Search Results: the important documents of the first

Nabu Press, 2/3/2010 12:00:01 AM. paperback. Good. 1.3300 in x 9.6900 in x 7.4400 in. Crease on cover* Slight stain water on a few pages*

Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1952. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback, 1952, octavo, 78pp., illustrated in b&w. Book VG with foxing and soil to wrap, mild wear to corners and spine ends, binding tight, text clean and unmarked but toned throughout. No DJ.

Paperback / softback. New.

Gales and Seaton. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. Former Library book. (Congressional Sessions, Legislation)

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback. Very Good.

Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1952. Stiff Wrappers. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 78 pages. Please check with us for an accurate postage cost, it will post letter mail.

New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 25th and 26th May,1906. Beige printed wrappers, small 4to,. 53 pp, 13 plates. 384 lots. Backstrip torn with loss, edges foxed, some light spotting to contents.

Congress of the United States. Register of Debates in Congress Comprising the Leading Debates and Incidents of the Second Session of the Twenty-First Congress Together with an Appendix Containing Important State Papers and Public Documents and the Laws, of a Public Nature, Enacted During the Session With a Copious Index to the Whole. (Vol. VII) (Washington, DC: Gales and Seaton, 1831)
Quarto. 851, cxciii, 78. xiii. Bound in Calf with leather labels.
Condition: This is a complicated book, condition-wise. Ex-Library from the Carnegie Library of Pennsylvania State College (now Penn State University (PSU)). Calf binding had the spine shellac-ed, probably to slow the red rot that appears at the hinges – which despite the red rot seems to be intact. The spine, however, has serious damage caused by the shellac and moderate wear as a publicly accessible book in a university library setting. Scuffing on front and back covers with some loss to the finish layer of the leather. There is a… Read More

Palala Press. hardcover. New. 6x1x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Gales and Seaton. Poor with no dust jacket. 1855. Hardcover. Heavy cover wear with crack down spine. All pages in tact and unmarked. The book is split into two pieces. Pages yellowed. Very rare. ; Seventeenth Congress -- First Session: December 3, 1821 - March 8, 1822 .

New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc, 1939. First Edition. 78 pages. Illustrated auction catalogue of material from William Randolph Hearst’s fabulous collections. Paperbound. Very good in printed wrappers with some minor indications of use.

1885. [Cambridge], c. 1885 - 1908. Octavo (17 cm x 21 cm). 90 blank leaves with manuscript entries in each volume, usually written on rectos only. Hardcover / Original half leather with dark blue cloth-covered boards bearing paper-labels to covers, detailing some of the sources cited within; marbled endpapers and edges. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Louis Cobbett, who later would become a university-lecturer for bacteriology himself (1907 - 1929 / he subsequently wrote “The Causes of Tuberculosis” in 1917), mentions, dissects and critically reflects in these two volumes on all the important medical discoveries made available in the first editions in bookform and breakthrough-publications in medical journals between the years 1895 and 1907. His notes don't simply mention Koch's discovery of the tuberculosis bacteria or Behring's serum against Diphteria as Eureka-moments, he instead offers us a rare look over the shoulder of time and we see through the curious, yet… Read More

Palestine and Europe, World Union Maccabee, 1932. . Printed documents of various sizes; handwritten corrections and additions on some items; text in Hebrew, English, German, French and Arabic. An important collection of documents of the First Maccabiah Games - opening ceremony programme, drafts of the games regulations, official leaflets and more.Ten documents recording the preparations for the first Maccabiah Games in Palestine. Highlights include: · 'The Arrangements for the Opening Ceremony, 29.3.1932' – a detailed plan for the first Maccabiah Games opening ceremony procession, which was to include motorcyclists, horsemen and flag bearers, an orchestra, and the athletic teams, with sketches of their placement in the stadium and the text of the opening announcement of the games.· Four drafts of the Maccabiah regulations: proposal of the world-wide centre of Maccabi, proposal of the Palestinian centre of Maccabi, proposal by the Jewish Olympic swimmer Július Balហ(in German) and a draft… Read More