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London: Joseph Cooper for Walter Shropshire, 1777. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. A Very Good Collectible Hardcover ; No Dust Jacket As Issued. Strutt, Joseph (1749-1802). Modern quarter brown leather over marbled boards. 4to. vi, 291; viii, 365 pp. 42 engraved maps and plates. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning with off-setting from some plates. Moderate shelf handling wear. A few blemishes to joints. Several armorial bookplates to each volumes front end papers. Includes bibliographical references. 2 volumes complete. First Edition, First Printing. Contributors: Cooper, Joseph, -1808, printer; Jones, Thomas, -1806, printer; Shropshire, Walter, -1785, publisher. Ref: ESTC, T75215; ODNB; YCBA. An influential history of England chronicling from the Arrival of Julius Caesar to the End of the Saxon Heptarchy. The English art historian, Sir Roy Strong, called Joseph Strutt, engraver, artist, antiquary, and writer the earliest and "most important… Read More

London: John W. Parker, 1839. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Brown blind-stamped ribbed cloth with gilt spine titles. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear; The head of the spine is frayed with a small loss. 12mo 7.5 inches tall; viii, 340 pages, 5 unnumbered leaves of plates; Partial small name stamp on the front free endpage. Illustrated with wood engraings. First Edition, First Printing.. A complete history of transportation in Great Britain from the Roman Eras to the beginning of the Steam Era with fascinating and informative woodcut illustrations. Ref: YCfBA

New York: Warner Books, 1987. First Softcover edition. Near Fine. Richard Jay Potash (1946 2018) was an American stage magician, actor and writer In a profile for The New Yorker, Mark Singer called Jay "perhaps the most gifted sleight of hand artist alive" In addition to sleight of hand, Jay was known for his card tricks, card throwing, memory feats, and stage patter He also wrote extensively on magic and its history His acting credits included the films The Prestige, The Spanish Prisoner, Mystery Men, Heist, Boogie Nights, Tomorrow Never Dies, State and Main, House of Games and Magnolia, and the HBO series Deadwood In 2015 he was the subject of an episode of PBS's American Masters, the only magician ever profiled in the series For anyone who has not had the pleasure of seeing him perform, he has several videos on Youtube He was truly a "magician's magician" This near fine softcover copy has only very slight edgewear Colors on the illustrated covers are still bright There is an inscription by Jay on… Read More

London: Printed by W.G. for R. Scot, T. Baffet, J. Wright, R. Chiswell and J. Edwyn, 1676. First. Very Good. Bacon first published his life of Henry VII in 1622 That work was included in this edition, which added the lives of the subsequent three monarchs, all written by Francis Godwin This is the first edition of the expanded work 4 parts in one, engraved author's portrait, pages ruled in black, light browning and scattered spotting, bookplate of Henry Seymour and signature of Sir William Portman, contemporary speckled calf, marbled edges, corners rubbed and scuffed, hinges started, [ESTC R19; Wing (CD-ROM, 1996); B300; Gibson, 121], folio, There were multiple Henry Seymour's from the date of publication and for many years afterwards From the Library of Sir William Portman (1643-1690), English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1661 and 1690 138 & 201 pp.

625 Pages. The book includes portraits, illustrations, and maps and was written by the School Manager/Secretary in the Norwegian Whaling Association. It is all in the Norwegian language and is a history of Norway's whaling industry. The book's exterior has two worn corners, and two moderately worn corners, worn marks along the bottom edges and less wearing marks on the top edges, and worn areas at the top and bottom edge of the spine. In addition, the spine is faded and darkened and there is one small hole on it. The interior book has the former owner's (Whaling Museum) bookplate inside the front cover along with a sticker below it, and a worn spot/hole on the next inside page. Outside of those detriments, there are no further visible distractions, detriments, or extraneous markings throughout the book and thus all printing and the numerous photographs and illustrations are all in a very well-preserved and readable condition and the book's bindings remain tight and therefore sound.If you order this… Read More

Complete 25 volume set.
Book covers like new, very slight shelf wear - pages clean, bright and unmarked – spines like new.
No dust jackets issued with these books.
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Jeffers, Robinson Cawdor and other poems. Copyright 1928 Horace Liveright, New York. Stated Second Printing Thus December, 1928. USED. Good Condition/ No DJ Included. Purple boards with black leather spine. Gilt titling and cartouche of nude at center on front panel is still in very nice shape but stamped titling is no longer visible on the black leather spine. Gift inscription by someone other than the author on the front endpaper makes mention of "the Crows Nest" and has dated his entry 1930. 160 pages. 5 5/8 X 8 3/8.

Book cover like new - pages clean and unmarked – spine like new.
Jacket like new, light shelf wear.
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The Petrovic- Njegos Dynasty. The Rise & Fall of Montenegro's Royal Family told through family albums and diaries.

Light edge wear and rubbing to dust jacket. Small sticker attached to front cover. Pages crisp and clean.

CHICAGO: J. H. BEERS & CO., 1915 RARE TWO BOOKS SET, 1/3 LEATHER ON SPINE AND CORNERS, VOLUME ONE HAS HAD COVER REBOUND AND IS IN EXCELLENT SHAPE. VOLUME II HAS ORIGINAL COVER WITH LIGHT WEAR SPINE AND EDGES. GOLD PRINT SPINES. BOTH ARE CLEAN AND TIGHT THROUGHOUT. VERY NICE SET. MARBLING ON PAGE EDGES. VOLUME I HAS TABLE OF CONTENTS, HISTORICAL INDEX AND BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX. GREAT DETAIL REGARDING INDIANS, PENNSYLVANIA AND MANY OTHER AREAS. LARGE NUMBER OF PICTURES. VOLUME II HAS BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX AND DETAIL OF LARGE NUMBER OF INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE OF THE AREA. WONDERFUL BOOKS FOR THE LOVER OF PAST HISTORY OF PENNSYLVANIA. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

Monteith's Independent Course, Comprehensive Geography, 1882, 116 pages main section, plus expanded section on Kentucky of 7 pages. Fully illustrated with color maps. New York: A S Barnes.
Condition: Not a Library Book. This book was professionally restored. Interior is clean, with no stamps, crimps, etc. within. New firm binding with gilt lettered label as shown. Please review all photos and ask for more if needed for a sound buying decision. Some archival tape was used within, not affecting readability.
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Reykjavik: Arni Magnusson Institute in Iceland, 2004. A comprehensive and profusely illustrated accompaniment to the exhibition The Manuscripts of Iceland, which was organized by the Arni Magnusson Institute and opened in the Culture House in 2002.. 1st. Soft Cover. As New/No Jacket. 10 1/2" x 10".

London: University of Chicago Press/Callaghan and Company, 1904. Second Edition. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear to boards and spine, bookplate on spine faded and rubbed, mild toning/foxing to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 189pp + CIII (103) illustrated plates. Second edition. the legal code of Hammurabi, King of Babylon. The longest, best organized and best preserved legal text from the ancient Near East. This edition includes a transliteration of the text with translation on facing page, a photograph of the original stele and then plates of the original text in Akkadian. #01582.

Half bound in brown grained leather with brown cloth boards. Spine has raised banding with gilt squared banding and lettering and griffin emblem (same as on the name plate on the end paper), suggesting specially bound by Hatchards of Piccadilly for his library. Dimensions are for the largest volume.
The Second Boer War , 11 October 1899 – 31 May 1902), also known as the Boer War, the Anglo–Boer War, or the South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer Republics (the South African Republic and the Orange Free State) over the Empire's influence in Southern Africa from 1899 to 1902. Triggered by the discovery of diamond and gold deposits in the Boer republics, the Boers launched successful attacks against British outposts in the opening stages of the war before being pushed back by imperial reinforcements. Though the British swiftly occupied the Boer republics, numerous Boers refused to accept defeat and engaged in guerrilla warfare. Eventually, British scorched… Read More

Basel: Basel: Michael Isingrin, 1555. 1st Edition . Full leather. Very Good. First edition thus (the first to include coverage of the reign of Henry VIII to 1538); folio; [2], 691, [39]pp. In mid-sixteenth century blind-panelled calf with blind arabesque to centre of each board (professionally respined and with corners repaired). Title with woodcut printer's device and early manuscript annotations and markings (title repaired, re-attached at gutter, with light creasing and soiling), decorative woodcut initials and borders to leaves a2 and a3, woodcut printer's device to reverse of final leaf, early marginal annotations and underlinings throughout volume, first few leaves lightly frayed to margins, small closed tear at foot of leaf H6, occasional unobtrusive damp stains to margins of a few leaves. First published in 1534, Polydore Vergil's history was a source for chroniclers Edward Hall and Raphael Holinshed, consequently influencing Shakespeare's history plays, and according to… Read More