Search Results: Titles starting with D from Black Paw Books

Milan: Libri Schwewiller/Credito Italiano, 1980. Very Good/Very Good. Lavishly illustrated Italian language work. Heavy quarto, 768 pp. + index. Color illustrations. Tan cloth. From private collection. Dust jacket is a little edgeworn.

Hardcover. Very Good. Chinese language work. Title and author are based on Google translations; please see images for original Chinese. Heavy book. Unpaginated. In burgundy cloth binding. Clean, unmarked copy with errata sheet.

Boston: Dutton & Wentworth, 1853. Very Good. A small paper, neatly printed, containing the spirit of the news and incidents of the day to 2 pm." 22" high x 15" wide. Four pages with six columns of dense type per page. Light wear to edges of pages and small holes along creases.

Dutton & Wentworth, Proprietors, 1853. Good. Folio, 4 pages. With six columns of dense type. Creased and discolored with some wear along folds. Issue includes articles on yellow fever; city life; classified ads for board and lodging; railroads, real estate, and more.

Dr. A. Petermanns Mitteilungen aus Justus Perthes' Geographischer Anstalt, 1913. original folded map. Very Good. Original folded map entitled Das nach der "Ora maritima" Aviens rekonstruierte Audemündungsgebiet in seinem Verhältnis zu dem nächstfrüheren und dem heutigen Hauptentwicklungsstadium.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Harvard Theological Review, 1938. Softcover. Good. Three dates have been suggested for the celebration of the festival of Adonis at Athens, all of which have found adherents in recent years. Deubner, relying solely on the apparent evidence of vase-paintings, as interpreted by Hauser, placed the Adonia at the beginning of autumn. The only argument in favor of so late a date, that bunches of fresh grapes appeared in representations of the κῆποι 'Aδώνιδος' was disposed of by Nock, who pointed out that grapes were also kept until the feast of Choes, Anthesterion 12." Reprint from Harvard Theological Review, Volume 31 , Issue 1 , January 1938 , pp. 65 - 72. 8-page article in stapled wraps. From private collection. Handrwiting on upper wrap. Edges of text block show some creasing and bends.

Jacksonville, Illinois: Privately Printed, 2003. Hardcover. Fine. Self-published biography of Illinois lawyer and Lincoln friend David A. Smith. Octavo, 149 pp. Pictorial cloth binding. From the personal library of Pulitzer Prize-winning Lincoln biographer and historian David Herbert Donald. Inscribed by author to Donald on ffep. Clean, unmarked copy.

Kunsthalle Wurth, 2009. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Heavy book. Oblong octavo (10" tall x 13" wide). 231 pp. Lavishly illustrated in color throughout. Green cloth. From private collection. No ownership ink. Pages remain clean and bright; binding, tight. Minor rubbing to dust jacket, else Fine.

Self Published, 1993. Softcover. Very Good. Uncommon booklet features the works of Boston-are sculptor David Phillips. Square octavo, [18] pp. with color illustrations throughout, stapled wraps. From private collection. Sticker scuff on upper wrap.

London: Richard Blume [Blome], 1701. Very Good+. The Right Worshipfull Sr. John Bramston of Screens in the parish of Roxwell in Essex Knight of the Bath. For ye. Advancement of the Work contributed this Plate to which Patronage is humbly dedicated by Richard Blume." Original engraving. Penciled note indicates printing date is 1701. Mat measures 15" wide x 20" long; print, 8 1/4" x 13 1/2". Engraving is clean and sharp. Mat shows minor wear to corners and small nick to upper right-hand corner.

Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1903. Hardcover. Very Good. Scarce work by noted writer and leader in Philadelphia's movement for women's suffrage. Lowrie was a columnist for the Philadelphia Evening Ledger and a staff member of the Ladies' Home Journal. Octavo, 237 pp. Green cloth with profile of David gilt-stamped on front board. From private collection.

Islamabad, Pakistan: Kamran Publishing House, 1979. Softcover. Very Good. The first full-size view of the heinous drama of Pakistan's dismemberment, and the treachery which tore apart the world's fifth largest state." Scarce. Octavo, 129 pp. In wraps. From private collection. Wraps show some dings and scuffs.

London: no publisher or printer stated, 1710. Hardcover. Very Good. No printing stated. 8vo, [6], 194 pp. Rebound in 1971 by John Gray of Cambridge in quarter-leather over marbled boards with title gilt-stamped on spine. Previous owner's name printed on ffep. Light wear to edge of title page. Minor soiling to bottom edge of first couple of pages.

Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 1997. Hardcover. Good+/Very Good. Octavo, 455 pp. Black cloth. From the personal library of Pulitzer Prize-winning Lincoln biographer and historian David Herbert Donald. Top corner of approximately 30 pp. bumped. Pages remain clean and unmarked. In like dust jacket.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1956. Hardcover. Very Good. Scholarly work explores the disciplinary action of the Congregational churches of Massachusetts through 1830. Octavo, x, 379 pp. Light blue cloth. From the personal library of Pulitzer Prize-winning Lincoln biographer and historian David Herbert Donald. Donald's name stamped on ffep. Top corner of back board gently bumped. Lacks dust jacket.

Providence, Rhode Island: Students of Moses Brown School, Providence, RI, 1913. Softcover. Good+. Moses Brown School publication includes articles on Cape Cod Canal; Sancta Sophia in Constantinople; school notes; pictures of sports teams, etc. Includes articles on Cape Cod Canal; Sancta Sophia in Constantinople; school notes; pictures of sports teams, etc. Octavo, pp., 179-198 pp. + plates and advertisements. In wraps. From private collection. Wraps show a little wear along edges and crown of spine. One of the plates is loose. Pages remain clean and unmarked.

Societa per gli Studi Storici della Provincia Cuneo, 1994. Paperback. Very Good. Italian language work. Octavo, 497 pp. In wraps. Minor bump to crown of spine. Pages remain clean and unmarked; spine, uncreased.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2000. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Timothy Vogt directly challenges both the "antifascist" paradigm employed by East German historians and the "sovietization" interpretive model that has dominated western studies. He argues that Soviet denazification was neither an effective purge of society nor part of a methodical "sovietization" of the eastern zone." Octavo, 314 pp. Black cloth. From the personal library of Pulitzer Prize-winning Lincoln biographer and historian David Herbert Donald. No ownership ink or bookplates. Handsome copy in like dust jacket.

Kunstmuseum Bern, 1977. Softcover. Very Good. Kunstmuseum Bern Ausstellung 6. Juni - 28. August 1977. German language work. Octavo, 18 pp. In wraps. From private collection. Wraps show some soiling and are age-toned along edges.

Dr. A. Petermanns Mitteilungen aus Justus Perthes' Geographischer Anstalt, 1912. original folded map. Original folded color map entitled Der Salzgehalt an der Oberflaeche der Meere im Verhaeltnis zur Suesswasserzufuhr der Stromgebiete und zur Hoehe der Randgebirge by Paul Langhans (Dr. A. Petermanns Mitteilungen aus Justus Perthes' Geographischer Anstalt, 1912). Map is approximately 15 inches tall x 24 inches wide. Scale: 1:80,000,000. German language map showing salt content of surface water around the globe. Clean, unmarked map.