Search Results: Titles starting with D from Howard S. Mott, Inc

EACH OF THESE NINE VOLUMES PRESENTED BY NATHANIEL BOWDITCH TO HIS SONBOWDITCH, Nathaniel, inscribed by]. KASTELEIJN, Petrus Johannes (1746-1794), Author and Translator. A collection of 9 volumes, uniformly bound, of plays by Kasteleijn, or translated by him, all published in Amsterdam. Comprised of originaL sheets, some with added general titles & contents leaves. Uniformly bound in contemporary 1/2 calf, marbled boards (wear to spines & corners), 1 cover detached, but present, half of the lettering pieces for author and title missing, internally fine. Amsterdam: 1779-1789.

1. De Marquis de Bouillé, of De herövering van St. Eustatius, heldenspel (hero's game), by Kasteleijn. 1782 [issued as part of author's Tooneelwerken [Theatre works], 1782. Signed by Kasteleijn against piracy. STC Netherlands locates 6 copies, all in the Netherlands, as are all the titles that follow. 2. Dormont en Julia, of De beloonde huwlijksliefde. Toonelspel [melodrama], 1779. First Edition of an… Read More

[WAR OF 1812]. Democrat Extra: July 21, 1812. Prompt Patriotism. Folio, 2pp. circular letter (3 columns) + integral address-leaf. [Northampton, Mass.: Printed by Caleb Clapp, July 21, 1812].
"The struggle for the union may be an arduous one, but the fabric of Washington is not to be overturned by desperate party men."Congress declared war with Great Britain on June 18, 1812, an act which brought about swift declarations of American patriotism. This declares that "At a convention of republican delegates, consisting of one hundred and forty-two members, from fifty one towns,...comprising the counties Hampshire, Franklin and Hampden, convened at the courthouse in Northampton...Your committee are fully convinced that the present war is not only just but necessary and unavoidable...If the war of the revolution was just, this war is not less so. That was a war against arbitrary taxation of the British Parliament. It was a war for… Read More

WHAT APPEARS TO BE THE FIRST SEPARATELY PUBLISHED DENTAL MATERIAL MEDICA
WHITE, James W. Dental Materia Medica. [Illustrated]. 12mo, original brown cloth, title stamped in gilt, pp. 198, [30]s. Philadelphia: Samuel S. White, 1868.
First Edition "of what appears to be the first separately published and exclusively dental material medica or pharmacopoeia."-Jeremy Norman (rebound copy, 1995). Anesthetics are discussed, inclUding nitrous oxide, ether, chloroform, bicholride of methylene and tetracholoride of carbon, as are methods of topical anesthesia. Published by White's elder brother, Dr. Samuel Stockton White, founder of the largest dental manufacturing company in the world. MInor wear to spine and corners. Campbell 635. Weinberger, Dental Bibliography 143.

CATARACTS OF TROLLHATTAN, SWEDEN, ILLUSTRATEDSKJÖLDERBRANK, [Count] A[nders] F[redrik], author and artist. Description des cataractes et du canal de Trolhättan en Suède; avec un précis historique. [Illustrated]. Small 4to, contemporary 1/2 tree calf, marbled boards, leather label, title, extra engraved title, pp. 47, [1] eratta, [1] table + 12 aquatint plates, tinted by hand with a sepia wash (including 1 map). Stockholm: Charles Delen, 1804.
Only Edition. A crisp copy, nearly fine. Illustrates the cataracts of Trollhätta, Sweden, depicting falls, canals with boats passing through, dams, locks, etc., the illustrations with original tissue guards. The Göta River "descends 108 ft. in the course of nearly a mile by the famous falls...(6 in number) and several rapids. The scenic setting of the falls is not striking, but the great volume of water, nearly 18,000 cut. Ft. per second, renders them most imposing."-Ency. Brit. The author/artist also… Read More

NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS
GOWER, R[ichard] H[all], in the India
Service. A Description of several instruments for Measuring a Ship's Way through the Water, By...With an Account of his Patent Perpetual Log, and how the same principle may be applied to shew the absolute velocity of the Wind, and the depths of the Sea.
8vo, modern cloth backed marbled boards, half-title, title, [5]-32 + 2 copper engraved plates. London: Printed for the Author, 1792.
First Edition of author's rare first nautical work, with the half-title. ESTC locates two copies in England (BL & NMM), and two copies in this country (BA & NYPL). Gower (fl. 1767-1833), a sea captain and naval architect, "had been shocked by the low standard of navigation which he found in the convoy which took him to the East Indies...He devised a patent log, part of the workmanship being entrusted to Alexander Grant, and the sole rights of sale vested in Messrs Gilbert [& Wright] of 148 Leadenhall Street. He refers to "the… Read More

[JUDAICA]. CATHERWOOD , F[rederick], Architect. [BURFORD, Robert, Painter]. Description of A View of the City of Jerusalem and the Surrounding Country, now exhibiting at The Panorama, Broadway, corner of Prince and Mercer Streets, New York. Painted by Robert Burford, from drawings taken in 1834, by F[rederick] Catherwood, Architect. 8vo, original printed wrappers (two edges tattered), folding frontispiece panorama (with key to 71 locations in Jerusalem), pp. 12, newly stitched. [New York: Printed by William Osborn, 1838 (imprint from front cover)]. The rare first New York Edition, rarer still in printed wrappers. First edition of the description of the panorama as exhibited by Frederick Catherwood himself at The Broadway Panorama (the "Catherwood Panorama," or the "Catherwood Rotunda," a 10,000 sq. ft. building designed by Catherwood to exhibit panoramic paintings and a collection of Mexican antiquities in New York City between 1838 and 1842. It was one of the most popular entertainment spots… Read More

ENTERTAINMENTS IN 1798 FOR THE FIRST OFFICIAL PUBLIC NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION
[EXHIBITION CEREMONIES]. Detail des Cérémonies qui se feront les cinq jours complémentaires et le premier vendémiaire, dans lesqueuelles il y aura une Foire au Champ-des-Mars où les objets les plus précieux de nos Manufactures. y seront deposes, Joute sur l'eau, Lutte de différens Jeux, Masses de feu sur les Tours, les Dômes et les Thélégraphes; Explosion de six-cents Fusées Volantes; enlèvement d'un Ballon et de plusieurs Physiciens qui incendieront un bâtis représentant un Vaisseau de guerre Anglais, Courses à cheval, Courses en chars, Danses et Illuminations. [caption-title]. 8vo, pp. 8, disbound. [Paris: De l'Imprimerie de Gelé, 1798].
First Edition. Unrecorded. There are similar pamphlets celebrating this public national industrial exhibition, but this one seems to be unknown. Rare… Read More

THE FIRST GERMAN LANGUAGE EDITION COMPLETEWITH ITS CRUDE PORTRAIT FRONTISPIECE
[WEEMS, Mason Locke]. Die Lebensbeschreibung und merkwürdige Handlungen von George Washington, General und Befehishaber der Armeen von Nord-America.: Nebst der Erklärung der Unabhängigkeit und der Constitution der Vereinigten Staaten. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt. 12mo, original plain boards (rubbed, newly resewn, spine mostly perished), woodcut frontispiece portrait, pp. [2], 176, uncut, as issued. Friederichstadt [Frederick, Maryland]: Gedruckt bey M. Bärtgis, 1809.
First Edition in German of one of the earliest biographies of George Washington (1800), emanating from from a southern town with a large German-speaking population. Bärtgis published an English edition in 1801. Written by the man who invented the enduring myth of Washington and the cherry tree, which did not appear until the book's fifth edition in 1806. A very good, crisp, uncut copy in original state, other than having been resewn.… Read More

THE SHORT-LIVED ANGLO-CORSICA KINGDOM
[CORSICA IMPRINT, 18TH CENTURY ENGLISH PRESS]. [ELLIOT, Sir Gilbert, later first Earl of Minto.] Discorso di sua eccelenza il Vice-re pronunziano allo Scioglimento dedlla Sessone del Parlamento in Corte, li 22 Dicembre 1795.
4to, pp. [2] + integral blank leaf. In Corte [Corsica]: Nella Stamperia del Governo [1795].
One of what must be one of the few printed memorials of the short period when George III was King of Corsica. The Anglo-Corsican Kingdom came about during the French Revolutionary wars. It was short-lived, having been established in June 1794 after an invasion of the island, it reverting back to French control in October, 1796. "The Kingdom of Corsica was an ephemeral organization, a by-product of the wars of the French Revolution, lasting only two years, form 1794 to 1796, and then forgotten, even by history...Recently in the Rare Book Room of the… Read More

NICCHOLES, Alex[ander]. A Discourse of Marriage and Wiving: and of the greatest Mystery therein contained; How to choose a good Wife from a bad. An Argument of the dearest use, but the deepest cunning that man may erre in: which is, to cut by a Third betweene the greatest Good or evill in the world. Pertinent to both Sexes, and Conditions, as well those already gone before, as shortly to enter this honest society. Small 4to, late 19th or early 20th century gilt-ruled full brown morocco, pp. [8], 55 (one leaf,C2, pp. 11-12 in facsimile). London: Printed by N[icholas] O[akes] for Leonard Becket, 1615.
First Edition. Black Letter. An Oliver Cromwell family association copy of a rare marriage manual, partly in verse, by a Jacobean minister about whom little is known, but who describes himself on title as "Batchelour in the Art he never yet put in practise." Ownership signature, "[Eli]zabeth Cromwell, Upwood [1]630" on verso of title,… Read More

ROUILLARD, Rene [-Jean], navy surgeon 1st Class. Dissertation physiaque et medicale sur l'humidite considérée en general, et en particulier a bord des vaisseaux dans les regions equatorials; Présentée et soutenue à l'Ecole de Médecine de Montpellier, le 8 Août 1807...pour obtenir le titre de docteur en médecine. 4to, pp. [6], 64, [1], stitched, uncut. Montpellier: De l'Imprimerie de August Ricard [1807].Only Edition. A fine, wide-margined copy, of a work on naval medicine in the tropics, humidity and temperature in particular, by Rouillard (1775-1859), chevalier de la Legion-d'Honneur, "Membre Correspondent de la Societé Medicale d'Emulation de Paris." There are approximately 160 words of manuscript notes on the effects of temperature and humidity in a contemporary hand in the margins of p. 5. Rouillard, a native of Nantes, studied medicine there at the Hotel-Dieu, and continued in Brest at the Ecole de la Marine, under the direction of the celebrated Duret. He became a first class… Read More

DICKENS, Charles. Dombey and Son. With Illustrations by H. K. Browne. 8vo, 19/20 parts, in original printed wrappers, illustrated with 40 etched plates. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846-48.
First Edition, issued in monthly parts. With identifiable original owner's signatures on all wrappers (see below*). Two of the three misprints noted by Hatton & Cleaver as indicating early copies are here: part 11, p. 324, "Capitan" for "Captain"; part 14, p. 426, ":if" is not present; p. 431, the page number is present (H & C says the earliest issue has the number omitted).
Agrees with Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 227-250, with the following exceptions: In part 4 only two of the four-fold ad sheet "Letts Diary" and the specimen leaves for it are not here; part 7, no slip for "Cheap Edition of the Works of Mr. Charles Dickens," similar to slip in part 6; part 8, no ads for "Gilbert's Dictionary of the English Language," and the same is true for part 10; part 11, no ad-slip for Letts & Son; part 15, ad pages 3-10 not… Read More

A Dozen Pair of Wedding Gloves. 12mo, original white ornamental colored boards printed in red and green (soiled; spine with some wear), headed at top of front cover, "Illustrated by 'Phiz'", up-lettered printed spine, advertisement on lower cover, wood engraved frontispiece & extra engraved title, p. xvi, 201, [1] blank, [6] ads + 6 wood engraved plates. London: James Blackwood, 1855.
First Edition. Frontispiece, extra-title and two other illustrations engraved by Gilks after Phiz, four other illustrations by other artists. Humorous short stories which the anonymous author has "Dedicated to My Friend Albert Smith." Also found in publisher's red morocco cloth. This fragile issue in boards is quite scarce. Very good copy of a book which in this binding is usually found rebound. Sadleir 83a. Wolff 7449.

AN EARLY GO-FUND-ME ACCOUNT SET UP FOR A PRINTER!
[SWAN, James, printer]. Dreadful Fire in Fleet-Street. 8vo broadside, 8 3/4 x 5 ½". [London:] T. Davison, Printer, Whitefriars [1807].
On August 20TH, 1807, the printing office of John Swan, Crown-court, corner of Salisbury-square, was destroyed by fire, as were four other houses. According to Timperley, Swan's loss was £2000 above his insurance. A report of the fire was carrried in The Times, 21 August 1807. This 30-line broadside describes his loss and extols the virtues of the man himself, while appealing for funds on his behalf. Lost were "his stock in trade, his household furniture, his wearing apparel, and all his comforts and prospects in life…" Below the text are the names of 37 subscribers to the fund, and the amounts subscribed for, many of them printers, including, ironically, Thomas Bensley, whose warehouse containing much literary property was destroyed by fire less than three months later, on… Read More

AN UNRECORDED ANDREW JACKSON BROADSIDE PRINTED ON SILK RELATING TO THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS
JACKSON, Andrew. [BUTLER, Major Robert].
Duplicate. Whereas, it appears by the records of the War Department, that on the 1st day of July, 1815, the President of the United States conferred on Adjutant General Robert Butler, late a meritorious Officer of the Army, having, by virtue of his said office of Adjutant General, the rank of Colonel by brevet, the brevet of Lieutenant Colonel, for and in consideration of his 'gallant conduct during the siege of New-Orleans, and uniform attention to his duty in the Army,' in words and language as follows, to wit: The President...this first day of July...one thousand, eight hundred and fifteen,...James Madison...And Whereas, it appears...this third day of March,...one thousand, eight hundred and thirty seven...Andrew Jackson... Large folio broadside printed in yellow silk, 21 x 17", text within 3/4" ornamental border. There is a winged Phoenix rising from flames at… Read More