MATERIALS FOR HISTORY PRINTED FROM ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS WITH NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. FIRST SERIES. CORRESPONDENCE OF HENRY LAURENS, OF SOUTH CAROLINA
by Frank Moore
New York: Printed for the Zenger Club, 1861. First Edition. Quarter Leather. Very Good binding. Hinges reinforced with Japanese tissue, and extremities of the spine have Japanese tissue applied to their verso. Quarter green leather with red leather label, over marbled paper boards. Very Good binding.
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CONVERSATIONS WITH GEORGE MOORE
by Geraint Goodwin | George Moore
London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1929. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. First Edition, First State. Numbered 16 of 110 copies, and signed by both Moore and Goodwin on the limitation page. With the nameplate of Crosby Gaige on the front pastedown; Gaige was an occasional publisher of Moore's works. Moderate shelfwear to the binding, mostly affecting the... Read More
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REMINISCENCES: LETTERS, POETRY AND MISCELLANIES
by J. Staunton Moore
Richmond, VA: O. E. Flanhart Printing Co, 1903. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. A clean and pretty bright copy; the publisher's green cloth boards are a bit silverfished; there are no marks of any kind in the book. The publisher's errata slip is tipped onto the pastedown. Very Good binding.
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![[LEXINGTON] [CIVIL WAR] MEMORIES OF A LONG LIFE IN VIRGINIA](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/544/807/1447807544.0.m.jpg)
[LEXINGTON] [CIVIL WAR] MEMORIES OF A LONG LIFE IN VIRGINIA
by Mrs. John H. [Salllie Alexander] Moore
Staunton, Va: The McClure Company, Inc, 1920. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 8vo.; in the publisher's burgundy binding; [4], 5-183 pages, with frontispiece and several additional photographic illustrations; there is a previous owner name on the front endpaper, dated in the year of publication.~ ~With anecdotal accounts of the Secession in Richmond A(which was opposed by... Read More
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![[SOUTHERN AMERICANA] PIT-MEN, PREACHERS & POLITICS: THE EFFECTS OF METHODISM IN A DURHAM MINING COMMUNITY](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/497/906/1686906497.0.m.jpg)
[SOUTHERN AMERICANA] PIT-MEN, PREACHERS & POLITICS: THE EFFECTS OF METHODISM IN A DURHAM MINING COMMUNITY
by Moore, Robert
London: Cambridge University Press, 1974. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Very Good dust jacket. 8vo; in the publisher’s dark grey cloth binding; with titling on the spine in gilt; x, 292 pages including the Index; the jacket has signs of wear; a few chips; a closed tear on the bottom edge; the spine is sunned. Near Fine binding /... Read More
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THE MINERAL WATERS OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA, WITH A MAP AND PLATES, AND GENERAL DIRECTIONS FOR REACHING MINERAL SPRINGS
by J. J. Moorman
Baltimore: Kelly & Piet, 1867. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. First Edition of J. J. Moorman's The Mineral Waters of the United States and Canada. With folding cartographic frontispiece and two additional plates. Discrete paper repair to the folding map near the gutter. Advertisements at the rear. Faint foxing; previous owners' names on the front endpaper.... Read More
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[MAP] [FRAMED] CAMBRIDGE SHIRE
by [(Robert) Morden]
Abel Swale Awnsham and John Churchill, 1722. Map engraved by Sutton Nichols, with central horizontal fold, for Camden's Britannia, with foliate title cartouche in the upper right; attractively hand colored in outline, in green, blue, gold and pink; 16 3/4" x 14 7/8"; left-hand top corner has had some minor "bleed" and appears to have been retouched; nicely matted... Read More
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[MILITARY] HANDBOOK OF ARTILLERY MATERIEL
by Major F. C. [Frederick Cyril] Morgan
London: William Clowes and Sons, Limited, 1885. Second Editon. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 12mo.; publisher's red cloth with double rule in blind to the perimeter of the boards with titling in gilt to the upper board; complete with 19 plates; yellow endpapers; there is a previous owner name on the pastedown which has "bled" onto the... Read More
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WOMAN; OR IDA OF ATHENS
by Miss Owenson [Sydney Morgan; Lady Morgan]
Philadelphia | New York | Baltimore: Bradford & Inskeep | Inskeep & Bradford | Coale & Thomas, 1809. Early American Edition. Half Leather. Very Good binding. An uncommon copy. Not found in Shaw & Shoemaker. The original London edition was published in four volumes; the first American edition was published in two volumes; this edition, published the same... Read More
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![[HISTORY] THE SEPULCHRE OF CHRIST AND THE MEDIEVAL WEST FROM THE BEGINNING TO 1600](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/473/859/1691859473.0.m.jpg)
[HISTORY] THE SEPULCHRE OF CHRIST AND THE MEDIEVAL WEST FROM THE BEGINNING TO 1600
by Colin Morris
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. First Trade Paperback Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine binding. 8vo; in illustrated paper boards; xxii, 427 pages including the Index; with maps and black and white illustrations throughout; upper board a bit bowed, otherwise a very nice copy with no markings of any kind. Near Fine binding.
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![[SPECIAL PRESS] THE BIRD & BULL PEPPER POT. INGREDIENTS: CHOICE BITS OF UNCOMMON | PAPERMAKING, PUBLISHING AND PRINTING HISTORY | SIMMERED IN A TASTY BROTH OF POETRY, CURRENT | EVENTS AND AMUSING ANECDOTES. LIGHTLY SEA- |~SONED WITH A DASH OF OBSCENITY, AND WITH SE- | LECTED PORTIONS OF TRYPE ADDED AS IN THE | OLD ORIGINAL RECIPE. PREPARED WITH A ZESTFUL | VARIETY OF TYPE FACES AND SERVED | BY HENRY MORRIS.~](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/940/218/1600218940.0.m.jpg)
[SPECIAL PRESS] THE BIRD & BULL PEPPER POT. INGREDIENTS: CHOICE BITS OF UNCOMMON | PAPERMAKING, PUBLISHING AND PRINTING HISTORY | SIMMERED IN A TASTY BROTH OF POETRY, CURRENT | EVENTS AND AMUSING ANECDOTES. LIGHTLY SEA- |~SONED WITH A DASH OF OBSCENITY, AND WITH SE- | LECTED PORTIONS OF TRYPE ADDED AS IN THE | OLD ORIGINAL RECIPE. PREPARED WITH A ZESTFUL | VARIETY OF TYPE FACES AND SERVED | BY HENRY MORRIS.~
by Henry Morris
North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1977. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Fine binding. Signed. Quarto; in quarter tan morocco, paste paper over boards; lettered horizontally in gilt on the spine; with morocco corner tips ; [1], half-title; [3], title; [5], Contents; 7, Foreward; 8-86, text (page 23 mispaginated 27); 89, colophon. ; there is ninor loss (insect?)... Read More
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![[SPECIAL PRESS] A PAIR ON PAPER. TWO ESSAYS ON PAPER HISTORY AND RELATED MATTERS](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/416/285/1703285416.0.m.jpg)
[SPECIAL PRESS] A PAIR ON PAPER. TWO ESSAYS ON PAPER HISTORY AND RELATED MATTERS
by Leonard B. Schlosser | Henry Morris
North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1976. Quarter Leather. Near Fine binding. Taylor, Morris. Twenty-One A17. Quarter brown morocco over printed tan paper boards with illustrations of four quire wrappers printed on the upper board; spine lettered horizontally in gilt; 70, [1] pages, illustrated.~~More Adventures in Papermaking by Henry Morris [7-43]; Some Early Milanese Paper Wrappers by... Read More
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A HISTORY OF THE TENTH REGIMENT, VT. VOLS., WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
by E[dwin] M[ortimer] Haynes
Rutland, Vt: The Tuttle Company, Printers, 1894. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Good binding. From the library of Civil War historian, James I. " Bud" Robertson, with his bookplate on the front pastedown, on top of what we surmise is an old library bookplate. An old ex-library copy with remnants of a check out slip on the rear pastedown.... Read More
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![[REVIEW COPY] [VIRGINIANA] ROBERT CARTER OF NOMINI HALL: A VIRGINIA TOBACCO PLANTER OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/171/007/1702007171.0.m.jpg)
[REVIEW COPY] [VIRGINIANA] ROBERT CARTER OF NOMINI HALL: A VIRGINIA TOBACCO PLANTER OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
by Morton, Louis
Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univeristy Press, 1941. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Octavo; in the publisher’s black cloth binding; xi, 332 pages including the Index; in an unclipped jacket; boards lightly soiled; toning to the pastedown; the spine of the jacket is darkened; previous owner’s signature on the front end paper. ~~A review copy... Read More
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LIFE OF DANIEL BOONE
by Oren F. Morton
Hot Springs, Va: McAllister Publishing Company, 1913. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. Oren Morton was a significant chronicler of the Western part of Virginia, as well as West Virginia, and this is one of his scarcer titles. The title page has a 1/2 " x 2" piece missing where, presumably, a previous owner excised a name. ... Read More
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![[ILLUSTRATED] [RELIGION] THE HOLY BIBLE CONTAINING ALL THE BOOKS OF T HE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/879/155/1721155879.0.m.jpg)
[ILLUSTRATED] [RELIGION] THE HOLY BIBLE CONTAINING ALL THE BOOKS OF T HE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS
by [Barry Moser]
New York: Viking Studio, 1999. First Trade Edition. Hard Cover. Fine binding/Fine dust jacket. Large quarto; in the publisher’s linen binding with decorations in gilt, with dustjacket; [xii], [1]. 2-994, [995] followed by [8] index; printed in red and black, and illustrated with over 230 woodcuts by Barry Moser; there are no marks of any kind in the... Read More
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![[JUDAICA] MASADA: THE VICTORY OF THE VANQUISHED; JUDEA CAPTA; Excerpt from THE JEWISH WAR](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/742/918/475918742.0.m.1.jpg)
[JUDAICA] MASADA: THE VICTORY OF THE VANQUISHED; JUDEA CAPTA; Excerpt from THE JEWISH WAR
by Moshe Dayan; additional contributions by Uzi Narkiss, Josephus Flavius and Georges Israel; Illustrated by Raymond Moretti
Paris: Armand and Georges Israel, 1983. Limited Edition, number 39. Suede. Very Good+ binding. Raymond Moretti. 16 lithographs by Raymond Moretti and an additional 13 illustrations and text laid in to a cream paper covered portfolio with title blocked in gold on the lid. Housed in a.suede clamshell box with copper plate after a Moretti illustration inset in... Read More
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[SPECIAL PRESS] CHILD CHRISTOPHER AND GOLDILIND THE FAIR
by William Morris | [Thomas Bird Mosher]
Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1900. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Poor dust jacket. Small quarto; in paper-covered boards with printed wrapper; [v]-ix, [1], [3]-218 pages, followed by the colophon, printed in red and black; the title is printed in red and black, with line borders; a number of pages are unopened; one of 50 copies of... Read More
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BEHIND CONVENT WALLS
by Neva Pinkham Miller Moss
Self-published, 1924. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. This controversial pamphlet caused a stir when Neva Moss went on the lecture circuit in the 1920’s. She portrayed herself as an “escaped nun” and characterized convents as “Roman prison houses” and “slave houses”. Ms. Moss was at the “House of the Good Shepherd” in Detroit, and the booklet is illustrated... Read More
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AVANTURES DE TELEMAQUE. FILS D’ULYSSE. OU, SUITE DU QUATRIEME LIVRE DE L’ODYSSEE D’HOMERE. TOME I & II. (ONE VOLUME)
by Francois Fenelon [de Salignac de la Mothe]
A La Haye: Chez Adrien Motjens, 1705. Full Leather. Good binding. An early copy of the Avantures de Telemaque, Fils d’Ulysse, or the “Adventures of Telemachus, son of Ulysses,” published six years after the First. Written by Francois Fenelon while he was tutor of Louis, Duke of Burgundy. The work served as a didactic tool for the future... Read More
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[SPECIAL PRESS] THE PAPIER-MACHE SANTA CLAUS
by Linda Grace Hoyer [John Updike's Mother]
[Winston-Salem, N. C.: Printed for Stuart Wright [Palaemon Press], 1983. Limited Edition. Fine binding. 8vo.; in black sewn wrappers with a brightly colored wrapper in japanese paper with a printed paper label; 8 unnumbered pages.~~This is a short story originally published in the The New Yorker magazine and printed in this charming book form in an edition of... Read More
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![[4 JOHNSON SEA HORSE MOTORS REPAIR BOOKLETS] INSTRUCTIONS; JOHNSON SEA-HORSE OUTBOARD MOTORS, FOR MODEL HD(L). | INSTRUCTION BOOK FOR JOHNSON SEA HORSE MOTORS, [THIS BOOK COVERS 1932 MODELS AS WELL AS PREVIOUS MODELS] EDITION J 1930. FOR ALL MOTORS EXCEPT THOSE HAVING ELECTRIC STARTERS. | JOHNSON SEA HORSE 12 REPAIR PARTS CATALOG. MODEL K-50. | USEFUL ACCESSORIES FOR JOHNSON MOTORS AND BOATS. (FOUR VOLUMES)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/003/889/1212889003.0.m.jpg)
[4 JOHNSON SEA HORSE MOTORS REPAIR BOOKLETS] INSTRUCTIONS; JOHNSON SEA-HORSE OUTBOARD MOTORS, FOR MODEL HD(L). | INSTRUCTION BOOK FOR JOHNSON SEA HORSE MOTORS, [THIS BOOK COVERS 1932 MODELS AS WELL AS PREVIOUS MODELS] EDITION J 1930. FOR ALL MOTORS EXCEPT THOSE HAVING ELECTRIC STARTERS. | JOHNSON SEA HORSE 12 REPAIR PARTS CATALOG. MODEL K-50. | USEFUL ACCESSORIES FOR JOHNSON MOTORS AND BOATS. (FOUR VOLUMES)
by Johnson Motors
Waukegan, Illinois: Johnson Motor Company, 1930. Stapled Pamphlet. Good binding. Four instruction manuals and catalogs for Johnson Sea Horse Motors. Spots of loss to one leaf of the Instruction book for Johnson Sea Horse Motors, edition J, affecting the text. Generally in Very Good or Good condition, with some soiling, small chips and tears, slight foxing, or silverfishing... Read More
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HISTOIRE GENERALE DE NORMANDIE. CONTENANT LES CHOSE MEMORABLES ADUENUES DEPUIS LES PREMIERES COURSES DES NORMANDS PAYENS, TANT EN FRANCE QU'AUX AUTRES PAYS, DE CEUS QUI S'EMPERANT DU PAYS DE NEUSTRIE SOUS CHARLES LE SIMPLE. AVEC L'HISTOIRE DE LEURS DUCS, LEUR GENEALOGIE, & LEURS CONQUESTES, TANT EN FRANCE, ITALIE, ANGLETERRE QU'EN ORIENT, IUSQUES A LA REUNION DE LA NORMANDIE A LA COURONNE DE FRANCE
by Gabriel du Moulin
Rouen: Jean Osmont, 1631. Full Leather. Good binding. First Edition of this 17th century History of Normandie. It collates complete EXCEPT the last leaf of the index is supplied in manuscript. Dedication; publication statement; sonnet; epigrams; Ode to the history of Normandy; "Discourses de la Normandie"; "De L'ancienne Normandie"; "Geneaologie des Ducs de Normandie". ... Read More
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MICKEY MOUSE AND MOTHER GOOSE
by CHILDREN] Walt Disney | Mother Goose | Mickey Mouse
Racine,Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Company, 1937. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Good dust jacket. In the publisher's pictorial paper-covered boards backed in tan cloth. The boards are bright and show little wear. The dustjacket is present and has quite a bit of shelfwear, especially to the extremities of the spine. The textblock was loose and... Read More
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![[THE HISTORY OF THE COLONY OF MASSACHUSETS- BAY [sic], FROM THE FIRST SETTLEMENT THEREOF IN 1628, UNTIL ITS INCORPORATION WITH THE COLONY OF PLIMOUTH, PROVINCE OF MAIN, &c. BY THE CHARTER OF KING WILLIAM AND QUEEN MARY, IN 1691] [WITH] THE HISTORY OF THE PROVINCE OF MASSACHUSETS-BAY[sic], FROM THE CHARTER OF KING WILLIAM AND QUEEN MARY, IN 1691, UNTIL THE YEAR 1750. (2 VOLUMES)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/338/798/1361798338.0.m.jpg)
[THE HISTORY OF THE COLONY OF MASSACHUSETS- BAY [sic], FROM THE FIRST SETTLEMENT THEREOF IN 1628, UNTIL ITS INCORPORATION WITH THE COLONY OF PLIMOUTH, PROVINCE OF MAIN, &c. BY THE CHARTER OF KING WILLIAM AND QUEEN MARY, IN 1691] [WITH] THE HISTORY OF THE PROVINCE OF MASSACHUSETS-BAY[sic], FROM THE CHARTER OF KING WILLIAM AND QUEEN MARY, IN 1691, UNTIL THE YEAR 1750. (2 VOLUMES)
by Mr. [Thomas] Hutchinson, Lieutenant Governor of the Province
Boston: Printed by Thomas and John Fleet, Cornhill, 1767. Full Leather. Good binding. Please note that the first volume of what would become a 4 volume set of Hutchinson's Massachuetts-Bay history IS LACKING THE TITLE PAGE. The title and publication information is by inference. The first leaf of Volume I is the Contents leaf. There is... Read More
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