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124 items: Among included topics are cities & towns, counties, Civil War, Confederate imprints, Reconstruction, American Revolution, race and racism, education, economics, promotionals, religious organizations, recreation, tourism.
Containing 118 books from the library of Phillip K. Wilson, written (mostly 20th century, but with some surprises) by: David P.ABBOTT; Erwin H. ACKERKNECHT; Alexander ADAM; John Quincy ADAMS; Mark B. ADAMS; Romanzo ADAMS; Alexander AGASSIZ; Elizabeth Cabot AGASSIZ; Louis AGASSIZ; John KASPER, Harlan H. BALLARD; Lane COOPER; Alexandre AKSAKOF; Denise ALBANESE; Anthony M. ALIOTO; Julia ALLEN; Peter Lewis ALLEN; Lydia Winterhalter ALLISON; Stephen G. ALTER; ALY, Gotz; Peter CHROUST; Christian PROSS; Robert G. W. ANDERSON; Roy Allan ANDERSON; Jonathan ANDREWS; Christopher ANSTEY; Rima D. APPLE; Bryan APPLEYARD; Philippe ARIES, ARISTOTLE (pseud.); Richard ARMOUR; Elizabeth M. ARMSTRONG; Patrick ARMSTRONG; Eric Gruber von ARNI; Edwin ARNOLD; Robert A. ARONOWITZ; Cristina BACCHILEGA; Francis BACON; Karl Ernst von BAER; Thomas BAKER; Beth BAILEY; Wilson Gill BAILEY; A. T. BAIRD; Maurice BARBANELL; Lynn BARBER; Dennis BARDENS; Fordyce BARKER; Jean BARMAN; Sandra Lee BARNEY; James Smith BARR; Logie BARROW; Jacques BARZUN; Jean BASSETT; Ralph S. BATES; W. L. BAUM; Harold N.MOYER,; Francis K. BAXTER; Kurt BAYERTZ; Mary BEARD; Wilhelm BEER; Lucinda McCray BEIER; Peter BEIGHTON; Greta BEIGHTON; James BELCHER; Whitfield J. BELL, Jr.; Laurence J. BENDIT; Thomas BENDYSHE; Claude BERNARD; Theodore BESTERMAN; Thomas BEWICK; Vivian BIRD; Shirley Burgoyne BLACK; Simon Augustine BLACKMORE; Anthony BLACKWALL; Oliver BLAND; Johann Friedrich BLUMENBACH; Norman BLUNSDON; Franz BOAS; Herman BOERHAAVE; Robert BOGDAN; Sarah Knowles BOLTON; Frederick Bligh BOND; Jan BONDESON; Anne BORSAY; Paul-Gabriel BOUCE, Edwin F. BOWERS; Geoffrey C.BOWKER; Peter J.BOWLER; H. Dennis BRADLEY; Stanley de BRATH; Ann BRAUDE; Thomas BROWN; William Slater BROWN; E. J. BROWNE; Sir Thomas BROWNE; Vivienne BROWNING; Harry BRUINIUS; Allen BUCHANAN; Peter H. BUCK aka: Te Rengi HIROA; James Monroe BUCKLEY; Georges Louis Leclerc BUFFON; John C. BURNHAM; Sir Cyril BURT; Samuel BUTLER; George William BUTTERWORTH; William F. BYNUM; Emmett CAHILL; John CALDERAZZO; Luis de CAMOENS; Marjorie L. CAYGILL; Sir Kenelm DIGBY; David FARBER; Jeremiah S. FINCH; Pierre FLOURENS; Alice Bache GOULD; Augustus Addison GOULD; Frederic Lawrence HOLMES; Arthur G. MACGREGOR; John HUNTER; Karl Friedrich Heinrich MARX; Lt.-Col. Sir Thomas LIVINGSTON MITCHELL Thomas Livingstone MITCHELL; Charles L. MIX; Sir John MURRAY; Lucy Allen PATON; Roy PORTER; Joseph PRIESTLEY; Francois Boissier de SAUVAGES DE LACROIX; Andrew SCULL; Susan Leigh STAR; L. SYSON; Mikulas TEICH; Jenny E. UGLOW; Ashworth UNDERWOOD; Bruce McIntyre WATSON; Rudolf WAGNER; Leslie A. WHITE.
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Containing 27 books written by: Sir David BREWSTER, Geoffrey N. CANTOR, Gale E. CHRISTIANSON, Betty Jo Teeter DOBBS, John HERIVEL, Margaret C. JACOB, J.E. McGUIRE, Frank Edward MANUEL, John NARRIEN, James NASMYTH, Simon NEWCOMB, Isaac NEWTON, John Pringle NICHOL, Henry Alleyne NICHOLSON, Abbe Jean-Antoine NOLLET, Henry Davenport NORTHROP, Henry PEMBERTON, and Henry John STEFFENS. Topics include: Astronomy, History of Science, Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, Optics, Paleontology, Physics, Scientific Biography.
including rare Remondini & Rizzi papers, a calligraphed book, The Bruce Type Foundry office set of the Typographic Advertiser 1855-1869, a rare specimen from Oxford University Press, private presses & bibliographies
An eclectic gathering of 26 items related to California, including books, pamphlets, and photographic material
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66 books on astronomy and related fields. Among the authors: George Biddell Airy; Mark Anderson; Jean Sylvain Bailly ; Sir Robert Stawell Ball; William Sheehan [Edward Emerson Barnard] ; Michael Chauvin; Deborah Jean Warner [Alvan Clark] ; Agnes Clerke; Maurice Daumas, Lester Del Rey [pseud. Leonard Knapp] ; William Derham ; Camille Flammarion; Sara Schechner Genuth ; Owen Gingerich [Copernicus] ; Stephen J. Edberg; David H. Levy ; Mrs. Isabel Sarah Black Gill; James A. Hall; Alan Cook [Edmond Halley]; Harold Hill; Arundell Blount [Jeremiah Horrox] ; Barbieri, Cesare & International Astronomical Union; Françoise Launay [Jules Janssen]; Calvin Nicolas Joyner; Henry C. King; Zdenek Kopal; Johann Nepomuk Krieger; Gary W. Kronk; Bruno Lefebvre; Frederick William Levander ; Percival Lowell; David Strauss [Lowell]; Peter L. Manly; Thomas Manning; The Abbé Théophile Moreux; Edward S. Morse; Piccolomini; Harold R. Povenmire; Mary Proctor; Richard A. Proctor; Georg Joachim Rheticus; Pierre De Sainte Marie Magdeleine ; Jakob Heinrich Schmick ; Prof. Dr. Hermann J. Klein ; Captain William Henry Smyth; John Stewart ; Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve; René Taton; Curtis Wilson; David H. Levy [Clyde Tombaugh]; [Transit Of Venus] Academy Of Sciences, Paris; Giovanni Battista Trotta; Étienne Léopold Trouvelot; United States Air Force; Dr. Gerard Pieter Kuiper; Harry Woolf; Donald Yeomans; Francisco Diaz Covarrubias ; Toronto Observatory, Canada; Edmund Weiss; Ewen A. Whitaker; Felix Auerbach [Carl Zeiss].
An interesting selection heavy on Military History, Abraham Lincoln and some literary finds.
The Artistic Vision in John Webber's Prints ~ Unpublished Aquatints; Lifetime Issues; Boydell Issues. A series of Webber views of Cook's third voyage to the South Pacific including New Zealand, Fiji, Tonga, Tahiti, Krakatoa, French Polynesia, Vietnam, Russian Kamchatka and Macao in China, published from 1787 to 1820.
The collecting of maps has long illustrated the history of discovery of the continents of the world. Amongst the continents, the Australian has had a particular attraction in the imagination of explorers and map makers, from Terra Australis Incognita to Beach to the Great South Land to New Holland to Ulimaroa and finally to Australia. Many explorers have skirted her coastlines and explored her interior; Marco Polo, Linschoten, Vlamingh, Tasman, Cook, Vancouver, Bougainville, Freycinet, Baudin, Flinders, Stokes, Oxley, Hume, Cunningham, Burke and Wills, Sturt, Mitchell, Bourke, Tyers, Strzelecki, Grey, Gregory, Stuart, Forrest, Giles and Warburton.<br /><br /> <br /><br /> This collection of Australian maps and world hemispheres has been 50 years in the making. It is based in part on the map collection of Dick Johnson, whose interest in the history of the discovery of Australia led him to collect early maps by the Dutch, Italian and English cartographers. It has been augmented by our interest in maps, which we have pursued since 1976, our first year in business. We believe it is the largest collection of maps including the real and imagined continent of Australia to be offered for sale since R.V. Tooley sold his collection to the Australian nation. It numbers over 250 maps and spans the years 1540 to 1898.
108 items including Steichen’s The Early Years 1900-1927, limited edition; Patrick White inscription recommending Nolan’s “Outback” to White’s US publishers; Greco’s Chess Made Easy, 1750, which passed through the Whitman and J. W. Rimington Wilson libraries; Kate Greenaway Almanacks, complete run from 1883 to 1895; Irvin McDowell’s signed copy of West Point register for June 1842, a class that sent 86 officers to the Civil War; theater broadsides for London theaters 1810-1836, La Perouse, Peter Wilkins, Cataract of the Ganges, Felon of New York; The Anvil, 1st issue of Dartmouth newspaper with women’s suffrage content, 1873; Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, 1st issue of the 3rd edition, 1860; Valentine’s Manual of New York, presentation copy with content on the Croton Aqueduct, 1844; Japanese fabric sample album with over 400 exquisite fabric swatches, ca. 1900; W.W.I. photographs of Sinai & Palestine campaign, including Australian Light Horse; Hudson River.<br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /> Books, Prints, Ephemera, Photographs, Maps
Movie ticket to Japanese internment camp in Idaho, WWII; letter about potential emigration from a poorhouse in Wales to New South Wales, 1838; charming penguin characters painted on silk squares, relating to London stage plays, 1913; the signature of "the Mandarin: He Sing”, crew member of the 1st ship from China to dock in New York City, 1847; a series of children’s games from block puzzles to hundreds of lead figures from around the world; Boomerang, a rare French game that launches small metal boomerangs at bowling pins, 1905; a sammelband of 34 pamphlets on gynecology, with a scarce Alabama imprint of Bozeman's Remarks on Vesico-Vaginal Fistule, 1856-1886; letters of an emigrant from Scotland to New Zealand speaking of "mismanagement" of the rescue of Burke & Wills, 1879-1905; 4 King photographs of Sydney; Gauthier’s Panoramic View of Papeetee harbor; two glass negatives of Australian boxers and their promoter, 1921; magnificent German folio chromolithographs illustrating Wagner’s Ring cycle, 1896.
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