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Zustand: Good. Item in good condition and has highlighting/writing on text. Used texts may not contain supplemental items such as CDs, info-trac etc.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

single_issue_magazine. Zustand: Very Good. shows minor wear from removed mailing label.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint of the Original 1868 Copy. Very good copy. (see picture) Very minor wear and crease on the front cover,bottom right tip.100 pages including index. all clean,tight and bright.

Wraps. Zustand: Very Good. Printed wraps. Small square format. 24 pp. Approximately 23 color plates. A catalog to a 2011 exhibition of paintings by Gwen John, featuring images only. Gwen John was a Welsh artist who worked primarily in France, focusing on portraits. While somewhat overshadowed by her brother Augustus John, her work has become increasingly acclaimed. VERY GOOD condition. Minor soiling. Minor curling to the covers.…

Original wraps. Zustand: Very good. 32p octavo, illustrated A very good copy in green printed wraps. small stain at the bottom corner. Laid in is a color ptinted foldout plan dated 1925.

Zustand: Good.

paperback. Zustand: Near Fine. First Edition. signed by author. minor shelf wear, a little marked. book remains clean and much presentable. near fine copy [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Grimes, Scott (illustrator). Signed.

Pamphlet. Zustand: Good. no date, presumed mid 1900s. Wraps. Small booklet. 24 pp. Black and white illustrations throughout. A promotional booklet for Cocomalt, a stir in chocolate powder similar to Ovaltine. This pieces focuses on the nutritional and medicinal side of Cocomalt, breaking down its nutrient content, and comparing it to other foods, including meat, brains, kidney and liver, where it, according to the company, has more nutrients than any of those. The work also touts Cocomalt for use by tuberculosis patients, those undergoing x-rays, sleeplessness, etc. GOOD condition. Minor toning. Some corners creased. Very light wrinkling.…

gebundene Ausgabe. Zustand: Befriedigend. 383 Einband stark berieben, Block am vorderen Deckel gebrochen (Bindung gelockert), Ecken und Kapitale bestoßen, Kapitale bestoßen, sonst in gutem Zustand ME-277 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1020.

Tabloid. Zustand: Good. Single sheet , folded into four pages. Roughly 15 by 20 inches. A few small illustrations in the advertising section. A single issue of this newspaper from Boston, containing several article and small pieces of news on the War of 1812. This includes battles, etc. as well as the court martial trial of General Hull. With a short piece on the Frigate USS Essex and its success in capturing or destroying British ships, including whaling vessels. This precedes the battle in which it was captured later in 1814. A short mention of a troop request to be sent to the frontier of Georgia to engage with Creek tribe is also present, alongside the various classified ads and auction announcements. GOOD condition. Several horizontal and vertical fold creases present. Moderate browning, with large, faint dampstaining present. Some soiling and staining. Old ink signature at the upper front page. Some creasing, chipping and tearing along the extremities, with a few tiny holes and loss to the paper itself.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. First Edition. 422p octavo, Pages very foxed and brittle, front fly leaf detached otherwise a very good copy in green cloth gilt title.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. A small publication 34 pages. No date stated C1949. There is gilt on the front of the book. The boards are a little shelf rubbed and slightly faded marks. Internally the pages are immaculately clean and complete. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; 48 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm. Subjects; Fairy tales -- Soviet Union -- Film adaptations. Motion pictures -- Soviet Union. Fairy tales in motion pictures. Genre; Film adaptations. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. . The History of Japan. Giving an Account of The antient and present State and Government of that Empire; Of Its Temples, Palaces, Castles, and other Buildings; Of Its Metals, Minerals, Trees, Plants, Animals, Birds and Fishes; Of The Chronology and Succession of the Emperors, Ecclesiastical and Secular; Of The Original Descent, Religions, Customs, and Manufactures of the Natives, and of their Trade and Commerce with the Dutch and Chinese. Together with a Description of the Kingdom of Siam. Written in Hugh Dutch.And translated from his Original Manuscript, never before printed, by J.G. Scheuchzer.With the Life of the Author and an Introduction. To which is added, Part of a Journal of a Voyage to Japan, made by the English in the Year 1673. Illustrated with many Copper Plates. London: Printed for the Publisher, and sold by Thomas Woodward.and Charles Davis, 1728. Full Description: KÆMPFER, Engelbertus. The History of Japan: Giving an Account of The antient and present State and Government of that Empire; Of Its Temples, Palaces, Castles, and other Buildings; Of Its Metals, Minerals, Trees, Plants, Animals, Birds and Fishes; Of The Chronology and Succession of the Emperors, Ecclesiastical and Secular; Of The Original Descent, Religions, Customs, and Manufactures of the Natives, and of their Trade and Commerce with the Dutch and Chinese. Together with a Description of the Kingdom of Siam. Written in Hugh Dutch.And translated.by J.G. Scheuchzer.To which is added, Part of a Journal of a Voyage to Japan, made by the English in the Year 1673. Illustrated with many Copper Plates. London: Printed for the Publisher, and sold by Thomas Woodward.and Charles Davis, 1728. First edition, second issue in English. The letterpress title-pages of the second issue were dated 1728, while the engraved title retained the date od 1727. Two folio volumes bound in one (13 3/4 x 9 inches; 340 x 230 mm. [12], lii, 391, [1, blank], [4]; [4], 393-612, [75, Appendix], [1, blank], [2], [11, 2nd Appendix], [1, blank], [4], [6, index] pp. With two title-pages printed in red and black. List of subscribers in Volume I, contents to both volumes, index at end of Volume II, and two appendices in Volume II, including the separately titled appendix on the English voyage to Japan (first included in this edition). Complete with engraved title-page (dated 1727) in Volume I and forty-five engraved plates, of which six are single-page, and the remainder are double-page or folding. Engraved head and tail pieces, and initials. Full contemporary calf, expertly rebacked preserving spine. Boards double-ruled in gilt. Spine lettered in gilt. Top edge brown, others speckled red. Boards rubbed and bumped. Spine chipped and worn. A bit of offsetting from red title-pages, but otherwise internally very clean. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Overall a very good copy of this important work. "Kaempfer was a well known German physician and naturalist with a passion for travelling. Before his arrival in Japan, he had accompanied the Swedish embassy under Louis Fabricius to Persia., then engaging as surgeon with the Dutch fleet, visited India and Batavia, and at length reached Japan, where he stayed three years collecting material for his work. Here he secured the good will of the authorities so completely that he was allowed to travel where and as he pleased. He returned to Europe in 1693 and published an account of his travels under the title of Amoenitates Exoticae. His History of Japan has long been recognized as the most authoritative account of that country published at the time" (Cox). Of particular importance in this book are the maps: "Although maps of all kinds topped the list of prohibitions [of things not permitted to leave Japan], Kaempfer managed to smuggle out ten: four of Japan; one each of the cities of Osaka, Kyoto and Nagasaki; two very rare maps of Edo; and a pictorial map covering the land and sea routes from Edo to Nagasaki. In the History, he stressed the difficulties involved in obtaining any plans, particularly of Edo. Yet his description of the intricate layout of Edo castle was to horrify one interpreter who remarked how 'terrible' it was that a European had acquired so much precise information about the seat of the shogunate. Kaempfer's maps of Japan (based on Shinsen dai Nihon zukan, one of the earliest maps to have shown Hokkaido), though considerably modified by Scheuchzer, were to have an enormous influence on generations of European cartographers' (Fathom). Cox I, p. 322. Wellcome III, p. 376. HBS 69535. $8,500. SCHEUCHZER, J.G. (illustrator). …

Hardcover. First Edition. Two folio (8-1/2" x 13-3/4) volumes in contemporary calf leather, neatly rebacked preserving the original gilt spine labels. First edition in English, second issue (with the additional appendix in volume 2), translated from the German by J. G. Scheuchzer. Titles printed in red and black with additional engraved titles and 45 mostly double-page or folding plates and maps. Kaempfer's HISTORY OF JAPAN "was for more than a century the chief source of Western knowledge of the country. It contains the first biography of Kaempfer; an account of his journey; a history and description of Japan and its fauna; a description of Nagasaki and Deshima; a report on two embassies to Edo with a description of the cities which were visited on the way; and six appendices, on tea, Japanese paper, acupuncture, moxa, ambergris, and Japan's seclusion policy" (DICTIONARY OF SCIENTIFIC BIOGRAPHY). Kaempfer was a physician for the Dutch East India Company's trading settlement at Nagasaki in the late 17th century. Sir Hans Sloane acquired the manuscript after Kaempfer's death, and arranged for it to be translated into English for this edition. Of significance is the fine folding map of Japan, "Imperium Japonicum in Sexaginta et Octo Provincias Divisum." Cordier, JAPONICA pages 414-15; Cox I: 332; Garrison-Morton 6374.11; See Nissen BBI 1019 note; Wellcome III: 376. Light dampstaining in second volume. Generally clean and bright, Near Fine.…

First Edition. First edition, 8vo, pp. [3], 4-323; illustrated with an occasional chart and diagram; original green cloth with paper label on the spine; good and sound with the front joint starting and mild spotting to the pastedowns. Mercantile Library of New York stamp on the title page. An early American text on formulating and dissecting arguments, Aristotelian syllogism, understanding fallacies, with exercises at the end "to develop the reasoning powers of the youthful inquirer after truth." American Imprints 46122.…

Zustand: Near Fine. Second edition in English. London: Printed for the Publisher, and sold by Thomas Woodward. and Charles Davis, 1728. Second edition in English and the first to include the Appendix on the 1673 English voyage to Japan. The first English edition was published in 1727 and is identical with the exception of the Appendix on the English voyage. Two volumes, folio (338 x 219 mm). [12], lii, [1]-391, [1, blank], [4, explanation of the plates]; [4], 393-612, 75, [1, blank], [2], 11, [1, blank], [4], [6] pp. Complete with engraved title-page (dated 1727) in volume one and forty-five engraved plates, of which two are folding, six are single-page, and the remainder are double-page. Bound ca. 1850 for Harrison of 59 Pall Mall, London. Three-quarter dark green morocco over green pebbled cloth boards, ruled in blind. Extremities a little rubbed. Inner hinges expertly reinforced and some tissue reinforcement to versos of plates. With the small circular stamp of the Oxford & Cambridge University Club on the verso of both title-pages. The text and plates remarkably clean. A fresh, Near Fine copy of this important work. "Kaempfer (1651 - 1716) was a well known German physician and naturalist with a passion for travelling. Before his arrival in Japan, he had accompanied the Swedish embassy under Louis Fabricius to Persia.then engaging as surgeon with the Dutch fleet, visited India and Batavia, and at length reached Japan, where he stayed three years collecting material for his work. Here he secured the good will of the authorities so completely that he was allowed to travel where and as he pleased. He returned to Europe in 1693 and published an account of his travels under the title of Amoenitates Exoticae. His History of Japan has long been recognized as the most authoritative account of that country published at the time" (Cox). "Some knowledge of Japan had been disseminated to Europe in the sixteenth century through the accounts of Roman Catholic missionaries such as Francis Xavier. However, following the restriction of trade from the 1620s, first-hand information about the country was largely available to Europeans only via VOC (Dutch East India Company) merchants stationed at the 'Japan factory' at Deshima. Dutch accounts at this time evoked romantic images of an isolated country with mysterious customs, views that coloured western notions of Japan during the 'closed country' (sakoku) period. The term sakoku in fact owes its existence to Engelbert Kaempfer's History of Japan. It was coined by the Nagasaki translator Shizuki Tadao in his 1801 Japanese-language edition of the work. Before this time, the policy was known as kaikin or 'maritime restrictions'. Kaempfer served as surgeon at Deshima in 1690 - 92 and was able to gather extensive notes on the history, culture and natural history of the country, primarily during his two excursions accompanying the annual Dutch procession to the capital, Edo. Returning to Europe in 1695, Kaempfer began to make arrangements to publish his findings. He produced a survey of Japanese botany, Amoenitatum exoticarum, in 1712, but died before he was able to publish his history of the country itself. Fortunately, his manuscript notes survived and were purchased by the botanist and collector Sir Hans Sloane (1660 -1753) who passed them to his librarian, Gaspar Scheuchzer (1702- 29), to translate into English. The resulting two-volume publication, of which this is a copy, was dedicated to George II. It was the most comprehensive European account of Japan for over a century and the first such work in English. Kaempfer's History also contained plates taken from authentic Japanese woodblock prints, including.the first contemporary depiction of Edo to appear in European literature. The book's influence was wide-ranging and it remained an important account of Japan and Japanese life until well into the nineteenth century" (Royal Collection Trust). Cordier, Japonica, pp. 414-415; Cox I, p. 332; Garrison-Morton 6374; Wellcome III, p. 376. Near Fine.…

Unbound. Zustand: Good. no date. 16 ¾ by 21 ½ inches. Thin card stock paper. A large photo poster of political activist Angela Davis, issued to bring light to, and free her from incarceration. Davis had been accused of murder and kidnapping in relation to the attacks on the Marin County Civic Center of that year. Using guns acquired from Angela Davis, Jonathan Jackson and several others staged a kidnapping/hostage taking at the courthouse in an effort to secure the release of George Jackson and two other Soledad Brothers from prison. She pleaded not guilty and was found innocent at trial, the jury finding no evidence she knew of the plot beforehand. GOOD condition. General toning, with a faint brown horizontal streak across the upper rear. Minor soiling. Some creasing and wrinkling to the poster, mostly along the top and bottom edges and corners. Slight curling along the top and bottom edge. Two two inch tears at the center top, with a few other small chips and tears along the extremities.…