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Berlin:: [s.n.], 1796., 1796. 19 cm. Small 8vo. xvi, 462 pp. Dedicated to Johann Heinrich Fischer. Original plain paper over boards, later paper spine tag; rubbed. Some offsetting of ink from an ownership inscription. Very good copy. This is a treatise on the diseases of children and their physical education. It contains sixteen chapters. The work treats nutrition, care of the newborn and infant, wet-nursing, breastfeeding, weaning and the foundling hospital. One section details twenty-six health issues or diseases of infants (including sores, limping, bowed legs, teething, redness, coughing, etc.). There are two issues of this book from 1794 and 1796. We have the 1796 issue, which has a longer pagination and wherein the publisher’s name is not given - noting that H.A. Rottmann was publisher of the first issue of 1794. / Abt-Garrison has nothing good to say about this author of St. Gall, Switzerland. ?. . . a vain, disputatious and somewhat superficial writer, who was one of the opponents of the…
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[ADS] Early Meteorological Report During New York City's 1859 Record-Breaking Cold Wave
by [Meteorology] Merriam. Ebenezer E
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Brooklyn Heights, [NY], 1859. Very good, light creasing and soiling, closed tear to bottom edge, remnants on verso.. 1 sheet. 7.5 x 6.25 inches. Holograph report of pioneering meteorologist E. E. Merriam, documenting the "cold term" that struck New York City (12 below zero) and parts of New England in January 1859. Dated and signed January 22nd, 1859.
Ebenezer E. Miriam, known as "The Sage of Brooklyn Heights", was a special correspondent and associate editor of the New York City Commercial who "began supplying New York newspapers with predictions in 1856. Many years later, astronomer turned Army Signal Service forecaster Cleveland Abbe concluded that Merriam made his predictions using newspaper weather reports [telegraphic]." Merriam's work eventually led to the formation of a government weather bureau.
References:
1. Erik D. Craft: An Economic History of Weather Forecasting (EH.net)
2. Weightman, R. H.: Establishment of a national Weather Service- who was responsible for it (US DEP. Commerce: 1952).
3. Monthly Weather Review: A Chronological Outline of the History of Meteorology in the United States of North America. (1909).
Ebenezer E. Miriam, known as "The Sage of Brooklyn Heights", was a special correspondent and associate editor of the New York City Commercial who "began supplying New York newspapers with predictions in 1856. Many years later, astronomer turned Army Signal Service forecaster Cleveland Abbe concluded that Merriam made his predictions using newspaper weather reports [telegraphic]." Merriam's work eventually led to the formation of a government weather bureau.
References:
1. Erik D. Craft: An Economic History of Weather Forecasting (EH.net)
2. Weightman, R. H.: Establishment of a national Weather Service- who was responsible for it (US DEP. Commerce: 1952).
3. Monthly Weather Review: A Chronological Outline of the History of Meteorology in the United States of North America. (1909).
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Abhandlung uber die Krankheiten der Kinder und uber die physische Erziehung derselben.
by GIRTANNER, Christoph (1760-1800).
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Poisonous, Noxious, and Suspected Plants of our Fields and Woods
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Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1857. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 44 chromolithograph illustrations with text beneath, printed rectos only, with title page, and bound in the orignal printed plum colored wraps, measuring 7.5 x 10.5' Some loss to spine and and bottom front cover, and fading along the edges, else a Very Good complete copy. // A work by this author, with this title, place of publication and publisher was published in 1857. Cf. English catalogue of Books. However that work has the following collation: xii, 208 p., [44] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 16 cm. Cf. NUC pre-56. The exact relationship between the two publications cannot be determined.
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Deer Stalking and the Deer Forests of Scotland
by Grimble, A.
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London: Kegan Paul. G/NO DUSTJACKET. 1901. Hardcover. 4to., 343 pp., Light stains to cover with minor foxing in text. Vellum spine. Bookplate .
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Sound Sense in Suburban Architecture Containing Hints, Suggestions, and Bits of Practical Information for the Building of Inexpensive Country Houses
by LENT, Frank T.
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New York: W.T. Comstock, 1895. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth with gilt lettering and burgundy decorations. iv, 98pp, (16pp ads). Frontispiece, numerous line drawings and floor plans. Near fine. Exceptionally, unusually tight and bright revised second edition of this study first published in 1893. Scarce in this incomparable, outstanding condition.
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SIGNED 1ST BURIAL AT THEBES
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A FINE FIRST EDITION IN DUST JACKET.SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE.FULL NUMBER LINE
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A Account of Two Voyages ... into China
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London: Henry Lintot and John Osborn, 1746. Folio. An extract of pp. 467-478 of Vol. VI of the third edition of Churchill's Voyages. Bound to style in quarter leather, red leather lettering piece, gilt; marbled paper boards. A near fine copy. Translated from the High-Dutch original. Backhoff traveled from Moscow to China via Siberia in 1654. Wagener traveled throughout Europe, Asia, Africa and America. This account is taken from his diary. He was in China in 1653. The account is quite short. .
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The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
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SCIESZKA, Jon. The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales. [Illustrated by Lane Smith]. [NY]: Viking [1992]. 8vo, [48]pp. Color pictorial boards. Patterned endpapers; color illustrations on every page. A fine copy in original color pictorial dust jacket (no medal affixed, price-clipped). Signed by the artist, Lane Smith, with a full-page drawing of the Stinky Cheese Man on the front free endpaper. Scarce thus.First edition. 1993 Caldecott Honor Book! Following up on the success of their previous collaboration, The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, this award-winning duo created 10 new tales filled with humor and heart. With its unconventional page arrangement, and eclectic, frenetic mix of text and pictures, this delightful spoof has captured readers imaginations for nearly 30 years and influenced a generation of picture book authors. Copies signed by Lane Smith have grown quite scarce.
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The Village Magazine
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Springfield: Jeffersons Printing Company, 1925. Paperback. 4to. Stiff red wrappers with extensive black and white lettering and decorations. x, 169pp. Numerous line drawings. Very good. Faint binding wear only (mainly spine head/tail), else remarkably tight and fresh and internally fine. Handsome "Fourth Imprint" of this hefty assortment of the troubador poet's verse, many of them also illustrated by him as he was once an art student in Chicago and New York, pen and ink being his specialty. This fourth printing he notes on contents page is limited to "eight hundred copies" which he hopes "to last until January first, 1926, so please, I most earnestly beg, remember the letter that asks for a copy of the present imprint must certify that the person who wants the book is indeed and intimate and patient friend of mine...." The first edition (76pp) was published in 1910 limited to 700 copies, the second edition (128pp) in 1920 limited to 1000 copies, the third edition (168pp) in 1925 limited to 200 copies…
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THE BLIND BOW-BOY [SIGNED]
by Van Vechten, Carl
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 261 pages; VG-/None; quarter tan cloth binding, boards in green decorated paper; spine with age-toned paper label, with black lettering; some shelf wear and soiling; corners bumped; some soiling and age-toning to spine; spine label creased and age-toned; spine cocked; inscribed by Van Vechten at front free endpaper; frontispiece starting; bookseller's sticker at back pastedown; pages clean; CX consignment; NOTE: Shelved in Room G. 1347983. Special Collections.
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Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom
by Carole Boston Weatherford
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WEATHERFORD, Carole Boston. Box. Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom. Illustrated by Michele Wood. [Somerville, MA]: Candlewick [2020]. Oblong 8vo, [56]pp. Color pictorial boards. Black endpapers; color illustrations on nearly every page. A fine copy in original color pictorial dust jacket (no medal affixed). With a bookplate signed by Newbery Honor author Carole Boston Weatherford. First edition. 2021 Newbery Honor Book! Henry Brown wrote that long before he came to be known as Box, he "entered the world a slave." Put to work as a child and passed down from one generation to the next — as property – he lost his wife and children when they were sold away out of spite. But Henry Brown found hope — and help —in the form of the Underground Railroad. And escaped enclosed in a box!
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