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THE STORY OF A SUB-PIONEER [ in Dustjacket ]

By: Algeo, Sara M. ; [SIGNED]

Price: $249.94

Publisher: Providence, RI, Snow & Franham Company: 1925

Seller ID: 41516

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket

Autograph; 318 pages; Warmly inscribed by the author, "With best wishes for your/ future happiness/ Sarah M. Algeo. / Somamset. Barrington, R.I./ Oct. 14, 1929" Maroon cloth stamped in gilt with title and facsimile of author's signature on front panel. Illustrated with 91 half-tones after photographs of those women and men active in the suffrage movement in Rhode Island as well as nationally. In this autobiography she described her long struggle for the cause of woman suffrage, which she began at an early age. In this book, are speeches by Anna Howard Shaw, letters to various ne...
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THE NEAR EAST FROM WITHIN

By: Anonymous

Price: $84.94

Publisher: London, Cassell and Company: 1915

Seller ID: 39513

Condition: Very Good

viii, 256 pages; Clean and tight in original navy blue cloth with gilt lettering and gilt image of crescent moon and star. Clean and tight in original blue cloth binding with gilt lettering and the image of a crescent moon and star; cloth mildly rubbed at spine ends. Frontispiece photograph of Peter I of Servia, 12 addition photogravure portraits of various leaders in Servia, Eypt; Roumania; Greece, Bulgaria, etc. Chapter headings include: Sultan Abdul Hamid; Life in Constantinople; Sultan Mohammed V; Russian influence in Constantinople; Sheikh-ul-Islam; Khedive Abbas Hilmi; Emperor William...
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CHAMPS-ELYSEES, FAUBOURG, SAINT-HONORE, PLAINE MONCEAU

By: Barrielle, Jean-Francois ; Therese Castieau; Antoinette Le Normand-Romain; Yvan Christ; Philippe Maille

Price: $29.94

Publisher: Paris, Henri Veyrier: 1982

Seller ID: 41437

ISBN: 2851992465

Condition: Very Good+

Monographie des hôtels particuliers et édifices publics; 307 pages; French text. Clean and tight in original bright red silk binding with extensive gilt lettering and decoration at spine and front cover, former owner's inscription on ffep. Binding has 4 faint marks on front cover, otherwise bright and beautiful. A wonderful architectural and social history of these areas of Paris; beautifully produced and profusely illustrated with photographs, drawings, architectural plans, etc. A very large and heavy book; requires additional charge for Priority or International shipping.; Experience the...
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CELEBRATED TRIALS AND REMARKABLE CASES OF CRIMINAL JURISPRUDENCE, From The Earliest Records To The Year 1825 [Six Volume Set]

By: Borrow, George H.

Price: $1,249.94

Publisher: London, Knight And Lacey: 1825

Seller ID: 39173

Condition: Very Good+

Clean and tight in lovely 19th century bindings of tan calf over marbled boards with leather title labels at spines in red and green with gilt lettering; raised bands and extensive gilt decoration at spines with armorial bookplate with coat of arms of John Croft Deverell to paste downs. Quite scarce as a complete set, particularly in this condition. George H. Borrow's first published work. Illustrations include portraits, courtroom scenes and a plan of a murder scene. Contents include accounts of many notable trials at Newgate between the years 1806 and 1825; charges include murder, fortune...
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THIRD CLASS WORLD A Roving Philosopher Observes the Common Man

By: Bradshaw, Marion J.

Price: $34.94

Publisher: Alliance, OH, Bradshaw Printing Company: 1939

Seller ID: 40324

Condition: Fine in Very Good dust jacket

268, +120 photos pages; Clean and tight in original black cloth binding with gilt lettering at spine and gilt image of a ship at sea in gilt on front cover. Very good pictorial dustjacket presenting a collage of several images from the author's photographs with a cutout revealing the title of the book at the spine. The book has never been read as indicated by the fact that the text pages are unopened and untrimmed. On the copyright page it states "First Printing July 1938 / Second Edition February 1939 / De luxe Edition, five hundred copies" This copy is not numbered. Illustrated wi...
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GOLDEN TIPS - A Description of Ceylon and its Great Tea Industry

By: Cave, Henry W.

Price: $299.99

Publisher: London, Samson Low Marston & Company: 1900

Seller ID: 41472

Condition: Near Fine

xii, 474 & [1, ad] pages; Publisher's cream cloth, blocked and stamped in gilt in an elaborate all-over pattern of leaves, slate grey endpapers, all edges gilt. A wonderful copy of the first edition of a handsome book -- of interest both for its subject: tea and its plantations, and the setting: Ceylon, now known as Sri Lanka. A particularly well-preserved copy, with an inscription in ink on the verso of the front free endpaper: "For Annie G. Mawle / a present from / the Author's Sister." The spine is bright and shows neither toning nor fading, the endpapers are clean and fresh, wit...
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ON THE MEXICAN HIGHLANDS - WITH A PASSING GLIMPSE OF CUBA

By: Edwards, William S

Price: $34.94

Publisher: Cincinnati, Press of Jennings and Graham: 1906

Seller ID: 38854

Condition: Very Good+

Pictorial red cloth binding, lettered in white with silohuettes in black against a white background. White has flaked from lettering at spine. Fabulous photographs of sites and scenes from cotton pickers in Mississippi to the corner market in Havana, with dozens of Mexican and Cuban images in between. Clean, tight attractive book. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.
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Image for Instrumenta Graecorum Rustica ex Hesiodo illustrata adprob. ampl. ord. philos. in reg. academ. Upsal. praeside mag. Johanne Flodero ... pro gradu publico examini tradit Salomon Eklin

Instrumenta Graecorum Rustica ex Hesiodo illustrata adprob. ampl. ord. philos. in reg. academ. Upsal. praeside mag. Johanne Flodero ... pro gradu publico examini tradit Salomon Eklin

By: Eklin, Salomon

Price: $99.94

Publisher: Upsaliæ [Uppsala, Sweden], apud Joh. Edman: 1779

Seller ID: 39769

Condition: Very Good-

[2], 20 & [1, engraved plate] pages; Instrumenta Graecorum rustica ex Hesiodo illustrata, adprob. ampl. ord. philos. in reg. academ. Upsal. praeside mag. Johanne Flodero ... pro gradu publico examini tradit Salomon Eklin, stip. reg. Wexionia-Smolandus, in audit. Gustav. maj. d. V. Maji MDCCLXXIX. Horis ante meridiem solitis. Small 4to. A rare dissertation, stiched and sewn as issued, never bound. With the engraved plate depicting Greek farm implements, with a printed legend recording names [in Greek letters] for 11 parts of these tools. Faint circular stain to the front cover, minor scrapp...
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THE CONSTITUTION That Delicate Balance Landmark Cases that Shaped the Constitution

By: Friendly, Fred W. ; & Martha J.H. Elliott ; [Inscribed to Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart ]

Price: $149.94

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1984

Seller ID: 39385

ISBN: 0394540743

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Autograph; 339 pages; Inscribed by Friendly and Signed by both authors on the titlepage to Justice Potter Stewart (to whom the book is dedicated) and Mrs. Potter Stewart. The printed dedication reads: "To Potter Stewart, who has taught us / '...what the British Crown had feared -- / and what the American Founders decided to risk.'" Clean and tight in original binding in very good dustjacket, slight lean to binding. From the collection of Justice Potter Stewart who served as a Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court for nearly 24 years. In 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower nominated Po...
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GAZETTEER OF THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA

By: Gordon, Thomas F

Price: $49.94

Publisher: Philadelphia:, T. Belknap: 1832

Seller ID: 38923

Condition: Very Good-

508 pages; Clean and tight in original full sheepskin binding with gilt lettering and decoration at spine; rubbed at extremeties. Lacks the map referred to on the titlepage. An attractive example of this early historical reference for Pennsylvania in a nice period binding. Part I contains a general description of the state, its situation and extent, general geological construction, canals and rail-roads, bridges, revenues, expenditures, public debt, etc. Part II embraces ample descriptions of its counties, towns, cities, villages, mountains, lakes, rivers, creeks, etc., alphabetically ar...
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Transformation Or, the Romance of Monte-Beni

By: Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Price: $399.94

Publisher: Leipzig, Bernard Tauchnitz: 1860

Seller ID: 39160

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket

60 mounted albumen photographs; xii, 292; xi, 280 & [1] pages; Two volumes bound in one. Contemporary full vellum, with elaborate gilt-stamped decorations, title stamped in gilt: "THE MARBLE FAUN" (using the American title of Hawthorne's novel, rather than the British title "Transformation" which had also been adopted for this Tauchnitz edition. Pattern printed mounted silk endpapers, edges of the leaves decoratively stained red. The vellum and its gilt-stamping have been marvelously preserved in original freshness by a red fabric dust jacket, lined with paper. This scarce ...
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Transhimalaja - Entdeckungen und Abenteuer in Tibet

By: Hedin, Sven

Price: $49.94

Publisher: Leipzig, F. A. Brockhaus: 1909

Seller ID: 41203

Condition: Very Good

xviii & 405; x & 406 pages; Publisher's bindings: tan canvas-like cloth, spines and front covers boldly lettered in black, with color pictorial paper decorative onlays mounted to the front covers, medium brown endpapers with a Tibetan text. Each rear paste-down endpaper has a folding map tipped to the gutter edge. Too heavy for overseas shipping. This attractive two volume set represents the first German edition of this classic of modern exploration. Volumes I and II are each first printings. A third volume which was eventually added to the work several years later (1912), but that is not ...
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NINEVEH AND ITS REMAINS With an account of a visit to the ChaldÃ¦an Christians of Kurdistan and the Yezidis, or Devil worshippers; and an enquiry into the Manners and Arts of the Ancient Assyrians

By: Layard, Austen Henry

Price: $184.94

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam: 1849

Seller ID: 38319

Condition: Very Good+

Two volume set. Clean and tight in original green cloth bindings with gilt lettering at spines and gilt images of an archeological relic on front boards (similar images in blind on rear boards). Original owner's name on ffep "Mrs. Elizabeth Tweedy / Jan'y 1850", light scattered foxing, otherwise clean and tight; minor rubbing at corners and spine ends; very nice condition. All plates and maps present EXCEPTing the final folding map in Volume 1 -- "Map to Illustrate the Journeys".
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THE MAPMAKERS ART - Essays on the History of Maps

By: Lynam, Edward

Price: $19.94

Publisher: London, The Batchworth Press: 1953

Seller ID: 38651

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

140 pages; Inscription on ffep to Hope Patterson "HP / from Marianne Wilson / Woodbury / July 1958" otherwise clean and tight in original blue cloth binding in worn torn dustjacket (now in mylar cover). A wonderful book on the history of mapmakers and engravers.
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A PRESIDENT'S COUNTRY - A Guide to Hill Country

By: Maguire, Jack ; [SIGNED by Lady Bird Johnson ]

Price: $124.94

Publisher: Austin, Alcalde Press: 1964

Seller ID: 39112

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Autograph; 80 pages; Warmly inscribed and Signed by Lady Bird Johnson on the halftitle. ; Signed by Notable Personage, Related; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.
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THE AMERICAN GAZETTEER, Exhibiting a Full account of the Civil Divisions, Rivers, Harbours, Indian Tribes, &c. Of the American Continent, Also of the West India and Other Appendant Islands; with a Particular Description of Louisiana Complete with all SIX MAPS

By: Morse, Jedidiah

Price: $399.94

Publisher: Charlestown, Samuel Etheridge; Thomas and Andrews: 1804

Seller ID: 41529

Condition: Very Good-

vi, 628 pages; Printed by and for Samuel Etheridge, and for Thomas and Andrews. Original leather boards (rubbed, scraped, esp. at corners) rebacked in 20th century - leather spine, red leather spine label with gilt lettering. Some toning, otherwise clean and tight, lacks front free endpaper (blank). OCLC: 684247 ALL SIX FOLDING MAPS present, including North America, South America, the northern U.S. west to Illinois, the Southwest to the Mississippi, the Caribbean, and the Northwest Coast, scattered foxing. Consistent with the lack of information at the time, the first map does not define the...
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THE BIOGRAPHICAL CYCLOPEDIA OF REPRESENTATIVE MEN OF MARYLAND AND DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

By: Multiple Authors

Price: $149.94

Publisher: Baltimore, National Biographical Pub. Co.: 1879

Seller ID: 39367

Condition: Very Good+

Clean and tight in original full leather binding with bevelled edges, gilt lettering at spine and decorative stamping in blind. Some rubbing to binding, an attractive example of this excellent reference for history and genealogy of the Maryland and District of Columbia region. 97 full page engraved portraits. OCLC: 2053381 Extremely large heavy book requires additional charge for Piority or international shipping.
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Image for MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF THE LATE JOHN MYTTON, ESQ. of Halston, Shropshire, formerly M.P. for Shrewsbury, High Sheriff for the Counties of Salop and Merioneth, and Major of the North Shropshire Yeomanry Calvary With notices of his Hunting, Shooting, Driving, Racing, Eccentric and Extravagant Exploits

MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF THE LATE JOHN MYTTON, ESQ. of Halston, Shropshire, formerly M.P. for Shrewsbury, High Sheriff for the Counties of Salop and Merioneth, and Major of the North Shropshire Yeomanry Calvary With notices of his Hunting, Shooting, Driving, Racing, Eccentric and Extravagant Exploits

By: NIMROD [pseudonym of Charles James Apperley] ; & Henry Alken (illustrator)

Price: $149.94

Publisher: London, Downey & Co.: 1899

Seller ID: 39518

Condition: Very Good-

238 pages; Beautifully illustrated with engraved titlepage and twenty full page colour plates by Henry Alken with captioned tissue guards. Contents near fine - clean and tight in contemporary binding of three-quarter dark brown morocco over pale green & cream marbled boards with marbled endpapers. Five raised bands at spine with gilt lettering and decorative gilt devices depicting foxhunting horns and whips. Leather chipped at head of spine; hinges secure, but leather cracking along edges of spine. A still attractive volume; requires careful handling. Charles James Apperley (1777–1843), ...
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PRESIDENTS' SECRET WARS CIA and Pentagon Covert Operations Since World War II

By: Prados, John ; [Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt's copy]

Price: $299.94

Publisher: New York, William Morrow & Co: 1986

Seller ID: 39514

ISBN: 068805384X

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

480 pages; Overall clean and tight in original binding in very good dustjacket (price-clipped). This copy belonged to Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt, Jr. (1916 - 2000) who was the grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt and was the mastermind of the Central Intelligence Agency's Operation Ajax, which orchestrated the coup against Iran's democratically-elected Mohammed Mossadegh administration, and returned Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, to Iran's Peacock Throne in August 1953 for the purpose of returning Western control of Middle Eastern oil supplies. These events are covered in th...
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YOUR GUIDED COMPANION / VOTRE REN[S]EIGNEMENT GUIDE / AUSKUNFTE FÜR TOURISTEN [ Kathmandu ] with Four Maps

By: Rana, Pramode S. J. B. ; [Nepal]

Price: $24.94

Publisher: Kathmandu, Nepal, Jore Ganesh Press: 1971

Seller ID: 38866

Condition: Very Good

54 & 4 maps pages; Publisher's stiff wrappers with fold-around outer decorated wrapper, printed in black and red. Text in English, French and German. With four folding maps at the rear, printed in red, blue and black: Kathmandu Valley; Kathmandu City; Lalitpur; and Bhaktapur. Text and folding maps clean and tight, the wrappers show minor rubbing at the hinges, spine ends, and one small area of the front cover. Short and neat inscription in ink dated July 1972 on the blank leaf before the title page. OCLC: 5438361 A scarce English language guide to Nepal, with a graphically interesting cover d...
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