Mémoires du Mexique: Le manuscrit de Jean de Monségur (1709)
Paris: Chandeigne, 2002. Paperback. 365p., wraps, 6.25x8.75 inches, illus., very good condition in like dj. Text in French. Collection Magellane. More
Cat.No: 269951
Eighteenth Century, 1700s
Passions Between Women: British lesbian culture, 1668-1801
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1995. Hardcover. 314p., introduction, notes, selected bibliography, index, very good first US edition in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj. More
Cat.No: 30251
How many Strads? our heritage from the Master, a tribute to the memory of a great genius compiled in the year marking the Tercentenary of his birth being a tabulation of works believed to survive produced in Cremona by Antonio Stradivari between 1666 and 1737 including relevant data and mention of his two sons Francesco and Omobono
Chicago: William Lewis & Son, 1945. Hardcover. 379p., glazed cream paperstock throughout. 8x10.75 inches, introductory note, foreword, the publishers, summary of works, index, bibliography, list of subscribers, profusely illustrated with b&w photos and plates illustrating the instruments. The first edition, #474 of 1400 copies in decorated red cloth with titles..... More
Cat.No: 190771
Early Jesuit Missions in Tarahumara
Berkeley: University of California, 1948. Hardcover. 276pp., dark maroon boards with gilt title on spine, Illustrated with 2 plates and a folding map at front (noted as following page 276 on list of illustrations page), Dust jacket flaps (containing summary of contents) of book neatly glued to front free endpaper..... More
Cat.No: 265763
Israel on the Appomatox: a Southern experiment in Black freedom from the 1790s through the Civil War
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. Hardcover. x, 640p., preface, postscript, documents, sources and interpretations, notes, index, in-text illustrations and maps, good second printing in quarter-cloth boards and rubbed, unclipped dj. On Richard Randolph's freed slave community, the Israelites of Israel Hill Virginia. More
Cat.No: 127331
Black dance in the United States from 1619 to 1970, with foreword by Katherine Dunham
Palo Alto: National Press Books, 1972. Hardcover. x, 370p., illustrated in b&w from period cuts and modern dance photography, hardbound first edition in tan cloth boards lettered black and enclosed in the dust jacket. The book itself is quite fresh, entirely sound, clean and unmarked, while the dj is somewhat..... More
Cat.No: 72864
The last of the Conquistadors; Junipero Serra (1713-1784)
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1956. Hardcover. ix, 368p.,endpaper maps, chronology, sources, bibliography, index, illustrations very good first edition in cloth boards and unclipped dj. More
Cat.No: 95719
Ephrata, a history. Posthumously edited with an introduction by John Soseph Stoudt
Allentown, PA: The Pennsylvania German Folklore Society, 1963. Hardcover. xxi, 354p., illus., original openweave white linen cloth with a slightly darkened spine else very good condition. The Pennsylvania German Folklore Society, vol. 25, 1961. More
Cat.No: 133608
Letters from England by Don Manuel Alvarez Espriella. Translated from the Spanish. In two volumes. Third American edition. Vol. I, Vol. II. [complete]
Philadelphia / Richmond VA: Published by Benjamin Warner, William Greer, Printer. 1818. 331, 298p., duodecimo 5.5x3.5 inch polished calf boards in matching design, edgeworn, foxed, all hinges and joints are cracked, spine panels chipped, no legible titling, and v.I has cracked-through readers' creases to spine panel (though textblocks are sound)..... More
Cat.No: 177614
American Bibliography, Vols. 1-13
Metuchen NJ: Mini-Print Corporation, 1967. Hardcover. Unpaginated, the multi-volume corpus reproduced with admirable clarity, nine pages to one page of this edition. Mini-Print did well by this task but a good strong magnifying glass will be needed. Item is hardbound in cinnamon-brown cloth boards spine-titled, it has a faded spine..... More
Cat.No: 226216
Bespräche in dem Reiche derer Todten Hundert drei und dreizigste entrevue zwischen dem Churfüsten zu Brandenburg Johann Georgen, einem ganz ungemeinen loblichen Herrn, und dem Prinzen von Dranien Mauritio, stadthaltern derer vereinigten Riederlande, worinnen des Churfhrstens Ruhm-würdiges Leben, nehst vielen remarquablen Discursen enthalten
Leipzig: Wolffgang Deer, 1729. pp. 281-346 [64p], frontis, calf spine over library boards, text block in very good condition. Part of a 240-part popular series using historical figures to talk about the issues of the day. More
Cat.No: 175394
The life or biography of Silas Felton written by himself; reprinted from the proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society for October 1959
Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1960. pp119 - 154, 6.5x9.75 inches, footnotes, very good in plain printed green wraps. Personal inscription signed by the editor Vassar on verso of front wrap. More
Cat.No: 155738
The Salzburger Saga: Religious Exiles and Other Germans Along the Savannah
Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1984. Hardcover. xii, 209p. + [16]p. of plates, cloth-covered boards, 5.5x8.75 inches, very good condition in like dj. A Brown Thrasher Original. On the Protestants expelled from Salzburg in 1731 who established a colony in Georgia. More
Cat.No: 276103
Washington as an employer and importer of labor
Brooklyn: privately printed, 1889. Paperback. 78p., wraps (slightly chipped), unopened, only 500 copies printed. On George Washington, with the reprinting of many contracts, agreements, etc. More
Cat.No: 5379
The Rise of the American Nation, 1789-1824
New York: International Publishers, 1943. Hardcover. 288p., black cloth boards, frontis-map, dj soiled and foxing, chips on spine, shelfworn edges. More
Cat.No: 7664
The rise of the American nation, 1789-1824
New York: International Publishers, 1943. Hardcover. 288p., frontis-map, preface, reference notes, bibliography, index, previous owner's name penned on free front endpaper, else very good in black cloth boards, gilt, and heavily-worn and chipped dj. More
Cat.No: 232298
Journal of the Travels and Labours of Father Samuel Fritz in the River of the Amazons between 1686 and 1723. Translated from the Evora Ms and Edited by the Rev. Dr George Edmundson. With two maps
London: Printed for The Hakluyt Society, 1922. Hardcover. 164p., xliii [Society matters], hardbound in normal Hakluyt style: bright medium-blue cloth boards gilt, with the two announced maps, which are large fold-outs and quite stunning. The first map bears a quarter-inch tear at a fold-line, both otherwise clean. Great copy, brilliant..... More
Cat.No: 280652
Bombay Presidency in the Mid-Eighteenth Century. Issued under the auspices of the Heras Institute of Indian History and Culture.
London: Asia Publishing House, 1965. Hardcover. v, 76p., cloth-covered boards, 5.75x8.5 inches, top edge foxed else very good condition in an edgeworn and lightly foxed dj. Heras Memorial Lectures, 1962. More
Cat.No: 274551
The writings of Francisco Garcia Diego y Moreno; obispo de ambas californias
Los Angeles: Timothy Cardinal Manning, 1976. Hardcover. xiii, 192p., frontis-photo, introduction, biographical sketch, glossary of proper names, previous-owner's bookplate on front free endpaper otherwise very good first edition in lightly-rubbed blue cloth and gilt. More
Cat.No: 157826
Das entstehen der modernen eliten in Afrika seit der mitte des 18. Jarhunderts: XIII Internationaler Kongress der Historischen Wissenschaften, Maskau, 16 - 23 August 1970
Moskau: Verlag Nauka - Hauptredaktion für doe orientalische literatur, 1970. 18p., 5x7.75 inches, text in German, very good in stapled wraps. More
Cat.No: 110071
East Encounters West: France and the Ottoman Empire in the Eighteenth Century
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987. Hardcover. x, 192p., cloth-covered boards, 5.5x8.5 inches, illus., very good first edition in like dj. More
Cat.No: 265187
Maps of Mughal India, Drawn by Colonel Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Gentil, agent for the French Government to the Court of Shuja-ud-daula at Faizabad, in 1770
London: KPI - Kegan Paul International, 1988. Hardcover. 60p., explanatory texts entirely in English, profuse color reproductions rendered recto facing b&w reproductions. Gentil employed local artists to illustrate his cartography, so find here local color shown by the locals, and place-names not known from any other source than these map..... More
Cat.No: 276710
Junipero Serra: California's first citizen
Los Angeles: Cultural Assets Press, 1969. Paperback. 106p., personal inscription signed and dated by Gordon, first edition paperback in slightly worn and stained brown pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 119027
The selected letters of Thomas Gray
New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1952. Hardcover. xxxiv, 170p., very good first edition in cloth boards and price-clipped dj. Great Letters Series. More
Cat.No: 56908