n.p. National Endowment for the Arts, 2008. 8vo. quarter leather with marbled paper covered boards, stiff paper wrappers, loose signature of the colophon, cloth covered clamshell box with leather spine label, gilt lettering on spine. variously paginated. The last publication authored by Ray Bradbury, of which this copy is one of six super deluxe copies. Originally an edition of 125 copies (15 deluxe copies signed by Ray Bradbury and 110 unsigned copies). Signed by Ray..... READ MORE about READ MY PAGES

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with Numerous Readings Comparisons of Texts and Historical Notices. The Notes in Full from the Edition of Nov. 1534. An Account of Two Octavo Editions of the New Testament of the Bishops' Version without Numbers to the Verses.
London: Henry Sotheran & Co., 1878. 4to. original embossed cloth, top edge gilt. half-title page, xxiii-(xxiv), (1), (2)-186+(1), 73 plates, (188)-196, 4, (1) pages. with Numerous Readings Comparisons of Texts and Historical Notices. The Notes in Full from the Edition of Nov. 1534. An Account of Two Octavo Editions of the New Testament of the Bishops' Version without Numbers to the Verses. First edition. Very minor wear to spine ends. Preliminary pages lightly foxed, with..... READ MORE about A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE EDITIONS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, TYNDALE'S VERSION IN ENGLISH

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(Chatillon-sur-Seine): n.p., 1824. 8vo. later cloth. pp. 68-228. Mairet's Essai sur la Reliure was the major portion of Notice sur la Lithographie. The lithographic portion occupied the first 67 pages and had 5 plates (lacking in this copy). The essay on bookbinding is very early for the subject (SK-7284; Pollard 52). It was added to this second edition of the lithography title and was first printed here. Our copy is excised from this book. A...... READ MORE about NOTICE SUR LA LITHOGRAPHIE, SUIVIE D'UN) ESSAI SUR LA RELIURE ET LE BLANCHIMENT DES LIVRES ET...

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3 volumes.
London: T. Rickaby, 1793. large 4to. full leather, gilt turn-ins, gilt design and lettering on the spine, gilt rules on boards, marbled endpapers. (iv), xxxix, (i), 317+(1); (iv), 322-678, (2), 8; (iv), 495, 18+(1) pages. 3 volumes. Lowndes 1, 336. Limited to only two hundred copies, this copy being one of those with the illustrations in black- chiefly Hogarth cuts. Volumes one and three have engraved frontispieces, and all three have engraved title pages. Volume..... READ MORE about HUDIBRAS

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Boston, MA: Bradford and Read, 1812. 8vo. original leather, gilt-stamped spine label. xii, 340, (4) pages. First American edition (Shaw and Shoemaker 25063). An advertisement preceding the text intimates that this is the first American edition of this work. Advertisement, dedication, preface, index, appendix. Joseph Chitty (1776-1841) published a number of works on British law (DNB IV, 266-7), this one published in the context of the conflict between the United States and Great Britain brought..... READ MORE about A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE LAW OF NATIONS, RELATIVE TO THE LEGAL EFFECT OF WAR ON THE COMMERCE...

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Traduites en Vers Francais par Firmit Didot. Gravé, Fondu et Imprimé par le Traducteur.
Paris: Firmin Didot, 1806. 8vo. original plain paper wrappers. (xiv), 264 pages. Traduites en Vers Francais par Firmit Didot. Gravé, Fondu et Imprimé par le Traducteur. First edition of Didot's translation, and the first book published by Didot. (Brunet V: 1302; Updike I, p.218). As he notes in his 6 page dedication to this brother Pierre (printed in a beautiful large cursive type), Firmin notes that he is dedicating to his brother "le premier ouvrage..... READ MORE about LES BUCOLIQUES DE VIRGILE, PRÉCÉDÉES DE PLUSIEURS IDYLLES DE THÉOCRITE, DE BION ET DE...

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(Lyon, France): n.p., 1722. 16mo. comtemporary calf, spine with five raised bands, morocco label, gilt dentelles. (xlviii), 307+(1) pages. Text in French. First edition (Barbier 1:418-9; Sommervogel 2:1328; Revue du Lyonnaia, Tome Septieme, 193-5). Besterman 3244 lists second and subsequent editions. Also mentioned in Candido Poze, Estudios sobre Historica de la Teologica (Toledo, Spain: Instituto Teologico San Ildefenso, 2006), 141. Preface, table of contents. Advertisement, supplement, and errata follow text. A bibliography of works relating..... READ MORE about BIBLIOTHEQUE JANSENIST, OU CATALOGUE ALPHABETIQUE DES PRINCIPAUX LIVRES JANSENISTES, OU SUSPECTS...

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Helmstadt and Leipzig, Germany: J. G. Müllerxchen Buchhandlung, 1789. 16mo. stiff paper wrappers. xvi, 385-553, (17) pages. Text in German. Crell's Chemische Annalen, February 11, 1789. This is the first printed announcement of the purported discovery of uranium. Although the verity of this discovery of uranium was later successfully challenged, this work retains importance of part of the process of the ultimately discovery of that element. Nonetheless, Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1743-1817) did reduce by reduction..... READ MORE about CHEMISCHE UNTERSUCHUNGEN DES URANITS, EINER NEUENDECKTEN METALLISCHEN SUBSTANZ

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N.P. n.p., n.d., but circa 1966. framed painting (34 by 28 inches). A framed painting depicting a guard at the fortress and monastic community at Qumran. Shraga Weil (1918-2009) was an Israeli artist. Born in Prague in 1918, he studied at the National School of Arts there. He served in the Hungarian resistance to the Nazis during World War II. After the war, he joined the exodus to Israel. He received training in monumental and..... READ MORE about THE MESSENGER

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Dublin: Printed by W. Fold and Son, 1823. 8vo. original boards. (iv), v, (iii), 51+(1) pages. Limited to only fifty copies. An annotated catalogue of 125 books relating to Ireland printed from 1584 to 1820 under the broad headings of Antiquities, History, Biography, Topography, Statistical Surveys, Tourists, and Finance. Inscribed by the author on the half-title to the legal writer and antiquary Henry Joseph Monck Mason Esq., dated December 1825. Boards soiled and worn, back..... READ MORE about BIBLIOTHECA HIBERNICANA: OR A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF A SELECT IRISH LIBRARY, COLLECTED FOR THE...

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GIVING A SHORT ACCOUNT OF MOST OF OUR HISTORIANS, EITHER IN PRINT OR MANUSCRIPT. WITH AN ACCOUNT OF OUR RECORDS, LAW-BOOKS, &c.
London: T. Evans and T. Becket, 1776. 4to. later cloth and taped spine, paper-covered boards, library markings on spine. xii,241+(1); (vi),114,(2); viii,90,(2) pages. GIVING A SHORT ACCOUNT OF MOST OF OUR HISTORIANS, EITHER IN PRINT OR MANUSCRIPT. WITH AN ACCOUNT OF OUR RECORDS, LAW-BOOKS, &c. "A new edition, corrected." Dedicated to Thomas Watson Wentworth, the Earl of Marchmont, and Geroge Stacpoole. Three volumes in one (England, Scotland and Ireland), originally published separately 1696-9, 1702 and..... READ MORE about THE ENGLISH, SCOTCH AND IRISH HISTORICAL LIBRARIES

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London: n.p., 1789. small 8vo. full tree calf, red leather spine label. (xxviii), 122, (2) pages with a frontispiece portrait of the artist. First edition signed by the author at the end of the introduction. Dedicated to Monsieur Wille, graveur du roi de France, de L'Académie Royale de peinture et de plusiers autres académies. This copy of the book carries the signature and annotations of Franz Rechberger (1771-1841), a painter and engraver who was the..... READ MORE about CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ DE L'OEUVRE DE FEU GEORGE FREDERIC SCHMIDT, GRAVEUR DU ROI DE PRUSSE, MEMBRE...

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Comprising Literary Memoirs and Anecdotes of Their Lives; and a Chronological Register of Their Publications, With the Number of Editions Printed; including Notices of some Foreign Writers whose Works have occasionally been published in England. Illustrated by a Variety of Communications from Persons of the first Eminence in the World of Letters.
London: Henry Colburn, 1816. 8vo. Full calf, re-backed with cloth. viii, 449 pages. Comprising Literary Memoirs and Anecdotes of Their Lives; and a Chronological Register of Their Publications, With the Number of Editions Printed; including Notices of some Foreign Writers whose Works have occasionally been published in England. Illustrated by a Variety of Communications from Persons of the first Eminence in the World of Letters. "Mr. [Frederic] Shoberl proceeded to assure me, in the presence..... READ MORE about A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF THE LIVING AUTHORS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND

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