LOCAL GOVERNMENT RULES AND ORDERS. BEING A SUPPLEMENT TO THE THIRD AND FOURTH EDITIONS OF A GUIDE TO IRISH LOCAL GOVERNMENT, WITH AN INDEX
by John Muldoon; George M'Sweeny
Dublin: Eason & Sons, 1899. Hard Cover. near Very Good binding. An unusual and interesting depiction of Irish local administrative practices at the turn of the century. Binding sound; war department stamps to front board and front free endpaper. About a third of front board paper label rubbed off, but almost all text legible to label. Blind stamp... Read More
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[SPEICAL PRESS] THE AGE OF FABLE OR STORIES OF GODS AND HEROES
by Thomas Bulfinch | Joe Mugnaini
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1958. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Quarto; in cream parchment with title stamped in gilt and black, over deocrated paper boards; slipcase present with gold foil at the opening; this is number 513 of 1500 copies signed by the illustrator, Joe Mugnaini; there are no ownership marks in the book.~~We note that... Read More
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[HISTORY] SIX VILLAGES OF BENGAL
by Mukherjee, Ramkrishna
Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1971. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good dust jacket. 8vo; in the publisher’s green cloth binding; with titling on the spine in gilt; xii, 303 pages including the Index; the spine is sunned; the bottom edge of upper board is bumped; shelf-wear to bottom spine; corners lightly bumped; some stains to the rear of the... Read More
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[MILITARY] STORIES OF THE BATTLE-FIELD; AND SKETCHES IN ALGERIA. WITH LIFE AND ADVENTURES AMONGST THE BASHI BAZOUKS
by Hugh Mulleneux Walmsley
London: Dean & Son | Chapman & Hall, n.d.. Half Leather. Very Good binding. 8vo, half polished green calf over marbled boards, with morocco title label. With volume title page. “Twelve Months with the Bashi-Bazouks”, [iv], 220 pages, with three full page chromolithographic images of soldier in the Ottoman Army; and what appears to be “Sketches of Algeria... Read More
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![[RELIGION] JACOB SAURIN...FORTGESETZTE PREDIGTEN UBER VERSCHIEDENE TEXTE DER HEILIGEN SCHRIFT. NEUNTER THIEL ... AUS DEM FRANZOSISCHEN UBERSETZT UND HERAUSGEGEBEN VON JOHANN DAVID MILLER [BOUND WITH] ...ZEHENTER THEIL, AUS DEM FRANZOSISCHEN UBERSETZT VON ABRAHAM GOTTLOB ROSENBERG..](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/661/350/1495350661.0.m.jpg)
[RELIGION] JACOB SAURIN...FORTGESETZTE PREDIGTEN UBER VERSCHIEDENE TEXTE DER HEILIGEN SCHRIFT. NEUNTER THIEL ... AUS DEM FRANZOSISCHEN UBERSETZT UND HERAUSGEGEBEN VON JOHANN DAVID MILLER [BOUND WITH] ...ZEHENTER THEIL, AUS DEM FRANZOSISCHEN UBERSETZT VON ABRAHAM GOTTLOB ROSENBERG..
by Jacques Saurin; Johan David Muller
Liepzig: In Verlag David Siegerts, Buchh in Liegnitz, 1760. Two 8vo. volumes bound together in contemporary calf, with titling penned to the spine; [16]. 376, [22]; [with] [24]. 480, [1], with index penned to the last leaf and the pastedown.
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[ART] [BARBIZON SCHOOL] PAUL DESIRE TROUILLEBERT 1831-1900: CATALOGUE RAISONNE DE L'OEUVRE PEINT
by [Paul Desire Trouillebert] | Claude Marumo; Thomas Maier; Bernd Mullerschon
Stuttgart: Edition Thombe, 2004. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Fine dust jacket. Quarto; in the publisher's green cloth binding with titling in gilt, with dustjacket; 635 pages, including Bibliography; with illustrations (some in color) and color maps; text in French, English, and German; the top corner of the upper board has a quite trivial bump; there are... Read More
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[ART] [ALBANIAN] KOSOVA FENIKS
by Luan Mulliqi
Kosova: Onufri, 2005. Hard Cover. Fine binding/Fine dust jacket. Quarto; in the publisher's black cloth, with dustjacket; the book is still in the white cardboard printed box; there are no marks of any kind in the book; 277 pages with illustrations, chiefly in color.~~A lavish exhibition catalog of Albanian art. Fine binding / Fine dust jacket.
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LIEDER UM WINDISCHLEUBA
by Freiherr von Borries Munchausen
Offenbach a.M.: W. Gerstung, 1925. Fine binding. In ivory raw silk, printed with a botanical and letters in red; in a taupe paper-covered slipcase which has a small amount of surface loss and is lightly stained. Illustrated by Wilhelm Harwerth. This is no. 252 of 480 copies. Fine binding.
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REPORTS OF CASES ARGUED AND DETERMINED IN THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS OF VIRGINIA: WITH SELECT CASES RELATING CHIEFLY TO POINTS OF PRACTICE, DECIDED BY THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CHANCERY FOR THE RICHMOND DISTRICT. VOLUME III
by William W. Hening; William Munford
New York: Isaac Riley, 1810. First Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. First Edition printing, of the third of a four volume set. In contemporary calf lacking the label. Front board has been reattached, discreetly and well. There are no marks in the book. (AI 21918). Very Good binding.
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REPORTS OF CASES ARGUED AND DETERMINED IN THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS OF VIRGINIA: WITH SELECT CASES RELATING CHIEFLY TO POINTS OF PRACTICE, DECIDED BY THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CHANCERY FOR THE RICHMOND DISTRICT. VOLUME I.
by William W. Hening; William Munford
Philadelphia: [Smith and Maxwell], 1808. First Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. First Edition printing, of the first of a four volume set. In contemporary calf with morocco title label, and lacking most of the volume label. Front board has been reattached, discreetly and well. Some loss to the bottom of the spine. There... Read More
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POPULAR HINDUISM: Religious Reform. Part I.
by Murdoch, J. (Prefatory Note)
London; Madras: The Christian Literature Society for India, 1896. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Illustrations; Pencil underlining and pencil and ink margin notes. Green cloth binding with gilt lettering. Light to moderate edgewear. Very Good binding.
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WATER-COLOURS AND DRAWINGS. THE HERMITAGE MUSEUM
by The Hermitage Museum
Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1971. 24 plates of Water-Colours and Drawings from the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg. Published by the Aurora Art Publishers, 1971. Complete. Art title and details printed on the verso of the plates, in English and Russian. Some toning at the spine and top edge of the portfolio, with small tears to the... Read More
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NEDERLANDSCH HISTORISCH SCHEEPVAART MUSEUM: CATALOGUS DER BIBLIOTHEEK (2 VOLUMES)
by Scheepvaart Museum]
Amsterdam, Netherlands: Cornelius Schuytstraat, 1960. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 2 large quarto volumes; in the publisher's blue cloth with gilt sailing device on the upper boards, and titling in gilt to the spines; xvi, [3], 4 - 632 pages; [vi], [633], 634-1154 pages, including the Index; with illustrations in black and white and in color; there are... Read More
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[ART] BERLIN AND ITS TREASURES BEING A SERIES OF VIEWS OF THE PRINCIPLE BUILDINGS, CHURCHES, MONUMENTS, ETC WITH A SELECTION OF SUBJECTS FROM THE ROYAL PICTURE GALLERY, AND OTHER COLLECTIONS OF PAINTINGS; TOGETHER WITH INTERIOR VIEWS OF THE NEW MUSEUM
by The Museum
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1867. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/no dust jacket. Quarto; in embossed morocco with elaborate titling in gilt; 252 pages; with full page steel engravings throughout; with marbled end papers and elaborately decorated turn ins; a bit of edge wear; scattered foxing throughout; with a previous owner’s book plate on the front pastedown.... Read More
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[MUSIC] [AFRICAN-AMERICAN] ROLAND HAYES PROGRAM, 1939
by Carnegie Music Hall
On October 5, 1939, Roland Hayes (1887-1977) performed at Carnegie Music Hall in Pittsburgh, PA. Hayes, a lyric tenor and composer, was one of the earliest classical performers to break the color barrier. By 1939 he was quite successful. ~~The concert was performed for the benefit of the Harriet Tubman Terrace House for Convalescent Negro Women and Girls. The... Read More
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[DRAMA] PARDON ME, IS THIS PLANET TAKEN? A MUSICAL SPACE TRIP
by John Jakes [Book & Lyrics]| | Gilbert M. Martin [Music]
Chicago: The Dramatic Publishing Company, 1974. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. 8vo., in the publisher's printed wrappers; 120 pages, [8] blank pages for Director's Notes; there is a bit of very scattered underlining in red pen, and a number penned to the front panel.~~John Jakes is best known for his popular historical fiction, especially his Civil War trilogy... Read More
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[DESIGN] A/ D PRESENTS WILL BURTIN [BOUND WITH] PAMPHLET: DESIGN AND PAPERS
by Howard Myers
New York: The Architectural Forum | Marquardt & Company, Inc, 1941. 8vo.; in printed yellow wrappers; 73 pages; [7] pages, followed by booklet Design and Paper Number 8. With advertisement for the Strathmore Paper Company with 7 colorful samples of paper pasterd in.
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[ADVERTISING] [EPHEMERA] “INJUN-UITY” CARDS
by Nabisco, Fred Meagham
1952. From 1949-1952, the National Biscuit Company, also known as Nabisco, ran a radio program in coordination with advertising cards in packages of Shredded Wheat. The subject of this campaign was Straight Arrow, a fictional Comanche orphan raised as Steve Adams. Each tale involved him assuming his secret Indian identity to pursue justice, often with his horse Fury and... Read More
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SOOCHOW THE GARDEN CITY
by TRAVEL | EXPLORATION] F. R. Nance
Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, Limited, 1936. Very Good binding. Soochow [Suzhou] was much more accessible at the building of a railroad connecting it to Shanhai in 1911 and thus brought within the range of day-trips and making it a more desirable location for wealthy Chinese. “By 1936 it was possible...for F. R. Nance ...to write a detailed guidebook... Read More
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[SPECIAL PRESS] [DELUXE EDITION] A NEW SPECIMEN BOOK OF CURWEN PATTERN PAPERS
by David McKitterick; Paul Nash
Manor Farm, Andoversford, Gloucestershire: The Whittington press, 1987. Limited Edition. Quarter Leather. Near Fine binding. Quarto; in quarter morocco over colorful paper covered boards; 105 pages, with 31 tipped in pattern paper samples (each sample being one twelfth of a whole sheet, the samples designed by Edward Bawden; Claud Lovat Fraser; Elizabeth Friedlander; Emil Otto Hoppe; Thomas Lowinsky;... Read More
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[PERIODICAL] HARPER’S WEEKLY: A JOURNAL OF CIVILIZATION
by ; Illustrated by Thomas Nast
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1872. Thomas Nast. Harper's Weekly, A Journal of Civilization, the popular Republican political magazine known for its high-quality illustrations was published from 1857 to 1916 by Harper & Brothers in NYC. Eleven issues -- all from 1872 -- covering a wide range of political and social concerns of the day, such as the discovery... Read More
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REGISTER OF THE COMMISSIONED AND WARRANT OFFICERS OF THE NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES; INCLUDING OFFICERS OF THE MARINE CORPS AND OTHERS, FOR THE YEAR 1860
by Secretary of the Navy
Washington, 1860. Original Wrappers. Good binding. Listing of Officers in the United States Navy on the eve of the Civil War. The wrappers have wear and chipping, and an old paper reinforcement to the spine and the verso of the front panel. Good binding.
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[MILITARY] COMMISSIONING USS VIRGINIA CGN-38. 11 SEPTEMBER 1976 NAVAL STATION. NORFOLK, VIRGINIA. NUCLEAR POWERED GUIDED MISSILE CRUISER. KEEL LAID AUGUST 19, 1972 AT NEWPORT NEWS SHIPBUILDING AND DRY DOCK COMPANY
by Virginia Stuart Warner [Daughter of the Secreatary of the Navy]
N/A: N/A, 1976. Soft Cover. Near Fine binding. Oblong stapled pamphlet, in white card stock printed in blue and gold; [44] pages with illustrations and portrait photographs.~~There are a scant handful of copies in institutional holdings, and none in commerce.~. Near Fine binding.
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THE FARM OF APTONGA. A STORY OF THE TIME OF S. CYPRIAN
by J. M. Neale
New York: Pott and Amery, 1870. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Novel for young people by the great high churchman and Anglican hymnist. In the publisher's terracotta cloth with decorative titling blocked in gilt on the upper board; simple titling in gilt to the spine. Front endpaper with rubber stamp: "The Freeman Library". There are no other... Read More
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[PHILOSOPHY] JOHN OF SALISBURY POLICRATICUS OF THE FRIVOLITIES OF COURTIERS AND THE FOOTPRINTS OF PHILOSOPHERS
by Cary J. Nederman
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Octavo; in the publisher’s red cloth; xxix, 240 pages including the Index; in an unclipped jacket; some wear to the jacket; pencil annotations throughout.~~~~.
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