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Carte physique de l'Amerique septentrionale.

By: Anonymous

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Paris [c.1817]:

Seller ID: 55771

Engraved map on wove paper, uncoloured. Sheet size is 34.5cm x 26.5. Original folds, very good condition. Plate number in upper right: "P. LXXVIII". From an unknown work. A map notable for the extent of its mistakes and misinformation, including an apocryphal South Branch of the Columbia River extending almost to Salt Lake, and another river connecting Salt Lake to San Francisco.
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"A Question not before the Jury, or Vitiated Testimony". A Lecture, Delivered at the Rev. C. Voysey's Service, at St. George's Hall, Langham Place, August 31st, 1873, by an M.A., of Oxford. [From the Eastern Post, September 6th, 1873].

By: Anonymous [an M.A. of Oxford]

Price: $90.00

Publisher: Finsbury: Eastern Post Steam Printing Works, 1873.:

Seller ID: 55800

Disbound. 8pp. Self-wrappers. Very good condiiton. A slender pamphlet, on the subject of supernaturalism, and the question of a divine origin of religion. Reprinted from the Eastern Post, a newspaper from the East end of London: "The Eastern Post was a weekly local workers paper in circulation between 1868 and 1938. It was a working mens alternative to other local papers such as the Hackney Gazette (focused on social reform through parliament) and the Hackney Mercury (a Conservative paper). Its readership incorporated local residents from the Hackney, Shoreditch, Bethnal Green, Poplar and Step...
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The Man Who Never Understood.

By: Anonymous.

Price: $50.00

Seller ID: 53961

London: John Lane The Bodley Head, (1924). First edition, Colonial Issue (so stamped on the copyright page). Blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front cover lettered in blind. Some pen marks and small marks to end papers; a bright and attractive copy. An anonymous epistolary work of fiction, consisting of letters from a woman to her love, Ronald, written in the 1920s. Touches on politics, love, social issues.
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Happy Hours With Mamma.

By: Anonymous.

Price: $90.00

Seller ID: 54790

Edinburgh: William Oliphant & Son, 1835. Second Edition. 24mo. Original green cloth, decorative printed paper label on spine. Yellow coated end papers. [238]pp. plus two leaves of ads at rear. Engraved frontispiece and 5 inserted plates (one of a whale wrecking a boat). Light foxing to the plates, chip from the paper spine label, a clean very good copy generally. One short tale is about William Cowper and his dog, a water spaniel, and a Cowper poem is printed: The Dog and Water-Lily. Illustrations are by James Johnstone. The first edition was published in 1833.
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The Springfield Cottage Girl.

By: Anonymous.

Price: $35.00

Seller ID: 54793

NY: American Tract Society, [c.1850]. Original decorative wrappers printed in black & brown. Illustrated title page and two other engravings. Some foxing and discoloration, basically very good. Issued as No. 26 in a series, so indicated by a numbered box on the front wrapper. The WorldCat entry associates this book with Emma Sharpington, and with Elias James Whitney, who may have done the engraving. One engraving is also signed: "Childs".
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Arfao or A Roland for an Oliver. The Romance Of A Newspaper Personal. By HER and THEM. Elaborately Illustrated.

By: Anonymous. [A. Wolfson?].

Price: $125.00

Seller ID: 53560

NY: Cosmos Publishing Club, 1906. First edition. Original brown cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. Frontispiece & 2 inserted plates. Inner front hinge cracked, moderate edge wear, a fairly bright, very good copy. Small sticker and ownership signature on front end paper. A curious piece of epistolary fiction, comprising a brief narrative and a series of newspaper personals and responses. Smith: American Fiction, 1901-1925: A-297.
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Image for Manuel Elementaire et Pratique de l'Art Agricole, ou Notions Pratiques sur l'Agriculture; dedie Aux Maisons d'Education et a la Population Rurale du Bas-Canada, par un Membre du Clerge Canadien.

Manuel Elementaire et Pratique de l'Art Agricole, ou Notions Pratiques sur l'Agriculture; dedie Aux Maisons d'Education et a la Population Rurale du Bas-Canada, par un Membre du Clerge Canadien.

By: Derome (Francois-Magloire) [anonymous].

Price: $75.00

Seller ID: 54290

Montreal: De Montigny, 1853. First edition. Original blue-green printed wrappers, sewn. Old tape repair to upper spine and corner, small chip from lower front wrapper, old stain to lower margin; in general, a clean very good copy. An internal leaf has been misfolded during binding, but there is no loss of text. Text in French; an instructive manual in question-and-answer format; quite uncommon. The back cover bears an attractive ad for the printer, De Montigny. TPL: A Bibliography of Canadiana, First Supplement: 5582.
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A Bunch of Grapes Cut From the Vine with a Pair of Shears by Him & Me.

By: Morris (Gouverneur) - Illustrated by Raymond Moreau Crosby. [Anonymous].

Price: $75.00

Seller ID: 54240

[New Haven, ca. 1898 - 1900]. Small 4to. Original porous paper pictorial wrappers. The spine has been repaired with red cloth tape (perhaps re-attaching loose covers); it may be removeable, but will surely leave behind glue residue. Some tears to the edges of first and final leaves, edge wear and some chipping, generally very good otherwise. Clever verse and humorous illustrations [by Raymond Moreau Crosby], relating to student life at Yale. This is possibly Morris's first published work, done while a student at Yale.
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The Rescue.

By: Stanley (George) [anonymous].

Price: $45.00

Seller ID: 53248

[San Francisco: Arts Commission, 1964]. First edition. An illustrated poetry broadside; one sheet measuring 20 X 13 inches. Produced for the 1964 San Francisco Arts Festival. Fine condition. Art by Paul Alexander. Often found signed by the poet and artist; this copy is not signed by either. This was part of a portfolio of broadsides; here offered singly.
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