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The Santiago Campaign. Reminiscences of the Operations for the Capture of Santiago de Cuba in the Spanish-American War, June and July, 1898. Written by Participants in the Campaign and Published by the Society of Santiago de Cuba.

Richmond, VA: Williams Printing Company, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. XV, 442pp. Original blue cloth stamped in gold on the front and on the spine. Frontispiece and thirty-seven illustrations. Some fading to spine panel, some faint stains to boards, name on front pastedown endpaper, pencil notes on half-title page. About very... More

Price: $35.00

Various Authors

Sketches About Salem People.

Salem, MA: The Club, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth backed boards. Collects a series of essays written by various members, each paginated separately. Include The Public Service of John Endecott in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Local Government Under the First Charter, Roger Williams, Witchcraft, and more. Signed by several contributors... More

Price: $60.00

Various Authors

Twenty-six Congressional Speeches from 1831-1847.

Washington, DC: 1831-47. Hardcover. Light brown half calf over marbled boards. A collection of twenty-six congressional speeches from the years 1831 to 1847 including: Speech of Mr. Allen, of Ohio, on the Bill to Separate the Government from the Banks; Speech of Mr. Wall, of New Jersey, on the Bill... More

Price: $350.00

Veuillot, Louis; Cartier, E.

Jesus-Christ. Avec une étude sur l'art Chrétien par E. Cartier. Ouvrage contenant 180 gravures exécutées par Huyot pére et fils et 16 chromolithographies d'après les monuments de l'Art depuis les Catacombes jusqu'à nos jours.

Paris: Librairie de Firmin-Didot Frères, Fils et Cie, 1875. First Edition. Hardcover. viii, 572pp. Original publisher's red decorated cloth stamped in gold on the sides, spine in red morocco lettered and decorated in gold, all edges gilt, decorated endpapers. The binding was done by Magnier and is signed in gilt..... More

Price: $200.00

Wager, Daniel E., ed.

Our City and Its People: A Descriptive Work On the City of Rome, New York.

Boston: The Boston History Company, Publishers, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. vii, 247, 54pp. Contemporary brown quarter morocco over pebbled cloth, spine with five raised bands, with gold lettering and decorations in blind, silk moire endpapers, all edges gilt. Three inserted plans (the Siege of Fort Stanwix; Rome, NY; Rome Arsenal)... More

Price: $350.00

Walsh, Robert

An Appeal from the Judgments of Great Britain Respecting the United States of America. Part First, Containing an Historical Outline of Their Merits and Wrongs as Colonies; and Structures Upon the Calumnies of the British Writers.

Philadelphia: Published by Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1819. Second Edition. Hardcover. lvi, 512pp + errata slip (present only in this edition). Recent red half calf over marbled boards, spine with four raised bands, lettered and decorated in gold. The second part of the work was never published. Includes Political and... More

Price: $200.00

Warden, David Baillie

A Statistical, Political, and Historical Account of the United States of North America; from the Period of Their First Colonization to the Present Day.

Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co., 1819. First Edition. Hardcover. In three volumes. lxiv, 552pp; xii, 571pp; xii, 588pp. Original brown paper covered boards with paper labels affixed to the spines, all edges uncut. With one large folding map of the city of Washington and territory of Columbia and... More

Price: $800.00

Warner, Oliver

The Battle of the Nile.

London: B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. 184pp. Blue cloth stamped in gold on the spine. With b&w illustrations. Name on the front free endpaper, three small spots to front panel. A near fine copy in very good dustjacket with mild edge wear, and fading to spine panel..... More

Price: $30.00

Warner, Oliver

The Glorious First of June.

London: B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. 184pp. Blue cloth stamped in gold on the spine. The story of the first full-scale naval battle in the war with Revolutionary France. With numerous b&w illustrations and diagrams. Name on the front free endpaper. A fine copy in very good..... More

Price: $30.00

Warren, Henry P.; Warren, William; Warren, Samuel

The History of Waterford, Oxford County, Maine, Comprising Historical Address, Record of Families, Centennial Proceedings. Published by Direction of the Town.

Portland, ME: Hoyt, Fogg & Donham, 1879. First Edition. Hardcover. 371pp. Original brown cloth stamped in blind on the sides and lettered in gold on the spine. The book covers the years 1775-1875 and includes an index of subjects and of surnames. Wear to extremities, spine heel frayed, light soiling... More

Price: $45.00

Watson, Robert

The Life of George Gordon: With a Philosophical Review of His Political Conduct.

London: H. D. Symonds, 1795. First Edition. Hardcover. 137pp. Modern brown cloth stamped in gold on the spine. Old repair to the verso of title page and of page 137, some foxing to endpapers. A near fine copy. ; Octavo. More

Price: $150.00

Welch, William L.

Personal Narratives of Events in the War of the Rebellion, Being Papers Read Before the Rhode Island Soldiers and Sailors Historical Society.

Providence, RI: Soldiers' and Sailors' Historical Society, 1890. First Edition. Printed wrappers. Personal Narratives Fourth Series, No. 9. Edition limited to 250 copies. 48pp. Original yellow wrappers lettered in black. Describes the Burnside Expedition and the engagement at Roanoke Island. Library stamp on front cover, chipping to edges, lower corner... More

Price: $75.00

White, Gilbert; Jardine, William, ed.

The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, with Observations on Various Parts of Nature, and the Naturalist's Calendar. Completely Illustrated with About Seventy Engravings, Comprising Subjects from Natural History, and Views of Selborne, Its Vicinity and Antiquities, Sketched from Nature Expressly for This Edition.

London: Nataniel Cooke, 1853. Hardcover. A new edition. xviii, 342pp + 2pp of publisher's advertisements. Full red morocco elaborately decorated in gilt on the front and rear panel, spine panel in compartments with raised bands, gold lettering and decorations, gilt inner dentelles. All edges gilt. Engraved title, map, illustrations. Lacks... More

Price: $100.00

Wilkinson, John Gardner

Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, Including Their Private Life, Government, Laws, Arts, Manufactures, Religion, and Early History; Derived from a Comparison of the Paintings, Sculptures, and Monuments Still Existing, with the Accounts of Ancient Authors. Illustrated by Drawings of Those Subjects. In Three Volumes.

London: John Murray, 1837. First Edition. Hardcover. Complete set in three volumes. xxxii, [1], 406pp; xxxiv, 446pp; xxiv, 404pp + [2], 8pp of publisher's advertisements. Errata slips in each volume at the end of the list of plates. Finely bound in green half calf over marbled boards by Scura of... More

Price: $1,000.00

Williamson, Joseph

History of the City of Belfast in the State of Maine. From Its First Settlement in 1770 to 1875.

Portland, ME: Loring, Short, and Harmon, 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. vi, 956pp. Brick red cloth with black and red labels lettered in gold on the spine. One foldout frontispiece print (View of Belfast), two foldout maps, one foldout facsimile plate and several illustrations. Hinges are weak, bookplate to front pastedown... More

Price: $200.00

Woolnoth, William

A Graphical Illustration of the Metropolitan Cathedral Church of Canterbury; Accompanied by a History and Description, Collected from the Most Authentic Documents, and Drawn Up from Repeated Surveys of that Venerable Fabric. With Descriptions of Its Monumental Structures, and an Account of Its Chapels, Altars, Shrines, and Chantries. Also Comprising Biographical Sketches of the Lives of the Archbishops, and Deans of Canterbury, etc.

London: Published by T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1816. First Edition. Hardcover. viii, 174pp. Maroon cloth, all edges uncut. Frontispiece and twenty inserted plates with engravings by the author from drawings by T. Hastings. Some offsetting and scattered foxing, light discoloration and rubbing to cloth. A very good copy. ; Quarto. More

Price: $200.00

Wright, Esmond, ed.

The Fire of Liberty

London: The Folio Society, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in the original glassine wrapper in fine slipcase with two tiny dents to top edge. ; Octavo; 256 pages. More

Price: $20.00

Wright, Thomas

Caricature History of the Georges; or, Annals of the House of Hanover, Compiled from Squibs, Broadsides, Window Pictures, Lampoons, and Pictorial Caricatures of the Time.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1876. Hardcover. xiii, 639pp + 36pp of publisher's advertisements. Original green cloth stamped in gold on the front panel and the spine panel. Color frontispiece, twelve plates with steel engravings, and more than three hundred in-text illustrations. Front hinge a bit weak, light wear to the... More

Price: $50.00

Zeisloft, E. Idell, ed.

The New Metropolis. 1600-1900: Memorable Events of Three Centuries. From the Island of Mana-hat-ta to Greater New York at the Close of the Nineteenth Century. Illustrated with One Thousand Engravings.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Autograph Memorial Edition De Luxe. Limited to 250 copies, this being LXIII, printed for Mrs. Hungerford. xx, 639pp + seventeen maps and errata slip. Full pebbled brown morocco, front panel lettered in gold with calf inlay with three embossed seals... More

Price: $2,250.00

Ziethe, Wilhelm

Friedrich Wilhelm IV. König von Preußen: ein Lebensbild.

Berlin: Hauptverein für Christliche Erbauungsschriften in den Preussischen Staaten, 1861. Pamphlet. 24pp. Self-wrappers. With two portraits affixed on the verso of the title page. The title page is almost completely split at spine, light foxing. A good+ copy. In the German language. ; Small octavo. More

Price: $75.00

Zischka, Antonio

Il Giappone nel mondo: l'espansione nipponica dal 1854 al 1934. Con fotografie e schizzi dell'autore.

Firenze: G. C. Sansoni - Editore, 1935. First Edition. Pictorial wrappers. ix, 327pp. Original wrappers. A history of Japanese expansion between 1854 and 1934. With photographs and sketches by the author. Light chipping to spine with a small mend to spine head. A near fine copy. In the Italian language. ; Octavo. More

Price: $40.00

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