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Paris: Bossange Freres, 1824. 3/4 leather. Very Good +. 5 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches. 458 pages with foldout map of the Campaign of 1814. Pages clean with no staining, soiling or marking. Scattered light foxing. Title page bears the neat contemporary inscription in blue ink as follows: "[To] Baron von Neumann [From] Lady Georgiana Codrington." All page edges speckled rouge. Bound in 3/4 brown leather with marbled boards. Hinges starting, and boards with light wear. Fain was the secretary to Napoleon from 1806 to 1814, and his works are considered of primary historical importance - a "source de tout premier ordre pour l'histoire de l'Empire. This copy belonged to the family of the Duke of Wellington's aides-de-camp at the time of his Iberian campaign and the Battle of Waterloo. The giver of the book is Lady Georgiana Charlotte Anne Somerset (1817-1884), the second daughter of Major Henry Somerset, seventh Duke of Beaufort (1792-1853), and aide-de-camp to Sir Arthur Wellesley, the…
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J. S. Jordan. London. 1791 . THIRD EDITION. Small 4o.( 8 x 5.2 inches). x, 7-171pp. Printed part of the half title present but cropped to half an inch above and three quarters of an inch below the printed text. Title page with a small area, presumably a previous owners name excised, from the top of the leaf, otherwise all pages complete. Stab marks to the inner margins from a previous sewn binding but the current binding is certainly quite early, probably the middle of the nineteenth century. Burgundy roan leather spine without any tooling or lettering. Marbled paper on the boards. Boards are rubbed and bumped to the edges and corners. Neat previous owners bookplate to the front paste down endpaper. Overall a good copy of this early impression. ---- Third Jordan printing, after the exceedingly rare first printing by Johnson.
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Memoire de Contemporains, pour server a l'histoire de France, et Principalement a celle de la Republique et de l'empire [tr. Memory of his contemporaries as to the history of France, mainly in the Republic and Empire]
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Les Ruines, ou meditation sur les revolutions des Empires. Nouvelle edition corrigee.
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Paris: Desenne, Volland, Plassan, 1792. Hardcover. See Description. New and corrected edition [First edition printed in France]. 8vo. pp. xvi, 295, [1]. With plate depicting the ruins of Palmyra and 2 fold out plates illustrating 1.) the eastern hemisphere and 2.) the astrological constellations ( ceil astrologique des anciens). Bound in original pink paste paper boards - some wear to the outer hinges and extremities. Pages are clean; occasional speck of marginal foxing. Volney's book of meditations on the rise and fall of empires was influential on the Romantic movement and on the Hudson River school of painting. Chapters also discuss ancient religions and mysticism.
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C. Crispus Sallustius; et L. Anneaus Florus
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Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1773. First Baskerville edition. Leather Bound. Very Good +. 9 ¾ x 11 ¾ inches. 4to. [2] + 317 numbered pages (199-204, 228-229 misnumbered) with two feps at front and end, one set marbled. With armorial bookplate of Charles Percy, younger son of the 2nd Baron Lovaine of Alnwick. A little light foxing and toning mostly at extremities. Wide margins and clean leaves. Bound in striking contemporary full dark purple straight grained morocco with carefully detailed double gilt borders and gilt lettering and blindstamped decorations to spine. Spine lightly bleached and extremities lightly rubbed. ESTCT133320. An impressive example of the papermaking and printing that made Baskerville famous.
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[INSCRIBED] New Masses: An Anthology of the Rebel Thirties
by North, Joseph (Editor)
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Octavo (8 1/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 218 x 140 mm), 318 pages, in red boards, gilt titles to spine, in an illustrated, unclipped dust jacket.INSCRIBED by Joseph North, the editor, on the front end paper to artist Raphael Soyer and his wife Rebecca: "You were inspirers of this book. With love, Joe North." Inscribed and dated in the year of publication. A nice association: Soyer was a socialist realist artist who taught at the John Reed Club, the New School for Social Research, and the Art Students' League.
The book consists of fiction, reportage, and essays from the pages of New Masses, a left-wing literary magazine that was published from 1926-1948. With work by Ernest Hemingway, Muriel Rukeyser, Theodore Dreiser, James Agee, Kenneth Patchen, John Dos Passos, Dorothy Parker, Richard Wright, Nelson Algren, Federico Garcia Lorca (translated by Langston Hughes), Mike Gold, and Henri Barbuse, among many others. Numerous drawings and cartoons by Bill Gropper, John Groth, Gardner Rea, Mischa Richter, and others.… Read More
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AN UNSOCIAL SOCIALIST Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co.
by Shaw, George Bernard
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London: Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co.. Good+. 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, mixed state. Bound in original publisher's red cloth, stamped in gilt on spine and covers, brown endpapers. 256pp. Publishers name spelled correctly on spine (Sonnenschein) , previous work shown correctly, no six page appendix. Text tight, clean & intact. Spine slightly darkened, spine ends & corners lightly rubbed and faded area on rear cover. Interior 1/2" of front free endpaper has been glued to the fixed endpaper. Literature. ; Thin 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 256 pages .
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A Historical Collection of the Several Voyages and Discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean
by Alexander Dalrymple
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Israel / Da Capo, 1967. Facsimile Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: A4 (300 x 210mm approx.). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Original Glassene Wrapper. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Exploration; Antiquarian & Rare. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 8240. . This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.
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HISTORY OF THE REIGN OF THE EMPEROR CHARLES V.
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1782. ROBERTSON, William. HISTORY OF THE REIGN OF THE EMPEROR CHARLES V. With a view of the progress of society in Europe from the subversion of the Roman Empire, to the beginning of the Sixteenth Century. In four volumes. A New edition. Vol. I(-IV). London: Printed for W. Strahan; T. Cadell, in the Strand; and J. Balfour at Edinburgh. 1782. Later printing. Engraved frontispiece in each volume. Four 8vo. volumes: 479, + [20] index; [4],376; [4],460; [4],335, + [84] pp. index. Contemporary bindings of full calf, with a red morocco label and decorative gilt rules to spines. Bookplate of Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924), U. S. Senator from Massachusetts, at front pastedowns; ink ownership stamp of his great-grandfather, George Cabot (1752-1823), also U. S. Senator from Massachusetts and Federalist sage. A very good set overall. Text is mostly clean; although vols. 1 & 3 each have a few gatherings with heavy foxing. The bindings are edgeworn, darkened at spines and perimeters, with joints cracked and…
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Aula Tiberiana et Solerissimi Ad Imperandum Principis Idea; Cornelius Tacitus Monitis, Ex Annalium Eius Medulla Erutis et Loberiori Disceptandi Spatio Ad Nostri Aevi Usum Accomodatis Civilem in Orchestram et Militarem Productus
by Lentulus, Cyriacus (1620-1678)
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Herbornae Nassoviorum: Corvinius, 1663. 12mo. 483p. The German political philosopher who earlier had traced the work of Augustus here further develops his ideas from his earliest work at Herborn before this professorship at Marburg where his attacks upon Descartes and Grotius became polemical and influenced most Protestant scholars for succeeding generations. Schweiger, Handbuch der Classichen Bibliographie 1040. Title page has printer's device. There is a closed tear of 1/2" on title page else a near fine copy with clean text bound in full vellum, lettering to spine fading.
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Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican: A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of that Country from the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time. With a View of the Ancient Aztec Empire and Civilization; A Historical Sketch of the Late War: and Notices of New Mexico and California
by Mayer, Brantz
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Hartford, CT: S. Drake and Company, 1853. Third Edition. Hardcover. In two volumes. 433pp, 398pp. Contemporary brown full leather with two leather labels lettered in gold on the spine. Illustrated frontispieces, inserted plates and numerous in text illustrations. Wear to extremities, toning to pages, some small stains to the edges of both volumes, previous owner's name on page 13. A good+ set. Sabin 47100. ; Octavo.
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Black Manhattan, 1st edition, Second printing dated August 1930 (first was in July), in Beige Dustjacket Titled in Red, story of the Negro African American in New York. This work celebrates the Social
by James Weldon Johnson, Harlem Renaissance figure,, + 13 illustrations and decorative endpapers, (1871-1938) was an accomplished educator, diplomat, editor, and NAACP organizer
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Alfred A. Knopf, New York,, 1930. HBDJ, 1930, 1st edition, Second printing dated August 1930 (first was in July) VG/VG, decorative cloth boards, "W. E. DuBois Prize Edition" on the DJ front panel, DJ price-clipped with edgewear. Illustrated green & brown chains with Red Lettering ,This work celebrates the social and cultural history of the black community in Manhattan from the year 1626 to the 1920s. author was a promoter of the Harlem Renaissan ce. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.
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Collectible Dolls: Facts & Trivia Volume One
by Bennett, Betty O
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Light shelfwear to edges. Glossy covers. Clean interior pages free of markings. 152 pages. 0.3" X 6" X 4.5" 1cmX 15X11cm Facts and trivia about collectible dolls such as many dolls made between 1700 and 1780 were called Queen Ann dolls, the first manufactured dolls to look like a baby were made by Madame Augusta Montanari, and the swivel socket neck was invented in 1861 by Mme. Huret in France.
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Kovels' Know Your Antiques
by Ralph Kovel; Terry Kovel
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364 Pages. This fascinating reference book on antiques' dust jacket has a repaired tear on the front side and worn areas along the top and bottom edges and on its corners. The interior book, other than having an inscription to the former owner inside the front cover, has no other visible markings and thus is in extremely well preserved and Fine condition.This book will be carefully wrapped up and then boxed and shipped right away to you from here in New Jersey and comes with our absolute appreciation for your order.
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Forced Native Labor in Sixteenth Century Central America
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xvi+469 pages with appendix and bibliography. Royal octavo (9" x 6") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First editionFocusing on the fate of the natives under Spanish rule, the author traces in graphic detail the rupturing of Indian traditions and the fate that befell the Indian people. While demonstrating the excesses of the conquistadors and unscrupulous crown officials, he also emphasizes that Central America was the scene of the first attempt to apply the famous New Laws. Although that legislation was not fully implemented, the reformist judge Alonso Lopez de Cerrato made significant improvements in labor conditions, in the face of furious opposition from the Spanish settlers. Aside from it discussion of labor practices, this account deals with population figures and the extent of the slave trade, and corrects a number of errors in traditional sources. In addition, Spanish Indian policy, particularly at the local level, is examined…
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The Natyasastra - A Treatise on Hindu Dramaturgy and Histrionics Ascribed to Bharata-Muni, Volume I (Chapters I-XXVII)
by Ghosh Manomohan
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Calcutta : Royal Asiatic Society, 1950. Hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. Volume I only. Rebound in modern gray cloth. Pencil marginalia. Stamp to final text pages. Lacking original wraps.
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Moose Fort Journals 1783-85
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xxx+392+iv pages with 3 fold out maps, appendixes and index. Royal octavo (9½" x 6½")issued in blue cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Edited by E.E. Rich, Assisted by A.M. Johnson. Introduction by G.P. de T. Glazebrook. Hudson Bay Record Society volume XVII. Number 1549 of a limited edition.A fort was built near the mouth of the Moose River on James Bay North East Ontario, Canada, by Charles Bayly, governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, in the early 1670s. In the struggle between the English and French in Canada, the fort changed hands several times and shortly after 1696 was destroyed. In 1730 the company built a post close to the ruins of the original fort. This post has been in continuous operation to the present day. This is the first publication of the Record Society to deal specifically with affairs at the "Bottom of the Bay."Condition:Pages unread. A very good to fine copy without jacket as issued.
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Archivo Historico de Queretaro: Nicolas de San Luis Funda HUIMILPA, Queretaro en 1529
by Jose Maria Reyes from the library of professor George M Foster
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45 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") issued in wrappers. Edited by Luis Vargas Rea. From the library of professor George M Foster. First edition limited to 100 copies.George McClelland Foster, Jr born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on October 9, 1913, died on May 18, 2006, at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, where he served as a professor from 1953 to his retirement in 1979, when he became professor emeritus. His contributions to anthropological theory and practice still challenge us; in more than 300 publications, his writings encompass a wide diversity of topics, including acculturation, long-term fieldwork, peasant economies, pottery making, public health, social structure, symbolic systems, technological change, theories of illness and wellness, humoral medicine in Latin America, and worldview. The quantity, quality, and long-term value of his scholarly work led to his election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976. Virtually all of…
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SOCIAL THEORY AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE ENLARGED TO INCLUDE TWO NEW ESSAYS ON THEORETICAL SOCIOLOGY
by MERTON, ROBERT K. (Meyer Robert Schkolnick)
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New York: The Free Press, 1968. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. pp: [vi]vii-xxiii [4]1-702. THE FIRST EDITION of the 1968 Free Press publication. The copyright page states 'first printing'. Includes a preface to the 1957 revised edition. Robert K. Merton is generally considered the father of modern Sociology and a major influence in the study of criminology. This was his first book and has become established as a work of central importance in the social science. The 1968 edition includes the complete 1957 text and two new essays; "On the History and Systematic of Sociological Theory," and "On Sociological Theories of the Middle Range," This is a very good copy in a dust jacket with moderate edge wear, mainly at the top. There is some soiling and darkening of the spine. The jacket is now protected with a Brodart cover.
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The Elephant's Child: Just So Stories Series
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Kipling, Rudyard: The Elephant's Child, Just So Stories Series. 1942 First Edition Thus, Garden City Publishing. Beautifully illustrated by R.F. Rojankovsky. CHILDREN'S BOOK. Story Summary: "Because of his 'satiable curiosity' about what the crocodile has for dinner, the elephant's child and all elephants thereafter have long trunks." Used. VG condition/ No DJ included. Unpaged. 7 X 9 1/2
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A Pictorial School History of the United States to Which are Added the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution of the United States
by Anderson, John J
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5 Barclay Street, New York: Clark & Maynard, Publishers. Embossed stamped leather, worn at edges & aling spine, hinges are starting, light off-setting on title, text is clear, mostly very clean with moderate amount of dust soil basically to turning edges , solid. Includes many, many maps, prints, engravings etc., several full color maps including, EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI AS OCCUPIED BY THE INDIANS; EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI AT THE CLOSE OF THE REVOLUTION; DOUBLED COLOR OF PART OF THE SOUTHERN STATES; SOUTHERN WESTERN STATES (during Lincoln's administration: Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Illinois); Maryland & Eastern Virginia (Lincoln's Administration); EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI AT THE CLOSE OF THE CIVIL WAR; TERRITORIAL GROWTH OF THE U.S.; EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI AT THE CLOSE OF THE MEXICAN WAR; TERRITORIAL GROWTH OF THE U.S.; and more.WONDERFUL old & scarce collectible for anyone who loves maps! . Fair. Hardcover. 1873.
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Wu Feng, Companion of Head Hunters and Other Stories
by Bittinger, Desmond W
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Taiwan: Tunghai University, 1963. Pages clean, unmarked, binding tight. Covers mostly clean [just a little soiling at back cover only], extremities and covers with only a little wear, edges lightly browning. PO's name penned on title page. The other stories are: Brother's Valley and A City Which Could Not Be Taken. During a sabbatical leave from McPherson College Kansas in 1962-63, the author, an anthropologist, served as a Fulbright Lecturer in Formosa and in Pakistan. While in Formosa he lectured at two universities, did research among the mountain aborigines, and wrote the book, "Wu Feng, Companion of Headhunters". Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. . Not Stated Assumed First American Editio. Trade Paperback. Very Good-. 8vo - over 7 3/4 to 9 3/4".
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