ESCUELA DE ARQUITECTURA CIVIL. | EN QUE SE CONTIENEN LOS ORDENES DE ARQUITECTURA, LA DISTRIBUCION DE LOS PLANOS DE TEMPLOS Y CASAS, Y EL CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS MATERIALES
by Atanasio Genaro Brizguz y Bru
Valencia: Joseph de Orga, 1804. First Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. A clean copy. Bound in tree calf with morocco label and decorative rules stamped in gilt on the spine. Some wear to edges of the spine and corners of the boards. Includes 53 of the labeled 54 black and white engraved plates, most foldout. Plate 47... Read More
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![[AUTHOR'S COPY] [SIGNED] THE RISE OF THE NEW SOUTH [THE HISTORY OF NORTH AMERICA VOLUME XVII]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/193/234/1552234193.0.m.jpg)
[AUTHOR'S COPY] [SIGNED] THE RISE OF THE NEW SOUTH [THE HISTORY OF NORTH AMERICA VOLUME XVII]
by Philip Alexander Bruce
Philadelphia: George Barrie & Sons, 1905. Half Leather. Very Good binding. Signed. Quarto; in green calf over green buckram; xxi, [2], 3-491, including Appendices and List of Illustrations; with color frontispiece and illustrations throughout; this is Philip Alexander Bruce's own copy (acquired from his family) with his bookplate on the pastedown and his signature dated in the year... Read More
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[POETRY] POCAHONTAS AND OTHER SONNETS
by Philip Alexander Bruce
Norfolk, VA, 1912. Uncorrected 1st edition “contains many errors” per the annotation on the front of the homemade book cradle containing 8 copies of the volume. Each has 30 pages, with one poem per page. Top copy is more worn, darkened, with small water damage at top edge. Annotated inside, “Philippa Alexander Bruce Norfolk 1912”. 7 of 8 copies... Read More
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![[HANDMADE BOOK] [POETRY] CAPE HENRY 1607](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/754/326/1631326754.0.m.jpg)
[HANDMADE BOOK] [POETRY] CAPE HENRY 1607
by Philip Alexander Bruce
1926. 9” x 6” hand-made book with five leaves. Cover written in ink; printed cover page with 5 pages long poem by Bruce. Two 1962 clips from The Washington Post about Thanksgiving holiday tucked inside back. Fair condition. Last page w/ ¾” x 1 ¼” loss in lower right corner. Water damage to some pages. Outer cover loose from... Read More
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![[HISTORY] VIRGINIA-REBIRTH OF THE OLD DOMINION, 1607-1927. ~](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/759/326/1631326759.0.m.jpg)
[HISTORY] VIRGINIA-REBIRTH OF THE OLD DOMINION, 1607-1927. ~
by Philip Alexander Bruce
Chicago & New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1927. 10” x 7 ¼” black hardcover binding of softcover printed pamphlet. Author signed below the print of his image opposite the title page. Author’s bookplate on inside front cover. Slight wear to edges of hardcover.
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![[AUTHOR’S COPY] THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA 1819-1919](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/747/326/1631326747.0.m.jpg)
[AUTHOR’S COPY] THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA 1819-1919
by Philip Alexander Bruce
New York: MacMillan, 1921. Very Good binding. Six large 8vo. volumes; in the publihser’s blue cloth binding.~~The author’s personal copy of his 5-volume history of the University. Each volume contains the author’s bookplate and is lightly annotated in the text and/or on the inside back cover. Two copies of volume 5, which show different annotations. On the first... Read More
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![[LAW] PHILOSOPHY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF LAW](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/846/707/1715707846.0.m.jpg)
[LAW] PHILOSOPHY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF LAW
by Pierre De Tourtoulon | Martha McC. Read | Morris R. Cohen | Andrew A. Bruce
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1922. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Octavo; in the publisher’s blue cloth binding; with titling on the spine in gold; lxi, 653 including the Appendix; some silverfishing; a bit of edgewear; previous owner’s bookplate to the rear pastedown a scarce title with no other copies in commerce as of 10/20/2025~. Very Good binding.... Read More
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![[LITERATURE] [ARTS] 2 ISSUES OF TWO O'CLOCK MAGAZINE](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/022/541/1613541022.0.m.jpg)
[LITERATURE] [ARTS] 2 ISSUES OF TWO O'CLOCK MAGAZINE
by UCLA DAILY BRUIN
(2) UCLA Daily Bruin publications for May 12 & 25, 1967. Each is 4pp, 1-3 columns. Both show slight water damage at bottom outer corner and fold lines across top and bottom 1"; other wise very good. ~~The UCLA Daily Bruin is an entirely student-run publication issued throughout campus every school day since the 1920s. The "two o'clock" section... Read More
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![[SIGNED] [COLLECTIBLES]AMERICAN AND CANADIAN COUNTERMARKED COINS](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/599/649/1697649599.0.m.jpg)
[SIGNED] [COLLECTIBLES]AMERICAN AND CANADIAN COUNTERMARKED COINS
by Gregory Brunk (author)
Rockford, Illinois: World Exonumia, 1987. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Signed & Inscribed by Brunk on front endpaper. Quarto; in the publisher’s brown cloth binding; with titling on the upper board and spine in gold; 349 pages including the index; full of black and white illustrations; one small stain on the upperboard and a previous owner’s... Read More
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[ARCHITECTURE] [ITALIAN] BRAMANTE ARCHITETTO
by Arnaldo Bruschi
Bari: Editore Laterze, 1969. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Large quarto volume; in the publisher’s gray cloth binding, with tattered dsutjacket; xlviii, 1098 pages, profusely illustrated with black and white photographs; there is a previous owner name penned on the front endpaper; we do not see other marks in the book.~~Bruschi teaches History of Architectrue at... Read More
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![[ART] LANDSCAPE WITH PAIR ON WOODEN BRIDGE](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/029/563/1673563029.0.m.jpg)
[ART] LANDSCAPE WITH PAIR ON WOODEN BRIDGE
by [Egidius van Coninxloo] | Engraved by Nicolaes de Bruyn
1602. Landscape engraved by Flemish engraver Nicolaes de Bruyn, after woodland paintings by van Coninxloo, the Flemish landscape painter. 14 1/4 x 22 1/2” [36.8 x 57.2 cm.] . There are several closed tears, the most egregious being approximately 4” in the middle coming down from the top edge. There is some minor loss as well. A finely detailed... Read More
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![[LITERATURE] POEMS [2 VOLUMES]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/463/196/1575196463.0.m.jpg)
[LITERATURE] POEMS [2 VOLUMES]
by William Cullen Bryant
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1855. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Two 8vo volumes, in brown embossed cloth; [i] - [xii], [1] - 296 pages; [i] - [viii], [1] - 286 pages; in brown T-cloth with plain edges; not illustrated; a rather sharp copy, BUT the top 1 3/4" inches of the front endpaper of... Read More
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![[MOROCCO] [LEATHER] [POETRY] A NEW LIBRARY OF POETRY AND SONG [2 VOLUMES]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/144/593/1482593144.0.m.jpg)
[MOROCCO] [LEATHER] [POETRY] A NEW LIBRARY OF POETRY AND SONG [2 VOLUMES]
by William Cullen Bryant
New York: Fords, Howard & Hulbert, 1877. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Two quarto volumes; in the publisher's full morocco bindings with all edges gilt; decorated in blind and gilt; spines with raised bands with compartments lettered in gilt; lxxvii, [5], 430 pages; 431 - 950 pages,with engraved frontispieces, and extensive illustrations, including facsimiles, throughout; title pages printed... Read More
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IN THE WOODS: A Forest Hymn; When Woods Were Green; Nature
by Bryant, William Cullen; Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, Emerson, Ralph Waldo
St. Paul, MN: Greenstone Books, 1969. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding. Miniature Book. #161/500. No pencil or ink markings in text. Brown flexible cover. Very Good+ binding.
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![[AMERICANA] TLS BY BRYAN ON THE COMMONER LETTERHEAD. | THE COMMONER. VOL. 15, NO. 8](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/816/061/1692061816.0.m.jpg)
[AMERICANA] TLS BY BRYAN ON THE COMMONER LETTERHEAD. | THE COMMONER. VOL. 15, NO. 8
by William Jennings Bryan
Lincoln, Nebraska: William J. Bryan, 1915. Very Good+ binding. A typed letter signed by William Jennings Bryan, the American politician, on The Commoner letterhead. Also with an excised leaf from an issue of The Commoner from the same year, August 1915. Two months prior, Bryan resigned his position of Secretary of State under President Wilson in protest over... Read More
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BRYSON ON VIRGINIA CIVIL PROCEDURE. THIRD EDITION
by W. Hamilton Bryson
Charlottesville: Michie Law Publishers, 1997. Third Edition. Near Fine binding. Bound with the 2000 Supplement issued by LexisNexis. A clean tight copy bound in black wiih gilt lettering and mo marks of any kind. Near Fine binding.
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![[MEMORIAL] MEMORIAL OF JAMES DOUGLAS BRUCE](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/741/326/1631326741.0.m.jpg)
[MEMORIAL] MEMORIAL OF JAMES DOUGLAS BRUCE
by buce
Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee, 1923. 9”6” navy hardcover binding of vol. 26, No. 3 of University of Tennessee Record published in September 1923, dedicated to longtime professor James Douglas Bruce (1862-1923). Sections on Bruce’s life and legacy are authored by Senator Wiliam Cabell Bruce (MD), Dr. David R. Lee, Dean Hoskins, Charles Bell Burke, Henry Carlton, John Thornburgh,... Read More
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[RELIGION] MARTIN BUCER AND THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER
by E. C. Whitaker | Martin Bucer
Great Wakering: Msyher-McCrimmon for the Alcuin Club, 1978. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Large 8vo.; in the publisher’s green cloth binding, with dustjacket; 183 pages; there is a previous owner bookplate on the pastedown; there don’t appear to be any marks or underlining in the book. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket.
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THE MOON ENDURETH: TALES AND FANCIES
by John Buchan
New York: Sturgis & Walton, 1912. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Bound in light blue cloth with title vignette blocked in silver and black on the upper cover; titled in silver on the spine; some expected edgewear largely at the spine ends; previous owner bookplate and pencil gift inscription on the front free endpaper else... Read More
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[LITERATURE] HUNTINGTOWER
by John Buchan
Boston: Houghton Miffln Company, 1941. Reprint Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. 8vo.; in publisher's pale green cloth with titling and decoration in red, with dusjtacket; 316 pages; there are no marks in book, and old bookseller's label is on the front endpaper; the dustjacket has not been priceclipped;~~We date the printing on the basis... Read More
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MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF THE LATE EARL OF ORRERY, AND OF THE FAMILY OF THE BOYLES. CONTAINING SEVERAL CURIOUS FACTS AND PIECES OF HISTORY ..
by Eustace Budgell
London: W. Mears, 1732. The Second Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Eustace Budgell's account. "Budgell had become one of the Grub Street authors...[and] was also protected by the Earl of Orrery, the editor of 'Phalaris,' who had been arrested on suspicion of Jacobitism in 1722, and was hostile to Walpole's government" [DNB, Vol. 7, p. 225].... Read More
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NORMAN ROCKWELL: ARTIST AND ILLUSTRATOR (With Suite of Plates)
by Norman Rockwell | Thomas S. Buecher
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1970. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Good dust jacket. This First Edition copy is accompanied by a suite of four lithographic plates: "Four Seasons: Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter" printed in color; 16" x 12". The dustjacket has shelfwear with a small tape repair. A stated... Read More
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HISTOIRE DE L'ORIGINE DU ROYAUME DE SICILE ET DE NAPLES. CONTENANT LES AVANTURES & LES CONQUESTES DES PRINCES NORMANDS QUI L'ONT ETABLI
by [Claude Buffier]
Paris: Chez Anisson, 1801. Full Leather. Very Good binding. A rebacked copy, with most of the original spine laid down; in speckled calf, with gilt at the spine. [16], 233, 200, [22] pp.~~One of the several histories penned by the French Jesuit philosopher. Very Good binding.
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![THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE CLASSIC AGES AND THE RENAISSANCE PERIODS. SERIES A. ORDERS OF COLUMNS [BOUND WITH] SERIES B AND C. ARCHES, DOORS, WINDOWS, ELEVATIONS AND INTERIORS](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/553/213/1083213553.0.m.jpg)
THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE CLASSIC AGES AND THE RENAISSANCE PERIODS. SERIES A. ORDERS OF COLUMNS [BOUND WITH] SERIES B AND C. ARCHES, DOORS, WINDOWS, ELEVATIONS AND INTERIORS
by Joseph Buhlmann
New York: Wm. Helburn. Folio, with Series A consisting of 27 plates of columns, and Series B being 48 plates of arches, doors, windows, elevations and interiors. The two different series of plates in a nondescript and not very attractive black binding. There are a couple of stamps from an old architecture firm, but no other marks;... Read More
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CITY PLAN OF THE CITY OF SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS
by Myron Howard West | American Park Builders
Springfield, Illinois: Zoning and Plan Commission, 1925. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. The City Plan of the City of Springfield, Illinois, prepared by Myron Howard West and adopted by the City Council. With six two-page folding charts of zoning, thoroughfares, railroads, and others. Numerous illustrations, maps, and plans throughout, some in color; eleven full page plates.... Read More
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