Anonymous

NITROGEN And ASSOCIATED INDUSTRIES. Photo Industrial Study No. 1

(n. p.): United States Forces, 1950. Reprint of the revised 1943 publication. Stiff stock covers, spiral bound. 43 ff. Illustrated, primarily from photographs. Oblong Folio. 10-1/2" x 14". Covers with "Unclassified" stamped over "Restricted". Dampstain to rear cover edges, with some transference to lower edge of last few leaves. Withal, a VG copy. Scarce work on the subject.

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Book number: 29307

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Anonymous

REMINISCENCES Of An OFFICER Of ZOUAVES. Translated from the French

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1860. 1st US edition. Original publisher's dark green cloth with gilt spine lettering & boards stamped in blind. viii, 317, [11] pp. 10 pages of adverts at rear. 12mo. 7-1/2" x 4-7/8". Paper clip snag to bottom edge of a few leaves at rear of book [no loss of text]. Else, a square & tight VG+ copy.

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Book number: 33232

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[English History]. [Anonymous]

Some MODEST REMARKS On Dr. SHERLOCKS NEW BOOK About the CASE of ALLEGIANCE Due To SOVEREIGN POWERS, &c. In a Letter to a Friend

London: Printed and Sold by the Booksellers of London, and Westminster, 1691. 1st edition (Wing S-4525). Disbound, with binding remnants along spine portion. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. [4], 32 pp. 4to: [A]4 B - D4 E2. 19.2 cm x 15 cm. Overall VG (half-title leaf detached in center).

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Book number: 22863

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Anonymous

VETERINARY MEDICAL INDEX, And Key to the Homoeopathic Treatment of the most common Complaints of Horses and Cattle

Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel, 1876. 1st printing. Printed brown paper wrappers, with farm scene wood engraving to front wrapper. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. 48 pp. Illustrated with a few cuts. 16mo. 5-3/8" x 3-3/4". General wear, couple small spots to front cover, Very Good. "Giving at the same time the characteristic indications of the most common remedies with respect to their use in the ailments of domestic animals." - cover blurb. Scarce work on the subject, with OCLC listing just two holding institutions: AAS & TAMU.

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Book number: 48365

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[Anonyomous]

The EPICUREAN.; Guide to Parisian Restaurants, Tea Rooms, Cafés, bars, Dancings, Cabarets and French Wines

(n.p.): , 1930. Light blue paper wrappers, white paper leaves, black lettering, now housed in a mylar sleeve. 35 pp. 5-3/4" x 4". A VG copy. Age toning to wrappers, corners rubbed and bumped, age toning to leaves, with the exception of a few check marks by restaurants (assuming the previous owner visited them) this little book is internally clean and bright. A little French night life guide.

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Book number: 46703

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Ansted, David Thomas [1814 - 1880]

The GREAT STONE BOOK Of NATURE

Philadelphia: George W. Childs, 628 & 630 Chestnut Street, 1863. 1st US Edition. Original publisher's blue-green cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine & boards stamped in blind. Yellow eps. 335, [3 (blank)] pp. Frontispiece. Plates before each of the 5 parts. Cuts & diagrams. 12mo, signed in 6s. 7-5/8" x 4-3/4". Square & tight. Bookplate, little to no wear, a truly Fine copy.

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Book number: 48108

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[Anthology]

America's Wild Woodlands

Washington, DC: NGS, 1985. 1st ed. Hardback. Dust jacket. 199 pp, Filled w/ colour illustrations, Sm. 4to. F/G (1" triangular piece msg fm lower edge of frnt panel - text no effected/soiling to back white panel).

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Book number: 1902

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Antoniewicza, O. Karola [anglicized as Antoniewicz, Charles Boloz. 1807 - 1852]

PRZEZ KRZYZ DO NIEBA. Z Pism o. Karola Antoniewicza Tow. Jezusowego

Manitowoc, WI: "Dzwon" ["Bell" Print Magazine], 1892. Original printed green wrappers. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. 27, [5] pp. 12mo. 6-7/8" x 4-5/8". Wrappers toned, minor soiling and foxing throughout. One gathering detached and laid in. Presumed sewn binding no longer present, outer gatherings glued to wrapper spine at the fold. Polish-language collection of Jesuitical writings. English translation of the title: "The Cross to Heaven." From the writings of Fr. Karol Antoniewicz.

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Book number: 41853

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D'Anvers, Caleb [pseudonym for Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of (1684 - 1764)] - Addressed to. Hervey, John Hervey; Baron [1696 - 1743] - Attributed name

A LETTER To CALEB D'ANVERS, ESQ; On His Proper Reply to a Late Scurrilous Libel, Entitled Sedition and Defamation Display'd, &c

London: Printed: And Sold by J. Roberts in Warwick-Lane, 1731. 1st Printing. Disbound, now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. 52 pp. 8vo. Age toning, a bit of soiling to outer leaves, Very Good. Caleb D'Anvers = William Pulteney.

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Book number: 49193

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[Archeology]

HISTORICAL RELICS UNEARTHED In NEW CHINA

Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1972. 1st edition. White cloth binding with red stamped title lettering (in Chinese). Photographic eps. Full color dust jacket. Publisher's card stock slipcase. Unpaginated, though ~ 200 pp. Explanatory text booklet: 8 pp. 217 photographic images, many full color. Folio. A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket, housed in a VG+ slipcase.

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Book number: 37805

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[Architecture]

CHRONOLOGICAL CHART Of BRITISH ARCHITECTURE With the Genealogy of the Sovereigns of England and Parallel Tables of the Most Important Events in British and General History

London: Roake and Varty, (n. d.). Ca 1845. Housed in a vertically-ribbed brown cloth portfolio. Gilt lettering to spine & front board. Chart is linen-backed. Unfolded: 69-1/4" x 26-1/2". Folded: 13-7/8" x 9-1/4". Chart - VG+. Portfolio case - Gd (spine cloth frayed, with some chipped away). A lithographed, vertically-oriented 4 subject chart (55 BC - 1842), with the Genealogy & Architecture chart with color printing. Scarce, with OCLC showing only one holding (the V&A in London).

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Book number: 25027

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[Architecture]

OUR NATIONAL CATHEDRALS (The Richest Architectural Heritage of the British Nation): Their History and Architecture from Their Foundation to Modern Times. With Special Accounts of Modern Restorations

London: Ward Lock & Co, (n. d.). Deep maroon cloth decorated in black, green, blue & gilt. Beveled edges. 3 volumes (xii, 240; xii, 295; xii, 292 pp [including indices]). Profusely illustrated with color lithographs of the churches described herein. Royal 8vo. VG (bpt/hinges professionally repaired). Ex-Lib, with small circular spine stickers removed from base of spine.

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Book number: 14301

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'By a Member of the Lichfield Society for the Encouragement of Ecclesiastical Architecture'

A TRACT UPON TOMB - STONES; or, Suggestions for the Consideration of Persons Intending to Set Up That Kind of Monument to the Memory of Deceased Friends

Rugeley: John Thomas Walters, 1843. 1st edition. Later light orange paper wrappers. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. 25, [1 (blank)] pp. 7 plates inserted after text. 8vo. Wrappers starting to detach, otherwise VG.

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Book number: 31210

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Ardagh, John

GERMANY And The GERMANS. An Anatomy of Society Today

New York: Harper & Row, 1987. 1st US edition. Black cloth binding. Dust jacket. 478 pp (including index). 8vo. F/F .

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[Telephone History]. Armengaud, M. Jules

INSTALLATION Et EXPLOITATIONS Des LIGNES TELEPHONIQUES

Paris: E. Capiomont & V. Renault, 1881. Blue-grey printed wrappers. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. 17 pp. 8vo. VG (age toning & avg wear to extremities/chip at lower left corner of front wrapper).

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Book number: 13629

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