Beddoes, Thomas

Observations on the Medical and Domestic Management of the Consumptive; on the Powers of Digitalis Purpurea; and on the Cure of Schrophula

Troy, NY, Printed by O. Penniman and Co, 1803. First US Edition. Hardcover. 162pp + 2pp of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary full calf with leather label on the spine. Engraved frontispiece. Wear to extremities, front board partially split at spine, soiling to rear board, foxing to text block. A good copy. ; Octavo. .

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Book number: 24380

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: ANTIQUARIAN, MEDICINE, DISEASES, TUBERCULOSIS, SCROFULA Antiquarian

Bede

Historical Works Volume II

Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2006. Hardcover. Loeb Classic Library 248. 517pp. Cloth. Includes Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation Books IV and V, Lives of the Abbots, Letter to Egbert, and more. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket with very mild fading to the spine panel. ; Octavo. .

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Book number: 30679

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: HISTORY, CLASSICS, non-fiction History

Belinfante, L. L., ed

The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London. Volume the Seventy-Fourth, for 1918

London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. xi, xci, 306pp. Brown half morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gold, edges sprinkled red. With twenty-five inserted plates showing fossils, photographs, and including a large foldout map in color of Dolyhir quarries and Northern Part of Strinds quarry, a foldout map of the Ribawe Mountains and Nrassi basin of Mozambique, a foldout graph of the diurnal and seasonal frequency of earthquakes in Italy and Japan, a foldout table with an analysis of the principal sections in the Crewkerne District, and a foldout geological map in color of the Bucknell District (Shropshire). Also with drawings, maps, and more. Light rubbing to spine panel else a clean, fine copy. ; Octavo. .

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Book number: 25490

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: non-fiction, GEOLOGY, SCIENCE, FOSSILS

Belloc, Hilaire

World Conflict

London, The Incorporated Catholic Truth Society, 1951. Pictorial wrappers. Do 268. [8]pp. Original printed wrappers. Light toning to edges, mild wear. A very good+ copy. ; Octavo. .

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Book number: 32095

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: non-fiction, PAMPHLET, ESSAYS

Beltrame, Renzo; Scheiwiller, Vanni, ed

IL Segno Di Bonfanti: 50 Disegni Dal 1946 Al 1975

Milano, All'Insegna del Pesce d'Oro, 1975. First Edition. Printed wrappers. Arte Moderna Italiana #66. Edition limited to 1500 numbered copies. This copy, not numbered, is signed and inscribed by the editor and publisher Vanni Scheiwiller to a noted writer. 118pp. Original wrappers. Faint spot to front cover else a fine copy. Text in Italian.; 16mo; Signed by Contributor. .

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Book number: 29164

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: ITALIAN BOOKS, ITALIAN LANGUAGE, ART, LETTERATURA ITALIANA DEL '900

Kartman, Ben and Leonard Brown

Disaster!

New York, Berkley, 1960. First Thus. Paperback. BG481. 1st thus 1960. VG+. Minor stress creases along spine, minimal wear. With b/w pictures. Nice Hindenburg cover. Very Good .

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Book number: 5100

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: Catastrophes

Benchley, Robert

After 1903 What

New York, Editions for the Armed Services, Inc, 1945. First Edition. Paperback. Armed Services Edition R-5. Oblong format. Fading to front cover and spine panel. A very good+ copy.; Small octavo. .

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Book number: 35134

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: HUMOR, WORLD WAR II, VINTAGE PAPERBACKS Fiction and Literature Humor

Benton, Mike

The Comic Book in America: An Illustrated History

Dallas, Taylor Publishing Company, 1993. Revised Edition. Softcover. New updated edition. A near fine copy. ; Quarto. .

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Book number: 30001

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: HISTORY, COMIC BOOKS, REFERENCE, UNITED STATES Comics Reference

Benton, Mike

Superhero Comics of the Silver Age: The Illustrated History

Dallas, Taylor Publishing Company, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. The Taylor History of Comics #2. 224pp. Boards. Complete with every major superhero, all the artists who drew superheroes in the '50s and '60s, an exclusive checklist of all the superhero comics of the Silver Age, and more than 400 color photographs. A fine copy in fine dustjacket with a tiny crease to rear flap. ; Quarto. .

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Book number: 30037

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: non-fiction, COMICS, REFERENCE, SILVER AGE COMICS, SUPERHEROES, REFERENCE Comics Reference

Bernardi, Luigi; Boschi, Luca; Frediani, Graziano

Destinazione Utopia: L'Evasione Impossibile Di Tre Personaggi a Fumetti (Corto Maltese, Ken Parker, Mister No)

Milano, Editrice A. 1988. First Edition. Softcover. Collects a series of short essays on Corto Maltese, Ken Parker, and Mister No. A fine copy. In the Italian language. ; Octavo. .

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Book number: 24940

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: non-fiction, COMIC ARTISTS, COMIC CHARACTERS, HUGO PRATT, ITALIAN LANGUAGE, ITALIAN BOOKS, ESSAYS

Bernier, Joseph-Elzéar

Report on the Dominion of Canada Government Expedition to the Arctic Islands and Hudson Strait on Board the D.G. S. 'Arctic'

Ottawa, Government Printing Bureau, 1910. Hardcover. xxix, 529pp. Green cloth stamped in gold on the spine panel. Frontispiece and numerous illustrations + two botanical plates and four folding maps. The cloth on the front panel has several vertical creases, light wear to extremities. Internally clean. Two of the folding maps have closed tears. A very good- copy. .

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Book number: 30385

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: EXPLORATION, non-fiction, CANADA, ARCTIC SEA Travel

Bertin, Théodore Pierre; Taylor, Samuel

Système Universel Et Complet de Sténographie, Ou Manière Abregée D'écrire Applicable a Tous Les Idiomes

Paris, P. Didot, 1794. Second Edition. Hardcover. viii, 106pp. Quarter brown leather. With thirteen inserted plates. Mild scattered foxing, some wear to extremities. A very good+ copy. ; Octavo. .

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Book number: 22408

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: non-fiction, ANTIQUARIAN, FRENCH BOOK, FRENCH LANGUAGE, STENOGRAPHY Antiquarian

San-Bertolo, Nicola Cavalieri

Istituzioni Di Architettura Statica E Idraulica. (Complete Set)

Bologna, Dalla Tipografia Cardinali e Frulli, 1826. First Edition. Hardcover. In three volumes. 384pp; 570pp + errata; sixty-eight plates. Volume 2 has a pagination error (skips from page 328 to 339). Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spines lettered and decorated in gold, all edges sprinkled blue. Volume 3 contains sixty-eight plates, many of which are foldouts, with engravings by Agostino Nini and Luigi Carlini. Thirty-six plates pertain to volume 1 (plate #26 is present in two versions), thirty-two to volume 2. Influential engineering treatise by a renowned scientist and professor of the Archiginnasio della Sapienza of Rome. Text blocks extremely clean. Name on front free endpapers, light overall wear, two of the plates are loose. The lower corner of the errata of volume 2 is torn. Some old annotations laid in. A near fine set. Brunet I.1695. Graesse II.92. ; Quarto. .

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Book number: 31133

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: ANTIQUARIAN, non-fiction, ARCHITECTURE, ITALIAN BOOKS, ITALIAN LANGUAGE, HYDRAULICS, ENGINEERING Antiquarian

Besant, Annie

Ockult Kemi

Stockholm, Teosofiska Bokförlaget, 1898. Pamphlet. 12pp. Self-wrappers. With foldout plate. Previous owner's name and faint stain to upper edge. A very good copy. ; Octavo. .

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Book number: 22259

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: non-fiction, ANTIQUARIAN, THEOSOPHY Antiquarian

Bevilacqua, Domenico

La Germania Ha Vinto IL Petrolio

Roma, Edizioni della rivista Trasporti e Lavori Pubblici, 1936. First Edition. Pictorial wrappers. 187pp + index. Original wrappers. An analysis of petroleum production in Germany, Italy, Russia in the years before World War II. Light foxing, covers complete and intact but detached from text block. A very good+ copy. In the Italian language. Uncommon.; Octavo. .

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Book number: 29842

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: non-fiction, GASOLINE, HISTORY, ITALIAN BOOKS, ITALIAN LANGUAGE, GERMANY, ITALY, POLITICS History