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(Nigel Rolfe). RESONATOR - NIGEL ROLFE
Dublin 1992 first edition. Douglas Hyde Gallery. Stiff wraps. square 4to. 39p. BW illus. VG clean; no wear. bookplate of Jayne Baum Gallery, New York City. Photography with some poems. (a100061)
$33.00Fisher, Clyde (ed). NATURAL HISTORY - ASTRONOMY NUMBER - issue for July-August 1926
New York city. 1926 first edition. American Museum of Natural History. Three-panel color foldout illustration of solar eclipse of 1925. Artlces include: Personal Experiences at Eclipse Expeditions by S A Mitchell; Solar Tornadoes by George Hales; An Ideal Astronomic Hall by Howard Russell Butler; Use of Models in an Astronomical Museum by Henry Russell; The New Projection Planetarium by Cylde Fisher. Numerous photo illus. VG. (a100062)
$45.00Atlantis Books. CATALOGUE 45 : RADICALISM (VOLUMES 1 AND 2, complete)
Hollywood, California. no date from text appears to be c. 1962. Two wraps volumes, sm octavo, 3885 items offered. Book catalogue. Two volumes. VG. no owner marks. (a100063)
$35.00Havemeyer, Loomis and Samuel dudley. THE ENGINEERING HERITAGE AT YALE 1852-1957
No date (1959 ), no publisher given. Hardcover. Octavo. 137pp., cloth. VG plus, just light area of minor discoloration on rear cover panel. Text Fine. no DJ. (a100064)
$35.00. LETTERS OF GILBERT LITTLE STARK JULY 23, 1907 - MARCH 12, 1908
1908 first edition. Privately printed at Riverside Press Cambridge. sm octavo. hardcover. Green cloth. Fine photo portrait of Stark as frontispiece. Letters from Japan, China, Mongolia, Formosa, Canton, Southeast Asia, Burma and India .509p. Good plus, light wear; binding secure; hinges not cracked; no owner's marks. no dj. (a100065)
$29.00Carlut, Charles, Pierre Dube and J Raymond Dugan. A CONCORDANCE TO FLAUBERT'S SALAMMBO - VOLUME II (of 2 vol set)
NY 1979 first edition. Garland. Hardcover octavo. Green cloth. 514p. Fine . no dj. Part 2 ONLY. (a100067)
$65.00Weiss, Beno and Louis C Perez. JUAN DE LA CUEVA'S LOS INVENTORES DE LAS COSAS - A CRITICAL EDITION AND STUDY
1980 first edition. Pennsylvania State University Press. Hardcover octavo. Pale blue cloth. 197p. In Spanish (text) and in English (study). VG no dj. (a100068)
$85.00Koivistoinen, Pekka. STUDIES ON THE DISAPPEARANCE OF MALATHION FROM PLANT MATERIALS
Helsinki 1961 first edition. annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae. series A. IV. Biologica. sm4to wraps. 91p. In English. VG. no owner marks. (a100069)
$39.00Kalela, Erkki K. UEBER DIE HOLZARTEN UND DIE DURCH DIE KLIMATISCHEN VERHAELTNISSE VERURSACHTEN HOLZARTENWECHSEL IN DEN WAELDERN OSTPATAGONIENS; UEBER DIE ENTWICKLUNG DER HERRSCHENDEN BAEUME IN DEN BESTAENDEN VERSCHIEDENER WALDTYPE OSTPATAGONIENS
Helsinki 1941 first edition. Suomalaisen Tiedeakatemian Toimituksia Annales Academie Scientiarum Fennicae. Two volumes. square octavo wraps. 151p. and 65p. Photo illus. VG. Patagonia. Two separate volumes. (a100070)
$49.00Over, Albert. DIE DEUTSCHSPRACHIGE FORSCHUNG UEBER HOCHSCHULEN IN DER BUNDESREPUBLICK DEUTSCHLAND - EINE KOMMENTIERTE BIBLIOGRAPHIE 1965-1985
Munchen 1988 first edition. Saur. Hardcover sm4to. Bright orange cover. 717p. Near Fine. no dj. (a100071)
$37.00. DIGEST OF THE PUBLIC RECORD OF COMMUNISM IN THE UNITED STATES
New York city 1955 first edition. Fund for the Republic. Hardcover. large 4to. Blue cloth. 753p. VG++. no wear, no tear no owner marks. no dj. (a100072)
$45.00Amerio, Luigi. SULLA TRASFORMATA DOPPIA DI LAPLACE
Roma 1941 first edition. Attie della Reale Accademia d'Italia Memoire. vol XII fasc 14. sm4to printed wraps. pp. 707-780. In Italian. largely unopened. vG (a100073)
$35.00Fantappie, Luigi. NUOVI FONDAMENTI DELLA TEORIA DEI FUNZIONALI ANALITICI
Roma 1941 first edition. Attie della Reale Accademia d'Italia Memoire. vol XII fasc 13. sm4to printed wraps. pp. 617-706. In Italian. largely unopened. Good plus. no owner marks. (a100074)
$29.00Radon, Brigitte. SVILUPPI IN SERIE DEGLI INTERALI ELLITTICI
Roma 1950 first edition. Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei LIncei. CCCXLVII . serie VII vol II. fasc 4. sm4to wraps. pp. 71-108. Largely unopened. VG. toned. (a100075)
$32.00Faucci, Dario. IL PROBLEMA STORIOGRAFICO NEL PENSIERO DI GUGLIELMO DI HUMBOLDT
Roma 1941 first edition. Atti della Reale Accademia D'Italia. serie VII vol I fasc. 4. sm4to wraps. In Italian. pp. 417-447. VG. (a100076)
$35.00Pallottino, Massimo. STUDI SULL'ARTE DI HERMONAX
Roma 1940 first edition. Atti della Reale Accademia D'Italia. serie VII vol I fasc. 1. sm4to wraps. In Italian. 76p. 23 photo illus figures and 2 plates. Terra Cotta Athenian Attic black pottery art. VG no owner marks. (a100077)
$45.00Conti, S e G. Rovereto. GEOLOGICA DEL GRUPPO DI MONTE BESIMAUDA (ALPI LIGURI E mRITTIME) MODERNI PROBLEMI DI TETTONICA E DI PETROGENESI
Roma 1951 first edition. Atti Della Accademia Nazionale Dei Lincei. serie VIII , vol III. fac. 3. octavo wraps. pp. 43-130 with ten plates, some of which are foldout maps and charts. In Italian. VG no owner marks. (a100078)
$45.00Rhodes, Carolyn H. (editor). FIRST PERSON FEMALE AMERICAN: A SELECTED AND ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE AUTOBIOGRAPHIES OF AMERICAN WOMEN LIVING AFTER 1950 (AMERICAN NOTES & QUERIES SUPPLEMENT VOLUME II)
Troy 1980 Whitston Publishing. Hardcover. Large Octavo, 404pp., gilt printed boards. Near Fine, light bumping on top spine end. no dj. no owner marks. (a100081)
$39.00Harris, Mark. IT LOOKED LIKE FOREVER
NY 1979 first edition McGraw Hills. Hardcover octavo. Near Fine in VG dj. no owner marks. (a100084)
$40.00Abbott, Jack Henry. MY RETURN
Buffalo, NY 1987 first edition. Prometheus. Hardcover octavo. Fine in Fine dj. (a100086)
$35.00Gutveter, Izchak. KIBBUTZ (entirely in Hebrew)
Tel Aviv 1963 first edition. Misaviv Laolam. Hardcover 4to. Red cloth. 234p. Entirely in Hebrew. Fully illustrated with bw photo illus and some color photo illus. Fine in Good plus dj. (a100087)
$49.00Goldin, E. SHIRE NOAR
Warsaw 1887 appears to be first edition. Hardcover 12mo. 48p. Original grene wraps bound in hard cover. Fair, very toned. ; worn. Entirely in Hebrew. appears to be poetry. (a100088)
$45.00Meisach, Joshua. PROCHIM WESCHOSCHANIM
Berditschew (Ukraine) 1892. Original printed pink wraps bound in later hardcover. 12mo. 168p. Text toned. Fair. (a100089)
$45.00Frey, Joseph Samuel C F. A NEW EDITION OF A HEBREW GRAMMAR, CONSIDERABLY ALTERED AND MUCH ENLARGED
New york 1823 Bliss and E. White. Hardcover sm octavo. 118p. plus 8p. in Hebrew. Black leather spine with red leather mounted spine label. Good plus. Binding secure; hinges not cracked; text clean. (a100090)
$140.00. BOOK ENTIRELY IN HEBREW
Paris. date in Hebrew. Imprimerie d'Art Voltaire. O. Zeluk, directeur. octavo wraps. 193p. Pictures available on request. Good, toned. (a100092)
$75.00Zacuto, Moshe ben Mordekay and Jacob Daniel Olmo ben Abraham of Terrara. TEFFEH ARUK L'INFERMO FIGUARTO POEMS ON THE PUNISHMENT IN HELL
Metz 1777 first edition ?. Hardcover octavo. About 150p. Entirely in Hebrew. Pale blue papercovered boards with later backstrip. Good, worn. inner hinges not cracked; text lightly foxed in places. Rare. Pictures available on request. (a100093)
$475.00Braudesa, Rubina A. HARIMMON NOWELA
Krakow 1890 appears to be first edition. Nakladem Autora Drukiem Jozefa Fischera. Original printed wraps bound in hardcover. 42p. Fairly Good, hinges not craced, text very toned. In Hebrew. Binding secure. Rare. (a100094)
$85.00. BLETER FAR YIDDISHER DERTSIUNG - A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE PROBLEMS OF EDUCATION AND PEDAGOGY - 3 issues: 1951, 1953 and 1962
New York City . issues for June-September 1951, April-July 1953, and Spring 1962 first edition. Congress for Jewish Culture. 3 octavo wraps volumes. In Yiddish. Good plus to VG. Group of 3 issues: (a100095)
$45.00. BOOK IN HEBREW
Warsaw 1884 first edition?. Dozvolyehno Txenxuroyu. Bergera. Xoxmasi Venasi Adami. Hardcover octavo. 3/4 brown cloth with papercovered boards. Mounted paper spine label. 154p. In Hebrew. Good, Text clean; binding very secure. Cover a bit rubbed and lightly worn; hinges not cracked in or out. Pictures available on request. (a100096)
$90.00Galante, Moses ben Jonathan . ZEBAH HA - SHELAMIM
Amsterdam 1705 ? Hardcover small octavo. Fully engraved titlepage. About 80p. Text in Hebrew. Fairly Good, vellum spine with papercover boards. Paper coming off the boards. Binding secure. Light staining throughout text. About Biblical contradictions, we think. Pictures available on request. (a100097)
$380.00. YIDDISHE DERZIUNG - MAGAZINE FOR JEWISH EDUCATION - issue for AUGUST 1950 - SPECIAL ISSUE PUBLISHED ON THE OCCASION OF THE JEWISH EDUCATION CONFERENCE OF THE LABOR ZIONIST MOVEMENT IN AMERICA
New York city 1950 first edition. Jewish folk Schools. octavo wraps. 118p. In Yiddish. VG. (a100099)
$29.00Miller, Daniel G. MD.. TO CURE THEM ALL.
NY 1986 1st Stein and Day. Medical novel written by Director of Preventative Medicine Institute, better known as the Strang Clinic. 8vo., 371pp., cloth. Fine in fine DJ. (a1001)
$23.00Pappenheim, Solomon (1740-1814). YERI AT SHELOMOH ( YERI'OT SHELOMOH ) - bound in one volume 1783 - 1831
At least 4 works by Pappenheim bound as one. Previous owner has identifed in pencil notation some of the titles: Yeri at Shelomoh, 1783; Shorashem 1802 printed in Breslau; 3rd book unidentifed title (entirely in Hebrew); Yeri at Shelomoh part 3 dated 1831. About 400 pages all together. In Hebrew. Half black cloth with mounted leather spine label with gilt printing (some chipping on spine label.) Leather cover tips (tips worn and rounded.) Hinges not cracked in or out. Double column text throughout. Text almost entirely clean and binding secure. Front free end paper torn out. No owner marks. Near Good. Yeri'ot Shelomoh , Pappenheim's most famous work, is on Hebrew synonyms. Pictures available on request. (a100101)
$190.00Mendel, Menahem. SHE ' ELAT U TISHUBOT GEMAH
1834. Tall narrow folio. Hardcover. Black cloth. Entirely in Hebrew. Good+. hinges not cracked in or out. Double column text. Text clean. no owner marks. (bookplate removed leaving some light residue.) (a100102)
$65.00Mrozek, Slawomir. THE AMBASSADOR (in English)
1984 copyright, first edition. Institute for Contemporary Eastern European Drama and Theatre. Translated by Slawomir Mrozek and Ralph Manheim. 4to wraps. staple binding. 87p. (printed on rectos only.) VG. Very Scarce. (a100103)
$320.00Szakonyi, Karoly. BREAK IN TRANSMISSION - A COMEDY IN TWO PARTS
Translated to English by L T Andras. 127p. 4to wraps with black cloth spine. Lightly evenly toned but not brittle. no owner marks. Very Scarce. Szakonyi is a Hungarian dramatist born in Burdapest in 1931. (a100104)
$300.00Cole, Frank R.. A STUDY OF THE TERMINAL ABDOMINAL STRUCTURES OF MALE DIPTERA (TWO WINGED FLIES) (signed)
San Francisco 1927. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences Fourth Series. Lg.8vo., pp.397-499, text figures 1-287, wraps. **Signed by Cole; later owner name stamp on front cover. VG. (a100107)
$37.00Mirabeau, Honore Gabriel Riqueti Comte de (1749-1791). ELEVEN ORIGINAL PRINTED PAMPHLETS ON OR BY MIRABEAU - 1789 -1791
All printed in France (all in Paris except for Eloge printed in Toulouse). All 12mo or octavo. All wraps. 7 with later backstrips. Titles: No. 102 Reprise de la discussion sur les moyens de conserver les Bien du Clerge, 8p. ; No. 109 Discourse contre le plan de M Necker, 8p. ; Protestation des Religieux de S Martin-des-Champs Relativement a la Donation de XVIII Millions 8p. ; Decouverte d'un Complot contre la liberte Natinale; Descision de l'assemblee sur son Transport dans la Capitale 8p. ; Sanction accordee a Deifferens Decrets 8p. ; Faits Interessans Nouvelles Curieuses, 8p. ; Treizieme Lettre de Comte de Mirabeau, 16p. ; Quinzieme lettre du comte De Mirabeau a Ses Commettans, 27p.; Le Porte-Feulle de Mirabeau, 8p.; Eloge Funebre de Mirabeau par M. Cerutti, 8p. All Good with some wear, light staining, fraying and curling of edges. Lot of 11 pamphlets: (a100109)
$110.00Montesquiou, M. de. REPONSE DE M. DE MONTESQUIOU AUX OBSERVATIONS DE M. NECKER SUR LE RAPPORT FAIT AU NOM DE COMITE DES FINANCES A LA SEANCE DE L'ASSEMBLEE NATIONALE DU 12 MARS
Paris 1790 first edition. Baudouin. 28p. wraps. square octavo. Original printing in later plain wraps. no owner marks. Good. (a100110)
$95.00Knothe, Herbert (ed). VOM DEUTSCHEN OSTEN MAX FRIEDERICHSEN ZUM 60. GEBURTSTAG
Breslau 1934 first edition. Veroffentlichungen der Schlesischen Gesell. 21. heft. Original printed sm4to wraps. xii, 427p. Mit 13 Textfiguren soie 28 Tafeln. including foldout maps. In German. VG Plus, slight cover wear; no ownership marks. Text clean and binding secure. Authors in volume include: Herbert Schlenger, Hermann Aubin, Bruno Dietrich, Robert Fox, Theodor Otto, Ernst Tiessen, Berninger, Mortensen, Mager, Geisler, Barten, Laubert and more. (a100111)
$79.00Sedych, Andrei. THE PROMISED LAND (briefly inscribed and signed by author) (entirely in Russian)
1966 first edition. Printed by Waldon Press in New York City. octavo wraps. Good. two pages have offsetting where piece of newspaper once lay. Light staining on top end of spine. binding secure; no owner marks. **Briefly inscribed and signed by Sedych on front end paper. (a100112)
$39.00Asgis, Alfred. PROFESSIONAL DENTISTRY IN AMERICAN SOCIETY - A HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL APPROACH TO DENTAL PROGRESS
NY 1941 first edition. Clinical Press. 175pp., hardcover octavo. Pale green cloth. Photo illus. Owner signed (Martin J Friedman ) and stamped on end paper and on titlepage. Fair. Cover tips and spine ends worn, Binding secure; text clean but lightly toned. no dj. Although not in very good condition, this is a Quite Scarce dental title. (a100113)
$55.00Spiridonova, E. GRAMMAR OF RUSSIAN LANGUAGE (entirely in Russian)
Buenos Aires 1944 first edition. 12mo wraps. 160p. Fair. Text quite toned; cover chipped on all edges. Binding secure. Very Scarce. (a100114)
$35.00Ramsauer, Carl. UEBER EINE DIREKTE MAGNETISCHE METHODE ZUR BESTIMMUNG DER LICHTELEKTRISCHEN GESCHWINDIGKEITSVERTEILUNG - article in one complete issue fo ANNALEN DER PHYSIK band 45 no 23 1914
Leipzig 1914 first edition. Barth. Tan printed octavo wraps. issue paginated 961-1120. ads. Ramsauer article pp. 961-1002. Good plus, two inch closed tear on front cover panel (no loss of text); binding secure; text clean; no owner marks. (a100115)
$49.00Walker, Helen M. CERTAIN MATHEMATICAL QUESTIONS SUGGESTED BY THE TRUE-FALSE TEST - article in one complete issue of THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL MONTHLY, VOL XXXIV 1927
Menasha, Wis. 1927 first edition. December 1927 issue. sm4to grey printed wraps. issue paginated 497-554. Walker article pp. 503-515. Good, light cover soiling and wear; no owner marks; text clean ; binding secure. (a100116)
$29.00Wylie, Elinor; Lothrop Stoddard, Lorna Moon et al. THE CENTURY MAGAZINE - APRIL 1922 issue
NY. 1922 first edition. royal octavo. wraps. 803-960, many ads. Includes poem "The Pekingese" by Wylie; short story by Moon, etc. VG. (a100117)
$35.00Lockyer, Norman. ON THE ENHANCED LINES IN THE SPECTRUM OF THE CHROMOSPHERE; FURTHER OBSERVATIONS ON NOVA PERSEI (parts 1 and 2) - 3 articles in 2 separate issues of PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY 1901
London. 1901 first edition. Two sm octavo wraps volumes Issues for May 4 and May 23, 1901. Nova Persei part 1 on pp. 142-145 plus one foldout plate of Persei in May 4th issue. Rest of Nova Persei article pp. 230-235 and on Chromosphere pp. 178-188 in May 23 issue. Both issues have light water stains on margins. Fairly good. (a100118)
$29.00Eliot, T S. GORDON CRAIG'S SOCRATIC DIALOGUES - article in one complete issue of DRAMA QUARTERLY THEATRE REVIEW Spring 1955
London. 1955 first edition. British Drama League. First appearance of Eliot's Gordon Craig paper. 60p. in issue. Eliot article pp. 16-20. square octavo wraps. Good, all pages have some curling of tips. no owner marks. Text clean and binding secure. (a100119)
$25.00. THE PENNY MAGAZINE - 1838 - VOLUME VII
London 1838 first edition. Complete year - Jan thru Dec- issues bound in one volume. marbled boards with matching marbling on closed page ends. 508p. Woodcut illustrations. Good. Original backstrip gone; later paper backstrip added. Binding secure; no owner marks; some creasing wrinkling in text but no tears; no chips. Boards worn. Near Good (a100121)
$49.00Hubay, Miklos. NERO PLAYING - THE GAMES OF THE BEAST
4to. bound carbon copy of a play (on rectos only.)148p. In English. Good, lightly toned but not at all brittle; no chis; no tears; one page creased. Appears to be unpublished/unperformed. (a100123)
$100.00