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Addiches de Paix. Peace Posters. Carteles de Paz

Gesgon, Alain · 1985

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.27 | ¥6,388)

[Paris], Federation Mondiale des Cites Unies, 1985. First edition. Cloth. 131 pp. Illus. with color plates. 4to. Preface from Pierre Mauroy. Fifty-one posters reproduced from the Alain Gesgon collection exhibited as part of the 40th anniversary of the United Nations. A fine co...

Two Fables

Morley, Christopher, trans · 1925

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

New York, Doubleday, Page & Co, 1925. First edition. Cloth. 95 pp. Sm. 8vo. Signed by Morley on the title page in a bold hand. A good copy, tear to head and heel of spine, endpapers split at joints.

The Prairie Logbooks: Dragoon Campaigns to the Pawnee Villages in 1844, and to the Rocky Mountains in 1845

Carleton, Lieutenant J. Henry · 1943

$175.00 (€158.77 | £132.44 | ¥27,949)

Chicago, Caxton Club, 1943. First edition. Gilt decorated quarter blue cloth over red cloth boards. Top edge gilt. xviii, 295 pp. Map. 8vo. Limited edition of 350 copies. "Lieutenant James Henry Carleton's first Logbook was published anonymously and appeared first in the Spiri...

Tristan and Isolt: A Play in Verse

Masefield, John · 1927

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

New York, Macmillan Company, 1927. First American edition. Cloth. 144 pp. Sm. 4to. 176 of 350 numbered copies signed by Masefield. Extremities rubbed, spine label darkened, still a very good or better copy with uncut (unopened) leaves.

The Plays of Moliere. [Six Volumes]

Moliere. Trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley · 1909

$500.00 (€453.64 | £378.40 | ¥79,853)

Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1909. Novelist's Library, edition de luxe. Three quarter dark red morocco over light red cloth boards, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, gilt designs and titles to spines. Illus. with b/w drawings. 8vo. Limited edition of five hundred numbere...

My Brother Victor. A Convalescent's Fancy

Eilshemius, Louis M. [Michel] or Elshemus · 1912

$275.00 (€249.50 | £208.12 | ¥43,919)

New York, Dreamers Press, 1912. First edition. Light blue paper wrappers decorated in brown. [2], 28, [2] p. [8] p. of plates. Illus. with b/w plates. Sm. 8vo. "The Memorie was written at Paris, France, in the author's twenty-third year; while studying Art at Julians." A long ...

Under the Willows and Other Poems

Lowell, James Russell · 1869

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

Boston, Fields, Osgood, & Co. successors to Ticknor and Fields, 1869. First edition, state C, binding C. Green cloth with beveled edges; top edge gilt. viii, 286 pp. 16mo. BAL 13129. A good solid copy, slight roll to spine, extremities rubbed with minor loss at the spine ends,...

The Jeffersonian Tradition of Democracy

Wiltse, Charles Maurice · 1935

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

Chapel Hill, Univ. North Carolina, 1935. First edition. Cloth. xii, 273 pp. 8vo. A very good crisp clean copy in a good+ dust jacket with a few chips and tears.

The National Gallery of Art: A Twenty-Five Year Report

National Gallery of Art · 1966

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

Washington, D. C. U. S. Government Printing Office, 1966. First edition. Cloth. 102 pp. Illus. with color photos. Sm. 4to. A fine crisp copy in a very good+ acetate dust jacket with a tear at the upper edge.

Studies in Pedagogy

Morgan, Thomas · 1892

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

Boston, Silver, Burdett & Co. 1892. Later printing. Cloth. 352 pp. + Adv. [2]. Sm. 8vo. Thomas Jefferson Morgan (1839-1902), Clergyman, educator, soldier, was appointed commissioner of Indian Affairs by President Harrison. Though in spite of much political and ecclesiastical o...

A New Universal Gazetteer, or, Geographical Dictionary, Containing a Description of the Various Countries, Provinces, Cities, Towns, Seas, Lakes, Rivers, Mountains, Capes, &C. In the Known World. With an Appendix, Containing an Account of the Monies, Weights, and Measures of Various Countries, with Tables Illustrating the Population, Commerce, and Resources of the United States

Morse, Jedidiah and Morse, Richard Cary · 1823

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.68 | ¥15,971)

New Haven, S. Converse, 1823. Fourth edition revised and corrected. Full calf with red morocco spine label. 856 pp. Sm. 4to.[25 cm.]. Jedidiah Morse (1761-1826) clergyman and geographer wrote "Geography Made Easy in 1784, which was said by historian George W. White to be the f...

Massachusetts Beautiful

Nutting, Wallace · 1923

$22.50 (€20.41 | £17.03 | ¥3,593)

Framingham, Ma, Old American Company, 1923. First edition. Cloth. 301 pp. Illus. with 304 b/w photos. Sm. 4to. Some staining and wrinkling (as common for this title) to back board, otherwise a very good crisp copy. No dust jacket.

Imperial Democracy: A Study of the Relation of Government by the People, Equality Before the Law, and Other Tenets of Democracy, to the Demands of a Vigorous Foreign Policy and Other Demands of Imperial Dominion

Jordan, David Starr · 1899

$95.00 (€86.19 | £71.90 | ¥15,172)

New York, D. Appleton and Co. 1899. First edition. Cloth. ix, 293 pp. Sm. 8vo. Eight addresses especially concerning the war with Spain by David Starr Jordan (1851-1931) noted scientist, former president of Indiana Univ. then first present of Stanford University. He was best k...

Cyberspace: First Steps

Benedikt, Michael, ed · 1991

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

Cambridge, MIT Press, 1991. First printing. Cloth. 436 pp. Sm. 4to. Focuses on the theoretical and conceptual issues involved in the design, use, and effects of virtual environments. Fine in a very good+ lightly rubbed dust jacket.

Surgical Diagnosis

Eisendrath, Daniel N. · 1907

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders Company, 1907. First edition. Cloth. 776 pp.+Adv.[16 pp.]. Illus. with 15 color & 467 b/w photos and drawings. Sm. 4to. Small tears to head and heel of spine else a very good tight clean copy with minor wear at extremities.

In the Land of Light: Israel, a Portrait of Its People

Smith, Rodney · 1985

$22.50 (€20.41 | £17.03 | ¥3,593)

London, Andre Deutsch Ltd. 1985. First English edition. Cloth. 128 pp. Illus. with b/w photos. 4to. Intro. Elie Wiesel. A near fine crisp copy with lower edge lightly rubbed in a very good dust jacket with wear and a small tear to lower front edge.

Old Spain and New Spain

Field, Henry M. · 1888

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.76 | ¥11,978)

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1888. First edition. Cloth. 303 pp. Map. Illus. with b/w photo and color drawings. 8vo. Inscribed by the author to Dwight Dunkee on a free endpaper. Henry M. [Martyn] Field (1822—1907), American author and clergyman, was from 1854 to 1898 edi...

Domestick Beings

Sprigg, June, ed. and illus · 1984

$18.50 (€16.78 | £14.00 | ¥2,955)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. First edition. Cloth. 143 pp. Illus. with 150+ b/w drawings. 8vo. "The everyday lives of women in eighteenth-century America as evoked by seven diarists- a midwife, a farmer's wife, a farmer's daughter, a spinster, a schoolgirl, a young invalid...

The Dawn of European Civilization: The Dark Ages

David Talbot Rice, ed · 1965

$22.50 (€20.41 | £17.03 | ¥3,593)

New York, McGraw-Hill, 1965. First American edition. Cloth. 360 pp. Illus. with 200 color plates and 475b/w photos, drawings, and maps. Tall 8vo. Leaves darkening at the edges else a very good copy in a good worn dust jacket with tears and chips at the edges .

The Age of Renaissance

Hay, Denys, ed · 1967

$22.50 (€20.41 | £17.03 | ¥3,593)

New York, McGraw-Hill, 1967. First edition. Cloth. 359 pp. Illus. with 180 color plates & 480 b/w woodcuts, maps, drawings, and photos. Folio. Articles by twelve scholars: Cantimori, Delio, L. D. Ettlinger, Cecil Grayson, John Hale, Joel Hurstfield, I. D. McFarlane, Peter Murr...