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Sir Richard Steele Joseph Addison and others
The Guardian Two Volumes
Glasgow: Robert Foulis 1746. 6 334 8 index ; 4 346 10 index pp. Printed by Robert Foulis. SCARCE in this edition. Two volumes bound in contemporary full calf gilt lettering and decorations with red morocco labels to backs five raised bands the armorial bookplates of David Monypenny Lord Pitmilly 1769-1851 noted Scottish jurist with the family motto "Imperat Aequor". 175 numbers originally issued March 12 to October 1 1713 daily except Sunday. 82 numbers were by Steele 53 by Addison the rest by Berkeley and others.WorldCat. Second Edition published in Scotland the 1st published in 1743. Both volumes Very Good small chip to calf head of spine Vol. II light rubbing to boards light toning to end papers. . Second Scottish Edition . Full Calf. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Robert Foulis Hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 008005
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Creasy E. S. Edward Shepherd
The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World from Marathon to Waterloo
New York: Harper & Brothers 1851. SCARCE First American Edition no date title page but preface dated 1851 and xi 364 pp. WorldCat lists only 3 institutional holdings. Bound in contemporary half polished calf over marbled boards the back with red and green morocco labels lettered in gilt and intricate gilt tooled decorations marbled end pages and page edges. Very Good Plus light rubbing at edges faint toning at end pages only. A handsome copy of a SCARCE edition. The last battle described is Waterloo 1815. . First American Edition. Half Calf. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Harper & Brothers Hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 007987
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Americana New York City Theatre History
Henry Miller's Theatre Program Week Beginning Monday Evening February 17 1930 Gilbert Miller By Arrangement with Maurice Browne Presents Journey's End a Play in Three Acts By R.C. Sherriff Directed By James Whale
New York NY: The New York Magazine Program 1930. 24 pages; color cover & endpaper illustrations; black and white illustrated within. Approx. 5 1/4" x 7 3/4" size; stapled paper wraps some darkening wear to covers; closed edge-tear last page; contents clean and in very good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. The New York Magazine Program paperback books
Bookseller reference : 26300
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Americana Political History Art Portraiture Daniel Webster
Framed and Glazed Portrait of Daniel Webster
United States of America: Unknown Black and white portrait framed & glazed of Daniel Webster 1782 - 1852 American lawyer & statesman. ".Webster's remarkable political diplomatic and legal careers were aided by his intellectual brilliance and personal magnetism. He contributed significantly to the concept of American nationality to the idea of a perpetual Union to perspectives on economic growth to a modern legal system and to the rising importance of the United States in foreign relations." Maurice G. Baxter in the ANB Approx. 10" x 12 1/2" size overall; lightly penciled 'D.Webster' under the image. Some rubbing & edge-wear to the wooden frame; in very good condition. Art. Framed & Glazed. Very Good. Unknown paperback books
Bookseller reference : 26329
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Seeing Cincinnati by the Photograph Route
Cincinnati: Feicke-Desch Printing Co. Softcover. Very good. Undated ca. 1912. Oblong 8-1/4 x 5-1/2" brown paper wraps printed in black and copper gilt with a photo-gravure lozenge depicting the Covington suspension bridge tipped onto the upper wrap; 64 pp each illustrated with a photograph colored in blue imitating cyanotype in the negative.A bit of edgewear some foxing to first and last few pages. An uncommonly nice view book with images of colleges public schools museums parkscapes train stations department stores banks viaducts streetscapes the railroads the zoo the "new" ballpark on a terrific two-page spread Coney Island Eden Park Burnet Woods Park and more. And as befits the Queen City: bridges bridges bridges! Feicke-Desch Printing Co paperback books
Bookseller reference : 20300
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Sanborn John Bell
Congressional Grants of Land in Aid of Railways Bulletin of the University of Wisconsin No. 30
Madison WI: University of Wisconsin Press 1899. SCARCE. Very Good Plus small chips light soiling prior owner name in ink front cover pages of text are uncut and clean. PHD Thesis. 130 pp. . First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. University of Wisconsin Press Paperback books
Bookseller reference : 006466
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KHRUSHCHEV NIKITA S.
THE NEW LEADER: THE CRIMES OF THE STALIN ERA Special Report to the 20th Congress of The Communist Party of the Soviet Union
New York: The New Leader 1962. Very Good toning at edges of wrappers period bookstore tag inside front cover informed marginal pencil notations. "Annotated Especially for This Edition By Boris I. Nicolaevsky" . First Thus. Stapled Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The New Leader Paperback books
Bookseller reference : 006398
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Fung HK. H. K.
The Shop Signs of Peking
Peking: Chinese Painting Association of Peking 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 18 leaves 10 x 13.25 inches oblong in original string-tied brocade boards with mounted paper label. A few spots of loss to the brocade offsetting from silver paint to adjacent pages light soiling to title page all else very good. Printed in an edition of just 100 copies this volume contains 101 hand-colored illustrations with captions in English and Chinese translating the purely pictorial signs into written form. Historically Chinese shops used pictorial signs due to low literacy rates in the local population. Although certain aspects of the signs were fairly universal depicting the articles for sale as the author explains in the preface "the shop signs of different parts of China varied according to the customs of the people" especially when the items being sold were not easily represented by pictures. In these cases centuries-old local traditions prevailed. Fung writes: "The wine flag can be recognized from a great distance when one wants to satisfy his thirst he will not have to strain his optic nerves to get what he wants; they are as conspicuous as the barber poles in Western Countries.The only explanation that I can give for the existence of these pictorial signs is that in the former times the percentage of illiteracy among the people was very low. I am sure with the establishment of the new public school system that most of the Chinese people can read the written language of the country. Therefore it is plain to see that these signs will gradually disappear as they are no longer necessary. Eventually they will become nothing but relics of the ancient Chinese Customs. So it is very advisable for those who are interested in things Chinese to add a copy of this album to their collection in Orientalia.". Chinese Painting Association of Peking hardcover books
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Brown Claude
Manchild in the Promised Land
New York: Macmillan 1965. Stated 3rd Printing 1965. Near fine red topstain a bit discolored in a Very Good plus dust jacket creases at the edges. Jacket photographs by Leroy McLucas. A quite nice copy of this classic autobiography. . 3rd Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Macmillan Hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 006280
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Dismukes J. Philip
The Center: A History of the Development of Lafayette Louisiana
Lafayette LA: City of Lafayette Lousiana 1972. Softcover. Very Good. 8.5 x 11 inches 84 pp photographis illustrations; spiral binding. Light soiling and shelf wear to wrappers and edges; contents clean. A history of the city of Lafayette LA including sections on Attakapas Vermilionville Civil War Reconstruction Growth of Lafayette and then present-day Lafayette. City of Lafayette, Lousiana paperback books
Bookseller reference : 2411
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Blondel David
Genealogiae Francicae with Barrum Campano-Francicum
Amsterdam: Joannis Blaeu 1654. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Early mottled calf three volumes in one the last printed 1652. Modest wear and some surface marks and scars to calf very neatly rebacked some time ago a very attractive binding overall. Scattered mostly minor foxing mild age toning small dampstain in the gutter of title and first few pages generally quite clean internally with numerous genealogical tables many folding and two folding maps. i-lxxxi 13 Index 2 errata corrigenda i; x 2 errata 439 450 i.e. 440 cxxx 6 Index; viii 109 ii Relentlessly unsentimental about mythology and illegitimate historical material Blondel is most famous for discrediting the Sibylline Oracles the Pope Joan story and the origins of the fleurs de lis. This work meticulously refutes Jean-Jacques Chifflet's claims as to the supremacy of the genealogy of the Spanish kings over the French. Size: Quarto 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos. Category: History; Inventory No: 046147. <br/><br/> Joannis Blaeu hardcover books
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Scobell Henry
A Collection Of Acts And Ordinances Of General Use made in the Parliament Begun and held at Westminster the third day of November Anno 1640 and since unto the Adjournment of the Parliament begun and holden the 17th of September Anno 1656
London: Henry Hills and John Field 1658. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Full contemporary calf rebacked endpapers replaced wear and browning to early leaves old stamp of the Royal Society to title and endpaper modest browning throughout but generally very clean otherwise. Printed largely in black letter. 42 186 4 515 43p. Mispaginated: jumps from 160 to 163 but catchwords match and there is nothing missing. A collection of Cromwell era acts of parliament that picks up where Pulton's "A Collection of Sundry Statutes" left off. Size: Folio. Previous owner's book-plate inside front cover. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Law & Criminal Studies; History. Inventory No: 045382. <br/><br/> Henry Hills and John Field hardcover books
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Foletier F. de Vaux de
La Rochelle d'autrefois et d'a présent
Paris: Pijollet 1923. First Edition. Hardcover Quarter Leather. Very Good Condition. Quarter leather over marbled boards - an attractive binding. Scattered mostly minor foxing internally. Illustrated with phorogravures. Size: Quarto 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Travel & Places; History. Inventory No: 045105. <br/><br/> Pijollet hardcover books
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Guichardin Francois
Histoire des Guerres D'Italie
London: Paul & Isaac Vaillant 1738. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. 3 volumes in contemporary calf gilt. Hinges a bit rubbed wear at corners ding to one spot on the spine of volume 1 leather repair to one corner - an attractive set overall. Title pages in red and black scattered light foxing but an attractively printed and clean set. The history covers 1490-1534. xxxxii 620pp; xi 604pp; viii 476pp index. Size: Quarto 4to. 3-volume set complete. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 045053. <br/><br/> Paul & Isaac Vaillant hardcover books
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Americana Business History Rogers Peet
Circa 1920 Rogers Peet Cartoon Illustrated Folding 'Growing Boy' Advertising Gimmick
New York: Rogers Peet Co. 1920. Printed in blue and black artwork by W.B. Pell; stiff paper unfolds revealing a 'growing' boy with each opening - arms & legs getting longer: "Does Your Boy seem to grow like this Our boys' long trouser suits are designed for just such boys. Relive their awkwardness without making them into little old men. Rogers Peet & Company"; with the illustration changing subtly from panel to panel - in one of the first he has a pull-toy; then he holds lit match and firecrackers later a football then a tennis racket and ball; total unfolded size 6 1/4" x 19 1/2"; interesting and fun children's fashion and advertising history ephemera from the early part of the 20th century. First Edition. Not Bound. Very Good. Illus. by W.B. Pell. Rogers Peet Co. Paperback books
Bookseller reference : 22851
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Rhodes James M.
The Hitler Movement A Modern Millenarian Revolution
Stanford CA: Hoover Institution Press 1980. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. 253 pp with index bibliography and notes. Light dust soiling to top edge else a fine copy: clean tightly bound unmarked. Dust jacket has moderate edgewear and a few short tears. Analyzes the nature and causes of the Nazi movement from the standpoint of classical Greek and Christian political theory arguing that Nazi self-interpretations should be taken seriously as starting points from the analyses of National Socialism. Hoover Institution Press hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 13966
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Birdsey Grant Northrop
EDUCATION ABROAD AND OTHER PAPERS. First Edition; 1873
NY: A. S. Barnes 1873. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Northrop was a prominent educator and an early proponent of Arbor Day observances. This is an apparent review copy with A. S. Barnes bookplate to the front pastedown stating "Volume For Notice" Published by A. S. Barnes Co. Price ____ sent by Mail Post-paid". Very Good binding. A. S. Barnes unknown books
Bookseller reference : 249044
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Joseph Whitaker FSA. F. S.
AN ALMANACK FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1886
London: J. Whitaker 1885. Hard Cover. near Very Good binding. No markings evident in text; red leather spine and green paper-covered boards; light edgewear to extremities; mylar cut to protect boards; digital images can be made available upon request. near Very Good binding. J. Whitaker unknown books
Bookseller reference : 245477
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David Paton
EARLY EGYPTIAN RECORDS OF TRAVEL Volume II: Some Texts of The SVIIIth Dynasty Exclusive of The Annals of Thutmosis III
Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press 1916. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Red cloth binding with gilt lettering. Light silverfishing to front and rear boards. Top of spine lightly bumped. Light edgewear to extremities. no markings in text. Very Good binding. Princeton University Press unknown books
Bookseller reference : 241078
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Washburn Stanley
NOGI
London: Andrew Melrose 1913. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. No pencil or ink markings in text. Brown cloth spine on brown paper covered boards. Light stain to bottom back board. Corners lightly bumped. Very Good binding. Andrew Melrose unknown books
Bookseller reference : 218574
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Merritt John
The Making of the Awu
Oxford Univ Pr 1986. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. occassional pencil marginalia; DJ protected with Mylar Cover. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket. Oxford Univ Pr unknown books
Bookseller reference : 222589 ISBN : 0195546679 9780195546675
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Sitgreaves Lerenzo 1811 1888
Report of an Expedition Down the Zuni and Colorado Rivers
198 pages with 23 plates. Royal octavo 9 1/2" x 6" rebound in 3/4 leather with marbled boards and black label with gilt lettering to spine. 79 plates with one Buffalo Dance folding and some with a single tint in this first issue there are errors in the list of illustrations corrected in later issues viz. Landscapes etc. 23 plates numbered as 1-13 15-23 plus one unnumbered at end; Mammals 6 plates; Birds 5 plates numbered 1 3-6 plate 2 Struthus Canicops Woodhouse male is called for but not present and most likely not to be found in this issue; Reptiles 21 plates with 10a miss-numbered as 10 12 as 13 and 13 as 16; Fishes 3 plates; Plants 21 plates plate 21 Aploppus Nuttalii present but not called for. Includes <i>Reconnaissance of the Zuni Little Colorado and Colorado Rivers Made in 1851</i> map as called for but includes Lithographed map <i>Boundary of the Creek Country</i> 24" x 36" laid in not called for. Senate Executive Document 59 Howes: 528 First edition.<br /><br />Survey of the watershed of the Canadian River and Red Fork of the Arkansas River in Indian Territory extending from Fort Smith to the border with Texas. The lands of the Cherokee Creek Seminole and Choctaw Indians are located. The map locates numerous forts including Smith Coffee Gibson and Old Fort Holmes and their connecting wagon roads. Talasee is shown at the site of Tulsa. This map was issued with the "Northern and Western Boundary Line of the Creek Country" report by Sitgreaves and Lt. J.C. Woodruff. The surveys were made in 1848 and 1850 but the report in which the map was issued wasn't published until 1858.<br /><br />After the conquest of New Mexico and California it was apparent that transportation and communications needed to be improved between these new territories and the rest of the United States east of the Mississippi. Geographical knowledge of most of this area particularly northwestern New Mexico now northern Arizona was very limited and inaccurate. Some maps of the day showed a river system that might provide a possible navigable water corridor between New Mexico and the Gulf of California via the Zuni Little Colorado and Colorado Rivers. In September of 1851 Captain Lorenzo Sitgreaves along with a small crew of topographers naturalists artists and support personnel and an escort of 30 infantrymen left the Zuni Pueblo in western New Mexico by pack train with instructions to explore and map the Zuni and Colorado Rivers and evaluate their navigability in light of a possible impending war with the Mormons in Utah. They traveled southwest along the Zuni River to its mouth and then headed northwest along the Little Colorado intending to follow it to the Colorado. When they reached Grand Falls northwest of present-day Winslow Arizona their guide Antoine Leroux advised them that it was unwise to follow the river any further because it flowed in a deep canyon for the rest of its course and emptied into the great canyon of the Colorado River. They left the river and struck off due west around the north side of the San Francisco Mountains discovering the Wupatki Indian Ruins along the way and looped southwestward around the south side of Bill Williams Mountain. The rest of their westward march followed near the future alignment of Route 66 to the Colorado River near the modern town of Bullhead City Arizona. After a difficult march south along the Colorado River they reached Camp Yuma on November 30. Of course Sitgreaves discovered that the Zuni and Little Colorado Rivers were not at all navigable and would be useless to transport troops and supplies. The Colorado River however was found to be navigable along the entire distance that he explored. Sitgreaves' official report "Report of an Expedition Down the Zuni and Colorado Rivers in 1851" was published in 1853.<br /><br /><b>Condition:</b><br /><br />Foxing left margin trimmed as issued for folding all other plates present as called for in Howes as well as Lithographed map <i>Boundary of the Creek Country</i> laid in and not called for some folding. Rebound in attractive three quarter leather else a about very good. Robert Armstrong hardcover books
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Parkman Francis; Dixon Maynard Illustrator
The Oregon Trail
New York: The Limited Editions Club 1943. Hardcover. very good-. Limited edition signed on the colophon by Maynard Dixon edited by Mason Wade. 297 pp bound in full leather edges of text block stained blue pictorial endpapers. Rubbed through at spine ends and corners no dust jacket or slipcase. Internally sound and clean. The Limited Editions Club hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 21687
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Raikes Thomas
A Portion of the Journal Kept by Thomas Raikes Esq. from 1831-1847. In Four Volumes
London: Longman Brown Green Longmans & Roberts 1856. "Comprising Reminiscences of Social and Political Life in London and Paris during that period." Volumes I and II stated Second Edition published 1856 Vols. III and IV published 1857 with no statement of edition. Uniformly bound in publisher's brick red embossed cloth ticket rear paste down Volume I "bound by Westleys & Co. London" with gilt titles brick red end papers with publisher's advertisements at all paste downs. Very Good Minus spines darkened most hinges cracked yet bindings holding pencil marginal check marks small tears to cloth at spine ends tops dusty stain at top edge frontis plate Vol. I. Uncommon in commerce in the complete four volume set and original bindings. Additional postage charges for international shipping- please inquire. . Second Edition. Embossed Cloth. Very Good Minus/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts Hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 008696
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Ottawa Canada Local History
The CARILLON. Peace Tower Ottawa Canada. Programmes of Summer Recitals 1929
Ottawa Canada: F. A. Acland King's Printer 1929. 1st Printing. Tan textured paper covers with front cover image of the Tower drawn by Paul Alfred signed in the plate stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Average wear. Period pos to p. 1 upper margin. Very Good. 24 pp. Contents include an illustrated history of the tower and its carillon as well as the summer program. Illustrated with 9 captioned b/w half-tone photographic images. 8vo. 8-1/8" x 5" <br/><br/>From Wiki we find that a "carillon is a musical instrument typically housed in the bell tower belfry of a church or municipal building. The instrument consists of at least 23 cast bronze cup-shaped bells which are played serially to produce a melody or together to play a chord. A traditional manual carillon is played by striking a keyboard—the stick-like keys of which are called batons—with the fists and by pressing the keys of a pedal keyboard with the feet. The keys mechanically activate levers and wires connected to metal clappers which strike the bells." <br /> <br />Here this Carillon "was installed and inaugurated in the presenced of His Excellency the Viscount Willingdon Governor General of Canada at noon on the first day of July 1927 on the occasion of the celebration of the sixtieth anniversary of the Confederation of Canada." <br /> <br />Uncommon no copies located on OCLC. F. A. Acland, King's Printer unknown books
Bookseller reference : 49182
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CLARENDON Edward Hyde Earl of
The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England. A new edition.
Londini: Oxford: at the Clarendon Press 1807. 3 volumes bound as 6 in contemporary full diced calf the backs gilt with mottled calf labels the covers with blind tooled border inside gilt rule border. plain brown end papers small stamp of R. Parker. Very Good Plus scattered light toning boards lightly rubbed bindings solid. A quite handsome set . New Edition. Full Diced Calf. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Oxford: at the Clarendon Press Hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 008502
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Kavanagh Julia
Woman in France During the Eighteenth Century. In Two Volumes.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1893. Two volumes in signed G.P. Putnam's Sons fine binding of half crushed blue morocco over floral patterned paper covered boards matching floral end papers backs tooled in gilt tops gilt. Very Good front decorative end page Vol. I detached and with bottom corner creased and starting to tear front joint Vol. II starting to open small rubs at corners and edges. Interiors clean and fresh. A lovely contemporary binding priced for restoration. . Later Edition. Half Morocco. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. G. P. Putnam's Sons Hardcover books
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Noble Lives of a Noble Race A Series of Reproductions by the Pupils of St. Mary's Odanah Wis
Minneapolis MN: Brooks Press 1909. Hardcover. Very Good. 283 pp with frontispiece illustrations index. Bound in green cloth with gilt lettering. Slight rubbing to extremities lowers corner bumped; text clean binding tight. A compilation of poems stories and essays intended to instill pride and a sense of their own history in the Native American students at St. Mary's Industrial School in Odanah Wisconsin. Well meaning but sterotypical and romanticized containing work by Longfellow Whittier William Cullen Bryant etc. Like most Indian schools this one founded in 1883 forbade students to speak their native languages or practice traditional tribal religious rituals. Brooks Press hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 21197
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Cornelius Tacitus; with an Essay on His Life and Genius Notes Supplements &c. by Arthur Murphy Esq.
The Works of Cornelius Tacitus. a New Edition with the Author's Last Corrections. In Eight Volumes
London: Printed for John Stockdale; F.C. & J. Rivington; J. Walker; et al. 1811. SCARCE this 8 volume edition with maps and especially so in such lovely condition. Eight volumes in contemporary full polished calf gilt backs with calf labels the covers with double gilt rules bordering blind tooled arabesque decorations marbled end papers and edges. Complete with four fold-out maps and Plan of Jerusalem all Fine- Italy. Vol. 1; Asia Vol. 2; Ancient World Vol. 5; Plan of Jerusalem Vol. 6; Germany Vol. 7. Very Good Plus light soiling and rubbing to covers gilt at spines dulled end pages uniformly toned but interiors quite clean and bright. Additional shipping charges will be requested for international and priority mail due to weight and volume of this set. Please inquire. . New Edition. Polished Calf. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. Tall 8vo. Printed for John Stockdale; F.C. & J. Rivington; J. Walker; et al. Hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 008245
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Moore Frank
The Diary of the Revolution a Centennial Volume Embracing the Current Events in Our Country's History from 1775 to 1781 as Described By American British and Tory Contemporaries
Hartford CT: J. B. Burr Publishing Co. 1876. 1876 centennial edition an uncommon later edition two volumes bound as one 17 tissue-guarded steel engravings 1084 pp. Very Good gutters reinforced with cloth tape pages uniformly lightly browned. "Compiled from the journals documents private records correspondence etc. of that period forming an interesting impartial and valuable collection of revolutionary literature." A heavy volume that will require extra postage for priority or international mail- please inquire before ordering. . First Edition Thus. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. Thick 8vo. J. B. Burr Publishing Co. Hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 007412
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Lodge Henry Cabot
George Washington American Statesmen Series
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin 1897. Two Volumes in original blue cloth stamped in gilt top edges gilt Very Good light wear to cloth at spine ends prior owner name and date front end pages both 1/2" tear top edge front gutter Vol. 1. Contents are clean tight and unmarked. American Statesmen series edited by John T. Morse Jr. . Later Printing. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Houghton Mifflin Hardcover books
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Americana History Long Island New York North and South Hempstead
Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead Long Island N.Y. Volumes 1-7
Hempstead Long Island New York: Town Board of North Hempstead 1896. The first 7 of 8 volumes of these records issued by the Towns of North & South Hempstead. The Preface notes that the records are ".a literal transcript of the old books verbatimet literatim." The transcription was undertaken by Benjamin D. Hicks Esq. at the behest of the Towns he also wrote the introduction. Records proper begin at 1654 and end in Vol. 7 recording a land dispute's resolution in 1874. Each volume with its own useful indexes for general topics places in the town Indian names town meetings land grant index of clerks constables deeds by grantor or grantee personal names and more. Volume 1 also provides facsimile tracings of the original signatures of many of the first settlers at Hempstead at back. Printed in Jamaica N.Y. by Long Island Farmer Print. Heavy large groupapprox. 18 lbs with the shipping. Approx. 6 1/4" x 9 1/2" size; bound in the original polished green cloth gilt spine titles patterned endpapers. Little edge tips wear to the boards; one volume with old bookplate residue on the endpaper; generally all are very clean and in very good condition. A good primary source and historical and genealogical community reference for this Long Island area. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Town Board of North Hempstead hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 26119
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P. M. Rixey Matthew D. Mann Herman Mynter Roswell Park Eugene Wasdin Charles McBurney and Charles G. Stockton
The Case of President McKinley
No Place: American Medicine 1901. RARE Worldcat locates 0 copies. Reprint of an article that first appeared in American Medicine journal October 19 1901 detailing the medical care given to President William F. McKinley during the eight days following the shooting that resulted in his death. . 27 pp 5 blank subscription page. Very Good top corner front wrapper small chip wrappers soiled. Contents include "Surgical history" by P.M. Rixey Matthew D. Mann Herman Mynter and others.--"Remarks on the operation" by Matthew D. Mann.--"Report on the autopsy" by Harvey R. Gaylord.--"Report on the Bacteriologic examination" by Herman G. Matzinger. Reprint. Pamphlet. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. American Medicine Paperback books
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Price Julius M.
From the Arctic Ocean to the Yellow Sea; The Narrative of a Journey in 1890 and 1891 Across Siberia Mongolia The Gobi Desert and North China
London: Sampson Low Marston & Co 1892. Very Good in the original green cloth gilt title at spine with 142 illustrations from sketches by the artist color fold-out map at end of book Near Fine 384 pp. including Index frontispiece photograph of author rear end pages toned cloth lightly rubbed at tips a bit of lean to spine a quite handsome copy. SCARCE in the London 1st edition Price was an artist for "The Illustrated London News". . First British Edition. Cloth. Very Good -/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Sampson Low, Marston & Co Hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 007146
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Kari
Tappi Auki
Sanoma Osakeyhtio 1963. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR the noted Finnish cartoonist Kari Suomalainen 1920-1999. on the half-title page - "To Fred Aalto with all best wishes Kari Helsinki 1964". A quite SCARCE signature. Book is Very Good paper clip marks top edge first few pages end pages a bit toned in a Very Good dust jacket lightly rubbed and small chips at spine ends. Text in Finnish. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Kari. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Sanoma Osakeyhtio Hardcover books
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Dr. E. Duis
The Good Old Times in McLean County Illinois Containing Two Hundred and Sixty Sketches of Old Settlers A Complete Historical Sketch of the Black Hawk War and Descriptions of All Matters of Interest Relating to McLean County
Illinois: McKnight & McKnight Publ. Co. 1968. A reprint of the 1874 First Edition Very Good Plus in red cloth with gilt lettering at spine 865 pp. plus index of ads paginated A-M light wear to cloth at spine ends prior owner name stamps front and rear end pages. Contents are clean tight and unmarked. Uncommon in either edition. . Second Edition. Cloth. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. Thick 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall. McKnight & McKnight Publ. Co. Hardcover books
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California Printing /California History
The REGISTER Of The SOCIETY Of COLONIAL WARS In The STATE Of CALIFORNIA.; Whereunto is Added A Brief Account of the Formation of the Society also Three Copper Engravings of Prominent Officials; to which is appended Lists of Past Officers Officers for Ano. 1927 and Officers-Elect for Ano. 1928
Los Angeles: Printed at the Abbey San Encino at Garvanza Oldtown by Clyde Browne Master Printer 1928. 1st Edition "for Private Distribution". Original marooon cloth spine over drab boards printed in red. Shelf-wear with staining to boards. Board showing at tips. Offest to free eps. About Very Good. 47 1 blank pp. Illustrated with 3 b/w half-tone portraits. 8vo.10-1/8" x 6-5/8" <br/><br/> Printed at the Abbey San Encino at Garvanza Oldtown, by Clyde Browne, Master Printer hardcover books
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W. M. Chase
"The President's Wedding" Stereo View
No Place: Excelsior Stereo Views 1886. No Date No Place the wedding of President Grover Cleveland to Frances Folsom was June 2 1886 in the White House. Two images printed one side Very Good top corner small chip faint writing in ink to unprinted verso. . First Printing. Stereo Card. Very Good. 3 1/2" x 7". Excelsior Stereo Views Paperback books
Bookseller reference : 006420
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Vossius Gerhard Johannes
Artis Poeticae Natura ac Constitutione Liber with Poeticarum Institutionum Libri Tres with De Imitatione cum Oratoria tum praecipue Poetica; de que Recitatione Veterum Liber
Amsterdam: Elzevirium 1647. Early Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Attractively rebound in modern full calf old ownership marks and a long pen mark to title modest foxing and age toning to pages clean overall and a nice copy. 8 80 192 119 1 60pp; 8 62 8pp. <br/> Size: Quarto 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Inventory No: 046538. Elzevirium hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 046538
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Culinary History Menu Italy
1959 Very Large Poster-sized Menu for Da Meo Patacca Rome Italy
Rome Italy: Da Meo Patacca 1959. The menu for dishes and beverages founded by ex-patriate American actor Remington Olmstead 1913 - 2002 in 1959. Attached by staples are various 'specials': Melanzane alla Parmiggiana; Tacchino con pure de castagne Roasted young Tom Turkey with Mashed Chestnuts; coda a la Vaccinara; Pommidori Riempi de Riso Cold tomato stuffed with rice; Fondu a la Borguignone ve la cocete a tavola da Voi con una mucchai de sarse; Cocuzzette Riempie de Ciccia stuffed zuccini; Granatine de vitella co li piselli ground steak with fresh peas. Previous owner pencil note "Summer 1959 Mother & Dad". Artist names of D'Evelmia & D'Amico signed in the plate Litotipografia Romana Roma printing. Large format approx.17" x 39" size brightly illustrated. Old fold lines little splitting at center edge-wear; in good condition. . Menu. Not Bound. Good. Da Meo Patacca paperback books
Bookseller reference : 24823
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Panvinio Onofrio
Fasti et triumphi Rom a Romulo rege usque ad Carolum V. Caes. Aug
Venice: J. Strada 1557. First Edition. Hardcover Quarter Leather. Very Good Condition. 19th century leather backed boards front hinge cracked corners worn remains of library spine label binding sound overall. Private library plate on pastedown minor scattered foxing index leaf foxed and with a stain in the bottom margin; overall quite clean internally. Printed in red and black with engraved emblems throughout. 12 228pp index blanks intact. Adams P 195. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 046552. J. Strada hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 046552
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Americana History Long Island Patchogue
Gateway Playhouse Patchogue New York Playbill 1988 Dreamgirls
Patchogue Long Island: Gateway Playhouse 1988. . 28 pages. With cast information for the show starring Vanessa A. Jones Taneesha Marie Gary Julie Henry; with the scenes & musical numbers who's who in the cast & support personnel and listing of the Gateway Playhouse staff directed by Robert Durkin. With advertisements for local businesses. Approx. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" size illustrated & printed stapled glossy paper covers. Light wear in very good condition and interesting Patchogue cultural history ephemera. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Gateway Playhouse Paperback books
Bookseller reference : 24587
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History of Technology
The MATTER Of GRANTING RIGHT Of WAY To The BRUSH ELECTRIC LIGHT And POWER COMPANY for the Use of the Mayor and General Council of Atlanta
n. p. Atlanta 1883. 1st printing presumed. Printed self-wrappers. Age-toning & light wear to wrappers which have a paper repair along the spine. Very Good. 14 pp. 8vo. 9-1/4" x 5-3/4" <br/><br/>Not found on OCLC. unknown books
Bookseller reference : 43182
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Lord Courtney of Penwith
Nationalism and War in the Near East By a Diplomatist
Oxford: Clarendon Press 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. xxvi 428 pp 6 general appendix. Moderate general wear to boards light offsetting to endpapers; contents clean and sound. No dust jacket. Includes sections on Nationalism and National Identity in the Near East Byzantism Hellenism Panslavism the Macedonian Questions the Ottoman Revolution the War of the Coalition Turkish Greek and Balkan Militarism and the War of Partition. Clarendon Press hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 1272
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Belcher Edward 1799 1877
Narrative of a Voyage Round the World Performed in her Majesty's Ship Sulphur During the Years 1836-1842 Including Details of the Naval Operations in China from Dec 1840 to Nov 1841
2 volumes. xxxvii23878 ad pages with frontispiece woodcuts in text and 7 steel-engraved plates; vi2474 pages with frontispiece woodcuts in texts and 10 steel-engraved plates. Royal octavo 9¼x5½" in publisher's original green cloth spine lettered in gilt covers decorative blind stamped. First Edition.<br /><br />In 1825 Edward Belcher accompanied Frederick William Beechey's expedition to the Pacific and Bering Strait as a surveyor. In 1836. he commanded a surveying ship on the north and west coasts of Africa and in the British seas. Belcher took up the work which Beechey had left unfinished on the Pacific coast of South America. He was on board the bomb vessel HMS Sulphur which was ordered to return to England in 1839 by the Trans-Pacific route. Belcher made various observations at a number of islands which he visited having been delayed by being dispatched to take part in the war in China in 1840. On 26 January 1841 the then Commander Belcher landed on Possession Point at the north shore Hong Kong Island and made the first British survey of Hong Kong harbor. After the war's end in 1842 he reached home and for his services was made a Knight Bachelor in the following year. He was then engaged in HMS Samarang in surveying work in the East Indies the Philippines Geomun-do Port Hamilton and other places until 1847. In 1852 Belcher led the last and largest Admiralty expedition to rescue Sir John Franklin. He was also to look for his former surveying officer in Hong Kong Richard Collinson and Robert McClure whose ships had not been seen after entering the Bering Strait. He did a great deal of sledge exploration rescued McClure and abandoned four of his five ships in the ice. He had five ships: Assistance Belcher Resolute Henry Kellett second mate George Nares the steam tenders PioneerSherard Osborn and Intrepid Leopold McClintock and the depot ship North Star William Pullen. Belcher and one tender were to enter Wellington Channel where Franklin was thought to be while Kellett was to go west to Melville Island and look for Collinson and McClure. North Star was to stay at Beechey Island as a supply base. He left the Nore in April 1850. By early winter Assistanceand Pioneer were frozen in at Northumberland Sound to the north of Wellington Channel while Resolute and Intrepid were frozen in off Melville Island Arctic—the first ships this far west since William Edward Parry in 1819. A great deal of exploration was done by man-hauled sledges. In April 1853 Leopold McClintock and others left the Resolute on sledges and returned 105 days later having covered 1400 miles and discovered Prince Patrick Island. Another party went west and discovered Robert McClure whose ship was frozen in at Mercy Bay. Belcher went north by sledge and found a channel at the northern tip of Devon Island hinting that Franklin might have used it to escape to Baffin Bay. When the ice broke up that summer he pushed his ships up Wellington Channel and became trapped again. By February 1854 Belcher was becoming increasingly worried about the safety of his ships and men. In April he ordered Kellett to abandon his ships and return by sledge to North Star. Belcher abandoned his two ships in late July. Aided by two ships that showed up at Beechey Island Phoenix and Breadalbane the whole party returned to England. Belcher went through a court martial which was automatic for any captain who had lost a ship. He was exonerated but his sword was returned to him 'without observation'. He never again received an active command. Curiously Resolute broke free of the ice and drifted all the way to Davis Strait where it was picked up by an American whaler.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Some staining and wear to covers spines a bit faded ends chipped and worn rear joint of Vol. I with chipping and loss; hinges repaired at endpapers some light foxing and occasional mostly marginal damp staining within the three folding maps which should be loose in a pocket not present; overall good uncommon in the original cloth. Henry Colburn hardcover books
Bookseller reference : E0148
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Marie Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne comtesse de La Fayette Madame de La Fayette
Histoire de Madame Henriette D'Angleterre
Amsterdam: Michel Charles le Cene 1720. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Full contemporary calf rubbed one corner creased but quite sound. Endpapers a little soiled a few minor stains but generally quite clean internally. One of three posthumous works by Madame de La Fayette author of La Princess de Clèves. viii 210pp. Likely published in France despite the imprint. Graesse M71. Size: Octavo 8vo. Previous owner's book-plate inside front cover. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Literature & Literary. Inventory No: 045088. <br/><br/> Michel Charles le Cene hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 045088
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Americana Broadside Religious Supply House Printing History
1903 Advertising Circular Broadside for The Church Supply Co. Boston Massachusetts Regarding Printing Weekly Offering Supplies and Pledge Cards
Boston Mass.: The Church Supply Co. 1903. A circular advertising the printed products of this Boston company with 8 or more typefaces as part of the promotional; giving rates and details of the products offered and offering to send samples; printed one side; approx. 5 1/2" x 9 1/4" size; addressed to Mr. Ralph V. Morrison of the No. Cong. Church in Bangor Maine; with the original postmarked mailing envelope having the company imprint; envelope with some wear; broadside advertisement circular in very good condition; a nice example of job printing typographical design and niche market business printing history in the early part of the 20th century. Broadside. Broadside. Very Good. The Church Supply Co. books
Bookseller reference : 22837
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Americana Labor History AFL CIO
Circa 1940 Photograph of American Federation of Labor Leader George Meany By White House Photographer Leo G. Hessler
Washington D.C.: Not Published 1940. Black and white studio portrait signed at bottom right of margin 'Hessler' of George Meany 1894 - 1980 American labor leader ".Many thought he had long outlasted his time but no national voice for labor's cause replaced Meany's in the increasingly hard times the union movement experienced following his death." David Brody in the ANB; our research indicates that the image is most probably circa 1940s by White House photographer Leo G. Hessler; margin trimmed unevenly and with a little glue residue at edges; otherwise in very good condition well-taken and a strong portrait of the New York-born national labor leader in his prime. . Photograph. Not Bound. Very Good. Not Published Paperback books
Bookseller reference : 22220
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Denison Frederic
WESTERLY RHODE ISLAND AND ITS WITNESSES FOR TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS. 1626-1876
J. A. & R. A. Reid 1878. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. 8vo. Panel-stamped blue cloth. 314 pp. With tissue-guarded frontispiece and additional b/w plates. Light rubbing to head heel and corners with a touch of fraying to head and heel of spine. Light shelfwear. Light spotting to top edges. Slight toning to page edges. Very good with faults as noted. J. A. & R. A. Reid hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 423037
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Spalinger Anthony John
ASPECTS OF THE MILITARY DOCUMENTS OF THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS
New Haven: Yale University Press 1982. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/no dust jacket. Previous owner's name stamped on front free endpaper. No pencil or ink markings in text. Boards clean; binding sound. Green cloth gilt lettering. ~. Very Good binding / no dust jacket. Yale University Press unknown books
Bookseller reference : 202761
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