History of the Beech Creek Area of Clinton County Pennsylvania de Lingle, Harry A. And Vera A. Lingle - 1981

His Majesty's Stationery Office. Second edition. Paperback. Good. Good condition.His Majesty's Stationery Office,1919.Second edition.Large format green paperback(the front and back cover are loose from the book,some marks on the cover) in GC.Illustrated with many colour maps.b/w photo of General Sir Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, Commander in Chief of The Egyptian Expeditionary Force(includes his printed signature).Clean pages but slightly tainted on the outer edges,some foxing marks inside the pages,small nicks,creases and ink marks on the edges of the pages,owner's name written on the edge of the second blank page of the book,a couple of the pages are loose from the cover.The book is in GC for its age but with some shelf wear.195pp including Glossary,a summary of the terms of the Turkish Armistice(as published) which came into force on Oct. 31, 1918.A collectable book.

44 pages. Octavo (8" x 6") issued in wrappers. Edited by Jose Fernando Ramirez. From the library of professor George M Foster. Biblioteca Aportacion Historica, second series. First edition limited to 100 copies of which this is number 57.With the fourth supply caravan, which left Mexico City in 1620 and arrived in New Mexico early in 1621, came fray Gerónimo Zárate Salmerón. Like all of the 250 or so Franciscans sent to New Mexico during the seventeenth century, Zárate Salmerón was not born in the province, although he was a native of the New World. His birthplace was Río Alvarado, south of Veracruz on the Gulf of Mexico coast, where he was born probably in the middle 1550s. The decade of his birth is inferred from the year of his profession as a priest at the Franciscan Convento Grande in Mexico City, 1579, and the usual minimum age of a new priest of 25. Fray Gerónimo was assigned as priest to the people of Jemez. He got to work almost immediately, founding the mission San José de… Leer más

THE FROZEN DEEP BY WILKIE COLLINS, AUTHOR OF "THE WOMAN IN WHITE" AND "THE MOONSTONE". PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM F. GILL AND COMPANY, BOSTON, 1874, 1ST AMERICAN EDITION. ILLUSTRATED BY ALFRED FREDERICKS. USED. GOOD- CONDITION Green cloth boards with Black and gold gilt titling and ornamentation that remains fairly bright. Tight binding, bright pages. There is a liquid spill on a couple of pages as shown in our photos.

This is Number 653 of a Limited Edition of 999 copies of a Two Volume Boxed Set. It is bound in pictorial boards depicting an old manuscript.The slipcase is also pictorial, depicting and old city. The book contains a former owner's pictorial bookplate on the front endsheet, and is in otherwise Fine Condition. The text is in German.
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This leather bound book from 1845 has a gold seal on the cover depicting a figure holding a staff with a cross on top, circled by letters in gold saying "Society For Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1698". The book contains the three essays titled: The Churches of Rome and England Compared In Their Declared Doctrines and Practices; The Corruptions of the Church of Rome in Relation to Ecclesiastical Government; Dialogues Between a Protestant and a Roman Catholic, written by Mant, Richard (Bishop); Bull, George (Bishop); Hobson, S. (Reverend), respectively. The covers show some wear on the edges and corners, and there is the remnant of a paste-on label on the cover.The pages shiw some foxing. There is a former owner's inscription inside the cover dated April 23, 1845.This old book will make a unique addition to the library of the religious historian.

156 pages with foldout map. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 6") issued in wrappers. From the library of Professor George M Foster Limited to 100 copies of which this is number 89.The original edition of this, one of the most important relations of personal experience and observation among the savage tribes of the Arizona-Cali- fornia border, is so scarce no copy has ever appeared in an auction room until 1922, when the University of California offered it for auction; so rare, in fact, is this work in the original, that even Bancroft failed to locate a copy and was obliged to use the French reprint of 1842. Zuniga was attempting to found a colony on the Colorado and Gila, with a view of uniting California and New Mexico. His narrative relates to these projects and to an account of the harassments, desolation and miseries brought about by the constant incursions and depredations of the barbarous Apaches and other savage tribes of the border.George McClelland Foster, Jr born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on… Leer más

130 pages. Octavo (8" x 7 3/4") issued in wrappers. Edited by Luis Vargas Rea. From the library of professor George M Foster. Biblioteca Aportaci Histica, Ultimo Ejemplar de Esta Coleccion. First edition limited to 100 copies of which this is number 61.Ixtlahuac is a word of Nahuatl origin; the name means "flat place". It was founded by Toltecs approximately A.D. 610; it is hard to be certain of the exact date of founding, because none of the groups who inhabited the region — Tecuexes, Tepehuanes, Coanes, Cazcanos, and Zacatecos — had a written language in this period. This Relacion is document 99 of the papers of Tronsco and the manuscript is located in Mexican Museum Library.George McClelland Foster, Jr born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on October 9, 1913, died on May 18, 2006, at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, where he served as a professor from 1953 to his retirement in 1979, when he became professor emeritus. His contributions… Leer más

44 pages. Royal octavo (9" x6 3/4") issued in wrappers. From the library of George M Foster. Relaciones Geograficas del Siglo XVIII. First edition, limited to 100 copies of which this is number 38.Manuscripts collected by Franciso del Paso Troncoso. In the archives of the "Real Academia de Historia de Madrid" and "The Archives of the Indies of Seville."George McClelland Foster, Jr born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on October 9, 1913, died on May 18, 2006, at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, where he served as a professor from 1953 to his retirement in 1979, when he became professor emeritus. His contributions to anthropological theory and practice still challenge us; in more than 300 publications, his writings encompass a wide diversity of topics, including acculturation, long-term fieldwork, peasant economies, pottery making, public health, social structure, symbolic systems, technological change, theories of illness and wellness, humoral medicine in… Leer más

London: Henry COLBURN, 1818 Two volumes complete, with map, portraits, engravings and tables. Original full leather binding with weak hinges which will need attention in due course. Clean contents, but occasional stains - images on request. Historically important work. Bray produced the first edition of his diaries, which offer a fine contemporary insight to the English Revolutionary period. The diaries include correspondence with key figures, for example Sir Edward Hyde.

Philadelphia: James Y. Humphreys, 1822. Hardcover. Good. Second American from the last London edition. 4 volumes ([2], 380, 358, 359, 395 p.): frontispiece maps (folded) in vols. 1 and 2; 22 cm. Contemporary calf with irregular dark horizontal patterns. Four spine compartments; dark green morocco labels in second compartments with gilt-tooled title "Gillies Grece" and volume number. Gilt decoration in remaining compartments. Gilt-rolled border on each board. All page edges yellow. Marbled endpapers. Vol. 1 frontispiece map: The Western Division of the Grecian Colonies and Conquests. Vol. 2 frontispiece map: Eastern Division of the Grecian Colonies and Conquests. Former owner's name at head of title pages: J.D. Slack. In Good Condition: leather is rubbed; joints are weak; spine leather is cracked, with some loss, particularly on vols. 3 and 4; vol. 1 map has old repair of tear near gutter, chipping along fore-edge, just starting to separate along horizontal fold from each… Leer más