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Following the Guidon
Custer, Elizabeth B.New York: Harper & Brothers, 1890. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xiii, [6], xx, 341, [1], [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Bound in green cloth with the front board lettered in gilt with gilt bullet decorations and an American flag stamped in red, white, and blue, on the.....
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Memoirs of The Court of England During the Reign of the Stuarts, Including the Protectorate
Jesse, John HeneageLondon: Richard Bentley, 1846. Second edition. Hardcover. 4 vol. 8vo. [5], vi-[x]vi, [1], 2-390, [2]; [3], iv-xix, [5], 5-496, [2]; [3], ivxv, [4], 2-512, [2]; [3], vi-xix, [1], 2-525, [3] pp. Turn-of-the-century half brown leather over beige cloth, spines in six compartments with gold decorations and two maroon morocco labels.....
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Collected Essays
Bradley, F.H.Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [8], ix, [2], 2-347, [1]; [7], 350-708 pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering and the publisher's device in gold on the spine. Price of 36s. net on the front flaps of the dust jackets. SEP, "Francis Herbert Bradley".....
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Dream Days
Grahame, KennethLondon: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1902. First edition thus. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], 227, [2], [5] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Green cloth with gold, black, and green decorations on the front board, red and black lettering on the front board, gold lettering on the spine; top edge gilt. Illustrated.....
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Among Cannibals; An Account of Four Years' Travels in Australia and of Camp Life with the Aborigines of Queensland
Lumholtz, CarlLondon: John Murray, 1889. First English language edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xx, [1], 2-395, [3] pp. Contemporary half purple morocco over marbled boards with the spine in six compartments and with gold lettering and decorations on the spine; all edges decoratively speckled. Orange endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece.....
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Interesting Anecdotes of the Heroic Conduct of Women, During the Revolution; Translated from the French of M. Du Broca
Du Broca, LouisLondon: H.D. Symonds, 1802. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [5], 2-219, [1] (page of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Bound in contemporary tree calf with an attractive expertly rebacked spine (in six compartments) retaining the original black morocco label, boards with gilt tooling to the edges. The volume is illustrated by.....
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The Affluent Society
Galbraith, John KennethBoston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], x-xii, [3], 2-368, [2] pp. Orange cloth with silver lettering on the front board and spine. ANB, Alexander J. Field, "Galbraith, John Kenneth". The Affluent Society is Galbraith's best-known book. It builds on one of his early publications, titled American.....
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Coaching Days and Coaching Ways
Tristram, W. OutramLondon: Macmillan and Co., 1888. First edition. Hardcover. Large 4to. [7], xii-xiii, [4], 2-367, [1] pp. Green cloth with gold lettering and decorations on the front board and spine. With illustrations by Herbert Railton and Hugh Thomson: a frontispiece, eighteen additional full-page illustrations, and several in-text illustrations. A fascinating history.....
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The Indian Sign Language, with Brief Explanatory Notes of the Gestures Taught...and War Signals of our Aborigines
Clark, W.P.Philadelphia: L.R. Hamersly & Co., 1885. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], 5-443, [1], [4] pages of publisher's advertisements, including ads for other historical works on Native Americans, published in the nineteenth century. Includes a fold-out map with the Native American reservations west of the 84th Meridian and their populations diagrammed.....
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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 Early Mathematical Manuscripts of Leibniz; Translated from the Latin Texts Published by Carl Immanuel Gerhardt With Critical and Historical...
Leibniz, GottfriedChicago: The Open Court Publishing Company, 1920. First edition thus. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], iv, [3], 4-238, [2] pp. Bound in light brown cloth with gold lettering on the front board; twin rules, gold lettering, and publisher's device in gilt on the spine, top edge gilt. Lacks the dust jacket. Based.....
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The American Claimant
Twain, Mark (Samuel L. Clemens)New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1892. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], xi-xv, [1], 17-277, [1], [8] (pages of publisher's advertisemets) pp. Bound in olive-green cloth with decorations in gold and black on the front board and spine. BAL 3434. An attractive copy. Tiny tear to last three leaves.....
