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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Story of Athens - A Record of the Life and Art of the City of the Violet Crown Read in its Ruins and in the Lives of Great Athenians, Theby: Butler, Howard Crosby

Story of Athens - A Record of the Life and Art of the City of the Violet Crown Read in its Ruins and in the Lives of Great Athenians, The
by: Butler, Howard Crosby

Hardcover. New York, Century Co. , 1st, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 532 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Previous owners name on inside front cover. Titles and decorations in gilt on cover and spine. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611735

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Vermont Clock and Watchmakers Silversmiths and Jewelers: 1778-1878by: Carlisle, Lilian Baker

Vermont Clock and Watchmakers Silversmiths and Jewelers: 1778-1878
by: Carlisle, Lilian Baker

Hardcover. Burlington, VT, Self-published, 1st Edition, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 313 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Color title page. Edition limited to 1000 copies. Previous owner's ID label on front flyleaf. Decorated, clean endpapers. Dust jacket unclipped, dust jacket has some light shelf wear, very good. Red cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine and title and design on front cover board. Pages unmarked. Spine straight. Binding tight. Beautiful, clean copy. Previous owner's notes on notepaper and original typed book review laid in. The only comprehensive compendium of information concerning early Vermont silversmiths, clock and watchmakers and jewelers. Also includes 4 separate chapters detailing the craft of watchmaking.

Record # 99198

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Seed That Was Sown In the Colony of Georgia. The Harvest and Aftermath 1740-1870, The by: Wylly, Charles Spalding

Seed That Was Sown In the Colony of Georgia. The Harvest and Aftermath 1740-1870, The
by: Wylly, Charles Spalding

Hardcover. New York , Neale Publishing, 1st, 1910, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pebbled brown cloth with maroon lettering (bearly readable), 163 pages. A history of coastal Georgia taken from oral reminiscences of Wylly's distinguished family and their friends and acquaintances. Hinges cracked, light fraying to top and bottom of spine, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf.

Record # 412013

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To Purge This Land with Blood: A Biography of John Brown by: Oates, Stephen B.

To Purge This Land with Blood: A Biography of John Brown
by: Oates, Stephen B.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket that's price-clipped. 434 pages, b&w illustrations. This is a full-scale biography of John Brown. "John Brown was a profoundly religious man dedicated to emancipation and Negro rights..." He "tried to overthrow slavery in the South itself by attacking Harpers Ferry and inciting a slave insurrection."Was Brown a vicious fanatic, or the greatest abolitionist hero in history?" This history is based on "contemporary letters, diaries, journals, newspapers, published reports, and recollections of eyewitnesses, this book is especially notable for providing the first really full account ever written of Brown's career before he went to Kansas..." Bold presentation inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396460

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Roll of New Hampshire Soldiers at Bennington, August 16, 1777by: Gilmore, George C.

Roll of New Hampshire Soldiers at Bennington, August 16, 1777
by: Gilmore, George C.

Hardcover. Manchester , George C. Gilmore, 1st, 1891, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 55 pages. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with gilt title on cover. Ex-library copy with stamp on inside front cover, at some point an attempt to remove envelope on rear endpaper caused some limited tearing to textless page. Library number written in white at bottom of spine. Body, text of book is clean, tight.

Record # 611124

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European Fascism by: Woolf S. J. (Editor)

European Fascism
by: Woolf S. J. (Editor)

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 387 pages. These essays originated in a series of lectures and seminars held by the Graduate School of Contemporary European Studies and the Centre for the Advanced Study of Italian Society of the University of Reading in 1966-1967. The countries covered include Italy, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Rumania, Poland, Finland, Norway, Great Britain, France, Spain, and Portugal. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 396480

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Seventeenth Century Albany: A Dutch Profile.by: Wilcoxen, Charlotte

Seventeenth Century Albany: A Dutch Profile.
by: Wilcoxen, Charlotte

Paperback. Albany, NY, Education Department, Albany Institute of History and Art., revised, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 201 pages. Very little wear to cover. Inside is bright and clean with many b&w illustrations throughout.

Record # 852931

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The Diplomacy of Imperialism, 1890-1902: Volume 2 by: William L. Langer

The Diplomacy of Imperialism, 1890-1902: Volume 2
by: William L. Langer

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with gilt lettering on spine, pages 415-797, plus index. Volume 2 ONLY. No dust jacket. Name on front fly leaf otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Record # 396507

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Minotaur : Sir Arthur Evans and Archaeology of the Minoan Mythby: MacGillivray, Joseph Alexander

Minotaur : Sir Arthur Evans and Archaeology of the Minoan Myth
by: MacGillivray, Joseph Alexander

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape Ltd], 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 373 pages. 50 line and 24 halftone illustrations. In this text, the author argues that the celebrated archaeologist, Sir Arthur Evans, who at the turn of the century claimed to have discovered the labyrinth which housed the Minotaur, was in fact a fabulist. MacGillivray uses Evans's own papers as evidence for his exposee.

Record # 374393

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The Panama Canal Controversy: US. Diplomacy and Defense Interests by: Ryan, Paul B.

The Panama Canal Controversy: US. Diplomacy and Defense Interests
by: Ryan, Paul B.

Softcover. Stanford CA, Hoover Institution Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 198 pages. History, politics, economics, and diplomacy surrounding the Panama Canal controversy in the 1970s. Illustrations., maps, appendix, bibliographic note, index. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 396622

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The Victoriansby: A.N. Wilson

The Victorians
by: A.N. Wilson

Hardcover. NY, W W Norton, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 724 pages. Illustrated in b&w and color. A revisionist panorama of the nineteenth century examines the era's material and spiritual changes in the wake of emerging British capitalism and imperialism, as told through the writings of such figures as Darwin, Marks, George Eliot, and Kipling. Clean copy.

Record # 378319

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Communistic Societies of the United States from Personal Visit and Observation by: Charles Nordhoff

Communistic Societies of the United States from Personal Visit and Observation
by: Charles Nordhoff

Softcover. NY, Schocken Books, reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 439 pages. Reprint of a work first published in 1875, b&w illustrations. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. An historical account written during the late 19th century. The book explores various communistic communities in the United States, documenting their origins, practices, and social structures. Nordhoff's investigation is based on personal visits and observations, aiming to provide insights into how these societies operate and their contributions to the labor question.

Record # 396913

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Persistence of Sail in the Age of Steam: Underwater Archaeological Evidence from the Dry Tortugasby: Souza, Donna J.

Persistence of Sail in the Age of Steam: Underwater Archaeological Evidence from the Dry Tortugas
by: Souza, Donna J.

Hardcover. New York, Plenum Press, rep, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 189 pages. Hardcover with laminated boards. Previous owner's stamp in front fly leaf, otherwise, clean, tight copy with minor wear to covers. Black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 369289

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The Family of Joris Dircksen Brinckerhoff, 1638by: Richard Brinkerhoff

The Family of Joris Dircksen Brinckerhoff, 1638
by: Richard Brinkerhoff

Hardcover. NY, Richard Brinkerhoff , 1st, 1887, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original 1887 edition, maroon cloth gilt lettering on spine, no jacket, 188 pages, frontis, historical photographs and maps. Scarce genealogy of an early New York and New Jersey Dutch family, Bergen, Passaic, and Hudson Counties and surrounding areas. Title page loose but present. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Program for Dutch church service in 1894 laid-in.

Record # 397377

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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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Roosevelt and Wilson: A Comparative Study by: D. H. Elletson

Roosevelt and Wilson: A Comparative Study
by: D. H. Elletson

Hardcover. London, John Murray, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 236 pages. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 397447

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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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History of the Town of Carlisle, Massachusets, 1754-1920 With Biographical Sketches of Prominent Personsby: Bull, Sidney A.

History of the Town of Carlisle, Massachusets, 1754-1920 With Biographical Sketches of Prominent Persons
by: Bull, Sidney A.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Murray Printing Company, 1st, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover red cloth with gilt lettering and decoration on front cover. Illustrated with b&w photos, map illustration. Name on front fly, otherwise a clean copy.

Record # 397462

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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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Constitutional Faithby: Levinson, Sanford

Constitutional Faith
by: Levinson, Sanford

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 250 pages. This book examines the "constitutional faith" that has, since 1788, been a central component of American "civil religion." By taking seriously the parallel between wholehearted acceptance of the Constitution and religious faith, Sanford Levinson opens up a host of intriguing questions about what it means to be American. While some view the Constitution as the central component of an American religion that serves to unite the social order, Levinson maintains that its sacred role can result in conflict, fragmentation, and even war. To Levinson, the Constitution's value lies in the realm of the discourse it sustains: a uniquely American form of political rhetoric that allows citizens to grapple with every important public issue imaginable. Clean copy.

Record # 397545

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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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200,000 Heroes: Italian Partisans and the American OSS in WWII by: Weckstein, Leon

200,000 Heroes: Italian Partisans and the American OSS in WWII
by: Weckstein, Leon

Softcover. Ashland OR, Hellgate Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 230 pages, b&w illustrations. Italy, July 1944. The unendurable insult to Italy's inherently genial way of life brought about by Hitler's storm-troopers and Mussolini's Fascist toadies was both taking its toll on the people of Italy and creating a fledgling underground Resistance movement whose heroic ranks would soon swell to nearly 200,000 brave men and women. Author Leon Weckstein was there--an American GI in combat fighting with and befriending the Partisans. Here is the story, as told through eyewitness accounts and carefully researched historical archives, of the Italian Partisans and their American OSS allies' battle to destroy the Nazi-Fascist regime and expel the culprits from their beloved Italy. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 397848

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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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Cadet Gray: A Pictorial History of Life At West Point As Seen through its Uniforms by: Todd Col., Frederick P. /Frederick T. Chapman (Illust.)

Cadet Gray: A Pictorial History of Life At West Point As Seen through its Uniforms
by: Todd Col., Frederick P. /Frederick T. Chapman (Illust.)

Hardcover. NY, Bonanza Books, reprint, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 112 pages, many b&w illustrations plus gorgeous color plates by Frederick Chapman. A reprint of the 1955 edition. Clean copy.

Record # 397971

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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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Small Towns Big Cities: The Urban Experience of Italian Americans by: Dennis Barone; Stefano Luconi (Editors)

Small Towns Big Cities: The Urban Experience of Italian Americans
by: Dennis Barone; Stefano Luconi (Editors)

Softcover. NY, American Italian Historical Assoc., 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 248 pages. This volume consists of a selection of 14 scholarly works examining the urban experience of Italian Americans in small towns and big cities, out of the approximately 60 stimulating papers presented at the 41st annual Conference of the American Italian Historical Association, held in 2008. Clean copy.

Record # 398105

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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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History of the Battle of Lake Erie (September 10 1813) and Reminiscences of the Flagships Lawrence and Niagaraby: Dobbins, Capt. W. W.

History of the Battle of Lake Erie (September 10 1813) and Reminiscences of the Flagships Lawrence and Niagara
by: Dobbins, Capt. W. W.

Hardcover. Erie PA, Ashby Printing Company, reprint, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright blue cloth with gilt lettering. Frontis. Illustrated w/ b/w photos. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf. Interior leaves are clean and tight. A memoir of Commodore Perry's victory of the battle of Lake Erie against a British squadron, September 1813. Includes period correspondence and memoranda of Sailing Master Daniel Dobbins. Second edition of this history first published in 1876. Standard account by this captain (1800-76) whose "father. was a pioneer in the construction of the squadron, and served actively upon the upper lakes during the war" -- which inspired and informed this chronicle of the pivotal War of 1812 battle off the coast of Ohio in which the American fleet gained control and turned the tides against the British.

Record # 398281

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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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Post Roads & Iron Horses: Transportation in Connecticut from Colonial Times to the Age of Steamby: Richard DeLuca

Post Roads & Iron Horses: Transportation in Connecticut from Colonial Times to the Age of Steam
by: Richard DeLuca

Hardcover. Middletown CT, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The first book to look in detail at the turnpikes, steamboats, canals, railroads, and trolleys (street railroads) that helped define Connecticut and shape New England. Advances in transportation technology during the nineteenth century transformed the Constitution State from a rough network of colonial towns to an industrial powerhouse of the Gilded Age. From the race to build the Farmington Canal to the shift from water to rail transport, historian and transportation engineer Richard DeLuca gives us engaging stories and traces the significant themes that emerge as American innovators and financiers, lawyers and legislators, struggle to control the movement of passengers and goods in southern New England. The book contains over fifty historical images and maps, and provides an excellent point of view from which to interpret the history of New England as a whole. Clean copy.

Record # 398827

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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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History of Jericho Vermont, The: Volume Twoby: Merle (Editor), Mrs. Elinor I.

History of Jericho Vermont, The: Volume Two
by: Merle (Editor), Mrs. Elinor I.

Hardcover. Vermont, Town of Jericho, Vermont, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth, 301 pages, with b&w photographs and fold-out Brown family tree. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 853219

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Imperatores Victi: Military Defeat and Aristocractic Competition in the Middle and Late Republic by: Rosenstein, Nathan S.

Imperatores Victi: Military Defeat and Aristocractic Competition in the Middle and Late Republic
by: Rosenstein, Nathan S.

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover, 224 pages. Given the intense competition among aristocrats seeking public office in the middle and late Roman Republic, one would expect that their persistent struggles for honor, glory, and power could have seriously undermined the state or damaged the cohesiveness of the ruling class. Rome in fact depended on aristocratic competition, since no professional bureaucracy directed public affairs and no salary was attached to any public office. But as Rosenstein adeptly shows, competition appears to have been surprisingly limited, in ways that curtailed the possible destructive effects of all-out contests between individuals. Imperatores Victi examines one particularly striking case of such checks on competition. Military success at all times represented an abundant source of prestige and political strength at Rome. Generals who led armies to victory enjoyed a better-than-average chance of securing higher office upon their return from the field. Yet this study demonstrates that defeated generals were not barred from public office and in fact went on to win the Republic's most highly coveted and hotly contested offices in numbers virtually identical with those of their undefeated peers.

Record # 379165

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Games and Sanctuaries in Ancient Greece: Olympia Delphi Isthmia Nemea Athens by: Valavanis, Panos

Games and Sanctuaries in Ancient Greece: Olympia Delphi Isthmia Nemea Athens
by: Valavanis, Panos

Hardcover. Los Angeles, Getty Museum, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 448 pages, many b&w and color plates. This book celebrates the athletes, the games the sanctuaries, the cities and, above all the inspiring spirit of the ancient Greeks. Bright, clean copy in a similar dust jacket.

Record # 353593

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Historians Against History: The Frontier Thesis and the National Covenant in American Historical Writing since 1830 by: David W. Noble

Historians Against History: The Frontier Thesis and the National Covenant in American Historical Writing since 1830
by: David W. Noble

Hardcover. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota, 2nd pr., 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 197 pages. Professor Noble examines the basic philosophy and writing of six American historians, George Bancroft, Frederick Jackson, Charles A. Beard, Carl Becker, Vernon Louis Parrington, and Daniel J. Boorstin, and finds in them a common tradition which he calls anti-historical. He argues that this viewpoint is founded in the frontier interpretation of American history, that American historians have served as the chief political theorists and theologians of this country since 1830, and that their writings can be interpreted as Jeremiads designed to preserve a national covenant with nature. Clean copy.

Record # 397493

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Martin Van Buren and the Making of the Democratic Partyby: Remini, Robert V.

Martin Van Buren and the Making of the Democratic Party
by: Remini, Robert V.

Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 3rd pr., 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket.271 pages. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397176

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Slavery and African Life: Occidental, Oriental, and African Slave Tradesby: Manning, Patrick

Slavery and African Life: Occidental, Oriental, and African Slave Trades
by: Manning, Patrick

Softcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, Reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 236 pages. Softcover. Binding tight. Some underlining in pencil on a few pages, otherwise clean inside. A touch of foxing to top edge. Wrapper in great shape. Looks great.

Record # 5560083

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Frederic Remington - A Biographyby: Samuels, Peggy/Harold Samuels

Frederic Remington - A Biography
by: Samuels, Peggy/Harold Samuels

Hardcover. Garden City, Duobleday & Company Inc., First Edition, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 537 pages. Hardcover. Black cloth covered boards with white titles to spine. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with light, marginal wear, now protected with a plastic cover. Tight binding, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 751118

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