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nd c. 1950. Read More Item Details for 18 Watercolors of Italian costume design, tipped on to stiff card labeled on back on one Gitta Rinaldo Rossi Via G. Verdi 44 e 45 Napoli Add to Wish List
Item #236639
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np: n.d.d but after 1840 (?). The group includes a darkely lit night scene titled "A Village Tragedy" in which a tiger has struck down a man; a scene in which a large horned animal looms over a man hanging from a cliff's edge is titled "A Choice of Evils";..... Read More Item Details for 7 original drawings of Indian hunt scenes Add to Wish List
Item #314990
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Manchester: Richard Johnson, Printer, Brook Strreet, 1894. First edition. Read More Item Details for A, B, & C's Little Trip: Pleasant Recollections of a Holiday in Holland and Belgium. Narrated by "C." With "A's" Compliments Add to Wish List
Item #63103
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Brunswick, Maine: Nov., 2, 1858. "Your favor of Nov. 6 I have just rec'd. I regret very much that I have no autograph of the Emperor and have never had any. While in Europe I received some notes from distinguished men but they have long since passed into the hands..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter, signed ("John S.C. Abbot") to Mr. Edward Brown Houghton Add to Wish List
Item #237692
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[N.p., Constantinople? ca. 1914]. Striking Ottoman map of North America at the edge of the first world war. The Panama Canal is indicated on the map and legend. Read More Item Details for [Ottoman Map of North America, titled in Arabic script: Shamali Amriqa] Add to Wish List
Item #257092
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Aberdeen, (Scotland): Printed for the Third Spalding Club, 1929. First edition. Read More Item Details for Bibliographica Aberdonensis: Being an Account of Books Relating to or Printed in the Shires of Aberdeen, Banff, Kincardine or written by Natives or Residents or by Officers Graduates or Alumni of the Universities of Aberdeen Add to Wish List
Item #217886
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London: W.H. Allen & Co, 1882. New (Second) Edition, Revised and corrected by the author (first published in 1880). A chapter on "The Shikarry." All were issued by Vanity Fair. Read More Item Details for Twenty-one Days in India, or the Tour of Sir Ali Baba, K.C.B Add to Wish List
Item #314698
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[Washington, D.C: Issued by the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia, 1958]. With a portrait of King Saud, who acceded to the throne in 1953 upon the death of his father Abul Aziz Ibn Saud, a map, and numerous illustrations documenting development in the country since the second world war. Omar..... Read More Item Details for The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Add to Wish List
Item #258099
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London: R. Ackermann, 101, Strand, 1820. First edition, early issue, with the plates unnumbered. One of Ackermann’s most breathtaking color plate books — these exquisite views of the Rhine are justly prized for their matchless beauty. Read More Item Details for A Picturesque Tour Along the Rhine, from Mentz to Cologne: With Illustrations of the Scenes of Remarkable Events, and of Popular Traditions …Translated from the German by John Black Add to Wish List
Item #12893
Price: $900
London: W. Thacker & Co, 1899. First edition. “An excellent work of high mountain sport” (Czech). Read More Item Details for A Summer in High Asia. Being a Record of Sport and Travel in Baltistan and Ladakh. [At head of title:] The Big Game of Baltistan and Ladakh Add to Wish List
Item #317156
Price: $450
N. P: [1963]. From the library of Henry Cabot Lodge who was one on the contributors to this collection. The magazine “Der Spiegel” produced a special issue to honor Chancelor Adenauer on his retirement. This notebook contains facsimiles of the contributions. The contributors are Harold Macmillan, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Alfons..... Read More Item Details for Abschied Von Konrad Adenauer. 42 Briefe Add to Wish List
Item #26198
Price: $325
London: Methuen, 1898. "The Matablele Rebellion which broke out in March 1896 had spread by June to Mashonaland. While the Matabele Relief under Col. Plumer went into action a force of Mounted Infantry originally sent from Britain to serve in Matabeleland arrived in Mashonaland for a five-month campaign to subdue..... Read More Item Details for With the Mounted Infantry and the Mashonaland Field Force 1896 Add to Wish List
Item #317021
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London: Printed for T. Egerton, Military Library, Whitehall, 1809. Sixth edition, Corrected and considerably improved. at p. 6 of ads this edition offered at 4s 6d. Read More Item Details for The Bombardier and the Pocket Gunner Add to Wish List
Item #366516
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London: The Tactiks of Aelian or Art of Embattailing an Arm, 1616. First Edition in English, In this Earliest state the contents begin on p. 5. The Tactiks of Aelian is a handbook of Greek, i.e. Macedonian, drill and tactics as practiced by the Hellenistic successors of Alexander the Great..... Read More Item Details for The Tactiks of Aelian or Art of Embattailing an Army After Ye Grecian Manner. Englished and Illustrated with Figures Throughout: and Notes upon Ye Chapters of Ye Ordinary Motions of Ye Phalange. [Translator’s dedication signed: Io: Bingham.] Add to Wish List
Item #366444
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Belfast, [Maine]: Wing & Moore, 1852. First edition. The publisher, Wing & Moore, also published the Belfast, Maine newspaper, the 'Republican Journal,' in 1849; George B. Moore served as editor of the newspaper (from 1849-1861). Read More Item Details for The Aeriel Cruise; or The Dream of A Voluntary Exile. A Holyday Recreation. [A Poem] By Mr. Dionysius Quill [pseudonym of George B. Moore?] Add to Wish List
Item #325010
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[Constantinople (Istanbul): Dār al-Ṭibāʻah al-ʻAmirah, A.H. 1219 = 1804 C.E.]. Read More Item Details for [Tarih-i Vâsif] Mehasin el-âsâr ve-hakayik el-ahbâr Add to Wish List
Item #371059
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Paris: Marcel Seheur, 1933. Number 684. The artsist was Jewish, Ukrainian 1894-1962). The book is inscribed to the Weslers by the artist in 1950. Read More Item Details for L'Art Et La Vie: Mane-Katz Add to Wish List
Item #267597
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Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co. Bombay: Thacker & Co., Limited. London: W. Thacker & Co, 1890. Third Edition. Behind the scenes of colonial life in India, originally published in the TIMES OF INDIA-with advice for "Engaging a Boy," and portraits of "Domingo, the Cook," Hurree, the Dirzee," "That Dhobie," etc...... Read More Item Details for Behind the Bungalow Add to Wish List
Item #236658
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Madrid: Imprenta y Libreria de Gaspar y Roig, 1860. Early edition (Title pages dated 1859 have been seen but the text includes events of 1860). Author and playwright de Alarcon had enlisted in the Spanish army following a failed production in 1857; he wrote this important account of the Spanish..... Read More Item Details for Diario de un Testigo de la Guerra de Africa ... Con Vistas de Batallas, de Ciudades y Paisajes, Tipos, Trajes y Monumentos, con el Retrato del Autor y de los Principales Personajes Copiados de Fotografias y Croquis Ejecutados en el Memo Teatro de la Guerra Add to Wish List
Item #354208
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Flushing, Long Island: [Marion Press], 1924. Copy #X of 50 copies. Printed at the Marion Press. Inscribed on the colophon page to Thomas A. Larremore April 2/26 from the printer Frank E. Hopkins. Larremore was the bibliographer of the Marion Press. “A very interesting journal with sketch maps and drawings..... Read More Item Details for Frances Lake, Yukon. Dawson 1887 Hunter 1923 Add to Wish List
Item #313772
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Washington, D.C: Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1867. First edition. Sumner's important speech in support of the ratification oof the treaty with Russia which ceded what would become Alaska to the U.S. Sometimes found with a large folding map by Lindenkpohl, though it was not issued with the speech..... Read More Item Details for Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts, on the Cession of Russian America to the United States Add to Wish List
Item #319700
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Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1885. First edition. Read More Item Details for Report of the International Polar Expedition to Point Barrow, Alaska, in Reponse to the Resolution of the House of Representatives of December 11, 1884 Add to Wish List
Item #232938
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Osborne: 11August 1855. Phipps, as private secretary to Prince Albert, responds to the invitation of Gourlie and Anderson to attend the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science as the Prince and the Queen will have just “arrived in the Highlands for a short period of rest..... Read More Item Details for ALS to William Gourlie and Thomas Anderson Add to Wish List
Item #27396
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1843. Rare - the plate for this print remained private and was never used for a published edition. Read More Item Details for “A nun and a small peasant girl” entitled "From a Watercolour Sketch by E. Landseer" Add to Wish List
Item #14355
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nd c. Read More Item Details for Album of Japanese 8 hand-coloured photographs and 14 others mostly Mexican including birds eye view of the city of Zacatecas, Statues of Guitlahuac, Hotel del Jardin, water carere, La Viga tipped into an album Add to Wish List
Item #320430