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The Grasses of Great Britain [unique original collection of specimens]

The Grasses of Great Britain [unique original collection of specimens] by Goddard, H J - BOTANICAL SPECIMENS

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Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books
Title
The Grasses of Great Britain [unique original collection of specimens]
Author
Goddard, H J - BOTANICAL SPECIMENS
Seller
Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition
Fine; some rubbing to the binding.
Description
Salisbury [UK]: Not published, 1936. Unique.. Contemporary three-quarter gilt stamped leather.. Fine; some rubbing to the binding.. Folio, measuring about 21 x 13 inches. There are 205 full page mounted specimens and mounted photographs etc.. A massive folio volume of mounted specimens of British grasses representing a life-time of work. The botanist/collector was H Goddard who was a well known authority on British flora in general and grasses in particular. He was the staff botanist for the firm of Dunns Farm Seeds in Salisbury. In 1936, after 50+ years of collecting he presented the collection to the firm. They had it bound with introductory letter press. This is the folio volume being offered here. The preliminaries of the volume contain photos and mounted press clippings from which is derived the following: ' A collection of British grasses, believed to be without equal .... It took most of his life to get it together, and two years ago it was put into a bound volume ... and presented to the firm. A preface to it was written by Prof. R G Stapleton, director of the Welsh plant breeding station, and one of the world's authorities on grasses, who pays it and the author a high tribute. He says," ... in Mr. Goddard's collection they have a valuable possession which will stand for all time ... the specimens are beautifully set-up, correctly named and well arranged. Indeed it is such that could have only been brought together by a botanist of long experience, and by one with infinite patience and with a deep feeling for the beauties of nature." Apart from some minor scuffing the volume is in fine condition with impeccably preserved specimens in tact. Each specimen has the common name, genus, species, place, and date collected noted on the mount. A superb and fascinating monument to scholarship, science, and natural beauty.
Five 1920 Photographs of Texas Rangers, Including Frank Hamer

Five 1920 Photographs of Texas Rangers, Including Frank Hamer by [Texas Rangers – History of Policing] Unknown Photographer

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Seller: Auger Down Books
Title
Five 1920 Photographs of Texas Rangers, Including Frank Hamer
Author
[Texas Rangers – History of Policing] Unknown Photographer
Seller
Auger Down Books (United States)
Condition
One photo with large tear at corner, else excellent.
Description
El Paso, Texas: Underwood & Underwood, 1920. Five photographs measuring 7 ¼ x 9 ½ inches. Typed captions affixed and Underwood & Underwood stamps verso. One photo with large tear at corner, else excellent.. The Texas Rangers, now a statewide investigative law enforcement agency, was formed in 1823 to protect Euro-American settlers in Mexican Texas, and officially established in 1835. Throughout the 19th century, the Rangers, as an irregular military, defended Texians from attacks by Indigenous people as they expelled the Indigenous populations from their homelands, and engaged in conflicts including the Mexican-American and Texas-Indian wars. During this time they also became known for their harsh tactics, including extrajudicial killings. The force became more organized into the 20th century, though the tactics were slow to become more humane, particularly during the Mexican Revolution. Offered here are five press photographs of Texas Rangers from 1920. The Rangers are shown posing with their horses or on horseback—in one, a Ranger shakes hands with a “Mexican Fiscale Captain”, also on horseback—and posing with an infant and its family. Two of the Rangers are identified in the captions as Captain Charles Stephens and Sergeant Hamer, likely Charles F. Stevens and Frank Hamer. Stevens (1868–1929) became captain of Ranger Company B in 1910; in 1929 he was killed in an ambush while working as a Federal Prohibition Agent. Hamer (1884–1955) was an on-again, off-again Ranger best known for his role in the posse that killed Bonnie and Clyde in 1934. Of interest to historians of the Rangers and their public perception early in the 20th century.
In the Mecca [Inscribed and Signed]

In the Mecca [Inscribed and Signed] by Gwendolyn Brooks

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Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Title
In the Mecca [Inscribed and Signed]
Author
Gwendolyn Brooks
Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
New York: Harper & Row, 1968. Near Fine/Very Good. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1968. Early Printing. Octavo (21cm); publisher's cloth in white pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; vii,[1],54pp. Light wear and dust-soil to dust jacket; a Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket overall. Inscribed and signed on half title page, "For Betty, with love and pride! Sincerely, Gwendolyn Brooks, February 19, 1986.
Histoire du Calendrier Romain, qui contient son origin & les divers changemens qui lui sont arrivez

Histoire du Calendrier Romain, qui contient son origin & les divers changemens qui lui sont arrivez by Francois Blondel

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Title
Histoire du Calendrier Romain, qui contient son origin & les divers changemens qui lui sont arrivez
Author
Francois Blondel
Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
A La Haye: Arnout Leers, 1684. Good. A La Haye: Arnout Leers, 1684. 12mo; 19th-century dark brown morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, gilt spine in five compartments; [2],400,[6]pp.; six leaves of tables (collated complete), steel-engraved emblems throughout text, including title page. Binding quite scuffed and worn along margins, joints cracked, rather large loss of spine leather, 20th-century ownership ex libris to front pastedown; a Good, rather unlovely copy, though contents remain clean and sound. The French engineer and mathematician's account of the history of the Roman calendar, generously illustrated.
Visit to the Great Oasis of the Libyan Desert;

Visit to the Great Oasis of the Libyan Desert; by Hoskins, George Alexander (d. 1863 or 64).

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Seller: Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio
Title
Visit to the Great Oasis of the Libyan Desert;
Author
Hoskins, George Alexander (d. 1863 or 64).
Seller
Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman,, 1837. First edition. References: Ibrahim-Hilmy i, 310; Kalfatovic 0338. Fine. 22 cm; xvi, 338 (i.e. 341) pages, map and 20 engraved plates (3 of them folding). Bound in recent half leather over marbled boards in period style. Marbled edges. Ownership inscription of W. Cushman of Watertown. Living in Luxor in 1836, Hoskins traveled with Robert Hay and Frederick Catherwood to the oases of Libya, where he ran into Joseph Bonomi. "A good account" (Kalfatovic) illustrated with maps and engravings from Hoskins's own drawings.
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Living Shrines: Home Altars of New Mexico by Cash, Marie Romero (text). Halus, Siegfried (photopgraphs)

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Title
Living Shrines: Home Altars of New Mexico
Author
Cash, Marie Romero (text). Halus, Siegfried (photopgraphs)
Seller
Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1998. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. Fine copy signed by photographer Halus on the half title.
Lessons from My Games. A Passion for Chess

Lessons from My Games. A Passion for Chess by fine, Reuben

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Title
Lessons from My Games. A Passion for Chess
Author
fine, Reuben
Seller
De Wolfe and Wood (United States)
Description
New York: David McKay, 1958. 225 pp. Very good in a slightly worn jacket.
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Sandpaintings of the Navaho Shootingway and The Walcott collection by Wyman, Leland C.

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Title
Sandpaintings of the Navaho Shootingway and The Walcott collection
Author
Wyman, Leland C.
Seller
Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description
Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970. 4to, pp. xii, [2], 102; color frontispiece, 44 grayscale photographs; blue cloth, ex-library with call number and library stamp on upper cover; covers spotted, musty, text clean and sound.
The Angry Ones

The Angry Ones by WILLIAMS, John A.

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Title
The Angry Ones
Author
WILLIAMS, John A.
Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
New York: Pocket Books, 1970. First Pocket Books Edition. Octavo (18cm); illustrated wrappers; bright pink edge-staining; [6],184,[2]pp ads. Gentle sunning to top edge, else a Fine, unread copy. Attractive copy of Williams's first novel, initially released by Ace in 1960. A powerful story of the racism that faces an educated Black man in the professional world, and the painful truths that warp interracial sex.
Jake's Thing

Jake's Thing by AMIS, Kingsley

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Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA
Title
Jake's Thing
Author
AMIS, Kingsley
Seller
Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780670404711
Description
New York: The Viking Press, 1978. First U.S. edition and first printing. Hardcover. 276 pages. A novel that was shortlisted for the Booker Prize from the author of the classic "Lucky Jim." Amis would go on to win the Booker Prize for "The Old Devils." A very good plus copy in paper covered boards with a cloth spine with some faint foxing to the page edges and in a near fine dust jacket with some very minute wear.

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