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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1963. Later printing. Hardcover. Very good/in a good or better unclipped. Octavo; pp; 653, index; black and green cloth lettered in gilt and blue in a dust jacket. An in-depth look at the rise of JFK!

New York: IvisonPhnney & Co, 1860. First edition. Pictorial boards. Internally very good.. Large quarto, pictorial paper covered boards with black leather spine. Unpaginated. Title page with publisher''s ads and list of maps on verso, followed by 11 page appendix of statistics and vocabulary. There are 37 pages of maps, most of which are printed on both sides of a sheet. The last map, the Roman Empire, is double page. The covers are worn and soiled, and the spine is chipped and worn, particularly at the top. The rear joint is starting. There is a piece of the back cover missing, about 1/2" x 1 3/4". There is some dampstaining at the top edge of the pages which affects the world maps but has remarkably spared the United States. Additional pictures by request.

(Albuquerque): University Of New Mexico Press, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. .. Octavo; pp; xxi, (iii), 419, (i), index; fifteen black and white photographs; terra-cotta cloth iettered in black in dust jacket;. John Ross Browne 1821-1875) was an Irish-born American traveler, artist, writer and government agent. Collection of letters, journals and writings of the subject traveller, author, cartoonist and diplomat. Contents consisting largely of manuscripts from the family's private holdings.

New York: Bloomsbury Auctions, 2008. Only Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Quarto; unpaginated with index by lot number; Profusely illustrated in color, sepia and black and white; pictorial paper covered boards;. The sale catalogue of the Snider Sale, November 19, 2008. A remarkable collection; books, manuscripts, prints, views, maps and related items primarily concerning Philadelphia, the Quakers, the import of Philadelphia on the Nation and much more. The collection was particularly rich in colonial printing with emphasis on William Bradford and Benjamin Franklin.

New York: Random House, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo; pp; xxiv, 898, (ii), index; illustrated with black and white photographs; blue cloth and blue paper covered boards, lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket;. The first volume of a proposed multi-volume biography.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo; pp; x, 512, (iv), index; black and white photographs; brown cloth, lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket;. An authorized biography with granted access to private papers. There is no more inspirational story than Robinson's triumph as the first African-American ball-player in the major leagues.

New York: Scribner, Armstrong and Co, 1873. Hardcover. very good to near fine and appear to have never been read. Small octavo; pp; xvi, 280, (vi), ads; folding map, frontispiece and thirty-seven black and white plates; original pictorial terra-cotta cloth, stamped in black and gilt;. A remarkable relic of Gilded Age publishing offering a look at the unknown places of the World. Taylor compiled and arranged this volume. Bears the bookplate and signature of Leon G. Bagley of Rutland Vermont. Bagley was a prominent citizen and manager of the Western Union Telegraph Office. The Library Of Travel, Exploration & Adventure Edited by Bayard Taylor.

Nichinan, Miyazaki, Japan: Hattori Botanical Library, 1960. Reprinted from the Journal of the Hattori Botanical Laboratory. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo; pp; 91-158; illustrated; original printed yellow wrappers bound in a quarter burgundy cloth and marbled stiff card binding;. This copy is inscribed by the author to Dr. James Kucyniak, the wrapper bears his small oval stamp as well. Entodontaceae are a type of moss.Scarce!

New York: Columbia University Press, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (6" x 9.25"), teal cloth, gilt. 179, (1)pp. with index and bibliography. Frontispiece portrait. Former owner's name in pencil. A review slip afixed to the front paste-down. A study of the formative and confused period in American church history from 1783-1819 as reflected in the mind of the orthodox Jedidiah Morse. The study was largely made from his unpublished letters.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1990. Paperback. Minor edge wear else very good. Octavo; pp; viii, (ii), 481, index; illustrated with black and white photographs; original printed pictorial wrappers, paperback;. A look at the Domestic Mr. Jefferson and his home as a reflection of the character of the builder.

Lake Oswego OR: Great Outdoors Book Exchange, 1992. First edition, thus. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo; pp; xi, (i), 204, (i), colophon; illustrated by Ralph L. Boyer; full green gilt lettered cowhide;. Bruns R-126. Beautifully produced limited facsimile of the 1950 first edition. Mostly uncut.

Washington DC, 1897. Very good. Long is writing Phillips regarding a memorial to a Alexander H. Rice that took place in Boston. He suggests that Phillips write to the Mayor of Boston to secure a copy of the memorial. J. John Davis Long (1838-1915) was an American lawyer, politician, and writer from Massachusetts. He was the 32nd Governor of Massachusetts, serving from 1880 to 1883. He later served as the Secretary of the Navy from 1897 to 1902, a period that included the primarily naval Spanish-American War. As President McKinley's Secretary of the Navy, he modernized that department.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1908. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo; pp; xiii, (i), 331, (i), index, ad; illustrated with a frontispiece portrait and twenty-three additional black and white plates from photographs; gilt decorated and lettered red cloth, top edge, gilt, mostly uncut;. The biography of John Harvard (1607-38), English-born Puritan minister who moved to Massachusetts in 1637. Harvard University was established in 1639 and after the minister bequeathed in his will a sizeable amount and over 300 books to the university, the school was named after him.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo; pp. 510 with index; Black and white photographs; red cloth, gilt in a pictorial dust jacket;.

Chicago: Callaghan & Co, 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Minor edge wear else very good. Three volumes, complete; Octavo; pp; I; lviii, 528, II; (iv), 565; III; v, (i), 522, index; illustrated with a frontispiece in each volume and four additional plates; blue cloth lettered in gilt;. A handsome set.

Tucson: University Of Arizona Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. Octavo; pp. xxvi, (2), 3-255 with index; Frontipiece, maps, plans, drawings; black cloth and cream boards in a dust jacket;. Xantus was a charlatan who lied about his exploits, joined the U. S. Army under an assumed name, yet became one of the Smithsonian Institute most successful collectors of natural history specimens in the mid nineteenth century.

(Middlebury Vt: Vermont Folklife Center, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Oblong octavo; pp; unpaginated, (32); beautifully illustrated with full page color plates by Bert Dodson; slick pictorial paper covered boards in a pictorial dust jacket;. This copy signed by both the author and the artist on the title page; Story of the bond between a Morgan horse and his logger-owner. When an accident befalls the logger it is the horse who saves the day.

(New York): Knickerbocker Press, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Duodecimo; pp; viii, 129; Illustrated with twenty black and white photographs; green cloth, gilt; previous owner's bookplate and namestamps on the rear pastedown;. A volume born of a trip, on which prior to his departure, the author could not find adequate travelogues in English, hence he has produced his own Baedeker.

New York: Sidney E. Morse & Company, 1873. First Edition. Wraps. wear to wrappers and the spine, internally very good. Octavo; pp; 200; illustrated with two portraits and a facsimile of the first newspaper; original decorated wrappers;. A combination city directory & almanac; quite interesting. Laid in broadside stating that this "yearbook" has been sent in anticipation of the recipient renewing their subscription.

New York: Judge Company Publishers, 1906. First Edition. Very good, a bright image. Original color lithograph by Emil Flohri, the cover measures 10" x 13.5";. Judge was a weekly satirical magazine published in the United States from 1881 to 1947. It was launched by artists who had seceded from its rival Puck. The founders included cartoonist James Albert Wales, dime novels publisher Frank Tousey and author George H. Jessop. This cover shows a thrown piece of coal at the back of "The Peoples" neck;.