Binding: Hardcover

The Art of Armenian Cooking

By: Baboian, Rose

Price: $200.00

Publisher: NY, Doubleday : 1971

Edition: 1st edition

Seller ID: m200801c

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Stated 1st edition. 8vo, cloth. 264 pp. Dust jacket. Armenian dishes adapted to the modern kitchen - the definitive guide to this centuries-old cuisine. Mark Zanger, a Boston-based food reporter, wrote that Baboian's book "stands out as a model of American ethnic food because she recorded so many traditions" and was the first book to make Turkish Armenian recipes accessible for younger generations of Armenians who spoke only English. No photos or illustrations. The book itself is very good-near fine. The dustjacket is fair only: price-clipped, chipped at edges, with the back panel nearly det...
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The Founding of Spanish California. The Northwestward Expansion of New Spain, 1687-1783.

By: Chapman, Charles Edward

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Macmillan, New York : 1916

Edition: 1st ed.

Seller ID: k200814c

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

1st ed., 8vo, blue cloth, gilt titles. 485 pp. [4 advts]. Frontispiece of Viceroy of New Spain, plus 6 maps. Condition: Good; a clean copy, with prior owner’s inked name and address on fep and back cover, rear hinge cracked; moderate wear to boards.
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THE PICTURESQUE WORLD OR, SCENES IN MANY LANDS

By: COLANGE, Leo De (editor)

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Estes & Lauriat, Boston : 1878

Edition: 1st

Seller ID: k200830b

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

1st ed. Folio, (10" x 12-1/2"). Vol 1 only (of two); publisher's decorated morocco leather, gilt titles, raised bands, a.e.g. Illustrated with 48 steel engraved views and hundreds of smaller wood engravings comprising mountain, lake, and river scenery, parks, palaces, cathedrals, churches, castles, abbeys, and other views. Vol I containing chapters on Europe: Italy France Russia Belgium Holland, Greece, Spain, Germany. Condition: Good+; Internally Vg; a clean bright copy with occasional light foxing not affecting the plates. FEP cracked. Covers heavily rubbed at corners, surface wear to b...
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Shaker Herbs. [Miniature Book, Ltd to 155 copies]

By: Cynthia Elyce Rubin

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Northampton, MA, Catawba Press : 1984

Edition: 1st ed.

Seller ID: k200808n

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

First thus, limited to 155 signed copies. 2”x2” green paper-covered boards. 37 pp. Printed green paper boards with title and decorative border on cover, labels tipped in on frontispiece and throughout the text. An excerpt from an essay titled "Shaker Industries," which appeared in The Clarion in Fall 1979. The only miniature book printed by Barbara Blumenthal of Catawba Press. The essay starts with a short history of the Shaker religion and their industries and then details the medicinal properties of the herbs Condition: Fine, as-new with bookseller’s penciled notation on fep, a 3/16” ...
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Our Darling's Surprise Pictures (movable children's book)

By: Ernest Nister

Price: $550.00

Publisher: London / New York, Ernest Nister / E.P. Dutton : 1895

Edition: 1st edition

Seller ID: k210121f

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good-

1st edition, 4to. Red cloth spine; light green paper over boards with chromolithographed title and illustrations on front board. Floral endpapers. A Victorian “dissolving window” picture book from the golden age of the moveable book. A tab is pulled at the lower edge, which animates and completely changes the illustration above. Artwork by Nister, who also served as publisher. The facing pages have accompanying poems by English poet and songwriter Frederic Weatherly. A charming, and scarce, item with 8 chromolithographic color transformations, all in Very Good working order. CONDIT...
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Napoleon 1er et la Garde Imperiale. [Costumes Of The French Militaire.]

By: Eugene Fieffe

Price: $275.00

Publisher: Paris, Adolphe Elahays : 1860

Edition: 1st

Seller ID: k200824e

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

First edition, first printing. (1859 on title page; 1860 on front wrapper) Imperial 4to, ¾ cloth with original paper wrappers bound in. Color plates engraved on steel by Ch. COLIN after RAFFET. 171 pp. Frontispiece, title vignette on India paper and 20 colored plates by Raffet. Text in French by Eugene Fieffe. The color plates show the uniforms of the various regiments of the Imperial Guard; frontispiece of Napoleon in uniform on horseback. The last 80 pp. are a list of all the officers of the Imperial Guard in 1813, the composition of the Guard on Elba Island, text of the decrees relat...
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A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE WARS IN SCOTLAND; Under the conduct of the Illustrious JAMES Marquis of MONTROSE…etc.

By: George Wishart / James Graham

Price: $175.00

Publisher: London, n.p. : 1720

Edition: 1st edition

Seller ID: k200614c

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Full title: Under the conduct of the Illustrious JAMES Marquis of MONTROSE, in two parts. The first describing the wars in the years 1644, 45, 46. The 2nd part containing an account of Montrose's Negotiations abroad and the state of affairs in Scotland from the year 1647, to the year 1650 inclusive. The 2d part being never before published, is now done into English from the Latin of the right Reverend father in God, Doctor George Wishart, Bishop of Edinburgh, With an appendix containing 1st a Description of Montrose's pompous Funerals in the year 1661. 2dly, A character of King Charles the 1st...
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Archeological Researches of Costa Rica

By: HARTMAN, C. V. [Carl Vilhelm]

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Stockholm: Ivr Haeggstroms Boktryckeri. The Royal Ethnographical Museum in Stockholm. : 1901

Edition: 1st

Seller ID: k190711g

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

1st ed., folio, cream cloth. 196 pp. plus map, two folded plans, and 87 full-page photographic plates by J. Cederquis, mostly b/w but some in color. Each plate has multiple objects depicted, printed on one side and each preceded by an identifying sheet containing the plate number and a brief description. . Profusely illustrated with more photos and drawings in the text. Not to be confused with Hartman’s later work, published by the Carnegie Institute, “Archeological Researches on the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica.” This first work covers his researches on the east coast and on the highland ...
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Shouting: Genuine and Spurious. Giving a History of Outward Demonstrations of the Spirit such as Laughing, Screaming, Shouting, Leaping, Jerking, and Falling under the Power, &c

By: Henry, G.W.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Oneida, NY, Published and bound by the author : 1859

Edition: 1st edition

Seller ID: k200614a

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

A history of speaking in tongues, along with lessons in the oratory of hellfire and damnation 12mo. [1, vi, [1], 7-425, [6] pages of sheet music for several hymns at rear. Engraved frontispiece. Maroon textured cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine with "Shouting in All AGES of the CHURCH.” Full title “SHOUTING: GENUINE AND SPURIOUS, in all Ages of the Church, from the Birth of Creation, when the Sons of God Shouted for Joy, Until the Shout of the Arch-Angel: With Numerous extracts from the Old and New Testament, and From the Works of Wesley, Evans, Edwards, Abbott, Cartwright, and Finley. Giv...
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GARRISON ARTILLERY DRILL, VOL. I

By: Her Majesty's Stationery Office

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office : 1895

Edition: 1st ed.

Seller ID: k200814b

Binding: Hardcover

16mo, 553 pp. 3.75±”x5.25”. Detailed instructions on Gunner, ammunition, Material, Drill, Care of Armament and Stores, Coast Defence, Practice. Illustrated with dozens of figures, tables, and several fold out plates and diagrams. Condition: Ex-lib, but a good copy. Bound in burgundy cloth with typical library markings, part of original leather cover inset on front board. A clean tight copy overall; several small tears and tape repairs to advts at front and back; contemporary owner’s signature and date on title page.
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Jimi Hendrix: An Illustrated Experience

By: Janie Hendrix , John McDermott

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Atria Books; Slp Har/Co : 2007

Edition: 1st printing

Seller ID: s210915c

ISBN-13: 9780743297691

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

A life of Jimi Hendrix told through text, rare photographs, reproductions of documents and memorabilia, and a 70-minute audio CD.#####4to, 10.25x10.75", illustrated boards, 64 pp. plus inserts of memorabilia.With exclusive access to the private family archives, the authors provide an indispensable addition to the Hendrix canon. The book includes a 70-minute audio CD with interviews and unreleased recordings of live concert music and a Record Plant jam CONDITION: A new copy, with CD pocket still sealed. However, a former store display copy with some light surface wear to the cover and slipcase...
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Abaft the Funnel

By: Kipling, Rudyard

Price: $130.00

Publisher: NY, B. W. Dodge & Company : 1909

Edition: 1st American ed., third issue of the unauthorized edition

Seller ID: cr201010a

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

8vo, 1st American ed., third issue of the unauthorized edition; in pictorial blue cloth with red printed titling. 360 pp. This pirated edition by Dodge predates the authorized Doubleday edition by two months. Dodge published only one edition, but with three binding variants. The third issue was the first to include a dustjacket, although Richards believes. A fine copy except for prior owner's inked signature on fep. In VG d/w. Collects many pieces that were originally printed in the Civil and Military Gazette and Turnovers. [Martindell 112; Livingston 328, Richards A227]
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Lockwood, Charles A. & Adamson, Hans Christian

By: Lockwood, Charles A. & Adamson, Hans Christian

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Chilton : 1960

Edition: 1st edition

Seller ID: k211215a

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

First edition. 243pp. Illus. The Honda Point disaster is the largest peacetime loss of U.S. Navy ships. On the evening of September 8, 1923, seven destroyers ran aground at Honda Point, a few miles from the northern side of the Santa Barbara Channel. Twenty-three sailors died in the disaster. This history of the incident is a relatively common and inexpensive book. But accompanying it are 13 vintage 3x5" b/w photographs, 8 original b/w negatives with different images, and 9 b/w photos from the negatives, possibly printed later. The book is good in d/w. The photos were apparently taken by an...
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A Guide to Practical Navigation. Containing the Rules and Methods of Solving Problems in the Most Practical Manner; the Simplest and Most Complete Method for Finding a Ship's Position at Sea, as Well as a Thoroughly Approved Method of Finding the Latitude and Longitude at the Same Instant of Time. By Double Altitudes

By: McNevin, Captain Edmund

Price: $150.00

Publisher: San Francisco: , A. L. Bancroft & Company : 1878

Edition: 1st edition

Seller ID: k200614b

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

1st ed., 8vo, original black cloth with a mariner’s compass blocked on upper cover, leather spine and corners. 324 pp. [16 advts] + one leaf with a Mariner’s Compass inserted between pages [8]-9 and four pages of testimonials inserted before the title leaf. Profusely illustrated with charts and nautical tables. Captain Edmund McNevin was born in Ireland left for the US in 1847 on The Great Western. For nearly twenty-five years he commanded a variety of ships. He moved to San Francisco in 1874 and opened a school for Navigation. This is one of several authoritative nautical works he publishe...
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A Butler's Recipe Book 1719. With wood-engravings by Reynolds Stone.

By: Thomas NEWINGTON

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Cambridge: at the University Press : 1935

Edition: 1st thus.

Seller ID: m200814d

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

“…Some Excelent Manscripts of Phisick, Cookery, Preserves &c which were the Palladum of Man Noble Familyes…” 1st thus, 16mo, cloth backed, paper covered boards. 45 pp. In tattered d/w. Condition±: Good; front hinge lightly cracked, boards darkened. Dustjacket present but both panels tattered and lacking spine. Signature of Grant Dahlstrom (Ampersand Press) on fep.
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Lord Orford's Reminiscences

By: Walpole, Horace

Price: $40.00

Publisher: London. John Sharpe : 1818

Edition: 1st edition

Seller ID: k200614d

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

London. John Sharpe, 1818. 16mo, marbled boards, with brown leather spine and corners. 120 pages. Appears to be rebound in 19th century calf, label. Text block clean and tight overall with occasional foxing. Title and dedication pages more heavily foxed. Half-title page missing. Walpole's name does not appear in the book. Bookplate on the inside front cover with coat of arms and the name Maleolu Campbell; also contemporary bookseller seal. An old bookstore catalog description mounted to fep. Condition: Fair; corners rubbed and rounded, corners stained; spine titles rubbed. Title page and ...
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On Writing

By: Willa Cather

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Knopf, New York : 1949

Edition: 1st edition

Seller ID: k210109d

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

1st ed., 8vo. A Very Good- near fine copy but in a dulled and lightly soiled dustjacket with several small edge nicks, darkened spine; not price-clipped.
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PHILOSOPHY IN SPORT MADE SCIENCE IN EARNEST being an attempt to illustrate the first principles of natural philosophy by the aid of POPULAR TOYS AND SPORTS

By: [Paris, John]

Price: $175.00

Publisher: London, Longman Rees Orme Brown And Green : 1827

Edition: 1st ed.

Seller ID: k200801f

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Poor

First Edition, 1827. 3 Volumes. 8vo, boards. Vol. (1). xviii, 316pp, Vol. (2). vii, 314pp [2]. Vol. (3). vi, 207pp. Woodcut chapter headings by George Cruikshank. ##### Chapters on balls and motion, marbles, popguns, the kite, ancient music, optical illusions, the swing. Also, an important book in the history of moving pictures since Vol 3 discusses the Thaumatrope, a pioneering device for displaying images in motion. Other topics covered include momentum, geometry, elasticity and the collision of bodies; the science behind these is demonstrated using a yo-yo, a jack-in-the-box, marbles and...
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Binding: Hardcover