Search Results: American History from Rickaro Books Ltd

Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 64mo - up to 3" tall. A collection of 12 miniature photographs in an attractive card wrapper. All 12 photos are in very good condition being clean, bright and clear. Undated but c. 1930s. Photos are: Rydal Water, Grasmere from Red bank, Buttermere, Coniston Lake and Village, Windermere Lake and Langdale Pikes, Kirkstone Pass & Brothers water, Waterhead lake Winderemere from Loughrigg, Bassenthwaite lake and Skiddaw, Keswick and Derwentwater, Thirlmere & Helvellyn from western road, Bowness and Belle Isle from Furness Fells..

London: MacDonald and Jane's, 1974. Book. Very Good. Hardback. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A very good, clean copy of this reprint of the 1928 edition of the study of the whaling industry, America, 355pp.

London: Printed for R. Sayer and J. Bennett, 1776. Book. Very Good. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Here we feature the elusive so called "Holster Atlas", The American Military Pocket Atlas; being an Approved Collection of Correct Maps, Both General and Particular, of the British Colonies; Especially Those which Now Are, or Probably May Be the Theatre of War: Taken Principally from the Actual Surveys. This is the first edition, published in 1776 by Sayers and Bennet, containing all the six maps as called for, all in first state. vi-viiipp. dedication letter and Advertisement + list of maps; with six folding engraved maps with original outline colour, all in first state. Bound in original marbled boards with calf spine with green leather title label, the heraldic bookplate of Heinrich Johann, Freiherr von Gudenus dated 1891 on front pastedown. Known as the 'Holster Atlas' this work was designed for British cavalry officers for use in the… Read More

Philadelphia: Ray Rilling Arms Books, 1965. Book. Fine. Hardback. Signed by the Author. Revised Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A very good copy in d/w. A signed presentation copy to the noted arms and armour historian Claude Blair. 286pp+ 60pp..

Mankato: The Free Press Printing Company, 1895. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A good copy in original green cloth with gilt title to spine and emossing to boards. Bumped corners and binding beginning to loosen. Internally clean and sound.This is a dual language edition packed with photographs of the Welsh people of Minnesota. 132pp + 306pp + Errata..

New York: The Free Press Printing Company, 1973. Book. Good. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A good, clean copy in brown cloth boards with silver title to spine. In fair d/w with losses to top of front cover, top of spine and bottom of rear with a large tear also to rear. In protective plastic wrapping. Possession stamp to bottom edge of the book. Internally bright, clean and sound. 458pp inc bibliography and appendices..

Chicago: Archon Books, 1967. Book. Very Good. Hardback. Reissue. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A very good copy in d/w. A reissue of a book first published in 1942. 259pp..

Montreal and Kingston: Mcgill-Queen's University Press, 1993. Book. Fine. Hardback. First. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine copy of the Irish-Catholic community in the 19th century. 340p...

New York: Oxford University Press, Early English Text Society, 1965. Book. Fine. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine copy with a very good dust cover of Benjamin Franklin and the American Revolution, 285pp..

London: Harvard University Press, 1932. Book. Good. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A good copy in red cloth boards with gilt title to the front and the spine. Ex-library with usual possession marks to spine and title page. Sunned to spine. 575pp inc index.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A very good copy in original blue cloth with paper label to front board. Neat inscription of previous owner dated 1923. 369pp..

Oxford: Blackwells, 1995. Book. Fine. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine as new copy of this detailed account of the origins of the USA. 582pp..

London: Duckworth & Co, 1917. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. A very good copy in original grey boards, toning to paper as is the case with the first edition. Advertisement for Wright's Coal Tar Soap to last page. A fascinating novella, the time is the First World War, set around the atrocities of the German invasion, with fear of the unknown. Arthur Machen was the pen-name of Arthur Llewellyn Jones, a Welsh author and mystic of the late nineteenth early 20th century. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. 192pp.

Boston: George W. Light, 1838. Book. Good. Hardcover. Second Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A good copy of this early American cookery book. Bound in original green cloth boards that are rather marked but sound. Some scattered foxing. 424pp + 8pp advertisement of George W. Light books..