![[STEREOVIEW] LIBBY PRISON. No. 4 FROM VIEWS OF RICHMOND, VA. AND VICINITY](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/240/460/1740460240.0.l.jpg)
[STEREOVIEW] LIBBY PRISON. No. 4 FROM VIEWS OF RICHMOND, VA. AND VICINITY
Richmond: Geo. O. Ennis, 1865. Very Good binding. Stereoview from the 1860s, showing Libby Prison from the south side. The image was issued by Richmond’s Geo. O. Ennis, with the publisher’s list of images available printed on blue paper and affixed to the back of the card -- “~. Libby Prison is No. 4 on the list. “The subject published on this card is indicated by a mark under the name and number. | For sale at the... Read More
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JOURNALS AND PAPERS OF THE VIRGINIA STATE CONVENTION OF 1861 (3 VOLUMES; SLIPCASE) I: JOURNALS; II: ORDINANCES AND VARIOUS PAPERS; III: DOCUMENTS
Richmond, VA: Virginia State Library, 1966. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding. 8vo. 3 volumes complete in publisher's gray cloth and housed in slipcase. Two of the volumes still with the original glassine wrapper. There are no ownership or other marks in the books. ~~Of this edition, the Nevins Bibliography notes approvingly: "Superior in two respects to the recently published Proceedings; this work was compiled by ~Wyatt M. Elliot, the official printer, and it contains... Read More
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![[FENS] [ENGLAND] AN ANSWER TO A BOOK INTITULED “AN INQUIRY INTO FACTS AND OBSERVATIONS ... INTO THE PRINCIPLES OF A BILL INTENDED TO BE OFFERED TO PARLIAMENT, FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE GREAT LEVEL OF THE FENS ... WHEREIN THE CLAIM OF THE ADVENTURERS ON THE NAVIGATIONS, FOR ASSISTANCE IN DRAINING AND PRESERVING THE FENS, IS IMPARTIALLY INQUIRED INTO ..](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/489/441/1576441489.0.l.jpg)
[FENS] [ENGLAND] AN ANSWER TO A BOOK INTITULED “AN INQUIRY INTO FACTS AND OBSERVATIONS ... INTO THE PRINCIPLES OF A BILL INTENDED TO BE OFFERED TO PARLIAMENT, FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE GREAT LEVEL OF THE FENS ... WHEREIN THE CLAIM OF THE ADVENTURERS ON THE NAVIGATIONS, FOR ASSISTANCE IN DRAINING AND PRESERVING THE FENS, IS IMPARTIALLY INQUIRED INTO ..
London: H. Goldney for T. Cadell in the Strand, 1778. Quarter Leather. Very Good binding. 8vo.; in later quarter calf over contemporaray marbled boards, with the spine lettered in gilt, and with new endpapers; 130 pages.~~It appears that Parliament had gotten quite exercised on the issue of draining the fens. Very Good binding.
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BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW: Volume XVIII - Containing Life Sketches of Leading Citizens of PLYMOUTH COUNTY Massachusetts
Boston: Biographical Review Publishing Company, 1897. First Edition. Hard Cover. near Very Good binding. 638pp. Rare; copiously illustrated with black and white photos of prominent citizens; no pencil or ink markings evident in text; black leather binding, light edge wear to extremities; re-backed;. near Very Good binding.
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![[[THEATER] MOVIE STILLS; PHOTOGRAPHS] DIXIE. CHRONICLES OF AMERICA. 1924](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/444/829/1266829444.0.l.jpg)
[[THEATER] MOVIE STILLS; PHOTOGRAPHS] DIXIE. CHRONICLES OF AMERICA. 1924
Yale University Press, 1924. Two 8 x 10” movie stills from “Dixie”, one of The Chronicles of America Photoplays, a series undertaken by the Yale University Press as attempt to translate their history books of the same name into film. The two stills show the beginning and end of the Civil War -- “With gay confidence, the South toasts the success of the cause” and “At Appomattox. A mark of respect to General Lee, beloved leader and valiant general”.... Read More
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![[SAMMELBAND] VIRGINIA ISSUES 1848-1892. 19 PAMPHLETS BOUND TOGETHER IN ONE](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/541/061/1298061541.0.l.jpg)
[SAMMELBAND] VIRGINIA ISSUES 1848-1892. 19 PAMPHLETS BOUND TOGETHER IN ONE
1892. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. A collection of 19 Virginia pamphlets, published from the 1840’s to the early 1890s. Being three female college catalogues, nine ‘Proceedings’ of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Virginia, three issues of the ‘Educational Journal of Virginia,’ a Senate document on ‘Improvements to the State of Virginia’ (1848), an early Reconstruction-era ‘Constitution of Virginia’ (1867), a document on Senate elections and ‘the Virginia debt question’ (1881), and an ‘Annual Message’ of the Gov.... Read More
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![[RELIGION] THE REPORT OF THE WESLEYAN METHODIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY; 1819. | ACCOUNT OF DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS TO THE WESLEYAN MISSION-FUND; FROM THE ACCOUNTS TRANSMITTED BY THE SECRETARIES OF THE SEVERAL AUXILIARY AND BRANCH SOCIETIES](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/921/374/1250374921.0.l.jpg)
[RELIGION] THE REPORT OF THE WESLEYAN METHODIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY; 1819. | ACCOUNT OF DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS TO THE WESLEYAN MISSION-FUND; FROM THE ACCOUNTS TRANSMITTED BY THE SECRETARIES OF THE SEVERAL AUXILIARY AND BRANCH SOCIETIES
London: Printed for the Missionary Society, by Benjamin Bensley, 1820. Disbound. Fair binding. An extensive list and history of missions, organized by geographic region, in the year 1819. Also with financial records of the Wesleyan mission-funds, with statements for the origin and amounts of funding, broken down by county. The Wesleyan Missionary Society, or English Wesleyan Mission, was involved in sending missionary workers to various countries in the 19th century. Lacking the paper covers. xix, [1], 68, [88]... Read More
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![[AMERICANA] NEW YORK DAY AND NIGHT](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/444/462/1265462444.0.l.jpg)
[AMERICANA] NEW YORK DAY AND NIGHT
New York: Harry D. Copp, 1939. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. A pocket guide book for New York and the World’s Fair, in 1939. With a folding map of the World’s Fair. Housed in the publisher’s paper sleeve. Very Good binding.
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SHOP TALK. OFFICIAL ORGANIZATION BULLETIN OF THE MISSISSIPPI A. AND M. COLLEGE. JULY 1918 THROUGH JANUARY 1919. VOL. IV, NO. 1, TO VOL. VI, NO. 2
Mississippi: Mississippi A. and M. College, 1919. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. The weekly issues of Shop Talk from July, 1918 through January, 1919. The typewritten bulletin of Mississippi A&M. With detailed information about the college, and statistics from the World War I era. Text is somewhat faded throughout, with toning to the pages. Bookplate on the front pastedown, and namestamp on the preliminaries. Green buckram with gilt lettering. Paper covers bound in. Very Good binding.
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![[MILITARY] ARTILLERY FOR THE LAND SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES. 12 PDR GUN NAPOLEON #20. 1849 - 1865](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/092/054/598054092.0.l.1.jpg)
[MILITARY] ARTILLERY FOR THE LAND SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES. 12 PDR GUN NAPOLEON #20. 1849 - 1865
Port Huron, MI: Anitque Ordinance Publishers, 1984. Oblong 4to with coated card stock covers. Illustrated with facsimile diagrams throughout.
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[MINIATURE] ‘CARTA’ (LETTER)
Mexico: Trifon Lecturas, 1979. 2 ½” x 1 ¾” light blue tome titled ‘Carta (Letter)’ by Mauricio Charpenal published through Trifón Lecturas, reprinting an historical letter. Charpenal is the author of a 1970 book about miniatures in popular Mexican art. The intro states that this letter was written by Niceto de Zamacois, a Spanish/Mexican historian, journalist, novelist, and poet. ~~Per Charpenal, Zamacois originally published it in in an 1861 periodical, ‘El Jarabe’. ‘El Jarabe’ translates loosely to ‘medicine’, as... Read More
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THE LITTLE HOUSEWIFE. | BIBLE STORIES. (ONE VOLUME)
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1880. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. First Edition of The Little Housewife, together with Bible Stories, in one volume. Separate pagination. Illustrated title page for The Little Housewife, frontispieces, and additional illustrations throughout, many full page. Blindstamp, and faint contemporary owner’s name on the front board. Toning to the spine, and loss at the spine extremities. Decorative red cloth binding, with chromolithographic pastedown on the front board; gilt and black... Read More
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![[AMERICANA] [WOMEN] [THEATER] CABINET CARD OF MISS IRENE WOODWARD](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/851/543/1680543851.0.l.jpg)
[AMERICANA] [WOMEN] [THEATER] CABINET CARD OF MISS IRENE WOODWARD
Richmond, VA, 1875. Chicago, IL: 1880s. 6 ½" x 4 ¼". Fair.~~Cabinet card with printed signature of Miss Irene Woodward, "America's Original Tattooed Lady". Known as La Belle Irene, she toured America and Europe. She claimed variously to have been tattooed by her father or abducted by tribesmen in the "South Seas", she was actually tattooed by Samuel F. O'Reilly. Woodward's fame traces to the golden age of the "freak show", in which iconic figures considered strange by the... Read More
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![[CIVIL WAR] [CONFEDERATE PASS] PETERSBURG RAIL ROAD ONLY](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/070/188/1723188070.0.l.jpg)
[CIVIL WAR] [CONFEDERATE PASS] PETERSBURG RAIL ROAD ONLY
[Richmond]: Confederate States of America War Department, 1864. Very Good binding. 3 3/4” x 6 1/8”. Printed Confederate pass, dated in pen July 25, 1864, and issued to one “Master C. W. Montague” granting permission to visit Petersburg, and who swears on the verso printed “that I will bear true faith and yield obedience to the Confederate States of America and that I will serve there honestly and faithfully against their enemies.” It is signed by I. H.... Read More
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![STAUNTON MILITARY ACADEMY. CATALOGUE. [1936-1937]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/199/351/1344351199.0.l.jpg)
STAUNTON MILITARY ACADEMY. CATALOGUE. [1936-1937]
1936. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. A handsomely produced calendar for the Staunton Military Academy, which was founded which was founded by Confederate veteran William H. Kable, and which closed it’s doors in 1976. In blue paper-covered boards backed in darker blue cloth with titling in gold and a gold foil pastedown with a photographic image of a cadet. ~~This elaborate catalogue is 117 pages, with photographs throughout. It covers “Character and Purpose”. the structure of the school;... Read More
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![[VIRGINIA] [RICHMOND] SOUVENIR PROGRAM. THE 4th ANNUAL TOBACCO FESTIVAL. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. OCTOBER 16-18, 1952](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/463/859/1691859463.0.l.jpg)
[VIRGINIA] [RICHMOND] SOUVENIR PROGRAM. THE 4th ANNUAL TOBACCO FESTIVAL. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. OCTOBER 16-18, 1952
[Richmond]: N/A, 1952. Stapled Pamphlet. Very Good binding. Program for the 4th Annual Tobacco Festival game in which U.Va. and V.M.I. faced off at Richmond Stadium on October 18, 1952 at 1:00 p.m.; 56 pages; in printed wrappers, with many Richmond ads. ~~Uncommon relic of “Tobaccoland’s Greatest Annual Celebration”. Very Good binding.
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![[CIVIL WAR] PETERSBURG | CHANCELLORSVILLE | GETTYSBURG. [PAPERS OF THE MILITARY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MASSACHUSETTS. VOLUME V]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/659/776/1684776659.0.l.jpg)
[CIVIL WAR] PETERSBURG | CHANCELLORSVILLE | GETTYSBURG. [PAPERS OF THE MILITARY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MASSACHUSETTS. VOLUME V]
Boston: The Military Historical Society of Massachusetts, 1906. First Edtiion. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Small quarto; in the publisher’s blue cloth with insignia in gilt to the upper board and titling to the spine; vi, [vii, viii], [2], 3-442; followed by 4 maps in the rear of the book: “Cold Harbor to Petersburg”; “Petersburg Fortifications”; “Petersburg to Boydton Plank Road”; and “Battle of Boydton Plank Road”.~~There are 13 articles, from “Operations of the Army of the Potomac,... Read More
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![[CIVIL WAR] [CONFEDERATE PASS] TURNPIKES AND OTHER ROADS](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/073/188/1723188073.0.l.jpg)
[CIVIL WAR] [CONFEDERATE PASS] TURNPIKES AND OTHER ROADS
[Richmond]: Confederate States of America War Department, 1864. Very Good+ binding. 3 7/8” x 6”. Printed Confederate pass, dated in pen Nov. 17, 1864, and issued to one “Mast.C. W. Montague” granting permission to visit Gloucester and Hanover “subject to the discretion of the Military authorities”; Master C. W. Montague is described as 15 years of age, 5 ft. tall, with blue eyes and light hair, it is signed by I. H. Harrington, who was provost marshal of... Read More
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![[DIARY] [TRAVEL] ANONYMOUS EUROPEAN TRAVEL JOURNAL](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/808/105/1700105808.0.l.jpg)
[DIARY] [TRAVEL] ANONYMOUS EUROPEAN TRAVEL JOURNAL
1967. 6 1/2” x 4 ¼” x 1” green leatherette travel journal with gold ornamentation on the spine and cover. 93 leaves of lined paper headed with “Places Visited, Date, Place, and Weather”. About half full with handwritten entries in blue pen by an unnamed American female college student [almost certainly from Virginia] traveling through Europe with a student group. She pinned a signed pen drawing of her done on the back of a deposit check, which she annotated... Read More
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![[TURKEY] [COUP] EMIN M. B. K. ALBUMU. 27 MAYIS 1960](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/184/300/1497300184.0.l.jpg)
[TURKEY] [COUP] EMIN M. B. K. ALBUMU. 27 MAYIS 1960
Oblong 16 mo. (6 1/4” x 8”); in burgundy cloth with decorative stamping in gold and ruled in gold to the upper board.; [3], 90 pages; mostly photographs, almost in a yearbook style.~~A mostly pictorial history of the May 27 Revolution in Turkey, the firs military coup in the history of the Turkish republic. The “May 27 Military Intervention” or “May 27 Revolution” coup was not carried out within the chain of command and was executed by 37 low-ranking... Read More
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![THE POLITICAL STATE OF EUROPE, FOR THE YEAR 1795. CONTAINING AN AUTHENTIC AND IMPARTIAL NARRATIVE OF EVERY MILITARY OPERATION OF THE PRESENT BELLIGERENT POWERS. NINTH VOLUME [9]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/658/437/925437658.0.l.jpg)
THE POLITICAL STATE OF EUROPE, FOR THE YEAR 1795. CONTAINING AN AUTHENTIC AND IMPARTIAL NARRATIVE OF EVERY MILITARY OPERATION OF THE PRESENT BELLIGERENT POWERS. NINTH VOLUME [9]
London: J. S. Jordan, 1795. First Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. This volume contains the complete copy of the “Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, Between His Britannic Majesty and The United States of America”. 634 pp. plus “Index to the Ninth Volume”. Bound in diced half-calf over worn marbled boards; with rules and titling in gold to the spine. Boards have been discreetly reinforced at the gutters. There is loss to the top corner of the... Read More
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![[RELIGION] KOMMUNIONBUCHLEIN ZU EINEM GESCHENT FUR JUNGE TISCHGENOSSEN UNSERS HERRN JESUS CHRISTI](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/210/530/311530210.0.l.1.jpg)
[RELIGION] KOMMUNIONBUCHLEIN ZU EINEM GESCHENT FUR JUNGE TISCHGENOSSEN UNSERS HERRN JESUS CHRISTI
Burghart: Basel Und Gorlik, 1804. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Black paper-covered boards. Very Good binding.
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![[SCIENCE] THE TECHNOLOGIST: ESPECIALLY DEVOTED TO ENGINEERING, MANUFACTURING AND BUILDING. VOL. I. NO. 1-12. FEBRUARY THROUGH DECEMBER 15, 1870. | ADVERTISING DIRECTORY OF THE TECHNOLOGIST: A JOURNAL ESPECIALLY DEVOTED TO THE INDUSTRIAL ARTS. (ONE VOLUME)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/079/341/1249341079.0.l.jpg)
[SCIENCE] THE TECHNOLOGIST: ESPECIALLY DEVOTED TO ENGINEERING, MANUFACTURING AND BUILDING. VOL. I. NO. 1-12. FEBRUARY THROUGH DECEMBER 15, 1870. | ADVERTISING DIRECTORY OF THE TECHNOLOGIST: A JOURNAL ESPECIALLY DEVOTED TO THE INDUSTRIAL ARTS. (ONE VOLUME)
New York: The Industrial Publication Company, 1870. Hard Cover. Good binding. The first volume of The Technologist, an engineering monthly periodical, with twelve issues, index, and a large section of advertisements at the rear. Illustrated throughout, some full page illustrations. Two leaves with paper reinforcement to the fore edge. Fully rebacked with original spine laid down. Sunning to the spine and perimeter of the boards. Purple buckram, with gilt lettering and decoration. Good binding.
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![[SCIENCE] [ENGINEERING] NEWSPAPER CUTTINGS. A READY REFERENCE FOR SCRAPS OF PRINT...~](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/847/819/1291819847.0.l.jpg)
[SCIENCE] [ENGINEERING] NEWSPAPER CUTTINGS. A READY REFERENCE FOR SCRAPS OF PRINT...~
London: Marcus, Ward & Co.~. Late 19th century English newspaper cuttings album, chock a block full of steel engraved advertisements for well over a hundred pieces of equipment -- everything from engines for yachts, to steam ploughs, water heaters and revolving ventilators. 61 pp. The binder has been repaired and is quite sturdy.
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![[MINIATURE BOOKS] THE BOUQUET, OR SPIRIT OF THE ENGLISH ANNUALS, FOR 1835](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/463/455/1145455463.0.l.jpg)
[MINIATURE BOOKS] THE BOUQUET, OR SPIRIT OF THE ENGLISH ANNUALS, FOR 1835
Philadelphia: Thomas T. Ash, 1835. Full Leather. Very Good binding. A gift book from 1835. The Bouquet, or Spirit of the English Annuals. Frontispiece. Lacking endpapers; scattered foxing; personal inscription on the recto of the frontispiece. Embossed calf, with a chipped leather label on the spine. Gilt tooled turn ins. All edges gilt. Ribbon marker laid in. Uncommon, we locate only one copy on OCLC. Faxon 82a, p. 114. American Imprints 30593. (Faxon 82a, p. 114. Rinderknecht, American... Read More
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