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The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament and the New. Newly Translated Out of the Originall Greek; and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, By His Majesties Special Command; Appointed to be Read in Churches. Bible. English. Geneva, Printer Robert Barker.

The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament and the New. Newly Translated Out of the Originall Greek; and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, By His Majesties Special Command; Appointed to be Read in Churches.

Bible. English. Geneva. (Robert Barker, Printer).

London: Robert Barker and Assigns John Bill, 1634. Quarto. . Black letter in double columns. General and New Testament titles within woodcut historiated border. This copy is a variant not noted by Herbert. Both title pages state translated out of "Original Greek" rather than "Originall Tongues" and as in [Herbert... More

Price: $4,500.00 save 10% $4,050.00

Navy Register of the Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the Navy of the United States Including the Officers of the Marine Corps for the Year 1834. U S. Navy Department.

Navy Register of the Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the Navy of the United States Including the Officers of the Marine Corps for the Year 1834

U.S. Navy Department

Washingon, DC: Globe Office By F.P. Blair, 1834. 12mo. 95 pages. Begins with Office of the Secretary of the Navy, Navy Commissioners, Captains, Master Commandant, Lieutenants. a number of pencil corrections as to new appointments, pasted in are two sheets one for the Frigate Potomac, another noting a printed announcement... More

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Chattanooga and Chickamauga: Reprint of Gen. H.V. Boynton's Letters to the Cincinnati Commerical Gazette, August 1888, 2nd Ed with Corrections. Henry V. Boynton, Gen.

Chattanooga and Chickamauga: Reprint of Gen. H.V. Boynton's Letters to the Cincinnati Commerical Gazette, August 1888, 2nd Ed with Corrections

Boynton, (Gen.) Henry V.

Washington, D.C. G.R. Gray, Printer, 1891. Octavo. 2nd edition with corrections. 54 pages. Still one of the best firsthand accounts of the campaign. There was an 1888 edition but the map was wrong. First, it left off that Forrest's Cavalry was just above Reed's Bridge. Second, it had both Vanderveer... More

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African American, John H. Williams, Proof he Was Not a Slave. John H. Williams.

African American, John H. Williams, Proof he Was Not a Slave

Williams, John H. (1775-1841)

2 pages, autographed letter signed, Notarized on February 4, 1799 by Clement Biddle testifying that John Williams was a free born black man age 24, describes scars, lost toes, signed with an "X" testified by George Houston that he was born in Kent county, Delaware. Verso of document addressed: John Williams, December 1812. More

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A Treatise on Military Surgery and Hygiene, Illustrated with 127 Engravings. Frank Hastings Hamilton.

A Treatise on Military Surgery and Hygiene, Illustrated with 127 Engravings

Hamilton, Frank Hastings

New York: Bailliere Brothers, 1865. First Edition. Octavo. viii, 648 pages. The author's much smaller work (A Practical Treatise on Military Surgery) was used by both sides in the early days of the Civil War. As the war near its ending this massive and far larger work not only added... More

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Le Petit Neptune Francais; or, French Coasting Pilot for the Coast of Flanders, Channel, Bay of Biscay and Mediterranean, to Which is Added, the Coast of Italy from the River Var to Orbitello; with the Gulf of Naples, and the Island of Corsica. William Faden.

Le Petit Neptune Francais; or, French Coasting Pilot for the Coast of Flanders, Channel, Bay of Biscay and Mediterranean, to Which is Added, the Coast of Italy from the River Var to Orbitello; with the Gulf of Naples, and the Island of Corsica.

[ Faden, William 1749-1836].

London: for W. Faden, 1793. First Edition. Quarto. 3rd printing revised and enlarged. 147pp., (8)pp index. Engraved frontispiece view of the Tower of Cordouan, 42 folding plates of charts, plans and maps. "Many of the charts in Faden's Le Petit Neptune follow those in Thomas Jeffery's atlas of the same... More

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The Burgess Seashore Book for Children. Thornton W. Burgess.

The Burgess Seashore Book for Children

Burgess, Thornton W.

Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1929. First Edition. Octavo. 336pp., illustrated in color and in black and white by W.H. Southwich and George Sutton depicting the various plants and sea life. Bound in blue cloth decorated with green seaweed, color pictorial pastedown framed within a gilt border, lettering gilt, previous... More

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Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1858. Albert J. Breveridge.

Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1858

Breveridge, Albert J.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1928. First Edition. Octavo. Limited to 1000 set of which the present set is number 949. The manuscript edition in four volumes with a page of the author's manuscript mounted prior to engraved frontispiece, illustrated. Breveridge was a U.S. senator, and historian. He also won the... More

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The Diamond Hunters. Wilbur Smith.

The Diamond Hunters

Smith, Wilbur

London; (1971): Heinemann. First Edition. Octavo. A review copy with letter from the publisher of Doubleday and Co. laid in. The publisher explains why he is sending the recipient a British copy. 230(1)pp., Bound in lavender paper covered boards, spine lettering gilt two slightly bent corners, near fine in a.... More

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A Proud American; the Autobiography of Joe Foss. Joe Foss, Donna Wild Foss.

A Proud American; the Autobiography of Joe Foss

Foss, Joe and Donna Wild Foss

(Pacifica, Ca. 1992): Pacifica Military History. First Edition. Octavo. Inscribed by Joe's wife Donna(DiDi) Foss who died in May of this year at age 100. (8)pp. preliminary leaves of comments from various important people, 347pp., (21)pp. epilogue and index. Floss, a world war II fighter pilot became the first American... More

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The Lady of the Lake. Howard Chandler Christy, Sir Walter Scott.

The Lady of the Lake

Christy, Howard Chandler and Sir Walter Scott

np(1910): The Bobbs-Merrill Co. Quarto. no pagination. Beautifully illustrated in color and in black and white by Howard Chandler Christy set to Scott's beautiful and unforgetable poem. Bound in a signed (B.S.:Bertha Stuart) designed binding of green cloth decorated with yellow flowers and green stems, lettering gilt within gilt frame... More

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Franacis Frith in Egypt and Palestine; a Victorian Photographer Abroad. Douglas R. Nickel.

Franacis Frith in Egypt and Palestine; a Victorian Photographer Abroad

Nickel, Douglas R.

Princeton and Oxford; (2004): Princeton University Press. First Edition. Quarto. First printing. 239pp. In 1856m Francis Frith set out on the first of three tours of Egypt and the Holy Lands. He traveled up the Nile and then on to the Sinai, Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon. He took exquisite photographs... More

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Old Mother West Wind, Mother West Wind's Neighbors And Mother West Wind's Children (3 volumes). Thornton W. Burgess.

Old Mother West Wind, Mother West Wind's Neighbors And Mother West Wind's Children (3 volumes)

Burgess, Thornton W.

Boston; (1960, 1962 and 1968): Little, Brown and Co. Octavo. Later printings. (11th, 5th and 4th printings)All three books illustrated by Harrison Cady, bound in blue, green and red pictorial cloth in pictorial dust jackets. All books are in fine, pristine condition, no names, plates or tears. Simply a nice... More

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The History of England. Rapin and De Thoyras, icolas.

The History of England

De Thoyras, Rapin and N[icolas]

London; 1732 and 1751: For James, John and Paul Knapton. Folio. Second edition. In five volumes translated from the original French by Nicolas Tindal (1687- 27 June 1774). Here, Tindal continued Rapin's the work adding three more volumes. Tindal later did a 13 volume translation. Tindal enlarged the volumes in... More

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Rockwell Kent, an Anthology of His Works. Fridolf Johnson, Rockwell Kent.

Rockwell Kent, an Anthology of His Works

Johnson, Fridolf (editor) and Rockwell Kent

New York: Alfred a Knopf, 1982. First Edition. Quarto. 358(1)pp., Illustrated throughout in color and in black and white with more than 400 reproductions of Kent's work. Kent was a painter, printmaker, illustrator, writer, architect, explorer, farmer, politician and pamphleteer. Many of these illustrations have never been published before. Also... More

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Harold Von Schmidt Draws and Paints the Old West (together With the Original Grizzly Bear bronze). Walt Reed.

Harold Von Schmidt Draws and Paints the Old West (together With the Original Grizzly Bear bronze)

Reed, Walt

Flagstaff; (1972): Northland Press. First Edition. Quarto. Limited to only 104 copies signed by Reed and Schmidt. The present copy is number 57. The "Grizzly Bear" was Mr. Von Schmidt's first sculpture. This book won the coveted Western Heritage Award for the best Western art book in 1972. The artist... More

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The Mystery Chef's Own Cook Book. John McPherson.

The Mystery Chef's Own Cook Book

[McPherson, John]

New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1934. First Edition. Octavo. 366pp. The author came to America from London in 1906.. "The Mystery Chef" was an industrial engineer who moonlighted as radio's "Mystery Chef". He makes cooking easy by giving fundamental cooking information in concentrated and simplified form -- Eggs --... More

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Charlotte's Web. E. B. White.

Charlotte's Web

White, E.B.

New York; (1952): Harper and Row. First Edition. Octavo. Later printing. 184pp., illustrated in black and white by Garth Williams. Bound in color pictorial boards with matching unclipped pictorial dust jacket with price of $3.50, slight crease to front flap, a couple of tiny nicks to spine and corners, two... More

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The Scalawagons of Oz. John R. And L. Frank Baum Neill.

The Scalawagons of Oz

Neill, John R. And L. Frank Baum

Chicago; (1941): Reilly and Lee. First Edition. Small Quarto. 309pp., bound in brick cloth, color pictorial pastedown to upper board, spine lettered and decorated in black, illustrated in black and white by John R. Neill, blaack and white illustrated endpapers, closed edge tear to half-title, front hinge weakening (not broken)... More

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The Shaggy Man of Oz. Jack Snow, L. Frank Baum.

The Shaggy Man of Oz

Snow, Jack and L. Frank Baum

Chicago; (1949): The Reilly and Lee Co. First Edition. Small Quarto. 254pp., illustrated in black and white by Frank Kramer, Bound in gray cloth, color pictorial paste-down to upper board, pictorial spine lettered and decorated in black, endpapers illustrated in black and white, previous owner's bookplate. A very good copy... More

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Jerry Todd and the Talking Frog. Leo Edwards, Edward Edson Lee.

Jerry Todd and the Talking Frog

Edwards, Leo (Edward Edson Lee)

New York: Grosset and Dunlap Publishers, 1930. First Ediiton. Octavo. The boy's novels by Edward Edson Lee (writing under the pseudonym Leo Edwards) were not only marvelous stories of boyish adventures but they had humor which is why Stan Lee said they influenced him in bringing humor into his writing... More

Price: $125.00 save 10% $112.50

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