1921. Photo album of 248 photographs documenting a journey from New York to South America. The photographer was traveling with a party, and may have been employed in some capacity with a railroad as many of the photos depict railroad related themes. On his way to South America he documents.....
Oxford: H. Hall, 1663. The first edition of Syriac historian Gregory Abu Al-Faraj's 'al-Mukhtasar fi-l-Duwal' or 'Book of the Dynasties', written in Arabic at the request of a Muslim friend and drawn from a work by Gregory written initially in Syriac. The work was edited and translated into Latin by.....
[Augsburg]: 1787. Very rare pamphlet on the conversion of two men to Catholicism - one, John Thayer (1755-1815), a Protestant pastor from New England and the first native New Englander to be ordained a Catholic Priest, and the second, Johann Joseph Keideck, a rabbi from Cologne, Germany. Thayer was born.....
[Antwerp?]: 1620. Brief tract written at the commencement of the Thirty Years war given in the form of a "most secret instruction" and attacking Frederick V of the Palatinate, who was at the time leading the Protestants in an attempt to overthrow the Catholic rule of Bohemia. Another tract followed.....
London: Printed for Dorman Newman, at the Kings Arms in the Poultrey, 1681. First published in 1678 under the title 'Ancient trades decayed', this plea to the government argues for greater protection from foreign competition for the various domestic industries. As the author states: "The end of this treatise is.....
London: Published at J. T. Ward and Co's. Juvenile Library, 1807. A very charming little children's book written to wile away the dreary hours of winter in Great Britain. It is written as a brief narrative of parents to children, explaining geography and world voyages, and peppered with moral advice.....
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Five works by the Irish Naturalist Richard Barton bound together, the last two being exceedingly scarce. Barton was born in 1706 in Painstown, County Meath, the son of John Barton, dean of Ardagh. He attended Trinity College, Dublin, where he obtained his B.A. in 1726 and M.A. in 1731. He.....
Paris: Antoine-Augustin Renouard (Imprimerie de Crapelet), 1800. An important work on the Greek economy published shortly before the Greek War of Independence. Beaujour served as the French consul of Thessalonica from 1787-1797 and was in a privileged role to research the commercial activities of the different regions of Greece. Included.....
Basel: Per Iacobum Parcum, impensis Ioannis Hervagii, 1554. A later edition of Italian scholar Lucio Bellanti's work in support of astrology. Originally published in 1498 in Florence in response to Pico della Mirandola's critique of astrology, Bellanti's work sets out arguments in favor of astrology as a legitimate science using the scholastic.....
Venice: Si vende alla Libraria del Colosso sul Ponte di Rialto, [1686]. The first octavo edition of Coronelli's important work on Greece, published during the war between Venice and the Ottoman Empire in which Venice was to ultimately prevail and conquer the Morea territory of southern Greece. This book can therefore.....
[Geneva]: Excudebat Henricus Stephanus, 1574. The first and only edition of Henri Estienne’s self-published work praising the Frankfurt Fair which he attended in person. The long-running fair had roots stretching back to at least the year 1240, when a charter by Emperor Frederick II mentions special privileges to the city.....
Lyon: Chez Thomas Amaulry, 1687. This book is no. 72 in Ann Massing’s "Painting materials and techniques: towards a bibliography of the French Literature before 1800" (festschrift for Rolf E. Straub, Worms, 1990) where she states: "Gautier’s handbook was intended to give the public useful instructions on the art of.....
1899. A Blue Book published to commemorate the semi-centennial of Iowa College with 74 original cyanotypes pasted in. The photographs range in size from 4 x 4cm to approximately 15 x 20cm , and all are related in some manner to the College. There are images of male and female.....
c. 1880. Sumptuous late 19th century Book of Hours manuscript created by female porcelain artist Adelie-Marie Kermabon for the French publishing firm Maison Bouasse-Lebel. Kermabon, born in Saint-Malo, was a student of the more famous porcelain artist Delphine de Cool-Fortin (1830-1921), whose works were exhibited at the Woman's Building at.....
[n.p.]: 1607. One of several printings of this satire on the infestation of fleas, done into macaronic verse (among the first of its kind in Germany). First published in 1593 in Hamburg, it was well-known throughout Germany and was republished in no fewer than twelve editions; nevertheless, most copies have.....
Paris: Sagnier et Bray, 1848. Three funeral eulogies given by the great Dominican preacher and restorer of the Dominican order in France, Jean-Baptisite Lacordaire. The most interesting of the three is that given for the Irish patriot Daniel O'Connell (1775-1847) at a Requiem Mass organized by Parisian Catholics on February.....
Strasbourg: Johannes Knobloch, 1523. A later edition (the first published in 1517) of an early Greek primer by the Northern Renaissance humanist Ottmar Luscinius, also known by his alternate surname Nachtgall. Luscinius, who studied Greek in Paris, and traveled to Greece and Asia Minor, was an enthusiastic promoter of the.....
Paris: Imprimerie le Normant, 1857. An interesting and very rare book that studies the use of the number "8" in religion and literature throughout world history. Beginning with the Pakua of ancient China, the author also studies the use of the number eight in the Bible, ancient Greek literature, etc......
Amsterdam: Johannes Blaeu, 1659. Formerly a student of Athanasius Kircher at the Roman College, Martini was the first European to write a history of China based on original Chinese sources. Martini was sent to China by the Jesuit Order as a missionary in 1643 and traveled as far north as.....
Minneapolis: c. 1920. An apparently uniquely surviving portfolio of paper samples by the now defunct Minneapolis Paper Company, exhibiting the great diversity and beautiful artistic design of their products. Founded in 1889, the company, often referred to as Empeco, was a major supplier of paper products until they were bought.....
1869. A little sketchbook of a journey made by an American couple through North-Eastern Canada during the summer of 1869. The entries and sketches, all done in pencil, include short notes and pictures of their stops and observations. 16 pages of terse written entries of their day-to-day travels. There are.....
Leipzig: Wolff Gunter, 1552. A children's catechism by Lutheran theologian Andreas Osiander, based on Luther's Small Catechism and first published in Nurnberg in 1533. The Nurnberg edition included wood-cut illustrations which were not included in this edition. Folio (31 x 19.5cm), [74] leaves. Toned, a couple small spots to margins.....
Milan: Por Iuan Baptista Malatesta, 1633. A very rare book written in Spanish, but published in Milan, urging the Spanish government in Italy to construct a port on the Ligurian Coast at Finale Ligure. The town of Finale Ligure was acquired by Spain in 1602, and its location had important.....
Moscow: V Universitetskom (M. Katkov). Na Stastnom bul'varb, 1885. The second edition of one of Soloviev's most important works, translated into English and published as God, Man, and the Church by Donald Attwater in 1937. Any publications of Soloviev during his lifetime are quite rare, and Russian publications during his.....
Paris: 1658. The first edition of the rules of the Congregation of the Mission, the religious society founded by St. Vincent de Paul. Founded in 1625, the society was concerned especially with charitable works and expanded rapidly in Europe and abroad. The edition offered here is the only one published.....