Tractatus de Divina Gratia
[Italy ? early 18th century]. 4to, pp. 390, [6]; text in Latin throughout, and divided into several different sections; contemporary full parchment, manuscript title on spine, sprinkled edges; covers splayed, light foxing, very good. The book includes the Tractatus and a theological dissertation on Grace as a First Act. The Tractatus is divided into three parts, with an introduction, five arguments (Disputatio) in part one, complete with objections and responses, a defense of St. Augustine's Doctrine of Divine Grace,... Read More
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![Memorial of inhabitants of the District of Columbia, praying for the gradual abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia. March 24, 1828. Referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia. February 9, 1835. Ordered, on motion opf Mr. Hubbard, of New Hampshire, to be printed, with the names thereto attached [drop title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/574/549/1459549574.0.l.jpg)
Memorial of inhabitants of the District of Columbia, praying for the gradual abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia. March 24, 1828. Referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia. February 9, 1835. Ordered, on motion opf Mr. Hubbard, of New Hampshire, to be printed, with the names thereto attached [drop title]
[Washington, D.C.]: Gales & Seaton, 1835. 8vo, pp. 10; removed from binding; very good. At the head of the title: "Slavery - District of Columbia." Includes 8 pages of names in triple column, over one thousand names in all. Not found in Afro-Americana or American Imprints. Cornell, George Washington University, Harriet Beecher Stowe Museum, Millersville Univ., and Cal State - Long Beach only in OCLC.
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The agricultural, manufacturing and commercial resources and capabilities of Minnesota. Being a brief description of the state, its history, progress and present condition of development, and the attractions it offers to immigrants. Published for gratuitous distribution by the State Board of Immigration
St. Paul, Minn: H. H. Young, Secretary of Board [of Immigration], 1881. 8vo, pp. 64; 28 wood-engraved illustrations throughout; original printed gray wrappers; slight chipping of the spine, some soiling but generally near fine. Notes on the natural resources, climate and temperature, population, Native Americans, water power, manufacturing, mining, agriculture, social life, laws, state lands, railroads, etc. and a historical sketch of the state. The president of the Board of Immigration at the time of publication was Governor John... Read More
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Buckeye cover standardized paper
St. Paul: McClellan Paper Company, 1950. Oblong 8vo, unpaginated; original linen-backed pictorial paper wrappers, light foxing and sunning to back wrapper, else fine; interior fine. Provides sample papers demonstrating color, texture, weights, and finishes, with a duplex color swatch at the back. "Butler Brands Paper" printed on the cover. Not in OCLC.
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Catechisme en Cris. R. P. Moulin, O.M.I.
Edmonton, Alberta: Imprimerie La Survivance, 1944. 16mo, pp. 63, [1]; 15 zinc engravings; fine in original green printed wrappers. Catechism in Cree. Translated by Pierre-Maris Celestin Moulin, O.M.I. A reprint of the 1928 catechism by Father Moulin.
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Japanese shunga album
[N.p., n.d.]. Accordion-bound album, 9.5 x 7 inches; 14 hand painted illustrations depicting a story between a fisherman and a young woman, with many erotic scenes; green cloth covers, title label, gilt edges; edges worn, some boards split.
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![宜蘭古文書 / Yi lan gu wen shu [= Historical documents of Yilan] nos. 3-5](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/978/357/1564357978.0.l.jpg)
宜蘭古文書 / Yi lan gu wen shu [= Historical documents of Yilan] nos. 3-5
Yilan: Yilan Cultural Affairs Bureau, 1998. Three issues, large 8vo, about 200 pages each; text in Traditional Chinese; facsimiles of documents with transcriptions; pictorial paper wrappers, fine. The Yilan Documents series is part of a larger series on Yilan historical monographs more broadly. Nos. 3 and 4 provide facsimiles of documents from the "Wujie Zhang family collection" between the Qing dynasty and end of the Japanese occupation. No. 5 provides facsimiles of local land deeds between the years of... Read More
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![冀县 地名资料汇编Ji Xian di ming zi liao hui bian [= Place name dictionary for Ji County]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/308/306/1568306308.0.l.jpg)
冀县 地名资料汇编Ji Xian di ming zi liao hui bian [= Place name dictionary for Ji County]
[Hebei: Hebei Province Place Names Office], 1983. First printing, 7.25" x 5", pp. [4], 12, [4]; six folding maps, 20 plates; text in Chinese; blue paper wrappers, light soiling to covers, inscription on flyleaf, very good. Ji County is a district in Hengshui, Hebei Province, in Central Eastern China. This volume serves as both something of an atlas and a etymological dictionary, providing demographic and historical information about places, as well as the source of their names. Harvard, Capital... Read More
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![中国戏曲志. 天津卷 / Zhongguo xi qu zhi. Tianjin juan [= Chronicle of Chinese Opera. Tianjin volume]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/819/857/1576857819.0.l.jpg)
中国戏曲志. 天津卷 / Zhongguo xi qu zhi. Tianjin juan [= Chronicle of Chinese Opera. Tianjin volume]
Bejing: Wen hua yi shu chu ban she, 1990. First edition, large 8vo, pp. [4], 3, ,[1], 1, [1], 1, [1], 13, [1], 539, [3]; 16 pages of plates, text illustrations, musical annotation; text in Chinese; full brown cloth, gilt title on spine, fine in fine red dust jacket and original slip case. The Chronicle of Chinese Opera was a nationwide project to record the history and current state of opera in every region of the country. It was... Read More
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The Book of Common Prayer, and administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the Church ... together with the Psalter, or Psalms of David
London: printed by Charles Bill, and the executrix of Thomas Newcomb, 1700. 12mo, unpaginated; bound with: The Holy Bible, containing The Old and New Testaments... Oxford: printed by the University Printers, 1695, with sectional title for the N.T. (with 17th century family inscriptions on verso); bound with: The Whole Book of Psalms, collected into English Metre, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others... London: printed for the Company of Stationers, 1700. Contemporary and probably original full brown goatskin, with... Read More
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American imprints inventory prepared by the Alabama Historical Records Survey Project division of professional and service projects work projects administration. No. 8 check list of Alabama imprints 1807-1840
Birmingham, Alabama: Alabama Historical Records Survey Project, 1939. First edition; 4to; pp. xv, [1], 159; near fine in original blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine.
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Jigsaw puzzle depicting Roy Rogers
N.p., 1950. Accomplished color photographic jigsaw puzzle (371 x 286 mm.) mounted to cardboard base depicting pensive television cowboy Roy Rogers of the Roy Rogers Show with his Palomino horse. Edges a bit scuffed, else very good. A child's level puzzle with the pieces cut into crude but familiar objects, including an airplane, a submarine, and a heart.
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Journal of the council during the second session of the Legislative Assembly of the territory of Minnesota, begun and held at St. Paul, on Wednesday, January first, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one. Published by authority of the Legislative Assembly
Saint Paul: James M. Goodhue, 1851. 8vo, pp. 224; original printed blue wrappers, neatly rebacked; some spotting of the text, but near fine copy printed by Minnesota's first printer. Martin 29. Sabin 49257 citing the1850 journal.
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Từ điển thuật ngữ khoa học kỹ thuật: Anh - Pháp - Việt / Dictionary of scientific and technical terms: English - French - Vietnamese / Dictionnaire des termes scientifiques et techniques: Anglais - Francais - Vietnamien
Ha Noi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học và Kỹ thuật, 1989. 8 x 5.5 in., pp. 534; alphabetical in English with indexes in French and Vietnamese; text in double column; printed paper wrappers; fine.
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The Nomadic Press edition binding
[Saint Paul]: Nomadic Press, n.d., 1990. Broadside (approx. 17" x 11") printed in red and black by Kent Aldrich; fine.
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New reading series. English history
London: W. Clowes & Sons; Numadz: reprinted by W. N. & Co, 1870. 2 volumes, fukurotoji, pp. 344 (continuous); printed title in Japanese on front pastedown, as issued; original buff wrappers, printed paper labels on both upper covers; wrappers soiled, ink stamps on title page; a good copy. Contains 85 chapters of English history, from Ancient Britain, to William the Fourth. Published under the joint sanction of the Committee of General Literature and Education appointed by the Society for... Read More
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Santa Fe and the Far West. Reprinted from Niles' National Register Vol. LXI, p. 209, December 4, 1841
Los Angeles: Glen Dawson, 1949. 16mo, pp. 26; 1/200 copies printed by William Cheney; a fine copy in original brown cloth with gilt-lettered spine.
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GERMAN LYRICS
Philadelphia: printed for private circulation only, 1892. First edition, 8vo, pp. [vi], 141; covers soiled, extremities rubbed, lower joint cracked, spine ends chipped to level of pages; good or better in printed pink boards. Presentation copy from author to Minnesota Historical Society. Lyrics translated into English; no texts in German. Ex-MHS.
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The human environment
Washington: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1972. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, pp. vii, [1], 171; vi, 109; original mustard spiral-bound wrappers; ex-Hill Library with usual markings; shelf wear, tear to rear wrapper of vol. II not affecting text, else good and sound. vol. I: A selective, annotated bibliography of reports and documents on international environmental problems; Vol. II: Summaries of national reports submitted in preparation for the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment. Environment Series 201.... Read More
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![マレー半島及シンガポールスマトラ要圖 / Mare Hantou Shingapooru Sumatora Youzu [Useful map of Malay Penninsula, Singapore, and Sumatra]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/135/415/1603415135.0.l.jpg)
マレー半島及シンガポールスマトラ要圖 / Mare Hantou Shingapooru Sumatora Youzu [Useful map of Malay Penninsula, Singapore, and Sumatra]
[Taipei]: Taiwan Governor's Foreign Affairs Department, 1941. Large folding color map in two sheets, each sheet 21.25 x 29.5 in.; showing roads, railways, cities, towns ports, shipping lines, and major resources such as tea, rubber and metals, insets of Singapore and greater East Asia; short closed tears and toning at folds, one small hole rubbed through paper in an ocean area, ex-library, with accession stamp and library seal (Possibly reading 台北東國寅字図書館) on versos. This map was one of many... Read More
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Allen W. Ward's Pills ... Allen W. Ward's life-saving buoy for ship-wrecked men. Swindlers exposed! A wide-open letter to that great army of weak men who have been hoodwinked and defrauded by the infamous rascals who disgrace the medical business
Avon, NY: Allen W. Ward, 1901. Broadsheet, approx. 19½" x 5½", with a wood-engraved illustration at the top, the text signed in print on the verso by H. O. Silver. Ten of these broadsheets are tied together with string at the top and I suppose were likely meant to be hung in a drugstore and made available one at a time to customers. Advertisement for Nervous Debility Pills, Ward's remedy for the treatment of the "annoying weaknesses of man,... Read More
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Republic of China yearbook 1989: a reference book
[Taipei]: Kwang Publishing Company, 1989. First edition, 8vo, pp. [4], xv, [1], 799, [1]; color illustrations throughout; fine in original pictorial dust jacket. General information about Taiwan, including its history, language, agriculture and fishery, transportation, energy, public health, mass communications and telecommunications, tourism. literature, government system and operation, national defense, and a whos' who in the ROC, among other subjects.
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Voyages round the world, from the death of Captain Cook to the present time; including remarks on the social condition of the inhabitants in the recently-discovered countries: their progress in the arts; and more especially their advancement in religious knowledge
New-York: Harper & Brothers, 1844. 12mo, pp. xvi, 17-401, [1]; original patterned brown cloth, gilt-stamped spine; spine chipped level with textblock; upper joints slightly cracked at top; corners rubbed; minor foxing; otherwise very good. Issued as no. 172 in Harper's Family Library series.
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![臺北帝國大學第臺回海南島學術調查報告 / ... Dai ikkai Kainantou gakujutsu chousa houkoku [= First Hainan Island science survey report]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/816/134/1586134816.0.l.jpg)
臺北帝國大學第臺回海南島學術調查報告 / ... Dai ikkai Kainantou gakujutsu chousa houkoku [= First Hainan Island science survey report]
Taihoku (Taipei): Taihoku Imperial University, 1942. Large 8vo, pp. [6], 588, [2]; 46 composite plates, plus text illustrations, and a folding chart; text in Japanese; full blue cloth; boards bowed, edges spotted, text clean with an addenda slip pasted on to title page and some plate images censored, possibly due to military sensitivities; very good in a torn but intact thin dust jacket. This survey of Hainan includes material on natural history, economics, agriculture, and ethnography, with images of... Read More
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The story of the war of 1898 told by W. Nephew King, lieutenant U.S.N. Illustrated from drawings in black and white, photographs taken at the front and paintings by the best artists. For the Army, O. O. Howard, for the Navy, Robley D. Evans
New York: Peter Fenelon Collier, 1898. Oblong folio, pp. 321, [1]; profusely illustrated throughout with 18 color plates (many double-page) after various artists, folding map, and many other black and white illustrations; original brown morocco-backed maroon cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover; front free endpaper miscreased, spine extremities a bit rubbed and scuffed, but the binding is sound.
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