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An Abridgement of the Book of Martyrs; To Which Are Prefixed, the Living Testimonies of the Church of God

NY: Samuel Wood, 1810. First edition. Full leather. Published NY: Samuel Wood, 1810. 8vo., 5 1/2" x 8 1/2", frontis+603pp., plus 13pp. list of subscriber's names. Full calf with red leather spine label, gilt titles. Front fly leaf lacking, f...

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$225.00

Time, Space, and Knowledge: A New Vision of Reality (Nyingma Psychology Series) by Tarthang Tulku

Emeryville, CA: Dharma Pub, 1977. First edition. Original hard cover edition. Published Emeryville, CA: Dharma Pub, 1977, first printing. 8vo., xli+307pp., illustrated with color plates and b/w drawings. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine titles and cover des...

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$1,500.00

A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES by Stevenson, Robert Louis

NY: David McKay, 1926. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth. Published NY: David McKay, 1926, first printing. Oblong 4to., 9 1/8" x 11 1/2", 89pp., illustrated by H. Willebeek Le Mair with 12 full page color plates, b/w pictorial endpape...

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$175.00

Textbook Of Small Arms 1929 by War Office

London: H.M.S.O, 1929. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth. Published London: Boston: H.M.S.O, 1929, first printing with corrigenda slip tipped in. 4to., 7 3/8" x 11." viii+427+21 pp., illustrated with b/w plates and drawings, some fold-...

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$175.00

Knight's Pictorial Gallery of Arts. Vol 1. Useful Arts, Illustrated with Steel Engravings and Nearly Four Thousand Woodcuts by KNIGHT, Charles

London: The London Printing and Publishing Company Disbound. Published London and NY: The London Printing and Publishing Company, no date, circa 1850's. Folio, 10 1/2" x 14", xl+404pp., full page steel engravings and nearly 4,000 woodcuts, m...

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$105.00

Das Ehrenbuch Des Führers. Der Weg zur Volksgemeinschaft by Heinz Haake, Reichsinspekteur der NSDAP (Herausgeber)

Düsseldorf: Floeder-Verlag, 1934. DeLuxe first edition. Bound in red paneled leather with gilt spine and cover titles in Fraktur, top edge gilting. Published Düsseldorf: Floeder-Verlag, 1934. 4to., 8 1/4" x 11", 319pp., illustrated wit...

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$995.00

Glimpses of Fifty Years: The Autobiography of an American Woman by Willard, Frances E

Chicago: Woman's Temperance Publication Association / H.J. Smith & Co., 1889. First edition. Leather and cloth Salesman's Sample. Published Chicago: Woman's Temperance Publication Association / H.J. Smith & Co., 1889. 8vo., approximat...

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$195.00

The Armies of the First French Republic and the Rise of the Marshals of Napoleon (4 Volumes) by Phipps, Colonel Ramsay Weston

London: Oxford Univ Pr, 1926. Four volume set. First editions in original cloth. Published London: Oxford Univ Press, 1926 - 1935, first printings. 8vo.'s, 6" x 9", illustrated with numerous fold-out maps (all present). Dark blue cloth with ...

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$725.00

Social Life In Egypt - A Description of the Country and Its People by Poole, Stanley Lane

London: J.S. Virtue & Co. Full tooled leather. Published London: J.S. Virtue & Co., n.d. (c.1880's) Folio, 10 1/2" x 13 1/2". 136 pp.+2pp index, title page printed in black and red, all edge gilt, illustrated with 5 full-page steel ...

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$295.00

The Fractal Geometry of Nature by Mandelbrot, Benoit

San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1982. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1982. First printing. 4to., 8 1/4" x 9 1/4", 461pp., illustrated with color plates and b/w reproduction...

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$750.00

God and Man at Yale (Signed) by Buckley, William F

Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1951. Signed first edition. Hard cover in original cloth. Author's first book. Published Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1951, first printing. 8vo., xix+240pp. Dark blue cloth with gilt titles. Inscribed in red ink by author on...

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$275.00

LE PITTURE DELLE CATACOMBE ROMANE -Testo by Wilpert, Giuseppe

Rome: Desclee, Lefebvre & C., 1903. Testo only. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth and boards. Published Rome: Desclee, Lefebvre & C., 1903. Folio, 12" x 16", xix+549pp., illustrated with 54 reproductions within the text. Text i...

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$1,595.00

Vanished Towers and Chimes of Flanders by Edwards, George Wharton

Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1916. First edition. Hard cover in original pictorial cloth. Published Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1916, first printing. Small 4to., 8 1/2" x 11", 212pp., illustrated with 30 full page, t...

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$135.00

Nutcracker by Hoffmann, E. T. A.; Sendak, Maurice

NY: Crown Publishers, 1984. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Crown, 1984, first printing. Square 4to., 10 1/4" x 10 1/4", xviii+102pp., illustrated throughout with color pictures by Maurice Sendak. Embossed dark blue cloth...

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$100.00

SANCTI GREGORII PAPAEI COGNOMENTO MAGNI OPERA OMNIA (17 Vols) by Pope Gregory

Venice: Sumptibus Caroboli, et Pompeati, 1768. Complete 17 volume set, bound in 16 leather folios. First editions. Published Venice: Sumptibus Caroboli, et Pompeati, 1768-1776. Folios, 8 3/4" x 12", full calf skin vellum with gilt embossed spine...

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$5,750.00