A LIBRARY OF WONDERS AND CURIOSITIES FOUND IN NATURE AND ART, SCIENCE AND LITERATURE
by I. Platt
New York: John B. Alden, Publisher, 1884. Very Good binding. A kind of cyclopedia with everything from an article on Bletonism (the faculty of perceiving subterraneous springs by sensation) to Pulque, the Mexican National Drink. Pasted to the endpaper is a disclaimer from a "Christian School" explaining that it does not endorse the contents "from the... Read More
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WAS WILLST DU WERDEN; IN 18 BILDERN ENTWORFEN UND AUF HOLZ GEZEICHNET; In Holzschnitt ausgefuhrt von H Burkner
by Pletsch, Oscar
Weidmannsche Buchhandlung. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Quite a nice copy; rhymes on each page illustrated with Oscar Pletsch's children's illustrations for children of various trades. Very Good binding.
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LA SAXE GALANTE
by [Karl Ludwig Freiherr von Poellnitz]
A Amsterdam: Aux Depens de la Compagnie, 1734. First Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. First Edition of Karl Ludwig of Poellnitz' La Saxe Galante, published anonymously. An account of the life of the voracious August II, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, particularly his love life and numerous illegitimate children. Engraved device of Hermes on the... Read More
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![[MILITARY] GEORGE C. MARSHALL. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I & II | EDUCATION OF A GENERAL. ORDEAL AND HOPE](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/794/487/1687487794.0.m.jpg)
[MILITARY] GEORGE C. MARSHALL. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I & II | EDUCATION OF A GENERAL. ORDEAL AND HOPE
by Pogue, Forrest C.; Harrison, Gordon (ed. assistance); Bradley, General Omar N. (foreword)
New York: The Viking Press. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Good+ dust jacket. Sold as a 2 volume set; large 8vo; in the publisher’s blue and burgundy cloth; Volume 1 published 1963; xvii, 421 pages; Volume 2 published 1966 xvi, 491 pages; both books show some signs of wear; both jackets have a few tears to the... Read More
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![[SPECIAL PRESS] EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE: IN THE END WE ARE ALL ONE [Signed and Limited]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/826/989/1488989826.0.m.jpg)
[SPECIAL PRESS] EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE: IN THE END WE ARE ALL ONE [Signed and Limited]
by Sarah B. Pohlman
Philadelphia, PA: Cake & Pie Press, 2007. Limited. Near Fine binding. Signed. An attractive accordion style production printed in offset lithography, with handmade cover and spine papers. An edition of 125 copies created for the Library Fellows of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. This is number 36, and is signed by Sarah Pohlman. Near Fine... Read More
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![[VIRGINIANA] VIRGINIA COUNTIES: THOSE RELATING TO VIRGINIA LEGISLATION. (SIGNED) BULLETIN OF THE VIRGINIA STATE LIBRARY, VOL 9, Nos. 1-2, 3](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/412/145/1674145412.0.m.jpg)
[VIRGINIANA] VIRGINIA COUNTIES: THOSE RELATING TO VIRGINIA LEGISLATION. (SIGNED) BULLETIN OF THE VIRGINIA STATE LIBRARY, VOL 9, Nos. 1-2, 3
by Morgan Robinson Poitiaux
Richmond: Davis Bottom, 1916. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Signed. Large 8vo; in period brown cloth; with a paper label on the spine; with twelve maps, four of which are folding; light sunning to the spine with a bit of fraying to the top.~~A bound issue of the Bulletin of the Virginia State Library, with wrappers bound in... Read More
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![[CIVIL WAR] LEE AND HIS LIEUTENANTS; COMPRISING THE EARLY LIFE, PUBLIC SERVICES, AND CAMPAIGNS OF GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE~AND HIS COMPANIONS IN ARMS, WITH A RECORD OF THEIR CAMPAIGNS AND HEROIC DEEDS](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/259/345/1600345259.0.m.jpg)
[CIVIL WAR] LEE AND HIS LIEUTENANTS; COMPRISING THE EARLY LIFE, PUBLIC SERVICES, AND CAMPAIGNS OF GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE~AND HIS COMPANIONS IN ARMS, WITH A RECORD OF THEIR CAMPAIGNS AND HEROIC DEEDS
by Edward B. Pollard
New York: E. B. Treat & Co, 1867. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Quarto; brown embossed cloth with decorations and titling in gilt; 851 pages, with portrait frontispiece and additional engraved title page ("The Conflagration of Richmond"), and engraved portraits throughout; overall a lovely First Edition copy with a bit of sunning to the spine and... Read More
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![[CIVIL WAR] HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE: ITS MARCHES, ITS BATTLES, ITS ACHIEVEMENTS](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/502/347/1615347502.0.m.jpg)
[CIVIL WAR] HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE: ITS MARCHES, ITS BATTLES, ITS ACHIEVEMENTS
by J. [Joseph] B. Polley
New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1910. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Large 8vo.; in the publisher's rray buckram, with titling in gilt, and with a rule in black to the perimeter of the upper board and the ends of the spine; 347 pages, with two frontispieces, and 23 additonal plates and portraits; the boards are... Read More
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THE SELF AND ITS DOUBLE: A CENTURY OF PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITURE IN ITALY
by Italo Zannier and Claudio de Polo
Alinari, 1995. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. No evidence of a CD-Rom set if there ever was one. This is 238 page book, lavishly illustrated with color and black and white illustrations. There is a small remainder mark to the bottom edge of the text block. No previous ownership marks. Very Good binding.... Read More
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M. ACCII PLAUTI COMOEDIAE SUPERST. XX. AD DOCTISSIMORUM VIRORUM EDITIONES REPRAESENTATAE. EX MUSEO IOH : ISACI PONTANI
by Titus Maccius Plautus; Giovanni Giovano Pontano
Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: Apud Ioann Ianssonium [Joan Jansonium], 1650. Full Leather. Very Good binding. The plays of Plautus, an ancient Roman playwright. Text in the original Latin. Engraved title page. Fully rebacked; the binding is tight, especially at the front hinge. Full leather. 640, [5] pp. 32mo. An uncommon edition, we locate only one copy on OCLC. Very... Read More
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JAPANESE STUDIES
by H. G. Ponting
Tokyo: K. Ogawa // Kelly Walsh, Limited, 1906. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Lovely pictorial boards with silk ties; former institutional library copy with limited markings; a number has been removed from the front board (while still visible, it is quite discreet); tasteful library bookplate on the front pastedown; number and stamp on the title page; small stamp... Read More
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MEMOIRS DU SIEUR DE PONTIS, QUI A SERVI DANS LES ARMEES CINQUANTE-SIX ANS, SOUS LES ROIS HENRI IV, LOUIS XIII & LOUIS XIV. CONTENTANT PLUSIEURS CIRCONSTANCES REMARQUABLES DES GUERRES, DE LA COUR, & DU GOUVERNEMENT DE CES PRINCES. (2 VOLUMES)
by [Louis De Pontis]
Paris: La Compagnie des Libraires Associez, 1715. Nouvelle Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. An attractive and rather early edition of the memoirs of this well regarded French officer, who served for 56 years in the armies of the king. Bound in full calf, with raised bands, gilt decorations in compartments, and morocco labels. Very Good... Read More
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A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE SWISS COINS IN THE SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM; BEQUEATHED BY THE REVEREND CHANCY HARE TOWNSEND
by Reginald Stuart Poole
London: George R. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1878. First Edition. Quarter Leather. Very Good binding. First Edition of Poole's work on Swiss coins, attractively bound in quarter-morocco over green peppled cloth. Poole was an Egyptologist, and did important work as keeper of department of coins and medals in the British Museum. A previous owner has provided rubbinsg,... Read More
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A SELECT COLLECTION OF POEMS, AND OTHER ELEGANT POETICAL EXTRACTS, ON SUBJECTS MISCELLANEOUS, MORAL, AND RELIGIONS
by Pope, Goldsmith, Blair, Young, Cowper, Watts, Rowe, Gray, More, Parnel, Dwight, &c
Boston: Joseph Bumstead, 1807. Full Leather. Good binding. An early American book of poetry, with a variant of Yankee Doodle and other poetical selections, most from English authors. Some toning to the text, and contemporary markings in pencil on the front endpaper. Joints fully cracked but holding well; some staining to the leather binding along the spine and... Read More
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![[LAW] [VIRGINIA] HUNTON & WILLIAMS NOVEMBER 1901 TO DECEMBER 2002](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/325/565/1446565325.0.m.jpg)
[LAW] [VIRGINIA] HUNTON & WILLIAMS NOVEMBER 1901 TO DECEMBER 2002
by Gordon F. Rainey; John Charles Thomas; Virginia H. Hackney; Thurston R. Moore; Robert Dean Pope
[Richmond?], 2002. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Oblong 8vo in the publisher's blue cloth binding with titling in gilt; 194 pages, illustrated mostly with photographs of partners and their profile; some scattered foxing to the endpapers.~~The Centennial Directory of the firm. With information as well about the history of what is certainly one of the most significant firms... Read More
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MISS BILLY
by Eleanor H. Porter
Boston: The Page Company, 1919. Reprint Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. The dustjacket has a stain at the spine, as well as minor loss to the bottom of the spine; it has a couple of short closed tears and shelfwear; it is now protected with a new mylar cover. A clean copy... Read More
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A Record of Events in Norfolk County, Virginia, from April 19th, 1861 to May 10th 1862, with a History of the Soldiers and Sailors of Norfolk County, Norfolk City and Portsmouth Who Served in the Confederate States Army or Navy
by John W. H. Porter
Portsmouth, Virginia: W. A. Fiske, 1892. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Signed by John W. H. Porter. Previous owner bookplate and some light spotting to the boards. This copy Signed by Porter on the verso of the front endpaper. (Nevins I, 131; Nevins II, 235). Very Good binding.
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![[PLATE BOOK] TRAVELLING SKETCHES IN RUSSIA AND SWEDEN, DURING THE YEARS 1805, 1806, 1807 1808 [2 VOLUMES]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/421/504/1576504421.0.m.jpg)
[PLATE BOOK] TRAVELLING SKETCHES IN RUSSIA AND SWEDEN, DURING THE YEARS 1805, 1806, 1807 1808 [2 VOLUMES]
by Robert Ker Porter
London: John Stockdale, 1813. Second Edition. Half Leather. Very Good binding. Two quarto bindings; in later blue morrocco over grey|blue cloth, with raised bands with decorations and lettering in gilt; Volumes One with title page, Volume Two with title page and half-title; the volumes have 40 plates (2 folding colored plates, 1 folding sepia plate; 26 full page... Read More
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LAW AND LEGAL THEORY IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA
by Richard A. Posner
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1996. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. A First Edition copy of Richard Posner's Law and Legal Theory in England and America. Richard Posner is an American jurist and economist, identified by The Journal of Legal Studies as the most cited legal scholar of the 20th century. With no marks... Read More
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![[PRESENTATION COPY] [ETIQUETTE] CHILDREN ARE PEOPLE AND IDEAL PARENTS ARE COMRADES](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/769/719/1569719769.0.m.jpg)
[PRESENTATION COPY] [ETIQUETTE] CHILDREN ARE PEOPLE AND IDEAL PARENTS ARE COMRADES
by Emily Post
New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1940. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Signed. Large 8vo.; in the publisher’s blue cloth binding with decoration and titling in silver, and with dsutjacket; xii [xiii, xiv]; 383 pages, including Index; this First Edition presentation copy: “For | Elizabeth G. Mair | From | Gerda Osbeck |... Read More
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![[LITERATURE] CANDIDATE FOR MURDER](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/493/906/1686906493.0.m.jpg)
[LITERATURE] CANDIDATE FOR MURDER
by Mortimer Post
Garden City, NY: Published for the Crime Club By Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1936. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Good+ dust jacket. 8vo; in the publisher’s orange cloth binding; viii, 312 pages; previous owner's name stamped on front paste down; Dustjacket is price-clipped; chips at top and bottom of dj spine; chips to the edges of... Read More
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HOME LETTERS FROM CHINA. THE STORY OF HOW A MISSIONARY FOUND AND BEGAN HIS LIFE WORK IN THE HEART OF CHINA
by Gordon Poteat
Nashville: Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, 1924. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. In the publisher's green cloth binding with paper labels to the upper board and the spine. The binding has some silverfishing, but the labels are very much intact, with only a small chip at the top of the spine label..... Read More
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![[THEOLOGY] CONTEMPLATION AND INCARNATION THE THEOLOGY OF MARIE-DOMINIQUE CHENU](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/165/401/1707401165.0.m.jpg)
[THEOLOGY] CONTEMPLATION AND INCARNATION THE THEOLOGY OF MARIE-DOMINIQUE CHENU
by Christophe F Potworoswski
London: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2001. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. Octavo; in the publisher’s grey cloth binding; xvii, 330 pages including the Index; a touch of wear to the jacket else fine. No markings of any kind. Near Fine binding / Near Fine dust jacket.
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![[POETRY] ANTOLOGIA](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/287/217/1694217287.0.m.jpg)
[POETRY] ANTOLOGIA
by Ezra Pound
Roma: Arti Grafiche Agostini, 1956. First Edition. Original Wrappers. Fine binding. Small 8vo; in the publisher’s printed wrappers, with a single staple; original glassine present (tiny tear to the bottom of the fold and a tiny chip to the top edge of the back); there are no ownership or other marks in the book.~~A lovely, near fresh copy... Read More
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A TREATISE ON THE LAW OF MORTGAGES. VOLUME I ONLY OF 2
by John Joseph Powell
London: J. Butterworth, 1799. Fourth Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. A sturdy copy of the 1799 edition of Powell, Volume I only, in full contemporary calf with the boards discreetly reattached. There is a new title label to the spine. This is the Fourth, revised and expanded edition, the first having been printed in 1758.... Read More
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