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Charges, and Extract of Charges, on Moral and Religious Subjects; Delivered at Sundry Times, by...

Rush, Jacob

Charges, and Extract of Charges, on Moral and Religious Subjects; Delivered at Sundry Times, by the Honorable Jacob Rush, President of the Third District of the Court of Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the State of Pennsylvania. With a Recommendation by the Reverend Clergy of the Presbyterian Church, in the City of Philadelphia. To Which Is Annexed, the Act of the Legislature of the State of Pennsylvania, Respecting Vice and Immorality.

Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by D. Hogan, 1803. First Edition. Hardcover. iv, 103pp + index. Recent gray marbled boards, brown leather label lettered in gold on the spine. Includes Upon Human and Divine Laws, and Their Consequences, Upon Prophane Swearing, Upon Drunkenness, Upon Gaming, Upon Duelling, etc. A few tiny..... More

Price: $250.00

The British Navy's Air Arm: The Official Story of the British Navy's Air Operations. Owen Rutter

Rutter, Owen

The British Navy's Air Arm: The Official Story of the British Navy's Air Operations.

Washington, DC / New York: Infantry Journal / Penguin Books, 1944. First Edition. Paperback. A Fighting Forces -- Penguin Special S222. With numerous b&w photographs. A very good+ copy. ; Small octavo. More

Price: $25.00

Nel felicissimo ritorno degli augusti sovrani Ferdinando IV e Maria Carolina d'Austria, feste...

[Saverio Mattei; Girolamo Vassalli] [Kingdom of Naples - Ferdinand IV and Mary Caroline of Austria]

Nel felicissimo ritorno degli augusti sovrani Ferdinando IV e Maria Carolina d'Austria, feste pubbliche della fedelissima citta' di Napoli.

Napoli: Militare, 1791. First Edition. Hardcover. Lv pp. Contemporary full speckled calf binding with gold decorations along the edges of the front and rear panels and on the spine. Engraved title vignette. Head-pieces, initials, and tail-pieces. A beautiful publica gratulatio dedicated to Ferdinand IV and Maria Carolina of Austria, King..... More

Price: $450.00

La Ciropedia di Senofonte tradotta da Francesco Regis, professore di letteratura italiana...

Senofonte (Xenophon)

La Ciropedia di Senofonte tradotta da Francesco Regis, professore di letteratura italiana nell'Accademia di Torino e membro dell'Accademia Imperiale delle scienze, lettere e delle arti. [bound with] La spedizione di Ciro tradotta da Francesco Ambrosoli.

Milano: Molina, 1821-1839. First Edition. Hardcover. Collana degli Antichi Storici Greci Volgarizzati. Three volumes bound in one. xlvi, 192pp; 248pp; x, 364pp. Contemporary full vellum with red and green leather labels lettered in gold on the spine. Engraved foldout map of the Persian Empire in volume 1; engraved foldout plate..... More

Price: $225.00

Deduzione cronologica, e analitica. [with] Prove della parte prima della deduzione cronologica e...

Silva, José de Seabra da [Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo]

Deduzione cronologica, e analitica. [with] Prove della parte prima della deduzione cronologica e analitica e supplica di ricorso del Dottor Giuseppe de Seabra da Silva. [and] Prove della parte seconda della deduzione cronologica e analitica e supplica di ricorso del Dottor Giuseppe de Seabra da Silva. Complete in Five Volumes.

Lisbona: Per Michele Manescal da Costa, 1767-68. First Italian Edition. Hardcover. Complete in five volumes. Full titles of the first two parts are as follows: 1) Deduzione cronologica, e analitica parte prima, in cui per la successiva serie di tutti i governi della monarchia portoghese, decorsi dal Re D. Giovanni..... More

Price: $900.00

Caporetto: una battaglia e un enigma. Mario Silvestri

Silvestri, Mario

Caporetto: una battaglia e un enigma

Milano: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Tiny bookstore sticker rear flap, some underlining. A good copy in about fine dustjacket. ; Octavo. More

Price: $15.00

Memoires militaires, et voyages du R. P. de Singlande, ancien aumônier des armées du Roi, reçu...

Singlande, R. P. de

Memoires militaires, et voyages du R. P. de Singlande, ancien aumônier des armées du Roi, reçu en furvivance aumônier des bains de Barege.

Paris: Chez Lacombe, 1766. Hardcover. Second edition after the one from 1765. Two volumes in one. xvi, 246pp; 224pp. Recent green morocco, spine with raised bands, lettered and decorated in gold, all edges stained red. The memoires of Father de Singlande, military chaplain. Includes an account of the conquest of..... More

Price: $750.00

Kobilek: giornale di battaglia. Quarta edizione riveduta e integrata. Ardengo Soffici

Soffici, Ardengo

Kobilek: giornale di battaglia. Quarta edizione riveduta e integrata.

Firenze: Vallecchi Editore, 1928. Fourth Edition. Printed wrappers. Fourth edition, revised and enlarged. 235pp. Original wrappers. Light toning and wear to spine. A very good+ copy. In the Italian language. ; Octavo. More

Price: $50.00

The History of the Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards. Done into English from the Original...

Solis, Antonio de; Townsend, Thomas (Translator)

The History of the Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards. Done into English from the Original Spanish of Don Antonio De Solis, Secretary and Historiographer to His Catholick Majesty, by Thomas Townsend.

London: Printed for T. Woodward, 1724. First English Edition. Hardcover. [18], 163, 252, 152pp. Contemporary full speckled panelled calf with large fleurons at corners, spine in six compartments with raised bands and gold decorations, speckled edges. Frontispiece of Hernan Cortès engraved by George Vertue, six engraved foldout plates, and a...... More

Price: $1,200.00

The Life and Treason of Benedict Arnold. [bound with] Lives of Anthony Wayne and Sir Henry Vane....

Sparks, Jared

The Life and Treason of Benedict Arnold. [bound with] Lives of Anthony Wayne and Sir Henry Vane. (The Library of American Biography Volume 3 and 4).

Boston: Hilliard, Gray, and Co., 1835. First Edition. Hardcover. Green half morocco over marbled boards, spine lettered in gold. 1) Volume 3; xii, 335pp; engraved title, three facsimiles, one plate, one map. 2) Volume 4; x, 403pp; engraved title, one facsimile. Boards are rubbed, wear to extremities, occasional foxing and..... More

Price: $50.00

Historia della vita, et fatti dell'eccellentissimo Capitano di guerra Bartolomeo Coglione....

Spino, Pietro

Historia della vita, et fatti dell'eccellentissimo Capitano di guerra Bartolomeo Coglione. Scritta per M. Pietro Spino.

Vinetia: Appresso Gratioso Percaccino, 1569. Hardcover. [24], 283, [1]p. Old quarter calf over marbled boards, spine lettered in gold, all edges blue. Copper engraved title, portrait frontispiece, one foldout plate with the coats of arms of the Colleoni family, initials, head-pieces, tail-pieces and printer's device. The fascinating life and times..... More

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Letters from Paris, During the Summer of 1791. Stephen Weston

[Stephen Weston]

Letters from Paris, During the Summer of 1791.

London: Printed for J. Debrett, 1792. First Edition. Hardcover. xx, 346pp. Modern green cloth. One engraved plate showing the capture of Louis XVI at Varennes laid in. Collects a series of letters written between June and October 1791, during the time between the King's flight from Paris and his signing..... More

Price: $150.00

Washington's Reception by the People of New Jersey in 1789. William S. Stryker

Stryker, William S.

Washington's Reception by the People of New Jersey in 1789.

Trenton, NJ: Printed for Private Distribution, 1882. First Edition. Printed wrappers. 22pp. Original wrappers. Light toning, chipping and soiling to covers. A very good copy. ; Octavo. More

Price: $125.00

Noqu Talanoa: Stories from the South Seas. Sundowner, Herbert Tichborne

Sundowner (Herbert Tichborne)

Noqu Talanoa: Stories from the South Seas.

London: The European Mail Limited, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. vi, 178pp + [22]pp of advertisements. Original green cloth stamped in gold on the front panel and the spine panel. Decorated endpapers. An account of the South Sea Islands and their inhabitants. Many of the stories were originally published in The..... More

Price: $100.00

History of the Mission to Orissa (The Site of the Temple of Juggernaut). Amos Sutton

Sutton, Amos

History of the Mission to Orissa (The Site of the Temple of Juggernaut).

Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, (1835). Hardcover. 196pp. Half cloth over marbled boards. Frontispiece and several illustrations. Spine and edges worn, old damp stain affecting the first thirty leaves, sporadic spots or smudges. A good copy. ; 24mo. More

Price: $50.00

Christopher Columbus: The Grand Design. Paolo Emilio Taviani

Taviani, Paolo Emilio

Christopher Columbus: The Grand Design

London: Orbis Publishing Limited, 1985. First English Edition. Hardcover. Small stain on fore edge not affecting text. A near fine copy in near fine dustjacket with a hint of wear to upper edge. Signed and dated by the author on front free endpaper and with a presentation card attached also..... More

Price: $75.00

England 1914-1945. A. J. P. Taylor

Taylor, A. J. P.

England 1914-1945.

London: The Folio Society, 2003. Hardcover. Part of the History of England series. xxxi, 638pp. Blue cloth stamped in gold on the front and in light blue and gold on the spine, top edge stained blue. Introduction by Chris Wrigley. With numerous color and b&w illustrations. A fine copy in..... More

Price: $25.00

Lincoln and Booth: The Inner Story of the Great Tragedy of Fifty Years Ago. As Published in the...

Thompson, Winfield M.

Lincoln and Booth: The Inner Story of the Great Tragedy of Fifty Years Ago. As Published in the Dayton News, April 10, 1915 - May 9, 1915. Inclusive. [Scrapbook].

1915. Hardcover. Contemporary dark red half leather. Unpaginated. 22 cm. A scrapbook with eighty-seven newspaper clippings (including photographs and illustrations) pasted on slick paper. With the name Franklin D. Rice lettered in gold on the front panel. Front cover partially split at spine, some loss to the spine panel. A...... More

Price: $200.00

The History of the Grecian War: In Eight Books. Written by Thucydides. Faithfully Translated from...

Thucydides; Hobbes, Thomas, translator

The History of the Grecian War: In Eight Books. Written by Thucydides. Faithfully Translated from the Original by Thomas Hobbes of Malmsbury. With Maps Describing the Countrey. The Second Edition, Much Corrected and Amended.

London: Printed by Andrew Clark for Charles Harper, 1676. Second Edition. Hardcover. Second edition, revised and corrected. [46], 357, [10]pp (with two pages misnumbered). Recent dark red full paneled calf, sides decorated in blind, spine with five raised bands, lettered and decorated in gold. Engraved title page in Latin, title..... More

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History of the Town of Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Comprising Also a History of Lunenburg, from Its...

Torrey, Rufus C.

History of the Town of Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Comprising Also a History of Lunenburg, from Its First Settlement to the Year 1764.

Fitchburg, MA: J. Garfield Printer, 1836. First Edition. Printed wrappers. 111pp. Original yellow wrappers, stitched. Wear along the edges, scattered foxing throughout more pronounced on the first and last few leaves, name in pencil on front cover, lacks back cover. A good+ copy. Uncommon. Sabin 93600. ; Octavo. More

Price: $275.00

The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth, with a Full Sketch of the Conspiracy of Which...

Townsend, George Alfred

The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth, with a Full Sketch of the Conspiracy of Which He Was the Leader, and the Pursuit, Trial and Execution of His Accomplices.

New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1865. First Edition. Self-wraps. First issue published during the trial. iv, [5]-64 + 10 misnumbered pages of publisher's advertisements. Disbound, stitched. Two portrait frontispieces of John Wilkes Booth, two plates (the Garrett's House where Booth died and a map), and four in-text maps. Soiling and..... More

Price: $750.00

Settembre nero. Antonio Trizzino

Trizzino, Antonio

Settembre nero

Milano: Longanesi & C., 1965. Ninth Edition. Hardcover. 180pp. Green cloth stamped in gold and black on the spine. Cloth shows mild fading to the edges else a fine copy in good+ dustjacket with two tape mends to the reverse, a few short tears and creases to flaps and the..... More

Price: $35.00

Prigionieri nel Texas. Gaetano Tumiati

Tumiati, Gaetano

Prigionieri nel Texas.

Milano: Mursia, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. 204pp. Pictorial boards. The poignant reminiscences of an Italian prisoner of war who spent more than two years in an internment camp in Hereford, Texas. Tumiati later became a journalist and writer. His novel Il busto di gesso won the 1976 Premio Campiello. Light..... More

Price: $45.00

Admission of Florida. Memorial of the People of the Territory of Florida, for Admission into the...

United States Congress

Admission of Florida. Memorial of the People of the Territory of Florida, for Admission into the Union. February 20, 1839. Read, Laid upon the Table, and 5,000 Extra Copies Ordered to Be Printed.

[Washington, DC]: Thomas Allen, print. 1839. 25th Congress, 3rd Session. Document No. 208. 27pp. Disbound. Includes A Constitution or Form of Government for the People of Florida, An Act to Take Sense of the People of This Territory on the Policy and Propriety of Becoming a State, An Act for..... More

Price: $175.00

Acts Passed at the Second Congress of the United States of America: Begun and Held at the City of...

[United States Congress - Bill of Rights]

Acts Passed at the Second Congress of the United States of America: Begun and Held at the City of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, on Monday, the Twenty-Fourth of October, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety-One: and of the Independence of the United States, the Sixteenth. [with] Second Congress of the United States: at the Second Session, Begun and Held at the City of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, on Monday, the Fifth of November, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety-Two.

Philadelphia: Printed by Francis Childs and John Swains, [1793]. First Edition. Hardcover. 175, iii, [3], 178-291, [ii], [1], [24]pp. Contemporary full calf with red label lettered in gold on the spine. The Acts of the Second Congress are of particular importance because they codified the first ten amendments to the..... More

Price: $2,500.00

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