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Callendar Romaine
Summer Provinces by the Sea. A Description of the Vacation Resources of Eastern Quebec and the Maritime Provinces of Canada in the Territory Served by the Canadian Government Railways:- Intercolonial Railway Prince Edward Island Railway
Hardcover. Near Fine. Undated by c. 1913. 310 pp plus index folding map. Originally published in wrappers but this copy a contemporary rebinding in beige buckram and thus in better condition than usually found with title section of front wrap neatly mounted on front board. An engaging early travel guide beautifully illustrated with photographs. Chapters on historic Quebec; summer resorts of the lower St. Lawrence; the Bay of Chaleur; the Miramichi River and Nashwaak Valley Districts; Fredericton and the upper St. John River; the City of St. John and lower St. John River Prince Edward Island; Halifax; Nova Scotia; Cape Breton Island. hardcover books
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Germanis Uldis
Oberst Vacietis und die lettischen Schutzen im Weltkrieg und in der Oktoberrevolution
Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell 1974. Soft cover. Near Fine. Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis/Stockholm Studies in History Number 20. 336 pp with index and bibliography. Trade paperback with slight cover wear. Clean tight unmarked. Almqvist & Wiksell paperback books
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Mowry Sylvester
Arizona and Sonora: the Geography History and Resources of the Silver Region of North America
New York: Harper & Brothers 1864. Hardcover. Good. Third edition revised and enlarged with mining content not found in the first edition. 251 pp with frontis engraving of the Mowry Silver Mines. Original brown cloth boards are edgeworn with corners rubbed through chips at spine ends and cloth partially split at front joint. Penciled gift inscription on front endpaper internals otherwise clean and sound. Includes sections on the geography the condition of Arizona and Sonora from 1859-1864 the mines of Arizona and surrounding areas a mineralogical sketch governmental issues and the southern railroad route. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
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Tolstoi Lyof N. Tolstoy Leo
The Physiology of War; Napoleon and the Russian Campaign; and Power and Liberty
London: Walter Scott. Hardcover. Good. Undated. xii 132 pp publisher's catalogue. Ex-library with no markings on the binding but ink stamp on the top edge and endpapers foxing to endpapers; text clean. Walter Scott hardcover books
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Seymour Henry J.
The Oneida Community. A Dialogue
Softcover. Near fine. 8vo 23 pp in stapled self-wrappers. No publication information given c. 1890. Abrasion to one spot on front wrapper with loss of a few letters else fine. An original Oneida Community member offers for posterity an explanation and defense of Perfectionism and the community's other doctrines and practices including communal living and complex marriage. Written in question-and-answer format. paperback books
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TOTMAN Conrad.
Lumber Industry in Early Modern Japan.
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1995. Hardcover. 082481665X . First printing. Remainder dot on spine else fine in a fine dust jacket. . University of Hawaii Press hardcover books
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Whipple Joseph
Autograph Letter Signed Portsmouth July 10 1789 to John Langdon New York City
folio two pages of a four page bi-folium some splits along folds remains of sealing wax on integral address leaf docketed "Jo Whipples Letter." In very good clean and legible condition. Joseph Whipple collector of customs at Portsmouth brother of General William Whipple 1730 - 1785 revolutionary War General and Signer from New Hampshire writes to John Langdon 1741 - 1819 Senator and first President pro-tem of the Senate thanking Langdon for his help and influence in obtaining a post in the new government and comments upon the recent establishment of the Federal court and judicial system. Langdon a Portsmouth native was the right person to ask as he was also a friend of the President George Washington. "Dear Sir I have the Honour this moment to receive your favour of the 5th & am much obliged by your kind assurances of attention to my business and also for having seasonably lodged my name with the President - I should have wrote now to him agreeably to your intimation but am discouraged from the consideration of his having no personal knowledge of me and that it might on that account appear and interested application which might operate to my disadvantage - and I conceive also that your influence with the President on which I have rested my expectation is such as I need wish no other. - But if you conceive that it would be of use to hand my name with your recommendation to Mr. Vice President to Mr. Morris Mr. R H Lee Mr. Dalton your Colleagues or others as you may think proper I should consider myself further & greatly obliged - but I think your interest requires no aid - as it will of course be represented by you that I am in the office of Colltr. - To some of the names that I have mentioned I am known - others of them were formerly either officially connected or intimately acquainted with my Brother on which account I should have applyd to them for their influence - I imagine also that all appointments will be completed tin a few days if not by this. - You will hear that the Judiciary bill is not relishd this way I have not seen it but think that the plan of one Judge to the District Court would be an objectionable one to most people in the Northern states - and the joining the Prov of Maine to N. H. districts no less so to N. H. - However the Acts may be finishd I hope & trust they will terminate in a system that will insure Peace and a happy Government." John Langdon brother of Woodbury Langdon was a merchant Delegate and Senator from New Hampshire. He was active and prominent supporter of the revolutionary movement member of the Continental Congress 1775-76 participated in the Battle of Bennington and commanded a company at Saratoga and in Rhode Island. Member of the State senate 1784 President of New Hampshire 1785 1788; again a member of the Continental Congress 1787 delegate to the Federal Constitutional Convention in 1787; member of the state ratifying convention elected to the United States Senate and served from March 4 1789 until March 3 1801. He was elected the first President pro tempore of the Senate on April 6 1789 in order that the Senate might organize to count the electoral vote for President and Vice President of the United States. American National Biography vol. 13 pp.138-139 Dictionary of American Biography vol. 5 pt. 2 pp. 587-588 <br /><br /> books
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GUENEE Bernard.
Between Church and State: The Lives of Four French Prelates in the Late Middle Ages.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1991. Hardcover. 0226310329 . Translated from the French by Arthur Goldhammer. First printing of the American edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . University of Chicago Press hardcover books
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CATHERINE II TOOKE W
The Life of Catherine II Empress of All the Russias: With an Elegant Portrait of the Tzarina and a Correct Map of the Russian Empire
<p>First American edition. Octavo. Frontispiece portrait large folding map of Russian empire. Appendixes index. 3/4 green morocco over green cloth by Zucker spines with raised bands and gilt stamped floral designs within gilt ruled compartments covers ruled in gilt marbled endpapers t.e.g. spines faded to brown. Fine. 2 volumes. Conestogawagon Bookplate of Redmond Conyngham designed by D. Stoffer on the front free endpaper of each volume.</p> William Fry hardcover books
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Way John Jr.
The Olden Time in Sewickley Read by Request at a Sunday-School Service in the Sewickley Presbyterian Church Dec. 28th 1879 by John Way Jr.
1889. First Edition. Softcover. Good. One of 50 copies printed for private circulation. 30 pp. 7 x 10.5 inches in original wrappers illustrated with one original photograph and one photomechanically reproduced photograph. Presentation inscription on the title page to a member of a prominent Allegheny County family "Mr. R.C. Wrenshall from John Way Jr." Wrappers are chipped and only just attached by a thread to the text block most of backstrip is gone margins of the page with the original photograph are foxed. Otherwise clean. John Way Jr. 1831-1902 was an elder of the Presbyterian Church of Sewickley and he taught a bible class for young men for 60 years. He helped to organize the Young Men's Christian Association in his area taught elocution classes for adults acted as the first president of the Public Library in Sewickley. In 1877 after finding the local schools unsuitable for his children he financed a new building and reopened the Sewickley Academy for Boys which had originally operated from his childhood home beginning in 1838. This book is primarily a history of the religious institutions churches and sunday schools of the town but also includes other details such as the prices of goods and wages recorded in an early account book and what residents and buildings were present in the town c. 1800. One copy located in OCLC at the American Antiquarian Society. paperback books
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BARSTOW Anne Llewellyn.
Witchcraze: A New History of the European Witch Hunts.
NY: HarperCollins Pandora. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1994. Hardcover. 006250049X . Book club edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . HarperCollins (Pandora) hardcover books
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STEFANSSON Vilhjalmur
Typed Letter Signed
<p>"V. Stefansson" in black fountain pen ink on pictorial American Geographical Society letterhead Ottawa Ontario Canada July 9 1920. 8 1/2" x 11"; 1 page; very good. Together with the original typed envelope stamped and postmarked Ottawa Ont. July 9 1920 with two stamps. To Dr. William C. Thro East Northport Long Island New York "Dear Dr. Thro: If I were only in New York I should take instant advantage of your invitation to visit you on the Long Island coast but I shall be spending most of my summer in Canada with only an odd visit to the city. I shall look you up in the fall or whenever I come to be regularly in New York. I hope both you and Mrs. Thro have a delightful summer. V. Stefansson." Stefansson 1879-1962 American ethnologist/explorer/author; lived amongst the Eskimo 1906-07; Canadian/Alaskan Arctic expedition commander 1913-18; consultant to Dartmouth College's Northern Studies program 1947-62.</p> unknown books
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PAYNE Ben Iden.
Life in a Wooden O: Memoirs of the Theatre.
New Haven: Yale University Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1977. Hardcover. 0300020643 . First edition. About fine in a very good short closed tear on front panel smudge where sticker was removed on same panel dust jacket. . Yale University Press hardcover books
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READ Anthony and FISHER David.
Proudest Day: India's Long Road to Independence.
NY: Norton. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 0393045943 . First printing of the American edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Norton hardcover books
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Americana History Long Island Patchogue
1949 Red and Black Patchogue High School Newspaper Twenty-Third Year No.'s. 1 2 3
Patchogue Long Island: Patchogue High School 1949. Three issues of the Patchogue HS newspaper. Four pages each with black and white illustrations; No. 1 September 30 No. 2 Oct. 28 No. 3 Nov. 22 all 1949. With school sporting scholastic awards competitions social news updated school club & band information and doings local business advertisements throughout. Approx. 11" x 16" size printed on thicker-than-usual newsprint paper. Previous owner names occasional marks or outlines; some edgewear chipping and closed tears old fold lines a few holes with letter loss; paper darkened; in fair to good condition. First Edition. Not Bound. Good. Patchogue High School Paperback books
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Americana History Long Island Patchogue
2004 - 2005 Greater Patchogue Chamber of Commerce Member Directory
Patchogue Long Island: Patchogue Chamber of Commerce 2004. 80 pages. Printed in two colors with black and white advertisement illustrations of businesses in Patchogue. With a centerfold street map of Greater Patchogue with finding legend. Including a detailed alphabetical by business; a directory with names addresses telephone numbers. Accountants advertising air conditioning ambulance services architects to veterinary medicine welding women's apparel & accessories. Several of the larger businesses have taken advertisements as well. Approx. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" size; illustrated & printed stapled paper covers; light wear in very good condition and with interesting Patchogue Long Island business history information. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Patchogue Chamber of Commerce Paperback books
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Americana History Long Island Patchogue
Greater Patchogue Chamber of Commerce Business Directory - 1985
Patchogue Long Island: Patchogue Chamber of Commerce 1985. 48 pages. Black and white illustrations of businesses in Patchogue current and historical; with a centerfold street map of Greater Patchogue NY and a smaller map giving public service locations with finding legend. Text with history of Patchogue and a detailed alphabetical by business; a directory with names addresses telephone numbers. Accountants adult home advertising alarms aluminum architects; to windows women's wear wholesale beverage distributors wholesale foods wood & coal burning stoves yarn and craft supplies. Several of the larger businesses have taken advertisements as well. Approx. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" size; illustrated & printed stapled paper covers; light wear in very good condition and with interesting Patchogue Long Island business history information. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Patchogue Chamber of Commerce Paperback books
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Americana History Long Island Patchogue
Fourth Annual All-Suffolk Junior High School Music Festival Bay Avenue School Patchogue New York Saturday March 15 1958
Patchogue Long Island: All-Suffolk Junior High School Music Festival 1958. Booklet for this event printed blue on white 8 pages. With the program listings titles of various pieces & composers performers. All-Suffolk Junior HS Orchestra Moshe Paranov Hartt School of Music Director; All Suffolk Junior HS Band Harry Phillips Director; Chorus Clement Barton Director; with the membership of these three performance groups by instrument or voice category and the JHS attended. Goldsmith Ptg. Co. Islip Terrace N.Y. Approx. 6 1/4" x 9 1/2" size. Some light wear wrinkling old fold line; in good condition and interesting Long Island educational culture & entertainment history ephemera. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. All-Suffolk Junior High School Music Festival Paperback books
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Americana History Long Island Patchogue
1989 Greater Patchogue Chamber of Commerce Business Directory
Patchogue Long Island: Patchogue Chamber of Commerce 1989. 52 pages. Black and white illustrations of businesses in Patchogue current and historical; with a centerfold street map of Greater Patchogue NY and a smaller map giving public service locations with finding legend. Text with history of Patchogue and a detailed alphabetical by business; a directory with names addresses telephone numbers. Accountants adult homes advertising alarms aluminum architects; to windows women's wear wholesale distributors yarn and craft supplies. Several of the larger businesses have taken advertisements as well. Approx. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" size; illustrated & printed stapled paper covers; light wear in very good condition and with interesting Patchogue Long Island business history information. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Patchogue Chamber of Commerce Paperback books
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Americana History Long Island Patchogue
"The Dream of a Clown" Sponsored By the Patchogue Sorosis Friday and Saturday Evenings February 2nd and 3rd High School Auditorium Patchogue New York
Patchogue Long Island: The Patchogue Sorosis 1934. 10 pages. The play put on by the Sorosis women's group with characters of the Prince of Wales Pola Negri Miss 1934 Mrs. F.D. Roosevelt Mrs. Herbert Hoover Miss 1840 all played by men President F.D. Roosevelt Pres. Hoover others often with comic overtones. With the program for the show including the cast player names hostesses a short business directory in Patchogue and with the rest of the pages filled with advertisements for local businesses. Printed at the Patchogue Advance approx. 6" x 9" size. Light wear paper darkened; in very good condition and interesting entertainment & cultural history ephemera. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. The Patchogue Sorosis Paperback books
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Americana History Long Island Patchogue
Souvenir Journal & Score Card Baseball Game in Honor Sam Hope Between Sayville Cardinals Independent Champions Suffolk County and West Patchogue A.C. Suffolk County Champions 1934-1935 at West Patchogue Waverly Ave. Ball Grounds Sunday October 10 1937
Patchogue Long Island: Game Committee 1937. With a small black and white portrait of Sam Hope in his Paterson NJ team shirt. With details on the committee responsible contributors with the advertisements and at center the list of players for both teams positions. Sam Everett Hope 1878 - 1946 a professional baseball player appearing mostly in the minor leagues from the early 1900's thru about 1919 and as a pitcher with the Philadelphia Athletics. Approx. 8 1/2" x 11" size. Original printed red stapled paper covers; light wear in very good condition and interesting Long Island sports history ephemera. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Game Committee Paperback books
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ROYSTER Charles.
Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company: A Story of George Washington's Times.
NY: Knopf. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1999. Hardcover. 0679433457 . First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Knopf hardcover books
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Elliott Ebenezer
Poetical Works of Ebenezer Elliott the Corn-Law Rhymer
Edinburgh: William Tait 1860. Softcover. Good. 7 x 10.25 in pp 5 179 with frontis portrait of the author. Wrappers chipped at the corners with some dust soilng and foxing dampstain to portrait leaf only presumably occurred prior to being bound in some dogeared corners; contents clean binding sound. Elliott 1781-1849 was an English poet and merchant. In his youth he wrote pastoral poems but by the early 1830s he had begun to infuse poltiics into his work "by denouncing the 'bread tax' the exploitation of child and adult labour and the low wages of the working classes and by advocating free trade. In 1830 Elliott helped to found the short-lived Sheffield Mechanics Anti-Bread Tax Society and formed the Sheffield Anti-Corn Law Society in 1834.it was his protest verse favourably reviewed by Thomas Carlyle Bulwer-Lytton the Howitts W. J. Fox and Geraldine Jewsbury which bolstered his reputation as poet of the poor even after he had accumulated substantial wealth" DNB. This volume collects both his early worth and his Corn-Law Rhymes. William Tait paperback books
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James George Wharton
The Story of Captain The Horse with the Human Brain
Pasadena CA: Radiant Life Press 1917. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 8vo pp. 48 7 b/w plates in original stapled pictorial wrappers. Some chipping and tiny tears to wrappers;contents clean. James first saw Captain a performing horse owned by W.A. Sigsbee of Chicago at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915. Amazed by the horse's apparent ability to count add and subtract; play "Nearer My God to Thee" on the chimes; and perform a variety of tricks in response to verbal commands James resolved to learn more about the horse and his trainer. Here their story is told in full from Captain's point of view "There are some people who think I don't like to give performances. I don't know why except that I do get tired a little once in a while and sometimes my master wants me to be quiet and good when I feel frisky and frolicsome and want to kick up my heels. I always feel better the busier I am." and Sigsbee has his say as well. After conducting his own "scientific investigation" of Captain's abilities James concludes that there is no explicit trickery involved in their show but that the horse may pick up on cues of which the audience--and likely even the trainer--is unaware. This leads to his more general observation that there is still much to learn about animal intelligence. "There is too much assumption in human beings about most things animal instinct and human reason not excluded. What I wish to protest against with emphasis and vigor is the assumption that we know all there is to know about intelligence that we know the limits Nature herself has placed upon its development and that all efforts to foster further development are useless. I affirm that we do not know; that we have never as yet even tried to know; and that until men with loving devoted sympathetic singleness of heart and purpose seek to develop all there is in the mentality of all the lower animals dogs cats deer as well as horses shall we begin to have a real foundation for our assumptions upon the subject." Radiant Life Press paperback books
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Spencer JW.; Burrows JMD. J. W. J. M.
The Early Day of Rock Island and Davenport
Chicago: Lakeside Press R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co 1942. Hardcover. Very Good. xi 315 pp with index. Bound in publisher's red cloth. Light wear to boards and edges spotting to fore edge; text clean but with a slight odor possibly of tobacco. Includes a historical introduction and the narratives of Spencer Reminiscences of Pioneer Life and Burrows Fifty Years in Iowa. Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co hardcover books
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TALLEYRAND Maurice de. MCCABE Joseph
Talleyrand: A Biographical Study
<p>First edition. Thick octavo. Author's preface. Photogravure frontispiece and 25 portraits. Index. 3/4 red morocco over marbled boards spine with raised bands and gilt stamped fleurs-de-lys designs within gilt ruled compartments covers ruled in gilt marbled endpapers t.e.g. Very good. Charles Maurice de Tallyrand-Perigord 1754-1838 French statesman.</p> Appleton hardcover books
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Geelhoed E. Bruce
Charles E. Wilson and Controversy at the Pentagon 1953-1957
Detroit: Wayne State University Press 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. 216 pp with index illustrations bibliography. An as-new copy in clean dust jacket with minor shelfwear. A full length study of Wilson as U.S. Secretary of Defense that makes extensive use of his personal papers. Wayne State University Press hardcover books
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Boston Red Sox.
Boston Red Sox Official 1968 Yearbook.
<p> Program 4to illustrated 48 pp. some slight staining to lower right part of front cover still covers bright and clean overall less than normal aging absent the slight staining; near fine. The 1968 yearbook follows one of the best seasons ever in Boston history. In 1967 they won the AL title and finished the season with 92 wins and 70 loses. They came within one game of beating St. Louis in the World Series. They had some strong pitching and Carl Yastrzemski's hitting really mad the difference. baseball-almanac website. </p> books
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World Series Program.
1954 World Series Indians vs. Giants.
<p>Program 4to pictorial covers illustrated 64 pp. Normal aging otherwise bright and clean; near fine. This program is the Cleveland Indian edition and represents a disappointing trip to the series for the Indians as the they lost in four straight to the New York Giants. Despite what was considered a great pitching staff the Indians couldn't compete with the hitting power of the Giants. In this series key Giant players included Willie Mays Monty Irwin Don Liddle and Alvin Dark. Key Indian players included Bob Lemon Dave Hoskins Al Smith Bob Avila and Hank Majeski baseball-almanac website.</p> books
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{World Series Program:
1951 World Series Giants vs. Yankees.
<p>Program 4to pictorial covers illustrated 48 pp. Normal aging slight occasional creasing otherwise bright and clean; very good plus plus. This program is the Giant edition and features some of the best talent in baseball ever. Despite losing the opener the Yanks went on to win the series four games to two. This would be Joe DiMaggio's last series and the first series for Yankee future star Mickey Mantle and Giants future star Willie Mays. Both teams had plenty of talent including Berra Rizzuto Coleman Martin and McDougald for the Yanks and Dark Irvin Maglie and Stanky for the Giants. baseball-almanac website. </p> books
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World Series Program.
1952 World Series Dodgers vs. Yankees.
<p>Program 4to pictorial covers illustrated 48 pp. Normal aging otherwise bright and clean; near fine. This program is the Dodger edition. After beating the Giants a year earlier the Yanks were faced with a fired up Dodger team and had to go the full seven games to win the series. It was an exciting series that went back and forth and while there was some good pitching and many home runs it was Billy Martin's inches from the ground catch that ended the Dodger's hopes for a series win. baseball-almanac website. </p> books
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world Series Program.
1953 World Series Yankees vs. Dodgers.
<p> Program 4to pictorial covers illustrated 48 pp. Normal aging slight corner creasing otherwise bright and clean; near fine. This program is the Yankee edition. After beating the Dodgers a year earlier the Yanks were faced with Dodger team that was looking for revenge. Unfortunately they didn't get it and lost to the Yanks in six games. Yankee power and hitting made the difference especially from the 'red hot' Billy Martin who hit .500 for the series. Both lines were impressive including Jackie Robinson Pee Wee Reese Roy Campanella Dick Snider and Carl Erskine for the Dodgers and Mickey Mantle Billy Martin Yogi Berra Phil Rizzuto and Whitey Ford for the Yanks. baseball-almanac website. </p> books
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STANTON G. R.
Athenian Politics c. 800-500 BC: A Sourcebook.
NY:: Routledge. Near Fine. 1991. Paperback. 0415040612 . A later paperback printing. Near fine in pictorial wraps. . Routledge, paperback books
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Stovall Dennis H.
The Gold Bug Story Book Mining Camp Tales
Denver CO: Reinert Publishing. Hardcover. Good. 151 pp index publisher's catalogue with frontispiece illustrations. Shelf wear and soiling to boards hinges a bit wobbly gift inscription on front free endpaper; text clean. No dust jacket. From the Foreword: "The stories here collected and which have been published previously as individual stories in The Daily Mining Record are designed to portray both the 'inside' and the 'outside' of the noble fellows of the mines and of the dauntless men of the trail." This is the first appearance in book form. Reinert Publishing hardcover books
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Cieza de Leon Pedro 1520 1554
The Seventeen Years of Travels of Peter de Cieza through the Mighty Kingdom of Peru and the Large Provinces of Carthagena and Popayan in South America
viii24412 pages with engraved map folding plan and four engraved illustrations in text and index. Quarto 9 ¾" x 7½" bound in period calf with modern rebacking original gilt spine leather laid down and ruled gilt edges to cover. Translated by Joh Stevens. First English Edition.<br /><br />This is a highly regarded chronicle of the conquest and colonization of Peru by Spaniards in the latter part of the 16th century and is lauded for its at the time objectivity. Cieza de Leon's Chronica was to appear in 4 sections this translation being the first part only all that was available of the history until the latter part of the 19th century.<br /><br />Pedro Cieza de León was a Spanish conquistador and chronicler of Peru. He is known primarily for his history and description of Peru Crónicas del Perú. He wrote this book in four parts but only the first was published during his lifetime; the remaining sections were not published until the 19th and 20th centuries. Cieza de León was born to a family of Jewish conversos1 around 1520 in Llerena a town in southeastern Extremadura less than 60 mi from Portugal. Although recently converted from Judaism to Catholicism the family enjoyed good social standing in the region because of their networks and business dealings. His father Lope de León was a shopkeeper in the town and his mother Leonor de Cazalla was a native of Llerena. There is scant documentary evidence of the young Cieza de León’s childhood and little is known of his early life before his voyage to the Americas. Given the fact that he left home at 13 it is unlikely that Cieza de León received more than a rudimentary education. In 1536 in Córdoba at 16 Cieza de León was greatly surprised to learn of the discovery of the land of the Incas and so decided to go to Seville to embark on his journey to South America to see for himself the artifacts of precious metals which had been brought to Spain from Cajamarca. In light of the prohibition of entry into the Spanish colonies for Jews and Jewish converts to Catholicism Alonso López and Luis de Torres attested for Cieza de León that he was not prohibited. Jewish converso Pedro López de Cazalla secretary of Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro conqueror of the Incan Empire was also his first cousin. He returned to Seville Spain in 1551 and married a woman named Isabel López de Abreu. Here he published in 1553 the first part of the chronicles of Peru Primera Parte. He died the following year leaving the rest of his work unpublished. His Second Part of Chronicles of Peru describing the Incas was translated by Clements Markham and published in 1871 for the Hakluyt Society. In 1909 the fourth part of his chronicle focusing on the civil wars among the Spanish conquerors was published under the title Third Book of the Peruvian Civil Wars. The third part of Cieza de León's Crónicas del Perú which examined the discovery and conquest of Peru by the Spaniards was considered by historians to be lost. The document eventually turned up in a Vatican library and historian Francesca Cantù published a Spanish version of the text in 1979. Though his works are historical and narrate the events of the Spanish conquest of Peru and the civil wars among the Spaniards much of their importance lies in his detailed descriptions of geography ethnography flora and fauna. He was the first European to describe some native Peruvian animal species and vegetables.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Expertly rebacked some light rubbing to extremities foxing old book plate on front pastedown else very good. unknown hardcover books
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Crasset Jean 1618 1692
Histoire de l'Église du Japon
2 volumes. 2865911 pages with 4 plates and index; 106786 pages with 4 plates one folding and index. Quarto 10" x 8" bound in half leather with raised spine bands in gilt lettering to spine over marbled boards. Streit-Dindinger VI 1418. Second edition of a 1689 history of missions to Japan prefaced with a general account of the country.<br /><br />Jean Crasset was an ascetical writer born at Dieppe France 3 January 1618 and died at Paris 4 January 1692. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1638 became professor of humanities and philosophy was director for twenty-three years of a famous sodality of men connected with the professed house of the Jesuits in Paris and was also a successful preacher. Crasset is the author of many ascetical works among which are:Methode d'oraison; Considérationes chrétiennes pour tous les jours de l'année; La chrétienne in soli tude; Dissertation sur les oracles des Sibylles which was vigorously attacked; Entretiens pour la jeunesse. He also published in 1689 a Historie de l'église du japon which has been translated into several languages but which is considered inferior to that of Charlevoix. Crasset's history was scarcely original for it was drawn in great part from the work which Father Solier had issued in 1627; he merely retouched the style and continued the narrative from 1624 to 1658. The objection is made that the work lacks precision is heavy and is crowded with details. The author attributed the origin of the persecution of 1597 to the imprudence of the friars in making their religious ceremonies public. There is a posthumous work of his entitled La foy victorieuse de l'infidélite et du libertinage. On 9 September 1656 the Bishop of Orléans issued an interdict against him for having in one of his sermons charged several ecclesiastics with sustaining the propositions condemned by the Bull of Innocent X Cum occasione 31 May 1653. The interdict was removed in the following February.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Nicely rebound in half leather. Contents toned and damp-stained St. Charles Borromeo Seminary stamp on titles else a very good set. François Montalant hardcover books
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Cook James 1728 1779 etal
A New Authentic and Complete Account of Voyages Round the World Performed by Royal Authority. Containing a Complete Historical Account of Captain Cook’s First Second Third and Last Voyages undertaken for making New Discoveries The Whole comprehendin
4 of 6 volumes. Volume 1: i-ix-372 pages with 23 plates including frontispiece plate of Cook and 4 folding maps; Volume II lacking; Volume 3: 793-1184 pages with 11 plates including frontispiece of Possession Bay and 5 fold out maps; Volume IV: 1185-1546 pages with 26 plates including frontispiece of Woman Child and Man of Van Diemen's Land and 6 folding maps; Volume V: 1547-1938 pages with 30 plates including frontispiece of A View of Huaheine and 8 folding maps; Volume VI lacking. Octavo 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" bound in original full leather with red labels to spine with gilt lettering. Abridged by George William Anderson. An earlier Large folio edition by Anderson was published earlier. This edition originally issued in 80 weekly parts and also called the Large octavo edition. M K Beddie: 39 First edition of the bound edition.<br /><br />Captain James Cook RN was a British explorer navigator and cartographer ultimately rising to the rank of Captain in the Royal Navy. Cook made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean during which he achieved the first European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands as well as the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand. Cook joined the British merchant navy as a teenager and joined the Royal Navy in 1755. He saw action in the Seven Years' War and subsequently surveyed and mapped much of the entrance to the Saint Lawrence River during the siege of Quebec. This helped bring Cook to the attention of the Admiralty and Royal Society. This notice came at a crucial moment both in his personal career and in the direction of British overseas exploration and led to his commission in 1766 as commander of HM Bark Endeavour for the first of three Pacific voyages. Cook charted many areas and recorded several islands and coastlines on European maps for the first time. His achievements can be attributed to a combination of seamanship superior surveying and cartographic skills courage in exploring dangerous locations to confirm the facts for example dipping into the Antarctic Circle repeatedly and exploring around the Great Barrier Reef an ability to lead men in adverse conditions and boldness both with regard to the extent of his explorations and his willingness to exceed the instructions given to him by the Admiralty. Cook was killed in Hawaii in a fight with Hawaiians during his third exploratory voyage in the Pacific in 1779.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Lacks volume II and VI. First signature of volume one loose inner hinges cracked some interior soiling spine ends and corners of leather rubbed some scuffing to leather else a good set. Printed for A Millar, W Law, and R Cater hardcover books
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Keate George 1729 1797
An Account of the Pelew Islands Situated in the Western Part of the Pacific Ocean Composed from the Journals and Communications of Captain Henry Wilson and Some of His Officers Who in August 1783 Were There Shipwrecked in the Antelope a Packet Belonging
xxx408 pages with frontispiece one additional plate and vocabulary of the Pelew language. Octavo 8 1/4" x 5 1/4" Original 3/4 leather with marbled boards and gilt lettering and red label to spine. Hill 907 & 816 Fourth edition.<br /><br />In 1783 the East India Company packet the Antelope out of Macao was shipwrecked on the Pelew islands now Pelau or Belau in the western Carolines in Micronesia. All the crew were saved and were the first Europeans to make contact with these islanders. They were lucky in that there was a Malay there shipwrecked the year before who was able to act as interpreter. Captain Henry Wilson and his crew developed unusually amicable relations with the Palauan inhabitants and participated in expeditions against their enemies. They were able to recover a great deal from the wreck and to build a new vessel with which they sailed to Macau after a stay of just over three months. They took with them Lee Boo who became a figure of fashionable interest in London. Using extensive interviews with Captain Wilson and other participants including Lee Boo George Keate wrote "An Account of the Pelew Islands". This work is distinctive in its account of the encounter between two cultures for its anthropologically-minded account of Palauan culture and society and as one of the fullest 18th-century accounts of a Pacific society. <br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Large folding map in need of repair but complete. Corners bumped edge wear spine rubbed light worming to back cover book plate on front paste down previous owner's name on title in neat inscription dated 1802 some shelf wear else a good to very good copy. Printed for John Wilson hardcover books
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Slater John Rothwell
Printing and the Renaissance: A Paper Read Before the Fortnightly Club of Rochester New York
New York: William Edwin Rudge 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 36 pp with illustrations in the text. Original paper covered boards with spine label. Edgeworn backstrip rubbed chipped and loosening at head of spine. Small bookplate of W. Van R. Whitall on front pastedown; contents clean and sound. No dust jacket. Designed by Bruce Rogers and printed by Rudge at Mount Vernon NY in December 1921. One of five hundred copies printed on antique wove paper. William Edwin Rudge hardcover books
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Bevan Edwyn
Stoics And Sceptics: Four Lectures Delivered In Oxford During Hilary Term 1913 For The Common University Fund
<p>First edition. Octavo. Four page preface. Original gilt stamped green cloth. No dust jacket. Very good minor rubbing. 152 pages.</p><p>Bookplate of prelate Vincent Lloyd Russell.</p> Oxford University Press/The Clarendon Press hardcover books
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PLOCHMANN George Kimball.
Richard McKeon: A Study.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1990. Hardcover. 0226671097 . First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . University of Chicago Press hardcover books
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 252 ISBN : 0226671097 9780226671093
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WALTERS Kerry S.
Benjamin Franklin and His Gods.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press. Near Fine. 1999. Paperback. 0252067398 . First paperback printing. About fine in illustrated wraps. . University of Illinois Press paperback books
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 28251 ISBN : 0252067398 9780252067396
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Hale Nancy
Daughter of Abolitionists
Northampton Massachusetts: Smith College 1964. First Edition. Pamphlet reproduces a letter from 21-year-old Ellen "Ellie" Wright to her brother William nine days after Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter and ignited the Civil War in 1861. Ellie writes from Philadelphia and describes the preparations for war. From Smith College's collection of the papers of Abolitionist and journalist William Lloyd Garrison and his family. Ellie married William Lloyd Garrison Jr. in 1864. 8vo 9 inches / 23 cm 15 pages in stapled wrappers with deckled edges. Slight sunning to edges and a bit of soiling. Near Fine. Invitation to an event hosted by the Friends of the Smith College Library laid in. <br/><br/> Smith College unknown books
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 1206
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HAYES John A.
A Catalog of Dime Novel Material: Including A Section on Buffalo Bill
<p>First edition. 8vo. Introductory essays by Charles Bragin and Hayes. Original stiff tan wrappers. Very good pencil notations throughout. 24-page catalog with 4-page section on Buffalo Bill related material; sections on Beadle's dime novels detective fiction early comic books etc. Number 350 of 500 numbered copies printed at the Stone's Throw Press Red Bank New Jersey.</p> J.A. Hayes paperback books
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MAIORINO Giancarlo.
Cornucopian Mind and the Baroque Unity of the Arts.
University Park:: Pennsylvania State University Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1990. Hardcover. 027100679X . First edition. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . Pennsylvania State University Press, hardcover books
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 40403 ISBN : 027100679X 9780271006796
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Boston Red Sox
Boston Red Sox 1963 Yearbook.
<p>Program 4to illustrated 48 pp. Very slight edgewear less than normal aging covers bright and clean; overall near fine. The 1963 yearbook follows a disappointing season in 1962 with the Sox coming in 8th. However they hired a new manager in 1963 Johnny Pesky and the team was in a rebuilding phase. Boston did a little better in 1963 and had some decent talent including Carl Yastrzemski Rico Petrocelli Frank Malzone and Don Conley.</p> books
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JOSEPHUS Flavius
The Works of Flavius Josephus The Learned and Authentic Jewish Historian and Celebrated Warrior. With Three Dessertations Concerning Jesus Christ John the Baptist James the Just God's Command to Abraham by William Whiston
<p>First edition. Octavo. Volume I engraved frontispiece; fold-out map; 635 pages. Volume II fold-out map; index 652 pages. Full polished brown calf spines with four raised bands ruled in gilt with elaborate blind stamping in each compartment two tan leather labels stamped in gilt covers triple ruled in gilt with a small floral device in each corner with elaborate triple gilt ruled center with circular floral device in the four corners gilt stamped inner dentelles; marbled edges; marbled endpapers. Very good clean fresh copy no foxing minor rubbing. 2 volumes. No bookplates. Printed by J.F. Dove St. John's Square.</p> Printed for William Baynes and Son hardcover books
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World Series.
Program for the 1960 World Series Between the New York Yankees and the Pittsburgh Pirates.
<p>Program format 9x12 illustrated. Slight aging overall in excellent condition. In the 1960 series the Pirates would beat the Yankees in seven games thanks to a homer by Bill Mazeroski in the nine inning of game seven. Featured players include Mickey Mantle Roger Maris Whitey Ford Yogi Berra Bobby Richardson Bill Mazeroski and Roberto Clemente.</p> books
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 106061
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Yankees.
New York Welcomes The World Champion Yankees Luncheon Program.
<p>4to program illustrated. A little cover wear slight aging; otherwise very good plus. Unusual piece of Yankee memorabilia from a luncheon to honor the Yankees on April 14 1978 at the Americana Hotel. The Yanks were the guests of honor but other New York dignitaries also attended including Terence Cardinal Cook William Denis Fugazy and Yankee manager Billy Martin. The program includes many pictures of the World Champion Yankees including a team picture but it also includes ads from the leading New York companies of the day such as Revlon Progresso Standard Brands and Gulf & Western Industries. </p> Hemming Consultants, books
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World Series 1962.
1962 World Series Complimentary Copy: Yankees vs. Giants at Yankee Stadium.
<p>Small black and white folio program 8 1/2" x 11" pictorial front page 4 pp. Other than some normal aging this is in very nice condition. Scarce and unusual complimentary type program that were handed out to fans at Yankee Stadium. Since the second page refers to games 34 and 5 it appears the first two games had already been completed. The first page includes a black and white photo of Yankee Stadium illustrating an actual game. The front page gives historical series results and attendance numbers. The two inside pages were meant to help the fan keep score. This copy is unmarked. The back page gives player stats for both teams. An unusual and somewhat scare bit of World Series history. The Yanks took this series in seven games despite a poor performance from Mantle and Maris.</p> books
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