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Item #42063 History of Arizona Territory Showing Its Resources and Advantages; With Illustrations...

History of Arizona Territory Showing Its Resources and Advantages; With Illustrations Descriptive of Its Scenery, Residences, Farms, Mines, Mills, Hotels, Business Houses, Schools, Churches, &c. From Original Drawings

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San Francisco: Wallace W. Elliott & Co., 1884. First edition. Hardcover. Folio (13 3/4 x 10 3/4"). 322, [2]pp. Original half black leather over blind- and gilt-stamped brown buckram, with gold lettering to spine and front cover. Tissue-guarded lithographic frontispiece depicting a view of Big Canyon, near the Diamond River..... More

Price: $9,500.00

Item #42373 Where and How the War was Fought: An Armchair Tour of the American Revolution...

Where and How the War was Fought: An Armchair Tour of the American Revolution [INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR TO THE HEAD OF BRITISH INTELLIGENCE (MI5)]

Casey, William J. (Text by); Noël Langan Glenn (Maps by)

New York: William Morrow & Company, 1976. First printing. Hardcover. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2"). Original deluxe leatherette binding, with gold lettering and ruling to spine and front cover. Raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Fly leaf inscribed and signed by the author to the Head of British Intelligence: "To Mr..... More

Price: $3,750.00

Abraham Lincoln A History. 10 Vols. Complete

Nicolay, John G.; John Hay

New York: The Century Co., 1914. Hardcover. Quarto. Original green cloth with gilt lettering, ruling and publisher's device on spine. Gilt top edges. Frontispieces. Publisher's device on title pages. Marginalia. Profusely illustrated with b/w reproductions of photographs and artwork and maps throughout. "We commend the result of so many years..... More

Price: $1,000.00

Item #23304 La Poblacion del Valle de Teotihuacan. El medio que se ha desarrollado. Su Evolucion...

La Poblacion del Valle de Teotihuacan. El medio que se ha desarrollado. Su Evolucion Etnica y Social Iniciativas para procurar su Mejoramiento pr la Direccion de Antropologia [Complete 3 volume set]

Gamio, Manuel

Mexico: Direcciòn de Talleres Gráficos, Dependiente de la Secretaria Pública, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes in 3, as published. 4to. Olive cloth with gold lettering on spine. Manuel Gamio (1863-1960) was a Mexican anthropologist, archaeologist, sociologist, as well as a leader of the "Indigenismo" movement. He was the first..... More

Price: $950.00

Item #42934 Mapas Españoles de America. Siglos XV-XVII. Duque de Alba

Mapas Españoles de America. Siglos XV-XVII

Duque de Alba, et al. (eds.)

Madrid: Maestre, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. 1/312, out of series. Atlas folio. (xv) 351pp. 3/4 grey cloth over orange marbled paper boards, with gilt lettering over red labels on the spine. White string ties. The publication is a portfolio containing loose pages and plates. Includes 78 plates of facsimile reproductions..... More

Price: $875.00

Item #27466 Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians:...

Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians: In a Series of Letters and Notes Written During Eight Years of Travel and Adventure Among the Wildest and Most Remarkable Tribes Now Existing

Catlin, George

London: Henry G. Bohn, 1848. Seventh Edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes. Quarto. viii,264pp. viii,266pp. Original gold- and blind-stamped red cloth and spine. Gold illustration on front cover shows an Indian on a horse, illustration on spine is of a medicine man. Deckled page edges. Modern endpapers in both volumes. Frontispiece. Authoritative..... More

Price: $825.00

Item #17577 The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature, for the Year...

The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature, for the Year 1777

Burke, Edmund

London: J. Dodsley, 1778. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 303,249,[10],pp. Contemporary three-quarter calf over marbled paper covered boards with gold lettering and ruling on spine. Publisher's logo on title page. This important volume (the 20th volume of The Annual Register since its creation in 1758) includes, within the 'History' section, a...... More

Price: $650.00

Item #22884 Harper's Pictorial History of the War with Spain (32 Parts). n/a

Harper's Pictorial History of the War with Spain (32 Parts)

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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1898-1899. Softcover. Complete set in 32 parts. 507,[1]pages, continuous pagination. Each part with 16 pages and color frontispiece. Bound in original illustrated brown wrappers. Introduction by Maj.-Gen. Nelson A. Miles of the United States Army. Fascinating account of the Spanish-American War of 1898 with articles..... More

Price: $650.00

The Association Oath Rolls of the British Plantations [New York. Virginia, ETC.] A.D. 1696

Gandy, Wallace (ed.)

London: Wallace Gandy for private distribution, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. 1/100 unnumbered. Quarto. Bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Gilt top edges. Frontispiece document of Virginia Roll with tissue guard. Contribution to English and Colonial history during the reign of William III. on a period that was..... More

Price: $600.00

Item #48603 The Hidden Lincoln, From the Letters and Papers of William H. Herndon [WITH] Lincoln...

The Hidden Lincoln, From the Letters and Papers of William H. Herndon [WITH] Lincoln Talks, A Biography in Anecdote (2 vols.) [SIGNED & INSCRIBED]

Hertz, Emanuel (ed.)

New York: The Viking Press, 1938-1939. Limited first edition. Hardcover. 1/150. The Hidden Lincoln: (vii) [2] 461pp. Lincoln Talks: Octavo. (xi) 698pp. Green buckram boards with blind-stamped lettering on the front covers and gilt lettering on the spines. Top edges gilt. Pages uncut and some unopened. Signed and hand-numbered on..... More

Price: $575.00

Illustrated Historical Register of the Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1876, and of the Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1878

Norton, Frank H.

New York: The American News Company, (1879). Hardcover. Elephant folio. iv,396pp. Three-quarter leather over gold-stamped cloth. Spine decorated in gold, raised bands. All gilt edges. Marbled endpapers. Ex-libris of Lucy [Doheny] Smith Battson (* see below) on free front endpaper. Color frontispiece protected by tissue guard. Profusely illustrated with 25..... More

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History of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs. Embellished with One Hundred and Twenty Portraits, from the Indian Gallery in the Department of War, at Washington [COMPLETE IN 2 VOLUMES]

McKenney, Thomas L.; James Hall

Kent: Volair Limited, 1978. First edition thus. Quarto. xxviii,470pp. 534,[5]pp. Finely gold-tooled leather in original brown cloth slipcase. All gilt edges. Raised bands. Ribbon marker. Silk-moire endpapers. Color frontispiece in Vol. I. Stunningly illustrated work by T. L. McKenney on American Indian Chiefs. Thomas Lorraine McKenney (1785 - 1859) was..... More

Price: $450.00

南加州日本人史 Minami Kashu Nihonjinshi (Southern California Japanese History) (vol.1)

[Saigusa, Jisaburo] (ed.); Masami Sasaki (foreword)

ロサンジェルス (Los Angeles): 南加日系人商業会議所 (Nankanikkeijin Shogyo Kaigisho), 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 43pp. 8pp. [2] 370pp. [1]. Housed in the original cardboard slipcase with maroon lettering on the spine. orange buckram boards with maroon lettering on the spine. This Japanese language work is an important chronicle of the early history..... More

Price: $450.00

Item #42175 My Experience With Indians. John James

My Experience With Indians

James, John

Austin: Gammel's Bookstore, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 147pp. Original black clothe with gilt lettering and ruling on cover. Frontispiece photograph. "Go thou my dear little book. You have a mission. You carry a message of truth that will correct the errors and effects thereof, made by ignorant and prejudiced..... More

Price: $400.00

Historia del Tribunal del Santo Oficio de la inquisición en Chile

Medina, Jose Toribio

Santiago de Chile: Fondo Histórico y Bibliográfico J.T. Medina, 1952. Second edition. Hardcover. 4to. [xxvi], 675 pp. Frontispiece of a b/w reproduction of a drawing. Original green cloth with gold lettering on spine. La Inquisicion en Chile. History of the Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition in Chile..... More

Price: $400.00

An Answer to That Part of the Narrative of Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Clinton, K.B. : Which Relates to the Conduct of Lieutenant-General Earl Cornwallis During the Campaign in North-America in the Year 1781 [Consisting of Correspondence Between Sir Henry Clinton and Lord Cornwallis in 1781]

Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, Marquis, and Sir Henry Clinton (correspondence between); Lord Cornwallis (introduction)

London: J. Debrett, 1783. First printing. Hardcover. Small octavo (8-3/4" x 5-1/2"). (2), xvi, (6), 260pp. With the errata leaf at rear, but lacking 4 pages of ads, otherwise complete. Rebound in early 20th c. blue buckram, gilt lettered spine, light rubbing at hinges and extremities. Illustrated with a large..... More

Price: $375.00

Strength out of Weakness: or a Glorious Manifestation of the Further Progress of the Gospel among the Indians in New England (Sabin's Reprints, Quarto Series, No. V)

Whitfield, Henry

New York: Reprinted for Joseph Sabin, 1865. Limited edition (Large Paper Copy). Softcover. 1/50. Original wraps. "Further Progress of the Gospel among the Indians in New England 1652" printed in black letters on front wrapper. Title-page vignette. Initialed by Joseph Sabin. Pages unopened, as published. Includes facsimile of title-page from..... More

Price: $375.00

Documentary History of the Cession of Louisiana to the United States till it Became an American Province

Blanchard, Rufus

Chicago: R. Blanchard, 1903. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 68 pp. + index. Half morocco over marbled boards. Front board detached. Some wearing to edges. 2" of spine missing. Frontis. Gilt edges. Illustrated with 9 b/w annotated images and a fold out map at rear illustrating "The Territorial Growth Of The..... More

Price: $350.00

Item #43104 Manifesto que ao respeitavel publico faz o Conde d'Villa Flor, sobre o processo, e...

Manifesto que ao respeitavel publico faz o Conde d'Villa Flor, sobre o processo, e comdemnação d'Manoel da Costa do Pará : sobre, os aleives, e calumnias que o dito Costa tem epalhado

Conde de Villa Flor (António José de Sousa Manuel e Meneses Severim de Noronha Duque da Terceira)

Lisboa: João Nunes Esteves, 1822. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo ( 7 7/8 x 5 5/8"). 36pp. Late 19th-century half calf over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering and tooling to spine. Raised bands. Top paper edge red. Marbled endpapers. Publisher's device on title. Decorative headpieces. Ribbon marker. First edition..... More

Price: $350.00

Item #47510 Contemporary Biography of California's Representative Men. With Contributions from...

Contemporary Biography of California's Representative Men. With Contributions from Distinguished Scholars and Scientists. Vol. II

Phelps, Alonzo; John Muir; John Le Conte; Caleb T. Fay

San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft and Company, 1882. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 5 leaves, [5]-417pp., plates with tissue guards. Original brown morocco leather with gilt vignette and decor on cover, gilt ruling on cover and spine, elaborate blind-stamped decorative ruling on covers; raised bands and dentelles. Gilt edges. Decorative endpapers..... More

Price: $350.00

Historie du Canada et Voyages que les Freres Mineurs Recollects y ont Faicts pour la Conuersion des Infidelles

Sagard, F. Gabriel

Paris: Claude Sonnius, 1936. Softcover. 4 volumes. Gray paper binding. History of New France and Canada, of the Canadian Indians (now called First Nation tribes), particularly the Wyandot Indians, and of exploration in Canada. A four volume set on Canadian Franciscan missionary history. Bindings of volumes split, but all parts..... More

Price: $350.00

Item #42943 News from the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League: Investigation of Arab Propaganda...

News from the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League: Investigation of Arab Propaganda Activities in the United States

Hoffman, Herman; James H. Sheldon

New York: Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League To Champion Human Rights, Inc., 1946. Stapled. Folio. 7 leaves. Stapled mimeographed memorandum and letter to President Truman requesting investigation. Summary from evidence indicating that the Arab Office, representing the seven countries of the Arab League in Washington, is engaging in widespread subversive propaganda inciting..... More

Price: $275.00

Item #16078 Die Armee der Vereinigten Staaten von Nord-Amerika. Mit Abbildungen von Offizieren...

Die Armee der Vereinigten Staaten von Nord-Amerika. Mit Abbildungen von Offizieren und Soldaten aller Truppengattungen, sowie von Uniforms- und Rangabzeichen, Ausrustungsgegenstanden etc. Nebst genauer Beschreibung der Uniformirung und Mittheilungen über Organisation, Starke, Eintheilung und Dislocation der Nordamerikanischen Armee, sowie der Milizen.

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Leipzig: Moritz Ruhl, n/d. Softcover. Ex-libris Robert Florey: Robert Florey (1900-1979) was a French screenwriter, director of short films, and actor who moved to Hollywood in 1921. Florey worked as assistant director to Josef von Sternberg, Frank Borzage, and Victor Fleming before making his feature directing debut in 1926. He..... More

Price: $275.00

The Traditional History and Characteristic Sketches of the Ojibway Nation

Copway, G.

Boston: Sanborn, Carter, Bazin & Co., 1850. First American edition. Hardcover. Sm. 8vo. xi. 266(36)pp. Embossed brown cloth and gilt decorated spine. Head and tail of spine frayed. Corners bumped and worn. Discoloration and staining to boards. Spine sunned. "With the bookplate of Bruce Bryan, the noted author and long..... More

Price: $250.00

Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, Showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Condition of the Institution for the Year ending June 30, 1899. Report of the U.S. National Museum

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Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1901. Hardcover. Large 8vo. xv, 598 pp. Green cloth. Corners bumped. Front board detaching. Wear to spine. Illustrated with tables, drawings and photographs. Some browning to pages. Includes "Decriptive Calogue of a Collection of Objects of Jewish Ceremonial Deposited in the U.S. National Museum by..... More

Price: $250.00

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