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New York: James M Campbell & Company. Fair with no dust jacket. 1843. Quarter-Leather. B0006AEQF4 . Two works of George Borrow's (The Zincali and The Bible in Spain) are bound with two works of Richard Whately's (The Errors of Romanism and The Kingdom of Christ Delineated) . The pages are heavily foxed. Cover is marbled boards, which are rubbed and have missing patches; spine and corners are calf; spine is misprinted "Barrow & Whatley. " Inside covers stained and have a little light writing. Interior is tightly bound but separated almost completely from binding. ; 8vo 8"-9" tall. .

His Majesty's Stationery Office. Second edition. Paperback. Good. Good condition.His Majesty's Stationery Office,1919.Second edition.Large format green paperback(the front and back cover are loose from the book,some marks on the cover) in GC.Illustrated with many colour maps.b/w photo of General Sir Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, Commander in Chief of The Egyptian Expeditionary Force(includes his printed signature).Clean pages but slightly tainted on the outer edges,some foxing marks inside the pages,small nicks,creases and ink marks on the edges of the pages,owner's name written on the edge of the second blank page of the book,a couple of the pages are loose from the cover.The book is in GC for its age but with some shelf wear.195pp including Glossary,a summary of the terms of the Turkish Armistice(as published) which came into force on Oct. 31, 1918.A collectable book.

44 pages. Octavo (8" x 6") issued in wrappers. Edited by Jose Fernando Ramirez. From the library of professor George M Foster. Biblioteca Aportacion Historica, second series. First edition limited to 100 copies of which this is number 57.With the fourth supply caravan, which left Mexico City in 1620 and arrived in New Mexico early in 1621, came fray Gerónimo Zárate Salmerón. Like all of the 250 or so Franciscans sent to New Mexico during the seventeenth century, Zárate Salmerón was not born in the province, although he was a native of the New World. His birthplace was Río Alvarado, south of Veracruz on the Gulf of Mexico coast, where he was born probably in the middle 1550s. The decade of his birth is inferred from the year of his profession as a priest at the Franciscan Convento Grande in Mexico City, 1579, and the usual minimum age of a new priest of 25. Fray Gerónimo was assigned as priest to the people of Jemez. He got to work almost immediately, founding the mission San José de… Read More

163-197 pages. Royal octavo (9" x6 3/4") issued in wrappers. From the library of George M Foster. Relaciones Geograficas del Siglo XVIII. First edition, limited to 100 copies of which this is number 96.Manuscripts collected by Franciso del Paso Troncoso. In the archives of the "Real Academia de Historia de Madrid" and "The Archives of the Indies of Seville."George McClelland Foster, Jr born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on October 9, 1913, died on May 18, 2006, at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, where he served as a professor from 1953 to his retirement in 1979, when he became professor emeritus. His contributions to anthropological theory and practice still challenge us; in more than 300 publications, his writings encompass a wide diversity of topics, including acculturation, long-term fieldwork, peasant economies, pottery making, public health, social structure, symbolic systems, technological change, theories of illness and wellness, humoral… Read More

Newark: New Jersey Historical Society, 1897. A gorgeous copy. Near Fine condition. SEE PHOTOS. Bright, shiny, clean, square, and tight. This is the rare 1897 FIRST PRINTING -- NOT the 1900 reprint with which it can easily be confused (see BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE below). Sharp corners. Inner hinges are perfect. Previous owner's name on the front free endpaper. Text pages are creamy white, fresh and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. With 27 illustrations (mostly steel engraved portraits, with tissue guards). This 1897 First Edition is bound in the original blue cloth, which still has much of its new book gloss. SEE PHOTOS. Shiny gilt lettering on the spine reads: Semi-Centennial Celebration, New Jersey Historical Society, 1895. Top edge gilt. Other edges uncut. The largest section of the book (pp. 15-152) is FIFTY YEARS OF HISTORICAL WORK IN NEW JERSEY by William Nelson (with several tissue-guarded, steel-engraved portraits). Also included are a bibliography… Read More

241 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5") bound in quarter leather with gilt lettering to spine over stiff boards. First edition.In the mid 1800's Mexico's population was forty percent Indian. Most had a subsistence economy which was out side the nation's main stream, and condemned the native population to poverty and malnutrition. The Mexican government began to divide the communal lands of the Indians into farms (ejidos), which they opposed. Liberals, such as Pimentel, thought that the Indian was an obstacle to progress of the nation. The Mexican intellectuals thought one of the best ways to integrate the natives was to encourage European immigration and to eliminate the indigenous languages. Pimentel in his Political economy applied to landed property in Mexico (1866) asked "Who is to blame for this laziness, improvidence and squandering of our poor class?" To which he answered the same day Indian laborer. Two years earlier Pimentel's Report on the causes that have led to the current situation of the… Read More

Cincinnati: Cohen & Co., 1882. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 328pp; Original blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, embossed decoration to boards, wear to spine ends & corners of boards, hinges professionally repaired, text unmarked, binding is tight, Good condition. Early history of Mill Creek Valley, Ohio. Contains "facts, incidents and anecdotes illustrating the toils and privations, as well as the manners and customs of the earlier settlers, also pen-portraits of the villages, suburban residences, and other improvements designed to show the growth and development of the valley." Illustrated.

Alfred A. Knopf, New York,, 1930. HBDJ, 1930, 1st edition, Second printing dated August 1930 (first was in July) VG/VG, decorative cloth boards, "W. E. DuBois Prize Edition" on the DJ front panel, DJ price-clipped with edgewear. Illustrated green & brown chains with Red Lettering ,This work celebrates the social and cultural history of the black community in Manhattan from the year 1626 to the 1920s. author was a promoter of the Harlem Renaissan ce. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

London: Tim. Childe, 1704. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 volumes: [18], 494, [10] p., engraved frontispiece; [16], 405, [15] p., engraved frontispiece; 20 cm. Contemporary blind-tooled and speckled Cambridge-style binding with six spine compartments between raised bands. Leather label in second compartment of each volume with gilt-tooled title. Gilt-tooled decoration on other compartments. Green ribbon book markers. The frontispieces state: "London Printed for Tim: Childe." Vol. 1 title page states: "The Second Edition, very much Augmented and Improv'd." Vol. 2 imprint includes: "Oxford, Printed by Leon. Lichfield, for Timothy Childe . . . 1704." Includes indices. Armorial bookplate on front fixed endpaper of each volume of "The Honbl. George Baillie Esqr. one of the Lords of the Treasury," engraved by A. Johnston. George Baillie (1664-1738) was a member of the Parliament of Scotland from 1691 to 1707 and supported union with England; he sat in the… Read More

This is Number 653 of a Limited Edition of 999 copies of a Two Volume Boxed Set. It is bound in pictorial boards depicting an old manuscript.The slipcase is also pictorial, depicting and old city. The book contains a former owner's pictorial bookplate on the front endsheet, and is in otherwise Fine Condition. The text is in German.
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New York: The Masonic History Company, 1906. Hardcover. Very Good-. 8" x 11" Hardcover; 287pp; Brown textured boards with gilt titling & emblems to spine, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, tissue guards for plates intact, spine rubbed, wear to corners of boards, pages slightly age-toned, text unmarked, binding is sound, VG- condition. Large antique tome, fifth volume only of seven-volume history of Freemasonry. With many illustrations.

Great Salt Lake City: Elias Smith, 1862. Two nearly complete bound volumes of the venerable Salt Lake City paper, 104 issues in all: Volume XII, Nos. 1 - 52, July 2, 1862 to June 24, 1863 and Volume XIII, Nos. 1-52; July 1, 1863 to September 21, 1864. By this time, the paper had settled in Salt Lake City after the 'Utah War', news was arriving by telegraph, and the paper was issued regularly, except when paper shortages or other unexplained problems caused brief interruptions, as when No. 22, December 16, 1863 jumps to No. 23, March 2, 1864. Scarce original documentation of LDS history & commentary, including local, national, and international news, disasters, agricultural ideas, human interest stories, Presidential addresses, Civil War accounts, local ads, correspondence, LDS notes & lectures. Volume 12 is bound in hardcover, worn half black calf over pebbled boards, corners chipped & frayed, loss to spine ends, rear board creased - not a period, I think, but perhaps later… Read More

A departmental history, prepared and published by the Schenectady NY City Fire Department. Captain Carl Derwig, editor.
Large format hardcover (12x9) with faux leather embossed boards. 148 pages of photos and text.
Condition of the book is Near Fine, with no significant condition issues.
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Personal copy of John Burrough's signed by him to front fly. Light green cloth with silver detailing. Top edge gilt. Wear to head of spine (see image), but otherwise a clean copy with no defacements.
4.25 x 6.75 in

London: Macmillan Caribbean, 1974. Trade Paperback. 1990 reprint. Fine. Unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. vi + 218 pages.
Contents : The first Guyanese; The Discovery of Guiana; The search for El Dorado; The European Settlement; The Introduction of sugar and slaves; The first English Invasion; The Buccaneers; The Development of Essequibo and Berbice; The Rise Demerara; The return of the English; The French occupation; The Third English Invasion; The final English Invasion; The Abolition of slavery; Negro villages and Immigration; Making Guyana a modern state; The boundaries of Guyana From Colony to co-operative republic.