![[TRAVEL] [SOUTH] AMERICA AND THE AMERICANS-](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/929/979/1464979929.0.m.jpg)
[TRAVEL] [SOUTH] AMERICA AND THE AMERICANS-
by Achille Murat | Henry J. Bradfield (Editor and Translator)
New York: William H. Graham, 1849. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 8vo.; in the publisher's brown embossed cloth with titling in gilt to the spine; [2] preliminary leaves, vii, [9]-260 pages; with no ownership or other marks of any kind; the endpapers have been cleaned by a conservator.~~The First Edition in English of Achille Murat's... Read More
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![[MILITARY] PEGASUS BRIDGE. 6 JUIN 1944 [French Language]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/618/340/1565340618.0.m.jpg)
[MILITARY] PEGASUS BRIDGE. 6 JUIN 1944 [French Language]
by Stephen E. Ambrose | Arlette Gondree Pritchett [Translator]
Dives-sur-Mer, Normandie: Edition France Horizon, 1987. First French Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Signed. 8vo.; in the publisher's burgundy cloth, with a white "Pegasus" stamped to the upper board and titling in white to the spine, with dusjtacket; this copy is signed on the title page by the translator, Arlette Gondree Pritchett and dated... Read More
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LE DECAMERON DE MAISTRE IEAN BOCACE FLORENTIN. TRADVICT D'ITALIEN EN FRANCOIS, PAR M. ANTOINE LE Maçon, CONSEILLER DU ROY, & TRESORIER DE L'EXTRAORDINAIRE DE SES GUERRES
by Giovanni Boccaccio | Antoine le Maçon (Translator)
A Paris: Chez Iacqves Langlois, au mont sainct Hylaire, 1629. Early Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. An early edition of Antoine le Maçon's French translation of Boccaccio's Decameron. A classic of Renaissance literature, containing 100 tales by numerous narrators, set in the time of Florentine's affliction with the Black Death. Title page vignette; engraved headpieces and initials.... Read More
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SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF A SOLDIER IN ACTIVE SERVICE. I. AUSTRIAN CAMPAIGN IN PIEDMONT, 1849; II. NOTICE OF THE DEFENCE OF TEMESWAR. III. THE CAMP OF THE BAN
by [Friedrich Wilhelm Hacklander] | [Francis Egerton Ellesmere] [Translator]
London: John Murray, 1850. First English Edition. Hard Cover. Good binding. Signed. 8vo.; in publisher's green embossed cloth, with titling at the spine in gilt; xvi; 245 pages; with folding map at the rear of the book; the gutter between the first blank leaf and the title page is cracked but holding well. A previous owner has... Read More
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![[SPECIAL PRESS] KASCHUBISCHES WEIHNACHTSLIED [CHRISTMAS SONG]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/852/395/1569395852.0.m.0.jpg)
[SPECIAL PRESS] KASCHUBISCHES WEIHNACHTSLIED [CHRISTMAS SONG]
by Werner Bergengruen | Ursula Arndt [Artist]; Gertrude C. Shwebell (Translator)
Zurich: Die Arche, 1979. Hard Cover. Fine binding. Square 8vo; in the publisher’s coarse linen weave cloth binding, with pictorial onlay to the upper board; 26 unnumbered pages with illustrations on the rectos, text on the facing page; with the English translation of the text in a pocket in the back cover; this is number 9 of 40... Read More
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![LES EPISTRES DE SENEQUE [SENEQVE], TRADVITES, PAR MRE FRANCOIS DE MALHERBE, GENTIL-HOMME ORDINAIRE DE LA CHAMBRE DU ROY](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/897/204/1188204897.0.m.jpg)
LES EPISTRES DE SENEQUE [SENEQVE], TRADVITES, PAR MRE FRANCOIS DE MALHERBE, GENTIL-HOMME ORDINAIRE DE LA CHAMBRE DU ROY
by Lucius Annaeus Seneca | Francois de Malherbe (Translator)
Paris: Chez Anthoine de Sommaville, 1648. Early Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Francois de Malherbe's translation into French of the Letters of Seneca. First published in 1637, this being an enlarged reprint. Portrait frontispiece; printer's device on the title page; engraved initials and headpieces. Faint dampstaining to a section of the fore edge of the text block.... Read More
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THE EPISTLES OF PHALARIS TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK TO WHICH ARE ADDED, SOME SELECT EPISTLES OF THE MOST EMINENT GREEK WRITERS
by Phalaris | Thomas Francklin (Translator)
London: R. Francklin, 1749. First Edition. Quarter Leather. Very Good binding. Letters attributed to that nastiest of tyrants, Phalaris. "R. Bentley proved that they were spurious and dated from perhaps the 2nd cent. A.D. There is an echo of the controvery in Swift's The Battle of the Books." [The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature]. ... Read More
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L'OFFRANDE LYRIQUE (GITANJALI)
by Rabindranath Tagore | Andre Gide (Translator)
[France]: Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1913. First French Edition. Quarter Leather. Very Good binding. Signed. First French Edition of Andre Gide's translation of Gitanjali, a collection of poems by Rabindranath Tagore, limited to 500 numbered copies. Signed by Gide on the half title. Tagore won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for this collection, which the Nobel committee... Read More
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A GRAMMAR OF THE ICELANDIC OR OLD NORSE TONGUE
by Erasmus Rask | George Webbe Dasent (Translator)
London: Williams & Northgate, 1843. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Issued the same year as the Pickering edition, this translation of Erasmus Rask's Grammar is from the Swedish. It was published in Stockholm in 1818, and is an important work in Icelandic studies. "Rask's 'Guide to the Icelandic' or old Nordic Language' was the first of an... Read More
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![[RICHMOND] A TALE OF THREE CHURCHES. SAINT ANDREW’S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA 1849-1970](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/923/011/1632011923.0.m.jpg)
[RICHMOND] A TALE OF THREE CHURCHES. SAINT ANDREW’S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA 1849-1970
by Donald R. Traser
[Richmond, Va.]: Saint Andrew’s United Methodist Church, 1980. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. 8vo.; in the publisher’s purple cloth binding, with titling in gold; 137 pages, including the Index; with black and white photographic illustrations.~~There are no marks of any kind in the book. Near Fine binding.
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![[BOOKS WITHOUT WORDS] ZWANZIG AUSGEWAHLTE HOLZSCHNITTE](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/919/641/1616641919.0.m.jpg)
[BOOKS WITHOUT WORDS] ZWANZIG AUSGEWAHLTE HOLZSCHNITTE
by Daniel Traub
Mulheim: R. Kobler, 1946. Original Wrappers. Very Good binding. Oblong 12mo.; in sewn printed wrappers; with woodcut illustrations throughout and without text; there a no ownership marks of any kind.~~An uncommon "Book without Words"; we find no copies in commerce as of August 21, 2024, and only two institutional holdings, both in Germany. Very Good binding.
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THE CHRISTIAN'S GUIDE. : BEING A COLLECTION OF SCRIPTURE TEXTS, ON ALMOST EVERY SUBJECT; DOCTRINAL, PRACTICAL, AND EXPERIMENTAL; WITHOUT NOTE OR COMMENT
by Thomas Tresize
Marietta, O[hio]: I. Moxon, 1838. Second Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. First printed in 1819 in Zanesville, this is the Second Printing, issued by Tresize with a new Preface in which Tresize expresses his hope that this little book will be "a sure guide, and infallible rule of faith and practice." Bound in tree calf, with... Read More
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NIEDERLANDISCHE MALEREI DES FUNFZEHNTEN UND SECHZEHNTEN JAHRHUNDERTS
by Ernst Gunter Troche
Berlin: Kurt Wolff, 1935. Quarter Leather. Very Good binding. Bound in quarter vellum over marbled boards, with vellum at the leading edges. With vellum bands at the joints. With 104 plates with captioned tissue guards (a couple of light stains to the edge of the tissue guards only). A clean copy of this most attractively bound... Read More
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CHEMISCHE RECEPTIRKUNST ODER TASCHENBUCH FUR PRACTISCHE AERZTE, WEICHE BEY DEM VERORDNEN DER ARZNEYEN FEHLER IN CHEMISCHER UND PHARMACEUTISCHER HINSICHT VERMEIDEN WOLLEN
by Johann Bartholomaus Tromsdorff
Erfurt: Beyer und Maring, 1802. Early Printing. Very Good binding. An early printing of Trommsdorff's Chermical Pocketbook, first printed by Beyer und Maring five years earlier. Trommsdorf's monumental and important work was his Systematic Handbook of the Whole of Chemistry, published in 8 volumes. Very Good binding.
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LITTLE BELLES AND BEAUX
by Francis Brundage; Elizabeth S. Tucker
London and New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1896. With numerous full-page color-plates after paintings in water-colors by Francis Brundage; and with decorative borders and other designs together with new stories and verses by Elizabeth S. Tucker. Pictorial paper-covered boards backed in blue cloth. Some wear to the bottom edge of the boards and wear to the... Read More
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![[PHILOSOPHY] THE RIGHTS OF WAR AND PEACE POLITICAL THOUGHT AND INTERNATIONAL ORDER FROM GROTIUS TO KANT](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/632/732/1680732632.0.m.jpg)
[PHILOSOPHY] THE RIGHTS OF WAR AND PEACE POLITICAL THOUGHT AND INTERNATIONAL ORDER FROM GROTIUS TO KANT
by Richard Tuck
Oxford University Press, 1999. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. 8vo; in the publisher’s black cloth binding; with titling on the spine in gilt; (8), 1-243 pages; in a very good dust jacket with some minor signs of wear; there are previous owners annotations in pencil throughout. Near Fine binding / Very Good+ dust jacket. ... Read More
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![[CHILDREN] PUMPKIN MOONSHINE](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/303/485/1606485303.0.m.jpg)
[CHILDREN] PUMPKIN MOONSHINE
by Tasha Tudor
New York: Oxford University Press, 1943. Second Printing. Very Good binding. Signed. A Second Printing of Tasha Tudor's first book in the "Calico Series", signed and dated: "To Sally | Best wishes! | Tasha Tudor | 1977". Previous owner name pencilled in the ownership box on the pastedown. An attractive copy, but lacking the dustjacket. Very Good binding.... Read More
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A POLITICAL MOTHER GOOSE
by Paul Johnson [Walter P. Tulley]
New York: Non-Partisan Press, 1932. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Good dust jacket. An engaging little book of satirical politcal cartoons from the Great Depression. A clean copy with no marks of any kind. The dustjacket has shelfwear, and minor loss at the top of the spine, not affecting the text. It is not... Read More
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![THE NAKED TRUTH. OR, THE TRUE STATE OF THE PRIMITIVE CHURCH BY AN HUMBLE MODERATOR [bound with] ANIMADVERSIONS UPON A LATE PAMPHLET ENTITULED, THE NAKED TRUTH. OR, THE TRUE STATE OF THE PRIMITIVE CHURCH [SECOND EDITION]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/710/018/513018710.0.m.1.jpg)
THE NAKED TRUTH. OR, THE TRUE STATE OF THE PRIMITIVE CHURCH BY AN HUMBLE MODERATOR [bound with] ANIMADVERSIONS UPON A LATE PAMPHLET ENTITULED, THE NAKED TRUTH. OR, THE TRUE STATE OF THE PRIMITIVE CHURCH [SECOND EDITION]
by Herbert Croft; Francis Turner]
[London]: 1675 // London: printed by T. R. and sold by Benj. Tooke, 1676, 1675. Full Leather. Very Good binding. [6], 64, [8], 48, 51-66. Two pamphlets bound together in contemporary Cambridge panel binding; discrete repair to the bottom of the front joint; small leather loss at the head of the spine; Naked Truth is lacking the last... Read More
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![[ASIA] TWO YEARS OF NATIONALIST CHINA](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/847/161/1490161847.0.m.jpg)
[ASIA] TWO YEARS OF NATIONALIST CHINA
by Min-Ch'ien T. Z. Tyau
Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh Limited, 1930. 8vo. (8 3/4" x 6"); in the publisher's blue cloth binding, without a dustjacket; 507 pages, including Appendices; the binding is spotted, with tears at the top of the spine; with illustrations, some in color, facsimiles, portraits, maps, including a large folding map at the back of the book.~~Chinese politics and government.~~. ... Read More
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![[RELIGION] [VIRGINIA] THE DISCIPLES OF CHRIST IN VIRGINIA. A PRESENTATION OF THEIR MISSION, THEIR STATUS, THE CARE OF THEIR CHURCHES, THINGS WANTING IN THEIR WORK, THEIR VIEWS OF CHURCH DISCIPLINE AND MINISTERIAL QUALIFICATIONS, TOGETHER WITH A BRIEF DISCUSSION OF THEIR ATTITUDE TOWARD OTHERS](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/992/753/1615753992.0.m.jpg)
[RELIGION] [VIRGINIA] THE DISCIPLES OF CHRIST IN VIRGINIA. A PRESENTATION OF THEIR MISSION, THEIR STATUS, THE CARE OF THEIR CHURCHES, THINGS WANTING IN THEIR WORK, THEIR VIEWS OF CHURCH DISCIPLINE AND MINISTERIAL QUALIFICATIONS, TOGETHER WITH A BRIEF DISCUSSION OF THEIR ATTITUDE TOWARD OTHERS
by J. Z. Tyler
Richmond, Va: Christian Examiner Print, 1879. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good binding. 8vo.; in the publisher's brown cloth binding[ 1], 2-130 pages; an ex-library copy with an institutional blindstamp (Lynchburg College Library), faded call numbers on the spine, and remnants of a pocket on the rear pastedown on which is penned duplicate; the board are worn, and their... Read More
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![[COOKING] HOUSEKEEPING IN OLD VIRGINIA](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/497/788/1615788497.0.m.jpg)
[COOKING] HOUSEKEEPING IN OLD VIRGINIA
by Marion Cabell Tyree
Louisville, Ky: John P. Morton and Company, 1890. Early Printing. Hard Cover. Good binding. 8vo.; in the original boards though you would hardly know (old plain paper cover adhered to the original boards -- and we mean adhered); this copy rebacked; xviii, [1], 2-528 pages, including the Index; followed by lined pages for recipes (two have been partially... Read More
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ANALYSIS DES BROWNISCHEN SYSTEMS DER HEILKUNDE
by Johann Ulrich
Wien: Fr. Ant. Schrambl, 1800. First Edition. Ulrich's Analysis of the Brownian System of Medicine, that is the theory of John Brown who postulated that pathological anatomy showed only changeable forms of disease, dismissing any notion of diseases as separate entities. An uncommon title, with 3 copies located in OCLC. Bound in marbled boards with paper spine... Read More
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![FOLKLORE & MYTHOLOGY] HISTORIA DE NERUDIN Y DE LA BELLA PERSA Y DEL PRINCIPE CAMARALZAMAN Y LA PRINCESA BADURA. CUENTOS ARABES](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/954/651/831651954.0.m.jpg)
FOLKLORE & MYTHOLOGY] HISTORIA DE NERUDIN Y DE LA BELLA PERSA Y DEL PRINCIPE CAMARALZAMAN Y LA PRINCESA BADURA. CUENTOS ARABES
by Pedro Umbert
Barcelona: Henrich Y Co, 1913. Very Good binding. An uncommon translation of these Arab tales -- The Story of Nerudin and the Beautiful Princess Camaralzaman Badura. With both in text and full page engraved illustrations. Scattered foxing throughout. We locate 3 copies only on OCLC, all in Spain. Bound in red cloth with gilt titling to the spine.... Read More
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OMAR; DESIGNED TO ILLUSTRATE THE JEWISH HISTORY FROM B. C. 63, TO THE BIRTH OF CHRIST
by American Sunday-School Union
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1835. Quarter Leather. Very Good binding. The American Sunday-School Union's edition of Omar: Designed to Illustrate the Jewish History from B.C. 63 to the Birth of Christ. Engraved frontispiece and additional in text illustrations. Sunday School name and number on the front pastedown, in ink. Scattered foxing. Quarter red leather, with gilt lettering, over... Read More
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