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![Image for The History of The Ugly Little Duck, or, The Beautiful Swan [The Ugly Duckling]](/assets/images/product/2293123.jpg)
By: [Andersen, Hans Christian]
Price: $50.00
Publisher: S.N.: 1850
Seller ID: 2293123
Condition: Good
Rebound in red cloth with new end sheets. Lacks title/copyright page, but circa 1850. [24 pp.] Illustrated with six hand-colored wood engravings. Andersen's classic story of the swan who spends its early life believing it is an ugly duckling. View more info
![Image for Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army. Authors and Subjects, Vol. VIII. [8]: Legier-Medicine (Naval).](/assets/images/product/2028487.jpg)
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Government Printing Office: 1887
Seller ID: 2028487
Condition: Good
Boards a bit rubbed, corners lightly stained. 1887 Half-Leather. 10, 1078 pp. The eighth in a 61-volume series which spanned 81 years, and was ultimately comprised of five series. The first series (of which this volume was a part) was primarily indexed by John Shaw Billings - his work would become a cornerstone for the foundation of the National Library of Medicine. John Shaw Billings selected a dictionary arrangement for the printed Index-Catalogue and explained in his transmittal letter in Series I, vol. 1. that The great majority of physicians ... have expressed a decided preference for thi... View more info
By: [Bowen, C.E. (Charlotte Elizabeth)]
Price: $10.00
Publisher: T. Nelson and Sons: 1893
Seller ID: 2294993
Condition: Very Good
No jacket. Ink gift note on front free endpaper; pencil marks on front free endpaper, verso of contents page and on page seven. 1893 Small Hard Cover. 64, 16 pp. 6 1/4 x 4 1/2. A late 19th century juvenile by C.E. Bowen, who also wrote The Babes in the Basket. CONTENTS: I. The Sunday-School Friend; II. A New Scholar; III. Rachel's Plan; IV. Going Out to Tea; V. Light; VI. Out of Temptation; VII. Joy for Silvio; VIII. Berta. View more info
![Image for 1811 Engraving, Carisbrook Castle, Isle of Wight [England]](/assets/images/product/1665489.jpg)
By: [Brayley, Edward] [Britton, John]
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Vernor, Hood & Sharpe, Poultry, London: 1811
Seller ID: 1665489
Condition: Very Good
Matted and reading for framing. Untrimmed. Faintly foxed, mainly to the lower margin. 1811 Print. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 sheet matted to 5 x 6 1/2 (mat measures 8 3/8 x 10 1/2). Engraving by J. Greig from a drawing by Thompson, taken from Edward Brayley's and John Britton's 'The Beauties of England and Wales'. An artistic rendering that also provides a good level of architectural detail, particularly interesting are several uniquely shaped arrow slits. The print focuses on the large gatehouse, and shows a figure sitting beneath the wall lining the approach. View more info
By: [Faust, Bernhard Christoph; Porter, Henry H.; Condie, D. Francis]
Price: $95.00
Publisher: Literary Rooms, No. 121 Chestnut Street, Office of the Journal of Health, Journal of Law, and Family Library of Health: 1831
Edition: Later Edition
Seller ID: 2012806
Condition: Very Good
Seventh edition. Former library copy - sticker on front board, Woodstock Historical Society bookplate on front endpaper. Boards rubbed, front free endpaper removed, one gathering loose, endpapers foxed. 1831 Hard Cover. x, 202 pp. 12mo bound in sixes. Green cloth, paper spine label. Hoolihan 1146. In relation to the original: In some bibliographies and databases, this work is attributed to Henry H. Porter, who was publisher of the journals stated in the imprint. This attribution may be based on the absence of Faust's name on the title-page, or the fact the Porter's Catechism is but loosely bas... View more info
By: [Fiorentino], Ser Giovanni; Waters, W.G.
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Privately Printed for Members of the Society of Bibliophiles: 1898
Edition: Limited Edition
Seller ID: 2272693
Condition: Near Fine
First English translation. Limited edition, #293 of 1000 sets. Spines toned. 1898 Hard Cover. Complete in three hardcover volumes. Grey cloth, gilt titles and decorations, top edges gilt. Translated into English from the original Italian by W.G. Waters. Illustrations by E.R. Hughes. A collection of fifty stories written by Ser Giovanni Fiorentino, the original title of which (Il Pecorone) translated as The Simpleton. Fiorentino wrote the stories in the 14th century (though they would not be published until the mid-16th century), and they later became a source for William Shakespeare's The Merc... View more info
![Image for Lives of Celebrated American Indians [Famous] (Parley's Cabinet Library)](/assets/images/product/2292861.jpg)
By: [Goodrich, S.G.] The Author of Peter Parley's Tales.
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Bradbury, Soden & Co.: 1843
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2292861
Condition: Good
First edition (Sabin 27908). Boards rubbed, moderately foxed throughout, small bookplate on front endpaper. 1843 Hard Cover. iv, 315, [1] pp. Leather spine and corners, marbled boards. Engraved half-title page reading 'Famous Indians' precedes title page. A collection of brief biographies of Native Americans, including: Manco Capac; Mayta Capac; Huayna Capac; Atahualpa; Caupolican; Ychoalay; Tupac Amaru; Quetzalcoatl; Xolotl; Acamapitzin; Montezuma I; Donna Marina; Montezuma II; Cofachiqui; Tascaluza; Vitachuco; Pocahontas; Philip; Pontiac; Logan; Brant; Tecumseh; Red Jacket; Shongmunecuthe, o... View more info
By: [Hawes, Stephen]
Price: $75.00
Publisher: S. Hawes: 1870
Seller ID: 2263567
Condition: Good
Boards moderately soiled, spine and edges faded, front and end matter faintly foxed, pencil name on front flyleaf. 1870 Hard Cover. 320 pp. Fold-out synchronological chart precedes text. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Phillips, Sampson and Company: 1858
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1863209
Condition: Very Good
First edition, second state. Minor loss from spine head, stationer's stamp on front flyleaf. 1858 Hard Cover. viii, 373 pp. Original brown blind-stamped cloth, gilt titles & decorations. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (August 29, 1809 – October 7, 1894) was an American physician, professor, lecturer, and author. Regarded by his peers as one of the best writers of the 19th century, he is considered a member of the Fireside Poets. His most famous prose works are the Breakfast-Table series, which began with The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (1858). He is recognized as an importa... View more info
![Image for L'opere d'Oratio Poeta lirico comentate da Giovanni Fabrini da Fighine in lingua volgare Toscana, con ordine, che 'l Vulgare e Comento del Latino: & il Latino e Comento del Vulgare, ambedue le lingue dichiarandosi l'una con l'altra. Di nuouo ricorrette in questa seconda editione. con Privilegii. [Poems of Horace]](/assets/images/product/2128608.jpg)
By: [Horace]; Fabrini, Giovanni [Francesco]
Price: $500.00
Publisher: In Venetia: Appresso Gio Battista, Marchio Sessa, & fratelli: 1573
Edition: Second Edition
Seller ID: 2128608
Condition: Fair
1573 second edition. Front board loose, 1 inch chip from spine base, boards rubbed with some loss from corners, ownership stamps and numerous handwritten names on front & rear flyleaf, minor tape repairs to front hinge, minimal marginalia. [vi], 389 ff. 8vo. 8 1/4 x 6. Elaborate printer's device depicting a cat between cherubs on title page. Collated and complete. A collection of poems by the Latin poet Horace, with commentary by Italian humanist Giovanni Fabrini. Fabrini was a grammarian and a linguist, whose skills earned him a position teaching members of the aristocracy in Venice. This sec... View more info
By: [Irving, Washington]; Crayon, Geoffrey
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.: 1891
Seller ID: 2285881
Condition: Very Good
Boards lightly soiled. 1891 Hard Cover. vi, 530, [4] pp. 16mo. The author's revised edition, complete in one volume. Cream cloth spine over mint cloth boards, gilt titles and elaborate gilt decorations, floral endpapers. Engraved title page by Copeland, frontispiece by Frank T. Merrill. A collection of short stories by the author of Rip Van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, etc. Includes: STRANGE STORIES BY A NERVOUS GENTLEMAN: The Great Unknown; The Hunting-Dinner; The Adventure of My Uncle; The Adventure of My Aunt; The Bold Dragoon, or The Adventure of My Grandfather; The Adventure of t... View more info
Price: $250.00
Publisher: Nella Stamperia del Longhi: 1766
Seller ID: 2199431
Condition: Very Good
1766 fifth edition. Handwriting dated 1788 on front endpaper, though content is mostly obscured, ink name on title page (Di Francesco Maria Malvoli di Conegliano), modern bookplate on front endpaper, faint 1 inch circular stain to center of last couple pages along binding edge. xxxxvij, 420 pp. 12mo. Italian text. Vellum binding, title and decorative device on spine. An 18th century publication of the 17th century work by Italian scholar Carlo Cesare Malvasia, intended as a companion and gallery guide to the works of artists discussed in his earlier work 'Felsina pittrice' (not included here).... View more info
By: [McIntosh, W.H.]
Price: $175.00
Publisher: Everts, Ensign & Everts: 1877
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1760082
Condition: Good
First edition. Board edges worn with loss of cloth along base & fore-edge, frontispiece and front flyleaf repaired with tape, one page repaired along binding. 1877 Large Hardcover. vi, 320 pp. Brown leather spine over brown cloth blind-stamped boards, gilt titles & triple rules. The original 1877 printing of this exhaustive history of Monroe County, profusely illustrated with very high quality engravings, along with maps of Monroe County and the Phelps and Gorham Purchase of 1790. View more info
By: [Pacifico, Pietro Antonio]
Price: $500.00
Publisher: Presso Francesco Pitteri, Con Licenza de' Superiori, e Privilegio.: 1751
Edition: Revised Edition
Seller ID: 2198752
Condition: Very Good
Revised edition. Rebound with new endpapers. Minor ink notes on flyleaves, modern owner bookplate on front endpaper of each volume. 1751 Hard Cover. [12], 310; 406 pp. 12mo. Cloth spines, gilt titles, paper over boards. Italian text. An 18th century guide to Venice by Pietro Antonio Pacifico, with engraved illustrations, including several fold-outs. View more info
By: [Prevost]
Price: $40.00
Publisher: [A La Haye : Chez Pierre de Hondt]: 1747
Seller ID: 1665557
Condition: Near Fine
Single vertical crease down center, a few faint traces of foxing, still about near fine. 1747 Print. We have more books available by this author!. Single sheet matted to about 9 x 13 (mat measures about 14 3/4 x 18). An extensively labeled overhead view of a French colonial fort along a river in Senegal, detailing the use of each area, from magazines to the area in which slaves were kept. French text, scale along bottom. Bottom corner labeled 'Tom. II. No. 24', indicating the position of the plate within the original text. View more info
By: [Prevost]
Price: $40.00
Publisher: [A La Haye : Chez Pierre de Hondt]: 1747
Seller ID: 1665585
Condition: Near Fine
Matted and ready for framing. Single vertical crease down middle, tiny spot above the 'd' in Cap de Corse, some transfer from opposite page of text. Still about near fine. 1747 Print. We have more books available by this author!. Matted to 7 x 10 (mat measures 11 3/4 x 15). Labeled Tome IV. No. 6, indicating position in the original work. French text. A birds'-eye view of the fort complete with scale and latitudinal coordinates. A large structure labeled 'le Chateau' sits in a corner along the coast, bordering the ocean on two sides, with a river emptying into the ocean a bit further south alo... View more info
By: [Prevost]
Price: $40.00
Publisher: [A La Haye : Chez Pierre de Hondt]: 1747
Seller ID: 1665735
Condition: Near Fine
Matted and ready for framing. An exceptional example. 1747 Print. We have more books available by this author!. Matted to 9 x 6 3/4 (mat measures 11 5/8 x 9). Labeled Tome IV. No. 3, indicating position in the original work. French text. A birds'-eye view, complete with scale and latitudinal coordinates, of a fairly simple fortification, rectangular with two diamond bastions on the eastern corners. Numerous batteries for canonry, and an interior structure consisting of several apartments, a common room and a powder magazine. View more info
By: [Prevost]
Price: $40.00
Publisher: [A La Haye : Chez Pierre de Hondt]: 1747
Seller ID: 1665738
Condition: Near Fine
Matted and reading for framing. An exceptional example. 1747 Print. We have more books available by this author!. Matted to 9 1/2 x 7 (mat measures 11 5/8 x 9). Labeled Tome II. No. 23, indicating position in the original work. French text A birds'-eye plan of Fort St Joseph complete with scale, together with a map of its location along the Senegal River, and a map showing the position of Fort St Louis on an island mid-river. Several settlements are also indicated (Korinkani, Bubemusa, Mankanet). The fort plan is fairly simple, with a curtain wall with two corner bastions surrounding magazines... View more info
By: [Prevost]
Price: $40.00
Publisher: [A La Haye : Chez Pierre de Hondt]: 1747
Seller ID: 1665741
Condition: Near Fine
Matted and reading for framing. An exceptional example. 1747 Print. We have more books available by this author!. Matted to 9 1/2 x 7 (mat measures 11 5/8 x 9). Labeled Tome IV. No. 4, indicating position in the original work. French text. A birds'-eye view of the fort complete with scale and latitudinal coordinates. This is a fairly complex fort, comparatively, with a structure of numerous apartments and barracks, a magazine, a court and a chapel, defended by an array of three towers and two large bastions (interestingly labeled as 'Eperon' and 'Pointe de la Montagne Verte' on this plan). The... View more info
By: [Prevost]
Price: $40.00
Publisher: [A La Haye : Chez Pierre de Hondt]: 1747
Seller ID: 1665744
Condition: Near Fine
Matted and reading for framing. An exceptional example. 1747 Print. We have more books available by this author!. Matted to 9 1/2 x 7 (mat measures 11 5/8 x 9). Labeled Tome IV. No. 5, indicating position in the original work. French text. A birds'-eye view of the fort complete with scale and latitudinal coordinates. This fortification is designed in the more modern star shaped pattern to account for defense against artillery. It is actually two fortresses in one. The larger has bastions on each corner, and the arrangement of batteries along the walls of these indicates that defense of the sou... View more info
By: [Prevost]
Price: $40.00
Publisher: [A La Haye : Chez Pierre de Hondt]: 1747
Seller ID: 1665746
Condition: Near Fine
Matted and reading for framing. Light rub to double ruled border. An exceptional example. 1747 Print. We have more books available by this author!. Matted to 9 1/2 x 7 (mat measures 11 5/8 x 9). Labeled Tome IV. No. 11, indicating position in the original work. French text. A birds'-eye view of the fort complete with scale and compass. Three corners are diamond-shaped bastions, with a circular tower on the northwest. The structure is surrounded by a dry moat (labeled 'fosse'), and the rear section of the fortress is labeled 'Lieu ou se tiennent les Negres'. View more info
By: [Prevost]
Price: $40.00
Publisher: [A La Haye : Chez Pierre de Hondt]: 1747
Seller ID: 1665749
Condition: Very Good
Matted and reading for framing. One tiny foxed spot in blank space beneath plate, some faint transfer from opposite text page. 1747 Print. We have more books available by this author!. Matted to 9 1/2 x 7 (mat measures 11 5/8 x 9). Labeled Tome II. No. 16, indicating position in the original work. French text. A combined birds'-eye and profile view of the fort complete with scale and compass. A key beneath labels the salient features, which give great detail about the quantity and size of the canonry in each location, most interestingly a section labeled 'Sur le Fosse le long de la muraille de... View more info
By: [Prevost]
Price: $40.00
Publisher: [A La Haye : Chez Pierre de Hondt]: 1747
Seller ID: 1665751
Condition: Near Fine
Matted and reading for framing. An exceptional example. 1747 Print. We have more books available by this author!. Matted to 9 1/2 x 7 (mat measures 11 5/8 x 9). Labeled Tome IV. No. 2, indicating position in the original work. French text. A birds'-eye view of the fort complete with scale and compass. A fairly modern structure, with three diamond-shaped bastions, a circular southeastern tower, and a large spur protruding to the south, designed to provide extra defense to the main gate. Batteries line the east wall and the western bastions - there are none on the main western and northern wall ... View more info
By: [Prevost]
Price: $40.00
Publisher: [A La Haye : Chez Pierre de Hondt]: 1747
Seller ID: 1665759
Condition: Near Fine
Matted and reading for framing. Border lightly rubbed. 1747 Print. We have more books available by this author!. Matted to 9 1/2 x 7 (mat measures 11 5/8 x 9). Labeled T. II. No. 4, indicating position in the original work. French text. A birds'-eye view of the fort plan and its location, with a profile view of the coast at the Cape of Good Hope. This is a modern fortification displaying the typical star shaped design for defense against artillery. This fortress was significant as a waypoint for the Dutch East India Company (and later British trade), which explains the presence of an exterior ... View more info
By: [Prevost]
Price: $40.00
Publisher: [A La Haye : Chez Pierre de Hondt]: 1747
Seller ID: 1665762
Condition: Near Fine
Matted and reading for framing. Faint smudge to bottom corner. 1747 Print. We have more books available by this author!. Matted to 9 1/2 x 7 (mat measures 11 5/8 x 9). Labeled T. III. No. XI, indicating position in the original work. French text. A small birds'-eye view of the fort with a profile view of the fort and the settlement it defends from the water. The village is labeled 'Vilage de Pocquese', and the hill upon which the fort rests is labeled 'Mont de Manfre'. The fort plan shows a residence labeled 'Maison du Gouverneur' surrounded by four diamond bastions, with a large addition prot... View more info
By: [Reed, Anna B.]
Price: $60.00
Publisher: American Sunday-School Union / L. Johnson, Stereotyper: 1842
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2292006
Condition: Very Good
Reissue of Sabin 101845. Lightly foxed throughout (a bit more so to front and end matter), pencil name on front flyleaf. 1842 Hard Cover. 288 pp. 12mo. Engraved frontispiece, four engraved plates in text. A biography detailing the military and political career of George Washington, with the Declaration of Independence, a letter from Thomas McKean to C.A. Rodney, and 'Reminiscences of Gen. Washington' appended. View more info
Price: $30.00
Publisher: [Tavernier]: 1636
Seller ID: 1665259
Condition: Near Fine
Matted and ready for framing. Untrimmed. An exceptional example of a scarce print. We have more books available by this author!. A 7 x 9 3/4 sheet professionally matted down to 4 3/4 x 6 3/4 (mat measures 8 1/2 x 10 5/8). Beautiful modern hand coloring added. Labeled 15 in the upper right-hand corner. Caussade is a region in southwestern France. The print shows a fortification positioned along a waterway which runs northwest to southeast along the southwest wall. The only entrance is at the northeast corner. There are two curtain walls, the inner one surrounded by a moat. The shapes of the wal... View more info
Price: $30.00
Publisher: [Tavernier]: 1636
Seller ID: 1665266
Condition: Near Fine
Matted and ready for framing. Untrimmed. An exceptional example of a scarce print. We have more books available by this author!. A 7 x 9 3/4 sheet professionally matted down to 4 3/4 x 6 3/4 (mat measures 8 1/2 x 10 5/8). Beautiful modern hand coloring added. Labeled 40 in the upper right-hand corner. Milhau (also Millau or Milhaud) is a region in south central France. The print shows a large fortification positioned at the intersection of numerous roads, on the south side of a large natural waterway. Though several roads terminate at the curtain wall, only one appears to offer entry, that bei... View more info
Price: $30.00
Publisher: [Tavernier]: 1636
Seller ID: 1665271
Condition: Near Fine
Matted and ready for framing. Untrimmed. An exceptional example of a scarce print. We have more books available by this author!. A 7 x 9 3/4 sheet professionally matted down to 4 3/4 x 6 3/4 (mat measures 8 1/2 x 10 5/8). Beautiful modern hand coloring added. Labeled 32 in the upper right-hand corner. The print shows a fortification bordered by a natural waterway to the north and west, with large hills beyond the stream in these directions. Two smaller fortifications on the opposite side are connected to the main fortress by bridges. There is one other entrance along the southeast wall. The sh... View more info
![Image for Hand Colored 1636 Print, Map of St Iean de lauen [St Jean delaune], from 'Les plans et profils de toutes les principales villes et lieux considerables de France'](/assets/images/product/1665297.jpg)
Price: $30.00
Publisher: [Tavernier]: 1636
Seller ID: 1665297
Condition: Near Fine
Matted and ready for framing. Untrimmed. An exceptional example of a scarce print. We have more books available by this author!. A 7 x 9 3/4 sheet professionally matted down to 4 3/4 x 6 3/4 (mat measures 8 1/2 x 10 5/8). Beautiful modern hand coloring added. Labeled 20 in the upper right-hand corner. The print shows a fortification positioned on the north side of a natural waterway, with a small fortification on the opposite side as well. A bridge links the main fortification to the opposite shore, and there appears to be an area for entry by boat along the south wall. This fortress is unique... View more info
