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MISSALE ROMANUM ex Decreto SS. Concilii Tridentini Restitutum; S. Pii V Pontificis Maximi Jussu...

MISSALE ROMANUM ex Decreto SS. Concilii Tridentini Restitutum; S. Pii V Pontificis Maximi Jussu Editum Aliorum Pontificum cura Recognitum a Pio X Reformatum et Benedicti XV Auctoritate Vulgatum; Editio XVIII Juxta Typicam Vaticanam

Ratisbonae: Friderici Pustet, 1935. Leather. 828p; 220p; 36p; 11p; 4p index. A large, thick hardcover book bound in black leather with gilt-stamped lettering on the front. Good condition overall. Edges and corners rubbed; the bottom of the spine is a bit choppy-looking due to edgewear. The section tabs are visibly..... More

Price: $500.00

SIXTEENTH LEGISLATURE. No. 45 SENATE. STATE OF MAINE. IN SENATE, MARCH 1, 1836. THE JOINT SELECT...

SIXTEENTH LEGISLATURE. No. 45 SENATE. STATE OF MAINE. IN SENATE, MARCH 1, 1836. THE JOINT SELECT COMMITTEE, TO WHOM WAS REFERRED THE MESSAGE OF THE GOVERNOR, COMMUNICATING THE REPORT AND RESOLUTIONS OF THE LEGISLATURES OF NORTH CAROLINA, SOUTH CAROLINA, GEORGIA AND ALABAMA, ON THE INCENDIARY PROCEEDINGS OF THE ABOLITIONISTS IN THE NON-SLAVE-HOLDING STATES

No Place: State of Maine, 1836. 1st Edition. Original wraps. 8-page pamphlet issued by the State of Maine in an edition of 1,000 copies. Two folded sheets of paper bound together with a single cord. Near fine condition, with just a few spots scattered here and there. Text of a...... More

Price: $500.00

THE SPORTSMAN'S ANNUAL

THE SPORTSMAN'S ANNUAL.

London: 1836. First edition. Folio. With 12 b/w engraved plates. Bound with leather spine and boards. A good copy. Rare work on dogs; not listed in Schwerdt. Contains 12 engraved portraits of dogs' heads by Edwin Landseer, A. Cooper and Charles Hancock. More

Price: $800.00

LETTERS FROM AN OLD SPORTSMAN TO A YOUNG ONE. A. Henry Higginson, by Lionel Edwards

A. Henry Higginson; illus. by Lionel Edwards.

LETTERS FROM AN OLD SPORTSMAN TO A YOUNG ONE.

Garden City: Doubleday Doran, 1929. First edition. signed ltd ed. #142 of 201 copies signed by the author. WITH ORIGINAL SIGNED B/W ETCHING BY LIONEL EDWARDS. Red cloth. Spine slightly sunned else a hardcover book in very good condition. The signed limited edition with the rare Lionel Edwards etching in..... More

Price: $500.00

SYRIA FROM THE SADDLE. Albert Payson Terhune

Albert Payson Terhune.

SYRIA FROM THE SADDLE.

Boston: Silver Burdett, 1896. First edition. 1st ed 1st printing. First edition of the author's first book in fine condition. The future best-selling author wrote this account of his adventures in the deserts of Syria in the late 1890s. This copy is in green decorated cloth; the book is also..... More

Price: $750.00

THE NEGRO IN THE SOUTH: His Economic Progress in Relation to His Moral and Religious Development;...

Booker T. Washington and W.E. Burghardt DuBois

THE NEGRO IN THE SOUTH: His Economic Progress in Relation to His Moral and Religious Development; Being the William Levi Bull Lectures for the Year 1907

Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Company, 1907. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 222p. A navy blue cloth hardcover book in good+ condition. Corners lightly bumped and worn. Head and foot of spine wearing through and starting to fray. Very faint spotting on front cover, and there are faint traces of a piece..... More

Price: $1,250.00

THE NEGRO PROBLEM: A Series of Articles by Representative American Negroes of To-day. W. E....

Booker T. Washington, W.E. Burghardt DuBois, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Charles W. Chesnutt, and others

THE NEGRO PROBLEM: A Series of Articles by Representative American Negroes of To-day

New York: James Pott & Company, 1903. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 234p. A red cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Surfaces and edges lightly rubbed, and spine lightly sunned. Early owner's signature on front free endpaper, dated 1912. Light foxing on endpapers, plates, and pages surrounding the plates. Otherwise, text..... More

Price: $2,000.00

BRIGAND LIFE IN ITALY: A History of Bourbonist Reaction. Edited from Original and Authentic...

Count Maffei

BRIGAND LIFE IN ITALY: A History of Bourbonist Reaction. Edited from Original and Authentic Documents.

London: Hurst and Blackett, 1865. First English Edition. Leather. 2 vols. 313p; 326p. A handsome set of two hardcover books bound in 3/4 red leather with red cloth boards. The spines are ornately decorated in gilt with five raised bands. Pastel marbled endpapers. The edges of the covers are only..... More

Price: $800.00

THE LONG LONELINESS. Dorothy Day

Dorothy Day

THE LONG LONELINESS

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1952. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 288p. THE SCARCE FIRST PRINTING OF DOROTHY DAY'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY. A hardcover book in very good condition with a like dustjacket. Former owner's signature else clean, tight, and unmarked. The jacket is whoile and intact with olnly some mild shelf wear along..... More

Price: $800.00

CRUSADE IN EUROPE. Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower

CRUSADE IN EUROPE

Garden City: Doubleday, 1948. Limited Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. #285 OF 1426 COPIES SIGNED BY EISENHOWER ON A FACSIMILE OF THE ORIGINAL D-DAY ORDERS. Fine condition in clear acetate wrapper and publisher's box. This is Julia Rockefeller's copy, neatly inscribed to her for Christmas 1948 by "Bill" - the..... More

Price: $7,500.00

THE HISTORY OF THE SECOND DRAGOONS 'ROYALS SCOTS GREYS'. Edward Almack

Edward Almack

THE HISTORY OF THE SECOND DRAGOONS 'ROYALS SCOTS GREYS'

London: Alexander Moring, [1908]. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 312p, plates. Folio, measuring 8.5 x 12 inches. Bound in half vellum and gray decorated paper-covered boards. A few old marks to covers; interior fine and in overall very good condition. Includes a tipped-in photograph and a ticket to a special Thanksgiving service..... More

Price: $600.00

WAUGH IN ABYSSINIA. Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh

WAUGH IN ABYSSINIA

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1936. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. SIGNED BY EVELYN WAUGH. Waugh has neatly signed the front free endpaper with his less common method of "E Waugh". Original red cloth lettered in gilt. Light foxing to the endpapers; faint shadow on front board where an old..... More

Price: $3,500.00

VINDICATIONES SOCIETATIS IESU. Francesco Sfortia Pallavicino

Francesco Sfortia Pallavicino

VINDICATIONES SOCIETATIS IESU

Rome: Dominici Manelphi, 1649. 1st Edition. Leather bound. 407p + index. Quarto. Bound in full limp vellum. Title lettered on spine in old ink manuscript hand. Scattered toning to text else interior in good condition. Front pastedown has large circular hole where something (a bookplate?) was cut out exposing the..... More

Price: $850.00

NARRATIVE OF THE EXPEDITION OF AN AMERICAN SQUADRON TO THE CHINA SEAS AND JAPAN Performed in the...

Francis L. Hawks

NARRATIVE OF THE EXPEDITION OF AN AMERICAN SQUADRON TO THE CHINA SEAS AND JAPAN Performed in the Years 1852, 1853, and 1854 under the Command of Commodore M.C. Perry, United States Navy

NY: D. Appleton and Company, 1856. First one-volume edition. Hardcover. 624p. Includes errata slip, 11 folding maps, and 76 engraved plates. Brown cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Interior very good, covers worn along spine edges. Spine lettering dulled. A hardcover book in good, solid condition. The one-volume large octavo..... More

Price: $500.00

EPISTOLARIO DE NUEVA ESPANA 1505-1818: Vols. I-XII. Francisco del Paso y. Troncoso

Francisco del Paso y Troncoso.

EPISTOLARIO DE NUEVA ESPANA 1505-1818: Vols. I-XII.

Mexico: Libreria Robredo, 1939-1940. First edition. Vols. 1-12 (of sixteen) only of this comprehensive collection of offical letters of the Mexican government under Spain. Red cloth. Ex-library with various library ownership markings else a clean tight set in very good condition. Text in Spanish. More

Price: $800.00

LIBRO SEGUNDO DE LA CRONICA MISCELANEA, en que se Trata de la Conquista Espiritual y Temporal de...

Fray Antonio Tello

LIBRO SEGUNDO DE LA CRONICA MISCELANEA, en que se Trata de la Conquista Espiritual y Temporal de la Santa Provincia de Xalisco en el Nuevo Reino de la Galicia y Nueva Vizcaya y Descubrimiento del Nuevo Mexico

Guadalajara: La Republica Literaria, 1891. Leather. 886p plus 27p index. Ex-library copy of a 1/2 brown leather hardcover book in good condition. Library markings and stamps inside, on spine, and on edges of text block. Edges rubbed. Scattered small pencil marks in margins. However, the vast majority of the pages..... More

Price: $750.00

ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE

New York: Harper and Row, 1970. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition in like dustjacket. This is the first printing of the American edition of Marquez's classic in the second-state dustjacket with a period on the front flap instead of an exclamation point. The state of the jacket does not..... More

Price: $2,000.00

LE PITTURE DELLE CATACOMBE ROMANE [two volume set]. Giuseppe Wilpert

Giuseppe Wilpert.

LE PITTURE DELLE CATACOMBE ROMANE [two volume set].

Rome: Desclee, 1903. Complete two volume set. Folio. A pair of massive, heavy books bound in brownish gold cloth. Former seminary library books with shelf labels and small library stamps on title pages but otherwise free of library markings. The binding of Vol. II is shaken - all plates are..... More

Price: $2,500.00

THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME: The Ultimate Revolution. H G. Wells

H.G. Wells

THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME: The Ultimate Revolution

London: Hutchinson & Co., 1933. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 432p; 12p advertisements. A hardcover book in near-fine condition with a good dustjacket. Corners mildly bumped else a fine, clean, tight book. The jacket's spine is faded (as is often found) and the corners worn through. The head and foot of the..... More

Price: $1,500.00

LETTERS WRITTEN BY HIS EXCELLENCY HUGH BOULTER, D.D. Lord Primate of All Ireland. Hugh Boulter

Hugh Boulter

LETTERS WRITTEN BY HIS EXCELLENCY HUGH BOULTER, D.D. Lord Primate of All Ireland

Dublin: George Faulkner & James Williams, 1770. 1st Edition. Leather bound. 288p, 198p + index. Contains two volumes bound as one book. Full 18th century calf stamped in gilt. Remains of old bookplate on front pastedown else clean and unmarked. Mild shelf wear, a study hardcover book in very good..... More

Price: $500.00

THE BELIEF IN IMMORTALITY and the Worship of the Dead, Volumes I-III. J G. Frazer

J.G. Frazer

THE BELIEF IN IMMORTALITY and the Worship of the Dead, Volumes I-III

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1913. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 3 vols. 495p; 447p; A set of three hardcover books bound in green cloth. Volume II and III's spines are a bit faded. The heads of the spines on volumes I and II are lightly worn, with quarter-inch closed tears. Endpapers..... More

Price: $600.00

THE CHRONICLES OF RODRIGUEZ. Lord Dunsany

Lord Dunsany

THE CHRONICLES OF RODRIGUEZ

London: Putnam's, 1922. S.H. Sime. 1st Edition. Leather bound. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, BEING #235 OF 500 COPIES SIGNED BY BOTH DUNSANY AND ARTIST SIDNEY H. SIME. Dunsany signed his name with his typical flourish underneath the preface while Sime signed the frontispiece. Bound in vellum and brownish-orange colored boards. Slight..... More

Price: $750.00

ANNALES MINORUM seu Trium Ordinum a S. Francisco Institutorum: Vols. 1-32. Luke Wadding

Luke Wadding et al.

ANNALES MINORUM seu Trium Ordinum a S. Francisco Institutorum: Vols. 1-32

Florence: Ad Claras Aquas (Quaracchi), 1931-64. Third Edition. Hardcover. A rare complete set of vols. 1-32 bound as 32 hardcover books. Ex-library with shelf labels on spines and library stamps on title pages and endpapers. White cloth stamped in gilt. Each volume measures 8x12 inches and is approximately two inches..... More

Price: $1,500.00

DAYS AND DREAMS. Madison Cawein

Madison Cawein.

DAYS AND DREAMS.

NY: Putnams, 1891. First edition. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO FELLOW POET EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN. A nice presentation inscription; Cawein's calling call is affixed underneath his signature. Stedman's bookplate on inside front cover. Tan decorated cloth. Spine slightly darkened else a hardcover book in very good condition. Nice association copy..... More

Price: $500.00

TRACTS RELATIVE TO THE ISLAND OF ST. HELENA: Written during a Residence of Five Years....

Major-General Alexander Beatson

TRACTS RELATIVE TO THE ISLAND OF ST. HELENA: Written during a Residence of Five Years

London: W. Bulmer, 1816. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Bound in three-quarter leather and marbled boards, expertly restored with covers reattached preserving the original binding. Very good condition. Complete with all seven b/w plates engraved by William Daniell from the drawings of Samuel Davis. An important illustrated account of the island..... More

Price: $950.00

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