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Addresses Delivered at the Lincoln Dinners of the Republican Club of the City of New York in Response to the Toast: Abraham Lincoln 1887-1927 (2 Vols.)
The Republican Club of the City of New York, 1927.
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Agriculture Leaflets
U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1927.
Price: $200.00
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"The Empire Beautiful: Her Great Bays, Harbors, Mines, Orchards and Vineyards, Olive, Lemon and Orange Groves". 1899 1st edition. Tight and VG in its decorative green cloth, with bright gilt-lettering and design to the front panel. Light soiling to the panels and very light foxing to the front endsheets, otherwise clean as could be. Oblong octavo, handsome sepia-tones thruout.
California: Pioneers Sons and Daughters
San Francisco: Mrs. J. J. Owen, Publisher, 1899.
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Collected Studies on the Pathology of War Gas Poisoning
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1920.
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Lovely mid-19th century etiquette guide. 64mo (miniature), 224 pgs., published in 1848. A tight, well-preserved, VG copy in its orignal gilt-decorated and blindstamped panels and spine. Light, forgivable foxing thruout, otherwise clean as could be, with no writing or markings of any kind.
Etiquette for Ladies; with Hints in the Preservation, Improvement, and Display of Female Beauty
Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1848.
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Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina in the Great War 1861-'65 (Vols. IV and V)
Goldsboro, NC: The State of North Carolina, 1901.
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1984 catalogue, filled with hundreds of black-and-white and color photos thruout. A bright, Near Fine copy in its original pictorial wrappers. Thick octavo, 549 pgs.
L'Economia Italiana Tra Le Due Guerre
Rome: Commune Di Roma--Ufficio Studi e Programmazione Economica, 1984.
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Lancaster and Fairfield County, Ohio
George A. Kraemer, Publisher, 1901.
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Laws and Resolutions Passed By the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina at the Special Session, Begun and Held in the City of Raleigh on the First of July, 1868.
Raleigh: The State of North Carolina, 1868.
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Lectures presented on behalf of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and presented by some of the leading legal scholars of the day such as Harlan Stone, Elihu Root. etc. Solid and VG+ in its maroon cloth, with bright gilt-lettering along the spine. Octavo, 591 pgs. Small former owner name to front pastedown, otherwise clean as could be.
Lectures on Legal Topics
New York: Macmillan, 1924.
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Lithographed portrait of American war criminal Lieutenant William Calley, 1969. 14" x 10 1/4". On heavy card stock, with die-cut eyeholes. A solid, VG example. Very light soiling and a faint shadow of a boot print at lower right. Scarce artifact of the October, 1969 march on Washington. Calley had been indicted for war crimes in September of '69 and would be convicted, after a lengthy and controversial trial, in 1971. Several hundred demonstrators at the October march wore these makeshift masks to express the opinion that until the war ended all Americans were equally guilty of murdering Vietnamese civilians.
Lithographed Mask of Lieutenant William Calley
1969.
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1867 4th edition of this magnificent study in early chromolithography of the "savage" animals of the jungle. 30 detailed, full-page chromolithographed plates featuring 159 species of carnivores in various poses. A clean, well-preserved copy--all plates are in beautiful, unblemished condition. Folio, 34 pgs. of notes and captions plus the 30 plates themselves.
Naturgeschichte Der Soeugethiere (Natural Law of the Savage Beasts)
Esslingen, Germany: Verlag Von J.F. Schreiber, 1867.
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Sittengeschichte Der Revolution
Vienna: Verlag Fur Kulturforschung, 1930.
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1928 1st edition of this uncommon photographic study of the Argentine Creole Horse. "The Argentine Creole Horses are the direct and pure descendants of the Arabian horses brought by the Spaniards during the conquest period, over four hundred years ago, and which, having been abandoned in the wild "pampas" to live by themselves, have undergone the severe natural selection that gifted them with their actual strength and unexcelled endurance". A solidly VG copy, sturdy and very presentable, with only light foxing at the panels. Quarto, crisp black-and-white photographs thruout.
The Argentine Creole Horses of the Haras "El Cardal"
Buenos Aires: 1928.
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The Blind and the Deaf 1900
Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1906.
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The Journal of the Stephenson Locomotive Society (28 Vols.) 1933-1965
London: The Stephenson Locomotive Society,
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1860 uncommon study of the legendary Insurrection, led by Capt. John Brown. Bound in light calf over marbled boards. Raised bands, dark-leather spine labels with bright gilt-lettering. A solid, well-preserved, VG copy of this "new edition--with additions". Octavo, 110 pgs., decorative endpapers. Very faint former owner name at front pastedown.
The Life, Trial and Execution of Capt. John Brown: Being a Full Account of the Attempted Insurrection at Harper's Ferry, VA
New York: Robert M. De Witt, 1860.
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The highly-regarded "Tonson" edition, 1765. Complete in 4 volumes and bound in publisher's original full calf. All volumes solid and VG, with very light fraying at several spine crowns and light scuffing at the panels. Offsetting at the endsheets and attractive armorial bookplates to front pastedowns and endsheets. Octavos, 1,378 pgs. all told.
The Miscellaneous Works, in Verse and Prose, of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq. (4 Vols.)
London: J. And R. Tonson, 1765.
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1938 American edition of "The Nazi Primer", in its uncommon dustjacket. Solid and VG in a bright, price-clipped, VG dustjacket, with one small chip at the front panel's top-edge and very light fading along the spine. 12mo, 280 pgs. Translated from the German by Harwood L. Childs and with a Commentary by William E. Dodd.
The Nazi Primer: Official Handbook for Schooling the Hitler Youth
New York: Harper & Bros., 1938.
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The Sleeping Car Conductor: Official Organ of the Order of Sleeping Car Conductors (24 Monthly Issues)
Kansas City, MO: The Order of Sleeping Car Conductors,
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