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Napoleon and the End of the French Revolution

By: Warwick, Charles F.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, George W. Jacobs & Company: 1910

Seller ID: 3455

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Illustrated cloth. Gilt and black decoration on front cover. Illustrations. Page tops are gilt. Page sides and bottoms are uncut. Library envelope, with library card, affixed to rear end paper, from the Library of the California School for the Deaf, and the Blind, Berkeley. 481 pages. Pages 471-474 have jagged edges from improper opening, does not affect text. In the Preface the author notes: "The Revolution made Napoleon. He was its embodiment, its natural sequence; it culminated in him; he stood between its chaos and a Bourbon restoration and although a usurper and a despot he saved the ...
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The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy

By: Waugh, Evelyn

Price: $37.50

Publisher: London, England, Chapman and Hall: 1948

Seller ID: 020704

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Original publisher's blue cloth binding with beige and green illustrated dust wrapper in mylar. Gilt lettering on spine of the book. 5 1/8" x 7 1/2." 144 pages, complete. Black and white illustrations, complete. Both endpapers have black and white marbled illustrations. Dust wrapper and pages and covers of the book are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. Dust wrapper and book have minimal age and edge wear. Dust wrapper is not price-clipped. No remainder marks. A satire on American perspectives and the cultural differences between the United States and Britain. The sub...
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Six Lectures on the Recorder and Other Flutes in Relation to Literature

By: Welch, Christopher

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, England, Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press: 1911

Seller ID: 022074

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Original publisher's maroon cloth binding with gilt illustration on front cover and gilt lettering on the spine. 5 3/4" x 8 3/4." 457 pages, complete. Many black and white illustrations, complete. One illustration, the frontispiece, is in color. 112 illustrations are listed but some overlap on the same page. Printed in the back: "Oxford: Horace Hart, Printer to the University." Former owner's card laid in from the Recorder Guild. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Slight edge and corner wear. Some wear to the tail of the spine. Endpapers slightly browned. A...
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Original Map - "Guiana: Shewing the Localities of the Principal Indian Nations"

By: Weller, Edward

Price: $100.00

Publisher: London, England, Bell and Daldy: 1868

Seller ID: 020137

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Original publisher's black and white lithographic map showing Guyana, the Caribbean Islands (Lesser Antilles), and the northeastern portion of South America including parts of Venezuela and Brazil. Map with margins measures 16 3/4" x 14 3/8"; actual map area measures 16" x 13 1/4." Map is folded into eighths; slight splitting at some of the folds along the edges. A few, very small foxing spots. Map is very clean and intact overall. The names of the indigenous tribes of northeastern South America are placed on the map where they live. Natural geographic features are shown ...
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Le Roi De Rome (1811-1832).

By: Welschinger, Henri

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Paris, Plon-Nourrit et Cie: 1902

Seller ID: 6836

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Fifth edition. viii, 493 pages, portrait, attractively bound in 3/4 leather and marbled boards, 4 raised bands, gilt tooling and lettering on spine, gilt top edge, 9.5 x 6.5". Very nice copy. Appears to be an exhaustive study of Napoleon.
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Thirty Years in the Golden North. Translated By Paul Selver, with a Foreword By Karel Capek.

By: Welzl, Jan

Price: $37.50

Publisher: New York, New York, The Macmillan Company: 1932

Seller ID: 13669

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

336 pages; folding map; blue cloth binding with dust jacket under mylar. Some fading to the spine of the dust jacket. An account of a Polar Czech who spent thirty years living along the Siberian Arctic coast trading with the natives, whalers, and gold seekers. He lived in a large cave operating out of it selling coal and goods for trade. Makes for an interesting read. Very good clean copy.
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The West India Sketch Book. In Two Volumes. [Vol. II]

By: Wentworth, Trelawny

Price: $750.00

Publisher: London, England, Printed for Whittaker & Co.: 1834

Seller ID: 10825

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Volume Two Only. Volume II: vi, 391 pages; 13 illustrations (complete), tables; appendix; bound in original publisher's green cloth with title label pasted on the spine. Signed in pencil "J.L.B.". Contains chapters XVIII through XXXIII, plus appendix.
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Bidrag Til det Kiobenhavnske Universitets Historie, i Tidsrummet fra dets Stiftelse til Reformationens Indforelse

By: Werlauff, Erich Christian

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Copenhagen, Kongelig og Universitets - Bogtrykker: 1836

Seller ID: 4986

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

22 pages. Small title label front cover. Loose covers, some chipping along spine edges. Contents intact. Two tears rear cover, repaired. Light foxing last two pages. Printed in Copenhagen. Contributions to the History of the University of Copenhagen from the time of its founding to the Reformation. The author: 1781-1871; Danish historian.
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The Queens of Society

By: Wharton, Grace and Philip

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Porter & Coates:

Seller ID: 016346

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Circa 1890. Two volume set, blue cloth binding with lovely gilt and silver illustration on front of three feathers with ribbon. Rubbing, cloth has been pieced in to repair spine. Volume 1 - 451 pages with 8 portrait plates, complete. Volume 2 - 439 pages with 10 portrait plates, complete. Grace Wharton was the pseudonym of Katherine Thomson (1797-1862), an English novelist and historian. This work is a collection of anecdotal biographies of prominent women in English and French society from the 16th to the early 19th century. It was written with her son, John Cockburn Thomson. These copies are...
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The Awakening of Mary Fenwick

By: Whitby, Beatrice

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, New York, M.J. Ivers & Co., Publishers: 1889

Seller ID: 14890

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

"American Series, 153". 332 pages; ads in back section; paper wrapper (4 3/4 x 6 7/8 inch). Some chipping to corners, minor hole (paper defect) in title page not effecting text. Very good copy.
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Guatemala . Land of Ancient Arts, Crafts, Costumes and Customs .

By: Whiteside, Maxine W.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: 1939

Seller ID: 10082

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

Inscribed by the author "'With fond remembrances' to Wilhalmina, from Maxine W. Whiteside" on the title page in ink. 31 pages; illustrations; dark orange paper covers with title and author on the cover. Account of the 50th annual excursion of the California Press Association lead by former Governor Friend Richardson to Guatemala. Clean copy inside and outside.
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The Future of East and West; An Essay in Surmise

By: Whyte, Frederick

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd. (1932). London.: 1932

Seller ID: 3050

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Cloth. Illustrated dust wrapper; slight chipping to top of spine. This is one book in a series called "World Problems of To-day", written by several authors. From the dust wrapper: "The whole course of political events since the Great War and perhap s most of all the recent monetary crisis have compelled all thinking people to realise how closely the interests of this country are interwoven both politically and financially with those of other nations and especially of the other States of Europe ". "Herein lies a very real danger to the future of the country, for even those ...
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Original Print - "Vue de la Sortie de Paris Prise du Pont Neuf"

By: Wichnyther; Chereau, Jacques

Price: $375.00

Publisher: London, England; Paris, France, Wichnyther; Jacques Chereau: 1761

Seller ID: 019885

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

A beautiful, original hand-colored copperplate engraving that shows a view of Pont Neuf over the River Seine. People are shown walking or riding in horse-drawn carriages. Statue of Henry IV is featured in the center. Paper measures 19 1/2" x 13 1/8"; printed area measures 5 1/2" x 8 3/4." The local points of interest within the scene have numbers next to them, which correspond to a key below that lists the names of said places or monuments. This print is also a "vue d'optique," which were very popular in the latter half of the eighteenth century and first half of t...
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Penelope's Irish Experiences

By: Wiggin, Kate Douglas

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Boston, Mass, Houghton Mifflin & Company: 1902

Seller ID: 14365

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

xi, 345 pages; illustrations; green cloth binding with paper label on spine. Kate Wiggin was a leading author of children's books and founded the first Kindergarten class in San Francisco during the 1880s before moving to Maine where she wrote and lived the rest of her life. Very good clean copy.
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Napoleon Louis Bonaparte, First President of France. Biographical and Personal Sketches, Including a Visit to the Prince at the Castle of Ham.

By: Wikoff, Henry

Price: $37.50

Publisher: New York, George P. Putnam: 1849

Seller ID: 6306

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

xii, 155 pages, engraved portrait, original cloth, 7 1/2 x 5". Spine a bit faded, ends chipped, light stain in upper corner of later leaves, oval blindstamp on title page, clean and tight, a sound copy with scattered light foxing.
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Raveneau de Lussan: Buccaneer of the Spanish Main and Early French Filibuster of the Pacific; A Translation into English of His Journal of a Voyage into the South Seas in 1694 and the Following Years with the Filibusters

By: Wilbur, Marguerite Eyer (Translator and Editor)

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Cleveland, OH, The Arthur H. Clark Company: 1930

Seller ID: 020446

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Limited edition. One of 996 copies printed. Original publisher's maroon cloth binding with brown dust wrapper. Gilt lettering on spine of the book. Top edge gilt. 6 3/4" x 9 3/4." 303 pages, complete. Index in back. Pages and covers of book and dust wrapper are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. Dust wrapper is not price-clipped and has no remainder marks. Fine copy in fine dust wrapper. Referenced in the Clark Bibliography, no. 175: "Dark red cloth, Covenant paper, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. 996 copies. Published at $6.00. In 1940 Barnes and Noble p...
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China's Open Door; A Sketch of Chinese Life and History

By: Wildman, Rounsevelle

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Lothrop Publishing Company. (1900).: 1900

Seller ID: 3052

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

First edition. Cloth; gilt lettering and gilt decorations on front cover. Illustrations. Page tops are gilt. Slight chipping to top and bottom of spine. Page sides and bottoms are uncut. Small stains to pages 4-9. Damp stain to top of edge pages 309 -314, does not affect text. From the Introduction: "This book is written in pure English. It is clear and concise in language, easy to understand, and opens up vistas of information which, until now, have been unknown to the general reader. At the b eginning the keynote is struck -- the author knows his subject". Chapters include: As to the...
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Travellers in Africa; Narratives and Adventures

By: Williams, Charles

Price: $17.50

Publisher: Henry T. Coates & Co. Circa 1908. Philadelphia.:

Seller ID: 3020

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

Illustrated cloth, front cover and spine. Illustrations. From the Preface: "An intense interest has recently been awakened, and widely extended, in regard to South Africa. Questions are, in consequence, frequently arising as to the character of its surface, its diversified tribes, its plants, and its animals." "The object of the present volume is to meet such inquiries by popular details on the highest authority, abundantly interspersed with true stories of chivalrous enterprise and heart-thr illing adventure". Contents include: The Cape of Good Hope; The Hottentots; The Explor...
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Last Loves of Henri of Navarre

By: Williams, H. Noel

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, England, Hutchinson & Co.:

Seller ID: 14410

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible-Very Good

315 pages; illustrations; blue cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine. A full biography of Henri of Navarre and his love life. Very good clean copy.
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Italy: Sicily Again in Path of War. Volume 84, Pages 307-320. September 1943. An Article from the National Geographic Magazine.

By: Williams, Maynard Owen

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., National Geographic Society: 1943

Seller ID: 021305

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Collectible-Fine

Original publisher's brown wrappers backed with black cloth. Red and blue decorative stripes on front cover. Bound by the Angwin Book Bindery in Angwin, California. 6 5/8" x 9 5/8." Pages 307-320, complete. Black and white photographic plates, complete. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. A few numbers are written in red pencil and blue pen in the upper-left corner of the front cover not affecting text. Stamps of "South Sacramento School" and "John F. Kennedy Senior High School Library" are on the bottom margin of the front cover not a...
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Category: Foreign Lands