etc.

New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1837. No Binding. Very Good. crown octavo (20.5x13 cm). - VIII, pp.[1], 346-452. - Disbound -- Elizur Wright (1804-1885) was a Yale graduate, a mathematician, often described as the "father of life insurance" in the United States, and a great advocate of abolition. In 1833, he founded, along withLewis Tappan, Arthur Tappan, Theodore Weld and James Birney, the American Anti-Slavery Society. - He incurred the enmity of slavery's advocates, and once they tried to kidnap him and bring to North Carolina. - The present issue of the quarterly is devoted almost in its entirety to the Fourth Annual Report of the Society. The report records many cruel events. An example: "Flogging to death. - A negro, the property of Mr John Skinner, of Society Hill, S. C., was flogged by his overseer, one Bill Schenck, on the 25th, ult., in such a severe manner that he died the same evening. Schenck was examined before a justice, and discharged. -… Read More

New York: Atheneum, 1976. uncorrected proof . Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. - xvi,324 pp. - Publisher's stiff printed green wrappers. - Very fine. - With typed letter, signed in ink, on Atheneum letterhead, by Charles P. Corn, Senior Editor, addressed to Saul Bellow, laid in: " . We do want to do everything we can to make the book a success; so if you do like it and would like to give us a comment that we may use for promotional purposes, the author and I would be most appreciative." Some aging related discoloration on back cover otherwise very fine. See images below at photos.app.goo.gl/SvJczjZUg4KDH23R7 .