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The Blind African Slave: Or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nicknamed Jeffrey Brace by: Jeffrey Brace; Editor Kari J. Winter; Contributor Benjamin F. Prentiss

The Blind African Slave: Or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nicknamed Jeffrey Brace
by: Jeffrey Brace; Editor Kari J. Winter; Contributor Benjamin F. Prentiss

Softcover. Madison WI, University of Wisconsin, reprint., 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wraps, 244 pages. The Blind African Slave recounts the life of Jeffrey Brace (ne Boyrereau Brinch), who was born in West Africa around 1742. Captured by slave traders at the age of sixteen, Brace was transported to Barbados, where he experienced the shock and trauma of slave-breaking and was sold to a New England ship captain. After fighting as an enslaved sailor for two years in the Seven Years War, Brace was taken to New Haven, Connecticut, and sold into slavery. After several years in New England, Brace enlisted in the Continental Army in hopes of winning his manumission. After five years of military service, he was honorably discharged and was freed from slavery. As a free man, he chose in 1784 to move to Vermont, the first state to make slavery illegal. There, he met and married an African woman, bought a farm, and raised a family. Although literate, he was blind when he decided to publish his life story, which he narrated to a white antislavery lawyer, Benjamin Prentiss, who published it in 1810. Upon his death in 1827, Brace was a well-respected abolitionist. In this first new edition since 1810, Kari J. Winter provides a historical introduction, annotations, and original documents that verify and supplement our knowledge of Brace's life and times. Clean copy.

Record # 381572

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Ventures and Voyagesby: Chatterton, E. Keble

Ventures and Voyages
by: Chatterton, E. Keble

Hardcover. New York, Longmans, Green and Co., 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 217 pages, b&w plates. Edgewear, chipping, light soiling to dust jacket; in brodart. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 852122

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Histoire de la decouverte de l'Amerique - traduite de l'allemand de Campe - 2 Volumesby: Piton, E. C.

Histoire de la decouverte de l'Amerique - traduite de l'allemand de Campe - 2 Volumes
by: Piton, E. C.

Hardcover. Paris, Corbet Aine Libraire, 1st Thus, 1836, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 leather bound volumes. FRENCH TEXT. Black & white illustrations, each volume with fold-out map in rear. Volume 1 with rubbing, chipping to leather covers. 1" piece of leather missing at bottom of spine. Marbled endpapers. Light foxing throughout. Volume 2 with rubbing, chipping to leather covers. Marbled endpapers. Light to moderate foxing throughout. Both volumes with clean, unmarked texts.

Record # 611802

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The Civitas Anthology of African American Slave Narratives by: William L. Andrews; Henry Louis Gates/editors

The Civitas Anthology of African American Slave Narratives
by: William L. Andrews; Henry Louis Gates/editors

Hardcover. Washington DC, Counterpoint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 642 pages. Hailed in 1849 as "a new department in the literature of civilization," the slave narrative forms the foundation of the African American literary tradition. From the late-eighteenth-century narratives by Africans who endured the harrowing Middle Passage, through the classic American fugitive slave narratives of the mid-nineteenth century, slave narratives have provided some of the most graphic and damning documentary evidence of the horrors of slavery. Riveting, passionate, and politically charged, the slave narrative blends personal memory and rhetorical attacks on slavery to create powerful literature and propaganda.The Civitas Anthology presents the seven classic antislavery narratives of the antebellum period in their entirety: The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave , the first slave narrative published by a woman in the Americas; The Confessions of Nat Turner , written when Turner was asked to record his motivation for leading the bloodiest slave revolt in U.S. history; The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass , an international bestseller and the first narrative to fashion the male fugitive slave into an African American cultural hero; The Narrative of William W. Brown , an account that explored with unprecedented realism the slave's survival ethic and the art of the slave trickster; The Narrative of the Life of Henry Bibb , the story of the struggles of the most memorable family man among the classic slave narrators; Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom , a gripping chronicle of one of the most daring and celebrated slave escapes ever recorded; and Incidents in the Life of Slave Girl , a dramatic text that exposed the sexual abuse of female slaves and pioneered the image of the fugitive slave woman as an articulate resister and survivor.Born out of lives of unparalleled suffering, the slave narrative captures all the bravery, drama, and hope that characterized the African American struggle against slavery. From these beginnings came some of the most influential novels in American literature, for the works of writers such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, and Toni Morrison owe much of their power and social resonance to the slave narrative tradition. The Civitas Anthology gathers the most important narratives in this tradition into one volume for the first time, an indispensable resource for scholars, students, and general readers. Clean copy.

Record # 381599

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Lines Are Drawn: Political Cartoons of Civil Warby: Smith, Kristen M.

Lines Are Drawn: Political Cartoons of Civil War
by: Smith, Kristen M.

Hardcover. Athens, Ga., Hill Street Press, LLC, 1st, January 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 155 pages. B&w illustrations throughout. Light spotting to top edge. Rubbing and light soiling to dust jacket. Else a nice, clean copy.

Record # 454960

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To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Foundersby: Bernard Bailyn

To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders
by: Bernard Bailyn

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 185 pages, color and b&w illustrations. With these character sketches of key figures of the American Revolution and illuminating probes of its circumstances, Bernard Bailyn reveals the ambiguities, complexities, and uncertainties of the founding generation as well as their achievements. Using visual documentation--portraits, architecture, allegorical engravings--as well as written sources, Bailyn, one of our most esteemed historians, paints a complex picture of that distant but still remarkably relevant world. He explores the powerfully creative effects of the Founders' provincialism and lays out in fine detail the mingling of gleaming utopianism and tough political pragmatism in Thomas Jefferson's public career, and the effect that ambiguity had on his politics, political thought, and present reputation. And Benjamin Franklin emerges as a figure as cunning in his management of foreign affairs and of his visual image as he was amiable, relaxed, and amusing in his social life. Bailyn shows, too, why it is that the Federalist papers--polemical documents thrown together frantically, helter-skelter, by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay in a fierce political battle two hundred years ago--have attained canonical status, not only as a penetrating analysis of the American Constitution but as a timeless commentary on the nature of politics and constitutionalism.

Record # 381231

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Sack of Shakings, Aby: Bullen, Frank T.

Sack of Shakings, A
by: Bullen, Frank T.

Hardcover. NY, McClure Phillips and Co., 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated blue cloth, 389 pages. A collection of essays about maritime life. "Shakings are odds and ends of rope and canvas,accumulated during a voyage. They were formerly the perquisites of the Chief Mate". Spine decoration faded, front end papers foxed, otherwise clean, very good.

Record # 372645

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The Long Ships Passing: The Story of the Great Lakes by: Walter Havighurst

The Long Ships Passing: The Story of the Great Lakes
by: Walter Havighurst

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. 291 pages illustrated by John O'Hara Cosgrave II.

Record # 397355

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Scriptural Ecclesiastical and Historical View of Slavery from the Days of the Patriarch Abraham to the Nineteenth Century Addressed to The Right Rev. Alonzo Potter by:

Scriptural Ecclesiastical and Historical View of Slavery from the Days of the Patriarch Abraham to the Nineteenth Century Addressed to The Right Rev. Alonzo Potter
by:

Hardcover. NY, W. I. Pooley & Co., 1st., 1864, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, embossed brown cloth with gilt design on spine, 376 pages. Hopkins was the first Protestant Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Vermont. Writing after the Emancipation Proclamation had turned the sectional conflict into a war against slavery, he argues in detail that slavery is not forbidden by scripture and hence is not a sin. Deals with the history of slavery, beginning with the Biblical view and slavery of circumstances, and its comparison to the Southern system at this time during the Civil War. Chapter XXX deals with Man-stealing, of which, the author asserts, the Southern States had nothing to do, with the title of the Southern masters shown to be as good as the titles of the North to their lands taken from the Indians. Following chapters also deal specifically with the Golden Rule, the treatment of slaves, testimonies of the Southern clergy, and ultimately a view from the author in favor of the practice of slaveholding. Crease to front board hardly noticeable from the outside but visible inside front cover. Otherwise a tight, clean copy.

Record # 380613

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Eisenhower Decides to Run: Presidential Politics and Cold War Strategyby: Pickett, William B.

Eisenhower Decides to Run: Presidential Politics and Cold War Strategy
by: Pickett, William B.

Hardcover. Chicago, Ivan R. Dee, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. General Dwight D. Eisenhower's decision to campaign for the presidency in 1952 was a pivotal even in America's cold war years-- it influenced almost a decade of foreign and domestic policy. Based on recently discovered letters and diaries, William Pickett provides the first complete account of Eisenhower's decision to run, with surprising new conclusions. Clean, unread copy.

Record # 378781

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Hoysalas - A Medieval Indian Royal Family, Theby: Derrett, J. Duncan M.

Hoysalas - A Medieval Indian Royal Family, The
by: Derrett, J. Duncan M.

Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 257 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's name on front endpaper. Inside front hinge cracked. Minor dust jacket edge wear - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 855331

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Art Held Hostage: The Battle Over the Barnes Collectionby: Anderson, John

Art Held Hostage: The Battle Over the Barnes Collection
by: Anderson, John

Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 237 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ex-Lib copy with only one sticker on board spine and one sticker on rear cover board. Dust jacket has no evidence of ex-lib. Tight, clean copy, otherwise.

Record # 750335

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109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos (SIGNED COPY)by: Jennet Conant

109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos (SIGNED COPY)
by: Jennet Conant

NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 424 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Traces the story of the physicists and their families who lived in the then-secret city of Los Alamos during the invention of the atomic bomb, years during which they lied to outsiders about their daily existences and endured harsh living conditions with minimal privacy. Name on prelim page, otherwise clean.

Record # 382807

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Jewels and Gemsby: McDonald, Lucile Saunders

Jewels and Gems
by: McDonald, Lucile Saunders

Hardcover. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Co, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 288 pages. Two-color frontispiece with B&w illustrations by Vera Bock.Turquoise stain to top edge. Minor wear and rubbing to cover edges. Price-clipped dust jacket with some wear and chipping to edges No markings.

Record # 851633

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The Brownell Family in Vermontby: Lincoln C. Brownell

The Brownell Family in Vermont
by: Lincoln C. Brownell

Softcover. Williston VT, privately printed, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial green wraps, 74 pages, b&w illustrations. Due to cheap binding several pages in rear loose. Book bright and clean.

Record # 387660

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West From Fort Bridger: The Pioneering of Immigrant Trails Across Utah 1846 1850 by: Korns, J. Roderic & Dale L. Morgan, Revised and Updated By Will Bagley & Harold S

West From Fort Bridger: The Pioneering of Immigrant Trails Across Utah 1846 1850
by: Korns, J. Roderic & Dale L. Morgan, Revised and Updated By Will Bagley & Harold S

Softcover. Logan UT, Utah State University Press, reprint, 1994, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 328 pages, b&w illustrations. Two fold-out maps in a rear pocket. Three pages with yellow highlighting, otherwise clean.

Record # 382142

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Progress of Four Hundred Years in the Great Republic of the West, Theby: Lossing, Benson J.

Progress of Four Hundred Years in the Great Republic of the West, The
by: Lossing, Benson J.

Hardcover. NY, Interstate M'f'g Company, 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 536 pages, illustrated with many b&w engravings. Green cloth with black and gilt decoration. First half of book covers the great cities and features many detailed illustrations of buildings and cityscapes. The second half covers the West with many personalities sketched in line cuts. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Solid copy. Cover gilt partially faded.

Record # 602505

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Carlisle, Composite Community: Historical Facts Concerning the Settlers in Present Carlisle, Massachusetts, in the Colonial Period by: Lapham, Donald A

Carlisle, Composite Community: Historical Facts Concerning the Settlers in Present Carlisle, Massachusetts, in the Colonial Period
by: Lapham, Donald A

Hardcover. np, self-published, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly soiled dust jacket, 86 pages, b&w illustrations. Folded map laid in, index. Signed and dated by the author on the title page. Clean copy.

Record # 397525

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Mussolini's Italy: Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915-1945by: Bosworth, R. J. B.

Mussolini's Italy: Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915-1945
by: Bosworth, R. J. B.

Hardcover. New York, Penguin Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 692 pages, b&w photographs. Beautiful copy. Like new. An evaluation of Italy's notorious Fascist period under dictator Benito Mussolini considers its violence and demands for obedience, noting how it served as a model for other twentieth-century dictatorships while arguing that the nation's largely undeveloped country and tribal family structures helped Italians to devise creative survival and resistance methods.

Record # 450319

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With Serbia Into Exile;:an American's Adventures With the Army That Cannot Dieby: Jones, Fortier

With Serbia Into Exile;:an American's Adventures With the Army That Cannot Die
by: Jones, Fortier

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 385 pages, illustrated with b&w photos. Tan cloth stamped in red and dark green on front and spine. No D.J.

Record # 371038

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The Saint Michael's Banner - 9 High School Booklets from the 1940sby: N/A

The Saint Michael's Banner - 9 High School Booklets from the 1940s
by: N/A

Softcover. Montpelier VT, St. Michael's High School, 1940-1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Nine stapled softcover booklets, 44-60 pages each, b&w photos. A history of this Vermont high school during WW2 and the post-war years. A few with ink name on cover, otherwise clean.

Record # 371176

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American Neutrality in 1793: A Study in Cabinet Government by: Charles Marion Thomas

American Neutrality in 1793: A Study in Cabinet Government
by: Charles Marion Thomas

Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering, 294 pages. There is some light pencil underlining to pages. The author began his study trying to determine Thomas Jefferson's contribution to the proclamation of neutrality in the conflict between France and England. It developed into a detailed analysis of America's first cabinet under Washington.

Record # 387788

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Broadsides and Bayonets: The Propaganda War of the American Revolutionby: Berger, Carl

Broadsides and Bayonets: The Propaganda War of the American Revolution
by: Berger, Carl

Hardcover. San Rafael CA, Presidio Press, Revised Ed., 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 226 pages, An updated edition of the 1961 printing. B&w illustrations. "The author relates the fascinating story of the propaganda and subversion activities of both factions during the American Revolutionary War."

Record # 371709

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For Sale - American Paradise: How Our Nation Was Sold an Impossible Dream in Floridaby: Willie Drye

For Sale - American Paradise: How Our Nation Was Sold an Impossible Dream in Florida
by: Willie Drye

Hardcover. Guilford CT, Rowman & Littlefield, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 294 pages, b&w illustrations. The story of how Florida became entwined with Americans' twentieth-century hopes, dreams, and expectations is also a tale of mass delusion, real estate collapses, and catastrophic hurricanes. For Sale -- American Paradise concentrates on the experiences of American icon William Jennings Bryan, journalist Edwin Menninger, and others who shaped the image of Florida that we know today and who sold that image as America's paradise. The cast also includes the Marx Brothers, Thomas Edison, Al Capone, a pack of backwoods bandits known as the Ashley Gang, and the visionaries and businessmen who poured their dreams and their cash into Florida in the roaring, raucous 1920s.

Record # 387738

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From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin's Russia by: McFaul, Michael

From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin's Russia
by: McFaul, Michael

Hardcover. NY, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In 2008, when Michael McFaul was asked to leave his perch at Stanford and join an unlikely presidential campaign, he had no idea that he would find himself at the beating heart of one of today's most contentious and consequential international relationships As President Barack Obama's adviser on Russian affairs, McFaul helped craft the United States' policy known as "reset" that fostered new and unprecedented collaboration between the two countries And then, as US ambassador to Russia from 2012 to 2014, he had a front-row seat when this fleeting, hopeful moment crumbled with Vladimir Putin's return to the presidency This riveting inside account combines history and memoir to tell the full story of US-Russia relations from the fall of the Soviet Union to the new rise of the hostile, paranoid Russian president From the first days of McFaul's ambassadorship, the Kremlin actively sought to discredit and undermine him, hassling him with tactics that included dispatching protesters to his front gates, slandering him on state media, and tightly surveilling him, his staff, and his family. 506 pages, illustrations, clean copy.

Record # 383225

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The Gallic and Civil Wars of Caesarby: Rev. John Pullein Hawkey(transl.)

The Gallic and Civil Wars of Caesar
by: Rev. John Pullein Hawkey(transl.)

Hardcover. Dublin, Brett Smith, 1st thus, 1788, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, leather bound. 553 pages plus Index of Proper Names. Uncommon translation from Ireland. Hawkey was a Reverend and Master of the Free-School in Dundalk. "The Commentaries of his Wars in Gaul" is Julius Caesar's firsthand account of the Gallic Wars, written as a third-person narrative. In it Caesar describes the battles and intrigues that took place in the nine years he spent fighting the Germanic peoples and Celtic peoples in Gaul that opposed Roman conquest. The Gallic Wars were a series of military campaigns waged by the Roman proconsul Julius Caesar against several Gallic tribes. Rome's war against the Gallic tribes lasted from 58 BC to 50 BC and culminated in the decisive Battle of Alesia in 52 BC, in which a complete Roman victory resulted in the expansion of the Roman Republic over the whole of Gaul (mainly present-day France and Belgium). "His Commentaries of the Civil War" is an account written by Julius Caesar of his war against Gnaeus Pompeius and the Senate. It covers the events of 49-48 BC, from shortly before Caesar's invasion of Italy to Pompey's defeat at the Battle of Pharsalus and flight to Egypt with Caesar in pursuit. It closes with Pompey assassinated, Caesar attempting to mediate rival claims to the Egyptian throne, and the beginning of the Alexandrian War. Prelim pages gone so the book opens on the title page. Interior pages bright with no foxing, firm binding. Light wear to covers, front cover with partial split along spine, Otherwise clean.

Record # 383404

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Wedemeyer Reports! by: Wedemeyer, Albert C.

Wedemeyer Reports!
by: Wedemeyer, Albert C.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt and Company, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with fading to spine. 497 pages with index. An objective, dispassionate examination of World War II, postwar policies, and Grand Strategy. General Albert Coady Wedemeyer (1897 - 1989) was a United States Army commander who served in Asia during World War II from October 1943 to the end of the war. Previously, he was an important member of the War Planning Board which formulated plans for the Invasion of Normandy. Name on front fly leaf.

Record # 387898

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Greeters' Guide to Washingtonby: N/A

Greeters' Guide to Washington
by: N/A

Softcover. Washington DC, Greeters of America, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled tan wrappers. Compliments of the Arlington Hotel. Giving Location and description of principal points of interest, public buildings, etc., etc., illustrated with reproductions of latest photographs. 72 pages with a foldout map. in rear. In addition there is second, different street map of Washington's streets laid in. Folds out to approx, 20 X 23". All in very good condition.

Record # 383828

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Pilgrims and their History, Theby: Usher, Roland G.

Pilgrims and their History, The
by: Usher, Roland G.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st Edition, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 310 pages including publisher advertisements. B/w illustrations throughout, including frontispiece. Decorated ribbon bookmark, no longer attached, but laid in. Black cloth cover boards, gilight title on spine. Tanning to pages and edges, otherwise unmarked.

Record # 99169

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Renaissance England's Chief Rabbi: John Selden by: Rosenblatt, Jason P.

Renaissance England's Chief Rabbi: John Selden
by: Rosenblatt, Jason P.

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 314 pages including index. In the midst of an age of prejudice, John Selden's immense, neglected rabbinical works contain magnificent Hebrew scholarship that respects, to an extent remarkable for the times, the self-understanding of Judaism. Scholars celebrated for their own broad and deep learning gladly conceded Selden's superiority and conferred on him titles such as "the glory of the English nation" (Hugo Grotius), "Monarch in letters" (Ben Jonson), "the chief of learned men reputed in this land" (John Milton). Although scholars have examined Selden (1584-1654) as a political theorist, legal and constitutional historian, and parliamentarian, Renaissance England's Chief Rabbi is the first book-length study of his rabbinic and especially talmudic publications, which take up most of the six folio volumes of his complete works and constitute his most mature scholarship. It traces the cultural influence of these works on some early modern British poets and intellectuals, including Jonson, Milton, Andrew Marvell, James Harrington, Henry Stubbe, Nathanael Culverwel, Thomas Hobbes, and Isaac Newton. It also explores some of the post-biblical Hebraic ideas that served as the foundation of Selden's own thought, including his identification of natural law with a set of universal divine laws of perpetual obligation pronounced by God to our first parents in paradise and after the flood to the children of Noah. Selden's discovery in the Talmud and in Maimonides' Mishneh Torah of shared moral rules in the natural, pre-civil state of humankind provides a basis for relationships among human beings anywhere in the world. The history of the religious toleration of Jews in England is incomplete without acknowledgment of the impact of Selden's uncommonly generous Hebrew scholarship. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 384006

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Birthplace of an Army: A Study of the Valley Forge Encampmentby: Trussell, John B.B., Jr.

Birthplace of an Army: A Study of the Valley Forge Encampment
by: Trussell, John B.B., Jr.

Softcover. Harrisburg PA, Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 145 pages with index, b&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Record # 397486

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Ghost Boats on the Mississippi: Discovering Our Working Pastby: Stewart-Abernathy, Leslie C.

Ghost Boats on the Mississippi: Discovering Our Working Past
by: Stewart-Abernathy, Leslie C.

Softcover. Fayettevill, AR, Arkansas Archeological Survey, 1st Edition, 2002, Book: Very Good, 237 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper very good, just a touch of tanning and small crease on front cover. Pages clean. Binding tight. Study of recovered Mississippi riverboat wrecks discovered by archaeologists.

Record # 369286

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California: Mapping the Golden State through History: Rare and Unusual Maps from the Library of Congress Mapping the States through Historyby: Vincent Virga and Ray J

California: Mapping the Golden State through History: Rare and Unusual Maps from the Library of Congress Mapping the States through History
by: Vincent Virga and Ray J

Hardcover. Guilford CT, Globe Pequot Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, in-depth collection of rare, historically significant maps and narrative captions. 9 x 10, 447 pages, color maps & illustrations, notes, maroon endpapers. Hardcover in color pictorial boards, in translucent jacket.

Record # 385365

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New England Blockaded 1814: The Journal of Henry Edward Napier, Lieutenant in H.M.S. Nympheby: Whitehill, Walter Muir

New England Blockaded 1814: The Journal of Henry Edward Napier, Lieutenant in H.M.S. Nymphe
by: Whitehill, Walter Muir

Hardcover. Salem MA, Peabody Museum, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 88 pages, 8 b&w illustration, fold-out chart. Blue cloth with gilt lettering, top edge gilt, dust jacket edgewear, small clear tape repair to top of spine. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf.

Record # 403538

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The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 by: MacMillan, Margaret

The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914
by: MacMillan, Margaret

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. 739 pages, index, b&w illustrations. The War That Ended Peace brings vividly to life the military leaders, politicians, diplomats, bankers, and the extended, interrelated family of crowned headsacross Europe who failed to stop the descent into war: in Germany, the mercurial Kaiser Wilhelm II and the chief of the German general staff, Von Moltke the Younger; in Austria-Hungary, Emperor Franz Joseph, a man who tried, through sheer hard work, to stave off the coming chaos in his empire; in Russia, Tsar Nicholas II and his wife; in Britain, King Edward VII, Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, and British admiral Jacky Fisher, the fierce advocate of naval reform who entered into the arms race with Germany that pushed the continent toward confrontation on land and sea. Clean copy.

Record # 385674

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My Diary North and Southby: Russell, William Howard

My Diary North and South
by: Russell, William Howard

Hardcover. Boston, T.O.H.P. Burnham, 1st, 1863, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 602 pages, maroon cloth covers with embossed design, color faded, especially on spine. Mild foxing to several pages, rear fly leaf with corner torn away. Still a tight, attractive copy of the day-to-day travels of an English journalist through America in the early years of the Civil War.

Record # 601403

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All On Fire: William Lloyd Garrison And The Abolition Of Slaveryby: Mayer, Henry

All On Fire: William Lloyd Garrison And The Abolition Of Slavery
by: Mayer, Henry

Hardcover. NY, St Martins Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 707 pages, b&w illustrations. Born in poverty, and self-educated while working in a print shop, William Lloyd Garrison was one of the United States' greatest crusading editors, putting out a weekly anti-slavery newspaper, The Liberator, for 35 years, beginning in 1831. A product of the rough and tumble political journalism of the day, Garrison wrote with extreme passion and from an uncompromising point of view. Yet the man who emerges from the pages of All on Fire is a deeply thoughtful person who, despite barely escaping lynch mobs himself, had a great sense of humor and a very polite demeanor. Historians have tended to minimize Garrison's impact on America, and some consider him a fringe character. But Henry Meyer, in this hefty biography, places Garrison at the center of his century, noting that Garrison's thought and tactics influenced not only the country's changing view of slavery, but also inspired the incipient feminist movement. The Lincoln administration noted Garrison's influence by inviting him to help raise the flag over the recaptured Fort Sumter. All on Fire goes into great detail on Garrison's life and work, providing the close and copious examination this activist's life fully deserves. Clean copy.

Record # 385909

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Europe in the Eighteenth Century: Aristocracy and the Bourgeois Challenge by: Rude, George

Europe in the Eighteenth Century: Aristocracy and the Bourgeois Challenge
by: Rude, George

Softcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, reprint, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 291 pages with index. A social history of Europe in all its aspects: economic, political, diplomatic military, colonial-expansionist. Crisply and succinctly written, it describes Europe not through a history of individual countries, but in a common context during the three quarters of a century between the death of Louis XIV and the industrial revolution in England and the social and political revolution in France. It presents the development of government, institutions, cities, economies, wars, and the circulation of ideas in terms of social pressures and needs, and stresses growth, interrelationships, and conflict of social classes as agents of historical change, paying particular attention to the role of popular, as well as upper- and middle-class, protest as a factor in that change. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 386060

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Later Stuarts, The: 1660-1714by: Clark, Sir George

Later Stuarts, The: 1660-1714
by: Clark, Sir George

Hardcover. London, England, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 2nd Edition, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 479 pages plus maps and fold-out family tree/timeline. Hardcover. Paste down presentation label on front flyleaf. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Blue cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine (slightly faded). A touch of tanning to pages. In very good condition.

Record # 99028

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Cadets at War: The True story of Teenage Heroism at the Battle of New Market (INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)by: Beller, Susan Provost

Cadets at War: The True story of Teenage Heroism at the Battle of New Market (INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)
by: Beller, Susan Provost

Hardcover. White Hall, VA, Shoe Tree Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 95 pages. Hardcover. (INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)B/w illustrations throughout. Decorated cover boards. Pages clean and bright. Spine straight. Binding tight. The excitement in the barracks on the night of May 10, 1864 was electric. At last, the cadets of the Virginia Military Institute were going to war!

Record # 99081

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Historical Collections of the State of New York by: Barber, John W.; Howe, Henry

Historical Collections of the State of New York
by: Barber, John W.; Howe, Henry

Softcover. Bowie MD, Heritage Books, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 608 pages, b&w illustrations, fold-out map in front. Includes Preface; Counties, Townships, Villages; and Index. Illustrated with 230 engravings, double-page map of New York, and engraved frontispiece portraits. "This wonderful volume belongs in the bookcase of all New York historians. More than 150 years old, this ancient text is rich in historical perspective and information that is no longer available to the modern researcher. The work begins with a general outline of New York history. Thereafter, the book is arranged alphabetically by county. Dictionary-like entries for each town are listed alphabetically within each county section. The entries give the location and history of each town, including date of settlement, famous and notable residents, important events, population statistics, number of dwellings, churches and schools, local Indians, and so on. Comprehensively annotated and profusely illustrated with engravings of towns, historic structures and distinctive natural features. Contains an index of counties, townships and villages plus a separate index of subjects and full names. Facsimile reprint of the 1842 edition. Clean, like new.

Record # 386518

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Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier: 22, July 1942-1 May, 1944 (History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Vol. 6) by: Morison, Samuel Eliot

Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier: 22, July 1942-1 May, 1944 (History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Vol. 6)
by: Morison, Samuel Eliot

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, reprint, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Volume VI in The History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. 463 pages, illustrated with maps (one fold-out) and b&w photos. Gilt on spine with fading, lacks dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 386582

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Bradford's History 'of Plimoth Plantation': From the Original Manuscript- With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts by:

Bradford's History 'of Plimoth Plantation': From the Original Manuscript- With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts
by:

Hardcover. Boston, Wright & Potter Printing Co. State Printers, 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 555 pages. Appendix, indexed, b&w illustrations. Written between 1630 and 1650 and relating the founding of Plymouth Colony and the lives of the colonists from 1621 to 1647, the manuscript was none the less not published until 1898, because the British troops removed it from Boston in 1775 and it was kept in the library of the Bishop of London, where it was re-discovered in 1855 and finally returned to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1897. Included are an Appendix and Index and numerous copies of the manuscript pages as well as pictures of persons relevant to the History. Hinges partially cracked, minor cover soil.

Record # 386785

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Upright Lives: Documents Concerning The Natural Virtue And Wisdom Of The Indians (1650-1740)by: Hahn, Thomas; Introduction

Upright Lives: Documents Concerning The Natural Virtue And Wisdom Of The Indians (1650-1740)
by: Hahn, Thomas; Introduction

Softcover. Los Angeles, The Augustan Reprint Society, reprint, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Facsimile reprinting of various 17th and 18th century editions, 70 total pages. Pamphlets that extolled the virtues of the Indian people as opposed to the English stereotyping of a heathen race. Clean copy.

Record # 386962

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Warfleets Of Antiquityby: Nelson, R.B.

Warfleets Of Antiquity
by: Nelson, R.B.

Hardcover. Sussex UK, Wargames Research Group, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 101 pages, b&w illustrations. This book, written in 1973, is for readers interested in the naval history of the ancient peoples of the Mediterranean. The period covered starts with Greek and Phoenician vessels of 800-700 BC and includes ships up to 800 AD. The aim of the book is to fill a gap by concentrating on the practical aspects of naval warfare in antiquity, and the battles selected for description are intended to show the development of tactics and strategy, rather than illustrate the general history of the period. It includes descriptions of the ships, crews, tactics and campaigns of Greek, Persian, Carthaginian, Hellenic, Roman, Celtic, Germanic, Scandinavian and Byzantine fleets. Clean copy.

Record # 387521

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New York: True Northby: Gilbert Millstein/Sam Falk

New York: True North
by: Gilbert Millstein/Sam Falk

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with minor edgewear. Illustrated throughout by black and white photographs, including frontispiece, title and contents pages. decorated by half title vignette. An early 1960s portrait of New York City and some of its inhabitants going about their daily business in words and evocative photographs. By journalist, Gilbert Millstein and photojournalist and street photographer, Austrian born Sam Falk (1901-91).

Record # 387373

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Chicago, with Love: A Polite and Personal Historyby: Arthur Meeker

Chicago, with Love: A Polite and Personal History
by: Arthur Meeker

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 293 pages plus index. Illustrated with b&w photos. Dust jacket with fading, mild chipping. Clean copy.

Record # 387589

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The End of American Innocence: A Study of the First Years of Our Own Time: 1912-1917 by: May, Henry Farnham

The End of American Innocence: A Study of the First Years of Our Own Time: 1912-1917
by: May, Henry Farnham

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st UK, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 431 pages. Clean copy.

Record # 387769

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The Papers of George Washington: The Journal of the Proceedings of the President 1793-1797by: George Washington / W. W. Abbot (Editor)

The Papers of George Washington: The Journal of the Proceedings of the President 1793-1797
by: George Washington / W. W. Abbot (Editor)

Hardcover. Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 393 pages. Part of the monumental series comprised of all of the papers and correspondence of America's first President, George Washington (1732-1799). This stand-alone volume is "an executive daybook, a day-by-day account of many of the matters that engaged the attention of the executive departments during Washington's administration. The entries cover Washington's decisions on government contracts, appointments of office, and individual departmental problems. They throw considerable light on presidential and cabinet participation in decision-making during Washington's administration. Entries relating to the War Department are of particular value because of the destruction of most of the War Department's records by fire in 1800. ... Kept primariy by Washington's secretaries Tobias Lear and Bartholomew Dandridge, the Journal is written in th first person as if Washington were penning the entries himself." Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 387807

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Nuremberg Diaryby: Gilbert, G. M.

Nuremberg Diary
by: Gilbert, G. M.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Company, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket that has tape repairs in the reverse side. In August 1945, Great Britain, France, the USSR and the United States established a tribunal at Nuremberg to try military and civilian leaders of the Nazi regime for the plotting of aggressive warfare, the extermination of civilian populations, the widespread use of slave labor, the looting of occupied countries, and the maltreatment and murder of prisoners of war. G.M. Gilbert (1911-77) was the prison psychologist before and during the Nuremberg trial. He had an unrivaled, firsthand opportunity to watch and question the Nazi war criminals. With scientific dispassion he encouraged Goering, Speer, Hess Ribbentrop, Frank, Jodl, Keitel, Streicher, and the others to reveal their innermost thoughts. 471 pages, bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Record # 396257

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