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Price: $275.00
Publisher: by Australian War Memorial. Melbourne : 1938
Edition: 2d
Seller ID: k180620a
2d edition; first published in 1939. 8vo. Vol I only [of 3] Blue cloth; xxvi + 873pp., b/w plates, maps, glossary, appendices., bibliog., indexes. A fine copy. A clean, bright, and tight copy. Some light toning adjacent to gutters of end papers; very light wear to edges; some very minor spotting on fore-edge. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $300.00
Publisher: London, J. Baker: 1710
Seller ID: 353
A Compleat History of the Whole Proceedings of the Parliament of Great Britain Against Dr. Henry Sacheverell with His Tryal Before the House of Peers for High Crimes and Misdemeanors; the Reasons of Those Lords That Enter'd Their Protests; etc. London: J. Baker, 1710. 12mo, contemporary calf with five raised bands and gilt lettering and decoration on spine.. An important document for the history of the Anglican Church. Sacheverell had attacked the Queen, the Whigs and the Bishop of Salisbury in two controversial sermons. He was then summoned before the House of Lords for trial. He was judge... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $65.00
Publisher: Cambridge, Walter Lewis: 1935
Edition: 1st ed
Seller ID: 1940
8vo, unpaginated full blue morocco with gilt lettering on front panel ("Westminster Hall 9 May 1935" ), raised bands on spine, gilt edging, b/w frontispiece, one b/w photograph with tissue guard. Matching d/w and slipcase. Absolutely pristine copy in fine d/w and very good slipcase. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $3,200.00
Publisher: Mexico. D.F., Libreria Anticuaria. G. M. Echaniz.: 1939
Seller ID: k1707041
1st ed. thus, 11-1/2”x8-1/2”. Scarce (No.22 of 25 signed and numbered copies] A hand-colored facsimile of the Codex Nuttall, an accordion-fold pre-Columbian document of Mixtec pictography, now in the collection of the British Museum. The Codex is one of about 16 manuscripts from Mexico that are entirely pre-Columbian in origin. Its name is derived from Zelia Nuttall, who first published the Codex for the Peabody Museum in 1902. It is one of three codices that record the genealogies, alliances and conquests of several 11th and 12th century rulers of a small Mixtec city-state in highland Oax... View more info
![Image for 509th Composite Group, First Atomic Bombardment, 1944 - 1946, 509th Pictorial Album [1st ed.; not reprint]](/assets/images/product/k190719e_1)
Price: $350.00
Publisher: Tinian: The 509th Composite Group: 1945
Edition: 1st ed.
Seller ID: k190719e
Condition: Very good-near fine
1st ed., 4to, blue textured boards w/ gold & red decorations and lettering. Color frontispiece; profusely illustrated with b/w photos. Not paginated but approximately 120 pp. The official unit history for the 509th Composite Group -- the atomic bombardment wing responsible for Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A very good-near fine copy. Clean and tight with no tears, nicks or markings. Light wear to edges, corners and spine ends; front cover slightly bowed. View more info
Price: $250.00
Publisher: London, E. Kerby: 1814
Seller ID: K102
Edited, and with a preliminary discourse by, Viscount Henry August Dillon. London: Small 4to, quarter leather and black cloth. 268 pp. 1st edition thus, inscribed by the ‘author’ (Dillon). Numerous full-page plates and engravings of military tactics and formations. Aelian's military treatise is a handbook of Greek drill and tactics as practiced by the successors of Alexander the Great. Thought to have been first published in the 2d century, an Arabic translation was made about 1350. It was first translated into Latin about 150 years later and was of great use to the army organizers ... View more info
By: Ainsworth, Ed
Price: $45.00
Seller ID: 040302
1st ed., 1948. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket, signed by author Ainsworth as well as the cover artist, Clyde Forsythe and Los Angeles County Sheriff Eugene Biscailuz. The book is in fine condition; the d/w has light wear along the edges and a few nicks at top and bottom of spine. View more info
![Image for Valley Forge / A Play in Three Acts [Signed Copy]](/assets/images/product/BB0220 - 58.jpg)
Price: $110.00
Publisher: Washington DC, Anderson House: 1934
Edition: 1st ed.
Inscription: Double Signed and Inscribed by Anderson
Seller ID: k18022609
Condition: Very Good
1st ed., 12mo blue cloth. 169 pp. A historical drama of he dark days at Valley Forge when the fortunes of the rebellious colonists were at their lowest ebb. A splendid picture of Washington and his defiant troops. Good+; a very good, clean tight copy but covers lightly faded at extremities; d/w is fair with darkened, rubbed spine, a large 4” closed tear on back, and several smaller open tears front and back. Doubly signed and inscribed by Anderson with a flat signature on the title page and inscription to Hollywood screenwriter Frank Partos on the half-title page. Partos shared an Academy... View more info
![Image for Illuminated Manuscript: Pope Joan / A Historical Text based upon “Bower’s History of the Popes [1748]” /](/assets/images/product/BB - 69.jpg)
By: Anonymous. [Anastasius Scriptor]
Price: $1,850.00
Seller ID: k180228l
n.p. n.d. 4to, illuminated vellum wrappers; 52 leaves; stitched binding. Pen and ink calligraphy, illuminations with watercolor head and tail pieces, and in-text illustrations all on hand-made paper. The artist/author is unknown. Clean, tight and unmarked interior. Covers torn and chipped on all edges. Date unknown but probably from late 1950’s - early 1960’s. View more info
![Image for La Cronología De Ixtlilxóchitl [The Chronology [History] of Ixtlilxóchitl](/assets/images/product/k191122e_1)
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Taller Autográfico. Secretaría De La Defensa Nacional, México: 1939
Edition: 1st ed
Seller ID: k191122e
Condition: Very Good
Price: $50.00
Seller ID: 040305
Braunschweig: Verlag von A.Graff's Buchhandlung, 1919. 8vo, 94 pp. Illustrated boards. An illustrated history of the Paris Commune, with 94 drawings and tipped-plates by Gustave Dore. Fair-Good. Interior lightly shaken but clean throughout. Front hinge partially split at bottom. Covers lightly soiled with 1/2" closed tears at top of spine. Edges and corners lightly rubbed. View more info
By: Buck, Charles
Price: $40.00
Seller ID: 150304
Published by Joseph J. Woodward, Philadelphia, 1831. A revised edition. 12mo, full brown leather with gilt spine; 624 double-column pages. Contents tight. Paper is age-toned with occasionally light foxing. Full brown leather cover is scuffed, some scratches, corners bumped. "Containing definitions of all religious terms; a comprehensive view of every article in the system of divinity; an impartial account of all the principal denominations which have subsisted in the religious world from the birth of Christ to the present day. Woodward's new edition published from the last London edition, t... View more info
By: Buoninsegni, Dom. di Lionardo.
Price: $350.00
Publisher: Florence: Nella Stamperia di Giorgio Marescotti: 1579-1580
Seller ID: 150305
Condition: Good.
Florence: Nella Stamperia di Giorgio Marescotti, 1579-1580. [The colophon is dated Florence, 1579, but the dedication to Francesco de Medici, is dated April 15, 1580.] 1st edition. Small 4to, 1/2 vellum and purple boards, inked title on spine.[38] 829 [1] pp. Text in Italian. Buoninsegni was a Florentine patrician, merchant and historian. Politically he held some of the city's most important offices and was a member of the broader circle of the early Medici regime. He spent the last ten years of his life completing this Historia Florentine; he died in Florence in March of 1466. The history ex... View more info
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Phila.: Printed by Henry Tuckniss, for Mathew Carey: 1795
Edition: 1st ed.
Seller ID: cr191112e
Condition: Poor
The American Remembrancer; or, an Impartial Collection of Essays, Resolves, Speeches, &c. Relative, or Having Affinity, to the Treaty with Great Britain. Phila.: Printed by Henry Tuckniss, for Mathew Carey, 1795. 1st ed. 288pp. Noted as Volume I [of a 3 volume set] contains the first four issues of Carey's periodical "American Remembrancer" dated Aug. 20, Aug. 27, Sept. 4, and Oct. 1, 1795. A collection of printed documents in support of “Jay's Treaty”, signed Nov. 19, 1794, which resolved severa; Anglo-American diplomatic issues arising out of the Definitive Treaty of Peace of 1783. A... View more info
By: Carpenter, Edwin
Price: $85.00
Publisher: Los Angeles, Dawson's Book Shop: 1973
Edition: 1st ed.
Seller ID: 1409
1st ed., limited to 300 copies. 8vo, illustrated boards, 48 pp. Illustrated with contemporary photographs and graphics - LA cemeteries up to the year 1885. Fine, without d/w -- as issued. View more info
![Image for Manual of the Corporation [Common Council] of the City of New York, for 1866](/assets/images/product/k191118a_1)
By: d.t. valentine
Price: $150.00
Publisher: Edmund Jones & Co., NY: 1866
Edition: 1st edition
Seller ID: k191118a
Condition: Fair
1st ed., 12mo. publisher's embossed brown cloth with seal of New York on front and spin. [xvi], 820 pp. Chromolith title page, 11 color plates [4 folding] and dozens of b/w illustrations, maps, and tables. Condition is fair: Text block is clean and tight overall with occasional foxing. Fold-out map and diagram to accompany “The Great Fires in New York City in 1776 and 1778], opposite p. 786, is detached and tattered. Covers: Corners rubbed, front hinge cracked at both ends with chipped lower gutter; rubbed at both spine ends; 1” cracks at both ends of rear cover. Presentation copy from F... View more info
Price: $150.00
Publisher: The John C. Winston Co, Philadelphia: 1896
Edition: 1st U.S. edition
Seller ID: cr190721b
Condition: Fine
First American Edition; First English-language Edition. In 2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 303,[1]; 309[1] pp, with 50 photogravures by W. H. Gilbo, captioned on tissue guards. With folding map at end of vol. II. Publishers red cloth with elaborate arabesque designs, ribbon markers, t.e.g; red sateen dust jackets.; first published in Milan, in 1877. De Amicis (1846-1908) was an Italian journalist and travel writer This work is considered by many to be his masterpiece and the best description of the city in the 19th century. It is still highly praised: Umberto Eco took a copy with him when he first visited... View more info
Price: $65.00
Publisher: The Book Club of California: 2987
Edition: 1st edition
Seller ID: sbcc1907221f
Condition: New
1st ed., oblong 4to, 10 x 13 inches. 199 pp. Limited to 450 copies. With color illustrations by Charles Shaw, appendix, footnotes, bibliography, index and endpaper maps. Original prospectus laid in. Series: The Book Club of California Publication, No. 186. Quarter natural linen, illustrated paper over boards, printed paper spine label, maps in end-leaves, plain white paper dust-jacket. Isaac Duval (1824-1902) was an American adventurer and businessman prior to becoming a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. As a young man, he traveled to Fort Smith, Arkansas, wh... View more info
By: Don Antonio de Solis [et al]
Price: $1,250.00
Publisher: Madrid, Imprenta de Los Hijos de Doña Catalina Piñuela: 1829
Seller ID: 0001
Nine volumes, 12mo full leather. Most volumes consist of contemporary historical accounts, translated and republished into the Spanish of the time. Contents (full Spanish titles reproduced below): Volume I: History of the Conquest of Mexico. Volumes II, III, IV and V: Royal Commentaries of the origin of the Incas of Peru. Volumes VI and VII: La Florida del Inca, by Hernando de Soto Volumes VIII and IX: Chronological General History of Florida Each volume is between 400-700 pages. Interiors are generally clean and tight; minor foxing to a couple of volumes. Covers are rubbed with so... View more info
By: Farago, Ladislas
Price: $60.00
Publisher: NY, Ivan Obolensky, Inc: 1963
Seller ID: g1003
1st ed., in d/w. Good. 8vo, hardcover, 885 pp. The definitive biography and basis for the Academy Award-winning film starring George C. Scott. Some light toning and soiling to top edges; owner's name inked inside covers;no significant defects. D/w is darkened along spine with some light rubbing. No chips or tears View more info
