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SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH: THE PRESIDING BISHOPRIC, 1943 LIGHT GREEN COVER, BLACK PRINT AND PICTURE OF MAN UNDER TREE IN BLACK INK ON FRONT. INSIDE BACK COVER ARE NOTES FOR PAGES IN PENCIL. CLEAN AND TIGHT THROUGHOUT. NICE PIECE OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY. FOR THE MORMON OR LOVER OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY AND DETAIL. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

NEW YORK: THE RONALD PRESS COMPANY, 1948 DARK BLUE COVER, WORN PRINT ON SPINE, FORMER OWNER NAME FRONT INDICATING HARVARD UNIVERSITY. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. GREAT DEAL OF INFORMATION. 16 CHAPTERS. HISTORICAL ORIGIN OF ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL INTRO, DEVELOPEMENT, INTEGRATION, FANTASY DREAMS HYPNOTIC, ANXIETY AND DEFENSE, NEUROTIC CONFLICT, NEUROSIS, PSYCHOTHERAPY, DILENQUENT BEHAVIOR, PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDERS, INJURIES AND BRAIN, PSYCHOSES AND PROBLEM OF SOCIETY. Abnormal psychology is the branch of psychology that studies unusual patterns of behavior, emotion, and thought, which could possibly be understood as a mental disorder. Robert W. White (19042001) was an American psychologist whose professional interests centered on the study of personality, both normal and abnormal. His book The Abnormal Personality, published in 1948, became the standard textbook on Abnormal Psychology. A historian in perspective, White did not focus entirely on abnormal psychology, but investigated the coping… Read More

SCRANTON, PA: INTERNATIONAL TEXTBOOK COMPANY, 1921 RARE BOOK, 2ND EDITION, COPYRIGHT WAS ORIGINATED GREAT BRITAIN. 1ST EDITION WAS 1910. THIS SECOND EDITION IS 63,000 AND 10TH IMPRESSION. NICE AND TIGHT WITH NO MARKINGS INSIDE, BROWN COVER, GOLD PRINT SPINE, TITLE ON FRONT, SOME SLIGHT FADED SMALL SPOTS FRONT, RED COLORING VERY NICE ON PAGE ENDS, 5 PAGES MEMORANDA AFTER MAIN BOOK, 16 PAGES ADVERTISING AFTERWARD. PICTURES, PRINT AND ART ARE VERY NICE INSIDE. TERRIFIC BOOK, VERY THOROUGH, A GREAT PRESENT OR COLLECTOR ITEM. A GREAT EDUCATIONAL TOOL. THIS PROVES KNOWLEDGE IS TIMELESS. 1776 BOOKSTORE, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

New York: THE HERITAGE PRESS, 1958 VERY NICE LOOKING GREEN COVER WITH DESIGN FRONT AND SPINE, GOLD PRINT SPINE. GOLD SLIP COVER WITH WEAR EDGES. EDGE OF PAGES SPECKLED DESIGN. ART OF ATLAS FRONTISPIECE. INTRODUCTORY ESSAY BY DUDLEY FITTS. COPYRIGHT BY GEORGE MACY COMPANY. NO INTERNAL MARKINGS. TIGHT, ART THROUGHOUT, PROVERBIAL EXPRESSIONS AND INDEX BACK. APOLLO, CUPID, BEOWOLF, HERCULES, PYGMALION, THE TROJAN WAR, ORIGIN OF MYTHOLOGY AND MANY OTHERS. Thomas Bulfinch (July 15, 1796 ¿ May 27, 1867 was an American writer born in Newton, Massachusetts. Bulfinch belonged to a well-educated Bostonian merchant family of modest means. Bulfinch's Mythology is a classic work of popularized mythology, still in print 150 years after the first work, Age of Fable, was published in 1855. TERRIFIC INTERESTING BOOK. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

BERLIN AND LEIPZIG: I.C.A. MAYER, 1786 RARE MEDICAL BOOK IN GERMAN, 10 COPPERPLATES AND GREAT DETAIL ON INTESTINES, MUSCLES AND LIGAMENTS. BOOK HAS A DARK BROWN COVER DESIGN WITH WEAR ON EDGES. FORMER OWNERS NAME INSIDE FRONT. THICK PAPER WITH LIGHT FOXING INSIDE. PAGES ARE TIGHT AND IN GOOD SHAPE, COPPERPLATES HAVE NICE ART AND ARE FOLDOUT. MAYER WAS A COURT COUNSELOR AND PROFESSOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE IN FRANKFORT. GREAT COLLECTOR ITEM. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

BOSTON: DANA ESTES AND COMPANY, 1890 GRAY COVER, BLACK PRINT SPINE, INSIDE IS TIGHT AND CLEAN WITH NO MARKINGS. VOLUME NUMBER III OF THREE, LIBRARY RAISED STAMP TITLE PAGE. BURTON WAS A SCHOLAR AT OXFORD AND WROTE THIS QUITE DETAILED WORK IN AN EFFORT TO HELP HIMSELF AND OTHERS. HIS PASSION FOR PSYCHOLOGY HELPED GUIDE HIM. NO DATE, CIRCA 1890. Robert Burton (8 February 1577 25 January 1640) was an English scholar at Oxford University, best known for the classic The Anatomy of Melancholy. He was also the incumbent of St Thomas the Martyr, Oxford, and of Seagrave in Leicestershire. Burton's Melancholy focuses sharply on the self; unlike Bacon, Burton assumes that knowledge of psychology, not natural science, is humankind's greatest need. His enormous treatise is considered "delightful" by critics; it examines in encyclopaedic detail the ubiquitous Jacobean malady, melancholy, supposedly caused by an excess of "black bile", according to the humour theory fashionable at the… Read More

GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1943 NICE LOOKING RED BOOK WITH BLACK PRINT ON THE SPINE, VERY INTERESTING PICTURES INSIDE FRONT AND BACK AND THROUGHOUT. FORMER OWNERS NAME IN FRONT, NO OTHER MARKINGS, NICE AND TIGHT. 52 WONDERFUL PHOTOGRAPHS THROUGHOUT OF ANIMALS AND TRAINERS. BOOK IS DEDICATED TO KAPPY A NEWFOUNDLAND DOG THE AUTHOR WAS QUITE CLOSE TO. THIS IS A WONDERFUL BOOK THAT DEALS WITH ANIMALS HELPFUL AND USED IN WAR WITH BEAUTIFUL PICTURES AND DESCRIPTIONS AND ACCOUNTS. DOGS, CAMELS, HORSES, DUCKS, BIRDS, ELEPHANT, PIGEONS, CATS AND MULES. VERY TOUCHING AND INTERESTING. FOR THE MILITARY AND ANIMAL LOVER. A UNIQUE BOOK. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

PHILADELPHIA, PA: J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, 1870 NICE LOOKING TWO BOOKS SET, LIGHT WEAR EDGES AND SPINE, BLUE LEATHER CORNERS AND SPINE. GOLD DESIGN AND PRINT SPINE, MARBLING FRONT AND BACK, MARBLING INSIDE FRONT AND BACK. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. INTENDED TO PRESERVE THE RECOLLECTIONS OF OLDEN TIME, AND TO EXHIBIT SOCIETY IN ITS CHANGES AND MANNERS AND CUSTOMS, AND THE CITY AND COUNTRYIN THEIR LOCAL CHANGES AND IMPROVEMENTS. EMBELLISHED WITH ENGRAVINGS BY T. H. MUMFORD. VOLUME I 609 PAGES, VOLUME II 641 PAGES. GREAT DETAIL. WONDERFUL BOOKS FOR THE HISTORY LOVER. John Fanning Watson (June 13, 1779 - December 23, 1860) was an Philadelphia antiquarian, a chronicler and an historian who became a professional writer. He is best known as the author of Annals of Philadelphia (1830). A bookseller, then a bank cashier by trade, he worked for the Germantown Bank, and Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown Railroad. As a young man he began gathering the reminiscences of elderly people, and collected them in… Read More

CHICAGO: THE BLACKBURN COMPANY, 1891 NICE LOOKING OLD BOOK, RED FABRIC COVER SPINE, DARK BLUE COVER REST OF OUTSIDE, FADED GOLD PRINT FRONT, RED HAS FLOWERS AND PRINT SPINE. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT, LARGE NUMBER OF CONTRIBUTORS, PICTURES ANDART THROUGHOUT. EXCELLENT DETAIL IN CONTENTS AND BOOK. WONDERFUL BOOK FOR THE STUDIER OF ART AND LIFE ITSELF. HOME, LIFE, ART, ETIQUETTE, ENTERTAINING, DRESS, GAMES, PARLORS, RULES, DECORATIONS, CHINESE ART, BEAUTY, FLOWERS AND MANY MORE TOPICS COVERED. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

MUNCHEN, GERMANY: R. PIPER & CO., 1913 VERY NICE LOOKING BLACK COVER, GOLD PRINT WITH GREEN ON SPINE, NO INTERNAL MARKINGS, TIGHT AND VERY NICE CONDITION. NICE GREEN INSIDE FRONT AND BACK. EDITED BY PAUL DEUSSEN, PROFESSOR PHILOSOPHY. WITH HELP FROM FRANZ MACKRAUER. VOLUME 10. GERMAN LANGUAGE. The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), whose pessimistic philosophy was widely known in the late 19th century in Europe and the United States, held that ultimate reality was nothing but senseless striving or will, having no divine origin and no historical end. Schopenhauer, Arthur (Danzig, 1788-1860, Frankfurt/Main), the radical philosopher of pessimism, who described himself as the only worthy successor to Kant, assimilated all the negative trends of a disillusioned age. Like Voltaire, he mocked at the optimism of Leibniz, writing in a highly readable style, which enabled him to draw a Dantesque vision of suffering, demonstrating ¿welcher Art dieser meilleur des mondes possibles… Read More

WASHINGTON: HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE, 1941 RESTRICTED NAVY NAVIGATION TABLES, HUDROGRAPHIC OFFICE PUBLICATION NO. 218. GREAT PIECE OF NAVAL HISTORY. ALTITUDE, ANGLES, AZIMUTH, SEXTANT, RHUMB LINE, REFRACTION, SEA HORIZON, DISTYANCE, RANGES OBJECTS, TEMPERATURE, CONVERSION. NICE LOOKING GREEN COVER, BLACK PRINT, GOLD LINE DESIGN, VERY GOOD SHAPE, SLIGHT WEAR OUTSIDE, CLEAN AND TIGHT WITH VERY SMALL INK MARK INSIDE BACK COVER IN CORNER. TABS ON ALL SECTIONS FOR EASY ACCESS. A hydrographic office is an organization which is devoted to acquiring and publishing hydrographic information. Historically, the main tasks of hydrographic offices were the conduction of hydrographic surveys and the publication of nautical charts. In many countries, various navigation-related services are now concentrated in large governmental organizations, sometimes termed "maritime administration" (however, the International Hydrographic Organization uses the term "hydrographic offices" for its member… Read More

WASHINGTON: HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE, 1941 RESTRICTED NAVY NAVIGATION TABLES, HUDROGRAPHIC OFFICE PUBLICATION NO. 218. GREAT PIECE OF NAVAL HISTORY. ALTITUDE, ANGLES, AZIMUTH, SEXTANT, RHUMB LINE, REFRACTION, SEA HORIZON, DISTYANCE, RANGES OBJECTS, TEMPERATURE, CONVERSION. NICE LOOKING GREEN COVER, BLACK PRINT, RED LINE DESIGN, VERY GOOD SHAPE, SLIGHT WEAR OUTSIDE WITH SMALL SMUDGE UPPER RIGHT CORNER, CLEAN AND TIGHT WITH VERY SMALL INK MARK INSIDE BACK COVER IN CORNER. TABS ON ALL SECTIONS FOR EASY ACCESS. A hydrographic office is an organization which is devoted to acquiring and publishing hydrographic information. Historically, the main tasks of hydrographic offices were the conduction of hydrographic surveys and the publication of nautical charts. In many countries, various navigation-related services are now concentrated in large governmental organizations, sometimes termed "maritime administration" (however, the International Hydrographic Organization uses the term "hydrographic… Read More

NEW YORK: WM. H. WISE & CO., INC., 1946 BEAUTIFUL BOOK, HEAVY WITH DETAILED EMBOSSING COVER, GOLD SOLDIER DESIGN OF ONE OF THE MOST WELL KNOWN SCENES IN WAR HISTORY. VERY LIGHT WEAR FRONT AND BACK COVER.
TOLD BY THE GREAT ADMIRALS WHO SAILED THE FLEET FROM NORFOLK TO NORMANDY AND FROM THE GOLDEN GATE TO THE INLAND SEA.
FORMER OWNERS BOOK LABEL IN FRONT, TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. TREMENDOUS DETAIL AND PICTURES.
BINDING DESIGN USED WITH THE PERMISSION OF THE SOCIETY OF MEDALISTS.
CONTRIBUTIONS BY U,S, MARINES, COAST GUARD, ACME NEWSPICTURES, PRESS ASSOCIATION, WIDE WORLD PHOTOS, INTERNATIONAL NES PHOTOS, BRITISH COMBINE, PLANET NEWS, BRITISH INFORMATION.
NICE INDEX IN BACK.
THANKS TO THE 3,500,000 MEN AND WOMEN OF ALL SERVICESWHO MANNED BATTLE STATIONS FROM THE RHINE RIVER TO TOKYO BAY IN WORLD WAR II.
WONDERFUL BOOK DETAILING A MAJOR WAR IN HISTORY.
ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

PHILADELPHIA: HUBBARD BROTHERS, 1888 RARE BOOK, TERRIFIC PIECE OF HISTORY. GOOD SHAPE, WORN BUT STILL TIGHT AND VERY NICE ARTWORK. GREAT FOR THE COLLECTOR. THRILLING ADVENTURES, DARING DEEDS, HEROIC EXPLOITS, AND WONDERFUL ESCAPES OF SPIES AND SCOUTS, TOGETHERWITH THE SONGS, BALLADS, ANECDOTES, AND HUMOROUS INCIDENTS OF THE WAR. FORMER OWNERS NAME AND INSCRIPTION INSIDE FRONT. 9 ILLUSTRATIONS, NARRATIVES OF SPIES SCOUTS DETECTIVES, DARING ENTERPRISES OFFICERS AND GENTLEMEN, INCIDENTS OF ARMY LIFE AND HOSPITAL, DEEDS OF HEROIC COURAGE AND SACRIFICE. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

NEW YORK: FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY, 1894 Maud Elizabeth Charlesworth (September 13, 1865 ¿ August 26, 1948) later changed her name to Maud Ballington Booth, was an Salvation Army leader and co-founder of the Volunteers of America. She was born in Limpsfield, near Oxted, Surrey, England, the daughter of the local Anglican rector. One of three girls, she was a sister to bestselling romance novelist, Florence L. Barclay. The work of her parents in social issues led to Maud¿s interest for social welfare and social service. TERRIFIC BOOK, GREAT SHAPE, NO MARKINGS, DARK BLUE COVER, GOLD PRINT SPINE. CLEAN AND TIGHT. FRONTISPIECE ARTWORK OF MISS BOOTH IN A PARIS CAFE. HISTORY AND WORKINGS OF THE SALVATION ARMY. GREAT BOOK. 1776 BOOKSTORE, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

NEW YORK: CASSELL, PETTER, GALPIN & CO., 1881 RARE BOOK WITH CHILDREN ON THE FRONT PLAYING, COLORFUL, 4 SMALL LIGHT BROWN PIECES OF TAPE ALONG EDGE OF SPINE. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. BEAUTIFUL ARTWORK, HEAVY PAGES. WONDERFUL BOOK FOR A NICE CHILDREN'S STORY. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

NEW YORK: THE CHRISTIAN HERALD, 1899 LIGHT GREEN COVER, WHITE AND BLACK DESIGN FRONT AND SPINE, GOLD PRINT SPINE. FIRST EDITION, LIGHT FOXING INSIDE VERY FRONT AND BACK. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT, NUMEROUS UNIQUE AND ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS, INCLUDING FAC-SIMILE REPRODUCTIONS OF AUTHORS' MSS. INCLUDED IS INDEX TO SELLECTIONS, INDEX TO AUTHORS AND INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS. VERY INTERESTING LITERATURE SELECTIONS FROM FAMOUS AUTHORS, FAMOUS MEN, POLITICIANS, AND HISTORICAL FIGURES. LARGE NUMBER OF AUTHORS. FOR THE LOVER OF POPULAR LITERATURE AND HISTORY. Addison Irving Bacheller (September 26, 1859 – February 24, 1950) was an American journalist and writer. He founded the first modern newspaper syndicate in the United States. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

Philadelphia, PA: GENERAL COUNCIL PUBLICATION HOUSE, 1906 SCHMAUK WAS EDITOR OF THE LUTHERAN LESSON SERIES. THIS WAS PUT OUT AS A SIMPLE AND EASY BIBLE GEOGRAPHY IN THE LUTHERAN GRADED SYSTEM FOR INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLS. BY THE BOARD OF PUBLICATION OF THE GENERAL COUNCIL OF THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN NORTH AMERICA. SCHMAUK WROTE A PREFACE THAT IS INCLUDED IN THE BOOK ON NOVEMBER 10TH, 1905 FROM LEBANON, PENNSYLVANIA. VERY NICE PICTURES AND MAPS THROUGH OUT. Theodore Emanuel Schmauk, D.D., LL.D. (May 30, 1860 - March 23, 1920) was an American Lutheran minister, educator, author and Church theologian. Theodore Emanuel Schmauk was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the son of a Lutheran minister, Rev. Benjamin W. and Wilhelmina C. (Hingel) Schmauk. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, (class of 1883) being ordained by the Ministerium of Pennsylvania in that year. In 1897, he received the degree of D.D. from Muhlenberg College and in 1910, the degree of LL.D. from Augustana College.… Read More

NEW YORK: HERAUSGEGEBEN VON UMERIFANIFCHEN, 1863 RARE BOOK, NICE LOOKING BLACK COVER, DESIGN ON FRONT, GOLD PRINT SPINE, RIBS ALONG SPINE. LIGHT WEAR AROUND EDGES. PREVIOUS OWNER HAS FADED WRITING IN FRNT. NO OTHER MARKINGS THROUGHOUT. LIGHT FOXING FRONT AND BACK FEW PAGES. HEAVY BOOK, 3.58 POUNDS. INCLUDED ARE CARDS DATING BACK TO 1909, PLACE MARKERS AND HAIR TIED WITH RIBBON. aLL WERE IN THE BIBLE. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

CHICAGO: THOMPSON & THOMAS, 1891 Edgar Wilson "Bill" Nye (August 25, 1850 ¿ February 22, 1896) was a distinguished American journalist, who later became widely known as a humorist. He was also the founder and editor of the Laramie Boomerang. Some of his works include Bill Nye's Comic History of the United States, Baled Hay, Remarks, Bill Nye and Boomerang, Bill Nye's History of England, and Bill Nye's Red Book. Late in his career, he was briefly associated with James Whitcomb Riley with whom he wrote two books. NICE LOOKING DARK GREEN BOOK, GOLD DESIGN ON FRONT, IMPRINTED LETTERS ON SPINE. SOME WEAR WITH AGE- BUT GOOD CONDITION, ONLY MARK IS A SMALL RED CIRCLE INSIDE FRONT IN CORNER. TIGHT, CLEAN AND BEAUTIFUL ARTWORK. OVER 150 ILLUSTRATIONS, ABOUT NYES LIFE, FATHER AND JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING, QUITE HUMOROUS. LOVELY BOOK AND COLLECTOR ITEM. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.