Printed Books, 1471-1500; an Exhibition Commemorating the UNESCO International Book Year.
by Wahlert Memorial Library at Loras College .
Dubuque: Wahlert Memorial Library, Loras College, 1972. First edition. 72 pages. Printed wraps. #201 of 300 numbered copies. Very good, without blemish.
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The orchids of Maine.
by Wallace, Jean Elizabeth.
Orono: University of Maine, 1951. First edition. Good. 23 cm; 80 pages, illustrated with line drawings. Original wraps. Stained. Contents fine. The original University of Maine Bulletin, vol LIII, number 12, April, 1951, containing he University of Maine Studies, second series, #65.
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Private correspondence of Horace Walpole, earl of Orford. Now first collected.
by Walpole, Horace (1717-1797).
London: Printed for Rodwell and Martin [etc.], 1820. Very Good. 22 cm; 4 volumes. Stipple engraved portrait frontispiece. Bound in uniform tan polished calf, gilt rules, with six-panel spines tooled in gilt and leather labels. Binding generally quite good, with variations in color and some marks, but leather labels are chipped with loss on volumes 1 and 4, and spine ends are shelf-worn. Upper board of volume 4 bumped. Early armorial... Read More
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The Triumph of the Meek : Why Early Christianity Succeeded.
by Walsh, Michael.
San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1986. First American. Cloth. Fine.
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Handbook of the Collections.
by Walters Art Gallery.
Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery, 1936. Cloth. Good. 25cm; 175 pages, illustrated. Binding a little spotted; contents very good.
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Ferns: a manual for the Northeastern States
by Waters, Campbell E.
New York: Henry Holt, 1908. Good+. 26 cm; 362 pages, ads, including 200+ illustrations from original drawings and photographs. Bound in green cloth stamped in blind. Spine stamped brightly in gilt. Hinges weak. Lower hinge repaired. Gift inscription on front blank.
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Arts, antiquities and chronology of Ancient Egypt : from observations in 1839.
by Wathen, George W.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans,, 1843. Ex-Library. Good. 27cm; 272 pages and 12 plates (including tinted lithographs and one engraving).Wood-engraved illustrations in text. Bound in recent faux leather. Few underlines and marginal marks in pencil. Library stamp on title page and on verso of one plate.
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Allenby in Egypt;
by Wavell , Archibald Percival .
[London, etc.]: G.G. Harrap & Co., 1944. (c1943). Cloth. Good. 154 pages. Photographic illustrations. Chipped and Torn DJ.
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The elementary spelling book;
by Webster, Noah.
Montpelier, VT: E. P. Walton, n.d., but after 1843. Last Revised Edition. Acceptable. 12mo (18 cm); 168 pages. Woodcut frontispiece, title page with woodcut ornamental border, and seven woodcut vignettes in text. Bound in quarter cloth over printed boards, with title page reproduced on upper board. Worn and thumbed, yet sound and entire. Published in the year of the author's death.
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The life and times of Akhnaton, pharaoh of Egypt.
by Weigall, Arthur.
London: Thornton Butterworth, 1922. New and revised ed.. Cloth. Very Good. 23cm; 255 pages; photographic illustrations.
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Ancient Egyptian works of art.
by Weigall, Arthur.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1924. Original Cloth. Very good, with shelf wear and some slight fraying at extremities. Sound and entire.. 29cm; xxii, 353, [1] pages. Illustrated with halftones.
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The glory of the pharaohs.
by Weigall, Arthur.
London: Thornton Butterworth, 1923. First edition. Very Good. 23cm; 286 pages; 16 halftone photographic illustrations. Cloth, no dust jacket
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The Wellcome historical medical museum.
by Wellcome, Henry S.
London: The Wellcome Foundation, 1927. First edition. Very good. 23 cm; 118 pages, including frontispiece and several plates. Bound in blue cloth stamped in gilt with Egyptian motif on upper board and Wellcome monogram on lower board. A description of the museum and its contents, along with proceedings of the opening ceremonies, where theory of museology was discussed.
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With Caesar's legions: the adventures of two Roman youths in the conquest of Gaul.
by Wells, Reuben Field.
Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1923. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Good. Juvenile fiction based on Caesar's Gallic Wars.
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'Druksels' en gebruiksdrukwerk / 'Druksel' prints and general printed matter:
by Werkman, Hendrik Nicolaas; Jan Martinet.
[Amsterdam]: [Stedelijk Museum], 1977. 28 cm; 72 pages, chiefly illustrations. Publisher's announcement of "The Next Call" laid in. Original printed wraps. Some slight discoloration to covers, and small bump at base of top cover, but overall unblemished and very good. Catalogue of prints by H.N. Werkman (1882-1945), an experimental Dutch artist, typographer and printer. He set up a clandestine printing house during the Nazi occupation (194045) and was shot by the Gestapo in the closing days of... Read More
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Cleopatra: a royal voluptuary.
by Wetheimer, Oscar von.
London: George A. Harrap, 1931. Cloth stamped with image of Cleopatra. Very Good. Translated by Huntley Patterson. 25cm; 325 pages and 32 half-tone plates. No dust jacket.
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The birds of the Republic of Panama.
by Wetmore, Alexander.
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1965-1972. First edition. Very Good. 4 volumes. 24 cm. Blue cloth in original dust jackets. About fine, occasional closed tears in dust jackets. Extra shipping charges will be applied at cost. Extra shipping charges for this set will be applied at cost.
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History of the Inductive Sciences from the Earliest to the Present Times. In Three Volumes.
by Whewell, William.
London: John W. Parker and Son, 1857. Third edition. About fine.. 3 volumes octavo (178 x 130 mm). Publisher's "passing the torch" device on title pages. In half morocco over mottled paper-covered boards, spine in six compartments, four of them decorated with florid gold tool, red and black leather title and volume labels. Marbled edges. A fine set.
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Principia Mathematica.
by Whitehead, Alfred North; and Bertrand Russell.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1927; 1935. Second edition. Good. 3 volumes, 27 cm. Original blue cloth. Volume 1 a later printing (1935), volumes 2 and 3 first printing of 1927 Second Edition. Light foxing, some pencil notes. Not crisp, but sound and entire.
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My trip to the Orient.
by White, Alma.
Bound Brook, New Jersey: The Pentecostal Union, 1911. First edition. Good. Octavo, 216 pages, including full page halftone illustrations. Ads. Bound in maroon cloth, with gilt stamped figure of camel rider on upper board. Boards splayed. Alma Bridwell White was a founder of the white supremacist Pillar of Fire Church, which was associated with the Ku Klux Klan. Her rhetoric is not alien to today's evangelicals.
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Modern treatment of nervous and mental diseases, volume 2.
by White, William A. and Smith Ely Jelliffe.
Philadelphia: Lea and Febiger, 1913. 25 cm; 816 pages, and 50 plates. Bound in original cloth. Finger tear at crown. Hinges split but holding. Text block shaken in binding. Front free endleaf loose but present.
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Hunting with the Eskimos.
by Whitney, Harry.
New York: Century, 1910. First edition. Cloth. Fine. 24 cm; xiv, 453 pages, and 64 half-tone photographic illustrations. Half tone headpieces and tailpieces. Bound in original cloth, titled in gilt, with applied illustration on upper board. Pictorial bookplate of Windsor Holden White; bookseller's ticket of the Sporting Gallery and Bookshop, New York. Small mark on upper board, else fine.
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Byzantium : An Introduction.
by Whitting, Philip (editor).
New York: Saint Martin's Press, LLC, 1981. Cloth. Very Good. Bottom edge of dust jacket bumped.
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Salome:
by Wilde, Oscar; Aubrey Beardsley, illus.
Leipzig: Im Inselverlag, 1907. # 350 in an edition limited to 725 copies. Acceptable. 25 cm; [24] leaves text on Insel hand-made paper, and [15] full-page illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley on Strathmore Japan (including title page and dramatis personae). Bound in original boards, worn, spine perished, boards loose. Several plates somewhat foxed. The first German appearance of Aubrey Beardsley's illustrations to Oscar WIlde's play. Wilde first published the play in French (in 1896) before the... Read More
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Salomé:
by Wilde, Oscar; Aubrey Beardsley, illus.
London and New York: John Lane, The Bodley Head; Dodd, Mead & Co., 1930. Large paper.. hard cover. Very Good. Quarto (26cm); xviii, 65 pages, [16] leaves of plates. Bound in original red cloth stamped in blind with Aubrey Beardsley poppy design . Original dust jacket, with the same design in red on a tan ground. Dust jacket mildly frayed at spine ends, corners and top edge, with a closed tear on the upper panel... Read More
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