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All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Ephemera : Maps : Pre 1700 item #1148395
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From Samuel Wilson's Account of the Province of Carolina. Map has been folded; some small bug holes near bottom middle portion. Very rare. Matting is 23" x 27 1/2;" Sheet is 17 1/2" x 22 1/8."
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Books : Pre 1837 VR item #1097563
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With Notes & References by Thomas Scott, 1830, Complete in Six Volumes. Boston: Samuel T. Armstrong & Crocker and Brewster; New York, J. Leavitt. Full leather bindings show aged wear but are tightly bound and in very good overall condition. Each volume is 10 5/8" tall and the set spans 13" across a bookshelf.
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Books : Pre 1940 item #1107172
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Cloth-bound with some light wear to covers. Measures 8 3/4" tall.
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Books : Pre 1837 VR item #1142052
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New Market, Shenandoah County (VA). Published in Salomon Henkel's Druckery (Publishing House), 1816. 167 pages. 2nd Edition. Three blank pages at front and two at rear. Rev. Paul Henkel's name is on the first free endpaper. Cloth spine with decorative stenciled paper boards. Exterior is rubbed, particularly at extremities. Interior toned throughout, but a tight, sound copy of this scarce Henkel item. 5 1/2" tall.
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Books : Pre 1837 VR item #1142056
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New Market (Virginia), 1824. Published by Salomon Henkels Druckery. "A collection of exquisite prayerful songs, for the use of children, both at home an at school." Henkels Druckery was the first Lutheran print shop in the U.S. This collection of songs came from Paul Henkel, Salomons father, and others. This copy bound in marbled paper boards with some rubbing at extremities, is tight and sound...
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Books : Pre 1930 item #1088955
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Anniversary Edition, Limited to 1250 Sets, Complete in 21 Volumes. New York and London, Harper & Brothers, 1920. Bound in 3/4 blue leather and cloth with gilt-decorated spine with raised hubs and five compartments. To edge gilt; other edges untrimmed. Very Fine condition overall - Volume 17 front top of hinge is starting to rend; otherwise a nice set. Issued as a celebration of Hardy's eightieth year. 32" Set Across, 9" Tall.
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Books : Pre 1900 item #1078921
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Prof. Dr. C. E. Bock. Contains 38 color plates. New York: William Wood & Company, 1881. Bound in original burgundy pebbled cloth with blind tooling on front and back covers. Gilt lettering on front and spine. The edges are worn, particularly at the extremities with some fraying at the top and bottom of the spine...
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Books : Pre 1940 item #1050025
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Translated by Constance Garnett. Wood Engravings by Nikolas Piskariov (Also signed by him). Complete in Two Volumes, Published in Moscow, USSR for the members of the Limited Editions Club of New York by the State Publishing House for Fiction and Poetry, 1933 (Goznak Press, Moscow, Mytnaia). Limited to 1500 copies; this is #813. Bound in original tan cloth with gilt ivy trailing vertically on covers and with brown screened labels and gilt on spines. No dust-wrappers or slipcase...
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Books : Pre 1900 item #1050036
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P. Terentii Afri Comoediae Sex, Ex Editione Th. Frid. God. Reinhardt, with Explanatory Notes by D. B. Hickie. New Edition, London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1854. Beautifully-bound in a premium binding of full tan calf with gilt ruling and an impressive tooled pair of camels on each side of a coat of arms. The spine is gilt-decorated in six panels with raised hubs and a red label. Some light wear to extremities; corners lightly bumped. Marbled fore-edges and endpapers...
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Books : Pre 1940 item #1050042
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Told Mostly by Himself, With Illustrations by John W. Thomason, Jr. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, London, 1934. No dust wrapper. "A" on copyright pages= with Scribner Press Logo. Bound in full black cloth with gold-ruled & lettered front cover surrounding applied paper illustration of Crockett. Some exterior wear to extremities; bumped corners. Interior foxed with some stain offset from color prints. Previous ownership in ink on first flyleaf. 9" tall.
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Books : Pre 1900 item #1056294
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"Skitt" (Hardin E. Taliaferrd). Illustrated by John McLenan (13 illustrations). New York: Harper & Brothers, 1859. Bound in original brown publisher's cloth with H & B blind-stamped on covers and gilt-lettered spine. 269 pages and 6 pages of ads. Rubbed and bumped corners; spine top and bottom chipped off back to head and tail ribbon pieces. Interior nice with occasional light foxing. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover. 7 5/8" tall.
All Items : Traditional Collectibles : Books : Pre 1940 item #1050189
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12 Wood Engravings by Clare Leighton. Random House, NY, 1931. Signed (By Clare Leighton) Limited Edition of 450; this is #44. Printed at the Lakeside Press, Chicago. Bound in full black cloth with no dust-wrapper. Gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Some wear to extremities and bumped covers. 10 3/4" tall.