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The Court of the Tuileries from the Restoration to the Flight of Louis Philippe
by Catherine Charlotte, Lady Jackson
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- 1883
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London: Richard Bentley, 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes, pp xii, 374; xii, 424, illustrated with portraits. Bound for John N. Guss in three-quarter green leather with marbled boards; gilt spines in six compartments, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Rubbing to corners, spine heads, and hinges; internals fine. Item Price
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Colectivismo Agraria en Espana, Partes I y II: Doctrinas y Hechos
by Costa, Joaquin
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- 1898
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Madrid: Imprenta de San Francisco de Sales, 1898. Hardcover. Good. 606 pp, bound in quarter leather over marbled boards. Pages tanned, title page lacking, first page partly detached, text otherwise complete and binding sound. All text in Spanish. Wiki: Joaquín Costa (1846-1911) was a Spanish politician, lawyer, economist and historian. The son of an Aragonese farmer and his… Read more about this item Item Price
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Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel
by Froebel, Friedrich; Michaelis, Emilie and Moore, H. Keatley (Translation, Annotation)
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- First American Edition
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- 1889
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Syracuse, NY: C.W. Bardeen, 1889. First American Edition. Hardcover. Good+. 8" x 6", pp xv, 167, indexed, in original rust-colored cloth boards. Corners rubbed through, paper over hinges cracked, old dampstain to endpapers. Binding tight, text clean. Froebel was a pioneering German educational reformer who stressed the importance of play in early childhood education and developed and popularized… Read more about this item Item Price
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Travels in the Island of Iceland During the Summer of the Year MDCCCX [1810]
by Mackenzie, Sir George Steuart
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- 1812
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Edinburgh: Archibald Constable et al., 1812. Hardcover. Very good. Second edition. Quarto, pp. xv, 491, complete with 3 maps (one folding), 4 folding charts, and 14 engraved plates, of which 8 are lovely hand-colored aquatints. Additional engravings in the text. Rebound in quarter-leather and brown cloth. Approximately 10 text pages with significant foxing, otherwise very clean. A chemist… Read more about this item Item Price
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Winston Churchill, Volume V, Companion Part 2, Documents, The Wilderness Years, 1929-1935
by Gilbert, Martin
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- near fine
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- First Edition
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- 1981
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London: Heinemann, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. First printing. xx, 1404 pp. indexed. Light fading to top edge and soiling to fore edge of text block, otherwise clean, binding sound. Dust jacket lightly toned. Oversized; shipping cost will be more than standard for priority or international orders. Item Price
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Winston Churchill, Volume IV, Companion, Documents, Parts 1, 2, 3 [Three-Volume Set]: January 1917-June 1919; July 1919-March 1921; April 1921-November 1922
by Gilbert, Martin
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- near fine
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- First American Edition
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- 1978
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978. First American Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Three volumes in original beige and burgundy cloth boards. Very near fine, with minor spotting to top edge of Part 2, one dog-eared page in Part 3. Dust jackets with very light shelfwear; spines lightly toned at spine. on Part 2 & 3. Oversized; shipping cost will… Read more about this item Item Price
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Au Pays de Palmiers
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Bruxelles: O. De Rycker. Softcover. very good-. Undated, ca. 1924. 8.25" x 5.5", [26] pp, with many half-tone photographs, in illustrated stapled wrappers. Light dust soiling, text block detached from wrappers, otherwise very good. A rare promotional booklet for Huileries du Congo Belge (HCB), a subsidiary of the British soap manufacturing company Lever Brothers. The French-language text describes the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Sammelband of Seven Speeches by Edmund Burke, Including those on American Taxation and on Conciliation with the Colonies
by Burke, Edmund
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- 1785
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London: J. Dodsley, 1785. Hardcover. Very good. Sammelband containing seven speeches by Edmund Burke, all issued in pamphlet form by Dodsley. In modern binding of three quarter leather and marbled boards, first speech with previous owner's annotations on title page (trimmed), some speeches with scattered foxing but generally very good, bound without half-titles or wrappers. Includes (listed in… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Discourse Concerning Western Planting Written in the Year 1584
by Haklyut, Richard
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- 1877
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Cambridge, [MA]: Press of John Wilson and Son, 1877. Hardcover. Very good. Issued as part of the Collections of the Maine Historical Society, Second Series. Edited by Leonard Woods and Charles Deane. lxi + 253 pp, indexed, with several folding facsimiles of handwritten documents. A very good copy, mostly unopened, with some light foxing, faint staining to lower… Read more about this item Item Price
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Lectures on History and General Policy; to which is prefixed An Essay on a Course of Liberal Education for Civil and Active lIfe. And an Additional Lecture on the Constitution of the United States
by Priestley, Joseph
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- First American Edition
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- 1803
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Philadelphia: Printed for B. Byrne, 1803. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two octavo volumes, each with a folding frontispiece, pp. xvi, 388, [4] (ads); vii, 475, bound in contemporary tree calf with leather spine labels. Minor chipping at foot of Volume II, scattered foxing; very good. Bookplate of Silas Baker on the front pastedown of each volume,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Fotog rafla Atatürk
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- 1939
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Istanbul: Cumhuriyet Matbaasi, 1939. Softcover. very good. 11.25' x 7.5", unpaginated, but ca. 200 pp, consisting entirely of reproduced photographs, each with a caption (in Turkish). A good copy with creasing and chipping to wrappers, one crack in binding. An interesting and uncommon assemblage of images documenting the public appearances of Mustafa Kamal Atatürk, the first President of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Poland of To-Day and Yesterday, A Review of its History, Past and Present, and of the Causes Which Resulted in its Partition, Together with a Survey of its Social, Political, and Economic Conditions To-Day
by Winter, Nevin O.
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- 1913
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Boston: L.C. Page & Company, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. xii, 349 pp, with many illustrations from photographs. Original green cloth binding with decoration in red, blue, silver, and gilt. Spine lettering somewhat faded, light rubbing to extremities, a few pages with foxing at the margins. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise unmarked; binding sound. No… Read more about this item Item Price
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Lutte Anti-Taurine [French Anti-Bullfighting Broadside]
by [ANIMAL PROTECTION]
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Paris: Imp. Kossuth for the Ligue française pour la protection du cheval. First Edition. Very good. Undated, ca. 1920. Broadside, 11.75" c 15.5", printed in red and black on newsprint. Lightly toned, old folding creases, a few small stains at corners, rectangular area at upper left lighter than the rest, where a small printed note (now detached, but… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Copy of Verses on the Unemployed and the Great Distress in England
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London: W.C. Such, Printer and Publisher. Very good. Broadside. Undated, ca. 1922. 25 x 19 cm (ca. 9.75" x 7.5"), on newsprint or similar stock. Old folding creased, closed tear with archival repair on verso; very good. Although this song--a lament for England's poor and unemployed--may have been written as early as the 1890s, this edition, with its… Read more about this item Item Price
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On Duty and Off, Letters of Elizabeth Cabot Putnam Written in France May, 1917-September, 1918
by [WORLD WAR I, WOMEN] Putnam, Elizabeth Cabot
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- First Edition
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- 1919
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Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 222 pp, 7.5 x 5.25 inches, in publisher's blue cloth with mounted spine label. Spine toned, label rubbed but legible, one small stain on front board. Internally clean and sound. No dust jacket. Elizabeth Cabot Putnam was the daughter of Harvard neurologist James Jackson Putnam. She graduated from… Read more about this item Item Price
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The History of the Last Trial by Jury for Atheism in England: A Fragment of Autobiography Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney General and the British Clergy
by Holyoake, George Jacob
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- 1851
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London: James Watson, 1851. Hardcover. Good. Second thousand. 100 pp, in publisher's purple cloth with blind-stamped decoration. Significant chipping to the spine cloth, small water stain on front board, paper cracked over front hinge (but hinge secure). Foxing to title page only, otherwise interally clean, binding tight. "George Jacob Holyoake was mainly self-educated and a vigorous campaigner for… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Autobiography of a Working Man, by "One who has whistled at the plough
by [Somerville, Alexander]
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- First Edition
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- 1848
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London: Charles Gilpin, 1848. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo, 512 pp + publisher's ads, bound in original brown cloth. Old staining to boards. loss of cloth at head of spine, mild spine slant. Internally clean, but with a section of pages (283-317) that were opened roughly and have creasing and or chipping at the top margin. Text unaffected.… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Basque History, Past & Present
by Eiguren, Joe V.
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- 1972
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A$76.66
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Boise, ID: Offset Printer, 1972. Softcover. Very Good. 115 pp, with illustrations, footnotes, in original wrappers. Price sticker on inside front cover, very light handling wear; else clean. From the Introduction: "The first part is an expanded version of the publication 'History and Origin of the Basque' first published in 1962 ... Part II points out the highlights… Read more about this item Item Price
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Asilo "Vittorio Veneto" per gli Orfani dei Caduto in Guerra
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- 1922
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Firenze: Tip. Barbera, Alfani e Venturi, 1922. Softcover. Very good. 6.75 x 9.25 in., 32 pp, in photographically illustrated wrappers, with 11 half-tone illustrations in the text. Light dust soiling, wear to spine ends; very good. Describes the work of an asylum for war orphans opened in 1921 by the Florentine branch of the Associazione Nazionale Mutilati e… Read more about this item Item Price
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T.E. Lawrence, la France, et les Francais
by Lares, Maurice
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- First Edition
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- 1980
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- Softcover
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Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1980. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine. Slight handling wear to wrappers, else fine. The first section describes Lawrence's summer travels in France while he was an undergraduate. This is followed by discussions of his role in French politics, literature, and culture. O'Brien E378. Item Price
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