Search Results: History from Charles Agvent

(Berlin), 1803. First Edition. Hardcover. Partial modern bookplate on verso of front wrap. Light to moderate foxing but a Fine copy of a scarce title. 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.

New York: The Macaulay Company , 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Owner presentation on half-title page. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with darkened spine. An attempt to see Columbus as a man rather than an "animated monument." Illustrated with ten plates.

(Barberton, OH): Kent State University Museum, (2010). First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Softcover (9-1/2" x 9-1/2"), 224 pages. Foreword by Linda Allard. Color illustrations on nearly every page.

New York: The Dial Press, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper. With the collaboration of Olive Rathbun Wilcox. Illustrated with maps designed by Richard Edes Harrison. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Stefansson on the half-title page on 27 January 1947 "For Dr. D C Coleman/from his admirer and/old friend." Also SIGNED by Wilcox and Harrison by their printed names on the title page.

London: M. Poulson, W. Taylor, et. al./W. Taylor and C. Rivington, 1723/1724. Fifth Edition/Early Edition. Hardcover. Many lousy copies of these titles are available online, but few in the Near Fine condition of this volume. Contents clean and crisp, interesting old bookplate pasted over another interesting bookplate on the front pastedown; binding lovely with the spine darkened and minor wear along the joints, covers tight. Near Fine. Two octavo (4-3/4" x 7-3/4") volumes bound in one in early paneled calf leather with a gilt-lettered morocco spine label; [xxiv], 312; viii, iv, 138; [10] pages. The second volume has a frontispiece illustration of a battle. First title translated into English by J. Mitchell; the second translation not credited. Both of these titles by the French clergyman and historian first appeared in the last decade of the 17th century.

Oxford: Theater, 1674. First English Edition. Hardcover. Occasional foxing or stain; short closed tear to one leaf with no loss. Leather cracked, dry, and peeling, but sound. Very Good. 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 I, 178; Wing S851. Illustrated with an engraved title page, a folding map, and 26 large woodcut text engravings, including the FIRST DEPICTION IN AN ENGLISH LANGUAGE BOOK OF A PERSON SKIING. Both covers bear the arms of Henry Yelverton (1664-1704), 15th Baron Grey de Ruthyn and Viscount de Longueville. Lapland is the least densely populated area of Finland. The Sami people, traditionally known in English as Lapps or Laplanders, are the northernmost indigenous people of Europe and are widely credited with being the inventors of the ski.

Boston: Gould, Kendall & Lincoln, 1836. First Edition. Hardcover. Lacking front endpaper; library ink stamp on one page and blindstamp on title and three other pages; text fairly clean. Much of backstrip missing. Good. Publisher's blindstamped green cloth; 374, 6 [ads] pages. John Mason Peck was a pioneer Baptist missionary to the western frontier who founded one of the first Protestant churches west of the Mississippi, the first college in Illinois, and ordained the first African-American clergy in St. Louis. GRAFF 3235; HOWES P-171.

London: Monotype Corp, 1964. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good. 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 print to public debate as an essential preliminary to the formation of democratic public policy. This copy INSCRIBED by Carter on the front endpaper: "for E. A. Lowe/from the writer of the Preface/9 Sept. 64." There is also a signature of "John Carter" at the top of the front cover, but the handwriting does not completely resemble Carter's.

London: Joseph Mawman, 1802. First Edition. Hardcover. The map is detached and has a short closed tear with little effect on the image. Scattered staining and foxing but generally clean. Bindings rubbed but the covers are tight. Very Good. 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 the people and detailed observations on natural history. Much of the second volume concerns Lapland where he visited remote areas described here.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967. First Edition. hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. 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 small bookseller's ticket on the rear pastedowns.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. 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 pastedowns and small bookseller's ticket on the rear pastedowns.