Sullivan, M.F.

Ireland of To-Day (Today) : The Causes and Aims of Irish Agitation

Philadelphia, J.C. McCurdy & Co. 1881. First Edition, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover. 475pp. Green cloth, gilt and black lettering and decoration. Covers well worn, a tear at tail of spine, front free endpaper missing, former owner's name in elegant hand on front and rear endpapers, contents are age-darkened and occasionally spotted, but is complete. Fair/No Jacket.

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Boeknummer: 003586

Catalogus: History

Trefwoorden: Irish Today

Talleyrand, M.

Memoir Concerning the Commercial Relations of the United States with Great Britain. (Read at the National Institute)

[London], Annonymous, 1814. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft cover. 463-488pp. Disbound pamphlet. No date circa 1814. Slight corner creasing, pamphlet is in sound condition. Good.

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Boeknummer: 003239

Catalogus: American History, History

Trefwoorden: France "International Relations"

Belfast Telegraph

Bombs On Belfast

Belfast, W.& G. Baird. Soft cover. Unpaginated 28p, no date presumably circa 1941-42. Spine heavily worn and other light wear, contents are clean. A photographic record of the German bombing of Belfast. Original publication, not a recent reprint. Good.

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Boeknummer: 002210

Catalogus: Military, History

Trefwoorden: "WW II" "Northern Ireland"

Thiers, M.A.

The History of the French Revolution

London, Henry G. Bohn, 1861. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. 972pp in one volume. Original brown blind-stamped cloth, gilt title to spine. Front and rear covers split and loose at joints, but holding on. Covers worn at corners, spine cover loose and chipped, binding shaken. Owner's name and date (January 1868), on front endpaper. Other than a few smudges and short tears to endpa;ers, interior is quite sound. A voluminous account of The French Revolution by a former prime minister of France. Good/No Jacket.

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Boeknummer: 000461

Catalogus: History, European History

Trefwoorden: France Robespierre Marat Louis XIV Jacobins Girondists

Thomas, John

Obstruction - Danger ; Stories of Memorable Railway Disasters

Edinburgh and London, William Blsckwood & Sons Ltd. 1937. First Edition, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover. 275pp. Red cloth, gilt lettering. Spine sunned, page edges lightly foxed, contents mildly age-toned, contents are sound and binding is tight. Good/No Jacket.

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Boeknummer: 002743

Catalogus: Travel and Geography, History

Trefwoorden: Trains Railroads Crashes Derailments

Thorpe, Francis Newton

The Government of the People of the United States And of the State of Pennsylvania.

Philadelphia, Eldrdge & Brother, 1894. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover. 224, 94pp. Brown embossed pebble cloth, gilt-lettered leather spine, speckled edges. Boards are very clean except for a tiny spot on upper front, spine chipped at head and tail somewhat worn, but lettering is very bright. Contents are mildly toned, but crisp and clean and appear to be unread, binding is tight. Black and white illustrations, color map and a handsome color frontispiece of the Great Seal of the United States. First part deals with the government of the United States, second part with Pennsylvania. Good/No Jacket.

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Boeknummer: 002237

Catalogus: American History, Government and Politics, Collectible

Trefwoorden: Constitution Presidents Courts Legislature

John Toland

Adolf Hitler

Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1976. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. 0385037244. 1035pp. Red boards, black buckram backing, gilt spine lettering.Signed by Author on half-title page. Light wear to spine ends and lettering. Book is sound, binding is tight, contents are clean. Dust jacket is price-clipped, lightly worn along edges, and partially darkened along spine and folds. A sweeping chronicle of the life, both public and private, of the infamous dictator. Very Good/Very Good.

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Boeknummer: 004668

Catalogus: Military, History, Biography

Trefwoorden: Germany Nazis Fascist "WW II" Holocaust 0385037244

Tower, Roderick

The Defense of Fort Sumter

Charleston, South Carolina, Fort Sumter Hotel, 1938. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Hardcover. 39pp. 16mo. First Edition. Publication sponsored by The Fort Sumter Hotel. Light blue cloth over boards, folding map. Covers foxed but solid and unworn. Foxing to endpapers and a small chip to front pastedown, tiny slit along fold of map archivally tape-repaired. Interior is otherwise flawless and free of defects. A running commentary of the defense of Fort Sumter. A good historical record. Good/No Jacket.

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Boeknummer: 000399

Catalogus: Illustrated, American History, Military

Trefwoorden: Civil War "South Carolina" Confederacy

Tuckerman, HenryT.

America and Her Commentators. With a Critical Sketch of Travel in the United States

New York, Charles Scribner, 1864. First Edition, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. 460pp. Brown cloth, gilt spine lettering. Light rubbing to extremities, spine faintly sunned, small chip to spine, foxing throughout, owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Travel in America from the early explorers to the 19th century. Good/No Jacket.

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Boeknummer: 003185

Catalogus: American History, Travel and Geography, American West

Trefwoorden: "De Tocqueville" Burnaby Chateaubriand Anbury Crevecoeur Hamilton Trollope Bartram Clinton

Embassy of USSR

USSR Illustrated Monthly, September 1959

Washington, D.C. Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1959. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Soft cover. 64pp. Illustrated stapled wraps. LIght cover wear, slight dampstain to first few lower margins otherwise sound and clean. Articles on NIkita Khrushchev's 1959 visit to USA, including meetings with President Eisenhower and numerous other American officials and citizens. Heavily illustrated. Good.

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Boeknummer: 002957

Catalogus: Periodical, History, Ephemera

Trefwoorden: Russia Diplomacy "Camp David"

Various

The Little Wanderer's Friend: The Quarterly Issue of the Howard Mission and Home for LIttle Wanderers (oct. 1870)

New York, The Howard Mission, 1870. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. 59, xiii pp. Printed wraps. Liight dampstaining and light soil to cover, contents are clean. The work of the Home for LIttle Wanderers orphanage, and appeals for charitable contributions to the Home. The Home, which still exists, is the oldest U.S child welfare ageny in exist4ence. This is the original 1870 printing, not a recent printing. Good/No Jacket.

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Boeknummer: 004489

Catalogus: Periodical, Social History

Trefwoorden: Welfare Charity Orphans Children

Waldron, William Watson

Huguenots of Westchester and Parish of Fordham

New York, W.H. Kelley & Brother, 1864. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Hardcover. 126pp. Brown blind-stamped cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Chipping and fading to boards and spine, lettering faded. Contents yellowed, a small stain and chip to lower fore edges of first 50 pages, not affecting text, some internal separation. Church history in Westchester County. Good.

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Boeknummer: 000960

Catalogus: American History, Religion

Trefwoorden: Protestants Fordham "New Rochelle" Church Parish"Westchester County" "New York"

Warden, William

Letters Written on Board His Majesty's Ship the Northumberland, and Saint Helena; In Which the Conduct and Conversations of Napoleon Bonaparte, and His Suite, During the Voyage and the First Months of His Residence in That Island, are Faithfully Described

London, For the Author By R. Ackermann, 1816. Fourth Edition, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. 215pp. Publisher's original paper backed boads, paper spine label, frontispiece portrait, folding map and one additional plate. Boards and spine darkened and lightly soiled, spine chipped at bottom, contents age-toned and faint foxing to first and last few leaves, binding is solid, small bookseller's label on front pastedown. Good.

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Boeknummer: 003816

Catalogus: Biography, Military, History

Trefwoorden: Bonaparte Exile

Wheeler, Richard

Sherman's March

Niew York, Thomas Y.Crowell Co, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. 0690017464. 241pp. Yellow paper over boards. A vry clean unblemished book in a very good dust jacket. Sherman's step-by-step march through Georgia. Near Fine/Very Good.

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Boeknummer: 003340

Catalogus: American History, Military

Trefwoorden: Savannah "Civil War" Grant Conynham Lincoln Confederacy 0690017464

Whelpley, J.D.

British-American Relations

Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1924. First Edition. 325pp. Red cloth. Spine darkened, light corner wear, former owner's bookplate on front pastedown, text age-toned. Good/No Jacket.

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Boeknummer: 003477

Catalogus: American History, Military, European History

Trefwoorden: Diplomacy Economics