Bibliothecas Americana (1622-1896). A handy book about books which relate to books about America
by Watkins, George
Indianapolis: George Watkins, 1896. First edition. Cloth. A very good or better copy, bookplate on free rear endpaper.. xxii pp. Sm. 4to. Includes bibliographies and important bookseller and auction catalogues Palau 374229.
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Gold and Silver in the West
by Watkins, T. H.
Palo Alto: American West Pub. Co., 1971. First edition. Cloth. A near fine copy in a very good- dust jacket.. 287 pp. Illus. with color and b/w photos and drawings. 4to.
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Gold and Silver in the West. The Illustrated History of an American Dream
by Watkins, T.H.
Palo Alto: American West, 1971. First edition. Quarter brown leather over cloth with gilt titles, map endpapers. Small tear along joint at bottom edge of front board, else a near fine copy in a fine slip case.. xiii, 466 pp. Illus. with 75 color & 137 b/w plates, photos, & drawings. 4to. Signed by the author on the half title. Original brochure and marketing material laid in loose.
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Himba
by Watson, John
Cambridge: Cultural Survival, 1998. First edition. Paper wrappers. A fine copy.. 97 pp. Illus. with b/w photos. Trade format. Introduction by Margaret Jacobsohn.
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A Treatise of the Law of Partnership
by Watson, William
Albany: Printed by Charles R. and George Webster, in the white house corner of State and Pearl streets. Sold at the Albany Bookstore, cornor of State and Pearl streets, and at Spencer's Bookstore, Albany; by H. Gaine, T. Greenleaf, S. Campbell, T. Allen, & T. & J. Swords, New York; Thomas & Andrews, Boston; Wm. Young, M. Carey, R. Campbell, Philadelphia, 1795. First American edition. Full calf, later printed spine label. Front board and free front endpaper detached, boards... Read More
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The Great Japan Exhibition: Art of the Edo Period 1600-1868
by Watson, William
New York: Alpine Fine Arts, 1981. First American edition. Tan silk. Silk stained at lower corner of boards else a near fine tight and clean copy in a near fine dust jacket.. 363 pp. Illus. with 412 color & b/w photos. 4to. An exhibition mounted at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1981-2 covering the decorative and fine arts of the age of the Tokugawa shoguns.
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![[ALSs] Two Brief Letters from G.F. Watts to Rich Patrons of the Thornycroft & Sassoon Families](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/196/766/1476766196.0.l.jpg)
[ALSs] Two Brief Letters from G.F. Watts to Rich Patrons of the Thornycroft & Sassoon Families
by Watts, G.F. [George Frederic]
n.p., 1890. Very good, pin holes along top edge, faint soiling.. [2 pp]. 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches. Painter and sculptor George Frederic Watts (1817-1904) enrolled at the Royal Academy when he was 18 years old, and started exhibiting there a few years later. Associated with the Symbolic movement, his works were often allegorical, and include: "Sir Galahad" ; "Orpheus And Eurydice" ; "The Judgement of Paris" ; "The Wounded Heron" ; and "The Minotaur." He was... Read More
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Sur les Suèves et les autres populations de la Belgique flamande
by Wauters, Alphonse
Bruxelles: F. Hayez Imprimeur, 1886. Offprint. Paper wrappers. A very good copy with scattered foxing.. 27 pp. 8vo. Extrait des "Bulletins de l'Académie royale... de Belgique", 3e série, t. XII, n° 8, 1886.
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The Pardoning Power: Where Should it be Lodged and How Should it be Exercised? A Paper Read at Saratoga Springs before the National Prison Association, September 8th, 1884
by Wayland, Francis
New Haven: Hoggson & Robinson, Printers, 1884. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. A good copy, detached chipped wrappers, mail fold, contents clean.. 16 pp. 8vo. "With the Compliments of Francis Wayland" slip tipped-in on title. In this speech,Wayland proposes an act to establish a Board of Pardons, and in the appendix, provides the rules for Connecticut's recently adopted version. Francis Wayland III, was son of the progressive Brown University president of the same name. Wayland served terms as... Read More
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The Changing Face of Northeast Brazil
by Webb, Kempton E.
New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1974. First edition. Cloth. Fine in a very good+ dj with a small closed tear on rear panel.. 205 pp. 24 figs; 12 maps. Sq. 8vo. An area of continuing interest world wide.
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East Maine Conference Seminary War Record
by Webb, N. B. [Nathan], ed
Boston: Albert J. Wright, printer, 1877. First edition. Cloth. Boards cropped else a very good copy with the bookplate of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Commandery of the State of Illinois on front pastedown, shelf sticker on foot of backstrip, USMA stamp on wrapper and title.. 54 pp. 8vo. Includes a number of detailed biographies.
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Texas Libraries. Fall 1963. Volume 25, Number 3
by (Webb, Walter Prescott)
Austin: Texas Library Assoc., 1963. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A very good copy.. [73-124] pp. Illus. with b/w photos and drawings. 8vo. 'Walter Prescott Webb: The Life of a Texan' and other articles in this issue focusing on Webb.
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History as High Adventure
by Webb, Walter Prescott
Austin: Jenkins Garrett Foundation by Pemberton Press, 1969. First edition. Quarter dark green morocco over green cloth boards, four raised bands, gilt titles and rules; green cloth slipcase; marbled endpapers. Faint rubbing else a fine copy in a fine slip case.. xvii, 206 pp. 8vo. E.C. Barksdale, ed. and intro. No. 8 of 350 copies of this limited edition.
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An Honest Preface and Other Essays
by Webb, Walter Prescott. Joe B. Frantz, intro
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1959. First edition. Cloth. A very good+ copy in a very good dust jacket.. vi, 216 pp. 8vo. Inscribed by the author of the introduction, Joe Frantz. Includes facsimile of a three page letter written to Joe Frantz by J. Frank Dobie, regarding Webb. "Those for whom the American West has meaning will always care about Walter Prescott Webb for he explained some of that meaning in luminous terms that have become basic in our... Read More
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![Walter Prescott Webb. A Man, His Land and His Work [Toward the morning sun: a tribute to Walter Prescott Webb, (cover title)]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/326/777/528777326.0.l.1.jpg)
Walter Prescott Webb. A Man, His Land and His Work [Toward the morning sun: a tribute to Walter Prescott Webb, (cover title)]
by (Webb, Walter Prescott). Lea, Tom; Toynbee, Arnold, et al.
[Austin, TX]: [Privately Printed / The Journal?], 1966. First edition thus. Tan cloth. A fine copy.. 45, [1], [24] pp. Illus. with 8 tipped-in color plates with facing captions. 8vo. The excerpts from The Graduate Journal combined here are tributes to the late historian Walter Prescott Webb (Volume VI, No. 1), and a portfolio of paintings by Tom Lea (Volume VII, No. 2) entitled "The land of the mustang." All but a handful are in Texas Libraries.
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A Corner of the Old South. Address by Walter Prescott Webb made at the Inauguration of Ralph Wright Steen as the Third President of Stephen F. Austin State College on February 7, 1959
by Webb, Walter Prescott
Austin: Steck, 1959. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A near fine copy.. 16 pp. Illus. with 2 b/w photos. 8vo.
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Vienna 1888-1938
by Weber, Eugene M. Walsh, James Edward. Houghton Library
Cambridge: Harvard Univ., 1967. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A fine copy.. 32 pp. Illus. with b/w photos. 8vo. An exhibition at the Houghton Library. 92 items copiously described.
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The Ophthalmology Library of Jerry F. Donin. Catalogue 91. Pre-20th Century Imprints. Part I: A-M
by Weber, Jeff
Glendale, CA: Jeff Weber, 2001. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A fine copy.. Unpaged. Illus. with b/w in-text reproductions. 8vo. 223 items listed.
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Medical Classics & History. Catalogue 111. 2004
by Weber, Jeff
Glendale, CA: Jeff Weber, 2004. First edition. Paper wrappers. A near fine copy.. Unpaged. Illus. with b/w plates and in-text reproductions. 8vo. 307 items.
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Antiquarian Medicine. Catalogue 46. Spring-Summer 1997
by Weber, Jeff
Glendale, CA: Jeff Weber, 1997. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A very good copy with occasional minor marginalia.. Unpaged. Illus. with b/w in-text reproductions. 8vo. 74 items listed, authors A-H. Includes Weber's Highlights for the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers Fair, September 1996, 48 items.
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The Black Death. Being the Continuation of the Library of Dr. Fritz Strauss & His Collection of Books about the Plague including Insects & Early Microscopy. Catlog 53. 1997
by Weber, Jeff
Glendale, CA: Jeff Weber, 1997. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. Small scuff to corner of front wrapper else very good+ clean copy.. Unpaged. Illus. with b/w plates and in-text reproductions. 8vo. Items 144-306.
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The Brain and the Book. [Catalogue] 90
by Weber, Jeff
Glendale, CA: Jeff Weber, 2001. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A fine copy.. Unpaged. 8vo. 235 items plus 26 "reference & stuff."
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Mr. Webster's Speech, in the U.S. Senate, March 23, 1848, upon the War with Mexico
by Webster, Daniel
Boston: Eastburn's Press, 1848. First edition. Removed. Removed from larger volume else a very good clean copy.. 23 pp. + note [1 pp.]. 8vo. MU Daniel Webster Speeches Collection 51. LCP Afro-Americana 11012.
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Newly Discovered Fourth of July Oration by the Illustrious Orator and Statesman, Daniel Webster; Delivered at Fryeburg, Me., in the Year 1802, and now for the first time given to the public
by Webster, Daniel
Boston / Fryeburg: A. William & Co. / A. F. & C. W. Lewis, 1882. First edition. Original printed wrappers. A very good copy with nicks in the wrappers, minor soiling with owner's name on front wrapper, slight mail fold, illustrations and text clean.. 16 pp.+ plates [3]. Illus. with 3 b/w engravings. 8vo. Nice small illustration of Webster as a young man.
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Mr. Webster's Second Speech on The Sub-Treasury Bill. Delivered March 12, 1838
by Webster, Daniel
[Washington, D. C.]: n.p., 1838. First edition. A very good or better copy with two small punch holes along inner margin and a mail fold.. 29 pp. Sm. 4to. One of either three or four editions published that year according to Sabin. In this, Webster's second speech on the Sub-treasury bill, are important remarks on Calhoun, on nullification, and perhaps one of his most graphic pieces in which he imagines General Jackson coming out retirement, walking into the... Read More
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