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1.	BREZ, JAQUES: LA FLORE DES INSECTOPHILES : précédée d'un discours sur 
l'utilité des insectes et de létude de l'insectologie. Utrecht : B. Wild et 
J. Altheer, 1791. xxvi, 324 p. ; 23 cm.  A  pioneering, polemical essay on 
the importance of entomology as a scientific study, two which is added a 
list of plants and the insects likely to be asssociated with themby Mr. 
Brez, plus an addendum by Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc.this is ("Additions 
a la flore des insectophiles, [tirées du manuscrit intitulé Cenaculum 
insectorum, communiqué à l'auteur par m. Louis Bosc, ci-devant, m. 
d'Antic])." The first work which gives such useful information, all is 
couched within the Linnean system, too; making it of utility for scientific 
students.OCLC 19 copies in the USA. They are found in major univeristies, 
but also at the major scientific museums and botanical gardens. Orig. calf. 
omplex gilt, Dec. spine, red Mro.Title label, gilt, Mbld. EPs, VG. Book 
label of Docteur Doumerc, signature on Fr.EP Tom A.Sperling. $375.00

2.	EDDINGTON, ARTHUR STANLEY, SIR:  THE INTERNAL CONSTITUTION OF THE STARS. 
The University Press. viii, 407 p. diagrs. 28 cm. First edition. VI+406 p. 
, figures, tables, bibliogr. , index.  Between 1916 and 1925 A. S. 
Eddington published over a dozen major papers on the physical nature of 
stars, which were ultimately collected and developed further in this book. 
Cambridge,  It was immediately reprinted in German and has remained in 
print ever since. In original dark blue gilt. cloth, corners and 
extremities a bit worn, Very Good. First owner's name in pencil on Fr. Fr. 
EP. $250.00

3.	EDDINGTON, ARTHUR STANLEY, SIR: DER UBBERE AUFBAU DER STERNE, / von A.S. 
Eddington ; nach erganzung der englischen ausgabe durch prof. A.S. 
Eddington ins deutsche ubertragen von Emanuel von der Pahlen. Berlin : 
Verlag von Julius Springer, 1928. viii, 514 p. ; 23 cm. While this is based 
on The Internal Constitution of the Stars, iut was expanded by Eddington, 
and first published thus, in the First German edition with an extra 107 Pp. 
Orig. dark blue cloth, gitl, ownership inscription in neat pen atop the 
first Free EP, OW VG. $275.00

4.	ESPINOSA, JUAN: DICCIONARIO PARA EL PUEBLO : republicano democratico, 
moral, político y filosofico. Lima : Imprenta del Pueblo, Por Juan 
Infantas, 1855.Portrait Frontis.,  xii, 852 p. ; 22 cm. Much more than a 
dictionary; a reasoned philosophy of government, and its difficulties in 
South America, by a convinced republican who wrote to instill a spirit of 
democracy in his countrymen, and all Spanish speakers. He was aware of the 
tendencies, in Latin America, already obvious, civil war and for strongman 
or dictatorial rule to develop. As an enlightened democrat he hoped to 
support democratic impulses among the people by publishing this work.12 Pp. 
of subscribers at rear. Note: "Juan Espinosa en su "Diccionario para el 
pueblo," 
enumera algunas de las caracteristicas asociadas con tales 
conflictos en la America Latina: "en las guerras civiles politicas o 
religiosas, se enardecen mas que en las de nacion a nacion  las pasiones 
iracundas del hombre. En tales conflictos "el hermano combate contra el 
hermano y el hijo contra el padres."  Existe en ellos "el empeno de someter 
indefinidamente a los otrosm con las irritacion de no poder conseguirlo 
plenamente, pues que las fuerzas se contrabalancaean,los enemigos no se 
separan, son habitantes de un mismo territorio y se transmiten unos a otros 
sus no satisfechos odios y venganzas. Son hijos de una misma madre y se 
desgaran delante de ella sinrespecto alguno." Quoted by Eudardo Posada 
Carbo in his essay "Guerra Civil? Guerra Contra Los Civiless ? Violencia 
Generalizada? /Sobre la naturaleza del conflucto interno en Colombia . An 
essay prepared for "La Fundacionde Ideas para el Paz
" May 3 del 2001. 
Espinosa is still his major theoretical source!  OCLC, 19 Locs. But rare on 
the market. A Very Good  copy ijn orignal marbled boards, calf back, gilt 
title and crossing lines, the signature of M.M. Carbajal on the TP. $450.00

5.	FUKUI GESSAI Editor:  SHO TAIKA KACHO GAFU [Drawing Book of Flowers and 
Birds]: Kyoto, Meiji 30 (1897) 24.1 x 16.5; Title page, (Bijutsu Oyo) Sho 
Taika Kacho Gafu, editor
Fukui Gessai; copyright registered. 13 sheets 
[unnumbered][26 Pp.] calligraphy 1 page, undated, signed Rosetsu, sealed. 
The artists included follow Mitchell's pattern and include Okyo, Rosestsu, 
Goshun, Kangyo, Kansai, Keibun, Ganku, Buncho and Soken.  All the works are 
signed and sealed. They are followed by a page of Ads and a colophon which 
precisely dates the book as 30 Meiji. This is a collection of the most 
renowned of all Japanese specialists in flower and bird painting. Mitchell 
P. 489, is the only copy in any Western collection. Mitchell's copy, 
apparently had no date, and may have been a later issue. The covers are 
greenish blue with much mica included. The title slip is glued to the 
center of the wrap and is printed in seal characters [!]. Original silk 
ties, a near Fine copy. $1250.00

6.	GREEY, EDWARD : THE GOLDEN LOTUS AND OTHER LEGENDS OF JAPAN. / Cover 
Designed by the Author.  Boston Lee & Shepherd Co. New York, Charles T. 
Dillingham, 1883. 145, [2] Pp. Those last pages an Ad for Greey's shop 
where he sells Japanese art and curios in New York. First Edition; Opposite 
the title page is a long inscription to "Aunt Louisa from her Nephew's 
Friend, the Author, dated Dec. 21, 1887." On the preface sheet, which he 
signs intype, below he has penned his name in full. In original cloth, 
decorative design of black and gold on red, Very Good. $475.00

7.	HEARN, KAFCADIO: GLIMPSES OF UNFAMILIAR JAPAN. Boston 1894, 
Houghton.First Edition First Issue black cloth, very good, 2 vols., 
PrintingHoughton Mifflin and Company, Boston and New York, 1894. 20.4 cm., 
8vo. Includes these essays : My First Day in the Orient, the Writing of 
Kobo Daishi, Jizoh, A Pilgrimage to Enoshima. At the Market of the Dead. 
Bon-Odori. The Chief City of the Province of the Gods. Kitauki: The Most 
Ancient Shrine in Japan. In the Cave of the Children's Ghost. At Mionoseki. 
Notes on Kitzuki. At Hinomisaki. Shinjuu., Yaegaki-Jinja. KJitsune. In a 
Japanese Garden. The Household Shrine. Of Women's Hair. From the Diary of 
an English Teacher. Two Strange Festivals. By the Japanese Sea. Of a 
Dancing-Girl. From Hoki to Oki. Of souls. Of Ghosts and Goblins. The 
Japanese Smile. Sayonara. These are his earliest, and may be his finest 
writings about Japan. First Edition, First Printing. BAL 7926., rare in 
this condition. Bound in black silver decorated cloth, TEG,  fine 
condition  corners and extremities not rubbed. $600.00

8.	HERBERT, GEORGE:  A PRIEST TO THE TEMPLE OR THE COUNTRY PARSON HIS 
CHARACTER ABD RULE OF HOLY LIFE. Second edition, with a new Preface, by 
B[arnabas] O[ley]. For T.Roycroft, for Benj.Tooke, 1671. First Separate 
Edition. Sm 8vo, [30], 139, [66], 15.4 cm. First Separate Edition of 
Herbert's most important prose work. With Olley's Prefatory View of the 
Life and Virtues of the Authour, and Excellencies of this Book. Perhaps the 
greatest strictly Anglican poet of the 17th century. His most famous poem 
"The Temple" about the Church of England has here his treatment of many 
related themes in prose.  Palmer 21, Wing H.1513.  Original boards, 
rebacked in the 18th century, blind stamped, crossing lines, new Mro. Title 
label. Although it has the final leaf of ads, this copy lacks the 
imprimatur leaf before the title page. The boards are worn, scratched, and 
a little crackled, but the interior is fine, clean , pure white. $875.00

9.	JOHNSON, J. TYPOGRAPHIA, OR THE PRINTER'S INSTRUCTOR: Including an 
Account of the Origin of Printing, with Biographical Notices of the 
Printers of England, from Caxton to the close of the Sixteenth Century: A 
Series of Ancient and Modern Alphabets, and Domesday Characters. London, 
1824. 2 vols. First Edition. Bigmore & Wyman: "One of the few standard 
works on the art of printing in the English language, this is perhaps the 
most familiar... It abounds with information of a very useful character, 
spiced with conceits manifesting the originality, humour, and freshness of 
the author... The type, never larger than brevier, sometimes is as small as 
pearl... The second volume may be described as practical, in 
contradistinction to the first, which is historical. It gives a description 
of types, directions for composing, for press and warehouse work, &c. It is 
particularly rich in foreign alphabets, a feature which has gained for it 
great estimation. Altogether the volume is a congeries of practical 
miscellanies of the most interesting character. Whatever its defects and 
shortcomings, it has long since become, and deservedly, a printer's 
classic, and one in which the youngest apprentice as well as the most 
experienced journeyman finds matter of an amusing as well as useful 
nature." It was issued simultaneously in 3 formats: 12mo, with text having 
a plain ruled border; 8vo (large paper) with a typographical border about 
the text;, and 4to (largest paper, called "Roxburghe copies"). This is a 
copy of the 8vo Large Paper edition. Lowndes, v. 5, p. 1215. This copy is 
Very Good or better in the original boards,cloth backstrips and printed 
paper labels. The labels are rubbed, and one corner somewhat eroded. $775.00

10.	[LEE, HANNAH FARNHAM SAWYER]: MEMOIR OF PIERRE TOUSSAINT, BORN A SLAVEl 
IN ST. DOMINGO. Boston: Crosby, Nichols and Company, 1854. Portrait 
Frontis., blank leaf, [ii] and 124 pp. 8vo. gray/blue blind-stamped boards. 
Toussaint was born in Haiti to Catholic slaves. When his employers fled 
Haiti after a slave uprising he came with them to New York. He was taught 
to read and write, and apprenticed to a hair stylist. As a hairdresser he 
worked for many important New Yorkers. When Mr. Berard died, his widow 
offered to giive him his freedom but instead, he supported her until her 
death. Poor investments had made  her a pauper and she had no means other 
of support.  Tousaint founded, together with St. Elizabeth Ann Seton one 
N.Y.'s first orphanages, helped raise funds for the city's first Catholic 
cathedral, and is buried under the great altar of St. John's. He has a 
record of unusually caring behavior, including staying behind to care for 
sick people during a yellow fever epiidemic. He is an active candidate for 
sainthood at this writing. Very Good in gray/blue blind-stamped boards. 
$650.00


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