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2019x-0367105365Taylor & Francis 2019. Hardcover. New. 314 pages. 9.37x6.06x0.83 inches. Taylor & Francis hardcover
2007SONG0190874694Oxford University Press 2020-07-01. 1. hardcover. Used: Good. 9.50x0.75x6.25. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Oxford University Press hardcover
1983__3112541499De Gruyter 1983. Hardcover. New. reprint edition. 588 pages. German language. 6.69x1.25x9.61 inches. De Gruyter hardcover
64119632Longman Group pp. 384 Maps . Hardback. New. Longman Group hardcover
190364182Chicago IL: Madison Book Co. 1903. 8vo. 249 1 pp. Photo frontisp. 7 photo plates. Red & black pictorial publisher’s cloth wonderful Art Nouveau cover art by Gene Carr initials partially obscured lettering & decoration in white & black front cover & spine red dyed fore-edges slight shelfwear very slight rubbing still VG bright copy from the library of Eleanore Weinstock and fundraiser for Theodore Roosevelt memorial laid-in. First edition of this remarkably uncommon Progressive Era manual on etiquette issued during President Theodore Roosevelt’s first term with Edith Kermit Roosevelt 1861-1948 as frontispiece and also featuring interior shots of the Roosevelt White House entertaining areas and photos of Caroline Scott Harrison who died while First Lady and Ida Saxton McKinley first lady until death of President McKinley in 1901. This work touches on different rules of New York Philadelphia and Boston Society and how they were negotiated at the White House while also included sections on debutantes chaperons luncheons funerals mourning customs and more. Madison Book Co., hardcover
188044505London:: Walter Scott n.d. ca. 1880. publisher's decorated red cloth a.e.g. 1892 Sunday School prize label on pastedown recipient's name scratched out. Some light use to cloth; very attractive. Folio. Color frontispiece and added color lithographed title page and plates. . Walter Scott, hardcover
18997497<p>This is a scarce poetry anthology "HARVARD LYRICS And Other Verses ~ Being Selections of the Best Verse Written by Harvard Undergraduates within the Last Ten Years" selected by Charles Livingstone Stebbins. 1899 1st edition; Brown and Company; Boston. Frontispiece photograph of "The College Yard." Gilt top page edges. There is an Index of Authors at the back.<br /><br />From the Introduction: "The motive that prompted the compilation of this little volume was a desire to collect into convenient form some of the more serious thoughts of Harvard students as expressed in their best verse with the hope of creating in the public mind a better impression of the standard of undergraduate literary work."<br /><br />Condition:<br />Clean covers and spine. Sharp cover corners. Bright gilt on the front cover and spine. Bright gilt top page edges. Tight binding with no loose pages. There is a crack at the front hinge between the copyright and 1st Introduction pages despite the crack the front cover is still firmly in place and is not shaky. The text pages are clean with no notable issues found. "F.H.S. Jr. Cambridge May '99" written in pen on the front end paper. Overall the book is in Very Good condition.</p> Brown and Company hardcover
18666597"Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and its Tributaries and of the Discovery of the Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa 1858-1864" by David and Charles Livingstone. 1866 1st American edition; Harper & Brothers; New York. The book features 36 in-text illustrations and full-page engravings including a two-page frontispiece engraving of a "Bird's-Eye View of the Great Cataracts of the Zambesi and of the Zigzag Chasm below the Falls through Which the River Escapes" as well as a large fold-out map of Dr. Livingstone's travels at the back.<br /><br />From the Preface: "It has been my object in this work to give as clear an account as I was able of tracts of country previously unexplored with their river systems natural productions and capabilities; and to bring before my countrymen and all others interested in the cause of humanity the misery entailed by the slave-trade in its inland phases - a subject on which I and my companions are the first who have had any opportunities of forming a judgment. The eight years spent in Africa since my last work was published have not I fear improved my power of writing English; but I hope that whatever my descriptions want in clearness or literary skill may in measure be compensated by the novelty of the scenes describe and the additional information afforded on that curse of Africa and that shame even now in the nineteenth century of a European nation - the slave-trade."<br /><br />Here are a few examples of the contents: Second Portuguese Expedition after Gold Mines; Repulsed by Large Bodies of Natives; The Fatality of the Murderer Attends the Slave-Trade; Mouths of the Zambesi; Concealed to Deceive English Cruisers; Scenery of the River; Country in a State of War; Atrocities of Mariano; Birds and Beasts met with on the River; Peculiarity of Baobab Trees; Ravages of Smallpox; Superstitions about Mangoes Coffee and Rain-Making; Case of Voluntary Slavery; Elephant and Crocodile Schools of Medicine; Dice Doctors and their use as Detective Police; Coal Gold and Iron; Hippopotamus Flesh; Sunstroke; Morumbwa Cataract; Native Musicians and their Instruments; Christmas in Tropical Dress; African Fever; First Intercourse with Unknown People; Beer Drinkers; Moon Blindness; Evil Effects of Contact with Slaves; Cockroaches as Aids to Banting; Palm Wine; Musquitoes; Confessions of an Old Slave Dealer; Native Travelers' Mode of Making Fire; Language of Ants; Rogue Monkey Respected; The Women their Appearance and Ornaments; Gipsy Bellows in Africa; Victoria Falls; Albinos - Human and Hippopotamic; Skeletons; Young Women up for Sale; Native Language; Witchcraft or Influence of Plants; Filing the Teeth and Tattooing; Slave-Hunters' Mode of Attack; Polygamy; Employments of Women; Cause of the War in America.and much more.<br /><br />Condition:<br />There is a thin 2" stain line below the title on the spine; small cloth tears at the cover corners; the top and bottom edges of the spine are worn. Tight binding with no cracks. The fold-out map at the back is present but has torn away at the inner edge and is detached. The text pages are in nice condition - mostly clean with only some mild foxing here and there though there is heavier foxing to the front and rear end papers. The blank page facing the 1st Preface page has 9 lines written in old handwriting in pencil about "Dr. Kirk" Sir John Kirk who was an English naturalist and companion to David Livingstone. There is an old bookplate affixed to the front pastedown. Overall the book is in Good- condition due to the detached map. Harper & Brothers hardcover
2003169314Brigham Young University Press 2003-01-28. hardcover. Very Good. 9x6x0. Brigham Young University Press hardcover
1872399London: Royal Geographical Society 1872. First. Hardcover. VG to vg. and Dr Livingstone's Explorations of the Upper Congo. Two ussues of the Processings of the Royal Geographical Society Vol XVL Dec 28 1872 and Vol XVII Feb 24 1873. The 1872 issue also contains some other news on DOctor Livingstone and the 1973 issue also contains a copy of Livingstone's letter to Sir T Maclear. The price is for two entire issues that also contain other articles. VG for 1872 issue and vg for the other. Royal Geographical Society hardcover
185818012Edinburgh: Maclachlan & Stewart 1858. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo. 81911pp. Original pebble grain cloth blocked in blind and gilt; yellow coated endpapers. Light soil wear to the cloth ownership name and pencilled notes on the front endpapers else a very good copy. The author's poetry is in Scots Gaelc; this is followed at p. 111 by the Sketch regarding Ossian in English Maclachlan & Stewart hardcover
1866005461New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1866. The Scottish missionary David Livinstone 1813-1873 was one of several famous explorers including Burton Speke and Baker who shared the Victorian obsession with discovering the sources of the Nile. His brother Charles 1821-1873 likewise had his health broken by Africa. This is a Very Good copy of the First American Edition. Red cloth binding with black titling on the spine. Clean text; 2-page illustration of the Great Cataracts of the Zambesi xxii 638 pages fold-out map and a six-page publisher's catalog of "Books of Travel and Adventure" including two titles by Sir Richard Burton. Several discreet chops from former-owner and a stamp on the rear paste-down. There is light rubbing to the margins and the spine has darkened. While the lettering is readable it is a bit obscure. Other than these minor defects a solid copy of this important book. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harper & Brothers, Publishers Hardcover
187515251New York: Harper & Brothers 1875. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Frontispiece portrait of Livingstone plus 20 additional full-page and 25 text illustrations 2 colored maps 1 double-page and the other in a map pocket attached to the rear board. Library cloth a bit rubbed spine faded; interior very good with most tissue guards present. Ex library from the Free Public Library of Summit New Jersey with a small bookplate on the front paste-down and a library “pocket†pasted to the rear fly-leaf. First American edition of the record of Livingstone’s extraordinary series of travels which reflect a continuous seven years of scientific geographical work and new discoveries. From the time of Livingstone’s departure from Zanzibar in the beginning of 1866 to the day of his death in Illala at the end of April 1873 he drew the world’s attention to the great evil of the African slave traffic. The objects of the expeditions were the suppression of slavery and the exploration of the south central lake system of South Africa.<br /> <br /> Livingstone 1813-1873 was a celebrated explorer who produced a wide body of knowledge in such fields as geography technology and the social and medical sciences. His insight concerning quinine as an ingredient for the cure of malaria was important. Horace Waller 1833-96 was a writer on Africa close friend of Livingstone and Bishop Mackenzie and a great advocate of the abolition of slavery. Harper & Brothers unknown
18655052London: John Murray 1865. First edition. Very Good. 22 cm; xiv 608 32 pages panoramic folding wood-engraved frontispiece title page vignette 12 plates numerous illustrations to the text folding map with the route marked in red at the rear. Bound in recent half leather over marbled boards in period style. Contents clean. John Murray hardcover books
185818012Edinburgh: Maclachlan & Stewart 1858. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo. 81911pp. Original pebble grain cloth blocked in blind and gilt; yellow coated endpapers. Light soil wear to the cloth ownership name and pencilled notes on the front endpapers else a very good copy. The author's poetry is in Scots Gaelc; this is followed at p. 111 by the Sketch regarding Ossian in English Maclachlan & Stewart hardcover books
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1899011704Boston: Brown and Company 1899. First edition 1899. Very well-kept copy of this hard-to-find collection of student poetry most notable by the inclusion of a very early work by noted American poet Wallace Stevens 1879-1955. This copy belonged to R. B. Dixon Professor of Anthropology at Harvard with his name neatly written at the head of the half-title. Maroon cloth lettered and with a pictorial design in gilt top edge gilt other edges uncut frontis illustration 153 pages including index of authors. Very light shelfwear mainly a bit of rubbing to the spine ends spine slightly faded very light surface soil. Good hinges sound text block very clean pages free from other names or markings. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Brown and Company Hardcover
186617572Hachette 1866 Grand in-8 demi-chagrin, dos à nerfs, filets bruns et dorés, fleurons dorés, couverture conservée, 580 pp. 47 gravures dont 25 hors-texte ; 4 cartes. Rares rousseurs éparses. Bon exemplaire.
ria9780367323332_inpHardcover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; This book provides the scope and complexity of Freud's contributions and emphasizes the wide proliferation of the Lacanian approach. It describes psychoanalytical theories and is helpful for the readers as a stimulus to independent inv hardcover
1002X0ZCW52Hardcover. George A. Lawrence. Good. unknown
18581606<p>Harper and Brothers 1858 hardcover. Cover shows general wear with bad discoloration inside both front and end covers and to front and back end papers. Pages unmarked with some age-toning. Binding tight. Maps and numerous illustrations clean. Scarce. </p> Harper and Brothers hardcover
200617549<p>new oversize hc expedited shipping not available</p> National Portrait Gallery Publications hardcover
2024SKU1708329Scholastic Ltd 2024-06-04. paperback. Good. 0x0x0. Textbook May Have Highlights Notes and/or Underlining BOOK ONLY-NO ACCESS CODE NO CD Ships with Tracking Scholastic Ltd paperback
2024SKU1713046Scholastic Ltd 2024-06-04. paperback. New. 0x0x0. New Book Ships with Tracking Scholastic Ltd paperback
