Search Results: Biography/Autobiography from Kuenzig Books

Boston, Massachusetts: Printed for the author, 1835. Wraps. Good. 52 pages. 8vo. Lacks original wrappers, later string tie at spine. Covers soiled, clean internally. Some pages with turned corners, occasional spotting. Wraps.

New York, N.Y.: Haskell House Publishers Ltd, 1973. Later printing. Cloth. Near Fine. Later printing. 327,[3] pages. 8vo. Publisher's red cloth. A fine copy noting light corner bumping. Cloth. Reprints the J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, 1925 edition which was originally issued in 1500 copies. This reprint is new old stock from the publisher.

[ no place [: [ no publisher ], [ no date ]. Very Good. 2 items. One 8 x 10 copy photograph on later Kodak paper of William Osler (the same image is shown on the William Osler Medal page on the histmed site). Small marginal edge tear. The second is an image (5 3/4 x 9 1/8 inches) of William Osler "The young Professor at McGill" (Emery Walker phsc), probably a frontispiece from a book by or about Osler. The signature is printed.

New York: G. W. Dillingham, Publisher, 1890. First Edition. Boards. Good. First Edition. viii, [9]-399 pages. 4to. 8 x 9 1/4 inches. Three quarter leather over marbled boards. Page edges and endpapers also marbled. Leather binding rubbed at the extremities, and drying. Front joint started lower few inches. Still a readable copy as long as care is taken to support the spine. With 28 illustrations (all present), most small vignettes in the text, but some presented as full page illustrations, often after photographs. Boards. Often harshly viewed for his critical views of those in the theater, this book is quite interesting to read. Fans of celebrity interviews will relate to this 19th century equivalent. Lacking the visual presentation of television, Dale paints the canvas of personality either outright, or illuminated by some described event. Dale will comment on the appearance of the actress, their energy, his overall impression, and supplements with quotes throughout. Whether these are accurate… Read More

[ no place ]: Self-published. Boards. Good. [2], 21, [3-last blank] pages (plus frontis and 5 blank leaves in rear). Tree calf with decorative borders. Spine panel coming loose at front joint (hinge holding). Overall wear to extremities of the binding. Bright and clean internally, noting 'withdrawn' stamp on front flyleaf (no other markings). Boards. Wickham was an inventor and worked with paper cutting machines, primarily for the government.

Wien [ Vienna ]: Carl Konegen, 1905. First Edition. Boards. Very Good. First Edition. X, 250, [1] pages. 8vo. Quarter cloth with gold gilding on spine panel over marbled paper boards. Original paper wraps bound in. Stamp of Conservatoire Botanique Ville de Geneve in several places. Wear to the corners, fundamentally sound. Text in German. Boards. The best biography of Ingen-Housz who is perhaps best known for the discovery of photosynthesis and plant respiration. He was also involved extensively in innoculation, electricity and other areas. See DSB 7/8:11-13 for a good overview of his contributions, and areas where he hasn't yet been recognized.

Austin, TX: Zeiss Historica Society, 2015. First Edition. Wraps. Near Fine. First Edition. 24 pages. 8 1/4 x 11 inches. Stapled pictorial wrappers. Minor wear to the extremities. A nice clean copy. Wraps. The Zeiss Historica Society was founded by Thomas Schreiner, Charles Barringer, Jr. and (as noted in some of the society's journals) Lawrence J. Gubas. Subcribed to by Zeiss enthusiasts all over the world, the "objectives of the Society are the study of, and exchange of information on the significant products and innovations of the Zeiss companies from their inception to the present." The Society was able to publish much interesting, scholarly material on many aspects of Zeiss drawing on personal member collections as well as individual research. With the concurrence of the modern Zeiss firms, Zeiss Historica also re-issued a few historic catalogs sent as premiums to members. The material offered here is new old stock and was acquired from the Society after it was disbanded. A portion of any sales… Read More

Austin, TX: Zeiss Historica Society, 2010. First Edition. Wraps. Near Fine. First Edition. 24 pages. 8 1/4 x 11 inches. Stapled pictorial wrappers. Minor wear to the extremities. A nice clean copy. Wraps. The Zeiss Historica Society was founded by Thomas Schreiner, Charles Barringer, Jr. and (as noted in some of the society's journals) Lawrence J. Gubas. Subcribed to by Zeiss enthusiasts all over the world, the "objectives of the Society are the study of, and exchange of information on the significant products and innovations of the Zeiss companies from their inception to the present." The Society was able to publish much interesting, scholarly material on many aspects of Zeiss drawing on personal member collections as well as individual research. With the concurrence of the modern Zeiss firms, Zeiss Historica also re-issued a few historic catalogs sent as premiums to members. The material offered here is new old stock and was acquired from the Society after it was disbanded. A portion of any sales… Read More

New York: The Gordian Press, 1966. Cloth. Fine. [10], [309]-731, [1] pages. 8vo. Publisher's red cloth with black and gilt spine titling. A new copy noting a bump to the bottom board edge. This is Volume II ONLY. Cloth. This edition reprints the original 1948 Harvard University Press edition, with additions. "The supplement of the 1966 edition included new material as well as combining material published in American Literature, XXIV (November 1952), pp. 358-366 and American Literature, XXIX (March 1957), pp. 79-86." This is volume II only. "The most comprehensive printed collection of letters written by Poe is the 2-volume set of The Collected Letters of Edgar Allan Poe (third edition) originally edited by John Ward Ostrom, and revised, expanded and corrected by Burton R. Pollin and Jeffrey A. Savoye, published by Gordian Press in October 2008." (see our separate listings for this set). (quote are from eapoe org, the Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore, describing the best scholarly edition available).

New York: The Gordian Press, 1966. Cloth. Fine. xxviii, 306 pages. 8vo. Publisher's red cloth with black and gilt spine titling. A new copy noting some excess glue on the rear board from the manufacturing process This is Volume I ONLY. Cloth. This edition reprints the original 1948 Harvard University Press edition, with additions. "The supplement of the 1966 edition included new material as well as combining material published in American Literature, XXIV (November 1952), pp. 358-366 and American Literature, XXIX (March 1957), pp. 79-86." This is volume I only. "The most comprehensive printed collection of letters written by Poe is the 2-volume set of The Collected Letters of Edgar Allan Poe (third edition) originally edited by John Ward Ostrom, and revised, expanded and corrected by Burton R. Pollin and Jeffrey A. Savoye, published by Gordian Press in October 2008." (see our separate listings for this set). (quote are from eapoe org, the Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore, describing the best… Read More

Geneve, Paris, Bruxelles: L Held, L. Hachette et Cie, A. Lacroix van Mennen et Cie, 1860. Authorized French edition. Boards. Near Fine. Authorized French edition. XVI, 285 pages. 8vo (5 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches) Frontispiece is steel engraving of Humboldt. 1/4 leather over marbled boards w/gilt spine titles. Light overall wear to the binding. Uniformly tanned paper throughout. Speckled page edges. Originally issued in printed wrappers, here in a nice binding that can be read and handled. Occasional penciled line in the margins. Text in French. Boards. Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 1769 - 6 May 1859) was a Prussian polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. Karl August Varnhagen von Ense (21 February 1785 in Düsseldorf - 10 October 1858 in Berlin) was a German biographer, diplomat and soldier who carried on an extensive correspondence with von Humboldt (wiki).

Providence: George H. Whitney, 1857. Cloth. Good. 348 pages. 8vo. Publisher's brown cloth with blindstamped decorations. Spine titles in gilt. Corners worn, head/tail of spine frayed, front joint starting at top. Book ticket of Jacob Babbitt, Jr. Bristol R. I. on front pastedown. Endpapers browned. Paper browned throughout, one signature proud. Cloth. Previous owner Jacob Babbitt, Jr.'s father was a Rhode Island silversmith, merchant and textile manufacturer. "John Howland (1757-1854) was born in Newport, Rhode Island. He was apprenticed to a Providence barber at the age of 13, and fought in the Revolution. He eventually came to own his own shop. He was prominent in virtually every aspect of the city's life during the eighty-four years he resided there, including the Providence Institution for Savings, the Providence Association for Mechanics and Manufacturers, the First Congregational Church, the Town Council, the Association for the Promotion of Domestic Industry, the Peace Society, Providence… Read More

New York, NY: Haskell House Publishers Ltd, 1972. Later printing. Cloth. Near Fine. Later printing. xvi, 426 pages. Publisher's lime green cloth with (sloppy) black title stamping on spine panel. Minor soiling, an apparently unread copy. Cloth. A reprint of the original published in Toronto by A. H. Hovey in 1871. Difficult to find in the original edition, here available as a serviceable hardcover copy. Haskell House Publishers Ltd was a publisher of scarce scholarly books in the 1970s and 1980s.

New York, N.Y.: Haskell House Publishers Ltd, 1970. Later printing. Cloth. Near Fine. Later printing. viii, 455 pages. 8vo. Publisher's red cloth. A new copy noting a bit of fading to the spine panel lettering and a touch of red to the upper page edge corners. Cloth. Reprints the original publication from 1903. New old stock from the publisher.

Hartford, Conn: Privately Published, 1874. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. First Edition. 120 pages. 5 1/2 x 7 1/2. Publisher's brown cloth with embossed/gilt decorations. Frontispiece is a mounted photograph of Capron. Corners bent, offsetting of the portrait to the title page. Otherwise a bright clean copy with just a few blemishes to the front cover when viewed in the right light. Cloth. Printed by The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co. Printers.

Oslo: J W. Cappelens Forlag, 1949. First Edition. Boards. Good/Good. First Edition. 182, [1] pages. 5 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches. Thick pressboard covers with embossed title and author name. Original printed dust jacket. Dj is worn, browned at spine, and with soiling. Text in Norwegian (?). Untrimmed. Boards. The first edition of a biography that describes the "unrevised, impassioned diary of an Oslo underground leader, written while imprisoned at Mollergt 19 in Oslo in 1944. Transferred to Germany, he wend down with the Westphalen. This daily record of his thoughts and the prison routine had been pricked on rolls of toilet paper and blown through a ventilator under his cell. It falls into two distinct parts - the first, covering his 78 days in solitary confinement, revelas a struggle against despair and insanity ... the second covers the remainder of his imprisonment, the semi-starved prisoners' preoccupation with food, super-sensitivity towards his cellmates. A moving human document but dated." (kirkus review).

Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1898. Later printing. Vellum. Very Good. Later printing. vii, [1], [1]-341 pages. Small 8vo. Small bookseller (?) ticket "C Glingler Via Mercede Roma" on rear pastedown. This copy extra illustrated with 29 albumen photographs on plates inserted throughout the text, usually one image per leaf, occasionally one on each page. Most images are Roma. Rebound in a vellum binding withpage edges tinted red. Gilt decorations on spine and extending half-way across the front and rear panels are somewhat dulled. Vellum. Many of the photographs in this gift style book are in very nice condition with good tonal quality. "The Improvisatore (Danish: Improvisatoren) is an autobiographical novel by Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875). First published in 1835, it was an immediate success and is considered to be Andersen's breakthrough. The story, reflecting Andersen's own travels in Italy in 1833, reveals much about his own life and aspirations as experienced by… Read More

[ no place ]: Privately Printed (John Wilson & Son), 1894. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine. First Edition. [4], 104, [1] pages. 8vo. Publisher's cloth gilt. A bright clean copy, noting some spotting to the top page edges. Cloth.

London: The Royal Society, 1927. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. First Edition. ix, 247 pages. 8vo. Publisher's maroon cloth. Sydney Ross name plate on front pastedown. Lightly faded cloth, corners bumped. A sound copy. Cloth. Recounts much of Pickering's work in Chemistry and Physics as well as the effect of external conditions on the growth of fruit trees.

Cambridge: At the University Press, 1916. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. First Edition. lv, 81 pages. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. Large 8vo. Lower corners bumped. Occasional pencilled notes internally. Stamp of astronomer T.J.J. See on title page. 1 leaf with titles available from Cambridge University Press laid in. Cloth. Sir George Howard Darwin KCB FRS (9 July 1845 - 7 December 1912) was an English astronomer and mathematician. (wiki).