Search Results: Authors starting with J from Bull's Head Rare Books

[Boston, 1816]. 8vo. 108 pp., with extensive interleaving as issued. Publisher's green roan-backed boards, boards pierced with remnant of ties; covers worn, occasional light staining, some wear to fore-edge from tie Interleaved with lecture notes by Harvard medical student Frederick Benjamin Page, covering 44 lectures in a dense but legible hand. The printed material presents the syllabus for an introductory course on medicine by James Jackson, who notes in his introduction will "be unintelligible to any, except those actually attending the lectures to which it refers. Page (1798-1857), himself a physician, was the son of Dr. Benjamin Page of Hallowell, Maine, a pioneer in the use of the smallpox vaccine in America.PROVENANCE: Frederick B. Page (ownership inscription, Boston Nov. 22, 1819 on the ffep and signed on front cover in block letters "F.B. Page")

Detroit: George S. Davis, 1890. Second edition. 8vo. Publisher's maroon gilt-stamped cloth. Light wear to extremities, contemporary doctor's inscription on flyleaf Vol. II only

1932-1944. Oblong 12mo. 87 autographs on album leaves, nearly all accompanied by reproduced photographs of the performers, with manuscript notes by the album's compiler giving the location and date of the performance where the autograph was procured and details about the performance lineup An attractive and extensive collection of autographs of jazz bandleaders and musicians of the 1930s and '40s, meticulously compiled and assembled by the original collector to include important performance information. Notable names include Duke Ellington; Fats Waller, Count Basie; Mary Lou Williams, Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Fletcher Henderson, Earl "Fatha" Hines, Guy Lombardo, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Teddy Wilson, Lionel Hampton, Gene Krupa, Jimmy Dorsey, and Glenn Miller.Each autograph, with a few exceptions, is on a separate album leaf and is accompanied by clipped photographs of the performer and a note as to when and where the autograph was procured (i.e. "Normandie Ballroom Boston April 13, 1937").… Read More

Paris: José Corti, 1932. 8vo. 145, [7] pp. Publisher's printed wrappers; front wrapper chipped and worn, with loss to corners and old cellotape repair to verso A remarkable and telling association, inscribed from the French critic, traditional jazz impresario and founding member of the Hot Club de France, Hugues Panassié (1912-1974) to the legendary American record producer and talent scout who discovered or promoted an astonishing roster of jazz, rock and folk talent, John Hammond (1910-1987): "To my dear John Hammond / who certainly should have done better / Hugues Panassié."The enigmatic inscription is perhaps a reference to Hammond's championing of musicians, such as Benny Goodman, who Panassié despised, as he did nearly all white jazz musicians (he also despised bebop, cool jazz, or anything else that he felt strayed from traditional jazz rooted in African American musical traditions — he was one of the original Jazz Police). In contrast, Hammond pushed for more racial integration in jazz… Read More

Cambridge: Printed for the Author, (1813). Second Edition. 8vo. Stipple-engraved portrait frontispiece and title-page by R. Maverick after Jenkins and Bickham, 10 engraved plates, illustrations of pen strokes throughout. xx, 68, [4] pp. Contemporary half sheep and marbled boards; covers rubbed, with some loss to marbled paper, frontispiece and title stained, small hole to title, occasional toning and staining The second edition, enlarged and improved, of what was, in its first edition of 1791, the first American writing manual."The author of the following work has, since the year 1781, been employed in ten states of the Union, as an instructor in the art of writing. During this period he has seen, with much regret, the want of a proper, natural, and easy method for acquiring an art, so necessary for the gentleman and the man of business" (p. vii).Jenkins (ca. 1755-1822), a schoolmaster and itinerant writing master, "demonstrated that by the dissection of the round hand letters and analysis of their… Read More

Dover, [NH]: Printed by Samuel Bragg, Jr. for Wm. T. Clap, Boston, 1797. First American edition. 12mo. [xiv], 232, [1, blank], [1, bookseller's advertisement] pp. [A]6 B-U6 W6(—W6, blank). Contemporary sheep, red morocco spine label; covers rubbed, title-page stained and damaged with old crude thread stitch repair, textblock toned, worn and frayed throughout, occasional tears and areas of loss, portion of text from N6 torn away, still a sturdy, serviceable copy The FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of the first English translation of the Arabian Nights for young readers, a bowdlerized version of nineteen tales that includes Aladdin and Sinbad the Sailor. The hack writer and printer Richard Johnson (ca.1733-1793) translated and cleaned up these tales from an unnamed French edition, presumably Galland's. In his preface (signed “J. Cooper”), Johnson notes that he has "carefully expunged everything that could give least offence to the most delicate reader.” An additional guarantee of decency is Johnson's… Read More

New York: A.T. De la Mare Printing and Publishing, 1898. First edition. Large 4to. Numerous illustrations and plans to text, 1 large folding plan and 1 folding chart. 118 pp. Publisher's blind- and gilt-decorated cloth, beveled edges; slight fading to cloth American residential landscape gardening at the turn of the previous century by the English landscape architect Joseph Forsyth Johnson (1840-1906). Before emigrating to America, Johnson was the Curator of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Belfast and operated a landscape gardening business in London. His first book, Natural Principles of Landscape Gardening, was published in Belfast in 1874. Johnson emigrated to America in 1885 where he continued his landscape practice; he was briefly superintendent of horticulture for Brooklyn's Prospect Park.The present work, with many useful illustrations throughout, is divided into three sections: the residential site, planting and introduction to undulations, and villa gardens and public grounds.

Paris: Nicolas Chesneau & Jean Poupy, 1576. 12mo. Woodcut title vignette. [86], 629, [11] pp. Contemporary calf, covers with single fillet gilt border and gilt-stamped centerpiece, spine in compartments with raised bands, small gilt fleuron in compartments; portions of spine head and tail lacking, exposing sewing and raised band cords, tips worn, contemporary manuscript notes on rear pastedown