[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

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

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

Culiacan: Universidad Autonoma de Sinaloa, 1981. Paperback. 239p., text in Spanish, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. More about Apologetico Defensorio, y Puntual Manifiesto. Version Paleografica de Gilberto Lopez Alanis

Cat.No: 205723

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1978. Hardcover. xxix+226p., blue cloth boards, very good. Studies in Comparative Literature, No. 62. More about John Donne and Francisco De Quevedo: Poets of Love and Death

Cat.No: 225721

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

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

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

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

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