![[AGRICULTURE] RURAL AFFAIRS: A PRACTICAL AND COPIOUSLY ILLUSTRATED REGISTER OF RURAL ECONOMY AND RURAL TASTE, INCLUDING COUNTRY DWELLINGS, IMPROVING AND PLANTING GROUNDS, FRUITS AND FLOWERS, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, AND ALL FARM AND GARDEN PROSCESSES. VOL. I. WITH FOUR HUNDRED AND FORTY ENGRAVINGS](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/414/329/1693329414.0.l.jpg)
[AGRICULTURE] RURAL AFFAIRS: A PRACTICAL AND COPIOUSLY ILLUSTRATED REGISTER OF RURAL ECONOMY AND RURAL TASTE, INCLUDING COUNTRY DWELLINGS, IMPROVING AND PLANTING GROUNDS, FRUITS AND FLOWERS, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, AND ALL FARM AND GARDEN PROSCESSES. VOL. I. WITH FOUR HUNDRED AND FORTY ENGRAVINGS
by J. J. Thomas
Albany., N. Y.: Luther Tucker & Son, 1898. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 8vo; brown cloth embossed and ruled in blind, with a basket of fruit to the upper board in gilt and the lower board in blind; with titling and an amalgamation of rural tools to the spine in gilt; xvi, [21], 22-336 pages; there is very minor dampstain to the bottom edge of the boards.~~This series a reissue in a larger format of the individual... Read More
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SANDY AND HER ANIMAL PALS: A STORY FOR GIRLS AND BOYS WHO LOVE ANIMALS (Signed)
by Frank Thompson
Boston, Massachusetts: The Stratford Co, 1923. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Signed. This copy is signed with an inscription “with the compliments of the author” and dated in 1931. With pastedown and printed title label at the spine. The spine label has a chip and and some discoloration. Binding is a bit cocked. An uncommon children’s book with a single copy located on OCLC. Corner of the front endpaper is folded and fragile. Very Good binding.... Read More
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HISTORY OF THE ELEVENTH REGIMENT, RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS, IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION
by R. W. Rock [John C. Thompson]
Providence: Providence Press Company, Printers, 1881. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. A relatively attractive copy of this regimental history. Bud Robertson in the Military Aspects--Soldier’s Life section of Nevin’s bibliography, considers is “short on military matters but long on personal incidents” and “one of the better sources fro 1862-1863 campaigning around Washington and Norfolk, Va.” [Nevins I, 168]. With some foxing to the preliminary (only) pages. And old fashioned homemade private library pocket to the rear... Read More
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THE SEASONS
by James Thomson
Newburyport; Boston: Printed by John Mycall, for the Proprietor of the Boston Book-Store, n.d.. Full Leather. Fair binding. Called the ‘First American Edition’ on the title page, though in actuality it is likely a later, early edition. Mildew staining to the endpapers and preliminaries, and toning and rippling to the textblock. Both joints cracked but holding well, with loss at the tail of the spine. Full leather with a red leather label. Fair binding.
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THE UNIVERSAL CALCULATOR; OR THE MERCHANT’S, TRADESMAN’S AND FAMILY’S ASSISTANT. BEING AND ENTIRE, NEW, AND COMPLETE SET OF TABLES, ADAPTED FOR DEALERS IN EVERY BRANCH OF TRADE, BY WHOLESALE OR RETAIL, AND ALL FAMILIES..
by John Thomson
Edinburgh: Archibald Constable & Co, 1805. New Edition, Carefully Corrected. Consisting mainly of tables with directions for using them. In full sheep with raised bands to the spine. Rear board has quite minor worming. The boards have been discreetly reinforced. There are a couple of early 19th century names on the endpapers.
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I SUMMON UP REMEMBRANCE
by Richard H. Thornton
Falmouth, Mass: Richard H. Thornton, 1974. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Signed. First Edition of Richard H. Thornton’s autobiographical I Summon Up Remembrance. Signed with a personal inscription by the author on the front endpaper. In text illustrations; with no marks of any kind. Foxing on the boards, and minor shelfwear. Quarter blue cloth over lighter blue cloth, with gilt lettering. Very Good. Very Good binding.
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![[SOUTHERN AMERICANA] CHORRONESSEE, AND OTHER TALES](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/387/315/1298315387.0.l.jpg)
[SOUTHERN AMERICANA] CHORRONESSEE, AND OTHER TALES
by James Douglas Thornton
Norfolk: Printed at the Journal Job Office, 1868. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair binding. First Edition of a collection of Thornton’s works, being Chorronessee, Esther, Songs of the Aeronauts, and additional miscellaneous poems. From the Preface, “Southern by birth - Southern in sentiment, education and interest - my book is Southern, too - [...] to the free-born citizens of the South, then, I commit the work.” Contemporary owner’s name on the title page; lacking front endpaper, perhaps also... Read More
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THUCYDIDIS DE BELLO PELOPONNESIACO LIBRI OCTO. EX OPTIMIS EDITIONIBUS EXPRESSI
by Thucydides
Oxonii; Londini; Cantabrigiae: Excudebat S. Collingwood, Academiae Typographus, Impensis J. Parker; Whittaker, Treacher, et Arnott; C. J. G. et F. Rivington; J. et J. J. Deighton, 1831. Full Leather. Good binding. 19th century edition of Thucidides’s work on the Peloponnesian War. Library plates on the front endpaper; library stamps on the front flyleaf and rear endpaper. Annotations throughout, in the same hand, underlining difficult vocabulary and providing translations in the margins. Hinges reinforced with green cloth. Fully rebacked... Read More
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![[RICHMOND] RICHMOND MEMORIES. THE EARLY YEARS: A PICTORIAL HISTORY; II. THE 1940s; 1950s and 1960s; III: HIDDEN TREASURES FROM THE 1800s THROUGH TODAY [3 VOLUMES]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/792/633/1676633792.0.l.jpg)
[RICHMOND] RICHMOND MEMORIES. THE EARLY YEARS: A PICTORIAL HISTORY; II. THE 1940s; 1950s and 1960s; III: HIDDEN TREASURES FROM THE 1800s THROUGH TODAY [3 VOLUMES]
by Richmond Times-Dispatch
Warrenton, Virginia: Piedmont Publishing, 2019. Oblong quartos; three volumes in pictorial boards; 153 pages, with 14 unnumbered pages; 151 pages, with 9 unnumbered pages; 152 pages; the three volumes are mostly illustrations; Volumes II and III are far less common than the first volume.~~The three volumes are mostly black and white photographic illustrations, with a few in color.~~This illustrations are from the voluminous archives of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, and provide a fascinating series of pictures of the history of... Read More
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[SHEET MUSIC] [KNIGHTS TEMPLAR] MARCH-VEXILLA REGIS
by T, M. Carter
1907. First Edition. Good binding. Signed. Folio (14 1/8” x 10 1/2”); [1], 2-5, [6] blank; a well worn (but intact) piece of sheet music apparently composed for the Thirtieth Triennial Conclave of Knights Templar, Boston Commandery, in meeting in Saratoga in 1907. The march was dedicated to Charles S. Damrell, “Eminent Commander” of the Boston Commandery with his photograph on the front cover; this copy is signed “Compliment of Charles Stanhope Damrell” at the top of the... Read More
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FROM MY MEDICINE SAC
by Clark Brown [Tokaniya]
Santa Fe, New Mexico: Seton Village Press, 1939. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. 8vo; in the publisher’s terra cotta cloth binding cloth, with printed paper label on the upper board; (14) 15-101 (2) pages; trivial tear on the edge of the upper board otherwise a fine copy.~~Limited Edition printing of From my Medicine Sac by Howard Clark Brown, or Tokaniya, an American naturalist, poet, and Native American cultural enthusiast. Limited to five hundred unnumbered copies hand... Read More
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GEBURT EINER SEHNSUCHT. BIRTH OF A LONGING
by Gábor Török
Wiesbaden: Gábor Török, Nina Stoelting, 2013. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. First Edition of Gábor Török’s Birth of a Longing; text in German and English. Limited to 1200 copies, this may be one of the 100 copies signed by the author. The signature on the title page, with accompanying inscription, has lifted slightly. Else no marks of any kind. A book of art and sculpture by the German artist, with color photographs throughout. Large pictorial hardcover,... Read More
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A PARISIAN IN BRAZIL
by Toussaint, Emma (translated from the French of Mme. Toussaint-Samson)
Boston: James H. Earle, 1891. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Bound in publisher’s red cloth title blocked in gold on the front cover and the spine; scattered silverfishing to the covers; blindstamped at the top of the frontispiece; front free endpaper has been mended at the hinge; pages toning and somewhat brittle; endpapers chipped;. Very Good binding.
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HISTORY OF THE SIXTEENTH REGIMENT, NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS
by Luther Tracy Townsend
Washington: Norman T. Elliott, 1897. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding. An interesting “history of a year’s duty in Louisiana” as it “contains over two score drawings and sketches” [Nevins I, 170]; so recounts Bud Robertson in his section of the bibliography. A clean and tight copy, from Robertson’s personal library with his bookplate on the front pastedown. (Nevins I, 170). Very Good+ binding.
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[APOCRYPHAL GOSPEL] THE LOST GOSPEL
by Arthur Train
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1925. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Very Good dust jacket. 8vo.; gray cloth backed in bright blue cloth, with a paper label, with dusjtacket; x; 77 pages; with colored frontispiece; a fresh copy with most of the leaves unopened; the dustjacket has minor loss at the top of the spine (the loss does affect some of the titling); the dustjacket has not been price-clipped; there are no ownership or other marks of... Read More
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[ANCIENT WORLD] LIVES OF THE TWELVE CAESARS
by C. Suetonius Tranquillus
Norwalk: Easton, 2014. Full Leather. Near Fine binding. Small octavo; in full brown leather with illustration on front and back boards in gilt; titling on the spine in gilt; four raised bands on the spine; edged in gilt; with marbled endpapers; 502 pages; housed in the publisher’s decorative red cloth dropback box; light wear to the box, minimal wear to the binding. Near Fine binding.
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![[FINE BINDINGS] PERSIAN LETTERS. MONTESQUIEU. [3 VOLUMES]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/037/981/1587981037.0.l.jpg)
[FINE BINDINGS] PERSIAN LETTERS. MONTESQUIEU. [3 VOLUMES]
by Montesquieu | John Davidson [Translaror]
London: Gibbings and Co. Ltd, 1899. Three 12mo, volumes; half calf over marbled boards; lxii, 130 pages; xi, 207 pages; xi, 168 pages, including Index; with attractive plates etched by Ed. De Beaumont and Engraved by E. Boivin; the spines with lovely floral decorations in gilt; top edges gilt; there is a previous owner name label at the top of the pastedown in each volume.~~Montesquieu penned Persian Letters in 1721, and only later wrote that he “discover[ed] in them,... Read More
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[LITERATURE] KIKI’S MEMOIRS
by Ernest Hemingway | [Kiki of Montparnasse] | Samuel Putnam [Translator]
Paris: Edward W. Titus, at the Sign of the Black Manikin Press, 1930. First Edition. Original Wrappers. Near Fine binding. Large 8vo, in the publisher’s “yellowish white” wrapper lettered in black and red, with a portrait of Kiki by Kisling pasted to the upper wrapper; 186 pages with 20 full page plates of paintings by Kiki; with portraits by Man Ray, Foujita, Kisling, etc.; the only printing, limited to 1000 copies of which 150 were intended for the... Read More
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LE MARAIS DES CYPRES ROUX
by Nevil G. [Gratiot] Henshaw | L. M. Laforgue (Translator)
Tours: Maison Mame, 1935. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. A French translation of Nevil Gratiot Henshaw’s The Trail of the Cypress Swamp, first published in The Outing Magazinein 1911. A periodical writer, Henshaw drew upon his childhood experiences in Louisiana for many of his adventure stories. With frontispiece and additional full page illustrations. No marks. Cream colored cloth with blue and red lettering and decorations. Binding slightly cocked. Small chips and tears to the dustjacket.... Read More
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HO CHI MINH. A BIOGRAPHY
by Pierre Brocheux | Claire Duiker (Translator)
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. First English Edition. Hard Cover. Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. A First English Edition copy of Ho Chi Minh, A Biography, by Pierre Brocheux and translated by Claire Duiker. Black and white photographic illustrations. With no marks of any kind. Near Fine dustjacket, with minor wear. Fine binding / Near Fine dust jacket.
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THE AMERICAN ARMY IN THE WAR OF SECESSION
by General [Adolphe] DeChanal | First Lieut. M. [Michael] J. O’Brien [Translator]
Leavenworth, Kansas: George A. Spooner, 1894. First Edition in English. Hard Cover. Good binding. 8vo.; in black library cloth with a leather title label, and a chipped paper call label; 245 pages, including Content; [1] in which Geo. Spooner described the advertisements in “this series” [Spooner’s Military Library] as “of benefit to the readers” ... “and to those firms represented”. This copy with library marks from “The General Service Schools Library” at Fort Leavenworth, stamped “Withdrawn”. With the... Read More
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[MILITARY] PEGASUS BRIDGE. 6 JUIN 1944 [French Language]
by Stephen E. Ambrose | Arlette Gondree Pritchett [Translator]
Dives-sur-Mer, Normandie: Edition France Horizon, 1987. First French Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Signed. 8vo.; in the publisher’s burgundy cloth, with a white “Pegasus” stamped to the upper board and titling in white to the spine, with dusjtacket; this copy is signed on the title page by the translator, Arlette Gondree Pritchett and dated in her hand 5/6 Juin 1987; the stamp of the Pegasus Bridge Cafe Gondree is also on the title page;... Read More
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![[RELIGION] THE FATHERS OF THE CHURCH THEOLOGICAL TREATISES ON THE TRINITY](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/809/119/1734119809.0.l.jpg)
[RELIGION] THE FATHERS OF THE CHURCH THEOLOGICAL TREATISES ON THE TRINITY
by Marius Victorinus | Mary T. Clark (Translator)
Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1981. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Octavo; in the publisher’s brown cloth; with titling and decorations on the spine in gold and blue; 371 pages; in an unclipped jacket; light wear to the jacket; spine of the jacket is darkened. Near Fine binding / Very Good+ dust jacket.
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![[SPECIAL PRESS] KASCHUBISCHES WEIHNACHTSLIED [CHRISTMAS SONG]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/852/395/1569395852.0.l.0.jpg)
[SPECIAL PRESS] KASCHUBISCHES WEIHNACHTSLIED [CHRISTMAS SONG]
by Werner Bergengruen | Ursula Arndt [Artist]; Gertrude C. Shwebell (Translator)
Zurich: Die Arche, 1979. Hard Cover. Fine binding. Square 8vo; in the publisher’s coarse linen weave cloth binding, with pictorial onlay to the upper board; 26 unnumbered pages with illustrations on the rectos, text on the facing page; with the English translation of the text in a pocket in the back cover; this is number 9 of 40 copies, signed by illustrator Ursula Arndt; colophon is dated 1969.~~The text are poems which together make “Kashubian Carol”; the stanzas... Read More
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[REVIEW COPY] [HISTORY] THE MEDIEVAL HERITAGE OF MEXICO
by Luis Weckmann | Lopez Morillas ( Translator)
New York: Fordman University Press. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Small 4to; in the publisher’s black cloth binding; with titling on the spine in gilt; in a bright dust jacket; 692 pages including the Index; a touch of mildew on the boards; a bit of wear to the edges; leaves 681-688 of the index are crumpled and have small bits of loss.~~A review copy with a note laid in. Very Good binding /... Read More
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