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Item #008410 The Accounts of Two Pennsylvania German Furniture Makers: Abraham Overholt, Bucks...

The Accounts of Two Pennsylvania German Furniture Makers: Abraham Overholt, Bucks County, 1790-1833, and Peter Ranck, Lebanon County, 1794-1817; Translated and Edited by Alan G. Keyser, Larry M. Neff and Frederick S. Weiser

Breinigsville, Pa. Pennsylvania German Society, 1978. Paperback. xvii, [1], 238 p.: illustrations, facsimiles; 28 cm. Paperback with cover title and illustration. Sources and Documents of the Pennsylvania Germans: III. Abraham Overholt (1765-1834) was a farmer and joiner in Bucks County, Pa. Peter Ranck (1770-1851) was a joiner in Lancaster County..... More

Price: $28.00

Item #006426 Achievement: How It Is Won; Articles by Leaders in World Affairs

Achievement: How It Is Won; Articles by Leaders in World Affairs

New York: American Educational Press, 1926. Hardcover. Copyright by Irving Jay Rogers. x, [2], 163 p., frontispiece and 30 leaves of portraits; 18 cm. Dark blue cloth with gilt spine title. Facsimile signatures of the contributors. The Introduction is by Will H. Hays, the President of the Motion Picture Producers..... More

Price: $35.00

Item #006397 Andrea Mantegna: L'Oeuvre du Maitre; Tableaux, Gravures sur Cuivre; Ouvrage...

Andrea Mantegna: L'Oeuvre du Maitre; Tableaux, Gravures sur Cuivre; Ouvrage Illustré de 200 Gravures

Paris: Librairie Hachette & Cie. 1911. Hardcover. 190 p.: full-page and in-text illustrations; 26 cm. Maroon cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles and decoration. Edges of boards are bevelled. Top page edges gilt. Decorated endpapers. Title page in red and black. Series title on cover: Nouvelle Collection des Classiques..... More

Price: $25.00

Item #005490 Appointments [appointment book used by William B. Daub of Norristown, Pa

Appointments [appointment book used by William B. Daub of Norristown, Pa.]

Norristown, Pa. J.H. Shuler & Son, Jewelers & Silversmiths, 1925. Hardcover. [84] p.; 77 mm. Dark green faux-leather over card; embossed "Appointments" over a gilt background on front cover, with gilt-stamped business name below. Calendar for 1926 on front fixed endpaper and calendar for 1927 on back fixed endpaper. Most..... More

Price: $16.00

Item #006563 The Architectural Annual [vol. 2]; Edited by Albert Kelsey: Issue for 1901

The Architectural Annual [vol. 2]; Edited by Albert Kelsey: Issue for 1901

Philadelphia: Architectural Annual, 1901. Hardcover. "Second Edition." 303 p.: illustrations, plans, views; 32 cm. Red cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles; black ruled border on front cover. Black emblem on front cover with motto "Progress Before Precedent." Red endpapers. Title page in red and black. Contents include: Competitive Models..... More

Price: $115.00

Item #006562 The Architectural Annual; Published under the Auspices of the Architectural League...

The Architectural Annual; Published under the Auspices of the Architectural League of America and edited by Albert Kelsey: Issue for 1900

Philadelphia: Architectural Annual, 1900. Hardcover. "Second Edition." 292, xxiv p.: illustrations, plans, views; 32 cm. Red cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles; black ruled border on front cover. Black emblem on front cover with motto "Progress Before Precedent." Red endpapers. Title page in red and black. Contents include: The..... More

Price: $85.00

Item #006510 Birth and Baptismal Register of Trinity Lutheran Church, Lancaster, Pa. [in The...

Birth and Baptismal Register of Trinity Lutheran Church, Lancaster, Pa. [in The Pennsylvania-German Society: Proceedings and Addresses at Lebanon, October 12, 1892 Vol. III]

Lancaster, Pa. Pennsylvania-German Society, 1908. Paperback. First published in 1893; reprinted 1908. 292 p., tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of H.L. Fisher, 1 tissue-guarded leaf of a portrait of Geo. C. Heckman: 1 full-page illustration; 25 cm. Original brown wrapper printed in black. Title page printed in red and black. Pages are..... More

Price: $45.00

Item #006248 Brivo Latvju Biedriba, Filadelfija, 1892-1982

Brivo Latvju Biedriba, Filadelfija, 1892-1982

Philadelphia: Filadelfijas Brivo Latvju Biedribas, 1982. Paperback. 76 p.: illustrations, portraits; 28 cm. Stapled paperback with brown cover with silver cover title. The history of the Brivo Latvian Society in Philadelphia from 1892 to 1982. Known today as the Philadelphia Society of Free Letts, the Society is the oldest Latvian..... More

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Item #008959 Catalogue of an Exhibition of Portraits by Charles Willson Peale and James Peale and...

Catalogue of an Exhibition of Portraits by Charles Willson Peale and James Peale and Rembrandt Peale

Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1923. Paperback. 238 p.: illustrations; 26 cm. Brown wrapper printed in black. "April 11, 1923-May 9, 1923" -- front wrapper. Includes an index of the lenders of the paintings. 317 paintings were in the exhibition of portraits by American painters Charles Willson Peale..... More

Price: $18.00

Item #004529 A Catalogue of Authors Whose Works are Published by Houghton, Mifflin and Company;...

A Catalogue of Authors Whose Works are Published by Houghton, Mifflin and Company; Prefaced by a Sketch of the Firm, and Followed by Lists of the Several Libraries, Series, and Periodicals; With Some Account of the Origin and Character of these Literary Enterprises

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1901. Hardcover. Printed by the Riverside Press, Cambridge. xliii, [1], 205, [1] p., engraved frontispiece; 24 cm. Brown linen spine with red spine title: "Houghton, Mifflin & Co.'s Catalogue of Authors." Brown paper over boards with paper label on front board printed in red and..... More

Price: $45.00

Item #008940 "The Century": Memorial Notices 1875

"The Century": Memorial Notices 1875

New York: Century Association, 1875. Pamphlet. 22 p.; 23 cm. Grey wrapper printed in black. The Century Association is a private club founded in 1847 for men with distinction in literature or the arts; women were not admitted until 1988. The deaths of a number of members in the first..... More

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Item #007686 Collections of the New-Hampshire Historical Society, Volume VI

Collections of the New-Hampshire Historical Society, Volume VI

Concord, N.H. Printed by Asa McFarland, for the Society, 1850. Hardcover. 336 p., engraved frontispiece portrait of John Farmer: tables; 24 cm. Brown ribbon-grain cloth with blind-stamped decoration on spine and both boards. Gilt-stamped circular medallion on front board. Gilt-stamped spine title: New Hamphire Historical Collections. Oval stamp on title..... More

Price: $38.00

Item #009618 Crusader: The American Baptist Newsmagazine -- vol. 12 no. 4 April 1957 [Tabea...

Crusader: The American Baptist Newsmagazine -- vol. 12 no. 4 April 1957 [Tabea Korjus -- Martin Luther King]

New York: Crusader, 1957. 15, [1] p.: illustrations; 35 cm. Printed in black and red. Includes the program for the upcoming American Baptist Convention to be held in Philadelphia from May 29 to June 4, 1957. The cover photograph is of Tabea Korjus, a missionary for Christian Friendliness in New..... More

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Item #006860 The Death-Bed Confessions of the Late Countess of Guernsey, to Lady Anne Hamilton:...

The Death-Bed Confessions of the Late Countess of Guernsey, to Lady Anne Hamilton: Developing a Series of Mysterious Transactions Connected with the Most Illustrious Personages in the Kingdom

London: s.n., 1822. Title continued: "To which are added, The Queen's Last Letter to the King, Written a few days before her majesty's death, and other Authentic Documents, never before published." 132 p.; 16 cm. Lacking binding. Purports to be the confession of the Countess of Guernsey (1753-1821), who takes..... More

Price: $65.00

Item #009451 Decennial Record of the Class of 1885 (Academical Department) in Yale University

Decennial Record of the Class of 1885 (Academical Department) in Yale University

Meadville, Pa. Flood & Vincent, 1896. Paperback. 101 p., 1 leaf, folded, of photographs; 20 cm. Green wrapper with black wrapper title: Yale Class of 1885 1885-1895. Folded leaf contains 35 small black-and-white photographs of children of members of the Yale class of 1885, with an index. In Good- Condition..... More

Price: $18.00

Item #006560 Directory and By-Laws: Palestine Shrine No. 2, Order of White Shrine of Jerusalem

Directory and By-Laws: Palestine Shrine No. 2, Order of White Shrine of Jerusalem

Cleveland: White Shrine of Jerusalem, 1945. Paperback. 102, [2] p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Stapled paperback with illustrated cover. "In Hoc Signo Spes Mea" -- on front cover. Advertisements for Cleveland businesses on covers and on many pages. Includes a history of the Order of White Shrine of Jerusalem in Cleveland;..... More

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Item #006036 Directory of American Society: Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware vol. II

Directory of American Society: Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware vol. II

New York: A. R. Keller, 1930. Hardcover. Second Edition. This is no. 112 of a limited edition of 2,000 copies. 250 p.; 18 cm. Publisher's red and black cloth with gilt-embossed spine title; gilt- and blind-embossed decoration on spine and front cover. Decorated endpapers. American Social Registry emblem on title..... More

Price: $35.00

Item #005968 The Eclectic Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art, January to April, 1843:...

The Eclectic Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art, January to April, 1843: Volume I. of the United Series; edited by John Holmes Agnew

New York and Philadelphia: E. Littell, 1843. Hardcover. Printed by John F. Trow at the University Press, New York. [8], 288, [3], 290-576 p., 1 leaf of an engraved plate; 24 cm. Contemporary half calf with marbled paper over boards. Leather spine labels with gilt-tooled title "Museum of Foreign Literature"..... More

Price: $25.00

Item #009517 European Journal of American Culture vol. 22, no. 2, 2003

European Journal of American Culture vol. 22, no. 2, 2003

Bristol, U.K. Intellect, 2003. Paperback. [2], 83-175, [1] p.: illustrations; 25 cm. Paperback. ISSN: 14660407. Contents: Missing a beat: Story-making and the absent president on September 11 by Jeff Smith -- Henry Adams, scientific historian by Freda J. Fuller-Coursey -- Gertrude Stein and Jules Laforgue by Emanuela Gutkowski -- 'I..... More

Price: $24.00

Item #005882 Exposé des Titres du Docteur Foville, Médecin en chef de la Maison Royale de...

Exposé des Titres du Docteur Foville, Médecin en chef de la Maison Royale de Charenton, a l'Appui de sa Candidature a la Place Vacante dans la Section d'Anatomie et de Physiologie de l'Académie Royale de Médecine

Paris: Imprimé par Béthune et Plon, 1842. Paperback. 14, [2] p.; 25 cm. Disbound from a collection of pamphlets owned by French homeopath Dr. Charles Ravel (1822-1887). Achile Louis Foville (1799-1878) was a French physician and neurologist. He was on the staff of the hospital for the insane at Charenton..... More

Price: $75.00

Item #001412 Fifty-Fifty [birthday of Senator William Benton

Fifty-Fifty [birthday of Senator William Benton]

New York: M.J. Pollak, 1950. Hardcover. "A collection of sundry thoughts on friendships and birthdays in general, together with some particular comments by a few of the many friends of William Benton on the occasion of whose fiftieth birthday this privately printed edition of fifty copies is produced." [48] p.;..... More

Price: $25.00

Item #006372 The Genuine Works of William Hogarth; Illustrated with Biographical Anecdotes, a...

The Genuine Works of William Hogarth; Illustrated with Biographical Anecdotes, a Chronological Catalogue, and Commentary; by John Nichols and the late George Steevens [2 vols]

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808. Hardcover. Vol. 2 published in 1810. 2 volumes: vii, [1], 524 p., frontispiece and 62 leaves of engraved plates; viii, 444, [30] p., frontispiece and 95 leaves of plates (one folded): one in-text engraving; 29 cm. Original brown boards; both spines are covered..... More

Price: $325.00

Item #006398 Hans Holbein le Jeune: L'Oeuvre du Maitre; Ouvrage Illustré de 252 Gravures

Hans Holbein le Jeune: L'Oeuvre du Maitre; Ouvrage Illustré de 252 Gravures

Paris: Librairie Hachette & Cie. 1912. Hardcover. 268 p.: full-page and in-text illustrations (1 folded); 26 cm. Maroon cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles and decoration. Edges of boards are bevelled. Top page edges gilt. Decorated endpapers. Title page in red and black. Series title on cover: Nouvelle Collection..... More

Price: $22.00

Item #006413 Helicon Nine: The Journal of Women's Arts & Letters: Number 10

Helicon Nine: The Journal of Women's Arts & Letters: Number 10

Kansas City, Mo. Helicon Nine, 1984. Paperback. 91, [5] p.: illustrations; 25 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Contents: Homage to Jane Austen by Marianne Langner Zeitlin -- My Father Dying [poem] by Barbara Elovic -- Elizabeht "Grandma" Layton: A Drawer of Pictures by Lynn Bretz -- Six Poems by Doris..... More

Price: $18.00

Item #006414 Helicon Nine: The Journal of Women's Arts & Letters: Number 11

Helicon Nine: The Journal of Women's Arts & Letters: Number 11

Kansas City, Mo. Helicon Nine, 1984. Paperback. 93, [3] p.: illustrations; 25 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Contents: A Candle for Edna Millay by Robert Erwin -- Three Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay -- A Portrait [poem] by David Ray -- Three poems by Ruth Whiteman -- Alice Pole..... More

Price: $18.00

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