Edité par Paris, 1976
Vendeur : Michael Steinbach Rare Books, Wien, Autriche
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Ajouter au panier24 : 15,5 cm. pages 101 to 111. Original boards. With dedication by the author signed and dated 24.09.76.
Edité par Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press., 1990
Vendeur : Antiquariat Cassel & Lampe Gbr - Metropolis Books Berlin, Berlin, D, Allemagne
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Ajouter au panier23 x 15,5 cm. 139 Seiten. Illustr. Orig.-Karton. Mit eigenhändiger Widmung des Autors Arthur Solway auf Seiten 48. -- Schönes Exemplar. // With a handwritten dedication (p. 48) by author Arthur Solway (two poems printed here) to a German photographer, dated 1991. - 8°. 139 pp. Orig. softcover. -- Fine, clean copy. -- Arthur Solway is the founding director of James Cohan Gallery Shanghai, the first gallery from New York to establish itself in mainland China. He has also written poetry and essays, contributing to literary and cultural publications since 1978. -- Prairie Schooner is a long-lived national literary quarterly published with the support of the English Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of Nebraska Press, presenting fiction, poetry, essays, and reviews, by new and established writers. Sprache: Englisch.
Edité par (Ohne Ort), Flat Space Books 2015., 2015
Vendeur : Antiquariat Cassel & Lampe Gbr - Metropolis Books Berlin, Berlin, D, Allemagne
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Ajouter au panier25,5 x 20,5 cm. 68 Seiten. Mit 38 farbigen Fotoabbildungen. Farbig illustr. Orig.-Karton. Eins von 150 handschriftlich numerierten und vom Fotografen signierten Exemplaren (Exemplar. Nr. 8) . -- Schönes Exemplar des limitierten Künstlerbuchs. // 68 pp., with 38 colour photos. Pictorial softcover, 25,5 x 20,5 cm. - - Limited edition of 150 numbered copies, signed by the photographer in blue ink. -- ">Adrift< presents a series of found and repurposed photographs from an intact photo album, discoverd by Ben Alper in a junk store in Brooklyn, New York in 2011. With Alper's reorganization, precise cropping and digital manipulation, the images - all taken during a vacation by two men, on the Royal Princess Cruise Ship in 1991 - create a cryptic narrative, documenting the unknowable relationship of its two protagonists". -- Fine, clean copy. Sprache: Englisch.
Edité par Wrzesnia, Wydawnictwo Kropka., 2005
Vendeur : Antiquariat Cassel & Lampe Gbr - Metropolis Books Berlin, Berlin, D, Allemagne
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Ajouter au panier4° (27,5 x 21 cm). 159 (1) Seiten. Mit zahlriechen, teils farbigen und meist ganzseitigen Fotoabbildungen. Illustr. Orig.-Pappband. Einband minimal berieben, sonst schönes Exemplar. Mit eigenhändige,r handschriftlicher Widmung des polnischen Fotografen Jerzy Lewczynski (1924-2014) am Vortitel (dat. Berlin, 30.10.2008). Jewczynski (1924 - 2104) übte als Fotograf, Kunstkritiker und Gründer der Stiftung Archäologie der Fotografie seit den 1950er Jahren Einfluss auf die polnische Fotoszene aus. Der vorliegende Band setzt sich mit dem Zeugnischarakter der Fotografie, basierend auf Rekonstruktion und Rekontextualisierung, auseinander. -- Katalogbuch zur Ausstellung: Wspolautorzy: Muzeum Sztuki w Lodzi, u.a. - // Catalogue published on occasion of an exhibition, with a handwritten dedication by the influential polish photographer Jerzy Lewczynski (1924-2014), dated Berlin, 30.10.2008. -- With text contributions by the Elzbieta Lubowicz, Adam Sobota, Marek Janczyk, and the photographer, both in Polish and in English. -- Pictorial hardcover, 159 (1) pp. Illustrated throughout, often fullpage and in colour. -- Covers minimally rubbed, else nice, clean copy. Sprache: englisch, polnish / english, polish.
Langue: anglais
Edité par Oxford University Press, UK, 1984
Vendeur : Lasting Words Ltd, Northampton, UK, Royaume-Uni
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Ajouter au panierSoft cover. Etat : Very Good. First Edition Thus. 1st Edition Thus 1984. A new edition with an introduction by Paul Theroux. The Authors Own Retained Book with a Presentation Dedication Inscription to His Wife Who the Book is Dedicated to. With the authors Bookplate to the endpaper. A new printing of his classic adventure novel. Dorothy Pritchett became the ideal partner to VSP, as he was known, and as she always called him. She made a career out of looking after her husband, typing all his manuscripts, hammering away at tremendous speed on an Imperial typewriter. She worked through the second, third and fourth drafts and was the only person who could decipher VSP's notoriously spidery handwriting. Book is good++ and quite bright. Cloth with surface rubbing and marking. Contents good. The wrapper very good and quite bright.Spine tips with surface loss. Edges rubbed and nicked in places. Small closed tear to top front edge. Light age toning/marking. More images can be taken upon request. Ref18670. Signed by Author(s).
Langue: anglais
Edité par Chatto and Windus, UK, 1945
Vendeur : Lasting Words Ltd, Northampton, UK, Royaume-Uni
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Ajouter au panierCloth. Etat : Very Good ++. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. 1st Edition 1945. The Authors Own Retained Book with a Presentation Dedication Inscription to His Wife Who the Book is Dedicated to. With the authors Bookplate to the endpaper. The wrapper is a 2nd Imp in the same format and style. A collection of short stories. Dorothy Pritchett became the ideal partner to VSP, as he was known, and as she always called him. She made a career out of looking after her husband, typing all his manuscripts, hammering away at tremendous speed on an Imperial typewriter. She worked through the second, third and fourth drafts and was the only person who could decipher VSP's notoriously spidery handwriting. Book is very good++ and bright. Contents good. The wrapper is very good and quite bright. Spine tips with small loss. Edges rubbed and nicked in places. Age toning. More images can be taken upon request. Ref18670. Signed by Author(s).
Langue: anglais
Edité par Chatto and Windus, UK, 1961
Vendeur : Lasting Words Ltd, Northampton, UK, Royaume-Uni
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EUR 208,03
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Ajouter au panierCloth. Etat : Very Good ++. First Edition. 1st Edition 1961. The Authors Own Retained Book with a Presentation Dedication Inscription to His Wife Who the Book is Dedicated to. With the authors Bookplate to the endpaper. A collection of short stories. Dorothy Pritchett became the ideal partner to VSP, as he was known, and as she always called him. She made a career out of looking after her husband, typing all his manuscripts, hammering away at tremendous speed on an Imperial typewriter. She worked through the second, third and fourth drafts and was the only person who could decipher VSP's notoriously spidery handwriting. Book is very good++ and bright. Contents good. The wrapper very good and quite bright.Spine tips with surface loss. Edges rubbed and nicked in places. More images can be taken upon request. Ref18670. Signed by Author(s).
Langue: anglais
Edité par Chatto and Windus, UK, 1980
Vendeur : Lasting Words Ltd, Northampton, UK, Royaume-Uni
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EUR 208,03
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Ajouter au panierCloth. Etat : Very Good ++. First Edition. 1st Edition 1980. The Authors Own Retained Book with a Presentation Dedication Inscription to His Wife Who the Book is Dedicated to. With the authors Bookplate to the endpaper. A collection of short stories. Dorothy Pritchett became the ideal partner to VSP, as he was known, and as she always called him. She made a career out of looking after her husband, typing all his manuscripts, hammering away at tremendous speed on an Imperial typewriter. She worked through the second, third and fourth drafts and was the only person who could decipher VSP's notoriously spidery handwriting. Book is very good++ and bright. Contents good. The wrapper very good++ and quite bright. More images can be taken upon request. Ref18670. Signed by Author(s).
Langue: anglais
Edité par Chatto and Windus, UK, 1942
Vendeur : Lasting Words Ltd, Northampton, UK, Royaume-Uni
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EUR 237,75
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Ajouter au panierCloth. Etat : Good ++. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. 1st Edition 1942. The Authors Own Retained Book with a Presentation Dedication Inscription to His Wife Who the Book is Dedicated to. With the authors Bookplate to the endpaper. A collection of short stories. A few hand corrections by the author within the text. Dorothy Pritchett became the ideal partner to VSP, as he was known, and as she always called him. She made a career out of looking after her husband, typing all his manuscripts, hammering away at tremendous speed on an Imperial typewriter. She worked through the second, third and fourth drafts and was the only person who could decipher VSP's notoriously spidery handwriting. Book is good++ and quite bright. Cloth with surface rubbing and marking. Contents good. The wrapper very good and quite bright.Spine tips with surface loss. Edges rubbed and nicked in places. Small closed tear to top front edge. Light age toning/marking. More images can be taken upon request. Ref18670/18664. Signed by Author(s).
Langue: anglais
Edité par I.P.S.T. / Israel Universities Press / John Wiley & Sons / Halsted Press, Jerusalem, 1974
ISBN 10 : 0706514610 ISBN 13 : 9780706514612
Vendeur : Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, Etats-Unis
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EUR 363,83
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Ajouter au panierHardcover. Etat : Very Good +. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Xv, 190 Pp. Red Cloth Printed In Black And Pink. First Printing. Inscribed By The Author To The Dedicatee, Prof. Abraham Kaplan. Light Wear, Rubbing And Bumping At Corners, No Fraying, Some Fading To Cloth On Spine Panel But Lettering Still Strong. Mendel Sachs (1927 -2012) Was An American Theoretical Physicist. His Scientific Work Includes The Proposal Of A Unified Field Theory That Brings Together The Weak Force, Strong Force, Electromagnetism, And Gravity. Sachs Earned His Bachelors At The University Of California, Los Angeles, He Then Moved To Columbia University, New York For Postgraduate Study. While At Columbia Sachs Was Taught By Willis Lamb And Hideki Yukawa.[5] Yukawa Had Agreed To Be Sach's Thesis Advisor, But Sachs Decided To Complete His Doctorate Back At Ucla. Following The Award Of His Phd In 1954 Sachs First Post-Doctoral Position Was At The New University Of California Radiation Laboratory At Both Berkeley And Livermore, Which Was Run By Edward Teller And Ernest Lawrence And Was Also Home To Bryce Dewitt, Who Sachs Would Later Co-Author Articles With In Physics Today. In 1956 Sachs Became A Senior Scientist At Lockheed Missiles And Space Laboratory, While At Lockheed Sachs Began Developing With Solomon Schwebel A Field Theory Of Quantum Electrodynamics That Included Broken Symmetries That Did Not Require Recourse To Renormalization Or Perturbation Techniques - The "Schwebel-Sachs" Model. In 1961 He Became A Research Professor At Mcgill University; This Was Followed By A Post As Associate Professor Of Physics At Boston University (1962-1966). In 1964 While At Boston University Sachs Received An Invitation From Paul Dirac To Visit Cambridge University. Sachs Stayed In England For Three Months Where His Wife Yetty Had Family. Sachs Worked With Paul Dirac At The Department Of Applied Mathematics And Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University. While Working With Dirac, Sachs Also Had The Opportunity To Discuss Ideas With John G. Taylor, John Polkinghorne And Graduate Students At Damtp. In 1965 Sachs Had Had A Breakthrough While At The Aspen Physics Institute, Colorado. Sachs Was Able To Derive A Result For A Unified Field Theory If Quantum Mechanics Was Considered To Be A Linear Approximation For A Field Theory Of Inertia Expressed In General Relativity. Sachs Argued That The Work Of Albert Einstein And Erwin Schrödinger In General Relativity Did Not Yet Take Account Of The Inertia Of Matter, Which Required Consideration Of The Mach Principle. In The Summer Of 1966 Abdus Salam Invited Sachs To Spend A Few Months At The International Centre For Theoretical Physics, In Trieste, Italy. During This Time Sachs Published The Details Of His Formal Structure Of Quantum Mechanics From A Generally Covariant Field Theory Of Inertia In The Italian Journal, Il Nuovo Cimento. In The Autumn Of 1966 He Was Appointed Professor Of Physics At State University Of New York At Buffalo. Inscribed by Author(s).
Edité par Penang, Prai, 1984
Vendeur : Michael Steinbach Rare Books, Wien, Autriche
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EUR 75
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Ajouter au panier21 : 11,5 cm. 38 leaves with many full-pages illustrations , 90 pages. Cololured illustrated boards. First edition. - Front fly-leaf with signed dedication by the author, dated (19)93. - Cecil Rajendra (born 1941) is a Malaysian poet and lawyer. He is nicknamed "The Lawyer-Poet" nd writes controversial poems that address human rights and enviroment problems. His poems have been published in more than 50 countries and translated into several languages. In 1993 he had his passport taken from him by the Malaysian government, to prevent him from traveling. "Mr. Rajendra's passport was retained for his antilooging activities, which it was felt could dmage the country's umage overseas". In 2005 he was awarde the first Malaysian Lifetime Humanitarian Award and was also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, which then went to Harold Pinter.
Edité par London, Bogie-L'Ouverture Publications,, 1981
Vendeur : Michael Steinbach Rare Books, Wien, Autriche
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Ajouter au panier21,5 : 13,5 cm. 4 leaves, 90 pages. Cololured illustrated boards. First edition. - Front fly-leaf with long, signed poem by the author, dated (19)91. - Cecil Rajendra (born 1941) is a Malaysian poet and lawyer. He is nicknamed "The Lawyer-Poet" nd writes controversial poems that address human rights and enviroment problems. His poems have been published in more than 50 countries and translated into several languages. In 1993 he had his passport taken from him by the Malaysian government, to prevent him from traveling. "Mr. Rajendra's passport was retained for his antilooging activities, which it was felt could dmage the country's umage overseas". In 2005 he was awarde the first Malaysian Lifetime Humanitarian Award and was also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, which then went to Harold Pinter.
Edité par Ohne Ort, ohne Verlag ohne Jahr (ca. 1999)., 1999
Vendeur : Antiquariat Cassel & Lampe Gbr - Metropolis Books Berlin, Berlin, D, Allemagne
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Ajouter au panier4° (25,6 x 21,5 cm). Ohne Paginierung (ca. 500 Seiten). Mit zahlr, meist farbigen und ganzseitigen Abbildungen. Orig.-Pappband mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel und farbig illustr. Schutzumschlag. Umfangreiche Monographie über den bedeutenden ägyptischen Künstler Mohamed Taha Hussein (geb. 1929-2018), der in den fünfziger Jahren in Düsseldorf studierte und Kontakte zur Gruppe "Zero" pflegte. -- Mit eigenhändiger Widmung des Künstlers auf der letzten Seite. -- Text in englischer und arabischer Sprache. -- Schönes Exemplar. // Monographic publication on the work of prominent Egyptian artist Taha Hussein (1929-2018). -- A documentary prepared by Prof. Dr. Mostafa Abdul Moaty & Prof. Dr. M. Toha Hussein. -- Text in english and arabic. -- Fine, clean and sound copy. Sprache: Englisch.
Edité par Methuen, UK, 1967
Vendeur : Lasting Words Ltd, Northampton, UK, Royaume-Uni
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Ajouter au panierDecorative Cloth. Etat : Very Good ++. 1st Edition. 1st Edition 1967. The dedication copy. Presentation inscription and postcard from his friend the author to Edgell Rickword. From the library of John Edgell Rickword, his wife Beatrix and finally by decent to their daughter Dr Jane Grubb. Small bookplate detailing the provenance attached to each volume. Most of the his books went to institutions after his death so this book is rare thus. John Edgell Rickword, MC 1898-1982 was an English poet, critic, journalist and literary editor. He became one of the leading communist intellectuals active in the 1930s. After joining the army he saw front-line action in France as a subaltern in the Royal Berkshire Regiment. He was wounded twice?losing the sight of one eye?and he won the Military Cross for distinguished service. After the armistice Rickword was invalided out of the army. The following year he went up to Pembroke College, Oxford, to read French literature. His first collection of verse, Behind the Eyes (1921), contains similar styles poetry to be found in Sassoon's war verse. Additionally, these poems, including the much-anthologized "Trench Poets," "Winter Warfare," and "The Soldier addresses his Body," were part of Rickword's already distinctive style. In the 1930's he took up literary work in London. He reviewed for the Times Literary Supplement, which led to his celebrated review of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. He joined the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1934, and became increasingly active in political work during the period of the Spanish Civil War; while still writing poetry. During the second world war years Rickword wrote some superb social and literary criticism, including studies of the war poets of World War I, John Milton, and English radical thinkers of the 19th century. By the end of the war he become editor of Our Time, a literary review that tried to create bridges between the arts and common people. After this he became Editor of Our Time, the Communist review, from 1944 to 1947, working with David Holbrook. Rickword had an upbeat view at the time on the possibilities of popular culture and radical politics, and the circulation rose as he broadened the publication's scope from popular political poetry. Rickword's eyesight failed completely in his last years, though he was working on his memoirs up to his death. He died on March 15, 1982. Rickword's actual contribution to the development of English poetry is undervalued even now, in spite of the fact that several selections from and collections of his poems have appeared at regular intervals since the end of World War II.The reputation of Rickword as a poet has been overshadowed to some extent by his better-known achievements as critic and editor. And yet Rickword the poet?as much as Rickword the brilliant literary and social critic or Rickword the outstanding editor?has been one of the models of creative intelligence in British culture since the end of World War I. Rickword's work stands foursquare in English tradition, but it is in that tradition revolutionized by the same shaping forces of modernism that transformed Eliot's poetry. Rickword, with an intelligence and sensibility fully responsive to both French poetry and to English, opened up new paths for English poetry during the decade after World War I. According to Rickword, "to himself the poet should be in the first place a man, not an author." He certainly followed his own advice. As David Holbrook wrote (about Rickword's most caustic poetry of the late 1920s): "It strikes home, because underlying it is the tragic acceptance of man's situation, and the governed urbanity, civilisation and joy of a sensitive, responsible poet." The bulk of Edgells's archive resides at Manchester University library but the main part of the collection which was deposited by his friend David Holbrook is at Downing College Cambridge Archive. Book is very good++ and bright. Contents good. Wrapper is very good++ and bright. Light age toning. Ref16865. Signed by Author(s).
Edité par Vienna, Lechner., 1882
Vendeur : Michael Steinbach Rare Books, Wien, Autriche
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EUR 180
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Ajouter au panier2nd revised edition. 2 volumes 24 : 17 cm. VI, 609 pages; VIII, 664 pages, with many, mostly coloured plates, many folded maps and plans. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt. With dedication by the author to Dr. Carl Glossy, director of the city-collections, with the authorisation of the mayor, signed and dated 30/12 Weiß. - Still useful history of the city of Vienna, richly illustrated. - Bindings a bit rubbed.
Edité par Phoenix House Ltd., London, 1956
Vendeur : About Books, Henderson, NV, Etats-Unis
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EUR 266,22
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Ajouter au panierHardcover. Etat : Near Fine condition. Etat de la jaquette : No dust jacket. First Edition. London: Phoenix House Ltd., 1956. The DEDICATION COPY of this historical tale of the 14th century. Near Fine condition. Clean, square, and tight. Inner hinges are perfect. The binding is the original blue boards, stamped in shiny silver on the spine. In addition to her considerable talents as a biographer and literary historian, the author was a gifted artist who attended the Minneapolis School of Art. She has handsomely illustrated this book with endpaper maps, and decorated head and tail pieces at the start and end of each chapter. This is the DEDICATION COPY (probably one of two -- one per sister). The book's printed dedication is "To My Sisters." On the same page the author has sketched a delightful winged gargoyle. Next to that the author has written: "for my darling Joy, [signed] Marrie." Joy was B. J. (Beatrice Joy) Chute, the author's sister and fellow-author. Among B. J. Chute's books are: GREENWILLOW; THE FIELDS ARE WHITE; THE BLUE CUP; SHATTUCK CADET; THE END OF LOVING; KATIE, AN IMPERTINENT FAIRY TALE; and THE GOOD WOMAN. Born in Wayzata, Minnesota in 1909, Marchette "Marrie" Chute moved to New York City with her mother and two sisters in the early 1940s. Both sisters, Beatrice Joy Chute and Mary Grace Chute (later Mary Chute Smith, of Morristown, N.J.) were also gifted writers. Marchette Chute wrote some 13 books and served as president of the American Center of P.E.N. from 1955-57. She was elected to the American Academy of the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1975. Among her other books are: SHAKESPEARE OF LONDON; BEN JONSON OF WESTMINSTER; JESUS OF ISRAEL; THE TWO GENTLE MEN, THE LIVES OF GEORGE HERBERT AND ROBERT HERRICK. This is the first UK edition with "First published 1956" so stated on the copyright page. . INSCRIBED / SIGNED to the AUTHOR'S SISTER. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/No dust jacket. 191pp.
Edité par Paris, Levy., 1869
Vendeur : Michael Steinbach Rare Books, Wien, Autriche
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EUR 380
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Ajouter au panier18 : 12 cm. 2 leaves, 295 pages Contemporary cloth, spine gilt. First edition. - On the first page 2-line dedication with signature by Marie Alexandre Dumas, dated, 14 Mars 1869. - Some light foxing.
Edité par London, Grant Richards, 1916., 1916
Vendeur : Antiquariat Thomas Rezek, München, Allemagne
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EUR 750
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Ajouter au panier8°. 311 pp. Original brown cloth with title to spine and front cover, in hand made red half morocco box with cloth wrapper "First edition of these 14 stories set in the infamous Limehouse district of London, the first and most important book by Burke, early example of modern crime fiction. - Some browning, endpapers and fore-edge with some little foxing, else inside apart from very few spots mostly clean. - Endpaper with a manscript dedication by the author "? in memory of may light (?)?" with monogram TB. ".
Edité par Excudebat Joseph Raymundi, Neapoli [Naples, Italy], 1753
Vendeur : Antiquarian Bookshop, Washington, DC, Etats-Unis
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EUR 665,53
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Ajouter au panierHard Cover. Etat : Very Good. First Edition Thus. (12), 335 (1 errata) pp pages; Mid-eighteenth century sprinkled brown calf, raised bands and decorative gilt stamped decoration in spine panels with red title label, edges of the text block stained red. The dedication copy of the Latin edition of Dr. John Arbuthnot's last book -- [An essay concerning the effects of air on human bodies, London, printed for J. Tonson in the Strand, 1733]. With the bookplate of the dedicatee of this 1753 first Latin edition -- Niccolò Fraggianni. A full page engraved portrait of Fraggianni is included facing the text of the dedication of this edition to him. The binding displays some insect damage along portions of the outer gutter margins, and at the red leather titling slip on the spine. Internally, there is some minor damage, which gets progressively less apparent, to the front endpapers, the half title and title page. At the rear, there is similar damage to the endpapers, but just a tiny hole in the gutter margin of the errata leaf. There is also a modest damp tide mark to the blank bottom margins of the final twenty pages. Dr. Arbuthnot was born in Scotland and in early life, by training and habit of mind, thought of himself as a mathematician. He came to London in 1691, the year his father, a non-conforming Scottish minister, had died. In London the following year, Arbuthnot published 'Of the Laws of Chance' -- more or less a translation from the Latin text of Christiaan Huygens's 'De ratiociniis in ludo aleae.' This is widely thought to have been the first work on probability published in English. Arbuthnot became the tutor to a well-born son of a member of Parliament, follwed his charge to Oxford where he met many eminent figures of the time -- including Isaac Newton and Samuel Pepys. Arbuthnot felt that he would benefit in life by the formal possession of an advanced degree, but did not have the necessary financial backing to spend years as a student. Thus impelled by circumstances, he set what I believe must be an all-time speed record for obtaining an earned doctoral degree. He returned to his native Scotland, entrolled as a doctoral student in medicine at the University of St. Andrews on 11 September 1696. On that busy day, Arbuthnot defended seven theses dealing with medical subjects -- and was awarded his doctorate before that same day had come to a close. Arbuthnot used this new medical degree along with what must have been a vast repertoire of conversation and helpful advice to take advantage of a chance meeting to become physician to Prince George, and then to his wife, Queen Anne. For ten years he moved in higher and higher circles, eventually becoming a member of the Royal household. And even after Queen Anne died without arranging for the continuing support of Dr. Arbuthnot and her other inner staff, he never strayed far from the various London circles of power and high achievement. Today, he is probably best remembered as a founder of the "Scriblerus Club" -- with his friends Pope, Gay, Swift, Thomas Parnell, Harley and Bolingbroke. Because Arbuthnot became famous among these friends for ducking credit as author of a number of poems and satires and his numerous contributions to the works of others. Certainly, few would dispute that Arbuthnot had a major influence on Swift's "Gulliver's Travels -- which he saw in various manuscript drafts -- during which he almost certainly influenced its satirical portrayal of the Royal Society (the real version of which Arbuthnot had been made a member in 1704). The traditional notion is that this book was not particularly important in the history of medicine since, while the idea of "fresh air" is both pleasant and beneficial -- the air could hardly manage to carry pathogens responsible for spreading major disease. When Fielding Garrison wrote his pioneering American history of medicine in 1913, he mentions Dr. John Arbuthnot in his survey of the English Eighteenth century, and treats him as the creator of "John Bull" -- friend to Swift and Pope, and, incidentally, physician to Queen Anne. And it was not until four years after Garrison's death that scientists first were able to "see" a virus using the newly developed electron microscope. Naples became a center for publication of medical books in Latin during the eighteenth century. The translator of this text into Latin, Fortunatus del Felic held the chair of experimental physics and mathematics at Naples University. He expanded his Lain text on a local point of interest. Dr. Arbuthnot's 1733 English text -- Section XVII of the first chapter -- refers to the "mortiferous Stream in the Grotto del Cane near Naples." The 1753 Latin text contains 8 full double columns of notes on four pages devoted to the nature and literature of this unusual place, ranging from classical times forward. Moreover, since the grotto represents one of earth's most unusually concentrated exhalations of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, there is more potential interest in Dr. Arbuthnot's fascination for this location and what it might meanfor the earth and life on the planet in the twenty-first century than might have been the case a century ago when this eighteenth century book was usually dismissed by historians of medicine and science as a relatively minor work. Through this Latin translation, Fortunato Bartolomeo de Felice (1723 1789), also known as the second Comte de Panzutt, attracted the attention of Albrecht von Haller -- who influenced Felice to move to Swizerland, where he eventually became one of the most important publishers of his time. More about the status of this copy as "the" dedication copy. While it sometimes occurs that the dedicatee of a book has many copies to distribute to friends and colleagues, it really does appear that this copy has a unique status. We can find no other copies in library catalogues of copies in which the distinctive bookplate of Niccolò Fraggianni is reported. Moreover, there is an ink inscription about the history of our copy fo.
Langue: multilingue
Edité par Vésenaz, Genf Pierre Cailler, 1946
Vendeur : EOS Buchantiquariat Benz, Zürich, Suisse
EUR 112,49
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Ajouter au panierKlein-8°. XIX (1) S., S. 21-217. Mit 1 Frontispiz u. 25 Tafel nach Lithographien von Eugène Martin. Orig.-Broschur (gebräunt u. leicht fleckig). = "Collection écrits de peintres", Bd. 3. Nr. 23 v. 100 (GA 1'400) Ex mit 4-zeiliger handschriftl. Widmung von Eugène Martin auf dem fl. Vorsatz. - Leicht gebräunt. Sprache: Französisch / Français / French + Wichtig: Für unsere Kunden in der EU erfolgt der Versand alle 14 Tage verzollt ab Deutschland / Postbank-Konto in Deutschland vorhanden +.
Vendeur : Herman H. J. Lynge & Søn ILAB-ABF, Copenhagen, Danemark
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EUR 103,37
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Ajouter au panierParis, Bernard Grasset, 1926. Fine private marbled boards (Juul-Lassen). On fly-leaf dedication: "Pour M. Benny Dessau/hommage de l'auteur/Andre Maurois" XII,224,(4) pp. First edition.
Vendeur : Herman H. J. Lynge & Søn ILAB-ABF, Copenhagen, Danemark
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Ajouter au panierBerlin, Junker und Dünnhaupt, 1932. Lex8vo. Orig. printed wrappers. A small nick to frontwrapper at top of spine. Stamps on halftitle and foot of titlepage. VIII,88 pp. Inscribed from the author on halftitle (to Jørgen Jørgensen) "Mit den besten Grüssen vom Verf./ übersandt". From the library of the Danish logician and philosopher Jørgen Jørgensen with his name on frontwrapper. First edition (Philosophische Forschungsberichte Heft 13).Dubislav was joint founder (with Hans Reichenbach and Kurt Grelling) of the 'Berlin Society for Empirical (later: Scientific) Philosophy' (Berliner Gesellschaft für empirische Philosophie), which, along with the Vienna Circle, is one of the points of origin of logical empiricism. The founding members of the Berlin Circle were listed as sympathisers within the Vienna Circle.Dubislav focused on a logical and mechanistic foundation of mathematics and physics, influenced by Bernard Bolzano's "Theory of Science" (Wissenschaftslehre). He presented a formalised account of Gottlob Frege's theory of definitions.
Edité par Uitgeversmaatschappij, Rotterdam, 1956
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Ajouter au panierFirst Danish Edition. A European translation of this western novel with great inscription by the author at front endpaper: "For Christopher Allan MacDonald / This Ducth translation / of "Comanche Scalp" / which I dedicated to / you, (in the American edition.) / affectionately, / Allan / (William Colt MacDonald) / 1/15/57 / Hi, Matador!". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket.
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Ajouter au panierLondon, Richard Taylor, 1836. 4to. Contemp. hcloth. Spine with gilt lettering. Stamp on title-page. (2),pp.289-341 and 3 large folded maps, 1 folded plate. Offprint with own title-page from "Philosophical Transactions, Part II. for 1836." Inscribed by Whewell on top of title-page "The Minister of Marine, denmark/ from/ The Author." First edition. The paper summarises Whewell's importent observations on the tides,
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Ajouter au panierMilano, Ulrico Hoepli, 1903. Royal8vo. Orig. full cloth, gilt. A small paperlabel pasted on lower part of spine. A stamp on htitle. Frontispiece and portrait (heliogravure). XII,592 pp. maps, textillustr. and plates in heliogravure. Fine and clean. With dedication from the author on halftitle, but the name of receiver cut out. First edition.