![[TRAVEL] [SOUTH] AMERICA AND THE AMERICANS-](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/929/979/1464979929.0.l.jpg)
[TRAVEL] [SOUTH] AMERICA AND THE AMERICANS-
by Achille Murat | Henry J. Bradfield (Editor and Translator)
New York: William H. Graham, 1849. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 8vo.; in the publisher’s brown embossed cloth with titling in gilt to the spine; [2] preliminary leaves, vii, [9]-260 pages; with no ownership or other marks of any kind; the endpapers have been cleaned by a conservator.~~The First Edition in English of Achille Murat’s interesting account of traveling in the Southern States during the first part of the 19th century. ~~“Although Murat considered himself... Read More
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![[HUNGARY] CASTLE AND SOCIETY IN MEDIEVAL HUNGARY (1000-1437)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/490/859/1691859490.0.l.jpg)
[HUNGARY] CASTLE AND SOCIETY IN MEDIEVAL HUNGARY (1000-1437)
by Erik Fugedi | J. M. Bak (Translator)
Budapest: Akademiai Kiado, 1986. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Very Good dust jacket. Large 8vo.; in the publisher’s gray cloth binding, with dustjakcet; [15], 16-162 pages, including the Index; with drawings throughout; there are no marks of any kind in the book.~~From Bak’s Foreward: Fugedi’s book was “a real break-through in terms of abandoning more or less romantic images of the past, and exploring the society of pre-modern Hungary in critical terms”. Near Fine binding / Very Good dust... Read More
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![[REVIEW COPY] [HISTORY] THE MEDIEVAL HERITAGE OF MEXICO](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/685/584/1693584685.0.l.jpg)
[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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![[MILITARY] PEGASUS BRIDGE. 6 JUIN 1944 [French Language]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/618/340/1565340618.0.l.jpg)
[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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![LES EPISTRES DE SENEQUE [SENEQVE], TRADVITES, PAR MRE FRANCOIS DE MALHERBE, GENTIL-HOMME ORDINAIRE DE LA CHAMBRE DU ROY](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/897/204/1188204897.0.l.jpg)
LES EPISTRES DE SENEQUE [SENEQVE], TRADVITES, PAR MRE FRANCOIS DE MALHERBE, GENTIL-HOMME ORDINAIRE DE LA CHAMBRE DU ROY
by Lucius Annaeus Seneca | Francois de Malherbe (Translator)
Paris: Chez Anthoine de Sommaville, 1648. Early Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Francois de Malherbe’s translation into French of the Letters of Seneca. First published in 1637, this being an enlarged reprint. Portrait frontispiece; printer’s device on the title page; engraved initials and headpieces. Faint dampstaining to a section of the fore edge of the text block. Contemporary owner’s name on the front endpaper. Collates complete; [22], 670 pp. Full vellum, with titling lettered in ink. Very... Read More
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LE DECAMERON DE MAISTRE IEAN BOCACE FLORENTIN. TRADVICT D’ITALIEN EN FRANCOIS, PAR M. ANTOINE LE Maçon, CONSEILLER DU ROY, & TRESORIER DE L’EXTRAORDINAIRE DE SES GUERRES
by Giovanni Boccaccio | Antoine le Maçon (Translator)
A Paris: Chez Iacqves Langlois, au mont sainct Hylaire, 1629. Early Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. An early edition of Antoine le Maçon’s French translation of Boccaccio’s Decameron. A classic of Renaissance literature, containing 100 tales by numerous narrators, set in the time of Florentine’s affliction with the Black Death. Title page vignette; engraved headpieces and initials. Previous owners’ names on the front endpaper. Loss to the bottom of pp. 319/320, not affecting the text. Japanese tissue... Read More
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AISCHINOU HO KATA KTESIPHONTOS KAI DEMOSTHENOUS O PERI STEPHANOU LOGOS. | ARGUMENTUM. ORATIONIS. IN CTESIPHONTEM. PRO CTESIPHONTE, SEU DE CORONA. (2 VOLUMES)
by Demosthenes | Joseph Stock (Translator)
Dublin: Guliel McKenzie, 1795. Full Leather. Good binding. Complete in two volumes. Text in Greek, followed by Latin translation. Pagination resets with beginning of Latin translations. Vol. I: 166 and 192 pages; Vol. II: 202 and 214 pages. Writing and library bookplate on the endpapers. Foxing scattered throughout, with mild toning. Significant toning to the edges of the preliminaries. Flaking and creasing to the spine. Bound in mottled calf, with red morocco label and gilt rules. Two copies... Read More
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THE EPISTLES OF PHALARIS TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK TO WHICH ARE ADDED, SOME SELECT EPISTLES OF THE MOST EMINENT GREEK WRITERS
by Phalaris | Thomas Francklin (Translator)
London: R. Francklin, 1749. First Edition. Quarter Leather. Very Good binding. Letters attributed to that nastiest of tyrants, Phalaris. “R. Bentley proved that they were spurious and dated from perhaps the 2nd cent. A.D. There is an echo of the controvery in Swift’s The Battle of the Books.” [The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature]. Half-title, 8 page list of subscribers; a handsome engraved frontispiece. In a 19th century quarter-calf (a bit patched) binding, with morocco title, over... Read More
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![[SPECIAL PRESS] MASTER PETER PATELAN. A FIFTEENTH CENTURY FRENCH FARCE](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/703/852/1576852703.0.l.jpg)
[SPECIAL PRESS] MASTER PETER PATELAN. A FIFTEENTH CENTURY FRENCH FARCE
by Kate Franks [Translator]
Iowa City: Windhover Press | The University of Iowa, 1975. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. Tall 8vo.; in paste paper-covered boards backed in terra-cotta cloth with a printed paper label; [8], 81 pages, [7]; with 8 woodcut illustrations taken from those used in the first printed edition of the play; the edition is limited to 240 copies. Near Fine binding.
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L’OFFRANDE LYRIQUE (GITANJALI)
by Rabindranath Tagore | Andre Gide (Translator)
[France]: Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1913. First French Edition. Quarter Leather. Very Good binding. Signed. First French Edition of Andre Gide’s translation of Gitanjali, a collection of poems by Rabindranath Tagore, limited to 500 numbered copies. Signed by Gide on the half title. Tagore won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for this collection, which the Nobel committee described as “profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful.” Bookplate on the front pastedown; lacking a blank flyleaf. Original paper wrappers bound... Read More
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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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A GRAMMAR OF THE ICELANDIC OR OLD NORSE TONGUE
by Erasmus Rask | George Webbe Dasent (Translator)
London: Williams & Northgate, 1843. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Issued the same year as the Pickering edition, this translation of Erasmus Rask’s Grammar is from the Swedish. It was published in Stockholm in 1818, and is an important work in Icelandic studies. “Rask’s ‘Guide to the Icelandic’ or old Nordic Language’ was the first of an important series of publications which qualify Rask as one of the founders of the modern science of language” [Printing and the... Read More
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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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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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![[PHILOSOPHY} PHILOSOPHICAL PAPERS AND LETTERS [2 VOLUMES]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/198/338/1694338198.0.l.jpg)
[PHILOSOPHY} PHILOSOPHICAL PAPERS AND LETTERS [2 VOLUMES]
by Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz | Leroy E. Loemaker [Translater]
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1956. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Very Good dust jacket. Two large 8vo volumes; in the publisher’s blue cloth bindings, with price-clipped dustjackets; [iv], v-x; 590 pages, including Nores; viii pages; 591-1228 pages, including the Index; there is a previous owner name on the endpaper of each volume; the spines of the jackets are darkened, we see no previous owner underlining or marks in the text of the books.~~. Near Fine binding / Very... 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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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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SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF A SOLDIER IN ACTIVE SERVICE. I. AUSTRIAN CAMPAIGN IN PIEDMONT, 1849; II. NOTICE OF THE DEFENCE OF TEMESWAR. III. THE CAMP OF THE BAN
by [Friedrich Wilhelm Hacklander] | [Francis Egerton Ellesmere] [Translator]
London: John Murray, 1850. First English Edition. Hard Cover. Good binding. Signed. 8vo.; in publisher’s green embossed cloth, with titling at the spine in gilt; xvi; 245 pages; with folding map at the rear of the book; the gutter between the first blank leaf and the title page is cracked but holding well. A previous owner has written “Mil” on the front endpaper. The first blank leaf has an inscription from the translator, Francis Egerton Ellesmere: “The Lady... Read More
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HORACE’S SATIRES, EPISTLES, AND ART OF POETRY, DONE INTO ENGLISH, WITH NOTES
by Horace | S. Dunster (Translator)
London: W. Mears, C. Rivington, R. Ware, and D. Browne, 1739. Fifth Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. A clean copy of the Fifth Edition. Bound in calf, with chipped and faded paper labels in compartments. Front hinge cracked but holding. Nameplate and catalogue cutout on front pastedown. Faint dampstaining to bottom edge of the textblock. Very Good binding.
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![[RICHMOND] A TALE OF THREE CHURCHES. SAINT ANDREW’S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA 1849-1970](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/923/011/1632011923.0.l.jpg)
[RICHMOND] A TALE OF THREE CHURCHES. SAINT ANDREW’S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA 1849-1970
by Donald R. Traser
[Richmond, Va.]: Saint Andrew’s United Methodist Church, 1980. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. 8vo.; in the publisher’s purple cloth binding, with titling in gold; 137 pages, including the Index; with black and white photographic illustrations.~~There are no marks of any kind in the book. Near Fine binding.
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![[SPECIAL PRESS] [BOOKS WITHOUT WORDS] ZWANZIG AUSGEWAHLTE HOLZSCHNITTE](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/919/641/1616641919.0.l.jpg)
[SPECIAL PRESS] [BOOKS WITHOUT WORDS] ZWANZIG AUSGEWAHLTE HOLZSCHNITTE
by Daniel Traub
Mulheim: R. Kobler, 1946. Original Wrappers. Very Good binding. Oblong 12mo.; in sewn printed wrappers; with woodcut illustrations throughout and without text; there a no ownership marks of any kind.~~An uncommon “Book without Words”; we find no copies in commerce as of August 21, 2024, and only two institutional holdings, both in Germany. Very Good binding.
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![[SPECIAL PRESS] A CAROL IN BETHLEHEM THAT NOBLE PLACE](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/886/018/1765018886.0.l.jpg)
[SPECIAL PRESS] A CAROL IN BETHLEHEM THAT NOBLE PLACE
by George F. Trenholm
Boston: Privately printed, 1930. 1 of 400 copies printed by George F. Trenholm, Christmas, 1930. Taken from the "Carrolles Newely Imprinted, in 1550".~~8pp stapled, in red and silver wrappers patterned with the baby Jesus and a star. ~~Very good and very scarce with a very few copies on OCLC and, as of May 15, 2026, no copies available in the marketplace.~.
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THE CHRISTIAN’S GUIDE. : BEING A COLLECTION OF SCRIPTURE TEXTS, ON ALMOST EVERY SUBJECT; DOCTRINAL, PRACTICAL, AND EXPERIMENTAL; WITHOUT NOTE OR COMMENT
by Thomas Tresize
Marietta, O[hio]: I. Moxon, 1838. Second Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. First printed in 1819 in Zanesville, this is the Second Printing, issued by Tresize with a new Preface in which Tresize expresses his hope that this little book will be “a sure guide, and infallible rule of faith and practice.” Bound in tree calf, with morocco title label. Some reinforcement to the front joint. Very Good binding.
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![[HISTORY] ATLAS OF INDIAN NATIONS](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/280/904/1735904280.0.l.jpg)
[HISTORY] ATLAS OF INDIAN NATIONS
by Anton Treuer
Washinton DC: Easton Press, 2013. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. Quarto; in the publisher’s leather binding will gilt decorations; 319 pages including the Index; with full color illustrations and maps throughout; one trivial bump to the lower board. Near Fine binding.
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NIEDERLANDISCHE MALEREI DES FUNFZEHNTEN UND SECHZEHNTEN JAHRHUNDERTS
by Ernst Gunter Troche
Berlin: Kurt Wolff, 1935. Quarter Leather. Very Good binding. Bound in quarter vellum over marbled boards, with vellum at the leading edges. With vellum bands at the joints. With 104 plates with captioned tissue guards (a couple of light stains to the edge of the tissue guards only). A clean copy of this most attractively bound edition. Very Good binding.
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