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Strabonos Geographikon Bibloi [17]; Strabonis Rerum Geographicarum Libri XVII [= The Seventeen Books of Strabo's Geographical Matters; Strabo's Geography]
Strabonos, [= Strabo]Amstelaedami [= Amsterdam]: Joannem Wolters, 1707. Later edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. Folio. [42], 677, [3]; [2], 681-1329, [99], pp. Bound in early nineteenth century diced calf with gold rules on each board and gilt decorations on the boards' edges and to the turn-ins, spines in seven compartments with gold rules.....
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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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The Signal Corps, U.S.A. in the War of the Rebellion
Brown, J. WillardBoston: U.S. Veteran Signal Corps Association, 1896. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], 4-916, [2] pp. Dark maroon cloth with gold lettering and designs on the front board and spine, green floral-patterned endpapers and pastedowns. Frontispiece portrait of General Albert J. Myer, fifty-four additional plates, four full-page maps, and in-text maps.....
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A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome
Burton, Sir Richard FrancisLondon: Tylston and Edwards, 1893. First edition thus. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [10], xi-xxi, [3], 256; [6], vii--viii, 305, [3] pp. Original dark brown cloth with an Amazon and an Arabic design embossed on the front board, the mausoleum at Mortlake embossed on the rear board, gold lettering on the.....
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Gli Otto Libri di Thucydide Atheniese, delle Guerre Fatte tra Popoli della Morea, et gli Atheniesi ... tradotto, per Francesco...
Thucydides; Francescco di Soldo Strozzi Fiorentino [Tr.]Venetia [= Venice]: Vincenzo Vaugris [= Vincenzo Valgrisi], 1545. First Italian edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [24], 440, [1] pp. Every other text page paginated. Recent (early 20th century) tan paper-covered boards. Title page with publisher's device, woodcut initials, final page of text with publisher's device on the reverse. Translated from.....
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Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West
Morgan, Dale L.Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. [1953], 1953. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 7-458, [6] pp. Bound in blue cloth with gold lettering on the front board and the spine, maps on the endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $4.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a......
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The Roman History
Niebuhr, G.B.London: Printed for C. and J. Rivington, 1827. First English language edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [3], iv-xviii, [1], 2-480, [2] (an errata page and a page of publisher's advertisements), [2]; [3], iv-viii, [1], 2-564, [2] pp. Full calf (ca. 1840) with the boards ruled in gilt, gilt gauffering to.....
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The Foundations of Empirical Knowledge
Ayer, Alfred J.London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-x, 276 pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of 10s. 6d. net on the front flap of the jacket. Slater 28. A.J. Ayer's third book, an exploration of the philosophy of metaphysics and epistemology. He.....
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Shakespeare's Plays: With His Life.; Edited by Gulian C. Verplanck With Critical Introductions, Notes, etc. Original and Selected
Shakespeare, WilliamNew York: Harper and Brothers, 1847. Later Edition. Hardcover. 3 vol. 4to. Pagination begins and ends with each new play in all three volumes. Text printed in two columns. Quarter bound in black morocco over red cloth, spines in six compartments with gilt lettering and decorations on each spine. Volume.....
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The Letters of Charles Lamb, with A Sketch of His Life; The Prose Works of Charles Lamb; Final Memorials of...
Lamb, Charles; Talfourd, Thomas NoonLondon: Edward Moxon, 1837; 1838; 1848. First edition thus; Early Reprint; First edition thus. Hardcover. 7 vol. 8vo. [7], viii-x, [1], 2-335, [5]; [5], 2-338, [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [4]; [7], 4-356, [4]; [5], 2-340, [2]; [3], vi-xiii, [4], 2-295, [3]; [7], viii-xii, [1], 2-223, [5]; [5], 2-239, [5].....
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Miami Blues
Willeford, CharlesNew York: St Martins Press (1984), 1984. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 191, [5] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $12.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Ahearn APG 018a. A beautiful copy of the first Hoke Moseley mystery. Fine in a Fine dust jacket.....
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The Shoe Bird
Welty, EudoraNew York: Harcourt, Brace, and World [1964], 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Slim 8vo. [5], 7-87, [1] pp. Yellow cloth with black lettering on the spine and a parrot wearing shoes on the front board. Price of $3.50 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated with charming full-page drawings by Beth Krush.....
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