![[AMERICANA] [GERMAN] LEBEN BIS GENERAL-MAJORS ANDREAS JACKSON, ENTHALTEND EINE GESCHICHETE DES KRIEGS IM SUDEN, VOM UNFANGE DES FELDZUGS GEGEN DIE CREEKS, BIZ ZUR BEENDIGUNG DER FEINDSELIGFEITEN VOR NEU ORLEANS ZUSASSE: ENHTALTEND EINE FURZE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES GEGEN DIE GEMINOLEN UND UERBERGABE UND REGIERUNG VON FLORIDA](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/453/038/1618038453.0.m.jpg)
[AMERICANA] [GERMAN] LEBEN BIS GENERAL-MAJORS ANDREAS JACKSON, ENTHALTEND EINE GESCHICHETE DES KRIEGS IM SUDEN, VOM UNFANGE DES FELDZUGS GEGEN DIE CREEKS, BIZ ZUR BEENDIGUNG DER FEINDSELIGFEITEN VOR NEU ORLEANS ZUSASSE: ENHTALTEND EINE FURZE GESCHICHTE DES KRIEGES GEGEN DIE GEMINOLEN UND UERBERGABE UND REGIERUNG VON FLORIDA
by Johan Heinrich Eaton
Reading [PA]: Johnann Ritter und Comp, 1831. Quarter Leather. Very Good binding. 8vo.; in quarter mottled calf over marbled boards; with engraved frontispiece portrait of Jackson; and a colored folding map of the Eastern United States; 419 pages.~~The map is separating at one of the folds, but is holding together well.~~Overall an serviceable copy of this German translation... Read More
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![[PHOTOGRAPHY] [COLOR] 122 FARVEFOTOGRAFIER | 122 COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHS. OBSERVATIONS BY K. HELMER PETERSEN](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/135/143/1503143135.0.m.jpg)
[PHOTOGRAPHY] [COLOR] 122 FARVEFOTOGRAFIER | 122 COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHS. OBSERVATIONS BY K. HELMER PETERSEN
by K. Helmer-Petersen
Copenhagen: Schoenberg Publishers, 1948. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. Folio; in a presumed (and very attractive) rebind of paper-covered boards simulating bark, backed in burgundy morocco with titling in gilt; 122 full page plates taken from color photographs.~~A groundbreaking and important work of color photographs from World War II and the immediate post-war era. Helmer-Petersen's abstractions... Read More
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![[REVIEW COPY][ARCHITECTURE] THE PAPER MUSEUM OF CASSIANO DAL POZZO RENAISSANCE AND LATER ARCHITECTURE AND ORNAMENT (TWO VOLUMES)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/545/897/1687897545.0.m.jpg)
[REVIEW COPY][ARCHITECTURE] THE PAPER MUSEUM OF CASSIANO DAL POZZO RENAISSANCE AND LATER ARCHITECTURE AND ORNAMENT (TWO VOLUMES)
by Paul Davies | David Hemsoll
London: Harvey Miller Publisher, 2013. Near Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. 4to; in the publisher’s blue cloth binding; with titling on the spine in gilt; in dust jacket; Vol I; 384 pages; a bit of wear to the spine of the dust jacket; Vol II, 387-770 pages; a trivial stain to the edge of the text block; slight... Read More
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[HISTORY] THE CRUSADES. IRON MEN AND SAINTS
by Harold Lamb | [Keith Henderson]
Garden City, New York: Doubleday Doran, 1930. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Large 8vo.; in the publisher’s black cloth, with dustjacket; xi, 368 pages, including the Index; with frontispiece and numerous plates; ths dustjacket has edgewear and has not been price-clipped.~~This copy retains the attractive colored dustjacket designed by Keith Henderson, the Scottish... Read More
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PRINCIPIA LEGIS ET AEQUITATIS: BEING AN ALPHABETICAL COLLECTION OF MAXIMS, PRINCIPLES OR RULES, DEFINITIONS, AND MEMORABLE SAYINGS, IN LAW AND EQUITY
by Thomas Branch; William Waller Hening
Richmond: T. W. White, 1824. First American Edition. A clean copy of the stated First American Edition. A contemporary American author said that "it may be regarded as the accumulated spirit and wisdom of the great body of the English Law." Toning throughout. Reinforced at the hinges with red cloth tape, and at the joints and across the spine... Read More
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THE STATUTES AT LARGE; BEING A COLLECTION OF ALL THE LAWS OF VIRGINIA, FROM THE FIRST SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE, IN THE YEAR 1619. VOLUME VIII. (VOLUME EIGHT ONLY)
by William Waller Hening
Richmond: Printed for the Editor. J. & G. Cochran, Printers, 1821. Full Leather. Good binding. Volume VIII only of Hening's Statutes, covering 1764 to 1773. Toning to the text; previous owner's name on the front pastedown. Some scuffing and wear to the leather binding. Either full calf or sheepskin, with brown and black leather labels. Good binding. ... Read More
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THE STATUTES AT LARGE; BEING A COLLECTION OF ALL THE LAWS OF VIRGINIA, FROM THE FIRST SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE, IN THE YEAR 1619. VOLUME V. (VOLUME FIVE ONLY)
by William Waller Hening
Richmond: Printed for the Editor at the Franklin Press.-W. W. Gray, Print, 1819. Full Leather. Good binding. Volume V only of Hening's Statutes, covering 1738 to 1748. Toning to the text; previous owner's name on the front pastedown. Some scuffing and wear to the leather binding. Either full calf or sheepskin, with red and remnants of a green... Read More
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![[LAW] THE STATUTES AT LARGE; BEING A COLLECTION OF ALL THE LAWS OF VIRGINIA, FROM THE FIRST SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE, IN THE YEAR 1619. VOL. IV. (VOLUME FOUR ONLY)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/662/863/1597863662.0.m.jpg)
[LAW] THE STATUTES AT LARGE; BEING A COLLECTION OF ALL THE LAWS OF VIRGINIA, FROM THE FIRST SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE, IN THE YEAR 1619. VOL. IV. (VOLUME FOUR ONLY)
by William Waller Hening
Richmond: Printed for the Editor, 1820. Second Printing. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Large 8vo.; in contemporary full calf, with burgundy and black labels; [9], 10-604 pages, including the Index.~~This is Volume IV only of the second printing of Hening's Statutes.~~Quoted from Sabin: "Bancroft remarks, that no other State in the Union possesses so excellent a work on... Read More
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DER KINDERFREUND EIN LESEBUCH ZUM GEBRAUCH IN LANDSCHULEN
by Friedrich Eberhard von Rochow | [Solon P. C. Henkel]
Frankfurt am Mann: Andreischen Buchhandlung, 1796. Full Leather. Good binding. Children's reading book for use in "country schools". 144 pps,, perhaps lacking a frontispiece and certainly lacking endleaves. With the signature of Solon P. C. Henkel, Shenanadoah Valley physician; a relation of the Henkel Press family in New Market. Mottled calf binding with some... Read More
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[HUNTING] ROUND THE CAMPFIRE
by A. M. H. Henley
Clinton, NJ: Amwell Press // National Sporting Fraternity Limited, 1989. Hard Cover. Fine binding. Signed. Limited Edition #236 of 1000 copies. An African Hunting Heritage Book. With a foreward by Jim Rikhoff. Signed by A.M.H. Henley on the limitation page as well as by Jim Rikhoff, President of the National Sporting Fraternity Limited; Bound in black bonded leather... Read More
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[PHILOSOPHY] [RELIGION] TAOISM AND CHINESE RELIGION
by Henri Maspero | Frank A. Kierman, Jr. (Translator)
Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1981. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Very Good dust jacket. Octavo; in the publisher’s pale peach cloth; in an unclipped jacket; xxxiii, 578 pages including the Index; a few small chips to the jacket; light foxing to the edges; a small pen mark on the front end paper. Near Fine binding / Very Good... Read More
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![ORDINANCES AND ACTS OF THE RESTORED GOVERNMENT OF VIRGINIA, PRIOR TO THE FORMATION OF THE STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA; WITH THE CONSTITUTION AND LAWS OF THE STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA, TO MARCH 2d, 1866. [VIZ.] ORDINANCES OF THE CONVENTION, ASSEMBLED AT WHEELING, ON THE 11th OF JUNE, 1861 [WITH] ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA; PASSED AT THE EXTRA SESSION ..](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/991/580/1035580991.0.m.jpg)
ORDINANCES AND ACTS OF THE RESTORED GOVERNMENT OF VIRGINIA, PRIOR TO THE FORMATION OF THE STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA; WITH THE CONSTITUTION AND LAWS OF THE STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA, TO MARCH 2d, 1866. [VIZ.] ORDINANCES OF THE CONVENTION, ASSEMBLED AT WHEELING, ON THE 11th OF JUNE, 1861 [WITH] ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA; PASSED AT THE EXTRA SESSION ..
by [Henry C. Dickinson, C.S.A.]
Wheeling: John Frew, 1866. First Edition. Half Leather. Very Good binding. [WITH] CONSTITUTION OF WEST VIRGINIA; [WITH] ACT OF THE LEGISLATION OF WEST VIRGINIA, 1863 ... etc.~This copy with the signature of Henry C. Dickinson of Bedford County, Virginia, Captain in Company A, Second Virginia Cavalry. Dickinson was captured and incarcerated in Federal prisons at Morris Island,... Read More
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SERMONS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS, BY THE LATE HENRY KOLLOCK, D.D. WITH A MEMOIR OF THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR. VOLUME III (3) ONLY OF FOUR VOLUMES
by Henry Kollock, D.D.
Savannah: S. C. and I. Schenck, 1822. First Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. An attractive copy in full mottled calf, with a previous owner name on the front pastedown. The morocco spine label is present, but has been discreetly patched. Altogether a pleasant copy of Volume III only of this set. Very Good binding. ... Read More
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![[ARCHITECTURE; ILLUSTRATED] SARACENIC & NORMAN REMAINS. TO ILLUSTRATE THE NORMANS IN SICILY](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/453/914/1321914453.0.m.jpg)
[ARCHITECTURE; ILLUSTRATED] SARACENIC & NORMAN REMAINS. TO ILLUSTRATE THE NORMANS IN SICILY
by Henry Gally Knight, Esq
London: John Murray, 1840. An important album of illustrations showing landscapes and buildings made on site, following Henry Gally Knight’s 1838 work, “The Normans in Sicily.” There are thirty lithographic images, including the title page; twenty-seven are mostly tinted lithographs; three are hand-colored. The lithography is by Hullmandel; the three colored plates are engraved on steel after George Moore.... Read More
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A SEARCH FOR A SECRET
by G. A. Henty
London: Gall and Inglis, 1911. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Second Edition of Henty's first work, and the first edition in one volume; Newbolt dates this as 1911. Color frontispiece. Toning to the text, discoloration and namesticker to the endpapers, and slight foxing to the title page only. Blue cloth with color pastedown on the front... Read More
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[CHILDREN] JACK ARCHER. [29 DIFFERENT EDITIONS OF THE SAME WORK.]
by G. A. Henty
[Various Publishers]. Hard Cover. Good binding. Various reprints and later editions of G. A. Henty’s Jack Archer, being 29 separate imprints in total, none of which are the First Edition or First American Edition. ~~Four editions by A. L. Burt of New York, six editions by Sampson Low & Co. of London, three editions by The Mershon Company... Read More
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BY RIGHT OF CONQUEST. OR WITH CORTEZ IN MEXICO
by G. A. Henty
Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co, 1890. Early Pirate Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. An early pirated American edition of Henty's By Right of Conquest. With frontispiece and five additional plates. Color, pictorial endpapers. Interior is bright and unmarked; with minimal shelfwear. Blue cloth with black and gilt lettering, and color decorations. Uncommon, OCLC notes only... Read More
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FORMAL STRUCTURE IN INDIAN ARCHITECTURE
by Klaus Herdeg
Ithaca [NY]: Arnold Printing Company, 1967. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Portfolio of photographs based on Herdeg's three month journey to India. Of a total edition of 700 copies, this is copy no. 349. With 42 loose sheets (including the title sheet; 43 if you count #11a and 11b). The photographic sheets are fine; the clamshell portfolio box... Read More
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![[RELIGION] TWO RIGHT PROFITABLE & FRUITFUL CONCORDANCES, OR LARGE AND AMPLE TABLES ALPHABETICALL. THE FIRST CONTAINING THE INTERPRETATION OF THE HEBRUE, CALDEAN, GREEKE, AND LATINE WORDES AND NAMES SCATTERING DISPERSING THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE BIBLE](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/444/329/1693329444.0.m.jpg)
[RELIGION] TWO RIGHT PROFITABLE & FRUITFUL CONCORDANCES, OR LARGE AND AMPLE TABLES ALPHABETICALL. THE FIRST CONTAINING THE INTERPRETATION OF THE HEBRUE, CALDEAN, GREEKE, AND LATINE WORDES AND NAMES SCATTERING DISPERSING THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE BIBLE
by Robert F. Herrey
London: Christopher Barker, nd. (1599). Full Leather. Near Fine binding. 8vo; rebound in a most handsome period binding; unpaginated; with some writing on the first leaf. ~~According to a loose leaf laid in the book, there is no title page because these were printed to be put in the Geneva translation of the Bible as a concordance. There... Read More
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LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS & FIREMAN'S MANUAL OF QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS TO DATE OF DECEMBER 1941. THIRD (3rd) EDITION
by Mark F. Herrick
Boone, Iowa: M. F. Herrick, 1941. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. An attractive copy of Herrick's manual, with many questions and answers, black and white illustrations, some colored illustrations with different colors differentiating various lines, valves etc,, and some folding plates. Mylar has been custom cut to protect the binding. Very Good binding.
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![[SIGNED] [SPECIAL PRESS] POEMS SELECTED FROM THE HESPERIDES OF ROBERT HERRICK](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/310/114/1692114310.0.m.jpg)
[SIGNED] [SPECIAL PRESS] POEMS SELECTED FROM THE HESPERIDES OF ROBERT HERRICK
by Robert Herrick
New Rochelle: The Elston Press, 1903. Limited Edition. Very Good+ binding. Signed. Large 8vo, quarter bound in brown cloth over paper covered boards; with a paper label on the spine; 155 pages; a bit of soiling to the boards; some wear to the edges; the label has a touch of surface loss; printed in black and red ink;... Read More
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![[RELIGION] PRAYER, ITS DUTIES AND PRIVILEGES: RECOMMENDED TO ALL WHO SINCERELY DESIRE TO WORSHIP GOD IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/585/746/1692746585.0.m.jpg)
[RELIGION] PRAYER, ITS DUTIES AND PRIVILEGES: RECOMMENDED TO ALL WHO SINCERELY DESIRE TO WORSHIP GOD IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH
by John Hersey
Baltimore: Armstrong & Berry, 1854. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Good binding. 12mo.; in calf, with title label in black morocco; 212 pages; with a previous owner name on the front endpaper.~~The joints are tender but holding.~~This 1854 printing follows the first edition from 1853. Good binding.
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[SIGNED] [LITERATURE] DR. CHRISTIAN’S OFFICE
by Ruth Adams Knight and Jean Hersholt
New York: Random House, 1944. First Edition; First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/near Very Good dust jacket. Signed. 8vo; in the publisher’s blue cloth binding; 243 pages; in an unclipped jacket; some wear and toning to the boards but the binding is sound; the dust jacket is a bit shelfworn at the extremities with some chipping including... Read More
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![[PATTERNBOOK FOR CARPENTERS] MUSTERBLATTER FUR SCHREINERARBEITEN WEITERE AUSARBEITUNG DER VIERTEN AUFLAGE DES WOLFER-MATTHAEY'SCHEN BAU - UND MOBELSCHREINERS: MIT 28 LITHOGRAPHIRTEN TAFELN](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/161/220/1564220161.0.m.jpg)
[PATTERNBOOK FOR CARPENTERS] MUSTERBLATTER FUR SCHREINERARBEITEN WEITERE AUSARBEITUNG DER VIERTEN AUFLAGE DES WOLFER-MATTHAEY'SCHEN BAU - UND MOBELSCHREINERS: MIT 28 LITHOGRAPHIRTEN TAFELN
by Heinrich Hess
Weimar: /Bernhard Friedrich Voigt, 1836. Small quarto, in the publisher' rather worn paper-covered boards; [2], 3-10, [11. 12] followed by 27 of 28 pages of lithographic plates of measured drawings of pieces of furniture designed for the used of cabinetmakers or carpenters [NOTE: the 28th page of drawings is lacking in this copy. There are several figures on each... Read More
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BRITISH RULE IN MALAYA. THE MALAYAN CIVIL SERVICE AND ITS PREDECESSORS, 1867-1942. (CONTRIBUTIONS IN COMPARATIVE COLONIAL STUDIES, NUMBER 6)
by Robert Heussler
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1981. First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. First Printing of Robert Heussler's British Rule in Malaya, The Malayan Civil Service and its Predecessors, 1867-1942. With no marks of any kind. Minor shelfwear. Black cloth with lettering in gilt. Very Good binding.
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