![P. VIRGILII MARONIS GEORGICA P. RAMI PROFESSORIS REGII PRAELECTIONIBUS ILLUSTRATA AD CAROLUM LOTHARINGUM CARDINALEM [BOUND WITH] P. VIRGILII MARONIS BUCOLICA, P. RAMI, PROFESSORIS REGII PRAELECTIONIBUS EXPOSITA: QUIBUS POETAE VITA PRAEPOSITA EST. [EDITIO TERTIA]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/373/597/1112597373.0.l.jpg)
P. VIRGILII MARONIS GEORGICA P. RAMI PROFESSORIS REGII PRAELECTIONIBUS ILLUSTRATA AD CAROLUM LOTHARINGUM CARDINALEM [BOUND WITH] P. VIRGILII MARONIS BUCOLICA, P. RAMI, PROFESSORIS REGII PRAELECTIONIBUS EXPOSITA: QUIBUS POETAE VITA PRAEPOSITA EST. [EDITIO TERTIA]
by Publius Vergilius Maro; Petrus Ramus | [Carolum Lotharingum Cardinalem]
Paris: Apud Andream Wechelum, 1572. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Two 16th century edictions of classical texts, Virgil’s Georgics and Bucolics, printed by Andreas Wechelus who was active in Paris as a printer and bookseller from 1554 to 1573, and then in Frankfurt. In an early, if not contemporary, calf binding with boards double-ruled in blind to the perimeters with embossed with a decorative device in the centers. The title pages with Wechsel’s printed device featuring Pegasus. There... Read More
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![[AMERICANA] VASA ORDER OF AMERICA TERCENTENARY AND CONVENTION PROGRAM. JUNE 27 - JULY 2, 1938. BELLEVUE-STRATFORD HOTEL. PHILADELPHIA, PA](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/748/387/774387748.0.l.1.jpg)
[AMERICANA] VASA ORDER OF AMERICA TERCENTENARY AND CONVENTION PROGRAM. JUNE 27 - JULY 2, 1938. BELLEVUE-STRATFORD HOTEL. PHILADELPHIA, PA
by Carl W. Johnson (Editor); Grand Lodge, Vasa Order of America
[Washington, D.C.]: Vasa Order, 1938. Stapled Pamphlet. Very Good binding. An uncommon publication of the Vasa Order, the fraternal society for Swedish immigrants to the United States, Uncommon, with 1 copy found in OCLC. A substantial program; short tear to the front panel. Very Good binding.
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![[HISTORY] WELLS OF POWER: THE OILFIELDS OF SOUTH-WESTERN ASIA. A REGIONAL AND GLOBAL STUDY](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/689/759/1744759689.0.l.jpg)
[HISTORY] WELLS OF POWER: THE OILFIELDS OF SOUTH-WESTERN ASIA. A REGIONAL AND GLOBAL STUDY
by Olaf Caroe
London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1951. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/no dust jacket. Octavo; in the publisher's red cloth; with titling on the spine in gold; xx, 240 pages including the Index; four maps included; ex-library copy with stamp on front flyleaf; the spine is sunned; light wear to the boards. Very Good+ binding / no dust jacket.
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![[RICHMOND] HAND WORKSHOP EXHIBITION PAMPHLET](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/253/772/1745772253.0.l.jpg)
[RICHMOND] HAND WORKSHOP EXHIBITION PAMPHLET
by [Miles B. Carpenter]
Richmond, VA: Hand Workshop, 1989. 8 1/2" square, 8pp pamphlet celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Miles Burkholder Carpenter (1889-1985), a folk sculptor. It includes an introduction by Paula Owen, the Executive Director of the Hand Workshop - now known as the Visual Arts Center of Richmond, VA. Also included is an article about Carpenter written by Jeff Camp, Richmond businessman and collector. Very good. ~.
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![[RELIGION] [ANTIQUARIAN] INTRODUCTIO AD LIBROS CANONICOS BIBLIORUM VETERIS TESTAMENTI OMNES: PRAECOGNITA CRITICA ET HISTIORICA, AC AUTORITATIS VINDICIAS EXPONENS [BOUND WITH] COMMENTATIO CRITICA AD LIBROS NOVI TESTAMENTI IN GENERE](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/136/998/1498998136.0.l.jpg)
[RELIGION] [ANTIQUARIAN] INTRODUCTIO AD LIBROS CANONICOS BIBLIORUM VETERIS TESTAMENTI OMNES: PRAECOGNITA CRITICA ET HISTIORICA, AC AUTORITATIS VINDICIAS EXPONENS [BOUND WITH] COMMENTATIO CRITICA AD LIBROS NOVI TESTAMENTI IN GENERE
by Johann Gottlob Carpzov
Lipsaie: Sumptibus Haered Lanckisianorum, 1757. Fourth Edition | Second Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Quarto; in 18th century [?] vellum; with two leaves of the Introductio bound upside down; [viii], 487, [488], followed by Index [88]; xvi, 437, followe by Index [19] pages~~Two mid-18th century theological works by Johann Gottlob Carpzov, an 18th century German scholar. His Introducio especially was well-regarded. Very Good binding.
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![[CHILDREN] CHIMP AND CHUMP](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/855/058/1689058855.0.l.jpg)
[CHILDREN] CHIMP AND CHUMP
by Ruth Carroll
New York: Eugene Reynal, 1933. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding. Oblong 4to; in the publisher’s pink cloth binding; (46) pages; lacking dust jacket; the boards are a bit soiled with some scattered stains particularly on the lower board; the spine is sunned; some erasure marks to the paste downs; a bit of foxing~~Filled with charming black and white illustrations by Ruth Carroll~~A presentable copy of this scarce book with only 4 copies in OCLC as of... Read More
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![[SIGNED][CHILDREN] CHIMP AND CHUMP](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/853/058/1689058853.0.l.jpg)
[SIGNED][CHILDREN] CHIMP AND CHUMP
by Ruth Carroll
New York: Eugene Reynal, 1933. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding. Signed. Oblong 4to; in the publisher’s pink cloth binding; (46) pages; lacking dust jacket; the boards are a bit soiled with some scattered stains; the spine is sunned; some erasure marks to the paste downs; some trivial tears to the corners and along the bottom edge; a bit of foxing; there are mild tidelines to the leading edge of the pages; there is a previous owner’s... Read More
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![A. E. R. A. [American Electric Railway Association] PROGRESS IN CARS. REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON ESSENTIAL FEATURES OF MODERN CARS](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/836/413/874413836.0.l.jpg)
A. E. R. A. [American Electric Railway Association] PROGRESS IN CARS. REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON ESSENTIAL FEATURES OF MODERN CARS
by [Committee on the Essential Features of Modern Cars]
New York: American Electric Railway Association, 1926. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. The Executive Committee of the American Electric Railway Association, following their 1925 convention, authorized the formation of the Committee on Essential Features of Modern Cars to develop new car designs. The goal was to repalce older types of cars with “attractive, comfortable, light-weight modern cars” [p. 3]. This 88 page book is their report, illustrated with black and white photographs of street railway cars... Read More
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![[SIGNED] [ENGLAND] WEST COUNTRY FARMS: HOUSE-AND-ESTATE SURVEYS, 1598-1764](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/326/046/1577046326.0.l.jpg)
[SIGNED] [ENGLAND] WEST COUNTRY FARMS: HOUSE-AND-ESTATE SURVEYS, 1598-1764
by Nat Alcock; Cary Carson
Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2007. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine binding/Fine dust jacket. Signed. Quarto; in burgundy cloth with dustjacket; xvi, [1], 2-232 including Index; with map of the West Country endpaper.; illustrated with black and white as well as color photographs, and some architectural drawings and photographic facsimiles.~~This copy is inscribed to architectural historian Ed Chappell: “To Ed Chappell -- |Thanks from Nat for your hospitality; | conviviality, and fellowship -- and from | me, for your forbearance.... Read More
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![[CHILDREN] [HUMOR] THE STORY OF JUST KIDS [LICENSED BY KING FEATURES SYNDICATE NO. 283]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/501/809/1584809501.0.l.jpg)
[CHILDREN] [HUMOR] THE STORY OF JUST KIDS [LICENSED BY KING FEATURES SYNDICATE NO. 283]
by [Ad Carter]
Springfield, Mass: McLoughlin Bros, 1932. Soft Cover. Good binding. Quarto; stapled in printed wrappers; beginning of separation at the spine, but all is hold sell.~~Featuring Mush Stebbins, and his pals Fatso Dolan and Pat Chan.~~. Good binding.
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![[ARMS] HONOR REDIVIUUS OR AN ANALYSIS OF HONOR AND ARMORY](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/534/078/1631078534.0.l.jpg)
[ARMS] HONOR REDIVIUUS OR AN ANALYSIS OF HONOR AND ARMORY
by Matt[hew] Carter
London: E. Coates, 1655. First Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. 8vo.; in contemporary calf, lacking the spine, rebacked in japanese tissue; with engraved title page, and armorial frontispiece with the motto “A Posse, Ad Esse”; [8]. 88, 84, 87-171, [1] pages; with plates: “The Creation Robe of a Baron”; and six additional full page plates, with numerous in-text woodcut coats of a arms.~NOTE: This copy appears to have a catchword at the bottom of page 84 of... Read More
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A YEAR'S RESIDENCE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: IN THREE PARTS. PART I: CONTAINING I, A DESCRIPTION OF THE FACE OF THE COUNTRY, THE CLIMATE, THE SEASONS AND THE SOIL; THE FACTS BEING TAKEN FROM THE AUTHOR’S DAILY NOTES DURING A WHOLE YEAR. II. AN ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR’S AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENTS IN THE CULTIVATION OF THE RUTABAGA, OR RUSSIA, OR SWEDISH, TURNIP, WHICH AFFORD PROOF OF WHAT THE CLIMATE AND SOIL ARE
by William Cobbett | [Hill Carter]
New York: Printed for the Author By Clayton and Kingsland, 1818. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Part I only, of three, in the publisher’s printed paper-covered boards; the binding has been neatly rebacked. Page 63/64 has long closed tear. The boards have edgewear. The names “Hill Carter of Shirley” and “Elizabeth Minge Carter” are on the front endpaper -- a nice Virginia association. With foxing throughout. Sabin notes that Part I was issued separately. (Howes C-535;... Read More
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![[ART] CARUANA-DINGLI ARTISTS](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/639/591/1602591639.0.l.jpg)
[ART] CARUANA-DINGLI ARTISTS
by Mario J. Caruana-Dingli
Valeria, Malta: Progress Press Co., Ltd, 1989. Quarto; in the publisher’s black cloth with dustjacket; 235 pages, chiefly color illustrations; the laminate on the dustjacket has a bit of surface bubbling.~~There are no ownership marks of any kind in the book.
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![[TRAVEL] [MAPS]A NEW MAP OF THE KINGDOM OF PRUSSIA](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/553/332/1377332553.0.l.jpg)
[TRAVEL] [MAPS]A NEW MAP OF THE KINGDOM OF PRUSSIA
by John Cary
London: John Cary, 1821. Near Fine binding. Hand-colored map, 21.5 x 25.25”; unbound; by the famed British cartographer and engraver.~~Showing the Kingdom of Prussia with its Divisions and Provinces and Governments from the Latest Authorities. A lovely map, highly detailed and delicately colored. Near Fine binding.
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![[TRAVEL] [MAPS] A NEW MAP OF FRANCE](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/554/332/1377332554.0.l.jpg)
[TRAVEL] [MAPS] A NEW MAP OF FRANCE
by John Cary
London: John Cary, 1819. Near Fine binding. Hand-colored map, 21.5 x 25.25”; unbound; by the famed British cartographer and engraver.~~Showing France, Agreeable to its Divisions into Provinces, as Previous to the Revolution from the Latest Authorities. There is the beginning of separation at the bottom of the fold, along with a short closed tear of about 2”. Still, a lovely map, highly detailed and delicately colored. Near Fine binding.
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![LES AMOURS DE LEUCIPPE ET DE CLITOPHON TRADUITS DU GREC D’ACHILE TAISION [PAR LOUIS-ADRIEN du PERRON DE CASTERA]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/321/273/988273321.0.l.jpg)
LES AMOURS DE LEUCIPPE ET DE CLITOPHON TRADUITS DU GREC D’ACHILE TAISION [PAR LOUIS-ADRIEN du PERRON DE CASTERA]
by Achille Tatius | Louis-Adrien du Perron de Castera
Amsterdam: Chez Pierre Humbert, 1733. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Two parts bound as one and through paginated. [12] 430 p, with a charming frontispiece with flowers dropping from Venus and fruits from Virtue into the book. Jules Gay, in his Bibliographie des Ouvrages Relatifs a l’amour aux femmes...” finds that this novel “est agreable et expose bien les moeurs antiques” [Gay, p. 21]. Speckled calf binding with morocco title. Very Good binding.
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A SUMMER IN NORWAY: WITH NOTES ON THE INDUSTRIES, HABITS, CUSTOMS AND PECULIARITIES OF THE PEOPLE, THE HISTORY AND INSTITUTIONS OF THE COUNTRY, ITS CLIMATE, TOPOGRAPHY AND PRODUCTIONS. ALSO, AN ACCOUNT OF THE RED-DEER, RAINDEER AND ELK
by John Dean Caton
Chicago: Jansen, McClurg and Company, 1880. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding. Dark olive green publisher’s cloth, with gilt titling to the front board and the spine. With an engraved frontispiece, and a large folding color map. A bright and tight copy. Very Good+ binding.
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![[SIGNED] [VIRGINIA] THE OTEY, RINGGOLD AND DAVIDSON VIRGINIA ARTILLERY (The Virginia Regimental Histories Series) (The Virginia Regimental Histories Series)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/454/223/1736223454.0.l.jpg)
[SIGNED] [VIRGINIA] THE OTEY, RINGGOLD AND DAVIDSON VIRGINIA ARTILLERY (The Virginia Regimental Histories Series) (The Virginia Regimental Histories Series)
by Michael A. Cavanaugh
Lynchburg, VA: H. E. Howard, Inc, 1993. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good dust jacket. Signed. 118pp. #49/1000. Gray cloth binding. Very light spotting on top text block edge. Very Good+ binding / Very Good dust jacket.
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![[ARCHITECTURE] THE COMMERCIAL PROBLEM IN BUILDINGS: A DISCUSSION OF THE ECONOMIC AND STRUCTURAL ESSENTIALS OF PROFITABLE BUILDING, AND THE BASIS FOR VALUATION OF IMPROVED REAL ESTATE](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/488/020/1688020488.0.l.jpg)
[ARCHITECTURE] THE COMMERCIAL PROBLEM IN BUILDINGS: A DISCUSSION OF THE ECONOMIC AND STRUCTURAL ESSENTIALS OF PROFITABLE BUILDING, AND THE BASIS FOR VALUATION OF IMPROVED REAL ESTATE
by Cecil C. Evers (Vice-President of the Lawyers Mortgage Co.)
New York: The Record and Guide Co, 1914. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 8vo; in the publisher’s brown cloth binding; xii, 274 pages including the Index; with black and white photographic illustrations and plans; light edgewear to the boards; a small stain on the upper board; bottom of the spine a bit bumped; pages 18-19 are toned from a laid in newspaper clipping which is still present but has been protected with mylar; scattered pencil notes in the... Read More
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JOHN CAPREOLUS ON THE VIRTUES
by Kevin White | Romanus Cessario
D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2001. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. Octavo; in the publisher’s black cloth binding; in an unclipped jacket; xxxv, 395 pages including the Index.~~From the front flap of the jacket “In Light of Current interest in the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas, rediscovery of the work of John Capreolus (1380-1444) is aissance theologians who succeeded him as “prince of Thomists,” he established a mode of Thomistic theology and philosophical engagement... Read More
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![[RELIGION] EAST AND WEST](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/197/202/1734202197.0.l.jpg)
[RELIGION] EAST AND WEST
by Henry Chadwick
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. Octavo; in publisher’s black cloth; with titling on the spine in gold; x, 306 pages including the Index; in an unclipped jacket; light wear to the jacket. Near Fine binding / Near Fine dust jacket.
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JOAN HASSALL: ENGRAVINGS AND DRAWINGS
by David Chambers
Pinner: Private Libraries Association, 1985. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Fine binding. No. 105 of 110 special copies, signed by Joan Hassall. With eight additional engravings printed from the wood by David Chambers at the Cuckoo Hill Press, with a chapbook "The Plain Facts by a Plain but Amiable Cat" in a pocket inserted at the rear of the book. Ms. Hassall did the cover illustration for the chapbook and it too is signed by her.~~Specially bound in... Read More
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![[ENGLISH] ANGLIAE NOTITIA; OR, THE PRESENT STATE OF ENGLAND: TOGETHER WITH DIVERS REFLECTIONS UPON THE ANTIENT STATE THEREOF](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/850/290/1582290850.0.l.jpg)
[ENGLISH] ANGLIAE NOTITIA; OR, THE PRESENT STATE OF ENGLAND: TOGETHER WITH DIVERS REFLECTIONS UPON THE ANTIENT STATE THEREOF
by Edward Chamberlayne
[London] In the Savoy: T. N. for John Martyn, 1669. Third Edition. Very Good binding. 12mo.; in full speckled calf, rebacked but retaining the contemporary spine; [12] [numbered by hand]; 480 pages; lacking the pastedowns, front and rear; the Third Edition, retaining Edward Chamberlayne’s name on the title page and issued the same year as the First Edition.~~“Handbook to the social and political condition of England, with lists of public officers and statistics” [see wiki]. (Wing c-1820). Very... Read More
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[VIRGINIA] [RICHMOND] 'THE STATE' MANCHESTER NEWSPAPER
by John Hampden Chamberlayne
Richmond, VA, 1877. 24" x 16 ½" folded in fourths horizontally and in half vertically. Worn with minor tearing along folds. Vol. II, No. 176, October 11, 1877. 4pp. ~~Owned and edited by John Hampden Chamberlayne (1838-1882), a Confederate lawyer who served as an aid to General A.P. .Hill, and later as a Virginia Delegate in 1879-1880. His war letters were posthumously published in "Ham Chamberlayne - Virginian", 1932.~ ~Chamberlayne's paper circulated in Manchester for 1 cent/issue, 6 days/week.... Read More
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[TENNIS] LAWN TENNIS FOR LADIES
by Mrs. Lambert Chambers
London: Methuen and Co., Ltd, 1910. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 8vo.; in the publisher's green cloth binding ruled in gilt at the perimeter of the upper board, with gilt titling; xii, 135 pages, including the Index; with all photographic plates present as called for; with [6] pages of publisher's ads, followed by a 30 page publisher's catalogue; there is some scattered foxing but no prior ownership marks of any kind.~~A bright copy of this tennis... Read More
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