![[ART] THE WORKS OF WILLIAM HOGARTH; IN A SERIES OF ENGRAVINGS](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/004/363/1668363004.0.l.jpg)
[ART] THE WORKS OF WILLIAM HOGARTH; IN A SERIES OF ENGRAVINGS
by William Hogarth | [Rev, John Trustler] | [J.Hogarth] | J. Nichols]
Jones And Co, 1833. Full Leather. Very Good binding. 4to; full brown morocco; triple ruled at the perimeter of the boards with decorations in gilt and beveled edges; spine with raised bands,decoration and lettering in gilt in compartments; boards are a bit scuffed and bowed; gilt edges; with elaborate gilt decoration on the turn ins and marbled end papers; two volumes bound together complete with 108 engraved plates; some offsetting opposite plates; Vol I [6] 1-116 pages; Vol... Read More
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![[SPECIAL PRESS] OUR LADY’S CHOIR A CONTEMPORARY ANTHOLOGY OF VERSE BY CATHOLIC SISTERS](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/580/926/1677926580.0.l.jpg)
[SPECIAL PRESS] OUR LADY’S CHOIR A CONTEMPORARY ANTHOLOGY OF VERSE BY CATHOLIC SISTERS
by William Stanley Braithwaite | Rev Hugh Francis Blunt [Foreword | Ralph Adams Cram, Litt. D. [Introduction] [Fred Anthoenson]
Boston: Bruce Humphries, 1931. Limited Edition. Near Fine binding. 8vo; in elaborately decorated cloth covered boards; with a label on the spine with titling and decorations in gilt; xxx, 213 pages; housed inside of a red slipcase with a paper label.~~This copy of Our Lady’s Choir has been printed by Fred Anthoensen of The Southworth Press, Portland, Maine, in December, 1931 The edition consists of fifty copies on Kelmscott hand-made paper numbered 26-75. This is a unique and... Read More
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![[PHILOSOPHY] UNNATURAL DOUBTS. EPISTEMOLOGICAL REALISM AND THE BASIS OF SCEPTICISM](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/172/282/1681282172.0.l.jpg)
[PHILOSOPHY] UNNATURAL DOUBTS. EPISTEMOLOGICAL REALISM AND THE BASIS OF SCEPTICISM
by Michael Williams
Cambridge: Blackwell Publisshers Inc, 1991. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine binding/Very Good dust jacket. Large 8vo; in the publisher’s bright blue cloth with dustjacket; xxiii, 386 page, including the Index; with pencil underlining and annotations throughout; there is some sunning to the extremities of the dustjacket. Fine binding / Very Good dust jacket.
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![[AMERICANA] THE TRAVELLER’S AND TOURIST’S GUIDE THROUGH THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA...ACCOMPANIED BY A VALUABLE AND AUTHENTIC MAP OF THE UNITED STATES](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/366/428/1673428366.0.l.jpg)
[AMERICANA] THE TRAVELLER’S AND TOURIST’S GUIDE THROUGH THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA...ACCOMPANIED BY A VALUABLE AND AUTHENTIC MAP OF THE UNITED STATES
by W[ellington] Williams
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co, 1856. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 18mo; blind-stamped cloth covers titled in gilt. With “A New Map of the United States Upon Which are Delineated its Vast Works of Internal Communication With the Proposed Routes Across the Continent &c. Showing Also Canada and the Island of Cuba”. (ii) iii-iv 5-246 pages including the Index.~~With insets of The City of Havana, Map of the Island of Cuba, and Map of California, Oregon, New... Read More
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[SPECIAL PRESS A BLEAR BALL
by Wightman Williams
Cummington, MA: Cummington Press, 1945. Limited Edition, numbered 48 of 85 copies. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Signed by Williams on the colophon. Delicate paper over boards with light toning to the extremities else clean and binding sound;edgeworn glassine wrapper is present. Bound by John Marchi of the Cummington Press. Very Good binding.
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SUNLIGHT AND SONG
by Frederic E. Weatherly | Illustrated by E. K. Johnson; E. Wilson
London: Hildesheimer and Faulkner, 1892. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Weatherly was both a lawyer and a lyricist, writing the lyrics to "Danny Boy" and the wartime "Roses of Picardy". He wrote over 3000 lyrics; The Times observed in his obituary that "no practising barrister has ever before provided so much innocent pleasure" [The Times, 9 September 1929, p.7]. With full page chromolithographic illustrations, and sepia illustrations in text. A nice copy which has had... Read More
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COMMON OBJECTIONS TO CHRISTIANITY, PROPOSED AND ANSWERED IN TWO DISPASSIONATE CONVERSATIONS
by James P. Wilson
Philadelphia: E. Littell and Brother, 1829. First Edition. Good binding. An apologetical work written in an interesting format: two conversations between a missionary returning from the field -- The Rev. Jedediah Andrews, the first Presbyterian pastor in Philadelphia -- and a ship’s captain and his mate. In the publisher’s boards which are worn, especially at the spine. The boards are holding well. There is a 19th century gift inscription. Foxing throughout. (Shoemaker 41560). Good binding.
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![[AMERICANA] THE STORY OF LENA MURPHY, THE WHITE SLAVE. AND OTHER STARTLING REVELATIONS GRAPHICALLY TOLD](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/189/718/948718189.0.l.jpg)
[AMERICANA] THE STORY OF LENA MURPHY, THE WHITE SLAVE. AND OTHER STARTLING REVELATIONS GRAPHICALLY TOLD
by Samuel Paynter Wilson
[Chicago]: n.p., 1910. Original Wrappers. Very Good binding. Appears to have been taken from Wilson’s two classics of the underworld, “Chicago by Gaslight” and “Chicago and Its Cess-Pools of Infamy”. Printed with the pagination of the original works. Stapled wrappers with minor loss, not affecting the text. Uncommon with a handful of copies on OCLC. Very Good binding.
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![[AMERICANA] JOHN C. CALHOUN. NATIONALIST, 1782-1828; NULLIFIER, 1829-1839; SECTIONALIST, 1840-1850 [3 VOLUMES]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/036/594/1651594036.0.l.jpg)
[AMERICANA] JOHN C. CALHOUN. NATIONALIST, 1782-1828; NULLIFIER, 1829-1839; SECTIONALIST, 1840-1850 [3 VOLUMES]
by Charles M. Wiltse
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc, 1951. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. Three large 8vo. volumes, in the publisher’s brown cloth bindings, with dustjackets; [10], 11-477 pages, including the Index; [10] 11-511 pages, including the Index; [10], 11-592 pages, including the Index; the top corner of the last page of the third volume has loss, not affecting any text; there are no ownership~~The first volume (”Nationalist”) is an earlyprinting; the second and third volumes... Read More
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![[SIGNED] [LITERATURE] WINTER FROST](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/788/487/1687487788.0.l.jpg)
[SIGNED] [LITERATURE] WINTER FROST
by R. D. Wingfield
London: Constable, 1999. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. Signed. 8vo; in the publisher’s black cloth binding; with tilting on the spine in silver; 384 pages; in an unclipped jacket.~~A pristine copy of the First English Edition, signed by R. D. Wingfield on the title page. Near Fine binding / Near Fine dust jacket.
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![[VIRGINIA] A HISTORY OF CAROLINE COUNTY VIRGINIA. FROM ITS FORMATION IN 1727 TO 1924. COMPILED FROM ORIGINAL RECORDS AND AUTHORITATIVE SOURCES AND PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED. TO WHICH IS APPENDED “A DISCOURSE OF VIRGINIA”](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/451/834/1630834451.0.l.jpg)
[VIRGINIA] A HISTORY OF CAROLINE COUNTY VIRGINIA. FROM ITS FORMATION IN 1727 TO 1924. COMPILED FROM ORIGINAL RECORDS AND AUTHORITATIVE SOURCES AND PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED. TO WHICH IS APPENDED “A DISCOURSE OF VIRGINIA”
by Marshall Wingfield; Edward Maria Wingfield
Richmond, Va: Press of Trevvet Christian & Co, 1924. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good binding. Large 8vo.; in the publihser’s burgundy cloth; xv, followed by a map of Caroline County; [1] 2-528 pages, including the Index; with black and white illustrations throughout. the hinges have been discreetly repaired with japanese tissue.~~There are no ownership marks of any kind in this First Edition copy. ~~Mr. Wingfield’s account occurs some material on the Civil War. Parts of Caroline County suffered... Read More
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TEXAS IN THE CONFEDERACY: Military Installations, Economy and People
by Bill Winsor
Hillsboro Texas: Hill Junior College Press, 1978. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. The publication date penned in red at the top of the front free end paper; otherwise a clean copy without any marks or writing. The dust jacket is bright, not price clipped and now protected in a new mylar cover. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket.
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![[MINIATURE BOOKS] SAMUEL ADAMS. FIREBRAND OF THE REVOLUTION](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/709/412/1276412709.0.l.jpg)
[MINIATURE BOOKS] SAMUEL ADAMS. FIREBRAND OF THE REVOLUTION
by Alexander Winston
Owl House Press, 2010. Full Leather. Near Fine binding. Numbered 52 of 150 copies. A history of the famous revolutionary and Founding Father. With a few reproduction illustrations of portraits. Blue leather with gilt lettering. 4.8 x 4.0 cm. Near Fine binding.
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ANNALS OF THE GREAT KANAWHA
by William D. Wintz
Charleston WV: Pictorial Histories Publishing Co, 1993. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Previous owner’s name and date on the front free endpaper along with a few notes ; otherwise a clean copy. The dust jacket has a bot of sunning on the botton front edge, is not price clipped and is now protected in a new mylar cover. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket.
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![[CIVIL WAR] HISTORY OF THE SEVENTEENTH VIRGINIA INFANTRY, C. S. A.](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/375/221/1558221375.0.l.jpg)
[CIVIL WAR] HISTORY OF THE SEVENTEENTH VIRGINIA INFANTRY, C. S. A.
by [George Wise]
Batlimore: Kelly, Piet & Company, 1870. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 8vo, in fly-specked plum cloth with gift decoration, and with sunned spine; [6], [7]-312 pages including the Contents leaves; there are no prior ownership marks; the top edge of the textblock has a light tideline throughout..~~The Nevins bibliography applauds this account as “[a] human chronicle, with may insights of a little-known but valorous unit in Lee’s army.” Coulter notes that “[w]henever possible the author visited... Read More
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![[VIRGINIA] [RICHMOND] [ALBUM] SOUVENIR ALBUM OF RICHMOND, VA](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/545/705/1667705545.0.l.jpg)
[VIRGINIA] [RICHMOND] [ALBUM] SOUVENIR ALBUM OF RICHMOND, VA
by Adolph and Herman Wittemann
Brooklyn, NY: Albertype Co, 1895. 5"x7" soft-cover thread/string bound album showing scenery in Richmond, Virginia c.1895. Front cover with wear especially along spine; binding is lost but pages are all excellent. ~~Adolph and Herman Wittemann founded the Brooklyn, NY Albertype Co. publishing company of postcards and "view books" around 1880. Adolph Witteman was the photographer of thousands of landmarks around America published in the "American Views" series of souvenir books. This volume credits him with the copyright of the... Read More
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CONRAD THE CLOCK
by Jean Barr; Illustrated by Elaine Wittert
Chicago: Wilcox & Follet Co, 1944. First Edition. Pictorial Boards. Very Good+ binding. Elaine Wittert. A beautiful copy of a scarce and charming children’s book. We locate only two copies in OCLC. This copy has no marks of any kind, and is bright and tight. Mylar has been cut to protect it. Very Good+ binding.
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![[LITERATURE] BEYOND THE BEDROOM WALL](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/330/438/1610438330.0.l.jpg)
[LITERATURE] BEYOND THE BEDROOM WALL
by Larry Woidwode
New York`: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1975. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Very Good dust jacket. Large quarto; in the publisher’s taupe cloth, with dustjacket; [5], 6-619, [620-621] pages; there are no marks of any kind in the book; the dustjacket has minor wear at the corner; the jacket has not been price-clipped.~~A lovely First Edition copy of what many believe to be one of the greatest 20th century novels. Near Fine binding / Very Good dust... Read More
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![[PHILOSOPHY] LA LOGIQUE OU REFLEXIONS SUR LES FORCES DE L’ENTENDEMENT HUMAIN, ET SUR LES FORCES DE L’ENTENDEMENT HUMAIN, ET SUR LEUR LEGITIME USAGE DEAN LA CONNAISSANCE DE LA VERITE](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/060/160/1654160060.0.l.jpg)
[PHILOSOPHY] LA LOGIQUE OU REFLEXIONS SUR LES FORCES DE L’ENTENDEMENT HUMAIN, ET SUR LES FORCES DE L’ENTENDEMENT HUMAIN, ET SUR LEUR LEGITIME USAGE DEAN LA CONNAISSANCE DE LA VERITE
by Chretien [Christian] Wolff
A Lausanne; A Geneve: Chez Marc-Mich. Bousquet & Comp, 1744. Seconde Edition Francoise. Quarter Leather. Very Good binding. 8vo.; quarter-bound in green mrorocco with spine ruled and lettered in gilt; over marbled boards; xxx, 216 pages, with engraved portrait frontispiece; with title page printed in red and black.~~Translated from the German: Vernünftige Gedanken von den Kräfften des menschlichen Verstandes und ihrem richtigen Gebrauche in Erkenntnis der Wahrheit. Very Good binding.
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[ARCHAEOLOGY TOUMBA TOU SKOUROU: A Bronze Age Potters' Quarter on Morphou Bay in Cyprus
by Emily D. T. Vermeule & Florence Z. Wolsky
Cambridge, MA: The Harvard University Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Cyprus Expedition, 1990. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding. Illustrated; Blue cloth binding with gilt lettering. A very nice copy. Very Good+ binding.
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WOODBURY'S TABLES AND NOTES ON THE CULTIVATION, MANUFACTURE, AND FOREIGN TRADE OF COTTON
by [Levi Woodbury]
Washington: Blair & Rives, 1836. Hard Cover. Good binding. A reissue of House document no. 146 (24th Congress, 1st session) with a title page added; from the time Levi Woodbury was Secretary of the Treasury. Bound in half-leather and paper-covered boards with title page and prefatory note; this copy very discreetly rebacked with the original title "Cotton" reattached. Good binding.
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![[SPECIAL PRESS] [ARTIST’S BOOK ] PET | P E T (PARTS & EXTRA THINGS)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/218/987/1453987218.0.l.jpg)
[SPECIAL PRESS] [ARTIST’S BOOK ] PET | P E T (PARTS & EXTRA THINGS)
by Paul Woodbine
[Fall River, Mass.]: Volaphon Press -- Hunts’ Mills Pub, 1984. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. Square large 8vo.; in the publisher’s brown buckram binding, with pink title label stating that this is #13 of 80 copies published [Printing Circa Spring 1983 thru Spring 1984] and with the ISBN printed as well; from the verso of the silkscreened title leaf: “Words & Art by Paul Woodbine (”except Broken Necklace) [Broken Necklace Poem writen (sic) by Bunya No... Read More
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![[CHILDREN] THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT. ALSO, THE HISTORY OF MRS. WILLIAMS, AND HER PLUMB CAKE. WHICH SHE MATHEMATICALLY DIVIDED AMONG HER PUPILS, ACCORDING TO THEIR MERIT. THE STORY OF LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/303/841/1581841303.0.l.jpg)
[CHILDREN] THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT. ALSO, THE HISTORY OF MRS. WILLIAMS, AND HER PLUMB CAKE. WHICH SHE MATHEMATICALLY DIVIDED AMONG HER PUPILS, ACCORDING TO THEIR MERIT. THE STORY OF LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD
by August R. Klapper [Master Printer] | Carl Anderson Rosenberg [Woodcuts]
Williamsburg [Va.] 1956: Printing Office of Colonial Williamsburg, 1956. Full Leather. Very Good binding. 24mo.; in full green morooco, double ruled in blind to the perimeter of the boards, with inner decorative rule with acorn motif at the corners; spine with gilt decorations; [2], 3-26 pages, followed by colophon; illustrated with woodcuts throughout. There is a small amount of green "bleed" at the bottom of the front pastedown, next to the turn-in.~~"This book is intended to represent an... Read More
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![[SPECIAL PRESS] THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF EDWARD LORD HERBERT OF CHERBURY](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/886/379/1597379886.0.l.jpg)
[SPECIAL PRESS] THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF EDWARD LORD HERBERT OF CHERBURY
by C. H. Herford [Introdution] | Robert Ashwin Maynard {Printer] | Horace Walter Bray [Wood-Engravings]
Montgomeryshire: The Gregynog Press, 1928. Limited edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. Folio; in brown buckram with the Herbert arms blocked in gilt; [vi], vii-xv, [3] 94 pages, followed by the colophon; with nine wood engravings; with wood engraved shield on the title page, hand colored in blue, red and gray, and a large initial in red; printed in black and red; there is some trivial spotting to the upper board; there are no marks of any kind... Read More
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![[CIVIL WAR MEDICINE] CATALOGUE OF THE SURGICAL SECTION OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM [WITH] CATALOGUE OF THE MEDICAL SECTION OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM PREPARED BY J. J. WOODWARD [WITH] CATALOGUE OF THE MICROSCOPIAL SECTION OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM PREPARED BY EDWARD CURTIS](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/812/184/1454184812.0.l.jpg)
[CIVIL WAR MEDICINE] CATALOGUE OF THE SURGICAL SECTION OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM [WITH] CATALOGUE OF THE MEDICAL SECTION OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM PREPARED BY J. J. WOODWARD [WITH] CATALOGUE OF THE MICROSCOPIAL SECTION OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM PREPARED BY EDWARD CURTIS
by Alfred [Alexander] Woodhull
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1867. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. Thick quarto; nicely rebound in black moire cloth with gilt lettering to the spine, over marbled boards; three volumes in one as issued; all edges gilt; with six full page engraved plates as well as in-text illustrations scattered throughout; there are several discreet library stamps, but no other marks; quite a nice, complete copy, including the errata slip at the third section.~~The Surgical Section of the... Read More
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