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Notes On the State Of Virginia
by Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson’s chronicle of the natural, social, and political history of Virginia is at once a scientific discourse, an attempt to define America, and a brilliant examination of the idea of freedom.
The First Emancipator
by Andrew Levy
ANDREW LEVY was born in Mount Holly, New Jersey, in 1962. He received an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars in 1986 and a Ph.D. in literature from the University of Pennsylvania in 1991. Levy has published essays in Harper’s, Dissent, and The American Scholar, book reviews in the Chicago Tribune and The Philadelphia Inquirer, and has written or co-edited several books on American literature and writing. He lives in Indianapolis with his wife, Siobhan, and their son, Aedan, and is...
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Virginia History Books & Ephemera
Legacy From the Past, a Portfolio Of Eighty-Eight Original Williamsburg Buildings
by Foundation, Colonial Williamsburg
A Portrait of Rhoadesville Baptist Church 1888 - 1988.
by DARNELL, Marylin Faulconer, edited by Frederick & Patricia Thayer Seward
Orange, Virginia: Orange County Review, (1988). First edition. Octavo (9.25" x 6"), viii & 233 pages, illustrated. Publisher's maroon cloth lettered & decorated in gilt.
Bruise at the top edge of the upper cover, brief wear at two corners, previous owner's name, address, & phone number in ink at the front pastedown, otherwise very good.
"Rhoadsville Baptist Church was organized November 11, 1888 by a small group of Christian believers in the Eastern Section of Orange County, Virginia. The saw a need for... Read more about this item
Bruise at the top edge of the upper cover, brief wear at two corners, previous owner's name, address, & phone number in ink at the front pastedown, otherwise very good.
"Rhoadsville Baptist Church was organized November 11, 1888 by a small group of Christian believers in the Eastern Section of Orange County, Virginia. The saw a need for... Read more about this item
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£20.24
Rocky Mount: A View From the Head
by James H. Daughtridge
Vinton, VA: Gates Lane Publishers Book. Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). Fine; "Katherine James H. Daughtridge, Best Wishes 1999" on ffep.
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£12.14
JEFFERSON PAPERS. MEMORIAL OF THOMAS JEFFERSON RANDOLPH, OF VIRGINIA, IN REGARD TO THE PURCHASE AND PUBLICATION BY CONGRESS OF THE MANUSCRIPTS OF MR. JEFFERSON. 30th Cong., 1st Sess. HMD7
by Jefferson, Thomas
1847. 3pp, disbound, light wear and fox. Very Good. Randolph was the devisee of Jefferson's manuscript papers. Lacking the funds to publish them himself, he offers them here to the Congress "for a consideration they may deem adequate." The Joint Committee on the Library recommends purchasing them, and presents a draft statute to do so for $25,000.
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£40.48
Recollections (1936, Revised ) and The Inn of Existence (1941)
by William Cabell Bruce
1998 softcover as pictured. This is a reprint of the 1936 and 1941 originals, memoirs and musings of a Baltimore lawyer and politician born in Virginia at the onset of the Civil War. Bruce also wrote The Negro Problem, a disturbing example of late 19th century racist thinking which has unfortunately seen a resurgence in recent years. Binding is firm, spine is uncreased. Covers are rubbed and faded over spine with a few wrinkles at the fore. Inscription inside front cover by author's granddaughter. Text...
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£42.09
North America Sheet VIII Ohio, with Parts of Kentucky and Virginia
by SDUK (Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge)
London: Baldwin & Cradock, 1833. unbound. Map. Steel engraving with original hand outline. Image measures 15" x 12 1/2"<br/> <br/> Greatly detailed map of Ohio with parts of Kentucky, Virginia, and Indiana, divided into counties. Shows towns, major routes, Indian villages, court houses, forts, topographical features and waterways. In very good condition with a slight crease to upper left corner.<br> <br> The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge was formed...
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£80.95
Colonial Williamsburg
by Kopper Philip
Harry N. Abrams, 1986. Hardcover. Good. Former library book. Slight signs of wear on the cover. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this book's net price to charity organizations.
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£14.58
Virginia Voyages from Hakluyt.
by Hakluyt, Richard (Edited by David Quinn & Alison Quinn)
London: Oxford University Press. 1973. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Bookplate to Front Pastedown. Illustrated with Black and White plates. Fold-out map. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 195 pages. From the Oxford English Memoirs and Travels Series. . 1st thus. Hardback.
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£11.64
FIELD GUIDE TO THE CHESSIE NATURE TRAIL
by Tracy, Lisa & Jeanne Eichelberger
Mariner Companies, Inc.. Good+. 2009. First Edition. Softcover. Some pencil underlining. Curl to the cover. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 244 pages .
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£8.10
THE MAGAZINE OF ALBEMARLE COUNTY HISTORY Volume Sixty-Four
by Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society
Charlottesville: Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society. Very Good. 2006. Softcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 114 pages .
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£11.33
![ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA, PASSED AT CALLED SESSION, 1863, IN THE EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR OF THE COMMONWEALTH. [Bound with:] ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA, PASSED AT SESSION OF 1863-4, IN THE EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR OF THE COMMONWEALTH](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/936/142/1499142936.0.b.jpg)
ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA, PASSED AT CALLED SESSION, 1863, IN THE EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR OF THE COMMONWEALTH. [Bound with:] ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA, PASSED AT SESSION OF 1863-4, IN THE EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR OF THE COMMONWEALTH
by STATE OF VIRGINIA
Flexible paper-covered boards with paper spine label affixed to a linen back-strip, octavo, pp. 56, 107. Boards and label with shelf rubbing and soiling. Random foxing. Some pages toned heavily to the shade of brown commonly seen in these publications. Parrish and Willingham, 4390, 4391. Please note that P & W 4390 was bound WITHOUT the final page of the index (i.e., wanting page 57).
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£70.83
THEY MADE IT HAPPEN: A Memorial to Carrie McGeorge Burke, 1883-1971
by Watkins, L. Rees
Richmond: Woman's Missionary Union of Virginia. Very Good. 1975. Softcover. Signed by author on title-page. Owner's name stamped on endpaper. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 76 pages; Signed by Author .
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£8.10
A Brief & True Report Concerning Williamsburg in Virginia: Being an Account of the most important Occurences in the Place from its first Beginning to the present Time
by GOODWIN, Rutherfoord
Williamsburg: Colonial Williamsburg, 1941. Hardcover. Very Good. A fourth and abridged edition. Very good with worn corners and edges of the papercovered boards.
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£16.19
Signature
by GOODE, John (1829-1909)
Norfolk. unbound. very good. Large and boldly written signature: "John Goode - Norfolk - Virginia", executed on a 5.5" x 2" slip of paper. Fine condition.<br/> <br/> American politician who was elected a delegate to the Virginia Secession Convention and subsequently served in both the First and Second Confederate States of America Congresses from February 22, 1862 until the end of the war, and during the recesses of that body was a military aide on the staff of Major...
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£80.95
Williamsburg Cabinetmakers: The Archaeological Evidence
by Ivor Noel Hume
Williamsburg: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1971. Softcover. Fine in color printed wraps. 48 pp. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Colonial Williamsburg Archaeological Series No. 6.
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£28.33
The Citizen and the Republic: An Address Delivered before the West Virginia Bar Association, at its Annual Meeting at Martinsburg, West Va., January 5, 1900.
by GORDON, Armistead C
Staunton, Virginia: Stoneburner & Prufer, Publishers, 1900. First edition. 8vo, 18 pp. Original printed paper wraps, stapled.
Moderately tanned, slight edge wear, otherwise very good.
Decrying Henry George, Edward Bellamy & others, Gordon writes in conclusion, "And yet, however far the mighty vessel that bears us all, may seem of late to have veered from her course, because that I do believe in the ultimate saving common sense and patriotism of the plain American citizen, I look with confidence to some... Read more about this item
Moderately tanned, slight edge wear, otherwise very good.
Decrying Henry George, Edward Bellamy & others, Gordon writes in conclusion, "And yet, however far the mighty vessel that bears us all, may seem of late to have veered from her course, because that I do believe in the ultimate saving common sense and patriotism of the plain American citizen, I look with confidence to some... Read more about this item
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£48.57
HIGHLAND COUNTY
by Scott, Chris
Arcadia Publishing. Near Fine. 2008. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed and signed by author on title-page: "Thanks! Enjoy the story of a time : place. Chris 3/18/17". ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 128 pages; Signed by Author .
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£14.57
Old Virginia and Her Neighbours: In Two Volumes
by FISKE, John
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1897. Hardcover. Fair. First edition. Two volume set. Loss to spine head of volume two, spines of both volumes are torn, contemporary owner's gift inscription on endpapers, hinges cracked, front board on volume two detached but present, thus fair only.
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£16.19
Rail bird; Braune Ralle
by CATESBY, Mark
Nuremburg: Johann Seligmann, 1753. unbound. very good. Bird print. Etching with original hand coloring. Page measures 17" x 10", image measures 11.75" x 8.75".<br/> <br/> A rail is part of a cosmopolitan family of semi-amphibius birds. The bird is standing beside an endangered Soapwort Gentian flower native to Virginia. Minor wear and aging along edges. Mark Catesby (1683-1749), born in England, was America's first naturalist/illustrator. He was the first to...
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£283.32
MODULUS 12
by Geier, Gerard F. X
Charlottesville: University of Virginia School of Architecture. Good+. ca 1979. Softcover. Some soiling to the yellowed covers. Large corner bend to rear cover, with a small tear to the foreedge. ; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 77 pages .
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£12.14
THE BAYONET Vol. XXIII No. 6 June 2, 1965
by Augusta Military Academy
Fort Defiance, VA: Augusta Military Academy. Good+. 1965. Newspaper. Pages lightly browned. Tiny splits to the folds. Folded once. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 4 pages .
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£14.57
Robert Dinwiddie Servant of the Crown
by Alden, John Richard
VA: University Press of Virginia, 1973. Binding is solid, pages are clean, jacket is crisp with no tears, price-clipped/Very Good. Tan cloth
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£60.71
QUARTERLY BULLETIN ARCHEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA Volume 59, Number 3 September 2004
by Archeological Society Of Virginia
Archeological Society of Virginia. Very Good. 2004. Stapled wraps. Contents include: Analysis of Rimsherds from the Snidow Site (46MC1) , Mercer County, Vest Virginia; Prehistoric Settlements of Interior Streams in the Virginia Coastal Plain; Potomac Valley Prehistory: The Early Students; An Earthfast Surprise. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 60 pages .
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£11.33
THE BAYONET Vol. XXIII No. 4 March 26, 1965
by Augusta Military Academy
Fort Defiance, VA: Augusta Military Academy. Good+. 1965. Newspaper. Pages lightly browned. Tiny splits to the folds. Small edge tears. Folded once. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 4 pages .
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£14.57
The First Seventeen Years
by Hatch, Jr., Charles E
VA. UVA. 1957. 12th prt., Very Good, Softcover, binding is tight, text is clean, cover is crisp with minimal shelf wear
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£5.67
![Commentaries on the Laws of Virginia, Comprising the Substance of a Course of Lectures Delivered to the Winchester Law School [Two Volumes]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/821/611/1462611821.0.m.jpg)
