Skyward by Commander Richard E Byrd US Navy. Hard cover with original dust jacket & paste in slip with authors autograph “Cordially Yours BYRD in script.G.P.Putnams Sons New York -London the Knickerbocker press 1928 & 359 pages.This copy is from the first printing of Skyward ...

One amazing massive Leather Bound volume on the historical Survey of the Rise of British Shipping by C Stansfeld Hicks. This is a limited edition of One thousand copies of which this copy is no.910.This is a folio size book in an exceptional fine binding ...

A large & glorious Leather Bound Book.Cassells Dore Gallery containing two hundred and fifty beautiful engravings, selected from The Dore Bible,Milton,Dantes Inferno, antes Purgatorio and Paradiso,Atala,Fontaine,Fairy Realm, Don Quuixote,BaronMunchausen,Croquet Taine & etc.With memoir of Dore ,critical Essay, and Descriptive Letterpress by Edmund Ollier.Cassell & Company ...

The History of the American Revolution. By David Ramsay, M.D. In Two Volumes. Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by R. Aitkin & Son. M.DCC.LXXXIX.Preface. The materials for the following sheets were collected in the years 1782, 1783, 1785, and 1786; in which years, as a member ...

The life James Addams Beaver,by Frank A. Burr of the philadelphia press.Illustrated 1st edition.James Beaver a union General commanded the one hundred and fourty eighth pennsylvania volunteers then became the Governer of pennsylvania 1187-1891.Frank A Burr wrote this book while James Beaver was alive and ...

Read this book & you are there!!!! I really mean that This Crimson Red leather book in elaborate gold gilt decoration is so Italian!700 pages filled to the brim with everything about Italy & appropriately titled “The Wonders of Italy” by Joseph Fattorusso,1956 the eleventh ...

A great set of Tiffany Bookends. Marked on the bottom Tiffany & Co 0890-Z.They are a fantastic Gothic Design. Very heavy bronze & great casting as only Tiffany can do! They weigh a ton & have the original brown felt on the bottom. They measure ...

The Masonic Token. A Gift Book Edited by William T. Anderson, 32° Past Master, Past Grand Steward, Etc. Illustrated. New York: Masonic Publishing & Furnishing CO., Barker, Du Laurans & Durham, 792 Broadway. 1878. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by ...

Ku Klux Klan Its Origin, Growth and Disbandment by J. C. Lester and D. L. Wilson with Introduction and Notes by Walter L. Fleming, PH. D. Professor of History in West Virginia University; Author of "Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama."New York and Washington The ...

A great antique medical book ,the title is Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Science and Practice of Obstetrics, by F.H.Getchell MD,Philadelphia Gebbie & Co 1885.This is a large folio in brown leather with Gold Gilt title stamping on the front cover ,having a spine with five ...

The Story of the Tower of London by Rene Francis with twenty Callotypes & etched frontispiece by Louis Weirter R.B.A.Printed at the Ballantyne Press London England. This large book is undated & is circa early 1900’s.12 ½” x 9 ½”.The book cover is tan color ...

A very special signed copy of the Fishermans Guide,Fishes of the southeastern United States,by Charles. S.Manooch III. Illustrated by Duane Raver Jr.This copy is also signed by Charles Manooch and Duane Raver.This is the fishermans bible,it includes the areas from delaware to florida,is remarkable for ...

By Alice Rowe Snow. A totally fantastic book dated 1944 it is in blue hardboard with lavish gold embossing of the title and a ship on the front cover it has the original dust jacket that is not in the best condition but never the ...

Flint & Feather The Complete Poems of E Pauline Johnson “Tekahionwake“,Eigth Edition Printed in Canada 1922.Illustrated by J.R.Seavey.Dedication to His Royal Highness The Duke of Connaught who is head chief of the six nations Indians, I inscribe this book by his own Gracious Permission. The ...

The Amaranth or Token of Remembrance a Christmas and New Year’s gift for MDCCCXLVII Boston: Phillips & Sampson 1847. The Amaranth is a collection of short stories and poems with 7 tissue guarded engraved plates one of which is a frontispiece. The binding is breathtaking ...

The Life & Explorations of Dr. Livingstone by John S. Roberts.  Boston: B.B. Russell, 55 Cornhill.  Philadelphia: Quaker-City publishing-House.  Detroit: H.W. Warren.  Portland: John Russell. 1875.  An excerpt from the preface sums up this book perfectly – “The life of this truly great man, from ...