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Hardcover. Condition: Good. In Hebrew and English. 5, 27, 27, 4 pages. 15 x 10 cm. 6 x 4 inches. Ex library of apparently long defunct Congregation Emanu-El, Jersey City, New Jersey, see stamp on back blank. Isaac Leeser was born in Germany in 1806, immigrated to the U.S. at age 17 and died in 868. He was a Jewish lay minister of religion, author, translator, editor, publisher, pioneer of the Jewish pulpit in the U.S., and founder of the Jewish press in America. He produced the first Jewish translation of the Bible into English, and editions of the liturgy. He is one of the most important American Jewish personalities in 19th century America. He defended Judaism in the public press when it was assailed. In 1828, an article in the London Quarterly reflecting on the Jews was answered by Leeser in the columns of the Richmond Whig. Leeser's reply attracted the attention of the Jewish communities of Richmond and Philadelphia and he was induced to accept the congregation's invitation to serve as lay minister. In 1829 Leeser went to Philadelphia with the manuscript of his first book, "The Jews and the Mosaic Law". He brought fresh ideas about his new job. Up to that time the role of a hazzan in America had been merely to lead the congregation in Hebrew prayers. There was, however, a new movement in Europe. In Hamburg, Rabbi Gotthold Salomon had broken new ground by delivering a sermon in German. Preaching in German soon became the norm in Reform synagogues, and even some conservative rabbis had begun to deliver sermons in the vernacular. This movement inspired Leeser, and he hoped to transform the lectern into a pulpit. On June 2, 1830, Leeser delivered his first English sermon, and thereafter he preached with regularity. Leeser's delivering sermons on a regular basis was ultimately adopted by American congregations, and preaching became one of the standard duties of Jewish clergymen. There was a scarcity of books concerning the Jewish religion and no American Jewish publisher. He translated Johlson's Instruction in the Mosaic Religion and in the winter of 1829-30 tried, unsuccessfully, to publish it, as The Jews and the Mosaic Law. So he self published it. In 1845, Leeser published a Hebrew-English edition of the Torah in five volumes, the English translation being his own. It soon became the standard Bible for English-speaking Jews in the 19th century. 3 years later, Leeser published a masoretic Hebrew edition of the Tanakh, Biblia Hebraica, in cooperation with Joseph Jaquett, a local Episcopalian minister. It was the first of its kind to be printed in America. In 1853, Leeser completed his English translation of the entire Tanakh, commonly called The Leeser Bible. He retired from Congregation Mikveh Israel in 1850, but took office again in 1857, when the newly formed Congregation Beth-El-Emeth in Philadelphia called him, and he remained its leader until his death. When Leeser commenced his public career, there were approximately 15,000 scattered Jews in the U.S., some members of congregations. He mold them into a community in part through the pulpit, in part by the press. He participated in nearly all the Jewish activities in the United States: the first Jewish day schools, the first Jewish seminary, the first Jewish publication society, etc. The Occident and American Jewish Advocate, Leeser's monthly magazine, acquired an international reputation; Maimonides College, of which he was provost, paved the way for future Jewish seminaries in the United States; the Jewish Publication Society he founded is the predecessor of today's Jewish Publication Society of America; and his translation of the Bible became an authorized version for English-speaking Jews around the world.

vi, 451 - 556 pp. Numerous full page advertisments interspersed. 8-1/2" x 5-1/2" Started in 1923 as a monthly journal under the editorship of J. M. Murry, intended as a mouthpiece for D. H. Lawrence and himself. From 1927 it became a quarterly entitled the New Adelphi. Murry's editorship ended with a D. H. Lawrence memorial number in 1930, and the periodical became the Adelphi, incorporating the New Adelphi, which ran until 1955. Contributors to the three series include W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, A. Bennett, H. G. Wells, Day-Lewis, Orwell, and Auden. (The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. Ed. Margaret Drabble and Jenny Stringer. Oxford university Press, 2007). Spine sun-tanned. Cover and edges slightly foxed. Very Good. Printed pale yellow paper wrappers.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Lii, 113pp.,Frontispiece photograph of Charles Harpur c. 1860, b/w illustrations, appendices. Errata slip laid in. Lightly rubbed covers with slightly sunned spine.(BH) 12/23.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hakluyt Society, London, 1931. Hardcover. Condition: Good. Withdrawn library copy with stickers on covers and stamps on end pages. internal sheets all clean and VG. st Edition. li+109+xlvii pages with frontispiece folding map and one other folding map and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and stamped pictorial representation of the ship Victoria in gilt on the cover, blind stamped edge rule to edges. Hakluyt Society Series II volume 66. First edition. Fold-out maps. Chip to spine. Comes in a library provided preservation case.

Pamphlet. 15 p.; 18.5 cm. A chapter on the Spanish inquisition, extracted from Creed and character. Fair, sewn, in stained and dusty self-wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1869. 352 pages. Portrait. 8 x 5.5", blind & gold stamped brown cloth. 1898 gift inscription. Trifle scuffed, clean, tight, VG.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 40 pages. Illustrated. Dr John T Turpin "The Career and Achievement of John Henry Foley, Sculptor (1818-1874) / Marin A Walton "Samuel Lover R.H.A. (1797-1868) / Walter Beckett "Piatti's Cello" / Liam Howlett "The Killester Charter" (SL#85).

1st edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; xlvi, 175 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm. Notes; "Chronologisches Verzeichnis der Gemälde": 169-170. Subjects; Correggio 1489?-1534. Chronologisches Verzeichnis der Gemälde. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Good copy in original stiff card wrappers with some wear and tear as with age. Remains well-preserved overall; bright and clean. Provenance; from the Chemists Club, N.Y. with its presentation bookplate and minor library marks. Series; Ostwalds Klassiker der exakten Wissenschaften. ; nr. 179. Physical description; 179, [1] pages illustrations 19 cm. Notes; Advertisements: first leaf and final [2] p. Contents; Anwendung der diffusion der flüssigkeiten zur analyse.--Über die eigenschaften der kieselsäure und anderer analoger kolloidsubstanzen.--Über die absorption und dialytische scheidung der gase durch kolloidale scheidewände.--Biographie und bibliographie.--Anmerkungen.Subjects; Colloids. Colloïden. Diffusie (natuurwetenschappen). Vloeistoffen. Chemische analyses. Colloïdes. Genres; Bibliography. Illustrated. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xvi, 371 pages ; 18 cm. Subjects; Literature in English; special subjects women anthologies. English literature. Women ; Literary collections. Women authors. 3 Kg.

1st edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; xlvi, 175 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm. Notes; "Chronologisches Verzeichnis der Gemälde": 169-170. Subjects; Correggio 1489?-1534. Chronologisches Verzeichnis der Gemälde. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Limited edition, 15/650. Octavo, viii, 358 pages. In Good minus condition. Spine is green with paper title label. Boards in green cloth; light wear to spine caps, hinges, and corners, mottled fading to bottom edge of front panel. Text block has has gilt top edge, deckle edges; cracked front hinge. Illustrated: color frontispiece and three b&w plates (photogravures). NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column V. 1402914. FP New Rockville Stock.

Hardcover. Octavo, 360 pages. In Good condition. Spine is blue with gold print. Boards in blue cloth. Light wear to spine caps and corners, light toning to spine. Text block has tanning to endpapers. CONTENTS: Monte Cristo / by Charles Fechter Hippolytus / by J.W. Howe Mistress Neil / by G.C. Hazelton Becky Sharp / by Langdon Mitchell The Warrens of Virginia / by W.C. De Mille. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column P. 1394515. FP New Rockville Stock.

First Edition. Good copy in original stiff card wrappers with some wear and tear as with age. Remains well-preserved overall; bright and clean. Provenance; from the Chemists Club, N.Y. with its presentation bookplate and minor library marks. Series; Ostwalds Klassiker der exakten Wissenschaften. ; nr. 179. Physical description; 179, [1] pages illustrations 19 cm. Notes; Advertisements: first leaf and final [2] p. Contents; Anwendung der diffusion der flüssigkeiten zur analyse.--Über die eigenschaften der kieselsäure und anderer analoger kolloidsubstanzen.--Über die absorption und dialytische scheidung der gase durch kolloidale scheidewände.--Biographie und bibliographie.--Anmerkungen.Subjects; Colloids. Colloïden. Diffusie (natuurwetenschappen). Vloeistoffen. Chemische analyses. Colloïdes. Genres; Bibliography. Illustrated. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Published to accompany an exhibition held at Glasgow Museums, McLellan Galleries, May 25-Sept. 30, 1996, and at other museums. Contents: Mackintosh and the city / Juliet Kinchin -- Glasgow School of Art and the Glasgow style / Daniel Robbins -- Collaboration among the Four / Janice Helland -- The Glasgow years / David Walker -- Glasgow School of Art / Mark Girouard - The Hill House / John McKean -- The London years / Gavin Stamp -- "Living fancy": Mackintosh furniture and interiors / Pat Kirkham -- The tea rooms: art and domesticity / Alan Crawford -- The making of a painter / Pamla Robertson -- The Mackintosh phenomenon / Alan Crawford.Small quarto, 280 x 250 mm. 383 pp., 249 illustrations, many in colour. [ISBN: 978-1558597914] Clothbound. A fine bright copy in like dustwrapper.

VOLUME II ONLY. Paged as [2], 9-453, [3], 8. Hardcover: H 22.25cm x L 14.25cm. Contemporary muted aquamarine cloth soiled and stained; tearing and chips to spine cloth but with gilt title block still bright; board corners worn. Toning and stains to text block edges. Toned bookplate "Wm. L. Harris." on front pastedown. Interior foxing/toning, soiling, and moisture stains; old pencil writing on front pastedown; strong creasing/curling and varied chipping at bottom margins of pages 227-298. Publisher's eight page advertising section at rear. Binding still firm. A typical Southern pro-slavery secessionist, Columbus, Mississippi attorney and circuit judge William Littleton Harris (1807-1868) was born in Georgia but moved to Lowndes County, Mississippi in 1837. In 1858 Harris was appointed by Governor John J. McRae to a seat on the Mississippi High Court of Errors and Appeals (now the Supreme Court of Mississippi) and during the Civil War was Mississippi's commissioner to Georgia. Harris' eldest child - daughter Sarah Hunt Harris (1836-1917) - married Columbus attorney and later Confederate Army general Jacob H. Sharp.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xvi, 371 pages ; 18 cm. Subjects; Literature in English; special subjects women anthologies. English literature. Women ; Literary collections. Women authors. 1 Kg.

1st edition. Some foxing on endpapers and title page. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xix, 391 pages: illustrations; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographies and index. Includes publisher's adverts at rear. Subjects; Barnard, Harold Leslie. Abdomen - surgery. Appendicitis. surgery. Gastrointestinal Diseases. surgery. Gastrointestinal Tract. surgery. Abdominal Surgery. Textbooks. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Good set bound in full cloth with leather gilt-blocked labels to the spines. Remains well preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Minor library marks remain. Provenance; from the Greenwich Library with its bookplate and library marks. Physical description; 2 volumes (I & III only) : illustrations, portraits, plates ; 23 cm. Notes; Missing Volume II. Subjects; Lamb, Charles (1775-18340. Correspondence. Lamb, Mary (1764-1847). Correspondence. Lamb, Charles ; Correspondence. (1775-1834). Lamb, Mary ; Correspondence. (1764-1847). Lamb, Charles (1775-1834) ; Correspondence. Lamb, Mary (1764-1847) ; Correspondence. Authors, English ; Correspondence. Authors, English. English letters 19th century. Genres; Illustrated. Personal correspondence. 4 Kg.

1st edition. Some foxing on endpapers and title page. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xix, 391 pages: illustrations; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographies and index. Includes publisher's adverts at rear. Subjects; Barnard, Harold Leslie. Abdomen - surgery. Appendicitis. surgery. Gastrointestinal Diseases. surgery. Gastrointestinal Tract. surgery. Abdominal Surgery. Textbooks. 1 Kg.

1st Edition. xxi, [22] - 352, [2 (blank)] pp. Frontis. Tissue guard. 8vo. Bright gilt. Square & tight. Bookplate & booklabel to front paste-down. Quaint 19th C. library pocket to rear paste-down. Newspaper extract between pages xx & xxi, with offset. Withal, a quite attractive VG+ copy. Original publisher's brown cloth with gilt stamped lettering & decorations to spine & boards.

First Edition. Good set bound in full cloth with leather gilt-blocked labels to the spines. Remains well preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Minor library marks remain. Provenance; from the Greenwich Library with its bookplate and library marks. Physical description; 2 volumes (I & III only) : illustrations, portraits, plates ; 23 cm. Notes; Missing Volume II. Subjects; Lamb, Charles (1775-18340. Correspondence. Lamb, Mary (1764-1847). Correspondence. Lamb, Charles ; Correspondence. (1775-1834). Lamb, Mary ; Correspondence. (1764-1847). Lamb, Charles (1775-1834) ; Correspondence. Lamb, Mary (1764-1847) ; Correspondence. Authors, English ; Correspondence. Authors, English. English letters 19th century. Genres; Illustrated. Personal correspondence. 2 Kg.

First Edition. Fine copy bound in quarter leather over marble boards with a leather gilt-blocked label to the spine. Remains well preserved overall; bright, tight, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; vol. IX (only):558 pages ; frontispiece, illustrations (map, plans) plates, portraits ; 24 cm. Contents; t. 9. La grande guerre, par H. Bidou, A. Gauvain, C. Seignobos. Conclusion générale par E. Lavisse. Subjects; (1789-1900). Guerre mondiale, (1914-1918) France. France History Revolution, (1789-1799). World War I. GenreHistory. Illustrated. 4 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. FORBES. (illustrator). 3rd Edition. In the publishers dark green cloth, gilt titles, corners & edges worn, stain spots along front edge & dark spot to lower board. Spine, gilt titles, edges bumped & worn. Internally, tissue guarded portrait frontis, half title, [5], (vi-xxxviii), [2], [1], 2-572 pp, complete with 6 maps (folding & coloured), 9 topographical sketches within text, 1 portrait, 44 other illustrations in text, t.e.g., some faint edge browning, some pencil notes to rep, offsetting to fep. (228*162 mm). (Neate *274. Alpine Club LibCat p117). A New Edition Revised and annotated by Coolidge. The first complete edition, containing all of Forbes' Alpine writings. Containing: I. Travels through the Alps of Savoy and other parts of the Pennine chain. [1st ed., Edinburgh, 1843]--pt. II. Journals of excursions in the high Alps of Dauphine?, Berne, and Savoy. [First pub. as appendix to the author's Norway and its glaciers, 1853]--pt. III. Pedestrianism in Switzerland. [Quarterly review, April, 1857]--pt. IV. Topography of the chain of Mont Blanc. [North British review, March, 1865].

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2 Volumes. Small 8vo's, Vol I- viii + pp17-313 with memoir of rondelet, b/w engraved frontis, portrait of Rondeletius complete with 34 hand coloured plates,11 of the plates to rear of book along with blanks. Vol II- viii + pp17-424 and portrait of Alexander von Humboldt with b/w engraved frontis complete with 34 hand coloured plates. All plates in both vols with thin paper guards. Both Vols Rebound in half green calf leather over green boards with red leather title labels, 5 raised bands with titles and designs in gilt to spine in lovely near fine condition. Inside both Vols all pages and plates with top edge gilt in excellent clean and bright condition. A lovely set, beautifully bound.

2 volumes bound in one. 288 pages with index and diagrams; 288pp. with diagrams and index. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 7") Rebound in half leather with five raised spine bands and black labels in gilt lettering over marbled boards. Contributors: Barry, Marshall, Napier and Schowalter, current happenings in the chess world from 1904-1905 with tournaments and games played. End game problems in each issue. Inscribed by Lasker. (Betts: 7-51) First edition. Lasker's Chess Magazine ran a total of nine half-yearly volumes from November 1904 to January 1909. Besides being World Champion, the multifaceted Lasker was also engaged in his noted mathematical and philosophical researches, and editing his own magazine allowed him to keep in touch with the chess world without having to stray too far from his study. He had obviously taken heed of Steinitz's mixed experiences more than a decade previous as editor of his own International Chess Magazine and ensured both that the content was highly accessible (each issue carried his beginner's guide, A Course of Instruction in Ye Ancient Game of Chesse, and that the magazine was adequately financed (Professor Rice had a hand in this). Hannak, in his Lasker biography, commented, It didn't just contain the usual collection of games and problems, coupled with a few news items, it went much deeper, revealing more of the meaning and background of chess than any previous chess editor had attempted. Indeed, in an early editorial Lasker rails zealously against the contemporary chess periodicals. Condition: Inscribed on the front end paper by Lasker. Bound in half leather without original wrappers bound in else very good rebound copy of a scarce chess item.

Condition: Fine. - A 4-3/8 inch high by 3-1/4 inch wide black-and-white photographic portrait clipped from a magazine is mounted on an approximately 6 inch high by 4 inch wide cream-colored card. Inscribed and signed on the mount in black ink above and below the photo: "To Seymour Halpern / J. L. Garvin / 26 March 1930 / Gregories / Beaconsfield". Fine. A head-and shoulders portrait of Garvin seated at a desk with his arms folded over a pile of papers. The photo is inscribed to future Congressman Seymour Halpern, then a young autograph collector.James Louis Garvin [1868-1947] was a British journalist, editor and author. Garvin, who had always wanted to be an editor, was given a job as a proof reader and occasional contributor at the Newcastle Evening Chronicle. In 1908, after years of honing his skills as a journalist at various newspapers and moving to London, he accepted the editorship of the British Sunday newspaper The Observer. He revolutionized Sunday journalism and returned the paper, which was facing financial troubles at the time, to profitability. In 1921, Garvin moved to Beaconsfield, continuing to edit The Observer and starting work on a biography of his hero Joseph Chamberlain. After Churchill, an old friend, became Prime Minister in 1940, Garvin offered him unstinting support. This led to disagreements with the proprietors, the Astor family, who asked him to resign. He continued writing weekly columns, first for the Sunday Express and then the Daily Telegraph until shortly before his death in 1947.The Queens, New York Republican Congressman Seymour Halpern (1913-1997) started his political career as a campaign aide to New York's powerful mayor Fiorella La Guardia and first served in New York's State Senate for 14 years before seeking a seat in the U.S. Congress. In Albany Halpern sponsored 279 bills that became law, including measures on schools, housing, civil rights, nutrition and mental health. A Liberal, he was something of an anomaly as the lone Republican representative from New York City, and generally garnered support from Labor Unions and endorsement from the Liberal Party. Yet he never even considered switching parties as he considered membership in the Republican Party a family tradition and commitment. While he found ample time for his private pursuits, including painting and collecting autographs, he took his legislative duties very seriously. Of these, he was proudest of his co-sponsorship of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and of the original 1965 Medicare legislation.

[Cricket] ORIGINAL ALMANACK. Sextodecimo (17 x 11cm), pp.viii, 935. With six double-sided black and white photographic plates. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Repairs, to split hinges, and pp.711/12 nearly detached. Lightly toned throughout, with a tobacco scent. Moderate general wear to cloth. Good.

First Edition. Poor set in the original stiff-card wrappers; wear and tear as with age. Text remains in fine condition and without blemish. Front boards detached on both volumes. Physical description; 2 volumes (vols. VI & VII) : frontispieces, illustrations, plates (including music) portraits, maps, facsimiles ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; v. 6. Letters, (1796-1820) ; 7. Letters, (1796-1834). Subjects; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) ; Adaptations. Shakespeare, William (1564-1616). Genres; Adaptations. Bibliography. Fiction. Illustrated. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Fine copy bound in quarter leather over marble boards with a leather gilt-blocked label to the spine. Remains well preserved overall; bright, tight, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; vol. IX (only):558 pages ; frontispiece, illustrations (map, plans) plates, portraits ; 24 cm. Contents; t. 9. La grande guerre, par H. Bidou, A. Gauvain, C. Seignobos. Conclusion générale par E. Lavisse. Subjects; (1789-1900). Guerre mondiale, (1914-1918) France. France History Revolution, (1789-1799). World War I. GenreHistory. Illustrated. 2 Kg.