Search Results: Titles starting with R from Bibiliophilia Books

Napoli: per cura di Tarallo e Padernu, 1871. Hardcover. Very Good/not applicable. 165 steel engraved plates. Cover is quite worn and separating from binding. Interior is very good with minor foxing. RARE No copies in WorldCat (10/18)

Kleingolitz - Green Bay, WI: 1836-1853, 1836. Hardcover. Good. Wide octavo (22x17.5 cm). - 194 unnumbered pages. - Original stiff boards, quite worn and soiled, contents loose; fastened with two leather strips. - Manuscript title on front cover in faded old ink. - Manuscript notes by Johann Karl Rothe, a carpenter from Kleingolitz, Germany, who emigrated to Wisconsin. The entries cover the years between 1836 and 1843 before his departure to America, and include, among others, many exercises in writing and arithmetic. - Added are manuscript notes by Ernst Karl (Charles) Rothe from 1851 to 1853, written in Green Bay, Wisconsin. - Laid in are 11 letters and documents, including: 1. An order by the magistrate of the principality of Schwarzenburg (in Thuringia), in 1848, ordering Karl Ernst Karl Rothe to appear before a military board for induction into the army. 2. A document by the principality of Schwarzenburg, permitting Johann Karl Rothe's step-father to emigrate together with his… Read More

Cambridge, MA: Shenkman, 1984. Soft cover. Very Good. (21.5x13.5 cm). - IX, blank, 171 pages. - Publisher's orange paperback; title in black on front cover and spine. - Inscribed: "To Ted Schultz / with admiration and gratitude / Folke Dovring" - For reasons which were never fully clarified, after 1951 DOVRING{1915-1998) was ousted by the Swedish academic community, end his entire future career was spent abroad [1960-1987 at the University of Illinois, where he was Professor of International Agricultural Economics]. - THEODORE SCHULTZ (1902-1998) taught at Iowa State College (1930-1943), and after the "oleomargarine controversy" he joined the University of Chicago. where he retired in 1967. - In 1979, he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, the ONLY AGRICULTURAL ECONOMIST EVER TO RECEIVE IT. Photos available on

Chicago: American Radiator Company, 1897. Hardcover. Good/not applicable. Quarto (32x25 cm). - [4]; 200, [1] pages. - Plush light green fabric, title in gilt on front cover; lacks spine, Both front and back cover are fully attached but loosening. - Profusely illustrated. - RARE

Berlin: Galerie Andre-Anselm Dreher. Soft cover. Fine. Square octavo(19.5x19 cm). - [38] pages. - In original white boards, with photo of Grass on front cover. - With 21 full page plates of etchings, and the signed one in front. - Very fine, almost as new.

New York - London: Taylor & Francis, 2002. Hardcover. As New. Octavo (23x15 cm). - IX, 231 pages.. - Publisher'Ilustrated hardcover. - As new. - Profusely illustrated with graphs and figures.

Madison, Wisconsin: U.of Wisconsin - Extension, 1984. First edition . Soft cover. Near Fine/not applicable. Large 8vo. - iv,214 pp. - Inscribed by Dejoie in ink. - With 11 essays. - Mimeographed type-written text. - Original blue wrappers, spine slightly faded, else fine. - RARE.

Paris: Mallet-Bachelier, 1859. Soft cover. Very Good/not applicable. Octavo (22x13.5 cm). - 96 pages and 2 plates. - Original printed wrappers, fine. - With many tables, and 5 engraved illustrations on a fold-out plate. - INSCRIBED in ink by Becquerel on the first page, and with small ownership stamp " Prof. Eld. Liechti' on front free end-paper. - Alexandre-Edmond (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 his studies on the luminous effects resulting from the actin of light on bodies, especially of its intensity.

no place: no publisher, 1668. Hardcover. Good. Title continues: ''Depuis l'an M. DC. XXI. jusques a present, Avec quelques autres pieces appartenantes a l'Histoire". - 16mo. - (16),511,(1),24 pp. - No publisher, no place, 1668. - Fine contemporary full leather binding; spine with 5 bands, with decoration and title on leather label in gilt. Two slight cracks (about 1" each) at bottom of spine. Small piece (signature?) from upper right corner of free front endpaper cut out, else fine. - With engraved armorial bookplate: "Bibliotheque de M. Ch. Schefer". - 1 copy of this edition in WorldCat 10/18

Madrid: En Madrid : Por Iulian Izquierdo, 1675. Hardcover. Good/not applicable. Wide crown octavo (20.5x15 cm). - [24], 417, [79] pages. - Contemporary vellum, with title in old brown ink on spine; worn, soiled, somewhat creased; wormholes through about one third of the book (at the end; mostly marginal only). - Engraved armorial illustration on the first page of dedication.A small manuscript note in old hand laid in. - This is the most famous work of the Renaissance humanist and grammarian Caro y Cejudo (1639-1712); a remarkable compendium, entitled "Sayings, and ways of speaking Castilian, with the Latinos that correspond to them, together with the glossa, and explanations of those who need it ..." - A very influential book on grammatical doctrines, reprinted with a slightly different title in 1792.

Claudipoli [Kolozsvar, Klausenburg, Cluj] : Ex Typographia Episcopali, 1791. Soft cover. Very Good. Wide octavo (22.5x17.5 cm). - [2], 126, 2 blanks, 59. blank, [37] pages. - In original maroon wrappers (non-uniformly faded), with manuscript title in old ink [covers somewhat worn, small parts of spine missing]. - Proceedings of the 1790-1791 diet of the Transylvanian nobles, transmitted to the Archduke Franciscus (first part), and to Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Hungary (second part). - The conclusion of the first section includes a "Puncta ad Tractatum Pacis cum Porta Ottomannica" - Extremely rare: WorldCat locates only a single copy (Budapest).

Stockholm: Alb. Bonniers, 1933. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Royal octavo (25x18 cm). - 149 pages. - Strong dark blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. - Very fine, almost as new. - With 159 illustrations on 32 plates. - Inscribed: "To / Dr. Walter L. Palmer / with most sincere / compliments / Richard Schatzki / Boston / February 1934". - A pioneering and comprehensive X- ray study of the esophagus.

Davenport: Griggs, Watson, & Day, 1872. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo (22x14.5 cm). - 73 pages. - Publisher's dark green cloth; title on front cover impressed in gilt. Corners and edges somewhat worn, some black spots on back cover. - Interior with slight darkening, printed within double borders. - With photo (13.5x6 cm) by Gayford, mounted on heavy stock. - With an inscription in old ink "Carl Larson / To / D. F. Larson - 2724 Winnerione (?) ave / Chicago". - Buck 168, Graff 3939, Howes S 834. - Graff states: "Especially important for his view of the BLACK HAWK WAR ... he being sympathetic toward Black Hawk".

Chicago, 1920. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo. -[2],iv,184,[1] pp. - Original light brown cloth, title embossed in gilt on front cover. A few small lightly darkened spots on front cover and spine, else very fine. -- The Censorship Commission was appointed by Alderman Otto Kerner, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the City Council [later Illinois Attoney General (and father of a future Governor of Illinois, Otto Kerner)], on November 23, 1918. - Among the members of the Commission was Alderman Anton J. Cermak [later Mayor of Chicago (who was assinated on February 15, 1933, in Miami, while standing next to President -Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt at a rally)]. -- Includes the November 27th, 1918 memorandum by the Second Deputy Supt. of Police, reporting the number of movies cut, for the following reasons: Unlawful 467, Immoral 220, Indecent (Comedy) 183, Indecent (Drama) 42, Nude 36, Obscene 17, Race 6, Creed 3, Total 974. - Among the 26 witnesses, whose testimony is reported, were William A. Brady,… Read More

London: J. L. Cox, 1829. No Binding. Very Good. Octavo (22x14 cm). - [88, 241 pages, and 9 (of 10) engraved plates on heavy stock. - Disbound, lacks end-papers, title-page somewhat frayed, else fine. - Plates are very fine. - With a 19-page Index. - Contains five "Reports", and an "Abstract Returns as to the Population of the Manor of Drapers" , which is a 5-page table in 3 "Divisions": Moneymore, Brackasliaygallon and Ballinascreen. - One of the plates is the map of "Ballinascreen / Plan Shewing the site proposed by the Deputation for the Improvements of Drapertown". - There is also an engraving within the text. - All plates are from drawings by W. J. BOOTH, esq. (lithorahed by W. J. BOYNES), and they include views of Drapers Town (formerly called Moyheelan), Moneymore, Desertlin, and Crany Free-School .

Stuttgart, Berlin, Leipzig: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1929. Hardcover. Good. 35. 12mo (18.5x12 cm). - 257,(2) pp. - Original beige cloth, title in red and black on front cover and spine. - Interior very fine. - With a private inscription in ink, dated 22.IV.29. - Very rare first edition of Breitbach's first book, containing three short stories. - Due to his association with the German Communist Party, his books were banned in 1933. - W-G 1.

Edinburgh, Scotland: Leopold B. Hill, 1921. Hardcover. Very Good/not applicable. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Doris Palmer. 11 3/4" x 8 3/4", 128 pgs. Tight binding, clean text and 12 as new, bright, tipped in, beautiful, color illustrations. Covers lightly soiled. See photos for condition.

St. Gallen: Privatdruck Buchdruckerei H. Tschudy & Co., 1954. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/not applicable.

Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1981. Hardcover. Fine. (19.5X14.5 cm). - 285, [3] pages. - 1/2-cloth with gilt illustrated boards. - Fine - With 120 magnificent illustrations, mostly in color. - In Russian, with all descriptions of the illustrations, as well as a Summary, in English. link to photos on request.