HOTELS ET MAISONS DE PARIS FACADES ET DETAILS
by Gelis Didot
Paris: Librairies Imprimeries Reunies, 1893. A volume of plates, with the numbered plates 1 to 100. Note: most of the plates are half-page; some are quarter-page; some are full page. Half-leather binding with titling to the spine. "La Construction Privee" at the end of the XIX century. Hinges have old reinforcement with cloth tape. ... Read More
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[BOOKS ON BOOKS] BOOKSELLERS MARKS AN ILLUSTRATED BOOK
by Larry Dingman
Minneapolis: Dinktown Antiquarian Bookstore, 1986. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. Small Quarto; in the publisher’s orange cloth binding; with a paper label on the upper board.~~Limited to 377 numbered copies of which this is number 69.~. Near Fine binding.
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![[PHOTOGRAPH; BLANDFORD; PETERSBURG] CANADA VOLUNTEERS. WAR OF 1812](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/871/264/1321264871.0.m.jpg)
[PHOTOGRAPH; BLANDFORD; PETERSBURG] CANADA VOLUNTEERS. WAR OF 1812
by Gertrude Duncan Dinwiddie
An original photograph, c. 1920 [?] of the monument [the "Cockade Monument"] to the Petersburg Canada Volunteers om the War with Great Britain in the year 1812. Under the command of Gen. Harrison the volunteers defeated the enemy at the Battle of Fort Meigs in May, 1813 "and won for their home "the exalted and imperishable appellation of... Read More
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MICKEY MOUSE
by Walt Disney
Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Company, 1933. Second Edition. Pictorial Boards. Very Good binding. A clean copy of the Second Edition of Mickey Mouse, with the regular Mickey Mouse on the front cover. Big Little Book #717. Contains all pages, including the advertisements at the rear. The first leaf has a previous owner’s name and date written on the... Read More
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A MICKEY MOUSE ALPHABET BOOK ABC
by [Walt Disney]
Hollywood, Calif: Walt Disney Enterprises, 1938. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. A linen-like ABC book issued by Walt Disney in 1938. Stapled quarto. With silverfishing to the extremities of the front panel (only). Otherwise a clean and bright copy. Very Good binding.
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[SPECIAL PRESS] A TRILOGY ON PRINTING HISTORY. (3 VOLUMES)
by Isaac Disraeli
Cincinnati: The Stratford Press, 1942. Hard Cover. Fine binding. The attractive three volume set in slipcase taken from The Amenities of Literature by Disraeli. The books are: 1. The Invention of Printing; 2. The First English Printer; 3: The War Against Books; they describe the features, mechanics and history of English printing. Bound in yellow, pink... Read More
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![[SPECIAL PRESS] TYPOGRAPHICAL PARTNERSHIP. TEN LETTERS BETWEEN BRUCE ROGERS AND EMERY WALKER 1907-31, TOGETHER WITH UNPUBLISHED FRAGMENT OF BRUCE-ROGERS’ BYE-WAYS OF BOOK-MAKING](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/042/028/1715028042.0.m.jpg)
[SPECIAL PRESS] TYPOGRAPHICAL PARTNERSHIP. TEN LETTERS BETWEEN BRUCE ROGERS AND EMERY WALKER 1907-31, TOGETHER WITH UNPUBLISHED FRAGMENT OF BRUCE-ROGERS’ BYE-WAYS OF BOOK-MAKING
by Joihn Dreyfud [Editor]; The Carl Pforzheimer Library [Distributor]
Cambridge, England: Printed for the Carl H. Pfortzheimer Library at the University Printing House, 1971. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. Quarto; in marbled paper-covered boards backed in brown cloth and titled vertically to the spine;; with the bookplate of the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundatioon on the front pastedown; there are no marks of any kind in the... Read More
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SHAKESPEARE di VERDIROSI i SONETTI
by William Shakespeare; Maria Antonietta Marelli (introduzione e traduzione di); Diego Fabbri (prefazione di)
Roma: Edizioni La Recita, 1996. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. 252pp. Second edition. Text of the sonnets in Italian & English; wonderful illustrations in color and black and white; red cloth binding; illustrated dust jacket; clean and tight binding. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket.
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[PHOTOGRAPHY] [HISTORY] PRINT FROM WANAMAKER EXPEDITION
by Joseph K. Dixon
Philadelphia, PA, 1908. 21” x 17” matted photographic print “A Vanishing Race”, measuring 14” x 11” showing an Indian on horseback wearing a headdress and holding a staff or spear. It was taken by Joseph K. Dixon during his first of his three trips to document the lives and cultures of Native American’s through photography, film, and sound recordings.... Read More
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[LITERATURE] THE HARDY BOYS | THE SINISTER SIGN POST
by Franklin W. Dixon
New York: Grosse & Dunlap, 1942. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Very Good dust jacket. 8vo in publisher’s tan cloth with brown titling and decoration; illustrated dust jacket with trivial loss to the bottom edge of the front panel; minor stain on the leading edge of the back panel at the fold. i-iii 1-215 pages.~~With 18 of the Ted... Read More
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COLONEL JOHN POLLARD AND JULIET JEFFRIES, THEIR DESCENDANTS
by Elizabeth Pollard Cox Johnson; Jessie Gresham Pollard Dodge
1976. Comb Binding. Near Fine binding. An extensive family tree of Colonel John Pollard and Juliet Jeffries, listing their descendants as well as whom they married and their issue, among other things. The copy of Robert N. Pollard, Jr., with his name on the title page; no other marks of any kind. Original comb binding and paper covers.... Read More
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[LITERATURE] [CHILDREN] [SIGNED] [WITH ANAGRAM] THE LAND OF PLUCK
by Mary Mapes Dodge
New York: The Century Co, 1894. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Signed. An attractive copy of Ms.Dodge’s last book signed by the author on the front end paper, with a tipped in signed anagram in her handwriting “written for the purchaser of this book, April 27, 1895”. While Dodge notes that it is “too simple an... Read More
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[ART] THE CANTERBURY SCHOOL OF ILLUMINATION 1066-1200
by Dodwell, C. R.
Cambridge at the University Press, 1954. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good Dustjacket. Quarto; in a buckram binding; dustjacket price-clipped; light to moderate edgewear to dustjacket; large closed tear at tail of dustjacket spine angling over into rear dustjacket cover about an inch or so; a couple of closed tears at top of front dustjacket cover; scattered foxing;... Read More
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![[PHILOSOPHY] AQUINAS’S PHILOSOPHICAL COMMENTARY ON THE ETHICS A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/261/146/1721146261.0.m.jpg)
[PHILOSOPHY] AQUINAS’S PHILOSOPHICAL COMMENTARY ON THE ETHICS A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
by James C. Doig
Dordrecht/ Boston/ London: Kluwer Academics. Near Fine binding. Octavo; in glossy boards; xvii, 311 pages including the Index; a couple of dark smudges on the contents page, otherwise a clean copy. ~~From the blurb on the back “Is Aquinas’s Sententia Libri Ethicorum and interpretation of Aristotle based on “principles of Christian ethics”? Or, do we have in that... Read More
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[NEALE IMPRINT] [LITERATURE] BRILLA
by Anna Mooney Doling
New York and Washington: The Neale Publishing Cpmpany, 1913. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Signed. 8vo. in the publisher's sea-blue binding with titling in white (chalk); the titling at the spine has some loss, which is often the case with this chalk titling; 201 pages; there are no ownership marks in the book; however pasted on... Read More
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LEGEND OF THE BEST BELOVED AND OTHER POEMS IN HONOR OF THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS. AN OFFERING OT THE IRISH FAMINE FUND OF 1880
by Eleanor C. Donnelly
New York: P. O’Shea, 1880. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good binding. Eleanor Donnelly’s Legend of the Best Beloved and Other Poems. A collection of poetry published to aid the Irish Famine Fund of the same year. Ex library, with library bookplate, ‘discard’ stamps on the endpapers, and additional remnants of removed slips and cards on the endpapers. Fully... Read More
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![A BRIEF SKETCH OF THE SCOTTISH FAMILIES IN FINLAND AND SWEDEN, RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. [TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. SCOTTISH FAMILIES IN FINLAND AND SWEDEN]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/306/774/1132774306.0.m.jpg)
A BRIEF SKETCH OF THE SCOTTISH FAMILIES IN FINLAND AND SWEDEN, RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. [TERCENTENARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. SCOTTISH FAMILIES IN FINLAND AND SWEDEN]
by Otto Donner
Helsingfors: Finnish Literary Society's Press, 1884. Soft Cover. Good binding. Otto Donner's Brief Sketch of the Scottish Families in Finland and Sweden. A descriptive genealogy of Scottish families and peoples, arranged alphabetically. Dampstain to the top and bottom edges of the text. Chipping to the edges of the paper wrappers, and some separation at the joints. Original paper... Read More
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![[GENEALOGY] THE PRESTONS OF SMITHFIELD AND GREENFIELD IN VIRGINIA. DESCENDANTS OF JOHN AND ELIZABETH (PATTON_ PRESTON THROUGH FIVE GENERATIONS](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/344/501/1699501344.0.m.jpg)
[GENEALOGY] THE PRESTONS OF SMITHFIELD AND GREENFIELD IN VIRGINIA. DESCENDANTS OF JOHN AND ELIZABETH (PATTON_ PRESTON THROUGH FIVE GENERATIONS
by John Frederick Dorman
Louisville, Kenticky: The Filson Club | General Printing Company, 1982. Hard Cover. Fine binding/Very Good dust jacket. Quarto; in the publisher’s black cloth binding, with dustjacket; xiii, 441 pages, with 11 unnumbered leaves of plates.~~There are no marks of any kind in the book. Fine binding / Very Good dust jacket.
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MORE INDISCREET RECOLLECTIONS
by [Frank Nelson Doubleday]
Privately Printed, 1929. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Memories of Doubleday's early years in the publishing business. A privately printed edition, with a limitation of 99 copies. Printed in December 1929, so we assume it was distributed by Mr. Doubleday as a Christmas Keepsake. With his calling card laid in. Blue cloth... Read More
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![[HISTORY] MORAL DILEMMAS IN MEDIEVAL THOUGHT FROM GRATIAN TO AQUINAS](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/475/859/1691859475.0.m.jpg)
[HISTORY] MORAL DILEMMAS IN MEDIEVAL THOUGHT FROM GRATIAN TO AQUINAS
by M. V. Dougherty
Cambridge: Cambridge university Press, 2011. First Eition. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. 8vo; in the publisher’s black cloth binding; with titling on the spine in gilt; in an unclipped jacket; x, 226 pages including the Index; the top corner is a bit bumped; some wear to the edge of the jacket; a small crease to... Read More
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[ARTIST'S BOOK]. DEADLY WEAPON
by Despina Meimaroglou | Nicos Doukas
Athens, Greece: Alekos Papdopoulos, 1993. Oblong quarto, in bright silk-screened cardstock; limited signed edition of 75 copies, of which this is #47; roughcut, and printed on Rosaspina Fabriano 40% cotton; signed by the the artist Despina Meimaroglou; in modern greek and english, with the text taken from the Gospel of St. John.~~A reinterpretation of part of the Passion Narrative,... Read More
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[ALS] [PRESENTATION COPY] WEEP FOR MY BROTHER
by Clifford Dowdey
New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc, 1950. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 8vo.; in the publisher’s black cloth binding, lacking the dustjacket; xii, [2], 3-308 pages; there are rust marks from a now removed paper clip to the first few leaves; this copy with a Presentation Inscription: “For Edith and Charlie -- with gratitude & affection... Read More
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[VIRGINIA] THE HISTORY OF HENRICO COUNTY
by Louis H. Manarin; Clifford Dowdey
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1984. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine binding. Large 8vo.; in a special binding of red leatherette, and housed in the publisher's slipcase; xxiii, [xxiv; xxiv], [1], 2-555 pages, including the Index; with map endpapers; illustrated throughout with black and white photographic images; signed by Louis Manarin on the title page; the slipcase has... Read More
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![[RELIGION] THE LIFE OF WILLIAM SANCROFT, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.[2 VOLUMES] COMPILED PRINCIPALLY FROM ORIGINAL AND SCARCE DOCUMENTS. WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING FUR PRAEDESTINATUS, MODERN POLICIES, AND THREE SERMONS BY ARCHBISHOP SANCROFT ALSO A LIFE OF THE LEARNED HENRY WHARTON; AND TWO LETTERS OF DR. SANDERSON ..](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/314/564/1578564314.0.m.jpg)
[RELIGION] THE LIFE OF WILLIAM SANCROFT, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.[2 VOLUMES] COMPILED PRINCIPALLY FROM ORIGINAL AND SCARCE DOCUMENTS. WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING FUR PRAEDESTINATUS, MODERN POLICIES, AND THREE SERMONS BY ARCHBISHOP SANCROFT ALSO A LIFE OF THE LEARNED HENRY WHARTON; AND TWO LETTERS OF DR. SANDERSON ..
by George D'Oyly
London: John Murray, 1821. First Edition. Half Leather. Very Good binding. Two large 8vo. volumes; in tan morocco over brown cloth, with rules in blinds to the edges, raise bands, and lettering in gilt; marbled endpapers and the bookplate of the "Congregational Library" in Boston, also blindstamp of the same on the title pages [stamped "Withdrawn"]; there is... Read More
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CONVERSATIONS OF A FATHER WITH HIS SON, ON SOME LEADING POINTS OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY: Designed for Schools and Families to Illustrate the Perfections of the Deity and to Expand the Youthful Mind
by The Rev. B. H. Draper
New York: N. B. Holmes, 1833. Hard Cover. Good binding. In the publishers paper cover boards with a leather spine and gilt lettering. A somewhat worn copy which is intact and very serviceable. Previous owners names in pencil on the front free end paper, the verso of same and the verso of the frontispiece. Scattered foxing throughout. Good... Read More
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