The History of Magic [Bohn’s Scientific Library] London Henry G. Bohn, 1854 Ennemoser, Joseph PRICE 12000 PURCHASE / MORE INFO View Member Profile London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854. First English Translation. Two Fine Leather-bound Volumes. Professionally rebound in red goat with leather spine straps with fasteners; spine titles pasted on; front titles inlaid, both in black calf leather with gilt titling. Endpages replaced. Half-titles present. 12mo; 7.5 inches tall; xvi, 471 with index & viii, 518 pages. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean with a small number of pencil marginalia, even toning with a few occasional foxing spots. Moderate handling wear to original textblocks. Half title page of Vol 1 has a small hole near the bottom and the gutter is weak. The Appendix with material selected by Mary Howitt covers Apparitions, Dreams, Second Sight, Somnambulism, Predictions, Divination, Witchcraft; Vampires, Fairies, Table Turning, and Spirit-Rapping. Joseph Ennemoser was a German doctor and scientist, noted for his use of magnetism and hypnosis. He was a forerunner of Freud in his belief in the connection between the mind and physical health, and his interest in psychology led to investigations into the paranormal and magic. He became well known for his presentations about magic, delusions and apparently supernatural occurrences. He suggested that most of these phenomena appeared miraculous only because of a lack of understanding of the laws of nature. The History of Magic was published in Leipzig in 1844, and translated into English in 1854 by William Howitt, a leading Spiritualist writer. Volume 1 deals with the different categories of magic and mysticism, and how they were viewed in ancient times. He discusses visions, dreams and soothsaying, and miracles in the Bible, and the link between classical medicine and oracles. [Cambridge] The editor, his wife Mary, added a collection of supernatural and psychical occurrences, which illustrate the topics dealt with by Ennemoser. [GR] PURCHASE / MORE INFO More items from Blind-Horse-Books Hillerman, Tony Finding Moon [Original color drawing by Ernest Franklin] First Edition, First Print See Item Tolkien, J.R.R. The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and other Verses from The Red Book 1st Am Edition See Item Dunbar, Paul Laurence Howdy Honey Howdy First Edition First Printing. 1905 African American Poetry See Item [Maconochie Brothers] [19th Century Handbill] Silvoceas The King of Fish No Copies In Institutions See Item Milk Cows Today – Slaughter Cows Tomorrow [Live Stock] See Item Dull, Mrs. S. R. [Henrietta Stanley] Southern Cooking 1941 Classic and Foundational Cookery Book See Item Album of New Hampshire Covered Bridge Photographs by Leslie L. Turner, 1920-40 See Item [Cocktail Recipes] Clysmic King of Table Waters c1910 Uncommon only two copies held in Institutions See Item Strutt, Joseph The Chronicle of England 2 Vol 1777 Finely Bound See Item [Vale Press, Charles Ricketts] The Amber Witch, The most interesting trial for witchcraft ever known See Item Keeler, Charles Elfin Songs of Sunland [Verse for Children] with Dust Jacket See Item Lamb, Charles With an introduction by Andrew Lang Beauty and the Beast 1887 Finely Bound See Item Walton, Isaak & Cotton, Charles The Complete Angler, Or Contemplative Man's Recreation; 1775 See Item The History of Magic [Bohn’s Scientific Library] London Henry G. Bohn, 1854 Ennemoser, Joseph See Item A Tramp Abroad 1st Edition 1880 Mark Twain, (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) Finely Bound See Item

Continue VISIT WEBSITE Books from the Crypt OWNER: Steven Ericson Member since: 2022 (only displayed to logged-in members) MEMBER-TO-MEMBER DISCOUNT: % COUPON CODE (if applicable): bookcrypt@comcast.net 240-507-6444 240-507-6444 14500 Keeneland cir, N. potomac, MD, 20878, United States More about this bookseller 1/1 1/1 1/1 1/1 Featured Items Terms of Sale

The Crucifixion & the Eclipse : Follower of Maître d'Étienne Poncher - Cutting from Pontifical (1546 PRICE £ 967 PURCHASE / MORE INFO View Member Profile Follower of the Maître d’Étienne Poncher- Cutting from a Pontifical (1546) France, 1546 (180 x 125 mm). Latin. Single leaf, cutting. 19 lines of script with characteristics of Gothic and Humanist. One 3-line decorated initial. Blue and red rubricated letters alternating. Ruled in pink. Illumination showing crucifixion of Christ; framed in architectural styling, with two putti holding a date (1546). Some surface damage from earlier mounting where paper has adhered to parchment. Pigment of 3-line initial has suffered flaking from mounting. Text: Performed liturgy of the Ordinary Mass from “Per omnia secula seculorum”; “Vere dignum” and the Sanctus / A beautiful illustration of the Crucifixion of Christ, suffering the misguided attempts of a (likely) Victorian admirer of the Medieval. The popular pastime of carefully cutting scenes from medieval manuscripts in the 19th century and reframing them for their own society’s ideas of beauty and importance has claimed many important works, including this one. This scene was cut from a Pontifical, illustrated in the style of the Maître d’Étienne Poncher (active 1490-1510), so called for his work on books for the Bishop of Paris, Étienne Poncher. The use of gold in this illustration performs in two ways: It highlights the holy— Jesus’ nimb, the halos of the three Marys, the frame of the scene. It also creates a dynamic and realistic quality to the wood of the cross and to the folds of the garments as well as adding shine to the stars in the sky and the sun. Time often stacks on top of itself in medieval illuminations, demonstrated here by the presence of the sun as well as the presence of the eclipsed (and unnaturally backwards) black crescent moon. Jesus’ wounds are bloodied at his stigmatae and at the hole punctured by the lance of Longinus. While the garments of the three Marys receive the more attention by the illustrator than their faces, it is the tiny face of Jesus that has received the most detail and the most painstakingly minute brush strokes to render his expression. Atop the cross has been nailed a plaque: INRI, Iesu Nazarenus, Rex Iudaeorum. The later Medieval play with depth of field is at work here, as we see the bare-trodden grassy ground and a blue background fading into the dark-eclipsed sky. PURCHASE / MORE INFO More items from Mobilis Books, LLC Parlour Room Divination: The Birthday Oracle (1883) See Item Fear and Worship in Paris: Leaf from miniature French Book of Hours (early 15th c.) See Item Extremely Early Witness to the Promulgation of Canon Law: Gregory IX - Decretales (ca. 1230-1240) See Item The Crucifixion & the Eclipse : Follower of Maître d'Étienne Poncher - Cutting from Pontifical (1546 See Item Emphemeral Look at the Seed of Europe's Crises: Benjamin Vaughn - The Concert of Princes (1793) See Item Post-Revolution: Arthur Young - The Example of France, A Warning to Britain (1793) See Item Making the Past Speak: The Speaking Picture Book (1890s) See Item American Arthuriana: Mark Twain - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889) See Item Carrie's Farwell to Physicke (1586) & Al-Farghani's Elements of Astronomy (13th c.) See Item Poetry Bound in the Novelty of Mauchline Ware: Casquet of Gems (1874) See Item Cosmographia - Peter Apian, 1575 (second Spanish edition) See Item

CONTEMPORARY BINDING < Back to Terminology List CONTEMPORARY BINDING Feature Also CONTEMPORANEOUS. A binding that was placed on the book at or near the time of publication though not by the publisher. Up until the 19th century (and continuing much later in some countries, like France), most books were published unbound, in plain paper covers or boards, and the purchaser would have the book bound to his taste by his bookbinder (often these bindings were designed to match other books in his library.) Previous Next

Continue VISIT WEBSITE Treasured Books UK OWNER: Jason Hibbitt Member since: 2019 (only displayed to logged-in members) MEMBER-TO-MEMBER DISCOUNT: 20 % COUPON CODE (if applicable): shop@treasuredbooks.co.uk (+44) 03330 118022 4 Quarry High Street Headington, Oxford, OX3 8JT, United Kingdom More about this bookseller Hello. I am a book trader dealing primarily in modern first edition fiction for adults and children. I have several years collecting experience and strive to provide the best possible customer experience to fully meet your expectations. I try to describe the books I sell as accurately as possible to ensure that there are no surprises and that you will be fully satisfied with your purchase. As a collector I understand how important it is for a book to arrive in the same condition as it was sold to you. Your book will therefore be packed in plenty of bubble wrap and placed in a suitable book box to ensure that you receive it without damage in transit 1/1 1/1 1/1 1/1 Featured Items Terms of Sale I try to describe the books I sell as accurately as possible to ensure that there are no surprises and that you will be fully satisfied with your purchase. However, should you wish to return a book I offer a 30 day no-quibble refund policy. This operates from the day you receive the book. Jason Hibbitt, Founder and Owner, Treasured Books UK

Booksellers seeking to join the Independent Online Booksellers Association go through our New Member Application process. In some cases, the Membership Committee decides that the applicant is fairly close to meeting the guidelines and requirements, but can use a little more work and guidance first. MENTORSHIP PROGRAM Booksellers seeking to join the Independent Online Booksellers Association go through our New Member Application process. In some cases, the Membership Committee decides that the applicant is fairly close to meeting the guidelines and requirements, but can use a little more work and guidance first. Sometimes these booksellers are fairly new to the profession and are joining IOBA to learn more about the trade and to upgrade their standards, and in other cases they are already established but have been using listing methods and policies that need to be adjusted to fit the IOBA model. 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LEATHER - THREE QUARTER LEATHER / THREE QUARTER BOUND < Back to Terminology List LEATHER - THREE QUARTER LEATHER / THREE QUARTER BOUND Feature Three quarter leather (3/4), or three quarter bound, describes books bound in leather at the spine and corners, usually when the latter are large, with boards covered in paper, cloth, or other material. The first image shows a three quarter leather binding with large leather corners, with paper over boards. The second image shows a similar binding with marbled paper over boards. Previous Next

Lothar Meggendorfer's "Lebende Bilder" [Living Pictures] Eight Fantastic Hand Colored Moveable Plate PRICE $ 3500 PURCHASE / MORE INFO View Member Profile [MOVABLE BOOK]. MEGGENDORFER, Lothar. Lebende Bilder [Living Pictures] von L. Meggendorfer. 15. Auflage.München [Munich]: Verlag von Braun & Schneider, [ca. 1890]. Fifteenth German Edition. Folio (page size: 11 7/8 x 9 1/8 inches; 301 x 232 mm.; Board size: 12 7/8 x 9 3/8 inches; 327 x 238 mm.). [1, foreword], [2-18] pp. Eight hand-colored lithograph plates with movable parts (included in pagination), each with a tab to set the scene in motion. Original color lithographed pictorial boards with black cloth backstrip. Small rectangular booksellers label on rear turn-in (Brentano's New York). Inner hinges expertly and almost invisibly repaired, all of the movable parts in perfect working order. Minimal rubbing to extremities of boards, still a spectacular copy of this rare title. According to OCLC the earliest edition that we can locate is 6. Auglage (ca. 1890) - there are very few copies of any of the original Braun & Schneider editions listed - we believe this 15th edition to have also been published around 1890. “Meggendorfer’s reputation today is based almost solely on his ingenious mechanical picture-books for children. These he began to design during the late 1880s, and many of these books went into multiple German editions besides translations into English, French, Italian, Spanish, Bohemian, Hungarian, and Russian. Deservedly, he is considered the creator and chief innovator of moveable toy books, and his printed works are eagerly sought after by collectors of historical children’s literature. He produced books with moveable figures, transformation pictures segmented into three parts and thus interchangeable, books with pop-up designs, rotating wheels as well as four-panel slat pictures which change the illustrations through movement, and simply funny picture books for children that would certainly make them laugh and generally contributed to some educational benefit” (Justin G. Schiller’s Introduction to The Publishing Archive of Lothar Meggendorfer. “There is little doubt that the most elaborate and ingenious movables ever produced were those of the German Lothar Meggendorfer (1847-1925) made during the 1880s and 1890s…the mechanisms and operations of Meggendorfer’s books—not to mention the originality of his figures—are far superior to any others published before or since. The devices that operated the various figures in Meggendorfer’s books consisted of a series of inter-connecting cardboard levers sandwiched between the coloured illustration on the front of the oblong leaf and the dummy pasted behind it. The animated limbs and heads were cut-out models on the front of the picture, and moving the tab set the whole scene in motion” (Haining, Movable Books, p. 65). The Plates: 1. "Herr Staberl" (Mr. Staberl) 2. "Die Jungfer Köchin" (The Spinster Cook) 3. "Der Klavierpieler" (The Piano Player) 4. "Der Schreiber" (The Writer) 5. "Der Herr Magister" (The School Master) 6. "Der Tiroler Sänger" (The Tirol Singer) 7. "Frikchen und der Kakadu" (Frikchen and the Cockatoo) 8. "Das naschafte Käklein" PURCHASE / MORE INFO More items from Lothar Meggendorfer's "Lebende Bilder" [Living Pictures] Eight Fantastic Hand Colored Moveable Plate See Item

TITLE PAGE (TP) < Back to Terminology List TITLE PAGE (TP) Feature At the front of a book (usually the first or second page), containing such important information as the author, title, and typically, the city where the book was published, the publisher, and date. Previous Next

< BACK TO MEMBER DESK November 19, 2024 iPhone Photography for Booksellers Presented by Ed Lefkowicz In this visual culture, great photos will help you sell books, manuscripts, and ephemera. This webinar will help you up your photographic game using just your iPhone. (And if you have an Android phone, don't worry—this webinar applies to either platform.) Topics covered: Light: how it applies to photographing books, manuscripts and ephemera and how to use it to your advantage The iPhone camera, its capabilities, and how to maximize them Post-production of images: everything that you have to do between taking the photos and posting them online iphone photog for booksellers .pdf Download PDF • 333KB Ed Lefkowicz has been making photographs for decades, first photographing on film, developing it, and making his own prints. He was an antiquarian bookseller for over 25 years, specializing in rare books, manuscripts, and maps relating to the sea and its islands, nautical science, and naval history. With his background in photography, he photographed his wares for printed catalogs, initially on film, then digitally. He has been a professional photographer for the past 15 years, and has nonprofit, corporate, and editorial clients. Previous Next