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The Famous Parks and Gardens of the World, Described and Illustrated.

By: N/A

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, T. Nelson and Sons: 1880

Seller ID: 2200409

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Good

Deaccessioned Reynolds Library copy, usual marks, ink stamps on some of the engravings. Boards rubbed, endpapers and margins of a few pages lightly stained. 1880 Large Hardcover. 230 pp. Tall 8vo. Leather spine, gilt titles and rules, marbled paper over boards, marbled endpapers. A popular description of Remarkable Parks and Gardens, public and private, ancient and modern, interspersed with illustrative anecdotes and notes on the history of Gardening. Engraved illustrations throughout.
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Late 19th Century Photo Album

By: N/A

Price: $30.00

Publisher: N/A,

Seller ID: 2260190

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Hardcover with clasp. Front hinge split, boards lightly rubbed, three black-and-white images laid in. Unpaginated. Late 19th Century photo album. Hardcover with clasp.
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The Columbian Portfolio of Photographs of the Worlds Fair

By: N/A

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Chicago, The Jones Brothers Publishing Company: 1893

Seller ID: 2262613

Binding: Print

Condition: Very Good

23 unbound prints in hardcover portfolio. Pencil note and light stain on front board. Red stain along bottom left edge of photographs, a few light creases and faint spots to some photographs. The Columbian Portfolio of Photographs of the Worlds Fair. Includes 23 black-and-white prints.
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World of Fashion, Vol. I. II. III.

By: N/A

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Charles J. Peterson: 1842

Seller ID: 2276008

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Good

Hinges starting, address label on front endpaper, title and index pages missing, rear free endpaper loose but included, a few light stains on some pages. 1842 Large Hardcover. 188; iv, 188; iv, 192 pp. Three volumes in one. The Lady's World of Literature and Fashion, Vol. I. II. III. A collection of women's fashion and literature from the 1800s.
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume VIII [8], December, 1853, to May, 1854

By: N/A

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers Publishers: 1854

Seller ID: 2287641

Binding: Half-Leather

Condition: Good

Minor loss to spine, some pages lightly foxed. 1854 Half-Leather. viii, 864 pp. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume VIII, December, 1853, to May, 1854. Contents include: Aboard a Sperm Whaler; Chapter Upon Snakes; Cotton and Its Cultivation, by T. B. Thrope; Elephant Hunting in Ceylon; Fashions for December to May; Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin; Monthly Records of Current Events; Napoleon Bonaparte, by John S. C. Abbott; Pilgrims to Plymouth, by C. W. Philleo; School-Boy's Story, by Charles Dickens; Stories of the Huguenots; and more.
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume LXXIX [79], June to November 1889

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Borhters: 1889

Seller ID: 2287982

Binding: Three-Quarter Leather

Condition: Good

Some loss to spine and boards, edges heavily rubbed. 1889 Three-Quarter Leather. viii, 972 pp. Topics include: Art; Artists, American, At the Paris Exhibition; Artists, Our, In Europe; Bird Notes; Cathedrals; Chartres, the Cathedral at, the Building of; England; Fairs; Forests of the California Coast Range; France, the Religious Movement In; Germany, the Religious Movement In; Hamlet, a Century of; Irish Rebellion, the, an Incident of; Kremlin and Russia ARt, the; Negro, the, on the Stage; Russia, Social Life In; Surgery, Recent Progress In; Poetry; and more.
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University Museum Bulletin, Volume 7, Number 1, November 1937: Sherbro, Gabriel Paul's Treasure, Kourion, Tol-E-Bakun, Ptolemy II

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, The University Museum: 1937

Seller ID: 2289271

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Very Good

Wrappers lightly toned. 1937 Stapled Binding. 30 pp. University Museum Bulletin, Volume 7, Number 1, November 1937. A brief catalog of antiquities.
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The Museum Journal, University of Pennsylvania, March 1920, Vol. XI, No. 1 [Volume 11, Number One]

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, PA., The University Museum: 1920

Seller ID: 2289508

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Two one-inch tears along edges of front wrapper. 1920 Soft Cover. 80 pp. The Museum Journal, University of Pennsylvania, March 1920, Vol. XI, No. 1. For art. For science. For civilization. CONTENTS: Foreword; By Louis Shotridge: Ghost of Courageous Adventurer; By H. U. Hall, Fetish Figures of Equatorial Africa; By Stephen B. Luce, Attic Vases from Orvieto; By Stephen B. Luce: Ancient Helmets from Italy; By Wm. C. Farabee, A Newly Acquired Wampum Belt.
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume XXIII [23], June to November 1861

By: N/A

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1861

Seller ID: 2294775

Binding: Three-Quarter Leather

Condition: Good

Binding has been repaired, edges rubbed. 1861 Three-Quarter Leather. viii, 864 pp. A collection of articles appearing in Harper's from June to November, 1861. Topics include fox hunting, Central Park New York, fashions, Charles Dickens, insects destructive to maize, possum hunting, Stratford-Upon-Avon, and more.
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Francis Butler Simkins, 1897-1966: Historian of the South

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Columia, S. C., The State Printing Company: 1967

Seller ID: 2303057

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Signed by author with inscription. Smudge on front wrapper, ink name on front wrapper. 1967 Soft Cover. 85 pp. A pamphlet published by his family in memory of the Edgefield Native who spent his teaching career at Longwood College in Farmville, Virginia. Francis Butler Simkins (December 14, 1897 February 8, 1966) was a historian and president of the Southern Historical Association. He is best known for his highly praised history of the Reconstruction Era in South Carolina, that gave fair coverage to all sides, and for his widely used textbook The South, Old and New (1947) and his monographs on...
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Seaplanes and General Aircraft of To-Day [Today]

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Juvenile Productions Ltd.:

Seller ID: 2182156

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Good

Wrappers foxed. 18, [2] pp. Color illustrations and general specifications of nine early 20th century airplanes, including: Short 'Sunderland' Long-Range Reconnaissance Flying-Boat; Short 'Empire' 'C' Class Flying-Boat; Supermarine 'Stranraer' Flying-Boat; Supekrmarine 'Walrus' Amphibian; Airspeed 'Envoy' Passenger or Freight Carrying Monoplane; Avro 'Anson' Reconnaissance Monoplane; Airspeed 'Oxford' Advanced Training Monoplane; Fairey 'Swordfish' Torpedo-Spotter-Reconnaissance Seaplane; De Havilland 'Dragon Rapide' Passenger or Freight Carrying Monoplane.
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The R.O.T.C. Manual Infantry: A Text Book for the Reserve Officers Training Corps, 1st Year Basic, Vol. I (20th Edition)

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Harrisburg, Pa., The Military Service Publishing Co.: 1938

Seller ID: 2208425

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No jacket, front board lightly rubbed, ink name on front paste-down endpaper. 1938 Hard Cover. 398 pp. CONTENTS: National Defense and the Educated Man; The National Defense and the Reserve Officers' Training Corps; The Obligations of American Citizenship; Evolution of the Military Policy of the United States; The National Defense Act; Military Organization; Military Discipline, Courtesies and Customs of the Service; Military Sanitation and First Aid; Map Reading; The Rifle and Rifle Marksmanship; Leadership (Infantry Drill Regulations) Physical Training; Organization of the Infantry.
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Guide Book to Fort Ticonderoga: Held In Turn by France, Great Britain and the United States

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Vermont, The Stinehour Press:

Seller ID: 2267200

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Near Fine

No publisher date. Unpaginated. Topics include the fort at Ticonderoga, the stone fortress, the south wall, the French village, the interior of the fort, the west barracks, the bastions, the view from the ramparts, the canon, the museum collection, the restoration of the fort. Includes black-and-white illustrations.
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George Armstrong Custer and His 7th Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, 1876 (Montana Heritage Series, Number Seven)

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Montana, Montana Historical Society Press:

Seller ID: 2272307

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Near Fine. 20 pp. Two original essays and a reproduction of one of the greatest of all the battlefield paintings, keyed to actual battlefield episodes.
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The R.O.T.C. Manual: Advanced Course for All Arms

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, The Military Service Publishing Company: 1942

Seller ID: 2278841

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

No jacket, pencil note on front paste-down endpaper, ink and pencil underlining throughout first half. 1942 Hard Cover. 349 pp. The R.O.T.C. Manual: Advanced Course for All Arms. CONTENTS: Volume III. Subjects Administration; Leadership III; Defense Against Chemical Warfare; Manual of the Saber; Pistol; Aerial Photograph Reading; Physical Training; Review of Rifle Marksmanship; Interior Guard Duty: Section 1. Interior Guard Duty, Section 2. Guard Mounting; Care and Operation of Motor Vehicles; Combat Training--General, Estimate of the Situation and Combat Orders; Index. Volume IV. Leadership I...
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Spot Them in the Air!

By: N/A

Price: $8.00

Publisher: U.K., The Daily Mirror:

Seller ID: 2283076

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Very Good

No publisher date (circa 1940), a few light spots on wrappers, a few faint creases. 32 pp. Foreword by Cassandra. Full-page photographs of aircraft on left-hand page. Description of wartime aircraft type, (British and German) on right-hand page.
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V.C. [The Victoria Cross]

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: England, Geo. Pulman & Sons, Ltd.: 1942

Seller ID: 2283084

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Good

Pages 19-22 loose but included, ink stamp on front wrapper, quarter-inch tear along spine head and spine base, wrappers split along spine base. 1942 Stapled Binding. 38 pp. Here are the stories of the Victoria Cross awards of this war announced up to the end of April, 1942. The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest and most prestigious award of the British honours system. It is awarded for gallantry in the presence of the enemy to members of the British Armed Forces. It may be awarded posthumously. It was previously awarded to Commonwealth countries, most of which have established their own honou...
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Silhouettes of British Aircraft (Prepared by the Air Ministry)

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, His Majesty's Stationery Office: 1940

Seller ID: 2283090

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Front wrapper creased. 1940 Soft Cover. 143 pp. An identification guide to British aircraft. CONTENTS: National Marking, Royal Air Force Aircraft; Fighters; Bombers; Army Co-operation; Fleet Air Arm; Reconnaissance; Transport, Communication and Training; Experimental; Civil. Includes illustrations.
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British German and Italian Aircraft: How to Spot Them

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London and Melbourne, Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) LTD.:

Seller ID: 2283094

Binding: Small Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

25th thousand. No publisher date. No jacket, a couple light stains on front board, spine lightly toned. 96 pp. Includes 320 drawings and photographs with descriptions. An identification guide to British, German and Italian aircraft.
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The Aeroplane Recognition Tests: What Is It? Part Six [6]

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: London, Temple Press, Ltd.: 1942

Seller ID: 2283097

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Good

Wrappers rubbed. 1942 Stapled Binding. 17 pp. A booklet to test aeroplane recognition. Includes black-and-white photographs. Answers to the Identification Problems set in this booklet will be found on pages 5-12.
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The Aeroplane Recognition Tests: What Is It? Part Five [5]

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: London, Temple Press, Ltd.: 1941

Seller ID: 2283098

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Fair

Wrappers unattached from binding but included, ink stamp on front wrapper, pages lightly toned. 1941 Stapled Binding. 17 pp. A booklet to test aeroplane recognition. Includes black-and-white photographs. Answers to the Identification Problems set in this booklet will be found on pages 5-12.
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The Aeroplane Recognition Tests: What Is It? Part Four [4]

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: London, Temple Press, Ltd.: 1941

Seller ID: 2283099

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Good

No publisher date (circa 1941), a few light creases to front wrapper, smudges on rear wrapper. 17 pp. A booklet to test aeroplane recognition. Includes black-and-white photographs. Answers to the Identification Problems set in this booklet will be found on pages 5-12.
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The Aeroplane Recognition Tests: What Is It? Part Three [3]

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: London, Temple Press, Ltd.: 1941

Seller ID: 2283100

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Good

No publisher date (circa 1941), wrappers split along spine head, pencil number on front wrapper. 17 pp. A booklet to test aeroplane recognition. Includes black-and-white photographs. Answers to the Identification Problems set in this booklet will be found on pages 5-12.
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The Aeroplane Recognition Tests: What Is It? Part Two [2]

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: London, Temple Press, Ltd.: 1941

Seller ID: 2283101

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Fair

Wrappers loose from binding but included. No publication date (circa 1941), ink mark on front wrapper and front wrapper verso. 17 pp. A booklet to test aeroplane recognition. Includes black-and-white photographs. Answers to the Identification Problems set in this booklet will be found on pages 5-12.
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The Aeroplane Recognition Tests: What Are They? Part One [1]

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: London, Temple Press, Ltd.: 1941

Seller ID: 2283102

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Fair

No publication date (circa 1941). Wrappers loose from binding but included, spine taped, ink mark on front wrapper and front wrapper verso. 16 pp. A booklet to test aeroplane recognition. Includes black-and-white photographs. Answers to the Identification Problems set in this booklet will be found on pages 8-10.
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Technical Manual Electrical Fundamentals (War Department TM 1-455)

By: N/A

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., War Department: 1941

Seller ID: 2287626

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

Ink name on front wrapper, minor water damage. 1941 Soft Cover. 155 pp. CONTENTS: Electrical Energy; Batteries; Solution of Circuits; Magnetism; Alternating Current; Inductance; Capacitance; Power Equipment; Electrical Measuring Instruments; Appendix I. Electrical Symbols; Appendix II. Summary of Formulas; Appendix III. Mathematical Table of Squares and Square Roots; Appendix IV. Glossary.
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Technical Manual Hand, Measuring, and Power Tools, May 26, 1941 (War Department TM 10-590)

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., War Department: 1941

Seller ID: 2287627

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

Minor water damage. 1941 Soft Cover. 120 pp. CONTENTS: Section I. General: Employment. Section II. Use and Care of Hand Tools: Hammers; Screw Drivers; Shears, Pliers, and Nippers; Wrenches; Holding Devices; Files and Filing; Hacksaws; Punches and Punching; Chisels and Chipping; Drills and Drilling; Grinding and Sharpening Drills; Counterboring and Counterskinking; Reamers and Reaming; Threads, Taps, and Dies; Threads; Use of Taps; Tapping; Use of Dies; Cutting and Threading Pipe; Driving Rivets; Scrapers. Section III. Use and Care of Measuring Tools: Rules and Scales; Scribers; Squares; Calipe...
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Technical Manual Airplane Structures (War Department TM 1-410)

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: War Department: 1941

Seller ID: 2287633

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Ink name on front wrapper. 1941 Soft Cover. 132 pp. CONTENTS: General; Fuselages; Engine Mounts; Wings; Stabilizers; Flight Control Surfaces and Wing Flaps; Flight Control Mechanisms; Landing Gear; Tires and Tubes; Wheels; Brakes; Cockpits and Cabins; Cowling and Fairing; Shielding and Bonding; Towing, Mooring, and Handling; Hydraulic Jacks; Cleaning; Lubricants; Insignia and Markings; Index.
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Technical Manual Aircraft Engine Operation and Test (War Department TM 1-408)

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., War Department: 1940

Seller ID: 2287634

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Near Fine

A nice copy. 1940 Stapled Binding. 62 pp. CONTENTS: Control Systems; Operation; Testing; Troubles; Storage and Shipment.
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Technical Manual Airplane Hydraulic Systems and Miscellaneous Equipment, October 20, 1941 (War Department TM 1-411); Plus Supplement No. 1

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., War Department: 1941

Seller ID: 2287637

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

Ink name on front wrapper of both volumes, page ridges lightly foxed on Technical Manual Airplane Hydraulic Systems and Miscellaneous Equipment, October 20, 1941.. 106; 12 pp. 2 volume set. CONTENTS: Hydraulic Principles; Hydraulic System Units; Airplane Hydraulic Systems; Inspection of Hydraulic Systems; Gases; Fire-Extinguishing Equipment; Flotation Equipment; Oxygen Equipment; Ice Eliminating Equipment; Heating and Ventilating Equipment; Aircraft Parachute Flare; Index. SUPPLEMENT CONTENTS: Master Cylinder Hydraulic Brake Systems.
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