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Remains of Lost Empires; Sketches of the Ruins of Palmyra, Nineveh, Babylon, and Persepolis, with Some Notes on India and...
Myers, P.V.N.New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1875. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 531, [1], [1]-2 (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Red blind-ruled publisher's cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Brown coated endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece and with several wood-engraved plates and numerous.....
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The American Continent and its Inhabitants before its Discovery by Columbus; A Unique History Communicated by Robin Goodfellow, Fairy Historian
Cady, Annie ColePhiladelphia: Gebbie & Co., Publishers, 1892. Early Printing. Hardcover. 2 vol. Folio. [4], v-vii, [3], 2-479, [1]; [4], xi-xx, [2], 1-470 pp. Recent half brown morocco over pebbled leather boards with the spines in six compartments, gilt lettering on the spines; all edges gilt. Title pages printed in red and.....
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The Principles of Empirical or Inductive Logic
Venn, JohnLondon: Macmillan and Co., 1889. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-xx, [1], 2-594, [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Purple publisher's cloth with blind borders on each board, gilt lettering and rules on the spine. Black coated endpapers and pastedowns. Oxford DNB, John R. Gibbins, "Venn, John (1834–1923)". Risse Logica.....
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The Congo and the Founding of its Free State: A Story of Work and Exploration
Stanley, Henry MortonLondon: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1885. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [5], vi-xxvii, [2], 2-528, [2]; [3], iv-x, [1], 2-483, [3] pp. Finely half bound in recent green Morocco over green cloth bordered with twin gilt rules, spine in six compartments bordered by twin gilt rules, black.....
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Gaddis, WilliamNew York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [9], 5-725, [5] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the spine; bright red topstain. Price of $15.00 on the front flap of the jacket. With a few full-page illustrations. Ahearn APG 002c. The author's second novel, winner of.....
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The Patton Papers; 1885-1940; 1940-1945
Patton, George S.; Blumenson, Martin, [Ed.]Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1972; 1974. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. Large 8vo. [11], xii-xx, [3], 4-996, [6]; Black cloth with gold lettering blocked in red on the front boards and spines. Price of $15.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Volumes one and two both illustrated with.....
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Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis [= The Works of Virgil: Bucolics, Georgics, and Aeneid]
Maro, Publius Virgilius; VirgilLondini [= London]: A. Dulau & Co., 1800. Later edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [5], 2-246, [3], 18-32; [5], 2-276 pp (Gathering C in volume one bound in at the end). Contemporary calf with gilt borders on the boards, gilt decorations to the turn-ins, spines in six compartments with two.....
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On My Own
Roosevelt, EleanorNew York: Harper & Brothers Publishers [1958], 1958. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xii, [2], 1-241, [1] pp. Blue publisher's cloth with black lettering on the front board, gold lettering and gold rules blocked in blue on the spine. With the original acetate. Without the publisher's slipcase. Illustrated with eight.....
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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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10,000 Famous Freemasons; A-D; E-J; K-P; Q-Z
Denslow, William R.; [Freemasons]; [Masonic Biography][Trenton, MO]: The Missouri Lodge of Research [1957] [1958] [1959] [1961], 1957; 1958; 1959; 1961. First edition. Hardcover. 4 vol. 8vo. For complete pagination please inquire. Blue cloth with gold lettering and gold rules on each spine. Foreword by Harry S. Truman. With a pamphlet of publisher's ads laid in.....
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An Apology for the True Christian Divinity, being an Explanation and Vindication of the Principles and Doctrines of the People...
Barclay, RobertBirmingham: John Baskerville, 1765. Eighth Edition (in English). Hardcover. 4to. [9], iii-xiii, [1], 2-504, [16] pp. Contemporary calf boards with the spine in six compartments, gilt decorations on the spine and a later morocco label lettered in gilt on the spine. Bound without the errata leaf. The eighth edition in.....
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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.....