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The Confederate Republic: A Revolution Against Politics
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The Confederate Republic: A Revolution Against Politics

by Rable, George C.

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Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994 Cloth-backed boards. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket..
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery & Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

by Rackham, Bernard

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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1935 2 volumes. First edition. Scarce thus. Thick folio. Pp. xx, 431 + xv, 266. Illustrated with 37 color plates and 266 black and white, multi-image plates. Index. Blue cloth, gilt, beveled edges. Two upper corners and foot of spine of vol. I a bit jammed. Overall, a fine set with slightly chipped and spine-darkened dust jackets (printed in red and black). A magnificent and important catalogue of European pottery and porcelain of mediaeval and modern times. James Whitbread Lee Glaisher (1809-1903) was best known as a leading mathematician and astronomer, a graduate of Trinity College and a lifelong lecturer there. He was a great authority on faience and pottery. His collection is considered to be the finest in the world and represents more than thirty years' activity in collecting. It comprises over three thousand objects, along with their provenance and references to comparable pieces elsewhere. The collection is strongest is the English lead-glazed wares,… Read More
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Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post

by Rainey, Thomas

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New Haven: Eastern Press, Inc., 1977 Reprint. Illustrated with several statistical charts. A fine copy in wrappers. A treatise on the effect of the steam engine on postal travel..
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The Shrines of Tut-Ankh-Amon

by Rambova, N. [Editor]

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New York: Pantheon Books, 1955 First edition. Texts translated with introductions by Alexandre Piankoff. Small folio. Pp. xxi, [1], 149. plus 64 full-page photographic plates. Also includes a frontispiece, 2 gold facsimile plates, 8 folding black & white plates, and text illustrations. Two-tone brown and tan cloth, gilt. A very fine copy with plain dust jacket (repaired at spine) and matching cloth slipcase. Bollingen Series XL-2. The second volume of the series (complete in itself) on Egyptian religion. Hitherto unpublished, this volume concentrates on the shrines of Tut-Ankh-Amon, in the Cairo Museum. It contains, in translation, and reconstructed in so far as possible, the texts inscribed on the interior and exterior panels of the shrines, together with diagrams of the important representation, and a section of collotype plates of the shrines, the tomb walls, and related religious objects. An important and scholarly work..
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The Beginnings of Marysville

by Ramey, Earl

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San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1936 First book edition. Although not indicated, one of only 200 copies printed by Lawton Kennedy. Foreword by Douglas S. Watson. [8], 105pp. Frontis portrait, title page map in color, 4 plates, 2 full-page facsimiles, large folding map. Chapter notes. Rust cloth-backed tan boards, printed paper labels on spine and front cover. Minor rubbing to head of spine, slight darkening to edges of covers, but a fine, uncut copy. Very scarce. Third in the series on early California towns published by the Historical Society. San Jose and Los Angeles were also covered in separate volumes. The intent of the series was to focus on the local events which provided the individual "personalities" of towns. This book is then, like the others, a "town biography" and is extremely comprehensive, covering every aspect of the town's establishment and social and political history. It is crammed with detailed information. "Although settlement of… Read More
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Quartz Operator's Handbook

by Randall, P.M. And Zenas Wheeler

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San Francisco: Mining and Scientific Press Job Printing Office, 1865 First edition. 12mo. Pp. 130, [14, ads], 24, 8 (Supplements). 2 plates, text drawings and calculations. Errata page, advertisements, index. Blind-stamped lavender cloth, gilt-lettered front cover. Scattered light foxing, spine faded to brown. A very good, complete copy. Very scarce. Blowpipe test, chemical tests, assays, roasting, purification of mercury, extraction of silver by the Freyberg process, the separation of lead and silver by various processes, mechanics, horse's power of various water wheels, steam power, mechanical powers, mensuration, tractor and differently formed grinding plates, miscellaneous conversions, and more. "Mindfull that science and practice go hand in hand, the authors have confined their investigations to useful and established facts, leaving untouched all that is doubtful and chimerical" (Preface). Includes a supplement (by Randall) on the grinding effects of differently formed plates, being… Read More
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Dukedom Large Enough

by Randall, David A.

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New York: Random House, 1969 First edition. Illustrations; index. Very minor marking to front cover, else a very fine copy in red cloth. A collection of tales from the author's experiences in dealing with the book world's rarest of items, including the Gutenberg Bible and other such books..
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Without Shelter. The Early Career of Ellen Glasgow.
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Without Shelter. The Early Career of Ellen Glasgow.

by Raper, J.R.

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Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1971 Yellow cloth. Some soiling along the spine. In lightly worn and soiled dust jacket. A near fine copy..
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San Francisco Ship Passenger Lists. Volume 1.

by Rasmussen, Louis J.

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Colma, California: San Francisco Historic Record & Genealogy Bulletin, 1965 First edition. xvi, 273pp. 3 plates from old photographs, including a folding frontis. Black cloth, gilt. A very fine copy. Lacking dust jacket. Volume I in a series of four volumes which list the names of passengers arriving in San Francisco from 1850 to 1875. This volume covers ship arrivals primarily of the 1850's but includes a number of ships arriving in the early 1860's. This is an extremely important volume as it is the only reference of its kind. The official government records were destroyed by fire. Louis Rasmussen reconstructed the arrivals from numerous contemporary sources such as newspaper lists, journals, etc. It lists the ships alphabetically with their date of arrival, statistics and list of passengers. Includes passenger names, subjects, and geographical indexes. Beyond the passenger lists, this important work covers tonnage of steam vessels, sail and towing boats sailing to and from San… Read More
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The Singular Adventures of Baron Munchausen

by Raspe, Rudolph and others

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Norwalk, Connecticut: The Heritage Press, 1952 A definitive text edited, with an introduction, by John Carswell. Illustrated by Fritz Kredel. Marbled green boards over tan cloth, lettered in maroon. A very fine copy in maroon slipcase. . Illus. by Kredel, Fritz.
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Botero

by Ratcliff, Carter

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New York: Abbeville Press, 1980 First edition. Folio. Faded dust jacket spine, else a fine copy. A study of the work of Columbian artist Fernando Botero..
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Old Wedgwood. The Decorative or Artistic Ceramic Work, in Colour and Relief Invented and Produced by Josiah Wedgwood... 1760-1794.

by Rathbone, Frederick

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Merion, Pennsylvania: Buten Museum of Wedgwood, 1968 Reprint in its entirety of Rathbone's rare original work, "Old Wedgwood," originally published in eight parts of 36 pages each in 1898. This reprint provides a new index. Edited by Harry M. Buten. Quarto. [2], 258pp. Illustrated throughout with 67 full-page illustrations, smaller text illustrations. Index. Green cloth, gilt. A very fine copy. The work consists of biographical and descriptive chapters, a list of marks used at Etruria and explanatory text to each object illustrated. Specific chapters cover Wedgwood's life; the invention and progress of Wedgwood's art work; designers and modelers employed by Wedgwood; clay and materials used; a classification of Wedgwood's ornamental work; forgeries and imitations; biographers and critics of Wedgwood; hints to collectors, etc..
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Climbs on Alpine Peaks

by Ratti, Abate Achille (Pope Pius XI)

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1923 First American edition. Translated by J.E.C. Eaton. Foreword by Douglas W. Freshfield. Introduction by Right Rev. L.C. Casartelli. Includes a frontis portrait of the author as Pope; black & white photographic plates. Gray cloth lettered in white. Very minor rubbing to spine enss, but a fine and fresh copy..
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Memories of Owen Humphrey Churchill and His Family

by Raulston, Marion Churchill

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Los Angeles: By the Author, 1950 First edition. Printed in a small edition. Presentation inscription, signed by the author. [100]pp. Numerous photographs and portraits, one color plate. Half cloth and boards. Small remnants to inner cover from removed newspaper article, but a fine copy. Biography of Churchill and his extended family. Half the book is devoted to an interesting account of the elder Churchill as a rancher in Oregon and Montana. The rest of the book is devoted to Churchill's real estate developments in Los Angeles and his descendants in Los Angeles. "now scarce" (Adams). [Adams, Herd: 1864; Mintz: 385]..
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Dan De Quille of the Big Bonanza

by Rawls, James J. [Editor]

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San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1980 First edition. Limited to 650 copies printed by Arlen and Clara Louise Philpott. Introduction by the Editor. Foreword by Oscar Lewis. 128pp. Frontis portrait, plates. Cloth-backed patterned boards, gilt-lettered spine. A very fine copy. A collection of stories and humorous sketches by one of the most talented journalists of the West. He was an early associate of Mark Twain who urged him to write his mining history, The Big Bonanza and thus preserve the history and legendry of the Comstock Lode. Dan De Quille also served as reporter and editor on the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise for more than thirty years and was a frequent contributor to The Overland Monthly and Golden Era in San Francisco. Rawls provides an introduction surveying the life of Dan De Quille, and in his brief foreword, Oscar Lewis tells of the discovery and identification of the manuscripts from which this volume is formed..
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The Pageant of London in Colour

by Ray, Cyril

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New York: Hastings House Publishers, 1958 First American edition. Large octavo. Photography by J. Allan Cash. 40 color photographs. Very slightly faded blue cloth with lightly worn dust jacket. A fine copy. Full page color photographs of various sites in London with accompanying text. Part of the Heritage Colour Books series..
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The Poet and the Messenger

by Ray, Milton S.

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San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1945 First edition. One of 250 copies printed for the author. Very scarce. Printed in Franciscan handset type on French handmade paper. Foreword by Benjamin Putnam Kurtz. Quarto. Pp. [ix], [x, blank]. plus 15 leaves printed on rectos only. Initials by Mallette Dean on title and throughout text in red; decoration on title, opening lines of dedication, numbering of poems, all in turquoise; opening initial of foreword in gold; colophon printed in red, printer's device in turquoise. Orange decorated boards, white vellum back lettered in gold. Bookplate, minor offsetting to endpapers. A very fine copy. A quite lovely example of Grabhorn printing in three colors plus the gold initial. No copies of the book were signed because of the untimely death of the author Ray, a very well-known local (California) poet. Ray dedicated the book to Chester Barlow, the founder of the Cooper Ornithological Club of California. The foreword is by Benjamin Kurtz, a well-known author and… Read More
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Mineral Resources of the States and Territories West of the Rocky Mountains.

by Raymond, Rossiter W.

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Washington: Government Printing Office, 1869 First edition. House of Reps, 40th Congress, 3rd Session, Ex. Doc. No. 54. [2], iv, 256pp. Illustrated with 16 text illustrations, one full-page topographical map. Original maroon cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Spine faded, lower corners jammed; lower edge of rear cover shows wear. A very good copy, internally fine. Section one covers the mining industry in California (New Almaden Mines; the Mother Lode; Nevada County quartz and placer mines, etc.); mining within various counties of Nevada; general placer and quartz mines of Montana; the War Eagle tunnel, bullion production, etc. in Idaho; and other mining fields in Arizona, Utah, and the Isthmus of Panama. Section two covers the relationship of government to mining with much on mining law in various parts of the world and in ancient times (mining law in the middle ages; Spanish mining law; modern German codes; mining laws of Switzerland, England, Australia, Canada, etc.). Also covers mining education with… Read More
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Statistics of Mines and Mining in the States and Territories West of the Rocky Mountains

by Raymond, Rossiter W.

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Washington: Government Printing Office, 1872 First edition. House of Reps., 42nd Congress, 1st Session, Ex. Doc. No. 10. [6], 566pp. Illustrated with text illustrations and six folding plates, one folding chart. Indexes. Black cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Spine gilt slightly dulled, corners just showing, slight chipping to area at head of spine. Two contemporary penciled names on endpaper. A fine copy. One of the great, highly detailed studies in the Western mining industry, full of valuable data and information. Describes mining in California, Colorado, Nevada, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Utah and Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico, mining law, mineral deposits, narrow gauge railroads, etc., and with very important information on the mechanical appliances of mining (shown on the fold-out plates) and metallurgical processes. Rossiter W. Raymond followed J. Ross Browne as Commissioner of Mining Statistics. During his tenure, the Comstock Lode experienced its "Big Bonanza." The Nevada… Read More
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Illustrated History of New Mexico...

by Read, Benjamin M.

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Santa Fe: New Mexican Printing Company, 1912 First edition in English (best edition). First published in Spanish in Santa Fe the prior year. Number 378 of 500 copies. Translated into English under the direction of the Author, by Eleuterio Baca, of Las Vegas, N.M. 812pp. Illustrations from photographs, printed errata slip tipped-in. New red cloth, leather labels, gilt, endpapers renewed. Some library stamps (withdrawn) to title page, else a fine copy. Very scarce. This notable work covers the period of early exploration, the Indians and their culture, the work of missionaries, the various governments of New Mexico, and more. This English edition is considered the best as it is very much expanded over the Spanish version that preceded it. [Graff: 3420; Howes I: R-90; Howes II: R-88; Rader: 2765; Saunders: 4545]..
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