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1647. In 'sGraven-Hage, 1647. Den tweeden druck, ghecorrigeert ende verbetert. Folio. Limp vellum with ties. Printed title-page follwed by a engraved title-page, 12 unnumbered leaves containing text + 43 numbered copper engravings by Hondius on 36 plates. A lovely copy. A lovely copy of this classic and popular work on perspective by Hendrik Hondius the elder (1573 - 1650). It was first published in 1622. Our copy is the second edition from 1647. Hondius was an engraver, publisher and expert on fortifications. "The book provides a series of neatly conceived demonstrations on perspective in its abstract and applied forms and gives an original if brief analysis of the upwards convergence of tall verticals to a 'contre-poinct' when viewed with a plane tilted slightly towards the spectator" (Kemp, p. 112). [c.f. Bierens de Haan 2116, Berlin Kat. 4709 1622 (or 1624) edition; Kemp, The science of art, pp. 111-112]
TREATY OF GUADELUPE HILDAGO. - : The Treaty Between the United States and Mexico., The Proceedings of the Senate Thereon, and Message of the President and Documents Communicated Therewith
TREATY OF GUADELUPE HILDAGO.: The Treaty Between the United States and Mexico., The Proceedings of the Senate Thereon, and Message of the President and Documents Communicated Therewith
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Mexican American War][California] The Treaty Between the United States and Mexico., The Proceedings of the Senate Thereon, and Message of the President and Documents Communicated Therewith ... From Which the Injunction of Secrecy had been Removed. [caption title] [Washington]: [No publication information] 1848. Modern quarter calf and marbled boards, gilt leather label. 23 cm. 384 pp. Scattered foxing and some toning. Very good.
Howes M 565. Tutorow Mexican-American War 1703. Haferkorn, War with Mexico pp.25-26. The first American printing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the Mexican War and adding California and much of the Southwest to the United States. This is the official printing of the secret version of the treaty between the United States and Mexico considered by the Senate, with added documents and proceedings of the Senate regarding their deliberations on the question of whether to adopt it. The treaty was signed in February, 1848, but its provisions kept a secret while the U.S. Senate debated ratification of the document. On May 31, 1848, the secrecy injunction was removed and the document ordered printed for the use of the Senate, which is this printing and which precedes the first printing of the final version. The "Confidential" version of the treaty in English and Spanish is on pp. 38-66.
"This official Senate printing of the treaty amounts to a virtual history of the negotiations between the United States and Mexico, and includes previously-secret correspondence between the United States government and its agents, Nicholas Trist and John Slidell. Many Mexican documents are also included. In the treaty, agreements were reached for the withdrawal of American troops from Mexico, the payment of Mexican claims, and the formal cession of territory (the U.S. had already occupied all of the land). The theoretical boundaries were set out and arrangements for boundary commissioners were made. By this treaty the U.S. obtained an addition of land equaled in size only by the Louisiana and Alaska purchases." – Dorothy Sloan. A fundamental piece of Western Americana. The Rare Book Hub database shows one copy has come to auction. No copies recorded in Morrison, Nineteenth Century Texana.-
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Grondighe onder-richtinghe in de Optica, ofte Perspective Konste, door Henricus Hondius,
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The Epistle of Gildas, the Most Ancient British Author: Who Flourished in the Yeere of our Lord, 546. ..
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London: T. Cotes for William Cooke, 1638. First edition in English. Hardcover. Fine. 12mo. (134),327pp. Engraved frontispiece of Gildas by William Marshall. First edition in English, translated from the Latin by Thomas Habington. Early handwritten notes on the front blanks. Bookplate. Nicely bound in full brown morocco, spine in six compartments, tooled in blind and with the title in gilt; boards intricately tooled in blind. Marbled endpapers. Title page, frontispiece and preliminary blank remargined (no loss). Some contemporary names and notes mostly on the beginning and ending blanks. A fine copy. Gildas provides some of the earliest commentary on the war effort associated with King Arthur. The first edition of the original Latin was pubished as Opus de Calimitate, Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae in 1525. STC 11895. Potthast, I, 525. Sarton I, 455. Lowndes, p. 790. ESTC S103163.
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A Method for the Calculation of the Zeta-Function. [Received 7 March, 1939. - Read 16 March, 1939]. [In: Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. Second Series. Volume 48]. - [TURING'S FIRST WORK ON THE ZETA-FUNCTION]
by TURING, A.M.
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1945. London, Hodgson & Son, 1945. Royal 8vo. Entire volume 48 of "Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. Second Series" bound WITH ALL THE SIX ORIGINAL FRONT-WRAPPERS for all six parts of the volume (bound in at rear) in a very nice contemporary blue full cloth binding with gilt lettering and gilt ex-libris ("Belford College. Univ. London") to spine. Very minor bumping to extremities. Overall in excellent, very nice, clean, and fresh condition in- as well as ex-ternally. Small circle-stamp to pasted-down front free end-paper and to title-page ("Bedford College for Women"). Book-plate stating that the book was presented to the Library of Bedford College by "Professor H. Simpson./ 1945" + discreet library-markings to upper margin of pasted-down front free end-paper. Pp. 180-197. [Entire volume: (4),477, (1) pp + 1 plate (balance sheet)]. The very rare first printing of Turing's first published paper devoted to the Riemann-zeta function, the basis for his famous "Zeta-function Machine", a…
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Mirror for Magistrates (three volumes); WITH: The Palace of Pleasure (three volumes)
by [Shakespeare, William]; Haslewood, Joseph (editor)
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London: Printed for Lackington, Allen, and Co. Finsbury Square; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster Row; Reprinted for Robert Triphook, St. James's Street, by Harding and Wright, St. John's Square, 1815. Deluxe large-paper reissues of two classic sixteenth-century source texts, the inspiration for some of the most important Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Featuring chapters by a number of English poets, Mirror for Magistrates was at first suppressed by the Lord Chancellor in 1555, then published under Elizabeth in 1559, and expanded by new contributors over the decades to come. The anthology offers pointed verse portraits of historic rulers, good and bad, with an eye to instructing those in power; Philip Sidney, in his Defence of Poesy, recommends "Mirrour of Magistrates meetly furnished of beautiful parts." The chapter on "Queene Cordila" served as a key source for Shakespeare's King Lear: "I must assay your friendly faithes to prove: / My daughters, tell mee how you doe mee…
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SUNDRIE PIECES
by (BINDINGS - JULIAN THOMAS FOR GWASG GREGYNOG). HERBERT, GEORGE
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Newtown: Gwasg Gregynog, 2003. No. III OF 15 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES (of 200 total). 307 x 185 mm. (12 1/8 x 7 1/4"). xvi, [2], 99, [1] pp., [1] leaf (colophon).Edited by the Earl of Powis. LOVELY MULTI-COLORED CALF AND PURPLE GOATSKIN BY JULIAN THOMAS (signed in pencil in the colophon), the calf dyed various shades of green, blue, purple, pink, and yellow, the pattern suggestive of a landscape with a small house in the foreground, spine and covers with goatskin inlay forming the shape of a cross when completely open, gilt halo radiating from behind the cross, smooth spine with gilt lettering, top edge dyed yellow. Suite of plates in a mustard yellow cloth box, housed together in a matching clamshell box lined with velvet, the box spine with dark purple goatskin label and gilt lettering. Printed in purple and black, with 24 wood-engraved illustrations by Sarah van Niekerk, and WITH AN ADDITIONAL SUITE OF ENGRAVINGS SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY THE ARTIST. With prospectus, two photocopied articles, and…
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APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA
by O’Hara John
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1934]. First edition, First Issue, with the tipped in errattum slip as called for. 8vo, publisher’s original black polished cloth lettered on the spine in gilt. IN THE SCARCE FIRST ISSUE DUSTJACKET, with the $2.50 price and with “Recent Fiction” on the back cover. 301pp. A fine copy, pristine and unused, the varnished black cloth shiny and fresh with only a tiny amount of marking that is common to the varnish and almost no wear whatsoever, the text clean and solid and fresh. The jacket, which is quite scarce, is still very bright and attractive. The front and rear panels of the dustjacket are in quite excellent condition, bright, clean and complete, the spine panel shows a bit of evidence of shelving at the foot, and a bit of wear at the head, but this is a very pleasing and attractive copy of an important book. A FINE COPY IN SCARCE ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET OF JOHN O’HARA’S FIRST BOOK. One of the Modern Library’s Top 100 books of the…
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The Epistle of Gildas, the Most Ancient British Author: Who Flourished in the Yeere of our Lord, 546. ..
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London: T. Cotes for William Cooke, 1638. First edition in English. Hardcover. Fine. 12mo. (134),327pp. Engraved frontispiece of Gildas by William Marshall. First edition in English, translated from the Latin by Thomas Habington. Early handwritten notes on the front blanks. Bookplate. Nicely bound in full brown morocco, spine in six compartments, tooled in blind and with the title in gilt; boards intricately tooled in blind. Marbled endpapers. Title page, frontispiece and preliminary blank remargined (no loss). Some contemporary names and notes mostly on the beginning and ending blanks. A fine copy. Gildas provides some of the earliest commentary on the war effort associated with King Arthur. The first edition of the original Latin was pubished as Opus de Calimitate, Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae in 1525. STC 11895. Potthast, I, 525. Sarton I, 455. Lowndes, p. 790. ESTC S103163.
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P. TERENTII AFRI POETAE LEPIDISSIMI, COMOEDIA
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Parisiis: Apud Ioannem de Roigny, 1552. 325 x 210 mm. (12 3/4 x 8 1/4"). 1 p.l. (title), 776 pp., [20] leaves (last blank). [Collates as in Adams and Schweiger]. Attractive contemporary calf over thick pasteboards, covers with painted black and gilt rule frame, center of both boards with large, elaborate rectangular strapwork ornament in black and gilt, flat spine divided into panels by gilt rules and cresting roll, three spine panels with black and gilt ornament (similar to those on the covers), one panel with gilt titling inside an escutcheon, all edges gilt (the joints, edges, and portions of the spine at top and bottom very expertly renewed). Numerous fine "criblé" and other decorative initials and 145 WOODCUT SCENES measuring approximately 2 x 3" (some of the cuts repeated). Front pastedown with "HB" book label of Heribert Boeder; title page with ink inscription of Johann Adolph Freitag dated 1653 and with library stamp of the College of Notre Dame, Villefranche sur Saone. Adams E-1033; Dibdin…
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A Method for the Calculation of the Zeta-Function. [Received 7 March, 1939. - Read 16 March, 1939]. [In: Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. Second Series. Volume 48]. - [TURING'S FIRST WORK ON THE ZETA-FUNCTION]
by TURING, A.M.
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1945. London, Hodgson & Son, 1945. Royal 8vo. Entire volume 48 of "Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. Second Series" bound WITH ALL THE SIX ORIGINAL FRONT-WRAPPERS for all six parts of the volume (bound in at rear) in a very nice contemporary blue full cloth binding with gilt lettering and gilt ex-libris ("Belford College. Univ. London") to spine. Very minor bumping to extremities. Overall in excellent, very nice, clean, and fresh condition in- as well as ex-ternally. Small circle-stamp to pasted-down front free end-paper and to title-page ("Bedford College for Women"). Book-plate stating that the book was presented to the Library of Bedford College by "Professor H. Simpson./ 1945" + discreet library-markings to upper margin of pasted-down front free end-paper. Pp. 180-197. [Entire volume: (4),477, (1) pp + 1 plate (balance sheet)]. The very rare first printing of Turing's first published paper devoted to the Riemann-zeta function, the basis for his famous "Zeta-function Machine", a…
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![Le Chevalier d'Harmental. Par --. Tom Premier [Deuxième; Troisième]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/282/520/1359520282.0.m.1.jpg)
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Le Chevalier d'Harmental. Par --. Tom Premier [Deuxième; Troisième]
by Dumas, Alexandre [and Maquet, August]
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Bruxelles: Meline, Cans et Compagnie. ibraire, Imprimerie et Fonderie, 1842. Possible first edition. Three volumes, bound into two. Light rubbing to sides. In contemporary red half maroquin, gilt and blind ornaments at joinings, gilt title on spine. Woodcut illustration on title page. Possible first edition. Three volumes, bound into two. Light rubbing to sides. In contemporary red half maroquin, gilt and blind ornaments at joinings, gilt title on spine. Woodcut illustration on title page. 265, [1]; 259, [1]; 250 p. Dumas' first story written in collaboration with Maquet, regarded as the first of his great romances. First appeared as a serial, ran through the columns of "Siècle" in Paris, Reed (in: A Bibliography of Alexandre Dumas père) considers the 1842 Bruxelles, Société Belge de Librairie, Hauman et Cie., edition as the original.
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