GUTTER < Back to Terminology List GUTTER Feature Inner margins of two facing pages. Can also refer to the outer indentation created by joining of the boards and spine. Previous Next

MUSTY / MUSTINESS < Back to Terminology List MUSTY / MUSTINESS Defect A book's adhesives, inks, and paper may be made of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that can decompose over time. A humid or damp environment can accelerate this process and rusted binding staples are often an indicator of such an environment. During decomposition, the VOCs are released into the air and create the distinctive odor we identify as musty. This odor is a complex composition and may reflect the ways the book was used or stored. A slight mustiness may be acceptable, but excessively musty books are usually unfit for commerce. Previous Next

Continue VISIT WEBSITE Oddfellow's Fine Books OWNER: Brandon Rison Member since: 2014 (only displayed to logged-in members) MEMBER-TO-MEMBER DISCOUNT: 20 % COUPON CODE (if applicable): Reciprocal oddfellowbooks@gmail.com (785) 235-1181 PO Box 3821, Topeka, KS, 66604, United States More about this bookseller 1/1 1/1 1/1 1/1 Featured Items Terms of Sale

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[Artist's Book] Goodale, Rebecca and Carrie Scanga. Penumbra PRICE $ 1500 PURCHASE / MORE INFO View Member Profile [Artist's Book] Goodale, Rebecca and Carrie Scanga. Penumbra . Freeport and Portland, ME: Rebecca Goodale and Carrie Scanga, 2025. Accordion. 8" x 5," closed. [16] pp., illus. Limited edition, numbered 5 of 9 variants. Signed by Goodale and Scanga at the colophon. An innovative structure, this accordion book made up of intaglio prints with hand-coloring in silver ink is sewn into the illustrated wrappers in two places. Variants numbered 1-5 comprise the deluxe edition in full cloth, lidded box with striking print recessed into the lid. Copies 6-9 are without box—inquire for pricing. Intaglio-printed prospectus with hand-coloring is laid in. A beautiful and moody collaboration between Goodale and Scanga; their fourth. This book is a product of their individual memories of and reflections upon the solar eclipse in April 2024, Goodale watching from the beach in Maine and Scanga from the woods. These sixteen interlocking pages expand from a paper cover bringing the reader into a surreal garden of dwindling light. Not attempting to be a strict representation of their experiences witnessing the totality, it is instead a wonderful blend of memory and fantasy relaying the remembered emotion. A striking scene in blues and shadows accented in silver ink applied by hand. While the edition was printed from the same plates, the hand-coloring and even the variation in color and saturation from copy to copy mean no two are exactly alike. The structure of the binding and the manner in which these leaves connect offer a more complicated experience than a typical accordion book, with some pages interlocking mid-leaf there is something always just out of view contributing to the mystery and wonder. $1500 PURCHASE / MORE INFO More items from Michael Pyron, Bookseller [Broadside] Courtney-Morgan Co. in "A Fair Rebel." Monday Evening, Sept 5, 1898 See Item [Mexico] [Catholic Church] Benedict XIII, Pope. [Broadside] Devotas Oraciones, que Rezaba.... See Item [Design Binding] [Starr-Baum, Katy] Grabhorn Press, First Part of Henry the Fourth See Item [Artist's Book] Goodale, Rebecca and Carrie Scanga. Penumbra See Item Angelo, Valenti. Of the Most Holy Miracle of Saint Francis in Taming the Fierce Wolf of Gubbio See Item [Artist's Book] Suzanne Moore. Rescuing Q: Quandaries and Queries See Item [Artist's Books] Don Glaister, Complete Instructions See Item

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STICKER GHOST < Back to Terminology List STICKER GHOST Defect A sticker has been left on a book for some time, and the glue, reacting chemically, has discolored the surface. Also, sticker residue. Previous Next

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Cosmographia - Peter Apian, 1575 (second Spanish edition) PRICE $ 7,500 PURCHASE / MORE INFO View Member Profile "To know the altitude of the Sun over the Horizon in whichever day and hour by the rays of the Sun "-- the function of the first volvelle instrument in this edition of Peter Apian's Cosmographia APIAN, Peter. La Cosmographia de Pedro Apiano , corregida y añadida por Gemma Frisio, Medico y Mathematico. La manera de descrivir y situar los Lugares, con el uso del Anillo Astronomico, del mismo Auctor Gemma Frisio. El sitio y descripcion de las Indias y Mundo Nuevo, sacada de la Historia de Francisco Lopez de Gomara, y de la cosmographia de Ieronymo Girava Tarragonez. En Anvers. Por Juan Bellero al Aguila de Oro. Con privilegio de su M. D.LXXV. [1575]. Second Spanish edition. (235 x 170) ff [2], 68, [14] . Contemporary or near contemporary limp vellum binding with manuscript title and date on spine. Some ca. 17th c. binding waste from La vita di Maria Vergine imperatrice by Lucrezia Marinelli. Early owner’s notation in front and back of binding. Two lead clasps and string fasteners original to binding. Embellished with XX woodcuts and 5 volvelles (4 with moveable parts) to verso of folios 8, 11, 53 and recto of 30 (lacks moveable part, but moveable part not present in digital comperables). String constitutes moveable part on fol. 9v. Historiated and inhabited initials throughout. Globe woodcut on title page. Signature: A-I⁴ L-Y⁴ Lacks double-paged map (K signature). As noted above, one volvelle is lacking moving parts. Cracking of vellum on spine. Browning on final several pages. Minor spotting throughout expected with age. Binding held loosely by end band sewing stations (acts more as a wrapper). Palau 13809; Sabin 1756; Alden 575/2; Peeters-Fontainas 62; Shirley 96; LeClerc Bibliotheca Americana 39; Van Ortroy 55. Notes: The important second Spanish edition of the Cosmographia by Petrus Apianus (1495-1552)— handbook to (armchair) explorers and textbook to Renaissance scholars. The German Peter Bienewitz, better known by his Latinized name Peterus Apianus, supplied the European audience, thirsty for knowledge about the New World and the methods of navigation propelling the Age of Exploration, with what they wanted. The work became so popular it was translated, originally, into three vernacular languages (Spanish, French, and Dutch) and later into a total of 14 languages with 45 editions produced. Why was the work so popular? A powerful combination of details about the New World and the ability to put the tools of exploration into the hands of the reader. Originally published in 1524 (and in the scientific language of Latin), Apianus’ first masterwork, “Cosmographicus Liber,” provided readers with an understanding of cosmography (that which concerns the heavens) and geography (that which concerns the earth). The work provides theoretical explanations of longitude, latitude, the Zodiac, the movement of planets and stars, and time. It also provides the means to practically solve these problems by way of calculations and use of the moving paper instruments based on Ptolemaic principals— the famous volvelles, also called Apian Wheels. While Ptolemy’s works had been used since the Medieval period by way of Arabic translation and preservation of the text during a time when Greek literacy was uncommon in the West (see here for an example of 13th century Ptolemy text), Peter Apian’s wheels made the theoretical practical. This copy is the second edition (1575) of only two Spanish editions. The first edition (1574) lacks the excerpts from Francisco Lopez de Gomara and Jeronimo Girava, as well as the description of Iceland. The editor, Gemma Frisius, was Apian’s student and he built upon geographical techniques, proposingg topographical triangulation, a new method of locating and mapping places which was only replaced in the 1980s by Global Positioning Systems (GPS). The work begins with a defence of translating it into Spanish which to some, the preface notes, will seem useless and a vain curiosity; they will pretend that the science is diminished by pouring it into a vulgar language and making it public to all. Part One, which includes three volvelles, explains theoretical aspects of measurement, astronomy, and cosmography, as well as giving the reader the technical instruments to solve these problems. Part Two shifts to geography, describing Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. Here, the reader is told that America “tomo nombre de Americo Vespucio inventor della, y casi se podia llamar isla, por que la mar la rodea casi por todas partes” [took its name from Americo Vespucci, the one who found it, and it could almost be called an island because the sea surrounds it almost on all sides]. Additional details from the works of Doctor Francisco Lopez de Gomara and Señor Ieronymo Girava Tarragonez situate and describe “Las Indias o Mundo nuevo”, including the Yucatan, Florida, Peru, and Cuba. Famous expeditions, such as that of Christopher Columbus in 1492, Ferdinand Magellan, Ponce de Leon, and Hernando Cortes are described in varying detail. The marks of provenance on this book speak to its circulation within Europe. The booklife begins in Antwerp in 1575. Examination of the moving parts of the volvelles reveals they are reenforced with printer’s waste— the ca. 1550s Dutch translation of Praxis rerum criminalium ( De practijke of gebruyk zoo van civile als criminele zaken) by Joos de Damhouder (1507-1581). This work found particular importance in the contemporary witch trials. One of the sections which appears on the back of the volvelle on 8v states that “crimes, then, are to be punished so that the punishment of one may be the fear of many.” A chilling statement of civil law. The book’s life takes it to two more language spheres. Although there is very little marginal annotation, what is present is in Spanish, noting “los tropicos cancros y capricorno”, coupled with the notes on the terminal fly leaf with the legible “Los Hombres Notales”, followed by six lines of 16th century script, and the curious inscription of “Almoradux,” the transliterated arabic word for the spice marjoram. 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I COULD NEVER BE SO LUCKY AGAIN An Autobiography by General James H. Jimmy Doolittle PRICE $ 150 PURCHASE / MORE INFO View Member Profile Doolittle, Jimmy and Carroll V. Glines. I COULD NEVER BE SO LUCKY AGAIN An Autobiography by General James H. Jimmy Doolittle. New York: Bantam Books, 1991, 2nd impression. [Free Endpaper inscribed: "To Mike Hackwith" [black ink] Oshkosh 8/1/92 [blue ink] signed by six Tokyo Raiders: 1LT William "Bill" Bower, pilot #12 [black ink], CPT David M. "Davy Jones pilot #5, [blue ink]" Travis Hoover Crew #2 [black ink], SGT Joeseph "Joe" W. Manske, flight engineer & gunner crew #5 (black ink), Lt. Edgar E. "Mac" McElroy pilot crew #13 [black ink], Hank Potter Navigator crew #1 [black ink]. An autobiography by an American aviation pioneer. Lieutenant Colonel Doolittle led sixteen U.S. Army B-25 bomber crews from the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Hornet on an April 18, 1942 to attack Japan as retaliation for Pearl Harbor. He went on to become a Lieutenant General. 574 pages. Dimensions: 9.25" x 6.25 x 2" PURCHASE / MORE INFO More items from Captain's Book Shoppe LLC I COULD NEVER BE SO LUCKY AGAIN An Autobiography by General James H. Jimmy Doolittle See Item THE CRY OF VIETNAM [signed by artist in pencil] See Item Henry Ford's 1930 McGuffey's New Fifth Eclectic Reader (inscribed) See Item The Civil War Art of Mort Kunstler (Signed) See Item