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1912234 pages. Footnotes. "Few histories today give the reader any adequate idea of how the toilers lived, struggled and died in America... Some of the statements made in the following pages will come as a shock to those who have absorbed the current views of American history, and yet no important assertion is made without rererence to standard authorities." - from Preface. Chapters include: The European Background; Land Conquests in America; White Slavery in the Colonies; The White Slave Trade; Rebellions of the Poor; General Status of the Workers; Causes of the American Revolution; The Constitutional Convention, a Conspiracy; The Period of Struggle. Prior owner's details inside front board and on back free endpaper along with contemporary bookseller's ink stamp. Moderate quantity of pencil markings and red pencil underlining to contents. Front hinge 2/3 open. A worthy copy of this eyebrow-raising chronicle of the plight of workers in American history. Book
1955225 pages. Index of incidents. "Presents the complicated issues, unravels the tangled skeins of charge and countercharge with mastery and skill; and always makes the reader aware of the sombre background - terrorism and colour-prejudice, atrocities, fear and fury - against which the trial was enacted." Gift greetings atop front free endpaper. Contents significantly tanned with age. Spine leaning. Binding intact. Above-average overall wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A worthy reading copy. Book
1984xix, 302 pages. Index. Chronology of selected events in French Imperial History. A bibliography on the French Military Overseas. Includes many hundreds of items categorized geographically. Former library copy with usual markings and somewhat above-average external wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this very informative reference. Book
1876214, [110 maps], 142 [index] pages. "The continual extension of commerce into new channels, the rapid growth of the colonial possessions of the British Empire, the recent territorial changes in several kingdoms, both of Europe and Asia, and the many discoveries of late years in various parts of the world, have created a demand for a new treatise in Descriptive and Political Geography." - Preface. "A capital atlas of maps clearly printed in colours, and at the very low price of one guinea. The maps are not only ancient, modern and historical, out of the Northern and Southern Constellations, and of the Planetary System - indeed, all that can be wanted in an ordinary library. This excellent book meets with our hearty approval." - The Publishers' Circular, August 3, 1875, p.526. All maps in colour with with many hinged to fold out. Includes indices with upwards of 50,000 names. Pattern of tanning marks upon endpapers suggests boards once bore a protective cover, which would account for their still brilliant gilt lettering. Narrow opening along front hinge. Dark maroon cloth decorated in black over bevelled boards is worn through along bottom edges, corners and, in spots, along backstrip. Most maps numbered in light pencil. Fold of World Map [#2] mostly open with two-inch opening affecting northern Europe. G.P. Putnam's Sons of New York appears to have also published this work in 1875. A quality copy of this marvelous Victorian era cartographic memento. Book
1960232 pages. Bilingual English/French text. Vintage black and white ads and reproductions of excellent archival photos. "Documents some of the important events in the development of St. Paul in order to recognize the contribution made by our pioneers." - Foreword. Average wear. Binding tight. Staple removed from front cover. Printed upon glossy stock which has moderately yellowed with age. A sound vintage copy of this excellent local history and useful genealogical reference. Strathern 2985. Krotki [2] 299. Book
1945A magazine for collectors and others interested in times past and in articles of daily use and adornment devised by the forefathers. Features: Frontispiece photo of English Delft in an American Setting; Some Notes on English Delft in the American Colonies; A Morse [painting] Puzzle; On Dating New England Houses - Part I - The 17th Century - Floor Plans and Framing; Painters of the Hudson River School; A Hudson Valley Portrait - The Moot Question of the "Master of the Stringy Hair"; Washington Square North; An Apartment on Washington Square - The Washington Square apartment of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene E. Dressner; George Washington Lived Here - Some Early Prints of Mount Vernon, Part II; and more. Many pages of nostalgic ads from a broad assortment of prominent dealers. Profusely illustrated with excellent black and white photos. pp. 129-192. Printed upon glossy stock. Unmarked with above-average wear. Covers detached but present. A worthy reference copy of this informative issue. Book
1987688p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
1940308p., illus. Inscribed by the author to Mr. Wheeler Baird on Jan. 31, 1946. Account of a Phillipine leper colony on Culion Island. Hardcover Good condition; spine faded! paper aged
1945194pp. 20 cm. Hardcover Ex-library, Good condition
1921337 p. front., plates, ports., fold. map, diagr. 23 cm. Hardcover Good condition, corners rounded, some wear to head of spine
1922287 p. front., plates, ports., fold. map, diagr. 23 cm. Hardcover Good condition, corners rounded, some wear to head of spine Inscribed by the author to T. Bentham
2005562pp. 24 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
18972 p., lxxii, 152 p. 19 cm Hardcover Very good condition
1995Previous owner's small neat label to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and the tiniest bump to upper front corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with a little creasing to edges and traces of storage. 570pp. A major study from the 16th century onwards in which ninety-five leading scholars from twenty-seven different countries consider a wide variety of issues including regional migration patterns.
1972No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. Very clean very tight pages with bright slightly marked boards, minor bump to spine foot and no bumping to corners. 50pp. Biography of the Englishwoman and social reformer who went to America in 1818, appalled by the conditions she saw in Britain. Her activities shocked her contemporaries, as among other her many campaigns, she lost half her personal fortune in a venture for setting up a community for freed slaves.
1967Ex reference library book with usual (minimal) marks and stamps. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked tape-free boards, faint browning/foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with very small nicks to edges. 43 county maps + 188pp. High quality facsimile reprint of the work previously published in 1743 with descriptions of England, Scotland, Wales, the American Colonies and the topography, industry, antiquities and principal towns of each of the Counties of England plus a little on the Electoral States (parts of present-day Europe) and on the African and Indian Settlements. A fascinating book.
1947Very slight marking to a few pages, no inscriptions. No creasing to covers, slight creasing to spine. A clean tight copy with dusty, slightly soiled boards and minor bumping to upper front corner. 400pp. A lavish work, probably written mainly to encourage immigration into Australia. It shows the country as a place with prospects. emphasising its industrial and employment potential, its leisure, wild Australia, its cities and with an extensive section of how Australia assisted the free world defeat Hitler in World War Two.
1960No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 246pp. The military build-up to the American War of Independance in the 18th century and Wolfe's fight for Quebec. Illustrated.
1993Paperback. Review copy with review slip enclosed. Text block clean and bright. Cover has minimal bookshelf damage to front cover edges. Light scratching "table wear" to rear of cover.
1893In-4°, due volumi, (5), CCXLII, 413, due carte pieghevoli (La Florida en el ano 1591, La Florida en el ano 1765), tavole; pp 801 Rilegatura in mezza pergamena con tasselli al dorso. Pedro Menendez de Aviles fu il primo governatore spagnolo della Florida, capo generale dell’Armada contro l’Inghilterra In-4°, two volumes, (5), CCXLII, 413, two folded maps (La Florida en el ano 1591, La Florida en el ano 1765), plates, pp 801. Half parchemine binding. Pedro Menendez de Aviles was the first Spanish governor of Florida, Chief General of the Armada against England
1858In -4°, pp. 595 con due mappe ripiegate più volte; pp. 509; XVI, 655, una mappa ripiegata più volte; XC, 416, con due tavv. (ritratto di Magellano e illustrazione della statua di Juan Sebastian de Elcano); (2), 501. Legatura in mezza pelle rossa con titoli e filetti dorati al dorso. Edizione composita, com’è consueto per quest’opera: i primi tre volumi (1858, 1859 e 1880) sono seconde edizioni; il quarto e il quinto sono prime edizioni (1837). Si tratta di una estesa raccolta dei primi e più rari documenti circa la scoperta del Nuovo mondo, a partire dalla fine del XV secolo e dall’impresa di Colombo. Le mappe ripiegate mostrano il Nord America e l’Atlantico (1), la “Tierra Firma” e le Indie occidentali (2), entrambe con la rotta seguita da Colombo, poi la Florida meridionale, Cuba e le “Tierre Firme”. Il quarto volume si occupa dei viaggi di Magellano e J.S. de Elcano alle Molucche, e comprende un ritratto inciso del primo e l’illustrazione di una statua del secondo. Il quinto volume parla delle spedizioni alle Molucche e i viaggi di Loaisa e Saavedra. Si può dire che questo lavoro è il primo ad aver dato luce, in maniera solida e organica, ai primi documenti circa la scoperta delle Americhe. A complex edition, as usual for this important work, the first collecting the most rare and ancient documents about Americas’ discover, since Columbus: the first 3 volumes are second editions, the 4th and 5th are first ones; it’s complete of the 3 maps and 2 plates.
1982142pp VG/none PB Prima edizione, in italiano. Brossura editoriale, minime tracce d’uso, nel complesso ottimo. Secondo volume della Nuova Serie “Quaderni dell’Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Tripoli”.
1680In -4°, pp. (40), 450, (42), frontespizio in cornice con vignetta, testo su due colonne; legatura in piena pergamena con titolo manoscritto al dorso, piccoli fori su un angolo del frontespizio, non intaccano testo e cornice. Nato in Bolivia, intorno al 1626, l’autore fu sacerdote a Sucre, prolifico scrittore teologo e predicatore. Small holes on a corner of title page, text and frame are untouched. Born in Bolivia around 1626 the author was a priest in Sucre, writer, theologist and preacher. ARch. S
1984Hardcover in good condition. Marked and edgeworn jacket with nicked and creased edges. The hardcover spine is slightly cocked with bumped spine ends. Faint stains on the BEP and closing few page edges. Contains marginalia/underlining in pencil; all text remains legible. The binding is sound. Used
2003Best.-Nr. 13022003 Paris: Karthala, 2003Un volume in-8 broché , 883 pages, 8 cartes, 32 planches h.-t. Bibliographie, index. LR13
