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Gibbon Edward
THE LIFE OF EDWARD GIBBON ESQ. WITH SELECTIONS FROM HIS CORRESPONDENCE.
London: John Murray 1839. xvi451112pp. Large octavo. Original publisher's cloth stamped in blind and lettered in gilt. Frontis portrait after Reynolds. Cloth lightly rubbed and soiled with a few faint old splashmarks blank fore-margin of portrait has a light discoloration small nick in inner hinge else a very good copy. First edition of the text as edited by Milman enhanced by his privileged access to the original manuscripts. A decent association copy perhaps with the armorial bookplate of Theodore Roosevelt Jr. on the front pastedown. NCBEL II:1723. NORTON p.196-7. John Murray hardcover books
Referencia librero : WRCLIT52593
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Gibbon Edward
The Triumph of Christendom in the Roman Empire
Harper Torchbooks 1958. Very Good. Gibbon Edward. The Triumph of Christendom in the Roman Empire. NY: Harper Torchbooks 1958. 411pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with faded and rubbed wraps. Harper Torchbooks paperback books
Referencia librero : UGIBTRI00AF
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Gibbon Edward
The Works of Edward Gibbon Including The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
New York: Fred Defau & Company 1906. The Complete Works of Edward Gibbon one of numbered 73 sets this is number 7. Octavo 15 volumes bound in full dark blue levant morocco inlaid red tulips at the corners of boards and center of each spine raised bands gilt titles to the spine brown morocco doublures and watered silk flyleaves binding by MacDonald plates in three states: photogravure colored on India paper and printed on velin. In fine condition. An exceptional set most rare and desirable. "This masterpiece of historical penetration and literary style has remained one of the ageless historical works Gibbon brought a width of vision and a critical mastery of the available sources which have not been equalled to this day; and the result was clothed in inimitable prose" PMM 222. "For 22 years Gibbon was a prodigy of steady and arduous application. His investigations extended over almost the whole range of intellectual activity for nearly 1500 years. And so thorough were his methods that the laborious investigations of German scholarship the keen criticisms of theological zeal and the steady researches of two centuries have brought to light very few important errors in the results of his labors. But it is not merely the learning of his work learned as it is that gives it character as a history. It is also that ingenious skill by which the vast erudition the boundless range the infinite variety and the gorgeous magnificence of the details are all wrought together in a symmetrical whole. It is still entitled to be esteemed as the greatest historical work ever written" Adams Manual of Historical Literature 146-7. Fred Defau & Company hardcover books
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GIBBON Edward
Works of Edward Gibbon Sheffield Edition
A Beautiful Set Limited to 73 Copies GIBBON Edward. The Works of Edward Gibbon. New York: Fred DeFau & Company 1906-1907. The Sheffield Edition one of 73 numbered sets this being number 4. Fifteen octavo volumes 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches; 217 x 146 mm. Illustrated with the plates some of which are colored in three states. Comprising: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire The Autobiographies.Printed Verbatim from Hitherto Unpublished Mss. Miscellaneous Works and Private Letters. Beautifully bound by Macdonald in contemporary full dark blue levant morocco. Covers ruled in gilt with gilt red morocco floral onlay corner-pieces. Spines tooled and lettered in gilt with gilt red morocco floral onlays. Brown levant morocco doublures paneled in gilt. Cream watered silk liners. Top edge gilt others uncut. A superb set. GibbonÃs Decline and Fall brought to the subject a width of vision and a critical mastery of the available sources which have not been equaled to this day. "This masterpiece of historical penetration and literary style has remained one of the ageless historical works which like the writings of Macaulay and Mommsen maintain their hold upon the layman and continue to stimulate the scholar although they have been superseded in many if not most details by subsequent advance of research and changes in the climate of opinion. Whereas other eighteenth-century writers in this field such as Voltaire are still quoted with respect the Decline and Fall is the only historical narrative prior to Macaulay which continues to be reprinted and actually read" Printing and the Mind of Man. Although superseded in many respects by two centuries of continuous research this great work is still read both for pleasure and for profit and has achieved an eminence denied most historical compilations of its kind. HBS 68481. $7500 Fred DeFau & Company unknown books
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Gibbon Edward 1737 1794
Miscellaneous works of Edward Gibbon with memoirs of his life and writings composed by himself: illustrated from his letters with occasional notes and narrative by John Lord Sheffield. In two volumes.
London: Strahan Cadell Davies 1796. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto 4to. English literature; biography; first edition; 2 volumes; 27.8cm; modern 3/4 maroon leather binding by Corey; volume 1 frontispiece silhouette portrait of author English historian; volume 1 errata leaf facing page 1; volume 2 errata leaf after index; supplementary volume 3 published in 1815 not present; owner marks. Strahan, Cadell, Davies Hardcover books
Referencia librero : 7588baZ4
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Gibbon Edward subject; Craddock Patricia B. author
Edward Gibbon Luminous Historian: 1772-1794
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press 1989. Hardcover. Octavo; VG/VG; red and tan spine tan and black lettering; dust jacket has general shelfwear general edgewear rubbing on fore corners and spine edges interior age toned; boards strong slightly bowed rubbing and bumping on fore corners and spine edges stamp pencil and marker on front end paper penciling on rear pastedown; text block slightly age toned light soiling on exterior head edge rubbing on exterior tail fore corner; xv 432pp. 1297891. Rockville Non-Retail Listings. The Johns Hopkins University Press hardcover books
Referencia librero : 1297891 ISBN : 0801837200 9780801837203
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Gibbon Edward subject; Craddock Patricia B. author
Young Edward Gibbon: Gentleman of Letters
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press 1982. Hardcover. Octavo; VG; hardcover; bound in brown cloth gilt lettering; boards strong minor edgewear rubbing and bumping on fore corners and spine edges stamp and pen and penciling on front end paper penciling on rear pastedown; text block slightly age toned soiling on exterior head edge; xvi 380pp. 1297841. Rockville Non-Retail Listings. The Johns Hopkins University Press hardcover books
Referencia librero : 1297841 ISBN : 0801827140 9780801827143
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GIBBON Edward.
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire three volumes.
NY:: Modern Library. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1977. Hardcover. B000KU3KOS . Complete in three volumes. No indication of printing. Each volume is near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Dust jacket design by R. D. Scudellari. . Modern Library, hardcover books
Referencia librero : 23063
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Gibbon Edward.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Eight Volumes.
Folio Society 1999. 10th Printing. Fine in fine slipcases. Folio Society, 1999. 10th Printing. unknown books
Referencia librero : Embry 197102
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GIBBON EDWARD. MILMAN Rev. H. H. editor
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire with Notes by the Rev. H. H. Milman. 4 volumes complete
NY: Harper and Brothers 1844. 1s US Edition Thus. Hardcover. Good. First or early US edition with notes by English historian and ecclesiastic Rev Henry Hart Milman 1791 - 1868 4 volume set complete maps as called for in vols 1 2 and 3 all in original folds. Bound in original or old full calf crusty and flaking front covers loosened but holding in vols 3 and 4. Sporadic foxing throughout all volumes. A good reference set. Harper and Brothers hardcover books
Referencia librero : 011998
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GIBBON EDWARD. Piranesi. Bury J. B. text edited
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire . Illustrtaed from the Ecthings of Gian Battista Piranesi
NY: Limited Editions Club 1946. 1s US Edition Thus. Hardcover. Good. 7 volumes complete simply yet elegantly bound in half black leather over black cloth gilt ruled spines. 1500 copies this #847. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
Referencia librero : 012282
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Gibbon Edward: Keynes Geoffrey compiler
THE LIBRARY OF EDWARD GIBBON A CATALOGUE OF HIS BOOKS
London: Jonathan Cape 1940. 288pp. Large octavo. Gilt polished black buckram untrimmed. Portrait. Plates. Slight tanning to edges and endsheets but a near fine copy in good somewhat darkened and soiled dust jacket. First edition the uncommon first issue. Keynes notes in his autobiography that the first printing sold poorly due to the war and a significant portion of the edition was destroyed in the blitz. Rupert Hard-Davis wrote in THE BOOK COLLECTOR that "Gibbon's Library was duly brought out in one of the worst months in publishing history - April 1940. It achieved the splendid record of selling fewer copies than any other book ever published by Cape - under a hundred I remember - and since most of the unsold stock was soon destroyed by enemy action the book must be the rarest in all Geoffrey's extensive oeuvre." In 1950 the Bibliographical Society bound up some sets of rescued sheets with a missing signature reprinted constituting the second issue. Jonathan Cape hardcover books
Referencia librero : WRCLIT79066
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Gibbon Edward; Low DM
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire A One-Volume Abridgment
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1960. Book Club BCE/BOMC. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. Book club edition. Very good hardcover in fair jacket. Jacket rubbed and creased with some tears and loss from corners. 1960 Hard Cover. 924 pp. Map illustrated endpapers. The classic abridgment by D.M. Low. "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was written by English historian Edward Gibbon and published in six volumes. Volume I was published in 1776 and went through six printings. Volumes II and III were published in 1781; volumes IV V VI in 1788 Harcourt, Brace and Company hardcover books
Referencia librero : 2311036
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Gibbon Edward; Radice Betty Edited with an Introduction
THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE 8 VOLUME SET
London: Folio Society 2000. Special Folio Society Edition Eleventh Printing. Octavo; VG/VG Slipcase No Jackets; White red and blue spines with gilt lettering; 8 Volumes housed in 2 red slipcases; Boards and covers are straight and with light rubbing to some covers and spines; Bindings are strong; Text blocks are pristine; 8 Volumes. Shelved in Folio Society. 1212153. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Folio Society unknown books
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Gibbon Edward; Trevor Roper editor Hugh R.
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and Other Selections from the Writings of Edward Gibbon
Washington Square Press 1963. Very Good. Gibbon Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and Other Selections from the Writings of Edward Gibbon. Trevor-Roper editor Hugh R. NY: Washington Square Press 1963. 456pp. Indexed. Mass Market. Book condition: Very good with lightly bumped and rubbed edges and previous owner's name on first page. Washington Square Press paperback books
Referencia librero : UGIBDEC00AGG
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Gibbon Edward; Trevor Roper editor and abridgment Hugh R.
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and Other Selections from the Writings of Edward Gibbon
Washington Square Press 1963. Very Good. Gibbon Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and Other Selections from the Writings of Edward Gibbon. Trevor-Roper editor and abridgment Hugh R. NY: Washington Square Press 1963. 456pp. Indexed. Mass Market. Book condition: Very good with lightly rubbed and bumped edges and previous owner's name on first page. Washington Square Press paperback books
Referencia librero : UGIBDEC01AGG
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GIBBON I. G.
Medical Benefit. A Study of the Experience of Germany and Denmark.
New York:: E. P. Dutton 1913. 1913. 8vo. xv 296 pp. Tables index. Full gilt stamped red cloth; minor shelf-wear front inner hinge starting. Early ownership signature of Charles Russell Bardeen. Very good. First edition. Bardeen was the first Dean of the Wisconsin Medical School. E. P. Dutton, 1913. hardcover books
Referencia librero : M9012
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Gibbon J. Murray
Canadian Folk Songs old and new
London and Toronto: J. M. Dent & Sons 1929. Harmonizations by Geoffrey O'Hara and Oscar O'Brien. xxii 105p. music original cloth. Reprint of the 1927 first edition. J. M. Dent & Sons unknown books
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Gibbon John
ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT BY GENERAL JOHN GIBBON ENTITLED "CUSTER AND HIS ORDERS" BEING AN ACCOUNT OF DELIBERATIONS AND PLANNING LEADING UP TO THE BATTLE OF THE LITTLE BIG HORN AND GIBBON'S REFLECTIONS ON CUSTER'S FAILURE TO FOLLOW HIS ORDERS
N.p. 1890. 19pp. plus an additional nine lines of manuscript note on two other slips of paper. Main text written on 9 3/4 x 7 1/2-inch sheets. Approximately 2500 total words. Several sheets with penciled cross-outs but very easily readable overall. Minor edge wear. Near fine. In a half green morocco and white cloth folding case spine gilt leather labels. An exceedingly interesting and important firsthand account of the planning leading up to the massacre at the Little Big Horn in June 1876 written by Gen. John Gibbon who was involved in the planning and operations and was one of Custer's superior officers. Gibbon and his troops were among the first to arrive at the scene of the battle and helped to bury Custer's dead and evacuate the survivors. <br> <br> A major question surrounding the Custer tragedy was whether or not Custer exceeded or ignored his orders in attacking the Sioux before the arrival of Gibbon and his reinforcements. This manuscript recounts the deliberations conducted by Gen. Alfred Terry and his officers including Custer and Gibbon and gives a great deal of information on the decision-making process the plans at which they arrived and the orders under which Custer was to operate. Gibbon wrote about his experiences in the Sioux Campaign in an 1877 article called "Last Summer's Expedition Against the Sioux and Its Great Catastrophe" which also appeared as a chapter in his posthumously published memoir ADVENTURES ON THE WESTERN FRONTIER. The information in the present manuscript is not included in either of those works however and to our knowledge the present manuscript is completely unpublished. <br> <br> Gibbon begins by explaining that on June 21 1876 he and his 7th Infantry troops were camped on the north bank of the Yellowstone River with Custer and his 7th Cavalry camped on the south bank. He relates that the two separate columns had already conferred three times and were about to meet for a fourth conference all under the supervision of commanding Gen. Alfred Terry. Gibbon writes that at the first conference with Terry he offered Terry the services of his trusted scout Mitch Bouyer who eventually died with Custer's men: "I little thought that I was sending poor faithful Mitch to his death." Gibbon also briefly discusses his second conference with Terry before describing a third conference which took place in Gibbon's tent. At that meeting Terry chastised Major Marcus Reno for "following the Indian trail up the Rosebud instead of at once returning & reporting what he had discovered; thus not only losing precious time but running the risk of being discovered by the Indians." <br> <br> Gibbon continues: <br> <br> "Shortly afterwards Custer's command made its appearance on the southern bank & I accompanied Genl. Terry on the ship Far West across the River & Custer found us on board.We sat down at a table & with a map before us discussed the situation. My Crow scouts had reported seeing smoke in the valley of the Little Big Horn and hence it was inferred there must be a camp of Indians somewhere along that stream. The question discussed was how to approach them & strike them to the best advantage.I think Genl. Terry had already made up his mind when the discussion took place to send Custer with a command to follow up the trail discovered by Reno.In the course of the discussion I proposed the question what would the Indians probably do when they were disturbed." <br> <br> Gibbon goes on to discuss the various questions that were posed and impressions that were given at the meeting. Among these was the presumption that the Sioux would attempt to "escape" rather than stand and fight. Gibbon notes that they were ignorant of the "desperate fight" that Crook had waged at the headwaters of the Rosebud just a few days earlier. <br> <br> Very importantly Gibbon writes: <br> <br> "I suggested it would be advisable for Custer to keep on up the Rosebud; instead of following the trail over into the Little Big Horn valley & after crossing over nearer to the mountains approach the supposed Indian camp from the south. This would not only interpose his force between the Indians & their refuge the Big Horn Mountains but would give my command the requisite time to get up as I had the longest distance to pass over. This was agreed to apparently on the part of all.Custer was directed to examine the head of that valley and endeavor to send a messenger down it to communicate to Genl. Terry news of his progress & any information of importance he may have gained. This was regarded as a matter of some considerable moment as it would bring us news of the other columns & might possibly cause a modification of our movement." <br> <br> Gibbon concludes by discussing Custer's failure to follow his orders and why he may have done so: <br> <br> "It is now a matter of history that Genl. Terry received no message from Custer.nor received any message from him of any kind nor ever saw him again. It is also well known that Custer did not follow the line of march marked out for him at the conference. It is difficult to account for Custer's failure to endeavor to communicate with Genl. Terry as desired.except upon the supposition that when in the vicinity of the head of that valley on the day he struck the Indians camp his mind may have been so engrossed by his preparations for the conflict before him as to cause him to overlook it for the time.His reasons for not conforming to the 'desires' of his Dept. Comdr. as expressed in the letter of instructions can never now be known.This is a case which forms no exception to the general rule which prevails in all well disciplined military bodies that the wishes of the commander are always when possible to be construed as orders." <br> <br> John Gibbon 1827-96 was born in the Holmesburg neighborhood of Philadelphia and attended West Point graduating in 1847. During the Mexican-American War he was stationed in Florida helping to keep the peace between American settlers and Seminole Indians and assisting the evacuation of Seminoles to Oklahoma Territory. This experience kindled in him a sympathy for American Indians that would last the rest of his life. Gibbon taught artillery at West Point and produced an influential treatise on the subject. Despite family ties to the Confederacy he fought for the Union during the Civil War and was involved in many important battles including Antietam. At Gettysburg he led forces against Pickett's Charge and was wounded on Cemetery Hill. Later Gibbon helped block the Confederate escape route at the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse and he was one of the three commissioners who received the Confederate surrender at Appomattox. After the Civil War he commanded an infantry unit in Montana Territory and took part in the 1876 campaign against the Sioux. Gibbon's men were among the first to arrive at the scene of the battle of the Little Big Horn and helped to bury Custer's dead and evacuate the survivors. The following year he led a bloody attack on the Nez Perce led by Chief Joseph at the Battle of the Big Hole. Afterward Gibbon and Chief Joseph would become friends. In 1885 Gibbon now a brigadier general took command of the Department of Columbia and placed Seattle under martial law during the anti-Chinese riots of 1886. Aside from his ARTILLERISTS MANUAL of 1859 Gibbon wrote two other books PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF THE CIVIL WAR and ADVENTURES ON THE WESTERN FRONTIER both published posthumously. <br> <br> An exciting informative and unpublished firsthand account of the planning that preceded the massacre of Custer and his men at the Little Big Horn by one who was intimately involved in the process. hardcover books
Referencia librero : WRCAM56663
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Gibbon John Major General
Adventures on the Western Frontier.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1994. 1st . Hardcover. fine/fine. Edited by Alan and Maureen Gaff. <br/><br/> Indiana University Press hardcover books
Referencia librero : 9022167 ISBN : 025332579x 9780253325792
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GIBBON John 1827 1896
Handwritten Envelope
Fort Ellis Montana 1876. unbound. 3.25 x 5.25 inches September 6 no year but almost certainly sent at the height of the Indian Wars circa 1876 postmarked in Fort Ellis Montana and affixed with two Scott # 136 3c Washington stamps. Addressed in Gibbon's hand to "Dr. John W. Draper University of New York New York." Draper 1811 - 1882 was an American scientist chemist historian and pioneer photographer who is credited with taking the first image of a female's face in 1839. He is also the founder of NYU Medical School. Draper has docketed the envelope "Genl. Gibbon" -- a wonderful association piece considering the fact that Draper is rare in any form. Chipping along the borders; very good- condition.<br/><br/> Union General and Indian fighter who was in Montana Fort Ellis during General Custer's expedition against the Sioux Indians in 1876.<br/><br/> unknown books
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GIBBON John Murray
MAGIC OF MELODY
NY: Frederick A. Stokes 1933. First Edition. Greenwood C. R. 8vo pp. xv 128. Discography index. Illustrations by C. R. Greenwood. Spine and corners little scuffed o/w a VG tight copy. About setting words to classical melodies. Musical examples given. Frederick A. Stokes unknown books
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Gibbon John Murray
MAGIC OF MELODY
Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. NY Stokes 1933 . 128 pages. Fine copy in dust jacket. . Other hardcover books
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Gibbon John Murray
NEW WORLD BALLADS
Toronto: The Ryerson Press. Very Good. 1939. Hardcover. Inscribed by the Author; red cloth boards with gilt stamping are toned spine is sunned otherwise contents are clean and very good with illustrations. . The Ryerson Press hardcover books
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Gibbon John Murray
STEEL OF EMIRE
Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. The Romantic History of the Canadian Pacific the Northwest Passage of Today. 1st ed Indianapolis 1935 . 423 pages good condition in worn dust jacket. Inscribed. . Other hardcover books
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Gibbon Kate Fitz & Andrew Hale
Ikat. Silks of Central Asia. The Guido Goldman Collection
London: Laurence King Publishing in association with Alan Marcuson 1997. First edition large 4to pp. 368; numerous color illustrations throughout many full-page; fine copy in the dust jacket and publisher's slipcase. <br/><br/> Laurence King Publishing in association with Alan Marcuson unknown books
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Gibbon Kate Fitz; Andrew Hale
Ikat: Silks of Central Asia
London: Laurence King Publishing 1997. Hardcover. 15.25" x 12.5". 368pp. Profusely illustrated in color and B&W. Black cloth boards in illustrated DJ in navy and illustrated two part slipcase. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. As New. ISBN 9781856691017 . LikeNew. Hardcover . Laurence King Publishing 1997 hardcover books
Referencia librero : 36876 ISBN : 1856691012 9781856691017
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GIBBON Lardner
Gibbon's Report
U.S. Government 1854. hardcover. very good. Case Map. Color lithograph in original brown buckram case. Image measures 9.25" x 5.75".<br/><br/> Case map of two maps pertaining to the Amazon River and it's surrounding area with notes on gold and copper mining. Embossed cloth cover with gilt title. Some wear to spine but both maps are attached. First map is "Map of the Andes" a minimalist chart of altitudes measured by varying boiling points. Measures 17" x 19.75". Second map is "Map Drawn by Lieut. Lardner Gibbon to Accompany His Report" a beautiful map of South America including Bolivia parts of Brazil Argentina and Peru. Includes a side inset of the Rio Mamore in Northern Bolivia to Rio Madeira to Rio Amazon. Measures 18.5" x 28".<br/><br/> U.S. Government unknown books
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Gibbon Lardner
Map Drawn by Lieut. Lardner Gibbon U.S. Navy To Accompany His Report 1854 and Map of the Andes.
Washington D.C: A. Hoen 1853. Book. Good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. 23.3cm blind stamped brown cloth folder spine is tape repaired; no text; First map measures 16 3/4" x 20" topographical map of Andes 7 1/2" tear at fold small tear at other fold; Second map measures 18 1/2" x 28 1/2" folded map including south Peru Bolivia part of Argentina roughly folded 2 small tears at folds; also printed beside larger map 18 1/2" x 4 1/2" Brazil map showing rivers Madeira Mamone 4 1/2" tear at fold; ex libris. Exploration South America Cartography Maps. A. Hoen Hardcover books
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Gibbon Lewis Grassic James Leslie Mitchell
A Scots Quair Trilogy. Including: Sunset Song Cloud Howe and Grey Granite.
London: Jarrolds Publishers 1932-1934. First editions of each volume of Gibbon's classic trilogy describing the life of Chris Guthrie a woman from the north-east of Scotland during the early 20th century each volume inscribed by him to George Malcolm Thomson. Octavo original cloth 3 volumes. Sunset Song is inscribed on the title page "For G. Malcolm Thomson L. Grassic Gibbon." Cloud Howe is the dedication copy inscribed on the title page "For the 'dedicatee' with kind regards. L. Grassic Gibbon." Grey Granite is inscribed on the title page "For George Malcolm Thomson with good wishes L. Grassic Gibbon." Each are in very good condition. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed. A Scots Quair is revolutionary - innovative in its form deft and humorous in its use of language courageous in its characterization and politics. Central to the trilogy is Chris Guthrie one of the most remarkable female characters in modern literature. In Sunset Song Gibbon's finest achievement the reader follows Chris through her girlhood in a tight-knit Scottish farming community: the seasons the weddings the funerals the grind of work the gossip. As the Great War takes its toll machines replace the old way of life. Cloud Howe and Grey Granite take Chris from her rural homeland to life in an industrial Scotland and the desperate years of the Depression. Gibbon attracted attention from his earliest attempts at fiction notably from H. G. Wells but it was his trilogy entitled A Scots Quair and in particular its first book Sunset Song with which he made his mark. A Scots Quair with its combination of stream-of-consciousness lyrical use of dialect and social realism is considered to be among the defining works of the 20th century Scottish Renaissance. All three parts of the trilogy have been turned into serials by BBC Scotland written by Bill Craig with Vivien Heilbron as Chris. Additionally Sunset Song has been adapted into a film released in 2015. Jarrolds Publishers hardcover books
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Gibbon Major General John.
Adventures on the Western Frontier.
Indiana U. Press 1994. First edition first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Indiana U. Press, 1994. First edition, first printing. unknown books
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Gibbon Mark
The Red Shoes Ballet: A Critical Study
Saturn Press 1948. Very Good. Gibbon Mark. The Red Shoes Ballet: A Critical Study. London: Saturn Press 1948. Second edition. 95pp. Illustrated. 4to. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good with remains of an old sticker on front free endsheet. Saturn Press hardcover books
Referencia librero : UGIBRED00MEL
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GIBBON Maureen
Swimming Sweet Arrow
Boston: Little Brown. 2000. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Very Good in wrappers. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Little, Brown paperback books
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Gibbon Maureen
SWIMMING SWEET ARROW. A Novel
Boston: Little Brown 2000. 1st edition. Purple cloth spine with green paper-wrapped boards. Dust jacket. NF remainer mark on bottom edge/F. 205 pp. 8vo. <br/><br/> Little Brown hardcover books
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GIBBON Monk
Austria
hardcover. illus. Frontis. in color. 8vo cloth; writing on front cover. London: Batsford 1953.<br/><br/> unknown books
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GIBBON Monk
The Branch of Hawthorn Tree
London: Greyhound Press 1927. hardcover. very good. 49 hand-colored illustrations by Picart Le Doux. 83pp. 8vo original decorative boards. London: The Grayhound Press 1927. Very good.<br/><br/> One of 460 copies on Arches paper printed in France.<br/><br/> Greyhound Press unknown books
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Gibbon Monk
THE BRANCH OF HAWTHORN TREE.COLOUR DESIGNS BY PICART LE DOUX
London: The Grayhound Press 1927. Printed wrappers. Quarto. Covers a bit grubby three-inch split along the spine with a half-inch loss of paper from the bottom edge short tear to lower cover near head of spine but internally very nice with the prospectus laid in. First edition of the Irish poet's third book one of 460 numbered copies printed in France on Arches. The Le Doux illustrations are accompanied by a disclaimer emphasizing their tenuous relation with the text. The Grayhound Press unknown books
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Gibbon Monk
The Masterpiece and the Man; Yeats as I Knew Him
London: Rupert Hart-Davis 1959. 226p. b/w illus. original blue cloth slightly frayed at head of spine ex libris. Rupert Hart-Davis unknown books
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Gibbon Monk
THE TREMULOUS STRING
Fair Oak Hampshire: At the Sign of the Grayhound 1926. Polished khaki buckram. Title printed in red and black. Some foxing to cloth but a very good copy in slightly sunned dust jacket with internally mended edge tear. First edition of the poet's first book. One of two hundred and fifty numbered copies printed by hand by A.W. Mathews. At the Sign of the Grayhound hardcover books
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Gibbon Monk
THE TREMULOUS STRING
Fair Oak Hampshire: At the Sign of the Grayhound 1926. Polished khaki buckram. Title printed in red and black. First edition. One of two hundred and fifty numbered copies printed by hand by A.W. Mathews. Boards irregularly darkened some offset on endsheets tiny nick in top-edge of three leaves but a good sound copy. At the Sign of the Grayhound hardcover books
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Gibbon Monk with Picart Le Doux
The Branch of Hawthorn Tree
London: The Grayhound Press 1927. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Tall bound wrappers. One of 460 hand-numbered copies printed on thick arches paper. A very good example. Poems by Gibbon with both color and black and white designs by Picart Le Doux. Remains of the publisher's printed belly band laid in. The Grayhound Press paperback books
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Gibbon Perceval
VROUW GROBELAAR AND HER LEADING CASES .
New York: McClure 1906. Octavo pp. 1-8 1-2 3-293 294-296: blank note: last leaf is a blank original decorated green cloth. front panel stamped in white and blind spine panel stamped in white bottom edge untrimmed. First U.S. edition. Stories told by an old Boer woman to her household especially her granddaughter Katje grim tales about life and death on the frontier. "The Vrouw Grobelaar believed most entirely in Kafir magic in witchcraft and second sight in ghosts and infernal possession in destiny and in a very personal arch-fiend who presided over a material hell when not abroad in the world on the war-path." Of the seventeen stories here at least six are supernatural: "The Dream Face" "The Avenger of Blood" "The King of the Baboons" "The Peruvian" "Tagalash" "The Sacrifice." Hubin 1994 p. 323. Day The Supplemental Checklist of Fantastic Literature p. 34. Not in Bleiler 1948; 1978 or Reginald 1979; 1992. Cloth rubbed at edges some staining along rear fore-edge inner hinges mended offsetting on pages 84-85 probably from an old laid-in newspaper clipping still a good solid copy. #117051 McClure unknown books
Referencia librero : 117051
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GIBBON Peter H.
A CALL TO HEROISM
2002. GIBBON Peter H. A CALL TO HEROISM. Foreword by Peter J. Gomes. NY: Atlantic Monthly Press 2002. 8vo. boards in dust jacket; 277 pages. First edition first printing. Signed presentation by Gibbon on title page. Near fine few minor bumps covers in fine d/j. $15.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
Referencia librero : 3992
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Gibbon Samuel Young
SYG
Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. Bradenton Florida: Tradition Ink September 1986 First Printing. oversize paperback 207 pages inscribed by the author on the front cover of the book; Very Good. . Other hardcover books
Referencia librero : 40925
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GIBBON ( Edouard )
MÉMOIRES DE GIBBON. Suivis de quelques ouvrages posthumes et de quelques lettres du même auteur. Recueillis et publiés par Lord Sheffield, traduits de l'anglais. Tomes 1-2
Paris Chez le Directeur de la Décade philosophique, An Ve de la République 1796 in 8 (20x13) 2 volumes reliures pleine basane fauve mouchetée de l'époque, dos lisses ornés, pièces de titre de maroquin rouge, pièces de tomaison de maroquin vert, faux-titre, portrait frontispice gravé: Gibbon en pied, Triturant sa prise de Tabac, titre, XXXVI et 352 pages; faux-titre, titre, IV et 452 pages [1]. Bel ex-libris gravé héraldique, portant la devise: A moy, nec unquam te contamina, Lamais. Première édition française. Bel exemplaire ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request )
Referencia librero : 22027
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Gibbon (Alan)
Bronzes de Fontainebleau
Frédéric Birr 1985 In-4 broché 27,5 cm. 94 pages. Bon état d’occasion.
Referencia librero : 10199
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GIBBON (Alan)
Céramiques de Bernard Palissy
Nombreuses illustrations en couleurs et en noir et blanc in et hors-texte
Referencia librero : 5707
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GIBBON (E.)
PRÉCIS DE L’HISTOIRE DU DROIT ROMAIN, formant le 44e chapitre de l’ouvrage de cet auteur intitulé “Histoire de la décadence et de la chute de l’Empire romain”, traduction adoptée par M.Guizot. Revue, rectifié et augmenté de notes (…) par L. A. Warnkœnig
, Liège, P.J. Collardin 1821, in-8, broch. d’attente, (couv. et tranches rognés sur environ 10 cm, qq. soulignures et annotations au crayon), XXVI-162p.
Referencia librero : 12330
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GIBBON (Edward)
DECLÃNIO E QUEDA DO IMPÉRIO ROMANO. 2 VOLS.
<p>Edição organizada por D. M. Low. Tradução de Maria Emília Ferros Moura. Revisão técnica de G. Cascais Franco. Volume 1. Volume 2. História da História. Difusão Cultural. Lisboa. 1994 1995.</p>_x000d_<p>2 volumes de 23x15 cm. Com 452; 509 ii págs. Brochado. Ilustrado com mapa do Império Romano no Tempo dos Antoninos no segundo volume. Exemplar com sublinhados e notas marginais a lápis.</p> I-77-G-17 unknown
Referencia librero : 2106MA167
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GIBBON (Edward)
Histoire de la décadence et de la chûte de l'Empire romain ;. traduite de l'Anglois, par M. Leclerc de Septchênes
A Paris, Maradan, 1795 18 vol. in-8, basane fauve, dos lisse orné, tranches citron (reliure de l'époque). Épid. parfois fortes sur certains plats.
Referencia librero : 221941
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