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Paris: Didot, 1784. One of 200 copies on papier vélin. One in a series of works of French... Read More about Discours sur l'Histoire Universelle … Depuis le Commencement du Monde Jusqu’a...
Price: $2,500
![Item #54947 Generalites d'Amiens. [Atlas]. Amiens, Louis Charles Desnos](/images/noimage.png)
Paris: Desnos, 1764. Read More about Generalites d'Amiens. [Atlas
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London: Published by William Miller, Albemarle Street and Edmund Lloyd, Harley Street, 1810. First Edition, Including a list of subscribers and half-title. Read More about Tunbridge Wells and Its Neighbourhood, Illustrated by a Series of Etchings and Historuical...
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Ashby-De-La-Zouch; (Vols. XXII & XXIII) Ipswich: S.H. Cowell, 1855-1889. “The object of the Society is to delineate remains of Antiquity; e.g. ancient Ecclesiastical, Military, and Domestic Edifices, Sepulchral Monuments, Fonts, Brasses, Stained Glass, Tiles, Armour, Dress, Jewellry, Plate Embroidery, Furniture, Carvings, Illuminstions of ancient MSS, Copies of rare Prints, Portraits..... Read More about Anastatic Drawing Society, for the years 1855-57, and 1860. The Ilam Anastatic Drawing Society,...
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New York: Printed by G. & E. Waite, No. 64, Maiden-Lane, 1804. Anderson, Alexander. First American edition. The first American edition of a classic work, with the cuts re-engraved (usually in reverse) from the original Bewick edition. Dr. Alexander Anderson (1775-1870) was America’s first wood engraver. Pomeroy identifies the fourth..... Read More about A General History of Quadrupeds. The Figures engraved on wood chiefly copied from the original of...
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London: Chapman and Hall, 1887. First Edition. Read More about Twenty-Five Years in a Waggon in the Gold Regions of Africa
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Allahabad: The Pioneer Press, 1921. “I simply write from twenty years’ experience of the ‘Galloping Game,’ and the hope that my few remarks may benefit the novice and make him realise that ‘unselfishness, self-effacement, and playing for the side’ counts as much in polo as they did i nthe Great..... Read More about Hints on Polo and the Care of Polo Ponies in India
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Dublin: printed for Messrs. P. Wogan, P. Byrne, and J. Moore, 1797. First Irish Editionwith half title. Read More about Essays Relating to Agriculture and Rural Affairs
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London: Rivingtons, Waterloo Place, 1856. Second Edition. Read More about The History of the Church of England in the Colonies and Foreign Dependencies of the British Empire
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n.p. [Edinburgh? 1725?]. First edition. Rare and Early British Bibliography. Rare, anonymously published bibliography of approximately 350 works on British history. Attributed by the British Library to James Anderson, writer to the Signet and noted Scottish genealogist and antiquarian. Divided into fifteen sections, it lists works printed between 1480 (Caxton's..... Read More about Libri de Rebus Britannicis, scilicet, Anglicis, Scoticis et Hibernicis
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Capetown: Howard Timmins, 1963. First Edition. Inscribed "To Charlie (Engelhard) As a souvenir of the interview at which I was present. Van S 16.8. 1963 Johannesburg." With an article on Engelhard at p. 149-155. Read More about "...And so they Talked"
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London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, [1967]. First edition. Sixth of Anderson's books. Read More about The Tiger Roars
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New York: 1966. The third of five issues published (the fourth was a double issue), this volume is dedicated to "A Vietnam Assemblage," published during the early days of the Vietnam War. The cover was designed by Andy Warhol with perforated glue-backed yellow stickers, each featuring the text "BOMB HANOI"..... Read More about Some/Thing: A Vietnam Assemblage [Volume Two, Number One, Winter 1966; Andy Warhol "Bomb...
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London: Joseph Smith [James Bullock, Printer], 1828. An abridged edition of "The Gentleman Angler" first published in 1726. This edition simplified for novices in the art. The editor describes this edition: "I have omitted all superfluous niceties, descriptions and opinions of the ancients, choosing to come immediately to the point..... Read More about The Angler's Guide containing Easy Instructions for the Youthful Beginner with Several...
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Edinburgh: John Mosman and William Brown, 1728. Public General Acts. 1721. 7 Geo.I.c.7. LAW. The 1728 Edinburgh printing of a 1722 act to promote the manufacture of wool by prohibiting the wearing of printed or dyed cotton or its use in upholstery and window curtains. The penalty for noncompliance was..... Read More about Anno septimo Georgii Regis I. An Act to preserve and encourage the Woollen and Silk Manufactures...
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c.1908. RARE PHOTOGRAPHS OF NORTH CHINA. An excellent group of images documenting a tour though the little known, and rarely photographed, mining districts of northern China. The photographer was likely attached to the Anglo-French Quicksilver and Mining Concession which had claims in the Guizhou province. Among the photographs is an..... Read More about Bound volume containing 48 original photographs of mining activities in northern China, and...
Price: $6,000
Bombay: Conservator of Forests, 1945 (with renewals to 1948). A rare piece of ephemera; licenses such as this dictated the range that could be hunted, as well as the species (Bison, Sambhar and Cheetah) and the number of animals and their sex (bulls or stags only). Read More about Hunting License of Dr. H.B. Martin, District Medical Officer, MJSM Railway
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Paris: Jean-Th. Hérissant, 1770. Second edition. "Réimprimé plusieurs fois ... avec le nom de l'auteur. L'Abbé de Saint-Léger a fourni ê l'auteur une grande partie de la notice raisonnée des ouvrages, insérée en tête du premier volume, et il m'a dit plusieurs fois que cet estimable ouvrage avait été composé..... Read More about l'Esprit de la Ligue, ou histoire politique des troubles de la Ligue pendant les XVI et XVII...
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Dublin: William Folds, 1818. Read More about The Voyage of Commodore Anson round the World
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London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1767. Fourth edition. Read More about The New Bath Guide: or, Memoirs of the B-n-r-d Family in a series of Poetical Epistles
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[Southbury, CT: Gretchen E. Engel], 1971. First Edition. Very unusual in hardcover. Inscribed to Bill Wigton by the author. Read More about Though Memory Plays Me False. A Story of Anticosti. The St. Lawrence River Isle of Enchantment,...
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New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1916. First American edition. This first issue incorrectly attributes the poem `Trojan War, 1915' at p. 104 to J. Wareham instead to Arthur H. Adams. Sir W. R. Birdwood wrote in the Introduction: "When I took over the command of the Australian and New Zealand..... Read More about The Anzac Book. Written and illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac. For the Benefit of...
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The American Federation for Polish Jews, [1943. First Edition. Read More about The Black Book of Polish Jewry. An Account of the Martyrdom of Polish Jewry under the Nazi...
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London: Walter Spiers, New Sporting Magazine Office, 309, Oxford Street, 1838. First edition. Read More about Nimrod's Northern Tour, Descriptive of the Principal Hunts in Scotland and Northern England
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Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood, 1927. First Edition, one of 250 deluxe copies, #206. Read More about My Life and Times By Nimrod (Charles James Apperley) edited with additions by E.D. Cuming
Price: $150