TWO CHAPTERS OF A LIFE. AMERICA BY COMPARISON AND OTHER ADDRESSES
by [A. W. Wallace]
Richmond, Va: Everett Waddey Company, 1913. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Two portrait plates, with foxing to the tissue guards only. Sunning to the spine. Red cloth with gilt lettering on the front board. Very Good binding.
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[MYSTERY] CAPTAINS OF SOULS
by Edgar Wallace
New York: A. L. Burt Company Publishers, 1922. Reprint Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. 8vo., in the publisher's red cloth with dustjacket; 362 pages; the jacket has some wear to the bottom corner at the flaps, and there is loss (about 1/8" x 5/8") to the spine just affecting the title a small amount.~~Overall... Read More
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THE NEW VIRGINIA JUSTICE, COMPRISING THE OFFICE AND AUTHORITY OF A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA. TOGETHER WITH A VARIETY OF USEFUL PRECEDENTS, ADAPTED TO THE LAWS NOW IN FORCE
by William Waller Hening
Richmond: Johnson & Warner, 1810. Second Edition. Full Leather. Good binding. The Second Edition of Hening's New Virginia Justice, an explanation and overview of the authority of a justice of the peace in Virginia at this time, including examples of legal forms, legal precedents, and the duties of a justice of the peace. Foxed throughout. Scuffing and wear... Read More
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![[DISBOUND] SOME SEASONABLE ANIMADVERSIONS ON EXCISES: OCCASIONED BY A PAMPHLET LATELY PUBLISH'D, ENTITULED CONSIDERATIONS OCCASION'D BY THE CRAFTSMAN. [WITH] SOME CONSIDERATIONS CONCERNING THE PUBLICK FUNDS, THE PUBLICK REVENES AND THE ANNUAL SUPPLIES, GRANTED BY PARLIAMENT ..](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/866/377/1591377866.0.m.jpg)
[DISBOUND] SOME SEASONABLE ANIMADVERSIONS ON EXCISES: OCCASIONED BY A PAMPHLET LATELY PUBLISH'D, ENTITULED CONSIDERATIONS OCCASION'D BY THE CRAFTSMAN. [WITH] SOME CONSIDERATIONS CONCERNING THE PUBLICK FUNDS, THE PUBLICK REVENES AND THE ANNUAL SUPPLIES, GRANTED BY PARLIAMENT ..
by [ANONYMOUS] | [ROBERT WALPOLE]
London: J. Wilford | J. Roberts, 1735. Very Good binding. 8vo; two disbound pamphlet, still attached to each other by the leather spine of the binding from which they were removed; 26 pages | 110 pages.~~The pamphlets being sold together. The first concerning excise taxes; the second, appropriations. Very Good binding.
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TAKE YOUR CHOICE
by Maurice Walsh
Philadelphia and New york: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1954. Hard Cover. Fine binding/Very Good dust jacket. Seven stories "across Irish town and country". The binding is clean, and really quite sharp. The dustjacket has shelfwear with minor creasing and loss. The dustjacket has not been price-clipped and is now protected with a new mylar cover.... Read More
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Ireland's Independence, 1880-1923
by Walsh, Oonagh
Florence, Kentucky, U.S.A.: Routledge, 2002. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. Near Fine binding / Near Fine dust jacket.
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MON VILLAGE, CEUX QUI N’OUBLIENT PAS
by Oncle Hansi (Jean-Jacques Waltz)
Paris: H. Floury, 1913. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Oblong quarto; in the publisher’s blue boards decorated in a pattern reminiscent of calico, with titling in gilt and in black, and a charming image of a young girl in Alsatian costume and in a variety of colors.; 31, [5] pages, with evocative illustrations, many of them... Read More
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LE PARADIS TRICOLORE. PETITES VILLES ET VILLAGE DE L'ALSACE
by Oncle Hansi (Jean-Jacques Waltz)
Paris: H. Fleury, 1918. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. Un peu de texte et beaucoup d'images pour les petits enfants allies" by "L'Oncle Hansi", otherwise known as Jean-Jacques Waltz, an Alstian artist and staunchly pro-French activist. As only the French can do, he started publishing in the early 1900's satirical works making fun of the... Read More
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[SIGNED] THE DUKE OF DECEPTION. MEMORIES OF MY FATHER
by Geoffrey Ward
New York: Random House, 1979. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Signed. Large 8vo.; in the publisher's tan paper-covered boards backed in white cloth, with dustjacket; this copy is signed by Geoffrey Wolff with a personal inscription on the title page; the binding has a stain (from coffee?) at the rear endpaper and the edge... Read More
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[HANDWRITING] THE SCRIPT OF HUMANISM. SOME ASPECTS OF HUMANISTIC SCRIPT, 1460-1560
by James Wardrop
Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1963. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. Quarto; in terra cotta cloth, with dustjacket; xiv, 57 pages; with 58 pages of plates; there is a previous owner bookplate on the rear pastedown.~~This is comprised of a series of lectures given at King’s College, London in March if 1952. In these... Read More
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![[HORSES] THE POCKET FARRIER. OR GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE IN THE MANAGEMENT OF HORSES UNDER VARIOUS DISEASES. WITH AN EXPLANATION OF THE SYMPTOMS ATTENDING THE DIFFERENT DISORDERS, AND THE SHORTEST, PLAINEST, AND MOST HUMANE METHODS OF CURING THEM. DIRECTIONS FOR THE JUDGING OF THE HORSE'S AGE, AND USEFUL OBSERVATIONS ON THE BREEDING, RAISING, AND TRAINING OF COLTS](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/340/114/1574114340.0.m.jpg)
[HORSES] THE POCKET FARRIER. OR GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE IN THE MANAGEMENT OF HORSES UNDER VARIOUS DISEASES. WITH AN EXPLANATION OF THE SYMPTOMS ATTENDING THE DIFFERENT DISORDERS, AND THE SHORTEST, PLAINEST, AND MOST HUMANE METHODS OF CURING THEM. DIRECTIONS FOR THE JUDGING OF THE HORSE'S AGE, AND USEFUL OBSERVATIONS ON THE BREEDING, RAISING, AND TRAINING OF COLTS
by James Ware
Richmond, VA: T. W. White, Printer, 1828. First Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Small octavo; in contemporary calf with a morocco label; frontispiece of a horse's skeleton; vi, [3], xiv-xvi, [1], 18-192, [1]; there is mild foxing throughout; three old cuts to the leather on the rear board, and with staining to the fore edge of the... Read More
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[CDV] [CIVIL WAR] UNION GENERALS CARTE DE VISITE
by H.F. Warren
Waltham, Mass, 1861. [CDV] [CIVIL WAR] General Winfield Scott and his staff. c.1861~~2 ½” x 4 ¼” carte-de-visite featuring Union generals. Lt. General Winfield Scott is at center, surrounded by Major General John Wool, Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon, Major General Nathanial P. Banks, Major General John A. Dix, General George B. McClellan, Major General Benjamin Butler, Major General J.C.... Read More
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OFFICIAL ARMY REGISTER, FOR 1849
by Secretary of War
Washington: Adjutant General's Office, 1849. Soft Cover. Good binding. Sewn paperback. Some loss and beginning of separation along the spine. Good binding.
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OFFICIAL ARMY REGISTER, FOR 1851
by Secretary of War
Washington: Adjutant General's Office, 1851. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. Sewn paperback. Minor loss and beginning of separation at the head and tail of the spine. With no marks; overall in Very Good condition. Very Good binding.
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OFFICIAL ARMY REGISTER, FOR 1841
by Secretary of War
Washington: Adjutant General's Office, 1841. Soft Cover. Good binding. Sewn paperback. Some loss along the spine. Good binding.
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OFFICIAL ARMY REGISTER, FOR SEPTEMBER, 1861
by Secretary of War
Washington: Adjutant General's Office, 1861. Half Leather. Good binding. Deaccessioned ex library copy, of the U.S. War Office. Library stamps and punchstamps on the title page, library bookplate and slip on the front endpapers, and white cloth reinforcement to the hinges. Interleaved with lined pages throughout. Originally half leather over marbled paper, rebacked with brown cloth. Good binding.... Read More
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OFFICIAL ARMY REGISTER, FOR 1842
by Secretary of War
Washington: Adjutant General's Office, 1842. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. Sewn paperback. Very small puncture would to the text, with no loss to the text. Minor loss at the tail of the spine. Very Good binding.
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OFFICIAL ARMY REGISTER, FOR 1852
by Secretary of War
Washington: Adjutant General's Office, 1852. Soft Cover. Good binding. Sewn paperback. Some loss at the head and tail of the spine. Good binding.
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OFFICIAL ARMY REGISTER, FOR 1855
by Secretary of War
Washington: Adjutant General's Office, 1855. Soft Cover. Good binding. Sewn paperback, now stapled. With a folding chart or diagram. Loss along the spine. Good binding.
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OFFICIAL ARMY REGISTER, FOR 1850
by Seretary of War
Washington: Adjutant General's Office, 1850. Soft Cover. Good binding. Sewn paperback. Contemporary owner's name on the front cover, with some spotting and soiling to the front and rear cover. Loss along the spine. Good binding.
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OFFICIAL ARMY REGISTER, FOR 1860
by U. S. Secretary of War
Washington: Adjutant General's Office, 1860. Half Leather. Good binding. Ex-library, with library bookplate on the front pastedown, library stamp on the title page, and library notations on the first page of text. Fully rebacked by a conservator using Japanese tissue. Half leather over red pebbled cloth. Red marbled endpapers. All edges red. Good binding.
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REPORTS OF CASES ARGUED AND DETERMINED IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF VIRGINIA. Volume I (only)
by Bushrod Washington
Philadelphia, PA: Abraham Small, 1823. Second Edition. Volume I only bound in contemporary calf with spine title. Moderate wear, with toning and staining throughout. Bushrod Washington was George Washington's nephew and a great favorite of his (in 1802, following the death of Martha Washington, he inherited Mount Vernon and resided there until his death. His case reports were... Read More
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[AUTOBIOGRAPHY] UP FROM SLAVERY
by Booker T. Washington
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1902. 8vo; in publisher’s burgundy cloth binding; with titling on the upper board and spine in gilt; ix, 330 pages including the Index; the boards have silverfishing and minor water damage to the bottom corners; there is a small amount of bleed to the pastedowns; ~~Early edition of Washington’s autobiography with his facsimile... Read More
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A NARRATIVE OF THE EXPEDITION TO BOTANY BAT WITH AN ACCOUNT OF NEW SOUTH WALES, ITS PRODUCTIONS, INHABITANTS, &C. TO WHICH IS SUBJOINED, A LIST OF THE CIVIL AND MILITARY ESTABLISHMENTS AT PORT JACKSON
by Captain Watkin Tench
Melbourne: Editions Renard, 2004. Facsimile Reprint. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. Facsimile type reprint of the first edition, first published in 1789 for J. Debrett. Reproducing one color portrait, one map,two views, and the original title page. With no marks. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine binding.
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GEESE IN THE FORUM
by Lawrence Edward Watkin
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. A clean First Edition copy of this novel about the world of academia by a sometime professor of English at Washington and Lee University as well as a screenwriter for the Disney studios. Binding is a bit cocked; lacking the dustjacket. Very... Read More
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