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TRAVELS THROUGH SWEDEN, FINLAND, AND LAPLAND, TO THE NORTH CAPE, IN THE YEARS 1798 AND 1799
London: Joseph Mawman, 1802. First Edition. Hardcover. Two quarto (7-3/4" x 10") volumes in contemporary tree calf leather with gilt-lettered red morocco spine labels. Illustrated with 16 engravings and a large folding map. Acerbi was an Italian naturalist and composer. His record of travels in Scandinavia describes the customs of.....
PRINTING AND DEMOCRACY
London: Monotype Corp, 1964. Facsimiles. First Edition. Wraps. Printed wraps; 29 pages and 9 plates. Prined by the University Press, Oxford. Preface by Frank Francis, Stanley Morison, and John Carter. The text of a lecture on the exhibition Printing and the Mind of Man whose subject was the contribution of.....
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL. YOUNG STATESMAN 1901-1914
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967. First Edition. hardcover. The second volume of what would become the eight-volume "definitive biography" of Winston Churchill, and the last of the eight written by his son. Illustrated with plates. Small Fountain Lawn Library bookplate of noted collector La Fayette Butler on the front pastedowns and.....
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL. YOUTH 1874-1900
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. The first volume of what would become the eight-volume "definitive biography" of Winston Churchill, and the first of two of the eight written by his son. Illustrated with plates. Small Fountain Lawn Library bookplate of noted collector La Fayette Butler on the front.....
NEWS FROM NEW ENGLAND, BEING A TRUE AND LAST ACCOUNT OF THE BLOODY WARS CARRIED ON BETWIXT THE INFIDELS, NATIVES...
Boston: Samuel G. Drake, 1850. Quarto, 20 pages. Printed on rectos only on large paper in an edition of only 75 numbered copies, this out-of-series. Originally published in London in 1676, this was the first reprint of this account of battles between the "merciless Heathens" and the "English Christians and.....
CHRISTMAS AND CHRISTMAS LORE
London: Blackie & Son, (1928). Later printing. Hardcover. First printed in 1923. Illustrated with 8 plates.
THE DISCOVERER. A NEW NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE AND HAZARDOUS ADVENTURES OF THE GENOESE CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
New York: The Macaulay Company, 1928. First Edition. cloth. An attempt to see Columbus as a man rather than an "animated monument." Illustrated with ten plates.
A FINE ENDEAVOR: TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF FASHIONABLE COLLECTING. Kent State University Museum, 1985 - 2010
(Barberton, OH): Kent State University Museum, (2010). First Edition. Softcover. Softcover (9-1/2" x 9-1/2"), 224 pages. Foreword by Linda Allard. Color illustrations on nearly every page.
DIE JÜNGSTEN FRÜCHTE MEINER EINSAMKEIT
(Berlin): 1803. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (5-1/2" x 9"), uncut, bound in later linen-backed boards retaining the original plain wraps; (22), 246 pages. Dedicated to King Fridrich Wilhelm III of Prussia.
DOCUMENT SIGNED (DS): Statement by HERBERT HOOVER for release to all editions of morning papers
28 June 1943. Document. A scarce one-page press release of @300 words, SIGNED both in type and holograph by Hoover at the conclusion, regarding the need to pass the Fulmer Bill and to create the position of Food Administrator in the Roosevelt administration. Hoover was appointed this very position by.....
A COMIC HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
New York: American Book Exchange, 1880. Early Edition. Hardcover. Decorated cloth. Illustrated with silhouettes and engravings.
THE STORY OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY EXPLORATION
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated with photographs.
THE GERMAN AND SWISS SETTLEMENTS OF COLONIAL PENNSYLVANIA: A STUDY OF THE SO-CALLED PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Includes an Appendix of Pennsylvania-German family names and how they have evolved as well as a bibliography.
RUSSIA OBSERVED. COLLECTED ESSAYS ON RUSSIAN AND SOVIET HISTORY
Boulder, San Francisco & London: Westview Press, (1989). First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth; 240 pages. "Pipes also explores continuities in the treatment of ethnic minorities, focusing particularly on the Muslim nations under Russian rule."
THE HISTORY OF LAPLAND WHEREIN ARE SHEWED THE ORIGINAL MANNERS, HABITS, MARRIAGES, CONJURATIONS, &C. OF THAT PEOPLE
Oxford: Theater, 1674. First English Edition. Hardcover. Small folio (7-1/4" x 11") in worn contemporary calf leather with a modern leather spine; vi, 147, [1] pages. First edition in English of a study of the geography, natural history, and inhabitants of Lapland, originally published in Latin the previous year. Cox.....
ATOMIC ENERGY FOR MILITARY PURPOSES
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. PRINTING & THE MIND OF MAN 422. Published six days after Hiroshima. Illustrated with plates.
FREEDOM BOUND: A HISTORY OF AMERICA'S CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
New York: Norton, (1990). Photos. 2nd printing.
THE LUTHERANS IN AMERICA...
New York: J.A. Hill, 1889. Plates. First Edition. Introduction by Henry Eyster Jacobs.