761. Martin, Benjamin.

Lingua Britannica Reformata: Or, A New Universal English Dictionary, under the following Titles, VIZ. I. Universal / II. Etymological / III. Orthographical / IV. Orthoepical / V. Diacritical / VI. Philological / VII. Mathematical / VIII. Philosophical.

The Second Edition, greatly improved and augmented. London / Bath / Salisbury, Printed for C.Hitch and L. Hawes, J.Hodges et. al. / W. Frederick / B. Collins, 1754. Octavo. Titlepage, XIII pages preface plus 724 unnumbered pages and 4 plates with mathematical and astronomical figures to the rear (collation complete). Hardcover / Professionally rebacked full leather by an english masterbinder. Gilt lettering on spine. Original endpapers preserved. Very good and firm condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name of 19th century preowner “Robert Osman’s book 1844” on endpaper. Text with only very occasional and minor staining. A wonderful example of this extremely scarce second edition of Martin’s english dictionary, published one year prior to Samuel Johnson’s dictionary.

762. Chadwick, Whitney.

Mirror Images – Women, surrealism, and self-representation. Essays for example include: Dawn Ades – Surrealism and the Representation of the Female Subject in Mexico and Postwar Paris / Helaine Posner – Negotiating Boundaries in the Art of Yayoi Kusama, Ana Mendieta and Francesca Woodman / Katy Kline – Claude Cahun and Cindy Sherman / Salomon Grimberg – The Self as an End / Dickran Tashjian – Marcel Duchamp and Transgender Coupling] Edited by Whitney Chadwick.

Cambridge, Mass, MIT Press, 1998. 28 cm. xiii, 193 pages with numerous illustrations (some in color). Original softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

763. Antheil, George.

Two Toccatas for the Piano.

New York, G.Schirmer, 1951. Folio. 8 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

764. Hazlitt, W.Carew.

Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine. [Mentioning also Thomas Muffet’s “Health’s Improvement” from 1655 and a longer chapter: “The Early Englishman and his Food”] Essays also include: “Royal Fests and Savage Pomp” / “Cookery Books” [including a small bibliography of 38 important cookery publications from before 1850: The Book of Carving by W. de Worde / The Treasury of Commodious Conceits and Hidden Secrets by John Partridge / The Good Housewife’s Jewel by Thomas Dawson / etc. etc. / Also included is a chapter on “Early Receipts” – Select Extracts from an early receipt-book: “To make Dutch-Beef / To make a Ragout of Pigs-Ears / Meat-Pies and Puddings / Sweet Puddings / Cakes (To make Shrewsbury Cakes) / To make Whetstone Cakes / Conserves, Dried and Candied Fruits, Marmalades etc. Another essay is: “Diet of the Yeoman and the Poor” / “Meats and Drinks” / “The Kitchen” – “Etiquette of the Table”.

London, Elliot Stock, 1886. Wide Octavo. 271 pages including an Index. Original Hardcover in protective collector’s Mylar. Large paper edition (fine india paper) with extra – wide space next to the text for notes. Deckled Edges. Binding slightly rubbed with a tiny defect to upper spine. Very fine and only minor foxing to some pages. [The Book-Lover’s Library. Edited by Henry B. Wheatley]

765. [Gray, Cleve / Motherwell, Robert] Smith, David.

David Smith – Exhibition Catalogue April 18 – May 13, 1950. [Cleve Gray’s personal copy]. [With a two page introduction / statement by Robert Mothwell].

New York, Willard Gallery, 1950. Small Octavo. 8 unnumbered pages. Original, illustrated softcover / stapled. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Copy of american abstract expressionist painter Cleve Gray, with his name in ballpen on cover. One part of Motherwell’s introductory – statement with a pencil mark at the side highlighting this section: “When I saw David places his work against the mountains and sky, the impulse was plain, an ieffable desire to see his humanness related to exterior reality, to nature at least if not man, for the marvel of the felt scale that exists between a true work and the immovable world, the relation that makes both human”.

766. Feigl, Herbert / [Nagel, Ernest]

Manuscript Letter Signed [MLS] from Herbert Feigl to Ernest Nagel in which he looks foward to Nagel’s “Carus Lectures” and he says he will be “proud & honored to present you at Columbus”. Feigl talks about his upcoming decision on his presidential address and shares with Nagel his momentary topic being “Troubles of Transcendence”. Feigl also speaks about [Karl] Popper coming to Indiana and that he will “invite Gruenbaum, Salomon and other to discuss probabil., induction and if possible also logic of quantum mechanics”. Feigl also mentions “Popper’s intensity is remarkable” and “Feyerabend is a brilliant genius” etc. / Feigl closes by mentioning his success giving a guest speaker’s address to the American Philosophical Association in Washington (August 1958): “I had an audience of more than 3500 people – ‘Aristotle never had it so good’ said one of my friends’”.

[Minnesota], 1962. A 4. 4 pages on 2. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed: “As ever, cordially yours, Herbert”.

767. Sellars, Wilfrid / [Goodman, Nelson / Chisholm, Roderick M.].

Mind, Meaning and Behaviour. [In: Philosophical Studies, Volume III, Number 6].

Minneapolis, Philosophical Studies, 1952. Octavo. 12 pages inside a pamphlet with two other smaller texts by Nelson Goodman and Roderick M. Chisholm. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

768. Gombrich, E. H.

Lessing – Lecture on a Mastermind.

London, Oxford University Press, 1957. Octavo. 23 pages. Original Softcover in Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed and inscribed by Gombrich on the titlepage: “To Professor Harry Levin with admiration and best regards – E.H.Gombrich”.

769. Blair, David.

Ascension Days.

First Edition. Washington D.C., Del Sol Press, 2007. 23cm x 15.4cm. 60 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed by the author.

770. [Cezanne].

Paul Cezanne – An Exhibition of Watercolours.

[London], The Arts Council of Britain, 1946. Octavo. 8 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.