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Blessed Martin De Porres, OP. An American Negro. Apostle of Charity / Prayer for conversion of the Negroes [prayer card]

[Alabama]: Mother Mary Missions; imprimatur: T.J. Toolen, Bishop of Mobile-Birmingham, 1942. 2.75x3.75 inch card, color portrait of De Porres one side, text of the prayer on the other; very good. De Porres, who died in Lima in 1639, is the patron saint of people of interracial ancestry and and seekers... More about Blessed Martin De Porres, OP. An American Negro. Apostle of Charity / Prayer for conversion of...

Cat.No: 191669

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An ordinance for uniting Scotland into one common-wealth with England. Wednesday April 12. 1654. Ordered by his Highness the Lord Protector, and his Council, that this ordinance be forthwith printed and published. Henry Scobell, Clerk of the Council

London: William du-Gard and Henry Hills, 1654. [2], 253-260; disbound pamphlet later bound in plain, very thin library boards, the front cover slightly curled; stains at edges penetrating into the text. More about An ordinance for uniting Scotland into one common-wealth with England. Wednesday April 12. 1654....

Cat.No: 209774

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Lecciones de Historia de Cuba (primer cuaderno)

La Habana: Tipografia Ideas, 1960. Paperback. 99p., paper-covered stapled textblock in 8x5.5 inch plain printed blue wraps; external handling soil and toning, clean within and quite sound, a good copy. "El folleto que presentamos al lector contiene las primeras conferencias sobre interpretacion de la Historia de Cuba, durante el periodo... More about Lecciones de Historia de Cuba (primer cuaderno)

Cat.No: 217702

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Y. David Chung: Turtle Boat head July 17 - September 25, 1992, Whitney Museum of American Art

New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1992. [12p] includes covers, 5.25x10 inches, introduction, essay, CV, illustrated with b&w reproductions and photos, very good catalog in stapled green and black pictorial wraps. Korean American artist who was born in Bonn, Germany. More about Y. David Chung: Turtle Boat head July 17 - September 25, 1992, Whitney Museum of American Art

Cat.No: 211768

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Les avantures du Baron de Foeneste, par Theodore Agrippa d'Aubigne, edition nouvelle, augmentee de plusieurs remarques historiques, de l'histoire secrete de l'auteur ecrite par lui-meme, & de la bibliotheque de Me. Guillaume enrichie de notes par Mr.*** Tome premier, contenant la vie de D'Aubigne, & les deux premiers livres de Foeniste.

Cologne: Chez les Heritiers de Pierre Marteau, 1729. Hardcover. Unpaginated preliminaries (dual prefaces, tables of contents), clx, 113p., copperplate frontis and rubricated titlepage, trimmed 6.8x4 inch textblock edges given a decorative speckling and cased into later quarter calf over marbled boards. Mild abrasion around the extremities, a short split developing... More about Les avantures du Baron de Foeneste, par Theodore Agrippa d'Aubigne, edition nouvelle,...

Cat.No: 175388

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World accumulation, 1492 - 1789

New York: Monthly Review Press, 1978. Hardcover. 303p., previous owner's name on front blank endpaper, edge worn dj with a number of closed tears. More about World accumulation, 1492 - 1789

Cat.No: 111264

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Women and the Enlightenment

New York: Institute for Research in History, 1984. Hardcover. xii, 93p., very good condition with no dj. Also published as Women & History, no. 9, Spring 1984. More about Women and the Enlightenment

Cat.No: 229922

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Tekste te vjetra

Peje: Dukagjimi, 2000. Paperback. 425p., wraps, illus., wraps worn else very good condition. Text in Albanian. Biblioteka "Fryma" Criticism and analysis of early Albanian Catholic writers of the 16th and 17th centuries. More about Tekste te vjetra

Cat.No: 229455

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Romae Antiquae Notitia: or, The Antiquities of Rome. In two parts. I. A short history of the rise, progress, and decay of the common-wealth. II. A description of the city. An account of the religion, civil government, and art of war; with the remarkable customs and ceremonies, publick and private. With copper cuts of the principal buildings, &c. To which are prefix'd two essays: concerning the Roman learning, and the Roman education. Dedicated to his highness the Duke of Glocester.

London: Printed for A. Swall and T. Child, 1696. Three blanks, then unpaginated preliminaries (Dedication, the "Essays," and a publisher's menu of related items: [40]p.); then 368p., index ([22]p.), bound-in errata leaf, terminal blank. Copper-engraved plates, some folding, Original casing of 1696: 7.8x4.7 inch boards in full binding cut from... More about Romae Antiquae Notitia: or, The Antiquities of Rome. In two parts. I. A short history of the...

Cat.No: 179184

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Memoires de l'Eglise, contenant ce qui s'y passe tous les jours de plus considerable [&c; caption or half title, title page out]

s. l. s. n., 1690. Hardcover. Authorial attribution from OCLC, confirmations at the end of the Sommaire; text commences with Advertissment [vi pages], Sujet des memoires de l'Eglise [iv], Sommaire des livres [viii], 1-730p., lacks title leaf, half-title, possibly other preliminaries, and terminal index leaves from "Vvolsang Musculus / Vvormes"... More about Memoires de l'Eglise, contenant ce qui s'y passe tous les jours de plus considerable [&c;...

Cat.No: 195920

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The practical book of cobs

Winter Park, FL: D.F. Sedwick, 2007. 254p., very good paperback. 20th anniversary (Fourth) edition. On the crudely produced early coinage of the Americas, known to collectors as "cobs." Includes an expanded guide to shipwrecks in which cobs were found. More about The practical book of cobs

Cat.No: 229133

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The true-blue laws of Connecticut and New Haven and the false blue-laws invented by the rev. Samuel Peters, to which are added specimens of the laws and judicial proceedings of other colonies and some blue-laws of England in the reign of James I.

Hartford CT: American Publishing Company, 1876. vi, 369p., litho'd half-title page (printed a nice decorative medium blue), new edition supervised by the author in 7.7x5 inch electric-blue cloth boards titled gilt with pressed devices and panellings, casing quite edgeworn with card showing at corner tips and eighth-inch losses from rims... More about The true-blue laws of Connecticut and New Haven and the false blue-laws invented by the rev....

Cat.No: 175716

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Dreams of empire; Canada before 1700

Ottowa: Public Archives Canada, 1982. Hardcover. xi, 387p., profusely illus. with reproductions of maps, documents, etc., 8.5x11 inches, worn dj. Records of our history. More about Dreams of empire; Canada before 1700

Cat.No: 141693

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Italian Landscapes and Vedute

London and Turin: Walpole Gallery & Società Editrice Umberto Allemandi, 1989. 69p., wraps with pictorial dj, 8.35x12 inches, 30 color plates, very good. Exhibition catalog for June 14-July 28, 1989, including paintings by Caneletto, Dughet, Poussin, Rici, Vanvitelli, et al. More about Italian Landscapes and Vedute

Cat.No: 150106

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