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[CANADIAN Illustrated News Periodical]
        L'Opinion Publique Journal IllustrÃ© 7 volumes - II to VII (1871, 1872, 1873, 1874, 1875, 1876 and 1881) newspapers
      MontrÃ©al: G. E. Desbarats & Co, 1881. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Poor. Total of 7 volumes (of 14 in total - Vol 1, no.1 to Vol 14, no.52 (1er janvier 1870 - 27 dÃ©cembre 1883) Needs rebinding. 1871. Volume II. January 5 at December 28, 1871. 632 pages. 1872. Volume III. 4 janvier au 26 dÃ©cembre 1872. 632 pages 1873 Volume IV. January 2 at December 25, 1873. 626 pages. 1874. Volume V. January 1 at December 31, 1874. 648 pages. 1874. Volume V. January 1 at December 31, 1874. 648 pages. 1875. Volume VI. January 7 at December 30, 1875. 624 pages. 1876. Volume VII. January 6 at December 28, 1876. 600 pages. 1881 Volume XII January 6 at December 29, 1881. 600 pages. L'Opinion publique. Generally poor condition only.1871. Volume II. Montreal: G E Desbarats & Co, January 5 at December 28, 1871. 632 pages. Hundreds of engravings full page, advertisers and authors of great reputation make of this periodical a very required article. QuÃ©bÃ©cois equivalent of "Canadian Illustrated News", produced by the same editor. Broken binding of the back (flat detached). L'Opinion publique. 1872. Volume III. MontrÃ©al : G. E. Desbarats & Cie, 4 janvier au 26 dÃ©cembre 1872. 632 pages. Des centaines de gravures pleine page, des annonceurs et des auteurs de grande rÃ©putation font de ce pÃ©riodique un article trÃ¨s recherchÃ©. Ã‰quivalent quÃ©bÃ©cois du "Canadian Illustrated News", produit par le mÃªme Ã©diteur. Reliure brisÃ©e du dos (plats dÃ©tachÃ©s). Book Description: Montreal: G E Desbarats & Co, January 4 at December 26, 1872. 632 pages. Hundreds of engravings full page, advertisers and authors of great reputation make of this periodical a very required article. QuÃ©bÃ©cois equivalent of "Canadian Illustrated News", produced by the same editor. Broken binding of the back (flat detached). L'Opinion publique. 1873. Volume IV. Montreal: G E Desbarats & Co, January 2 at December 25, 1873. 626 pages. Hundreds of engravings full page, advertisers and authors of great reputation make of this periodical a very required article. QuÃ©bÃ©cois equivalent of "Canadian Illustrated News", produced by the same editor. L'Opinion publique. 1874. Volume V.Book Description: Montreal: G E Desbarats & Co, January 1 at December 31, 1874. 648 pages. Hundreds of engravings full page, advertisers and authors of great reputation make of this periodical a very required article. QuÃ©bÃ©cois equivalent of "Canadian Illustrated News", produced by the same editor. L'Opinion publique. 1875. Volume VI.Montreal: Company of Burland-Desbarats lithography, January 7 at December 30, 1875. 624 pages. Hundreds of engravings full page, advertisers and authors of great reputation make of this periodical a very required article. QuÃ©bÃ©cois equivalent of "Canadian Illustrated News", produced by the same editor. L'Opinion publique. 1876. Volume VII. Montreal: Company of Burland-Desbarats lithography, January 6 at December 28, 1876. 600 pages. Hundreds of engravings full page, advertisers and authors of great reputation make of this periodical a very required article. QuÃ©bÃ©cois equivalent of "Canadian Illustrated News", produced by the same editor. Broken binding of the back. Some defects (folded pages, tears) and absence of the two last pages. L'Opinion publique. 1881. Volume XII.Montreal: Company of Burland lithography, January 6 at December 29, 1881. 622 pages. Hundreds of engravings full page, advertisers and authors of great reputation make of this periodical a very required article. QuÃ©bÃ©cois equivalent of "Canadian Illustrated News", produced by the same editor. Broken binding of the back (flat superior detached, flat missing inferior).

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        CRONACA BIZANTINA Periodico letterario, sociale, artistico. Si pubblica due volte al mese.
      Roma, Angelo Sommaruga, 1881-1885. In folio (mm. 460x320), mz. pelle coeva, ogni numero di pp. 8-12, stampa a due colori con bellissimi capilettera e fregi nel t. Di questo mitico periodico letterario romano offriamo "tutto il pubblicato" - dall?'editore Angelo Sommaruga - in 90 fascicoli: dal n. 1, Anno I, 15 giugno 1881 al n. 6, Anno V, 16 marzo 1885. Vi è compreso il n. 12 del 16 giugno 1884, sequestrato per la ?"Proposta ai Parlamenti per un sovrano costituzionale modello?" (dal "Libro delle Bizzarrie" di Carlo Dossi).?"La "Cronaca" diede il posto d?'onore al Carducci e il suo nome era una delle massime attrazioni del periodico. I poeti che vi pubblicarono versi una o parecchie volte furono: Guerrini, Boito, D?'Annunzio, Salvadori, Marradi, Pascarella, Milelli, la Contessa Clara, Pascoli (per una breve collaborazione) e pochi altri. Novelle e bozzetti e prose vi pubblicarono il Verga, il Capuana, il De Amicis, la Serao, lo Scarfoglio, il Sommaruga medesimo. Scritti di varia umanità introdussero nella "Bizantina" gli scrittori più in voga e quelli che promettevano: il Guerrini, il Nencioni, il Chiarini, il Lessona, il Pica, il Di Giacomo. Sono in ogni numero della Cronaca articoli mondani, atti a destare l?'interesse delle belle signore e dei giovani galanti e molti di questi articoli scrisse Matilde Serao che nel 1885 doveva sposare Edoardo Scarfoglio.La vita della "Cronaca" comunque fu essenzialmente legata alla fortuna di Angelo Sommaruga e vale per la bellezza dell?'edizione, per la scelta di nome e di scritti, ordinata allo scopo del successo editoriale. Il 3 maggio 1885 la Cronaca risorge fondendosi con la ?'Domenica Letteraria?' che però dà il titolo maggiore al giornale: e finisce col n. 28 del 7 novembre. Quindi risorge il 15 dicembre 1885, e questa volta diretta da Gabriele D?'Annunzio. Ha come sottotitolo ?'Domenica Letteraria?'. Ma parlare di questa nuova ?'Cronaca Bizantina?' non occorre. L?'età eroica è quella sommarughiana?". Così Francesco Flora su ?"Pegaso?", dicembre 1930, pp. 680-98. Solo i primi due e l?'ultimo numero con antichi restauri per strappi; uniformi arross. su alc. pagg., altrim. esemplare ben conservato.

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KRONENFELS, Johann Ferdinand von
        Das schwimmnde Flottenmaterial der seemachte asiatischen kriegsschiffe der neueren und neusten zeit eine kurzgefasste beschreibung der wichtigsten europaischen amerikanischen und
      Leipzig: A. Hartleben's Verlag. Good with no dust jacket. 1881. First Edition; Various. Hardcover. Original 1881 printing not a reprint. Written entirely in German on Naval Architecture. Leather spine worn and cracking at hinges, but not seperate from binding. Marbled insets to 1/4 leather binding. Very clean contents. Title translates "The material schwimmnde fleet of maritime powers a brief description of the major European and Asian American warships of the newer and latest time" Rare. (See seperate listing (60790) for the supplement to this volume entitled " Die Kriegsschiffbauten 1881 - 1882. Mit Nachträgen aus früheren Jahren."; Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 599 pages .

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James Garfield
        Rare book from the Library of James A. Garfield and used by him as President ? his personal copy of the 1881 ?Manual for the Use of the Legislature of the State of New York?
      "Protesting a Garfield appointment in their state, U.S. Senators Conkling and Platt resigned on May 16, 1881, and then sought reelection by the Republican majority in the N.Y. State Legislature to show their strong party support at home. The first Presidential memorial library, completed at the Lawnfield estate in Ohio by the widow of James Garfield four years after his assassination, houses almost 3,000 books that were used and treasured by the 20th president. Both James Garfield and his wife Lucretia were voracious readers and amassed a large collection of books. Some twenty years ago, several dozen of their books were de-accessioned, and one of these books is described below:Book ?Manual for the Use of the Legislature of the State of New York. 1881. Prepared pursuant to a Resolution of the Senate and Assembly of 1865, by Joseph B. Carr, Secretary of State,? 588 pages, 4? x 6.25?. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Company, 1881. Bound in red cloth with a double-line gilt rectangle at perimeters of covers. Gilt lettered on cover: ""President Garfield. / Compliments of / Joseph B. Carr / Secretary of State.? Spine professionally reconstructed and attached to the covers; five raised bands on spine, gilt-lettered in three compartments: ?Manual for / Legislature / Joseph B. Carr / 1881.? Fold-out diagrams of the New York State Senate Chamber (9.75? x 12?) and the New York State Assembly Chamber (11? x 12?) affixed to first free-endpaper. The name of each member and his seat location is on each diagram, as well as the officers and newspaper reporters. Garfield?s 2.5? x 1.25? bookplate ?Library of / James A. Garfield. / Inter Folia Fructus.? affixed inside front cover. Very good condition.The State Legislature convened in Albany on January 3, 1881. One of its first actions took place on January 13th when a joint caucus of the Republicans in the Senate and the Assembly nominated Thomas C. Platt of Tioga County as the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate. Elected to the United States Senate by the Republican-controlled state legislature, Platt served from March 4, 1881, to May 16, 1881, when he resigned because of a disagreement with President James A. Garfield, also a Republican, over federal appointments in New York. His Republican colleague Roscoe Conkling, who had represented New York in the U.S. Senate since 1867, also resigned in protest. Thinking they had the support of their party in the New York state legislature, Platt and Conkling announced their candidacy to succeed themselves. Undoubtedly, Garfield used this book listing the members of the state legislature who would elect the new U.S. Senator. After President Garfield was shot on July 2nd, ?The New York Times? reported that ?Mr. Conkling feared that some of his enemies would work up the impression that his resignation as a United States Senator and the subsequent events had precipitated the assault upon President Garfield.? When Charles Guiteau shot Garfield, he proclaimed, ?I am a Stalwart! Arthur is now President of the United States!? Conkling was the leader of the Stalwart wing of the New York Republican party which had successfully placed Stalwart Chester Arthur on the 1880 Republican ticket. In late July, the New York State Legislature elected two incumbent Republican Congressmen to replace Platt and Conkling. After the beloved President died on September 19th, Conkling refused to reenter politics. ?How can I speak into a grave? How can I battle with a shroud?? he asked. ?Silence is a duty and a doom.? In 1882, President Arthur nominated and the U.S. Senate confirmed Roscoe Conkling as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Conkling, who had resumed his New York law practice, declined. ?The New York Times? suggested that his reasons were twofold: the salary was too low and there was no patronage."

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Harris, Joel Chandler
        UNCLE REMUS His Songs and His Sayings the Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation
      New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881. First edition. Near Fine. First printing with "presumptive" on page 9 and the correct ads in the back. (BAL 7100) A lovely, Near Fine copy of the book with bright gilt and clean boards. Light rubbing at the spine ends, minor separation within the page block and a short 1/4 inch tear at the inner margin of the title page. A total of eight plates, including the frontis, with several other illustrations within the text.First published in 1881, Uncle Remus was a landmark collection of African American fables and oral tradition that was adapted and edited by Joel Chandler Harris. The work includes 185 tales, which are woven together through the character of Uncle Remus, an older ex-slave who tells the stories to a group of children. The stories were actually written in dialect and many of them center around the character of Br'er (Brother) Rabbit, a kind of clever trickster. Read widely, the book was extremely popular as many people had not been exposed to the tales, lifestyles, and ways of speaking that book depicted. Mark Twain himself was a fun: "...in the matter of writing [the African-American dialect], he is the only master the country has produced." Despite its acclaim, the book has been somewhat controversial, with some questioning Harris' role in shaping the stories themselves. "But it is not merely as a collection of folk- lore that this book deserves notice. It is a valuable study of dialect..." (Contemporary review in The Dial). On both the Grolier Club's and Merle Johnson's lists for most important works of American literature. Near Fine.

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COCKERELL, Douglas, for W.H. Smith & Son].
        Guest Book.
      - 4to. Bound in full reddish-brown niger morocco, stamp-signed in gilt with the W.H. Smith & Son monogram on rear turn-in, sides with gilt-ruled borders and small embellishments, gilt lettering at the head of the upper cover ("We should a guest love while he loves to stay / And when he likes not give him loving way"), smooth spine with ruled border and title ("Guest Book") in gilt, green cloth endpapers, top edges gilt; a very nice copy, contained in the original hinged wooden box with W.H. Smith & Son's printed label. A very handsome guest book, blank save for the first page which has twelve names and addresses entered in ink. These include the wood-engraver and teacher of wood-engraving, Noel Rooke (1881-1953) whose pupils included Vivien Gribble, Robert Gibbings, John Farleigh, and Clare Leighton. Also with the signatures of Robert Ashwin Maynard (1888-1966), wood-engraver and first Controller of the Gregynog Press (later joint owner of the Raven Press), and Theo D.A. Cockerell (1866-1948), a noted scientist and a teacher at the University of Colorado. He was the elder brother of Sir Sydney Cockerell. Douglas Cockerell (1870-1945), master bookbinder and an important figure in the Arts and Crafts movement. He started his own bindery in 1898 in Denmark Street in London, and after a number of moves he finally settled in Letchworth where he worked with his son Sydney until his death. He was in charge of W.H. Smith & Sons bindery from 1905 to 1914. His Bookbinding and the Care of Books is still a standard text book. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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Rydygier, Ludwig
        Exstirpation des carcinomatösen Pylorus. Tod nach zwölf Stunden (pp.252-260, 3 Abb.).
      - Dtsch. Z. Chir., 14. - Leipzig, Verlag von F.C.W. Vogel, 1881, 8°, VI, 586 pp., 13 Holzschnitte, 5 lith. Tafeln, feiner Halbledereinband mit marmor. Deckelbezügen; frisches Exemplar. Pylorusresektion vor Billroth - Meilenstein der Abdominalchirurgie. - **Originalausgabe! Ludwig Rydygier (1850-1920) gehört zu den zu Unrecht vergessenen Pionieren der moderenen Abdominalchirurgie. Er resizierte bereits 2 Monate vor Billroth, am 16. November 1880, ein großes Pyloruskarzinom. Der Patient verstarb 12 Stunden nach der Operation. Die von Billroth im Janur 1881 operierte Patientin überlebte 4 Monate. Seinen zweiten und dritten Patienten verlor Billroth ebenfalls postoperativ. - Rydygier gelang dagegen am 21.11.1881 die erste Pylorusresektion bei benigner Stenose (Ulcus duodeni). Die Patientin überlebte den Eingriff 19 Jahre! Rydygier war es auch, der die Klemme zur Komprimierung des Magen- und Duodenalstumpfes einführte. In der vorliegenden Arbeit berichtet der Autor in aller Ausführlichkeit über die ca. 4 Stunden dauernde Operation. Eingehend werden auch die Vorteile des "Compressorium" geschildert. Rydygier schreibt "Nach dem Gesammteindruck, den auf uns der Fall gemacht hat, glauben wir zu dem Ausspruch berechtigt zu sein, dass diese Operation gewiss eine Zukunft hat. - Garrison & Morton No.3473.1: First Extirpation of carcinomatous pylorus. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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A. PERNOLET. L. AGUILLON.
        Exploitation et réglementation des mines à grisou en Belgique, en Angleterre et en Allemagne. Rapport de mission fait à la Commission chargée de l'étude des moyens propres à prévenir les explosions de grisou dans les houillères.
      DUNOD. Libraire des Corps Nationaux des Ponts et Chaussées, des Mines et des Télégraphes. 1881 - Format 14/22/6,5. Cart. d'Ed. Dos pièce de titre orné, ht. du dos d'usage. 3 T en un 125 p. Plus pl. dépliée Tableau de l'Aérage des Houillères Belges et 15 fig. 9 Chap. et annexes. Observations générales sur la réglementation des mines à grisou et la manière dont elle est appliquée. Gisement du grisou, dégagement normal et exceptionnel. Accidents de grisou en Belgique. Aménagement et exploitation. Aérage et ventilation. Organisation du travail et de la surveillance. Eclairage des travaux souterrains. Travail à la poudre. Poussières. Appareils de sauvetage. Annexes politiques. T2 346 p. plus Tablx. dépliés de la Distribution de l'air dans les Houillères Anglaises. De l'Aérage ds les Houillères Anglaises. 86 fig. Historique de la réglementation des mines à grisou antérieure à la loi de 1842 jusque 1872. Obs. sur les conditions au milieu desquelles le grisou se présente ds certaines mines anglaises et sur les causes de quelques-unes des catastrophes qui s'y sont produites. Organisation des charbonnages angl. Exploitation par piliers et galeries. Méthodes par massifs longs et par longue taille. Exploit. de la grande couche du Staffordshire sud. Aérage naturel et artificiel. Organisation spéciale du Nord de l'Angleterre. Travail dans le grisou. Types des lampes de sûreté en Angl. Procédés du tr. à la poudre. Poussières. Expériences de William Galloway. Appareils de sauvetage inexistants en Angleterre. Tablx. des Réglements particuliers des districts et bassins de Cardiff, Newport, Lancashire, Yorkshire. Tabl. des coups de grisou survenus en Angleterre depuis 1850, dans lesquelles ont péri 6 personnes au moins. Tabl. analytique des accidents de grisou survenus depuis 1870, où ont péri 6 personnes au moins. Plus planche 1 du charbonnage de Lund Hill District de BARNSLEY Yorkshire, couche à la profondeur de 192m43, plan. 2 du charbonnage d'Eppleton, Comté de DURHAM, couche Hutton à la profondeur de 325m. T3 299 p. 57 fig. Tabl. de l'Aérage des Houillères Saxonnes. Tabl. déplié de l'Aérage des Houillères Allemandes. Pls. 1-2 Charbonnage de Burgk, Bassin houiller de Plauen-Dresde. Pl. 3 au 1er décembre 1879 des travaux des Puits No2 & No4 de la Mine de Brückenberg Bassin de Zwickau. Pl. 4 des travaux de la division Albert Schacht de la houillère Gerhard Prinz Wilhelm-Sarrebrück. Gisement de grisou ds les Bassins Houillers de la Saxe Royale. Métho. employées aux charbonnages de Burgk et Brückenberg. Lampe éternelle de Zwickau et appareil Koerner pour brûler le grisou-fig 13-14-15. Aucun appareil de sauvetage en Allemagne. Notes sur l'explosion du 2 août 1869 à la mine de Burgk, du 1er décembre 1879 à la mine de Brückenberg. PRUSSE. Loi de 1865.ALSACE-LORRAINE. Loi de 1873. Formations houillères de la Ruhr et de la Sarre. Tabl. des accidents survenus en Prusse en 1871. Aérage diagonal d'Albert-Schacht. Siège triple de Camphausen-Sarre. Siège complexe de Heinitz-Sarre. Clapets de Westphalia. Clapets Laigneaux à Styring. Puits No3 et No4 Heinitz-Dorstfeld-Kaiserstuhl-Mont-Cenis-Josepha. Massif de protection sous les morts-terrains ds la Ruhr. Galeries de Dudweiler-Camphausen. Massifs longs de Gerhard-Grube. La couche Beust. Tranches inclinées avec remblai complet. Aérage par la cheminée des chaudières. Ventilateurs Guibal-Winter-Pelzer. Manomètre à aiguille Ochwadt. Lampes Rosenkrantz-Boty de Sarrebrück-Mueseler de Lorraine. Fermeture des lampes de sûreté W. Schroeder. Réglement particulier de la mine de Heinitz. Régl. général pour l'Alsace-Lorraine du 6 septembre 1879. Ré. particuliers des mines de Sarre et Moselle. Mines à grisou en AUTRICHE-HONGRIE. Loi du 23 mai 1854. Loi du 21 juin 1877 pour les districts de Rossic-Oslawan et Ostrau-Karwin. Réglement gén. pour la Hongrie. Plans échelle 1/8000e. EX. de Fig. en noir et blanc : Aménagement des travaux dans la couche SILKSTONE à ROCKINGHAM (pleine page). Installation des ventilateurs Guibal de BASCOUP (pleine page). IMPRIMERIES Arnous de Rivière, A. Lahure. Paris. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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[LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth] MARSHALL, William Edgar
        ORIGINAL SIGNED ENGRAVED PORTRAIT OF LONGFELLOW
      Philadelphia: George Barrie, 1881. Document. Some areas of very light foxing but Very Good overall and quite uncommon. Original, large engraved portrait of Longfellow surrounded by vignette scenes from his best-loved poems (Hiawatha, Blacksmith, Hesperus, Revere, etc.), with plenty of room for all as the engraving measures @ 21" x 30" and is on its original 25-1/4" x 34" stretcher set in a white wooden frame that measures 29-1/2" x 38-1/4." SIGNED "Henry W. Longfellow" in pencil at the lower center and in pencil by Marshall in the lower right corner. William Edgar Marshall began his life in art as an engraver of watch-cases, graduated to vignette work for the American Bank Note Company, and studied painting in Europe in 1863-65. He returned to America in the latter year, when he painted and engraved a portrait of the late President Lincoln. In 1866 he opened a studio in New York, where he painted and engraved portraits of many distinguished 19th-century Americans for the next forty years.

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Velloso, José Mariano da Conceição [or Vellozo]
        Florae Fluminensis seu Descriptionum Plantarum Praefectura Fluminensi Sponte Nascentium liber primus ad systema sexuale concinnatus
      Flumine Januario / Rio de Janeiro: Typ. Economica, 1881. First complete edition. Cloth. A very good copy, rear board rubbed, edges foxed, binder's stamp and bookplate of Glasgow Archaeological Society on front pastedown. 4to. Published in Archivos do Museu Nacional do Rio De Janeiro. Volume V. 1880. Added title page: Petro nomine ac imperio primo Brasiliensis imperii perpetuo defensore ... jubente, Flora fluminensis a' fr. Josepho Mariano a Conceptione Vellozo Ordinis monorum collecta, descripta, et elaborata anno M.D. CC. XC. Ex M.S. cod. Imperialis bibliothecæ eruta nunc primo etitur. Flumine Januario, A.D.M. DCCC. XXV, imperii IV. José Xavier Veloso (1742-1811), born in what is now Minas Gerais, Brazil, was ordained in 1766 in the convent of St. Anthony in Rio de Janeiro, where he studied philosophy and theology, later Geometry in San Paulo, and finally natural history. He collected plants, animals, and minerals in the Rio de Janeiro area from 1783 to 1790 at which time he moved to Lisbon where he worked at the Royal Academy of Sciences while preparing Florae Fluminensis, his greatest work, for publication. Using the Linnaeus? system of sexual classification of plants, he prepared very highly detailed texts and 1700 prints, many of them of new species. But the publication of the work was beset by problems. First sent to Venice, the plates were never completed. Later the French invasion of the Iberian peninsular, sent the Portuguese government, then Veloso and his manuscripts, into exile in Brazil, where he died in 1811. In 1825 an abbreviated version of the text was published, followed by the eleven volumes of the Icones in 1827, of which few copies survive. The complete text was not published until this edition in 1881. Rodrigues 2473. Sabin 98833n. For the shorter version of 1825 see: Barba de Moraes II, p. 343. Pritzel 468. Jackson 377. Innocencio V.5 4258; V.13, p.122.

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[DAGGETT, THOMAS F.]
        THE OUTLAW BROTHERS, FRANK AND JESSE JAMES. LIVES AND ADVENTURES OF THE SCOURGES OF THE PLAINS
      Published by Richard K. Fox, Proprietor Police Gazette, [1881]., 1881. 8vo. Pictorial yellow and black wrappers, [5], 67 pp. plus 7 pages of advertisements, frontispiece. Top of front panel says "Fifth Edition" and shows a picture of a hanged man, inside front cover and inside rear and back cover are advertisements. This is a rare item and we have only seen two other copies in the past years that state "Second Edition" at the top of the front cover. It has been said that this booklet was printed in a small quantity and as they sold and more were needed the publisher printed them as if sales were so good that another edition was needed. We don't know what actually was the reasoning, but this copy matches identically with all bibliographical sources. Six Guns 542 says "Rare." "Another example of the Police Gazette's historically worthless outlaw series, which have now become rare collector's items." Light wear to the spine ends, and moderate wear to the edges, else a very good copy housed in a quarter leather and cloth clamshell case with raised bands on the spine and titles stamped in gold gilt on the spine.

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SYDNEY INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION
        Official Record of the Sydney International Exhibition, 1879
      Sydney: Thomas Richards, 1881. Thick large octavo, frontispiece and another plate, diagrams, two folding coloured maps and folding coloured plan; the superior issue in pictorially gilt-stamped morocco ( a little rubbed). The Sydney International Exhibition opened its doors on 17 September 1879 and closed them seven months later. During this time over a million visitors passed through, making the exhibition a determining landmark in the history of the Colony of New South Wales, reflecting the State's sense of achievement, progress, and aspirations.The main feature of the Sydney exhibition was the ornate building, the 'Garden Palace', designed by the Colonial Architect James Barnet, its accidental destruction by fire on 22 September 1882 was met with universal dismay.

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LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth] MARSHALL, William Edgar
        ORIGINAL SIGNED ENGRAVED PORTRAIT OF LONGFELLOW
      George Barrie, Philadelphia 1881 - Original, large engraved portrait of Longfellow surrounded by vignette scenes from his best-loved poems (Hiawatha, Blacksmith, Hesperus, Revere, etc.), with plenty of room for all as the engraving measures @ 21" x 30" and is on its original 25-1/4" x 34" stretcher set in a white wooden frame that measures 29-1/2" x 38-1/4." SIGNED "Henry W. Longfellow" in pencil at the lower center and in pencil by Marshall in the lower right corner. William Edgar Marshall began his life in art as an engraver of watch-cases, graduated to vignette work for the American Bank Note Company, and studied painting in Europe in 1863-65. He returned to America in the latter year, when he painted and engraved a portrait of the late President Lincoln. In 1866 he opened a studio in New York, where he painted and engraved portraits of many distinguished 19th-century Americans for the next forty years. Some areas of very light foxing but Very Good overall and quite uncommon [Attributes: Signed Copy]

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Doebner, Richard Dr. (Hrsg.):
        Urkundenbuch der Stadt Hildesheim. Hier in 8 Bände und Glossar komplett ! Originalausgabe !,
      Hildesheim. Gerstenberg'sche Buchhandlung, 1881 - 8°, 1. Band von c. 996 bis 1346 mit VIII, 650 Seiten / Band 2. Von 1347 bis 1400 mit VIII, 762 Seiten. / Band 3. Von 1401 bis 1427 mit IX, 856 Seiten. / Band 4. Von 1428 bis 1450 mit VIII, 732 Seiten und 3 Faltkarten im Anhang, Band 5. Hildesheimsche Stadtrechnungen. 1379 - 1415. XIII, 715 Seiten. / Band 6. Hildesheimsche Stadtrechnungen von 1416 bis 1450. LIV, 971 Seiten. / Band 7. Von 1451 bis 1480 mit III, 848 Seiten und XVIII Bildtafeln im Anhang. / Band 8. von 1481 bis 1597 mit IV, 1055 Seiten und eine Bildtafel im Anhang. / Band 9. Glossar zu Urkundenbuch der Stadt Hildesheim I-IV. von Herman Brandes mit 111 Seiten. Die ersten 8 Bände professionell in Halbleinen eingebunden mit marmorierten Schnitt und das Glossar in OBroschur - sehr guter und kompletter Zustand - 1881 - 1901. Originalausgabe ! b67516 Sprache: de [Attributes: Soft Cover]

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Oliver Wendell Homes
        The Chambered Nautilus (longhand) signed 2/8/1881 framed
      Boston: self, 1881. First Edition First Printing . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. This is a framed sheet, handwritten, signed and dated by Holmes of the last verse of his 1858 poem The Chambered Nautilus. "Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea! Oliver Wendell Holmes Boston Feb. 8th 1881" The sheet is mildly age darkened, but very clear. It lies on a plain piece of cardboard in an ordinary dark brown frame that to our inexpert eye seems to be from the period. There's some faint damp stain at the corners of the cardboard, but not on Holmes' piece. Holmes must have particularly liked this piece as repeated this action in later years.

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Oscar Wilde
        Poems [THIRD EDITION DATED 1881]
      David Bogue, London, 1881. Third Edition. Hardcover. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Includes the error on page 136 of "may" where it should read "maid" which identifies it as one of the limited edition of 250. Book - in Fair vellum boards with gilt floral decoration block to the boards and spine and gilt lettering - heavy marking to the boards and heavy darkening to the spine and to the gilt lettering, some bumping and wearing to the ends of the spine. Contents, Book Plate of Jill Garnier & previous owner's name, Blyth family member to free front end paper, See Note Below - browning to the front and rear free end paper and to the edges of the paste downs, minor loss to page 115/116 but only to the edge of the page and NO loss to the text, slight browning to the rough trimmed page edges otherwise clean and tightly bound. CONTENTS: Eleutheria:— Sonnet to Liberty; Ave Imperatrix; To Milton; Louis Napoleon; Sonnet on the Massacre of the Christians in Bulgaria; Quantum Mutata; Libertatis Sacra Fames; Theoretikos; The Garden of Eros. Rosa Mystica:—Requiescat; Sonnet on approaching Italy; San Miniato; Ave Maria plena Gratia; Italia; Sonnet written in Holy Week at Genoa; Rome Unvisited; Urbs Sacra Æterna; Sonnet on hearing the Dies Iræ sung in the Sistine Chapel; Easter Day; E Tenebris; Vita Nuova; Madonna Mia; The New Helen; The Burden of Itys; Impression du Matin; Magdalen Walks; Athanasia; Serenade; Endymion; La Bella Donna della mia Mente; Chanson; Charmides. Impressions:— I. Les Silhouettes II. La Fuite de la Lune. The Grave of Keats; Theocritus: a Villanelle; In the Gold Room: a Harmony; Ballade de Marguerite; The Dole of the King?'s Daughter; Amor Intellectualis; Santa Decca; A Vision; Impression du Voyage; The Grave of Shelley; By the Arno. Impressions du Théatre:—Fabien dei Franchi; Phêdre; Portia; Henrietta Maria; Camma; Panthea; Impression: Le Reveillon; At Verona; Apologia; Quia Multum amavi; Silentium Amoris; Her Voice; My Voice; Tædium Vitæ; Humanitad; [Greek]. *This is one of a collection of books from the estate of Jill & Geoffrey Garnier of Newlyn. Jill Garnier [1890 ?- 1966] Jessie Garnier nee Blyth, always known as Jill, came to Newlyn to study at the Forbes school. There she met her future husband (and cousin) Geoffrey Garnier. Both Jill & Geoffrey became central figures in the later Newlyn School. The couple settled in Orchard Cottage, Newlyn, where they each had large studios built in the garden. It was here that Geoffrey worked as an etcher/engraver and producer of aquatints. Jill spent all the time she could painting or designing and create beautiful embroidered pieces but in those less liberated times she had to juggle her art with the demands of looking after children and running a house. Size: 7.75 inches tall by 5 inches. ix, 236 rough cut pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 201-750 grams. Category: Poetry; Inventory No: 8717..

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Exner, Siegmund (Sigmund)
        Untersuchungen über die Localisation der Functionen in der Grosshirnrinde des Menschen.
      . Wien, Wilhelm Braumüller, 1881, 8°, VII, (1), 180 pp., 25 z.T. farblith. Taf. in 4°, Halbledereinband der Zeit.. Erste Ausgabe! - "Der Begriff der 'Bahnen' wurde von dem Wiener Physiologen Siegmund Exner im Jahre 1881 auf Grund von Reizungen an den Rindenzentren von Kaninchen geprägt. Seitdem versteht man darunter die Steigerung der Erregung, die von Zentren ausgeht, welche durch Impulse verändert sind" Diepgen - "Nach dem ersten Lokalisationsrausch war man etwas misstrauisch geworden gegen die allzu sicheren Übertragungen tierexperimenteller Befunde auf den Menschen, wie sie beispielsweise David F. Ferrier vorgenommen hatte. Eine Besinnung auf die Zuverlässigkeit der Methoden war auf dieses Forschungsgebiet notwendig geworden. Noch kritischer als Nothnagel überprüfte Exner das in der Literatur gekannte Krankenmaterial und stellte einen Katalog von 167 für die Menschen hirnlokalisatorisch beweiskräftigen Fälle zusammen. Dabei ergab sich die Einsicht, daß die einzelnen Rindenfelder nicht scharf gegeneinander abgegrenzt seien, wie es die landkartenmäßigen Darstellungen von Ferrier und Hermann Munk wollten; vielmehr greifen die Rindenfelder ineinander über und klinen am Rande allmählich aus. So gelangte Exner zu seinen Begriffen von 'absoluten' bzw., 'relativen' Rindenfeld und wußte sich in dieser Auffassung einer 'gemäßigten Localisation' ... in Übereinstimmung mit Meynert und Nothnagel." Lesky - - First Edition! - Sigmund Exner (1846-1926) identified the superficial tangential fibres of the molecular layer of the cerebral cortex, known eponymically as "Exner's plexus". Also report of agraphia occuring with a lesion in the second convolution of the premotor cortex. McHenry 361 - Garrison & Morton No.1413

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[Michelson, Albert A / Darwin, Charles / Maxwell, James Clerk] Macmillan, Alexander
        On the Velocity of Light - Small statement of Albert A. Michelson on the experiments of Young and Forbes. In: NATURE. A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Science, Volume XXIV. May 1881 to October 1881. [The Volume also containing a contribution by Charles Darwin: "On the Work of Worms" / Howard Grubb's "Great Vienna Telescope" / etc
      London and New York: Macmillan and Co.. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Few small library stamps (discarded). Also with a contribution by Darwin in the section "Letter to the editor" (Darwin responds to an article "Leaves injured at Night by free radiation" - . London and New York, Macmillan and Co., 1881. 4°. XVI, 624 pages including an original full page potrtrait-engraving of scottish mathematical physicist James Clerk Maxwell. Original Hardcover, recently beautifully rebacked with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Few small library stamps (discarded). Also with a contribution by Darwin in the section "Letter to the editor" (Darwin responds to an article "Leaves injured at Night by free radiation" - Illustrated throughout.

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Hayden, F.V. [Ferdinand Vanderer]
        Geological and Geographical Atlas of Colorado and Portions of Adjacent Territory.... Corrected to date and printed in accordance with an act of Congress approved February 9th, 1881
      [New York]: Julius Bien, lith. 1881. Second edition. Brown cloth lettered in gilt. Lacking one half of last view plate, else a good copy, boards rubbed but with old dampstain repaired, corners of sheets dampstained, mostly marginal, though a number cross the neat line, colors vibrant. Elephant Folio (27 1/4 x19 inches, 68 x 52 cm.). . 20 folding sheets consisting of 18 maps and charts and 2 with panoramic views (lacking one half of plate 20). Lacking left half of plate XX, the last view plate (The Twin Lakes - Lake Fork of the Arkansas; half of The Quartzite Group - San Juan Mountains and half of The La Plata Mountains, but has the South Western Border of the Mesa Verde Showing the Sierra El Late). Maps are quite detailed and have been updated with completed and projected railroad data.

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Wilde, Oscar
        Poems [THIRD EDITION DATED 1881]
      David Bogue, 1881, Hardcover, Book Condition: Fair Condition, Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket, Third EditionIncludes the error on page 136 of "may" where it should read "maid" which identifies it as one of the limited edition of 250. Book - in Fair vellum boards with gilt floral decoration block to the boards and spine and gilt lettering - heavy marking to the boards and heavy darkening to the spine and to the gilt lettering, some bumping and wearing to the ends of the spine. Contents, Book Plate of Jill Garnier & previous owner's name, Blyth family member to free front end paper, See Note Below - browning to the front and rear free end paper and to the edges of the paste downs, minor loss to page 115/116 but only to the edge of the page and NO loss to the text, slight browning to the rough trimmed page edges otherwise clean and tightly bound. CONTENTS: Eleutheria:? Sonnet to Liberty; Ave Imperatrix; To Milton; Louis Napoleon; Sonnet on the Massacre of the Christians in Bulgaria; Quantum Mutata; Libertatis Sacra Fames; Theoretikos; The Garden of Eros. Rosa Mystica:?Requiescat; Sonnet on approaching Italy; San Miniato; Ave Maria plena Gratia; Italia; Sonnet written in Holy Week at Genoa; Rome Unvisited; Urbs Sacra ?terna; Sonnet on hearing the Dies Ir? sung in the Sistine Chapel; Easter Day; E Tenebris; Vita Nuova; Madonna Mia; The New Helen; The Burden of Itys; Impression du Matin; Magdalen Walks; Athanasia; Serenade; Endymion; La Bella Donna della mia Mente; Chanson; Charmides. Impressions:? I. Les Silhouettes II. La Fuite de la Lune. The Grave of Keats; Theocritus: a Villanelle; In the Gold Room: a Harmony; Ballade de Marguerite; The Dole of the King?s Daughter; Amor Intellectualis; Santa Decca; A Vision; Impression du Voyage; The Grave of Shelley; By the Arno. Impressions du Th?atre:?Fabien dei Franchi; Ph?dre; Portia; Henrietta Maria; Camma; Panthea; Impression: Le Reveillon; At Verona; Apologia; Quia Multum amavi; Silentium Amoris; Her Voice; My Voice; T?dium Vit?; Humanitad; [Greek]. *This is one of a collection of books from the estate of Jill & Geoffrey Garnier of Newlyn. Jill Garnier [1890 ? 1966] Jessie Garnier nee Blyth, always known as Jill, came to Newlyn to study at the Forbes school. There she met her future husband (and cousin) Geoffrey Garnier. Both Jill & Geoffrey became central figures in the later Newlyn School. The couple settled in Orchard Cottage, Newlyn, where they each had large studios built in the garden. It was here that Geoffrey worked as an etcher/engraver and producer of aquatints. Jill spent all the time she could painting or designing and create beautiful embroidered pieces but in those less liberated times she had to juggle her art with the demands of looking after children and running a house. Size: 7.75 inches tall by 5 inches. ix, 236 rough cut pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 201-750 grams. Category: Poetry; Inventory No: 8717.

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Horden, John
        A grammar of the Cree language, as spoken by the Cree Indians of North America
      London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge 12mo (161 mm; 6.375"). viii, 238 pp.. 1881 First edition of one of the first Cree grammars in English. Horden, who began his life as an ironworker, received his calling in 1851 and was sent to Canada with only two weeks notice Â— during which time he was expected to find a wife. He succeeded in finding both a wife and a fruitful career, eventually becoming the first bishop of Moosonee, diocese of Rupert's Land. Horden's approach here is rooted in descriptive grammar and is expressed in terms of classic Latin-based structure. He urges his language-learning students to begin with his grammar, but to "use the living voice of the Indians as much as possible" as their guide (p. vi). Publisher's green cloth with modest decoration and "Cree Grammar" stamped in black; dark grey discoloration (smoke?) to spine and adjoining one inch on each cover. Text block edges darkened, discoloration to endpapers, fly-leaves, and occasionally another page, with a slim crescent of grey to top of title page. Otherwise, occasional foxing only and a good, sound copy.

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Tuer, Andrew White (1838-1900)
        Bartolozzi and his works / by Andrew W. Tuer; a biographical and descriptive account of the life and career of Francesco Bartolozzi ... With some observations on the present demand for and value of his prints . . [Complete in 2 vols] ... (Truncated)
      London :, New York : Field & Tuer, Scribner & Welford, 1881, Hardback, Book Condition: Very Good, First EditionFull Book Title: Bartolozzi and his works / by Andrew W. Tuer; a biographical and descriptive account of the life and career of Francesco Bartolozzi ... With some observations on the present demand for and value of his prints . . [Complete in 2 vols] ... with a list of upwards of 2,000 of the great engraver's worksVery good copy in the original gilt-blocked full vellum. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dulled and dust-toned as with age with corners slightly bumped. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; internally tight, bright, clean and strong with light discolouring and very minor staining to the front and rear boards. Top-edge-gilt. Further scans, images etc. and additional bibliographical material available on request. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall

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John Gould
        Plataea Flavipes; Gould (Yellow-Legged Spoonbill)
      This splendid hand-colored,folio size lithograph Platalea Flavipes: Gould, from John Gould?s (1804-1881) monumental book "Birds of Australia" is in very good condition with light foxing and staining throughout. Measuring 22" x 15", this lithograph magnificently displays the author?s scientific skill and attention to detail. Commonly called the Yellow-Legged or Yellow-Billed Spoonbill, these tall wading birds are expertly hand-colored in vibrant white with black accenting feathers and yellow bills and legs. The Yellow-Legged Spoonbills are finely detailed from each feather on their bodies to their spatulate bills, used for collecting food in the shallow waters they live in.At the time "Birds of Australia's" publication, the birds of this region were essentially unknown to a European audience and as Gould himself admitted in the preface to the book, ?the field was comparatively a new one?. John Gould was without question the most prolific ornithological artist of the 19th century, and the only one to rival John James Audubon in ambition and quality. The 19th century was a time of intense fascination with discoveries in natural history, especially regarding knowledge of the wildlife of exotic lands.Gould combined his passion for natural history with outstanding scientific, artistic, and entrepreneurial talents, and embarked on a series of projects that would eventually make him the leading publisher of ornithological illustrations in Victorian Britain. Gould?s unparalleled career spanned five decades, and he produced a monumental series of books of birds throughout the world.The Birds of Australia is John Gould?s largest and most important work. Because he himself spent so much time in the field making his own observations, the text that accompanies the illustrations is by far the most accurate and detailed of all his works. Each of the illustrations is stunningly colored and flawlessly drafted, highlighting the exquisite plumage and elegance of the birds. The colossal work is tremendous throughout, and quite rightly, it is considered Gould?s masterpiece.When Gould began work on the Birds of Australia, the ornithology of that continent was all but unknown in Europe. Gould started his research using specimens available in England, but quickly realized that the supply was far from sufficient. He discarded the work and traveled to Australia to beginhis effort anew on his magnum opus. Arriving in Australia in September 1838, Gould and his wife, Elizabeth, spent the following eighteen months exploring Tasmania and the adjacent islands, South Australia, and New South Wales, and penetrated well into the interior.Over the course of these extensive travels Gould made many of the preliminary drawings that were translated into the remarkable series of 681 lithographs. Gould collected and documented so many new species, more than three hundred, that very few additions have been made since. His voyage to Australia was unsurpassed in the annals of ornithology.

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Harris, Joel Chandler (1845-1908)
        Uncle Remus His Songs and His Sayings The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation
      D Appleton and Company, New York 1881 - 231+[8 ad] pages with frontispiece, 6 other plates and diagrams. Small octavo ((7 3/4" x 7 1/4") bound in original brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt rabbit pictorial to cover with black back ground drawing. Illustrations by Frederick S Church and James H Moser. First edition, first state with "presumptive" on last line page 9 and "New Books. A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine" (BAL 7100:1). Joel Chandler Harris (December 9, 1845 ¿ July 3, 1908) was an American journalist, fiction writer, and folklorist best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories. Harris was born in Eatonton, Georgia, where he served as an apprentice on a plantation during his teenage years. He spent the majority of his adult life in Atlanta working as an associate editor at the Atlanta Constitution. Harris led two professional lives: as the editor and journalist known as Joe Harris, he supported a vision of the New South with the editor Henry W. Grady (1880¿1889), stressing regional and racial reconciliation after the Reconstruction era. As Joel Chandler Harris, fiction writer and folklorist, he wrote many 'Brer Rabbit' stories from the African-American oral tradition and helped to revolutionize literature in the process. Condition: Corners bumped and slightly rubbed, small closed tear at bottom of page else a very good copy. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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ANGEL, MYRON [EDITOR]
        HISTORY OF NEVADA. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF ITS PROMINENT MEN AND PIONEERS
      Oakland: Thompson & West, 1881., 1881. First edition. Thick quarto. Original full leather, titles and designs stamped in gold gilt on front cover and spine, xiv [2], [blank], frontis., 17 - 680 pp., double column, marbled page edges, publisher's introductory, illustrated, plates, portraits, editor's introductory, additions and alterations. A complete history of the state, along with its founding and prominent citizens. Howes A273 says "Exhaustive work on this state and its fifteen counties." Six Guns 58 says "Scarce." "One chapter, which includes a short sketch of Sam Brown and Langford Peal, gives a long list of the killings by years." Portraits and biographical sketches of prominent citizens is provided along with some attractive scenes of residences and ranches, the state university at Elko, Bishop Whitaker's school for girls in Reno, mining companies' offices and shafts, the Exchange Hotel in Aurora, the Depot Hotel in Reno, the Fulton Foundry in Virginia, and much more. Hinges beginning to weaken, else a very good clean, square copy housed in a cloth slipcase. Really a very informative volume with beautifully detailed artwork. GRAFF 64. HOWES A273. SIX GUNS 58. HERD 1630.

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Grünfeld, Josef
        Die Endoskopie der Harnröhre und Blase.
      . Dtsch. Chir., Lfg.51. - Stuttgart, F.Enke, 1881, 8°, XVI, 240 pp., 22 Holzschnitte im Text und 108 fein kolorierte Abbildungen auf 3 ganzseitigen Tafeln, OBrosch.; unaufgeschn.. ERSTE AUSGABE. - Der Begründer der URETHROSKOPIE ist der Wiener Hautarzt Joseph Grünfeld (1840-1910). Es ist die bedeutendste Leistung in der Zeit vor Nitze. Grünfeld faßt alle technischen Errungenschaften seit Bozzinis Lichtleiter in seinen Urethroskopen zusammen. Grünfeld ist auch der Erfinder des Harnröhrenspiegels. Grünfeld verwendete als Reflektor den 1841 von Friedrich Hofmann, Kreisphysikus in Burgsteinfurt, beschriebenen konkaven Hohlspiegel mit zentralem Sehloch und befestigt ihn mit einer Binde an der Stirn; er verschließt den offenen Harnröhrentubus am Schnabel mit einem schrägen Glasfenster und kann damit die untere und hintere Blasenwand sehen. Als erster entfernt er kleine Blasentumoren durch einen offenen Tubus unter Sicht. Er beschreibt den Unterschied von Harnsäure- und Phosphatsteinen etc. Auch sondiert er als erster das Ureterostium unter Kontaktendoskopie und in direkter Sicht (1876). Dabei drückt er das gerade Fenster bei der Frau gegen die Schleimhaut und macht sie so blutleer; das Ureterostium findet er als erster regelmäßig auf, mit einem Blickfeld von 8 mm Durchmesser und einem scheinbaren Abstand von 8-18 cm. Das Andrücken des Fensters an die Blasenwand ist notwendig, weil sonst "die Trübung des Harns hinderlich war". Er erprobt alle möglichen Arten der Beleuchtung, vor allem Gaslicht. Wenn irgend möglich, benutzt er aber helles Sonnenlicht oder Tageslicht, so daß seine Patienten immer auf dem Sprung waren, wenn in Wien die Sonne durch die Wolken brach. - First Edition. In 1876, Josef Grünfeld of Gyorke/Hungaria, a pioneer of cystoscopy, was the first to successfully catheterize the ureters under vision, using malleable catheters introduced into bladder alongside his glassended endoscope. He also was the first surgeon which observe a bladder tumor by cystoscope (1885). - Murphy, 183 & 351; Kiefer Cat. 251; Nicht bei Benjamin Collection.

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Wilde, Oscar
        Poems [THIRD EDITION DATED 1881]
      David Bogue, London 1881 - Includes the error on page 136 of "may" where it should read "maid" which identifies it as one of the limited edition of 250. Book - in Fair vellum boards with gilt floral decoration block to the boards and spine and gilt lettering - heavy marking to the boards and heavy darkening to the spine and to the gilt lettering, some bumping and wearing to the ends of the spine. Contents, Book Plate of Jill Garnier & previous owner's name, Blyth family member to free front end paper, See Note Below - browning to the front and rear free end paper and to the edges of the paste downs, minor loss to page 115/116 but only to the edge of the page and NO loss to the text, slight browning to the rough trimmed page edges otherwise clean and tightly bound. CONTENTS: Eleutheria: Sonnet to Liberty; Ave Imperatrix; To Milton; Louis Napoleon; Sonnet on the Massacre of the Christians in Bulgaria; Quantum Mutata; Libertatis Sacra Fames; Theoretikos; The Garden of Eros. Rosa Mystica:Requiescat; Sonnet on approaching Italy; San Miniato; Ave Maria plena Gratia; Italia; Sonnet written in Holy Week at Genoa; Rome Unvisited; Urbs Sacra Æterna; Sonnet on hearing the Dies Iræ sung in the Sistine Chapel; Easter Day; E Tenebris; Vita Nuova; Madonna Mia; The New Helen; The Burden of Itys; Impression du Matin; Magdalen Walks; Athanasia; Serenade; Endymion; La Bella Donna della mia Mente; Chanson; Charmides. Impressions: I. Les Silhouettes II. La Fuite de la Lune. The Grave of Keats; Theocritus: a Villanelle; In the Gold Room: a Harmony; Ballade de Marguerite; The Dole of the Kings Daughter; Amor Intellectualis; Santa Decca; A Vision; Impression du Voyage; The Grave of Shelley; By the Arno. Impressions du Théatre:Fabien dei Franchi; Phêdre; Portia; Henrietta Maria; Camma; Panthea; Impression: Le Reveillon; At Verona; Apologia; Quia Multum amavi; Silentium Amoris; Her Voice; My Voice; Tædium Vitæ; Humanitad; [Greek]. *This is one of a collection of books from the estate of Jill & Geoffrey Garnier of Newlyn. Jill Garnier [1890  1966] Jessie Garnier nee Blyth, always known as Jill, came to Newlyn to study at the Forbes school. There she met her future husband (and cousin) Geoffrey Garnier. Both Jill & Geoffrey became central figures in the later Newlyn School. The couple settled in Orchard Cottage, Newlyn, where they each had large studios built in the garden. It was here that Geoffrey worked as an etcher/engraver and producer of aquatints. Jill spent all the time she could painting or designing and create beautiful embroidered pieces but in those less liberated times she had to juggle her art with the demands of looking after children and running a house. Size: 7.75 inches tall by 5 inches. ix, 236 rough cut pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 201-750 grams. Category: Poetry; Inventory No: 8717. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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Holub, Emil Dr. (Frewer, Ellen E. (transl))
        Seven Years iin South Africa - Travels, Researches, and Hunting Adventures, between the Diamond-Fields and the Zambesi (1872 - 79) - in Two Volumes
      Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, Boston, 1881, Hardcover, Book Condition: Very Good, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, 1st EditionThis thrillingly recounted journey, of which this is the first US edition, is in two volumes. The brown waxed cloth covers of both volumes are, for their age, are still vivid. The gold print is bright, the pressed illustrations are unworn and evocative. The covers of both volumes have general wear and marking from use and storage. Volume II is the more marked of the two with storage spotting marks. The corners and edges are worn but not significantly so. The back covers are principally storage rubbed. The spines of both volumes are worn at the head and foot. The head of the spines have wear from pulling. Both have handling wear - but the printing is clear and strong. The bindings are muscular and strong. The frontispage of volume 1 is unmarked. That of volume 2 has damp staining. The end papers of both volumes have shallow cracks in the spine seams through to the binding stitching. In volume 2 there is a small half-circle open tear to the bottom end page towards the spine edge. The front pages of volume 1 are in very good condition. In volume 2 has a long crack along the spine seam. The frontis illustration page is loosened at the foot. The thin protective page has earned its keep and the condition thereon is good. In volume one the map is torn but complete. Volume 2 is the more handled of the two and has handling marking throughout. However, this adventurous, breathlessly boys-own like story is in very good condition. All pages and illustration plates are complete, intact and firmly attached to the bindings. The illustrations are courageous in their description and are a delight. The text in both volumes is clear, very readable and clean. fk Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Africana - Travel; Inventory No: agyh.

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