NY: John B. Alden, 1883. Second Edition. Original cloth. Good. Some shelf rubbing, reader's notes at back. Two volumes in one, pp: 427 + 448, index; 4 plates. This is the first one-volume edition of the first book in English to offer a comprehensive view of ancient Egyptian life in view of the work done since the translation of hieroglyphics earlier in the 19th century. The author describes "the land and people of Egypt, their arts and sciences, their civil institutions, and their religious faith and usages." 7.5" x 5". (more information)

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Boston Gould and Lincoln 1852., 1852. Hardcover. Text block is age-tanned, else near very good condition. 7.75" x 5" pp: (vi), 426. Illustrated by 200+ illustrations in text. US Edition. Binding is original cloth. (more information)

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Peking, China: Foreign Languages Press, 1978. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. Pictorial paper covers. pp: (iv), 104; 4 plates, folding map. The author, Chou En-lai's guard, describes his experiences with Chou during the revolutionary years of 1936 to 1939 7.25" x 5". (more information)

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Chicago: Field Museum Natural History, 1924. First Edition. Original wraps. Very Good. 66pp. Traces the spread of tobacco use from "the aborigines of America " to the European colonists, and thence to Europe. Has long sections on English tobacco cultivation and use as well as tobacco in Western and Central European countries. 8.5" x 5.5". (more information)

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London: Duckworth, 1925. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. Spine cloth sun-faded. pp: viii, 298; 181 illustrations. Prof. Lethaby here augments his earlier work on the subject, based on more than 1,000 additional visits to Wetminster Abbey. 9.25" x 6.25". (more information)

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London: Constable, 1917. First Edition. Original wraps. Very Good. Small chip from back cover. 38pp. From the vantage point of World War I, this work analyzes the composition, features, and contributions of the British Empire. 8.5" x 5.5". (more information)

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Paris: Assn Encour Napoleon Studies, 1957. First thus. not bound. Very Good. Broadsheet, two pages. Chart on back: "Genealogie de la Famille Bonaparte" shows the family tree from Charles (b. 1746) to Jerome (b. 1957). 10.5" x 8.25". (more information)

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s.l. "French Historical Studies" 1985., 1985. Near fine condition. 10" x 6.75" (17)pp Palmer's 1984 address to the American Historical Society looks at work by American scholars in the field of French history. offprint edition. Binding is side-stitched. (more information)

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London: W. Thacker, 1902. Second Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. pp: xxi, 350; 40 plates from photographs. Focuses on 19th-century Indians eminent in political and social reform, journalism, law, religion, scholarship, etc. 8.5" x 5.5". (more information)

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New Rochelle, NY Arlington House (1971)., 1971. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Book and dust jacket near fine condition. 9.25" x 6" pictorial dj 256pp w/index This is the first full-length biography in English of the 19th-century French writer who contributed many ideas on laissez-faire capitalism, free trade, and economic individualism. Included are 17 pages of his aphorisms. First Edition. Binding is original cloth. (more information)

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London: Methuen, 1926. First Edition. Original cloth. Very Good. pp: ix, 253, index. Looks to Roman writings and later archaeology to define pre-Roman Italian culture. 7.75" x 4.75". (more information)

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Mexico City: Ediciones Banamex, 1975. First thus. Original wraps. Very Good. 319pp; illus from photographs. Traces the evolution of Mexico City's Palace of the Counts of San Mateo de Valparaiso into the National Bank of Mexico. 9.25" x 6.75". (more information)

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Boston: Little, Brown, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. pp: xi, 282, index. At age 80, the famed journalist turned his investigative skills to ancient Greece. Here he examines the mysteries surrounding the trial and execution of Socrates in 399 B.C. 9.5" x 6.25". (more information)

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London: Chatto & Windus, 1933. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. pp: xi, 320, index; portrait. Essays which Lytton omitted from the volumes published during his lifetime are here collected by his brother. 9" x 5.5". (more information)

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Cincinnati: Hitchcock & Walden, 1877. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good. 271pp; 2 plates from woodcuts. Besides voyages to America, this book describes Raleigh's role in Irish wars, expeditions to Guiana, Elizabethan court, &c. 6.75" x 4.5". (more information)

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London: Cassell, 1955. First Edition. Original cloth. Very Good/Very Good. pp: xiii, 242; cartoons throughout. Urquhart uses political cartoons to create a biography of Sir Winston Churchill from 1900 to 1954. Each cartoon is captioned, its publication date noted, and the political circumstances of its time are explained. 10" x 7.25". (more information)

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Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1920. First Edition. Original cloth. Very Good. pp: ix, 280. The author traces modern Chinese history from the "100 Days" of reform in 1898 through the Boxer uprising & "Revolution of 1911" to 1917. 8.25" x 5.5". (more information)

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Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1965. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good/Good. Some edge wear to dust jacket. pp: vi, 346. Comprises essays by experts in French, German & English literature, history, philosophy, music, art, science & ideas. 9.25" x 6". (more information)

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NY: Praeger, 1959. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 241pp, index; 40pp illus from photographs, 7 maps. Traces Indo-Pakistani man up through the time of Emperor Ashoka in the third century B.C.E. Looks at the Indus Valley and Ganges Valley cultures, the South Indian megalithic tombs, etc. 8.25" x 5.75". (more information)

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