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Russia, with Teheran, Port Arthur, and Peking: Handbook for Travellers (Baedeker's Russia)

Russia, with Teheran, Port Arthur, and Peking: Handbook for Travellers (Baedeker's Russia) by Baedeker, Karl

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Title
Russia, with Teheran, Port Arthur, and Peking: Handbook for Travellers (Baedeker's Russia)
Author
Baedeker, Karl
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Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1914. First edition. First edition. lxiv, 590pp. with 40 maps, 78 plans. Bound in publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering, marbled edges. Near Fine with small tear near joint at folding map frontis, name written on half title, in a Poor dust jacket (not pictured), incomplete with gaps between panels and archival mending tissue on the verso, chip at head. An uncommon travel guide to WWI-era Russia before the revolution including Finland, Poland, and Persia; the first and only English language edition. Complete in eight detachable sections.
Truants From Life: The Rehabilitation of Emotionally Disturbed Children

Truants From Life: The Rehabilitation of Emotionally Disturbed Children by Bettelheim, Bruno

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Truants From Life: The Rehabilitation of Emotionally Disturbed Children
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Bettelheim, Bruno
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Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
Glencoe, IL: The Free Press, 1955. First Edition. First edition. Signed by Bruno Bettelheim on the half title page in blue ink. Laid in flyer from a Seattle reading of Bettelheim's in 1963, quite possibly it was signed there. xvi, 511, [1], [4, ads] pp. Very Good+ with Oregon Prison Association bookplate on paste down, review of this book taped to front free endpaper, in Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket, lightly worn. Complete case histories of four disturbed children.
The heart of a continent: a narrative of travels in Manchuria across the Gobi Desert, through the Himalayas, the Pamirs, and Chitral 1884-1894 ... Third edition

The heart of a continent: a narrative of travels in Manchuria across the Gobi Desert, through the Himalayas, the Pamirs, and Chitral 1884-1894 ... Third edition by Younghusband, Francis

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The heart of a continent: a narrative of travels in Manchuria across the Gobi Desert, through the Himalayas, the Pamirs, and Chitral 1884-1894 ... Third edition
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Younghusband, Francis
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London: John Murray, 1896. 8vo, pp. xvii, [3], 409, [1]; 4 folding color maps, 18 plates; a New Zealand prize binding with gilt supralibros on upper cover of Auckland University, prize certificate on front pastedown awarding this book as a prize to E. B. R. Prideaux for chemistry; contemporary full red calf, rebacked, old gilt-decorated spine laid down, morocco label; spine darkened; good, sound, and clean. Edmund Brydges Rudhall Prideaux (1878-1946) was born in Barbados, "educated at Auckland Grammar School and Canterbury University, New Zealand. He excelled at studies of the classics and science. In June 1900 Canterbury University conferred on him a senior scholarship in Latin. He moved to London in 1901 at 23. He then moved to a posting in Edinburgh at the Heriot Watt College, then moved to Liverpool University in 1909. Dr Prideaux was both a lecturer to senior science students, and a researcher. In 1913 he was at the Battersea Polytechnic, then in 1914 the University College of Nottingham. During his New Zealand years he spent time researching Kauri gum resin, and continued researching resins in London, before turning his attention to the study of fluorine and its compounds where he discovered new compounds. This lead to his attaining a Doctor of Science degree at London University" (wikitree). He is the author of numerous papers and text books in the chemistry realm. "Narrative of the author's travels in the heart of Asia. The story begins his travel in Manchuria, then continued to the Gobi desert. From Yarkand he crossed the Mustagh Pass in the Karakoram, and descended the Baltoro glacier; then he reached Kashmir through Baltistan. In 1889 he achieved his 2nd mission to the Yarkand and Shaksgam rivers; Aghil Pass Shaksgam river discoveries of Gasherbrum and Urdok glaciers - Sarpo Laggo river - exploring of Pamma Mustagh then Ilisu Pass - Taghdumbash Pamir - Tashklugan Mintaka Pass Hunza Gilgit. Then he came to Kashgar with G. Macartney in 1890, and explored the Pamir plateau in the next year" (Yakushi). Yakushi Y27a.
The heart of a continent: a narrative of travels in Manchuria across the Gobi Desert, through the Himalayas, the Pamirs, and Chitral 1884-1894

The heart of a continent: a narrative of travels in Manchuria across the Gobi Desert, through the Himalayas, the Pamirs, and Chitral 1884-1894 by Younghusband, Francis

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The heart of a continent: a narrative of travels in Manchuria across the Gobi Desert, through the Himalayas, the Pamirs, and Chitral 1884-1894
Author
Younghusband, Francis
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Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. First edition, American issue; 8vo, pp. xvii, [3], 409, [1]; 4 folding color maps, 18 plates; original decorative green cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; small spot on the upper cover, previous owner's bookplate; generally, very good, clean, and sound. "Narrative of the author's travels in the heart of Asia. The story begins his travel in Manchuria, then continued to the Gobi desert. From Yarkand he crossed the Mustagh Pass in the Karakoram, and descended the Baltoro glacier; then he reached Kashmir through Baltistan. In 1889 he achieved his 2nd mission to the Yarkand and Shaksgam rivers; Aghil Pass Shaksgam river discoveries of Gasherbrum and Urdok glaciers - Sarpo Laggo river - exploring of Pamma Mustagh then Ilisu Pass - Taghdumbash Pamir - Tashklugan Mintaka Pass Hunza Gilgit. Then he came to Kashgar with G. Macartney in 1890, and explored the Pamir plateau in the next year" (Yakushi, citing the London edition of the same year). This New York edition not noticed by Yakushi.
The Professor, A Tale

The Professor, A Tale by [Bronte, Charlotte] Bell, Currier

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The Professor, A Tale
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[Bronte, Charlotte] Bell, Currier
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Orig. brown publisher cloth decorated in blind, nicked at backstrip foot. Very good
Description
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1857. First American edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown publisher cloth decorated in blind, nicked at backstrip foot. Very good. 330 pages. 19 x 14 cm. Bronte's first novel, an intensely autobiographical story, and ironically published after her death. It was initially rejected by several publishers. Charlotte Bronte reworked this novel into a similar tale entitled, "Villette," published 1853. PARRISH p.96. SADLIER 347. Front and back endpapers excised. Intermittent scattering foxing throughout, heaviest from few and last leaves. Six pages of publisher adverts at rear.
Exhibition postcard: Ulrich Rückriem: Skulpturen und Grafik zum Thema Ergänzung (17 January-15 February 1976)

Exhibition postcard: Ulrich Rückriem: Skulpturen und Grafik zum Thema Ergänzung (17 January-15 February 1976) by (RUCKRIEM, Ulrich)

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Exhibition postcard: Ulrich Rückriem: Skulpturen und Grafik zum Thema Ergänzung (17 January-15 February 1976)
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(RUCKRIEM, Ulrich)
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Printed on both sides. Postcard, mailed. Bremerhaven: Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst Bremerhaven, 1976. Postcard invitation made for Rückriem’s third show with Jürgen Wesseler in Bremerhaven. Near fine. Mailed to curator Judith Cahen (b. 1938) and graphic designer Wim Crouwel (1928-2019). ❧ Exhibition installation pictured in Vorhut aus dem Hinterland (Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen: 1992).
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The Astronomical Tables of Giovanni Bianchini by Chabas, Jose, Bernard R. Goldstein

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The Astronomical Tables of Giovanni Bianchini
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Chabas, Jose, Bernard R. Goldstein
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Brattle Book Shop (United States)
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LikeNew
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Leiden/Boston: Brill 2009. Hardcover. 9.5" x 6.25". x, 141, [5] pp. Tables throughout. Publisher's blue and illustrated boards. Near Fine. ISBN 978900417157 . LikeNew. Hardcover .
Chinese Religion in Malaysia: Temples and Communities CHO 12
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Chinese Religion in Malaysia: Temples and Communities CHO 12 by Chee-Beng, Tan

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Chinese Religion in Malaysia: Temples and Communities CHO 12
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Chee-Beng, Tan
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Brattle Book Shop (United States)
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9789004357860
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Leiden; Boston: Brill [2018]. Hardcover. 9.5" x 6.25". [2], X, [2], 153pp. Publisher's black and orange illustrated boards. Near Fine. ISBN 9789004357860 . LikeNew. Hardcover .
The Communist, April 1942, Vol. XXI, No. 3

The Communist, April 1942, Vol. XXI, No. 3 by [Communist Party of the United States of America]

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The Communist, April 1942, Vol. XXI, No. 3
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[Communist Party of the United States of America]
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New York: Communist Party of the United States of America, 1942. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 195-288pp. Lightly scuffed and edgeworn, spine sunned, else good.

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