Search Results: Titles starting with N from Black Paw Books

Lisboa: M.L. Torres, 1919. Hardcover. Very Good. Scarce work by Portuguese writer, statesman, and President of the First Portuguese Republic, Teofilo Braga. Octavo, 39 pp. Quarter-leather over paper-covered boards. Library stamp of Portuguese statesman Agostinho Fortes (1869-1940) on title page. Leather shows heavy wear along crown of spine and boards' corners are rubbed. Pages are a little agetoned, but remain clean and unmarked.

Zagreb: Alpine Assoication of Croatia, 1956. Hardcover. Very Good. Bound 1956 volume year of Croatian language mountaineering journal Naše planine. Octavo, 355 pp. Green buckram cloth binding. Volume is part of a large collection of publications that were deaccessioned from the Appalachian Mountain Club library in Boston and acquired by Cambridge bookdealer Jeffrey Worrall. If they generate interest, we will list more. Bound volume is clean and unmarked. No institutional stamps or markings.

Gaetano Macchiaroli editore, 1985. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. NAPOLI ha una bibliografia sterminata e ricca di buoni libri antichi e moderni; eppure spesso mi son trovato in difficoltà quando un cliente della libreria - lettore o visitatore, italiano o straniero - mi ha chiesto di suggerirgli un'opera in un solo volume, non tanto per conoscere singoli monumenti di Napoli o periodi della sua storia, ma per intendere la globalità della sua vicenda. Italian language book. Oblong quarto, 474 pp. Illustrated throughout. Gray cloth. From private collection. Pages remain clean and bright. In clean dust jacket.

University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994. Hardcover. Very Good. From private collection. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Pages remain clean and unmarked; binding, tight. No dust jacket, if issued.

Boston: Pettingill & Company, 1901. Hardcover. Very Good. A complete directory of the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States; showing the name; frequency of issue and days of publication; class; year established; number and size of pages; subscription price; publisher's name and the circulation of each." Heavy quarto. 792 pp. + index and numerous publisher's advertisements. Decorative blue cloth. Binding is a little shaken and shows rubbing to spine ends and edges. Name marked out on ffep.

National Academy of Design, 1917. Softcover. Good. This listing includes the following two catalogues: National Academy of Design Ninety-First Annual Exhibition (1916) and Ninety-Second Annual Exhibition (1917). Vose Galleries embossed stamp on title page of 1917 volume. Wraps show call letters and stamps. Checkmarks and brief notations in pencil throughout.

London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd, 1910. Hardcover. Very Good. Scarce work by English author and Indian Civil Servant William Lee-Warner. First Edition Thus (originally published in 1894 under the title The Protected Princes of India.) No original copies of this work are available for sale at time of listing. Octavo, 425 pp. Red cloth. Rubbing to edge of binding; corners gently bumped. Bookplate on front pastedown; name printed on ffep.

Washington, DC: Naval History Division, Department of the Navy, 1970. Hardcover. Very Good. Volume 5 in the book series Naval Documents of the American Revolution. Drawing on more than 22,000 documents from American, British, French, and Spanish perspectives, this monumental publishing project aimed to document the naval aspects of the American Revolution through the collection and publication of primary source materials. Heavy octavo. xxviii, 1486 pp. Blue cloth. From private collection. Edges of book block show some smudges and soiling from shelf wear.

Washington, DC: Naval History Division, Department of the Navy, 1972. Hardcover. Very Good. Volume 6 in the book series Naval Documents of the American Revolution. Drawing on more than 22,000 documents from American, British, French, and Spanish perspectives, this monumental publishing project aimed to document the naval aspects of the American Revolution through the collection and publication of primary source materials. Heavy octavo. xxvi, 14641pp. Blue cloth. From private collection. Edges of book block and cloth show a little soiling from shelf wear. Minor ding to top corner of last few pages.

Washington, DC: Naval History Division, Department of the Navy, 1976. Hardcover. Very Good. Volume 7 in the book series Naval Documents of the American Revolution. Drawing on more than 22,000 documents from American, British, French, and Spanish perspectives, this monumental publishing project aimed to document the naval aspects of the American Revolution through the collection and publication of primary source materials. Heavy octavo. xxii, 1463 pp. Blue cloth. From private collection. Ding along bottom edge of upper board. Edges of book block show some smudges and soiling from shelf wear.

Washington, DC: Naval History Division, Department of the Navy, 1968. Hardcover. Very Good. Volume 3 in the book series Naval Documents of the American Revolution. Drawing on more than 22,000 documents from American, British, French, and Spanish perspectives, this monumental publishing project aimed to document the naval aspects of the American Revolution through the collection and publication of primary source materials. Heavy octavo. xxxii, 1486 pp. Blue cloth. From private collection. Previous owner's name printed on half-title page.

Washington, DC: Naval History Division, Department of the Navy, 1980. Hardcover. Very Good. Volume 8 in the book series Naval Documents of the American Revolution. Drawing on more than 22,000 documents from American, British, French, and Spanish perspectives, this monumental publishing project aimed to document the naval aspects of the American Revolution through the collection and publication of primary source materials. Heavy octavo. xx, 1184 pp. Blue cloth. From private collection. Stamping on spine lightly faded., Small ding to bottom edge of upper board. Edges of text block show some smudges and soiling from shelf wear.

Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1963. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo, xxviii, 390 pp. With map and black & white plates. Blue cloth. From the personal library of Pulitzer Prize-winning Lincoln biographer and historian David Herbert Donald. Pages are clean and unmarked; dust jacket shows some foxing and minor edgewear.

Albany, CA: Mountain Travel, 1976. Very Good. Work by the Medical Research Director of the Himalayan Rescue Association on acute mountain sickness. Scarce. Octavo, 34 pp. Stapled wraps. Wraps show minor soiling with sticker scuff on back.

Deys Publishing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Bengali language book. Octavo, 206 pages. Paper-covered boards. Dust jacket shows light edgewear. From private collection.

Munich: Verlag der Koeniglich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1916. Softcover. Very Good. Max Schlosser (1854 - 1932) was a noted paleontologist and professor at the University of Munich. This scholarly work details the discovery and study of various fossil mammal specimens found in the Eichstätt region of Germany. It includes descriptions and illustrations of the fossils, as well as analyses of their anatomical features and evolutionary significance. German language work. Quarto, 78 pp. + 6 Tafeln. In wraps. Single institutional stamp on upper wrap deaccessioned with additional "cancelled" stamp. Many of the leaves remain unopened.

Washington, DC: Office of the Surgeon General, Department of the Army, 1973. Hardcover. Very Good. Volume in the official history of the Medical Department of the US Army in World War II. Scarce work focuses on the prevention and treatment of neuropsychiatric casualties in overseas theatrers and in the Army Air Force during World War II. Octavo (26 cm), xxxvi, 1140 pp : illustrations, 1 plan, portraits. Maroon buckram binding. Bottom corners gently bumped. Small scuff on front free endpaper.

Micah Publishing, 1998. Softcover. Good+. Inscribed by author to previous owner. Octavo, 127 pages. In wraps. Small faint stain to for-edge of book block (minor point). Sticker scuff on upper wrap.

The Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1927. Hardcover. Multi-volume history provides a detailed account of New Hampshire's past, exploring its development, economy, culture, and the lives of its inhabitants. The work has come to be considered an authoritative source on the history and heritage of the Granite State. Five volume set. Quarto. Illustrated. In green cloth binding. From private collection. Cloth is starting to show a little wear along spine ends. No ownership ink. Bindings remain tight. Last volume shows ding along top edge of upper board.

1758. Very Good. The chief design of this book, is to introduce our youth to the knowledge of the history of their native country. However, though it be calculated more immediately for their use, it yet may be of service to those grown persons, who, being strangers to English history, are desirous of acquainting themselves with it." Author(s) is not stated, but attributed to John Lockman by the Bodleian library. 12mo (6.5"tall) [4], 269, [1] pages, 32 leaves of plates : illustrations (copper engravings). Leather binding. From private collection of Frederick A. Hagar. Book has been rebacked and endpapers replaced. 1817 gift inscription from Charlotte Stillwell to John Stanton Gould. Dates written in arabic numerals on title page. Front flyleaf chipped and worn. Pages show some minor foxing.