title human being (4 resultados)

Cloth. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition/First Printing. Unread; crisp and tight; edges sl dusty. Unclipped d/w has rear water mark. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback.

Leather Binding. Condición: Good. Fourth Edition. The Fourth edition, 1724. Bound in full brown period calf, spine eith raised bands, covers bordered with twin gilt fillets (quite rubbed, front cover detached; some toning to text). PROVENANCE: With an ink note (a long quote from Benjamin Franklin about Lyons, with signature removed and date of 1847) on front pastedown; there are 3 pencil notes on front free endpaper in the same hand, including one reading: 'I reviewed briefly this vol. in the Philobiblion Vol. I C.M.S.'; pencil signature of William [Berman?] on front endpaper. A scarce early edition.

Promotional. 16mo (16 cm.). Four-page leaflet: Illustrated cover title (with entire text enclosed within a single bold rule border with ornaments at the corners), interior pages with a short biographical sketch and a transcription of Pyott's birth certificate, verso of integral leaf with a repeat of the title. Cover illustration from a photograph of Pyott with a normal size man (his manager). Pyott (1887-1937) "toured through the whole of South Africa during 1903-04; also through Belgium, France, Germany, and Switzerland." For Pyott, OCLC locates only a real-photo postcard (from 1929); we've also located a variant (clearly later) of this promotional, issued in 1929. Very good. Original illustrated self-wrappers (folded, with small marginal tape repairs a corner folds and one edge). (11119).

32pp. Woodcut plate. 8vo. 32pp. Woodcut plate. 8vo. Includes much about prostitution, syphilis and abortion. Samuel Gregory (1813-1872) was one of the founders of the homeopathic Boston Female Medical College in 1848. Samuel Gregory authored the books advertised on the rear wrapper, also published by his brother George. Unrecorded in OCLC Publisher's wrappers, minor wear and staining.