![[SPECIAL PRESS] BROADSIDE. THE TWELVE APOSTLES](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/781/300/1510300781.0.m.jpg)
[SPECIAL PRESS] BROADSIDE. THE TWELVE APOSTLES
by Victor Hammer
Lexington, Kentucky: Stamperia del Santuccio, 1965. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Quarto; in brown paper-covered boards with a label wrapped over the spine; 4 unnumbered leaves, with illustrations cut on the wood by Victor Hammer; the text of St. Matthew is from William Tyndale's1596 translation; the text of Isaiah translated from the Hebrew by Rev. Dr, I. W.... Read More
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![[SPECIAL PRESS] A THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE. THE SECOND CHAPTER FROM A PLATONIC DIALOG BY VICTOR HAMMER](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/115/445/1655445115.0.m.jpg)
[SPECIAL PRESS] A THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE. THE SECOND CHAPTER FROM A PLATONIC DIALOG BY VICTOR HAMMER
by Victor Hammer
New York: Wittenborn, Schultz, Inc, 1952. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. 8vo.; in salmon colored paper-covered boards lettered in black to the spine, with dustjacket; [ii], 93 pages, [94]; from the colophon: Two Hundred and Fifty Numbered Copies | The text has been set by Victor Hammer | Jacob Hammer has printed in... Read More
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![[ECONOMICS] [PAMPHLET] THE NATIONAL DEBT AS IT STOOD AT MICHAELMAS 1730, STATED AND EXAMINED](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/936/266/1583266936.0.m.jpg)
[ECONOMICS] [PAMPHLET] THE NATIONAL DEBT AS IT STOOD AT MICHAELMAS 1730, STATED AND EXAMINED
by [Anthony Hammond]
London: J. Peele, 1731. Very Good binding. 8vo.; disbound pamphlet in a much later marbled wrapper; 32 pages, followed by a blank leaf, with a large folding table showing the state of the debt. Very Good binding.
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![[RELIGION] SERMONS PREACHED BY THAT EMINENT DIVINE, HENRY HAMMOND, D. D. PUBLISHED ACCORDING TO THE AUTHOR'S OWN COPIES](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/892/554/1592554892.0.m.jpg)
[RELIGION] SERMONS PREACHED BY THAT EMINENT DIVINE, HENRY HAMMOND, D. D. PUBLISHED ACCORDING TO THE AUTHOR'S OWN COPIES
by Henry Hammond
London: Printed for Robert Pawlet, at the Bible in Chancery-Lane near Fleet-street, 1675. Full Leather. Good binding. Folir; in quite worn calf in a Cambridge style binding; the spine is badly degraded and the corners are worn to cardboard, but the binding is complete and holding together well; [4], 248, 241-297, [3] page;~Pages 241-248 repeated in page numbering;... Read More
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![[RICHMOND] ‘THE STATE’ MANCHESTER NEWSPAPER](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/448/897/1675897448.0.m.jpg)
[RICHMOND] ‘THE STATE’ MANCHESTER NEWSPAPER
by John Hampden Chamberlayne
Richmond, VA, 1877. 24” x 16 ½” folded in fourths horizontally and in half vertically. Worn with minor tearing along folds. Vol. II, No. 176, October 11, 1877. 4pp. ~~Owned and edited by John Hampden Chamberlayne (1838-1882), a Confederate lawyer who served as an aid to General A.P. .Hill, and later as a Virginia Delegate in 1879-1880. His war... Read More
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![[VIRGINIA] RICHMOND CAPITAL OF VIRGINIA: APPROACHES TO ITS HISTORY](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/653/926/1574926653.0.m.jpg)
[VIRGINIA] RICHMOND CAPITAL OF VIRGINIA: APPROACHES TO ITS HISTORY
by By Various Hands
Richmond, VA: Whittet & Shepperson, 1938. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Quarto; this is #76 of 163 copies, the special numbered edition bound in quarter leather over buckram boards and housed in a publisher’s slicpase; xxi, [3] - 337 pages.~~This with the pencilled signature of R. N. Wall on the pastedown, and his initials in gold... Read More
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THE WILDERNESS TRAIL or The ventures and Adventures of the Pennsylvania Traders on the Alleghany Path(Volume 1 only)
by Charles A. Hanna
New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1911. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Dark green cloth binding with gilt letering on the spine. Top edge gilt. Binding has wear and minor soiling. Bookseller's label on the front paste down. Previous owner's name and date on the verso of the frontispiece. Otherwise no marks. Illustrations and... Read More
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![[FRENCH] [ILLUSTRATED] L'ALSACE HEUREUESE](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/134/446/1486446134.0.m.jpg)
[FRENCH] [ILLUSTRATED] L'ALSACE HEUREUESE
by L'Oncle Hansi
[Paris]: H. Floury, Editeur, 1919. First Edition. Pictorial Boards. Very Good binding. Quarto (14" x 11 1/8"); in the publisher's pictorial boards with design with Alsatian children by Hansi; with a gift inscription from "Daddy", passing on a "gift to him from a friend in Strasbourg, Jean Schmidt, Papeteries de la Robertson"; Jean Schmidt's card is attached to... Read More
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THE DIARIES AND CORRESPONDENCE OF THE RIGHT HON. GEORGE ROSE. CONTAINING ORIGINAL LETTERS OF THE MOST DISTINGUISHED STATESMEN OF HIS DAY (2 VOLUMES BOUND IN 1)
by George Rose | Leveson Vernon Harcourt
London: Richard Bentley, 1860. The correspondence of this Georgian statesman, who was a friend to Lord Nelson as well as King George III. In a handsome binding by Bickers, London in full crimson calf with raised bands, elaborate decorations in compartments and morocco title label.
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LAY BUDDHISM IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN: REIYUKAI KYODAN
by Helen Hardacre
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. 267pp. No pencil or ink markings in text; blue cloth binding with very light edge wear at head and tail of spine; closed tear at top of rear dust jacket cover at spine; dust jacket protected in a mylar cover;. Very Good binding /... Read More
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![[CONFEDERATE IMPRINT] RIFLE AND LIGHT INFANTRY TACTICS; FOR THE EXERCISE AND MANOEUVRES OF TROOPS WHEN ACTING AS LIGHT INFANTRY OR RIFLEMEN. PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT. VOL. I, SCHOOLS OF THE SOLDIER AND COMPANY; INSTRUCTION FOR SKIRMISHERS. (VOLUME ONE ONLY)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/023/182/1304182023.0.m.jpg)
[CONFEDERATE IMPRINT] RIFLE AND LIGHT INFANTRY TACTICS; FOR THE EXERCISE AND MANOEUVRES OF TROOPS WHEN ACTING AS LIGHT INFANTRY OR RIFLEMEN. PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT. VOL. I, SCHOOLS OF THE SOLDIER AND COMPANY; INSTRUCTION FOR SKIRMISHERS. (VOLUME ONE ONLY)
by William Joseph Hardee
Nashville, Tenn: J. O. Griffith & Co, 1861. Hard Cover. Good binding. One of the many Confederate editions of Hardee's Infantry Tactics, widely used by both sides during the American Civil War, becoming the best-known drill manual of the conflict. Confederate imprint, complete with all plates and bugle calls. Volume I only. Lacking front endpaper. Minor shelfwear. Green... Read More
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![[HISTORY - AFRICA] THE SPANISH CAMPAIGN IN MOROCCO](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/796/665/1389665796.0.m.jpg)
[HISTORY - AFRICA] THE SPANISH CAMPAIGN IN MOROCCO
by Frederick Hardman
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1860. First Edition. Very Good binding. 12mo.; almost certainly rebound in half crimson calf (which has darkened) over marbled boards, backed in textured leather with a morocco label; [4], 323 pages; with the bookplate and shelf-label (lined through) of the Naval and Military Club on the pastedown.~~The book is dedicated to... Read More
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WALLANNAH. A COLONIAL ROMANCE
by Will Lofton Hargrave
Richmond: B. F. Johnson Publishing Company, 1902. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Complete with eight plates. Sunning to the spine, and binding somewhat cocked. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and decorations. Top edge yellow. Very Good binding.
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THE LITTLE PEOPLE
by L. Allen Harker
London & New York: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1904. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Foxing to the endpapers and preliminaries only. Minor shelfwear. Blue cloth with white lettering and decorations. Top edge blue. Very Good binding.
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![[CHILDREN] THE BABY GIANT PANDA](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/245/939/1692939245.0.m.jpg)
[CHILDREN] THE BABY GIANT PANDA
by Ruth Harkness
London: George G. Harrap & Company, 1938. First British Edition. Hard Cover. Good+ binding/no dust jacket. Large 8vo; in the publisher’s green cloth binding; 126 pages; binding sound, though small superficial separation to front joint (1/2”); moderate edgewear; Binding protected in a hand cut mylar cover; charming children’s bookplate to front pastedown; no markings in text.~~Warning: this book... Read More
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![[DOMESTIC ARTS] [COOKING] THE COTTAGE KITCHEN A COLLECTION OF PRACTICAL AND INEXPENSIVE RECEIPTS](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/439/329/1693329439.0.m.jpg)
[DOMESTIC ARTS] [COOKING] THE COTTAGE KITCHEN A COLLECTION OF PRACTICAL AND INEXPENSIVE RECEIPTS
by Marion Harland
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1883. First Edition. Hard Cover. near Very Good binding. 8vo; bound in publisher’s green cloth with decorative title blocked in black and red on the front cover; 276 pp. with 2 pages of publisher’s ads at the beginning and 4 at the end; general soiling to the boards; a trivial spot of surface... Read More
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MUSICAL PRIMER; CONTAINING A CONCISE INTRODUCTION TO MUSIC, AND A SELECTION OF PSALM AND HYMN TUNES, ADAPTED TO THE VARIOUS METRES IN GENERAL USE. ARRANGED FOR TWO, THREE, OR FOUR, VOICES. DESIGNED FOR THE USE OF WORSHIPPING ASSEMBLIES AND SINGING SOCIETIES
by Joel Harmon
Harrisburg: Printed by Greer & Minshall, 1825. First Edition. Quarter Leather. Very Good binding. First Edition of Joel Harmon's Musical Primer. With musical theory at the start of the text, followed by many religious songs, their musical scores, and lyrics. Contemporary owner's name on the front pastedown, dated December 27, 1825. Lacking the front endpaper. Else complete; 72... Read More
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IF THEE MUST FIGHT
by Harper, Douglas R.
Chester County Historical Society, 1990. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. signed and inscribed. Inscribed and signed on the title page. ~Dust jacket is protected in a mylar cover; no marks of any kind. Near Fine binding / Near Fine dust jacket.
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A REVIEW OF THE POLITICAL CONFLICT IN AMERICA
by Alexander Harris
New York: T. H. Pollock, 1876. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding. A most attractive First Edition copy, stamped in blind with elaborate gilt titling to the spine. Binding is tight and square with a couple of pencilled names. Very Good+ binding.
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TALES FROM TEN POETS. (THREE VOLUMES)
by Harrison S. Morris (Editor) | Robert Browning; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; Matthew Arnold; George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans]; et al.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1893. Half Leather. Near Fine binding. Selected works by ten Victorian era poets, complete in three volumes. A clean copy, with no marks of any kind. Portrait plates throughout of each author. Modern half morocco over marbled paper boards. Raised bands; lettering and decoration stamped in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Top edges gilt. Near... Read More
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![[VIRGINIA] HISTORIC GUIDE RICHMOND AND JAMES RIVER. "THE LITTLE BOOK THAT WON'T LET YOU GET LOST](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/857/535/1617535857.0.m.jpg)
[VIRGINIA] HISTORIC GUIDE RICHMOND AND JAMES RIVER. "THE LITTLE BOOK THAT WON'T LET YOU GET LOST
by Caroline Rivers Harrison
Richmond, Virginia: Cussons, May & Company, Inc, 1961. Ninth Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine binding. 8vo.; stapled pamphlet with photographic covers; 43 pages with illustrations; there is a previous owner name on the title page.~~This guidebook is uncommon in commerce (no copies found as of August 26, 2024) and not overly abundant in insittuional holdings. Near Fine binding.... Read More
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![[SOUTHERN AMERICANA] POEMS](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/579/166/681166579.0.m.1.jpg)
[SOUTHERN AMERICANA] POEMS
by Belle R[ichardson] Harrison
New York: G. W. Dillingham, 1898. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding. A nice copy of this collection of poems produced by Alabama poet Belle R. Harrison, the wife of John Calhoun Harrison. Many in dialect. Previous owner gift inscription on front endpaper. Very Good+ binding.
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![[AMERICANA] BROWERE’S LIFE MASKS OF GREAT AMERICANS](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/582/275/1629275582.0.m.jpg)
[AMERICANA] BROWERE’S LIFE MASKS OF GREAT AMERICANS
by Charles Henry Hart
[New York]: Printed at the De Vinne Press for Doubleday and McClure Company, 1899. Very Good binding. Signed. Large 8vo.; in gray paper-covered board, backed in parchment with titling in gilt; xiv, 123 pages; with black and white plates; with the armorial bookplate of Adrian Hoffman Joline on the pastedwon; and the rubber namestamp of Allen H. Wright.~~This... Read More
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RECORDS OF "THE DO-WITHOUT SOCIETY.
by Emily Hartley
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1893. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. An uncommon title by the prolific 19th century children's author -- she wrote "Christmas with the Boys" and "Half a Dozen Boys" as well as, unimaginatively, "Christmas with the Girls" and "Half a Dozen Girls". We locate no copes of this book on OCLC, though it does... Read More
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![{TYPOGRAPHY] ORNAMENTAL INITIALS. THE WOODCUT INITIALS OF CHRISTOPHER PLANTIN. A COMPLETE CATALOGUE BY STEPHEN HARVARD](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/768/562/1596562768.0.m.jpg)
{TYPOGRAPHY] ORNAMENTAL INITIALS. THE WOODCUT INITIALS OF CHRISTOPHER PLANTIN. A COMPLETE CATALOGUE BY STEPHEN HARVARD
by Stephen Harvard
New York: The American Friends of the Plantin-Moretus Museum, 1974. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine binding/Very Good dust jacket. Large quarto; in decorative paper-covered board with dustjacket; xiii, 26, [170] pages with illustrations.~~A nearly fresh copy, with trivial wear to the dustjacket. Fine binding / Very Good dust jacket.
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