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Lot #1 (Sale Order 1 of 36)

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Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery (1898) Cookbook - Recipes

Lot #7 (Sale Order 2 of 36)

Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery by Marion Harland. Published by Scribner, Armstrong, New York (1898) Harland went on to write a series of cookbooks in the wake of the success of Common Sense. Good sections on seafood & shellfish - terrapin, fried eels, stewed eels, pickled oysters, scalloped clams (but not, curiously, the reverse). Size: 8vo. Good condition, hardcover.

THE NEW BIBLICAL ATLAS (c.1890) with 16 Colored Maps

Lot #8 (Sale Order 3 of 36)

THE NEW BIBLICAL ATLAS, JOHNSTON, A. K. Published by Religious Tract Society (c.1890) Good condition as shown, hardcover. 87 pp and illustrated with 16 colored maps and plans.

STAMPEDE TO TIMBERLINE : The Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of Colorado

Lot #9 (Sale Order 4 of 36)

STAMPEDE TO TIMBERLINE : The Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of Colorado Wolle, Muriel Sibell (Author-Illustrator) Published by Sage Books, Chicago, IL (1971) Later Printing large hardcover with dust jacket in protector. A local history of Colorado mining towns, travel narrative and pictorial record; a distillation of some 22 years of visiting and pictorially recording mining towns before they disappeared, or, "restored" beyond semblance of their past. Text in 20 chapters w/Glossary of mining terms to rear. 90 pages of plates.

ROBERT CAPA: Photographs (2005)

Lot #10 (Sale Order 5 of 36)

Robert Capa: Photographs (Aperture Monograph) Forward by Henri Cartier-Bresson. Rembrance by Cornell Capa. Introduction by Richard Whelan. Published by Aperture (2005) Very Good. 1st Edition. Bright, crisp, unclipped dust jacket in Bro Dart cover. "The first true retrospective book of one of the century's greatest photographers. Drawing upon hundreds of previously unseen images, this collection reveals Capa as one of the great poets of the camera. In these photographs we see through the eyes of a driven humanist who was also a documentarian of the highest caliber. Shows us the remarkable range of his work, which encompasses the sufferings as well as the tenderness, humor, and wonder of his subjects."

The PSALMS, HYMNS and Spiritual Songs by Issac Watts (1850)

Lot #11 (Sale Order 6 of 36)

Good- condition, as shown old leather boards.

NEW TESTAMENT of the Lord and Savior JESUS CHRIST

Lot #12 (Sale Order 7 of 36)

Fair/Good to good condition with wood boards, wear. Leather.

PILGRIM'S PROGRESS by John Bunyan (c.1890)

Lot #13 (Sale Order 8 of 36)

Good- condition large blue hardcover with color illustrations. Nice for shelf.

LEADERS of MEN Types and Principles of Success (1903) with TEDDY ROOSEVELT

Lot #14 (Sale Order 9 of 36)

Good condition hardcover with some general wear. Includes President Theodore Roosevelt and many others.

(7) BRITAIN TO-DAY Magazines WW2 ERA 1940-1941 - London

Lot #15 (Sale Order 10 of 36)

Eight copies, all in VERY GOOD condition, some WW2 articles, July 25th 1941, September 5th 1941, December 27th 1940, July 11th 1941, November 15th 1940, October 17th 1941, February 1942. One article on Women Making Munitions.

PEPPERBOX FIREARMS by Lewis Winant (2004) DELUXE FIREARMS EDITION

Lot #16 (Sale Order 11 of 36)

Palladium Press, Birmingham, Alabama, 2004. Facsimile Edition. Leather bound. A few black and white illustrations. This facsimile reprint edition was privately printed for the members of The Firearms Classic Library.

PISTOL and REVOLVER SHOOTING by Himmelwright (2004) DELUXE FIREARMS EDITION

Lot #17 (Sale Order 12 of 36)

Palladium Press, Birmingham, Alabama, 2004. Facsimile Edition. Leather bound. A few black and white illustrations. This facsimile reprint edition was privately printed for the members of The Firearms Classic Library.

ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac (1957) Viking Press

Lot #18 (Sale Order 13 of 36)

Early Printing with no dust jacket, hardcover, Viking Press (1957)

The Case of the Grinning Gorilla by Erle Stanley Gardner (1952)

Lot #19 (Sale Order 14 of 36)

The Case of the Grinning Gorilla Erle Stanley Gardner, Published by Walter J. Black, New York (1952) Good condition with dust jacket.

APACHE, NAVAHO, and SPAINIARD (1982) University of Oklahoma Press

Lot #20 (Sale Order 15 of 36)

Apache, Navaho, and Spaniard (Civilization of the American Indian Series ; V. 115) Jack D. Forbes, Published by Univ of Oklahoma Pr (1982) Good condition hardcover with dust jacket. The Spanish advance in the seventeenth century into northern Mexico and the Southwest, and of the American Indian response. Illustrations & maps. ; 304 pages.

Ancient American Pottery by G.H.S. Bushnell (1955)

Lot #21 (Sale Order 16 of 36)

Ancient American Pottery by Bushnell, G.H.S. & Digby, Adrian. Published by Faber and Faber, London (1955) Good condition hardcover. Expert account and the first book to cover the whole field of Ancient American Potteriy in Mexico, Peru and the Southwest United States. The authors were in charge of the collections in the British Museum and Cambridge Museum.

POET'S COUNTRY by Andrew Lang (1907) Shakespeare - Byron - Tennyson - Milton

Lot #22 (Sale Order 17 of 36)

Poet's Country by Lang, Andrew (Editor) Published by T.C. & E.C. Jack, Edinburgh (1907) Purpose of the volume is to "trace the relations of poets with the aspects of 'their ain countrie', or the scenes where they built their homes, or pitched their transient tents." Includes: Shakespeare, Woodsworth, Byron, Coleridge Shelley, Milton, Tennyson, Keats and more. Good condition hardcover.

The Bluejacket's Manual (1940) WW2 United States NAVY

Lot #23 (Sale Order 18 of 36)

Good condition, sofcover, as shown, 1940, tenth edition.

William Henry Harrison and the Conquest of the Ohio Country: Frontier Fighting in the War of 1812

Lot #24 (Sale Order 19 of 36)

Very good condition hardcover. "In his study of William Henry Harrison, David Curtis Skaggs sheds light on the role of citizen-soldiers in taming the wilderness of the old Northwest. ..."

RARE Around the World with GENERAL GRANT (1879) Two Volume Set

Lot #25 (Sale Order 20 of 36)

Around the World with General Grant: A Narrative of the Visit of General U.S. Grant, Ex-President of the United States, to Various Countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa in 1877, 1878, 1879. to Which Are Added Certain Conversations with General Grant on Questions Connected with American Politics and History [William Safire copy] John Russell Young. Published by Subscription Book Department of the American News Company, New York (1879) Young was invited to accompany Grant on his famous world tour, and so impressed the former President that he gained a position as Envoy to the Qing Empire under the Arthur administration, and later became the 7th Librarian of Congress. GOOD condition, some general overall wear, nice set.

HERSELF - IRELAND by Elizabeth P. O'Connor (1918)

Lot #26 (Sale Order 21 of 36)

Herself - Ireland by Elizabeth P. O'Connor, Published by Dodd, Mead and Co., New York (1918) good condition, hardcover. Frontis photograph of The Four Courts, Dublin. 24 other full-page plates throughout text.

RARE RESTRICTED WW2 Government Report (1939) National Product in Wartime by SIMON KUNETS

Lot #27 (Sale Order 22 of 36)

Over 100 page report from the National Bureau of Economic Research and Simon Kunetz in 1939. Listed as Restricted & Confidential. As for Kunetz, his name is associated with the formation of the modern economic science such as an empirical discipline, the development of statistical methods of research and the emergence of quantitative economic history. Among his several observations which sparked important theoretical research programs was the Kuznets curve, an inverted U-shaped relation between income inequality and economic growth.

The Narrative of Alvar Nunez De Cabeza De Vaca (1972) with Slipcase

Lot #28 (Sale Order 23 of 36)

The Narrative of Alvar Nunez De Cabeza De Vaca. Nunez Cabza De Vaca, Alvar. Published by Imprint Society, Barre. MA (1972) Good condition with slipcase. Translated by Fanny Bandelier, Introduction by John Francis Bannon. Contains the Oviedo's Version of the Lost Joint Report Presented to the Audiencia of Santo Domingo, translated by Gerald Theisen.

The Man Who Won the BATTLE OF BRITAIN by Robert Wright

Lot #29 (Sale Order 24 of 36)

Good condition, hardcover with dust jacket.

SIGNED Carolina Folk Comedies by Frederick H. Koch (1931) Father of AMERICAN FOLK DRAMA

Lot #30 (Sale Order 25 of 36)

Carolina Folk Comedies by Koch, Frederick H. Published by Samuel French, New York (1931) good condition, hardcover, inscribed by Frederick Koch. Frederick Henry Koch was the founder of the Carolina Playmakers at the University of North Carolina and considered the father of American folk drama.

A Memoir of CHINA in Revolution by Chester Ronning (1974)

Lot #31 (Sale Order 26 of 36)

Very Good condition hardcover with dust jacket. Title, A Memoir of China in Revolution: from the Boxer Rebellion to the People's Republic. Author, Chester Ronning. Publisher, Pantheon Books, 1974

The Escape of the Goeben: Prelude to Gallipoli by McLaughlin (1974) TURKEY

Lot #32 (Sale Order 27 of 36)

Very good condition hardcover with dust jacket. Detailed account of how two German warships, the Goeben & Breslau escape the patrolling British & French fleets to join the Turkish Navy at the outbreak of the Great War in 1914.

(10) CROPS & MARKETS Magazines (1935-1941) Agriculture Farming Depression

Lot #33 (Sale Order 28 of 36)

Seven from 1935, one from 1936, two from 1941, all in good condition from Department of Agriculture.

RARE SIGNED As the Hague Ordains Journal of Russian Wife ELIZA RUHAMAH SCIDMORE

Lot #34 (Sale Order 29 of 36)

As the Hague Ordains Journal of a Russian Prisoner's Wife in Japan by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore, Published by Henry Holt and Company, Inc., New York, NY (1907) good condition inscribed and signed by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore on inside cover. As shown. Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore was an American writer, photographer and geographer, who became the first female board member of the National Geographic Society.

RARE Onondaga; or Reminiscences of Earlier and Later Times (1849) NEW YORK INDIAN TRIBES & LORE

Lot #40 (Sale Order 30 of 36)

Onondaga; or Reminiscences of Earlier and Later Times; being a series of sketches relative to Oonondaga; with notes on the several towns in the county and Oswego. A detailed history of the Onondaga region of New York, with much information about the local Indian tribes and Indian lore, as well as the early European settlers and settlements.

A Representative Life of HORACE GREELEY (1872)

Lot #41 (Sale Order 31 of 36)

Good condition, hardcover. Horace Greeley was an American newspaper editor and publisher who was the founder and editor of the New-York Tribune, among the great newspapers of its time. Long active in politics, he served briefly as a congressman from New York

MOROCCO: Its People and Places by Edmondo De Amicis (1888)

Lot #42 (Sale Order 32 of 36)

Morocco: Its People and Places by Edmondo De Amicis, Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons (1888) good general condition, some staining on the inside cover that does not enter the rest of the book. Translated by C. Rollin-Tilton.

RARE SIGNED Working with Roosevelt by Samuel Rosenman (1952) Coined Term "NEW DEAL"

Lot #44 (Sale Order 33 of 36)

Working with Roosevelt by Samuel Rosenman, Published by Harper, New York (1952) Good condition, hardcover, inscribed to "New Dealer" inside and signed. First edition of Working with Roosevelt by Samuel Rosenman. Rosenman was an American lawyer, judge, Democratic Party activist and presidential speechwriter. He coined the term "New Deal", and helped articulate liberal policies during the heyday of the New Deal coalition.

17th Century Map of RUSSIA and CHINA

Lot #48 (Sale Order 34 of 36)

As shown, 8" tall, print on other side. Nice for framing.

LINCOLN'S WAR: The Untold Story of America's Greatest President as Commander in Chief

Lot #49 (Sale Order 35 of 36)

Very good condition, hardcover. Drawing on newly discovered documents in the National Archives, Lincoln’s War is the only full-length account to date on Abraham Lincoln as Com-mander in Chief. For the first time, readers will see the war unfold as Lincoln saw it.

RARE The History of Scotland From the Invasion of the Romans Till the Union with England (1822)

Lot #50 (Sale Order 36 of 36)

The History of Scotland From the Invasion of the Romans Till the Union with England With A Supplementary Narrative of the Rebellion In 1715 and 1745: Together With Sketches Illustrative of the National Institutions of the Scots by Daniel Macintosh. Published by Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown Waugh and Innes., Edinburgh and Dundee (1822) fair/good condition with wear. Covers with wear. As shown.


Antique & Vintage Books #339
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Antique & Vintage Books #339
by South Boston Books Event Begins: Wednesday, September 16, 11:00 AM Eastern First lots ends Sunday, September 20, 9:00 PM Eastern Last lot ends Sunday, September 20, 9:35 PM Eastern Great lots of antiquarian books, collectibles of all sorts, ephemera and some coins. Great collection of items! NO RESERVES - REASONABLE SHIPPING!