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New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. 1st edition of the Nobel Laureate's 2nd novel. Fine (the yellow lettering is not flaked). 1st printing dustjacket (the 2nd printing cardplayers jacket is much rarer), some rubbing and a 3/8" tear else near fine. Cheaper than any copy close to this fine, and finer than any copy close to this cheap. Mosquitoes is Faulkner before he deserved applause, but it set him up to become what he became. In it he confines a mismatched group on the yacht of a matronly, literary lion hunter and feeds none of their appetites, so we learn that characters wrapped up in themselves make very small packages.
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Mosquitoes
by Faulkner, William
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Faulkner at Nagano
by FAULKNER, William
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Tokyo: Kenkyusha, 1956. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A series of interviews and lectures given by Faulkner on a trip to Japan. A beautiful copy.
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Roman histories of Lucius Iulius Florus; from the foundation of Rome, till Cæsar Augustus
by Florus, Lucius Annaeus
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London: William Stansby, 1619. First Edition. Very good. 1st edition in English of Edmund Bolton's translation. Contemporary polished calf, covers bordered with a triple blind rule large blind arabesque at centers, spine with three blind ruled raised bands, joints and spine tips worn, 17th century autograph ‘York' on pastedown, imaginably, James, Duke of York, later James II, but no proof of that here, a very good copy. Roman letter, some Italic, text within box rule, engraved architectural title border signed "Sim Pass scu." (Simon van de Pass), small floriated woodcut initials, woodcut head pieces. On p. 503 Bolton signed the work (in type) with his initials "translated into English by E.M.B.", i.e. Edmund Maria Bolton, and he also signs the dedication with his pseudonym "Philanactophil." Collation: [xxiv], 503, [2]. last blank. RBH list no copies at auction since 1965. Florus' history, known as the ‘Epitome of all the Wars during Seven Hundred Years', is an abridgment of Roman history up to…
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Traité des Hernies
by Franco, Pierre
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Lyon: Thibauld Payan, 1561. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 2nd edition of Franco's most famous work, greatly expanding the 1st (1556) with 25 new woodcuts (22 instruments and 3 skeletons) and . Octavo, (32), 554, (2) pp. Contemporary ink ownership inscription to the title page, title with old paper restoration (30mmx40mm) to blank right margin, paper reinforcements to lower margin of G2 [‘F2'], T6, Bb8, Ii2), worming to the final 26 leaves not effecting text, errata with a 28mmx44mm piece of the lower blank margin removed and the whole page laid down, some very minor, sporadic foxing and browning, else internally clean very good. Bound in contemporary vellum remnants of from an old manuscript, chipped at the lower rear corner, lacking the ties, toned, else very good. Only 3 other copies at auction in at least 85 years. Norman 828. Franco was one of the greatest surgeons of the Renaissance, "[...] influential in bringing operative surgery back into the realm of regular surgical practice,…
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Franklin's First Experiments with Electricity; in The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Chronicle
by Franklin, Benjamin
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London: Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, 1750. First Edition. Half Calf. Good. 1st edition (vol. XX). Contains the first 2 appearances in print anywhere, announcing Franklin's discoveries and experiments with electricity. The January 1750 issue (p. 34) prints a letter from Franklin identifying electricity as "the electrical fire" and saying, "...it is a real Element, intimately united with all other matter, from whence it is collected by tube, or sphere." The May 1750 issue (p. 208) prints a second letter from Franklin announcing his invention of the lightening rod. Contemporary 3/4 calf and marbled boards, worn and strengthened but not rebacked, a few pages bound out of order (including those with the first entry), but collates complete, else a good, solid, heavyweight book.
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Über den Ursprung der hinteren Nervenwurzeln im Rückenmark von Ammocoetes (Petromyzon Planeri); in Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen-Akademie der Wissenschaften
by Freud, Sigmund
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Wien (Vienna): E.K. Hof, 1877. First Edition. Very good. 1st edition of Freud's first published paper in the original, publisher's blue printed wrappers. Contained in the complete issue of Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen-Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Classe. LXXV. Band. III. Abtheilung. Jahrgang 1877. Heft I bis V. Pages 15-27 with one folding plate after Freud by F. Schima. General light wear to the edges and the spine ends, old piece of tape to the inner front wrapper, minimal sporadic foxing throughout, occasional short tears to outer margins (none touching text), else a very good, unrestored copy, uncut and largely unopened. Refs: Norman F1. Grinstein 37. A product of Freud's student research while he was at the Institute of Physiology in Vienna, to which he had been admitted the previous fall. The paper is a study of Reissner cells in the spinal cord of Petromyzon Planeri (the European Brook Lamprey).
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Über die Möglichkeit einer Welt mit konstanter negativer Krümmung des Raumes [with] Bemerkung zu der Arbeit von A. Friedmann Über die Krümmung des Raumes; in Zeitschrift für Physik
by Friedmann, Aleksandr [and] Einstein, Albert
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Berlin: Springer, 1922. First Edition. Wrappers. Near fine. 2 vols. 1st editions (in German), the first appearance of 2 distinct papers, in 2 separate periodical issues, September 13 and November 17. Both are complete in original wrappers. Near fine (small pencil name on the Nov. cover). Seems to be surprisingly rare. RBH lists no auction sales of Friedmann's article title and date since 1975, and only one copy of it is listed by OCLC, but copies of the bound annual, Zeitschrift für Physik, are regularly available and should not, in this case, be considered, in any way, equivalent to our set in publisher's wrappers. 1. Friedmann's pioneering paper, the first to seriously apply general relativity to cosmology without the stabilizing cosmological constant, theorizing and mathematically formularizing, an expanding universe, dragging cosmology into a branch of physics. In Zeitschrift für Physik, Band 10, He 16, September 13, 1922, pages 377-386, "Here we have, for the first time, the idea of an…
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