History

Hardcover. Burlington, VT, Edward Smith, 1st, 1833, Book: Good, 252 pages. Hardcover, half calf leather binding with heavy chipping to corners, and front and rear. Pages darkened and moderately worn on edges. Small size. Good condition considering age.

Hardcover. Amsterdam, Uitgeverij Aksant, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 366 pages, a few color and b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the half title page. This study describes and analyses a wide array of initiatives leading to the hunt, by Dutch whalemen, of whales and seals in Arctic waters, the temperate zones of the South Pacific and the waters of the Dutch East Indies during the major part of the nineteenth century (1815-1885) - an era neglected so far. A pioneering book focused on the men involved in the two maritime industries, be it on shore or aboard the whaleship.

Hardcover. NY, Viking , 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 282 pages. Black & white maps, plans and illustrations. Documents the experiences of late-Renaissance Venetian nuns, many of whom were upper-class women immured against their will, exploring how convents of the period were often political hotbeds and the sites of illicit love affairs in their resident's efforts to find fulfillment. Clean copy.

Softcover. Quezon City, Malaya Books, reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 212 pages, b&w illustrations, fold-out map in front. A 1970 reprint of a title first published in 1900. Clean copy, light edgewear to wrapper.

Hardcover. Washington DC, Insignia Publishing Company, 2nd pr., 1998, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 347 pages. The first book about Gulf War Syndrome. An intensely personal account of the struggle of two dedicated public servants to expose one of the largest government cover-ups of modern history. A former CIA analyst exposes the officially sanctioned deceptions that have made Gulf War veterans the walking wounded of Desert Storm. NOTE: The first blank page has been torn out but does not affect the rest of the book, in clean condition.

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 #582. Beautiful bright copy.

Hardcover. Salem MA, Marine Research Society, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 399 pages. B&W portraits of sea captains and ships throughout. Tissue-covered frontispiece. Top edge colored blue. Green pictorial dust jacket with pasted-on color illustration, taping and edgewear. Blue boards with gilt title to spine and stain to front cover. Otherwise, a clean, tight copy. The twenty-first volume in the series of publications by the Marine Research Society.

Hardcover. Londo, Longmans, Green, and Co. , 1892, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in embossed brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine, 328 pages plus publisher's ads in rear. A collection of historical essays from English historian, James Anthony Froude. Titles include: The Spanish Story of the Armada, Antonio Perez: An Unsolved Historical Riddle, Saint Teresa, The Templars, The Norway Fjords, and Norway Once More. Written by James Anthony Froude, an English historian, biographer, novelist, and editor of Fraser's Magazine, a general and literary journal published from 1830 to 1882. Repair to cloth on spine which shows edgewear, fading. Owner's stamp om front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. London, Duckworth, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with fading to spine. A magisterial assessment of the major historian of early Byzantium, by one of today's leading historians of late antiquity. Most of our understanding of the age of Justinian is based on the works of Procopius of Caesarea, the most important Greek historian of late antiquity. Many modern histories of the period virtually paraphrase his major work, the Wars. Today, questions of how we are to reconcile the Wars with Procopius' two minor works-the panegyrical Building and the sensational Secret History, still dominates current scholarship. 297 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, And Company, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bound in publisher's red cloth, lettered in gold with black letterbox, 307 pages. The sixth of Churchill's seven war speech volumes. Victory contains speeches from January to August 1945. Having done so much to win the war, Churchill faced frustration of his postwar plans when his wartime government fell to Labor in the General Election of July 1945. His final speech in this volume - a review of the war delivered on 16 August 1945 to the House of Commons - is delivered as Leader of the Opposition rather than as Prime Minister. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 4th pr., 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Volume VIII in The History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. 435 pages, illustrated with maps (one fold-out) and b&w photos. Gilt on spine with light fading, lacks dust jacket, Dust jacket flaps pasted on front endpapers otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, New York Genealogical & Biographical Society, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering, 150 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light brown cloth with black lettering on spine, 301 pages. Endpapers map, frontis. portrait. Light ring stain on front cover otherwise clean, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Jewish Opinion Publishing Corporation, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 285 pages+ portrait frontis. Original full cloth binding, edges browned. Original dust jacket, chipped, tanning. First Edition. Stephen S. Wise (1874-1949) was born in Budapest and as a child emigrated to New York, where he received his Jewish and secular education. He was ordained as a rabbi in the New Jewish Theological Seminary and went on to become a Reform rabbi and ardent Zionist and Anti-fascist. This book was published to mark Rabbi Wise's 70th birthday. his comments on Zionism, Hitlerism, the fate of the Jews - as WW2 was drawing to a close - were enormously influential.

Softcover. Durham NC, Duke University Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 416 pages. Open from 1942 until 1945, the Hollywood Canteen was the most famous of the patriotic home front nightclubs where civilian hostesses jitterbugged with enlisted men of the Allied Nations. Since the opening night, when the crowds were so thick that Bette Davis had to enter through the bathroom window to give her welcome speech, the storied dance floor where movie stars danced with soldiers has been the subject of much U.S. nostalgia about the 'Greatest Generation.' Drawing from oral histories with civilian volunteers and military guests who danced at the wartime nightclub, Sherrie Tucker explores how jitterbugging swing culture has come to represent the war in U.S. national memory. Yet her interviewees' varied experiences and recollections belie the possibility of any singular historical narrative. Some recall racism, sexism, and inequality on the nightclub's dance floor and in Los Angeles neighborhoods, dynamics at odds with the U.S. democratic, egalitarian ideals associated with the Hollywood Canteen and the 'Good War' in popular culture narratives. Clean copy in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Softcover. Carbondale IL, Southern Illinois University Press , 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, dark gray covers with some fading. 639 pages. A detailed documentary on the American Colonial Society, discussing culture, politics, religion, and much more. David Potter and Gordon L. Thomas have selected representative and important speeches and exhortations delivered by famous Americans from the beginning of the Massachusetts Bay Colony to the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The selections are arranged in five categories--those dealing with academic, legal, occasional, political, and religious matters. They are drawn from every stratum of colonial activity--from the classrooms, clerical studies, town meetings, provincial assemblies, and the bar. Great names abound in these pages, but, frequently, expounders of great ideas found here are unremembered figures whose works cannot be found easily elsewhere. The editors have carried out careful research on each speech to assure the authenticity of the text. They have added, for each selection, a note on the speaker and on the place where he delivered his address. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Burlington VT, University of Vermont, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 276 pages. Annotated, bibliography, index. This book is described as the only comprehensive work available on Vermont local government and the first such state study in New England since the 1930's. Publisher's correction to page 232 laid in. Bookmarks on front endpaper, owner's small stamp to half-title page. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A Knopf, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket, 324 pages plus index. Illustrated with 17 halftone reproductions from various sources and with line drawings by Nick Eggenhofer. A comprehensive history of the slaughter of the buffalo, the battles between the hunters and Indians. Also tells of the buffalo hunting for sport by Washington Irving and the Russian Prince Alexis. Describes Buffalo Bill's killing buffaloes to feed the men who were building a railroad across the plains. Most of the book, however chronicles the hide hunters who swarmed over the ranges in 1871 and reduced the herds of nearly forty million buffaloes to fewer than one-thousand, taking the hides and leaving the meat to rot. Bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 186 pages. A detailed study of the politics underlying British policies of mercantilism in the American colonies. Focusing on the political activity of interest groups in the British Empire of the eighteenth century, Professor Kammen relates political influence in Georgian England to American colonial history, to the early history of the industrial revolution, to the incredible flood of writings in the later eighteenth century on political economy, and to the dynamics of Anglo-American political society, public life, and the empire. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hardcover. Boston, Gray & Bowen, 1st, 1830, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 312 pages, leather spine and corners with marbled boards. Gilt title on spine. Copyright page states "on the eleventh day of November, A. D. 1830." With frontispiece folding map of the eclipse of Feb 12th, in its passage across the United States. A very good copy with mild wear to leather, map in very good condition. moderate foxing to text. There is some minimal marking, numbers and light residue to endpapers.

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.

Hardcover. Hartford CT, Hurlbut, Scranton & Co., 1st, 1864, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 763 pages, illustrated with many full-page plates, most hand-colored (including second title page). Leather bound with some splitting along spine edges. Black spine label with gilt lettering. Internally very good, minor foxing.

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.

Hardcover. New York, Publishers Company, 2nd edition, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 5 volumes: 291, 291, 317, 304, and 306 pages. Light brown cloth covers, with silver and black titles, profusely illustrated with b&w plates. Slight rubbing to covers, small brown stain to spines of Theater and Civil War volumes, previous owner's embossed stamp to all title pages, ex-lib bookplates to all copyright pages, pages very crisp and unmarked, tight binding; overall, volumes are in clean, tight condition. NOTE: DUE TO WEIGHT AND SIZE, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, California University Press, reprint, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 308 pages. The German Enlightenment and the Rise of Historicism traces the thought of a large and neglected group of German thinkers and their encounter with the ideas and ideal of the Enlightenment from 1740 to 1790. Concentrating on the nature of their historical consciousness, Peter Hanns Reill addresses two basic issues in the interpretation of the Enlightenment: to what degree can one speak of the unity of the Enlightenment and to what extent can the Enlightenment be characterized as "modern"? Reill attempts to revise the traditional interpretation of the Enlightenment as an age insensitive to the postulates of modern historical thought and to dissolve the alleged opposition of the Enlightenment to later intellectual developments such as Idealism. He argues that German Enlightened thinkers generated the general presuppositions upon which modern historical thought is founded. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Company, 2nd pr., 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped with gilt lettering, 608 pages. After the Revolutionary War, the federal government awarded bounty lands to citizens and soldiers for services rendered. In its simplest form, this involved the exchange of free land for military service. Federal records of these Revolutionary War bounty land awards are well known and readily accessible to genealogists. But the federal government was not alone in rewarding its citizens and soldiers with bounty lands. Nine state governments adopted similar policies, generating even more records. Unlike the federal bounty land records, however, these state records are not centralized; instead, they are found in the various states in the form of manuscript records and printed books and are all but inaccessible to the researcher. Until now, that is! Because with this work by Lloyd Bockstruck we now have a master index to state bounty land records, a Revolutionary War resource unparalleled for freshness, originality, and research potential. The nine states that awarded bounty lands in their western reserves or on their western borders (directly affecting the future states of Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Ohio, and Tennessee) are Connecticut, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Virginia. (The basis for the Connecticut and Georgia awards, by the way, differ from the norm.) Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Little, Brown and Co, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 297 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket shows moderate chipping, creases, wear to top/bottom spine. Internally clean and tight. Fold out maps.

Hardcover. Indianapolis/NY, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket, 490 pages, b&w frontis. Rush, the Philadelphia doctor who signed the Declaration of Independence, was an energetic, ambitious man given to devising reforms and, as the author puts it, meddling in politics. He studied medicine in Edinburgh and London, meeting Hume, Goldsmith, Samuel Johnson, et al. and, Hawke thinks, solidifying his republican disposition. Back in Pennsylvania he agitated for independence, made friends with John Adams, urged Paine to write Common Sense, and entered Congress. Apart from the recurrent epidemics of the age, the practice of military medicine and propaganda for resuming debt payments occupied Rush during the war; afterwards he turned to progressive education, speculated in land, fought paper money, equivocally supported the abolition of slavery, declared that tobacco is unhealthful, and boosted the Constitution before it was even written. Dust jacket chipped, faded in parts, clean internally.

Softcover. New York, I. Riley & Co./Hopkins and Seymour, 1st, 1806, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 76 pages, original marbled paper wrappers with blue title label on cover. Second signature is bound upside-down (pages 9-16), but all there. Marbled pattern on outer wraps faded in spots. Mild foxing to pages, edgewear with light loss of paper to bottom corner.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan , 2nd pr., 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 274 pages, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dial Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 254 pages, b&w photos by Maggi Castelloe. In the early seventies, when the press and the President were at war, Washington journalists became superstars. A profile of the era. Clean copy.

Softcover. Princeton, NJ, Markus Weiner Publishers, 1st English Translation, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 327 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Decorated wrapper, excellent. Pages clean and bright. Binding good. Like new copy. This fascinating study of eunuchs guides readers as they travel through various lands and periods, familiarizing themselves with the duties and responsibilities, the unspeakable torments, and the passions and joys of these individuals.

Hardcover. London, England, Collins, 1st UK Edition, 1962, 352 pages. Hardcover. Includes appendices, bibliography & index. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, has some agewear (see image). Cover boards bound in red cloth, gilt title on spine. Tanning to pages and edges from age, otherwise pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. In great shape. Before Columbus, before the Vikings, did Ireland's St. Brendan make a North Atlantic crossing?

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st thus, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. The Chronicles of America Vol. 54. 364 pages, b&w illustrations. Red gilt-decorated cloth, top edge gilt, no dust jacket as issued. Details the campaigns of the U.S. Armed Forces in all theaters of World War II, including Tunisia, France, Italy, the Philippines, and Guadalcanal. A very nice, tight, clean copy in excellent condition.

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 3 ONLY of a 7 volume set. Reprint of the 1897 edition. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 429 pages. Brown cloth with embossed red image of Seale gagged and bound in the courtroom during the Chicago 8 Trial. A gorgeous copy of Bobby Seale's narration of the Black Panther Party's origins and his relationship with Huey P Newton. Written as Seale was on trial as part of the Panther 14 in New Haven and during the Chicago 8/7 Conspiracy trial. Dust jacket is bright with original $6.95 price intact and unclipped. Stated First Edition on copyright page. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Norton, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. Discusses the history and technology of the Erie Canal, examines some of the famous and infamous people involved with its construction, describes how other canals were built as a result of its success, and discusses how "Great Western" opened up the west.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, George W. Jacobs & Co., 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two matching hardcover volumes in maroon cloth with gilt-lettered spine titles. [1], xi, [1 blank], 658; [2], vi, 590 pages, as issued, with plates and folding maps. Jay Cooke was an American financier who helped finance the Union war effort during the American Civil War and the postwar development of railroads in the northwestern United States. He is generally acknowledged as the first major investment banker in the United States and creator of the first wire house firm. Over 75 illustrations, including foldouts. NOTE: Unlike most sets offered online, this one does not have blue cloth or top edge gilt. The copyright page states Published October, 1907. No other printings noted. No date on title page, so suspected reprint. Bookplate on inside front covers, otherwise clean and tight set.

Hardcover. Richmond VA, Dietz Press, 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth, 190 pages, b&w illustrations, plates, portraits, maps, facsimile, genealogical tables. Internally very good, clean, but the rear cover has some of the top edge chewed away. Dust jacket present in name only with major loss to rear panel.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 372 pages. Lady Hyegyong's memoirs, which recount the chilling murder of her husband by his father, is one of the best known and most popular classics of Korean literature. From 1795 until 1805 Lady Hyegyong composed this masterpiece, which depicts a court life whose drama and pathos is of Shakespearean proportions. Presented in its social, cultural, and historical contexts, this complete English translation opens a door into a world teeming with conflicting passions, political intrigue, and the daily pre-occupations of a deeply intelligent and articulate woman. JaHyun Kim Haboush's accurate, fluid translation captures the intimate and expressive voice of this consummate storyteller. The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong is a unique exploration of Korean selfhood and of how the genre of autobiography fared in pre-modern times. Clean copy.

Softcover. Amsterdam, Amsterdam Scheltema en Holkema's Boekhandel, First Edition, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, large folio size, in Dutch text. 40 pages text followed by 470 plates in black & white. Brown cloth covered boards with embossed illustration in black & gilt. Moderate rubbing, scuff marks to covers. Fraying to head & heel of spine. Gilt titles to cover & spine. Tender front board with crack to top quarter hinge. Toning to edges throughout. Striking, full page black & white illustrations detailing castles, gardens, mansions, intricate woodwork throughout. Previous owner's signature & stamp to front flyleaf. Otherwise clean & unmarked.