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Subject: legal history
THE PROVIDENCE JOURNAL: 150 Years
Byrnes, Garrett D. & C.H. Spilman
/ Journal Co. 1980
494 pp., hardcover, fine in edge worn dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0937550019
Subject/Keywords: su2 newspaper media history
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Item #: 1336014
$48.00
The comical chronicle of the Dexter Fellows Tent of the Circus Saints and Sinners Association
Pancoast, Chalmers Lowell, & Reginald T. Townsend, compilers
/ NY: The Dexter Fellows Tent of the Circus Saints and Sinners Association 1957
199 pp., original illustrated cloth (hardcover), very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: americana social history
Item #: 1336029
$30.00
The Decline of the West. Volume I: Form and Actuality. Volume II: Perspectives of World-History [Two Volume Set]
Oswald Spengler. Charles F. Atkinson, translator
/ Alfred A. Knopf 1950
1950 printings; 2 volumes, xv, 428, xxxi, [1] + 507, xxxii pp., three folding charts in the first volume; original black cloth (hardcovers), near fine in edge-worn, faded, price-clipped dust jackets. Volumes
Included: 2
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: historiography history
Item #: 1335918
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$269.50
The King's Mother. Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby
Jones, Michael K., Underwood, Malcolm G.
/ Cambridge University Press 1993
364 pp., Paperback, fine. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0521447941
Subject/Keywords: british history ob5
Item #: 1336040
$29.09
Becoming Visible. An Illustrated History of Lesbian and Gay Life in Twentieth - Century America
Molly McGarry, Fred Wasserman, Mimi Bowling
/ Penguin Group 1998
first edition, first printing, xvii, 2814 pp., Hardcover, fine in a very good dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0670864013
Subject/Keywords: history gay lesbian ob5
Item #: 1336047
$24.25
The Sylvania Beam. Published monthly for employees of Sylvania Electric Products, Inc. January 1945, Vol. V, No. 1
Sylvania Electric Products, Inc.
/ Sylvania Electric Products, Inc. 1945
28 pp., original illustrated paper wrappers, some light moisture staining, else good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN:
Subject/Keywords: world war II Sylvania Electric Products business history fbf
Item #: 1335831
$45.00
The Depravities of War
Sandow Birk
/ HuiPress Publications / Grand Central Press 2007
signed by Sandow Birk at the title page; 96 pp., Hardcover, near fine. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0977169693
Subject/Keywords: art history ob5 office
Item #: 1335141
$37.24
Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment
Wolff, Larry
/ Stanford University Press 1996
436 pp., paperback, fine. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0804727023
Subject/Keywords: nfb european history
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Item #: 1334817
$18.45
Report on the Zoological Collections Made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean During the Voyage of H.M.S. 'Alert' 1881-2
R. W. Coppinger, et al. The British Museum
/ London: Trustees of the British Museum 1884
THIS IS THE FIRST EDITION, PUBLISHED BY THE BRITISH MUSEUM IN 1884; xxv, 684 pp., 52 plates; original gilt & blind stamped blue cloth (hardcover), rear joint frayed, front joint starting at the top, else very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 1371901244
Subject/Keywords: natural history fbf
Item #: 1334638
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$264.11
Abraham Trembley of Geneva: Scientist and Philosopher 1710-1784
Baker, John R.
/ Edward Arnold 1952
259 pp., hardcover, previous owner's name to the front free endpaper, else very good in a worn and faded dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: history of science fbf
Item #: 1334637
$15.37
The French Race: Theories of its Origins and Their Social and Political Implications Prior to the Revolution
Jacques Barzun
/ Columbia University Press 1932
first edition, inscribed by Jacques Barzun; 275 pp., hardcover, very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: france french history
Item #: 1333968
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$158.19
Myself, my two countries...
Xavier Marcel Boulestin
/ London: Cassell and Company 1936
first British edition, inscribed by the author; 309 pp., frontis., plates; original blue cloth (hardcover), lacks the jacket, else very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: culinary history cook books france etiquette
Item #: 1333949
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$294.00
Soldiers and Their Science
Luke Brabazon. Frederick Whittaker, association copy
/ London: John W. Parker 1860
THIS IS THE 1860 FIRST EDITION, PUBLISHED BY JOHN W. PARKER; viii, 295 pp., original gilt & blind stamped red cloth (hardcover), spine chipped, corners worn, old inked note to the front paste down, "General de Peyster" inked in red to the title page; else good; tipped-in to the front free endpaper is an August 20, 1871 autograph letter, signed (one sheet folded for four octavo pages) from novelist Frederick Whittaker to General J. Watts de Peyster in which he gives his opinions on various military authors including Captain Brabazon, thanks de Peyster for his help on a book that was to be published years later as "The Irish Captain: A tale of Fontenoy", and remarks on a "domestic story" he has a commission for - "I'm going to remodel General Lamode, cut off his head, fill out his inn'ards, and put a tail on him, to fill the order." Whittaker, a prolific dime and nickel adventure writer and author of a short biography of de Peyster, met a strange end when he tripped while going up a flight of stairs and somehow managed to shoot himself in the head. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: military history
Item #: 1333929
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$379.36
The Lakewood Story. With a Foreword by John Lewis Shissler
Margaret Manor Butler
/ NY: Stratford House 1949
first edition, signed by the author; xi, 271 pp., plates, original gilt stamped red cloth (hardcover), very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: history CLP urban studies ohioana american
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Item #: 1332785
$10.96
Antiguedad del Hombre en Mexico y Centroamerica: Catalogo Razonado de Localidades y Bibliografia Selecta (1867 - 1961). Cuadernos del Instituto de Historia. Serie Antropologica, No. 14
Arroyo de Anda, Luis Aveleyra
/ Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico Mexico 1962
72 pp., folding maps, Paperback, faint age-toning to covers, INSCRIBED by the author on front cover else text clean & binding tight. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: anthropology history dwd
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Item #: 1332533
$18.00
Cromwell
Belloc, Hilaire
/ J. B. Lippincott 1934
first American edition; 356 pp., original red cloth (hardcover), lacks the jacket, else near fine. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: english literature british history
Item #: 1332032
$17.71
Lives of the brothers Humboldt, Alexander and William. Translated and arranged from the German...by Juliette Bauer. With portraits
Klencke & Schleisier
/ NY: Harper & Brothers 1853
NY: Harper & Brothers, 1853; first American edition; 398, 10 (ads) pp., 2 frontis. portraits; original cloth (hardcover), previous owner's name to the front paste down, moderate foxing, else very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: natural history ff5
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Item #: 1331467
$27.26
Radioactive Contamination of the Tokyo Metropolitan Area: Five Years after the Fukushima Nuclear Accident
Yamazaki, Hideo
/ Springer 2020
268 pp., hardcover, new. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 9811573670
Subject/Keywords: ap1 nuclear energy japan history
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Item #: 1331631
$79.77
The History of England from the Accession of James II (Cambridge Library Collection - British & Irish History, 17th & 18th Centuries) (Volume 5)
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, Trevelyan, Hannah More Macaulay
/ Cambridge University Press 2011
412 pp., paperback, slight crease to bottom corner of front cover, else fine. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 1108036058
Subject/Keywords: fbf history
Item #: 1330450
$25.66
The History of England from the Accession of James II (Cambridge Library Collection - British & Irish History, 17th & 18th Centuries) (Volume 2)
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, Trevelyan, Hannah More Macaulay
/ Cambridge University Press 2011
704 pp., paperback, fine. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 1108036023
Subject/Keywords: fbf history
Item #: 1330449
$28.85