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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], 1-440, [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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What We Owe to Each Other
Scanlon, T.M.Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-ix, [4], 2-420 pp. Grey cloth with black lettering on the spine. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, "Contractualism". Scanlon here explains his contractualism: determining which acts are right and wrong, and what forms of reasoning and.....
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Women of the War; Their Heroism and Self-Sacrifice
Moore, FrankHartford, Conn. S.S. Scranton & Co., 1866. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [2], iii-xvi, 17-596, [6] pp. Green cloth with gold lettering and decorations on the front board and spine; all edges decoratively spotted. Brown endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece, a vignette title-page, and eight plates. The plates depict.....
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Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches
Hawthorne, NathanielBoston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], x-xi, [2], 10-398, [1] (page of publisher's advertisements), [3] pp. Brown blindstamped cloth with pink lettering on the spine. Coated brown endpapers and pastedowns. Publisher's device on the title page. BAL 7626. The first issue of the first American.....
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The Grass Harp
Capote, TrumanNew York: Random House [1951], 1951. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 3-209 pp. Beige cloth with brown, green, and black lettering on the spine; purple topstain. Illustrated title page. Jacket design by Miriam Woods. Ahearn APG 004a. Capote's fourth book, a tale of outsiders trying to make it in a......
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The Odyssey of Homer
HomerNew York: The Modern Library Publishers (1929), 1929. First Modern Library edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [4], v-xxiv, 383, [1] pp. Price of 95 cents on the front flap of the dust jacket. Bound in green balloon cloth with a green topstain. Green endpapers and pastedowns. A complete and unabridged prose.....
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The Second Year of the War; Southern History of the War
Pollard, Edward A.New York: Charles B. Richardson, 1863. Early printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], 6-386 pp. Green cloth with a gilt decoration on the front board, gilt lettering on the spine. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait, four plates, and a folding plan of the Battle of Vicksburg. Dornbusch III.....
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Encyclopaedia of Antiquities; Classical and Mediaeval
Fosbroke, Rev. Thomas Dudley (M.A., F.S.A.)London: Printed by and for John Nichols and Son, Printers to the Society of Antiquaries, 1825. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 4vo. [7], vi-xvi, [1], 2-486, [2]; [2], iii-iv, [1], 488-955, [3] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Half-bound in contemporary smooth navy calf over pebbled blue cloth, two maroon morocco.....
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The Town
Richter, ConradNew York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 4-433, [5] pp. Red cloth with blue lettering and grey decorations on the front board and spine; grey topstain. Price of $3.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket designed by John O'Hara Cosgrave II. Winner of.....
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Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile
Speke, John HanningEdinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1863. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xxxi, [2], 2-658, [32] (pages of publisher's advertisements, their catalog) pp. Publisher's red cloth with a gold decoration on the front board, gold lettering and gold rules on the spine. Green coated endpapers and pastedowns. Binders ticket of Edmonds.....
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![De Officiis Libri Tres [cum] Cato Maior, Laelius, Paradoxa, Somnium Scipionis [= On Duty: Three. M. Tullii Ciceronis, Marcus Tullius Cicero.](https://eveningstarbooks-net.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/000015187.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1739400367)
De Officiis Libri Tres [cum] Cato Maior, Laelius, Paradoxa, Somnium Scipionis [= On Duty: Three Books [with] Cato Major, Laelius...
Ciceronis, M. Tullii (Marcus Tullius Cicero)Amstelodami: P. & I. Blaeu / Wolfgang, Ianssonis-Wasbergios, Boom, 1688. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [14], 1-452, [14] pp. Later (ca. 1800) sheep with gold borders and gold floral decorations on each board, spine in six compartments with gold lettering and gold rules on the spine; all edges gilt. Brown endpapers.....
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Strata
Pratchett, TerryLondon: Doubleday (1994), 1994. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 7-235, [5] pp. Yellow cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Jacket illustration by Josh Kirby. Price of £14.99 net on the front flap of the dust jacket. According to the copyright page this is the third hardcover edition overall. Signed.....