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1760 German BIBLE ART Prayer Book Devotional Catholic Vespers Confession Kalin
A rare 18th-century German prayer book!
Collected and published by Johann Kälin, this book contains daily prayers and devotions for morning and evening mass, vespers, confession, communion, and liturgical hymns.
Item number: #20358
Price: $550
KALIN, Johann Eberhard
Neu-erbaute, andächtige Hauß-Capell Das ist: Neu-außgegangenes, geistreiches in 6. Theil abgetheiltes, und mit schönen Kupfferen geziehrtes Gebett-Buch
Gedruckt in dem Fürstlichen Gottshauß Einsidlen Durch Johann Eberhard Kälin, 1760.

Details:

· Collation: Complete with all pages
o [14], 621, [11]
Title page and prefatory present but damaged
o 12 full-page engravings
· Language: German
· Binding: Leather; secure
· Size: ~7.5in X 4.5in (19cm x 11.5cm)
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1721 Japanese Samurai Sword Katana Arami Meizukushi Illustrated New Blades RARE

An interesting Edo and Meiji woodblock-print of 'New Blades.' This collection is the stamping of amateur warriors' blades and polishers throughout the Edo period and is equivalent to the sword of the Meiji era and later called "modern sword.". It follows up on the older collections of blade writings which summarized the accumulated knowledge of amateur warriors' blades and polishers throughout the Muromachi period. After the battle of Sekigahara in Keicho 4 (AD 1599), the Tokugawa shogunate opened and war ended, demand and production methods for swords changed, and later works came to be called "new swords." This 'New Blades' book includes information on large and small swords, knives, tools for forgings, polishing, and repairing, as well as stamps of sword makers and the illustrious line patterns between the edge and spine called the Hamon.
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1721 Japanese Samurai Katana Woodblock Swords New Blade Makers Ryoko Kanda 3v

An interesting Edo and Meiji woodblock-print of 'New Blade Maker's List.' This collection is the stamping of amateur warriors' blades and polishers throughout the Edo period and is equivalent to the sword of the Meiji era and later called "modern sword.". It follows up on the older collections of blade writings which summarized the accumulated knowledge of amateur warriors' blades and polishers throughout the Muromachi period. After the battle of Sekigahara in Keicho 4 (AD 1599), the Tokugawa shogunate opened and war ended, demand and production methods for swords changed, and later works came to be called "new swords."
This rare 1721 edition is written in a column handwritten format with furigana usage for easier reading. This edition contains excellent illustrations of different blades throughout!

Item number: #10746
Price: $750
KANDA, Ryoko
Shinba Meikan, New Blade Makers' List (Arami-mei-zukushi) (新刃銘鑑)… Read More

1856 ARCTIC 1st ed Elisha Kane Explorations Voyages Franklin Expedition Maps 2v

The Arctic Exploration, or 'Advance,' led by Elisha Kent Kane, was financed to find Sir John Franklin and his ship which was missing. While Franklin was never found, Kent and his explorers were able to gather a lot of information about people, geography, and natural history of the Arctic region, a relatively unknown region of the world. The discoveries found on this voyage include the Humboldt Glacier, Kennedy Channel, the Kane Basin, and reaching the farthest north of any exploration at the time.

Published just one year before Kent's death, this first edition book was immensely popular and was "often compared to the Bible for wide dissemination of America's bedside reading tables" (Books on Ice 3.9). This book includes engraved plates, maps, and many in-text illustrations of icebergs, ship scenes, animals, and portraits.

Item number: #30572
Price: $499

KANE, Elisha Kent

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1868 Japanese Loyal Vassal Samurai 47 Ronin Pirates Illustrated RARE Kateshima

A rare, 19th century Japanese woodblock print of "Legends of the Loyal Vassals." This edition by Takenori Kateshima includes stories of ambassadors, pirates, military commanders and notably the story of the Ako incident concerning the 47 ronin and the mission to avenge the death of their master, Asano Naganori, which has been told in kabuki, bunraku, stage plays, films, novels, and television shows ranking among the most popular of all historical stories in Japan.
This rare, collection is written in a column woodblock print format with furigana for easier reading with illustrations throughout.

Item number: #16222
Price: $750
Takenori Katashima

Legends of Loyal Vassals (Yoshiomi Fusui)扶桒義臣傳(ふさんぐよしおみでん)
Ōsaka: Bunsei 13 [1868]

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Collation: Complete with all pages; 7 volumes
o Illustrated throughout
· Language: Japanese
· Binding: Softcover; tight &… Read More

1737 1ed History of HUNGARY Jesuit Kazy Trnava Slovakia Philosophy RARE FOLIO

Francis Kazy was an 18th-century Jesuit priest who was best known for his history of the Kingdom of Hungary rather than his theological teachings. 'Historia Regni Hungariae' was first published in Slovakia in 1737 which covered the early history of Hungary.
Item number: #10139
Price: $750
KAZY, Franciscus

Historia regni Hungariae ab anno seculi decimi septimi primo, ad annum ejusdem seculi trigesimum septimum
Tyrnaviae typis academicis S.J. per Leopoldum Berger, 1737. First edition.

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Collation: Complete with all pages
o [12], 336, [2]
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References: de Backer IV, 954
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Provenance: Handwritten
o Conventus Sililosiensis
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Inseristus Cathalogo Librorum Fris Silvestri Char Franciscani, 1745
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Language: Latin
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Binding: Leather; tight & secure
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Size: ~11.75in X 8.25in (30cm x 21cm)
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1789 Pelew Islands George Keate Account of Philippines War Palau South Pacific

George Keate's "Account of the Pelew Islands" is a rare 18th-century description of the Pelew people and Oceania regions of the South Pacific including the Philippines and other Pacific islands. Keate wrote this work was based on the account of Henry Wilson, an English sailor in the East India Company. His ship, the Antelope, was shipwrecked off the Palau islands. Following the premier in 1788, this book became immensely popular to readers in England, a book in which Keate described the local Pelew people as savages and drew in audiences with descriptions of unknown and unfamiliar lands.

Keate's 'Account' gives descriptions of coral Reefs, manners and customs of the natives, details of battles and local wars, weapons and military tactics, canoe making, and more.

This 1789 edition includes a section on the vocabulary of the Pelew language.

Item number: #23767
Price: $599

KEATE, George

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1789 George Keate Account of Pelew Islands Philippines War Palau South Pacific

George Keate's "Account of the Pelew Islands" is a rare 18th-century description of the Pelew people and Oceania regions of the South Pacific including the Philippines and other Pacific islands. Keate wrote this work was based on the account of Henry Wilson, an English sailor in the East India Company. His ship, the Antelope, was shipwrecked off the Palau islands. Following the premier in 1788, this book became immensely popular to readers in England, a book in which Keate described the local Pelew people as savages and drew in audiences with descriptions of unknown and unfamiliar lands.

Keate's 'Account' gives descriptions of coral Reefs, manners and customs of the natives, details of battles and local wars, weapons and military tactics, canoe making, and more.

This 1789 edition includes a section on the vocabulary of the Pelew language.

Item number: #9541
Price: $1250
KEATE, George
An account of the Pelew Islands:… Read More

1789 George Keate Account of Pelew Islands Philippines War Palau South Pacific

George Keate's "Account of the Pelew Islands" is a rare 18th-century description of the Pelew people and Oceania regions of the South Pacific including the Philippines and other Pacific islands. Keate wrote this work was based on the account of Henry Wilson, an English sailor in the East India Company. His ship, the Antelope, was shipwrecked off of the Palau islands. Following the premier in 1788, this book became immensely popular to readers in England, a book in which Keate described the local Pelew people as savages and drew in audiences with descriptions of unknown and unfamiliar lands.

Keate's 'Account' gives descriptions of coral Reefs, manners and customs of the natives, details of battles and local wars, weapons and military tactics, canoe making, and more.

This 1789 edition includes a section on the vocabulary of the Pelew language.

Item number: #7076
Price: $1500
KEATE, George
An account of the Pelew Islands:… Read More

1633 English LAW Cases Powers of King Henry Robert Keilwey Relationes Quorundam

Robert Keilway was a 16th-century English politician and collector of personal law accounts and cases. In 1602, these law reports, most of which were composed by John Caryll, were first published under the title 'Relationes Quorundam Casuum Selectorum', and are mostly reports from the reigns of Henry VII and VIII. (Syme). Interesting reports include those describing special legal abilities and authorities that the king was given if he so desired.
"The King may hold his Parliament by himselfe, his temporall Lords and Commons, without any Bishop."

This 1633 second edition was published entirely in Latin and was frequently cited in legal treatises for its clerical authority.
Item number: #5785
Price: $895
KEILWEY, Robert
Relationes quorundam casuum selectorum ex libris Rob: Keilwey Ar: qui temporib[us] fœlicissimæ memoriæ Regis Henrici septimi, & inclitissimi Regis Henrici octavi, emerserunt, & in prioribus… Read More

1853 Use of GLOBES Astronomy Outer Space Moon Constellations Navigation Keith

Thomas Keith was a 19th-century astronomer who, along with Joseph Guy, was heavily involved in astronomical research on planetarium models and globes. In his book "Use of the Globes", Keith describes phases of the moon, stars and constellations, use of compasses and navigational tools, motion of the earth, and much, much more.
Item number: #19035
Price: $499
KEITH, Thomas

A new treatise on the use of the globes, or, A philosophical view of the earth and heavens ... : designed for the instruction of youth
London : Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1853.

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· Collation: Complete with all pages
o xxiv, 423, [1], 16
o 9 folding plates
· Provenance: Handwritten – Augusta Norton
· Language: English
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size: ~7in X 4.25in (18cm x 11cm)
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1887 Gambling 1ed Game of Draw Poker Card Games Rules & Strategy Keller RARE
John Keller's "The Game of Draw Poker" is a highly rare and desirable late 19th-century guide to playing poker. It includes game rules, strategy, jackpots, table stakes, gambling terms, mathematic probabilities, and the order of winning hands. First published in 1887, this work also includes a short treatise by Robert Schenck on the rules for the game of Progressive Poker.

Item number: #20032
Price: $499
KELLER, John William
The Game of Draw Poker.
New York, White, Stokes, & Allen, 1887. First edition.

Details:

· Collation: Complete with all pages
o iv, 84
· Language: English
· Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
· Size: ~6.5in X 4.75in (16.5cm x 12cm)
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1887 Gambling 1ed Draw POKER Card Games Casino Rules & Strategy Keller RARE

John Keller's "The Game of Draw Poker" is a highly rare and desirable late 19th-century guide to playing poker. It includes game rules, strategy, jackpots, table stakes, gambling terms, mathematic probabilities, and the order of winning hands. First published in 1887, this work also includes a short treatise by Robert Schenck on the rules for the game of Progressive Poker.

Item number: #30395
Price: $499

KELLER, John William

The Game of Draw Poker.

New York, White, Stokes, & Allen, 1887. First edition.

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
o iv, 84
· Language: English
· Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
· Size: ~6.5in X 4.75in (16.5cm x 12cm)

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1865 1ed Confederate Rebel Prisons TORTURE Andersonville Civil War Life & Death

Robert Kellogg's 'Life and Death in Rebel Prisons' is a rare Civil War account of prisoners of war and conditions of Confederate prisons. According to Nevins,
"A sergeant's journal of captivity, reworked by the editor; very bitter over deliberate cruelty to prisoners, but also gives facts tending to show the opposite."
The contents describe prisoners in Andersonville, Atlanta, Millen and Libby prisons, and other notable prisons, as well as descriptions of prison hospitals in the South.

In addition to the fascinating contents, this work features impressive full-page engravings of Civil War battle scenes and treatment of prisoners, including one disturbing view of prisoners being hanged by their thumbs – strappado torture!
Item number: #17330
Price: $499
KELLOGG, Robert H
Life and death in rebel prisons; giving a complete history of the inhuman and barbarous treatment of our brave soldiers by rebel authorities
Hartford,… Read More

1889 Our Pioneer Heroes America Exploration Crockett Boone Kit Carson INDIANS

'Our Pioneer Heroes' is a late 19th-century account of the lives of the most iconic adventurers, settlers, and explorers of America. Author D.M. Kelsey covered Hernando de Soto, Myles Standish, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Kit Carson, Buffalo Bill, Geronimo, General Custer, Sitting Bull, and many others. This 1889 edition includes full-page and in-text illustrations throughout.

Item number: #22452
Price: $499

KELSEY, D.M.

Our pioneer heroes and their daring deeds : the lives and famous exploits of De Soto, Champlain and other hero explorers, renowned frontier fighters and early settlers of America, from the earliest times to the present.

Philadelphia: Scammel & Co., 1889.

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
o xviii, 19-672
o Heavily illustrated throughout
· Provenance: Handwritten – Waldo Tillinghast
· Language: English
· Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
o Decorative… Read More

1863 1st ed CIVIL WAR Reign of Terror in Missouri Stars and Bars by Isaac Kelso

'Stars and Bars' is a rare 1863 account of the first two years of the American Civil War. Written by Isaac Kelso, 'Stars and Bars' is a piece of historical fiction giving light to the horrors of the Civil War in Missouri, intending to provide Union civilians an understanding of a Southern perspective. The preface states that
"the Northern people have no adequate conception of the actual state of things at the South, and that there is an apathy at the North, from which patriots need to be awakened".

Item number: #12863
Price: $399
KELSO, Isaac
The stars and bars, or, The reign of terror in Missouri
Boston: A Williams, 1863. First edition.

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Collation: Complete with all pages
o vi, 324
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Language: English
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Binding: Hardcover; tight & secure
o Cloth
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Size: ~8in X 5in (20cm x 13cm)
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1897 1ed Kemble Blackberries Adventures African American Caricatures RACISM

E.W. Kemble was a 19th-century American illustrator who is best known for his sketches of black culture and African American men and women. 'The Blackberries and their Adventures' is a collection of illustrations depicting black children (i.e. 'blackberries') playing games and dancing. The book, intended for children, was written with significant racist views that would not be considered tolerable today; yet, this book does represent a culture reminiscent of a bygone American era.
Item number: #15848
Price: $550
KEMBLE, Edward Winsor

The Blackberries and their Adventures
New York: R.H. Russell, 1897. First edition.

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· Collation: Complete with all pages
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19 leaves
· Language: English
· Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
· Size: ~8.75in X 12in (22.5cm x 30.5cm)
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1863 SLAVERY 1ed Georgia Slave Plantation Fanny Kemble Journal of Residence
Frances Anne Kemble, better known as "Fanny" Kemble was a 19th-century British actress who, after traveling in the United States, published a number of written works describing her travels. Her best work, and notably most popular, is her 'Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation.' In this work, which was published during the American Civil War, Kemble notes her experiences and observations of slavery on a southern plantation in the late 1830s.
Item number: #24618
Price: $499
KEMBLE, Fanny Anne
Journal of a residence on a Georgian plantation in 1838-1839
New York: Harper & Bros., 1863. True First American printing.
Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
o 337, [1], 7, [3]
· Provenance: Handwritten
o Mrs. Rose C. Comisky, 1879
o Chas. B. White
· Language: English
· Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
o Brown cloth
· Size: ~8in X 5in (20cm x 13cm)
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1658 Imitation of Christ 1ed Thomas a Kempis Elzevier Dutch Rosweyde Classic

"Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be."
― Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ

Thomas à Kempis's most famous and important work has, for centuries, been The Imitation of Christ. This important 17th-century Elzevier printing contains a life of Thomas a Kempis by Heribert Rosweyde, a Dutch hagiographer. This particular 1658 edition, according to Willems, was published in Amsterdam instead of Lyon, based on the signatures and decorative lettering; however, traditionally, Elzevier devotionals sold better in France than the Netherlands so they put a false publisher on this edition. The correct publishing city was later added to the 1674 edition with no other changes made to the edition.

Item number: #23994
Price: $750

KEMPIS, Thomas a

Th. à Kempis canonici regularis Ordin. S. August. De imitatione Christi libri quatuor

Lugduni: [i.e.… Read More

1665 Imitation of Christ Thomas a Kempis French Corneille Bible Prayers ART

"Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be."
― Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ

Thomas a Kempis's most famous and important work has, for centuries, been 'The Imitation of Christ.' It has widely been known to have influence important Christian conversion including that of John Wesley and John Newton. This 1665 French edition of Kempis was edited and translated by Pierre Corneille. It contains four impressive, full-page illustrations as well.

Item number: #24158
Price: $599

KEMPIS, Thomas a

L'imitation de Jesus-Christ. Traduite & paraphrasée en vers françois

Paris. Chez Robert Ballard, 1665.

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
o [10], 404
o 5 engravings (including engraved title page)
· Language: French
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
o Red Moroccan leather
· Size: ~5.25in X 3.75in… Read More