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Narrative of Military Operations, Directed, During the Late War Between the States
by JOHNSTON, Joseph E
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- Published
- 1874
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- Publisher's Deluxe Sheepskin
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- 1
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Glendale, California, USA
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$950.00
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Thick octavo, publisher's original deluxe brown sheepskin with Morocco spine label, marbled endpapers and edges. Octavo. [1], 602 pages, [6] pages of publisher advertisements, [1]. Frontispiece steel engraving of Johnston. Illustrated with steel engravings and a folding map. Professionally and sympathetically rebacked with the original spine by the Heritage Bindery. Internal contents clean with occasional light foxing. A very good… Read more about this item Item Price
$950.00
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Thèbes. La Gloire d'un Grand Passé
by CAPART, Jean and WERBROUK, Marcelle
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- Used - Fine
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- 1st edition
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- Publisher's wrappers
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- 1
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Glendale, California, USA
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$750.00
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Large quarto (measuring 10-1/2 by 13 inches), Original publisher's tan wrappers, now housed in a custom clamshell box.
First edition of this study of the city of Thebes in Ancient Greece, written by accomplished Egyptologist Jean Capart, with the collaboration of Marcelle Werbrouck, with dozens of half-tones depicting Thebes, its major sites, and the archaeological work there. INSCRIBED by Jean Capart… Read more about this item Item Price
$750.00
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Narrative of the Arctic Land Expedition to the Mouth of the Great Fish River and Along the Shores of the Arctic Ocean in the Years 1833, 1834, 1835.
by BACK, George
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- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- 1st edition
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- 1836
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- Publisher's cloth
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- 1
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Glendale, California, USA
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$1,350.00
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London: John Murray, 1836. FIRST EDITION. Thick large octavo, with numerous illustrations and a folding map; original cloth (sympathetically rebacked with the original spine mounted). A very good copy now Mylar protected and housed in a custom slipcase.
"A breathtaking recital of continuous adventure," George Back's expedition charted over 1200 miles of new territory and made important observations on the Aurora… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,350.00
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Cellular Pathology as based upon Physiological and Pathological Histology
by VIRCHOW, Rudolf
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- Used - Very Good+
- Edition
- 1st edition, American issue
- Published
- 1860
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- Full contemporary calf
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Glendale, California, USA
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$1,000.00
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8vo. 554 pp., including index. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION Translated from the 2nd edition of the German original. there was also an English edition published by Churchill in London the same year (1860). Small 4to. 554pp. With 144 text wood engravings. Full Contemporary calf, spine in compartments with black Morocco label, some light wear with a crack staring at the bottom… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,000.00
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Le Musée des Sorciers Mages et Alchimistes
by Givry, Grillot de (Witchcraft)
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- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- Published
- 1929
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- Publisher's wrapped cloth
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Glendale, California, USA
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$450.00
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First edition. 4to., 455 pp., With 365 figures in text, 10 color plates. Original publisher's cloth backed pictorial boards with red and black wrappers bound in. Title page printed in red and black. Superbly illustrated work on the history and iconography of witchcraft, alchemy, and magic. The book exhibits some spine fading of the red ink and minor wear &… Read more about this item Item Price
$450.00
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Veronica: The Autobiography of Veronica Lake by Veronica Lake
by LAKE, Veronica
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- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Published
- 1971
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- Publisher's cloth with dust wrapper
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- 1
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Glendale, California, USA
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$450.00
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8vo, 281pp., first American printing. Book and the dustwrapper are in near fine condition—jacket shows minor fraying and a few small tears. Co-written by Donald Bain. The 1940s pin-up sensation Veronica Lake—Paramount's top star from that era—had more than her share of lows, and it is possible to portray her life as tragic. Yet a different picture of her… Read more about this item Item Price
$450.00
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The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (3 volumes)
by DARWIN Charles; Francis Darwin [ed.]
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- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- 1st edition, 1st printing
- Published
- 1887
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- Publisher's olive cloth
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- 1
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Glendale, California, USA
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$850.00
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The FIRST EDITION, first printing of this comprehensive biography of Charles Darwin, edited by his son, Francis Darwin, and illustrated throughout. A comprehensive biography of noted nineteenth-century English naturalist and biologist Charles Darwin. Complete in three volumes. The first edition of this work. Volume I includes an autobiographical chapter as well as chapters on childhood and the Darwin family, as… Read more about this item Item Price
$850.00
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The History of Spiritualism. (2 volumes complete)
by Doyle (Arthur Conan)
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- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- Published
- 1926
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- Publisher's cloth
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- 1
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Glendale, California, USA
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$750.00
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Two volumes, 8vo, publisher's blue cloth, gilt. VOLUME 1: 8 plates including frontispiece, xiii [i], 341 [1]pp. VOLUME 2: 8 plates including frontispiece, viii [i], 342 [2]pp. Spines very slightly faded else an excellent near-fine set seldom seen in this condition. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published The History of Spiritualism in 1926, offering a thorough account of the movement… Read more about this item Item Price
$750.00
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High-Speed Computing Devices By the Staff of Engineering Research Associates, Inc.
by Tompkins, C. B. & Wakelin, J. H. & Stifler, W. W., Jr., Editor
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- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- Published
- 1950
- Binding
- Publisher's cloth with dust wrapper
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Glendale, California, USA
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$650.00
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Stated first edition, 8vo., original navy cloth binding with gold lettering on spine, in a very good unclipped mylar protected DJ with a sunned spine. A thorough early study of the origins of the computer. Charles Brown Tompkins, a pioneering academic in the fields of numeric analysis and computing, wrote the majority of the text, much of which summarizes… Read more about this item Item Price
$650.00
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Systeme des Contradictions Economiques ou Philosophie de la Misere (System of Economic Contradictions, or Philosophy of Misery)
by PROUDHON, Joseph Pierre
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- Used
- Edition
- 1st
- Published
- 1846
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- Morocco and contemporary marbled boards
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- 1
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Glendale, California, USA
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$1,850.00
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8vo. two volumes. Half-titles present in both volumes. [4], xliii, [1 blank], 435, [1 Table]; [4], 531, [1 Table] pages. Rebacked in modern half blue levant morocco over contemporary marbled boards, Spines stamped in gilt in compartments, burgundy gilt morocco lettering labels, five raised bands. Some minor rubbing to binding, a bit of foxing in text with some marginal notations… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,850.00
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Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy
by PALEY, William
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- Used
- Edition
- 1st
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- 1785
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- Contemporary calf
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Glendale, California, USA
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$1,750.00
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Large Quarto. [4], half-title, [vii], xxi, [1], vi, 657 pages; Full Contemporary Brown mottled calf binding with gilt tooling on the covers; five raised bands; lettering in gilt on red leather label on spine; gilt tooling; all gilt is bright; book plate of a previous owner on front paste down; spine is square and hinges are tight; A bright very… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,750.00
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The book of common prayer, and administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the Church of England: Together with the psalter or psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches.
by Church of England. Book of Common Prayer
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- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- 2nd
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- 1760
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- Contemporary morocco
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Glendale, California, USA
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$1,600.00
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8vo (24.5 cm, 9.6"). [544] pp. contemporary full dark blue morocco rebacked with original spine panels laid down, elaborately gilt-decorated spine and boards with armorial gilt centerpieces, raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Second edition of Cambridge University printer John Baskerville's Book of Common Prayer, including the Psalter, the articles of religion, and state prayers for George II. This… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,600.00
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Q. Horatius Flaccus, ex recensione & cum notis atque emendationibus Richardi Bentleii
by HORACE. BENTLEY, Richard [editor]
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- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- Published
- 1711
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- Contemporary calf
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Glendale, California, USA
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$1,600.00
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Large quarto. 460 pp. Complete with added engraved title-page dated 1708 and half-title. Engraved printer's device on title-pages and old ink ownership inscription on the first title page. Full Contemporary stained calf, professionally and skillfully rebacked spine with five raised bands, gilt red morocco lettering piece, all edges sprinkled red. Very occasional light spotting. Boards with some edge-wear, Frontispiece slightly… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,600.00