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A Description of the East, and Some Other Countries

A Description of the East, and Some Other Countries by Pococke, Richard

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A Description of the East, and Some Other Countries
Author
Pococke, Richard
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Thorn Books (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
London: Printed for the Author, by W. Bowyer,,,, 1743. Hardcover. Very good. Comprising Vol 1: Observations on Egypt; Vol 2 part 1: Observations on Palestine or the Holy Land, Syria, Mesopotamia, Cyprus, and Candia; Vol 2 part 2: Observations on the Islands of the Archipelago, Asia Minor, Thrace, Greece and some other parts of Europe. Folio. Three parts in two volumes. With 177 full page or folding engraved plates and maps. Fill contemporary calf, Spines in seven compartments, gilt, red leather lettering pieces, gilt. Spine tips worn, upper hinges mended and lower cracked but firm, the contemporary bindings generally rubbed, but presentable and firm. A few of the plates have tears on the lower margins, which do not approach the images as the margins are quite generous. Collated complete, although a number of plates in the second volume are misbound. A complete listing accompanies the set. Cox, I, p. 224, who notes that the author traveled the Nile as far as Philae before passing into Palestine and other places in Asia Minor in 1737-38.
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Manuscript Diary of A Trip Around The World in 1896, Illustrated With Watercolors. by YOUNG, Eva P.

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Manuscript Diary of A Trip Around The World in 1896, Illustrated With Watercolors.
Author
YOUNG, Eva P.
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Savoy Books (United States)
Description
Handwritten. Quarto, 10 x 8 inches. Bound in contemp. Japanese crepe stitched with silk cord, adapted from a Japanese book, "Pictures of Japanese Life." 34 leaves, both sides, illustrated throughout with Young's watercolors. Together with Young's Japanese passport with its original envelope, and a small sheet of wash studies of ethnic heads. Covers worn; minor chipping to margins. Housed in a morocco-backed cloth clamshell case. A fine record of an around-the-world trip taken by a young woman of means at the end of the 19th century. Young is at times full of class prejudices, provincial attitudes and self-absorption, but despite these manages to conjure up a vivid picture of her life on board and off, and convey the conventions of American travellers of the period. Covering a period from September to December 1896, the journal describes sights in Gibraltar, the Alhambra, Granada, Malta, southern Italy, Port Said ("I hear that this town is the wickedest place in the world..."), the Suez Canal, Ceylon, Penang, Singapore, Hong Kong, Nagasaki, Yokohama, Tokyo, and Honolulu. Several days are spent in San Francisco before the train trip back to New York City on January 2nd, 1897. The manuscript is intertwined with Young's watercolor impressions of sights and people, sometimes filling half a page, sometimes little vignettes and details sketches. She is a competent draughtsman and a very good colorist, and her illustrations enliven the narrative with an appealing immediacy. Altogether an attractive relic of Gilded Age travel. .
Dialectical Adventures Into the Unknown

Dialectical Adventures Into the Unknown

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Seller: Bernett Rare Books Inc
Title
Dialectical Adventures Into the Unknown
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Bernett Rare Books Inc (United States)
Description
38-pp. volume from a little-known British underground anarchist group, containing comics, photomontage and collage, and opinion pieces on the political climate of the time. Octavo (10 1/4 x 7 3/8 inches). Original black and white printed and side-stapled wrappers; small stain to front cover, overall excellent condition. London (Spontaneous Combustion) 1974. (Simon Ford, The Realization and Suppression of the Situationist International: An Annotated Bibliography, 1972-1992, 234). This single stand-alone volume was composed and compiled by several British nihilist and anarchist writers, including Paul Sieveking, Chris Whitbread, Nick Brandt, and Sam Fanto. The titles of the essays include "The Work of Negation [& the Negation of Work]", "Irish Bone Stew", "Today's Punch & Judy Show", and "Theses on Feminism". The Spontaneous Combustion group introduces themselves at the end of the volume: "And who are we? A group of friends - hardly an organization. There hasn't been an equal participation in the coherence of the critique to call ourselves that (for instance, most of this journal was put together and written by just one of us)...We came together initially to produce a poster attacking the 'choice' presented at the election...If we are to continue our tentative collective existence it will be essential to develop our sense of play both amongst ourselves and through our direct intervention in the banal situations of 'life' in capitalist society...Most importantly, if our theory is to have any practical force, which it must do, if it's not to stagnate into ideology, we must develop ways of communicating it to that section of the proletariat who are initially alone capable of placing the forces of production at the service of individual needs and passions: the workers. Whilst we have appropriated the theses of the Situationist International we prefer to avoid calling ourselves situationists, a term which is increasingly becoming as vague as 'anarchists'. We have enough prisons without categories: type-casting kills." Scarce institutionally; as of June 2025, OCLC locates only 5 holdings in North America.
THE APPEAL TO THE PUBLIC ANSWERED, IN BEHALF OF THE NON-EPISCOPAL CHURCHES IN AMERICA; CONTAINING REMARKS ON WHAT DR. THOMAS BRADBURY CHANDLER HAS ADVANCED, ON THE FOUR FOLLOWING POINTS. THE ORIGIN AND NATURE OF THE EPISCOPAL OFFICE. REASONS FOR SENDING BISHOPS TO AMERICA. THE PLAN ON WHICH IT IS PROPOSED TO SEND THEM. AND THE OBJECTIONS AGAINST SENDING THEM OBVIATED AND REFUTED. WHEREIN THE REASONS FOR AN AMERICAN EPISCOPATE ARE SHEWN TO BE INSUFFICIENT, AND THE OBJECTIONS AGAINST IT IN FULL FORCE

THE APPEAL TO THE PUBLIC ANSWERED, IN BEHALF OF THE NON-EPISCOPAL CHURCHES IN AMERICA; CONTAINING REMARKS ON WHAT DR. THOMAS BRADBURY CHANDLER HAS ADVANCED, ON THE FOUR FOLLOWING POINTS. THE ORIGIN AND NATURE OF THE EPISCOPAL OFFICE. REASONS FOR SENDING BISHOPS TO AMERICA. THE PLAN ON WHICH IT IS PROPOSED TO SEND THEM. AND THE OBJECTIONS AGAINST SENDING THEM OBVIATED AND REFUTED. WHEREIN THE REASONS FOR AN AMERICAN EPISCOPATE ARE SHEWN TO BE INSUFFICIENT, AND THE OBJECTIONS AGAINST IT IN FULL FORCE by Chauncy, Charles

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THE APPEAL TO THE PUBLIC ANSWERED, IN BEHALF OF THE NON-EPISCOPAL CHURCHES IN AMERICA; CONTAINING REMARKS ON WHAT DR. THOMAS BRADBURY CHANDLER HAS ADVANCED, ON THE FOUR FOLLOWING POINTS. THE ORIGIN AND NATURE OF THE EPISCOPAL OFFICE. REASONS FOR SENDING BISHOPS TO AMERICA. THE PLAN ON WHICH IT IS PROPOSED TO SEND THEM. AND THE OBJECTIONS AGAINST SENDING THEM OBVIATED AND REFUTED. WHEREIN THE REASONS FOR AN AMERICAN EPISCOPATE ARE SHEWN TO BE INSUFFICIENT, AND THE OBJECTIONS AGAINST IT IN FULL FORCE
Author
Chauncy, Charles
Seller
David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description
Boston: Kneeland and Adams, for Thomas Leverett., 1768. 205, [1 bookseller advt.] pp. Lacking the half title, some lower portion spotting to first few leaves. Contemporary ink correction on page 27. With the contemporary ownership signature of Jacob Hurd. Good+ or so. Thomas Chandler was a Connecticut-born Episcopal priest. His 'Appeal to the Public' [1767] was a major weapon in the Church of England's dispute with Reverend Chauncy and others who resisted the Anglican Church's establishment in America. "The clergy of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania delegated him as a leading advocate of American episcopacy to prepare a plea for the sending of bishops to America..." [DAB]. Chauncy refutes it here. Chauncy was the most prominent American voice for the authenticity and validity of non-Episcopal ordination; he passionately disputed the notion that "the established religion of England was that of its dependencies also. English bishops wrote as if Congregationalism were no religion at all" [DAB]. Religious separation paved the way, less than a decade later, for political separation and Revolution. FIRST EDITION. Evans 10853. Gephart 4099.
The Home Favorite Cook Book. Published by the Ladies' Benevolent Association of Greenpoint

The Home Favorite Cook Book. Published by the Ladies' Benevolent Association of Greenpoint by [New York, Greenpoint, Brooklyn]; Ladies' Benevolent Association of Greenpoint

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The Home Favorite Cook Book. Published by the Ladies' Benevolent Association of Greenpoint
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[New York, Greenpoint, Brooklyn]; Ladies' Benevolent Association of Greenpoint
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Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
Description
Greenpoint, N.Y.: Ladies' Benevolent Association of Greenpoint, 1887. Octavo (23 x 15 cm.), 75 pages. Advertisements. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. A charitable Brooklyn cookbook. "Money accruing from this sale of this is for the building of the Home for the Aged", states the title page. Recipes are not attributed, but there is an excellent two-page description of the "Work of the Association" with names of the officers of the society, and its goals. includes two tipped in recipes at the rear, Mushroom Soup, and Cheese Custard (which is labeled as a "West India Recipe" and there is a third recipe written on a blank, Baked Onions. A bit of foxing to a few pages, previous owner's name in pencil to a few pages, otherwise very good or better, in decorated, blue-gray cloth. Scarce. [OCLC locates four copies; not in Brown or Cook].
All The Best
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All The Best by George Bush

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All The Best
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George Bush
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Jeff Bergman Books ABAA/ILAB (United States)
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9780684839585
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Fine
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Scribner, 1999. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Presentation & Association. 1st Edition. Fine Copy In Like Jacket.First Edition/First Printing.$30.00 On Flap. Rare Presentation & Association Copy To Famous Car Dealer Of San Antonio. "Ken Batchelor With Appreciation Always All The best George Bush" Signed On His Official Book-Plate.As New Copy..
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A LIST OF JAPANESE MAPS OF THE TOKUGAWA ERA, SUPPLEMENT C. by BEANS, George H.

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A LIST OF JAPANESE MAPS OF THE TOKUGAWA ERA, SUPPLEMENT C.
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BEANS, George H.
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Boston Book Company (United States)
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1963. BEANS, George H. A LIST OF JAPANESE MAPS OF THE TOKUGAWA ERA, SUPPLEMENT C. Jenkintown: Tall Tree Library, 1963. One of 100 copies. 42 pp. 4to., red cloth stamped in gilt on spine. Fine. B/w frontispiece and illustrations. Lacks additional errata slip.
The Spotlight on Ohio's Black Crime

The Spotlight on Ohio's Black Crime by [Ohio]: Thomas, T.J. and Dan W. Gallagher

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The Spotlight on Ohio's Black Crime
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[Ohio]: Thomas, T.J. and Dan W. Gallagher
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The Joe Fay Company LLC (United States)
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Good plus.
Description
Cleveland: Charles Margolian, 1930. Good plus.. 127pp. Illustrated. Contemporary red printed wrappers. Light wear, remnants of older tape on spine. Text tanned, a few leaves with small chips or tears. A scarce work decrying the horrible fire which struck the penitentiary on Columbus, Ohio in 1930, killing over three hundred inmates. The work is dedicated "to the memory of the unfortunates who had to give up their lives on the fiery altar of neglect in order to awaken the State of Ohio to needed reforms." Illustrated throughout, including photoreproductions with captions such as "Convicts looking upon the roasted bodies of their fellow inmates on the night of the fire," and "Negro convicts carrying out debris." Fairly scarce institutionally, with the majority of copies found unsurprisingly in Ohio libraries.
How Would You Feel if Your Dad Was Gay

How Would You Feel if Your Dad Was Gay by Haran, Ann [and] Meredith Maran

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How Would You Feel if Your Dad Was Gay
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Haran, Ann [and] Meredith Maran
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McBlain Books (United States)
ISBN
9781555831882
Condition
Near Fine
Description
Boston: Alyson Wonderland / Alyson Publications, 1991. 1st ed. Hardcover. Near Fine. illustrations, 32p. Original laminated yellow pictorial hardcover. 26 cm. One corner tip visibly reglued. No jacket (as published?).
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A DREAM IN THE LUXEMBORUG by ALDINGTON, Richard

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A DREAM IN THE LUXEMBORUG
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ALDINGTON, Richard
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Houle Rare Books & Autographs (United States)
Description
LONDON, CHATTO & WINDUS [1930]., 1930. 1/2 RED CLOTH OVER PATTERNED BOARDS; NO DUST JACKET; #178/300 COPIES SIGNED BY ALDINGTON. FIRST EDITION. VERY GOOD.. Signed by Author(s). F. Hardcover.
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Printed Books and Manuscripts Auction Catalogue (including the original Copy R of "America") by Sale catalogue

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Printed Books and Manuscripts Auction Catalogue (including the original Copy R of "America")
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Sale catalogue
Seller
John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller (United States)
Description
1987. London: Christie's, 13th Nov 1987. 4to, 89 pp., including 4pp. with details of Copy R which provides a a revised provenance for this, and 3 illustrations of Copy R. Near fine. § Copy R was sold to an anonymous buyer (probably in Chicago) for $140,000. Bentley, BBS, p.56.
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Opinion and Reform in Hume's Political Philoaophy by Stewart, John B.

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Opinion and Reform in Hume's Political Philoaophy
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Stewart, John B.
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Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
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Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, [1992[ Cloth. Octavo. Fine in very good d.j. Spine of d.j. faded.

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