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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. .
Small poster for a series of political happenings in Łódź, late 1988 and early 1989 by Galeria Działań Maniakalnych [Gallery of Manic Activities]
by Galeria Działań Maniakalnych [Gallery of Manic Activities]
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Small poster for a series of political happenings in Łódź, late 1988 and early 1989
by Galeria Działań Maniakalnych [Gallery of Manic Activities]
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Łódź: Wolna drukarnia MSW, [1988]. Single sheet, xerox-printed to recto, measuring 36 × 25.5 cm. About very good; old creases. Apparently unrecorded poster for a series of "manic" political happenings slash performances held at the Galeria Działań Maniakalnych in Łódź, a branch of the Pomarańczowa Alternatywa (Orange Alternative), an originally Wroclaw-based anti-communist artist group. The movement was born out of the student protests at Wroclaw in the early 1980s, and its leader was Waldemar Fydrych (born 1953). It is perhaps best known for painting little orange gnomes over Solidarity and other anti-State graffiti that had been painted over by the authorities. Never an explicitly political movement, the Orange Alternative instead fused elements of surrealism and dadaism with urban protest in the tradition of Dutch Provo and the kabouters. DIY xerox punk aesthetic, with a drawing showing a bearded male making love to a five-pronged star. As of November 2019, we are unable to trace other copies. See also: Happening Against Communism by the Orange Alternative, Kraków: International Cultural Centra, 2011.
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A Account of Two Voyages ... into China
by Backhoff, Feodor Iskowitz, and Zachary Wagener
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Othello-Travestie: In Three Acts, with Burlesque Notes...
by Poole, John, attrib; William Shakespeare
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London: J. J. Stockdale, 1813. Hardcover. Fine. 12mo. 88,(4)pp. Bound to style with a leather spine, red leather lettering label, gilt; marbled paper boards. Pages untrimmed. A fine copy and fairly scarce. A parody of Othello, "With burlesque notes in the manner of the most celebrated commentators, and other curious appendices." Curious appendices include: a sonet, an ensi ne tu his ledae (Heu Miles); ah! trance lay shone, a sonnet, an ensign to his lady (Hugh Miles); bona partes vi sit tu his ere (Ibef.); Bonaparte's visit to his heir./ With two final leaves of booksellers' advertisements for Stockdale. .
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Design and Construction of Pan American Highway Historical Monograph Volume II: Plates and Appendices
by War Department, Corps of Engineers
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Los Angeles, CA: U. S. Engineer Office, 1946. Wraps. Good. Oblong folio. 37 black and white maps and charts showing sections of the propsed and existing sections of the highway through Guatemala to Panama. This is the plate volume only, no text. Printed paper wraps bound with rivets. The item has been folded once vertically with wear and loss to the covers. The maps have age toning but are mostly in very good condition, the vertical crease being more a bend on the maps than a crease. The size is 10 by 15 inches; some maps are larger and are folded at the right edges to fit. Only a good copy, but very scarce.
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Sir Archibald
by Wolo (Wolff von Falkenstein)
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New York: WIlliam Morrow and Company, 1944. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. Thin folio. (40)pp. Paper over boards printed in full color. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated throughout by Wolo in monochrome and occasionally full color. This is a very good, bright copy with only a trace of wear at edges and corners. The dustwrapper is rubbed at the edges lacks two small pieces, else is in very good condition. It is not price-clipped. With a full page full color dedication on the front blank featuring the animal king. Wolo (Baron Wolff von Falkenstein) was a refugee from Nazi Germany who took up residence in San Francisco where he worked for the Chronicle and developed his superb artistic ability. .
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OPTICKS: or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections & Colours of Light
by Newton, Sir Isaac and Albert Einstein (Foreword)
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London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd, 1931. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Reprinted from the Fourth Edition (1730), with a foreword by Prof. Albert Einstein, Nobel Laureate, and an introduction by Prof. E.T. Whittaker, F.R.S. Small octavo: xxviii, [2], 414 p. with textual figures. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. Mild foxing along the edges, with some light edgewear to the dust jacket; otherwise very good. First published in 1704, Newton's Opticks provides not only a survey of 18th century knowledge about all aspects of light, but also countless number of the author's unique scientific insights.
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Le Voyage de la Belgica [Belgian Antarctic Expedition 1897-1899]; Le Premier Hivernage dans Les Glaces Antarctiques: Relation Anecdotique Sommaire du Voyage de La Belgica. Recit extrait de: Quinze Mois dans l'Antarctique
by Gerlache, Adrien V J de
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Bruxelles: Imprimerie Scientifque Charles Bulens, Ed, 1902. First Edition. Near Fine. In French, 8vo [10x6.75in]; [1-6], 7-94 pp., [2], frontispiece image of Gerlache, image of Belgica in ice on title page, 5 maps [1 full page color, 1 full page black and white, 3 in text], 14 full page photo illustrations, 36 photo illustrations in text, 1 ship plan and 2 sketches in text, red,yellow and blue silk ribbon bookmark; Three-quarter red cloth with yellow marbled paper covers, gilt lettering and crest on front left cloth panel and spine plain, marbled end papers, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; Minor shelf wear to edges, typical cracks between some signatures at spine; Tipped in Brussels Book seller card. [Taurus 15, Rosove 147.C1b]. This abridged edition was issued by Bulens after sales were lagging from the true first deluxe edition issued earlier in 1902. The Hachette and G. Lebègue editions were printed later in the same year. This smaller edition was, from the Taurus, "... extracted from his…
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The Murdered Maiden Student : A Tribute to the Memory of Miss Josie A. Langmaid
by Keeler, Rev. S. C.
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Suncook, Pembroke, N.H., 1878. 12mo, original russet cloth, gilt title and decorative black stamping on front cover, lower cover with blind-stamped title and ornament. Frontis. portrait engraving, 63 pp., illus. On the morning of October 4, 1875, the beautiful 17-year-old Josie Langmaid did not show up for school. When Pembroke Academy staff notified her family, a search party was assembled. That night the party found her decapitated and violated body in the woods near the school and discovered her head the next morning. Following the initial arrest of innocent parties, the actual murderer was identified as French-Canadian woodcutter Joseph Lapage. Tried and found guilty, he admitted to his crime (as well as a similar murder in Vermont) on March 15th, 1878 and was hung the following day. The town of Pembroke placed a monument to the victim near the murder site, with directions to the sites where her body and head were discovered. Keeler's forty-page poetic eulogy is preceded by a brief account of…
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MUSIC AND BAD MANNERS
by Van Vechten, Carl
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 243 pages; VG/VG-; spine red, with black lettering; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering; mild shelf wear and soiling; small chips missing at corners of flap folds; small closed tear at upper edge of jacket front; front jacket joint separated; small chips missing at crown and tail of spine; inch-long closed tear at upper right corner of jacket back; bookseller's sticker at back pastedown; pages clean; CX consignment; NOTE: Shelved in Room G. 1347976. FP New Rockville Stock.
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Flaming forest. With illustrations by R. Farrington Elwell.
by [FOREST SERVICE - MONTANA]. ATWATER, Montgomery M.
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Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1941. 8vo. vii, [1], 211, [1] pp. Frontisp., illustrated title, plates. Red publisher’s cloth, black lettering, illustrated endpapers (very minor shelfwear), w/ d.j. cover art of Forest Service ranger fighting Montana forest fire by Elwell (very minor edgewear, scuffing), NF/VG copy. First edition, stated, of this exceedingly scarce Hank Winton juvenile mystery set in the Northern Rocky Mountains of Montana, showcasing the U.S. Forest Service, Forest fires, and early parachuting smokejumpers. Atwater (1904-1976) born in Baker City, OR, and Harvard grad, worked as a Montana racher and trapper, forest ranger, and was WWII 10th Mountain Division veteran. Later through his work at Wasatch National Forest, he became known as the father of the Snow Avalanche work in the U.S., and this title has become very scarce.
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Record of the semi-centennial anniversary of St. Nicholas Society of the City of New York, February 28, 1885.
by [NEW YORK -- CHARITIES]. [SCHERMERHORN, Charles A. (Tres.) & PINE, John Buckley (Sec.)].
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New York: St. Nicholas Society, [Theo. L. De Vinne & Co., Printers], 1885. 8vo. 42, [4] pp., printed in orange & black. With historiated vignettes, head- & tail-pieces in orange & black, decorated initials. Orange pictorial lithograph boards, cover art executed by Tiffany & Co., illust. of Washington Hotel on back cover (very minor edgewear to lower fore-edge, minor wear to corners, offset toning on fore-edges of pastedowns from d.j., slight chipping head of spine), w/ d.j. printed thick blown wrapper, w/ title & Society armorial lozenge logo at right corner (minor edgewear), still VG/VG mostly uncut & unopened copy. First edition of this 50th Anniversary celebration which featured an address by Cornelius Vanderbilt as President in 1885, along with addresses and letters of other members recounting the Dutch heritage of New York City. Founded originally in 1835 by Washington Irving and John Jacob Astor with other prominent New Yorkers, the society worked to preserve the early history of the city, and…
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