The Art journal for 1876. Vol. 2
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1876. [vi] 379p., 39 b/w plates, many b/w text illus., 3/4 leather (slightly abraided on the edges), slight dampstain to lower right edge for first 80 pages, large quarto format. More
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A Narrative of Five youth from the Sandwich Islands, Now Receiving an Education in This Country
New York: Printed By J. Seymour, 1816. Published by order of the agents appointed to establish a school for heathen youth. 44p., one-inch paper repair on the upper right margin of the t.p., some paper browning and foxing. Attractively bound in modern brown half-leather with decorative boards. Shaw & Shoemaker..... More
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The Life of Samuel Johnson
New York: Printed for Gabriel Wells By Doubleday, Page and Company, 1922. Temple Bar edition. 10 volumes complete, engraved front., t.e.g., deckle edges, original half-vegetable vellum and publisher's stiff boards. No. 442 of 785 sets (of which thirty-five were not for sale). Splendid set of Boswell's great study of Samuel..... More
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The official Baronage of England showing the Succession, Dignities, and offices of Every peer from 1066 to 1885, with Sixteen Hundred Illustrations. Dukes-Viscounts
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The Song of Roland; Formulaic Style and Poetic Craft
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A Bibliography of the English Printed Drama to the Restoration
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L'Architecture religieuse en France à l'époque Romane
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