The Hundred Years War IV: Cursed Kings
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. First edition. Blue cloth boards, 909pp.
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Gregory of Tours: Glory of the Martyrs (Translated Texts for Historians Latin Series III)
Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1988. First printing. Paperback, 150pp.
Roman Culture and Society: Collected Papers
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. First printing. Navy cloth boards in dust jacket, 615pp.
Soy Madrileno (Cronica del Tiempo de Luis Candelas)
Murcia: Escuela Superior de Arte Dramatico, 1998. First printing. Paperback, 178pp.
Laws of the Salian and Riparian Franks
New York: AMS Press, 1986. First printing. Blue cloth boards in dust jacket, 250pp.
Oeuvres de Le Sage: Gil Blas, Guzman D'Alfarache - Theatre
Paris: Garnier Freres, 1876. Hardcover. Small quarto, rebound in early 20th century unbleached cloth and marbled boards, leather spine label, very good, light wear, spine label rubbed, light occasional foxing to text, some inscriptions on flyleaf. 647 pp, printed in two columns, occasional engraved plate.
Pittsburgh, How to See It, a complete, reliable guide book with illustrations, the latest map and complete index
Pittsburgh: William G. Johnston Co., 1921. Paperback. Reprint of the 1916 edition, reissued by the Joseph Horne Co. for the convention of the State Federation of Women's Clubs, October 17-20, 1921. Small 8vo, wraps, good with moderate wear to covers, especially to spine, drink ring on cover. 256 pp, illustrated.....
Titi Lucretii Cari, De Rerum Natura, Libri Sex. Recensuit, Notisque Illustravit Thom. Creech.
Augustae Taurinorum [Turin]: Joseph Pomba, 1831. Hardcover. Large 8vo, late 19th century red cloth binding, very good, spine mellowed, general moderate foxing, old ink stamp on title page from a Jesuit library in Los Gatos CA. xx, 590, 116 pp (index). Commentary and notes by 17th century English classicist Thomas.....
Ida Norton, or Life at Chautauqua
Jamestown, NY: M. Bailey, Chautauqua Press, 1878. First printing. Hardcover. Small 8vo, green cloth gilt, very good, light wear. Rare, with only 4 original copies located on OCLC, but hard to tell whether any of the "computer files" etc. are actual copies. A novel set in Chautauqua by a former.....
Otzinachson; or, A History of the West Branch Valley of the Susquehanna
Philadelphia: Henry B. Ashmead, 1857. First printing. Hardcover. Large 8vo, original cloth with newer cloth spine and paper spine label, contents very good, light wear to edges of covers. 518 pp, illustrated with plates. Inserted newspaper clipping has tanned two pages.
Something Lighter - inscribed copy?
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1924). First American edition. Hardcover. Yellow cloth, good copy, wear and soil to cloth, contents clean. With bookplate of an Esther Marhofer, and an inscription from a "Johnnie" that seems proprietarial enough in tone to merit consideration as being from Bland himself: "To one who has always.....
New and Complete System of Universal Geography, Vol. II: AFRICA
New York: John Low at the Shakespeare's Head, 1800. Hardcover. 8vo, old calf, good copy with general wear to binding, neat strengthening of outer joints, inner hinges also, lacks rear flyleaf, folding map of the Mediterranean with some wear and loss. Has folding of Africa in very good condition, usual.....
How to Tell a Story - signed
F. E. Compton Co., (1957). Paperback. Wraps, signed on cover, good with some wear, soil, light stains, written for Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia. 10(1) pp.
Harmony in Marriage
New York: Round Table Press, 1939. First printing. Paperback. Small 8vo, textured wraps, fine copy in two part box with light wear. 122 pp.
Samveda Samhita (Samaveda)
Bombay / Mumbai: Vasant Shripad Satwalekar, printer, 1956. Hardcover. 3rd edition. Tall 8vo, cloth backed boards in dust jacket, approximately 150 pp. Jacket with some wear. Uncommon. One of the four Vedas from the ancient Vedic Sanskrit texts that comprise the sacred Hindi scripture.
Samveda Samhita (Samaveda)
Bombay / Mumbai: Vasant Shripad Satwalekar, printer, 1956. Hardcover. 3rd edition. Tall 8vo, cloth backed boards in dust jacket, approximately 150 pp. Jacket with some wear. Uncommon. One of the four Vedas from the ancient Vedic Sanskrit texts that comprise the sacred Hindi scripture.
The Olden Time; a Monthly Publication, Devoted to the Preservation of Documents and Other Authentic Information in Relation to the Early Explorations, and the Settlement and Improvement of the Country Around the Head of the Ohio
Pittsburgh: Dumars / Wright & Charlton, 1846-1848. First printing. Hardcover. 2 volumes, 8vo, old half leather, good, spine covered in old brown cloth with windows cut out for title and volume labels, boards rubbed, contents good to very good, occasional foxing, has both the folding facsimile plate and the folding.....
Stottern als assoziative Aphasie, Einfuhrung in eine psychologische Betrachtungsweise
(Leipzig): (1912). Hardcover. Culled from Zeitschrift fur Pathopsychologie Band 1, Heft 2/3, 1912. Bound in half leather with two inscriptions in German dated 1914 and 1922, possibly from the author. Some rubbing to leather, contents VG, pp. 448-553.
Kiln
Bronxville, NY: Sarah Lawrence College, 2008. First printing. Paperback. No. 4 of 25 copies, signed by Gardinier and by Kriss Philipps (beneath his collage image) that is the frontispiece. 8vo, mulberry paper wraps, beautifully printed by Philipps and Brian Pew. A long poem in 9 pp. that incorporates some text.....
The Life of General Hugh Mercer
NY and Washington: The Neale Publishing Co., 1906. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, red cloth gilt, very good, with 1912 inscription from a resident of Mercer PA to a Mrs. Albright, who has in turn, in 1949, gifted it to the General Hugh Mercer Chapter, D.A.R. Then there is the stamp.....
Martial Deeds of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia: T. H. Davis, 1876. Hardcover. Early edition. Small thick quarto, original half leather, cloth boards, very good, light rubbing, 1876 ownership signature of a Fred S. Merrick on first blank (there was a little slip of paper at p. 861, on which page is found an account of the.....
Report on Cholera in Europe and India
Washington DC: GPO, 1890. First printing. Hardcover. Quarto, cloth, good copy, sturdy in original cloth that is a little dusty and worn, contents good, some soil and old stamps from a New Brighton PA art gallery to preliminary pages, light soil to page edges, and some odd reddish mottling to.....
Mary Cassatt: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oils, Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings - inscribed
Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970. First printing. Hardcover. Quarto, cloth in dust jacket, inscribed by author incredibly fondly to her good friend, Jan Keene Muhlert, both of them curators and directors of major art museums. Book is very good, light fox marks to text block edges, jacket good, seemingly.....
The Book of the First American Chess Congress (1857)
New York: Rudd & Carleton, 1859. Hardcover. 8vo, original brown pebbled cloth, good copy, some wear and discoloration to binding, hinges firm, contents mainly good to very good, but waterstain to last 2 pages of text and to the advertisement pages after, and milder waterstaining visible to the color frontispiece.....
Arcana of Nature; or the Philosophy of Spiritual Existence and of the Spirit World, Vol. 2 only
Boston: William White, 1864. Hardcover. 2nd volume only, cloth 8vo, good copy, light wear and soil to binding, a long-ago owner has for whatever reason neatly gilded the fore-edge and bottom edge of the text block. 260 pp, ads.