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L'ART RUSTIQUE IN FRANCE: L'ALSACE.
Paris: Paris: Librarie Ollendorff (nd, ca. 1910?). 130 pp. Text in French. Paperbound in paper wrappers, bound with brown tape, somewhat separated from spine but still attached. 4 color plates, including a charming portrait. Numerous b/w photos and some ills. of rustic Alsacian houses, interiors, costumes, furniture and household artifacts. Some pages unopened. Paper beginning to yellow, ills. unaffected.
[Book #52]
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ANNUARIO D'ARCHITETTURA.
Milan: Casa Ed. D'Arte Bestetti e Tumminelli, 1914. 200 pp. Text in Italian. Nearly 200 b/w photos and architectural drawings. Paper boards with embossed gilt on cover and spine. Corners bumped, a nick and a scuff; otherwise very good. A publication of the Associazione Artistica fra i Cultori d'Archi tettura in Roma.
[Book #55]
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LIFE OF BETTERTON: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THAT EXCELLENT AND RENOWNED ACTOR THOMAS BETTERTON.
London: Reader, Orange Street, Holborn, 1888. Hard Cover. First Edition. 160 pp., 4 pp. of ads. Small octavo. White paper boards with a few foxing spots, red/gilt label on spine, deckle edges. Dark stain on first free endpaper front and rear due to transfer from gluing area on pastedowns. Engraved frontis. portrait. Clean within. Very Good.
[Book #68]
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THE OFFICIAL RULES OF CARD GAMES: HOYLE UP-TO-DATE.
Cincinnati: The U.S. Playing Card Co. 1909. Paperbound. 205 pp. plus 19 pp. of ads. Spine slightly torn at head and heel, slight wear at corners, light, unobstrusive waterstain at bottom edge of pages. Very Good.
[Book #459]
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REPORTS ON BRITISH PRISON-CAMPS IN INDIA AND BURMA Visited by the International Red Cross Committee in February, March and April, 1917.
New York: George H. Doran Co. 1918. Paperbound. 63 pp. Front cover and first four pages are a bit ragged at edges, otherwise near fine. Very Good.
[Book #460]
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CEREMONIES ON LEAVING AN OLD AND OPENING THE NEW PRODUCE EXCHANGE.
New York: The Art Interchange Press, 1884. Hard Cover. 73 pp. Cover is dampstained, has edgewear, spine is nicked, rubbed and chipped. Gilt picture of produce exchange on cover is bright. Interior bright, some page edges chipped. This is the program for the two-day celebration of the opening of the New York Produce Exchange in a new building in lower Manhattan. Includes photos, engravings, speeches and songs. Good+.
[Book #473]
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THE DAGUERREOTYPE:A MAGAZINE OF FOREIGN LITERATURE AND SCIENCE; Compiled chiefly from the Periodical Publications of England, France, and Germany, 1848 - Vol II.
Boston: J. M. Whittemore, 1848. One-Quarter Leather. 576 pp. Gilt on spine bright. Cover worn, damp stained, bumped. Interior has foxing, browning; some pencil & ink marginalia; else bright and tight. Decorative end papers. An eclectic compilation of articles from England, France, and Germany including articles on Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Convent Kitchen in the Eleventh Century, the Cathedral of Ulm, Taxidermy in Rome, Paddiana; scraps and sketches of Irish life present and past, the Cathedral of Cologne, Russia and the Russians, Dr. Prichard's researches into the history of the Oceanic and of the American nations,English and foreign hotels, the Scotch colony of Otago, the works of Hans Christian Andersen, and more. Very Good.
[Book #539]
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HONEY DROPS.
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1855. Cloth. 128 pp. Embossed covers and spine are badly worn and frayed. Corners bumped and frayed. Lower half of rear f.e.p. is missing. A collection of daily Bible readings for children, selected by two brothers, ages eight and ten. Text is aged, soiled and marred by childish pencil scribbles, some of which have torn a few pages. Good.
[Book #1056]
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LADY WILLOUGHBY; OR, PASSAGES FROM THE DIARY OF A WIFE AND MOTHER IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.
New York: A. S. Barnes & Burr, 1860. Hardcover. First Edition. 193 pp. Brown covers wear their 150 years lightly. Inscription in ink on front paste-down. Pale pink eps soiled. Text is aged. From the Publisher's Advertisement: "The style of Printing and general appearance of this Volume have been adopted by the Publishers merely to be in accordance with the design of the Author, who in this Work personates a lady of the seventeenth Century." "This book," says the London Examiner, "has been taken for a truth by not uninstructed readers...The real Lady Willoughby could not have left a more beautiful, a more affecting, or a more instructive record." Very Good.
[Book #1289]
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What Kind of Christian Was Thomas Jefferson?
The American Unitarian Assocaitiion, 1947. Pamphlet. First Edition. Sermon presented by Frederick May Eliot at the Washington Memorial, Sunday April 13, 1947on the 204th anniversary of Jefferson's birth. Compliation of Jefferson's words by Vincent B. Silliman, minister of the Hollis Unitarian Church in Hollis, NY. Phamplet is 17 pges. In fine condition in plastic sleeve. Very Fine.
[Book #22518]
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