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Oslo: Forlagt Av H. Ashehoug & Co., 1942. Fine. 3 volumes, 24 cm. Photographic half-tone plates; maps, including one folding. Original brown cloth spines over plain pper-covered boards; corners tipped with cloth. Minimal wear to binding; contents fine. Norwegian edition of Nansen's classic "Farthest North," recounting the Greenland expedition of 1888-1889, and the earlier expedition to Greenland aboard the Fram. Extra shipping charges for this set will be applied at cost.

Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1914. Third edition. Very Good. 2 volumes, 24 cm; x, 527, 539 pages, four folding maps in color, 8 chromolithograph plates, and 211 black and white halftone photographic illustrations. Text in black letter. In original cloth with photo half-tones mounted to upper covers of both volumes. Very rare original dust jackets present on both volumes, the set preserved in original cardboard protective box. Dust jackets and box match design of endleaves. Speckled edges. Fine but for some light stains on edges; some chipping and flapping of dust jacket of volume 1. Box worn at joints, with some stains. German edition of "Fram over Polhavet" (that is, "Farthest North"), first published in 1897. Extra shipping charges for this set will be applied at cost.

Napoli: I.N.A.G., 1936. Very Good. 18 cm; 16 pages and folding color map (76 x 57 cm) of Naples, and on verso of Pompei, the gulf of Naples, and local bus routes. Title printed in five languages, including Esperanto. Printed wraps with ads. Discolored, but sound and entire. A pocket gazeteer of Naples, including useful addresses, principal sights, a directory of street names, and info on public transportation. At the center of it all is a fine,ee-colored fold-out "Novissima Pianta di Napoli."

Tokyo: Kodansha, 1962. First edition, #477 of 2000. Fine. 40 cm; plate volume ([7] pages and 94 tipped-in color plates, many folding, many with tissue guards) and text volume (98 pages, with black-and-white illustrations). Plate volume bound in cream-colored cloth, text volume in wraps, both volumes enclosed in original black cloth clamshell case stamped in gilt with eight-pointed spiral. First volume in the series Nikuhitsu ukiyoe ("Ukiyoe Paintings", literally, "Hand-drawn Ukiyoe", as opposed to prints. Fine large color reproductions of early Ukiyoe-style paintings from the late Muromachi (1333-1568), Momoyama (1568-1600), and early- to mid-Edo period (1600-1868), many showing details of large paintings on folding screens. A half-size (20 cm) paperback reprint edition published in 1965 is more common. The artists represented in the portfolio include: Eitoku Kano, 1543-1590 Yoshinobu Kano, 1631-1697 Naizen Kano, 1570-1616 Hideyori Kano, flourished 1565-1576 Naganobu Kano, 1577-1654 Gukei… Read More

Florence: Bartolommeo Sermartelli, 1584. Very Good. Quarto (22 cm); [16], 390, [18] pages. Title page with the crest of Cardinal Alessandro dei Medici, archbishop of Florence, with cardinal headgear and drapery printed in red. Woodcut initials and ornaments. In contemporary stiff vellum, leather label titled in gilt flaking away. Vellum frayed at crown. Front hinge splitting. Old stamp, illegible, on title page. Shelf label mounted to front pastedown. Yet a clean, sound copy, relatively free of foxing or blemishes (except toning of final few leaves). References: Haym, I, 105, #7; Gamba 1532 (quoting Poggiali: "Da alcuni vien preferita questa seconda impressione alla prima; a noi sembra opportuno l'averle ambedue...."); Fontanini II, 238. A version of Nardi's text came out in Lyon in 1582. The first Florentine edition, offered here, differs from the Lyonnaise printing in several respects: dropping a "discourse on the city of Lyon" and a "catalogue of the gonfalonieri" (that is, effectively, mayors… Read More

London: Egypt Exploration Fund, 1885. First edition. Good. 33 cm; viii, 32 pages, 2 maps and 13 engraved plates, most of them by Marguerite Naville. Bound in original printed boards with blue cloth back strip. Corners and edges somewhat darkened and worn, but condition is very good. Library borrowing slip pasted to front blank (the book was never borrowed); no other library marks. The first report for the Egypt Exploration Fund, and the one that established the format for all subsequent EEF publications into the mid 20th century. Called by KMT (the journal of Egyptology) "one of the brainiest and certainly the best educated of the early Egyptologists," Henri Edouard Naville (1844-1926) was already a Romantic figure in Europe when he undertook excavations at Tell el Maskhuta for the newly formed Egypt Exploration Fund. The volume offered here is the official report of that excavation. It is illustrated with very perceptive engravings by Marguerite de Pourtales, who married Naville in 1883.

London: Egypt Exploration Fund, 1894. First Edition. Poor. 32cm; 39, 34 pages, and 27 plates (some folding, including map). "Appendix on Byzantine sculptures, by Professor T. Hayter Lewis, F.S.A. The tomb of Paheri at El Kab, by J.J. Tylor, F.S.A., and F. Ll. Griffith. Pub. by order of the committee." Original boards, shaken, hinges split, spine ends frayed, joints fraying. Yet sound. Fair condition overall.

Paris: Le Soleil, 1966. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 90 p. Red cloth binding by Engel. Edition limited to 1000 copies, of which this is number 3.

Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1983. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 30 cm; 394 pages, chiefly illustrations. Cloth in dust jacket, with original cardboard shipping slipcase. Richly illustrated biography of Wittgenstein. Text in German, with some English. Introduction by B.F. McGuinness. Extra shipping charges may apply.

Wilkes-Barre: Sordoni Art Gallery, 1999. Wraps. Fine.

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1887. First edition. Poor. 31 cm; 337 pages, and 12 chromolithograph plates of birds, ten of them by the Ridgeway brothers, and 9 b/w plates of fish. Original green cloth. Spine broken, one gathering loose. A possible breaker or for rebinding. Plates and text are clean and unblemished. All pages and plates are present.

San Francisco: Chronicle Books; The American Federation of Arts, 1991. soft cover. Fine. 285 mm; 111 pages, illustrated in color. Paperback.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1956. First American. Cloth. Very Good . Leonard Nelson (1882-1927), the German philosopher who worked himself to death through bouts of insomnia and pneumonia, here presents a systematic analysis of the fundamental notions of ethics. Translated by Norbert Guterman. Dust jacket slightly worn at edges.

Reading: Addison Wesley, 1969. First edition. Very Good. 16 x 19 cm oblong; unpaginated. Lettered and illustrated with line drawings by Gorey. Inscribed by Neumeyer "for all Giffords, with affection." Dust jacket a bit wrinkled with a tear on the lower edge. Boards and text very good. From the dust-jacket flap: "This is a story about Donald, a boy who loves animal....

New York: 31 December, 1795. Acceptable. Manuscript on paper, 375 x 406 mm. Signed by Livingston, Bancker, and others. Paper seals, pink ribbons. Scallopped top edge. Split in two along horizontal folds. The grandson of the signer of the Declaration of Independence, Philip Livingston (1716-1778) here acts with power of attorney appointed by his deceased uncle Peter Van Brugh Livingston, along with Gerard Bancker, to covey a parcel of land in Monmouth County near Little Egg Harbor to one Robert Montgomery for 825 New Jersey pounds.

Cambridge and London: Typis Academicis; Benj. Tooke, 1707. First edition. Very Good. Octavo (19cm); [8], 343, [1] pages (the last page blank) . Figure and diagrams in text. Running-title: Algebrae elementa. Editor's preface signed: G.W. [i.e. William Whiston]. In contemporary paneled calf, rebacked with new burgundy morocco spine label. Edges of boards rubbed. Early ink ownership inscriptions on blank endleaves (the contemporary autograph of Edward Harington, and the 19th-century mathematician William Fleetwood Sheppard). Half-title present. References: Babson Newton Collection; 199; ESTC; T018645; Bowes and Bowes, 277. William Whiston (the successor to Newton's chair at Cambridge) "extracted from Newton a somewhat reluctant permission to print" this remarkable "schoolbook" based on Newton's lecture notes (Babson Catalogue). So reluctant, in fact, that Newton kept his name out of it, and supposedly considered purchasing the press run in order to destroy it! (He later republished it himself.)… Read More

Praha (Prague): Sfinx-B. Janda,, 1929. Acceptable. 19 cm; 231 pages. Title page in red and black. Autographed on title page by Teige, and initialed by him in pencil on last text page, dated 9 December 1942. Bound in blue cloth decorated in red and gold on upper board by Teige. A bit tired and shaken in binding. Boards spattered. Cover design by avant-garde artist Karel Teige. After welcoming the Soviet army as liberators, Teige was silenced by the Communist government in 1948. In 1951 he died of a heart attack, said to be a result of a ferocious Soviet press campaign against him as a 'Trotskyite degenerate,' his papers were destroyed by the secret police, and his published work was suppressed for decades.

ca1825 . Framed pen-and-ink portrait of an Eskimo--possibly a self-portrait--by "George" Niakungitok, with three annotations in German Kurrentschrift at the right. Drawing is 18 x 13 cm (total area with annotations: 19.5 x 24.5 cm) on larger laid paper, previously folded vertically in the center. In October 1820, Samuel Hadlock Jr. (1792-1829), a whaling captain from Maine, brought onboard his ship "Five Brothers" an Eskimo man from Labrador, and then picked up an Eskimo woman and child about 50 miles further down the coast. Hadlock was in Labrador to obtain a cargo of ice for the West Indies trade, but arranged with the families of the two young Eskimos to take them with him until the following summer. They were initially exhibited in New London, Connecticut, and by his uncle Epps Hadlock in New York and Philadelphia in early 1821 (See Hugh L. Dwelley, "Hadlock's Eskimos in New York," 1821). A recent widower, Samuel Hadlock then left his three children with his sister and sailed for Europe, where… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1969. First American edition. Hard Cover. Good. 359 pages, illustrated. Maps on endleaves. Occasional marginal pencil marks in text. Dust jacket worn at edges.

London, Calcutta, Sydney: George G. Harrap & Co., 1925. Very Good. 21 cm; 270 pages, folding map, and numerous half-tone plates. Printed cloth with original photographic dust jacket. Deckled edges. Not unread, but well-preserved. Endleaves toned, pages less so.