Search Results: Titles starting with E from George Robert Minkoff, Inc.

Daniel R. Goodloe, of North Carolina. Emancipation and the War. Compensation Essential to Peace and Civilization. In which it is made apparent that the resources of the country are three-fold greater than the emergency, which will call for little, if any, additional taxation. Goodloe argues - among other things - that "the amelioration of the black race can only be effected through the agency of the whites, - and, to secure this, fair compensation must be made for the deprivation of what Southern men regard as their property." A raw snapshot of uncensored discourse from the brink of war.8vo. Original printed wrappers, string bound. N.P. N.D. (1861). First Edition. Very Nice.

SATIRICAL LITHOGRAPHS OF EARLY FRENCH CARS
Encyclopédie Automobile: La Belle Epoque et Les Pionniers de L'Automoile. Illustrated with 16 original color lithographs by Guy Sabran. Oblong Folio. Original pictorial olive green folding cover; title in a frame representing the entrance to the Parisian metro station. Guimard, Champrosay, Editeur, Paris, 1956. First Edition.
Loose illustrations, as issued, inserted in folding cover. A wonderful series of color lithographs satirizing early French car culture. Illustrations are: Coupé de Ville Renault 1905; Zèbre 1904; Double Phaéton Morse 1903; Double Phaéton Delaunay-Belleville 1911; Landaulet d'Amédée Bollée 1878; Phaéton Panhard Levassor 1891; Léger George Richard 1893; Peugeot Grand Luxe 1895; Delahaye 1897; Le Petit Phaéton Renault 1898; Cabriolet Chenard et Walker 1904; Le Phaéton Bardon 1899; LA "Jamais Contente" de Jenatzy 1899; Phaéton Grand Sport Panhard 1899; - La Limousine de Ville de Léon Bollée 1899; Taxi Renault 1905. Covers… Read More

Illustrated with 68 pages of measured drawings, some full page, and 72 collotype reproductions of photographs.Oversize Folio. Original dark green cloth, blind stamped. B.T. Batsford, London 1904. First Edition. With a list of subscribers. Examples include Drayton House, Oxford University, Cambridge University, Belton House, Traquair House, etc. Some rubbing to covers, head and heel of spine chipped, some slight foxing, o/w Fine

Illustrated; with a full-page fold-out garden plan. Modern pebbled brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. London: Published by A. Cobbett, 1838. An English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist, William Cobbett gained a reputation as a rabble rouser, famed for his political publications aimed at working class readers. He believed that reforming Parliament and abolishing the rotten boroughs would help to end the poverty of farm laborers, and he attacked the borough-mongers, sinecurists and "tax-eaters" relentlessly. He was also against the Corn Laws, a tax on imported grain and although he was not a Catholic, he became a fiery advocate of Catholic Emancipation in Britain. While supporting these more progressive policies, he was at the same time opposed to abolition. Through the seeming contradictions in Cobbett's life, his opposition to authority stayed constant.Cobbett issued numerous volumes on agriculture, encouraging the cultivation of unique flora, such as a variety of maize he named "Cobbett's… Read More

Folio. Marbled paper boards. London: Printed by J. Wright for Lawton Gilliver . . . 1734. First Edition of one of Pope's most celebrated invectives, addressed to his physician and life-long friend, Dr. Arbuthnot. It contains Pope's savaging of Queen Caroline's confidant and society gossip Lord Hervey, who is named "Paris" here but "Sporus" in subsequent editions. Issued without half-title. Top of spine cracked, but firmly attached; cover slightly bowed; o/w a fine copy.

INSCRIBED BY RICHARD WRIGHTWRIGHT, RICHARD. Espagne Païenne. (Pagan Spain). 8vo. Original wrappers, in glassine. (Paris 1958). First French Edition.Inscribed by Richard Wright, "À M. Bill Higgins Hommage de l'Auteur Richard Wright." Bill Higgins was the location manager for the film version of Native Son. A wonderful association copy. Paper aged, o/w a fine copy of a rare book.

Illustrated with 3 folding engraved plates. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf binding, leather label on spine, 5 raised bands, gilt decorations. Strasbourg: Jean George Treuttel; Paris: Cuchet 1787. First Edition in French of Ehrmann's work; First Edition of Lavoisier's Mémoires. "Friedrich Ludwig Ehrmann, professor of physics at Strasbourg, was one of Lavoisier's correspondents and one of the earliest converts to his new chemical theories. A series of experiments on which Ehrmann's work... is based were conducted at the same time as Lavoisier was working on the effects of high temperatures on various substances. The results that both obtained... were so similar that Lavoisier, who must have seen Ehrmann's manuscript before its publication, requested that his own memoirs on the subject be printed together with Ehrmann's essay" Binding slightly worn; the text block bright and clean; one plate with some extra vertical creases from mis-folding; o/w Fine.

An Essay on the Principle of Population, or A View of its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness; With An Inquiry into our Prospects Respecting the Future Removal or Mitigation of the Evils which it Occasions.8vo. Modern ½-brown calf leather binding over marbled boards, gilt decorated spine with 5 raised bands, two black and red gilt lettered morocco labels; new endpapers added. London: Printed for John Murray, 1817. Fifth Edition with Important Additions. 3 volumes. An Essay on the Principle of Population was first published anonymously in 1798 through J. Johnson (London). The author was soon identified as The Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus. In 1803 a second and much enlarged edition was published, with the author acknowledged. Later editions were taken from the second edition, and there are additional changes throughout the sixth edition. It has been acknowledged as one of the most influential economic works in history. Library stamps on the title pages; some numbers in pencil on the copyright… Read More

Illustrated by Wightman Williams. 8vo. Green Natsume straw-paper-covered boards with black mor spine. Cummington Press, Cummington 1945. First Edition. One of 300 numbered copies illustrated by Williams. Spine scuffed, o/w fine.

CONTEMPORARY ANALYSIS OF THE FIRST PARTITION OF POLAND8vo. Disbound. London 1773. (The imprint is purposefully false; all examples of this pamphlet were actually printed in Amsterdam.) First Edition. The pamphlet concerns the 1772 first partition of Poland, judging the partition neither just nor useful. "… an unjust system by virtue of the violation of all the rights of Men; pernicious to Europe by an example that destroys the ties of society; dangerous to two Powers interested in the unmeasured and free elevation of the third, of which both Powers have much to fear." (Translated from the Polish)The First Partition of Poland, or the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, took place in 1772 as the first of 3 partitions that ended the existence of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth by 1795. Frederick the Great engineered the partition to prevent Austria, jealous of Russian successes against the Ottoman Empire, from going to war. The weakened Commonwealth's land, including what was already controlled by… Read More

Hardcover. Fine. Illustrated with woodcut printers mark on title and sectorial titles, 3 engraved head-pieces, 3 engraved initials, 1 full-page engraving of a theatre and another engraved illustration in text (all by A. Visentini, though only one signed); 3 series of woodcuts numbered 1-33, 1-3 and 1-21; plus 6 full-page woodcuts. Folio. Original limp boards. Padua, typis Seminarii, apud Joannem Manfré, 1739 (sectional title 1741). First Edition. Poleni was known especially as a prominent physicist. His scientific activities were paralleled by archaeological and architectural researches which made him so famous that the Pope called him to Rome to examine Saint Peters dome and to propose means to prevent its further movement. This work had been devised in 9 parts, but only the 3 gathered here were ever published. The first part is the first Vitruvian bibliography reedited with scientific criteria. The second part contains a letter of Morgagni on different passages of medical interest comprised in the… Read More

The Exhibition of the Society of Painters in Water Colours. The Third. Now Open at the Old Royal Academy Rooms, Pall-Mall. 4to. Original printed wrappers, string tied, uncut. 16 pages. London: Printed for J. Booth. 1807. First Edition of the catalogue of the exhibit. The catalogue lists members of the society, with their residence; plus the 324 watercolors on exhibit, by number, title and name of artist. Artists include John Varley, Francis Nicholson, Miss Byrne, Nicholas Pocock, John Glover, Francis Stevens, R.R. Reinagle, etc. Cover slightly soiled, o/w Fine. Together with: The Exhibition of the Society of Painters in Water Colours. The Eighth. Now Open at the Great Room, Spring Gardens . . . 4to. Original printed wrappers, string tied, uncut. 18 pages. London: Printed for J. Booth . . . 1812. First Edition of the catalogue of the exhibit. The catalogue lists members of the society, with their residence; plus the 324 watercolors on exhibit, by number, title and name of artist. Artists include John… Read More