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1925006158Washington D.C.: The United States Infantry Association 1925. Very Good 2" tear at top edge spine fold top corners creased light soiling. . First Edition. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The United States Infantry Association Paperback books
199040403University Park:: Pennsylvania State University Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1990. Hardcover. 027100679X . First edition. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . Pennsylvania State University Press, hardcover books
185928659Skowhegan: M. Littlefield - Printer 1859. 1st thus. White printed wrappers entitled: "CATALOGUE Of The BLOOMFIELD ACADEMY. 1859.". Wrapper soiled & worn. Chunk from top edge near gutter gradually decreasing in size affecting first half of booklet. Withal a Good copy of a rare survivor. 19 1 pp. 12mo. 8-1/8" x 5" <br/><br/>The Bloomfield Academy founded in 1809 as the Canaan Academy with the name change coming a decade later. It was Skowhegan's first high school and enjoyed full-capacity in the 1840s & 1850s though in 1871 the high school graduated its last class a scant 3 students. M. Littlefield - Printer unknown books
1894044954Paris: Charavay Mantoux Martin 1894. Hardcover Original Cloth. Very Good Condition. Montader. Light wear and rubbing to publisher's decorative cloth rear hinge slightly split. Light browning internally a few torn tissue guards otherwise unmarked. Size: Octavo 8vo. Illustrator: Montader. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Children; History. Inventory No: 044954. <br/><br/> Charavay, Mantoux, Martin hardcover books
1695008074Paris: Jean Guignard 1695. Bookplates of the Baron Northwick John Rushout 1738-1800 The first Baron Northwick British politician and Member of Parliament. With engraved frontispiece of Julius Caesar Vol. I and Augustus Vol. II. Two volumes bound in contemporary mottled calf with later reback two leather labels with gilt lettering and decorations bright Very Good small chip to frontis and title page Vol. II light rubbing to edges of boards. 10 282 6 2 305 7 pp. . First Edition. Mottled Calf. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Jean Guignard Hardcover books
200028955London: Struik Publishers Amplats. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2000. Hardcover. 1868724131 . Text by Sandra Klopper. Color photographs throughout. First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Struik Publishers (Amplats) hardcover books
1562046899Antwerp: Bellerum 1562. Second Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Good Condition. Old colored vellum worn lacking front endpaper title browned and stained mild browning and a few light stains scattered marginalia in an early hand; generally clean. The second edition of the abridgment of Magnus's important history of the Northern people. 8 192 leaves with in text illustration throughout.<br/><br/>Magnus's history of Sweden and the North was enormously successful and popular and was translated early on into Italian German English and Dutch. It describes much folklore and customs not recorded elsewhere - including the first description of making the questionable Northern delicacy lutefisk. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Travel & Places; History. Inventory No: 046899. Bellerum hardcover books
1567046211Petri: Heinrich 1567. Early Edition. Hardcover Half Leather. Very Good Condition. Modern half leather over marbled boards author penned to page edge lacking any blanks and lacking the full page map of Northern Europe with a facsimile tipped in. Collijn in his Swedish Bibliography suggested that the map was printed and inserted separately and only in some copies of the Basel edition. First Basel and Second Latin edition a reprint of the Rome edition of 1555. Illustrated with small woodcuts throughout. Dampstain to upper right from around page 500 on a few scattered dampstains modest foxing - generally a clean copy. 96 854 2 pp. Brunet III 1302. Magnus's history of Sweden and the North was enormously successful and popular and was translated early on into Italian German English and Dutch. It describes much folklore and customs not recorded elsewhere - including the first description of making the questionable Northern delicacy lutefisk. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Travel & Places; History. Inventory No: 046211. <br/><br/> Heinrich hardcover books
1588E05544-5702 blank28 pages. Folio 12 1/2" x 8 1/4" title with wood cut printer's device bound in contemporary vellum. European Americana 588/57; Palau 146976; Sabin 146976 First edition of Maffei's great history of India.<br /><br />Ten Latin editions two in Italian and two in French appeared before 1621. Based on primary material it still remains a valuable account today. The work is divided into 16 books. Most of it deals with the Portuguese conquests and Jesuit missionary work in the East Indies and India up to about 1557 Borba de Moraes page 508 "a classic work on the subject . writes extensively about Brazil describing it very accurately"; Maffie was the firs author to use Jesuit letters extensively as well as many secular sources including Fernando Mendes Pinto.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Contemporary velum with moderate wear re-backed in vellum with original spine label laid down; minor worming and foxing intermittent moderate damp staining pages 410 and 419 blank due to a printing error; early inscription and inked stamped on title page new end papers and paste-downs else a good to very good copy. Apud Philippum Juncatam hardcover books
19996351NY: Lothrop Lee & Shepard. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1999. Hardcover. 0688145493 . Illustrated by Giulio Maestro. First printing. SIGNED by the author and illustrator. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Lothrop, Lee & Shepard hardcover books
1992414Paris: Vada Retro 1992. First French Edition. Hardcover. Orig. aluminum stamped covers very good in very good mylar sleeve with fine audio CD. 35 x 28 cm. Text in French. Spiral bound aluminum stamped and die cut covers with serial number embossed on lower edge of rear panel as issued. Original mylar sleeve neatly opened with audio CD in unopened mylar sleeve and bound in color comic book. Commonly known as "The Madonna Sex Book" Madonna as 'Mistress Dita' - an homage to silent film star Dita Parlo. Staged in a series of erotic poses with other celebrities such as Big Daddy Kane Vanilla Ice Naomi Campbell Isabella Rossellini porn star Joey Stefano and actors Udo Kier and Tatiana von Furstenberg. Small ding on head of front cover. Interior crisp and clean. <br/><br/> Vada Retro hardcover books
181121733Washington City: Roger C. Weightman 1811. Softcover. Good. Title continues: "Also two letters from the Agent of the American consul at Bordeaux to the Secretary of State. 8 pp disbound. Small burn to upper right-hand corner scattered foxing. Correspondence recounting and objecting to the seizure of American ships by the French under the Continental System. Roger C. Weightman unknown books
19432997Stamford CT: Overbrook Press 1943. Hardcover. Very Good. 15 pp with lovely color illustrations by Randolph Ruzicka. Very minor wear to boards light foxing to title page and first page of text. One of an edition of 500 printed on Maidstone paper. Overbrook Press hardcover books
1825007805London: Printed for Henry Colburn 1825. SCARCE in the British First Edition. iii-v vi-viii 12-440 pps. Bound in contemporary diced calf bordered by double gilt rules back divided into 6 compartments with central blind-stamped ornaments flanked by gilt rules gilt lettering marbled page edges. Binders's signature "S & S" stamped bottom edge rear paste down. Very Good Plus corners rubbed offsetting to front end pages scattered light toning to end pages only interior quite clean and bright. Madame Campan was Lady-in-Waiting to Queen Marie Antoinette and her journal provided a valuable historical source on life at court during the reign of Louis XVI. First Edition. Diced Calf . Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Printed for Henry Colburn Hardcover books
1879242793London: Macmillan and Co 1879. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Scarce. Green cloth binding with light edge wear to extremities. Slightly heavier wear at corners and head and tail of spine. no markings in text. Very Good binding. Macmillan and Co unknown books
1958395London: Jonathan Cape 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. 384 pp illustrations with frontispiece illustrated endpapers bibliography. Corners lightly bumped; internally clean and sound. Dust jacket has toning to spine and edges; chipping and short tears. The story of Russian and British agents and the so-called Great Game between the two nations in Turkestan. "Maclean tells the dramatic stories of some of these agents and of some other travellers official and unofficial military and civilian who in the course of a hundred years on one errand or another penetrated the Khanates of Central Asia" dust jacket. Jonathan Cape hardcover books
1994SKU1025180South Carolina Dept of 1994-10-01. PAPERBACK. Good. 1880067277 Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Ships from our bookstore in West Columbia S.C.! South Carolina Dept of paperback books
1941121London: Putnam & Co Ltd 1941. Hardcover. Good. xii 332 pp 8 illustrations with notes references index. A history of the end of the slave trade in England with accounts from the perspectives of abolitionists and slavers alikecompiled from letters records and other documentation. Spine slant some foxing edgewear to boards previous owner's bookplate. Good reading copy. Putnam & Co, Ltd hardcover books
1994000940Cumberland Rhode Island U.S.A.: Yale Univ Pr 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Like New Jacket. <br/><br/> Yale Univ Pr hardcover books
1925001040London: Chatto & Windus 1925. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 250 pp. 8 plates. Some soilage on pink/red boards. Tiny edge chips on endpaper. Soilage/foxing to half-title leaf. Otherwise tight and clean interior. <br/><br/> Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1849007981Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz 1849. Published 1849-1855 eight volumes in contemporary quarter morocco over marbled boards the backs with five raised bands and gilt lettering with gilt tooled floral decorations marbled end papers ribbon markers. Near Fine small rubs at corners. Frontispiece portrait of Macaulay located in Vol. IV. A quite pleasing and well-bound set of this classic history. Collection of British Authors Vol. CLXXII. . Copyright Edition. Quarter Morocco. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Bernhard Tauchnitz Hardcover books
1926004444Philadelphia: Dorrance and Co. 1926. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front endpage - "Sincerely yours C.E. Macartney". Very Good Plus lacking the dustjacket small tear front hinge. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 2nd Printing. Cloth. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. Dorrance and Co. Hardcover books
1896264603Navy Records Society 1896. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/no dust jacket. A bit of spotting to the blue buckram spine and a small bump to the leading edge of the front board Otherwise a clean copy with no marks of any kind. Very Good binding / no dust jacket. Navy Records Society unknown books
1836007881London: Richard Bentley 1836. Second and preferred edition with many additions and illustrations four volumes finely bound in full grey polished calf the backs sumptuously tooled in floral gilt decorations with red morocco labels lettered in gilt silk markers armorial bookplates of John W. Thomas front paste downs. Near Fine very light rubbing at raised bands. Fold-out map in Vol. I is Fine. A quite handsome set well suited for a gift. . Second British Edition. Full Calf. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Richard Bentley Hardcover books
1818E0061323 pages with a portrait frontispiece and five colored aquatints. Octavo 8 3/4" x 5 1/2" bound in attractive half leather with marbled boards and gilt lettering to spine. Hill 1168 Second and best edition<br /><br />The Alceste brought Lord Amherst to China to serve as ambassador and specifically to negotiate the China trade at the time a matter of dispute between China and Great Britain.M'Leod who was surgeon on the ship describes the voyage out the various calls in the East Indies including touching at Batavia surveying off Korea the visit to Okinawa another to Manila and the shipwreck off the coast of Sumatra and subsequent rescue from Malay pirates. A brief but interesting interview with Napoleon at St. Helena is also included in the narrative. This was one of the most popular travel books of its time portraying the Far East to a much wider audience than had been reached by earlier accounts. The idyllic descriptions of Lewchew undoubtedly appealed to the romantic sensibilities of the era. Indeed buoyed by its success M'Leod published another work recounting his time as a slaver <i>A Voyage to Africa with some Account of the Manners and Customs of the Dahomian People</i>.<br /><br /><b>Condition:</b><br /><br />Attractive half rebind some foxing through out with no spotting to plates else a very good copy. John Murray hardcover books
