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Price: $45.95
Publisher: Boston - London, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1943
Seller ID: 008851
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate handling wear. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve has no flaws but mild aging.
"..adventuring into America, historically, geographically, biographically. It is fragmentary, but it blends into a whole. George Washington, and his mother; K...
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By: Perkins, Justin (1805-1869)
Price: $1,200.00
Publisher: Andover, Allen, Morrill & Wardwell: 1843
Seller ID: 011309
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
An eminent Syriac scholar the author spent the years from 1833 to 1841 in northwestern Persia. The author describes his voyage to Malta Constantinople to Trebizond Erzroom to Erivan Tabreez Oroomiah etc. with much of the book based on his journals on the spot over many years.
Having learned the local vernacular from the Nestorian clergy, Perkins developed an alphabet for the ...
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By: Perrottet, Tony
Price: $14.95
Publisher: New York, NY, Random House: 2002
Seller ID: 007519
ISBN: 037550432X
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
Illustrated in B/W throughout.
Travel writer Perrottet retraced the ancient Grand Tour route, attempting to model the experience of an early Roman traveler along the way. A lively blend of fascinating historical anecdotes and hilarious personal encounters, interspersed with irreverent and often eerily prescient quotes from the ancients, Route 66 A.D. vividly recaptures the magic of the Roman Empire in all its complexity and...
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Price: $13.95
Publisher: Washington, DC, The American Ordnance Association,: 1961
Seller ID: 007664
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good
Price: $13.95
Publisher: Washington, DC, The American Ordnance Association,: 1959
Seller ID: 007665
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good
By: Pidgeon, William
Price: $225.00
Publisher: New York, Horace Thayer: 1858
Seller ID: 013426
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
The book was eventually revealed to be partly a hoax, and partly embellishment of actual research. Combining elaborate sketches and maps of mound groups in Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, and Minnesota, Pidgeon claimed to have discovered an elaborate network of coded earthen symbols used by an ancient race that predated Native Americans; one of the last survivors of this putative race, "Dee-Coo-Dah", was i...
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By: Platt, R H
Price: $14.95
Publisher: USA, Bell Publishing Company: 1980
Seller ID: 013302
ISBN: 051730886X
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Collects the lost writings and omissions from the traditional Bible, from the vivid sequel to Adam and Eve's expulsion from Paradise to the beautiful songs of peace and joy from the 'Odes of Solomon.'
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Price: $45.00
Publisher: Stanford, California, Stanford Univ Pr: 1978
Seller ID: 006347
ISBN: 0804709599
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal retail handling; Still Gift Quality.
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Price: $19.95
Publisher: New York, Free Press: 2004
Seller ID: 013153
ISBN: 0684833719
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
A history of failures within the FBI describes the scandals that have marked the bureau since its inception in 1908, drawing on years of research and interviews to explain why the September 11 attacks were unforeseen.
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By: Prescott, William H. (1796 - 1859)
Price: $24.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott: 1882
Seller ID: 013312
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
All of the essays except the first were originally contributed to the North American review.
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By: Prescott, William H.; Edited by John Foster Dick
Price: $49.95
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & CO.: 1882
Seller ID: 012487
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Although Peru lacks a noble protagonist . . . it is still an immensely readable history. The description of the Inca civilization, particularly its wealth, the precise explanation of the cause of the confli...
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By: Prescott, William; Edited by John Foster Kirk
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & CO.: 1880
Seller ID: 012435
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Prescott produced graceful, authoritative narratives of Spanish military, diplomatic, and political history that had no equal in their time.
The appearance in 1838 of his three-volume History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic, the pro...
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By: Price, Con
Price: $165.00
Publisher: Pasadena, CA, Trails End Publishing Co., Inc.: 1947
Seller ID: 012562
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
First Edition, First Printing. Fine in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Minimal shelf handling wear. The Dust jacket has mild toning with a touch of wear on the corners and spine tips. 8vo; 8.5 inches tall; 262 pages with index. Chapter headers by Charles Russell and photographic plates. Three plates by Russell; one in color.
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Price: $14.95
Publisher: Hippocrene Books: 1990
Seller ID: 012924
ISBN: 0870529730
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: As New
Charles M. Province is the president and founder of the George S. Patton, Jr. Historical Society. He owns the largest personal collection of Patton material and memorabilia in the world and has studied the life, career, and philosophy of General Patton for decades.
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By: Raleigh, Sir Walter & Galvao, Antonio
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Cleveland, Ohio, The World Publishing Co.: 1966
Seller ID: 011793
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Vellum, yapp edges, with ties, by Legatoria Editoriale Giovanni Olivotto, with the Coat of Arms of Elizabeth I. Enclosed within a clamshell box, lined in red felt, with printed labels to the boards and spine. Included is the 20-page booklet of historical information and bibliography. Illustrated. cvi, 182 pp. 1 vols. 8vo.
Book is fine without flaw. Box has a scuff on the ce...
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By: Randers-Pehrson, Justine Davis
Price: $12.95
Publisher: Beckenham, Kent, England, Croom Helm Ltd.: 1983
Seller ID: 006685
ISBN: 0806118180
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Fine
Unused; Book has no flaws; DJ light shelf wear; Dust Jacket in new clear protective Mylar sleeve. Illustrated with color and B/W photos. ---
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By: Redniss, Lauren
Price: $21.95
Publisher: New York, Regan/HarperCollins: 2006
Seller ID: 008454
ISBN: 0060853336
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: As New
No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality; But a discrete remainder mark on lower edge.
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By: Reiners, Ludwig [Translated from the German by Richard and CLara Winston]
Price: $14.95
Publisher: New York, Pantheon: 1955
Seller ID: 013390
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
By: Remnick, David ; , FinderHenry
Price: $19.95
Publisher: New York, Random House: 2009
Seller ID: 010690
ISBN: 1400068010
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
Price: $12.95
Publisher: New York, Doubleday: 2002
Seller ID: 012217
ISBN: 038550165X
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Fine in a Fine Dust Jacket. No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality.
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