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Des Maladies Populaires et de La Mortalité : a Paris, a Londres, a Vienne,  a Bruxelles, a...

Des Maladies Populaires et de La Mortalité : a Paris, a Londres, a Vienne, a Bruxelles, a Berlin, a Stockholm et a Turin En 1866

by Vacher, Léon Cléry [Leon Clery]

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Paris: F Savy, Libraire d l S Meteo. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1867. 2e année. Trade Paper. Unopened pages, random foxing, (2) 1/4"tears. French language text on urban mortality in 1866 by noted French doctor, statistician, and later President of the Societe de Statistique de Paris. Year includes major cholera epidemic, and book also includes a study on consumption (TB, tuberculosis) in the cities. Subtitle concludes: avec une étude médico-hygiénique sur les consommations dans ces villes. Published by F Savy, Libraire de la Société Météorologique de France.; 88+28ad pages .
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Structure of Crystals :  Third, Revised Edition with 423 Figures, 7 in  Color

Structure of Crystals : Third, Revised Edition with 423 Figures, 7 in Color

by Vainshtein, Boris K, Vladimir M Fridkin, Vladimir L Indenbom

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Berlin: Springer. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 2000. Third Edition. Hardcover. 3540674748 . Library stamps/marks/labels/slip, bottom edge bump, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; "describes the ideal and real atomic structure of crystals as well as the electronic structures. The fundamentals of chemical bonding between atoms are given, and the geometric representations in the theory of crystal structure and crystal chemistry, as well as the lattice energy, are considered. The important classes of crystal structure in inorganic compounds, as well as the structure of polymers, liquid crystals, biological crystals, macromolecules, fullerenes, high-temperature superconductors, minerals, and Langmuir-Blodgett films are considered. This third edition also includes a new bibliography."; Modern Crystallography ; Ex-Library; Vol. 2; 520 pages .
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Le Tournant Du Siècle Des Lumières 1760-1820 : Les genres en vers des...

Le Tournant Du Siècle Des Lumières 1760-1820 : Les genres en vers des lumières au romantisme [Siecle, Lumieres]

by Vajda, György Mihály [Gyorgy] (ed)

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Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1982. Hardcover. 9630525410 . Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, otherwise light wear. Solid oversize hardcover.; French language text. Comité de Coordination de l'Histoire Comparée des Littératures. "C'est ainsi que le volume se divise en deux parties distinctes. La première, la partie synthétique, développe, à l'aide de la méthode comparative, différents aspects de la poésie européenne dans son ensemble. La deuxième partie est constituée des chapitres analytiques dit documentaires dont le but primordial est de servir de base au tableau d'ensemble des genres en vers de l'époque, présenté dans les chapitres synthétiques." ; Histoire comparée des littératures de langues européennes sous l'auspices de l'association internationale de… Read More
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Praktika: H Istorike, Archaiologike kai Laographike Ereuna gia te Thrake :  Symposio :...

Praktika: H Istorike, Archaiologike kai Laographike Ereuna gia te Thrake : Symposio : Xanthe-Komotene-Alexandroupole, 5-9 Dekembriou 1985

by Vakalopoulos, Apostolos E (ed); Hidryma Meleton Chersonesou tou Hainou

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Thessaloniki: Institute for Balkan Studies. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1988. Trade Paperback. Corner bumps, otherwise light wear. Solid trade paperback.; Modern Greek language. Title translation: Proceedings: The Historical, Archaeological, and Ethnological Research of Thrace: Papers read at the Symposium held in Xanthi, Komotini and Alexandroupolis, 5-9 December 1985. Dedicated to Giorgio Mpakalakes. ; Hidryma Meleton Chersonesou tou Hainou series; Vol. 217; 449 pages .
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O exterior do cavalo

O exterior do cavalo

by Valé, Jose Miranda do

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Lisbon: Editorial Notícias. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1976. 2a Edição. Pamphlet. Cover rub, spine darkened, light tone, otherwise light wear. Solid trade paperback. ; Portuguese language. Veterinary guide for horse conformation. "O estudo da conformação exterior do cavalo ensina a conjecturar sobre o seu valor e a determinar - lhe a respectiva aptidão." ; Colecção Rustica; Vol. 3; 129, (3) pages .
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Monternismos, protoporia kai "Pali" :   Me grammata ton poieton gyro ap'  ten...

Monternismos, protoporia kai "Pali" : Me grammata ton poieton gyro ap' ten ekdose tou "Pali"

by Valaorites, Nanos

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Athens: Ekdoseis Kastaniote. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1997. Trade Paperback. 9600320225 . Slight wear. Crisp trade paperback.; Greek language text, with some English language letters included. ; Skepse, chronos kai demiourgoi; 241 pages .
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Marginados y "sepultados en los montes" : Orígenes de la insurgencia  social en...

Marginados y "sepultados en los montes" : Orígenes de la insurgencia social en el valle del río Cauca 1810-1830

by Valencia Llano, Alonso

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Cali, Colombia: Programa Editorial Universidad del Valle. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 2008. 1a Edición. Trade Paperback. 9586706664 . Slight wear. Crisp trade paperback.; Spanish language. "Reseña: En este libro se exploran las raíces de la insurgencia social que afecta hoy a Colombia. Su autor, a partir de un muy bien logrado sustento teórico, muestra que la insurgencia y la resistencia social colombiana tienen sus orígenes en las formas en que se estableció la sociedad europea en nuestros territorios. Lo hace a partir del estudio del caso de las sociedades agrarias situadas en el Valle del rio Cauca, señalando que surgieron de un largo proceso de mestizaje iniciando en el siglo XVI y consolidado mediante prácticas económicas que escapaban al control de los funcionarios y de los terratenientes.En él también se estudia la oposición a la creación de Estado republicano por los sectores… Read More
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The Beginning of the End and other stories :  Designed for film adaptation

The Beginning of the End and other stories : Designed for film adaptation

by Valentine, Tommy

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New York: Comet Press Books. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1959. Hardcover. Light wear; Dust Jacket 1/4" chip at bottom of rear panel, old price marked on front cover, 1/4" tear, light wear. Solid hardcover. ; Contents: The Beginning of the End; He Hangs Above the Mast; Beneath the Sands of Egypt; The Great Wall of China; Towawa.; A Milestone Book; 90 pages .
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PHotoBolsillo : Fotografías de los años Noventa  = Photographs of the  Nineties

PHotoBolsillo : Fotografías de los años Noventa = Photographs of the Nineties

by Vari Caramés; Ouka Leele; Valentín Vallhonrat

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Madrid: La Fábrica. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1999. Trade Paperback. 8496466558 . Slight wear; slipcase slight wear. Crisp trade paperbacks.; Slipcase contains three trade paperbacks of modern Spanish photographers, in the PHotoBolsillo series: Vari Caramés (#38); Ouka Leele (#51); and Valentín Vallhonrat (#37). Text in Spanish and English. ; PHotoBolsillo : Biblioteca de Fotógrafos Españoles; 3v pages .
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The Freshman Herald : Class of Nineteen Hundred Thirty-Five : Princeton University

by Van Cise, Jerrold Gordon, et al, (Editors); Princeton University

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Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1931. Hardcover. Spine lettering darkened, light foxing, light cock, some newspaper clippings laid in, owner's signature, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover. ; "The Freshman Herald is issued for two purposes: first, to help in establishing as early as possible in the Class of 1935 the personal association among its members that constitutes the basis of class spirit in college and alumni loyalty after graduation; and second, to facilitate acquaintance between 1935 and other undergraduate classes, and between 1935 and those officers of the University with whom the members of the Class as Freshmen are most likely to have dealings." - Foreword. Published by Student Employment Section, Department of Personnel. Listing of the members of the Class of 1935 includes photograph, name, nickname, birthday, home address, campus address, secondary school, and sports/activities interests. ; 246 pages .
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Chinese Lovesong

Chinese Lovesong

by Van Dyke, J (Julius) [pseudonym of Frederick Anthony Edwards]

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Garden City: Doubleday, Doran. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1933. First US Edition; Early Printing. Hardcover. Lending library stamps, peel on front paste-down, front free endpaper removed, light tone, edgewear, otherwise light wear. Still solid hardcover.; English title: Chinese Dust. "In the tangled lives of the beautiful déclassée Russian, Shura Danilova, and of the three men who loved her is all the passion and beauty of a great love story, the tense excitement of high adventure." Novel of life in the China treaty ports, written by "a young Englishman who has been in the British Civil Service and from many years in China has acquired an intimate knowledge of the white man's life in the East." - The Writer; Volume 45; Page 318. This novel triggered Helen Foster Snow, the young American college drop-out who "writing under the alias of “Nym Wales” ... built a legacy of activism and fearless journalism reporting from China throughout… Read More
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The Story of an Abduction in the Seventeenth Century

The Story of an Abduction in the Seventeenth Century

by Van Lennep, Jacob; translated by Clara Bell

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New York: W S Gottsberger. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1891. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Front hinge starting, light cock, edge stains, rubbed, light tone, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover. ; First English language translation of historical novel by Dutch author van Lennep. "About the year 1663, Johan Diederick de Mortaigne, a ruined young gentleman, abducted Catherine d'Orleans, an orphan with a large fortune." ; 282, 6 ad pages .
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Stool Wives :  A Fiction of Africa

Stool Wives : A Fiction of Africa

by Van Wert, William F

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Kaneohe, Hawaii: Plover Press. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. 1996. Hardcover. 0917635205 . Light edgewear; Dust Jacket slight wear. Crisp copy. ; INSCRIBED by author on title page. "William Van Wert has conjured an avant-garde anthropology from a fictive Africa. In Stool Wives comedy and wisdom do the native dance of that most potent novelistic tradition which began with Fielding and Sterne. Hilarious, reflective, scatogical and sublime, Stool Wives is shamanism of a high order: the kind that makes the rain fall, the crops grow." - Alan Singer. ; Plover Nivola Series; 209 pages; Signed by Author .
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1940 : le grand exode

1940 : le grand exode

by Vanwelkenhuyzen, Jean, Jacques Dumont

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Brussels: RTBF éditions. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1983. Trade Paperback. 2801104744 . Tone, cover curl, light edgewear, owner's bookplate on half-title page, light wear. Solid trade paperback. ; Bookplate of the distinguished, late professor of modern French history, Philip C. F. Bankwitz. French language. "Tout le long de la frontière, le dispositif de sécurité functionne immédiatement mais un ennemi infiniment supérieur bouscule la première ligne de défense des Belges. Les civils, qui n'ont pas oublié les uhlans de 1914, veulent ou doivent se mettre à l'abri, le plus loin possible du feu des armées. De proche en proche la panique s'installe au coeur des populations pacifiques. L'exode, le Grand Exode, va commence. Nous avons retracé ici les traits principaux de cet événement et rassemblé les souvenirs le plus caractéristiques de ceux qui… Read More
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Ethnic Minorities in Urban Areas :   A Case Study of Racially Changing  Communities

Ethnic Minorities in Urban Areas : A Case Study of Racially Changing Communities

by Varady, David P

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Boston: Martinus Nijhoff. Good with no dust jacket. 1979. Hardcover. 0898380138 . Edgeworn and rubbed, spine sun, library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, light wear. Solid hardcover. ; Analysis based on surveys taken in 1969 and 1974 in the racially changing community of Wynnefield, Philadelphia, on neighborhood racial change and attitudes. ; Ex-Library; xiv, 187 pages .
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V luchakh slavy :  Zvezdy russkogo kino

V luchakh slavy : Zvezdy russkogo kino

by Varakin, A.

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Moscow: Veche. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2006. Hardcover. 5953317050 . Russian language. Russian film actresses. Contents: Otechestvennoe kino, XX vek -- Vera Kholodnaia: ona byla pervoi -- Olga Chekhova: russkaia zvezda na nemetskom nebosvode -- Liubov Orlova: dva pristalnykh vzgliada na samuiu iarkuiu zvezdu -- Valentina Serova: milliony poklonnikov i odna liubov -- Lidiia Smirnova: "zvezda liubvi privetnaia" -- Rina Zelenaia: koroleva epizoda -- Valentina Karavaeva: zhizn posle zhizni -- Valentina Maliavina: genii i zlodeistvo nesovmestny -- Liudmila Chursina: simvol togo, chego v SSSR ne bylo -- Natalia Varlei: iunaia vedma sovetskogo kino -- Larisa Udovichenko: zhenstvennost vne vremeni.; Mir zhenshchiny; Ex-Library; 352 pages .
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L'Ipotesi nella filosofia di Ernesto Naville

L'Ipotesi nella filosofia di Ernesto Naville

by Varano, Francesco Saverio

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Gubbio: Scuola Tiopgrafica Oderisi. Good with no dust jacket. 1931. Hardcover. Library REBIND in hardcover, library stamps/marks/labels/pocket/slip, covers creased, spine chipped and taped, toned, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; Italian language. Ernest Naville was an influential Swiss historian and philosopher, and advocate of Esperanto. Analysis of the philosophy of Naville, focused on his 1880 work, La logique de l'hypothèse." ; Ex-Library; 52 pages .
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Le Yoga et la tradition Hindoue

Le Yoga et la tradition Hindoue

by Varenne, Jean

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Paris: Celt. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1973. Hardcover. Light edge tone, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover. ; French language. INSCRIBED by author on title page. Attractive silk moire binding with gilt decor and lettering. Last section states it is first French translation of Yoga Darshana Upanishad. ; Bibliothèque de l'irrationnel et des grands mystères; 254 pages; Signed by Author .
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A magyar állatvilág fajjegyzéke : 3. köt., Nagylepkék  =...

A magyar állatvilág fajjegyzéke : 3. köt., Nagylepkék = Checklist of the fauna of Hungary. Volume 3, Macrolepidoptera

by Varga, Zoltán, et al; Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum

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Budapest: Hungarian Natural History Museum. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 2004. Trade Paperback. 9637093885 . Slight wear. Crisp trade paperback.; Hungarian language. Checklist of Hungary's moths and butterflies.; 111 pages .
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The Time of the Hero
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The Time of the Hero

by Vargas Llosa, Mario; translated by Lysander Kemp

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New York: Grove Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1966. 1st English Language Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Slight foxing to top edge, light cloth spotting, otherwise light wear; Dust Jacket 1/4"tear and crease atop the spine, otherwise light wear. Crisp hardcover.; First Edition, First Printing of the first English translation of Vargas Llosa's writing, his first novel. "Moving back and forth from pst to present, from inner thought to outer action, from inside the [Leoncio Prado Military] Academy to the city outside, Vargas Llosa exposes the sordid world of the military elite, with its hypocrisy, moral decay, and power politics, and the corruption throughout the society beyond the Academy walls." Small wonder that a thousand copies of his novel were burned in official ceremony at the actual Academy in Lima, an early sign of the impact of the Peruvian novelist that earned the 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature. ; 409 pages .
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