Search Results: Titles starting with P from Adam Weinberger Books

VON MOHL COLLECTION: Mary Clarke Mohl (1793-1883), by direct descent, Mary Clarke's personal tooled leather-bound sketch and scrap-book. The album (300 x 245 mm). embossed 'M. C.' in gold leaf lettering, containing 26 extremely competent pencil studies and a few watercolours (two landscape, and four flowers). The most important drawing is a portrait of FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE at Embly park (220 x 160 m). attributed to Joanna Hilary Bonham Carter (1821-1865). In the same collection there is also a portrait of an unknown sitter [Monrau?] signed Hilary Carter. (Hilary Carter is known for two other portraits of Florence and a statue.) A drawing by Mary Bayley (1801-1878), born in England to Daniel Bayley of Manchester and Maria Barbara Fock of St. Petersburg, Russia. Other portraits by I. Roulin, r. Cazey and others.
The additional box contains four children's portraits in pencil, two men embracing (in ink), with the caption "Wohl mir Treue Freund" (18th century? Koningsberg), one albumin… Read More

A Pennsylvania Document Box. 1787. painted and dated the year of the Constitution. An attractive addition to a library setting, scarce with pivotal date. Approx. 14 x 8.5 x 6.5 inches

1508 RARE POST INCUNABLE OF AQUINASTHOMAS Aquinas.- Summa de veritate ... sancti Thome Aquinatis ...Agrippine Impressa (Cologne) ... opera atq[ue] impensis Quentell (Heirs of Henrich Quentell) 1508 Small Folio, CLXXVI, [2] lvs. Other Titles: Summa contra gentiles. VERY RARE POST-INCUNABLE EDITION of Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), the most important representative of scholastic theology. Two unusual and inventive woodcut initials to recto and verso of first leaf of a unicorn and beast emerging form flowers and a jester respectively. Binding 16th century calf with wear and rubbing with remains of metal clasps, spine renewed in 19th century, usual early gilt 16th century small armorial to boards. Verso last leaf with provenance in an early hand but effaced. Library numbers in white to spine, library pocket to rear board, small perforating stamp to title page and a few other marks, some general light toning, but overall an attractive volume.

1688. PRINTED 1688: HELPED SHAPED MODERN LAW Gothofredus, Dionysius. Corpus Juris Civilis. Additional engraved title-page (detached), engraved frontispiece. 4 parts in 1 volume. Thick 4to. 26 x 21 cm. Frankfurt am Main, 1688 Contemporary vellum, with handsome embossing and date. A typographical marvel considering how many line sof times, and some quite miniscule Dionysius Gothofredus (also known as Denis Godefroy or Godofredus) was a 16th-century legal scholar renowned for his edition of the "Corpus Juris Civilis," a collection of fundamental works in jurisprudence, issued from 529 to 534 by order of Justinian I, Eastern Roman Emperor. Gothofredus was born on September 17, 1549, in Paris, and his work on the "Corpus Juris Civilis" is among his most significant contributions to the study of Roman law.

Bulla ultima convocationis et invitationis Cardinalium absentium et prelatorum gallice nationis ad celebrationem concilii Lateranen. cum declaratione nullitatis gestorum per conciliabulum Pisanum per S. D. N. Julium II. Pont. Rome 1512. Silber or Beplin?The Fifth Council of the Lateran, held between 1512 and 1517, was the eighteenth ecumenical council of the Catholic Church and was the last council before the Protestant Reformation and the Council of Trent. It was convoked by Pope Julius II to restore peace between Catholic rulers and assert the authority of the PopeThis bull is also interesting for the history of printing. Sixtus' practice of issuing bulls against political opponents and rivals and broadcasting them through the medium of the press. Over the ten years of Julius' pontificate, dozens of bulls, briefs, and other ecclesiastical documents would appear in print at a steadily increasing rate.Julian printed bulls, were innovative in both form and content. Though produced by different… Read More

1847. Phelps's National Map of the United States, A Travellers Guide. Embracing the Principal Rail Roads, Canals, Steam Boat & Stage Routes, Throughout the Union, 1847. 14 x 9 cm. Full black calf and gilt, some light rubbing, few small stains to title page, some stains to map. Rear board DETACHED with map at hinge. Generally, an attractive copy. The 1847 issue has a completely re-engraved map that extends to the Great Plains and includes part of Texas with two large unnamed regions extending northward, presumably the Indian territories and western Wisconsin Territory. It is accented on the periphery by alternating state seals and important historical figures. Increasingly scarce in commerce, especially in good condition. The text itself delineates seven hundred railroad routes and captures the unbelievably brisk territorial expansion and development of the country as it approached the mid 19th century. Ref: Howes #P-291.

A form of common prayer to be used on Wednesday the 5th of April, being the day of the general fast appointed by His Majesties proclamation, for imploring Gods blessing on His Majesties naval forces. Set forth by His Majesties authority. 68 p. Last two leaves supplied in manuscript.According to STC only two libraries in the US possess a copy, Huntington and Boston.A pamphlet that appeared during the the Second Anglo-Dutch War. a conflict between England and the Dutch Republic partly for control over the seas and trade routes.

JENNISON, FRANCIS H. The manufacture of lake pigments from artificial colours. London. 1900 Collation 8vo., Approx 22 x 14 cm. 8vo. 22 x 15 cm. (vi)+136+32 pp. with 16 plates with a total of 87 of mounted colored strips of paper (some copies contain up to 89 strips with a title page calls for specimens of 89 colors, but this title page makes no such claim ) The plates consist of mounted strips of brightly colored papers; not all of the strips are filled in but the book was intended as such. Original cloth, some stains and wear, some strips peeling or with crackling/creases. Internally, upper right t.p. excision not touching text, some Oil Paint & Drug reported purple stamps. Generally, a pleasing copy of a very attractive color dye book.

(ORATORES GRAECI.) Oratorum veterum orationes. Greek text with Latin translation by Henri Estienne and others; edited by Estienne. [Geneva]: Henricus Stephanus, 1575 [12], 213 [i. e., 208]; 191, [1]; 178, lacking final blank. Folio, 36 x 29. 19th century calf, spine largely gone, boards separating, requires some binding restoration, internally some foxing and toning, generally very good and wide-margined. First Estienne edition and second of these texts after the 1513 Aldine original edition. Hoffmann III, 15; Schreiber 192. The Oratorum Veterum Orationes is a collection of speeches by ancient Greek orators, compiled and edited by Henri Estienne and other scholars in the 16th century. The speeches included in the collection are primarily political speeches delivered in Athens and other Greek city-states during the 5th and 4th centuries BCE. The collection was originally published in Greek with Latin translations by Henri Estienne in 1563, and subsequently reissued in revised editions by other… Read More