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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
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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
The Memorial War Book
by George F. Williams
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New York: The Dreyfus Publishing Co., (1894). Quarto, 23 x 31 cm. 610pp,[3pp index]. First edition thus. Original dark blue pictorial cloth, front board and spine stamped in blind and gilt. Floral patterned endpapers. Thoroughly illustrated in black...
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Your Price $275.00
Rare Books - Hardcover
Joe Beeler Portfolio & F F F Frank Polk
by Joe Beeler
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Flagstaff: Northland Press, 1978. Black cloth portfolio stamped in sliver with 20 reproductions of the pen & ink cowboy drawings of Joe Beeler, each numbered and signed in pencil by the artist. Tissue guards for each plate. WithUncommonly Frank...
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Your Price $900.00
Rare Books - Portfolio
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 $179.98
Rare Books - Hardcover
Asconius: Commentaries on Speeches of Cicero (Clarendon Ancient History)
by Asconius
Publisher Comments
Asconius lived about a century after Cicero and wrote commentaries on Cicero's speeches to help his sons understand them. Five of these have survived. They are not only interesting in their own right but also provide a mine of information about the...
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Your Price $99.98
Rare Books - Hardcover
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
City Under the Back Steps Inscribed
by Evelyn Sibley Lampman
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Garden City,NY:1960.210pp.Good/Fair(Brown boards with imprinted title & illus. on front cover.Black title,etc.on spine.Top edge of front board bumped;Head & tail of spine worn. Boards are bright. DJ - 2" closed tear to right corner of front panel.Heavy...
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Your Price $175.00
Rare Books - Book Club Hardcover
Schismatrix 1st Edition Signed
by Bruce Sterling
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New York: Arbor House, 1985, 1st Edition, 1st Printing. ISBN 0-87795-645-6. Black paper covered boards with white lettering on the spine & blindstamped publisher emblem on front board. Illustrated glossy paper dust jacket.ISBN: 0-87795-645-6. Spine very...
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Your Price $80.00
Rare Books - Hardcover
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