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FitzGerald, Brian The Anglo-Irish 1602-1745.Three Representative Types: Cork, Ormonde, Swift. London, and New York Staples Press Limited: 1953 First edition so stated Hardcover. Good, sl wear. Octavo with black and white illustrations. Hardcover. 369 pp "These three figures of Cork, Ormonde and Swift, illustrate three phases of the rise of the Anglo-Irish and taken together, they compose the men of the Ascendancy." The books are carefully wrapped in plastic and mailed off in a cardboard box to ensure they arrive in the same condition as they were mailed out. If needed, additional photographs will be provided upon request. Price:
30.00 USD
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Fitzwilliam, Ada Wentworth and AF Hands. Jacobean Embroidery Its Forms and Fillings Including Late Tudor. London. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co. Ltd. : 1935 Blue hardcover with gilt lettering and paper labe Good Octavo 60 pp 27 illus in color and black Introductory history by A F Morris Hands. Included are: Tudor work, Early 17th century, Details of Blue Crewel work, Uses of Stem Stitch and other characteristic, Bed Hangings at Hardwicke Hall, Groups of Fillings in which darning plays an important part, Bed Hanging from Powis Castle, Characteristic Foliations and Late 17th Century Fillings, Solid Crewel Work 18th Century including the Terra Firma and different birds and beasts. Price:
35.00 USD
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809 |
Flaherty, Robert. Comock. The True Story of an Eskimo Hunter as told to.... Godine 2003. 1567922651 Hardcover in DJ. Very Good Very Good Quarto 127 pp "In 1912, the village of Cape Wolstenholme on Hudson Bay was the northernmost edge of the North American frontier.It was there during a hunting expedition that Robert Flaherty, an American-born prospector and a pioneer filmmaker, chanced to see the landing of an overcrowded, leaking, sealskin-and-whalebone vessel. This improvised contraption, kept afloat by inflated seal bladders, held an Inuit hunter named Comock, his wife, their eleven children, and two dogs. Ten years earlier, Comock and his family had crossed the Hudson Bay's ice floes in search of a fabled island rich in caribou, walruses, and seals. They found their "promised land" – Mansel Island, sixty miles west of Cape Wolstenholme – but lost their bearings and most of their belongings en route. Although they were the island's only human inhabitants, the family, thanks to Comock's skill as a hunter, not only survived but thrived in one of the world's harshest environments. A full decade later, they returned to tell their incredible tale. With all the skill of the great documentary filmmaker he would later become, Flaherty recorded Comock's story and retells it in the hunter's own voice. A classic of oral literature, a kind of real-life Eskimo folk tale of cunning, ingenuity, and daring, Comock was originally published to critical acclaim in 1968. This beautiful new large-format edition includes many Inuit drawings collected by Flaherty, several sections of previously omitted text, and a new epilogue by the noted anthropologist Edmund Carpenter. The book has also been enhanced by tri-tone reproductions of forty-six Flaherty photographs, images reminiscent of stills from his great silent film Nanook of the North. " Price:
20.00 USD
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811 |
Fletcher, JS A Picturesque History of Yorkshire London Dent: 1899 Yellow cloth with gilt decorations and lettering. Some wear to head and foot. Sl. shaken. Quartos 3 vols. Signed by author. 443, 412, 424 pp. 600 illustrations of antiquities in the cities, towns and villages of the County of York, founded on the author's personal observations made during many journeys through Three Ridings. Price:
200.00 USD
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Forbes, RJ Studies in Ancient Technology. Vol V Leiden EJ Brill : 1966 Hardcover in DJ ex-lib, usual lib markings Good Octavo 241 pages illustrated with 36 figures and 21 tables. Contents include Leather in Antquity, Early methods of preparing leather, Leather in Ancient Egypt, Leather in the Classical World, Sugar and its Substitutes in Antquity, Glass Price:
30.00 USD
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820 |
Forchheimer, Frederick Therapeusis of Internal Diseases. NY Appleton : 1913 Green cloth hardcover with gold gilt lettering. Some soiling to spine. Octavo 5 vols including supplement. Missing Vol 5. @ 800 pp each volume. Vol 1 deal with General Therapy, Toxicology, Vol 2 : Infectious Disease, The Intoxications, Constitutional Diseases, Vol III : Digestive Systems, Respiratory Tract, Heart and Blood Vessels, Blood and Ductless Glands, Vol 4 : Kidney, Bladder, Male Sexual Organs, Tropical Diseases, Supplement/General Index Price:
60.00 USD
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821 |
Foreman, Laura The Epic Story of the Warrior King Alexander the Conqueror. Da Capo Press 2004. 0306812932 Hardcover in DJ. Good Good, sl scuffing to dj. Quarto 211 pp Synopsis "When Alexander the Great died at age 33, he was at the height of his powers. He built an empire, and history counts him as one of the outstanding few, yet how many can clearly state what it is he actually did? In Alexander : The Conqueror, Laura Foreman tells who he was, what he did, and how he did it. She recounts his military achievements and his role as ruler, and delves into his psychology and personal life. She also explains the world in 4th century B.C.E., as well as the cultures of the people he conquered." Price:
15.00 USD
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823 |
Forester, CS Lord Hornblower Boston : Little Brown 1946. Hardcover in DJ. Good/ Poor dj, tears and wear. Octavo 318 pp Unusual variant of dj "This is your 'strike-bound' jacket for LORD HORNBLOWER the October Guild selection. We are doing our best to continue Guild service in spite of circumstances beyond our control. Your handsomely printed full color jacket will be sent to you with the November selection. .WE HOPE THIS PARALYZING STRIKE, PREVENTING ALL DELIVERIES FROM NEW YORK CITY, IS OVER BY THEN. " ". As this novel of the final days of the Napoleonic War begins, Horatio Hornblower has been ordered to quell a mutiny that he is afraid may have been justified. The story continues as he wins a major naval victory, a peerage, and the death penalty at a French prison camp." Price:
10.00 USD
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824 |
Forli, Boindo da Roma Ristraurata et Italia Illustrata. Tradotte in Buona. Lingua Vulgare per Lucio Fauno. In Vinegia Appresso Dominco Giglio : 1558. Rebound in vellum, new endpapers Good Small Octavo "Boindo da Forli was also known as Flavus Bolondus, Flavio Blondo and Flavio Biondo. He was a papal secretary as well as Archbishop pf Florence and was most known for his History of Rome. Italia Illustrata originally was published in 1460 in Latin and Roma Ristaurata in 1481 in Latin as well. This particular volume was revised by his sons. He is believed to be the founder of the science of archaeology and of Christian and medieval topography. He is also beleived to have coined the terms "modern age" and "dark ages". Forli was very interested in classical history and in his writings compared the culture of the past to that of his day." Price:
1000.00 USD
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826 |
Foster, Agness Greene By the Way. Paul Elder 1910. Hardcover. Bent corner. Some wear. Octavo A 181 pp Travel letters written during several journeys abroad describing sojourns in England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Greece and European and Asiatic Turkey. Price:
20.00 USD
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829 |
Fourcade, Francois Art Treasures of the Peking Museum Abrams. Hardcover in DJ. Good Good Quarto 177 pp 87 tipped in plates." A great storehouse of the finest Chinese art -- the Imperial Palace Museum collections in Peking -- has been unavailable to Western eyes for many years. Now, in this volume, two major areas of Chinese art -- its refined and spiritual painting and its exquisite ceramics -- are presented in a panoramic sweep extending from the third century B.C. to the masters who lived on into our own times. The colorplates are accompanied by individual commentaries sketching the lives of the artists and the significance of individual pieces. The author provides many fascinating biographical details and translates graceful poems and inscriptions that are usually lost to the Western reader. This volume provides an excellent introduction to Chinese art for the layman as well as a superb collection of new material for the scholar." Price:
42.00 USD
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832 |
Fox, edit., Robin Lane Tacitus : Annals, Histories, Agricola Germania. Everyman Library 2009 0307267504 Hardcover in DJ Good Good Octavo 850 pp "Tacitus served as administrator and senator, a career that gave him an intimate view of the empire at its highest levels, and of the dramatic, violent, and often bloody events of the first century. In the Annals, he writes about Augustus Caesar's death and observes the inner workings of the courts of the emperors Tiberius and Nero. In the Histories, he describes an empire in tumult, four emperors reigning in one year, each overthrown by the next. The Agricola, a biography of Tacitus's father-in-law, Julius Agricola the most celebrated governor of Roman Britainis the first detailed account of the island that would eventually rule over a quarter of the earth. And in the Germania, the famed warrior-barbarians of ancient Germany come richly to life." Price:
20.00 USD
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833 |
Fox, Robert Camera in Conflict. The Hulton Getty Picture Collection. Armed Conflict, Bewaffnete Konflikte, Conflits Armes. Koneman 1996 Hardcover in DJ. Good Good Quarto 420 pp German, French and English. Vol 2 of Camera in Conflict. Stand-alone volume. " Camera In Conflict is the story of photography in war from the Crimea and the American Civil War to Chechenya and Bosnia today. Here is the work of action photographers at the peak of their art, producing images that were to be etched for ever on the collective memory - the victims of the Warsaw ghetto surrendering to the SS, the hundreds of sailors abandoning ship as the carrier USS Lexington goes down in the battle for the Coral Sea, the bewildered and bereaved in Sarajevo and Rwanda. In a series of arresting essays, Robert Fox describes the changing aspect of war across the world in the era of action photography, and outlines what we might expect in conflicts to come." Price:
25.00 USD
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839 |
Fraser, Antonia Mary, Queen of Scots. Delacorte Press 1970. 0440052610 Hardcover in DJ. Good Good, some wear and tears to dj Octavo 613 pp More than 400 years after her death, Mary Queen of Scots remains one of the most romantic and controversial figures in British history. This reissue of her biography explores all areas of her life, particularly her time in France, her marriages, imprisonment and her execution at the age of 44. Price:
10.00 USD
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840 |
Frederic, Harold The New Exodus : A Study of Israel in Russia. Putnams : New York 1892. Hardcover. Ex-lib, usual lib markings. Inner hinges cracked. Shaken. Needs a bookbinder's tender mercies. Sold as is. Octavo 300 pp Record of the persecutions against the Jews in Russia during the 1800's with a bit of history of Jewish life since the reign of Alexander III in Russia. Price:
25.00 USD
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Fry, Roger Giovanni Bellini. New York Ursus Press 1985. 1883145031 Hardcover in DJ. Good Good Octavo 66 pp text, 24 black and white plates. "Highly popular at the time of its original publication, Fry’s monograph was instrumental in rescuing the artist Bellini from the oblivion of a Victorian-era reputation by reinterpreting and revaluing his art for an early twentieth-century audience. Giving a succinct but definitive view of Bellini’s career, Fry not only brought to bear the new "scientific" connoisseur ship in his analysis of individual pictures and their chronology, but he also brought a keen interest into Bellini’s innovative use of semi-transparent oil glazes, the psychological depth of his subjects, and Bellini’s profound sensitivity to nature." Price:
15.00 USD
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849 |
Fry, Roger et al. Chinese Art : An Introductory Handbook to Painting, Sculpture, Ceramics, Textiles, Bronzes & Minor Arts. Batsford 1952. Hardcover in DJ. Good in fair dj, some tears, paper loss. Octavo 86 pp Contents are: Intro by Madame Quo Tai-Chi with the Signifance of Chinese Art. Painting, Sculpture, Ceramics, Textiles, Bronzes and Minor Arts, appendix of Maps, date marks and characters, chinese dynasties, etc. with index. Price:
24.00 USD
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Furnivall Chronicle of Robert Manning of Brunne London Longman : 1887. Hardcover Ex-lib, usual lib markings, spine covering of one of the volumes missing Octavo 2 vols. 846 pp total.Rerum Britannicarum Medii Scriptores/Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland During the Middle Ages. Text in Old English and Latin. Price:
250.00 USD
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855 |
Galassi, Peter Walker Evans & Company. MOMA 2000 0870700324 Hardcover in DJ Good Good Quarto 271 pp "Presents over 300 works in photography and other mediums, by over 100 artists...beginning with the great influences on Evans, American vernacular photography and work of Europeans Eugene Atget and August Sandler…." Price:
25.00 USD
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857 |
Galpa, Adam Stroj Szamotulski. Atlas Polskich Strojow Ludowych. Polskie Towarzystwo Ludoznawcze 1951 Softcover Good, some wear. Octavo 52pp photographs and maps. 2 pp summary in English. " One of the types of folk costume of Western Poland is the so-called Szamotuly costume. It has been preserved to the present day in the vicinity of Szamotuly, a country town situated some thirtly miles in a northwestern direction from Poznan...Cetrain elements of the costume...have old histoical connections, reaching as far back as the fifteenth century." Price:
40.00 USD
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Gardner, J. Starkie English Ironwork of the XVIIth and XVIIIth London n.d. (1911) Hardcover. Rebound with black boards and spine, gilt lettering Small quarto 336 pp 88 'Collotype plates from photographs chiefly by Horace Dan, Architect, and upwards of 150 other illustrations. Study of 17th & 18th century English ironwork in fences, gates, bearings, balconies, ballustrades, brackets, grilles, screens, railings among other items. Price:
175.00 USD
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Gassier, Pierre and Juliet Wilson. The Life and Complete Work of Francisco Goya. NY Reynal & Co. with Morrrow : 1971 Hardcover in DJ. Good Good Quarto 400 pp 2,148 illus of which 48 are tipped in and a catalogue raisonne of the paintings, drawings and engravings of the artist. " This book traces the evolution of Goya's work throughout his life...the text is divided chronologically into five sections, each with a large number of illustrations accompanied by full descriptive comments. Each section is preceded by a table of events and followed by a catalogue raisonne of all the paintings, drawings and engravings of that period." Price:
50.00 USD
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872 |
Gaunt, William Marine Painting. A Historical Survey Viking Press 1976. 0436173158 Hardcover in DJ Good Good Quarto 264 pp "William Gaunt's concise and masterly survey of this art-form engagingly takes the reader from ancient time to the present day, from England to Europe, from the United States to the Orient, and through his perceptive narrative the reader is presented with a collection of superb reproductions in color and black and white. In addition, he has included brief biographies." Price:
25.00 USD
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874 |
Geerlings, Gerald Wrought Iron in Architecture. Wrought Iron Craftmanship. Historical Notes and Illustrations of Wrought Iron in Italy, Spain, France, Holland, Belgium, England, Germany, America, Modern Wrought Iron, Lighting Fixtures and Knockers, Specifications. Bonanza 1979 068412842X hardcover in DJ Good Good Quarto 201 pp Price:
40.00 USD
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875 |
Geijer, Agnes A History of Textile Arts. Pasold Research Project 1982 0856670553 Hardcover in DJ Good Good Octavo 317 pp text, 95 black and white examples. Contents include : Materials, Weaving Implements, Woven Fabrics and Weaving Techniques, Development of Plain Weaving, Individually Patterned Weaves, Silk Weaving, Mechanical Patterning, Linen Damask etc. Price:
25.00 USD
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877 |
Gerevich, L. Towns in Medieval Hungary Columbia University Press 1990 Hard cover. Good Quarto 152 pp Translated by T. Szendrei. English Text Revised by P.C. McCulloch. Joint Publication with Akademiaai Kiado, Budapest, 1990. Preface by Bela K. Kiraly. Articles are "The settlement history of Gyor (Arrabona) in the Roman Period and in the Middle Ages," D. Gabler, E. Szonyi, P. Tomka, "The rise of Hungarian towns along the Danude," L. Gerevich, "The settlement history of Veszprem and Szekesfehervar in the Middle Ages," A. Kralovanszky, "The development and typography of Sopron in the Middle Ages," I. Holl, "Urbanization in the east-central part of medieval Hungary," A. Kubinyi. Price:
30.00 USD
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878 |
Gersbdorff, Hans von Feldtbuch der Wundtartzney. Editions Medicina. n.d. @ 1970. Limited and numbered edition. 756/2800 Hardcover in slipcase. Good Good Quarto 96 pp Facsimile of Strasbourg 1517 edition. "Gerssdorff performed nearly 200 amputations. He opposed Pare's abandonment of boiling oil for cauterization of wounds. The book contains some instructive pictures on early surgical procedures and includes the first picture ever made of an amputation." This is one of the copies that was bound in half leather and French marbleized paper athe bindery on Heinrich Kock, Tubingen, West Germany, and are numbered in arabic numerals 1-2300. Price:
100.00 USD
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Gilman, William Melville's Early Life and Redburn. New York University Press 1951. Hardcover in DJ. Good Good, some wear soiling to dj. Octavo 378 pp " This new study of Melville's life from 1819 to 1841 shows the relation between his early years and Redburn, the book which seems to picture Melville's boyhood and youth." Price:
20.00 USD
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892 |
Gilson, Etienne Painting and Reality. Bollingen Series XXXV - 4. 1957. Hardcover Ex-lib, usual lib markings Quarto Fourth volume of the AW Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts. 367 pp 88 plates." A pictorial approach to philosophy...this book is the work of a philosopher asking himself philosophical questions on what her happens to know about a certain art." Price:
20.00 USD
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893 |
Ginns, Patsy Rough Weather Makes Good Timber - Carolinians Recall. University of North Carolina Press. 1977. 0807812889 Hardcover in DJ. Good Good Oblong 189 pp Rough Weather Makes Good Timber includes chapters on The Land, Home Life, Food, Work, Cash Crops, Happy Times, Hard Times, School and Church, Social Customs, Travel, and Stories and Legends. Individual narratives cover such diverse topics as the cooking of possum and bear meat. The oldest person Mrs. Ginns interviewed was ninety-seven; the youngest, fifty-three. The earliest firsthand accounts date from about 1885; the latest reach into the nineteen forties. This is a book that documents customs and folkways that are fast disappearing.It is a sample of the cultural heritage of North Carolina, which its people have preserved for themselves." Price:
10.00 USD
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Gladstone, William Men of Color. Thomas Pub 1993. 0939631482 Hardcover. Good Quarto Signed by author to previous owner. 227 pp Photographs, illustrations of blacks in the Civil War as well as histories of notable soldiers. List of Medal of Honor recipients, Songs from the Civil War. Price:
25.00 USD
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Glanvill, Joseph, 1636-1680. Saducismus Triumphatus: or, Full and Plain evidence concerning Witches and Apparitions in Two Parts, the First treating of their Possibility, the Second of their Real Existence. The Second Edition. The advantages whereof above the former, the Reader may understand out of Dr. H. More's Account prefixed thereunto. With two Authentick, but wonderful Stories of certain Swedish Witches, done into English by Anth. Horneck D.D. Printed by Tho. Newcomb, for S. Lowndes at his shop at the Savoy Gate 1682 3/4 leather binding with marbled boards. Later (@ Front cover detached, needs to be rebound. Title label on spine missing, needs to be replaced. Text block tight except for title page and frontispiece which need to be tipped back in. Small paperloss, next affecting text on pp 35, 25. Very light waterstain on 1 page. Needs a bookbinder's tender mercies. Octavo Signed on flyleaf and title page by previous owner Octavo @ 766 pp Engraved frontispiece depicting Saul and Samuel and additional engraved title-page showing supernatural events. With a last leaf containing an illustration of two stones voided by a child in Sweden with an advertisement on the verso. 3 small wood diagram engravings on pp 111, 113 and 199. Includes: 'Dr. H.M. his letter with the postscript to Mr. J.G.', 'Saducismus Triumphatus: or, Full and Plain evidence concerning Witches and Apparitions The First Part....' ' Some Considerations about Witchcraft in a Letter to Robert Hunt, Esq.', 'An appendage to this first part, Concerning the Possibility of Apparitions and Witchcraft....' 'An Answer to a Letter of a Learned Psychopyrist Concerning the True Notion of a Spirit' Henry Moore, Saducismus Triumphatus: or, Full and Plain evidence concerning Witches and Apparitions The Second Part....' 'A continuation of the collection: or, An addition of some few more ... stories of apparitions and witchcraft' Henry Moore, ''A whip for the droll, fidler to the atheist ... sent upon the occasion of the drummer of Tedworth, in a letter to ... Henry More D.D.'. . Also includes 'An account of what happen'd in the kingdom of Sweden in the years 1669 and 1670 ... to some persons that were accused for witches ... .' which was translated by Anthony Horneck, 'A Relation of the Strange Witchcraft discovered in the village Mobra in Swedeland'. Notations by previous owners - Sanderson (most likely) made corrections in the text in a few places where type was light or words missing most notably on pp 230 where he crossed the name out, put corrected name in also crossed out place name and put correct place name in. Starkey noted in ink pp 70 " This story gave rise to Mr Addison's Comedy The Drummer or Haunted House." A notation in pencil by another owner pp 170 " This....nothing of a steam engine.", Starkey noted in ink on the back of the title page of 'A Continuation...' " All the tricks in this relation were performed by one Jo. Collins as he afterwards (confessed?) (see?) an account of it in a book called "Anecdotes" in 2 volumes'." "The book affirmed the existence of witches with malign supernatural powers of magic, and attacked skepticism concerning their abilities. The book strongly influenced Cotton Mather and was influential in the Salem witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts. Mather's Wonders of the Invisible World is largely modeled after this book and its arguments. The book is also famous for telling the ghost story of the Drummer of Tedworth, an early poltergeist story." Wikipedia. Price:
5000.00 USD
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