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Image for Journals of the Military Expedition of Major General John Sullivan Against the Six Nations of Indians in 1779 with Records of Centennial Celebrations, Prepared Pursuant to Chapter 361, Laws of the State of New York, of 1885

Journals of the Military Expedition of Major General John Sullivan Against the Six Nations of Indians in 1779 with Records of Centennial Celebrations, Prepared Pursuant to Chapter 361, Laws of the State of New York, of 1885

By: Cook, Frederick

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Auburn, N.Y., Knapp, Peck & Thomson Printers: 1887

Seller ID: 2286587

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. All maps included (5 in pockets, 6 in text, including 3 fold-outs). Front free endpaper loose but included, boards rubbed. 1887 Hard Cover. xv, [1], 579, [3] pp. Tall 8vo. Includes several fold-out maps, plus a pocket inside the front cover containing maps and plans. Engraved frontispiece of Sullivan, engraved portraits in text of Brigadier General James Clinton, Colonel Peter Gansevoort (from a portrait by Gilbert Stuart, famous for his portrait of George Washington), and Colonel Philip Van Cortlandt. Original brown cloth, gilt titles & rules, blind-stamped double border. John ...
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Image for Introduction to The American Orator; or, A New Selection of Lessons in Reading and Speaking, Adapted to the Use of the Difference Classes of Learners in Schools and Academies. to which are prefixed Instructive Hints, to Readers and Speakers, with Copious Exemplifications.

Introduction to The American Orator; or, A New Selection of Lessons in Reading and Speaking, Adapted to the Use of the Difference Classes of Learners in Schools and Academies. to which are prefixed Instructive Hints, to Readers and Speakers, with Copious Exemplifications.

By: Cooke, Increase

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New Haven, Sidney's Press: 1812

Seller ID: 2303172

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fair

Stain to binding edge of first few pages and bottom corner of last few pages, foxed throughout, ink name on front endpaper, corners rubbed. 1812 Full-Leather. vi, 300 pp. 12mo. Full leather, red morocco spine label, gilt titles and rules, engraved frontispiece depicting education as virtuous. A popular early 19th century reader.
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Cooper's Novels, in Thirty-Three Volumes (New Edition)

By: Cooper, J. Fenimore

Price: $1,750.00

Publisher: New York, Stringer & Townsend: 1854

Seller ID: 1797797

Binding: Half-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Corners & spine rubbed with some loss of gilt, front & end matter of a few volumes lightly foxed. Interiors exceptionally well preserved. Spine labels professionally replaced in emulation of original style. An excellent set. 1854 Half-Leather. Complete in thirty-three volumes. 12mo. 65 volumes in 33. Sewn bindings. Butterscotch leather spines & corners over marbled boards, marbled endpapers. An apparent variant of the set referenced in Spiller & Blackburn's bibliography (slightly different ordering of volumes, half-leather instead of cloth). The third American publication of Cooper's collected...
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Stories of the Sea: Being Narratives of Adventure, Selected from the 'Sea Tales' - A Book for Boys.

By: Cooper, James Fenimore

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, James G. Gregory: 1863

Seller ID: 2283784

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First thus (BAL 3951). Light stain on front board and top edge. 1863 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 360 pp. Blind-stamped cloth, gilt titles and decorations on spine and front board. A collection of nautical stories for juvenile readers, reprinted from six of Cooper's earlier works, illustrated with engravings from drawings by Darley. Cooper is best known for his five-volume Leatherstocking Saga (historical fiction featuring Natty Bumpo), but he also wrote a two-volume history of the United States Navy, most likely inspired by his time on a merchant ship, and as a me...
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Cooper's Sea Tales, Comprising: The Pilot; The Red Rover; The Waterwitch; The Sea Lions; The Two Admirals

By: Cooper, James Fenimore

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, George Routledge and Sons: 1880

Seller ID: 2302640

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

1880s printing. Corners rubbed, spine and pages lightly toned, rear board lightly foxed. We have more books available by this author!. 166, 186, 184, iv, 185, iv, 192 pp. 8vo. Blue-green cloth, gilt titles, gold, silver, and black stamped decorations, floral decorated endpapers. An engraved frontispiece precedes three stories. A collection of nautical stories for juvenile readers, reprinted from five of Cooper's earlier works. Cooper is best known for his five-volume Leatherstocking Saga (historical fiction featuring Natty Bumpo), but he also wrote a two-volume history of the United States Nav...
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History of Clarendon, from 1810 to 1888.

By: Copeland, David Sturges

Price: $80.00

Publisher: Buffalo, The Courier Company, Printers.: 1889

Seller ID: 2178564

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Boards a bit rubbed, ink name on front endpaper. 1889 Hard Cover. x, 382 pp. 8vo. Nearly 80 years of history related to Clarendon, New York, written by a long-time resident who operated a general store in town.
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Cornell's Primary Geography, Forming Part First of a Systematic Series of School Geographies.

By: Cornell, S.S.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Company: 1875

Seller ID: 2203169

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair

Loss from spine head and corner of rear board, boards rubbed and soiled, ink name and date on front endpaper. 1875 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 99, [1] pp. Includes black and white engraved illustrations throughout, as well as a number of maps hand-outlined in color.
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Cornell's Companion Atlas to Cornell's High School Geography: Comprising a Complete Set of Maps, Designed for the Student to Memorize, together with Numerous Maps for Reference, Etc.

By: Cornell, S.S.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Company: 1864

Seller ID: 2262494

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

1864 printing. Boards toned and lightly rubbed, ink named and town on front endpaper (dated Jan 1st 1865), small newspaper clipping mounted on opposite endpaper, endpapers lightly foxed, cube sketched in pencil on rear endpaper. We have more books available by this author!. [36], 8 pp. A collection of hand-colored maps, some of which are different from modern maps in interesting ways: e.g., a map of Canada labeling portions as Hudson Bay Company's Territory; a United States map labeling what is now Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming as Idaho only, Oklahoma as 'Indian Territory', and showing no divisi...
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Another Brownie Book (Our Second Book)

By: Cox, Palmer

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, The Century Co. / The De Vinne Press: 1890

Seller ID: 2261983

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair

First edition. Spine and binding repaired, with previous repairs by an earlier owner evident along binding of first few pages, boards rubbed, chip from top corner of one contents page, two pieces of tape on pages 11 and 12. 1890 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xi, [1], 144 pp. The second in the popular Brownies book series. The Brownies is a series of publications by Canadian illustrator and author Palmer Cox, based on names and elements from Celtic mythology and traditional highland Scottish stories told to Cox by his grandmother. Illustrations with verse aimed at ch...
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The Brownies Through the Union (Our Fifth Book)

By: Cox, Palmer

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, The Century Co. / The De Vinne Press: 1895

Seller ID: 2261986

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Boards rubbed, hinges just beginning to weaken, ink name and date on ownership page. 1895 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xi, [1], 144 pp. The fourth in the popular Brownies book series. The Brownies is a series of publications by Canadian illustrator and author Palmer Cox, based on names and elements from Celtic mythology and traditional highland Scottish stories told to Cox by his grandmother. Illustrations with verse aimed at children, The Brownies was published in magazines and books during the late 19th century and early 20th century. The Brownie c...
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Image for Fortsetzung der Historie von Grnland [Gronland] insonderheit der Missions-Geschichte der Evangelischen Bruder zu Neu-Herrnhut und Lichtenfels von 1763. bis 1768. nebst betrachtlichen Zusatzen und Anmerkungen zur naturlichen Geschichte

Fortsetzung der Historie von Grnland [Gronland] insonderheit der Missions-Geschichte der Evangelischen Bruder zu Neu-Herrnhut und Lichtenfels von 1763. bis 1768. nebst betrachtlichen Zusatzen und Anmerkungen zur naturlichen Geschichte

By: Cranz [Crantz], David

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Barby, Heinrich Detlef Ebers: 1770

Seller ID: 2289840

Binding: Half-Leather

Condition: Fair

First edition. Leather drying, some from spine and corners, front joint weak, foxed throughout with light stains to margins of a couple pages. 1770 Half-Leather. [xii], 360, [12] pp. 8vo. Leather spine and corners over paper-covered boards. German text (fraktur script). Sabin 17414. A history of Greenland, with particular attention to evangelical missions of the mid-18th century.
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Tales of a Traveller

By: Crayon, Geoffrey [Irving, Washington]

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam Sons: 1865

Seller ID: 2264526

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Ink gift note on front endpaper. 1865 Hard Cover. vi, 530, [4] pp. 16mo.The author's revised edition, complete in one volume. Originalgreen cloth, gilt titles and decorations. Engraved title page with illustration precedes printed title page. 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 the German Student; The Adventure of the Myster...
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Historical Letters on the First Charter of Massachusetts Government.

By: Cushing, Abel

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Boston, J.N. Bang, Printer: 1839

Seller ID: 2007120

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Front joint cracked, spine label absent, boards a bit rubbed, early catalog listing for book clipped and mounted on front endpaper. 1839 Hard Cover. 204 pp. 18mo, bound in sixes. Brown cloth. An account of religious persecutions perpetrated by the Puritan founders of the earliest American colonies. From the preface: History had long shown that no sovereignty, christian or pagan, could ever establish religion by law without persecution; yet our sovereign ancestors attempted it, and were guilty of persecution as these letters will show. It cost them more than a century's teaching,...
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Image for The First Sermon ever Preached in New England; the First Printed and the Oldest American Discourse Extant, 1621. With a Curious Account of the New England Country, Indians, Adventurers, &c. by the Same Author, and a Sketch of His Life. Also, the First Prayer Meeting and the First Thanksgiving on the 'Wild New England Shore.' [The Sin and Danger of Self-Love, a Discourse Delivered at Plymouth, in New-England, 1621.]

The First Sermon ever Preached in New England; the First Printed and the Oldest American Discourse Extant, 1621. With a Curious Account of the New England Country, Indians, Adventurers, &c. by the Same Author, and a Sketch of His Life. Also, the First Prayer Meeting and the First Thanksgiving on the 'Wild New England Shore.' [The Sin and Danger of Self-Love, a Discourse Delivered at Plymouth, in New-England, 1621.]

By: Cushman, Robert

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, J.E.D. Comstock: 1858

Seller ID: 2003566

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair

Joints loosening, loss from spine & edges, boards rubbed, toned & soiled. 1858 Hard Cover. xvi, 47, [1] pp. 12mo. 1858 reissue of 1621 original. Original boards, blue titles with double rule on front board. Front board and frontispiece feature facsimiles of the names of William Bradford, Myles Standish, and other important settlers in their own hand. Reissue of Sabin 18132, with accounts of the first prayer meeting and the first Thanksgiving added for this edition.
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Boots and Saddles; or, Life in Dakota with General Custer

By: Custer, Elizabeth B.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1885

Seller ID: 2305732

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition, second issue (Howes C-980). Front hinge weakening with first gathering slightly sprung, small circular discoloration on rear board edge, ink owner stamp dated 1899 on front flyleaf, margins of a few pages lightly soiled. 1885 Hard Cover. 312 pp. 8vo. Includes frontispiece portrait of George Armstrong Custer, and single-page 'Outline Map of Portions of Montana & Dakota'. The honeymoon of Elizabeth Bacon and George Armstrong Custer was interrupted in 1864 by his call to duty with the Army of the Potomac. She begged to be allowed to go along, thus setting the pattern of her future ...
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The Memoirs and Correspondence of Madame d'Epinay, in Three Volumes

By: D'Epinay, Madame [Louise Florence Petronille Tardieu d'Esclavelles]; Freese, J.H.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: London, H.S. Nichols Ltd.: 1899

Seller ID: 2289600

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition, one of 500 copies. Boards lightly soiled, bookplate of Alexander Cochrane on each front endpaper. 1899 Hard Cover. Complete in three volumes. xlviii, 337, [3]; vii, [1], 348; viii, 356 pp. 8vo. Translated, with an introduction and notes, by J.H. Freese. Includes frontispieces of Madame d'Epinay, Jean Jacques Rousseau, and Le Baron de Grimm. Madame d'Epinay was a French writer, a saloniste and woman of fashion, known on account of her liaisons with Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who gives unflattering reports of her in his Confessions, as well as ...
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Image for The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1864: Embracing Political, Civil, Military, and Social Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical Industry

The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1864: Embracing Political, Civil, Military, and Social Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical Industry

By: D. Appleton & Company

Price: $80.00

Publisher: ., D. Appleton & Company: 1865

Seller ID: 2199366

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

A bit rubbed, lightly foxed throughout but especially on title page. 1865 Full-Leather. 838 pp. 10 x 6 3/4. Gilt titles, marbled endpapers. U.S. Grant portrait frontispiece plus several illustrations & maps. A contemporary account of various events in the news during the Civil War, both within and outside the U.S. Some entries from the Subject Index include: Geographical Explorations and Discoveries, Gun Cotton, British India, Freedom of the Press, Habeas Corpus, Confederate States, Florida, Obituaries, Exchange of Prisoners, Peru, Pneumatic Railway, Spain, Public Documents, etc.
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Pregi di Pisa Compendiati da Alessandrio da Morrona, Patrizio Pisano per Utilita de Culti Cittadini e Forestieri

By: da Morrona, Alessandro

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Pisa, Dai Torchj di Ranieri Prosperi: 1816

Seller ID: 2199182

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Fold-out included. Wrapper corners slightly curled, a few faint wrapper creases, ink name on front flyleaf, faint stain to margin of a few pages. 1816 Trade Paperback. lii, 252 pp. Buff wrappers, paper spine label. Engraving precedes text, fold-out map of Pisa bound in following text. An early 19th century celebration of the city of Pisa. A street in modern-day Pisa is now named after the author.
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The Cooper Vignettes. From Drawings By F. O. C. Darley. India Proofs Before Letter.

By: Darley, F.O.C.

Price: $500.00

Publisher: New York, James G. Gregory: 1862

Seller ID: 2267734

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Printed on flyleaf is the following text: 'Presented to Chas. Knickerbocker, by the Steel Plate Engravers of the Western Bank Note & Engraving Co. 'as a mark of esteem' and dated 1872, which seems to indicate this volume was custom-bound for Mr. Knickerbocker in that year. Professionally rebacked with original backstrip laid down, reinforcement to edges of first and last few pages. Two photographs and two engravings laid in. Foxed throughout, boards a bit rubbed with some drying along edges, later pencil gift note on front flyleaf dated 1903 presenting the book to J.H. Wilcox from his mother. ...
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Morocco: Its People and Places

By: De Amicis, Edmondo; Rollin-Tilton, C.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1882

Seller ID: 2150497

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. A bit musty, ink name & date partially crossed out on front flyleaf. 1882 Hard Cover. v, 374, [2] pp. 8vo. A 19th century overview of Morocco and its citizens, with illustrations throughout text.
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Holland. in Two Volumes.

By: De Amicis, Edmondo; Zimmern, Helen

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Porter & Coates: 1894

Seller ID: 2292774

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Includes fold-out map following text of second volume. Crayon scribbles on endpapers and one text page of volume 2, hinges just beginning to weaken, corners a bit rubbed. 1894 Hard Cover. 273, [3]; 275, [3] pp. 8vo. Green cloth, gilt titles and decorations, top edges gilt. A tour of Holland illustrated with photogravures, by the Italian author who also wrote a similar work on Morocco.
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Holland. in Two Volumes.

By: De Amicis, Edmondo; Zimmern, Helen

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Porter & Coates: 1894

Seller ID: 2303705

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Ink gift note on front endpaper of first volume and rear endpaper of last volume. 1894 Hard Cover. 273, [3]; 275, [3] pp. 8vo. Blue cloth, gilt titles and decorations, top edges gilt. A tour of Holland illustrated with photogravures, by the Italian author who also wrote a similar work on Morocco.
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Overland. A Novel. [with] Guilt and Innocence.

By: De Forest, J.W. [John William]; Schwarz, Marie Sophie [Schwartz]; Borg, Selma; Brown, Marie A.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Boston, Lee and Shepard: 1871

Seller ID: 2304800

Binding: Half-Leather

Condition: Very Good

First edition in English. Spine faded, pencil name on front endpaper. 1871 Half-Leather. 209; 294 pp. 8vo. Two works in one volume. Leather spine and corners, gilt titles and rules, marbled boards, edges, and endpapers. De Forest was best known for his Civil War novel Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty. Marie Sophie Schwarz is considered the most successful female writer of 19th century Sweden.
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History of the Indians of Connecticut from the Earliest Known Period to 1850.

By: De Forest, John W.

Price: $145.00

Publisher: Hartford, Wm. Jas. Hamersley: 1851

Seller ID: 2003607

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Map and woodcuts present. Spine cloth split at rear joint, backstrip loose - easily repaired. Boards rubbed, scattered light foxing. Goodspeed catalog number in pencil on front endpaper. 1851 Hard Cover. xxvi, 509 pp. 8vo. Original brown cloth, gilt titles, blind-stamped borders. Includes very detailed table of contents and index, with six appendices following text. Sabin 19292. Howes D216: Best account of these tribes.
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Le Systeme de l'Ame.

By: De La Chambre, [Marin Cureau]

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Paris, Chez Iacques d'Allin [Jacques]: 1665

Seller ID: 2305911

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Second edition. Small internal chip from spine, boards rubbed with minor loss from corners, light stain to edges of endpapers only. 1665 Full-Leather. [xliv], 554 pp. 16mo. French text. Original full leather, gilt titles and decorations.A work by the French philosopher and physician discussing human knowledge, the soul, etc. Marin Cureau de La Chambre (1594-1669) was a physician from Le Mans who advised and treated two French Kings, Louis XIII and Louis XIV, as well as his patron, Chancellor Pierre Sguier. As both a physician and a philosopher, he was among the first members of the Acadmie Fra...
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Image for Oeuvres Philosophiques de Mr. de la Mettrie: Discours Preliminaire; L'Homme Machine; Traite de l'Ame; Abrege des Systemes; Les Animaux plus que Machines; L'Homme Plante; Systeme d'Epicure; Anti-Seneque, ou Discours sur le Bonheur.

Oeuvres Philosophiques de Mr. de la Mettrie: Discours Preliminaire; L'Homme Machine; Traite de l'Ame; Abrege des Systemes; Les Animaux plus que Machines; L'Homme Plante; Systeme d'Epicure; Anti-Seneque, ou Discours sur le Bonheur.

By: de la Mettrie, Julian Offroy

Price: $2,500.00

Publisher: Amsterdam, S.N. [Elie Luzac]: 1752

Seller ID: 2305753

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Spine leather drying, light stain to front flyleaf. 1752 Full-Leather. 78, 109, 198, 58, 77, 56, 114 pp. Original full leather, leather spine label, marbled paste-down endpapers. A collection of works by the influential Enlightenment philosopher best known for L'Homme Machine, which takes materialist concepts introduced by Rene Descartes one step further to contend that human beings are automatons with no souls. These concepts later became influential in the theories of evolution and quantum mechanics. This volume includes: Discours Preliminaire; L'Homme Machine; Traite de l'Ame; Abrege des Sy...
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The Memoirs of Baron de Marbot, Late Lieutenant-General in the French Army, in Two Volumes

By: de Marbot, Marcellin; Butler, Arthur John

Price: $125.00

Publisher: London, Longmans, Green, and Co.: 1892

Seller ID: 2284889

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition (not to be confused with early reissues, some of which were abridged). Publisher's presentation copy, with their blind stamp on each title page. Frontispieces a bit foxed, owner bookplate of Harry Sutherland on front endpaper of each volume. 1892 Hard Cover. viii, [2], 452, 24; 472 pp. 8vo. Includes three fold-out maps, portraits and maps in text. Translated from the French by Arthur John Butler. A biography of the French lieutenant-general who fought with Napoleon at Waterloo.
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Klosterheim; or, The Masque.

By: De Quincey, Thomas; Mackenzie, Shelton (Preface)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Boston, Whittemore, Niles, and Hall: 1855

Seller ID: 1980700

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Spine & edges faded, front board stained, boards rubbed, pages heavily toned, ink name on title page. 1855 Hard Cover. xxiv, 258 pp. 8vo. Original purple blind-stamped cloth, gilt titles. A novel by the author of Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, the famous autobiographical account of laudanum addiction.
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Voyage de Deux Artistes en Italie

By: De Spinola, M.H.

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Limoges, Chez Barbou, Imprimeur-Libraire: 1838

Seller ID: 2199178

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Nicely rebound in beige cloth with gilt titles and new endpapers. Owner bookplate on front endpaper. 1838 Hard Cover. 283 pp. 12mo. French text. Engraved frontispiece, one engraved plate in text. A 19th century Italian travelogue which includes descriptions of Milan, Turin, Alexandrie, Monza, Pavie, Asti, Genes, Pise, Livourne, Sienne, Florence, Modene, Reggio, Ferrare, Mantone, Peschiera, Verone, Venise, Ancone, Laurette, Rome, and Naples.
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Histoire Universelle de Jacque-Auguste de Thou, Depuis 1543. jusqu'en 1607. Traduite sur l'Edition Latine de Londres [in Sixteen Volumes]

By: De Thou, Jacque-Auguste [Jacques]; [le Beau, Charles; Le Mascrier; Abbe Des Fontaines]

Price: $1,750.00

Publisher: A Londres [Paris], S.N.: 1734

Seller ID: 2295697

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Boards rubbed with some loss/drying of leather, corners exposed. 1734 Full-Leather. Complete in sixteen volumes. Full calf, morocco spine labels, gilt titles and tooled compartments. The life's work of the French historian and book collector who lived from the mid-16th to early 17th century. Originally published in Latin under the title Historia sui temporis, in 138 books, three years after the author's death. The work, despite controversy over some of its depictions of religious matters, quickly became regarded as a scholarly classic, characterized by exhaustive research and reference to the ...
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