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Bow Porcelain 1730-1747 by Pat Daniels - 2006
by Pat Daniels
Bow Porcelain 1730-1747
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The Lauderdale Papers - Volume I, 1639-1667
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History of the Philadelphia Almshouses and Hospitals From the Beginning of the Eighteenth to the Ending of the Nineteenth Centuries; With an Appendix containing a List of Former Visiting and Resident Physicians; Illustrated from Photographs [provenance: the Wistar Institute's "light-fingered curator" Thomas N. Haviland]
by Lawrence, Charles
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Philadelphia: Charles Lawrence, 1905. Hardcover. Very Good. "Covering a Period of Nearly Two Hundred Years: showing the mode of distributing public relief through the management of the boards of Overseers of the Poor, Guardians of the Poor and the directors of the Department of Charities and Correction." 398 p., frontispiece and 20 leaves of plates; 24 cm. Olive green cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles. Endpapers with light green floral pattern. Former owner Thomas N. Haviland's name written on front free endpaper and bookplate on front fixed endpaper. Inscription on front fixed endpaper indicating that someone, possibly Haviland, purchased the book at Leary's Bookstore, in Philadelphia, in 1954. Thomas N. Haviland (d. 1986) in the late 1930s was the museum curator at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathy. In the 1950s he was the curator at the Wistar Institute; after his death it was discovered that he had relieved that Institute of items that were later found…
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A Collection of Scale-Drawings, Details, and Sketches of What is Commonly Known As Colonial Furniture
by Nye, Alvan Crocker
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NY: William Helburn. Good; Library stamp on lower right corner of each leaf, leaves tattered at edges, library pocket and stamps, de-accession correspondence enclosed.. 1895. Hardcover. Measured drawings by the architect author of colonial American furniture, including high-boys, clocks, tables, looking glasses, beds, and various chair styles. A collection of 55 plates of measured drawings and three other printed leaves measuring 17x12 inches housed in a folding red cloth-covered portfolio titled in gilt and with black cloth ties. ; Ex-Library; Folio 13" - 23" tall .
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Indian Captivity: A True Narrative of the Capture of Rev. O.M. Spencer, by the Indians, in the Neighbourhood of Cincinnati. (circa 1875)
by O. M. Spencer
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Circa 1875 edition of popular captivity narrative. Nelson & Phillips, New York. Spencer was 11 when captured in 1792. Brown blindstamped cloth, gilt title on spine. Condition is Very Good: Recased using original boards sometime in last 40 years. Modern endpapers. No interior writing, occasional foxing, some smudges, old corner folds. Small hole pp.13/14 affecting a few letters. Binding is sound. 160 pages with 4 plates and 4 engravings embedded in text all included in pagination. Contents bound at end as usual with this book. The plates and engravings are same topics and locations as the 1842 edition but are by a different engraver. True first edition is 1835 in either New York or Pennsylvania. See Howes S843; Ayer 272; Field 1470; Graff 3930 and OCLC: 35730821. Please see images of the book you will receive. Notes: putting an accurate date on this edition is problematic. Nelson began publishing in 1854 so definitely after that. WorldCat suggests "187?" which is reasonable looking at materials used.…
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Reminiscences of Old Hawaii (with a brief biography by Lorrin A. Thurston)
by Sereno Edwards Bishop
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Honolulu, HI: Hawaiian Gazette Co, 1916. 1st edition. Hardcover. very good. Hawaiian Gazette Co, 1916, hardcover, 64 pages, 6 pages with photos, binding solid, cover with some shelf wear. The front endpages have some spots and small, old wormholes. All text and photo pages very clean, no foxing. Ships from Hawaii with free Priority Mail upgrade within US.
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The Lauderdale Papers - Volume I, 1639-1667
by Airy, Osmund [edited by]
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Westminster: Printed for The Camden Society, 1884 IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. XIV, 300pp, bound in original brown cloth, with blind stamped borders. ASSOCIATION COPY - From the personal collection of Francis M. O'Brien, author and Legendary Maine Bookseller (no markings). ALSO signature of "David Baird Smith" on the ffp. Covers show bumped corners, edge wear/tear to top/heel of backstrip. Pencil notations on back free endpaper. BINDING AND HINGES TIGHT. Scottish History.
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History of the Philadelphia Almshouses and Hospitals From the Beginning of the Eighteenth to the Ending of the Nineteenth Centuries; With an Appendix containing a List of Former Visiting and Resident Physicians; Illustrated from Photographs [provenance: the Wistar Institute's "light-fingered curator" Thomas N. Haviland]
by Lawrence, Charles
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Philadelphia: Charles Lawrence, 1905. Hardcover. Very Good. "Covering a Period of Nearly Two Hundred Years: showing the mode of distributing public relief through the management of the boards of Overseers of the Poor, Guardians of the Poor and the directors of the Department of Charities and Correction." 398 p., frontispiece and 20 leaves of plates; 24 cm. Olive green cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles. Endpapers with light green floral pattern. Former owner Thomas N. Haviland's name written on front free endpaper and bookplate on front fixed endpaper. Inscription on front fixed endpaper indicating that someone, possibly Haviland, purchased the book at Leary's Bookstore, in Philadelphia, in 1954. Thomas N. Haviland (d. 1986) in the late 1930s was the museum curator at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathy. In the 1950s he was the curator at the Wistar Institute; after his death it was discovered that he had relieved that Institute of items that were later found…
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A Collection of Scale-Drawings, Details, and Sketches of What is Commonly Known As Colonial Furniture
by Nye, Alvan Crocker
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NY: William Helburn. Good; Library stamp on lower right corner of each leaf, leaves tattered at edges, library pocket and stamps, de-accession correspondence enclosed.. 1895. Hardcover. Measured drawings by the architect author of colonial American furniture, including high-boys, clocks, tables, looking glasses, beds, and various chair styles. A collection of 55 plates of measured drawings and three other printed leaves measuring 17x12 inches housed in a folding red cloth-covered portfolio titled in gilt and with black cloth ties. ; Ex-Library; Folio 13" - 23" tall .
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Indian Captivity: A True Narrative of the Capture of Rev. O.M. Spencer, by the Indians, in the Neighbourhood of Cincinnati. (circa 1875)
by O. M. Spencer
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Circa 1875 edition of popular captivity narrative. Nelson & Phillips, New York. Spencer was 11 when captured in 1792. Brown blindstamped cloth, gilt title on spine. Condition is Very Good: Recased using original boards sometime in last 40 years. Modern endpapers. No interior writing, occasional foxing, some smudges, old corner folds. Small hole pp.13/14 affecting a few letters. Binding is sound. 160 pages with 4 plates and 4 engravings embedded in text all included in pagination. Contents bound at end as usual with this book. The plates and engravings are same topics and locations as the 1842 edition but are by a different engraver. True first edition is 1835 in either New York or Pennsylvania. See Howes S843; Ayer 272; Field 1470; Graff 3930 and OCLC: 35730821. Please see images of the book you will receive. Notes: putting an accurate date on this edition is problematic. Nelson began publishing in 1854 so definitely after that. WorldCat suggests "187?" which is reasonable looking at materials used.…
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Reminiscences of Old Hawaii (with a brief biography by Lorrin A. Thurston)
by Sereno Edwards Bishop
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Honolulu, HI: Hawaiian Gazette Co, 1916. 1st edition. Hardcover. very good. Hawaiian Gazette Co, 1916, hardcover, 64 pages, 6 pages with photos, binding solid, cover with some shelf wear. The front endpages have some spots and small, old wormholes. All text and photo pages very clean, no foxing. Ships from Hawaii with free Priority Mail upgrade within US.
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A History of American Art
by Daniel M. Mendelowitz
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This book is in good condition. There is some wear on the front, back, spine, edges and corner of the cover. There is some dog-earring on the right corner pages of the book. The pages are white, crisp and clear of any markings. "This is a history of the visual arts produced in the geographical area that now constitutes the United States. Such a book is difficult to title. A History of United States Art sounds awkward and logically might even be construed to exclude the arts of the colonial period. Thus, with apologies to our northern and southern neighbors, I use the title A History of American Art, knowing full well that the terms America and the United States are not synonymous...." - Preface from A History of American Art
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Beeswax: Production, Harvesting, Processing and Procuts
by Coggshall, William L & Roger A Morse
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New York: Wicwas Press, 1984. 8vo size trade paperback; 192 pages with a few illustrations and photographs Contents include: Beeswax Grading and Economics Harvesting Beeswax Commercial Preparation of Beeswax for Market Testing Beeswax Beeswax in Comb Foundation Beeswax in Candles Beeswax in Art and Industry Showing and Judging Beeswax Home Products including Candles and Car and Floor Polishes Moderate wear and edgewear to covers, light soil to top of book and shelf soil to bottom fore-edge. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Oregon; Or, a Short History of a Long Journey: Narrative of a Journey Across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River
by John B. Wyeth
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YE Gallon Press, 1970. Limited Edition. #499/605. VG. Interior is tight, clean, and free of ownership marks except for one penciled notation on the flyleaf. Cloth boards show shelf and handling wear with light soiling, edge, corner, and spine wear. Overall a solid copy showing minimal signs of use. Photo is of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books.
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Vietnam: A History
by Stanley Karnow
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This book is in good condition. There is a lot of wear on the front, back, spine and edges of the cover boards. There is also a substantial amount of staining on the cover boards. The pages are yellowed and tanned. There are also markings throughout the book. "The roots of this book reach back to the early 1950s in Paris, where I began my professional career as a journalist. France, supported by the United States, was then fighting to retain its hold in Indochina against the Vietminh, the Communist-led nationalist movement there. As I reported on the French end of the war, I soon became acquainted with the names and places in Vietnam from a distance, But I scarcely imagined that they were to be part of my own experience. Then, in 1959, I was assigned to cover eastern Asia; the region that included Vietnam became my beat for more than two decades. I visited Vietnam most recently in 1981 for seven weeks, the longest permitted an American correspondent since the Communists gained control of the entire…
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A Rebel Came Home: The Diary and Letters of Floride Clemson, 1863-1866
by Lander & McGee (editors)
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Top edge of jacket slightly flared but overall in excellent condition. Book itself is clean and free of any markings except for previous owner's name on first page (Jeanne M. Nixon). Book has some light shelf wear to corners and spine is slightly canted. Solid binding. 189 indexed pages. 0.75" X 6.25" X 9.25" 2cm X 16cm X 23.5cm Part of the series "Women's Diaries and Letters of the Nineteenth-Century South". Illustrated by Olivia Jackson McGee with additional black and white photo reproductions. Includes a family tree. The Revised edition includes additional material in the form of letters between Floride and her mother Anna Maria Calhoun Clemson between July-October 1863 at the height of the Civil War. The main body of the book is Floride's journal from January 1863 until 1866. The main sections concern Florida's trip to Niagara in summer 1863, the journey form Beltsville Maryland to Pendleton South Carolina at the end of the 1864, and the last says of Floride's grandmother Mr.s John C. Calhoun in…
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America's War for Humanity: Including a Complete History of the World War Up-To-date
by Russell, Thomas H
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USA: L. W. Walter, 1917. Hardcover with no dust jacket, 1917. Book has heavier corner wear to board corners and edges, and spinefoot, and aging and some soiling to cloth. This book has blue cloth with navy and red text and design. Tipped plate of American flag on center of front board. Interior tanning heavily from age and book has light warping from age and moisture. Has small bookworm hole affecting the upper right corner of pages 23- 83, completely out of the way of any text and only about 1/2 inch in depth. Missing page corner as depicted, affecting the first front illustration page, affects a small amount of caption text, and the edges of 2 photos. Book generally lays flat and is readable and is fairly supple, Binding is decent and will permit reading. Fair condition, but not terrible for its age. 100+ illustrations. A peice of history, as this was basically news when this was printed. RARE EDITION: NOT A REPRINT. THIS IS THE REAL DEAL.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo -…
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Samuel The Seeker
by Sinclair, Upton
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Sinclair, Upton. Samuel, The Seeker Copyright 1910. Apparently published by author. No publisher stated. First Edition. States printed at Western Printing and Lithography, Racine, WI. Yellow Boards with black titling. Used. Very Good/ No Dj is Included. Rare/Scarce. A nice copy.
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The Lick Observatory of the University of California, Eleventh Edition, 1947
by Lick Observatory
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University of California Press, 1947. 11th. Paperback. Author unstated : The Lick Observatory of the University of California - A Brief Descriptive Account Prepared at the Observatory. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1947. Eleventh Edition. Stapled booklet, size is demy octavo (8vo), 8 1/8"/21cm h. Bound in publisher's dark green wrapper stapled to textblock. [vi] pp prelim material, 47 numbered pp, plus three blank. Glossy paper. In addition to many b&w photos, included is information for visitors, organizational info about the observatory, its Chile station, its students, features it observed, acknowledgments. Condition notes: Staples rusted, but holding, moderate wear and scuffing but no tears to wrappers. No notes or highlighting. The observatory is on Mount Hamilton near San Jose, CA. We learn that the observatory was the gift of James Lick, who also left money to support building of a monument to Francis Scott Key in San Francisco, "...a Home for Old Ladies in San Francisco..." and…
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To the Golden Door
by Potter, George
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Little, Brown, and Company, 1960. Used-Very Good. Hard Bound
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Bobby Fischer Goes to War (SIGNED) (FIRST EDITION): How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time
by David; Eidinow, John Edmonds
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- 9780060510244 / 0060510242
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2004 - SIGNED by one of the authors on the title page - FIRST EDITION stated "1" present - book: very good+ - tight, sound, and square - all pages are clean and unmarked - not remainder - dj: very good+ - no chips or tears - not price clipped (NPC) - slight amount of edgewear "In the summer of 1972, with a presidential crisis stirring in the United States and the cold war at a pivotal point, two men -- the Soviet world chess champion Boris Spassky and his American challenger Bobby Fischer -- met in the most notorious chess match of all time. Their showdown in Reykjavik, Iceland, held the world spellbound for two months with reports of psychological warfare, ultimatums, political intrigue, cliffhangers, and farce to rival a Marx Brothers film."
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