![[PHILOSOPHY] THE MORALS OF MODERNITY](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/920/748/1699748920.0.m.jpg)
[PHILOSOPHY] THE MORALS OF MODERNITY
by Charles Lamore
Cambridg: Cambridge University Press, 1996. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. Octavo; in the publisher’s black cloth binding with titling on the spine in gold; x, 226 pages including the index; a few scratches to the jacket. Near Fine binding / Near Fine dust jacket.
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![[SIGNED] [VIRGINIA] A SKETCH OF THE EARLY HISTORY OF HANOVER COUNTY, VIRGINIA](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/291/074/1596074291.0.m.jpg)
[SIGNED] [VIRGINIA] A SKETCH OF THE EARLY HISTORY OF HANOVER COUNTY, VIRGINIA
by Robert Bolling Lancaster
Ashland, VA: Herald Progress, Inc, 1957. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. Signed. Large 8vo.; in printed cardstock wrappers; [4], 31, [1] pages; this First Edition printing is limited to 500 copies; this copy is signed with inscription by Robert Lancaster. Very Good binding.
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VESTIS NOVAE IMPERATORIS
by Landis, Frederick; Hans Christian Andersen; Phebe Goode Holladay
Self Published, 1969. Spiral Bound. Very Good+ binding. Inscribed. INSCRIBED BY FRED LANDIS; no other marks. Very Good+ binding.
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![[AMERICANA] LANDRETH'S RURAL REGISTER AND ALMANAC FOR 1847](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/565/651/1570651565.0.m.jpg)
[AMERICANA] LANDRETH'S RURAL REGISTER AND ALMANAC FOR 1847
by D[avid] Landreth
[Philadelphia: Grigg & Elliot | [M'Calla & Stavely], 1846. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. 8vo. in later drab sewn covers with the publisher's printed pink wrappers bound in; [5], 6-143, [144], followed by 8 pages of ads; with some loss to the sewing of the binding, though all is holding well; previous owner penned "Almanac 1847"... Read More
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![[RICHMOND] [DIARY] COMMONPLACE BOOK OF QUINCY LANDSTREET](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/961/574/1699574961.0.m.jpg)
[RICHMOND] [DIARY] COMMONPLACE BOOK OF QUINCY LANDSTREET
by Quincy Landstreet
Richmond, 1940. 6 ¾” x 4 ¼” x 1 ½” red leather commonplace book. Cut out picture of a parrot perched on a table with a book and writing set adhered to front cover and c.1905 photograph of the writer and her mother on back cover. Extensively damaged cover and spine; separation of some pages. ~~Quincy Landstreet (1900-1950) was... Read More
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![[SIGNED] [VIRGINIANA] RAPPAHANNOCK COUNTY VIRGINIA, A HISTORY FACT FICTION FOOLISHNESS AND FAIRFAX STORIES](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/371/783/1685783371.0.m.jpg)
[SIGNED] [VIRGINIANA] RAPPAHANNOCK COUNTY VIRGINIA, A HISTORY FACT FICTION FOOLISHNESS AND FAIRFAX STORIES
by Elisabeth B. and C. E. Johnson; Illustrated by NeeCee Lane
ORange: Walsworth Publishing, Green Publishers, 1981. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. NeeCee Lane. Signed. Large 8vo; in the publisher’s blue cloth binding; with titling on the upper board and spine in blue; vii, 440 pages including the Index; a minor bit of foxing to the edge.~~Inscribed by the author on the front end paper “For Causey... Read More
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![[VIRGINIANA] A VIRGINIA BLUE STOCKINGS](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/457/859/1691859457.0.m.jpg)
[VIRGINIANA] A VIRGINIA BLUE STOCKINGS
by Elizabeth Coles Langhorne
Clarksville: Prestwood House, 1967. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine binding. Small 8vo; in publisher’s illustrated paper wrappers; 14 pages; a bit on toning to the spine, otherwise a fine copy.~~An address given at the Skipwith Family Reunion, held at Prestwood House, Spetember 26, 1966. Near Fine binding.
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![[GARDENING] A PLAIN AND EASY ACCOUNT OF THE BRITISH FERNS; TOGETHER WITH THEIR CLASSIFICATION, ARRAGNEMENT OF GENERA, STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONS; AND A GLOSSARY OF TECHNICAL AND OTHER TERMS](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/859/347/1700347859.0.m.jpg)
[GARDENING] A PLAIN AND EASY ACCOUNT OF THE BRITISH FERNS; TOGETHER WITH THEIR CLASSIFICATION, ARRAGNEMENT OF GENERA, STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONS; AND A GLOSSARY OF TECHNICAL AND OTHER TERMS
by Mrs. [Phebe] Lankester
London: Robert Hardwicke, 1860. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 8vo.; in green embossed cloth with decoration and titling in gilt; 108 pages, including a Glossary; [4] pages of “Books for the Country”; [1], 2-32 pages of Books issued by Robert Hardwicke; with colored frontispiece and eight additional plates, each featuring several different ferns.~~This copy has been rebacked with... Read More
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![ANDY PANDA ALL PICTURE COMICS [A TALL BOOK]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/994/753/717753994.0.m.1.jpg)
ANDY PANDA ALL PICTURE COMICS [A TALL BOOK]
by Walter Lantz
Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Company, 1943. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. A very nice copy of a fragile book. Just a bit of rubbing to the extremities. Complete and intact, with no marks of any kind. Very Good binding.
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LIFE AND LETTERS OF SAMUEL NORVELL LAPSLEY, Missionary to The Congo Valley, West Africa. 1866-1892
by Samuel Norvell Lapsley
Richmond, VA: Whittet & Shepperson, 1893. First Edition. Hard Cover. near Very Good binding. 242pp. Previous owner name; no markings in text; light edgewear to boards, spine; small closed tears, fraying and small loss of cloth at top and bottom spine;. near Very Good binding.
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THE VIKINGS IN IRELAND
by Anne-Christine Larsen
Roskilde: The Viking Ship Museum, 2001. Pictorial Boards. Near Fine binding. A clean fresh copy with no ownership or other marks. Near Fine binding.
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J. H. LARTIGUE. A COLLECTOR'S PORTFOLIO: 1903 -1916
by Jacques-Henri Lartigue
NY: Time Life, 1978. Signed. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. 10 gelatin silver prints each with the embossed photographer's motif on the recto; an autochrome color plate is tipped in to the inside from cover. Each silver print is a printed folder with a "window" and protected with a tissue guard (one tissue guard has... Read More
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APRIL SKIES
by Mary A. Lathbury
NY: Worthington Co, 1889. With 12 full-page chromolithographic illustrations of young children. This copy is not an ex-library copy, and we have cut a piece of fresh mylar to protect it.
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![[SHENANDOAH VALLEY] SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY: BEING A HISTORY OF THE VIRGINIA BLUE RIDGE RAILWAY, THE BEE TREE LUMBER COMPANY AND THE LEFTWICH TIMBER COMPANY](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/499/906/1686906499.0.m.jpg)
[SHENANDOAH VALLEY] SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY: BEING A HISTORY OF THE VIRGINIA BLUE RIDGE RAILWAY, THE BEE TREE LUMBER COMPANY AND THE LEFTWICH TIMBER COMPANY
by Carl M. Lathrop
Madison, NJ: Self-published, 1979. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. Quarto; stapled pamphlet in photographic wrappers; 92 pages, including the Appendix; heavily illustrated with black and white photographs.~~A history of the Virginia Blue Ridge Railway and the two sawmills that originally supported it. ~~We find a dozen or so copies on OCLC. Very Good binding.
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![[ESTATE MANAGEMENT] THE DUTY OF A STEWARD TO HIS LORD REPRESENTED UNDER SEVERAL PLAIN AND DISTINCT ARTICLES ... TO WHICH IS ADDED AN APPENDIX SHEWING THE WAY TO PLENTY PROPOSED TO THE FARMERS ..](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/136/111/1638111136.0.m.jpg)
[ESTATE MANAGEMENT] THE DUTY OF A STEWARD TO HIS LORD REPRESENTED UNDER SEVERAL PLAIN AND DISTINCT ARTICLES ... TO WHICH IS ADDED AN APPENDIX SHEWING THE WAY TO PLENTY PROPOSED TO THE FARMERS ..
by Edward Laurence
London: John Shuckburgh, 1727. First Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Quarto; full calf in a Cambridge style binding; it has been rebacked and retains an early spine label; xc, 212 pages; with double-page folding plate “A Survey of Dun Boggs Farm in Haversham” as well as a double page plate of hedges.~~On the front pastedown is a... Read More
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![[MILITARY] THE FRENCH CONQUEST OF ALGERIA](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/946/990/1671990946.0.m.jpg)
[MILITARY] THE FRENCH CONQUEST OF ALGERIA
by Major G .B. Laurie
London: Hugh Rees, LTD, 1909. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good binding. 8vo; in publisher’s green cloth; with titling on the spine and upper board in gilt; (I) 1-217 pages including the appendix; complete with three folding maps bound into the rear; some silverfishing to the boards; the top of the spine has a trivial tear; the first six... Read More
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![[ATLASES AND MAPS] A COMPLETE GENEALOGICAL, HISTORICAL, CHRONOLOGICAL, AND GEOGRAPHICAL ATLAS; BEING A GENERAL GUIDE TO HISTORY, BOTH ANCIENT AND MODERN: EXHIBITING AN ACCURATE ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGIN, DESCENT, AND MARRIAGES OF ALL THE ROYAL FAMILIES FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD: TOGETHER WITH THE VARIOUS POSSESSIONS, FOREIGN WARS, BATTLES OF RENOWN AND REMARKABLE EVENTS, TO THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO ... THE WHOLE FORMING A COMPLETE SYSTEM OF HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/263/407/1355407263.0.m.jpg)
[ATLASES AND MAPS] A COMPLETE GENEALOGICAL, HISTORICAL, CHRONOLOGICAL, AND GEOGRAPHICAL ATLAS; BEING A GENERAL GUIDE TO HISTORY, BOTH ANCIENT AND MODERN: EXHIBITING AN ACCURATE ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGIN, DESCENT, AND MARRIAGES OF ALL THE ROYAL FAMILIES FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD: TOGETHER WITH THE VARIOUS POSSESSIONS, FOREIGN WARS, BATTLES OF RENOWN AND REMARKABLE EVENTS, TO THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO ... THE WHOLE FORMING A COMPLETE SYSTEM OF HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY
by M. Lavoisne
Philadelphia: M. Carey & Sons, 1820. First American Edition. Half Leather. Very Good binding. The First American Edition of A Complete Genealogical, Historical, Chronological, and Geographical Atlas, executed by Matthew Carey in 1820. Complete with all maps and charts of 71 double-page plates -- including the important maps of the "United States of America" by John Melish,... Read More
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![[AMERICANA] [GOVERNMENT] [SCHOOLS] THE GOVERNMENTAL INSTRUCTOR, OR A BRIEF AND COMPREHENSIVE VIEW OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES, AND OF THE STATE GOVERNMENTS, IN EASY LESSONS, DESIGNED FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/174/650/1436650174.0.m.jpg)
[AMERICANA] [GOVERNMENT] [SCHOOLS] THE GOVERNMENTAL INSTRUCTOR, OR A BRIEF AND COMPREHENSIVE VIEW OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES, AND OF THE STATE GOVERNMENTS, IN EASY LESSONS, DESIGNED FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS
by J. B. Shurtleff | [Amos Lawrence]
New York: Collins, Brother & Co, 1845. First Edition. Quarter Leather. Good binding. 12 mo.; 1/4 calf over printed paper-covered boards; xi, 182 pages, followed by [6] pages of publisher's ads; the worn spine is patched and crumbling but holding; hinges reinforced with japanese tissue.~~There is a previous owner gift inscription dated July 1851 from Amos Lawrence, the... Read More
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THE MUTUAL RIGHTS OF THE MINISTERS AND MEMBERS OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. PUBLISHED MONTHLY. VOL. I. NO. 1-12. (ONE VOLUME)
by A Committee of Ministers and Laymen
Baltimore: Printed by John D. Toy, 1824. First Edition. Half Leather. Good binding. The first 12 issues of monthly Methodist periodical, The Mutual Rights of the Ministers and Members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in one volume. Contemporary bookplates and previous owner's name on the front pastedown; religious blindstamp on the title page. Scattered foxing. Loss to the... Read More
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![[COOKING] EPWORTH LEAGUE COOK BOOK](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/938/723/1449723938.0.m.jpg)
[COOKING] EPWORTH LEAGUE COOK BOOK
by Young Ladies of the Epworth League
Waynesburg, PA: Monthly Reocrd Publishing Company, 1905. Stapled Pamphlet. Good binding. 8vo.; this copy is a stapled binding, lacking the publisher's wrappers though appears to be otherwise complete; 138 pages; there are pencilled recipes on several blank leaves at the back of the book.~~While a flawed copy, this Cook Book is uncommon; we locate a single copy on... Read More
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![[BRITISH NAVY] THE NAVAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND IN ALL ITS BRANCHES; FROM THE NORMAN CONQUEST IN THE YEAR 1066, TO THE CONCLUSION OF !734. COLLECTED FROM THE MOST APPROVED HISTORIANS, ENGLISH AND FOREIGN, AUTHENTIC RECORDS AND MANUSCRIPTS, SCARCE TRACTS, ORIGINAL JOURNALS, ~&c. WITH MANY FACTS AND OBSERVATIONS NEVER BEFORE MADE PUBLICK. IN TWO VOLUMES](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/745/326/1631326745.0.m.jpg)
[BRITISH NAVY] THE NAVAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND IN ALL ITS BRANCHES; FROM THE NORMAN CONQUEST IN THE YEAR 1066, TO THE CONCLUSION OF !734. COLLECTED FROM THE MOST APPROVED HISTORIANS, ENGLISH AND FOREIGN, AUTHENTIC RECORDS AND MANUSCRIPTS, SCARCE TRACTS, ORIGINAL JOURNALS, ~&c. WITH MANY FACTS AND OBSERVATIONS NEVER BEFORE MADE PUBLICK. IN TWO VOLUMES
by Thomas Lediard
Printed for John Wilcox, at Virgil’s Head,opposite the New Church, and Olive Payne, at Horace’s Head in Round Court, bother in the Strand, 1735. Half Leather. Very Good binding. Folio; in half morocco over pebbled cloth; with raised bands, titling in gilt; iv, xxiv; xii; 933 pages followed by page 934 advertisement; the two volumes are paged continuously... Read More
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![[ARCHITECTURE] BUILDINGS OF VIRGINIA: VALLEY, PIEDMONT, SOUTHSIDE, AND SOUTHWEST [BUILDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES SERIES]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/173/409/1556409173.0.m.jpg)
[ARCHITECTURE] BUILDINGS OF VIRGINIA: VALLEY, PIEDMONT, SOUTHSIDE, AND SOUTHWEST [BUILDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES SERIES]
by Anne Carter Lee
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015. Hard Cover. Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. Quarto; in the publisher's black cloth with dustjacket; 530 pages, including the voluminous Index; with in-text illustrations thoughout.~~This work contains basic information, and in many cases more extensive historical and / or descriptive information, and is often up-to-date to the time of publication. For example,... Read More
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BOOKPLATES BY RICHARD SHIRLEY SMITH (Slipcase)
by Brian North Lee
Denby Dale: The Fleece Press, 2006. Limited Edition, one of 275 copies. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. Tiny amount of flaking to wood laminate boards; otherwise would be Fine. No marks of any kind. Over 60 attractive examples of the bookplates of Richard Shirley Smith, with 6 being tipped-in examples. Housed in green cloth... Read More
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![[LITERATURE] FLORENCE, THE PARISH ORPHAN: AND A SKETCH OF THE VILLAGE IN THE LAST CENTURY](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/963/823/1671823963.0.m.jpg)
[LITERATURE] FLORENCE, THE PARISH ORPHAN: AND A SKETCH OF THE VILLAGE IN THE LAST CENTURY
by Eliza Buckminster Lee
Boston, 1852. First Edition. Very Good binding. Small 8vo; in publisher’s blue cloth with decorations stamped in blind and gilt titling on the spine; 176 pages; pages edged in gilt; trivial loss to the top and bottom of the spine; minor foxing but the text is clear; minor crack to the bottom of the rear gutter; previous owner’s... Read More
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BROTHERS IN THE RAJ: THE LIVES AND JOHN AND HENRY LAWRENCE
by Harold Lee
Oxford University Press, 2002. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. A clean First Edition copy with no ownership or other marks in the book. The dustjacket is bright and is now protected with a new mylar cover. Near Fine binding / Near Fine dust jacket.
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