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An Institution of General History, or the History of the World Being a Complete Body Thereof, from the Beginning of the World Till the Monarchy of Constantine the Great. Wherein Are Described the Several Empires, and the Contemporaries with Them, All Distinctly and by Themselves, and Yet Linked Together by Synchronisms. As Also, the Forms and Models of Governments, with the Power and Nature of Their Respective Magistrates, Customs, Laws, and Antiquities. All in Such Unbroken Order and Method As

William Howel, LL. D. sometimes Fellow of Magdalen College in Cambridge · 1680 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

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London, Printed for Henry Herringman, Thomas Bassett, at the George in Fleetstreet, William Crook at the Green Dragon without Temple-Bar, and William Cademan at the Pope's Head in the New Exchange, 1680. Second edition with large additions. Hardcover. Full leather with 6 raised-…

The Dearborn Independent - Chronicler of the Neglected Truth, October (Oct) 2, 1926 - Booth Tarkington Talks

BENSON, ALLAN L.; WHITING, MAY B.; HALE, WILLIAM J.; BARTON, WILLIAM E.; HOWE, J. OLIN; BUDD, RALPH W.; KARPINSKI, LOUIS C.; HAWTHORNE, JULIAN; AARON, S.F.; FINGER, CHARLES J. · 1926 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

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Dearborn, Michigan: The Dearborn Publishing Co, 1926. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Heyden, Gerald; Honore, Paul. 32 pages. Features: Nice two-color illustrated Firestone ad inside front cover features mother and children; Why Half the People Do not Vote - An Explanation…

Theatre Royal / April ____ a Comedy / with the Mock Doctor / for the Benefit of the / Author of the Farce". Within Image "W. Hogarth Ft";

Hogarth, William (1697-1764) After. Engraved Formerly attributed to Joseph Sympson, Jr. (British, active 1727-36) · 1837 · Wittenborn Art Books

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London: Craddock and Barnard, 1837. Print: 12 x 15 cm. Plate: 16 x 16 cm. Spot in lower marigin. Theatre ticket design for The Mock Doctor, a benefit at the 'Theatre Royal', designed by William Hogarth. Text under the image reads: 'Theatre Royal, April, a comedy with the Mock Do…

Mastering Tradition: The Residential Architecture of John Russell Pope

Garrison, James B. · 2004 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

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New York, Acanthus Press, 2004. Hardcover. Gray cloth boards with silver lettering; bw illustrated dust jacket; bw illustrated end papers; bw illustrated frontispiece; 310 pp, illustrated throughout in bw. Contents: Acknowledgments --; Foreword --; Introduction --; Whiteholme --…

Cathedral Organists Past and Present A Record of the Succession of Organists of the Cathedrals Chapels Royal and Principal Collegiate Churches of the United Kingdom from About the Period of the Reformation Until the Present Day...

WEST, JOHN E. · 1921 · Chilton Books

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London: Novello And Company, 1921 . 0. "A New And Enlarged Edtion". A very good original binding with hand written notes by the author and a letter to the author signed by William Henry Grattan Flood. 8vo. 8.75" x 5.75" x 0.5". pp.20/pp.176. Blue cloth with gilt titles to front …

Typed Letter Signed by E. Walker on the Family Letterhead to Edward O'Day, March 23, 1923

E. Walker; The Family (San Francisco Social Club); Edward O'Day · 1923 · Wittenborn Art Books

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San Francisco, CA: E. Walker, 1923. 8.5" x 11" Typed Letter Signed, Very Good. The Family is a private club in San Francisco, California, formed in 1901 by newspapermen who left the Bohemian Club after Hearst published a piece presaging the assassination of President McKinley. F…

American Paintings from Private Collections

Owen, Michael, Andrew Thompson and Jennifer Chow · 2001 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

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New York, Owen Gallery, 2001. Softcover. Black and color illus. wraps, [48 pp.] Numerous color plates. Issued in conjunction with a 2001 exhibition. With an introduction by Michael Owen, and well-annotated and illustrated catalogue entries. Artists are: Joshua Johnston, Robert S…

A Collection of Crown Classics

William Wordsworth; Coventry Patmore; Algernon Charles Swinburne; Thomas Hood; Robert Burns; Thomas Gray · 1947 · Rooke Books

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London, The Grey Walls Press, 1947-1953. Hardback. Six smart volumes of collections of poetry from the Crown Classics series. Six volumes. Crown Classics. First thus. This set contains: Selected Poems of William Wordsworth, 1947. With an introduction by Montgomery Belgion, a Fre…

Travels in Syria and the Holy Land by the Late John Lewis Burckhard. "Published by the Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa. . First Edition

Burckhardt, John Lewis = Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784-1817); Henry Salt (1780 - 1827), frontispiece; William Martin Leake, editor; C. Hullmandel, lithographer; J. Walker, cartographer; J. Neville White, provenance · 1822 · Wittenborn Art Books

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London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1822. 4to. 21 x 27cm. Modern tooled goatskin and marbled endpapers by the artisan binder Sasha Mosalov , with original spine labels preserved..[30]. 668pp. Very good..Ownership signature of J. Neville White on top of title page.. Lithograph…

The Granite Monthly - a New Hampshire Magazine Devoted to History, Biography, Literature and State Progress, March, 1906, Vol XXXVIII, No. 3, New Series, Vol. I, No. 3 - Col. Charles H. Greenleaf, President of the Profile and Flume Hotels Company

METCALF, H.H.; LORD, C.C.; HALL, CHARLES N.; HARRIS, WILLIAM S.; HILLS, DR. F.L.; ET AL · 1906 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

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USA: The Granite Monthly Company, 1906. First Edition. Paperback. Pages 67-96. Features: Col. Charles H. Greenleaf - A Leading Man in a Leading State Interest - article with photos, including one-page photo portrait of Mr. Greenleaf; Sarah M. Bailey; A Concord Industry - The Pag…

The Beaver, Magazine of the North, Spring 1981

Hudson's Bay Company (Helen Burgess, ed.) · 1981 · Books on the Web

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Winnipeg: Hudson's Bay House, 1981. Periodical, 8.5 x 11 stapled wraps, illustrated throughout in black and white and colour with numerous photos, art, diagrams and maps, 64pp. Ships lettermail. A very good copy. Cover: On the Way to Baie St Paul - Oil painting 12 x 16 inches…

Plays from Moliere by English Dramatists

Moliere · 1885 · Rooke Books

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London, George Routledge and Sons , 1885. Cloth. This scarce anthology of theatrical scripts were written by English dramatists and collected by French play write Moliere. Plays are compiled of "Sir Martin Marr-all" by John Dryden, "The Mistake" by Sir John Vanbrugh, "The Plain …

The Treasury of American Sacred Song with Notes Explanatory and Biographical

W. Garrett Horder · 1896 · Rooke Books

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London, Henry Frowde, 1896. First edition. Leather. A first edition of the interesting religious poetry collection, The Treasury of American Sacred Song. Bound in quarter paper vellum with gilt lettering. This collection includes work by Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Townsend Trow…

Amazing Stories: February, Feb. 1950

AMAZING (WILLIAM P. MCGIVERN; PETER WORTH; CHARLES DYE; PAUL W. FAIRMAN; V. E. THIESSEN; HENRY HASSE; ROG PHILLIPS - AKA ROGER P. GRAHAM; RUSSELL STORM) · 1950 · Books from the crypt

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NY, Ziff-Davis. 1950. SingleIssueMagazine. Book, Vol. 24, No. 2. Pulp magazine. Edited by Howard Browne. Cover art by Robert Gibson Jones for "The Galaxy Raiders" (novelet) by William P. McGivern. Includes "Typewriter from the Future" (novelet) by Peter Worth; "The Last Orbit" b…

Fantastic Adventures: November, Nov. 1941 ("the Living Dead" a Carson of Venus Tale)

FANTASTIC ADVENTURES (EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS; NAT SCHACHNER; WILLIAM P. MCGIVERN; DON WILCOX; DUNCAN FARNSWORTH; DWIGHT V. SWAIN) · 1941 · Books from the crypt

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NY, Ziff-Davis. 1941. Wraps. Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 9. Pulp magazine. Edited by Raymond A. Palmer. Cover art by J. Allen St. John for "The Living Dead" (novel featuring Carson of Venus) by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Includes "Eight Who Came Back" (novelet) by Nat Schachner; "Al Addin …

37 Vols Shakespeare New Cambridge Editions

William Shakespeare; J. Dover Wilson [Ed.]; Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch [Ed.]; G I. Duthie [Ed.]; Alice Walker [Ed.]; J. C. Maxwell. [Ed.] · 1948 · Rooke Books

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Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1948-1966 . Cloth. A substantial collection of volumes from 'The New Shakespeare', comprising his many notable plays alongside critical introductions, with the original dust wrappers. In the publisher's original cloth binding…

Forty Days in the Desert on the Track of the Israelites; or, a Journey from Cairo to Mount Sinai and Petra

W. H. Bartlett · 0 · Rooke Books

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London, George Bell and Sons , c1850. Cloth. A fascinating travelogue of Sinai and Egyptian desert by celebrated British artist William Henry Bartlett, adorned with beautiful engravings. Undated copy, dated from Jisc. An uncommon Bell edition. Containing William Henry Bartlett&a…

British Pamphleteers Volume One

George Orwell; Reginald Reynolds · 1948 · Rooke Books

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London , Allan Wingate, 1948. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this work on British Pamphleteers edited by George Orwell and Reginald Reynolds. The first volume of British Pamphleteers, covering the period from the Sixteenth Century to the French Revolution. There …

The Ballad of Beau Brocade and Other Poems of the Xviiith Century

Austin Dobson · 1892 · Rooke Books

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London , Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. 1892 . First edition. Cloth. A first edition, first impression copy of this illustrated collection of poems by Austin Dobson. A first edition, first impression with 'The long day lengthens' in the dedicatory poem. Austin Dobso…

PICTURESQUE VIEWS OF THE UPPER, OR WARWICKSHIRE AVON, From its Source at Naseby to its Junction With the Severn at Tewkesbury: With Observations on the Public Buildings, and Other Works of Art in its Vicinity.

Ireland, Samuel. · 1795 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

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London: Published by R. Faulder ... 1795. 1st Ed. Large 8vo. 238 x 158mm. xviii + 284pp. + Errata. 32 sepia aquatint portraits, map, ills. Some very light browning, discreet initials to half title, marbled e.ps., with the armorial bookplate of John Holmes, inner gilt dentelles, …