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Seven Irish Tales.

By: N/A

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1957.:

Seller ID: 698

Quarto. 44 pages. Edition limited to 275 copies, this is No. 8. Green cloth. Illustrated by Elfriede Abbe and signed by Abbe. A very nice copy of a very fine book.
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Geraldina: a novel founded on a recent event: in two volumes.

By: N/A

Price: $4,100.00

Publisher: London : Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson ..., 1798.:

Seller ID: 1496

Duodecimo. Two volumes. I: [ii], 275, [i]pp.; II: [ii], 300pp. I: [A]1, B12-M12, N6; II: [A]1, B12-N12, O6. Contemporary calf, repaired. Black, F.G., Epistolary novel 134; ESTC N7149; Garside, P., English novel, 1770-1829, 1798:3; Block, A., English novel, p. 83. There are three known copies of Geraldina, located at the New York Society Library, the University of Pennsylvania, and Forstliche Bibliothek zu Corvey, with none known in British libraries. The set was recently repaired; and one leaf (Volume II, page 115/116) was restored.
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Report Of The Wisconsin State Council Of Defense. April 12, 1917-June 30, 1919 .

By: N/A

Price: $170.00

Publisher: Madison, Wisconsin: Wisconsin State Council of Defense, 1919.:

Seller ID: 2088

Octavo. 71pp. Paper wrappers.
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The biographical magazine; or, complete historical library. A work replete with instruction and entertainment, and accompanied with such embellishments as have not hitherto appeared in any publication of Europe. By a Society of Gentlemen ...

By: N/A

Price: $3,500.00

Publisher: London: printed for F. Newbery, 1776.:

Seller ID: 2533

Quarto. [iv], 812 [i.e. 808, [ii]pp.] A2-Z2, AA2-ZZ2, AAA2-ZZZ2, AAAA2-ZZZZ2, AAAAA2-ZZZZZ2, AAAAAA2-ZZZZZZ2, AAAAAAA2-ZZZZZZZ2, AAAAAAAA2-ZZZZZZZZ2, AAAAAAAAA2-UUUUUUUUU2. With a final leaf of errata. Pages 453-456 omitted. Modern half calf over marbled boards. With portraits. Roscoe, A39; ESTC T98528. Even though a number of British libraries have copies of this book, only a handful institutions in the US have it. Illustrated with small circular portraits, I have not been able to find a bibliography noting all the peculiarities of this work. Since it was published in parts (per ESTC...
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L'Aventure Intellectuelle du XXe Siècle.

By: Albérès, R.-M.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Paris: Editions Albin Michel, 1959.:

Seller ID: 999

Octavo. 444, [iv] pages. In the publisher's original printed wrappers. From the library of Ernst Erich Noth. With a dedication by Albérès to Noth.
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Rilke.

By: Angelloz, J.-F.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Paris: Mercure De France, 1952.:

Seller ID: 634

Octavo. 348, [ii] pages. In the publisher's original printed wrappers. From the library of Ernst Erich Noth. With a dedication by Angelloz to Noth.
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Goethe.

By: Angelloz, J.-F.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Paris: Mercure De France, 1949.:

Seller ID: 951

Octavo. 384 pages. In the publisher's original printed wrappers. From the library of Ernst Erich Noth. With a dedication by Angelloz to Noth.
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Zend-Avesta, ouvrage de Zoroaste: contenant les idées théologiques, physiques & morales de ce législateur, ...

By: Anquetil-Du Perron, Abraham Hyacinthe.

Price: $5,100.00

Publisher: A Paris: chez N.M. Tilliard, libraire, Quai des Augustins, à S. Benoit, 1771.:

Seller ID: 1922

Quarto. Two parts in three volumes. Ia: 542pp.; Ib: cxx, 432pp.; II: 810pp. Ia: []2, a4-z4, aa4-zz4, aaa4-yyy4 (yyy4 blank); Ib: []2, a4-p4, A4-Z4, Aa4-Zz4, Aaa4-Hhh4; II: []1, A4-Z4, Aa4-Zz4, Aaa4-Zzz4, Aaaa4-Zzzz4, Aaaaa4-Iiiii4, Kkkkk4 (- Kkkkk4 blank). With the half-titles. Woodcut title vignettes, initials, head- and tailpieces. Contemporary calf, rebacked at an earlier date. With the arms of John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, the first Scottish-born Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. With 13 plates; 4 in part Ia, 1 in part Ib, and 8 in part II. 6 plates [1 folding], 1 folding plan,...
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. . . Et Tout le Reste n'est rien. La Religieuse Portugaise avec le texte de ses Lettres.

By: Aveline, Claude.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Paris: Mercure De France, 1951.:

Seller ID: 632

Octavo.300, [iv] pages. In the publisher's original printed wrappers. From the library of Ernst Erich Noth. With a dedication by Aveline to Noth.
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L'Heure de la Vérité.

By: Ayguesparse, Albert.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Paris: René Julliard, 1947.:

Seller ID: 1106

Octavo. 228 pages. In the publisher's original printed wrappers. From the library of Ernst Erich Noth. With a dedication by Ayguesparse to Noth.
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The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Humane.

By: Bacon, Francis.

Price: $12,000.00

Publisher: London: Printed [by Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, and are to be sold at his shop at Graies Inne Gate in Holborne, 1605.:

Seller ID: 1551

Quarto. In two parts. [1], 45, 118 [i.e., 121]ff. A4-L4; M2; Aa4-Ggg4; Hhh2. First edition. Blank leaf present, but two errata leaves absent. C4r with the first state reading 'maniable.' Contemporary vellum, repaired by Bernard Middleton. From the library of C.R. Lowell, with his bookplate and his rubber stamp on each title-page. Also, on first title-page, an ownership inscription: "bibca Williams Scptio, 1813." Pforzheimer 36; Gibson 81; Grolier, Langland to Wither, 12; Grolier/Horblit 8a; Norman 97; STC 1164. Bound with: Sandys, Edwin. A relation of the state of religion.
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Here I Stand.

By: Beecher, John.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York: Twice A Year Press, 1941.:

Seller ID: 454

Small quarto. White cloth. 40pp. First edition. Limited to 400 copies, this one is letter "R." Top and bottom of spine chipped.
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Phantom City.

By: Beecher, John.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Scottsdale, Arizona: Rampart Press, 1961.:

Seller ID: 603

Octavo. First edition. Edition limited to 400 copies. Illustrated with 2 woodcuts by Barbara Beecher. With a typed, signed letter from the author tipped in.
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Observations on the inslaving, importing and purchasing of Negroes with some advice thereon extracted form [sic] the Yearly Meeting epistle of London for the present year also some remarks on the absolute necessity of self-denial, renouncing the world, and true charity for all such as sincerely desire to be our blessed Saviour's disciples.

By: Benezet, Anthony. [PROBABLY ONLY COPY IN PRIVATE HANDS].

Price: $45,000.00

Publisher: Germantown [Pa.]: Printed by Christopher Sower, 1759.:

Seller ID: 2532

Octavo. 15, [i]pp. First edition. Disbound. Evans 8298; Sabin 4676; ESTC W1272. Attributed to Anthony Benezet by Evans. This first edition of Benezet's has not been seen in auction rooms for well over one hundred years.
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What We Saw in Russia.

By: Bevan, Aneurin, E. J. Strachey, and George Strauss.

Price: $190.00

Publisher: London: The Hogarth Press, 1931.:

Seller ID: 2762

Octavo. 29, [i]pp. First edition. Day to Day Pamphlets No. 4. Orange wrappers. Woolmer 246. A very good copy.
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Histoire d'une Vie. I. Paris Aller et Retour.

By: Bordeaux, Henry.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Paris: Librairie Plon, 1951.:

Seller ID: 1109

Octavo. Original wrappers. From the library of Ernst Erich Noth. Dedicated by Bordeaux to Noth. The dedication reads: "A M. Ernst Erich Noth Cy vint la jeunesse (?) en hommage Henry Bordeaux"
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