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Australian Army Medical Services in the War of 1914-18 Vol I. Gallipoli, Sinai & Palestine, German New Guinea.

By: Butler, Colonel A. G.

Price: $275.00

Publisher: by Australian War Memorial. Melbourne : 1938

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.
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An Account of the Ceremony in Westminster Hall on Thursday May 9th 1935 on the occasion of the Presentation of Addresses by Both Houses of Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to His Majesty King George V Congratulating Him on the Celebration of the Silver Jubilee of His Most Illustrious Reign

By: N/A

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Walter Lewis: 1935

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.
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509th Composite Group, First Atomic Bombardment, 1944 - 1946, 509th Pictorial Album [1st ed.; not reprint]

By: 509th Composite Group

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Tinian: The 509th Composite Group: 1945

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.
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The Tactics of Aelian, comprising the military system of the Grecians; illustrated with notes, explanatory plates.

By: Aelianus (Tacticus)

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 ...
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California Jubilee

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.
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Valley Forge / A Play in Three Acts [Signed Copy]

By: Anderson, Maxwell

Price: $110.00

Publisher: Washington DC, Anderson House: 1934

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...
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Illuminated Manuscript: Pope Joan / A Historical Text based upon “Bower’s History of the Popes [1748]” /

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.
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Art Young’s Inferno: A Journey Through Hell Six Hundred Years After Dante - Ltd, signed, in Jacket

By: Art Young

Price: $625.00

Publisher: NY, Delphic Studios: 1934

Seller ID: s200628d

Binding: Black cloth

Condition: Very Good

1st edition; limited to 1,000 numbered copies. Signed by Young on FEP. 4to, black cloth with red lettering. 182 pp. Art Young, the preeminent American political cartoonist in the first half of the twentieth century, modeled this satirical interpretation of Dante’s Inferno after the popular 19th century edition published by Gustave Dore. Universally acknowledged to be Young’s masterpiece it is a searing and hilarious indictment of capitalism. Copies of the numbered first printing are uncommon; with the dustjacket scarce; and signed truly rare. A very good copy in fair dustjacket. Covers a...
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La Cronología De Ixtlilxóchitl [The Chronology [History] of Ixtlilxóchitl

By: Avilés Solares, José

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Taller Autográfico. Secretaría De La Defensa Nacional, México: 1939

Seller ID: k191122e

Condition: Very Good

Aus Revolutionstagen

By: Bauer, Dr. Constantin

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.
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A Theological Dictionary Containing Definitions of All Religious Terms : Woodward's New Edition with Added Appendix

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...
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Storie della citta di Firenze dal 1410 al 1460….. Books 1-4. [Stories of the City of Florence from the year 1410 to 1460. Written in the same times …

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...
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American Remembrancer; or, an Impartial Collection of Essays, Resolves, Speeches, &c.

By: CAREY, Mathew, ed.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Phila.: Printed by Henry Tuckniss, for Mathew Carey: 1795

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...
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Early Cemeteries of the City of Los Angeles - Los Angeles Miscellany #2

By: Carpenter, Edwin

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, Dawson's Book Shop: 1973

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.
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Manual of the Corporation [Common Council] of the City of New York, for 1866

By: d.t. valentine

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Edmund Jones & Co., NY: 1866

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...
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Constantinople. 1st U.S. edition. “A cinematographic view of late 19th century Istanbul”

By: DE AMICIS, Edmondo

Price: $150.00

Publisher: The John C. Winston Co, Philadelphia: 1896

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...
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Texas Argonauts Isaac H. Duval and the California Gold Rush

By: Dillon, Richard H.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: The Book Club of California: 2987

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...
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Historia de la Conquista del Nuevo Mundo (9 vols)

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...
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LABOR AND AUTOMOBILES (Near Mint in d/w)

By: Dunn, Robert W

Price: $75.00

Publisher: NY, International Publishers: 1929

Seller ID: s200703c

Binding: Black cloth

Condition: As-new

First Edition. 12mo, black cloth, gilt titles. 224 pages plus index, Illustrated frontispiece, plus 2 b/w illustrations and 3 photo plates within the text. Black cloth with gilt titles on spine. Blue/grey d/w with illustration and blue titles by Louis Lozowick; interior illustrations by Morris Pass. Condition: Fine/Fine. A pristine copy in fine d/w with only a few tiny edge nicks; not price clipped. The best copy we have seen. A history of the automobile industry, production methods, employee working conditions and efforts to organize [and methods employed to thwart unionization.] One ...
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Encyclopedia Ecclesiastica / Prompta Biblioteca

By: Ferris, F. Lucci

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: Frankfuert, Apud Van Duren: 1784

Seller ID: 1932

The complete title is "Prompta Bibliotheca canonica, juridica, moralis, theologica, necnon ascetica, polemica, rubricistica, historica", an 8-volume encyclopedia of religious knowledge. The first edition of this work appeared at Bologna, in 1746. A second edition, much enlarged, also a third, were published by the author himself. The fourth edition, dating from 1763 seems to have been published after his death. This edition, 20 years later, contains the additions which the author had made to the second edition and also other enlargements (additiones ex aliena manu) inserted in their respective...
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