Short History of the Royal Ulster Rifles
Belfast: James Moore Limited, 1930. Hard Cover. 12mo. 122pp. A series of 5 lectures in 9 parts (meant to accompany 50 slides - not present). Green cloth with silver embossing.
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an Address at the Inauguration of Joseph G. Hoyt, LL. D. As Chancellor of Washington University, Saint Louis, Tuesday Evening, October 4, 1859
Saint Louis, MO: Washington University, 1859. First Edition. Stapled Wrap. Very Good/No Dust Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 8vo., 84pp. The words of the new Chancellor are a rich combination of scholarship in past histories, and optimism for the Nation. The pamphlet is covered in stiff, library wrapper, with black cloth spine and white paper boards. Several pages have under-lining.
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Gothic Painting and Sculpture in Bohemia, in "Ceska Gotska Umetnost
Ljubljana: Narodna Gallery, 1979. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Czechoslovakian and English text. 8vo., 119pp. The essay on gothic art in Bohemia in two languages, followed by a long suite of color and b&w plates on paintings and sculpture. Bound in paper wraps, with Madonna and Child reproduction.
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Handbook of Chemical Warfare for Construction Battalions
Davisville, RI: Military Training Department, 1944. First Edition. Loose Leaves. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 43pp. Efficient breakdown of chemical agents, cleanup, and treatment in war conditions. String-tied leaves, with two holes for ring-binder. Black title on manilla paper.
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Guide and Souvenir of Noumea
Noumea, New Caledonia: Noumea. Stapled Wraps. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Stapled wrap, with folded interior pages (~3). Noumea is the capital city on the Main Island of New Caledonia, in the French territory in the southwest Pacific. The pamphlet appears to be ca. 1930. The folded interior pages are news print, and the outer wraps are black-lettered tan paper. This appears to be a rare piece of ephemera.... Read More
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Proceedings of an International Conference on Instrumentation for High-Energy Physics. Held at the Ernest O. Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Berkeley, California, September 12, 13 and 14, 1960
Berkeley, CA: Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, 1961. First Edition. Cloth. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 321pp. Collected abstracts and short descriptions of research. Photographs. Questions and Answers. Bound in yellow cloth boards, with tan, printed dust jacket (lightly soiled). Owner's name. Near Fine/Very Good.
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German Army Handbook April 1918
London, (1977): Arms and Armour Press. octavo. 186 pp. with an introduction by David Nash. Compiled by British intelligence, for restricted official issue by the General Staff, German Army Handbook, is a comprehensive assessment of the German Army during the latter stages of the First World War. Illustrated, with diagrams, charts, tables and maps. It provides a detailed breakdown of the army, covering all aspects from recruiting and training, mobilization, command and organization, weapons and signals to transportation, medical... Read More
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Announcement of the Graduate School of Harvard University 1895-96
Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1895. First Edition. Stapled Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 8vo., 63pp. Graduate catalog, including calendar, faculty, scholarships, and fellowships. This catalog also includes a list of 1895 graduates, with their former college, Harvard department and thesis title. List of current resident graduate students. Bookplate. Wrapped in heavy card stock and bound in black Library tape.
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Islamic Art from the Collection of Edwin Binney 3rd
Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, 1966. First Edition. Octavo. (approx. 45pp.) Annotated checklist of Persian and Indian Islamic art, circulated by the Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibit service, 1966-1968. Color plates, and B&W reproduction. Laid in :Addenda: Supplemented Introduction by Edwin Binney, III, with additions to the catalogue. In light brown paper wraps, with black title on spine and front panel.
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Vernichtung Der Juden in Litauen: Tatsachen Aus Den Jahren 1941-1945
Tel Aviv, 1959. Stapled Wrap. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. German text. 4to., 57pp. Collected photographs and personal memoirs of the persecution of Jews in Lithuania by the Nazi. The text is typed and mimeographed. Some of the photgraphs were taken by Nazis. In white printed wraps, with pencil sketch of two Jewish men on front cover. The green cloth spine has dried and cracked and mostly flaked away.
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Life of John Knox the Scottish Reformer
Edinburgh: William Oliphant, 1824. 12mo. portrait frontispiece, 178pp., bound in a beautiful brown polished calf decorated in gilt and blind, raised bands with compartments gilt decorated, black morocco spine label gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, early previous owners name William Edward Budden, only the slightest toning to pages otherwise a fine copy.
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L'ordinaire De La Messe Selon Le Rite Romain
Paris: Gruel & Engelmann, 1891. 16mo. half-title, 46pp. printed by D. Jouaust, uniquely bound in into a folding leather case, upper cover highly decorated in gilt, with a central area left blank for adding owner's initials? rear cover in blind, inside with two pockets and is lined in a very soft copper silk. A fine pristine copy.
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The Reign of Terror, a Collection of Authentic Narratives of the Horrors Committed By the Revolutionary Government of France Under Marat and Robespierre
London: Leonard Smithers, 1898. Octavo. In two volumes, written by eye-witnesses of the scenes, translated from the French interspersed with biographical notices of prominent characters and curious anecdotes illustrative of a period without its parallel in history. Vol. I. Inserted frontispiece, 258pp, Vol. II. inserted frontispiece, 247pp., bound in blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge cut, all others uncut, dark blue coated endpapers, spine a bit darkened, some very minor spots of rubbing or wear to spine... Read More
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Trees and Their Uses
London: Wertheim, MacIntosh and Hunt, 1862. First Edition. 12mo. First edition in book form, 82pp., bound in green pictorial gilt cloth depicting two palm trees, lettering gilt, spine gilt, brown coated endpapers, previous owner's presentation inscription, a very nice copy show just a bit of finger soiling.
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French Children's Board Game
Np/Np/nd(ca,1900). An un-mounted chromolithographed French children's board game measuring 11 1/4" x 11 1/4" square with a circular game which looks like a pie cut into wedges, the cuts contain six rows of black numerals against a pink background radiating from a central gold decoration, each slice incorporates a colorful character; Pierrette, Arlequin, Me. Policheinel, Perrot, Colombine and Polichinel. Corners of the square with a triangular design. An unusually fine, bright piece.
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A Memorial of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Incorporation of the Town of Barre, June 17, 1874 Containing the Historical Discourse of Rev. James W. Thompson of Boston (Jamaica Plain).
Cambridge, MA: John Wilson and Son, 1875. Hardcover. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 281p. ex-library copy with clean text and the huge folding map of the town in very good condition. Some flaking on outer edges not extending to text. Contains the reminiscences of the town in the early 19th century. 253-256 list hundreds of people who held offices in the town. A fascinating look back at the... Read More
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Cast and Carved; American Sculpture, 1850-1950
New York: Gerald Peters Gallery, 2004. Original Paper Wrps. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 151p. Artist Index. One of the best representations of Art from the mid-19th Century on with all genres represented.
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The Sisters of Orleans; a Tale of Racial and Social Conflict
New York: Putnams, 1871. Cloth Hard Cover. Good. Octavo. 341p. Sabin, Bibliotheca Americana, 1500-1826 includes this as an important book on race set forth as a novel but was a powerful indictment of racism (it was reprinted in 1972 by Books for Libraries.] Issued in a small print run and full of the ways African-Americans were viewed in the North just six yers after the end of the Civil War. The language has... Read More
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The Banditti of the Rocky Mountains and Vigilance Committee in Idaho, an Authentic Record f Startling Adventures in the Gold Mines of Idaho
Minneapolis: Ross & Haines, Inc, 1964. Octavo. 190pp., written anonymously, with notes and bibliography by Jerome Peltier. An eye witness account of the crimes of the Slade gang and originally published prior to the better known "Vigilantes of Montana" by Thomas J. Dimsdale, first issued in 1866.bound in light brown cloth, spine lettering black. A handsome copy, fine in nearly fine clipped pictorial dust jacket lightly rubbed at foot.
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Diego Velaskez [Diego Velásquez] : biografiia-kharakteristika : s 4-mia illiustratsiiami
St. Petersburg, 1913. Fragile. 18mo (6"x4"). 59p. Russian Text. Only recorded copy is in the Grushnikov collection of children's books at the Library of Congress. As in the case of this work on Velasquez, other in the collection dealt with Degas, Picasso, Rodin, and others. These art texts would have been the kind of reading for the aristocratic classes' children in pre-Revolutionary Russia. Very few have survived. This copy... Read More
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Regulations of the Amry of the United States, 1895
Washingon, DC: Government Printing Office, 1895. Original Cloth. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 303p. index. Copy belonged to Edward P. Coleman, 2nd Lt, Company I, 5th Mass. Inf. USV. dated June 28, 1898. Purchased from W.B. Clarke Co, Booksellers, Boston (their label is on front endpaper) just two days before the company was sent to camp for training in preparation for service in the Spanish-American War. ... Read More
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The Adventures of the Little Woman Her Dog and the Pedlar
London; nd [ca. 1840]: J. L. Marks. 12mo. (8)pp. with several hand colored plates printed only on one side, bound in pictorial printed wrappers, previous owner's name dated 1840, some darkening to edges and soiling, spine with separation. A good copy of this very scarce, fragile and very early hand-colored children's poetry book locating only 3 copies via OLC.
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Souvenir Book of Beautiful Detroit
(Detroit: A.C. Dietsche) nd. (ca. 1909). Oblong Quarto. 24p. 47 color images of Detroit in its golden era (circa 1909). These beautiful souvenior books were printed by A.C. Dietsche and sold in his postcard shop on Woodward Avnue. Along with the many beautiful images, he shows us the building on Woodward Aveue where his large postcard and stationery were sold. Also one of the pictures shows a picture of The... Read More
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Prix De West; 2006 Invitational Art Exhibition
National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. Original Paper Wrps. Very Good. 212p. A very scarce invaluable reference item with over ninety of the leading Western artists with picture of artist and a biographical history along with a full color page of one of their works of art. These items are scarce since they were issued in a small print run for the major artists, the membership of 215 of the Prix de West, and the... Read More
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History of the Vermont Press in The Vermonter, XI, 1 (August 1905), Tenth Anniversary Issue
St. Albans, Vermont: Charles D. Forbes. 40p. The most important history of Vermont newspapers from the 1780's when there were three to the greatest period of expansion in the 1880's when there were with the advent of technology 59. By 1905 there were less than 10. Besides listing all of the early presses, there are photographs of the editors, examples of the great varieties of typeface (including those with logos), the subjects of interest in... Read More
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