Boston: Walker, Wise, and Company, 1862. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Second printing (first printing was in 1861), duodecimo size, 131 pp. One of many voices calling for an end to slavery in the United States, Moncure Daniel Conway (1832-1907) writes an impassioned plea for the emancipation of slaves in "The Rejected..... More
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Paris: Librairie de Firmin-Didot Freres, Fils et Cie, 1874. Second Edition. Hardcover. Quarto size, 640 pp., text in French. The best known work by knight and historian Geoffroi de Ville-Hardouin (c. 1150-c.1213/18), written between 1207 and 1213. This work is one of the oldest known examples of historical French prose..... More
Dayton, Ohio: Odell & Mayer, 1881. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo size, 1039 pp. The first written history of Fayette County, Ohio, this volume describes its discovery, engagements with Native Americans, the involvement of citizens in both the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, information on agriculture and industries, and significant information on..... More
London: Printed for T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies... 1798. First Edition. Leather bound. Octavo size, 544 pp. The Turkish Empire (Ottoman Empire) ended the Byzantine Empire in 1453 with the conquest of Constantinople; for almost seven centures they controlled much of Northern Africa, Western Asia,and Southeast Europe (n.b., info..... More
![Item #CNJL2226 Islamic Art and Architecture, 650 - 1250 [with] The Art and Architecture of...](/pictures/thumb/CNJL2226_1.jpg?v=1605894289)
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995-2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes (covering 650 CE to 1250 CE), quarto size, 723 pp., second volume in slipcase. The symmetry and beauty of Islamic art and architecture has been admired for centuries; these two volumes, while published separately, are being offered as a...... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Comany, c. 1961. Ninth Printing. Hardcover. Octavo size, 186 pp., in dust jacket, inscribed by John Griffin. The year was 1959; while the Civil Rights Movement was gaining momentum, in many parts of America and particularly in the South, African Americans were considered inferior to whites and..... More
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Glasgow: Hugh Hopkins, 1869. Second Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes (complete), octavo size, 587 pp. Joseph Ritson (1752-1803) was an interesting and, even for his day, unusual man. Described by the DNB as an "antiquarian"; at the age of 20, upon reading the "Fable of the Bees" he decided to "forswear..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 379 pp., inscribed by Corinne Roosevelt Robinson to "Mrs. Olcott" (Clara L. Olcott?]. Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt (1858-1919), the 26th President of the United States, is remembered for many things: the establishment of national parks, the champion of..... More
Ryde, Isle of Wight: Printed and Published by E. Hartnall, Arcade, 1841. Hardcover. 64mo size, 120 pp., bound in wood boards from the wreckage of the ship. "I was stationed at the third gun from forward, on the starboard side of the lower gun deck. I said to Carrol, who..... More
[San Francisco]: The Book Club of California [Printed by the Grabhorn Press], [1946]. Dean, Mallette. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 280 copies, folio size, 107 pp., with prospectus. Hernando de Soto (1495-1542), the hero of this story, was a Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the first European expedition into..... More
Milwaukee: Ernst G. Timme, 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto size, 570 pp., with the original presentation card from the author tipped in. The twenty-fourth volume of the Wisconsin Blue Book, with contents including the law of 1885, prescribing the number of officers and employees of both the senate and assembly..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1925. Hollyer, Frederick. First Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes, octavo size, 713 pp. An illustrative account of the years leading up the the Great War, by English author, countryman and politician Viscount Grey of Fallodon (Edward Grey 1862-1933). This and Grey's other well-known work "The Charm..... More