Search Results: Titles starting with E from Bibiliophilia Books

Paris: Ch. Lahure et Co., 1861. Soft cover. Very Good/not applicable. Octavo ( 22x14 cm). - 45, [3] pages. - In original printed light green wrappers, faded, slightly frayed.. - Inscribed on front cover, in ink: "A Monsieur Frican(?) ... E. Becquerel". - On first page, ownership stamp: Prof. Ad. Liechti (?)" - With 2 illustrations, showing the phosphoroscope invented by Becquerel.. - Alexandre- Edmond Becquerel (1820-1891) was a member of a distinguished family of physicists [his father, Antoine Cesar, worked for the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, and his son, Henri, was one of the discoverers of radioactivity. - In 1839, he discovered the photovoltaic effect, the operating principle of solar cells. - The present paper describes the result of his studies on luminous effects resulting from the action of light on bodies. - Quite rare: WorldCat locates only 3 copies of this publication (not the separately paginated offprint like ours, but only pp.… Read More

New Orleans: Searcy & Pfaff, Ltd., 1929. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/not applicable. Title continues: "With A Bibliography of the Issues of the Louisiana Press". - Large 4to. - 151 pp. - Searcy & Pfaff Ltd., New Orleans, 1929. - No. 78 of "four hundred ten copies only on French Arches paper". - Original decorative paper-covered boards, with gilt-stamped red cloth spine. (Corners slightly bumped, front inner hinge with small crack, else fine). - With frontispiece facsimile, and 22 facsimiles in text. - Boldly inscribed on front free end-paper, in ink: "To J. Christian Bay / with the warm regard/ of / Douglas C. McMurtrie". - With engraved bookplate, showing a reading monk among three nuns, of Irving S. Cutter. Link to additional photos available on request.

Berlin: Der Malik-Verlag, 1923. First Edition . Soft cover. Fair/No Jacket. Grosz, George. Small folio (36x26 cm). - [2], [1] pages, 100 plates. - In original strong illustrated wrappers (Buttenkarton), which are in very bad condition (part of spine appears to be chewed by vermin) and cover is somewhat soiled. - However PLATES & LITHOGRAPHS ARE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. Ausgabe C - 16 color plates (aquarelles), numbered I through XVI, and 84 lithographs, numbered 1 through 84. - Title-page printed all in red, with a pasted-on circular bookplate: "Exlibris Hans Hellin". - Ownership signature on front free end-paper: " Robert Grosz / 1934".

Munchen: Biederstein, 1958. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Einmalige Sonderausgabe / 41. Band der Reihe "Die Bucher der Neunzehn" / Februar 1958 - Crown octavo (20.5x12.5). - 371 pages. - Publisher's white cloth,, with the initials H. D., in cursive and in red; title in red on spine; very fine. - Dust jacket in red, grey and black; spine somewhat faded, else fine. - Inscribed in ink, of 4 different colors (red, green, light blue and dark blue): "Fur / Walter Grossman / mit den allerherzlichen Grussen! / Heimito Doderer / im Mai 1958". - A 10x14.5 cm slip, in Doderer's handwriting, "Walter Grossman esq. / 97 Waverly Street / Belmont 79, Mass. / U.S.A. " laid in.

Munchen: Biederstein, 1957. Hardcover. Very Good. Crown octavo (20x12 cm). - 99, [1] pages - Publisher's dark blue cloth, wit initials "H.D." in gilt on front cover, title and decoration on spine in gilt. - Dust jacket in two shades of grey, with title in yellow and white. (Slight scuffing of spine, with a 1 cm closed tear on top. - Inscribed in inks of four different colors (red, green, light blue and dark blue): "Fur / Walter Grossmann / in herzlichen Gedanken ! / Heimito Doderer / 7. Okt. 57".

Leipzig - Jenae et Lipsiae: Johann Christian Martini - Christ. Frid.. Gollner, 1742. Hardcover. Very Good/not applicable. 16mo (17.5x10.5 cm). - 26, 218, [12] pages and multiply folding plate; 16, 64 pages. - Contemporary 3/4 calf, marbled boards, spine with 5bands and title in gilt on gold label. (Corners and edges worn, lacks 1 cm piece at bottom). - The first work in German, the second one in Latin. - Christian Friedrich Bauer (1696-1752) was a professor at the University of Wittenberg, where he studied, among others, the Hebrew accent and its mathematical structure. (As stated later by others, Hebrew is a mathematical language in which there are no abstruse, sensory or other nuances.) - EXTREMELY RARE; WorldCat locates only 2 copies of the first title (Hannover and London), and only a single copy of this edition of the second one (Rostock).

Paris: Robert Stephenus (Estienne), 1544. Hardcover. Fine. 4to (30.5x19.5 cm). - [4], 357 (last misnumbered 353).181, [5] leaves. - Many pages misnumbered, some not numbered or the same number is printed on consecutive pages. Lacks the blank after 116. - Modern dark blue hard cover binding, with the Greek title in gilt on the front cover and spine, and with marbled end-papers. -- Small portion (2x2 cm) of upper right corner of title-page, as well as a larger part (14x11.5 cm) of the lower right corner of the third leaf laid down. else a fine interior. - Printed entirely in Greek; except for some Latin of the title-page, and the verso of the penultimate leaf, with the "Regestum" and Estienne's colophon, all in Latin. - With Estienne's smaller printer's device (serpent twined around an olive branch) on the title-page, and his larger one (man standing under an olive tree, with some branches falling to the ground, with the words of Romans11:20: "Noli altvm… Read More

London: J. Walthoe, 1742. Hardcover. Good. Printed for J. Walthoe, over-against the Royal-Exchange at Cornhill. - 12mo. - xxiv,328 pp. - A rare binding: contemporary full leather, covered with contemporary protective cover of full vellum. - Vellum quite worn, small chip at the top of the spine of the leather binding. - With some engraved head- and tail-pieces. - First edition. - A substantial and popular work by Hammond, who worked for the Bank of England, based on isaac Newton's "Universal Arithmetick" of 1707. - With a profusion of illustrations and solved problems. - The front endpaper is stuck to the blank side of the preliminary leaf (which on the verso has an advertisement for books published by Walthoe). - Lacks the 16 pp. of advertisements at the end. - With contemporary engraved bookplate of John Scofield of Griswold, as well as ownership signatures, in ink, by him and by Nathan Scofield and Daniel Keld(?). No copies of this edition in WorldCat (10/18)

Ulm: Johannes Gorlinus, 1654. Hardcover. Near Fine. Thick 32mo ((14x7.5 cm). - [217. XXVI, I, 17] leaves. - Contemporary strong full vellum; very fine, except for many tiny wormholes. - With engraved bookplate of Freyherr Johann Jacobus Brunetti of Breslau. - Engraved frontispiece with a somewhat different title: " Historiae Universalis cum Sacrae tum profanae Nucleus ..." - Chronology of the popes, and of the Roman Enperors, - More photos available on request.

Parisiis: Apud Hieronymum de Marnef, 1560. Hardcover. Very Good/not applicable. 48mo (10.5x7.5 cm). - 208, [3] leaves. - Contemporary calf, covers with double gilt borders; rebacked, spine with 4 raised bands and title in gilt on red leather label. Corners and edges somewhat worn, else fine. - A tight copy. - On the title-page and in the colophon, Marnef's famous printer's device: a pelican, on its nest, feeding its young, along with the motto: In me mors, in me vita". - Many engraved initials. - Interior fine, except for the tops of few pages (including the title-page) are being very slightly shaved off . - On the title-page, ownership note in old ink: "Joannes Seager. Coll. / Pembr. Oxon. / ..." - Marginal comments in Seager's hand, in English, especially at the end. - The poet Martian, of Spanish origin, is well remembered for his witty description of daily human life in Rome, as well as for his satire. - In the present book, of special… Read More

Venetiis [Venice]: Aldus Iunior, 1571. Hardcover. Fine/not applicable. With a separately paginated section, entitled "Pauli Manutii Praefationes Quibus Libri Ad.Illustres.Viros aut.ad.Amicos Missi Commandatur" - 16mo (15.5x10.5 cm). - (16),470,(2);139,(13) pp. - Contemporary full vellum, title hand- lettered in contemporary ink on spine. (Spine darkened and slightly creased; small bump on back cover. - Small ink smudges on the last two pages of preface, else very fine.) - With woodcut portrait of Aldus Manutius Senior on verso of title-page, and large woodcut Aldine anchor & dolphin device, with legend Aldus Iunior, on the title page; and a smaller device, with legend Aldus, on the last page. - Preface printed in Roman letters, the rest in Italics.

Paris: viduam Marci Orry, 1612. Hardcover. Fine/not applicable. 12mo. (18x12.5 cm). - 10 [of 11],771, [33] pages. - Impressive contemporary full hard vellum with elaborate blind tooling, embossed insignia and embossed date (1612) to boards, 4 raised bands, manuscript title on spine; edges dyed dark blue.. - Lacks portrait and Page 11 of the dedication to King Henry IV (supplied in neat manuscript). - Pigray was a student and collaborator of Pare, and a military surgeon in the French Wars.. - This work was an important and much used source book. - Liber X: "De Medicamente", Caput XIX: "De Escharoticis et Cavcitis" is heavily annotated in neat old manuscript, in red ink.

Wien: Kaiserlich-Ko?nigliche Hof- und Staats-Druckerei, 1850. Hardcover. Good/not applicable. Results of the investigation conducted by the imperial royal military courts against the murderers of the Imperial War Minister, General Field Master Theodor Count Baillet of Latour. 173 pages. Tight copy slight foxing on some pages, most bright. Covers and spine have significant fading and spots. See photos for condition details.

Madrid: Calpe, 1921. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo. - 170,(6) pp. - With a page of "Fe de erratas" at end. Half-cloth. - Last two leaves foxed, else very fine.

Paris: J. Tastu, 1827. First edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo. - (4),xxiii,194,(4) pp. - Dark brown grained half-morocco. Gilt decorations and title on spine with four raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Fine. - With 16 engraved plates (8 folding), including frontispiece designed by E. Hyacinthe and Esperance Langlois. - History and description of the abbeys of Fontenelle and Saint-Wandrille, the latter being the second oldest abbey in Normandy. 1 Copy in WorldCat 10/18

[Paris], 1808. No Binding. Fair/not applicable. Small 4to. (27x21 cm). - pp. 413-479 (whole issue of the journal with 2 folding engraved plates, related to another article). - Disbound, without wrappers, somewhat frayed; partially unopened. - First edition of Alexander von Humboldt's important paper on the refraction in the atmosphere, and his caloric theory of absorption - based on his observations in the tropics during his Spanish-American expedition, 1799-1804.

Paris: Madame Huzard, 1825. First Edition . No Binding. Good. (20X12 cm). - [2], 'XII, d15, [1] pages. - Disbound; interior fine. - The famous attack on Malthus by a pioneer of forensic medicine. - FIRST AND ONLY EDITION link to photos on request.

Worcester: J. and J. Holt and sold by J. Robson, 1792. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo 21.5x13 cm). - 4 preliminary blanks, [6], X, 348, [1] pages. - Hand-tooled red morocco with embossed decorations in gilt: on front cover, within borders: 4 corner leaves and the British Lion; on the spine: 6 bands - title, author and year on 3 separate red labels, as well as toled decorations in gilt. Marbled end-papers. - Very fine. - Interior fine, except for some offset toning opposite to the 4 plates. - With "Errata" on last page - With 40 copper engraved illustrations on 4 plates, frontispiece showing an archer stressing his bow, and on the title page a quiver of arrows. - History of bows and arrows in Britain, France, the Roman Empire, Hellenistic Greece, Mycenea and the Mideast. - Chapter 11 describes royal decrees that promoted or restricted archery training.

Edinburgh: T. and W. Ruddimans, For G. Hamilton and J. Balfour, 1749. Hardcover. Good. 16mo. (15.5x10 cm). - blank, [1], 321 pages. - Full polished calf, spine with 5 raised bands and title in gilt on red leather label; covers detached, large crack on a quite worn spine. Traces of removal of bookplate on front board. Small wormhole on bottom of title and the first 3 leaves. - On front free endpaper, two ownership signatures in old ink.

Russia - (S.S.S.R.) : Poloni in Russia (S.S.S.R.), 1942. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. [POLISH CATHOLIC IMPRINT IN THE SOVIET UNION] - [MISSAL FOR POLISH SOLDIERS IN RUSSIA DURING WORLD WAR II] Typographia Exercitus Poloni in Russia (S.S.S.R.). - No date,(1942). - Small 8vo (20x13.5 cm). - 64 pp. - Royal blue hardback, fine. - A Roman Catholic missal for chaplains of the Polish Army in Russia during World War II. - On the title- page, a tipped-in printed slip, with the text: "Ad usum Capellanorum Militum in Russia", On verso of front free endpaper: "Concordat cum originali / Jangi-July,3 Maii 1942 / Vlodimirus Cienski / Decanus Militaris Polonorum in Russia. / Imprimatur + Joseph Gawlina Episcopus / 11.VII 1942 g.". - In Latin and Polish. - WorldCat locates 2 copies only (Buffalo History Museum and NUVAT [Union Catalog of Polish Research Libraries]). - No other book listed in WorldCat by this publisher.