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The Black Stallion
Farley, WalterNew York: Random House [1941], 1941. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-ix, [3], 3-275, [3] pp. Grey cloth with a horse in black on the front board, black lettering and red rules on the spine; red topstain. Illustrated with in-text and full-page black and white drawings by Keith Ward. The.....
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Della Struttura, delle Funzioni, e delle Malattie della Midolla Spinale Opera [= Of the Structure, Functions, and Diseases of the...
Racchetti, VincenzoMilano: Paolo Emilio Giusti, 1816. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], 2-446, [2] pp. Contemporary half calf over paper boards with the spine in six compartments, gilt decorations on the spine, a red label lettered in gilt on the spine; all edges marbled. Text in Italian. Difficult to find in commerce.....
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The Presocratic Philosophers; Thales to Zeno; Empedocles to Democritus
Barnes, JonathanLondon: Routledge & Kegan Paul (1979), 1979. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [4], v-xiv, [2], 3-378; [4], v-x, [2], 3-353, [1] pp. Brown cloth with gold lettering on the spines. Halton and O'Leary 320. Barnes, a respected scholar on Ancient Philosophy, gives a rigorous and precise exposition on the.....
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Personal Memoirs of P.H. Sheridan
Sheridan, P.H.New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1888. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [4], v-xiii, 500, [2]; [4], v-xi, [1], 486, [2] pp. Bound in green cloth, with beautiful gilt decorations on the front boards and the spines. Floral green endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated by a steel-engraved frontispiece in.....
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Mort
Pratchett, TerryLondon: Victor Gollancz Ltd in association with Colin Smythe Ltd, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], 8-221, [3] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of £10.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Josh Kirby. Inscribed on the title page by the.....
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Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa; Including a Sketch of Sixteen Years' Residence in the Interior of Africa
Livingstone, DavidLondon: John Murray, 1857. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-ix, [2], 2-687, [1] pp. Bound without the publisher's advertisements. Half contemporary green sheep over textured cloth boards, spine in six compartments with a brown morocco label lettered in gold on the spine; all edges marbled. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated.....
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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 Aeneid of Virgil with English Notes, Critical and Explanatory, a Metrical Clavis, an Historical Geographical, and Mythological Index
Virgil; Charles Anthon, [Tr.]New York: Harper & Brothers, 1844. Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xiii, [2], 2-942, [1]-2 (pages of publisher's advertisements), [4] pp. Full contemporary sheep with the spine in five compartments, a red morocco label lettered in gold on the spine; all edges marbled. Illustrated with a frontispiece of Virgil's bust and.....
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Angels
Johnson, DenisNew York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [13], 5-209, [5] pp. Quarter black cloth over black paper boards with black lettering on the front board and silver lettering on the spine. Price of $12.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. With three publisher's review slips.....
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A New and Complete System of Arithmetic Composed for the Use of Citizens of the United States
Pike, NicolasNewbury-Port: John Mycall, 1788. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [17], 18-512 pp. Later sheep (ca. 1840) over the contemporary calf with the contemporary red morocco label still visible on the spine. With charts and in-text diagrams. Evans 21394. Pike's work was used as a collegiate textbook in Masschusetts and Connecticut. This.....
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Abraham Lincoln; The True Story of a Great Life
Herndon, William H.; Weik, Jesse W.New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1895. Later edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [4], v-xxviii, 1-331, [3]; [3], iv-vii, [3], 1-348, [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering and a red and gold decoration on the front boards, gold lettering and gold decorations on the.....
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Complete Theories
Robinson, AbrahamAmsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], 2-129, [3] pp. Flexible paper boards replicating the design on the front panel and spine panel of the dust jacket (but omitting the list of series title on the rear panel). A volume in the long-running Studies in Logic and.....