Come, Tell Me How You Live
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, 1946. Hardcover. Dust jacket shows minor wear and tear, chipping and rubbing. Pages are clean. First American edition. Scarce. More
Social Science/Culture
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Le Jardin d'Épicure
Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1895. Hardcover. Presentation copy inscribed and SIGNED by the author in the prelims. FIRST edition, 1895. This is the author's first work of social criticism (title translates as "The Garden of Epicurus"). French language text. Bound into full leather hardcover with original wraps bound in. Raised bands and..... More
Letters and Notes on the Manners Customs and Condition of the North American Indians Written During Eight Years Travel Amongst the Wildest Tribes of Indians in North America in Two Volumes with Four Hundred Illustrations Carefully Engraved from ...
Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, 1841-01-01. Leather Bound. 2-volume set. Ex-library copies with usual markings. Volume 1 cover bound in black cloth and shows minor wear and rubbing, rebacked spine, heavily bent top board. Volume 2 cover bound in red buckram and shows minor wear and rubbing. Pages are tanned with minor..... More
Mme B. Chantre. A travers l'Arménie russe
Hachette, 1893-01-01. Reliure inconnue. Half-leather cover with marbled boards, raised bands and gilt on the spine, cover shows minor wear and edgewear/rubbing. Marbled endpapers. Pages are lightly tanned with very minor scattered foxing. More
THE HISTORY OF THE RISE, PROGRESS, & ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE ABOLITION OF THE AFRICAN SLAVE-TRADE, BY THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT. (Volume 1 Only)
Published By James P. Parke, No. 1808-01-01. Hardcover. Volume 1 only, scarce 1st American edition of English abolitionist Thomas Clarkson's book about the progress in abolishing the slave trade, published only a year after the passage of the Slave Trade Act in 1807. Bound in full polished calf, cover shows..... More
The Historical Library of Diodorus the Sicilian, in Fifteen Books. To Which are Added the Fragments of Diodorus. In Two Volumes.
London: J. Davis, 1814. Hardcover. 2-volume set; the work of the ancient Greek historian from between 60 and 30 BCE. Upholstery cloth covers show minor wear and tear, edgewear and rubbing, soiling. Pages with minor scattered foxing. Translated by G. Booth, published in 1814. More
Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, Performed in the Years 1852, 1853, and 1854, Under the Command of Commodore M.C. Perry, United States Navy... with numerous illustrations.
Washington: Beverley Tucker, 1856. Hardcover. Loose/torn hinges, binding is detached from the textblock, cover shows minor wear and rubbing, bumped corners, textblock is square and intact. Minor writing and bookplate on the front endpaper. Pages are mostly clean with minor scattered foxing. More
A Natural and Civil History of California: Containing an accurate Description of that Country, it's Soil, Mountains, harbours, Lakes, Rivers, and Seas; its Animals, Vegetables, Minerals, and famous Fishery of Pears. ...&c. In Two Volumes.
London: Rivington & Fletcher, 1759. Hardcover. 2-volume set, complete. 8vo., [20] 455pp. and [8] 387pp. First English-language edition. 4 engraved plates, each with 2 images, plus a folding copper-engraved map. Mid-20th century binding in full leather with gilt decorations, covers show very minor edgewear. Patterned endpapers. Pages lightly tanned with..... More
The Great Centennial Exhibition Critically Described and Illustrated
R. W. Ziegler & Co., 1876-01-01. Hardcover. Blue cloth cover with decoration in black and gilt, cover shows minor wear and tear, edgewear and rubbing, some tape on the bottom joint at the crown. Profusely illustrated, pages are lightly tanned and clean. More
London; or, Interesting Memorials of its Rise, Progress, & Present State. Three Volumes.
London: T. Boys, 1823. Hardcover. 3-volume set, in slipcases. Bound in red leather with original wraps bound-in, gilt decoration, raised bands on the spines, covers show minor wear and rubbing, slipcases show minor shelfwear. Pages are lightly tanned with minor foxing and tidemarks. Includes fold-out map of London laid-in, with..... More
Coaching Days and Coaching Ways
London: Macmillan and Co., 1924. Hardcover. A Kelliegram binding, by Kelly & Sons, signed on the rear turn-in. Full red crushed morocco with gilt-decorated frame, rasied bands and gilt panels and lettering to spine, multi-colored morocco inlaid figure of a man in a large coat and hat on the top..... More
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