Acceptance and Unveiling of the Statue of Gen. John Campbell Greenway - Presented by the State of Arizona - Proceedings in the Congress and in Statuary Hall United States Capitol

Washington, DC, Government Printing Office, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. 35pp. Original blue cloth stamped in gold on the front panel. Two small spots to lower edge of the front panel, tiny tear to the front free endpaper. A bright, near fine copy. ; Octavo. .

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Book number: 23660

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: non-fiction, AMERICANA, SENATE DOCUMENTS, ARIZONA Americana

Carte Routière Taride Pour Cyclistes & Automobiles Du Nord-Est de la France (N. 2)

Paris, A. Taride, 1908. Map. A map of the North East of France on linen. Measures 89 x 68 cm. Light toning and soiling to linen. Near fine condition. .

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Book number: 22636

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: EPHEMERA, MAPS, FRANCE Ephemera

The First One Hundred and Fifty Years: A History of John Wiley and Sons, Incorporated, 1807-1957

New York, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. 242pp. Red half morocco stamped in gold on the sides, lettered and decorated in gold on the spine, all edges gilt, silk boomark. Comes in the original red cloth slipcase. This copy was made specifically for J. Stetson Barnes, Jr. (whose picture appears on page 211), then one of the vice presidents of the company. His name is stamped on the front board and on the slipcase. Illustrated with b&w photographs. A touch of foxing to the slipcase, mild edge wear. A fine copy in near fine slipcase. ; Octavo. .

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Book number: 22699

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: non-fiction, PUBLISHING INDUSTRY, UNITED STATES, JOHN WILEY AND SONS, PUBLISHERS

Mrs. John Doe: A Book Wherein for the First Time an Attempt Is Made to Determine Woman's Share in the Purchasing Power of the Nation

New York, The Butterick Publishing Company, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. 93pp. Cloth backed boards, paper label with title affixed to the front panel. Illustrated. Mild wear to corner tips and tiny white spot to spine else a fine copy. ; Octavo. .

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Book number: 24468

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: non-fiction, AMERICANA, WOMEN, ECONOMICS Americana

Origini Sviluppo E Programma Delle Ferrovie Italiane Dello Stato Stampato in Occasione Delle Celebrazioni Torinesi Per IL Centenario Del 1848

Roma, Ministero dei Trasporti, 1948. Ephemera. Brown folder printed in black and red. The folder contains a 16pp booklet with a brief history of the Italian railroads and ten prints depicting Italian trains and stations.; 17.5 x 24 cm. .

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Book number: 16654

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: EPHEMERA, TORINO, ITALY, italian book, Italian Language, TRANSPORTATION, TRAINS, RAILROADS Ephemera

Report from His Majesty's Commissioners for Inquiring Into the System of Military Punishments in the Army; with Appendices

London, W. Clowes and Sons, 1836. First Edition. Hardcover. xxiii, 334pp + 198pp appendices. Half vellum and marbled boards, red leather label lettered in gold on the spine. With the bookplate of Henry I. Shaw, Jr. on the front free endpaper. Stain to bottom edge, heavy wear to spine heel and small loss to back cover. A solid very good- copy. ; Quarto. .

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Book number: 22071

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: non-fiction, ANTIQUARIAN, GREAT BRITAIN, MILITARY Antiquarian

The Royal Kalendar; or Complete and Correct Annual Register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and America, for the Year 1783

London, Printed for J. Debrett, 1783. First Edition. Hardcover. 272pp. Includes Cardanus Rider's Sheet Almanack, for the Year of Our Lord God 1783. Full red leather, sides and edges decorated in gold, spine elaborately adorned and with black leather label lettered in gold, all edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. The section on America includes The Military and Civil Establishments, Governors, Law and Revenue Offices, etc. Some wear to extremities, front joint and spine panel partially split. A very good copy. ; Octavo. .

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Book number: 22654

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: non-fiction, GREAT BRITAIN, ANTIQUARIAN Antiquarian

Trial of Mary Ann Burdock for the Wilful Murder of Mrs. Clara Ann Smith, by Administering Arsenic, Before the Recorder, Sir Charles Wetherell, April 10, 11, and 13, 1835; Counsel for the Prosecution, Messrs. Smith, Rogers, and Cooke; for the Prisoner, Messrs. Payne and Stone. With an Account of Her Execution, on Wednesday, April 15, 1835

London, Printed by P. Rose and Son, Broadmed, Bristol, 1835. First Edition. Hardcover. 44pp. Contemporary cloth backed boards, portrait frontispiece. With the bookplate of Sir George Chetwynd, 2nd Baronet, on the front board and the front pastedown endpaper and the small, gilt bookplate of Alexander McGrigor on the front free endpaper. Also with the small blind stamp of Crendon Hall on the title page and first page. In his book "On Poisons, in Relation to Medical Jurisprudence and Medicine" (Lea & Blanchard, Philadelphia, 1848), Doctor Alfred Swaine Taylor states: "The great value of chemical evidence in otherwise doubtful cases of poisoning, was never more strongly shown than at the trial of Mary Ann Burdock at Bristol, in 1835.. The body of the deceased had been buried fourteen months: it was exhumed, and the poison discovered in the stomach and viscera." This advance in forensic science led to a substantial increase in poisoning trials. Chipping to spine, some soiling to boards. Internally clean but for some very mild scattered foxing. A good+ copy. ; Octavo. .

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Book number: 23774

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: NON-FICTION, ANTIQUARIAN, MURDER TRIALS, LAW, 1800s, POISONING Antiquarian

The Vermont Directory and Commercial Almanac for 1869, Being the First After Bissextile or Leap Year, and Closing the Ninety-Third and Beginning the Ninety-Fourth Year of the Independence of the United States

Claremont, NH, The Claremont Manufacturing Co, 1869. First Edition. Hardcover. 4, xii, 144, [2]pp. The first four leaves constitute a foldout map of Vermont. Original brown cloth stamped in blind and gold on the front panel and in blind on the rear panel. Includes a business directory, notes on the civil government of Vermont, schools, authorized text books, railroads with distances, etc. Some pencil annotations in the memoranda section, the corner of one leaf is torn, name and scribble in pencil on front endpapers, light wear to extremities. A very good copy. ; Small octavo. .

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Book number: 23557

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: VERMONT, AMERICANA, ANTIQUARIAN, UNITED STATES, NON-FICTION Antiquarian Americana

Abbott, John S. C.

The Child at Home;, or, the Principles of Filial Duty Familiarly Illustrated

New York, American Tract Society, 1833. First Edition. Hardcover. 173pp. Original quarter calf over brown cloth, spine lettered in gold. Engraved frontispiece and title vignette. Two leaves detached, light foxing to text block. About very good. ; 24mo. .

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Book number: 31878

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: ANTIQUARIAN, Young Adults, non-fiction Children and Young Adults Antiquarian

Abbott, Charles

A Treatise of the Law Relative to Merchant Ships and Seamen: In Four Parts: I) of the Owners of Merchant Ships; II) of the Persons Employed in the Navigation Thereof; III) of the Carriage of Goods Therein; IV) of the Wages of the Merchant Seamen. Enlarged with an Addenda Relative to Some Laws and Customs of the United States

Philadelphia, Printed by James Humphreys for Cushing and Appleton, 1802. First US Edition. Hardcover. First US edition published the same year as the British. xvi, [17]-342pp + [4]pp of subscribers' names and [2]pp of publisher's advertisements. Recent tan half calf over marbled boards, spine with four raised bands, gilt lettering and decorations. This was the first English treatise devoted exclusively to the law of shipping. With chapters on property in British ships, qualifications of the master and mariners, authority of the master, payment of freight, salvage, hiring of seamen, wages, vessels of the United States, form of articles generally used between master and mariners in the United States, and more. Also includes an index of cases cited. Faint stain affecting upper and lower edge of text block (more visible on title page), old annotation in ink on page 285. A very good+ copy. Shaw & Shoemaker 3152. .

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Book number: 30715

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: ANTIQUARIAN, non-fiction, MARITIME LAW, GREAT BRITAIN, UNITED STATES, AMERICANA Antiquarian Americana

Accattatis, Aldo; Bartuli, Napoleone

Polemica: Rivista Di Idee. (Six Issue Run)

Roma, Napoleone Bartuli, 1960. First Edition. Pictorial wrappers. The set includes six issues in four volumes (January 1960 to October/November 1960). Contributions by Angelo Morretta, Aldo Accattatis, Pietro Pizzarelli, Luigi Arata, Mario Lunetta, Marino Piazzolla, and others. The average condition is near fine. One issue has pen markings on the front cover. In the Italian language. Uncommon. ; 24mo. .

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Book number: 29122

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: LITERARY MAGAZINES, MAGAZINES, POETRY Fiction and Literature Magazines

Accolti, Piero

Viaggio Attraverso I Vini Di Francia

Roma, Edi Europa, 1967. Hardcover. 196pp. Blue cloth stamped in red and gold on the spine panel. A journalist's first hand account of various wine tasting (and culinary) travels through France. With color photographs and several foldout leaves with numerous original unused wine and liquor labels. Includes a geographical index of wines. A fine copy in acetate dustwrapper. Comes in the original slipcase. In the Italian language. ; Octavo. .

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Book number: 26747

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: ITALIAN BOOKS, ITALIAN LANGUAGE, non-fiction, WINES, CHAMPAGNE, FRANCE, TRAVEL Travel

Adams, John Quincy

Speech [Suppressed by the Previous Question] of Mr. John Quincy Adams, of Massachusetts, on the Removal of the Public Deposites [Sic], and Its Reasons

Washington, DC, Printed by Gales and Seaton, 1834. First Edition. Pamphlet. 43pp. Folded sheets. Some scattered foxing, old damp stains and chipping to edges. A good copy. Sabin 306. ; Octavo. .

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Book number: 25871

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: UNITED STATES, ANTIQUARIAN, PAMPHLETS, AMERICANA, non-fiction, SPEECHES Antiquarian Americana

Addams, Jane

The Long Road of Woman's Memory

New York, The Macmillan Company, 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. xv, 168pp + [4]pp of publisher's advertisements. Blue cloth lettered in gold. A collection of personal experiences told to the author by women residents of Hull House, including the famous story of the Devil Baby. Light foxing mostly confined to the first and last few leaves. A near fine copy in the scarce dustjacket showing wear, heavy chipping to edges, and toning to spine panel. ; Octavo. .

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Book number: 36284

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: non-fiction, SOCIOLOGY, WOMEN STUDIES, HULL HOUSE, CHICAGO, SCIENCES Antiquarian