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Records of New Amsterdam From 1653 t0 1674 Anno Domini - Vol. 5: Minutes of the Court of Burgomasters and Schepens Jan. 8 1664 to May 1 1666 Inclusive by: Fernow, Ber

Records of New Amsterdam From 1653 t0 1674 Anno Domini - Vol. 5: Minutes of the Court of Burgomasters and Schepens Jan. 8 1664 to May 1 1666 Inclusive
by: Fernow, Ber

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. 355 pages. VOLUME 5 ONLY of a 7 volume set. Reprint of the 1897 edition. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 386459

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Time Stood Still: My Internment in England: 1914-1918by: Paul Cohen-Portheim

Time Stood Still: My Internment in England: 1914-1918
by: Paul Cohen-Portheim

Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton , 1st, 1932, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in red, 235 pages. A masterpiece of humanism, Time Stood Still recounts Paul Cohen-Portheim's years of internment in England as an enemy alien during World War One. An artist and theatre designer, he at first viewed internment as a sort of holiday: 'Should I bring my bathing things and evening dress?' he asked the policeman taking him prisoner. Though confined in a 'gentleman's camp' near Wakefield, as Cohen-Portheim shows with grace, humor, and deep compassion, even under the best conditions, the simple act of being confined and placed in a sort of limbo is a form of torture: 'Where there is no aim, no object, no sense, there is no time.' Time Stood Still is a passionate but balanced argument against internment and its inherently dehumanizing effects. Paul Cohen-Portheim (1880-1932) was an Austrian artist, travel writer and linquist. When WWI broke out, he was painting in Devonshire, England and found himself interned for the length of the war. Flap copy pasted to front fly leaf, stamp to endpapers (Harvard Club of Boston), some light notations as well to endpapers.

Record # 386580

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The Struggle for Guadalcanal: August 1942-February 1943 (History of United States Naval Operations in World War Ii, Volume 5) by: Morison, Samuel Eliot

The Struggle for Guadalcanal: August 1942-February 1943 (History of United States Naval Operations in World War Ii, Volume 5)
by: Morison, Samuel Eliot

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, reprint, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Volume V in The History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. 389 pages, illustrated with maps (one fold-out) and b&w photos. Gilt on spine with light fading, lacks dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 386590

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Spur of Fame: Dialogues of John Adams and Benjamin Rush, 1805-1813 by: Schutz, John A / Douglass Adair

Spur of Fame: Dialogues of John Adams and Benjamin Rush, 1805-1813
by: Schutz, John A / Douglass Adair

Softcover. Indianapolis, Liberty Fund, reprint, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 325 pages. John Adams and Benjamin Rush were two remarkably different men who shared a devotion to liberty. Their dialogues on the implications of fame for their generation prove remarkably timely--even for the twenty-first century. Adams and Rush championed very different views on the nature of the American Revolution and of the republic established with the United States Constitution; yet they shared one of the most important correspondences of their time. John Adams and Benjamin Rush met in 1774 as members of the Continental Congress--Adams from Massachusetts, Rush from Pennsylvania. In 1805, after Adams was defeated in his quest of a second term as the new republic's second President, the two men self-consciously commenced an exchange of letters. Their recurring subject was fame. This emphasis on fame was crucial, Adams and Rush believed, because on the fame attached to individual leaders of the Revolutionary generation would depend the view of the Revolution and of the Constitution and republican government that would be embraced by generations to come, including our own. The Liberty Fund edition of The Spur of Fame reproduces a text originally published by the Huntington Library.

Record # 386893

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Uncle Lisha's Shop: Life in a Corner of Yankeelandby: Rowland E. Robinson

Uncle Lisha's Shop: Life in a Corner of Yankeeland
by: Rowland E. Robinson

Hardcover. NY, Forest & Stream Publishing, 5th Ed., 1891, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial gray cloth stamped in black and gold. 187 pages, floral decorative endpapers. Tales of Vermont life back in the day. Chapter headings include: The School Meeting in District 13; Uncle Lisha's Spring Gun; Concerning Owls, Uncle Lisha's Courting; A Rainy Day in the Shop; The Turkey Shoot at Hamner's; Sam Lovel's Bee-Hunting; In the Shop Again; The Fox Hunt; The Coon Hunt; In the Sugar Camp; Indians in Danvis; The Boy out West; Breaking Up; The Departure; The Wild Bees' Swarm, etc. Robinson (1833-1900) was a noted Quaker author from a well-respected and artistic Vermont family whose writings and art captured the dialect, culture and time of pre-Civil War Vermont, set in the imaginary town of Danvis, largely drawing from his the inhabitants and experiences of Ferrisburgh, VT. Name and date on a blank prelim page. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 387682

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The Ropemakers of Plymouth: A History of the Plymouth Cordage Company, 1824-1949 by: Morison, Samuel Eliot

The Ropemakers of Plymouth: A History of the Plymouth Cordage Company, 1824-1949
by: Morison, Samuel Eliot

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket with light chipping, unclipped. 177 pages, color frontispiece, b&w illustrations, appendices, index. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 387274

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Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 (The Pacific War Trilogy, 3) by: Toll, Ian W.

Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 (The Pacific War Trilogy, 3)
by: Toll, Ian W.

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 2nd pr., 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 926 pages, illustrations. In June 1944, the United States launched a crushing assault on the Japanese navy in the Battle of the Philippine Sea. The capture of the Mariana Islands and the accompanying ruin of Japanese carrier airpower marked a pivotal moment in the Pacific War. No tactical masterstroke or blunder could reverse the increasingly lopsided balance of power between the two combatants. The War in the Pacific had entered its endgame. Beginning with the Honolulu Conference, when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt met with his Pacific theater commanders to plan the last phase of the campaign against Japan, Twilight of the Gods brings to life the harrowing last year of World War II in the Pacific, when the U.S. Navy won the largest naval battle in history; Douglas MacArthur made good his pledge to return to the Philippines; waves of kamikazes attacked the Allied fleets; the Japanese fought to the last man on one island after another; B-29 bombers burned down Japanese cities; and Hiroshima and Nagasaki were vaporized in atomic blasts. Ian W. Tolls narratives of combat in the air, at sea, and on the beaches are as gripping as ever, but he also reconstructs the Japanese and American home fronts and takes the reader into the halls of power in Washington and Tokyo, where the great questions of strategy and diplomacy were decided. Clean copy.

Record # 387429

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The History of the New Deal 1933-1938by: Basil Rauch

The History of the New Deal 1933-1938
by: Basil Rauch

Hardcover. NY, Creative Age Press, 2nd pr., 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. 368 pages, red cloth, black border and gilt title on upper cover. Black label with gilt title on spine. Second printing copy of this detailed look at FDR's New Deal. Jacket art by C.B. Falls. Some tape repair to dj, name on inside front cover hidden by dj flap. Otherwise a clean copy,

Record # 387758

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Thomas Pownall: British Defender of American Liberty: A Study of Anglo-American Relations in the Eighteenth Centuryby: Schutz, John A.

Thomas Pownall: British Defender of American Liberty: A Study of Anglo-American Relations in the Eighteenth Century
by: Schutz, John A.

Hardcover. Glendale CA, Arthur H. Clark Co., 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, 340 pages. A biography of Thomas Pownall (1757 - 1760) who was governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony during the French and Indian War and later a member of Parliament (1767 - 1780). Pownall had sympathies for the colonial grievances and institutions. This biography is based on a study of widely scattered documentary materials and provides insight into a man of complex and contradictory ideas and actions during the pre-Revolutionary period. Includes bibliography and index. Stamping to endpapers, from an academic library.

Record # 387762

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This Reckless Breed of Men: The Trappers and Fur Traders of the Southwest by: Robert Glass Cleland

This Reckless Breed of Men: The Trappers and Fur Traders of the Southwest
by: Robert Glass Cleland

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 4th pr., 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 361 pages, color frontis, preface, list of b&w illustrations and maps, prologue, 1. Beaver and Mountain Men; 2. Jedediah Strong Smith: From the Big Lake to the Sea; 3. Kedediah Strong Smith: The End of the Long Trail; 4. To Santa Fe and Beyond; 5. Perils of the Wilderness: The Wanderings of James Ohio Pattie; 6. "Joaquin Yong" and the Men of Taos; 7. From Santa Fe to California; 8. Joseph Reddeford Walker: To the "Extreme End of the Great West; 9. Partisans versus Mountain Men; epilogue, bibliographical notes, index. Minor edgewear to dust jacket. Clean copy.

Record # 387869

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North Sea Sagaby: Jordan, Paul

North Sea Saga
by: Jordan, Paul

Hardcover. Harlow, UK, Longman, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 324 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.

Record # 2230153

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The Old Revolutionaries: Political Lives in the Age of Samuel Adams by: Pauline Maier

The Old Revolutionaries: Political Lives in the Age of Samuel Adams
by: Pauline Maier

Softcover. NY, Vintage Books, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 309 pages. The "old revolutionaries" were Samuel Adams, Isaac Sears, Thomas Young, Richard Henry Lee, and Charles Carroll. Of widely varying backgrounds and interests, all of them had their greatest influence in the years between 1769 and 1776, and all of them saw their power transferred after the war to the men we know as "the Founding Fathers." In telling the stories of these men, Maier shows how the American Revolution was less a collective movement than a commitment to an ideal of a republic, which different people interpreted differently. She describes not just why Americans made the Revolution, but what the Revolution did to them.

Record # 396288

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Troy's One Hundred Years - 1789-1889by: Weise, Arthur James

Troy's One Hundred Years - 1789-1889
by: Weise, Arthur James

Hardcover. Troy NY, William H. Young, 1st, 1891, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 453 pages. Hardcover, dark green covers stamped in black. Previous owners name on preliminary page. Black & white illustrations. One fold-out city view. Title in gilt on spine. Cloth covers with areas of light surface rubbing. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 612894

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Slavery in the South: First-Hand Accounts of the Ante-Bellum American Southland from Northern & Southern Whites, Negroes, & Foreign Obervers by: Wish, Harvey [Ed.]

Slavery in the South: First-Hand Accounts of the Ante-Bellum American Southland from Northern & Southern Whites, Negroes, & Foreign Obervers
by: Wish, Harvey [Ed.]

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 3rd pr., 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 290 pages. This book about slavery and the southern plantation system includes writings by Nat Turner, Frederick Douglass, Thomas Jefferson, and many others. Name on a blank prelim page, otherwise clean.

Record # 396380

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Russian Revolutions of 1917: The Origins of Modern Communismby: Schapiro, Leonard

Russian Revolutions of 1917: The Origins of Modern Communism
by: Schapiro, Leonard

Hardcover. New York, Basic Books , 1st, 1984, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 239 pages. Red cloth. Light edgewear to dust jacket with one small closed tear to front cover. Spine slightly slanted. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453504

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A Collection of Papers Relative to the Dispute Between Great Britain and America 1764-1775by: Almon, John (Ed.)

A Collection of Papers Relative to the Dispute Between Great Britain and America 1764-1775
by: Almon, John (Ed.)

Hardcover. NY, Da Capo Press, reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering on spine, front cover. 280 pages plus index. Facsimile reprint from 1777. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 396466

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Utah Historical Quarterly: Volume 46.by: Smith (ed), Melvin T.

Utah Historical Quarterly: Volume 46.
by: Smith (ed), Melvin T.

Hardcover. Salt Lake City, Utah Historical Society, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 435 pages. Brown cloth cover, slightly oversized, gilt lettering, very little wear. Inside is bright and clean, with b&w photographs throughout. A nice copy.

Record # 852898

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The Dominican Crisis: The 1965 Constitutional Revolt and American Interventionby: Gleijeses, Piero

The Dominican Crisis: The 1965 Constitutional Revolt and American Intervention
by: Gleijeses, Piero

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear, 460 pages. Translated by Lawrence Lipson. A vivid historical narrative of the US military intervention in Central America. Uncommon. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 396487

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Lake Champlain's Sailing Canal Boats: An Illustrated Journey From Burlington Bay to the Hudson River (SIGNED COPY)by: Cohn, Arthur B.

Lake Champlain's Sailing Canal Boats: An Illustrated Journey From Burlington Bay to the Hudson River (SIGNED COPY)
by: Cohn, Arthur B.

Hardcover. Basin Harbor VT, Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 187 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. SIGNED by author Arthur B. Cohn on title page. Dust jacket worn, with light sunning and tearing. Related article laid in. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 454067

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Linoleum, Better Babies and the Modern Farm Woman, 1890-1930 by: Marilyn Irvin Holt

Linoleum, Better Babies and the Modern Farm Woman, 1890-1930
by: Marilyn Irvin Holt

Hardcover. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 250 pages. b&w illustrations. The Progressive Era promoted a vision of America united by an emphasis on science and progressive reform. The zeal to modernize business, government and social relations extended to farm families and the ways women defined their roles. In this study of the expert advice offered by the domestic economy movement, Holt argues that women were not passive receptors of these views. Seeing their place in agriculture as multi-faceted and important, they eagerly accepted improved education and many modern appliances but often rejected suggestions conflicting with their own views of the rewards and values of farm life. Progressive reform inevitably left a mixed legacy; science and technology did not perfect rural society. But many programs such as 4-H and Master Homemaker still exist and are still shaped by women's desire to preserve and pass on the possibilities of rural life. Clean copy.

Record # 396581

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Moscow, 1905: Working-Class Organization and Political Conflictby: Engelstein, Laura

Moscow, 1905: Working-Class Organization and Political Conflict
by: Engelstein, Laura

Hardcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 308 pages, map endpapers. Light edge wear to dust jacket, small sticker on front cover. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 453509

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Addresses Upon The American Road 1933-1938 by: Herbert Hoover

Addresses Upon The American Road 1933-1938
by: Herbert Hoover

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2nd pr., 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 390 pages. With 30-page booklet outlining speeches laid-in, containing a number of press blurbs supporting Hoover's ideas. Scribner's colophon on copyeight page but no A, so assumed 2nd printing. Clean copy.

Record # 396899

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Chronicles of Lake Champlain: Journeys in War in Peace (SIGNED)by: Bellico, Russell P.

Chronicles of Lake Champlain: Journeys in War in Peace (SIGNED)
by: Bellico, Russell P.

Hardcover. Fleischmanns, NY, Purple Mountain Press , 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 440 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Light soil on front and back covers. Black and white illustrations throughout. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE, numbered 10/60.

Record # 369291

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Eisenhower and Berlin 1945: The Decision to Halt at the Elbeby: Stephen E. Ambrose

Eisenhower and Berlin 1945: The Decision to Halt at the Elbe
by: Stephen E. Ambrose

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 119 pages, maps, index. As WWII ground to a close, whose forces would be the first to reach Berlin? General Dwight David Eisenhower, supreme commander of the British and American armies, chose to halt at the Elbe River and leave Berlin to the Red Army. Could he have beaten the Russians to Berlin? If so, why didn't he? If he had, would the Berlin question have arisen? Would Germany have been divided as it was? Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397204

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Fire Lookouts: The Early Years by: Kemnow, La Vaughn Vanderburg

Fire Lookouts: The Early Years
by: Kemnow, La Vaughn Vanderburg

Softcover. MountAinsWest Publishing, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, green pictorial wraps, 193 pages with b&w photos. The early years in the development of the fire lookout system were fraught with difficult decisions, hard work, and danger. Roads and trails had to be built, materials had to be transported. Building materials and supplies were carried up steep, treacherous mountainsides on the backs of horses, mules, and men. Primitive conditions were met with courage, grit, and determination. The people who built, and the people who staffed these lookouts were often exposed to extremes in weather: heat, blizzards, wind, and lightning. Occasional accidents and illnesses were to be expected and sometimes had tragic consequences. The earliest lookouts consisted of the top of a tree; an alidade mounted on a crude support or on a tripod; or simply a mountain top where an observer scanned the surrounding countryside with a powerful field glass, always on the alert for the slighted wisp of smoke. The historical information in this volume is the culmination of many years of research of original documents by Ron Kemnow. Also included are many historical photographs. Some of the older photographs and picture postcards are of poor quality, but were included for their historical value. This book is not in narrative form, but is a collection of official reports, letters, and news articles, presented as they were originally written.

Record # 379629

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Revolutionary Census of New Jersey: An Index Based on Rateables of the Inhabitants of New Jersey During the Period of the American Revolution by: Stryer-Rodda, Kenn

Revolutionary Census of New Jersey: An Index Based on Rateables of the Inhabitants of New Jersey During the Period of the American Revolution
by: Stryer-Rodda, Kenn

Hardcover. Lambertville NJ, Hunterdon House, Revised Ed., 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt stamping on spine. 413 pages of valuable genealogy information. First published in 1972, this is the Revised Edition, slightly expanded with corrections. From the Anyone who has attempted genealogical research in New Jersey is aware of the fact that the federal census returns for the state for the years 1790, 1800, 1810 and 1820 are not extant. Moreover, only a few fragments of colonial censuses exist, and many records of the colonial period -- public, private, and ecclesiastical -- were destroyed, or taken away by Loyalists during the Revolutionary War. The only records that are state-wide are the tax rateables. Of at least 50,000 such lists compiled between 1773 and 1822, some 1,845 have been preserved. For the Revolutionary period there is at least one list for each of the townships into which the thirteen counties of the colony/state were divided. Lists for Salem, Sussex, Cape May, and Cumberland counties for the years 1773-1774 are complete; for Burlington County, only Chesterfield Township is missing; and for Gloucester County there are lists for four of the seven townships. For the years 1778-1780 there are similar lists for all but three of the remaining townships of the state -- and for them the first existing records are of 1784 or 1785. To keep sharp focus, the lists for the three periods have been separately indexed. No dust jacket issued. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 397419

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Santo Domingo: Past & Present with a Glance at Haytiby: Hazard, Samuel

Santo Domingo: Past & Present with a Glance at Hayti
by: Hazard, Samuel

Hardcover. London, Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1st, 1873, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 511 pages. Hardcover with gilt and black lettering on front and spine. Fraying on corners. Heavy soil on top page block. Illustrations and maps. Gutter crack on page 176.

Record # 354210

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The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580 by: Duffy, Eamon

The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580
by: Duffy, Eamon

Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 654 pages, b&w illustrations. This major revisionist account of the pre-Reformation Church recreates lay people's experience of religion in 15th-century England. Eamon Duffy shows that late mediaeval Catholicism was neither decadent nor decayed, but was a strong and vigorous tradition, and that the Reformation represented a violent rupture from a popular and theologically respectable religious system. Clean copy.

Record # 397467

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Massacres of the Mountains: A History of the Indian Wars of the Far West, 1815-1875by: J.P. Dunn Jr.

Massacres of the Mountains: A History of the Indian Wars of the Far West, 1815-1875
by: J.P. Dunn Jr.

Hardcover. NY, Archer House, reprint, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 110 b/w illustrations. 669 pages. This is a facsimile reprint of edition first published in 1886. Covering 60 years of merciless bloody conflict, it documents in detail every major Indian battle between 1815 and 1876. Dust jacket spine faded, otherwise a clean, very good copy.

Record # 397956

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Ordeal of Ambition: Jefferson Hamilton Burr by: Daniels, Jonathan

Ordeal of Ambition: Jefferson Hamilton Burr
by: Daniels, Jonathan

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 445 pages. Story of the struggle among Jefferson, Hamilton and Burr for power and influence during the early days of the nation. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397540

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Africans in the New World, 1493-1834by: Brown, Larissa V.

Africans in the New World, 1493-1834
by: Brown, Larissa V.

Softcover. Providence RI, John Carter Brown Library, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 62 pages illustrated in b&w. Clean copy.

Record # 382426

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The Legend of Indian Mary and Umpqua Joe by: Percy T. Booth

The Legend of Indian Mary and Umpqua Joe
by: Percy T. Booth

Softcover. Coos Bay OR, B&B Publishing, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 60 pages, illustrated in b&w. Originally published by the Josephine County Historical Society in Grants Pass, Oregon. Clean copy.

Record # 397679

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A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century Englandby: Steven Shapin

A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England
by: Steven Shapin

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 485 pages, b&w illust. How do we come to trust our knowledge of the world? What are the means by which we distinguish true from false accounts? Why do we credit one observational statement over another? In A Social History of Truth, Shapin engages these universal questions through an elegant recreation of a crucial period in the history of early modern science: the social world of gentlemen-philosophers in seventeenth-century England. Steven Shapin paints a vivid picture of the relations between gentlemanly culture and scientific practice. He argues that problems of credibility in science were practically solved through the codes and conventions of genteel conduct: trust, civility, honor, and integrity. These codes formed, and arguably still form, an important basis for securing reliable knowledge about the natural world.

Record # 374307

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Twelve Thousand Years: American Indians in Maine by: Bruce J. Bourque

Twelve Thousand Years: American Indians in Maine
by: Bruce J. Bourque

Softcover. Lincoln NE, Bison Books, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 368 pages. Documents the generations of Native peoples who for twelve millennia have moved through and eventually settled along the rocky coast, rivers, lakes, valleys, and mountains of a region now known as Maine. Arriving first to this area were Paleo-Indian peoples, followed by maritime hunters, more immigrants, then a revival of maritime cultures. Beginning in the sixteenth century, Native peoples in northern New England became tangled in the far-reaching affairs of European explorers and colonists. Twelve Thousand Years reveals how Penobscots, Abenakis, Passamaquoddies, Maliseets, Micmacs, and other Native communities both strategically accommodated and overtly resisted European and American encroachments. Clean copy.

Record # 397852

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Tula: the Toltec Capital of Ancient Mexicoby: Richard A. Diehl

Tula: the Toltec Capital of Ancient Mexico
by: Richard A. Diehl

Hardcover. NY, Thames & Hudson , 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 184 pages. Traces the rise and fall of the Toltec civilization, and describes what has been learned about their culture from the excavation of Tula, their principal city. 130 illustrations, 15 in color.

Record # 396320

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Jackson Davis and the Lost World of Jim Crow Education by: N/A

Jackson Davis and the Lost World of Jim Crow Education
by: N/A

Softcover. Charlottesville VA, University of Virginia Library, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 64 pages, b&w photos throughout. This is a history of African-American public school education in Henrico County, Virginia. Introductory essay by William A. Link. Author documented his work (as a field agent for the General Education Board) being an amateur photographer. Davis' photographs are organized by subject (Events, People, Demonstration Farming, etc.). Limited to 3.000 copies. Clean.

Record # 398006

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Love & Life Near the Chesapeake: true tales of romances, pirates, ghosts & famous persons who give glamour to the Chesapeake Bay areaby: Morgan (Ed.), Richard

Love & Life Near the Chesapeake: true tales of romances, pirates, ghosts & famous persons who give glamour to the Chesapeake Bay area
by: Morgan (Ed.), Richard

Hardcover. New York, Washington Book Co., 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 124 pages, plus appendices. Tan cloth covers, over 50 chapters and 40 b&w photographs. Library binding and titles, but without any of the usual ex-lib markings, stamps, or envelopes inside covers, very light rubbing to covers; a clean, tight copy.

Record # 806246

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A Tale of Three Gunboats: Lake Champlain's Revolutionary War Heritage by: Lundeberg, Philip / Cohn, Arthur / Jones, Jennifer

A Tale of Three Gunboats: Lake Champlain's Revolutionary War Heritage
by: Lundeberg, Philip / Cohn, Arthur / Jones, Jennifer

Softcover. Basin Harbor VT, Lake Champlain Maritime Museum , 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 238 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Documents the legacy of shipwrecks and wartime encounters on Lake Champlain. Also the management of an important underwater archaeological collection. Clean copy.

Record # 398148

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Dedication of the Statue to Brevet Major-General William Wells and the Officers and Men of the First Regimanet Vermont Cavalryby: N/A

Dedication of the Statue to Brevet Major-General William Wells and the Officers and Men of the First Regimanet Vermont Cavalry
by: N/A

Hardcover. np, Privately printed, 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 225 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Gilt lettering and decoration on front cover. Previous owner's name on front end paper. Light edgewear to covers.

Record # 368314

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Journals of the Military Expedition of Major General John Sullivan against the Six Nations of Indians in 1779; With Records of Centennial Celebrations by: Cook, Frede

Journals of the Military Expedition of Major General John Sullivan against the Six Nations of Indians in 1779; With Records of Centennial Celebrations
by: Cook, Frede

Hardcover. Auburn NY, Knapp, Peck and Thomson, 1st, 1887, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original red cloth, gilt titles and rules, blind-stamped double border. 581 pages including Errata leaf. Includes several fold-out maps, plus pockets inside the front and rear boards containing maps and plans. Engraved frontispiece of Sullivan, engraved portraits in text of Brigadier General James Clinton, Colonel Peter Gansevoort (from a portrait by Gilbert Stuart, famous for his portrait of George Washington), and Colonel Philip Van Cortlandt. John Sullivan was an American general in the Revolutionary War and a delegate in the Continental Congress. Sullivan served as a major general in the Continental Army and as Governor (or 'President') of New Hampshire. He is most famous for leading the Sullivan Expedition in 1779, a scorched earth campaign against the Iroquois towns that had taken up arms against the American revolutionaries. This volume contains journals by 27 officers present during the campaign, and has become the authoritative primary source of the event. Both front and rear hinges cracked with spine cloth loose, battlefield map at page 288 has a tear but no loss, front signature with title page loose but whole. All other maps present in envelopes and in very good condition. Covers worn.

Record # 398284

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Monument to Major-General Arthur St. Clairby: N/A

Monument to Major-General Arthur St. Clair
by: N/A

Softcover. Greensburg PA, privately printed, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, octavo, 25 pages, sparsely illustrated in b&w. Book near fine with mild general shelfwear to wrap, stapled binding tight, text clean and unmarked. Includes a b/w sketch by John Trumbull.

Record # 353628

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Congressional Globe, The: 36th Congress 2nd Session, Dec. 3, to Feb. 18, 1860-1861by: Rives, John C.

Congressional Globe, The: 36th Congress 2nd Session, Dec. 3, to Feb. 18, 1860-1861
by: Rives, John C.

Hardcover. Washington, DC, Congressional Globe Office, 1st, 1860, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 992 pages, hardcover. Half leather over marbled boards. A bound copy of 55 issues of The Congressional Globe from the weeks and months leading up to the Civil War. Extensively indexed. Edgewear to boards, mostly along top edge. Bumping to corners. Water staining to front and rear panels, lower fore edge. Staining to interior copy is minimal; damage ends at half title page. Previous owner's bookplate on front end paper. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 951391

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Antiquarian Researches Comprising A History of the Indian Wars in the Country Bordering Connecticut River and Parts Adjacent and Other Interesting Events.by: Hoyt, E.

Antiquarian Researches Comprising A History of the Indian Wars in the Country Bordering Connecticut River and Parts Adjacent and Other Interesting Events.
by: Hoyt, E.

Hardcover. Greenfield, MA, Ansel Phelps, 1st, 1824, Book: Fair, 312 pages. Hardcover with detached front cover to title page. All pages present. Moderate foxing to internal pages, light soil. Good candidate for rebinding.

Record # 354193

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Mysteries; or, Glimpses Of The Supernatural. Containing Accounts oF the Salem Witchcraft - The Cock-Lane Ghost - The Rochester - The Stratford Mysteries - Oracles - Astrology - Dreams - Demons - Ghosts - Specters, etc.

Mysteries; or, Glimpses Of The Supernatural. Containing Accounts oF the Salem Witchcraft - The Cock-Lane Ghost - The Rochester - The Stratford Mysteries - Oracles - Astrology - Dreams - Demons - Ghosts - Specters, etc.
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Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1852, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original embossed brown cloth, 274 pages, plus 14 pages of publisher's ads in rear. Gilt lettering on spine. A collection of accounts of the supernatural. Several pages have tears to edges, limited to margins and not affecting text. Mild foxing. some residue to front and rear pastEdowns. Overall very good.

Record # 353636

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Stalingrad: City on Fireby: Isaev, Alexey

Stalingrad: City on Fire
by: Isaev, Alexey

Hardcover. Yorkshire UK, Pen and Sword Military, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 320 pages. So much has been written about the Battle of Stalingrad - the Soviet victory that turned the tide of the Second World War - that we should know everything about it. But the history of the war, and the battle, is evolving and is being written anew, and Alexey Isaev's engrossing account is a striking example of this fresh approach. B&w photos, color maps. Clean copy.

Record # 378850

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Admirals of the Caribbeanby: Hart, F.R.G.S., Francis Russell

Admirals of the Caribbean
by: Hart, F.R.G.S., Francis Russell

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 203 pages. Tan and black cover with illustration. Some fraying on edges and spine. Faint smudges on spine. Pages untrimmed. Inside crisp, clean and contains b&w illustrations throughout.

Record # 852453

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Archeological investigations at the mouth of the Amazonby: Evans, Clifford & Meggers, Betty J.

Archeological investigations at the mouth of the Amazon
by: Evans, Clifford & Meggers, Betty J.

Hardcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution/Bureau of American Ethnology, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, olive green cloth covers, gilt lettering on spine. 664 pages plus 112 b&w plates in rear. Extensive folding maps, plates. text illustrations. The mounds of Marajo & other sites. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 167. Clean copy.

Record # 381656

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League for The Union, The: Speeches of the Hon. George Bancroft and James Millikenby: Bancroft, George and James Milliken

League for The Union, The: Speeches of the Hon. George Bancroft and James Milliken
by: Bancroft, George and James Milliken

Softcover. Philadelphia, William S. & Alfred Martien, 1st, 1863, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 20 page booklet, blue wrappers. Two black lines on front cover otherwise clean.

Record # 359793

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Out-Letters of the Continental Marine Committee and Board of Admiralty: August, 1776 - September, 1780, Volume Iby: Paullin (Ed.), Charles Oscar

Out-Letters of the Continental Marine Committee and Board of Admiralty: August, 1776 - September, 1780, Volume I
by: Paullin (Ed.), Charles Oscar

Hardcover. New York, Naval History Society, 1st, 1814, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 289 pages. Minor cover soiling, corner and edge wear. Minor stains along binding on front and back end paper. Otherwise, very clean pages and tight binding. Gilt top edge.

Record # 852434

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This Was My Newport (SIGNED COPY)by: Elliott, Maud Howe

This Was My Newport (SIGNED COPY)
by: Elliott, Maud Howe

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Mythology Co., 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark maroon cloth covers stamped in black, 279 pages. B&w plates, a little damp-staining limited to title page and frontispiece. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. A history of the ritzy Newport area in it's heyday. Not a common title.

Record # 378489

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