Hardcover. Gloucester MA, Peter Smith, reprint, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers, 569 pages. Two decades after Darwin, intellectuals were writing about the evolution of everything. In England Edward Taylor focused on material culture such as fire making, cooking, or tool making. In America, Lewis Henry Morgan, concentrated on social evolution combined with subsistence techniques. His thinking was influenced by his Iroquois neighbors in New York. Like many others he posited three stages of evolution: savagery, barbarism and civilization, but he refined the three periods with three subperiods. In Lower savagery, for example, he saw humans subsisting on fruits and roots in tropical climes, using gesture language and marrying siblings in a consanguine family. Middle savagery saw fish subsistence, monosyllabic language, and marriage of cousins. Bows and arrows appeared in Upper Savagery along with syllabic language, clans, and tribal organization. Obviously Morgan was speculating on most of the developments, but he had found arguments for his positions from the reports of explorers and missionaries around the world. As a result, Morgan inspired an era of inquisitive thought that led to the development of American anthropology. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, pages. Seventeenth-century England has long been heralded as the birthplace of a so-called 'new' philosophy. Yet what contemporaries might have understood by 'old' philosophy has been little appreciated. In this book Dmitri Levitin examines English attitudes to ancient philosophy in unprecedented depth, demonstrating the centrality of engagement with the history of philosophy to almost all educated persons, whether scholars, clerics, or philosophers themselves, and aligning English intellectual culture closely to that of continental Europe. Drawing on a vast array of sources, Levitin challenges the assumption that interest in ancient ideas was limited to out-of-date 'ancients' or was in some sense 'pre-enlightened'; indeed, much of the intellectual justification for the new philosophy came from re-writing its history. At the same time, the deep investment of English scholars in pioneering forms of late humanist erudition led them to develop some of the most innovative narratives of ancient philosophy in early modern Europe. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 387 pages. The autobiography of a legendary advertising and marketing genius who was active in the early 1900s. Black & white illustrations. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Toledo OH, D.R. Locke, 1st, 1879, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with black and gilt decoration to front cover and spine. 655 pages. 'Andersonville' is a rare, post-Civil War work that describes the horrors of prison life during the Civil War. McElroy describes prison conditions, battles and prolonged military struggles, accounts of prisoner struggles, plantation slaves, and soldier depression. Also included are depictions of various jails including those in Atlanta, Richmond, Savannah, Blackshear, and Florence. Illustrated with over 150 views of trial scenes, prisons, portraits, and battle scenes! According to Nevins,"Well written, gripping, and very detailed; but reliance on memory and bitterness." Mild wear to top and bottom of spine, Name on first blank white page, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Norton, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A monograph focusing for the first time exclusively on Kertesz's early Hungarian prints; selected from more than 1,000 contact prints in the artist's estate and reproduced actual size. Photographs by Andre Kertesz; introduction by Bruce Silverstein; essay by Robert Gurbo. 160 pages; 66 duo-toned b&w plates + 11 text illustrations; 5.25 x 5.25 inches.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Volume Three only, index, bibliography, chapter notes, maps, b&w illustrations. Award sticker on front cover. Clean copy

Hardcover. Chicago, Follett Publishing, reprint, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 224 pages. B&w illustrations by Lorence Bjorklund. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, BC Ed., 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 305 pages, 16 pages of b&w illustrations. A legend in her own time, Clara Barton, comes to life in these pages. One can almost sense the death and destruction of the battlefields (American Civil War) and disasters to which Barton was the first to bring aid and comfort to the suffering. Barton's life is great testimony as to the powerful influence that one person can have on the outcome of history, and was achieved in an age when women were secondary figures. A diminutive five-foot tall, she rose as a giant among her historical peers (e.g., Susan B. Anthony and Dorothea Dix, et al.) and forever shaped the topography of American society, healthcare, and emergency relief, by founding the American Red Cross [1881] at age 59. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. "During its first two centuries, opera was dominated by sopranos. There were male sopranos, or castrati, whose supercharged voices (female vocal cords powered by male lungs) were capable of feats of vocalism that are hard to imagine today. And there were female sopranos, or prime donne, whose long battle for social acceptance and top billing was crowned in the early nineteenth century when the castrati disappeared from the opera stage and left them supreme.", "Whether they were male or female, these singers wre amazing vertuosi, perhaps the greatest singers there have ever been - "angels." Unfortunately, some of them (and often the most famous) were also capable of behaving extremely badly, both on and off stage - "monsters." This book tells their colorful stories." Clean copy.

Softcover. Monaco, Archives du Palais Princier, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 242 pages, color illustrations. FRENCH TEXT. Scholarly essays on the history of Monaco. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Interlaken NY, Heart of the Lakes Publishing, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, turquoise cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 464 pages An early history of New York's Staten Island includes numerous genealogies of "old families". Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. London, Printed for the Companie of Stationers, unknown, 1620, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Rebound, black covers w/ gilt lettering on spine. Soiling, ragged edges to front fly leaf and title page. Some foxing, staining to pages. Fore-edge soiled. This copy lacks year XXVII of Henry VIII. Else a nice, tight copy. Photos available.

Softcover. Washington, D. C., National Gallery of Art, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 383 pages. Softcover. Illustrated in full color and black & white. Covers show light wear along edges. Clean, tight copy.Essays by various art historians in the field.

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 293 pages. A study of the Anglican Reformed tradition (often inaccurately described as Calvinist) after the Restoration. Hampton sets out to revise our picture of the theological world of the later Stuart period. Arguing that the importance of the Reformed theological tradition has frequently been underestimated, his study points to a network of conforming reformed theologians which included many of the most prominent churchmen of the age. Focussing particularlyon what these churchmen contributed in three hotly disputed areas of doctrine (justification, the Trinity and the divine attributes), he argues that the most significant debates in speculative theologyafter 1662 were the result of the Anglican Reformed resistance to the growing influence of continental Arminianism. Hampton demonstrates the strength and flexibility of the Reformed response to the developing Arminian school, and shows that the Reformed tradition remained a viable theological option for Anglicans well into the eighteenth century. Clean, bright copy.

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.

Hardcover. New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Historical evaluation of North American country furniture. Hardcover, 228 pp. Includes hundreds of black/white illustrations, both photographs and drawings. Very good condition, dust jacket shows slight rubbing.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar & Rinehart, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers stamped with black and gilt lettering. 506 pages with index. Illustrated by Henry C. Barrow. This book covers the (what was then) hundred years of history the AP Press had witnessed. A "fast-moving, action-filled narrative of the rise of The Associated Press--the inside story of the only world-wide non-profit news gathering association as it grew from pigeon post and pony express to telegraph and wireless, with a daily news report of over 1,000,000 words and its spot-news picture system which shoots newspaper photographs by electricity across the globe." Short tear to top of spine cloth, bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Millerton, Aperture Magazine, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages. Magazine. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Features articles: 'People and Ideas', 'Real Pictures for just 25 cents', 'The Arctic Voyage of William Bradford', 'Views of Japan', 'Photographer without Photographs', Passion for Genius', 'The Peasant Miners of Morococha'. Light wear. Clean, unmarked.

Hardcover. Chicago, Walter M. Hill, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 300 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Covers chipped espcially on rear and faded. Internally clean, tight. Pages uncut and show some rubbing. Soil to bottom page block.

Hardcover. NY, Overlook Duckworth, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages, b&w photos. Very good in a bright dust jacket.

Softcover. NY, Da Capo Press, 1st pbk., 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 546 pages, b&w illustrations, Apollinaire champions Picasso, Braque, Cezanne, Delaunay, Duchamp, Rousseau ,cubism, surrealism, and much more. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill , 1st, 1979, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 228 pages. Edgar Tafel was an apprentice who lived and worked with Frank LLoyd Wright. With his insights and insider information, this fascinating history shows a personal, social, and work life, and how Wright's creativity evolved, the processes in his designs, building, and constructions, and more. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 327 pages, clean copy. Few diseases have exercised the Western imagination as chronically as hysteria--from the wandering womb of ancient Greek medicine, to the demonically possessed witch of the Renaissance; from the "vaporous" salon women of Enlightenment Paris, through to the celebrated patients of Sigmund Freud, with their extravagant, erotically charged symptoms. In this fascinating and authoritative book, Mark Micale surveys the range of past and present readings of hysteria by intellectual historians; historians of science and medicine; scholars in gender studies, art history, and literature; and psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, and neurologists. In so doing, he explores numerous questions raised by this ever-growing body of literature: Why, in recent years, has the history of hysterical disorders carried such resonance for commentators in the sciences and humanities? What can we learn from the textual traditions of hysteria about writing the history of disease in general? What is the broader cultural meaning of the new hysteria studies? In the second half of the book, Micale discusses the many historical "cultures of hysteria." He reconstructs in detail the past usages of the hysteria concept as a powerful, descriptive trope in various nonmedical domains, including poetry, fiction, theater, social thought, political criticism, and the arts. His book is a pioneering attempt to write the historical phenomenology of disease in an age preoccupied with health, and a prescriptive remedy for writing histories of disease in the future.