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The General History of Polybius in Five Books
Polybius; Hampton, [Tr.]London: Printed by J. Hughs for R. and J. Dodsley, 1756. Later edition. Hardcover. 4to. 2 vol. [3], iv-xx, [1] 2-559, [11]; [17], 2-423, [15], [1] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [1] pp. Contemporary calf with gilt tooling to the boards' edges, the spines in six compartments with a red and.....
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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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A History of Madison, The Capital of Wisconsin; Including The Four Lake Country to July, 1874, with an Appendix of...
Durrie, Daniel S.Madison, Wis. [Atwood & Culver], 1874. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], 4-420, [4] pp. Quarter recent black smooth morocco over original pebbled green cloth boards with gold lettering on the spine. Recent endpapers and pastedowns with original endpapers bound in. Written by a Librarian of the State Historical Society of.....
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Our Lost Explorers: The Narrative of the Jeannette Arctic Expedition as Related by the Survivors, and in the Records and...
Newcomb, Raymond Lee, [Ed.]; VariousHartford, Conn. American Publishing Company, 1882. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], iv-xv, [3], 18-479, [3] pp. Brown publisher's cloth with decorations in black, silver, and gold on the front board and spine. Illustrated with a frontispiece and with several full-page and in-text engravings, maps, and plans.Completing the title page: "With.....
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The Theory of Numbers
Hardy, G.H.; Wright, E. M.Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [5], vi-xvi, [1], 2-403, [1] pp. Bound in blue cloth with gold lettering and publisher's device on the spine. ODNB: Bela Bollobas, "Hardy, Godfrey Harold"; ODNB: N. H. Bingham, "Wright, Sir Edward Maitland". Hardy is one of the greatest and most.....
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Eros and Civilization; A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud
Marcuse, HerbertBoston: The Beacon Press [1955], 1955. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xii, [3], 4-277, [3] pp. Blue cloth with black lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $3.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. ANB, Douglas Kellner, "Marcuse, Herbert". Marcuse was a philosopher in the same.....
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A Deadly Shade of Gold
Macdonald, John D.Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company (1974), 1974. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], 5-336 pp. Quarter black cloth over blue paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $7.50 on the front flap of dust jacket. Ahearn APG 048c. First printing of the first American hardcover edition. A sharp.....
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Hindenburgs Einmarsch in London [= Hindenburg's Invasion of London]; Von Einem Deutschen Dichter [= By a German Poet]
[Münch, Paul Georg]Leipzig: Grethlein & Co. [1915], 1915. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], 10-260, [4] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Half contemporary brown imitation leather over marbled paper boards with the spine in five compartments. Gilt lettering on the spine. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Re-bound without the half-title. Clarke Future Wars 129-30.....
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The Surgeon's Mate
O'Brian, PatrickLondon: St. James's Place, 1980. First UK edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 7-314, [4] pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Ahearn APG 050a. Cunningham 16a. A nice copy of the seventh Jack Aubrey novel. A Very Good or better copy in a like dust jacket with a touch.....
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Knowledge and Belief; An Introduction to the Logic of the Two Notions
Hintikka, JaakkoIthaca: Cornell University Press (1962), 1962. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-x, [2], 3-179, [3] pp. Bound in blue-grey cloth with lettering in blue on the spine and the front board. Price of $4.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Boston University, "Jaako Hintikka Professor of Philosophy Emeritus.....
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Dicey's Song
Voigt, CynthiaNew York: Atheneum, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 3-196 pp. Brown cloth with a copper tree embossed on the front board and copper lettering on the spine. The correct price of $10.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. With an illustrated title page. The winner of the.....
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The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England, from the Earliest Times till the...
Campbell, John LordLondon: John Murray, 1845; 1846; 1847; 1869. First edition. Hardcover. 8 vol. 8vo. [7], viii-xxviii, [1], 2-652, [2]; [3], iv-xix, [2], 2-621, [3]; [3], iv-xix, [2], 2-596, [2]; [5], vi-xxiii, [2], 2-687, [3]; [3], iv-xx, [1], 2-678, [2]; [3], iv-xx, [1], 2-709, [5]; [5], vi-xx, [1], 2-736, [2]; [3], vi-xvi.....