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New York: The Grolier Club, 2013. Softcover. Very Good. Octavo, 176 numbered pages, illustrations in both black and white and color. ¶ Biographical and bibliographic account of Count Libri, known for his activity as a book collector and book thief.

Istanbul: Mekteb-i tibbiye-i Sahane, 1868. Very good. Small 8vo. 4 pp., [4 pp.], 137 pp., [2] pp. of lithographed text (some foxing or staining). Contemporary Turkish brown goatskin richly gilt (slight wear to binding extremities), original yellow endpapers with relief floral pattern (missing front endpaper). Occasional old annotations on the first pages. A FINE OTTOMAN BINDING ON AN UNLIKELY SUBJECT: POISONS. This scarce Ottoman book on poisons in animals, plants and minerals was published by the Imperial Medical School in Istanbul. The author, Mehmed Nuri (ca. 1844-1883), received a doctoral degree in 1858, and was a teacher of medicine, and later of civil medicine at the Ottoman Military Medical School. He authored several important medical books and articles and also translated foreign scientific literature. Mehmed Nuri was also one of the founders of Ottoman Society of Medicine. We could trace two institutional examples of this work in Worldcat: Orient-Institut in Istanbul and University of… Read More

Rochester, NY: Stecher Lithograph Co. et al., 1898. Very good. Album of 91 chromolithographs, principally by Stecher Lithograph Co. of Rochester. Later flexible smooth calf, inner hinges exposed. Plates with some wear or light soiling. ART IN THE SERVICE OF COMMERCE: AN AMERICAN NURSERYMAN'S FRUIT SEED CATALOGUE DEPICTING FULLY MATURED FRUIT IN VIBRANT CHROMOLITHOGRAPHY. SEED CATALOGUES SUCH AS THIS ONE WERE HEAVILY USED AS VEHICLES OF SALE BY TRAVELING SEED PEDDLERS THROUGHOUT SMALL TOWN AMERICA, AND THEREFORE ALMOST NEVER SURVIVE IN GOOD CONDITION, AS HERE. "Nurserymen's plates were an American innovation. They were made by various methods, the most distinctive being painted in watercolors. In design and coloring, these plates were more akin to folk painting than to the commercial art of their time" (Charles von Ravenswaay, "Drawn and Colored from Nature," in Antiques Magazine, March 1983, pp. 594-599). Vintage Nurseryman's Guides provide a "floracopia" of American chromolithography at its… Read More