Search Results: Authors starting with L from George S. MacManus Company

LA FLESCHE, Francis. A Dictionary of the Osage Language. Wash., 1932. 406pp. Very good in orig. printed wrappers. BAE Bulletin 109.

1751. LA FONTAINE, Pierre de. The Adventures of Capt. De la Fontaine, Late an Officer in the Service of the States-General. Containing a Series of Singular and Interesting Events, Political, Amorous, and Military, in France, Holland, Turky, the Dutch West-Indies, England, &c. Taken from His Manuscript, and Revised (at His Own Request) By a Gentleman. London: Printed for F. Stamper and E. Downham, 1751. 1st ed. [4],60pp. Bound in period-style calf-backed marbled boards. Faint scattered foxing, light uniform toning, else very good or better. ESTC T110637. Rare, Worldcat locates only two copies. La Fontaine fled France, served as a soldier of fortune, and was imprisoned In Newgate Prison for forgery. With the ownership signature of Archibald Kennedy either the 11th Earl of Cassilis or his father who had the same name. The elder Kennedy was married to the granddaughter of Jacob Leisler, governor of New York in the 1690s. The Kennedys lived in New York City until the younger Archibald returned to Scotland… Read More

1930. LA FONTAINE, Jean de la. The Fables...Newly Translated Into English Verse by Joseph Auslander and Jacques Le Clercq. With Title-Page and Decorations Engraved on Copper by Rudolph Ruzicka. Two vols.Orig. cloth in broken publisher's slipcase. N.Y.: The Limited Editions Club, 1930. Limited to 1,500 copies printed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press. A fine set.

1898. LA SALLE, Nicholas de. Relation of the Discovery of the Mississippi River. Written from the Narrative of Nicholas de LaSalle, otherwise known as the little M. de La Salle. Translated by Melville B. Anderson. Chicago: Caxton Club, 1898. A fine uncut copy in orig. vellum-backed boards. In a slipcase. Howes L-109. Limited to 266 copies.

1964. LABAREE, Benjamin Woods. The Boston Tea Party. N.Y., 1964. Frontis. map. 347pp. Fine in orig. cloth, d/j.

LABAREE, Leonard W. Royal Government in America: A Study of the British Colonial System Before 1783. New Haven, 1930. 491pp. Orig. cloth. Very good copy.

(VIRGINIA REGIMENTAL). LABODA, Lawrence R. From Selma to Appomattox: The History of the Jeff Davis Artillery. [Shippensburg, PA]: White Mane Publishing Company, [1994]. 1st ed. xiv,385pp. Illus., portraits, maps. Orig. cloth, priceclipped d/j. Fine. On the life of soldiers in this Army of Northern Virginia unit.

LACEY, Francis D. Star Lake Romance, A Modern Poem of Love and Rivalry. Frontis. portrait. Original printed wrappers. Grand Rapids, MI: W.W. Hart, 1883. First edition. A romance between a "model heroine" and a young railroad engineer set in Michigan. Very good.

2868. LACOMBE, P. Les Armes et Les Armures. Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie., 1868. 1st ed. 302pp. Illus., plates. Orig. gilt-pictorial cloth. Faint scattered foxing, bookseller stamp on front free endpaper, else near fine.

LACY, Charles De Lacy. The History of the Spur. London: The Connoisseur (Otto Ltd.), [1911]. 1st ed. 4to. 81pp. Frontis., illus., plates. Orig. gilt-pictorial cloth. Light wear to spine ends and corners, front inner hinge starting, private library stamps to front endpapers, else very good. History of the development of spurs.

LACY, Dan. The Meaning of the American Revolution. [N.Y., 1964]. 1st ed. Illus. map. 308pp. Fine in d/j.

(ALASKA). LADA-MOCARSKI, Valerian. Bibliography of Books on Alaska Published Before 1868. Original cloth. Mansfield Centre, CT: Martino Fine Books, [n.d.]. Reprint of the 1969 Yale University Press edition. Reprint limited to 200 copies. Fine.

(ALASKA). LADA-MOCARSKI, Valerian. Bibliography of Books on Alaska Published Before 1868. With an Introduction by Archibald Hanna, Jr. 4to. Original cloth, dust jacket. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1969. First edition. Fine. Notes, bibliographical descriptions, and facsimiles of titlepages.

(MEXICAN WAR). LADD, Horatio A. History of the War With Mexico. N.Y., [1883]. Illus. folding map. Very good in orig. cloth.

LADD, John. Archeological Investigations in the Parita and Santa Maria Zones of Panama. Wash., 1964. Illus. with 25pp. of plates, plus many diagrams and maps. xii, 291pp. Orig. cloth. Very good. BAE Bulletin 193.

LADER, Lawrence. The Bold Brahmins. New England's War Against Slavery: 1831-1863. N.Y., 1961. 1st ed. Illus. 318pp. Fine in d/j.

LaFANTASIE, Glenn W. Gettysburg Requiem: The Life and Lost Causes of Confederate Colonel William C. Oates. [New York]: Oxford University Press, 2006. 1st ed. xxxi, 414 pp. Illus., portraits, maps. Orig. cloth-backed boards, d/j. Fine. Biography of Oates, best remembered for his defeat at Little Round Top, and his continuing devotion to the Lost Cause and his championing the cause of suffrage for black Americans.

2006. (OATES, WILLIAM C.). LaFANTASIE, Glenn W. Gettysburg Requiem: The Life and Lost Causes of Confederate Colonel William C. Oates. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. 1st ed. 8vo. xxxi, [3], 414 pp., plates. Orig. cloth-backed boards in non-priceclipped d/j; lecture invitation and ephemera laid in. Slightly bumped at the head of the spine, else near fine. Signed and inscribed by LaFantasie on the title page.

LaFANTASIE, Glenn W. Twilight at Little round Top: July 2, 1863--The Tide Turns at Gettysburg. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, [2005]. 1st ed. xix,315pp. Illus., portraits, map. Orig. boards, non-priceclipped d/j. Fine. Presentation inscription from the author on 1/2-title. Portraits of many of those who fought at Little Round Top.

LAFAYETTE, {Marquis de]. Lafayette in the Age of the American Revolution: Selected Letters and Papers, 1776-1790. Ed. by Stanley J. Idzerda. Vols. 1-4. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, [1977-1981]. 1st eds. Portrait frontises., illus., portraits, maps. Orig. cloth, non-priceclipped d/j. Fine. These four volumes cover 7 December 1776 to 23 December 1781.