Phillis Wheatley's "On Recollection" in The Gentleman's Magazine: and Historical Chronicle. Volume XLIII. For the Year MDCCLXXIII
by [Wheatley, Phillis]. Urban, Sylvanus
London: Printed at St. John's Gate for D. Henry, 1773. First edition. Quarter calf over marbled board, marbled edges. A good copy with faint library stamp to the general title page, lacking rear board, detached front board, spine cover loose with large chip at head, board chipped and scuffed, one leaf with chip along fore edge, off-setting from some plates on opposite leaves, one plate creased, otherwise text block tight and pages bright and clean.. [1], [2], 655.... Read More
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![Portuguese Studies Newsletter [11 Issues]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/152/538/319538152.0.l.jpg)
Portuguese Studies Newsletter [11 Issues]
by Wheeler, Douglas, ed
[Durham, NH]: [International Conference Group on Portugal], 1987. First edition. Paper wrappers. Mostly fine copies.. 4to. First four issues stapled at corner. Nos. 1, 4, 7-12, 14-16.
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The Triangle. A Series of Numbers upon Three Theological Points; Enforced from Various Pulpits in the City of New-York. By Investigator
by Whelpley, Samuel [Investigator]
New York: Printed and published for the author. Van Winkle & Wiley, Printers, 1816. First edition. Paper wrappers. Lacking the wrappers, inner edges of first and last leaves reinforced, restitched, trimmed, some faint staining and foxing; a good copy.. 75 pp. 8vo. The first part of what would eventually be five parts (which were issued together in 1817). Samuel Whelpley (1766-1817) a Presbyterian minister, teacher, and writer issued this defence of New England theology with the first section... Read More
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The Charles F. Adams Platform, or a Looking Glass for the Worthies of the Buffalo Convention
by [Whig Party]. Adams, Charles Francis
[Washington, D.C.]: J. & G.S. Gideon, Printers, 1848. First edition. Self wrappers. A very good unopened (uncut) and untrimmed copy, some soiling mainly at the edges.. 8 pp. (1 sheet folded). 8vo. An anti-Van Buren item by the Whigs, attacking former President and now Free Soil party candidate Martin Van Buren for his running on the Free Soil Platform after having been rejected twice by the Democrats. It is composed largely of the Charles Francis Adams' former criticisms... Read More
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![The Retrocession of Louisiana in Spanish Policy [from the] American Historical Review. Vol. XXXIX, No. 3. April, 1934](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/685/506/214506685.0.l.jpg)
The Retrocession of Louisiana in Spanish Policy [from the] American Historical Review. Vol. XXXIX, No. 3. April, 1934
by Whitakre, Arthur P.
[Bloomington]: American Historical Review, 1934. Offprint. Stapled paper wrappers. A very good+ unopened (uncut) copy with faint browning around edges of wrappers.. [456-476] pp. Sm. 4to.
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Area Handbook for Japan
by Whitaker, Donald P., et al.
Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1974. Third edition. Cloth with gilt titles. A very good ex-lib copy with the usual markings. No dust jacket.. xviii, 672 pp. Illus. with 24 b/w maps and in-text figures, some folding. 8vo. DA PAM 550-30. Research completed July 1973. This handbook supersedes DA PAM 550-30, September 1969, prepared by the Foreign Area Studies of the American University.
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Paper-Money Inflation in France. How it Came. What it Brought, and How it Ended
by White, Andrew D.
New York: Society for Political Education, 1882. Revised edition. Paper wrappers. Soiling on the wrappers, a few nicks, else near fine.. 46 pp. Sm. 8vo. Economic Tracts No. VII. No. 3, of series of 1882. Originally published in 1876 as part of White's projected but never completed history of the French Revolution, it became a highly influential work supporting the gold standard and faulting paper money as leading to "financial distress and debauchery." It is still quoted and... Read More
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Silver. Its History and Romance
by White, Benjamin
London: Waterlow and Sons Ltd., 1920. Second edition. Decorated paper covered boards. A very good copy, some soiling to front board, owner's name on half title, light foxing mostly to preliminaries, plates bright.. xxix, 328 pp. Illus. with b/w photos and reproductions. Sm. 4to. White revised this book first published in 1917. A thorough discussion of the history of silver with special attention to Asia: India, China, and Japan.
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Remarks on the Existing State of the Laws in Massachusetts, respecting Violations of the Sabbath
by White, D.A.
Boston: Printed by Nathaniel Willis, 1816. First edition. Stitched. Title page with signature of the owner, J. S. Locke, perhaps of the publishing company, a few small stains, and two sets of black stamped numerals, creases and edge wear to most leaves, corner of one leaf chipped, affecting one letter on page 11 and three letters on page 12; about good.. 15 pp. 8vo. Contains Report of the Joint legislative committee appointed to consider what further provision was... Read More
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The Ohio Educational Monthly. (Successor to the Ohio Journal of Education). A Journal of School and Home Education. Old Series, Vol. XIII, Nos. 8 & 9. Aug. & Sept. New Series, Vol. V, Nos. 8 & 9
by White, E.E., ed
Columbus: E.E. White, 1864. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. A good copy lacking the rear wrapper, front wrapper torn, wrappers, title, and last leaf soiled, most leaves dampstained.. [225-288]. 8vo.
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Jasper White's Cooking from New England
by White, Jasper
Newton, MA: Biscuit Books, 1998. First edition thus. Quarter cloth over paper covered boards. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.. xiii, 367 pp. Illus. with color & b/w drawings. Sm. 4to. Deborah Healy and Stephen Schindler, illus. Signed by the author, Jasper White, with a new introduction by White for this edition; originally published by Harper Collins in 1989.
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New York: A Physical History
by White, Norval
New York: Atheneum, 1987. First edition. Quarter cloth over paper covered boards. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.. xxx,[2], 269 pp. Illus. with b/w photos. Obl. 8vo.
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La nueva farmacopea del Real Colegio de Médicos de Londres, y su análisis, ó sea, La explicacion de la naturaleza, principios, virtudes, usos y dosis de sus preparaciones y composiciones / por el Doctor Roberto White ; traducidas del ingles con notas relativas á la farmácia, é historia natural y médica de España por el Dr. Don Casimiro Gomez de Ortega, primer catedrático del Real Jardin Botanico, director del Real Colegio de Boticarios de esta Corte, boticario mayor honorario del rey N. S. y alcalde exâminador decano de la sala de farmácia en el Real Protomedicato
by White, Roberto; Gomez de Ortega, Casimiro
Madrid: En la imprenta de la viuda de don Joaquin Ibarra, 1797. First edition. Full speckled calf, red spine label, gilt title & bands, marbled endpapers. Boards rubbed and damp stained at corners, small nick at head of spine, top fore corner dampstained but not affecting text, still about very good.. [3] preliminary leaves, 145 pp., 165 pp., [2]. 8vo. Translation of: "The new Pharmacopoeia of the Royal College of Physicians of London" which is Thomas Heald's translation... Read More
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A Review and a Forecast. (The White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs, Volume X, No. 6, 1924)
by Whitehead, Russell F.
New York: Russell F. Whitehead, 1924. First printing. Paper wrappers. A very good copy with soiling to the original wraps.. 16 pp. Illus. with 12 b/w photos and 2 b/w maps. 4to. Includes Fifth Meeting House, Lancaster, Massachusetts, doorways, South Hadley. Pleaseantville, New York, General Moulton House, Hampton, New Hampshire, Peacock Gate at Rensselaerville, New York, and other items.
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Verses to the People of England. 1758
by Whitehead, William
London: R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-mall; and sold by M. Cooper in Pater-noster-Row, 1758. First edition. Removed. A very good copy, edges faintly browned, a few minor creases, impressions sharp.. 1, [1] pp. Engraved head and tail pieces. Sm. 4to. Price following imprint in square brackets: Price Six-pence. "In 1757 Whitehead, rather by default, was appointed poet laureate....In 1758 Whitehead published Verses to the People of England, in his laureate vein, seeing the role of the poet... Read More
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Elegies. With an Ode to the Tiber. Written Abroad. By William Whitehead, Esq; Register and Secretary to the Hon. Order of the Bath
by Whitehead, William
London: R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-mall, 1757. First edition. Removed. New paper spine, lacking the half-title and the advertisement, still a clean copy with sharp impressions, and very good.. [2], [5]-22 pp. Engraved title page by [L.P.] Boilard. Sm. 4to. William Whitehead [1715-1785] accompanied his pupil and friend (George Harcourt, Viscount Nuneham) on a tour of Germany and Italy between 1754-56; the final elegy is dedicated to him. "Whitehead is essentially of minor status as a writer,... Read More
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A Group of Tings
by Whitfield, Roderick
Princeton: [Princeton] Art Museum, 1966. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A very good copy, owner's bookplate.. Unpaged [6 leaves]. Illus. with 8 b/w photos. 4to. Essay on the collection of ancient Chinese bronze vessels assembled by C. D. Carter.
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The Remarkable Mr. Franklin
by Whitley, Benjamin
Kansas City: Hallmark Children's Editions, n.d.. First edition. Illustrated paper-covered boards. Nick to edge of one leaf, else a fine copy.. Unpaged [14 pp]. Illus. with pop-up color drawings. 8vo. Carol Bryan, illus.
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The Old State House Defended from Unfounded Attacks upon its Integrity. Being a Reply to Dr. G. H. Moore's Second Paper, read before the Bostonian Society, Feb. 9, 1886
by Whitmore, William H.
Boston: Rockwell & Churchill, 1886. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. About good with large chips to wrappers and marginal tears on most leaves.. 8 pp. 8vo.
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Ferries of the British Isles and Northern Europe
by Widdows, Nick
Pembrokeshire: Ferry Publications, 2000. First edition. Paper covered boards. A near fine copy.. 223 pp. Illus. with color photos. 8vo.
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Special Collections at Boston University
by Widershien, Vita. Boston University Libraries
Boston: Trustees of the Boston University Libraries, 1981. First edition. Paper wrappers. A fine copy.. xii, 83 pp. Illus. with b/w photos. Sm. 4to.
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The Birth of New England. The True Story of its Discovery and Settlement
by Widger, Thurlow Stanley
n.p.: Thurlow Stanley Widger, 1959. Second printing. Stapled paper wrappers. A very good clean, crisp copy.. 82 pp. Illus. with 2 maps. 8vo. Signed by the author. Includes list of seventeenth century structures still standing and open to the public.
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Jefferson through the Fog. An Address Delivered at Monticello on 13 April 1959
by Wiggins, James Russell
Charlottesville: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 1959. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A fine copy. As new.. 18 pp. 16mo.
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![Discoid Weapons in Ancient India. A Study of Vedic Cakra, Pavi and Ksurapavi," [Reprinted from] The Adyar Library Bulletin, vol. XXV, parts 1-4](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/441/311/171311441.0.l.jpg)
Discoid Weapons in Ancient India. A Study of Vedic Cakra, Pavi and Ksurapavi," [Reprinted from] The Adyar Library Bulletin, vol. XXV, parts 1-4
by Wijesekera, O.H. De A.
Madras: Vasanta Press, 1961. Offprint. Paper wrappers. A very good+ clean, crisp copy.. [250 -267] pp. 8vo. Presentation copy.
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Hundert Jahre Dusseldorfer Dampfer: die Entwicklung der Personen-dampf-schiffahrt auf dem Rhein
by Wilden, Josef.
Koln, Dusseldorf: Koln Dusseldorfer Rheindampffchiffahrt, 1936. First edition. Paper wrappers. A very good copy, spine darkened, wrappers and endpapers foxed, else clean.. 139 pp. Illus. with 21 b/w plates, most multi-image photos and reproductions. 4to. Zum hundert-jahrigen Bestehen der Dampfschifffahrts-Gesellschaft fur den Nieder- und Mittelrhein hrsg. von der Koln-Dusseldorfer Rheindampfschiffahrt. Presentation copy with card laid in. Errata slip. A history of the firm with portraits of its owners, its founders, and its ships. OCLC shows 5 copies with... Read More
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