![[FENS] [ENGLAND] AN ANSWER TO A BOOK INTITULED "AN INQUIRY INTO FACTS AND OBSERVATIONS ... INTO THE PRINCIPLES OF A BILL INTENDED TO BE OFFERED TO PARLIAMENT, FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE GREAT LEVEL OF THE FENS ... WHEREIN THE CLAIM OF THE ADVENTURERS ON THE NAVIGATIONS, FOR ASSISTANCE IN DRAINING AND PRESERVING THE FENS, IS IMPARTIALLY INQUIRED INTO ..](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/489/441/1576441489.0.m.jpg)
[FENS] [ENGLAND] AN ANSWER TO A BOOK INTITULED "AN INQUIRY INTO FACTS AND OBSERVATIONS ... INTO THE PRINCIPLES OF A BILL INTENDED TO BE OFFERED TO PARLIAMENT, FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE GREAT LEVEL OF THE FENS ... WHEREIN THE CLAIM OF THE ADVENTURERS ON THE NAVIGATIONS, FOR ASSISTANCE IN DRAINING AND PRESERVING THE FENS, IS IMPARTIALLY INQUIRED INTO ..
London: H. Goldney for T. Cadell in the Strand, 1778. Quarter Leather. Very Good binding. 8vo.; in later quarter calf over contemporaray marbled boards, with the spine lettered in gilt, and with new endpapers; 130 pages.~~It appears that Parliament had gotten quite exercised on the issue of draining the fens. Very Good binding.
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OLDSMOBILE DEALER TECHNICAL INFORMATION BULLETIN. 80 ISSUES. 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955 & 1958
Oldsmobile | General Motors, 1958. A large number of Oldsmobile Technical Information Bulletins: 2 from 1952; 36 from 1953; 23 from 1954; 21 from 1955 and 1 rather lengthy manual form 1958. All hole punched and stored in a three ring notebook. A total of about 80 of the Information Bulletins issued by Oldsmobile in the 1950's.... Read More
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OFFICIAL ARMY REGISTER, CORRECTED TO AUGUST 31, 1847
Washington: Adjutant General's Office, 1847. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. Sewn paperback. Beginning of separation along the spine. Very Good binding.
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KOMMUNIONBUCHLEIN ZU EINEM GESCHENT FUR JUNGE TISCHGENOSSEN UNSERS HERRN JESUS CHRISTI
Burghart: Basel Und Gorlik, 1804. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Black paper-covered boards. Very Good binding.
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![[STOCK CERTIFICATE] THE OLD DOMINION SUGAR REFINING COMPANY. 1872](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/476/719/952719476.0.m.jpg)
[STOCK CERTIFICATE] THE OLD DOMINION SUGAR REFINING COMPANY. 1872
Certificate for twenty shares of $100 each in the Old Dominion Sugar Refining Company, dates April 11, 1872. Signed by the President of the Company, Charles T. Wortham, and the Treasurer John E. Womble. Certificate issued to Talbott & Sons, a Richmond manufacturing company.
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![[PAMPHLET] OBSERVATIONS UPON THE ACT FOR THE REDEMPTION OF THE LAND TAX: SHEWING THE BENEFITS LIKELY TO ARISE FROM THE MEASURE, BOTH TO THE PUBLIC AND TO THE INDIVIDUALS](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/848/290/1582290848.0.m.jpg)
[PAMPHLET] OBSERVATIONS UPON THE ACT FOR THE REDEMPTION OF THE LAND TAX: SHEWING THE BENEFITS LIKELY TO ARISE FROM THE MEASURE, BOTH TO THE PUBLIC AND TO THE INDIVIDUALS
London: Bunney, Thompson and Co, 1798. Very Good binding. 8vo; in much later marbled wrappers; [2]. 46 pages.~~The Land Tax was made a permanent charge on the land in 1798. However future liability might be mitigated by a lump sum payment or by the purchase of government stock.~~A uncommon pamphlet. Very Good binding.
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![[PETERSBURG; MOVIE THEATER] 78 GLASS ADVERTISING SLIDES](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/734/910/1274910734.0.m.jpg)
[PETERSBURG; MOVIE THEATER] 78 GLASS ADVERTISING SLIDES
A treasure trove of 78 glass advertising slides for use in a Petersburg movie theater in the 1920's or 1930's. These would have been flashed up on the screen before and after the movie, and perhaps during the movie when the reels were being changed. They are rather crudely handpainted and lettered, adding to their local charms.... Read More
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![[DOMESTIC ARTS] COOKERY] WINKELMANN & BROWN RECEIPT BOOK AND MEDICAL GUIDE](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/847/543/1680543847.0.m.jpg)
[DOMESTIC ARTS] COOKERY] WINKELMANN & BROWN RECEIPT BOOK AND MEDICAL GUIDE
Baltimore, MD, 1900. 7 ½” X 5” softcover cookbook with two ads laid in and numerous pencil annotations throughout. Cover separating from binding and wear around edges, otherwise good. ~~Winkelmann & Brown Drug Company in Baltimore, Maryland sold patent cures advertised throughout this cookbook, such as Dr. Kierstead’s King Of All Pain and Quintoleo, “the Great Malaria Antidote and... Read More
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THE MISSISSIPPI A. AND M. FORUM. FORMERLY SHOP TALK. VOLUME II. NUMBERS 1-9. JANUARY-SEPTEMBER. (ONE VOLUME)
1920. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. The January through September issues of The Mississippi A&M Forum, Volume II, 1920. With detailed information about the college, and statistics from the post World War I era. With a few namestamps on the preliminaries, bookplate on the front pastedown, and one blank leaf filled with handwritten notes on the number of... Read More
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![BLUE BOOK OF MODEL RAILROAD PRACTICE [WITH] SPECIAL HANDBOOK SERIES ..](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/652/728/1342728652.0.m.jpg)
BLUE BOOK OF MODEL RAILROAD PRACTICE [WITH] SPECIAL HANDBOOK SERIES ..
The Blue Book is in a binder with several issues of Model Railroader's Special Handbook Series. The sections included in this Blue Book are: Benchwork; Track Measurements and Elements; Electrical; Locomotives; Cars; Bridges & Structures; Scenery; Painting & Finishing; Special Data; and Tools. The issues of Model Railroader's Special Handbook Series include Number 1, Maintenance; Number... Read More
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![[EDITION DELUXE] LONGFELLOW PORTFOLIO, BEING A SELECTION OF SEVENTY-FIVE ARTIST PROOFS FROM THE ORIGINAL WOOD-CUTS ILLUSTRATING THE NEW SUBSCRIPTION EDITION OF LONGFELLOW'S POETICAL WORKS](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/189/781/725781189.0.m.2.jpg)
[EDITION DELUXE] LONGFELLOW PORTFOLIO, BEING A SELECTION OF SEVENTY-FIVE ARTIST PROOFS FROM THE ORIGINAL WOOD-CUTS ILLUSTRATING THE NEW SUBSCRIPTION EDITION OF LONGFELLOW'S POETICAL WORKS
Houghton Mifflin, 1881. Three Quarters Leather. Very Good+ binding. A beautiful copy of the Longfellow Portfolio [Deluxe Edition] bound in three quarter morocco over green pebbled cloth. All edges gilt. All of the numbered plates are present, but none have the artist's pencilled signature. The subscriber's list is not present. We believe that this is most... Read More
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![[CHILDREN] SUNDAY READING FOR THE YOUNG](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/723/881/1586881723.0.m.jpg)
[CHILDREN] SUNDAY READING FOR THE YOUNG
New York: E. P. Dutton and Co, 1882. Pictorial Boards. Very Good binding. Large 8vo; in pictorial boards with a colorful lithographic cover. iv, [1]- 412 pages; with many fullpage as well as some intext steel-engraved illustrations;~the frontispiece is a chromolithograph, as are the pictorial boards designed a bit in the style of Kate Greenaway; there is a... Read More
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![[EPHEMERA] QUEEN VICTORIA INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION RIBBON](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/684/245/1671245684.0.m.jpg)
[EPHEMERA] QUEEN VICTORIA INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION RIBBON
1862. A woven silk ribbon with the image of Queen Victoria manufactured by Wahl & Socin in 1862 International Exhibition 4 3/4” x 3”; minimal staining across the top edge~~Officially know as the London International Exhibition of Industrial Art or the Great London Exposition was a world’s fair sponsored by the Royal Society of Arts, Manufacturers, and Trade. ... Read More
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![[ENGRAVER'S PLATE] [RICHMOND] A HANDSOME HOUSE IN WINDSOR FARMS, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/936/746/1451746936.0.m.jpg)
[ENGRAVER'S PLATE] [RICHMOND] A HANDSOME HOUSE IN WINDSOR FARMS, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA
An engraver's plate mounted on wood of a handsome Richmond home in the Windsor Farms area. The wooden mount is 3 1/4 x 6 1/4.
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![[VIRGINIA LAW] JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES OF VIRGINIA. SESSION OF 1847-48](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/230/402/1471402230.0.m.jpg)
[VIRGINIA LAW] JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES OF VIRGINIA. SESSION OF 1847-48
Richmond: Samuel Shepherd Public Printer, 1847. Half Leather. Large 8vo (9 3/8" x 6"); in half black calf over morocco boards (rebacked with japanese tissue with the original spine laid down; morocco title label present); [3]. 4-564 pages, including the Index; with the bookplate of the Cochran Library at Sweet Briar College (and with the cataloguer's assurance that this... Read More
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NEW YORK DAY AND NIGHT
New York: Harry D. Copp, 1939. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. A pocket guide book for New York and the World's Fair, in 1939. With a folding map of the World's Fair. Housed in the publisher's paper sleeve. Very Good binding.
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![THE MIRROR. A PERIODICAL PAPER ... VOL. II OF THREE [WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/253/622/852622253.0.m.jpg)
THE MIRROR. A PERIODICAL PAPER ... VOL. II OF THREE [WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION]
London: A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1787. Seventeenth Edition. Very Good binding. A copy with a Washington association. On the pastedown is the signature of S. Tayloe Washington, signed again on the title page as Sarah Tayloe. Sarah Tayloe Washington was the third wife of Capt. William Augustine Washington, whose father, Augustine Washington II was the... Read More
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![[WOMEN] [THEATER] CABINET CARD OF MISS IRENE WOODWARD](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/851/543/1680543851.0.m.jpg)
[WOMEN] [THEATER] CABINET CARD OF MISS IRENE WOODWARD
Richmond, VA, 1875. Chicago, IL: 1880s. 6 ½” x 4 ¼”. Fair.~~Cabinet card with printed signature of Miss Irene Woodward, “America’s Original Tattooed Lady”. Known as La Belle Irene, she toured America and Europe. She claimed variously to have been tattooed by her father or abducted by tribesmen in the “South Seas”, she was actually tattooed by Samuel F.... Read More
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![[CIVIL WAR] PETERSBURG | CHANCELLORSVILLE | GETTYSBURG. [PAPERS OF THE MILITARY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MASSACHUSETTS. VOLUME V]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/659/776/1684776659.0.m.jpg)
[CIVIL WAR] PETERSBURG | CHANCELLORSVILLE | GETTYSBURG. [PAPERS OF THE MILITARY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MASSACHUSETTS. VOLUME V]
Boston: The Military Historical Society of Massachusetts, 1906. First Edtiion. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Small quarto; in the publisher’s blue cloth with insignia in gilt to the upper board and titling to the spine; vi, [vii, viii], [2], 3-442; followed by 4 maps in the rear of the book: “Cold Harbor to Petersburg”; “Petersburg Fortifications”; “Petersburg to... Read More
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![[SAMMELBAND] VIRGINIA ISSUES 1848-1892. 19 PAMPHLETS BOUND TOGETHER IN ONE](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/541/061/1298061541.0.m.jpg)
[SAMMELBAND] VIRGINIA ISSUES 1848-1892. 19 PAMPHLETS BOUND TOGETHER IN ONE
1892. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. A collection of 19 Virginia pamphlets, published from the 1840's to the early 1890s. Being three female college catalogues, nine 'Proceedings' of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Virginia, three issues of the 'Educational Journal of Virginia,' a Senate document on 'Improvements to the State of Virginia' (1848), an early Reconstruction-era 'Constitution of... Read More
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![[GUTENBERG] LIBER LIBRORUM. 500th ANNIVERSARY OF THE PRINTING OF THE GUTENBERG BIBLE](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/044/028/1715028044.0.m.jpg)
[GUTENBERG] LIBER LIBRORUM. 500th ANNIVERSARY OF THE PRINTING OF THE GUTENBERG BIBLE
Stockholm Royal Library, 1955. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Portfolio in paper-covered boards backed in linen; with printed card stock pamphlet and 42 samples of printing of the Book of Genesis; the portfolio itself is rubbed and the linen is foxed; the 43 samples are fine. Very Good binding.
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BOSTON. STATE HOUSE AND PARK STREET STOP. BLIZZARD FEBRUARY 1898
An albumen photograph of a major snowstorm in February 1898, showing a most wintry view of the State House and Boston Common, and a very early image of the Park Street Subway stop. The Park Street Station was one of three, along with the Public Garden and Boylston. The subway opened in the Fall of 1897, and this image... Read More
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OFFICIAL ARMY REGISTER, FOR 1854
Washington: Adjutant General's Office, 1854. Soft Cover. Poor binding. Sewn paperback, with significant paper reinforcement along the spine, and textblock and covers nearly fully separated and disbound. Folding diagram. Contemporary owner's name on the front cover. Poor binding.
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BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW: Volume XVIII - Containing Life Sketches of Leading Citizens of PLYMOUTH COUNTY Massachusetts
Boston: Biographical Review Publishing Company, 1897. First Edition. Hard Cover. near Very Good binding. 638pp. Rare; copiously illustrated with black and white photos of prominent citizens; no pencil or ink markings evident in text; black leather binding, light edge wear to extremities; re-backed;. near Very Good binding.
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THE LORD'S PRAYER. MATTHEW 6:9 THROUGH 13
The Press of Ward Schori, 1982. Full Leather. Near Fine binding. Oblong miniature books (1 3/8" x 2 5/8")maroon leather stamped in gilt; marbled endpapers; all edges gilt. Near Fine binding.
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