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Basel: Verlegung Ludwig Königs, 1621. Hardcover. See Description. Small folio. Third German edition of Agricolas most famous mining book ("De Re Metallica"). ff. iv, pp. ccccxci, [7]. Title page is printed in red and black and displays a vignette depicting an assayer working at a muffle furnace. 273 woodcut illustrations by Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch accompany the text, including two fold out plates. Many of the woodcuts are almost a full page in size. Bound in full period vellum with usual age-toning, soiling and wear. Ribbon ties are lacking. Two small areas of careful repair are visible on the inner front cover, near the joint. The bottom tail cap contains minor restoration. Interior pages show scattered foxing, browning and age-toning in varying degrees. A couple of minor carefully sealed marginal tears are present. A neatly sealed tear (6.5 cm) is located on the upper portion of the title page, difficult to notice at first glance; a name is written unobtrusively in an old…
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Bergwerck Buch: darinnen nicht allein alle Empter, Instrument, Gezeug, und alles, so zu diesem Handel gehörig, mit Figuren vorgebildet und klarlich beschrieben: Sondern auch, wie ein rechtverständiger Bergmann seyn soll
by AGRICOLA, Georgius
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Bibliography of Australian medicine 1790-1900.
by FORD, Edward
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Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1976. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. 4to. pp. XV, [1], 348. With 16 plates illustrating title pages. Bound in green cloth. The dust jacket is in Good condition and contains some edge tears and wear. The book is in Fine condition (although an "exclusive distributor" ticket is pasted in the bottom margin of the title page). "This bibliography provides, as far as possible, a complete record of the printed material relating to Australian medicine from 1790 to 1900, the period of national development from the early penal settlement on Sydney Cove to the foundation of the Australian Commonwealth. Medicine, as here used, includes all aspects of health and healing." [from the dust jacket write-up]. A good reference with annotated entries.
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A Bibliography of sex rites and customs. An annotated record of books, articles, and illustrations in all languages.
by GOODLAND, Roger
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London: George Routledge & Sons, 1931. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. Large 4to. pp. [6], 752. Bound in green cloth. Some rubbing and light bumping to extremities; a couple small spots of discoloration visible; a smudge line is present on the outer edge of the book block. Front free end paper and half title are creased as is p. 749. Interior is otherwise clean. A bibliography of historical, sociological, anthropological, religious, etc. works relating to sex rites and customs. About 9,000 items are listed mostly printed in the 18th, 19th and early 20th century but a number of earlier imprints are catalogued as well. Entries include title, imprint, pagination and often include notes concerning the content.
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Bibliographie der schweizerischen Landeskunde.
by Zentralkommission fur schweizerische Landeskunde
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Mansfield Centre, CT.: Martino Publishing [ c. 1999 ], 1999. Hardcover. See Description. Facsimile reprint of the Bern, 1896 edition. 8vo. pp. xxxvi, xvii, [1], 193, [1], [12], 171-335, [1], [6], xiii, [1], 381-490, [8], 491-712, [2]. Bound in publishers black buckram. The binding and interior are fresh and clean. A bibliography of Swiss cartography.
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Blue light, a novel.
by MOSLEY, Walter
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Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1998. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. 8vo. pp. [6], 296. Bound in publishers black boards. The binding, dust jacket and interior pages are all clean and fresh. "From an unknown point in the universe, an inscrutable blue light approaches our solar system. When it reaches Earth, it transforms those it strikes, causing them instantaneously to evolve beyond the present state of humanity
"Blue Light" is the story of these people
The novel traces the desperate conflict of the Blues with one of their own, a man who struck by the light at themoment he expired has become the living embodiement of death" [from the dust jacket].[
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Boetius de consolatione philosophica & de disciplina Scholarium. Additum est Carmen iuvenile Sulpitti.
by BOETHIUS, Anicius Manlius
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Lyon: Iohnnes Clein, 1515. Hardcover. See Description. [c.1515]. 4to. pp. [280]. p.[280 blank]. Colophon dated "nono kale[n]das Octobris" (23 Sept.). Title page printed in red and black inside woodcut architectural border. Woodcut printer's device (Sylvestre 132). Printed in Roman font with the surrounding commentaries printed in Gothic. Text contains decorative initials. Bound in contemporary blind stamped paneled calf boards; re-backed preserving original spine. Later antique endpapers with inscription on front-free endpaper dated "1925"; front and rear blank fly-leaves worn. Pages are generally clean with occasional marginalia in an old hand (i.e. several small inscriptions written on the title page); minor spotting; lower corner of leaf c7 clipped in margin; The hinges and inner margins to the first gathering are neatly strengthened / repaired. The outer edges to this same gathering show some wear - i.e. a few marginal tears (sealed), and light soiling. The bottom margins…
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Bokbandsdekorens stilutveckling.
by NILSSON, Axel
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Goteborg: Rohsska Konstslojdmuseet / Goteborgs Litografiska Aktielbolag, 1922. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. 4to. pp. 161, [1]. With many black and white photo illustrations. Limited edition #149 of 350. Bound in paper boards. Some rubbing and wear; corners of text block are a bit bumped. Pages are clean. "Printed in Sweden" is stamped in small letters on the verso of the free front end paper. Attractive gilt book plate on inside front cover. Text is in Swedish. On book bindings from the middle ages to 1800s.
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A Bookman's guide to the Indians of the Americas.
by HAND, Richard A.
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Metuchen, N.J. and London: Scarecrow Press, 1989. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. 8vo. p. xi, [1], 750. Orange-brown cloth. Fresh copy. Over 10,000 catalogue entries, mostly 19th and 20th century books about Native Americans.
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A book of Roxburghe ballads, edited by John Payne Collier, Esq.
by COLLIER, John Payne
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London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1847. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. Small 4to. (219 mm) pp. xxvi (actually 34), [2], 340. With woodcut illustrations. Bound in period half red morocco with marbled boards. Spine is gilt in 6 compartments. Tiny binder and bookseller stamps (verso of front free end paper) indicate that the binding was executed by Tout & Sons for the Boston bookseller Estes & Lauriat. Binding shows spots of rubbing to the extremities. Corner tips of the boards are neatly patched. Interior contains mild toning and occasional minor wear; faint offsetting is present from some of the illustrations; pages 116-117 display an area of light tanning due to a pressed leaf. Pages are otherwise generally clean. This is a selection of popular English ballads transcribed mostly from the Roxburghe collection of broadsides. According to the introduction: "The main purpose of the ensuing collection is to shew, in their most genuine state, the character and quality…
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