![[SPECIAL PRESS] MISCELLANEOUS POEMS](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/805/753/1450753805.0.m.jpg)
[SPECIAL PRESS] MISCELLANEOUS POEMS
by Jonathan Swift | R. Ellis Robets (Editor) | Robert Gibbings (Decorations)
London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1928. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Large 8vo. binding, in quarter vellum over green marbled boards; title page printed in black and red; a mildly ex-library copy, with small numbers penned at the bottom of the pastedown and evidence (though no surface loss) of an excision from the endpaper, perhaps a... Read More
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VOCAL MUSIC SIMPLIFIED | AN ELEMENTARY AND PROGRESSIVE METHOD OF TEACHING VOCAL MUSIC IN CLASSES. WITH ORIGINAL EXERCISES IN SOLFEGGI AND VOCALIZATION. (TREBLE)
by James M. Deems
Baltimore: George Willig & Co, 1879. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good binding. A clean copy of an uncommon work. Only five copies found on OCLC. Quarter bound in red cloth over paper boards. Wear and surface loss to the corners of the boards. Front and rear boards are soiled. Good binding.
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MERCURIUS POLITICUS: BEING MONTHLY OBSERVATIONS ON THE AFFAIRS OF GREAT BRITAIN, WITH THE MOST MATERIAL OCCURRENCES IN EUROPE FOR THE MONTH OF APRIL, 1717
by A Lover of Old England [Daniel Defoe]
London: Printed for J. Morphew near Stationers-Hall, 1717. First Edition. Original Sewn Wrappers. Good binding. One of Defoe's infamous pamphlets, published under his second period of employment by the British government as a literary fifth columnist. Defoe would publish political or current event pamphlets, either anonymously or posing as a Whig, Tory, Jacobite, whom he said "my very... Read More
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![[ENGLISH HISTORY] [PAMPHLET] A NEW TEST OF THE SENCE [SENSE] OF THE NATION: BEING A MODEST COMPARISON BETWEEN THE ADDRESSES TO THE LATE KING JAMES, AND THOSE TO HER PRESENT MAJESTY. IN ORDER TO OBSERVE, HOW FAR THE SENCE OF THE NATION MAY BE JUDG'D OF BY EITHER OF THEM](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/914/496/1424496914.0.m.jpg)
[ENGLISH HISTORY] [PAMPHLET] A NEW TEST OF THE SENCE [SENSE] OF THE NATION: BEING A MODEST COMPARISON BETWEEN THE ADDRESSES TO THE LATE KING JAMES, AND THOSE TO HER PRESENT MAJESTY. IN ORDER TO OBSERVE, HOW FAR THE SENCE OF THE NATION MAY BE JUDG'D OF BY EITHER OF THEM
by [Daniel Defoe]
London: Printed in the Year, 1710. First Edition. Half Leather. Very Good binding. 8vo.; pamphlet in a modern binding signed by Ramage of half speckled calf over marbled paper boards with darkened lettering in gilt on the spine; discreet repair to the spine at the top; top edge gilt.; lacking a half-title leaf; [2], 91 pages, [1] page;... Read More
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![[LITERATURE] THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT OF DEFOE](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/453/897/1675897453.0.m.jpg)
[LITERATURE] THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT OF DEFOE
by Daniel Defoe
Hudson: Sawyer Ingersoll and Company, 1854. Good binding. 8vo; quarter morocco over marbled boards; with 5 raised bands and horizontal tilting on the spine in gilt;(ii) xx, 21-612 pages; the edges are scuffed with some surface loss particularly to the spine; minor scratches to the boards; foxing throughout; complete with 12 striking engravings by W.T Norman. ~~~There is... Read More
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![[ART] THE COMPLETE SCULPTURES OF EDGAR DEGAS](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/992/627/1552627992.0.m.jpg)
[ART] THE COMPLETE SCULPTURES OF EDGAR DEGAS
by Edgar Degas
Herakleidon Muesum, 2009. Pictorial Boards. Fine binding. Oblong quarto; 225 pages; with illustrations in color, and with the publisher’s wrap-around printed band; with the text in English, French and in Greek.~~A lovely in copy in about As New condition. Fine binding.
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![[RICHMOND] THE BROOK HILL CALENDAR. III, IV, V, VI, VII](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/989/645/1335645989.0.m.jpg)
[RICHMOND] THE BROOK HILL CALENDAR. III, IV, V, VI, VII
by Isobel Hayes Kober | Joseph Bryan III | St. George Bryan Pinkney | Alice Bryan Dehner
[Richmond, Va.]: Privately Printed, 1973. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Five charming little "calendars" of the (many) descendants and their relations of John Stewart of "Brook Hill". The first of this series was complied by Joseph Bryan and Stewart Bryan and issued in 1961; it was bound in wallpaper from Brook Hill. These are five of the several... Read More
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![[WOMEN WRITERS] OUT ON A “SCURDGEON” AND OTHER NEGRO STORIES IN DIALECT](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/048/861/1715861048.0.m.jpg)
[WOMEN WRITERS] OUT ON A “SCURDGEON” AND OTHER NEGRO STORIES IN DIALECT
by Mrs. Eva Magruder DeJarnette
Macon, Georgia: The J. W. Burke Company, 1928. Stapled Pamphlet. Very Good binding. Octavo; in red printed wrappers with titiling and an image of an African-American family ouside a shanty; 52 pages.~~There are three stories: ‘ OUT ON A SCURDGEON’”; “UNTANGLING THE FAMILY YARN”; and “AN OLD VOTE FOR ‘YOUNG MARSTER’”.~~The stories are written in “dialect”; many would... Read More
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![NOUVEAU DICTIONNAIRE HISTORIQUE. QUATRIEME SUPPLEMENT. TOMES 1-4 [TOME X-XIII]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/297/627/1030627297.0.m.jpg)
NOUVEAU DICTIONNAIRE HISTORIQUE. QUATRIEME SUPPLEMENT. TOMES 1-4 [TOME X-XIII]
by L. M. Chaudon; F. A. Deladine
Lyons: Chez Bruyset aine et Buynand, 1805. Quarter Leather. Very Good binding. The four volumes supplement, numbered on the spine 1-4, and on the title pages Tome Dixieme, etc. Tome 10 (1st Supplement): A-COL; Tome 11 (2nd Supplement): COM - LYO; Tome 12 (3rd Supplement): M-SYN; Tome 13 (4th Supplement): T-Z. The four volumes quarter bound in... Read More
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FABLES DE LA FONTAINE (2 Volumes)~
by Jean de La Fontaine | Illustrated by A[uguste] DeLierre
Paris: A. Quantin, Imprimerie-Editeur, 1883. Very Good binding. The splendid "Edition Illustree" with "75 Planches a L'Eau-Forte" by DeLierre. In handsome bindings of blue three-quarter levant over marbled boards. Top edges are gilt. Raised bands with decorations and lettering in gold. Volume I had a bad bump to the top corner which has been repaired but is still... Read More
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FACTS AND LEGENDS OF GOOCHLAND COUNTY (Signed)
by Aynsley Fisher; Wayne Dementi
Manakin-Sabot, VA: Dementi Milestone Publishing, Inc, 23220. First Edition. Pictorial Boards. Fine binding. Signed. A clean and fresh First Edition copy which has been signed by both authors, Aynsley Fisher and Wayne Dementi. Fine binding.
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![[LITERATURE] HOUSE PARTY](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/786/350/1316350786.0.m.jpg)
[LITERATURE] HOUSE PARTY
by Virginia Rowans [Patrick Dennis]
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1957. Fourth Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. One of four novels penned by Patrick Dennis under the name Virginia Rowans. House Party first appeared in 1954 (the years before Auntie Mame, his first novel as Patrick Dennis). This copy is a 1957 fourth printing with states on the front... Read More
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![[CIVIL WAR] WEARING THE BLUE IN THE TWENTY-FIFTH MASS. VOLUNTEER INFANTRY, WITH BURNSIDE’S COAST DIVISION, 18th ARMY CORPS, AND ARMY OF THE JAMES](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/259/179/1679179259.0.m.jpg)
[CIVIL WAR] WEARING THE BLUE IN THE TWENTY-FIFTH MASS. VOLUNTEER INFANTRY, WITH BURNSIDE’S COAST DIVISION, 18th ARMY CORPS, AND ARMY OF THE JAMES
by J. Waldo Denny
Worcester: Putnam & Davis, Publishers, 1879. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good binding. Large 8vo; in the publisher’s burgundy cloth; with tilting and decoration on the upper board in gilt; xi (xii) 1-523 pages including the Index; This copy was lacking half of the spine; it has been rebacked with japanese tissue; still the left-hand side of the spine... Read More
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THE TYGER TRAY
by Deny Watkins-Pitchford (B.B.)
London: Methuen & Co., Ltd, 1971. First Edition. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. A clean First Edition copy with no writing or other marks of any kind in the book. The edges of the textblock have some light spotting. The dustjacket has minor sunning to the still quite legible spine; it has not been price-clipped... Read More
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GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYORS OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY, AND FOR WRITING AND EDITING SAILING DIRECTIONS AND FOR KEEPING REMARK BOOKS
by Bureau of Navigation Navy Department
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1868. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. The Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department's booklet, General Instructions for Hydrographic Surveyors. Dampstaining to the bottom edge of the second half of the textblock. Writing in ink on the front wrapper. Engraved plate of "Brooke's Deep Sea Sounding Apparatus" at the rear. Blue printed paper wrappers. Very Good.... Read More
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![[WEAPONRY] RULES FOR THE MANAGEMENT AND CLEANING OF THE RIFLE MUSKET, MODEL 1863, FOR THE USE OF SOLDIERS. WITH DESCRIPTIVE PLATES](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/002/267/1499267002.0.m.jpg)
[WEAPONRY] RULES FOR THE MANAGEMENT AND CLEANING OF THE RIFLE MUSKET, MODEL 1863, FOR THE USE OF SOLDIERS. WITH DESCRIPTIVE PLATES
by United States War Department
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1863. First Edition. Original Sewn Wrappers. Fair binding. 8vo, in publisher's blue wrappers, with loss to the corners of the front wrapper and lacking the rear wrapper altogether; 25 pages; this manual for the care of the Springfield Model 1863, a slightly modified version of the most commonly used rifle, the Model 1862, of... Read More
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![[SPECIAL PRESS] PRELUDE TO EDEN. A DRAMA FOR MARIONETTES](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/401/811/1686811401.0.m.jpg)
[SPECIAL PRESS] PRELUDE TO EDEN. A DRAMA FOR MARIONETTES
by W. A. Dwiggins | Dorothy Abbe [Illustrator; Designer]
Hingham, Mass: Not Identified, 1956. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 8vo.; in aluminum boards backed in green paper with titling to the upper board; housed in a publisher’s box, with the original mylar wrapper; there is a small rust stain at the bottom of the front endpapers at the gutter; in the original postmarked box; with... Read More
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![[RPI] [ART] A Coloring Book by Fifteen Artists Who Somehow Got Together and Became Friends](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/868/362/1700362868.0.m.jpg)
[RPI] [ART] A Coloring Book by Fifteen Artists Who Somehow Got Together and Became Friends
by Jeri Helfgott | Chuck Scalin [designer]
Weenie McNeil // West End Printing Company, 1969. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. Large Quarto; 15 black and white drawings by Jerry Donato, Mim Golub, Myron Helfgott, Ron Jackson, Richard Kevorkian, J. Michael McNeil, Churck Magistro, Bernard Martin, Jose Puig, MarutaRacenis, Churck Scalin, Sidney Schatzky. Tom Silver, Jack Solomon, Ken Winebrenner, designed by Chuck Scalin; bound in printed... Read More
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LA FAIENCE A MARSEILLE AU 17eme SIECLE: SAINT-JEAN-DU-DESERT
by Marguerite Desnuelle
Aubanel, 1984. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. A pristine copy with no marks of any kind. Gorgeously illustrated with black and white and color photographs. Near Fine binding / Near Fine dust jacket.
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LA REINE MERE
by Devaux, Pierre
Editions Pierre Tremois, 1945. Limited Edition, numbered 337 of 686 copies. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. With 8 rather charming illustrations in the pochoir style. The binding is still tight and square, with the original, albeit tattered, glassine wrapper. Very Good binding.
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![[SIGNED] [CIVIL WAR] APOSTLES OF DISUNION SOUTHERN SECESSION COMMISSIONERS AND THE CAUSE OF THE CIVIL WAR](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/139/453/1685453139.0.m.jpg)
[SIGNED] [CIVIL WAR] APOSTLES OF DISUNION SOUTHERN SECESSION COMMISSIONERS AND THE CAUSE OF THE CIVIL WAR
by Charles B Dew
Charlottesville, 2001. Near Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. 8vo; in the publisher’s grey cloth binding; with tilting on the spine in gilt; in an unclipped jacket; x, 124 pages including the Index; some light scuffs to the jacket but overall a very nice copy.~~Inscribed by the author on the front end paper “For John Salmon - a fellow... Read More
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![[18th CENTURY FRENCH] ALMANACH ROYAL (ANNEE BISSEXTILE MDCCLXXXVIII PRESENTE A SA MAJESTE POUR LA PREMIER FOIS EN 1699](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/525/088/1486088525.0.m.jpg)
[18th CENTURY FRENCH] ALMANACH ROYAL (ANNEE BISSEXTILE MDCCLXXXVIII PRESENTE A SA MAJESTE POUR LA PREMIER FOIS EN 1699
by Laurent D'Houry
Pairs: Debure, Gendre de Feu M D'Houry, 1788. Full Leather. Very Good binding. 8vo. (8" x 5"); full mottled calf binding, with wear to the spine and loss which has been patched with japanese tissue; 716 pages; with an attractive title page with an engraved centerpiece; all edges speckled red. Very Good binding.
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A METRICAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND; or, Recollections, in Rhyme, of Some of the Most Prominent Features in Our National Chronology, from the Landing of Julius Caesar, to the Commencement of the Regency, in 1812 (2 Volumes in 1)
by Dibdin, Thomas
London: Printed for the Proprietor, By Joseph Hartnell, 1813. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Frontispiece; No pencil or ink markings in text. Full brown leather binding. Archivally rebacked. Very light edgewear to boards. Very Good binding.
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![[CIVIL WAR] DICKISON AND HIS MEN. REMINISCENCES OF THE WAR IN FLORIDA](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/031/383/1558383031.0.m.jpg)
[CIVIL WAR] DICKISON AND HIS MEN. REMINISCENCES OF THE WAR IN FLORIDA
by Mary Elizabeth Dickison
Louisville, KY: Courier-Journal Job Printing Company, 1890. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Quarto; in the publisher's brown cloth with decoration in gilt and titling in black; 266 pages with plates and portraits, and a frontispiece of Captain John M. Martin; the binding has some light spotting and there is a light spot of rubbing to the... Read More
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THE PHILOSOPHY OF A FUTURE STATE
by Thomas Dick
E. and G. Merriam, 1829. First American Edition. The first American edition of Scottish theogian Thomas Dick's Philosophy, first published in Glasgow in the same year. An important book, in which Dick developed a theology compatible with Bacon's empirical science, the Philosophy is said to have influenced both Joseph Smith and David Livingstone. This copy backed in... Read More
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