viaLibri ~ Rare Books from 1905

Booth, E.R. [Emmons Rutledge]"
        History of Osteopathy, and Twentieth-Century Medical Practice."
      Cincinnati: Press of Jennings and Graham, 1905. Cincinnati: Press of Jennings and Graham, 1905. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition. No jacket. Hinges just starting, minor wear to corners. 1905 Hard Cover. xi, 428 pp. 8vo. Original brown cloth, gilt titles & rules. An early and important cornerstone in the literature of osteopathic medicine, published during the lifetime of Andrew Taylor Still (1828-1917), who founded the American School of Osteopathy just 13 years earlier. Though well-represented in institutional collections, it appears quite scarce in the trade, with only reissues currently available, and only one record of sale at auction in the last 30 years. From the preface: ""The compilation of the History of Osteopathy and Twentieth-Century Medical Practice was not undertaken because of a pressing demand. It seemed to have dawned upon the mind of several osteopaths about the same time that such a work ought to be issued during the life of Dr. Andrew Taylor Still and others most intimately connected with the origin and early development of the science. The author was requested by several of his professional friends to undertake the work, which he did with much reluctance. He felt that he had a great responsibility resting upon him. Once thoroughly entered upon the work, the magnitude of the task became evident; but the richness of the mine of truth in which he was delving, made the search one of constantly growing interest. Direct information was obtained from Dr. A. T. Still and from many who were intimate with him before Osteopathy was known and during its process of development. Many of the facts given are drawn from the authors personal knowledge; and others are from traditions or unwritten history which has become the common property of scores who are acquainted with the development of Osteopathy and of those who have known Dr. Still for years. The chapters relating to other systems of medicine and methods of procedure in treating diseases of the human body were not contemplated in the original plan. In order that Osteopathy might be seen in its true relations, and its independent position in the science and art of healing be fully understood, it seemed necessary to present a few facts concerning present medical practices. This was the more imperative because of the vilification and constant misrepresentation of Osteopathy by the established medical profession. It will require no stretch of the imagination to see that the facts at first sight apparently foreign to Osteopathy are an integral part of the history."""

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Verne, Jules
        Les Voyages Extraodinaires; L'Invasion de La Mer - Le Phare du Bout du Monde
      Collection Hetzel, Paris (nd) and (1905) - Forty-first double volume with Le Phare du bout du monde, a novel rewritten and modified by Michel Verne. Two volumes in one, with two title pages, two frontispieces, 236 and 203pp. illustrated by L. Bennett and George Roux in black & white with 12 chromolithographic plates.Bound in a striking red pictorial cloth binding with several gilt vignettes, accented with green leaves, pictorial gilt spine with blue accents,all edges gilt, minor light wear to corners and spine ends, a touch of bubbling to cloth on rear board, inner hinges re-enforced, over all a very handsome, bright copy of one of Vernes last works. The Art of Publisher's Bookbindings, an Exhibition of the Grolier Club #126. Quarto

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Friedli, Emanuel
        Bärndütsch als Spiegel bernischen Volkstums (7 Bde., 2 Broschüren, compl.). 1. Lützelflüh (1905, Nachdruck 1980). 2. Grindelwald (1908). 3. Guggisberg (1911). 4. Ins (Seeland I, 1914). 5. Twann (Seeland II, 1922, Nachdruck ca. 1980). 6. Aarwangen (1925). 7. Saanen (1927). Registerband Alphabetischer Nachweiser zu den Bdn. 4 und 5.(19253, Nachdruck 1980) Alphabetischer Nachweiser zu Band Saanen (1928)..
      Bern, Francke, 1905. Gr.-8°, ca 4200 S., zahlr. abb., Kart. m. Deckelillustration, 2 Bde. Deckel leicht stockfleckig, leichte Klebspuren einens abgelösten Deckelschildchens. Titelbl. gestemp., ansonsten tadell. Exemplare Preis in CHF: 1100. Erstausgabe. Umfangreiches sprach- u- kulturgeschichtliches Werk. - Emanuel Friedli (1846-1939) Berner Lehrer, Pfarrer und Dialektologe. Er wurde in Lützelflüh als Sohn eines armen Webers geboren. Getauft wurde er von Jeremias Gotthelf. Als Zehnjähriger kam er in die Armenerziehungsanstalt im Schloss Trachselwald, wo er acht Jahre lang blieb. Danach Lehrer-Seminar in Münchenbuchsee. 1874 holte er die Matura nach und studierte an der Universität Bern und der Universität Genf Theologie. 1880 wurde er Pfarrer. Im Jahr 1881 wählte ihn die Gemeinde Innertkirchen als Pfarrer. Wegen seiner Scheidung wurde Friedli 1896 in Orpund nicht mehr als Pfarrer gewählt. Von 1896 bis 1901 mitarbeit beim Schweizerischen Idiotikon in Zürich. 1902 legte er dem Regierungsrat des Kantons Bern ein Projekt für ein vierbändiges Werk über Bärndütsch als Spiegel bernischen Volkstums vor. Mit je einem Band über Lützelflüh, Grindelwald, Nidau und Guggisberg sollten vier Gebiete zu untersuchen, die sich hinsichtlich Dialekt, Kultur und Wirtschaft stark voneinander unterschieden. Mit der Zeit entstanden so sieben dickleibige, reich illustrierte Bände.

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        Sammlung der Drucksachen des Preußischen Hauses der Abgeordneten. 20. Legislaturperiode, I. Session 1904/05. Siebenter Band. Drucksachen Nr. 594 - 608.
      Berlin, Moeser, 1905.. Mit 1 Blatt Inhaltsverzeichnis, Seiten 4411 bis 5170. Der Band enthält ausschließlich den Bericht nebst Anlagen " der XX. Kommission über den Gesetzentwurf, betreffend die Herstellung und den Ausbau der Wasserstraßen, Drucksachen Nr. 96, A, C bis F zu Nr. 96 und zwar über: 1. die Herstellung eines Schiffahrskanals vom Rhein nach Hannover, 2. die Verbesserung der Wasserstraße zwischen Oder und Weichsel, 3. die Verbesserung der Schiffahrtsstraße der Warthe von der Mündung der Netze bis Posen, 4. die Kanalisierung der Oder von der Mündung der Glatzer Neiße bis Breslau sowie die Ausführung von Versuchsbauten für die Strecke von Breslau bis Fürstenberg a.O. ". Mit zusammen 8 meist ausfaltbaren, teils farbigen Karten, Plänen und Tabellen ( hierunter: Darstellung der beiden preußischen Wasserstraßensystem ( des östlichen und westlichen ) / Mündungsstrecken des Dortmund-Rhein-Kanals / Rhein-Herne-Kanal einschließlich der Lippe-Kanalisierung und Nebenanlagen / Übersichtskarte der Kohlenfelder an der Lippe von Weser bis Lippstadt / Übersichtskarte des Kaiser-Wilhelm-Kanals / Übersichtskarte des Teltow-Kanals / Übersichtskarte des Dortmund-Ems-Kanals ). Sowie mit sehr zahlreichen Tabellen, Statistiken etc..Bibliothekshalbleinen, 4° ( 31 x 24 cm ). Einband berieben, Ecken und Kanten bestoßen. Innen Exlibris, Bibliotheksvermerk, wenige Seiten gering fleckig. Insgesamt recht guter Zustand. ( Gewicht 2300 Gramm ) ( Pic erhältlich / webimage available ).

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Charles James Jackson, F.S.A
        English Goldsmiths and their Marks: A History of the Goldsmiths and Plateworkers of England, Scotland and Ireland
      London - Macmillan and Co, Limited, 1905. London - Macmillan and Co, Limited, 1905 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. A comprehensive guide to English goldsmiths and their marks with and illustration to frontispiece and a further five illustrations throughout. A history of goldsmiths and plateworkers of England Scotland and Ireland with over eleven thousand marks reproduced in facsimile from authentic examples of plate, and tables of date-letters and other hall-marks employed in the assay offices of the United Kingdom. With an errata slip bound in prior to the introduction. With a publisher's advert to rear with order form bound in. Bound by Western Mail Bindery Cardiff, with binder's label to rear pastedown. With previous owner's ink inscription to front pastedown 'Alfred N. Austen, Roseneath Ventnor. 'Condition: In a cloth binding. Externally, sound but with bumping and wear to extremities. With fading to spine and rubbing to boards. Hinges tender. Internally, generally firmly bound. Bright but with the odd handling mark to pages. Overall: GOOD.

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Burroughs, John; Harris & Ewing
        Signed photographic portrait of John Burroughs
      Washington DC: Harris & Ewing, Ca. 1905. Washington DC:: Harris & Ewing,. Ca. 1905.. Very good overall. John Burroughs, the American poet, essayist & naturalist (1837 - 1921)), friend of Walt Whitman and Henry David Thoreau, seated at a table with open book, gazing off to the right, with his trademark full snowy beard. Photograph taken by the Washington photography studio Harris & Ewing, with embossed blind stamp below the image. Signed just below the border, at the lower right. Burrough's pose in the photograph closely resembles a glass negative held by the Library of Congress (item/hec2009004383/), part of the Harris & Ewing Collection in the Prints and Photographs Division. Image size 6 x 9", on 9 3/4 x 13 3/4" stock. Slight creasing in lower right corner, well outside the signature & photograph.

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Alberto Pisa; text by M. A. R. Tuker and Hope Malleson
        Rome
      London - A. and C. Black, 1905. London - A. and C. Black, 1905 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First edition. Rome painted by Alberto Pisa with seventy plates in colour, engraved by the Hentschel Colourtype Process. Withtext by M. A. R. Tuker and Hope Malleson and others. First edition. The twelve chapters in this book were all written for this present volume, but chapters III, V VIII, part of Xi and IX had already been published in the Monthly Review, Broad Views, Macmillan's Magazines and the Hibbert Journal. The authors attempted to present some aspects of Rome as they had seen it themselves, drawing on long acquaintance with the city and its inhabitants of the old school and thenew. Each chapter is the work of one writer. Condition: In a cloth binding. Externally, generally smart but with some wear to extremities and fading in places, slight loss to head of spine. Internally, generally firmly bound although slightly strained in places with the odd page starting. Bright and generally clean with only the odd spot and handling mark and age toning to endpapers only. Previous owner's small initial ink stamp to front free endpaper. Overall: GOOD.

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        En Marge des Vieux Livres
      Paris - Societe Francaise d'Imprimerie et de Librairie, 1905. Paris - Societe Francaise d'Imprimerie et de Librairie, 1905 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First edition. Leatherbound volume with gilt title to the spine, marble paper covered boards, andmarble paper pastedowns. Franois lie Jules Lematre (April 27, 1853 - August 4, 1914), was a French critic and dramatist. He was born at Vennecy (Loiret). He became a professor at the university of Grenoble, but was already well known for his literary criticism, and in 1884 he resigned his position to devote his time to literature. He succeeded JJ Weiss as drama critic of the Journal des Dbats, and subsequently filled the same office on the Revue des Deux Mondes. His literary studies were collected under the title of Les Contemporains (7 series, 1886-1899), and his dramatic feuilletons as impressions de thtre (10 series, 1888-1898). His sketches of modern authors show great insight and unexpected judgment as well as gaiety and originality of expression. He published two volumes of poetry: Les Mdaillons (1880) and Petites orientales (1883); also some volumes of contes, among them En marge des vieux livres (1905). This volume bears the the bookplate of The Right Hon. Sir Ronald Charles Lindsay. He served as British Ambassador to the United States of America from 1929 to 1939. He was the son of Sir James Lindsay (26th Earl of Crawford) and Emily Lindsay. In 1909 he married Martha Cameron. Martha was the daughter of James Donald Cameron and Elizabeth Sherman Cameron. Martha died in 1918. In 1924 he married Elizabeth Sherman Hoyt , daughter of Colgate Hoyt. Condition: The binding is tight and firm with both covers and all pages securely attached. There is some wear to the extremities including slight rubbing to the boards and spine. Internally the pages are generally clean and bright with the occasional handling mark and isolated spot. There is a bookplate to the front pastedown. Overall the volume is in very good condition..

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Bonnelle, Frank J
        Golf. Poetical Putts. [Mock-up of Unpublished Book]. [With:] [Archive of Golf Poetry and related materials]
      [Boston, n.d., ca. 1905] - Frank J. Bonnelle (1850-1921), a longtime editor at the Boston Herald, contributed a large number of occasional poems to that newspaper and was the first contributor of poems to "The Golfer," a periodical published in Boston at the turn of the 20th century (though not recorded on OCLC or in Donovan/Murdoch, the U.S.G.A. Library holds a run of "The Golfer," 1895- 1903) and the first American periodical devoted exclusively to the sport. The Massachusetts Historical Society holds a small collection of Bonnelle family correspondence that includes some material involving Frank J. Bonnelle. 1. Golf: Poetical Putts. Mock-up for an unpublished book. Portrait frontispiece, printed title page, 31 of Bonnelle's long poems, each with a golfing theme, some illustrated, clipped from a periodical and mounted to the rectos of album leaves, 20 more golfing poems (clips, typescripts, or small printed broadsides), laid in; some of the poems have manuscript corrections, additions, or deletions. 4to album, spine coevering perished, still sound. Titles of the poems include "On the Links," "Her Caddie," "The Unsuccessful Golfer," "Hazards," "The Golfer Who Loved and Lost," "Fore!," "A Ghost on the Green," "Belinda of the Links," "St. Nick and the Golfer," "Caddie Macree of Lynn," "A Sonnet to Golf," "Poetical Putts," and "Ye Ancient Boston Golfer," among others. With additional material from the papers of the first regularly published golfing poet in the United States: 2. Golf in Verse: A Series of Poetical Putts. [Boston, n.d., ca. 1910]. Original manuscript (carbon typescript; a typed and revised version of "Golf: Poetical Putts"?). 4to. (35) pp. [rectos only], title page, table of contents page, and 30 of Bonnelle's long poems, each with a golfing theme; laid in are small printed broadsides (proofs?) of 15 of the poems included in the collection, a manuscript list of titles for inclusion, and two Bonnelle golfing poems clipped from a periodical. Very good. Original brown printed wrappers (spine worn). 3. Manuscript statement by Bonnelle (unsigned) concerning his work in the printing trade and newspaper business from apprenticeship at 15 in Iowa to his desk at the Boston Herald (8vo, six pages), on Boston Herald stationery. 4. Manuscript, signed, of Bonnelle's golfing poem "A Reformed Golfer" (4to, one page, five stanzas of four verses each), edges worn. 5. Manuscript, signed, of of Bonnelle's poem "An Ornithological Outing" (4to, five pages, 12 stanzas of four verses each, small illustrations for each stanza, all in purple ink). 6. Letter of recommendation for Bonnelle from L.W. Myers, editor and proprietor of the Wapello, Iowa, Republican, 12 April 1871 (8vo, two pages), given as Bonnelle left the Midwest to pursue his career in the East. 7, Notebook (4to, 192 pp.), posthumous compilation of his non-golfing poems mounted on both sides of sheets of paper, mostly arranged by topic, e.g., Christmas, Thanksgiving, other holidays, journalism, etc., and including clips from periodicals, typescripts, several signed manuscripts, small printed broadsides, etc., comprising hundred of examples 4to and smaller. . Overall very good. Not in OCLC or Donovan & Murdoch [Attributes: Soft Cover]

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anonym.
        Nordischer und volkstümlicher Zierat (sic).
      Plauen i. V. Verlag Christian Stoll, ca. 1905.. Titelblatt mit 24 pochoirkolorierten Lichtdrucktafeln mit zahlreichen Motiven, Druck von C.G. Röder, 2°. 39,5 x 39,3 cm. 25 Blatt Seiten, Original-Halbleinen-Mappe mit Schleifenbindung, Hardcover in Halbleinwand,. In befriedigendem Zustand. die Mappe fleckig und berieben, die Tafelseiten in den Rändern teils mit kleinen Läsuren, teils mit geringer Randbräune, die letzte Tafel mit Fraßspuren an zwei Rändern. Titel und 24 pochoirkolorierte Lichtdrucktafeln mit jeweils zahlreichen Motiven, lose Blätter in Olwd.-Mappe. Sammelwerk mehrerer künstlerischer Hände, die Motive den schmückenden Gewerben zugedacht: Keramik, Textilien, Möbel, Wandmalerei usw. In allen Fällen gilt die Unverzichtbarkeit von Blatt, Blüte und Frucht, der (neue) Jugendstil ist unverkennbar.

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Plutarch [Plutarch's Lives Corrected from the Greek and Revised By A H Clough + Plutarch's Morals Corrected And Revised By William W Goodwin]
        Plutarch's Lives & Plutarchs Morals Complete in Ten Volumes
      Athenaeum Press, U.K. - COMPLETE IN TEN VOLUMES. PLEASE EMAIL FOR SHIPPING RATES NET WEIGHT OVER 8.0Kg SO PLEASE NOTE - WILL NOT BE SHIPPED OUTSIDE THE UK WITHOUT ADDITIONAL POSTAGE. Undated but Copac shows them as [1905?]. Plutarchs Lives in 5 volumes - xlii, 414, 422, 452, 570, 618 pages with an index, size 8.5 inches tall by 5.75 inches. Illustrated portrait frontispieces in each volume. Plutarchs Morals in 5 Volumes - i, 516, xiii, 507, xi, 518, xiv, 508, xiii, 534 with an index. Illustrated portrait frontispieces in each volume. An Introduction By Ralph Waldo Emerson. Books - in Very Good blue boards, bevelled edges and paper labels to the spine Gilt top edges - some marking to the boards, light bumping to the extreme ends of the spine and light sunning to the spine and browning to the labels on the spines, small piece missing to the top of the paper label to Morals volume three not affecting the lettering. Contents, some browning to the pastedowns and endpapers, light browning to the title pages otherwise clean and tightly bound. A Rare and Attractive Set. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Classics (Latin & Greek); Languages & Linguistics; WBM. Inventory No: 004371. THIS BOOK IS HEAVIER THAN THE AVERAGE UPON WHICH CHARGES ARE BASED AND SO WILL INCUR AN ADDITIONAL CHARGE FOR SHIPPING TO ADDRESSES OUTSIDE THE U.K. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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Which It Is Ruled, Its Wonderful Powers And Strange Inhabitants
        The Romance Of The Mighty Deep; A Popular Account Of The Ocean, The Laws By Which It Is Ruled, Its Wonderful Powers And Strange Inhabitants
      London - C. Arthur Pearson Ltd, 1905. London - C. Arthur Pearson Ltd, 1905 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. A scarce early edition of this illustrated exploration of oceanic natural history for children, ina lovely full calf binding. The Second Edition. With a James Galtbookseller's label to the front pastedown. In a Wadham House, Hale, school binding, with a prize presentation ink inscription to the front blank. Agnes Giberne, 1845-1939, was an India-born English writer, the daughter of Major Charles Giberne. Alongside her evangelistic and didactic fiction, and some devotional works, Giberne also wrote several highly regarded, often reprinted scientific textbooks for children on astronomy and geology -DNB. Condition: In a full calf binding. Externally, slightly rubbed to the spine. Internally, firmly bound, generally clean and bright. Overall: NEAR FINE..

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Aristotle [Erroneously attributed]
        The Works of Aristotle The Famous Philosopher, Containing His Complete Masterpiece, and Family Physician; His Experienced Midwife, His Book of Problems. And His Remarks on Physiognomy
      London - The Camden Publishing Co., 1905. London - The Camden Publishing Co., 1905 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. An interesting little copy of this controversialmedical work. 'Aristotle's Masterpiece', also known as 'The Works of Aristotle, the Famous Philosopher', is a sex manual and a midwifery book that was popular in England from the early modern period through to the 19th century. Its first publication was in 1684. The book is of unknown authorship, but was erroneously attributed to Aristotle and was banned in Britain until the 1960s. With coloured plates of medical diagrams, including a fascinating double page plate of the human gestation period. Dated using copac. Condition: In a full cloth binding. Externally, sound with some rubbing, most noticeably to the spine. Hinges are a little tender, as usual with this 2 thick work. Internally, binding is rather tender, again not unusual due to its thickness. Pages are a littleage toned but otherwise clean with just the occasional handling mark. Booksellers sticker to front pastedown and advertisement sticker for 'Hancock's Modern Cash Drug Store' to front free endpaper. Overall: GOOD..

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Dehmel, Richard, Schriftsteller (1863-1920).
        Eigenh. Brief mit U. ("R. Dehmel").
      Hamburg, 7. XII. 1905.. 2 SS. Gr.-4to.. An ein Fräulein über einen holländischen Nachdruck seines 1902 erschienenen Hauptwerks "Zwei Menschen": "Ich war einige Zeit verreist, konnte Ihnen deshalb nicht früher antworten. Da zwischen Deutschland und Holland keine Literatur-Convention besteht, braucht Ihr Verleger sich eigentlich um meine Erlaubnis nicht zu kümmern. Aber die Tonart Ihres Briefes giebt mir die Hoffnung, daß er gleich Ihnen nichts gegen meinen Wunsch tun wird. Ich erlaube mir deshalb, Ihnen offen zu sagen, daß ein so umfangreicher Nachdruck, wie Sie ihn beabsichtigen, die Verbreitung meiner eigenen Bücher nicht fördern, sondern schädigen würde. Gern gebe ich zu, daß Ihr Vorhaben in künstlerischer Hinsicht Unterstützung verdient; aber zu meinen wie meines Verlegers Gunsten bitte ich Sie angelegentlich, auch auf den geschäftlichen Teil der Sache einige Rücksicht zu nehmen. Es würde mir lieb sein und würde auch, glaube ich, für Ihren Zweck vollkommen genügen, wenn Sie aus dem Kleinen Helden' nur höchstens zehn Stücke abdrucken wollen; die Auswahl überlasse ich Ihnen. Und aus den Zwei Menschen' bitte ich nicht den ganzen ersten Umkreis' zu nehmen, sondern nur die Romanzen I, 1-19 und I, 35 (nicht 36). Ob Sie auch das Leitwort' und den Eingang' davorsetzen wollen, stelle ich in Ihr Belieben; wenn ja, dann könnten Sie auch noch die Romanzen II, 28 und III, 31 abdrucken [...]". - Auf Briefpapier mit gedr. Briefkopf.

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Serre, E.
        Loto des 5 Parties du Monde. Race Humaines Productions Vegetales et Animales.
      Saussine Editeurs, Ca 1905, Paris: - Lavishly color illustrated French children's geography and natural history board game, with two of the twelve boards having to do with "Oceanie", and with the recessed images hidden by the tiles printed in color. The boards consist of illustrated maps of each region of the world with illustrations of animals and plants scattered across the maps and along the bottom of each board. The boards each contain 8 numbered tiles, which when lifted, reveal recessed color images of local inhabitants, or flora & fauna printed on the board below.The two Oceanie boards (eastern and western) include the following recessed color images on Board number 11: Javanais, platypus, Race Australienne (aborigine), Orang Outang, Drapeau Australien, Race Malaise, Elevage de Moutons, and Tasmanien. On Board number 12 the recessed color images are: Apterix, Oiseau Lyre, Baleine, Kanguroo, Buffle, Crocodile, Kakatoes, Cocotier. The maps themselves on both boards illustrated with multiple kangaroo, black swan, bird of paradise, Major Mitchell cockatoo, xanthorhoea, dasyure, echidna, wombat, kiwi, and Australiens at the lower right. There is also a thylacine (Tasmanian tiger) with small animal in its mouth (bandicoot), called "Thylacine et peramele" on Board number 12, tile 88. This image of the thylacine also appears on the illustration on the top lid.Board number 7, Amerique du Nord, with illustrations including: the Flat Iron Building ("Maison de 20 etages a New York"), Mer de Bering (with a spouting whale and ship trapped in the ice). The recessed images include an Eskimo, polar bear and Native American ("Peau Rouge"). Board number 8 also illustrated at the right side with three Native Americans standing near teepees ("Peaux Rouges"), cotton, bison, and gold mine.Complete in the original box, with 12 game boards, all 96 of the numbered tiles, as well as a pink cloth pouch, two pressed paper tile holders with purple flower printed interiors, and an additional open weave tile holder with blue felt trim. The game lid illustrated with 5 female figures symbolizing the five regions of the world (including a Native American with multi colored feather headdress), surrounded by images of the world's flora and fauna, and with the inventions of mankind spread at their feet. The illustration at the top lid slightly rubbed, corners of box rubbed. 17 wide x 13 1/2". OCLC: 525862356 [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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Anderson, Rasmus B. {editor in chief}
        Norroena; Anglo Saxon Classics, Embracing the History and Romance of Northern Europe - 15 Volume Set
      Norrcena Society, London, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Berlin, New York 1905 - This fifteen volume set is numbered 9 of a printing of 350 copies. Private press, printed for members only. Binding remain very tight, boards solid. All volumes have some wear at the corners with boards showing, chipping of spines {upper and lower}. Spine sections are showing more wear then boards. Marbled endpapers sewn to textblocks. Frontispieces of all volumes are hand-tinted with printed protective tissues. All volumes contain numerous black and white engraved illustration plates. Each have printed protective tissues. Volume 15 - 'The Norse Discovery of America' also includes a tri-fold map of Vinland {no tears}. Unfortunately, the set has slight fire damage. Some discoloration bottom front board and hinge of volume 9 - 'The Heimskringla'. Some damage to lower fep of same. Discoloration upper corner of Volume 11, lower and fore-edge front cover of Volume 12. Both Volume 11 - 'The Eddas' and Volume 14 - 'The Arthurian Tales' have repaired spines showing portions of backing material. Interior textblocks have slightly yellowed with age, but very clean and tight in bindings. No ownership or other markings. Very little foxing or shadowing. A very interesting collection of legends, history, and culture. Due to the size and weight of the set, it will require additional shipping. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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[Greenaway, Kate]: Spielmann, M.H., and G.S. Layard:
        KATE GREENAWAY
      London: A. & C. Black, 1905.. London: A. & C. Black, 1905.. Small, thick quarto. Cream cloth, ruled in blind, lettered in gilt, t.e.g. Frontis, plates and numerous illustrations, some in color, pictorial endsheets. Cloth darkened at spine and with some overall modest handsoiling, bookplate, a trifle shaken, with inner hinges cracked but sewing sound, some mild tanning at edges of text block, but a good copy. First edition, limited issue. One of five hundred numbered copies, signed by the subject's brother, John Greenaway, and with an original pencil drawing by Kate Greenaway mounted in the prelims and signed by John Greenaway on the mount. In this case, the sketch is a charming vignette of a young mother with babe in arms, with a slightly older bonneted young girl in the foreground and table, chair, basket and toys in the background.

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Plutarch [Plutarch's Lives Corrected from the Greek and Revised By A H Clough + Plutarch's Morals Corrected And Revised By William W Goodwin]
        Plutarch's Lives & Plutarchs Morals Complete in Ten Volumes
      U.K: Athenaeum Press. Athenaeum Press, U.K. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. COMPLETE IN TEN VOLUMES. PLEASE EMAIL FOR SHIPPING RATES NET WEIGHT OVER 8.0Kg SO PLEASE NOTE - WILL NOT BE SHIPPED OUTSIDE THE UK WITHOUT ADDITIONAL POSTAGE. Undated but Copac shows them as [1905?]. Plutarchs Lives in 5 volumes - xlii, 414, 422, 452, 570, 618 pages with an index, size 8.5 inches tall by 5.75 inches. Illustrated portrait frontispieces in each volume. Plutarchs Morals in 5 Volumes - i, 516, xiii, 507, xi, 518, xiv, 508, xiii, 534 with an index. Illustrated portrait frontispieces in each volume. An Introduction By Ralph Waldo Emerson. Books - in Very Good blue boards, bevelled edges and paper labels to the spine Gilt top edges - some marking to the boards, light bumping to the extreme ends of the spine and light sunning to the spine and browning to the labels on the spines, small piece missing to the top of the paper label to Morals volume three not affecting the lettering. Contents, some browning to the pastedowns and endpapers, light browning to the title pages otherwise clean and tightly bound. A Rare and Attractive Set. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Classics (Latin & Greek); Languages & Linguistics; WBM. Inventory No: 004371.. THIS BOOK IS HEAVIER THAN THE AVERAGE UPON WHICH CHARGES ARE BASED AND SO WILL INCUR AN ADDITIONAL CHARGE FOR SHIPPING TO ADDRESSES OUTSIDE THE U.K..

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Einstein, Albert
        Eine neue Bestimmung der Moleküldimensionen [A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions]. WITH: Zur Theorie der Brownschen Bewegung [On the Theory of Brownian Motion]
      Leipzig: Barth. Leipzig: Barth. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. FIRST APPEARANCE in a journal of Einstein's famous doctoral dissertation: "it has had more widespread practical applications than any other paper Einstein wrote" (Pais). WITH: Einstein's important sequel to his revolutionary paper on Brownian motion, "includes the discussion of rotary Brownian motion" (Pais). "It is not sufficiently realized that Einstein's thesis is one of his most fundamental papers. Histories and biographies invariably refer to 1905 as the miraculous year because of his articles on relativity, the light-quantum, and Brownian motion. In my opinion, the thesis is on a par with the Brownian motion article. In fact, in some--not all--respects, his results on Brownian motion are by-products of his thesis work. This goes a long way toward explaining why the paper on Brownian motion was received by the Annalen der Physik on May 11, 1905, only eleven days after the thesis had been completed. "Three weeks after the thesis was accepted, this same journal received a copy (without dedication) for publication. It was published only after Einstein supplied a brief addendum in January 1906... Quite apart from the fundamental nature of some results obtained in the thesis, there is another reason why this paper is of uncommon interest: it has had more widespread practical applications than any paper Einstein ever wrote" (Pais, Subtle is the Lord). IN: Annalen der Physik, Band 19, pp. 289-306; 371-381. Leipzig: Barth, 1906. Octavo, contemporary German morocco, marbled boards. Whole volume 19 offered (without general title page). Stamp ("Prof. R.W. Pohl / Göttingen) on page 1. Spine faded and a few scuffs to handsome contemporary binding; text and Einstein articles fine.

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Lord Avebury
        The Pleasures of Life
      London - Macmillan and Co., 1905. London - Macmillan and Co., 1905 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. A lovely copy of Lord Avebury's essaysabout the good things in life, in a full calf armorial prize binding. Part I is Two Hundred and Fourteenth Thousand and Part II is One Hundred and Seventy-First Thousand. Two parts in one volume. With a bookbinder's stamp for Relfe Brothers, London, to the verso of thefront free endpaper. John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (30 April 1834 28 May 1913) was a polymath and Liberal Member of Parliament. He was a banker and worked with his family's company, but was also involved with entomology, botany, biology, archaeology and ethnography. He helped establish archaeology as a scientific discipline, and was also influentialin nineteenth-century debates concerning evolutionary theory. Condition: In a full calf armorial prize binding from Maywood, Camberley. Externally, excellent with just minor shelfwear only. Internally, firmly bound. Some spots to the first and last few pages but otherwise bright andclean throughout. Ink inscription to first blank reading: 'Lucy A. Broad, 1907, General Knowledge Prize'. Overall: VERY GOOD INDEED..

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Booth, E.R. [Emmons Rutledge]
        History of Osteopathy, and Twentieth-Century Medical Practice
      Cincinnati: Press of Jennings and Graham, 1905. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition. No jacket. Hinges just starting, minor wear to corners. 1905 Hard Cover. xi, 428 pp. 8vo. Original brown cloth, gilt titles & rules. An early and important cornerstone in the literature of osteopathic medicine, published during the lifetime of Andrew Taylor Still (1828-1917), who founded the American School of Osteopathy just 13 years earlier. Though well-represented in institutional collections, it appears quite scarce in the trade, with only reissues currently available, and only one record of sale at auction in the last 30 years. From the preface: "The compilation of the History of Osteopathy and Twentieth-Century Medical Practice was not undertaken because of a pressing demand. It seemed to have dawned upon the mind of several osteopaths about the same time that such a work ought to be issued during the life of Dr. Andrew Taylor Still and others most intimately connected with the origin and early development of the science. The author was requested by several of his professional friends to undertake the work, which he did with much reluctance. He felt that he had a great responsibility resting upon him. Once thoroughly entered upon the work, the magnitude of the task became evident; but the richness of the mine of truth in which he was delving, made the search one of constantly growing interest. Direct information was obtained from Dr. A. T. Still and from many who were intimate with him before Osteopathy was known and during its process of development. Many of the facts given are drawn from the authors personal knowledge; and others are from traditions or unwritten history which has become the common property of scores who are acquainted with the development of Osteopathy and of those who have known Dr. Still for years. The chapters relating to other systems of medicine and methods of procedure in treating diseases of the human body were not contemplated in the original plan. In order that Osteopathy might be seen in its true relations, and its independent position in the science and art of healing be fully understood, it seemed necessary to present a few facts concerning present medical practices. This was the more imperative because of the vilification and constant misrepresentation of Osteopathy by the established medical profession. It will require no stretch of the imagination to see that the facts at first sight apparently foreign to Osteopathy are an integral part of the history."

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Alphonse Daudet
        Fromont Jeune
      Paris - Bibliotheque-Charpentier, 1905. Paris - Bibliotheque-Charpentier, 1905 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. A copy of 'Fromont jeune et Risler an' is a novel by French author Alphonse Daudet. It is the novel that first made Daudet famous, or as he put it, the dawn of his popularity. Alphonse Daudet (13 May 1840 16 December 1897) was a French novelist. He was the father of Lon Daudet and Lucien Daudet. The novel was crowned by the French Academy with the Jouy Prize, but that was a small part of its success. It was everywhere read and talked of, from the highest to the lowest ranks. In French. Condition: In a half calf binding with cloth boards. Externally, excellent with just some shelfwear and a mark to the rear board. Internally, firmly bound and clean with browning throughout. Overall Condition: VERY GOOD INDEED..

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PUSHKIN, Alexander. Illustrated by Ivan Bilibin.:
        THE TALE OF TSAR SALTAN ( CSAR ), of his son, the glorious and mighty knight Prince Guidon Saltanovich, and of the fair Swan-Princess
      St. Petersburg, Department for the Production of State Documents, 1905.. St. Petersburg, Department for the Production of State Documents, 1905.. FIRST EDITION 1905, Russian text throughout, large oblong 4to, 255 x 325 mm, 10 x 12¾ inches, card covers with full page coloured illustration to upper cover, small coloured illustration to lower cover, both heightened with gold, coloured and gold patterned title page, 5 full page coloured illustrations, smaller illustrations in the text including 3 half page in full colour, a few of the full colour illustrations heightened with gold, 20 pages including title page. Spine slightly worn, small split at head and tail of spine, corners slightly worn with tiny chip to lower corner of upper cover, lower cover slightly spotted, very small pale stain to upper cover, the lowest of 3 staples is missing, the other two slightly rusty, on the half page coloured illustration on page 11 adhesion has caused a graze to the background at the top 13 x 5 mm (½" x ¼"), on the facing full page coloured illustration there is another tiny graze 5 x 5 mm (¼" x ¼") on the background at the top, both plates have a little very light flecking to the upper background, barely noticeable, also caused by adhesion to one another. Contents otherwise clean and bright. A very good copy of a scarce title illustrated by Bilibin. See Golynets plates 19-28. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

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Nico Jungman and G. E. Mitton
        Normandy
      London - Adam and Charles Black, 1905. London - Adam and Charles Black, 1905 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First edition. A colourful exploration into the architecture, landscape, and people of Normandy. First edition. Featuring twenty-five coloured plates, with their original captioned tissue guards. Illustrated by Nico Jungman, and written by G. E. Mitton. Condition: In original cloth binding with gilt lettering to the spine and front board. Externally, generally bright, although withlight sunning and shelfwear to the spine. Cloth is splitting to the rear joint. Both hinges are strained. Internally, firmly bound and bright, with some instances of light foxing. Private library bookplate, and booksellers labelto the front free endpaper. Overall: GOOD.

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Elbert Hubbard
        Little Journeys to Homes of Great Scientists
      sp;- East Aurora - The Roycrofters, 1905. sp;- East Aurora - The Roycrofters, 1905 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Two volumes of Elbert Hubbard's beautiful 'Little Journeys' series. Volume XVI, numbers 1-6 and volume XVII, numbers 1-6, being all volumes from the year 1905. Volume XVI contains Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Humboldt, Herschel and Darwin. Volume XVII contains Haeckel, Linnaeus, Huxley, Tyndall, Wallace and John Fiske. With a frontispiece to each number showing a portrait of the scientist in question, and with the usual lavish decoration typical of the Roycrofters. Including many interesting advertisements for publications, furniture and courses by the Roycrofters. Elbert Green Hubbard (June 19, 1856 May 7, 1915) was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. Raised in Hudson, Illinois, he met early success as a travelling salesman with the Larkin soap company. Today Hubbard is mostly known as the founder of the Roycroft artisan community in East Aurora, New York, an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts Movement. He and his second wife, Alice Moore Hubbard, died aboard the RMS Lusitania, which was sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland on May 7, 1915. Condition: In quarter reverse calf bindings with paper covered boards. Externally, generally smart with slight bumping. Internally, firmly bound, bright and generally clean. Slight loss to one corner of the front wrap of the Linnaeus number, not affecting text. Overall: VERY GOOD INDEED.

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Louis Enault [translator]
        La Case de L'Oncle Tom
      Paris - Librairie Hachette, 1905. Paris - Librairie Hachette, 1905 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. A French copy of Uncle Tom's Cabin translated from the original English by Louis Enault. Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War, according to Will Kaufman. Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century and the second best-selling book of that century, following the Bible. It is credited with helping fuel the abolitionist cause in the 1850s. In the first year after it was published, 300,000 copies of the book were sold in the United States; one million copies were sold in Great Britain. The book and the plays it inspired helped popularise a number of stereotypes about black people. These include the affectionate, dark-skinned mammy; the pickaninny stereotype of black children; and the Uncle Tom, or dutiful, long-suffering servant faithful to his white master or mistress. In recent years, the negative associations with Uncle Tom's Cabin have, to an extent, overshadowed the historical impact of the book as a vital antislavery tool. Condition: In a quarter calf leather binding with marbled paper covered boards. Externally, a trifle rubbed. Corners are bumped, and boards worn. Internally, binding is loosening in places. Hinges are weak. Pages are browned and age-toned with some staining to the end-papers. Overall: GOOD..

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Robert Munro
        The Antiquary's Books:
      00, 1905. 00, 1905 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First edition. A uniformly bound selection from The Antiquities Books series With a colour plate to frontispiece to Ancient Painted Glass in England 1170-1500 and with black and white illustrations to all volumes. English Seals is an author's presentation copy with ink inscription dated January 1908 to front free endpaper. First editions. In five volumes. 'Methuen issued a series of volumes dealing with various branches of English Antiquities. . . The series is edited byJ. Charles Cox, LL. D. , F. S. A. , Member of the Royal Archaeological Institute and Corresponding Member of the British Archaeological Association. Each book will be entrusted to an expert in the selected subject, and the publishers are fortunate in having secured the services of distinguished writers. 'With previous owner's bookplates to front pastedown to three volumes and an ink inscription dated 1932 to front free endpaper to one volume. Condition: In cloth bindings. Externally, generally smart with slight wear to extremities with some fading to spines and the very odd mark. Internally, generally firmly bound. Bright but with the occasional mark to pages with odd spotting to some volumes and slight scattered spotting to other volumes, with occasional foxing to endpapers. Overall: VERY GOOD.

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Fiske, Daniel Willard (1831-1904)
        Chess in Iceland and in Icelandic Literature with Historical Notes on other Table-Games
      The Florentine Typographical Society, Florence 1905 - ix+400 pages with frontispiece, one illustration and diagrams and index. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 6 3/4") bound in original brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. (Betts: 6-33) First edition. Also published in New York, Stechart, 1915. Includes an account of chess in Iceland (chapters: Polar chess, Chess in the sagas, The story of Frithiof) whence it came from England in the 12th century, and it developed peculiarities in rule and nomenclature which existed until the 19th century. Only part (about on-seventh) of the book concerns chess, the remainder ("Stray notes") deals with the Europeans history of a group of other games: draughts, fox and geese, tables, merelles, or the morris game, etc. Fiske was born on November 11, 1831 in Ellisburg, New York. He attended Cazenovia Seminary, New York and Hamilton college in Clinton, New York. During his sophomore year, he left Hamilton to study Scandinavian languages in Europe, supporting himself as a correspondent for the New York Tribune. He spent his last two years in the Uppsala University in Sweden, also supporting himself by teaching English. In 1852, he returned to the U.S. and took a job as a librarian at the Astor Library in N.Y. During his stay at Astor Library, Fiske began his personal library containing a collection of Icelandic books which would become the largest in America as well as other topics such as Persian texts and philological works. Fiske, an avid chess player, was approached by Hardman Phillips Montgomery, a former postmaster of Philadelphia, about staging a contest between the three best chess players in the U. S. Fiske liked the idea, but not known for thinking small and quite aware of the importance of the London International Tournament in 1851, he proposed instead a National Tournament at which players from all over the country could meet and test themselves, but also at which the leading chess players could establish an organization to promote and encourage chess in America as well as establish standard rules of play. And so through Fiske the 1st American Chess Congress was conceived. Through the Congress, he met and became a close friend to the chess prodigy, Paul Morphy. Afterwards he wrote what most chess scholars consider one of the finest tournament books, the Book of the American Chess Congress. For the next few years, he edited the American Chess Monthly, with Paul Morphy listed as nominal co-editor. When Fiske failed to receive an expected promotion at the Astor Library in 1859, he resigned and took a position as secretary of the American Geographical Society where he remained until 1861 when he was attached to the American Legation to Vienna, serving under John Lothrop Motley. Returning to the U.S. in 1864, he was made editor of the Syracuse Daily Journal until 1866, followed by that of the Hartford Courant. In 1868 Fiske traveled to Egypt and Palestine, acting as a correspondent for several newspapers and upon his return in January of 1869 accepted the position as Professor of Northern European Languages and as Head Librarian for the new Cornell University. Fiske held these positions until his resignation in 1883. In 1879 Fiske visited Iceland for his first and only time. He edited the first Icelandic Chess Magazine in 1901 (published in Venice) and donated thousands of chess books to the Icelandic libraries. In 1905 Fiske's famous book, Chess in Iceland and in Icelandic Literature was published posthumously.Condition: Spine ends rubbed and bumped, corners bumped and gently rubbed else a very good copy. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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Nagel, Willibald (Hrsg.)
        Handbuch der Physiologie des Menschen in vier Bänden, Halbleder-Ausgabe, 1905 - 1909.
      Braunschweig, Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn, 1905 - 1909.. Vollständiges Grundwerk in vier Bänden. Braune Original-Halblederbände mit goldgeprägten Rückentiteln sowie goldgeprägten Ornamentbändern an den Kapitalen. Buchdeckel mit grünen Leinenbezügen und großen Lederecken. Mehrfarbig marmorierter Buchschnitt (Marmorierung bei den Bänden unterschiedlich). Einschlägiges Handbuch und Nachschlagewerk der Physiologie. Der Herausgeber Willibald Nagel wirkte von 1902 an als ordentlicher Professor und Leiter der Sinnesphysiologischen Abteilung des Physiologischen Instituts in Berlin, von 1908 an als ordentlicher Professor an der Universität Rostock. Nagel befaßte sich vor allem mit Sinnesphysiologie und entwickelte verschiedene Apparaturen, so unter anderem den so genannten "Nagel-Vierling" zur Untersuchung der Farbenblindheit sowie die "Nagelschen Farbtäfelchen" zur Farbenblindheitsdiagnose. Gliederung des Werkes: Bd. 1: Physiologie der Atmung, des Kreislaufs und des Stoffwechsels, XIV, 874 S. Bd. 2: Physiologie der Drüsen, Physiologie der inneren Sekretion, der Harn-, Geschlechts- und Verdauungsorgane, XV, 1022 S. Bd. 3: Physiologie der Sinne, XVII, 806 S. Bd. 4: Physiologie des Nerven- und Muskelsystems, XVIII, 992 S. Alle Bände mit zahlreichen eingedruckten Abbildungen und farbigen Tafeln.. Gelenke des ersten Bandes fachmännisch erneuert. Buchrücken partiell etwas aufgehellt. Ecken partiell etwas beschabt. Sonst sehr gutes, solides Halbleder-Exemplar des renommierten, als vollständiges Ensemble sehr seltenen Handbuchs. Auch innen sehr gutes Exemplar; Seiten sauber und fleckenfrei. Weitere Fotos auf der Homepage des Antiquariats (Rubrik: Fachliteratur: Medizin und Pharmazie).

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terian Church in New South Wales
        Centenary History of the Presbyterian Church in New South Wales
      Sydney - Angus and Robertson, 1905. Sydney - Angus and Robertson, 1905 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. A fascinating look into the history of the Presbyterian Church within Australia. Featuring various photographic plates, including a frontispiece of the author. Condition: In original buckram binding with gilt lettering to the front board and spine. Externally, light marksto the boards, with fading to the spine, and very slight bumping. Rear hinge is very slightly strained. Internally, firmly bound, bright and clean, with only the odd handling mark. Overall: VERY GOOD..

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Burroughs, John; Harris & Ewing.
        Signed photographic portrait of John Burroughs.
      Harris & Ewing, Ca 1905, Washington DC: - John Burroughs, the American poet, essayist & naturalist (1837 - 1921)), friend of Walt Whitman and Henry David Thoreau, seated at a table with open book, gazing off to the right, with his trademark full snowy beard. Photograph taken by the Washington photography studio Harris & Ewing, with embossed blind stamp below the image. Signed just below the border, at the lower right. Burrough's pose in the photograph closely resembles a glass negative held by the Library of Congress (item/hec2009004383/), part of the Harris & Ewing Collection in the Prints and Photographs Division. Image size 6 x 9", on 9 3/4 x 13 3/4" stock. Slight creasing in lower right corner, well outside the signature & photograph. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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George Eliot [Mary Anne Evans]
        Silas Marner
      London - J. M. Dent and Co., 1905. London - J. M. Dent and Co., 1905 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. An attractive copy of the classic novel by Mary Anne Evans, written under her better known pseudonym of George Eliot. Her third novel, Silas Marner was first published in 1861. An outwardly simple tale of a reclusive weaver, in its strong realism it represents one of Eliot's most sophisticated treatments of her attitude to religion. With numerous coloured illustrations throughout. Condition: In a decorative cloth binding with gilt detailing. Externally smart, with just some bumping to the corners and some minor shelfwear to the head of the spine. Marks to the rear board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright, with some scattered spotting. Overall: VERY GOOD..

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J. K. M. Shirazi
        The Life of Omar Al-Khayyami
      Edinburgh and London - T. N. Foulis, 1905. Edinburgh and London - T. N. Foulis, 1905 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First edition. The Life of Omar Al-Khayyami is a biography written by Shirazi, with decorative colour boards and colour illuminateddecorative title page and pieces throughout. First edition. With a preface by the author to front. Omar Khayym (1048 - 1131) was a Persian polymath: philosopher, mathematician, astronomer and poet. He also wrote treatises on mechanics, geography, mineralogy, music, climatology and Islamic theology and most famously theRubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Condition: In decorative paper covered boards in a protective brodart wrapper. Externally, with slight wear to extremities and handling marks to boards, slight splitting to paper on joints, backstrip lifting slightly, with slight loss to paper to head and tail of spine. Internally,bindingstrained in places with a few pages detached. Generally bright and clean throughout with veryslight spotting to endpapers. Overall: GOOD.

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Thomas Seccombe and W. Robertson Nicoll
        The Bookman Illustrated History of English Literature
      London - Hodder and Stoughton, 1905. London - Hodder and Stoughton, 1905 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. A comprehensive history of English literature. With numerous tissue-guarded plates throughout. Including chapters on Caxton, Foxes' Book of Martyrs, Shakespeare and Paradise Lost, amongst many others. Sir William Robertson Nicoll CH (October 10, 1851 May 4, 1923) was a Scottish Free Church minister, journalist, editor, and man of letters. Thomas Seccombe (18661923) was a miscellaneous English writer and, from 1891 to 1901, assistant editor of the Dictionary of National Biography, writing over 700 entries. Condition: In a half-calf binding. Externally sound, though a little rubbed. Backstrip lifting. Front joint failed, although front board still attached. Internally, firmly bound. Hinges reinforced with cloth tape. Pages are bright and mainly clean, with just the odd spot. Overall: GOODONLY with a very good interior..

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