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Pratiques des Harems Marocains: Sorcellerie, Medecine, Beaute, avec une Preface par les Docteurs Speder et Lepinay
by Mme A R de Lens
Notes
Paris; Paul Geuthner Librairie Orientaliste; 1925. Brown wraps stamped in red, wear to corners, spine darkened. 95 pp including index. Mme de Lens was the daughter and granddaughter of French physicians: "Mme A R de Lens ne pouvait manquer de s...
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Your Price $85.00
Rare Books - Trade Paper
Messerschmitt Bf 109 F, G, & K Series: An Illustrated Study
by Jochen Prien and Peter Rodeike
Publisher Comments
This beautiful book details with text and many previously unpublished
photographs the later variants of the Bf 109. The high standard
associated with Schiffer Military History books is fully evidenced by
the cloth-bound boards and high quality paper...
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Your Price $175.00
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Archives of Aboriginal Knowledge. Containing all the Original Papers Laid Before Congress Respecting the History, Antiquities, Language, Ethnology, Pictography, Rites, Superstitions... 6 Volumes
by Henry Rowe Schoolhouse
Description
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1860. Complete in 6 volumes.
Quarto. Publisher's green cloth, decorated in blind with a gilt motif to front boards, repeated in blind on rear boards. All with the half-title and extra-engraved title pages.
In...
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Your Price $12500.00
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Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey Signed Limited Edition
by Chuck Palahniuk
Publisher Comments
The Rant Limited Edition is specially packaged in a one-piece preprinted case, printed black, with the title created in spot gloss; a 4-color slipcase that matches the original jacket of the trade book; a 1/8" ribbon marker; a signed tip-in sheet...
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List Price $150.00
Your Price $90.00
Rare Books - Slipcase
Albertus Seba's Cabinet of Natural Curiosities
by Albertus Seba
Publisher Comments
Albertus Seba's "Cabinet of Curiosities" is one of the 18th century's greatest natural history achievements and remains one of the most prized natural history books of all time.
Though it was common for men of his profession to collect natural...
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Your Price $200.00
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East India Register & Directory for 1843; Containing Complete Lists of the Company's Servants, With Their Respective Appointments; with Indexes to the Same, and Lists of Casualties. 2nd Edition
by F. Clark and Richard Francis Burton
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London: William H. Allen, 1843. 2nd edition, corrected. 12mo, red straight grain morocco, gilt borders on covers. Stain to front board, gilt title & dec on spine, marbled ep's, teg. Previous owner's bookplate on ffep. Red pencil marks under probable...
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Your Price $300.00
Rare Books - Leather
Prince Pertinax, a Fairy Tale
by Jane Hooper
Notes
London: Field & Tuer Ye Leadenhall Presse & Co. [1883]. Oblong quarto, 22 x 29cm., half brown leather, green paper over boards; 95pp. with 26 illustrations. Edgeworn, corners rubbed through. Front hinge cracked, ownership name on front free endpaper...
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Your Price $200.00
Rare Books - Leather
Methuselah's Children 1st Edition
by Robert A Heinlein
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New York. Gnome Press. 1958. First edition, second state. 8vo. 188pp. Grey cloth hardcover with red lettering on the spine. Illustrated DJ. DJ is second state. Pages are aged. Binding is poor due to a front hinge crack which appears to be from a binding...
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Your Price $70.00
Rare Books - Hardcover
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