Connecticut Historical Collections, Containing a General Collection of Interesting Facts, Traditions, Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes, &c. Relating to the History and Antiquities of Every Town in Connecticut, with Geographical Descriptions. Illustrated by 180 Engravings
by John Warner Barber
New Haven and Hartford: Published and Sold by John W. Barber and A. Willard, 1836. Very Good. New Haven and Hartford: Published and Sold by John W. Barber and A. Willard, 1836. First Edition. Octavo; full contemporary gilt-tooled calf, gilt spine lacking label, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers; 560pp.; hand-colored folding map; six plates; numerous in-text illustrations. Boards worn... Read More
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History and Antiquities of New Haven, (Conn.) from its earliest settlement to the present time. Collected and compiled from the most authentic sources
by J.W. Barber
New Haven: J.W. Barber, 1831. Very Good. New Haven: J.W. Barber, 1831. First Edition. 12mo (20cm.); publisher's tan cloth, black gilt-lettered leather spine label; 120pp.; hand-colored map frontispiece, six leaves of hand-colored plates (tissue guards), woodcut vignettes throughout. Corners bumped, spine a bit cocked and leather label scuffed, light foxing throughout textblock, else a Very Good, sound copy... Read More
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![Le Bibbie Italiane del Quattrocento e del Cinquecento: Storia e bibliografia ragionata delle edizioni in lingua italiana dal 1471 al 1600 [Two Volume Set]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/141/795/1671795141.0.m.jpg)
Le Bibbie Italiane del Quattrocento e del Cinquecento: Storia e bibliografia ragionata delle edizioni in lingua italiana dal 1471 al 1600 [Two Volume Set]
by Edoardo Barbieri
Milano: Editrice Bibliografica, 1992. Near Fine/Very Good. [Milano]: Editrice Bibliografica, [1992]. First Edition. Two volumes; folios; publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jackets, housed together in original decorative paper-covered slipcase; xxv,[1],494; [378]pp.; illus., Vol. II chiefly woodcut reproductions printed in blue. Light shelf wear and soil to jackets, lamination starting to bubble, ownership signature to front free endpapers,... Read More
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![Augustini Barbosae, J.U.D. Lusitani, Protonotarii Apostolici...Collectanea in Codicem Justiniani [Two Volume Set]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/468/062/1653062468.0.m.jpg)
Augustini Barbosae, J.U.D. Lusitani, Protonotarii Apostolici...Collectanea in Codicem Justiniani [Two Volume Set]
by Agostinho Barbosa
Lugduni [Lyon]: Sumptibus Anisson, & Posuel, 1720. Very Good. Lugduni [Lyon]: Sumptibus Anisson, & Posuel, 1720. Two volumes; folios (39.5cm.); later limp marbled boards, pink printed spine labels (Vol. II bound upside down); [24],508,[76]; [16],572,[84]pp. (collated complete); large woodcut publisher's devices to both title pages signed in image "Papillon." Ex-seminary library with old shelf labels to spine feet... Read More
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The Pocket Companion; or, Every Man his Own Lawyer: containing a variety of precedents, laid down in so plain a manner, that the Farmer, Mechanic, Apprentice, or School Boy, can draw any Instrument of Writing without the assistance of an Attorney
by By a Gentleman of the Bar
Philadelphia: S. Parmele, 1818. Very Good. Philadelphia: Printed and Published by S. Parmele, 1818. First Edition. 12mo (17.5cm.); contemporary calf over boards; 95,[1]pp.; text printed parallel with spine. Boards rather dust-soiled and ink-splattered with one stain bleeding through to first few leaves of textblock, shallow loss to top edge of title page not approaching text, lacking front free... Read More
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Kenya: An Economic Survey
by Barclays Bank D.C.O.
Nairobi: Barclays Bank D.C.O., 1966. Very Good. Nairobi: Barclays Bank D.C.O., 1966. Octavo. 34 pp. Black and white photographs. Illustrated wraps. Light edgewear to wraps with some creasing and curling at corners. Marker smudge to front near top fore-edge corner. Binding is sound. Pages curl uniformly at bottom front corner.
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The Land of the Leal
by James Barke
London: Collins, 1939. Very Good/Very Good. London: Collins, 1939. First Edition. Large octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket, blue topstain; 640pp. Jacket extremities a bit chipped with a number of short closed tear along margins occasionally touching text without loss of meaning, some foxing to flap folds, corners bumped, topstain quite faded, else Very Good and... Read More
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![A Sermon, Delivered at the Ordination of the Rev. Otis Thompson, to the Pastoral Care of the Second Congregational Church in Rehoboth, September 245h, 1800 [Half title: Mr. Barker's Sermon, at the Ordination of Mr. Thompson]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/919/313/1599313919.0.m.jpg)
A Sermon, Delivered at the Ordination of the Rev. Otis Thompson, to the Pastoral Care of the Second Congregational Church in Rehoboth, September 245h, 1800 [Half title: Mr. Barker's Sermon, at the Ordination of Mr. Thompson]
by Joseph Barker
Providence, RI: B. Wheeler, 1801. Very Good. Providence, RI: B. Wheeler, 1801. First Edition. Octavo; removed; [2],22pp. Light spotting and toning to textblock, a few small chips and closed tears to margins not affecting text, else Very Good and sound. Concludes with a shorter oration delivered on the same occasion, "Right Hand of Fellowship, by the... Read More
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![Life Class [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/628/476/1701476628.0.m.jpg)
Life Class [Signed]
by Pat Barker
London: Hamish Hamilton, 2007. Near Fine/Near Fine. London: Hamish Hamilton, 2007. First UK Edition. Octavo (24cm); 249pp. Publisher’s dust jacket with £16.99 price intact; boards bound in brown cloth with gilt stamping to spine. Dust jacket ever-so-slightly bumped and scuffed; otherwise clean with sharp corners. Boards likewise clean and sharp. Binding sound. Textblock, endsheets, and interior pages clean.... Read More
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![Toby's Room [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/467/048/1691048467.0.m.jpg)
Toby's Room [Signed]
by Pat Barker
London: Hamish Hamilton, 2012. Near Fine/Near Fine. London: Hamish Hamilton, 2012. First Edition. Octavo (24cm); 265pp. Publisher’s photographic dust jacket with £16.99 price intact; boards bound in navy cloth with gilt stamping to spine; oxblood endsheets. Dust jacket shows superficial scratching to rear panel; otherwise clean with sharp corners. Boards clean with sharp corners. Binding sound. Textblock, endsheets,... Read More
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The Ghost Road [Signed]
by Pat Barker
London / Toronto: Viking, 1995. Very Good +/Very Good +. London / Toronto: Viking, 1995. First Canadian Edition with full number line and jacket price in both Canadian dollars and British pounds. [8],277pp. Light shelf wear, jacket spine panel very lightly sunned, corners nudged, else Very Good and sound. Signed by the author on title page. The... Read More
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![The Century's Daughter [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/131/476/1701476131.0.m.jpg)
The Century's Daughter [Signed]
by Pat Barker
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1986. Good +/Good +. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1986. Stated First US Edition. Octavo (22cm); 284pp. Publisher’s illustrated dust jacket with $16.95 price intact; boards quarter-bound in grey and blue cloth with gilt stamping to spine. Black-and-white author photo laid-in. Dust jacket toned and bump throughout with tear at front panel spine... Read More
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The Certainty, Time, and End, of the Birth of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: With the accomplishment of several of the prophecys, relating hereto. A sermon, at the lecture, in Marblehead, December 25. 1729. To which is added, an appendix, attempting more clearly to state, the true year of our Lord's nativity
by John Barnard
Boston: S. Gerrish, 1731. Very Good. Boston: Printed for S. Gerrish, at the lower end of Cornhill, 1731. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); removed, remnants of old calf along spine; [2],66pp. ([A]-I4, lacking half title and final leaf (blank)); woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. Small loss to bottom margin of title page not approaching text, textblock a bit toned,... Read More
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The True Divinity of Jesus Christ; Evidenced in a Discourse at The Public Lecture in Boston, The Day after the Commencement, July 16, 1761. And Published at the Desire of the Hearers
by John Barnard
Boston: Printed and Sold by Edes and Gill, 1761. Very Good. Boston: Printed and Sold by Edes and Gill, 1761. First Edition. Octavo. 38 pp., complete with half title and final two blank. Printed wraps with more recent string-tie. Slightly ex-library with minimal markings. Staining and edgewear to wraps; contemporary ownership inscription to top of half title; New... Read More
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The Imperfection of the Creature, and the excellency of the divine commandment; illustrated in nine sermons on Psal. CXIX. 96
by John Barnard
Boston: Rogers and Fowle / D. Gookin, 1747. Very Good. Boston: Printed and Sold by Rogers and Fowle in Queen street, and by D. Gookin in Marlborough-Street, 1747. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); full contemporary Cambridge-style calf, unadorned spine in six compartments; [8],248pp. (A4 B-Q8 R4, collated and complete). Light wear to leather extremities, faint surface stretches to rear... Read More
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A Sermon Preach'd April 12, 1764, on the Public Fast, in the Massachusetts-Bay, At Haverhill and Bradford, West Parish
by Edward Barnard
Portsmouth, In New-Hampshire: Printed by Daniel & Robert Fowle, 1764. Very Good. Portsmouth, In New-Hampshire: Printed by Daniel & Robert Fowle, 1764. First Edition. Octavo. 22 pp., lacks half title. Printed wraps, removed. Light wear to edges and fraying to spine. Binding sound and interior unmarked; Very Good. Early New Hampshire printing; scarce. [Evans 9592]. ... Read More
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Self-Direction and Political Legitimacy: Rousseau and Herder
by [Jean-Jacques Rousseau] F.M. Barnard
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988. Very Good/Very Good. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in green pictorial dust jacket; vii,[3],330pp. Minor shelf wear and dust-soil, corners tapped, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound. Comparative study of the philosophies of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his German contemporary Johann Gottfried Herder. ... Read More
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![Ladies Almanack, Showing Their Signs and Their Tides; Their Moons and Their Changes; the Seasons as It Is With Them; Their Eclipses and Equinoxes; as Well as a Full Record of Diurnal and Nocturnal Distempers. Written & Illustrated by a Lady of Fashion [Offered with Prospectus]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/040/114/1632114040.0.m.jpg)
Ladies Almanack, Showing Their Signs and Their Tides; Their Moons and Their Changes; the Seasons as It Is With Them; Their Eclipses and Equinoxes; as Well as a Full Record of Diurnal and Nocturnal Distempers. Written & Illustrated by a Lady of Fashion [Offered with Prospectus]
by Djuna Barnes
Paris: Printed for the Author, and sold by Edward W. Titus, 4 rue Delambre, at the sign of the Black Manikin, 1928. Very Good. Paris: Printed for the Author, and sold by [Edward W. Titus, 4 rue Delambre, at the sign of the Black Manikin], 1928. First Edition, limited issue of 1050 copies, this being #56. Quarto. 84,... Read More
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Spillway and Other Stories
by Djuna Barnes
London: Faber and Faber, 1962. Very Good/Very Good. London: Faber and Faber, 1962. First Thus. Octavo (20.35cm); 107pp. Decorated blue and black dust jacket with 18s. net price intact; boards in green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket rubbed and scuffed at corners and head of spine, with light smudging to surface. Boards are sturdy and square.... Read More
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![Putting the Boot In [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/189/898/1399898189.0.m.jpg)
Putting the Boot In [Signed]
by Dan Kavanagh [pseud. of Julian Barnes]
London: Jonathan Cape, 1985. Very Good/Very Good. London: Jonathan Cape, 1985. First Edition. Signed by the author as Dan Kavanagh without inscription on full title. Octavo; 192pp. Illustrated dust jacket over dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket corner-clipped at bottom of front flap with £9.95 price sticker adjacent. Jacket otherwise clean and crisp with no... Read More
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Painters of the Great Ming: The Imperial Court and the Zhe School
by Richard M. Barnhart
Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art, 1993. Near Fine. Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art, 1993. First Edition, wrapper issue. Quarto. 360 pages. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. Illustrated wraps. Errata slip laid in. Wraps gently worn along edges. Binding sound. A touch of dust soiling along top edge. Pages otherwise clean and unmarked.
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Bittersweet
by Nevada Barr
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984. Very Good/Very Good. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo; publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket; [8],339pp. Jacket verso a shade toned, toning and faint abrasions to front and back endpapers, rear free endpaper and rear flyleaf a bit cockled; still, a Very Good copy overall. The author's... Read More
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![Echo Bay [Limited Lettered Edition Signed by Barre, George Pelecanos, Laura Lippman, & Steve Hamilton]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/778/152/1626152778.0.m.jpg)
Echo Bay [Limited Lettered Edition Signed by Barre, George Pelecanos, Laura Lippman, & Steve Hamilton]
by Richard Barre
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 2004. Near Fine/Near Fine. Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 2004. Limited First Edition, one of 26 lettered and slipcased copies signed by Barre along with authors George Pelecanos, Laura Lippman, and Steve Hamilton, (whose blurbs appear on the jacket copy), this being letter D. Octavo (23.5cm); 348pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $25.95 price intact; boards... Read More
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![Lucid Stars [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/163/723/1579723163.0.m.jpg)
Lucid Stars [Signed]
by Andrea Barrett
London: Simon & Schuster, 1989. Very Good/Very Good +. London: Simon & Schuster, 1989. First U.K. Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket retaining original price; [8],328pp. Corners bumped and spine a bit cocked, texblock a shade toned, else a Very Good copy in a crisp and clean example of the dust jacket. Signed by Barrett... Read More
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Gunnery Instructions, Simplified for the Volunteer Officers of the U.S. Navy; with Hints to Executive and Other Officers
by Edward Barrett
New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1863. Very Good. New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1863. Third Edition, revised and enlarged. Small octavo; 93pp +14pp publisher's catalog. Tables and illustrations throughout. Publisher's blindstamped blue cloth with gilt lettering and anchor ornament. Boards edgeworn, with rubbing at corners and spine ends and some general scuffing and smudging to surface. Opens widely... Read More
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