Search Results: Authors starting with T from De Simone Company, Booksellers

Middletown (CT.?), 1814. Folio.  320 x 200 mm., [12 ½ x 8 inches].  424 leaves.  Textblock sewn with original drab paper wrappers.  Wrappers with a few tears and folds at the edges, some staining, and a few ink marks; otherwise, a remarkably well preserved manuscript work book. Fine example of an early American arithmetic work book, filled with examples applicable to the mercantile or dry goods trade.  Includes exercises in simple addition, addition of Federal Money, simple subtraction, subtraction of Federal Money, simple multiplication and the application and use of multiplication in making out bills, determining quantity and finding the value of goods.  This part includes examples of establishing the cost of paper, pairs of men's shoes, bushels of oats and other grains and food commodities.  This is followed by exercises in division, compound addition, Sterling money, weights and measures, Troy weight, Avoirdupois, apothecaries, cloth, wine, and the measurement of land. Of the examples… Read More

Venezia: Stampata da Giambattista Albrizzi, 1745. Folio.  435 x 300 mm., [17 x 11 /34 inches].  [11] p. l., 254 leaves.  Bound in contemporary mottled calf; raised bands and gilt spine, decorated endpapers; some minor pitting to the leather boards where the acid used to mottle the calf has deteriorated and very small cracks to head and tail of spine.  With the book plate of the founder and publisher of the Roman newspaper La Repubblica, Eugenio Scalfari.  An unsophisticated copy in very good condition. The text block includes a half title; engraved allegorical frontispiece of Apollo and the Muses, with a portrait of Tasso in the upper right; title-page printed in red and black with an allegorical engraved vignette representing Venice and Neptune;  a full page engraved portrait of Maria Theresa as a mature women by Piazzetta and engraved by Felice Polanzani;  5 page dedication to Maria Theresa by Albrizzi with an engraved initial letter;  six page subscriber's list;  6 page essay "Allegoria… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1874. 8vo.  185 x 130 mm., [7 1/4 x 5 inches].  220 pp., plus 8 pp. ads.  Illustrated with Wood engraved frontispiece, nine full-page wood engravings, and numerous engravings in the text.  Bound in green publisher's cloth, front cover decorated with gilt title and image of a fast moving train, spine decorated in gilt.  Binding with some wear at edges and corners, but otherwise a clean and attractive copy.First edition.  Humerous novel telling the tales of the transformation of American society fostered by the "great railway sytem of America."  Written from the point of view of engineer, the conductor, depot agent, baggage master, signal man and the yardsman, the author conjures the comic in the everyday situations encountered by railway men and their interaction with a curious, awkward and sometimes beligerent public.  There is a hilarious chapter of letters written by applicants for jobs with the railway system.  It appears that this is Josephy Taylor's only… Read More

Rochester, Strafford and Barrington, [New Hampshire], 1837. Four volumes. Folio.  410 x 160 mm., [15 ¾ x 6 inches]. Manuscript in ink.  About 800 pages of text in total.  Full contemporary reversed sheep, red leather labels; bindings soiled but sound and attractive.  Each volume is marked in ink on the upper board with a letter, A, B, C. D to designate sequence.  Paper stock a bit brown with age but in good condition and the handwriting is highly legible.  Remarkable set of financial records of a general store which records both the purchase and payment for goods and services in a "Ledger", and a day-to-day listing of business activities in a corresponding "Day Book" for the towns of Rochester, Strafford and Barrington, New Hampshire over a fifteen-year period.  In addition there is a separate 4to. accounting record documenting the costs of managing a store and building a school house in District One in Stratford in 1829.  There is also another separate 4to. ledger appraising the "Estate of… Read More

N.p. (Toronto): Privately Printed, 1862. Small 4to. 170 x 135 mm. (6 ¾ x 5 ¼ inches). viii, 112 pp. Original blue printed wrappers, some minor chipping to tail of spine. Very good copy. Printed in an edition of 150 copies, this pirated edition of Tennyson's poems was printed in Toronto by C. W. Chewett and edited by J. Dykes Campbell, who published it at his own expense. The poems originally appeared in Tennyson's editions of poems that were printed in 1830 and 1833, but removed from the 1842 edition by the author. John Camden Hotten, the London publisher and bookseller, offered the 1862 edition for sale, and Tennyson immediately sued Hotten, who was forced to apologize, destroy all remaining copies and pay a fine. A note in the online catalogue at McGill University states that this pirated edition was the first suffered by Tennyson and cites as the source of this information David Sinclair's article "Tennyson's Poems: The First Pirated Edition" which… Read More

1820. 12mo.  200 x 70 mm. [7 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches]. [11] pp. Manuscript with hand-sewn binding and small (25 mm.) straight pin near bottom corner. Edges worn with chipping and tears. Cover partially torn horizontally, but still attached. Damp staining to right edge of first three leaves, fragile condition, with expert paper repairs to folds and tears.  A set of Quaker deathbed testimonies, one attributed to Mary (Emlen) Newbold and the other to William Williams, a Society of Friends minister. The two accounts appear to have been written at different times and in different handwriting and later bound together.    Both testimonies recount the deathbed experience of two Quakers, one expressing doubt and fear of damnation and the other the certainty of God's love and everlasting life in Heaven. On the day before her death Mary's resolve takes a dark turn when she wakes her brother James  and tells him: "Oh! Brother I am dead and in hell, I have deceived you all and you all have… Read More

New York: Reasons why the Present System of Auction ought to be Abolished. New York: Printed by Alexander Ming, Jr., 1828. 8vo.  215 x 140 mm., [8 ½ x 5 ½ inches].  16 pp.  Stitched as issued in original printed wrappers; wrappers chipped at spine and a bit soiled.  Stamp of the New York State Library on wrapper and marked withdrawn on lower wrapper.  With faults a good copy. First edition.  A cry for protectionism against cheap English and French goods, dumped on the United States market and auctioned off at the lowest price.  New York business could not compete with the cost of goods and small manufacturing and industry were calling for tariffs and the elimination of the auction system.  This is a wonderful example of the rising sense of nationalism in America and the "Resolved, That the existing system of sales by auction is, in the opinion of this meeting, subversive of the rights and interests of the citizens generally, and highly injurious to the consumer . . . by monopolizing… Read More

Providence: For Sale by Wm. T. Tibbitts, 1883. Square 12mo.  170 x 135 mm., [6 ¾ x 5 ¼ inches].  83 pp.  Original plain blue paper wrappers stitched as issued; front wrappers missing, spine chipped, title-page chip at corners and at spine, but intact; light water staining throughout. A bit fragile but sound. This copy with pencil notes on first leaf that indicate a previous owner used this as a guide to his own collection, marking books that he owned with a "C", those he sold with a symbol of a "check". Called by some the first American catalogue devoted to American poetry, this list of books includes 1,078 titles for sale, each described in short-title format and priced.  Some of the descriptions include short annotations giving some historical reference to the work. The collection contains many 18th century imprints, including the 1723 edition of Gloria Britannorum printed by James Franklin of Boston for $ 3.00, Freneau's Poems, Monmouth, N.J., 1795 for $6.50, and two copies of Wheatley's… Read More

8vo.  190 x 130 mm., [7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches.  [viii], 99 pp.  Illustrated by Harrie Wood.  Original red cloth, dust jacket. Slight fading to binding and jacket, otherwise a very good copy. First edition.  Written in novel form in Russian and rewritten in English by Charles Angoff, this biography reads like a narrative with dialogue and third person observations.  It is obviously for the young reader but it contains the essentials of the life and work of Stradivari and the epoch in which he produced his violins. .

Boston: Press of E. L. Balch, 1867. 8vo.  190 x 130 mm., [7 ½ x 5 ¼ inches].  7 pp. Stitched as issued.  Some staining to the wrappers, signs of folding, stitching loose but holding, otherwise a good copy. Rare music publisher's catalogue, listing retail, teachers, and wholesale prices.  The instruction books cover the fields of piano-forte both instructional and theoretical, piano music, vocal methods and exercises, organ instruction, guitar, accordion, violin, and flute instructions, music for schools, sacred music and brass band music. "Henry Tolman (January 15, 1821, Boston, MA-November 20, 1888, Cohasset, MA) had operated his own firm dealing in musical instruments and umbrellas since 1846 and had began publishing in 1849. In the early 1850s he merged with George D. Russell to form Russell & Tolman. One of the most significant music publishers in the United States during the 19th century, Russell & Tolman published a great deal of popular music as well as works of noted American… Read More

Folingo: G. Tomassini, 1827. Folio. 280 x 202 mm. (11 x 8 inches). 28 pp.  Printed wrappers; some remnants of water stains, spine chipped, but sound. Rare provincial bookseller's catalogue containing 18th and 19th century books for sale, including a list of title printed by Tomassini which appears on the back wrapper.  The books represent all fields of study, including history, mathematics, philosophy, music and literature.  There are also sections of French books, Latin books, and an addendum to the music section.  He also carries engravings and lithographic images for sale.  The music section in particular includes books on piano-forte and organ, and books for the violin, clarinet, and flute, as well as choral music with the accompaniment of the piano-forte.  Tomassini was also the publisher of Giuseppe Bragazzi's essay Delle pubbliche biblioteche (see Bragazzi above). Giovanni Tomassini, (1756-1821) was a printer, bookseller, and stationer, who came to Foligno in 1779 as the behest of… Read More

Birmingham or Sheffield, 1770. Oblong folio. 390 x 220 mm. (15 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches). Vellum spine over decorative blue paper wrappers, paper label with title in Italian on upper board and ink title in Italian on spine. Paper stock toned with age, a few leaves with staining in the margin, otherwise in good condition. Silversmith model book, containing 80 full-page engravings of candles sticks and holders, candelabra, pitchers, plates, salt and pepper shakers, serving utensils, silverware, and other household pieces. Each image is beautifully and careful engraved, with rich detail and ornamentation. Each includes a printed product number as well as one in ink with a different item number and a price. Although there is no title-page or signatures of engravers, this large sales catalogue appears to be English as some of the engravings have English words of explanation engraved in the text. The binding is definitely Italian, and the paper label is in an Italian hand. The watermark is a "fleur de lis"… Read More

Transylvania University: (Lexington, Kentucky), 1824. 4to.  8 ½ x 11 inches.  Letter in ink, legible hand; fourteen lines; set into a paper border at a later date.  Fine letter announcing a position opening for a professor of Natural Philosophy and Mathematics at Transylvania University. Holley asks Prof. Cleaveland if "you know of any gentleman fitted for this office, and who would like to live in Kentucky...we can give a salary of $1200 in gold or silver, equivalent to $2400 of our currency".  The money to pay the salary was part of the legacy left to the University by Col. James Morrison, a Revolutionary War sharp shooter, and successful merchant and hemp grower in Lexington.  He left $ 50,000 in his will for the construction of Morrison Hall and for salaries. Horace Holley (1781 -1827) was a Unitarian minister and president of Transylvania University in Lexington. A Yale educated lawyer, he converted to Unitarianism in 1809. In 1818, Holley was offered the presidency of the struggling… Read More

New York: William Wood & Company, 1865. 4to. 290 x 225 mm. (11 1/2 x 9 inches). [ix]-xvii, [19]-139 pp. (collates per the copy at Princeton). 11 full-page lithographic plates, 9 of which are printed in colored. Publisher's green cloth, title gilt on upper board and in blind on lower cover; joints cracked but expertly repaired, corners and edges bumped, and the green cloth is faded in some places; preliminary leaves foxed as are the tissue guards, otherwise quite a clean copy. First Edition. Isaac Trimble was chief entomologist for the State Agricultural Society of New Jersey and well as a member of the Horticultural Association of the America Institute. His book was a practical manual for the preservation of fruit trees and was directed at the numerous fruit farmers of this country. His text discusses the recent literature on the destruction of fruit and fruit trees by insects and attempts to provide an observational element to the discussion so farmers, not interested in the science can… Read More

Venetiis: In aedibus Aldi & Andreae Asulani, 1522. 8vo.  165 x 100 mm., [6 ¼ x 4 inches].  204 ff., first 4 leaves unnumbered, leaf 136 numbered 236.  Bound in contemporary Venetian brown calf, both boards decorated in blind with triple fillet borders, enclosing a larger border of embossed floral pattern with designs of urns in the four corners. The center of the board is decorated with a four leaf pattern forming a stylized diamond shape.  The spine has three bands, and the panels are tooled with crossing pattern of three lines forming a X with a line across the center.  The ties are missing, and the upper board has been slashed in four places, probably by a blade.  The binding shows some wear at the joints and edges, the head and tail of the spine has been very sympathetically repaired.  There is a small paper flaw to the title-leaf affecting three lines of text on the verso.  With faults, quite a good copy in sound condition.   On the rear endpaper there is a "Tabula" in contemporary… Read More

Hartford, Con: Published by Andrus and Judd, 1831. 12mo. 180 x 115 mm., (7 x 4 1/2 inches). xv, 123 pp. One woodcut illustration in the text. Bound in publisher's cloth; faded, remnants of paper label on spine; wanting front free endpaper, some light spotting to the text, especially at the inner margin. Second? American edition; originally published in London in 1817, followed by a Philadelphia edition, ca.1830. As much a manual for cleaning used textiles as a guide to dyeing. Interesting from the point of view of establishing and succeeding at a second hand business, where old materials are recycled by cleaning, bleaching and dyeing. This edition is fully indexed. Rink 1870 for the Philadelphia edition. OCLC cites many copies of all edition in American libraries. (376).