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NEW YORK: UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD, 1908 VERY NICE LOOKING BROWN COVER WITH GOLD PRINT FRONT AND SPINE. NO INTERNAL MARKINGS OTHER THAN A SMALL STICKER INSIDE THE FRONT AND ERASED NUMBER ABOVE. NO MAPS ARE INCLUDED. RARE BOOK IN VERY GOOD TIGHT CLEAN CONDITION. INTRODUCTION BY JAMES C. EGBERT. BOOK BY DANIEL JAMES ELLISON- WRITES A NICE PREFACE AND HOW TO USE THE BOOK. VERY NICE DESCRIPTIVE, ENTERTAINING BOOK OF ITALY. THROUGH THE IDEA OF THE STEREOSCOPE THAT WAS POPULAR AT THAT TIME. Stereograph- Two stereoscopic pictures or one picture with two superposed stereoscopic images, designed to give a three-dimensional effect when viewed through a stereoscope or special glasses. A WONDERFUL PIECE OF OUR PAST AND LOOK AT ITALY BEAUTY FROM INSIDE. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

NEW YORK: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893 RARE, VERY NICE LOOKING BOOK, DARK GREEN COVER, GOLD PRINT FRONT AND SPINE, FORMER OWNERS NAME INSIDE FRONT, TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. POETRY FROM ONE OF THE BEST. Josiah Gilbert Holland (July 24, 1819 October 12, 1881) was an American novelist and poet who also wrote under the pseudonym Timothy Titcomb. He helped to found and edit Scribner's Monthly (afterwards the Century Magazine), in which appeared his novels, Arthur Bonnicastle, The Story of Sevenoaks, Nicholas Minturn. In poetry he wrote "Bitter Sweet" (1858), "Kathrina", the lyrics to the Methodist hymn "There's a Song in the Air", and many others. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

Philadelphia, PA: CLAXTON, REMSEN & HAFFELFINGER, 1872 WONDERFUL COLLECTION OF SONGS BY MRS. CRAWFORD. A LOVER OF SONGS AND HISTORY WILL LOVE THIS. A GREAT GIFT. SIGNED AS A CHRISTMAS GIFT TO MOLLIE MOORE. SIGNED ALSO IN FRONT BY OWNER. NICE DARK BROWN COVER FRONT AND BACK. GOLD IMPRINT FRONT AND SPINE. SOME DISCOLORING ON FRONT AND SPINE DUE TO AGE. TIGHT AND IN GOOD SHAPE. OVER 100 SONGS IN VERSE. A TERRIFIC COLLECTION. FOR THE SONG LOVER. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

USA: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN AND COMPANY, 1907 NICE LOOKING RED COVER, GOLD DESIGN AND PRINT SPINE. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. GREAT NUMBER ILLUSTRATIONS, 40 CHAPTERS. VERY NICE DETAILS/ TOURS OF POPULAR FRANCE LOCATIONS. FOR THE LOVER OF TRAVEL AND FRANCE. Henry James OM (15 April 1843 28 February 1916) was an American-born British author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was the son of Henry James Sr. and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

PHILADELPHIA, PA: GLOBE BIBLE PUBLISHING CO., 1894 NICE LOOKING TAN, RED AND GOLD COVER. SPINE OUTSIDE MISSING, FRONT AND BACK COVERS LOOSE. CLEAN AND TIGHT INSIDE WITH HEAVY PAGES. FRONTISPIECE MAP OF CHINA, CONTAINS GEOGRAPHICAL POSITIONS, ENORMOUS RESOURCES, WEALTH, EMPERORS AND COURTS, GOVERNMENTS AND PEOPLE, MANNERS AND CUSTOMS, HOW THE PEOPLE OF THE GREAT NATIONS LIVE AND DIE AND MAINTAIN IN ORIENTAL SPLENDOR THE CHINA AND JAPAN OF TODAY. A SKETCH OF COREA AND THE COREANS, AND THE CAUSES LEADING TO THE CONFLICT OF 1894. 20 CHAPTERS, LARGE NUMBER ILLUSTRATIONS. WONDERFUL BOOK HELPING UNDERSTAND THE GREAT NATIONS AND THE CONFLICT. China (Chinese), officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's second-most populous country with a population exceeding 1.4 billion. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and borders fourteen countries by land, tied with Russia as having the most of any country in the world. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

NEW YORK: DERBY AND MILLER, 1865 RARE BOOK, LEATHER COVER, GOLD, BLACK DESIGN SPINE, FRONT COVER LOOSE, BUT INTACT. FOMER OWNER NAME INSIDE FRONT. LIGHT FOXING INSIDE FRONT AND BACK. RAYMOND CONSIDERED THE GODFATHER OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. GREAT DETAIL ON ABRAHAM LINCOLN INCLUDING SPEECHES, ADDRESSES, MESSAGES, LETTERS, PROCLAMATIONS AND CLOSING SCENES FROM HIS LIFE AND DEATH. FRANK B. CARPENTER INCLUDED ANECDOTES AND PERSONAL REMEMBERANCES OF LINCOLN. 15 ILLUSTRATIONS, 21 CHAPTERS AND APPENDIX. A WONDERFUL HISTORY OF A GREAT AMERICAN THAT EXPERIENCED A RICH LIFE OOF EARLY STRUGGLES. FROM CANDLELIGHT READING AND EARLY STRUGGLES IN BUSINESS TO THE PRESIDENCY. Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Lincoln led the Union through the American Civil War to defend the nation as a constitutional union and succeeded in abolishing slavery,… Read More

USA: American Book Company, 1903 VERY NICE LOOKING GRAY BOOK, DESIGN AND PRINT ON FRONT AND SPINE IN BLACK, INITIALS INSIDE FRONT, NO OTHER MARKINGS, TIGHT, VERY GOOD SHAPE. KENNETH MCKENZIE, INSTRUCTOR IN ROMANCE LANGUAGES IN YALE UNIVERSITY PROVIDES PREFACE. ENGLISH ANNOTATION, FABLES ARE IN FRENCH, A VOCABULARY IN THE BACK FRENCH TO ENGLISH. La Fontaine, Jean de (1621-95). Poet, known above all for his Fables, which have been read, learned, and recited by French children and adults for three centuries. He wrote much else besides, in a variety of genres. Often seen as one of the principal authors of French classicism, he appears rather as an idiosyncratic individualist. His tastes ranged from Plato to Rabelais, from the romances of chivalry to Malherbe, and his writings show a love of experiment as well as a sensitivity to contemporary taste. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

CHICAGO: DONOHUE, HENNEBERRY & CO., 1890 NICE LOOKING DARK RED COVER, SILVER DESIGN AND PRINT FRONT AND SPINE. FORMER OWNERS NAME INSIDE FRONT. PAGES HAVE A VERY LIGHT BROWN TINT FROM AGE, TITLE PAGE IS LOOSE BUT IN GOOD SHAPE. TIGHT AND CLEAN OTHERWISE THROUGHOUT. PUBLISHED DATE NOT LISTED, CIRCA 1890. Jerome Klapka Jerome (2 May 1859 14 June 1927) was an English writer and humourist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat (1889). Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by English writer Jerome K. Jerome of a two-week boating holiday on the Thames from Kingston upon Thames to Oxfordand back to Kingston. The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of local history along the route, but the humorous elements took over. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

BOSTON: HOUGHTON, OSGOOD AND COMPANY; THE RIVERSIDE PRESS, 1879 BEAUTIFUL GREEN COVER, BLACK AND GOLD DESIGN, LIGHT WEAR TOP AND BOTTOM OF SPINE, NICE ARTWORK THROUGHOUT. FIRST BLANK PAGE LOOSE, FIRST PREFACE PAGE LOOSE; OTHERWISE TIGHT AND CLEAN. 36 CHAPTERS, LECTURES AND POSTSCRIPT. Douglas William Jerrold (London 3 January 1803 8 June 1857 London) was an English dramatist and writer. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE. Douglas William Jerrold (London 3 January 1803 8 June 1857 London) was an English dramatist and writer. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

HARRISBURG: PENNSYLVANIA HISTORICAL AND MUSEUM COMMISSION, 1979 VERY NICE LOOKING BLUE COVER, GOLD INSIGNIA ON FRONT, GOLD PRINT SPINE. WHITE PROTECTIVE COVER, BLUE PRINT, PICTURES OF THE MILITARY LEADERS AND WASHINGTON ON THE FRONT, LIGHTED FADED. BOOK IS VERY GOOD CONDITION WITH NO INTERNAL MARKINGS. TIGHT WITH NICE MAPS AND PICTURES INSIDE. GREAT COLLECTORS ITEM. FIRST PRINTING 1976. DECEMBER 19, 1777 TO JUNE 19, 1778. TERRIFIC BOOK. HIGHLIGHTS IN BACK, EVENTS, EPILOGUE, NOTES, APPENDIX, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX. Valley Forge, Continental army encampment during the winter and spring of 1777¿1778, is situated on the west bank of the Schuylkill River, in Chester County, Pa., about twenty-five miles northwest of Philadelphia. After the American defeats at Brandywine, Paoli, and Germantown and after the British had occupied Philadelphia (then the national capital), Gen. George Washington led 11,000 regular troops to Valley Forge to take up winter quarters. The site provided convenient access to key… Read More

BOSTON: DANA ESTES & COMPANY, 1900 NICE LOOKING GREEN COVER, GOLD DESIGN AND PRINT FRONT AND SPINE. TIGHT AND CLEAN INSIDE. ILLUSTRATIONS AND ARTWORK THROUGHOUT. CIRCA 1900, NO PUBLISH DATE LISTED. WONDEFUL INFORMING LECTURES BY A FAMOUS ENGLISH WRITER. CROWN OF OLIVE HAS 3 LECTURES ON WORK, TRAFFIC AND WAR. MUNERA PULVERUS HAS DEFINITIONS, STORE COIN KEEPING, COMMERCE, GOVERNMENT AAND MATERSHIP. RAPHAELITISM. ARATRA PENTELICI- ARTS, IDOLATRY, IMAGINATION, LIKENESS, STRUCTURE, SCHOOL OF ATHENS, FUTURE ENGLAND, POLITICAL ECONOMY OF PRUSSIA. ELEMENTS OF DRAWING. John Ruskin (8 February 1819 20 January 1900) was an English writer, philosopher and art critic of the Victorian era. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

NEW YORK: MCGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY, INC., 1947 NICE LOOKING GREEN COVER, RAISED LETTERING ON FRONT, GOLD LETTERING SPINE. FORMER LIBRARY BOOK, LIBRARY CARD AND TAG INSIDE FRONT FROM WESTINGHOUSE ELECRTRIC, TIGHT AND CLEAN INSIDE. 14 CHAPTERS, QUITE DETAILED INFORMATIONS WITH EQUATIONS THROUGHOUT. FIELD THEORY OF ELECTROMAGNETISM, ELECTROSTATICS, SOLUTIONS LAPLACES EQUATION, DIELECTRICS, MAGNETIC FIELDS, MATERIALS, CURRENTS AND MANY OTHER TOPICS. GREAT BOOK FOR THE LOVER OF PHYSICS. Electromagnetism is a branch of physics involving the study of the electromagnetic force, a type of physical interaction that occurs between electrically charged particles. John Clarke Slater (December 22, 1900 July 25, 1976) was a noted American physicist who made major contributions to the theory of the electronic structure of atoms, molecules and solids.[1][2][3] He also made major contributions to microwave electronics. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

NEW YORK: THE CENTURY CO., 1927 BLUE GREEN TEXTURED COVER, GOLD PRINT FRONT AND SPINE. FORMER BOOK OF THE CARNEGIE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY LIBRARY. CLEAN AND TIGHT INSIDE WITH NORMAL LIBRARY MARKINGS, MAYER WAS HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY IN TUFT'S COLLEGE. LARGE NUMBER OF ILLUSTRATIONS OF FAMOUS SCIENTISTS AND PICTURES. 14 CHAPTERS: BOOK OF NATURE VERSUS BOOK OF MAN, GREKK LEARNING, DARK AGE OF SCIENCE, ASTRONOMY & AUTHORITY, RENAISSANCE, PHYSICS, CHEMISTRY, ADVANCES, PHYSICAL SCIENCE, CHEMICAL, ATOMIC, COSMIC, GEOLOGY, BIOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL AND AN INDEX. VERY INTERESTING BOOK FOR THE LOVER OF SCIENCE. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

LONDON: JOHN RUSSELL SMITH, 1854 TERRIFIC ANTIQUE BOOK PUBLISHED IN LONDON 1854. LIGHT BROWN COVER, WORN AND FADED IN AREAS, INCH TOP OF OUTSIDE SPINE MISSING, 1/2" BOTTOM OUTSIDE SPINE. TIGHT AND GOOD SHAPE INSIDE. HUNTER WAS A FELLOW OF THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUITIES OF LONDON AND OF THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY; AND AN ASSISTANT KEEPER OF HER MAJESTIES RECORDS. VOLUME IS SECOND EDITION OF THE TRACT PRINTED IN 1849. GREAT DETAIL REGARDING FOUNDERS OF NEW PLYMOUTH. APPENDIX IN BACK. Joseph Hunter FSA (6 February 1783 9 May 1861) was a Unitarian Minister, antiquarian, and deputy keeper of public records now best known for his publications Hallamshire. The History and Topography of the Parish of Sheffield in the County of York, the two-volume South Yorkshire (a history of the Deanery of Doncaster), still considered among the best works written on the history of Sheffield and South Yorkshire, and his 1852 pamphlet on Robin Hood in which he argued that a servant of this name at the court of… Read More

NEW YORK: CURRIER & HARFORD LIMITED, 1926 NICE LOOKING LIGHT BROWN COVER, LABEL ON FRONT WITH FURNITURE DESIGN, OUTSIDE OF SPINE COVER MISSING, BOOK IS TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT, FORMER OWNERS NAME SIGNED IN FRONT. GAYLER WAS A MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS. 65 ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT. THE SECTIONS ARE A BRIEF HISTORY OF FURNITURE WITH ITS PRINCIPLE PERIODS, EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ENGLISH FURNITURE MAKERS, AMERICAN FURNITURE, THE CONSTITUTION OF FURNITURE AND FURNITURE FINISHES. BEAUTIFUL BOOK FOR THE LOVER OF FURNITURE. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.