![[SHEET MUSIC] THE SIEGE OF GERONA, A DESCRIPTIVE AND MILITARY PIECE FOR THE PIANO FORTE WITH AN ACCOMPANIMENT FOR THE VIOLIN AND BASS. EL SITIO DE GERONA, PIEZA DESRIPTIVA Y MILITAR PARA EL PIANO FORTE CON ACOMPANHAMIENTO PARA EL VIOLIN Y BAXO POR PEDRO WELDON. | THE FAVOURITE BRAZILIAN WALTZ FOR THE PIANO FORTE WITH AN ACCT. FOR THE FLUTE CLARINET OR VIOLIN. FAVORITA WALTZ BRAZILENSE PARA PIANO FORTE CON ACOMPANHAMENTO DE FLAUTA](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/751/596/1302596751.0.m.0.jpg)
[SHEET MUSIC] THE SIEGE OF GERONA, A DESCRIPTIVE AND MILITARY PIECE FOR THE PIANO FORTE WITH AN ACCOMPANIMENT FOR THE VIOLIN AND BASS. EL SITIO DE GERONA, PIEZA DESRIPTIVA Y MILITAR PARA EL PIANO FORTE CON ACOMPANHAMIENTO PARA EL VIOLIN Y BAXO POR PEDRO WELDON. | THE FAVOURITE BRAZILIAN WALTZ FOR THE PIANO FORTE WITH AN ACCT. FOR THE FLUTE CLARINET OR VIOLIN. FAVORITA WALTZ BRAZILENSE PARA PIANO FORTE CON ACOMPANHAMENTO DE FLAUTA
by Pedro Weldon
[New York]: [Edward Riley] (Engraver), 1812. Two pieces for the piano forte by Pedro Weldon, who worked as a musician, teacher of music, and conductor in Jamaica and New York in the beginning of the 19th century. His works celebrate the Spanish military valor in the Peninsular War. With two engraved title pages, one for each piece, and engraved... Read More
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MEDICINE IN ANTIENT ERIN. AN HISTORICAL SKETCH FROM CELTIC TO MEDIAEVAL TIMES. (LECTURE MEMORANDA) (AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION)
by Henry Solomon Wellcome
London: Burroughs Wellcome & Co, 1909. First Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Lecture Memoranda from the American Medical Association's 1909 meeting in Atlantic City. Compiled by agents of Henry Wellcome, cofounder of the Burroughs Wellcome & Company. The 'Tabloid' brand offered by the company introduced medicine in compressed, tablet form to Britain, as well as direct marketing... Read More
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DIE KRANKENHEITEN DES MENSCHLICHEN AUGES, EIN HANDBUCH FUR ANGEHENDE AERZTE
by Carl Heinrich Weller
Berlin: In der Schuppel'schen Buchhandlung, 1822. Half Leather. Good binding. A copy of Weller's Die Krankenheiten des Menschlichen Auges, or 'the diseases of the eye.' Text in German. Five folding plates, four of which are in color, bound in at the rear. Library stamps on the verso of the title page, the first page of text, and page... Read More
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FIVE GALLONS OF GASOLINE
by Morris B. Wells
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1911. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding. A bright, near crisp, copy of the First Edition printing. Pale blue embossed cloth with white lettering. Pastedown and frontispiece by Harrison Fisher. A clean copy except for a small stain on the rear endpapers. Very Good+ binding.
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Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature, and in the Court for the Trial of Impeachments and the Correction of Errors of the state of New York (25 Volumes; Set)
by John L. Wendell
Albany: William Gould; Charles Van Benthuysen, 1840. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Volumes 1 - 25 of Wendell's Reports. The first 24 volumes are printed by Gould (a few are Second Printings) and the 25th was printed by Charles Van Benthuysen, also of Albany. This set from the law library of Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart --... Read More
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SCRAPBOOK OF THE WORK OF STOW WENGENROTH, LITHOGRAPHER
by Stow Wengenroth
[New York], 1932. Hard Cover. Good binding. Signed. A scrapbook of works by Stow Wengenroth, who is considered one of the finest American lithographers of the 20th Century, and was called "America's greatest living artist working in black and white" by the American painter, Andrew Wyeth. Signed by the artist on the front pastedown, with some dampstaining: "Stow... Read More
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THE DEATH AND BURIAL OF COCK ROBIN
by [Carol Wenk]
[Lakewood, Ohio]: Miniature Book Studio | Carol Wenk, 1978. First Edition. Full Leather. Near Fine binding. A micro book, 22 mm. tall. In brown flexible leather. 30 unnumbered pages. Title on p. [7]: An Elegy on the Death and Burial of Cock Robin. Near Fine binding.
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CHILDREN'S STORIES. | THE ELVES AND THE SHOEMAKER. PETER RABBIT
by Carol Wenk
Miniature Book Studio. Carol Wenk, n.d.. First Printing. Full Leather. Near Fine binding. A micro book, measuring 2.3 x 1.8 cm. Contains two children's stories: "The Elves and the Shoemaker," and "Peter Rabbit." A few full page illustrations. Text printed on recto only. Full red leather with gilt rules. Near Fine binding.
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![[PHILOSOPHY] THE WORKS OF BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX VOLUME SEVEN TREATISES III ON GRACE AND FREE CHOICE | IN PRAISE OF THE NEW KNIGHTHOOD](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/302/243/1718243302.0.m.jpg)
[PHILOSOPHY] THE WORKS OF BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX VOLUME SEVEN TREATISES III ON GRACE AND FREE CHOICE | IN PRAISE OF THE NEW KNIGHTHOOD
by Daniel O’Donovan | Bernard McGinn | Conrad Greenia | R. J. Zwi Werblosky
Kalamzoo: Cistercian Publications, 1977. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. Octavo; in the publisher’s green cloth binding; in and unclipped jacket; 171 pages with an Index in the rear; pencil notes in the margins. Near Fine binding / Near Fine dust jacket.
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THE OLD FACTORY: A Lancashire Story
by Westall, William
London; Paris; New York; Melbourne: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1885. Hard Cover. Good+ binding. From the library of the Improved Order of Red Men. Library bookplate attached to front paste-down. No other library markings. Previous owner's name written on rear paste-down. No pencil or ink markings in text. Brown decorated cloth binding with black... Read More
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THE JUGGER
by Richard Stark [Donald E. Westlake]
London: Allison & Busby, 1986. First Edition. Near Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. Signed. A bright First Edition, signed "Donald Westlake" on the title page. There are no other marks in the book. The dustjacket has not been price-clipped and is protected with a new mylar cover. Near Fine binding / Near Fine dust jacket.
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GENTRY NO. 22. SPRING 1957
by Christopher Freemantle | [Edward Weston]
Reporter Publications, Inc, 1957. This issue with articles by Felix Topolski on Elvis; W. Eugene Smith, The Walk to Paradise Garden; Chandler Brossard on Sugar Ray Robinson; James Beard on Cheese; and a section of Edward Weston Photographs.
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![[LITERATURE] THE GREAT HOUSE](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/039/981/1585981039.0.m.jpg)
[LITERATURE] THE GREAT HOUSE
by Stanley J. Weyman
New York: Longmans, Green and Co, 1919. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. 8vo.; in teal cloth with titling and decoration in orange; with a previous owner bookplate on the pastedown, and name penned on the endpaper as well as an old penned price; the dustjacket has the price printed on the spine, as... Read More
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![[SIGNED] [HISTORY] WOODEN TITAN. HINDENBERG IN TWENTY YEARS OF GERMAN HISTORY, 1914-1934](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/421/973/1680973421.0.m.jpg)
[SIGNED] [HISTORY] WOODEN TITAN. HINDENBERG IN TWENTY YEARS OF GERMAN HISTORY, 1914-1934
by John W. Wheeler-Bennett
New York: William Morrow & Co, 1934. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Signed. Large 8vo.; in the publihser’s grey cloth binding; 491 pages, including the Index; this copy with a personal inscription from~Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, the British historian who was a sometime professor at The Universiyt of Virginia, where this copy was almost certainly signed.~~The inscription... Read More
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MR. WHISTLER'S "TEN O'CLOCK.
by J. McNeill Whistler
New York: Ernest Dressel North | The Marion Press, 1908. Soft Cover. Fair binding. Published by Ernest Dressel North, and printed at the Marion Press. A speech by J. McNeill Whistler delivered in London, Feb. 20, 1885, at Cambridge, March 24, and at Oxford, April 30. Covers nearly fully separated along the spine, and detached from the text,... Read More
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THE SERAPH, A COLLECTION OF SACRED MUSIC, SUITABLE TO PUBLIC OR PRIVATE DEVOTION, CONSISTING OF THE MOST CELEBRATED PSALM AND HYMN TUNES, WITH SELECTIONS FROM THE WORKS OF HANDEL, HAYDN, MOZART, PLEYEL AND FAVORITE ENGLISH AND ITALIAN COMPOSERS. ADAPTED TO WORDS FROM MILTON, &C., TO WHICH ARE ADDED MANY ORIGINAL PIECES, COMPOSED, AND THE WHOLE ARRANGED FOR FOUR VOICES, WITH AN ACCOMPANIMENT FOR THE PIANO FORTE AND VIOLONCELLO
by John Whitaker
[London]: [Whitaker & Co.], 1818. First Edition. Full Leather. Fair binding. Two volumes bound together in one. Previously owned by Noah Knowles Davis of Philadelphia, his wife Mary Young, given to her before their marriage, and thereafter presented to their daughter, Marelle D. Brooks. Noah's father was a minister of the Baptist Tract Society, and early supporter of... Read More
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MY HEART AND MY HUSBAND
by Alma White
Zarephath, New Jersey, 1923. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. A book of poetry by the first female bishop in the United States, and founder of the racist Methodist sect, the Pillar of Fire Church. Under Alma White's direction in the 1920's and 30's, the Pillar of Fire Church formed a close, public bond with the KKK,... Read More
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BILL. A CHEERFUL DOG
by Frederick White
New York: Holiday Publishing, 1908. Hard Cover. Good binding. The adventures of a puppy whose motto was "Be Cheerful", told in verse and humorously illustrated. The binding has a discreet japanese tissue patch to the spine and has been toned; the pastedown has soiling and some "bleed" from the red binding. One leaf was torn... Read More
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![[SPECIAL PRESS] A LETTER ABOUT SIR THOMAS MORE FROM ERASMUS OF ROTTERDAM TO ULRICH HUTTON, DATER 23 JULY, 1519](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/836/319/1678319836.0.m.jpg)
[SPECIAL PRESS] A LETTER ABOUT SIR THOMAS MORE FROM ERASMUS OF ROTTERDAM TO ULRICH HUTTON, DATER 23 JULY, 1519
by Desiderius Erasmus; Ulrich von Hutton; LaVerne Madigan | [Philip Hofer] [Walter Muir Whitehill]
New York: NP, 1935. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Quarto; in paper-covered boards with gilt decoration and titling; [30] pages, with an elaborate border to the title page and an elaborate frontispiece portrait of Sir Thomas More.~~There is a significant gift inscription on the endpaper: “To Walter Muir Whitehill, Jr. from the designer, Philip Hofet. 6 April 1939.”... Read More
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![[TRADE CATALOGS] CATALOGUE OF OLD ENGLISH WOOD CARRIAGE AND WICKET GATES](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/662/790/1592790662.0.m.jpg)
[TRADE CATALOGS] CATALOGUE OF OLD ENGLISH WOOD CARRIAGE AND WICKET GATES
by John P. White
London: The Pyghtle Works, Bedford, 1908. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Oblong quarto; quarter gray cloth over gray printed paper covered boards, lettered in black;36 pages, with black and white illustrations throughout; there are. ome marginal measurement conversions into metric, in both pen and pencil, but no other marks in the book; the hinges have been... Read More
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![[AMHERST COUNTY] [VIRGINIA] FONDEST MEMORIES](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/421/386/1562386421.0.m.jpg)
[AMHERST COUNTY] [VIRGINIA] FONDEST MEMORIES
by Velma Mays White
Petersburg, Virginia: The Dietz Press, 2005. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine binding/Fine dust jacket. Quarto; in burgundy cloth with gilt titling and armorial decorations, with dustjacket; 170 pages, including blank leaves for notes; photoillustrated; there are no ownership notes of any kind.~~From the flap: "Fondest Memories" is a collection of treasured childhood memories growing up in the 1920s... Read More
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![[AMERICANA] KENTUCKY ANTE-BELLUM PORTRAITURE](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/346/501/1699501346.0.m.jpg)
[AMERICANA] KENTUCKY ANTE-BELLUM PORTRAITURE
by Edna Talbott Whitley
The Commonwealth of Kentucky, 1956. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Quarto; in the publisher’s blue cloth binding, with a bit of fade to the spine; xii, 848 pages with images of portraits throughout; there are no ownership marks in the book.~~This edition is limited to one thousand copies, of which this is number 734.~~An exhaustive and well-illustrated survey... Read More
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THE KINGPIN
by Tom Wicker
New York: William Sloane Associates, 1953. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Fair dust jacket. Signed. A copy of Tom Wicker's first published work in his own name, The Kingpin, signed with a personal inscription on the front endpaper. The inscription reads: "For Nancy and Bill McLaughlin - - this product of a misspent youth - - with great affection."... Read More
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![[SPECIAL PRESS] OUR LADY'S TUMBLER. A TWELFTH CENTURY LEGEND DONE OUT OF OLD FRENCH](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/017/447/1572447017.0.m.jpg)
[SPECIAL PRESS] OUR LADY'S TUMBLER. A TWELFTH CENTURY LEGEND DONE OUT OF OLD FRENCH
by P. H. [Philip Henry] Wicksteed
Privately Printed for Stanford Briggs Inc, 1923. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 8vo.; in printed paper-covered boards; 30 pages with illustrations; with leading and bottom edges roughcut; there is a trace of foxing to the leading edge. trace of minimal wear to the edges of the spine.~~Issued in a limited edition numbered by hand: "This is... Read More
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AN ILLUSTRATION OF THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CHESTER
by Charles Wild
London: printed by W. Bulmer and Co. for the author, 1813. Quarter Leather. near Very Good binding. 6pp. Complete with 6 engraved plates including the plan and both interior and exterior views; rebound in 20th century morocco with pebbled cloth over boards; dampstaining to the interior, most visible on the engravings, particularly the plan of the church; else... Read More
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