![[ORIGINAL ART] THE NORTHERN COMMAND TATTOO. IN AID OF CIVIL & MILITARY CHARITIES & WELFARE. RAVENSWORTH CASTLE, GATESHEAD. NEAR NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE. JULY 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, & 11. 1936. AT 9-30 COMMUNITY SINGING AND MUSIC](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/165/648/1631648165.0.m.jpg)
[ORIGINAL ART] THE NORTHERN COMMAND TATTOO. IN AID OF CIVIL & MILITARY CHARITIES & WELFARE. RAVENSWORTH CASTLE, GATESHEAD. NEAR NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE. JULY 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, & 11. 1936. AT 9-30 COMMUNITY SINGING AND MUSIC
by Captain H. Oakes-Jones
London: The War Office, 1936. Very Good binding. Original graphic art painted by Captain Herbert Oakes-Jones for a poster advertising for the Northern Command Tattoo, at Ravensworth Castle, 1936. The dimensions are approximately 32” x 22”.~~The Scots are known for their military tattoos; this one, the Northern Command Tattoo, has a distinct comic dimension, involving music, theatrics, and... Read More
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![[PHILOSOPHY] NATURAL LAW, LAWS OF NATURE, NATURAL RIGHTS CONTINUITY IN THE HISTORY OF IDEAS](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/408/056/1721056408.0.m.jpg)
[PHILOSOPHY] NATURAL LAW, LAWS OF NATURE, NATURAL RIGHTS CONTINUITY IN THE HISTORY OF IDEAS
by Francis Oakley
New York: Continuum, 2005. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. Octavo; in black paper covered boards; with titling on the spine in silver; in an unclipped jacket; 143 pages including the Index; some light scuffs to the jacket; pencil annotations in the margins. Near Fine binding.
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LIFE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON. THE FATHER OF MODERN DEMOCRACY
by James O'Boyle
London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1915. Hard Cover. Good binding. Scattered marginalia in pencil. With portrait frontispiece and additional plates throughout. Some sunning and wear to the spine. Minor toning to the endpapers, and inscription in pencil to the rear pastedown. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and design. Good binding.
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NO EARTH FOR FOXES
by Manning O'Brine
New York: Delacorte Press, 1974. First Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. Stated First Printing. With no marks. Quarter brown cloth over tan paper boards. Slight toning to the Near Fine dustjacket. Near Fine binding / Near Fine dust jacket.
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![[SIGNED] [MILITARY] ON INTERNAL WAR AMERICAN AND SOVIET APPROACHES TO THIRD WORLD CLIENTS AND INSURGENTS](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/292/509/1694509292.0.m.jpg)
[SIGNED] [MILITARY] ON INTERNAL WAR AMERICAN AND SOVIET APPROACHES TO THIRD WORLD CLIENTS AND INSURGENTS
by William E. Odom
Durham: Duke University Press, 1992. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. Signed. 8vo; in the publisher’s orange cloth binding; with titling on the spine in black; in an unclipped dust jacket; viii, 271 pages.~~With a gift inscription on the half title page from the author which reads “To Mike Sarn, Whose tutorship contributed several ideas to... Read More
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![[LAW] JOURNAL OF THE SENATE OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA; BEGUN AND HELD IN THE CITY OF RICHMOND, ON MONDAY, THE 17th DAY OF OCTOBER ... 1785 ... [WITH] ... 1786 ... [WITH ] ... 1787 ... [WITH] ... 1788 ... [WITH] ... 1789 ... [WITH] ... 1790](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/254/004/1655004254.0.m.jpg)
[LAW] JOURNAL OF THE SENATE OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA; BEGUN AND HELD IN THE CITY OF RICHMOND, ON MONDAY, THE 17th DAY OF OCTOBER ... 1785 ... [WITH] ... 1786 ... [WITH ] ... 1787 ... [WITH] ... 1788 ... [WITH] ... 1789 ... [WITH] ... 1790
by [Commonwealth of Virginia]
RIchmond: Thomas W. White, 1828. Half Leather. Very Good binding. Large 8vo.; in half calf over marbled boards with morocco label; the rear board is just about detached;; [3], 4-103; [3],4-106; [3], 4-95; [3], 4-96; [3], 4-90; [3], 4-99, followed by [1] page of “Senatorial Districts” at the rear of the book; there are two folding tables.~~These reprint... Read More
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OFFICIAL ARMY REGISTER, FOR 1848
by Secretary of War
Washington: Adjutant General's Office, 1848. Soft Cover. Good binding. Sewn paperback. Minor loss to the head and tail of the spine. Good binding.
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OFFICIAL ARMY REGISTER OF THE VOLUNTEER FORCE OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY FOR THE YEARS 1861, ‘62, ‘63, ‘64, ‘65. PART III. (PENNSYLVANIA, DELAWARE, MARYLAND, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.)
by War Department | Adjutant General's Office
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1865. Soft Cover. Good binding. In printed drab wrappers, backed in brown pebbled cloth. Nothing of printed paper spine label is present. An intact and serviceable copy. With substantial Index of Organizations, Battles and Names at the rear of the book. There is a generous piece lost from both wrappers;... Read More
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OFFICIAL ARMY REGISTER FOR 1832
by Adjutant General's Office
Washington: Adjutant General's Office; F. P. Blair, Printer, 1832. Soft Cover. Fair binding. Stapled paper covers, with modern blue cloth along the spine. Library punch stamp on the title page. Fire damage to the bottom edge throughout. Beginning of separation to the bottom of the modern cloth spine. Fair binding.
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OFFICIAL ARMY REGISTER OF THE VOLUNTEER FORCE OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY FOR THE YEARS 1861, ‘62, ‘63, ‘64, ‘65. PART I. (NEW ENGLAND STATES)
by War Department | Adjutant General's Office
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1865. Soft Cover. Good binding. In printed drab wrappers, backed in brown pebbled cloth. Nothing of printed paper spine label is present. An intact and serviceable copy. With substantial Index of Organizations, Battles and Names at the rear of the book. There is loss to the top corner of... Read More
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OFFICIAL ARMY REGISTER OF THE VOLUNTEER FORCE OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY FOR THE YEARS 1861, ‘62, ‘63, ‘64, ‘65. PART II. (NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY.)
by War Department | Adjutant General's Office
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1865. Soft Cover. Good binding. In printed drab wrappers, backed in brown pebbled cloth. Nothing of printed paper spine label is present. An intact and serviceable copy. With substantial Index of Organizations, Battles and Names at the rear of the book. Crack in the front wrapper reinforced with tape... Read More
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AN ATLAS AND TEXTBOOK OF OCULAR HISTOPATHOLOGY
by Shigekuni Okisaka
383 pp. plus index. This copy is Signed with a personal inscription by Shigekuni Okisaka. Illustrated with color photographs. Text appears to be in Japanese.
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THE OLDSMOBILE SERVICE GUILD TRAINING MANUAL. 23 ISSUES. JAN-DEC. 1952; JAN-DEC. 1953
by Oldsmobile
Lansing, Michigan: Oldsmobile Division General Motors, 1953. Original Wrappers. Very Good binding. A group of 23 consecutive monthly issues of the Oldsmobile Service Guild Training Manual, missing the November 1952 issue. Housed in a three ring binder. Very Good binding.
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![[ART] THE JAMES W. AND FRANCIS GIBSON McGLOTHLIN COLLECTION OF AMERICAN ART. A PROMISE FULFILLED. VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/345/114/1574114345.0.m.jpg)
[ART] THE JAMES W. AND FRANCIS GIBSON McGLOTHLIN COLLECTION OF AMERICAN ART. A PROMISE FULFILLED. VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
by Susan J. Rawles | Christopher C. Oliver
Richmond, VA: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Hard Cover. Fine binding/Fine dust jacket. Quarto; in the publisher's gray cloth, with titling in silver, with dustjacket; xi, [xii], [1], 2-152, including Index by Artist; there are no marks of any kind; with color illustrations throughout.~~. Fine binding / Fine dust jacket.
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CARO, VECCHIO BACICCIA FOTO INEDITE DI VITA E TRADIZIONI LIGURI
by Tonino Olivieri
Genova: Pirella Editore. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. A clean copy without marks in the book. Text is in Italian. Tan paper covered binding with pictorial paste-down on front board. Light edgewear. Very Good binding.
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SOME HISTORICAL NOTICES OF THE O'MEAGHERS OF IKERRIN
by Joseph Casimir O'Meagher
New York: Self-published, 1890. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Bound in pale blue cloth stamped in gilt, with 5 color plates, plus one plate of the "Green Flag Irish Brigadge" printed in green; numerous black and white plates, both full page and in-text, and 2 maps, one folding and one full-page. There... Read More
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![[LAW] “SQUEEZE-OUTS” OF MINORITY SHAREHOLDERS. EXPULSION OR OPPRESSION OF BUSINESS ASSOCIATES](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/244/939/1692939244.0.m.jpg)
[LAW] “SQUEEZE-OUTS” OF MINORITY SHAREHOLDERS. EXPULSION OR OPPRESSION OF BUSINESS ASSOCIATES
by F. Hodge O’Neal
Chicago, IL: Callghan & Company, 1975. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine binding. Signed and Inscribed. Large 8vo; in the publisher’s burgundy cloth binding; xiv, 732 pages; Supplement; ix, 256 pages including the Table of Contents.~~Treatise by Hodge O’Neal who was dean of the Washington University School of Law and an authority on the legal status of closely held... Read More
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![[PHILATELY] L. Z. 127 GRAF ZEPPELIN: TRASPORTI [TRANSPORTI] POSTALI](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/907/375/1584375907.0.m.jpg)
[PHILATELY] L. Z. 127 GRAF ZEPPELIN: TRASPORTI [TRANSPORTI] POSTALI
by Mario Onofri
Firenze: Il Bolletino Filartelico, 1958. Original Wrappers. Very Good binding. 8vo., in printed wrappers, with colored frontispiece illustration of a zeppelin, and illustrated with half-tones throughout; 124 pages, with illustations.~~An uncommon booklet regarding the Zeppelin stamps; we find but three copies in institutional holdings, and certainly no copies in commerce. Very Good binding.
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![[MANUSCRIPT MUSIC; VIRGINIA] GRAND POT-POURRI FROM THE OPERA (DER FREYSCHUTZ) BY C. M. de WEBER ARRANGED FOR PIANO-FORTE BY J. K. OPL](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/170/211/1316211170.0.m.jpg)
[MANUSCRIPT MUSIC; VIRGINIA] GRAND POT-POURRI FROM THE OPERA (DER FREYSCHUTZ) BY C. M. de WEBER ARRANGED FOR PIANO-FORTE BY J. K. OPL
by C. M. de Weber | J. K. Opl
Very Good binding. A finely penned manuscript of an arrangement for piano forte of "Grand Pot-pourri" from Carl Maria Weber's opera Der Freischutz, completed by Weber in 1822. The arrangement, and perhaps this transcription, was by J. K. Ohl, probably Joseph Ohl, sometime Professor of Music, mentioned in Grace Yerbury's Song in America, from Early... Read More
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VADEMECUM (Signed)
by PHOTOGRAPHY] Joe Oppedisano
Blu Bird Productions, 2000. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. Signed and Inscribed. 116 pages of colored and black and white images by Oppedisano whose photographic work has evolved -- he now works almost exclusively in the world of gay erotica and has produced books such as Indecent Exposure and J/O. This copy is signed with... Read More
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THE DYNASTIC ORDERS OF KNIGHTHOOD AND MERIT OF THE ROYAL HOUSE OF SAVOY. A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SAVOY ORDERS AND THEIR CHARITABLE WORK IN NORTH AMERICA
by American Delegation of Savoy Orders
MZI Global Marketing, 2007. Stapled Pamphlet. Near Fine binding. A stapled pamphlet, 11 x 8 1/2". In colored printed wrappers. 33 pp. illustrated with color photographs. Near Fine binding.
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THE JURISPRUDENCE OF MEDICINE | IN ITS RELATIONS TO THE LAW OF CONTRACTS, TORTS, AND EVIDENCE, WITH A SUPPLEMENT ON THE LIABILITIES OF VENDORS OF DRUGS
by John Ordronaux
Philadelphia: T. & J. W. Johnson & Co, 1869. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Bound in dark cloth with titling stamped in gilt on the spine and rules at the perimeters stamped in blind. Minor wear to the edges of the spine and boards. Faint library stamp on the title page and p. 101. Writing in... Read More
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![[LITERATURE] HOMAGE TO CALEDONIA](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/262/179/1679179262.0.m.jpg)
[LITERATURE] HOMAGE TO CALEDONIA
by George Orwell
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 8vo.; in the publisher’s yellow cloth with decoration and titling in gray-green, lacking the dustjacket; xxiiii, [3], 4-232 pages.~~A clean copy of the First American Edition. Very Good binding.
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THE STATES SYSTEM OF EUROPE, 1640-1990. PEACEMAKING AND THE CONDITIONS OF INTERNATIONAL STABILITY
by Andreas Osiander
Oxford, 1995. Hard Cover. Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. Andreas Osiander's The States System of Europe, 1640-1990, detailing the evolution of European systems of political relations, focusing on the four major peace conferences of Munster, Utrecht, Vienna, and Paris. A Fine copy of the Second Printing, with no marks of any kind. Near Fine dustjacket, with minimal wear.... Read More
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![PARIS-SAINT-PETERSBOURG [St. Petersbourg] 1800-1830: QUAND LA RUSSIE PARLAIT FRANCAIS](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/522/561/1350561522.0.m.jpg)
PARIS-SAINT-PETERSBOURG [St. Petersbourg] 1800-1830: QUAND LA RUSSIE PARLAIT FRANCAIS
by N. Zolotova; E. Laritchev; I Ostarkova
Moscou [Moscow]: Interros, 2003. Hard Cover. Fine binding/Fine dust jacket. There is a previous owner gift inscription on the verso of the front endpaper; otherwise there are no ownership or other marks in the book. The dustjacket is bright and attractive. The book is housed in a publisher's slipcase. Fine binding / Fine dust jacket. ... Read More
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