Republic of China 1987: a reference book
New York & Taipei: Hilit Publishing Company [and] Highlight International, 1987. First edition, 8vo, pp. xx, 620; color illustrations throughout; fine in original pictorial laminate boards. General information about Taiwan, including its geographical features, government system and operation, territory under Taiwan's control, economy and finance, education, sports, cultural activities, social development, international relations, and a whos' who in the ROC, among other subjects.
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Eight Upanisads ... With the commentary of Śaṅkarācārya. Translated by Swami Gambhirananda
Calcutta: Advaita Ashrama, 1972. Third impression of the first volumes, second edition of the second volume, 2 volumes, 12mo, pp. [8], 408; [4], 515, [1]; fine copies in very good dust jackets. Volume I contains Isā, Kena, Katha, and Taittirȳa; volume II contains Aitareya, Mundaka, Mandukaya & Karika, and Praśna.
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The village harmony: or, youth's assistant to sacred musick. Consisting of psalm tunes and occasional pieces, selected from the works of the most eminent composers. To which is prefixed a concise introduction to psalmody. Thirteenth edition, corrected and enlarged
Newburyport: E. Little & Co, 1816. Oblong 8vo, pp. [5], 4-331, [3]; contemporary paper-covered boards; spine perished; sewn on suede thongs; covers rubbed; textblock toned; good and sound. A collection of woodblock-printed short spiritual numbers designed for youth choirs, schools, and performance societies. The introduction provides basic musical vocabulary and instructions for reading sheet music. American Imprints 39669; Metcalf p. 49.
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Routine, 1924
Baltimore: Published by the Senior Class, Johns Hopkins Hospital School for Nurses, 1924. 4to, pp. 111, [18]; illustrations throughout, blueprint floor plan, and 18 pages of advertisements, one in color, at the end; original gilt-stamped blue-black limp reversed calf, beginning to detach from boards, edges and corners bumped and worn; interior fine. This yearbook includes the list of students wounded, reported missing, and killed in action. Unknown print run. OCLC locates one copy in the United States, at the... Read More
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North Providence centennial. A report of the celebration at Pawtucket, North Providence, of the one hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of the town, June 24, 1865. With an address containing matters of local interest. Printed and published under the direction of the committee of arrangements
Pawtucket: Robert Sherman, printer, Main Street, 1865. First edition, 8vo, pp. 91, [1]; includes a "Centennial Address" by Massena Goodrich, p. [13]-52; Parks 2556; Sabin 55727. Bound with: Goodrich, Massena, Rev. Historical Sketch of the Town of Pawtucket, Pawtucket: Nickerson, Sibley & Co., 1876; pp. 189, [1]; Parks 259. Bound with: Bartlett, John Russell, A History of the Destruction of His Britannic Majesty's Schooner Gaspee, in Narragansett Bay, on the 10th June, 1772; accompanied by Correspondence Connected Therewith; the... Read More
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Boletin de estadistica organo de la Federacion Nacional de Cafeteros. Volumen V, Numero 25
Bogota: Federacion nacional de Cafeteros, 1944. 8vo, pp. 187, [1]; text illustrations, graphs and charts; 3 folding charts, 3 folding maps; paper wrappers printed in black and green; covers toned, top edge spotted, very good. Industry report from the coffee makers' federation.
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![Пам'яатаймо про винницю! / Pam'iataimo pro Vinnytsiu! [Remember Vinnytsia!]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/882/668/1446668882.0.l.jpg)
Пам'яатаймо про винницю! / Pam'iataimo pro Vinnytsiu! [Remember Vinnytsia!]
[Jersey City]: Ukranian National Association, 1986. 8vo, pp. 48; text in Ukrainian, text illustrations throughout, most of them graphic, depicting the aftermath of atrocities committed by the Nazi regime; fine.
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The Yunkang Caves. Compiled by the Committee in Charge of Cultural Relics and the Institute for the Preservation of the Yunkang Caves of Shansi Province
Peking [i.e. Beijing]: Cultural Relics Publishing Hoouse, 1977. First edition, square 4to, pp. [22], 107 photographs on plates, [12]; text in Chinese; fine copy in the dust jacket. This copy with the 30-page precis in English laid in. The Yunkang (Yungang) grottoes "are ancient Buddhist temple grottoes near the city of Shanxi. They are excellent examples of rock-cut architecture and one of the three most famous ancient sculptural sites of China" (Wikipedia).
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Vietnamese and teaching in Vietnamese in D.R.V.N. universities
Hanoi: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1968. First edition, 12mo, pp. [3]-130, [2]; near fine in original printed wrappers. Contains seven essays on the Vietnamese language.
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Schofield & Rhodes account book
[Providence], 1855. Folio, 25 manuscript pages in ink of accounts; stiff marbled paper wrappers; very good. An account book from the provisions business of Schofield & Rhodes in Providence. The business opened in 1855, at 118 Benefit Street with investments in foodstuffs and clothing from Thomas Harris Rhodes (1800-1876) and Albert G. Schofield (b. 1809). The account book shows items such as flour, sugar, tea, raisins, molasses, coffee, cotton sheeting, calico, etc. and the names of the purchasers. Albert... Read More
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The Psalms of David in Oriya
Cuttack: printed at the Mission Press for the Calcutta Auxiliary Bible Society, 1882. 12mo, pp. [193]; original green gilt-stamped cloth, unadorned spine, all edges red; minor shelf wear, Baptist Mission House Library bookplate on front pastedown; very good and sound. Reprint edition. Darlow & Moule 7164. Four in OCLC, only Harvard in the U.S.
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Official proceedings of the international commercial congress: a conference of all nations for the extension of commercial intercourse held under the auspices of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum..
Philadelphia, 1899. Folio, pp. [4], 442; plates (each with a series of portraits); good and sound, or better, in orig. blue gilt-stamped cloth; complete account of the 17-day event, with texts of papers submitted and biographies of the foreign delegates; ex-MHS.
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![Canotle Rannaga Kelekak. Delochet Roka [Canticles, Hymns and Catechism in the Tinne language]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/213/637/344637213.0.l.jpg)
Canotle Rannaga Kelekak. Delochet Roka [Canticles, Hymns and Catechism in the Tinne language]
Winnipeg: Free Press no-rodeneleketekteyar, 1904. 16mo, pp. 54; original limp pebble-grain black cloth; generally fine. Tinne, or Athabaskan, is a language family spoken primarily in the Northwest and Alaska.
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Relief panorama of the Rhine
Koln am Rhein: Hoursch & Bechstedt, 1935. Large "coloured printing" panorama ("No. 7") showing the course of the Rhine and all the sights from Koln to Mainz. Approx. 55" x 10", original blue printed wrappers; generally fine throughout.
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The Yankee. Vol. II. No. 17
Boston: published by True & Rowe, Friday, April 23, 1813. Approx. 19" x13¼", pp. [4]; 5 columns per page; removed from binding. Political miscellany, american gallantry with a narrative of an action between a schooner carrying guns and men and a British ship, army news, foreign news, marriages, deaths, poetry, agriculture-on the cultivation and manufacture of the woad plant, houses to be sold or let, adverts, piano fortes, permanent ink, leather boots, paper mill, and patent medicines.
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The blackbird's nest: a tale
Philadelphia: Johnson & Warner, 1812. 16mo, pp. 36; engraved title page, illustrations throughout; original stiff tan pictorial wrappers depicting on man on his horse, a shepherd tending his sheep in the background; fine. Shaw & Shoemaker 24883; Welch 104.1.
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Seventh Army German language training program
[Germany]: Seventh Army Educational Branch, 1960. Staple bound booklet, 10.5" x 8"; pp. 28; grammar, idioms, songs, word list, insignia, etc.; pictorial wrappers; light soiling, pen annotations, ownership note of "Brienze, A BTRY 1st TAB 26th ARTY"; very good. Adapted from the 4th Armored Division Language School Student Booklet. US Army War College only in OCLC.
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Rowfant Club yearbook 1966
Cleveland: Rowfant Club, 1966. Edition limited to 203 copies (this, no. 9), 12mo, pp. [6], 9-81, [1]; title page printed in red and black; portrait; original gray cloth-backed red cloth, spine stamped in gilt; fine, in a fine dust jacket. From the library of Kim Merker. Designed, printed, and bound at the Prairie Press, Iowa City, Iowa.
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Islamic carpets from the collection of Joseph V. McMullan
London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1972. First edition, large 8vo, pp. 59, [56]; exhibition catalog illustrated with 49 full color plates; green cloth boards with gilt lettering in front and spine; some discoloration to edges of dust jacket, otherwise fine.
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Catalogue of the library of the late Thomas J. McKee
New York: John Anderson, Jr., 1900. 9 volumes, 8vo; vols. I-V with frontispieces and tissue guards; facsimiles of the title-pages of books offered for sale; original printed pictorial wrappers; wrappers fragile with some chips at spines and edges, else a very good set. McKee (1840-1899) began his collection by focusing on books, journals, photographs and playbills related to the British and American stage and eventually expanded his interests to include English and American literature and American history. The sale... Read More
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Biblia, das ist: die Heilige Schrift Altes und Neues Testaments, nach der deutschen Uebersetzung D. Martin Luthers..
Germantown: gedruckt bey Christopher Saur, 1763. Thick 4to, 2 parts in 1 (O.T. and N.T.); pp. [4], 992; 277, [3]; collating π1-2, A-6H4, 6I6; A-2M4; text in double column; moderate toning and foxing throughout, and a bit of occasional waterstaining, several leaves with marginal tears, A3 with small loss to lower outer corner affecting the ends of 3 lines recto and verso, 4S1 with 2 minute paper flaws affecting a couple of letters, 6D2 with clean tear entering from... Read More
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Magie. Zeitschrift des magischen Zirkels von Deutschland. Jahrgang 43. For the year 1962, complete
Triberg: Verlag Magischer Zirkel, 1962. Small folio, containing 12 volumes in 11 (including 1 double volume), complete for the year 1962, pp. [8], 406; original wrappers for each issue bound in; publisher's red cloth-backed boards, near fine. With an annual table of contents, containing magic reports, reports from magic congresses, conferences, etc., descriptions of various tricks, innovations, club news, calendar of events, classified ads and advertisements, etc.
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Uniformen de alten Armee
Munchen: Waldorf-Astoria Zigarettenfabrik, 1925. Oblong 4to (approx. 11" x 11¾"), pp. [22] plus [26] each with 12 color stickers laid on, being illustrations of 312 distinct military uniforms as described in the preceeding 22 pages of text; very good in original red decorative wrappers. All stickers present.
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Catalogue of a valuable collection of books and pamphlets relating to America. With a descriptive list of Robert Clarke & Co's historical publications
Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co, 1893. 8vo, pp. [6], 274, 72; ex-library copy, in later half buckram over marbled boards, partially perished library label on spine, label residue on endpapers, stamps, good and sound.
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![Beretning om det 15de ordentlige Synodemøde i Iowa, Minnesota og Ostlige Distrifter og det 4de ordentlige Synodemøde i Pacific Distrikt af Synoden for den norsk-ev.-luth. Kirke i Amerika. 1898 [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/898/668/1446668898.0.l.jpg)
Beretning om det 15de ordentlige Synodemøde i Iowa, Minnesota og Ostlige Distrifter og det 4de ordentlige Synodemøde i Pacific Distrikt af Synoden for den norsk-ev.-luth. Kirke i Amerika. 1898 [cover title]
Decorah, Iowa: Der Norste Synodes Forlag, 1898. 8vo, pp. 55, [1];152, 66, 68, 82, [4]; text in Norwegian; three folding charts; black cloth-backed printed boards; each section with its own title page covering the districts of Iowa , Minnesota, East, and Pacific; boards and last 30 pages with extensive water damage and soiling, else good. A combined report of multiple synod meetings of the Norwegian Lutheran Church in America.
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