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Image for Burt's Illustrated Guide of the Connecticut Valley, Containing Descriptions of Mount Holyoke, Mount Mansfield, White Mountains, Lake Memphremagog, Lake Willoughby, Montreal, Quebec, &c.

Burt's Illustrated Guide of the Connecticut Valley, Containing Descriptions of Mount Holyoke, Mount Mansfield, White Mountains, Lake Memphremagog, Lake Willoughby, Montreal, Quebec, &c.

By: Burt, Henry M.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Springfield, New England Publishing Company: 1866

Seller ID: 2193803

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair

Boards stained and warped, pages lightly stained throughout (does not obscure text), spine cocked, fold-out map preceding text included. A good candidate for rebinding. 1866 Hard Cover. vi, 235, [5] pp. 8vo. Two duotone color plates, engraved illustrations throughout. Fold-out map of Connecticut Valley precedes text. Includes early railroad timetables, accounts of towns, landscapes, railroads, churches, bridges, and other points of interest. Ads bound in following text.
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Image for Reports of Wm. A. Burt and Bela Hubbard, Esqs. on the Geography, Topography and Geology of the U.S. Surveys of the Mineral Region of the South Shore of Lake Superior, for 1845; Accompanied by a List of Working and Organized Mining Companies; a List of Mineral Locations; by Whom Made, and a Correct Map of the Mineral Region, Delineating the Township and Section Lines, and Their Connection with the Location Lines; and also, a Chart of Lake Superior, Reduced from the British Admiralty Survey.

Reports of Wm. A. Burt and Bela Hubbard, Esqs. on the Geography, Topography and Geology of the U.S. Surveys of the Mineral Region of the South Shore of Lake Superior, for 1845; Accompanied by a List of Working and Organized Mining Companies; a List of Mineral Locations; by Whom Made, and a Correct Map of the Mineral Region, Delineating the Township and Section Lines, and Their Connection with the Location Lines; and also, a Chart of Lake Superior, Reduced from the British Admiralty Survey.

By: Burt, Wm. A.; Hubbard, Bela; Houghton, J.; Bristol, T.W.

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Detroit, Charles Willcox: 1846

Seller ID: 2289843

Binding: Small Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Presentation copy ('Silas H. Douglass, from the authors' in pencil on front endpaper). Lacks fold-out map. Binding loosening, 1 inch tear to spine head, custom spine label added by a previous owner, Western Reserve Historical Society bookplate on front endpaper. 1846 Small Hard Cover. 109, [1] pp. Howes B-1027: First investigation into Michigan's mineral wealth. Sabin 38676.
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Image for The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, in Twelve Volumes (Library Edition) [A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, with Introduction, Explanatory Notes on the Manners and Customs of Moslem Men, and a Terminal Essay upon the History of the Nights]

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, in Twelve Volumes (Library Edition) [A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, with Introduction, Explanatory Notes on the Manners and Customs of Moslem Men, and a Terminal Essay upon the History of the Nights]

By: Burton, R.F. [Richard Francis]; Smithers, Leonard C.

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: London, H.S. Nichols & Co.: 1894

Seller ID: 2282238

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First Smithers edition, also called the Library Edition (Penzer p. 117-123). Minor cosmetic wear, ink name on front endpaper of each volume, front hinge of first volume just beginning to weaken. 1894 Hard Cover. Complete in twelve volumes, a reissue of the 1885 Benares edition (which was printed by the Kamashastra Society for private subscribers only), edited by Leonard C. Smithers. 8vo. According to the preface, In Lady Burton's edition, which was a reprint of the first ten volumes only of the original issue, it was thought advisable to omit no fewer than 215 pages; in this edition, which com...
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Image for A Zigzag [Zig-Zag] Journey in the Sunny South; or, Wonder Tales of Early American History. A Visit to the Scenes and Associations of the Early American Settlements in the Southern States and the West Indies.

A Zigzag [Zig-Zag] Journey in the Sunny South; or, Wonder Tales of Early American History. A Visit to the Scenes and Associations of the Early American Settlements in the Southern States and the West Indies.

By: Butterworth, Hezekiah

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat: 1887

Seller ID: 1864936

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Boards rubbed with loss from spine & corners, front free endpaper removed, hinges loosening. 1887 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 320 pp. Original color-illustrated paper over boards, illustrated endpapers, engravings throughout text. Late 19th century travel writing, part of The Zig-Zag Series, this volume focusing on journeys in the American South and the West Indies.
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Zig-Zag Journeys in Classic Lands; or Tommy Toby's Trip to Mount Parnassus.

By: Butterworth, Hezekiah

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat: 1880

Seller ID: 2201391

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

1881 reprint. Edges rubbed. 1880 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xii, 318 pp. Pictorial paper over boards. Decorative endpapers.Includes black and white illustrations.Zigzag Journeys in Europe, and its large sale and continued success have led the publishers and the writer to plan a series of entertaining and instructive books which shall illustrate the scenery, manners and customs, history and legendary lore of different parts of the world. It was decided that the second volume should be such as would tend to awaken an interest in classical studies, and afford a glim...
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Image for An Account of the Late Revolution in New-England. Together with the Declaration of the Gentlemen, Merchants, and Inhabitants of Boston, and the Country Adjacent. April 18. 1689. (Sabin's Reprints, Quarto Series. No. I. [1])

An Account of the Late Revolution in New-England. Together with the Declaration of the Gentlemen, Merchants, and Inhabitants of Boston, and the Country Adjacent. April 18. 1689. (Sabin's Reprints, Quarto Series. No. I. [1])

By: Byfield, Nathaniel

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, Reprinted for Joseph Sabin: 1865

Seller ID: 2007785

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Former library copy (Lowell City Library), usual marks. Binding edge corners of pages lightly stained. 1865 Hard Cover. 26, [1] pp. 4to. 8 3/4 x 7 1/8. Rubricated title page, laid paper. 1865 reissue of 1689 original. Numerous blanks follow text. Sabin 9709: Edition, 250 copies, of which 50 are on large paper. No colophon or other indication of limitation. An account of the uprising in Boston against Sir Edmund Andros, governor of the Dominion of New England, who promoted the Church of England and enacted several pieces of legislation that angered the Puritans.
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Image for C. Julii Caesaris, Quae Extant, Interpretatione et Notis Illustravit Johannes Godvinus, Professor Regius, in Usum Delphini. The Notes and Interpretations Translated and Improved by Thomas Clark. [Clark's Caesar] [Commentariorum de Bello Gallico; Commentariorum de Bello Civili; Commentariorum de Bello Alexandrino Liber.; Commentariorum de Bello Africano Liber Unus.; Commentariorum de Bello Hispaniensi Liber.; Fragmenta] [Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic, Civil War, Alexandrian, African, and Spanish Wars]

C. Julii Caesaris, Quae Extant, Interpretatione et Notis Illustravit Johannes Godvinus, Professor Regius, in Usum Delphini. The Notes and Interpretations Translated and Improved by Thomas Clark. [Clark's Caesar] [Commentariorum de Bello Gallico; Commentariorum de Bello Civili; Commentariorum de Bello Alexandrino Liber.; Commentariorum de Bello Africano Liber Unus.; Commentariorum de Bello Hispaniensi Liber.; Fragmenta] [Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic, Civil War, Alexandrian, African, and Spanish Wars]

By: Caesar, Julius; Hirtii, A.; Clark, Thomas

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Bennett & Walton, John Grigg, Carey, Lea & Carey, and Thomas Desilver.: 1829

Seller ID: 2289638

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Good

1829 sixth edition. Includes all three fold-out maps and engraving. Boards rubbed with some loss of leather along edges, light stain to fore edge, lightly foxed throughout. viii, 410, [8] pp. 4to. Latin text, with notes and interpretations translated into English and improved by Thomas Clark.
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Image for The Private Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France Navarre to Which are Added Personal Recollections Illustrative of the Reigns of Louis XIV, XV, XVI [with] Autobiographical Memoirs of Madame Campan, First Lady-in-Waiting to Marie Antoinette, Queen of France and Navarre, with Some Records of Her Life and Conversations, in Two Volumes

The Private Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France Navarre to Which are Added Personal Recollections Illustrative of the Reigns of Louis XIV, XV, XVI [with] Autobiographical Memoirs of Madame Campan, First Lady-in-Waiting to Marie Antoinette, Queen of France and Navarre, with Some Records of Her Life and Conversations, in Two Volumes

By: Campan, Jeanne Louise Henriette; Mm. Barriere & Maigne

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, Scribner and Welford: 1883

Seller ID: 2283887

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

New and revised edition. Edges lightly rubbed, bookplates on front endpaper of each indicating these belonged to someone named Salisbury. 1883 Hard Cover. Complete in two volumes. lxxvi, [2], 397, [1]; ix, [3], 398 pp. 8vo. Brown cloth, gilt titles and black and gold decorations.. Marie Antoinette; born Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna; 2 November 1755 16 October 1793) was the last Queen of France before the French Revolution. She was born an Archduchess of Austria and was the penultimate child and youngest daughter of Empress Maria Theresa and Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor. She became Dauphine ...
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Gertrude of Wyoming; A Pennsylvanian Tale. and Other Poems. [The Pennsylvanian Cottage]

By: Campbell, Thomas

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, D. Longworth, Shakspeare-Gallery: 1809

Seller ID: 1928324

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Professionally rebacked with brown cloth. Library blind stamps on margins of a few pages, no other library marks. Boards rubbed, pages lightly toned with minimal transfer. 1809 Hard Cover. 132 pp. Early American 8vo edition (July 1809), following the original London 4to edition by just a couple months. Marbled boards. Pages 52 and 57 misnumbered 57 and 52. A Spenserian romantic epic poem, inspired by the massacre in the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania, which occurred several years after the United States achieved independence. During the massacre, revolutionaries were killed by British loyalist...
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Principles of Human Physiology, with Their Chief Applications to Psychology, Pathology, Therapeutics, Hygiene, and Forensic Medicine.

By: Carpenter, William B.; Smith, Francis Gurney

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Blanchard and Lea: 1858

Seller ID: 2286495

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

'A New American Edition, from the Last London Edition.' Edges rubbed, ink name and pencil gift note on front endpaper. 1858 Full-Leather. Edited, with additions, by Francis Gurney Smith. 261 engraved illustrations, including two plates. A treatise on human physiology by the examiner in physiology and comparative anatomy in the University of London, who was also Professor of Medical Jurisprudence in University College and President of the Microscopical Society of London. Carpenter was a staunch advocate of temperance, and wrote several works about the dangers of using and abusing alcohol, in wh...
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A Northern Summer; or, Travels Round the Baltick; through Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Prussia, and Part of Germany. in the Year 1804.

By: Carr, John

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New-London., Cady & Eells: 1806

Seller ID: 2285922

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fair

Second Connecticut edition. Front board loose, front hinge repaired, 'Milford Library No 270.' in black ink on title page. 1806 Full-Leather. x, [11]-330, [4] pp. 12mo. A European travelogue by the itinerant voyager who also wrote The Stranger in Ireland and The Stranger in Paris. Byron referred to him as Europe's wandering star in an unpublished version of Childe Harold. This work first appeared in two volumes in 1805.
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Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There.

By: Carroll, Lewis [Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]

Price: $750.00

Publisher: New York, Lee and Shepard, Boston / Lee, Shepard, and Dillingham: 1872

Seller ID: 2200523

ISBN: 0394532287

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First American edition ('wade' for 'wabe' on p. 21). Professionally rebacked with original backstrip laid down (some loss from edges), new end sheets. Boards lightly rubbed and soiled, pencil name and year ('R.P. Blake 1880') on front flyleaf, a number of illustrations colored with pencil by a young reader, some quite nicely done. 1872 Hard Cover. x, [1]-224 pp. 8vo. The sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, with fifty illustrations by John Tenniel. This first American edition was released with both red and green cloth (no priority) in the same year as the Macmillan edition printed in Lo...
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Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There.

By: Carroll, Lewis [Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Henry Altemus Company: 1896

Seller ID: 2306527

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair

Boards soiled, binding shaken, title/copyright page absent, a few stains to margins. 1896 Hard Cover. 209, [3], 16 pp. 8vo. The sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, with illustrations by John Tenniel, including a color frontispiece and three color plates. Carroll's books about Alice are among the most collected works in modern literature, and have both inspired a number of animated and live actions films (most recently those directed by Tim Burton and featuring Johnny Depp as The Mad Hatter, Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen, and MiaWasikowska as Alice), as well as other adaptations...
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Our Life among the Iroquois Indians

By: Caswell, Harriet S.

Price: $110.00

Publisher: Boston / Chicago, Congregational Sunday-School and Publishing Society: 1892

Seller ID: 2303895

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Spine toned and lightly foxed, one plate just beginning to loosen at binding, otherwise an excellent copy. 1892 Hard Cover. xiii, 321 pp. 8vo. Black-and-white plates, including a photograph of Mary Jemison, Mrs. Laura M. Wright, woodcuts of Cornplanter, Red Jacket, the mission house at Upper Station, etc. Several woodcuts of Native American items (baskets, canoes, etc.) in text.
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The Life and Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha. A New Edition in Four Volumes. [Parts I & II]

By: Cervantes [Saavedra], Miguel de

Price: $450.00

Publisher: London, Hurst, Robinson, and Co., Cheapside: 1820

Seller ID: 2199848

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Rebound in plain blue cloth with gilt titles and rules, new endpapers. One gathering sprung in first volume, front and end matter, plates, and a few text pages foxed. A nice candidate for an elaborate new binding, though we have left this decision to the next owner (please inquire to discuss options for rebinding). 1820 Hard Cover. xx, 371; [iv], 388; [vi], 367; [vi], 436 pp. 16mo. Parts 1 and 2 complete in four volumes. This edition is notable for the engravings from designs by Robert Westall, R.A. Don Quixote (fully titled The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha), is a novel written b...
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Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha [Parts I & II in One Volume]

By: Cervantes [Saavedra], Miguel de; Jarvis, Charles

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Chicago, Belford, Clarke & Co.:

Seller ID: 2164512

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

No date, circa 1880. Spine slightly faded, minimal wear to corners, ink name on front flyleaf. 811 pp. 8vo. Parts 1 and 2 complete in one volume. Original blue cloth, gilt & black decorations design, titles in relief, floral decorative endpapers. Don Quixote (fully titled The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha), is a novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story by inventing a Moorish chronicler for Don Quixote named Cide Hamete Benengeli. Published in two volumes a decade apart (in 1605 and 1615), Don Quixote is the most influe...
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Some Effects of the Climate of Italy

By: Chambers, Thomas King

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, John Churchill and Sons / J.E. Adlard: 1865

Seller ID: 2199185

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition in book form. Presentation copy - 'With the author's compliments' in ink on front endpaper, owner bookplate on front paste-down, faint stain to board edges. 1865 Hard Cover. 95, [1] pp. 8vo. An examination of the health benefits of the Italian climate, written by a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. From the preface: This small volume contains the substance of a short course of lectures, written during the leisure of an involuntary holiday, delivered a few weeks since in the theatre of St. Mary's Hospital, and reported in the 'Lancet.' I rejoice in the opportunity which p...
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Image for The Natural Method of Curing the Diseases of the Body, and the Disorders of the Mind Depending on the Body. in Three Parts. Part I. General Reflections on the Oeconomy of Nature in Animal Life. Part II. The Means and Methods for Preserving Life and Faculties; and Also Concerning the Nature and Cure of Acute, Contagious, and Cephalic Disorders. Part III. Reflections on the Nature and Cure of Particular Chronical Distempers.

The Natural Method of Curing the Diseases of the Body, and the Disorders of the Mind Depending on the Body. in Three Parts. Part I. General Reflections on the Oeconomy of Nature in Animal Life. Part II. The Means and Methods for Preserving Life and Faculties; and Also Concerning the Nature and Cure of Acute, Contagious, and Cephalic Disorders. Part III. Reflections on the Nature and Cure of Particular Chronical Distempers.

By: Cheyne, George

Price: $300.00

Publisher: London, Dan. Browne, without Temple Bar; R. Manby, on Ludgate-hill; J. Whiston and B. White, in Fleet-street; and A. Strahan, in Cornhill.: 1753

Seller ID: 2305049

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Good

Fifth edition. ESTC T53889. Joints beginning to split, spine toned and drying, boards faintly stained, ink name on front endpaper. 1753 Full-Leather. [xx], 316 pp. 8vo. A collection of writings on medical cures for various ailments and commentary on physiology and psychology. Includes chapters on sleep and dreaming, medicines, food and nourishment, the negative effects of alcohol, blood, mercury, milk, hypochondria, hysteria, rheumatism, leprosy, fevers, scrophula, asthma, dropsy, diabetes, gout, sciatica, menstruation, consumption (tuberculosis), jaundice, scurvy, colic, venereal distempers, ...
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Gazetteer and Business Directory of Monroe County, N.Y., for 1869-70.

By: Child, Hamilton

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Syracuse, Hamilton Child / The Journal Office, 23 & 24 E Washington St: 1869

Seller ID: 2205205

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair

Spine toned, page margins stained, moderately foxed, hinges weakening. 1869 Hard Cover. 264 pp. 8vo. Original brown stamped cloth, gilt titles. A business directory for Monroe County immediately following the Civil War, with numerous advertisements. Includes a census report, government land measures, postal rates and regulations, information on banking and currency, and a list of internal revenue officers. Each town's male inhabitants are listed alphabetically with occupations specified. A scarce piece of local history with national significance, given the several social movements with a stron...
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New-England's Jonas Cast up at London. 1647.

By: Child, John; Marvin, W.T.R.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Boston, Wm. Parsons Lunt: 1869

Seller ID: 2265018

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Limited edition, one of 150 small paper copies (20 large paper copies were also printed). Rebound in navy blue cloth with gilt titles and new end sheets. 1869 Hard Cover. lii, [2], 40, [2] pp. 4to. Introduction and notes by W. T. R. Marvin. Sabin 12706. From the introduction: The Tract which is reprinted in the following pages, is an evidence of the discontent which existed among certain classes of the people in New England, who were excluded from a share in the government: and the circumstances it describes, which took place in 1644-6, were the cause of great disturbance among the settlers ar...
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Image for Observations on the Diseases Incident to Pregnancy and Childbed. (Dunglison's American Medical Library.) [with] A Second Appeal to the People of Pennsylvania on the Subject of an Asylum for the Insane Poor of the Commonwealth.

Observations on the Diseases Incident to Pregnancy and Childbed. (Dunglison's American Medical Library.) [with] A Second Appeal to the People of Pennsylvania on the Subject of an Asylum for the Insane Poor of the Commonwealth.

By: Churchill, Fleetwood; Cope, Thomas P.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Adam Waldie: 1840

Seller ID: 2026808

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Good

Former copy of Genesee County Memorial Library - bookplate on front endpaper, boards rubbed, endpapers heavily foxed, a few pages in text foxed. 1840 Full-Leather. iv, 290; 20 pp. 8vo. Full calf, black morocco spine label, gilt titles & rules. A follow-up to Churchill's earlier work On the Diseases of Females. Includes a short appeal to the people of Pennsylvania on the subject of an asylum for the insane poor.
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Image for Ship Fever, So Called; Its History, Nature, and Best Treatment. The Fiske Fund Prize Dissertation, for 1849. Printed by Order of the Rhode Island Historical Society.

Ship Fever, So Called; Its History, Nature, and Best Treatment. The Fiske Fund Prize Dissertation, for 1849. Printed by Order of the Rhode Island Historical Society.

By: Clark, Henry G. [Grafton]

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Boston, Ticknor, Reed, and Fields.: 1850

Seller ID: 2009349

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Lightly foxed, two faint stains on front board, 1 inch tear to spine base. 1850 Hard Cover. 48 pp. Grey paper-covered boards, paper label on front board. A brief history and medical guide for British Typhus, which the author is careful to distinguish from typhoid fever. Sabin 13297.
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Image for A Looking-Glass for Persecutors; Containing Multitudes of Examples of God's Severe, but Righteous Judgments, upon Bloody and Merciless Haters of His Children in All Times, from the Beginning of the World to This Present Age. Collected Out of the Sacred Scriptures, and Other Ecclesiastical Writers, Both Ancient and Modern.

A Looking-Glass for Persecutors; Containing Multitudes of Examples of God's Severe, but Righteous Judgments, upon Bloody and Merciless Haters of His Children in All Times, from the Beginning of the World to This Present Age. Collected Out of the Sacred Scriptures, and Other Ecclesiastical Writers, Both Ancient and Modern.

By: Clarke, Sam. [Samuel]

Price: $375.00

Publisher: London, Printed for William Miller, at the Sign of the Gilded Acorn, near the Little North Door in St. Paul's Church-Yard: 1675

Seller ID: 1959819

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Good

1675 second edition. Boards a bit rubbed, spine ends reinforced with leather tape quite some time ago, joints weakening, ink name in calligraphy on rear endpaper. [viii], 116, [14] pp. 16mo. Full leather, tooled double borders and rules in blind. 'A Table of the Names of the Persecutors, Visibly Plagued by God' follows text and serves as an index. Terminal publisher ad listing other books published by William Miller, as well as others written by Samuel Clarke. A history of Christian martyrs from the time of the Old Testament up to the 1560s, listing such persecutors as Satan, Pharaoh, Nero, Co...
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Image for Syllabus of a Course of Popular Lectures on Physiology, with an Outline of the Principles which Govern the Gradual Development of the Faculties of Mind and Body.

Syllabus of a Course of Popular Lectures on Physiology, with an Outline of the Principles which Govern the Gradual Development of the Faculties of Mind and Body.

By: Coates, Reynell

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, C. Sherman & Co., Printers: 1840

Seller ID: 2012662

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Edges a bit rubbed with minor loss from corners. 1840 Soft Cover. 23, [1] pp. Green wrappers, black titles, sewn binding. Hoolihan 683: Coates provides the outlines of twelve lectures intended 'to diffuse as widely as possible throughout the community a knowledge of certain general principles connected with the development of the animal frame, with the applicability of these principles to the every-day business of life, the promotion of health and happiness'. In printed wrapper.
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Image for Cobb's Expositor, or, Sequel to the Spelling-Book; Containing about Twelve Thousand of the Most Common Words of the Language; in which each word is accurately spelled, pronounced, divided, and explained, and the primary and secondary accent noted; to which are prefixed Concise Principles of Pronunciation, and Rules for the Accentuation and Division of Words. Designed for the Use of Schools.

Cobb's Expositor, or, Sequel to the Spelling-Book; Containing about Twelve Thousand of the Most Common Words of the Language; in which each word is accurately spelled, pronounced, divided, and explained, and the primary and secondary accent noted; to which are prefixed Concise Principles of Pronunciation, and Rules for the Accentuation and Division of Words. Designed for the Use of Schools.

By: Cobb, Lyman

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Lewistown, PA / Chambersburgh, PA, J.H. Hickok & Co. / Hickok & Blood.: 1836

Seller ID: 2197848

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Eleventh edition. Boards rubbed with some loss from corners, free endpapers removed, lightly to moderately foxed throughout. 1836 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 216 pp. Leather spine, printed paper over boards. A condensation of a contemporary pronouncing dictionary, designed for the use of schools. Spellers and readers like these were often used by autodidacts to achieve literacy and develop reading and elocution skills (e.g., Frederick Douglass used the Columbian Orator for this purpose).
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Image for The New Testament, According to the Authorized Version; with the Marginal References, and the Usual Various Readings. Also Notes; Reflections; Questions; Improved Readings; Improved Divisions of Chapters; The Chronological Order; Metrical Portions Distinguished; and Various Other Advantages, without Disturbing the Usual Order of the Books, Verses, and Chapters. Illustrated with Numerous Descriptive Engravings.

The New Testament, According to the Authorized Version; with the Marginal References, and the Usual Various Readings. Also Notes; Reflections; Questions; Improved Readings; Improved Divisions of Chapters; The Chronological Order; Metrical Portions Distinguished; and Various Other Advantages, without Disturbing the Usual Order of the Books, Verses, and Chapters. Illustrated with Numerous Descriptive Engravings.

By: Cobbin, Ingram

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Hartford, Case, Lockwood and Company: 1866

Seller ID: 2207521

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Edges rubbed, light stain to front board, stains to page edges throughout, a few pages lightly foxed. 1866 Hard Cover. 375, [xii] pp. The New Testament, According to the Authorized Version; with the Marginal References, and the Usual Various Readings. Also Notes; Reflections; Questions; Improved Readings; Improved Divisions of Chapters; The Chronological Order; Metrical Portions Distinguished; and Various Other Advantages, without Disturbing the Usual Order of the Books, Verses, and Chapters. Illustrated with Numerous Descriptive Engravings.
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Smull's Legislative Hand Book and Manual of the State of Pennsylvania. 1888.

By: Cochran, Thos. [Thomas] B.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Harrisburg, E.K. Meyers, State Printer: 1888

Seller ID: 2267128

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Boards lightly foxed, pencil note on verso of front free endpaper, pencil scribble on rear free endpaper. 1888 Hard Cover. lxxiii, [5], 729, [1] pp. 8vo.
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Notes on the United States of North America during a Phrenological Visit in 1838-9-40., in Two Volumes

By: Combe, George

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Carey & Hart: 1841

Seller ID: 2289772

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First American edition, following the three volume edition published in Edinburgh. Spines and edges faded, a few light spots on vol. 1 boards, front and end matter faintly foxed. 1841 Hard Cover. xxvi, [13]-374; 405, [5] pp. 8vo. Sabin 14924. Howes C-639. Memoirs of a British phrenologist and his travels in the United States from 1838-1840, in which he discusses abolition, medical treatment of the insane, and notable contemporary figures. Combe founded the Edinburgh Phrenological Society and toured the U.S. giving lectures (hence the visit described here). Included in the introduction are seve...
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Image for La Langue des Calculs - Objet de cet Ouvrage; La Langue des Calculs consideree dans ses commencements; Des operations du Calcul avec les chiffres et avec les lettres. (Oeuvres de Condillac, Revues, corrigees par l'Auteur, imprimees sur ses manuscrits autographes, et augmentes de La Langue des Calculs, ouvrage posthume.)

La Langue des Calculs - Objet de cet Ouvrage; La Langue des Calculs consideree dans ses commencements; Des operations du Calcul avec les chiffres et avec les lettres. (Oeuvres de Condillac, Revues, corrigees par l'Auteur, imprimees sur ses manuscrits autographes, et augmentes de La Langue des Calculs, ouvrage posthume.)

By: Condillac, Etienne B.

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Paris, Charles Houel: 1798

Seller ID: 2305960

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Rebound: pebbled cloth spine with gilt titles over marbled-paper-covered boards. 1798 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 484 pp. 8vo. Nine folding plates follow text. French text. A posthumously published work left incomplete upon Condillac's death, which constituted the final volume of his 'Oeuvres.' This and the work immediately preceding it (La logique) exercised considerable influence on the philosophers and scientists of the next generation, introducing algebra as a form of philosophical and scientific language, and shaping the way scientific explanat...
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La Logique, ou Les Premiers Developpemens de l'Art de Penser; Ouvrage elementaire, que le Conseil prepose aux Ecoles Palatines avoit demande, & qu'il a honore de son approbation.

By: Condillac, Etienne B.

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Paris, S.N.: 1789

Seller ID: 2305961

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Rebound with new end sheets. Boards rubbed, light stain to top corner of last section of pages, one section of pages bumped on bottom corner. 1789 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. vi, 228 pp. 12mo. French text. Paper over boards, morocco spine label with gilt titles and decorations. This and the work immediately following it (La Langue des Calculs) exercised considerable influence on the philosophers and scientists of the next generation, introducing algebra as a form of philosophical and scientific language, and shaping the way scientific explanation evolved within nu...
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