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The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, Elkhorn Edition.
by ROOSEVELT, Theodore.
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- Used
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- 1906 - 1913
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- Three-quarter morocco & marbled paper
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, USA
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A$4,982.90
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906 - 1913. Limited edition, one of 1250 sets, this hand numbered 61. Twenty-six volumes, I through XXVI (of 28), octavos (8.75" x 6.25"), variously paginated, each volume illustrated with plates from paintings, engravings, etchings, drawings, photos, maps, etc., including frontispieces, with tissue-guards. Publisher's three-quarter crushed dark blue morocco & marbled paper over boards by… Read more about this item Item Price
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Map Collectors' Circle. Map Collectors Series. Numbers 1 through 20
by TOOLEY, R.V., (Editor-in-chief). [Ronald Vere Tooley].
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- 1963 - 1965
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- Stapled paper wraps in folding cloth case.
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, USA
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A$459.96
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London: Map Collectors' Circle, 1963 - 1965, numbers 1 through 20. First editions. Octavos (9.75" x 7.25"), variously paginated, profusely illustrated. Publisher's printed & decorated light card covers house in a pair of gilt-lettered maroon folding cloth cases. Prospectus & facsimile catalog laid-in.
Modest occasional edge wear, couple of creased corners, otherwise very good or better in rubbed cases with edge… Read more about this item Item Price
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Anglo-Saxon Leechcraft: An Historical Sketch of Early English Medicine. Lecture Memoranda, American Medical Association, Atlantic City, 1912.
by WELLCOME, Sir Henry S. (Foreword).
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- 1912
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, USA
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A$46.00
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London: Burroughs Wellcome, 1912. Sextodecimo (6.75" x 4"), 262 & [2] pages followed by several unused leaves for memoranda & 12 unnumbered pages, illustrated throughout (some in color), & two maps of Atlantic City. Original red cloth lettered in gilt on the upper cover & decorated with the Burroughs Wellcome Unicorn trade mark. All edges gilt, decorated endpapers.
Covers spotted, soiled… Read more about this item Item Price
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History of the Fan.
by RHEAD, G. Woolliscroft.
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- 1910
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, USA
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A$344.97
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London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Company, 1910. First edition, one of 450 copies "for sale in Europe and the British Dominions," this out of series and unnumbered. Folio (14" x 11"), xix, 311, & [1] pages plus 127 plates of which 27 are in color. Publisher's bevel edged blue cloth lettered & decorated in gilt Top edge gilt, the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Complete works of Abraham Lincoln. (facsimile edition).
by LINCOLN, Abraham, edited by John G. Nicolay & John Hay; with General Introduction by Richard Watson Gilder, and special articles by other eminent persons.
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- Used
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- (2008)
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- One-half faux morocco
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, USA
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A$383.30
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[Leesburg, Virginia]: National Historical Society/ Weider History Group, (2008). Facsimile reprint edition, originally published in 1905. 11 volumes only of 12 (lacking volume 12). Octavos (9" x 6"), variously paginated, with illustrations, facsimiles (some folding), & portraits. Publisher's one-half brown faux leather simulating crushed morocco & green cloth, the spines lettered & ruled in gilt, each volume with the facsimile… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Meiji Restoration.
by [Japan]. BEASLEY, W.G. (William Gerald Beasley).
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- 1972
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, USA
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Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1972. First edition. 8vo, vi, [8],513 pp Gilt-lettered brown cloth in printed & decorated dust jacket.
Faint stain at the fore edge of the textblock, previous owner's chop & date in ink at the ffep, otherwise very good in lightly soiled, very good dust jacket.
Reprinted several times, author Beasley was Professor of the History of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Histoire de Theodose le Grand, pour Monseigneur le Dauphin.
by [Biography]. FLECHIER, Esprit.
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- 1749
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- Contemporary full mottled calf
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, USA
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A$114.99
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Paris: Didot, Nion Fils, Damonneville, Savoye, 1749. "Nouvelle edition." Sextodecimo (6.5" x 4.25"), [8], 543, & [1] pages. Contemporary full mottled calf, the spine in six compartments with a gilt-lettered maroon leather spine label in one compartment, the others elaborately decorated in gilt. All edges red, marbled endpapers, text in French.
Binding rubbed & scuffed, corners worn, previous owner's notes, underlining,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Histoire Illustree de Tunis et de Sa Banlieue. [Illustrated History of Tunis and Its Suburbs].
by PELLEGRIN, Arthur.
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- 1955
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, USA
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A$76.66
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Tunis: Saliba Editeur, (1955). First edition, limited to 1400 copies, this # 115. 4to, xvi, 40 pages of black & white illustrations, 181 pp, folding reproduction of the 1860 "Plan de la Ville de Tunis" with glassine overlay showing the street grid as of 1955 in red. Publisher's unprinted card covers in French fold pictorial dust jacket Partially unopened, text… Read more about this item Item Price
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ANCIENT HAVANA, COMPLIMENTS OF NUEVO FABRICA DE HIELO, S.A., MANUFACTURERS OF TROPICAL BEER, CRISTAL BEER, PALATINO BEER.
by [Cuba: Advertising, Beer]. Nuevo Fabrica de Hielo, S.A.
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- First edition
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- no date (ca. 1925)
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- Pictorial light card covers, stapled
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, USA
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[Havana, Cuba]: Nuevo Fabrica de Hielo, SA, no date (ca 1925). First edition. Octavo (8.25" x 5"), 32 pages, illustrations from photographs throughout.Original pictorial, stapled, light card covers.
Soiled, foxed, couple small holes in the upper cover, moderate edge wear (including short tears & creasing), staples replaced, Good or so.
Provides concise historical sketches of old Havana with accompanying illustrations.… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Age of Uncertainty. Inscribed Copy
by [Economics]. GALBRAITH, John Kenneth.
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- First edition, this copy inscribed & initialed by Galbraith in t
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- 1977
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- Hardcover
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, USA
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A$229.98
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977. First edition, this copy inscribed & initialed by Galbraith in the year of publication. Tall 8vo, 365 pp., illustrated. Publisher's gilt-lettered blue cloth in pictorial dust jacket.
Slight foxing at the edges of the text block, otherwise Fine in rubbed dust jacket with moderate edge wear including nicks & small losses, Good or better.
Professor Galbraith's ambitous… Read more about this item Item Price
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Stories from a Small Town: Anecdotal History of Greystones County Wicklow. Volume 1
by [Ireland]. McNIFF, Peter.
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- Used
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- near fine
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- First edition
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- (2004)
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- Hardcover
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, USA
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Greystones County Wicklow: Published by the author, (2004). First edition. 8vo, 355 pages, illustrated. Publisher's gilt-lettered blue cloth-patterned paper over boards in pictorial dust jacket.
Corners & spine extremities bumped, otherwise very good in near fine dust jacket with a trace of edgewear.
Although the title page indicates that this is volume one, no subsequent volumes have ben published to date.
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