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Lincoln Recevant les Indiens Comanches [Lincoln Receives the Comanche Indians]

By: Delanney, Ferd.

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Paris, Ch. Chardon: 1863

Seller ID: 2205080

Binding: Single Sheet

Condition: Very Good

Matted for framing, taped to board at corners. Appears trimmed at lower edge. Image is free of stains, tears, and foxing, and the paper has not toned. 1863 Single Sheet. A hand-colored lithograph by Ferd. Delanney, measuring 6 5/8 x 4 3/4, on a 10 5/16 x 6 3/4 sheet (possibly trimmed). Printed in 1863 in Paris, it depicts President Lincoln in the East Room of the White House, receiving several Comanche chieftains. The Native Americans are highlighted with bold, bright colored clothing; comparatively, Lincoln and his attendants appear drab and colorless, so it is clear the Comanches were intend...
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Demosthenes with English Notes, Part I. -- De Corona [On the Crown]

By: Demosthenes; Holmes, Arthur

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Boston, John Allyn, Publisher: 1872

Seller ID: 2199449

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Free endpapers removed, pencil notes in text. 1872 Hard Cover. xxviii, 195 pp. Original Greek text, with English notes, of 'De Corona' (On the Crown), the most famous judicial oration by the ancient Greek statesman and orator, originally delivered in 330 B.C.
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Rothmell

By: Denison, Mary Andrews

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Boston, Lee & Shepard: 1878

Seller ID: 2292199

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Boards lightly soiled. 1878 Hard Cover. 371, [1] pp. 8vo. By the author of 'That Husband of Mine'. Mary Andrews Denison's first publications were short sketches printed in the Boston Olive Branch where her husband, a Baptist minister and active abolitionist, was assistant editor. In 1847 Denison published her first novel, Edna Etheril, the Boston Seamstress. This potboiler began her prolific career as author of pulp fiction and dime novels. Denison published over 80 novels during her lifetime. Many of them do not deserve close scrutiny; they can be divided into a few groupings. Denison exploit...
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A Brief Description of New York, Formerly Called New Netherlands, with the Places Thereunto Adjoining. Likewise a Brief Relation of the Customs of the Indians There (Gowans Bibliotheca No. 1)

By: Denton, Daniel; Furman, Gabriel

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, William Gowans: 1845

Seller ID: 2304798

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Good

Limited edition, one of 100 quarto copies (Sabin 19612, Church 608). Edges rubbed with minor loss of marbled paper on rear board, light stain to base of first and last two pages, endpapers lightly foxed, ink name and address on front endpaper. 1845 Large Hardcover. 17, [5], 57 pp. 4to. Leather spine and corners, gilt titles and rules, marbled paper over boards. Reissue of the first account of New York printed in English, originally published in 1670. This edition includes a new introduction and historical notes by Gabriel Furman. Daniel Denton was an early American colonist known as one of the...
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Image for Renati Des-Cartes Principia Philosophiae. Editio Quarta. Nunc demum hac Editione diligenter recognita, & mendis expurgata. [with] Specimen Philosophiae sev Dissertatio de Methodo Recte regendae rationis, & veritatis in scientiis investigandae: [et] Dioptrice, et Meteora. [et] Passiones Animae [Rene Descartes]

Renati Des-Cartes Principia Philosophiae. Editio Quarta. Nunc demum hac Editione diligenter recognita, & mendis expurgata. [with] Specimen Philosophiae sev Dissertatio de Methodo Recte regendae rationis, & veritatis in scientiis investigandae: [et] Dioptrice, et Meteora. [et] Passiones Animae [Rene Descartes]

By: Descartes, Rene

Price: $2,500.00

Publisher: Amstelodami [Amsterdam], [Danielem Elzevirium] / Elizeum Weyerstraeter: 1664

Seller ID: 2305722

Binding: Half-Leather

Condition: Good

Minor professional repairs to binding, modern leather spine label added, but otherwise left as we found it. Loss of leather from fore edge and corners, boards rubbed, bookplate of E.A. Landon and another ink name(William W. Clarke, Dec. 19th 1869) on front endpapers. 1664 Half-Leather. [30], 196; [14], 216; [20], 83, [5] pp. 4to. Full leather, gilt titles, rules, and decorations. An early edition (possibly the fourth?) of Descartes's philosophical works in Latin, including: Principia Philosophiae; Specimen Philosophiae sev Dissertatio de Methodo; Dioptrica et Meteora; Passiones Animae. Herein ...
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Image for Oeuvres Morales et Philosophiques de Descartes, Precedees d'Une Notice sur sa vie et ses Ouvrages (Chefs-d'Oeuvre Litteraires du XVIIe Siecle Collationnes sur les Editions Originales et Publies par M. Lefevre)

Oeuvres Morales et Philosophiques de Descartes, Precedees d'Une Notice sur sa vie et ses Ouvrages (Chefs-d'Oeuvre Litteraires du XVIIe Siecle Collationnes sur les Editions Originales et Publies par M. Lefevre)

By: Descartes, Rene; Prevost, Amedee

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Paris, Librairie de Firmin Didot Freres: 1855

Seller ID: 2305444

Binding: Half-Leather

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Boards lightly rubbed and faded, rebacked in leather. 1855 Half-Leather. Leather spine over pebbled cloth boards, gilt titles and decorations, blind-stamped borders, marbled endpapers. A collection of four works by Rene Descartes in the original French, including Discours de la Methode, Meditations, Les Passions de l'Ame, Regles pour la Direction de l'Esprit, with additional material. Descartes is considered the father of modern philosophy, and best known for laying the foundation for rationalism. Rene Descartes (31 March 1596 11 February 1650), also known as Renatus Cartesius...
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The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club; Barnaby Rudge; Sketches by Boz (The Works of Charles Dickens, Library Edition, Volume 1)

By: Dickens, Charles

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Company: 1868

Seller ID: 2200083

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Minor loss from spine head, front hinge just starting. 1868 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 326; 257; 194, 12 pp. 8vo. Includes three complete novels: The Pickwick Papers, Barnaby Rudge & Sketches by Boz. Vol. 1 of a 6-volume set. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 9 June 1870) was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era, and he remains popular, responsible for some of English literature's most iconic characters. Many of his novels, with their recurrent concern for social reform, first appeared in magazines in serialised for...
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Little Dorrit

By: Dickens, Charles

Price: $125.00

Publisher: London, Bradbury & Evans: 1857

Seller ID: 2271960

Binding: Half-Leather

Condition: Fair

First edition (three-line errata on p. xiv, William for Frederick on p. 317). Sold as is, an ideal copy for restoration to your specifications. Text block separated from cover, most of spine label lost, boards rubbed. Pencil name on front flyleaf. 1857 Half-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 625, [3] pp. 8vo. Half-leather, marbled boards. Illustrations by Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz). Amy Dorrits father is not very good with money. She was born in the Marshalsea debtors prison and has lived there with her family for all of her twenty-two years, only leaving during the day to...
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Nineteenth Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of Public Charities of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for 1888; Also the Report of the General Agent and Secretary Statistics, and The Report of the Committee on Lunacy. (Official Document, No. 12.)

By: Dickinson, Mahlon H.; Biddle, Cadwalader

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Office of Eastern Executive Committee: 1888

Seller ID: 2159936

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Boards rubbed, rear hinge beginning to loosen, ink initials and pencil gift note on front endpaper ('M.F. Kooser, Presented by The Hon. J.L. Pugh'). 1888 Hard Cover. cxlv, 226 pp. 8vo. An early source of statistical information related to jails and penitentiaries, insane asylums, miners' hospitals, immigration, almshouses, and other institutions related to rehabilitation or special needs (e.g., The Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind).
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Image for The Dog. by Dinks, Mayhew, and Hutchinson, Compiled, Arranged, Edited, and Illustrated by Frank Forester - Complete and Revised Edition.; The Sportsman's Vade Mecum. Containing Full Instructions in All That Relates to the Breeding, Rearing, Breaking, Kennelling, and Conditioning of Dogs. together with Numerous Valuable Recipes for the Treatment of the Various Diseases to which the Canine Race is Subject. as also a Few Remarks on Guns, Their Loading and Carriage, Designed Expressly for the Use of Young Sportsmen.; Dogs, and Their Management; Being a New Plan for Treating the Animal, Based upon a Consideration of His Natural Temperament; Dog Breaking: The Most Expeditious, Easy, and Certain Method. Whether Great Excellence or Only Mediocrity Be Required.

The Dog. by Dinks, Mayhew, and Hutchinson, Compiled, Arranged, Edited, and Illustrated by Frank Forester - Complete and Revised Edition.; The Sportsman's Vade Mecum. Containing Full Instructions in All That Relates to the Breeding, Rearing, Breaking, Kennelling, and Conditioning of Dogs. together with Numerous Valuable Recipes for the Treatment of the Various Diseases to which the Canine Race is Subject. as also a Few Remarks on Guns, Their Loading and Carriage, Designed Expressly for the Use of Young Sportsmen.; Dogs, and Their Management; Being a New Plan for Treating the Animal, Based upon a Consideration of His Natural Temperament; Dog Breaking: The Most Expeditious, Easy, and Certain Method. Whether Great Excellence or Only Mediocrity Be Required.

By: Dinks; Mayhew, Edward; Hutchinson, W.N.; Forester, Frank

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Geo. E. Woodward.: 1873

Seller ID: 2201092

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Spine faded, ink name on front endpaper. 1873 Hard Cover. vi, 663 pp. Three classic guides to the care of dogs as pets or as sporting companions, collected in one volume with new illustrations by Frank Forester. BAL 8158.
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Image for St. Nicholas: Scribner's Illustrated Magazine for Girls and Boys, Volume III, November 1875, to November, 1876. (Nos. 1-12) [Two Louisa May Alcott First Appearances]

St. Nicholas: Scribner's Illustrated Magazine for Girls and Boys, Volume III, November 1875, to November, 1876. (Nos. 1-12) [Two Louisa May Alcott First Appearances]

By: Dodge, Mary Mapes; Alcott, Louisa May; Jewett, Sarah Orne; et al

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, Scribner & Co.: 1876

Seller ID: 2195570

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Boards rubbed. 1876 Hard Cover. viii, 808 pp. This volume, despite stating it includes November 1875 - November 1876 on the title page, includes the November 1875 issue through the October 1876 issue (all issues 1-12 present, so this is clearly just an issue of semantics). Leather spine & corners, gilt titles & rules, marbled boards. Stories, poetry, and illustrations by various contributors, including: Amy Lovell; Frank R. Stockton; J.T. Trowbridge; Sarah Orne Jewett; Susan Coolidge; Rebecca Harding Davis; Louisa May Alcott (first appearances of Helping Along and Marjorie's Birthday Gifts]; B...
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The Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year 1781

By: Dodsley, J.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, J. Dodsley, Pall-Mall / T. Davison, Lombard-Street, Fleet-Street: 1800

Seller ID: 2200981

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair

Formerly the property of Lenox Library (bookplate dated Feb. 1874 on front paste-down). Most of spine leather lost, title remains. Boards rubbed, page ridges lightly foxed, text unmarked and binding remains sound. 1800 Hard Cover. 339; 207. 8 1/2 x 5 3/8. 8vo. Original quarter-leather, marbled boards. Paginated in two separate sections, chapters include History of Europe; Chronicle; State Papers; Characters; Natural History; Useful Projects; Antiquities; Miscellaneous Essays; Poetry; Account of Books for 1781. Topics discussed include Indians of Porto de la Trinidad; John Law and the 1717 Miss...
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The Mormon Prophet

By: Dougall, Lily

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Company: 1899

Seller ID: 2283765

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Hinges repaired, stain along rear joint, first few pages lightly smudged. 1899 Hard Cover. x, 427, [13] pp. 8vo. A critical assessment of Mormonism by a Canadian evangelical Presbyterian and feminist.
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From Hand to Mouth.

By: Douglas, Amanda M. [Minnie]

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Boston, Lee and Shepard, Publishers: 1877

Seller ID: 2155405

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Front free endpaper removed. 1877 Hard Cover. 332, [3] pp. 8vo. A novel by the American author of novels for adult and juvenile readers.
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Image for Perambulations of Cosmopolite; or, Travels and Labors of Lorenzo Dow, in Europe and America, including a Brief Account of His Early Life and Christian Experience, as Contained in His Journal. to which is added His Chain, Journey from Babylon to Jerusalem, Dialogue between Curious and Singular, Hints on the Fulfilment of Prophecy, &c., &c., [with] Vicissitudes; or the Journey of Life

Perambulations of Cosmopolite; or, Travels and Labors of Lorenzo Dow, in Europe and America, including a Brief Account of His Early Life and Christian Experience, as Contained in His Journal. to which is added His Chain, Journey from Babylon to Jerusalem, Dialogue between Curious and Singular, Hints on the Fulfilment of Prophecy, &c., &c., [with] Vicissitudes; or the Journey of Life

By: Dow, Lorenzo; Dow, Peggy

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York / Rochester, Richard C. Valentine: 1855

Seller ID: 2303669

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Front matter foxed. 1855 Hard Cover. 508 pp. 8vo. Red cloth, gilt titles, marbled edges. Two titles bound in one volume. The memoirs of Lorenzo Dow (reissue of Howes D441), bound together with an 1842 edition of an account of approximately 10,000 miles of travel throughout the American continent, recounted by Lorenzo Dow through the use of his wife Peggy's detailed journal. Dow's memoirs at one point were only outsold by the Bible. Sabin 20759. Howes D-442. [Vicissitudes] describes one of the most amazing trips ever made by a woman, down the Ohio from Wheeling to Natchez, on the Mississippi, t...
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

By: Doyle, A. [Arthur] Conan

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1892

Seller ID: 2151656

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Second state, with p. 65 typo corrected. A bit musty, tears along spine, spine toned, base lightly stained, hinges loosening. 1892 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 307, [4] pp. 8vo. Includes twelve adventures featuring the inimitable detective Sherlock Holmes. Frontispiece, 15 plates in text. Includes: A Scandal in Bohemia; The Red-Headed League; A Case of Identity; The Boscombe Valley Mystery; The Five Orange Pips; The Man with the Twisted Lip; The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle; The Adventure of the Speckled Band; The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb; The Adventure...
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The Parasite

By: Doyle, A. [Arthur] Conan

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1894

Seller ID: 2173931

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

1895 printing. A few minor spots to two board corners. 1894 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 143, [8] pp. 8vo. A novella with occult themes by the author of the Sherlock Holmes mystery stories. Includes illustrations by Howard Pyle.
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Uncle Bernac: A Memory of the Empire

By: Doyle, A. [Arthur] Conan

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Company: 1897

Seller ID: 2307275

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First American edition. Spine a bit faded, paper of front endsheet just beginning to split along hinge but binding is strong and square. 1897 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. ix, 308, [2] pp. Frontispiece and 11 plates in text by Sauber (almost definitely British painter and lithographer Robert Sauber). A historical novel by the author of the Sherlock Holmes detective stories. This is the ninth story in the Gerard Saga following brigadier Etienne Gerard, a French hussard of the Napoleon army, and the only novel in the series (the others were all short stories). The aut...
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Songs of Action: First Edition

By: Doyle, Arthur Conan

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, Smith, Elder, & Co.: 1898

Seller ID: 2201032

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Light stain along front edge and rear inside edge. 1898 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. viii, 136 pp. Original blue cloth, gold banner on front cover, gilt titles. A collection of story poems by the author of the popular Sherlock Holmes detective series. CONTENTS: The Song of the Bow; Cremona; The Storming Party; The Frontier Line; Corporal Dick's Promotion; A Forgotten Tale; Pennarby Mine; A Rover Chanty; A Ballad of the Ranks; A Lay of the Links; The Dying Whip; Master; H.M.S. 'Foudroyant'; The Farnshire Cup; The Groom's Story; With the Chiddingfolds;...
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The Country of the Dwarfs

By: Du Chaillu, Paul

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1876

Seller ID: 2296313

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Binding repaired, boards rubbed, corners exposed, ink gift note on front flyleaf. 1876 Hard Cover. viii, 314 pp., [4] publisher catalog. Green cloth, gilt titles and decorations. Numerous engravings. An account of the author's travels in Africa, by which he encountered the peoples we now refer to as pygmies. Du Chaillu became famous as the first European to confirm their existence, and also that of African gorillas.
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Maniere de Fortifier Selon La Methode de Monsieur de Vauban avec un Traite preliminaire des Principes de Geometrie

By: Du Fay, L'Abbe; [Vauban, Sebastien Le Prestre]

Price: $600.00

Publisher: Paris, Chez Jean-Baptiste Coignard: 1729

Seller ID: 1659688

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

French text. Loss to spine ends, lightly foxed, a few marginal ink notations in French, owner's title label on spine. 1729 Hard Cover. [8], 198, [10] index. Nouvelle et Derniere Edition. Buff paper boards, sewn binding. A treatise on geometry followed by a distillation of Vauban's theories regarding military architecture. Vauban was the most respected mind of his time in this field, and his innovations led to significant changes in fortified structures. This work contains numerous illustrations indicating the benefits of particular geometric configurations in terms of strength and strategic va...
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Sacred Philosophy of the Seasons; Illustrating the Perfections of God in the Phenomena of the Year. Spring.

By: Duncan, Henry

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Robert Carter: 1846

Seller ID: 2129896

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Minor wear to corners, moderately foxed throughout, lending library bookplate on front endpaper. 1846 Hard Cover. vii, 391, [12] pp. 8vo. An examination of the natural world as evidence of the greatness of God; i.e., natural religion. Part of a four volume work, each volume treating a separate season. Includes sections on: cosmical arrangements; reproduction of vegetables; reproduction of animals; instincts connected with the reproduction of animals; agriculture; anniversary of the death and resurrection of Christ; retrospective view of the argument.
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Image for Medical Lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science; Containing A Concise Explanation of the Various Subjects and Terms of Physiology, Pathology Hygiene, Therapeutics; Pharmacology; Obstetrics; Medical Jurisprudence; &c, with the French and Other Synonymes; Notices of Climate, and of Celebrated Mineral Waters; Formulae for Various Officinal, Empirical, and Dietetic Preperations, Etc.

Medical Lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science; Containing A Concise Explanation of the Various Subjects and Terms of Physiology, Pathology Hygiene, Therapeutics; Pharmacology; Obstetrics; Medical Jurisprudence; &c, with the French and Other Synonymes; Notices of Climate, and of Celebrated Mineral Waters; Formulae for Various Officinal, Empirical, and Dietetic Preperations, Etc.

By: Dunglison, Robley

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Blanchard and Lea: 1860

Seller ID: 2203610

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Revised and enlarged edition. Light stains to corners, boards rubbed, small pharmacy bookplate (Smith's Homoeopathic Pharmacy) on front endpaper. 1860 Full-Leather. 992 pp., 32-page terminal publisher catalog. 9 x 6. Original full leather. Gilt titles. A comprehensive medical dictionary, compiled by the Professor of the Institutes of Medicine, Etc., in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia.
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Religio Bibliopolae.: The Religion of a Bookseller. After the Manner of the Religio Medici, by the Late Ingenious and Learned Sir Thomas Browne, M.D.

By: Dunton, John; Bridgewater, Benjamin

Price: $400.00

Publisher: London, C. Corbett: 1740

Seller ID: 2305747

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No publication date, circa 1740 according to ESTC T110556. Rebound in green cloth with gilt titles and new end sheets and flyleaves by Mutual Library Bindery, Inc. in 1959 (their stamp on rear flyleaf). It appears the work, which was probably initially issued in wrappers, had already been rebound once with new marbled endpapers, which have been retained and appear inside the new flyleaves. Ink name on title page, minimal pencil marginalia. 2, [1]-84 pp., with numerous blank leaves bound in following text. Originally published under the name Benjamin Bridgewater in 1691, but attributed to John ...
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Relation d'un Voyage en Italie, suivie d'Observations sur les Anciens et les Modernes

By: Dupre, Alphonse

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Paris, Chez Anthe. Boucher, Imprim.-Librairie: 1824

Seller ID: 2199437

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

Spine lightly creased with a few splits starting, corners rubbed and lightly curled, light stain to rear wrapper and last few pages. 1824 Soft Cover. viij, 545 pp. 12mo. French text. Printed wrappers. Engraved frontispiece of St. Pierre de Rome. A 19th century Italian travelogue, written in the tradition of the Grand Tour.
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History of the War of the Union, Civil, Military & Naval, in Three Volumes

By: Duyckinck, E.A. [Evert Augustus]

Price: $225.00

Publisher: New York, Johnson, Fry & Company: 1862

Seller ID: 2294653

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Good

Some binding repair, boards and edges rubbed with some drying of leather, ink name and address on front flyleaf. 1862 Full-Leather. Complete in three volumes, published individually from 1862-1865. ii, 620; 660; 642 pp. 4to. Original dark brown leather, black stamped decorations, gilt titles, all edges gilt Engraved plates from photographs and paintings by Alonzo Chappel throughout. A contemporary account of the American Civil War.
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Image for National Portrait Gallery of Eminent Americans: Including Orators, Statesmen, Naval and Military Heroes, Jurists, Authors, Etc., Etc., from Original Full Length Paintings, with Biographical and Historical Narratives

National Portrait Gallery of Eminent Americans: Including Orators, Statesmen, Naval and Military Heroes, Jurists, Authors, Etc., Etc., from Original Full Length Paintings, with Biographical and Historical Narratives

By: Duyckinck, Evert A.

Price: $175.00

Publisher: New York, Johnson, Fry & Company: 1862

Seller ID: 2278890

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Scattered light foxing throughout, front hinge of each volume just beginning to weaken, edges a bit rubbed, ink name (Frank Foote) on front flyleaf of each volume. 1862 Full-Leather. vii, [3], 488; iv, [2], 470 pp. 4to. Original dark brown leather, blind-stamped decorations, gilt titles, all edges gilt Engraved portraits throughout. A collection of biographical sketches of important American citizens, with portraits reproduced from paintings by Alonzo Chappel.
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Little Lilla; or, the Way to Be Happy (The Dove Series)

By: E.C.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Sheldon and Company: 1867

Seller ID: 2205134

Binding: Small Hard Cover

Condition: Fair

Rear board and spine unhinged, boards heavily rubbed, pencil name to rear paste-down endpaper. 1867 Small Hard Cover. 269 pp. With four engravings by Pen Sc. CONTENTS: A rainy evening; Lilla's own way; Lilla's lesson; Wise next time; A misfortune, and how it was borne; Lilla's birthday; Little cousins; Hide and seek; Home again.
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Image for The Works of Dr. John Eachard, Late Master of Catharine-Hall, Cambridge. in Three Volumes. Consisting of The Grounds and Occasions of the Contempt of the Clergy; His Dialogues on the Writings of Mr. Hobbs, and Other Tracts. A New Edition, with a Second Dialogue on the Writings of Mr. Hobbs, Not Printed in Any Former Edition; and Some Account of the Life and Writings of the Author. [A Compleat Collection of the Works of John Eachard] [Hobbes]

The Works of Dr. John Eachard, Late Master of Catharine-Hall, Cambridge. in Three Volumes. Consisting of The Grounds and Occasions of the Contempt of the Clergy; His Dialogues on the Writings of Mr. Hobbs, and Other Tracts. A New Edition, with a Second Dialogue on the Writings of Mr. Hobbs, Not Printed in Any Former Edition; and Some Account of the Life and Writings of the Author. [A Compleat Collection of the Works of John Eachard] [Hobbes]

By: Eachard, John; Davies, Thomas

Price: $475.00

Publisher: London, T. Davies: 1774

Seller ID: 2304817

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Spine of volume one a little rubbed and with small hole near foot, internally clean, bindings sturdy, ink owner name on each front endpaper. 1774 Full-Leather. Complete in three volumes. 23, [3], iv, 296; [12], 228; [4], xxviii, 246 [2 (ad leaf)] pp. 12mo. Contemporary full leather, gilt-ruled and numbered spines with red morocco label. The most complete edition of Eachard's works. Edited by Thomas Davies, a reissue of his two-volume 1772 edition with cancel titles to all volumes, the second and third volumes here entitled A Compleat Collection of the Works of John Eachard. The new material in...
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Racing and Steeple-Chasing (The Badminton Library of Stories and Pastimes)

By: Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire; Craven, W.G.; Lawley, F.; Coventry, Arthur; Watson, Alfred E.T.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London, Longmans, Green, Co.: 1889

Seller ID: 2303166

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Third edition. Some pages lightly foxed. 1889 Hard Cover. xii, 419 pp. 8vo. Color frontispiece and woodcut illustrations by J. Sturgess. Two works on horse racing in one, including: Racing; Steeple-Chasing.
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