COLLECTION OF TEN MID-EIGHTEENTH CENTURY POEMS. | EPISTLES TO THE GREAT FROM ARISTIPPUS; THE CALL OF ARISTIPPUS; ODES BY MR. GRAY; AN ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH YARD; AN ODE TO THE COUNTRY GENTLEMEN OF ENGLAND; HARDYKNUTE: A FRAGMENT; ORATIO IN THEATRO SHELDONIANO; MONS CATHARINAE, PROPE WINTONIAM; TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR ROBERT WALPOLE; THE STATE OF ROME, UNDER NERO AND DOMITIAN. (ONE VOLUME)
by John Gilbert Cooper (Aristippus); Thomas Gray; Mark Akenside; Lady Elizabeth Wardlaw; William King; Thomas Warton; Robert Nugent; Paul Whitehead (Juvenal and Persius)
London | Oxford: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley | Typographeo Clarendoniano | C. Corbett | apud J. Clarke & W. Owen, apud J. Fletcher & S. Parker, 1774. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Ten specimens of British poetry, almost all First Editions, bound together in one volume. Tenth Edition of Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country... Read More
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GREEN THURSDAY (Signed)
by Peterkin, Julia
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924. Hard Cover. near Very Good binding. Signed by Author. A signed copy of the limited First Edition of Peterkin's first book, this being #134/2000. A white Southerner who lived a pretty sequestered life on a cotton plantaiont in South Carolina, Peterkin was known for giving voice to African American experience... Read More
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[RELIGION] [MINISTRY] THE COUNTRY MINISTER AND HIS WORK: REINECKE LECTURE, DELIVERED AT THE VIRGINIA SEMINARY DURING THE SESSIONS 1911-1912
by Rt. Rev. Geo. W. Peterkin
1912. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. 8vo.; in brown cardstock wrappers printed in black; viii, 40 pages; the edges of the front cover have some minor chipping.~~A kind of paean to the small rural parish, by the then Episcopal Bishop of West Virginia. Bishop Peterkin served as a Confederate soldier in the 21st Virginia Infantry and then joined... Read More
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![[ENGLISH] PARTY DISTINCTIONS, THE BANE AND MISERY OF THE BRITISH NATION. OR, AN EARNEST, UNPREJUDIC'D PERSWASIVE TO UNION AND HARMONY AMONG OURSELVES, ... ETC. ..](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/316/105/1593105316.0.m.jpg)
[ENGLISH] PARTY DISTINCTIONS, THE BANE AND MISERY OF THE BRITISH NATION. OR, AN EARNEST, UNPREJUDIC'D PERSWASIVE TO UNION AND HARMONY AMONG OURSELVES, ... ETC. ..
by [Petronius]
London: M Cooper, 1844. Very Good binding. 8vo.; disbound pamphlet in later marbled wrappers; viii; 9-32 pages; signed "Petronius" at the bottom of the last page~~Uncommon with no copies in commerce and but a handful of institutional holdings.~~. Very Good binding.
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QUESTIONS PHILOSOPHIQUES
by I. Proto. [Ion Petrovici?]
Bucarest: Imprim. Independance, Rue R. Poincare, 17, 1926. Original Sewn Wrappers. Good binding. A French philosophical pamphlet, perhaps by the Romanian philosopher Ion Petrovici, on religion and metaphysics. Printed in Bucharest during its Golden Age; during the 1920's and 30's inter-war period, the city was known as Micul Paris or 'Little Paris,' due to the boom in elaborate... Read More
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[CIVIL WAR] PERSONAL AND MILITARY HISTORY OF PHILIP KEARNY, MAJOR GENERAL, UNITED STATES VOLUNTEERS
by J. Watts De Peyster
New York | Newark, N. J.: Rice and Gage, Publishers | Bliss & Co, 1869. First Edition. Very Good binding. Large 8vo; in terra-cotta pebbled cloth, with a gilt vignette of General Kearny in the center of the upper board; xii, 512 pages, with plates, portraits and an intext map; with an additional illustrated title page; two leaves... Read More
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THE CAPTAIN'S CURIO
by Eden Phillpotts
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1933. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. First Edition of a work by a major author of English mystery literature, Eden Phillpotts' The Captain's Curio. Following Detective-Inspector Midwinter of Scotland Yard, investigating the murder of Martin Knox, a kindly and well-to-do member of the sleepy village of Daleham-on-Exe. Text... Read More
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THE TORCH AND OTHER TALES
by Eden Phillpotts
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1929. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Good dust jacket. With no marks. Red cloth. Some staining and loss to the fore edge of the front cover of the dustjacket, toning to the spine, and slight loss to the head of the spine. Very Good binding / Good dust jacket.
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PEACOCK HOUSE AND OTHER MYSTERIES
by Eden Phillpotts
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Scattered foxing. Publisher's clay-colored cloth, with gilt lettering on the spine. Minor shelfwear and some toning to the spine. (Hubin Bibliography of Crime Fiction p. 326). Very Good binding.
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[NEALE IMPRINT] THE TESTIMONY OF REASON
by Samuel L. Phillips
Washington, D. C.: The Neale Publishing Company, 1903. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 8vo. (7 1/4" x 5 1/8"); in the publisher's tan cloth with titling and rules in silver; 116 pages; this copy with "Compliments of S. L. Phillips" stamp; it has the marks of the Providence Atheaeum, including a stamp stating it had been... Read More
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The Amateur's Handbook of Practical Information for the Workshop and the Laboratory
by John Phin
New York: The Industrial Publication Company, 1879. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Previous owner's name written on recto of ffep and at top of front board. No pencil or ink markings in text. Text block tightened. Hinges archivally repaired. Cloth and paper-covered boards. Moderate edgewear to boards. Very Good binding. ... Read More
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![[SPECIAL PRESS] FROM STRIPPER TO PUBLISHER OR, HOW PRINTING CHANGED MY LIFE. TWO LECTURES BY CAROL J. BLINN](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/421/971/1594971421.0.m.jpg)
[SPECIAL PRESS] FROM STRIPPER TO PUBLISHER OR, HOW PRINTING CHANGED MY LIFE. TWO LECTURES BY CAROL J. BLINN
by Carol J. Blinn | Robert Lyons [Photograph]
Easthampton: Warwick Press, 1986. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Fine binding. 12mo.; in paste-paper covered boards, with titling lettered in gilt to the spine; [2], 30,, [3]; with 1 color photograph of Ms. Blinn in her print shop tipped in; issued in an edition of one hundred and twenty-five copies, with spot illustration from drawings by Ms. Blinn.~~The text... Read More
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[ARCHITECTURE] HISTORIC ARCHITECTURE OF BOURBON COUNTY, KENTUCKY
by Walter E. Langsam; William Gus Johnson [Photographs]
Historic Paris-Bourbon County, Inc.; in conj, 1985. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. Quarto; in the publisher’s green cloth binding with titling and decoration in gold; 320 pages, with photographic illustrations throughout.~~A clean copy with no marks of any kind. Near Fine binding.
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[RICHMOND] RICHMOND’S MONUMENT AVENUE
by Sarah Shields Driggs; Richard Guy Wilson; Robert P Winthrop | John O. Peters [Photographs]
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2001. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. Signed. Quarto; in the publisher’s blue cloth binding, with dustjacket; this copy signed on the title page by Sarah Shields Driggs; Richcard Guy Wilson; Robert P Winthrop; and John O. Peters the photographer.~~There is a previous owner name dated Christmas,... Read More
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[TINTYPES] FOUR TINTYPES OF UNIDENTIFIED PERSONS FROM THREE PETERSBURG PHOTOGRAPHERS
by John Bell | G. W. Minnis | C. Campbell (Photographers)
Good binding. Four tintypes from Petersburg photographers, of two men and two women, two estimated to be from 1847-1870. Two of the three photographers can be found in Ginsberg's Photographers in Virginia, 1839-1900. One is G. W. Minnis, which Ginsberg quotes as "one of the most prosperous daguerretypists south of New York City". John Bell is also... Read More
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ROBERT SOUTHWELL AND THE MISSION OF LITERATURE, 1561-1595. WRITING RECONCILIATION
by Scott R. Pilarz
Ashgate, 2004. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. A clean copy. Bound in black cloth with lettering and rules stamped in gilt on the front board and spine. Near Fine binding.
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![[TRAVEL] VOYAGE DE DEUX FRANCAIS EN ALLEMAGNE, DANEMARCK; SUEDE, RUSSIE ET POLOGNE, FAT EN 1790-1792, (5 Volume Set); I, II, III, IV, V.](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/224/543/1651543224.0.m.jpg)
[TRAVEL] VOYAGE DE DEUX FRANCAIS EN ALLEMAGNE, DANEMARCK; SUEDE, RUSSIE ET POLOGNE, FAT EN 1790-1792, (5 Volume Set); I, II, III, IV, V.
by A. Fortia de Piles
Paris: Chez Desenne, Imprimeur-Libraire, 1796. First Edition. Hard Cover. near Very Good binding. The account of the travels of Count Portia de Piles (1758-1826), lieutenant of the Light Horse Guard of the King. The Count left France during the run-up to the French Revolution and, with his friend the Chevalier de Boisgelin, undertook a long journey through Europe.... Read More
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[PHILOSOPHY] THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF LATER MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY
by Norman Kretzmann | Anthony Kenny | Jan Pinborg
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good dust jacket. Large 8vo; in the publisher’s blue cloth binding; with titling on the spine in gilt; in an unclipped jacket; xi, 1035 pages including the Index; the spine of the dust jacket is sunned; a bit of toning; some wear with trvial spots of surface loss;... Read More
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[ANCIENT LITERATURE] QUINTI [QVINTI] HORATII FLACCI OPERA (2 Volumes, Complete) (Rare Book Room)
by Quintus Horatius Flaccus | [John Pine]
London: John Pine [Iohannes Pine], 1737. First Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Full crimson leather double ruled in gilt to the perimter of the boards and with decorative corners; each board with a gilt lozenge in the center fashioned from printer's flowers; all edges gilt; decorative roll to turn-ins; with splendid endpapers in dutch gilt; the volume... Read More
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[SIGNED] [R&B] [BLACK VOCALS] THE DRIFTERS. THE RISE AND FALL OF THE BLACK VOCAL GROUP
by Bill Millar | [Roger Whitehead] [Bill Pinkney]
New York: Collier Books, 1971. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine binding. Signed. 12mo. (7 1/8" x 4 1/4"); in the publisher's pictorial wrappers; 180 pages, [181-184 pages, including the Appendices; this copy is signed by two of the original Drifters -- Roger Whitehead, and Bill Pinkney (who signed twice). Near Fine binding.
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DER KLEINE SPRACHMEISTER: EIN LEHR UND BILDERBUCH
by Hermann Piper
Berlin: Verlag von Karl Siegismund, 1897. Pictorial Boards. Very Good binding. Late 19th century picture book and prime for teaching ABC's and rudiments of spelling. With photographic illustrations of a young boy showing the shape of the mouth when pronouncing the vowels. With color illustrations throughout. In the publisher's pictorial boards; lacking the front... Read More
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ESSEX COUNTY, VIRGINIA MARRIAGE RECORDS: Transcripts of Consents, Affidavits, Minister Returns, and Marriage Licenses Volume 1: 1850-1872
by Suzanne P. Derieux | Wesley E. Pippenger
Tappahannock VA: Wesley Pippenger, 2011. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. Volume 1 only. A clean copy with three small and neatly penned asterisks on pages 85, 250, and 314 with a single mark in margin on page 102; otherwise no marks. Laminated pale blue covers. Very Good binding.
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MARRIAGE AND DEATH NOTICES FROM ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA NEWSPAPERS. VOLUME II: 1784-1838
by Wesley E. Pippenger
Self-published, 2005. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. With a previous owner name on the front endpaper, else a clean tight copy. This is the second volume only, covering the period 1838-1852. 654 pp., including the index. In the publisher's purple cloth binding with titling in gold. Very Good binding.
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[NEALE IMPRINT] [HISTORICAL NOVEL] THE HEART OF KENTUCKY
by Hannah Daviess Pittman
New York and Washington: The Neale Publishing Company, 1908. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 8vo. (7 1/2" x 5 1/8"); in the publisher's decorative cloth binding; 267 pages; the front hinge is cracked, but this is a reasonably bright copy with no ownership marks or other writing in the book.~~The tale is based on an 1825... Read More
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HALTING DEGRADATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES: IS THERE A ROLE FOR RURAL COMMUNITIES
by Jean-Marie Baland; Jean-Phillipe Platteau
Oxford University Press, USA, 1996. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Very nice clean copy, with no marks of any kind. Bright green dustjacket. Near Fine binding / Very Good+ dust jacket.
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