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The Reverse of the Medal
O'Brian, PatrickNew York: Collins, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 7-256 pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of £10.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. First trade edition. The sixteenth of O'Brian's acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin novels. Pageblock a touch toned, a small erasure on the free.....
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Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; Performed in the...
Parry, William EdwardLondon: John Murray, 1821. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. [9], ii-xxix, [4], 2-310, [5], iv-clxxix, [1] pp. Recent full brown morocco with the spine in five compartments, a silver border and gilt lettering on the spine; all edges marbled. Recent marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece (a fold-out map).....
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Southwestern Wisconsin: A History of Old Crawford County
Gregory, John G.Chicago: The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. 4 vol. Folio. For full pagination, please inquire. Publisher's green cloth, a blind rule on each board, gilt lettering on the spines; all edges marbled. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. All volumes are illustrated with several full-page black and white photographs.....
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Emilius and Sophia: or, A New System of Education
Rousseau, J[ean] J[acques]London: Printed for T. Becket and P.A. de Hondt, 1763. Early printing. Hardcover. 4 vol. 12mo. [5], iv-xix, [4], 2-310; [5], 2-266; [5], 2-268; [5], 2-292 pp. Later full paneled calf with gilt decorations to the turn-ins and gilt borders to the boards, spines in six compartments with gilt decorations.....
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Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo; With a Sketch of Their Habits, Religion, Language and Other Peculiarities
Rink, Dr. HenryEdinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1875. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xii, [3], 2-472 pp. Brown cloth with gold lettering and black rules on the front board, gold lettering on the spine. Brown coated endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a folding frontispiece and with five plates, one of which folds.....
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The History of Philosophy, in Eight Parts
Stanley, ThomasLondon: Humphrey Moseley and Thomas Dring, 1655; 1656. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. [10], 1-120, [2], 1-19, [3], 1-119, [1], [3], 2-46, [3], 2-159, [3], 1-120, [2], 1-37, [3], 1-142, [22] pp. Recent paneled calf with the spine in six compartments, decorations in blind, with a recent red morocco label lettered.....
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The Poverty of Historicism
Popper, Karl R.London: Routledge & Kegan Paul (1957), 1957. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xiv, 1-166 pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of 16s. net on the front flap of the dust jacket. Based on a paper of the same title first presented in 1936, the book is.....
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The Mummy Case
Peters, Elizabeth (Barbara Mertz)New York: Congdon & Weed, Inc. [1985], 1985. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 313, [1] pp. Quarter black cloth over orange cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $14.95 on front flap of jacket. The author's third novel using the Elizabeth Peters pseudonym featuring Amelia Peabody. Signed "Elizabeth.....
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The Ziegler Polar Expedition 1903-1905; Scientific Result Obtained under the Direction of William J. Peters Representative of the National Geographic...
Fiala, Commander AnthonyWashington DC: The National Geographic Society by the Estate of William Ziegler, 1907. First edition. Hardcover. Large 4to. [2], v, [5], 3-630, [6] pp. Half-bound in rich maroon leather over fine-grained maroon cloth, edges of leather are ruled in gilt. Spine has a red morocco label with gilt lettering; top.....
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The Decameron, or Ten Days' Entertainment, of Boccaccio; Translated from the Italian
Boccaccio, [Giovanni]London: J.F. Dove, 1820. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], 6-579, [3] pp. Later half maroon morocco over marbled boards ruled in gilt with the spine in six compartments, gold lettering and decorations on the spine; all edges marbled. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. lllustrated with an engraved frontispiece portrait of Boccaccio.....
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The Military History of Wisconsin: a Record of the Civil and Military Patriotism of the State, in the War for...
Quiner, E.B.Chicago: Clarke & Co., Publishers, 1866. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [5], 6-1022, [4] pp. Recent imitation sheep with the spine in five compartments, recent maroon leather label lettered in gilt on the spine. Later endpapers and pastedowns with the original endpapers bound in as well. Illustrated with a frontispiece.....
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Stories from the Arabian Nights; Retold by Laurence Housman
Housman, Laurence; [Thousand and One Arabian Nights]New York: George H. Doran Company [1923], 1923. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], ix-xxiii, [3], 27-237, [3] pp. Red cloth with black lettering and decorations on the front board and spine. Decorated endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $3.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a color.....
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