Search Results: Titles starting with O from Michael Carroll Dooling

Saint Paul: White Pine Bureau, 1923. Printed Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Volume IX, Number 6 of this important publication. Bound in stiff printed wraps, b&w illustrations, 16 pp., minor soiling. Contains architectural information relating to Canterbury, Connecticut.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1941. First Edition . Orange Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Contains 274 pp., b&w sketches by Donald McKay, INSCRIBED to E. Robert Stevenson, then Editor of the Waterbury Republican and SIGNED by Phillips. Inserted are three typed letters from Phillips to Stevenson, and several clippings of Phillips' columns.

Rome: Antonii Fulgonii,, 1797. Full Vellum. Fine. ISIDORUS HISPALENSIS EPISCOPI (c. 560 - 636). Opera Omnia. Rome: Antonii Fulgonii, 1797. Seven volumes, 4to, bound in original full vellum with gilt decorated spine and leather labels, engraved frontispiece in volume one, contains a few plates and diagrams, edited by Faustino Arevalo. This is a remarkably fine set both internally and externally. Isidore Hispalensis (Isidore of Seville) was a Spanish encyclopedist and historian who became the Archbishop of Seville in 599. He acquired high renown for his successful administration of his office as well as for his numerous theological, historical, and scientific works. Profoundly versed in Latin and in Christian literature, his intellectual curiosity led him to condense and reproduce in encyclopedic form the fruit of his wide reading. His works - which include science, canon law, history and theology - reproduce the substance of such sources as were available. In a way, they served to keep alive… Read More

Londini: Gul. Thurlbourn, 1732. First Edition . First Edition, thin 8vo, bound in blue leather spine with marbled boards, 29 pp., lacks half-title, title page has small piece missing from the corner and is lightly spotted. Middleton was a celebrated English scholar, divine, controversialist and considered one of the earliest English rationalistic theologians. He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge of which he became a fellow in 1706. He was appointed chief librarian of the university about 1720 and about 1731 received the Woodwardian professorship of geology, even though he had no background on the subject. In the present work, he points out the services which might be expected from a study of fossils in confirming the history of the deluge. Reference: Dictionary of National Biography, p.345.

London: John Lane The Bodley Head, Ltd., 1921. First Edition . Blue Boards. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Contains 101 untrimmed pp., gray cloth spine with blue boards and paper labels on front cover and spine; very faint discoloration along bottom edge, very minor soiling; a very nice copy. SIGNED by V. Sackville-West on front end page.