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1) THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SIR WALTER RALEIGH, PIONEER OF ANGLO-AMERICAN COLONIZATION
True, Charles K

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SIR WALTER RALEIGH, PIONEER OF ANGLO-AMERICAN COLONIZATION
Cincinnati: Hitchcock & Walden, 1877. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good. 271pp; 2 plates from woodcuts. Besides voyages to America, this book describes Raleigh's role in Irish wars, expeditions to Guiana, Elizabethan court, &c. 6.75" x 4.5". more information

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2) W.S.C., A CARTOON BIOGRAPHY. With a foreword by Harold Nicolson
Urquhart, Fred, compiler

W.S.C., A CARTOON BIOGRAPHY.   With a foreword by Harold Nicolson
London: Cassell, 1955. First Edition. Original cloth. Very Good/Very Good. pp: xiii, 242; cartoons throughout. Urquhart uses political cartoons to create a biography of Sir Winston Churchill from 1900 to 1954. Each cartoon is captioned, its publication date noted, and the political circumstances of its time are explained. 10" x 7.25". more information

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3) LA SAINTE RUSSIE: La Cour, L'Armee, Le Clerge, La Bourgeoisie et Le Peuple
Vasili, Comte Paul

LA SAINTE RUSSIE: La Cour, L'Armee, Le Clerge, La Bourgeoisie et Le Peuple
Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1890. First Edition. Leather Bound. Very Good. pp: 550, (1) addenda; 4 color plates lithographed by F. Didot, 37 engraved plates, 3 maps, 197 text illustrations. Bound in 3/4 red morocco and marbled boards, gilt-decorative panelled spine, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt--with the original color-illustrated wraps bound in. 11.5" x 8 more information

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4) MODERN CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN CHINA
Vinacke, Harold Monk

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1920. First Edition. Original cloth. Very Good. pp: ix, 280. The author traces modern Chinese history from the "100 Days" of reform in 1898 through the Boxer uprising & "Revolution of 1911" to 1917. 8.25" x 5.5". more information

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5) ASPECTS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
Wasserman, Earl R., editor

ASPECTS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1965. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good/Good. Some edge wear to dust jacket. pp: vi, 346. Comprises essays by experts in French, German & English literature, history, philosophy, music, art, science & ideas. 9.25" x 6". more information

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6) EARLY INDIA AND PAKISTAN, TO ASHOKA
Wheeler, Mortimer

EARLY INDIA AND PAKISTAN, TO ASHOKA
NY: Praeger, 1959. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 241pp, index; 40pp illus from photographs, 7 maps. Traces Indo-Pakistani man up through the time of Emperor Ashoka in the third century B.C.E. Looks at the Indus Valley and Ganges Valley cultures, the South Indian megalithic tombs, etc. 8.25" x 5.75". more information

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