“If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree.” ― Michael Crichton
London: Robinson, and Longman and Rees, 1803. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. Edmund John Eyre was an English dramatist who left university to join a theater troupe. He became first a comedian, then an actor who appeared at Drury Lane. Full Title: Observations Made At Paris During.....
London: The Cresset Press, 1941. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good in a Good Dust Jacket. An outstanding primary source on this ethnic minority of Y nnan, China. The author lived among them during 1937-8 in Yunnan's Dali. His research was on the Min Chia or Bai minority culture. His.....
Guelph, Ont. The World Publishing Company, 1882. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. During the course of five separate surveys conducted between 1872 and 1881, the author examined the agricultural potential of various western regions and incorrectly concluded that all of the northwest was ideally suited for agriculture.....
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London and New York: Hayes & Zell, 1856. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. Personal memoir recounts the experience of a Zouave trumpeter in the Crimean War. In addition to descriptions of camp-life and combat, the narrative includes short discussions of Florence Nightingale and the Sisters of Charity.....
New York: Nafis & Cornish, 1843. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. A treatise on the Asiatic origin of the North American Indian, with comparisons of physiognomy, language, religion, dress, rites..[From the title page] With a Faithful Description of their Manners and Customs, both Civil and Military, Their.....
London: Day & Son, Limited, 1865. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good Hardcovers. An account of the English archaeologist's travels and discoveries in the Levant and Asia Minor from 1852 until 1859. The work provides details regarding Newton's studies and excavations in Calymnos; when the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, one of.....
London: Joseph Cooper for Walter Shropshire, 1777. Strutt, Joseph (1749-1802). First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. An influential history of England chronicling from the Arrival of Julius Caesar to the End of the Saxon Heptarchy. The English art historian, Sir Roy Strong, called Joseph Strutt, engraver, artist, antiquary.....
Washington, D.C. The Society of the Fifth Division, 1919. First Edition, First Printing. Swede Leather over the spine to boards. The 5th Infantry Division (Mechanized) nicknamed the ‘Red Diamond’, or the ‘Red Devils’ was an infantry division of the United States Army that served in World War I, World War.....
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1938. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Signed by 11 nurses each with their hometown noted. Owner's name also on front pastedown. Several of the names are also included in the index and have biographies in the text. [Henderson, L......