• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar
Facebook Twitter Google-plus

USED

OUT-OF-PRINT

Browsing is Arousing ™ words surrounding shape of eye around books on shelves.

RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS 

  • books@browsingisarousing.com
  • Your Cart
  • Home
  • *Book Beat Archives
  • About Us
  • Glossary
  • Policies
    • How to Pay
    • Returns
    • Shipping
  • Subscribe to Browser’s Book Beat
You are here: Home / Shop Online

Edit My Account  |  View Shopping Cart  
  1. Book Categories >
  2. History

Sort By:  
The Perfect Heresy:The Revolutionary Life and Death of the Medieval Cathars. by: O'Shea, Stephen

The Perfect Heresy:The Revolutionary Life and Death of the Medieval Cathars.
by: O'Shea, Stephen

Hardcover. NY, Walker & Company, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. chronicles the Roman Catholic Church's crusade against--and ultimate annihilation of--the Albigenses, or Cathars, a group of heretical Christians who thrived in what is now the Languedoc region of Southern France. The Cathars held revolutionary beliefs that threatened the authority of the church. The world, they maintained, was not created by a benevolent God. Rather, it was the creation of a force of darkness, immanent in all things. They considered worldly authority a fraud, and authority based on some divine sanction, such as claimed by the church, outright hypocrisy. Innocent III, resolved to eradicate the Cathar threat to church authority, recruited the military powers of France, eager to expand their territory to the south. Together, they systematically exterminated the Cathars and their supporters in a series of crusades between 1209 and 1229. The Dominican-led Inquisition that ensued built upon this momentum of intolerance and tormented Europe for centuries to come. 333 pages, endpapers map.

Record # 396683

Price: $15.00 
Quantity:

Indian Names of Places etc., and on the borders of Connecticut with interpretations of some of themby: Trumbull, J. Hammond

Indian Names of Places etc., and on the borders of Connecticut with interpretations of some of them
by: Trumbull, J. Hammond

Hardcover. Hartfort CT, privately printed, 1st, 1881, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 11 page introduction plus 93 pages, green cloth with black rules, lettering. One of only 250 copies. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise very good.

Record # 900251

Price: $200.00 
Quantity:

The Thirty Years War: Europe

The Thirty Years War: Europe

Softcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, reprint, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 997 pages, color and b&w illustrations. A deadly continental struggle, the Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. Peter Wilson offers the first new history in a generation of a horrifying conflict that transformed the map of the modern world. When defiant Bohemians tossed the Habsburg emperor's envoys from the castle windows in Prague in 1618, the Holy Roman Empire struck back with a vengeance. Bohemia was ravaged by mercenary troops in the first battle of a conflagration that would engulf Europe from Spain to Sweden. The sweeping narrative encompasses dramatic events and unforgettable individuals-the sack of Magdeburg; the Dutch revolt; the Swedish militant king Gustavus Adolphus; the imperial generals, opportunistic Wallenstein and pious Tilly; and crafty diplomat Cardinal Richelieu. In a major reassessment, Wilson argues that religion was not the catalyst, but one element in a lethal stew of political, social, and dynastic forces that fed the conflict. By war's end a recognizably modern Europe had been created, but at what price? The Thirty Years War condemned the Germans to two centuries of internal division and international impotence and became a benchmark of brutality for centuries. As late as the 1960s, Germans placed it ahead of both world wars and the Black Death as their country's greatest disaster. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 378563

Price: $20.00 
Quantity:

The Viking Heart: How Scandinavians Conquered the Worldby: Arthur Herman

The Viking Heart: How Scandinavians Conquered the World
by: Arthur Herman

Hardcover. NY, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. From a New York Times best-selling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist, a sweeping epic of how the Vikings and their descendants have shaped history and America. Scandinavia has always been a world apart. For millennia Norwegians, Danes, Finns, and Swedes lived a remote and rugged existence among the fjords and peaks of the land of the midnight sun. But when they finally left their homeland in search of opportunity, these wanderers--including the most famous, the Vikings--would reshape Europe and beyond. Their ingenuity, daring, resiliency, and loyalty to family and community would propel them to the gates of Rome, the steppes of Russia, the courts of Constantinople, and the castles of England and Ireland. But nowhere would they leave a deeper mark than across the Atlantic, where the Vikings' legacy would become the American Dream. Clean copy.

Record # 378799

Price: $18.00 
Quantity:

A Singular People: Images of Zoarby: Fernandez, Kathleen M.

A Singular People: Images of Zoar
by: Fernandez, Kathleen M.

Hardcover. Kent OH, Kent State Univ Pr, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 180 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Zoar, Ohio, a German-Christian utopian community founded in 1817, encouraged tourism and "gawkers." This has left a rich photographic record of the community, which includes tourists's photos and Zoarite-produced postcards. Fernandez uses many previously unpublished photos, captioned with the words of journalists, diarists, and other visitors.

Record # 350122

Price: $25.00 
Quantity:

Murder Has a Public Face: Crime and Punishment in the Speed Graphic Eraby: Millett, Larry

Murder Has a Public Face: Crime and Punishment in the Speed Graphic Era
by: Millett, Larry

Hardcover. US, Borealis Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. In his popular Strange Days, Dangerous Nights, Larry Millett delivered Weegee-style images of midwestern noir from the photo files of the St. Paul Pioneer Press. He returns in this new volume with a focus on the "dangerous"murder cases from the forties and fifties, memorialized in intimate and telling photographs. There is Arthur DeZeler, accused of bludgeoning his wife, Grace, and sinking her body in a northern lake. Laura Miller, single and pregnant, ran for help after gunshots killed her married lover. Arnold Axilrod, a mild-mannered dentist with a penchant for over-sedating his female patients, was arrested when the lifeless body of one of those patients was discovered in a Minneapolis alley. And, finally, there is Arnold Larson, the personable salesman with a winning smile and a bad temper. Millett traces these four sensational crimes from the moment the victim was found, through the search for the killer, to the court trial and resulting imprisonment or acquittal--there are two of each. All are copiously illustrated with shots from the bulky Speed Graphic camera, which yielded rich, textured views in an era when photographers enjoyed unrestricted access to police matters ranging from found bodies to jail cells. The images dramatically evoke these crimes of passion now more than a half-century old, offering a thrilling immersion into Minnesota noir.

Record # 352440

Price: $30.00 
Quantity:

Records of New Amsterdam From 1653 t0 1674 Anno Domini - Vol. 4: Minutes of the Court of Burgomasters and Schepens Jan. 3 1662 to Dec. 18 1663 Inclusive by: Fernow, B

Records of New Amsterdam From 1653 t0 1674 Anno Domini - Vol. 4: Minutes of the Court of Burgomasters and Schepens Jan. 3 1662 to Dec. 18 1663 Inclusive
by: Fernow, B

Hardcover. Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth with purple and gilt title block an front and spine. 346 pages. VOLUME 4 ONLY of a 7 volume set. Reprint of the 1897 edition. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 386530

Price: $35.00 
Quantity:

Comparative Peace Processes in Latin America by: Arnson Cynthia J. (Ed.)

Comparative Peace Processes in Latin America
by: Arnson Cynthia J. (Ed.)

Softcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, 3rd pr., 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 493 pages. This book is about ending guerrilla conflicts in Latin America through political means. It is about peace processes, aimed at securing an end to military hostilities in the context of agreements that touch on some of the principal political, economic, social, and ethnic imbalances that led to conflict in the first place. The book presents a carefully structured comparative analysis of six Latin American countries--Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Colombia, and Peru--which experienced guerrilla warfare that outlasted the end of the Cold War. The book explores in detail the unique constellation of national and international events that allowed some wars to end in negotiated settlement, one to end in virtual defeat of the insurgents, and the others to rage on. The aim of the book is to identify the variables that contribute to the success or failure of a peace dialogue. Clean copy.

Record # 382335

Price: $15.00 
used 
1126302:+:0
Quantity:

The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England by: Vickery, Amanda

The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England
by: Vickery, Amanda

Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 436 pages, b&w illustrations. Eighteenth-century women have long been presented as the heroines of traditional biographies, or as the faceless victims of vast historical processes, but rarely have they been deemed worthy of historical inquiry. "The Gentleman's Daughter" provides an account of the lives of genteel women - the daughters of merchants, the wives of lawyers and the sisters of gentlemen. Based on a study of the letters, diaries and account books of over 100 women from commercial, professional and gentry families, mainly in provincial England, "The Gentleman's Daughter" challenges the view that the period witnessed a new division of the everyday worlds of privileged men and women into the separate spheres of home and work. Amanda Vickery invokes the women's own accounts of their lives to argue that in the course of the 18th and early 19th centuries the scope of female experience did not diminish - in fact, quite the reverse. Contrary to orthodoxy, in the 18th century there was neither a loss of female freedoms, nor a novel retreat into the home. In their own writing, genteel women throughout the Georgian era singled out their social and their emotional roles: kinswoman, wife, mother, housekeeper, consumer, hostess and member of polite society. Clean copy.

Record # 382129

Price: $12.00 
used 
1125664:+:0
Quantity:

Jim Farley's Story: The Roosevelt Years (SIGNED COPY)by: Farley, James A.

Jim Farley's Story: The Roosevelt Years (SIGNED COPY)
by: Farley, James A.

Hardcover. NY, Whittlesey House/McGraw-Hill , 3rd pr., 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket with a chunk gone from front panel. Full green cloth, gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Illustrated with several pages of B&W photographs. 388 pages. SIGNED BY FARLEY in green ink on the front fly leaf. The 'unvarnished' facts about the man who put FDR in the White House, and built-up one of the most effective political party organizations in history. A revealing portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Record # 397287

Price: $35.00 
Quantity:

History of Salisbury Vermontby: Weeks, John M.

History of Salisbury Vermont
by: Weeks, John M.

Hardcover. Middlebury VT, A.H. Copeland, 1st, 1860, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 362 pages, embossed green cloth covers. B&w illustrations. Front spine edge with 2 inch cloth tear, previous owner's stamp on prelim page, small label on spine, numbers on title page. Internally very good, clean.

Record # 407042

Price: $100.00 
Quantity:

History of the Polish Revolution of 1830by: Hordynski, Joseph

History of the Polish Revolution of 1830
by: Hordynski, Joseph

Nafziger Collection , reprint, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 214 pages. Large size 28cm x 21cm in soft card covers. Clean and sound. History of the Polish Revolution of 1830 by Joseph Hordynski - Major of the Late Tenth Regiment of Lithuanian Lancers (Originally pub. in 1833) .

Record # 370432

Price: $20.00 
Quantity:

Trading In Santa Fe - John M. Kingsbury's Correspondence with James Josiah Webb 1853-1861by: Elder, Jane Lenz and David J. Weber

Trading In Santa Fe - John M. Kingsbury's Correspondence with James Josiah Webb 1853-1861
by: Elder, Jane Lenz and David J. Weber

Softcover. Dallas TX, Southern Methodist University, 1st wraps, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, B&w illustrations, maps. Bibliography. 327 pages. Paperback.

Record # 204460

Price: $15.00 
Quantity:

Locust: The Devastating Rise And Mysterious Disappearance Of The Insect That Shaped The American Frontier (SIGNED COPY)by: Jeffrey A. Lockwood

Locust: The Devastating Rise And Mysterious Disappearance Of The Insect That Shaped The American Frontier (SIGNED COPY)
by: Jeffrey A. Lockwood

Hardcover. NY, Basic Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, unclipped. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the title page. Throughout the nineteenth century, swarms of locusts regularly swept across the continent, turning noon into dusk, demolishing farm communities, and bringing trains to a halt as the crushed bodies of insects greased the rails. In 1876, the U.S. Congress declared the locust "the single greatest impediment to the settlement of the country." From the Dakotas to Texas, from California to Iowa, the swarms pushed thousands of settlers to the brink of starvation, prompting the federal government to enlist some of the greatest scientific minds of the day and thereby jumpstarting the fledgling science of entomology. Over the next few decades, the Rocky Mountain locust suddenly--and mysteriously--vanished.A century later, Jeffrey Lockwood set out to discover why. Unconvinced by the reigning theories, he searched for new evidence in musty books, crumbling maps, and crevassed glaciers, eventually piecing together the elusive answer: A group of early settlers unwittingly destroyed the locust's sanctuaries just as the insect was experiencing a natural population crash. Drawing on historical accounts and modern science, Locust brings to life the cultural, economic, and political forces at work in America in the late-nineteenth century, even as it solves one of the greatest ecological mysteries of our time. 294 pages, clean copy.

Record # 382235

Price: $18.00 
used 
1126152:+:0
Quantity:

PARLIAMENTARY LOGICK: to which are subjoined two speeches, delivered in the House of Commons of Ireland.With an appendix, containing Considerations on the Corn Laws, by Samuel Johnson, LL.D. never before

PARLIAMENTARY LOGICK: to which are subjoined two speeches, delivered in the House of Commons of Ireland.With an appendix, containing Considerations on the Corn Laws, by Samuel Johnson, LL.D. never before

Hardcover. London, printed by C. & R. Baldwin for Thomas Payne, 1st, 1808, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, polished brown calf, 253 pages. A clean copy of the First Edition of Samuel Johnson's tract on the Corn Laws written in 1766 for the use of his friend William Gerard Hamilton - an important politician of the period who achieved a brilliant reputation as an orator - despite his nickname of 'Single Speech Hamilton' The volume was edited by Malone, who found the tract among Hamilton's papers and contributed a long preface. 8vo., xlvi, 253, [1]p colophon.; Stipple engraved frontispiece portrait. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front cover, edgewear/rubbing to calf along gilt ruled border on covers, spine with gilt decoration, red morroco label on spine. Front cover hinge tender, but holding.

Record # 371292

Price: $200.00 
Quantity:

Through the Light Hole: a Saga of Adirondack Mines and Menby: Farrell, Patrick F.

Through the Light Hole: a Saga of Adirondack Mines and Men
by: Farrell, Patrick F.

Hardcover. Utica NY, North Country Books , 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 291 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 371184

Price: $25.00 
Quantity:

Season of Fire: The Confederate Strike on Washingtonby: Judge, Joseph

Season of Fire: The Confederate Strike on Washington
by: Judge, Joseph

Hardcover. Berryville, VA, Rockbridge Publishing Company, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 300 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Very clean inside and out. Buff fabric covered with gilt title on spine. From the back cover: "Season of Fire is the most complete and dramatic study to date of Early's invasion of the north and battle of Monocacy--an engagement that may well have saved the Nation's Capitol from capture."

Record # 30397

Price: $12.00 
Quantity:

Journal of a Trapper: A Hunter's Rambles Among the Wild Regions of the Rocky Mountains, 1834 - 1843by: Osborne Russell (Author), Aubrey L. Haines (Editor)

Journal of a Trapper: A Hunter's Rambles Among the Wild Regions of the Rocky Mountains, 1834 - 1843
by: Osborne Russell (Author), Aubrey L. Haines (Editor)

Softcover. NY, MJF Books, reprint, 1997, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 191 pages plus index. In 1834, Osborne Russell joined an expedition from Boston, under the direction of Nathaniel J. Wyeth, which proceeded to the Rocky Mountains to capitalize on the salmon and fur trade. He would remain there, hunting, trapping, and living off the land, for the next nine years. Journal of a Trapper is his remarkable account of that time as he developed into a seasoned veteran of the mountains and experienced trapper. Clean copy.

Record # 383188

Price: $12.00 
used 
1127785:+:0
Quantity:

Nathanael Greene: Strategist of the American Revolutionby: Thayer, Theodore

Nathanael Greene: Strategist of the American Revolution
by: Thayer, Theodore

Hardcover. NY, Twayne Publishers, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, faded dust jacket. 500 pages, b&w maps, index. Clean copy. Nathanael Greene, Major General in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, known for his effective leadership in the Southern Campaign against British forces. He was born on August 7, 1742, in Rhode Island and died on June 19, 1786, in Georgia, leaving a legacy as one of George Washington's most trusted officers.

Record # 397488

Price: $50.00 
Quantity:

Hatemail: Anti-Semitism on Picture Postcardsby: Salo Aizenberg

Hatemail: Anti-Semitism on Picture Postcards
by: Salo Aizenberg

Softcover. Philadelphia, Jewish Publication Society, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, oblong format, 238 pages illustrated in color. Today e-mail, Facebook, and Twitter are sometimes used to spread hateful messages and slurs masking as humor. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries postcards served this purpose. The images collected in this volume make it painfully clear that anti-Semitic propaganda did not simply begin with the Nazis. Nor was it the sole province of politicians, journalists, and rabble-rousers. One of the most virulent forms of anti-Semitism during this time was spread by quite ordinary people through postcards. Of the millions of postcards exchanged during their heyday of 1890 through 1920, a considerable percentage carried the anti-Semitic images that publishers churned out to meet public demand, reflecting deep-seated attitudes of society. Over 250 examples of such postcards, largely from the pre-Holocaust era, are reproduced here for the first time-selected, translated, and historically contextualized by one of the world's foremost postcard collectors. Clean copy.

Record # 398454

Price: $28.00 
Quantity:

A Soldier-Doctor of Our Army: James P. Kimball, Late Colonel and Assistant Surgeon-General, U. S. Armyby: Kimball, Maria Brace

A Soldier-Doctor of Our Army: James P. Kimball, Late Colonel and Assistant Surgeon-General, U. S. Army
by: Kimball, Maria Brace

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt and red, white and blue decoration to front cover, gilt lettering on spine. 192 pages including index, frontis. portrait plus b&w pales including onr fold-out. Dr. Kimball was on the Yellowstone Expedition of 1873 with Generals Stanley and Custer and became quite a good friend of Custer. It was Dr. Kimball who attended to Lieutenant Charles Braden and may have saved his life, after Braden was shot through the left leg by Indians on August 4, 1873. The Battle of the Little Big Horn is also covered. Bright, clean copy.

Record # 383747

Price: $100.00 
used 
1129354:+:0
Quantity:

Jack Tars and Commodores: The American Navy 1783-1815 by: Fowler Jr., William M.

Jack Tars and Commodores: The American Navy 1783-1815
by: Fowler Jr., William M.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 318 pages. Account of the US Navy from Independence through the War of 1812. 8 maps, numerous illustrations. Clean copy.

Record # 383902

Price: $12.00 
used 
1129756:+:0
Quantity:

New England Pioneer - "The Captivity of Mrs. Johnson", A (SIGNED COPY)by: French (Editor), Mary M. Billings

New England Pioneer - "The Captivity of Mrs. Johnson", A (SIGNED COPY)
by: French (Editor), Mary M. Billings

Hardcover. Woodstock, Elm Tree Press, 1st Thus, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 44 pages. INSCRIBED BY MARY M. BILLINGS FRENCH TO HERBERT H. HINES, WHO WROTE THE INTRODUCTION. Black & white tipped-in photographic illustrations. Covers show light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609259

Price: $140.00 
Quantity:

Manchuria: Cradle of Conflictby: Lattimore, Owen

Manchuria: Cradle of Conflict
by: Lattimore, Owen

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Co., 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 311 pages, 2 b&w fold-out maps in rear. Maroon cloth covers w/ gilt lettering. Spine faded. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 851038

Price: $32.00 
Quantity:

History of the State of Vermont, from its Discovery and Settlement to the Close of the Year 1830by: Hoskins, Nathan

History of the State of Vermont, from its Discovery and Settlement to the Close of the Year 1830
by: Hoskins, Nathan

Hardcover. Vergennes, J. Shedd, 1st, 1831, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 316 pages. Brown leather covers with title in gilt on spine. Ex- library copy with numbered stamp at bottom of spine. Bookplate on inside front cover, and remains of card pocket on inside of back cover. Moderate rubbing to covers. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610511

Price: $100.00 
Quantity:

Spoils of War, The: World War II and Its Aftermath: The Loss, Reappearance, and Recovery of Cultural Propertyby: Simpson (Ed.), Elizabeth

Spoils of War, The: World War II and Its Aftermath: The Loss, Reappearance, and Recovery of Cultural Property
by: Simpson (Ed.), Elizabeth

Softcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 336 pages. Softcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Covers in excellent condition. Touch of foxing to top edge. Pages clean and bright. The ever-rapacious Nazis looted staggering quantities of great art and antiques from the nations they occupied. Much of it found its way back to Germany, and following the Allied victory, many thousands of rare (and some priceless) pieces were identified, and returned to the countries from which they had been taken. But not all of the paintings, statues, and archaeological treasures were recovered: Some were taken by Soviet troops and disappeared into Russia. Still others slipped into the black market in western Europe, and were snapped up by wealthy (if unprincipled) collectors. A 1995 symposium at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts brought together European and American investigators and historians to discuss both the the Nazi thefts and the current state of knowledge of the whereabouts of the many still missing treasures. Those papers are reprinted here. While the pieces are detailed, dry, and likely to be of most interest to specialists, there are some extraordinary stories, most prominently the description of the recent rediscovery of ``Priam's treasure,'' excavated by Schliemann at Troy and hidden since WW II in a Russian museum. (123 illustrations, 25 in color).

Record # 30963

Price: $18.00 
Quantity:

A Guide to Massachusetts Cemeteriesby: David Allen Lambert

A Guide to Massachusetts Cemeteries
by: David Allen Lambert

Softcover. Boston, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 272 pages. Pages have clear, concise listings of cemetery locations and are in excellent condition as well. This one-of-a-kind guidebook provides genealogists and historians with a valuable reference for Massachusetts research. For the first time ever, a researcher can quickly gain information on: * cemetery names *year of consecration or the oldest known gravestone or burial * location of cemetery * printed and manuscript sources for the cemetery * contact information for the office affiliated with the cemetery. This book contains many previously undocumented burial grounds as well as citations to published transcriptions of gravestone listings in places such as the New England Historic Genealogical Society, the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, and the official Massachusetts Vital Records to the end of 1850 series. Clean copy.

Record # 385408

Price: $15.00 
Quantity:

Three Score and Ten Union Society: Being Autobiographical Accounts of the Experiences By Some Early Residents of Stowe, Vermont: Recorded in 1874-1875 (SIGNED COPY)by:

Three Score and Ten Union Society: Being Autobiographical Accounts of the Experiences By Some Early Residents of Stowe, Vermont: Recorded in 1874-1875 (SIGNED COPY)
by:

Hardcover. Stowe VT, Stowe Historical Society, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 385537

Price: $35.00 
Quantity:

Stefansson, Dr. Anderson and the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913 - 1918: A Story of Exploration Science and Sovereignty by: Stuart E. Jenness

Stefansson, Dr. Anderson and the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913 - 1918: A Story of Exploration Science and Sovereignty
by: Stuart E. Jenness

Softcover. Quebec, Canadian Museum of Civilization, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 415 pages, b&w illustrations. This book presents the first comprehensive account of one of the great sagas of Arctic exploration and discovery, the Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913-18, led by the ethnologist/ explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson and the zoologist Dr. Rudolph M. Anderson. Within its pages are details of the Expedition's successes and tragedies, including the discovery of all but one large island north of the Canadian mainland, the accumulation of considerable scientific information and valuable collections, and the personal feud of the Expedition's two leaders.' Illustrated with 64 photos and 20 maps. Clean copy.

Record # 385696

Price: $50.00 
Quantity:

Letters and Papers Relating to the Cruises of Gustavus Conyngham, a Captain of the Continental Navy, 1777-1779by: Nesser (Ed.), Robert Wilden

Letters and Papers Relating to the Cruises of Gustavus Conyngham, a Captain of the Continental Navy, 1777-1779
by: Nesser (Ed.), Robert Wilden

Hardcover. New York, Naval History Society, 1st, 1915, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages, b&w illustration. White vellum spine and corners with blue-gray boards, gilt lettering on spine, top edge gilt. Limited to 600 copies, this is #590. Beautiful bright copy.

Record # 403686

Price: $80.00 
Quantity:

Recognition Journal (5 issues)by: N/A

Recognition Journal (5 issues)
by: N/A

Softcover. Washington,DC, U.S. War & Navy Dept., 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Issues for May-Aug. Dec. 1944. A magazine devoted to identifying war planes and ships. Many photos and drawings. 50 pages each. Allied & enemy planes covered. Light wear otherwise solid & clean.

Record # 385858

Price: $30.00 
Quantity:

Pilot Knob: The Thermopylae of the Westby: Peterson, Cyrus A. and Joseph Mills Hanson

Pilot Knob: The Thermopylae of the West
by: Peterson, Cyrus A. and Joseph Mills Hanson

Hardcover. New York, Neale Publishing Co., 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 324 pages, dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. An account of a Civil War battle fought in Missouri. Tight, clean copy.

Record # 405414

Price: $400.00 
Quantity:

The Rosicrucian Enlightenment by: Yates, Frances

The Rosicrucian Enlightenment
by: Yates, Frances

Softcover. London, Routledge, reprint, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 269 pages, b&w illustrations. "In the early seventeenth century two manifestos were published which procaimed, in terms of magic, alchemy and the Cabala, the dawn of a new age of increased knowledge and power over nature. These anonymous documents (reproduced in the appendix to this work) were written on behalf of 'the Fraternity of the Rose Cross'....Frances Yates here reveals the truth about the 'Rosicrucian Enlightenment' and details its impact on Europe's political and cultural history." Clean copy.

Record # 386278

Price: $12.00 
Quantity:

Valentine's Manual of Old New York 1926 by: Brown, Henry Collins

Valentine's Manual of Old New York 1926
by: Brown, Henry Collins

Hardcover. NY, Valentine's Manual Inc., 3rd pr., 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped in gold, 388 pages. With a beautiful and elaborate color illuminated title-page with gilt, color frontispiece, five double-page color plates and countless illustrations both throughout the text and on sepia printed plates. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 386455

Price: $28.00 
Quantity:

Onwards to Victory; War Speeches by the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill CH. MP. C. H. M. P. by: Churchill, Winston

Onwards to Victory; War Speeches by the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill CH. MP. C. H. M. P.
by: Churchill, Winston

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st US, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bound in publisher's red cloth, lettered in gold with black letterbox. First printing of Churchill's fourth war speeches volume, containing Churchill's speeches from 1943. Here the oratory takes a more positive tone as Churchill and the Allies begin to anticipate victory. A little before mid-year, on 19 May 1943 Churchill gave his second address to the U.S. Congress. Seventeen long months of war had passed since his first, just after Pearl Harbor. Dust jacket flap copy pasted to inside front cover. Mild spotting to covers. Otherwise clean.

Record # 386574

Price: $30.00 
Quantity:

Operations in North African Waters: October 1942-June 1943 -  (History of the United States Naval Operations in World War II; Vol. 2)by: Morison, Samuel Eliot

Operations in North African Waters: October 1942-June 1943 - (History of the United States Naval Operations in World War II; Vol. 2)
by: Morison, Samuel Eliot

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Volume VI in The History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. 297 pages, illustrated with maps (one fold-out) and b&w photos. This volume covers the operations of the United States Navy in North African waters, both on the Atlantic coast and in the Mediterranean, from the beginning of World War II through the capture of Pantelleria in June 1943. More than half the volume is devoted to the capture of bases in French Morocco, which was an all-American operation and in many respects one of the most remarkable of the war. Gilt on spine with light fading, lacks dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 386587

Price: $35.00 
Quantity:

A Documentary History of Yonkers, New York, Vol. 2 Part 2: The Dutch the English and an Incorporated American Village 1609-1860 by: Joseph P. Madden

A Documentary History of Yonkers, New York, Vol. 2 Part 2: The Dutch the English and an Incorporated American Village 1609-1860
by: Joseph P. Madden

Softcover. Bowie MD, Heritage Books, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 286 pages. This is an indispensable companion to Part One of Volume Two, containing detailed historical background from the earliest Dutch and English settlement to the pre-Civil War years. Also included are transcriptions of the minutes of the Village Board Meetings, 1857-1860, which document the struggles of the board members as they wrestled with issues presented to the growing village, such as street construction, the running loose of cattle and hogs, and the problem of people bathing naked in the Hudson River. These minutes also contain the names of all the board members and many of the village residents. Light fade to spine otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Record # 386886

Price: $28.00 
Quantity:

An Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen (1673)by: Bathsua Makin

An Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen (1673)
by: Bathsua Makin

Softcover. Los Angeles, Augustan Reprint Society, reprint, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, facsimile reprint of a 1673 pamphlet. Introduction by Paula L. Babour, 56 pages. Early feminist tract. Name on front cover, otherwise a clean copy.

Record # 386979

Price: $25.00 
Quantity:

Race Problems in the New Africa A Study of the Relation of Bantu and Britons in Those Parts of Bantu Africa Which Are under British Controlby: Willoughby, Rev. W. C.

Race Problems in the New Africa A Study of the Relation of Bantu and Britons in Those Parts of Bantu Africa Which Are under British Control
by: Willoughby, Rev. W. C.

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, red cloth, 296 pages. Gilt title on spine. Folding maps in rear. Contents: Relation of Bantu to other African races: Africa & Africans - Study of Bantu life & thought: Spirits of things; Spirits of people; Tribal law & politics; Woman & marriage; Training of Bantu youths - Europeanization of Bantu Africa: Discovery of Bantu; White man's burden & how he got it; Some problems of government in Bantu areas; Native labour; Colour bar; Task of Church. Newsp. clippings re author laid in, leaving tan mark.

Record # 374707

Price: $20.00 
Quantity:

The New Cambridge Modern History, Vol. 1: The Renaissance, 1493-1520 by: G. R. Potter, Editor: Denys Hay

The New Cambridge Modern History, Vol. 1: The Renaissance, 1493-1520
by: G. R. Potter, Editor: Denys Hay

Softcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 532 pages. In a preface written for this paperback edition, Professor Hay examines some of the changes in Renaissance scholarship since the first publication of this volume in 1957. Successive chapters examine the social and economic structure of a continent about to establish trade and colonies in the New World, the intellectual and artistic movements which made up the Renaissance, the position of the Church on the eve of the Reformation, the political inheritance of the Middle Ages, with its rising nation states, and the growth of the Ottoman Empire. Clean copy.

Record # 387404

Price: $30.00 
Quantity:

South Kingstown, Rhode Island: Town Council Records 1771-1795by: Jean Carr Stutz

South Kingstown, Rhode Island: Town Council Records 1771-1795
by: Jean Carr Stutz

Hardcover. Kingston RI, Pettaquamscutt Historical Society, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine, 344 pages. Pristine condition.

Record # 387572

Price: $100.00 
Quantity:

Voice in the West: The Biography of a Pioneer Newspaperby: Ashton, Wendell J.

Voice in the West: The Biography of a Pioneer Newspaper
by: Ashton, Wendell J.

Hardcover. NY, Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, 424 pages, b&w illustrations. A history of The Deseret News Press in Salt Lake City. Dust jacket very edgeworn, chipped. The Deseret (from the Book of Mormon, meaning "honeybee") News is the oldest newspaper in the West, first published in 1850. Dust jacket very edgeworn, chipped. Book is clean, very good.

Record # 387626

Price: $15.00 
Quantity:

The Social Structure of Revolutionary Americaby: Main, Jackson Turner

The Social Structure of Revolutionary America
by: Main, Jackson Turner

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 330 pages.

Record # 387860

Price: $15.00 
Quantity:

The Politicos 1865-1896 A History of the Parties and the Great Party leaders Who Dominated American Politics During the Turbulent Years of the Robber Barons by: Josep

The Politicos 1865-1896 A History of the Parties and the Great Party leaders Who Dominated American Politics During the Turbulent Years of the Robber Barons
by: Josep

Softcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & World, reprint, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 760 pages. This is a frank and insightful analysis of the political and economic influences in the United States during the Reconstruction Era, covering the years immediately after the Civil War and the death of Abraham Lincoln, and ending shortly before the Spanish-American War. Originally published in 1938. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396285

Price: $18.00 
Quantity:

100 Years of the Suez Canalby: Duff, R. E. B.

100 Years of the Suez Canal
by: Duff, R. E. B.

Hardcover. London, Clifton Books, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 152 pages, with illustrations. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 853919

Price: $12.00 
Quantity:

The Hill Country of Northern New England: Its Social and Economic History 1790-1930by: Wilson, Harold Fisher

The Hill Country of Northern New England: Its Social and Economic History 1790-1930
by: Wilson, Harold Fisher

Hardcover. New York, AMS Press, Inc. , Reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 455 pages. Hardcover. Reprint of 1936 edition. B/w illustrations (maps/diagrams). Blue cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine. Pages unmarked. Spine straight. Binding tight. Very good condition throughout. This volume is not only an admirable study in social and economic history, but a unique and valuable contribution to the history of American agriculture as well.

Record # 99212

Price: $50.00 
Quantity:

Vermont's Stone Chambers: An Inquiry into Their Pastby: Neudorfer, Giovanna

Vermont's Stone Chambers: An Inquiry into Their Past
by: Neudorfer, Giovanna

Softcover. Montpelier, Vermont Historical Society, 1st, 1980, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 102 pages. Softcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings. Foxing and stains on covers. Clean, unmarked pages.

Record # 613325

Price: $35.00 
Quantity:

The Lower Penobscot River Region, Maine by: Shaw, Richard D.

The Lower Penobscot River Region, Maine
by: Shaw, Richard D.

Softcover. Dover NH, Arcadia Publishing, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages. The Lower Penobscot River region has long lured vacationers and mariners alike, entranced by the natural beauty of the "Rhine of Maine." Early sailors named this nearly 30-mile stretch of the mighty river "Bangor River," since Bangor, the great nineteenth-century lumbering port, was the head of navigation for their schooners, barks, and brigs, laden with dry cargo, rum, and ice. Eleven historic towns line the Lower Penobscot: Searsport, Stockton Springs, Prospect, Verona, Bucksport, Frankfort, Winterport, Hampden, Orrington, Brewer, and Bangor. All are represented here with vivid photographs dating from the 1860s to the present. Clean copy.

Record # 396465

Price: $15.00 
Quantity:

Lions and Foxes - Men and Ideas of the Italian Renaissanceby: Alexander, Sidney

Lions and Foxes - Men and Ideas of the Italian Renaissance
by: Alexander, Sidney

Softcover. Ohio University Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 375 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean copy. Light corner crease to cover corner.

Record # 374038

Price: $15.00 
Quantity:

The Brink: Cuban Missle Crisis, 1962 by: Detzer, David

The Brink: Cuban Missle Crisis, 1962
by: Detzer, David

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell , 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 299 pages. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396486

Price: $18.00 
Quantity:


Page [ 1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  |  19  |  20  |  21  |  22  |  23  |  24  |  25  |  26  |  27  |  28  |  29  |  30  |  31  |  32  |  33  ]
  
Sitemap

Primary Sidebar

Browsing is Arousing Online Bookstore: Used Books, Rare Books, Out of Print Books, Antiquarian Books, Arts, Photography, Children's, Illustrated Books, on-line, web, internet shopping

Search by Title, Author, or Keywords


See our INDEXED CATALOGS

Popular Search Catalogs

  • Agriculture
  • American History
  • Animals & Nature
  • Antiques & Collectibles
  • Architecture
  • Art
  • Biography*
  • Black Studies
  • Building, Constuction, Engineering
  • Children's
  • Cooking & Food
  • Countries (World History)
  • Crafts
  • Economics
  • Fiction*
  • Film & Movies
  • Gardening
  • Graphic Arts
  • Health & Medicine
  • Illustrated
  • Law
  • Literature
  • Math & Physics
  • Mid-East
  • Military
  • Music
  • Mysteries*
  • Philosophy
  • Photography
  • Poetry *
  • Religion
  • Science Fiction & Fantasy*
  • Sciences
  • Social Sciences
  • Sports
  • Transportation
  • Travel
  • * Inventory in the thousands. Please search by author, title or subject.

Copyright © 2025 · Magazine Pro on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in