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Condition: Good. Good condition ex-library book with usual library markings and stickers.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. A few small marks or stains to the page edges/pages . Minor shelf wear. Previous owners name inside the front page/cover.

Condition: Like New. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact with no nicks or tears. Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds of any kind.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Typical library marks; scuffs, soils, rub marks, edge wear, etc. Smells a bit musty. A readable copy. 530 pages. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Typical library marks; scuffs, soils, rub marks, edge wear, etc. Smells a bit musty. A readable copy. 675 pages. Ex-Library.

Condition: Good. 1993. Mass Market Paperback. Well-read copy in good condition. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: Good. 1993. Mass Market Paperback. Well-read copy in good condition. . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1867, First American Edition, Good Plus/no dj, 12mo., 206pp. plus 24pp. catalogue in rear of other Baird publications, brown cloth hardcover, gold lettering mostly faded off backstrip, first 10 pages and last 25 pages with water-staining along bottom 2-4", 3 fold-out tables in rear with the last having a 2" tear at top margin but no loss of text, front interior hinge paper just starting to crack but binding tight.

paperback. Condition: Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing, fanning, inscriptions, margin notes, yellowing, staining on edge or cover or pages, bumps, scuffs, etc etc (sometimes multiple of these). It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only.

Condition: New. Guerra, Pia (illustrator).

Condition: VERY GOOD. 1805. Original binding. VERY RARE. Handsome early 19th century half leather over cloth. Hardcover. Leather is brown with horizontal bands to spine. Gilt lettering to the inserts. Marbled endpapers. 354pp. This is the work which obtained the prize on the question proposed in MDCCCII, by the National Institute of France, What has been the influence of the Reformation of Luther on the political situation of the different states of Europe, and on the progress of knowledge? VERY GOOD for age. Binding sound. Textblock appears clean. Marbled endpapers bright. Leather scuffed.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1028pp + publisher's book catalog; 23.5 cm x 14.5 cm. Full leather; ribbed spine; gilt-lettered spine label. Contents clean, unmarked; no library stamps or ownership markings. Front board detaching except single thread. First section: English to Latin; second section: Latin to English. No date of publication; circa 1840s.

Hard. Condition: Good+. First printing thus. Good+. Contemporaneous half calf and marbled boards. Calf scuffed. Gilt lettered calf tiles missing from spine. Marbled endpapers. Bookplate of Henry H. Stuttard of Read Hall to front pastedown. Foxed to blank end leaves. All edges marbled.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. Signed first edition of The Last Train To Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari by Paul Theroux. (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, [6], 353pp. Green hardcover, title in gilt on brown spine. The first printing, with a full number line listed on copyright page. Solid text block. In the publisher's dust jacket, $27.00 retail price on front flap, a fine example. Signed by Paul Theroux on the title page. Signed.

Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. Delve into the erudite world of encyclopedic knowledge with this 19th-century text. This comprehensive volume encapsulates a vast array of subjects, spanning from the intricacies of astronomy to the nuances of ancient history, providing a rich tapestry of human endeavor. The author meticulously compiles scientific discoveries, cultural insights, and historical accounts, offering a captivating glimpse into the collective knowledge of the time. This book not only serves as a repository of information but also as a testament to the insatiable human quest for understanding. Its pages invite you on an intellectual journey, broadening your horizons and deepening your appreciation for the multifaceted nature of our world. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. In Yiddish. 152 pages. 21 x 15 cm. Bölsche wrote essays on natural history for magazines such as "Die Gefiederte Welt" or "Isis". He studied from 1883 to 1885 philosophy, art history and archaeology at the University of Bonn. He did not complete studies of classical philology in Bonn, but in their course he traveled to Rome and Florence, then to Paris. Deciding that he could make writing his career, he moved to Berlin in the fall of 1886, financially supported by his parents. In Berlin-Friedrichshagen he became a central figure in the "Friedrichshagener Dichterkreis", which was an association of writers of naturalism, holding their first meetings in 1888/89 in the houses of Wilhelm Bölsche and Bruno Wille in Friedrichshagen am Müggelsee (now in the Berlin district of Treptow-Köpenick). This circle of friends would visit Erkner, where they sought the tranquility of the Brandenburg landscape near the cosmopolitan city of Berlin. The group became known enough for several Scandinavians to join it. The goal of this group of literati and intellectuals who settled around 1890 in Friedrichshagen, like of may other groups of that type sprouting up at that time, was social reform (German: Lebensreform) that promoted a bohemian, "natural" way of life as a response to industrialization and urbanization, a world view of life reform basically containing a secularized Gnostic-eschatological salvation doctrine (salvation through a "natural way of life"). Through Rudolf Lenz (1863-1938) and Bruno Wille Bölsche came into contact with the literary association "Durch!". Although most of his work covers natural history topics, Bölsche was not a trained naturalist but a popularizer of natural science as a layperson to the general public. Nevertheless, his publishing of "Das Liebesleben in der Natur" (The Love Life in Nature) in 1898 was the key for creating modern fact books in Germany. Boelsche also initiated with Wilhelm Schwaner (1863 - 1944) a prequel of the first German folk high school, the "Freie Hochschule Berlin" in 1902 and was an important instigator for the "Lebensreformbewegung" (Humanistic naturalism - key note: "Back to Nature") in Germany. In 1890 he and Bruno Wille founded the "Freie Volksbühne", which was intended as a workers' theater promoting the naturalist plays of the day. He also edited the most important cultural history review of the day, "Freie Bühne" (Free Stage) and popularized his free-thinking monism knowledge - especially the innovating school of Charles Darwin and Ernst Haeckel in dozens of self-edited books and series released by Kosmos-Verlag in Stuttgart collaborating with the Berlin artist Heinrich Harder. His friendship with the Hauptmann brothers, Gerhart Hauptmann and Carl, brought Bölsche to Schreiberhau in the Riesengebirge mountains, where he would spend the summer regularly, starting in 1901, making his permanent residence there in 1918. He continued to devote himself to his literary work and his extensive correspondence until old age. Bölsche was first married in Berlin in 1892 to Adele Bertelt (1860-1942), but they divorced in 1895. He remarried in 1897 in Cologne to Johanna Walther (1863-1923), a childhood friend (sister of architect Julius Wilhelm Walther, daughter of civil engineer and later factory manager Wilhelm Heinrich Walther and Augusta Alwina te Kloot). The couple had three children: Ernst Wilhelm Julius (1898-1899), Karl Erich Bruno (1899-1977) and Johanna Alwine Elisabeth (1900-35). Wilhelm Bölsche died in Schreiberhau on August 31, 1939. He was interred at the evangelical cemetery of Nieder-Schreiberhau in Dept. F 3 next to his wife Johanna. As a compliment to his work, Boelsche was the name giver to a mountain ridge in the "Riesengebirge" (Karkonosze Mountains), to a Berlin school (Realschule Bölsche - Oberschule), and to many streets in German towns, including the "Bölschestrasse" in his former living district Berlin-Friedrichshagen.

Cloth. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. Signed first edition of The Last Cigarette by Simon Gray. (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 312pp. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. Full number line listed on copyright page. Solid text block, light toning to edges, a near fine example. In the publisher's dust jacket, £14.99 retail price on front flap, fine condition. Inscribed on the title page: "Anne / Love / Simon / London, May 19th 2008.". Signed.

Original wraps. Condition: Fine. Signed first Dutch edition of The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt. Translated title reads "De laatste samoerai". (illustrator). First Dutch Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 438pp, [1]. Original paper wraps, title in gilt on front cover and spine. No additional printings listed on the copyright page. Solid text block, faint wear along edges, a fine example. Signed by Helen DeWitt on the half title. Signed.

KOONTZ, Dean R. After the Last Race [Signed Bookplate Laid In] New York: Atheneum, 1974. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original cloth-backed boards in white pictorial dust jacket; [14],297pp. A few minor soil-spots to textblock fore-edge, else (illustrator). Bound in original wine cloth spine and blue paper-covered boards. Clean and tight throughout with some light dust foxing along the fore-edges. In an attractive dust jacket with colorful circular design. With the price of $8.95. Reflex fold at the bottom right-hand corner of the front panel. Light soiling and toning along the front fold.

Cloth. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. First edition of Last Plane to Shanghai by Richard Tregaskis, inscribed to Admiral John S. McCain, Jr. (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 249pp. Blue hardcover, cream spine. Title in orange on spine. Stated "First Edition" on copyright page. Solid text block, light wear to front cover, a near fine example. In the publisher's dust jacket, $4.50 retail price on front flap, light wear along spine and flap folds, short closed tear along top edge, a near fine example. Inscribed on the front free endpaper "For Admiral John S. and Roberta McCain - Outstanding among all Navy family heads as representing the best of the Navy traditions - (like Full Speed Ahead and Damn the Torpedoes!) Much Aloha Rich Tregaskis - March 13, 1971." Admiral John S. McCain, Jr. (1911-1981) served in the United States Navy for 45 years. He was the son of Admiral John S. McCain, Sr., a four-star admiral who commanded South Pacific aircraft operations in World War II, and the father of Senator John McCain. During the Vietnam War, Admiral McCain was Commander-in-Chief of all U.S. forces in the Vietnam theater and an ardent supporter of the Vietnamization policy of President Nixon. McCain retired in 1972 and died of a heart attack in 1981. He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Signed.

Cloth. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Signed first edition of This America by President Lyndon B. Johnson, with a note from his daughter Lynda stating that this was "one of the last he signed." (illustrator). First Edition. Quarto, 169pp, [5]. Blue cloth, title stamped in silver. No additional printings noted. Text block clean, free of marks or notations. Publisher's dust jacket, retail price on front flap, closed tear to front panel, shallow chipping at spine, bright illustrations. Signed by President Lyndon Johnson on the front endpaper. Includes a laid in card from Lynda Bird Johnson Robb: "Dear Aliki and Bill, Daddy believed in the institution of marriage and I know he would enjoy sharing this book - one of the last he signed. As always, Lynda." This book is from the estate of William and Aliki Bryant, a Washington D.C. real estate developer and former member of the C.I.A. Both were active in the Washington DC social scene, until his passing in 2017. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Aretino, Pietro.[Ragionamenti] La Terza, et ultima parte de Ragionamenti . ne la quale si contengono due ragionamenti, cio è de la Cortim e del Giuoco, cosa morale, e bella. 'Appresso Gio. Andrea de Melagrano'. [London, John Wolfe]1589. 2 parts in 1 volume, small 8vo. [3] + 202 + [1]f. Roman letter. Medallion woodcut portrait of author with legend 'D. Petrus Aretinus Flagellum Principum' on both titles, some ornamental woodcut initials. 18th century polished calf, ornate gilt spine with title. First edition to include the last two of the whores dialogues (the dialogue of courts , and the dialogue of games ), considered as especially outrageous, completing Aretino s evocative, stylish street commentary on low life in Renaissance Italy. The work was edited by the London printer John Wolfe (d.1601),formerly apprenticed to John Day,who may have been trained by Giunti at Florence. Wolfe had set up a press near St Paul s, London, to produce piracies of books prohibited in Italy to sell them in continental Europe and was imprisoned for this in 1582. As explained in the printer's preface to the reader, this 3rd part of the Dialogues was published as a supplement to his collected edition of 1584. The volume is continuously foliated and divided into 2 parts: the first 66 leaves contain the 'Raggionamenti de la corti', the second part has the title 'Raggionamenti . nel quale si parla del gioco con maralita piacevole'. The text was not reprinted in the bowdlerized Elzevier editions of the Ragionamenti (1660 & 1668), but re-issued separately in 1650 under the title of 'Le carte parlanti' (The Talking Cards)for its references to the symbolism of Tarot and its subtle irony on the function of cards(cf Aretino's dialogues transl. by Raymond Rosenthal (1971). For a detailed description of the medallion portraits used as title illustrations, see R.B.Waddington,"A Satirist's Impresa: the medals of Pietro Aretino" (Renaissance Quarterly, vol.42,no 4 (1989,pp655-681).A good copy; light toning and traces of usage to one or two pages at beginning and end, an old stain at lower margin of folio 106. Old ownership inscription on title (?)Cuberti Sartorii. Adams A-1582; CNCE 2487; Edit 16; Gamba 1201; Index Aureliensis 107.121; Stuart Kaplan, Encyclopaedia of Tarot, I,28; Mazzuchelli, p206; Pia,Les Livres d'Enfer,1227; STC 19913; Woodfield, Surreptitious printing in England 1550-1640(1973)48; Manfred Zollinger, Bibliographie der Spielbuecher des 15.bis 18.Jahrhunderts, 758.

Very good. A few minor edge repairs and verso reinforcements Platemark visible. Centerfold wear. Blank on verso. Minor wormhole repairs at center near Great Lakes. Two sheets, joined by publisher. Minor buckling. Size 23 x 35 Inches. A scarce 1719 elephant folio map of North America issued by Alexis-Hubert Jaillot on an impressive scale. This is the scarce final edition of Jaillot's map featuring numerous updates to California, the Mississippi Valley, and the Eastern Seaboard. After the first edition, it is considered the most important due to its many significant changes that reflect the most up-to-date discoveries and speculations. The map covers all of North America and Central America, from Baffin Bay to the Spanish Main. It extends westward to include a highly speculative California and eastwards past the Azores to include the British Isles. Sanson's Cartography Jaillot derived this expanded format map from the earlier work of Nicholas Sanson, a figure who revolutionized French cartography. We can trace the fundamental design of this map to two Sanson maps. First, his 1666 map of North America - on which most of the basic cartography is based. Second, his 1657 map of California, which influenced the rise of the Insular California theory - despite the fact that in this 1719 edition, the northern part of Insular California has been removed, reflecting general acceptance that California was not an island. The present edition is further influenced by the 1698 map of Louis Hennepin and the cartography of René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle. Fascinating Great Lakes Jaillot's map also offers an ephemeral perspective on the Great Lakes. While all five lakes are present, Lake Superior (Lac de Tracy) and Lake Michigan (Lac des Illinois) are definitively lakes, a major change over earlier editions wherein these lakes were open at their westernmost extremes, thus illustrating the primitive state of exploration in the region as well as the high hopes of European monarchs that one of these lakes may provide a passage to the Pacific and the lucrative markets of Asia. Lake Huron is identified according to its original Huron-Petun (Wyandot) name, Karegnondi (tr. 'Big Lake'). Mississippi River The Mississippi River is relocated well to the west of its actual position, with its mouth corresponding roughly to the Sabine River. Although incorrect, this change represents a major advancement over previous maps in this series. Earlier states conflate the Mississippi with the Chucagua, which is here also mapped roughly where the actual Mississippi enters the Gulf of Mexico. Jaillot's reasoning behind this relocation relates to the cartography of Father Louis Hennepin, who issued an influential map corresponding to this error in 1698, and the subsequent cartography of La Salle. Great Freshwater Lake of the Southeast In Spanish Florida, which extends north to include most of the American Southeast, Lake Apalache, often called Lacus Aquae Dulces or the 'Freshwater Lake of the American Southeast' is noted. This lake, first mapped by De Bry and Le Moyne in the mid-16th century, is a mis-mapping of Florida's Lake George. While Theodor De Bry, working in 1565, correctly mapped the lake as part of the River May or St. John's River, subsequent navigators and cartographers in Europe erroneously associated it with the Savannah River, which, instead of flowing south from the Atlantic (like the May), flowed almost directly from the northwest. This error was taken up by Hondius and Mercator, who, in their 1606 map, inverted the course of the May River, thus situating this lake far to the northwest in Appalachia. Consequently, 'through mutations of location and size [this] became the great inland lake of the Southeast' (Cumming, 478) - an apocryphal cartographic element that would remain one of Le Moyne's most tenacious legacies. Lake Apalache was subsequently relocated somewhere in Carolina or Georgia, where Jaillot maps it and where it would remain for s.

Leather Bound. Condition: New. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2025, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in [1828]. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Pages:- 282, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. 282 282.