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Conradi Gesneri Historia Plantarum Zweite Folge enthaltend dreiundzwanzig Aquarelle aus dem botanische Nachlass
Conrad Gessner, Heinrich Zoller, Martin Steinmann, Karl Schmid, editors
/ Zurich: Urs Graf 1973
limited to 590 numbered copies; folio, 96 pp., tipped in plates; boards & vellum backstrip (hardcover), lacks the jacket, else very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 3859511173
Subject/Keywords: botany natural history art office
Item #: 1313333
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$200.00
Barr's Buffon. Buffon's Natural History, Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, etc. Vol. II: Of Carnivorous Animals
Georges Louis Buffon
/ London: H. D. Symonds 1812
338, [1] pp., 13 color plates with two or three images per plate; contemporary quarter leather & marbled boards (hardcover), covers worn, plates clean. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: natural history art jhh
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Item #: 1313331
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$500.00
A Hand-Book to the Primates. Vol. I. Lloyd's Natural History
Henry O. Forbes
/ London: Edward Lloyd, Ltd. 1896
xv, 286 pp., 25 color plates; original maroon cloth (hardcover), very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: primates natural history
Item #: 1313326
$45.00
The Story of Civilization (11 volume set)
Will and Ariel Durant
/ Easton Press 1992
Complete eleven volume set in gilt-stamped, light-brown full leather. Flecking to page edge gilt, some fading and flecking to covers gilt else text clean & bindings tight. Volumes
Included: 11
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: office history flt
Item #: 1313223
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$999.00
A Study of History. Volumes 1-10 & 12
Arnold J. Toynbee
/ Oxford University Press 1935
vols. 1-10 & 12; the first volume signed by Arnold J. Toynbee at the half-title page; a mixed set, with the first volume having been rebound in modern green buckram, vols. 2-6 in the original green cloth, vols. 7-10 & 12 in the original light maroon cloth; hardcovers, ex library, else text clean & bindings tight. Volumes
Included: 11
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: history historiography ngx
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Item #: 1312769
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$950.00
French Painting in the Time of Jean De Berry. The Boucicaut Master (National Gallery of Art: Kress Foundation Studies in the History of European Art, Number Three)
Millard Meiss, Kathleen Morand, Edith W. Kirsch
/ Phaidon 1968
390 pp., hardcover, lacks the jacket, ex library, else text clean & binding tight. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 071481346X
Subject/Keywords: art history ngx
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Item #: 1312712
$17.64
The History of Poland (5 volumes) published in 2023)
Andrzej Nowak
/ Polska Fundacija Humanistyczna, Krakow 2023
5 volumes, 387 + 399 + 475 + 475 + 511 pp., hardcovers, new. Volumes
Included: 5
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: ai4 poland history
Item #: 1312115
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$215.00
Classics Transformed: Schools, Universities, and Society in England, 1830-1960
Stray, Christopher
/ Clarendon Press 1998
350 pp., hardcover, new. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 019815013X
Subject/Keywords: fbf european history england
Item #: 1312428
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$192.08
Galileo at Work: His Scientific Biography
Drake, Stillman
/ University of Chicago Press 1978
first printing; 240 pp., Hardcover, lacks the jacket, previous owner's name to the front free endpaper, else very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0226162265
Subject/Keywords: history of science apd
Item #: 1312074
$34.30
Latin Letters of C.S. Lewis
Lewis, C.S.
/ St. Augustines Press 1999
126 pp., hardcover, fine. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 1890318345
Subject/Keywords: fbf european history christianity
Item #: 1311840
$16.00
History and Neorealism
May, Ernest R., Rosecrance, Richard, Steiner, Zara
/ Cambridge University Press 2010
406 pp., paperback, previous owner's name to half title page, else fine. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 052113224X
Subject/Keywords: fbf history neorealism
Item #: 1311832
$19.60
Bunker Hill. A Los Angeles Landmark. Recorded in words and pictures (Los Angeles Miscellany, 7)
Hylen, Arnold
/ Dawsons Book Shop 1976
first edition, limited to 500 copies, 160 pp., Hardcover, light wear to cover edges else text clean & binding tight. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0870931725
Subject/Keywords: history urban studies ctx
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Item #: 1311460
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$287.65
A Passion for Flight: New Zealand Aviation Before the Great War, Volume 1 Ideas, First Flight Attempts and the Aeronauts 1868-1909
Errol W. Martyn
/ Volplane Press 2012
Inscribed by Martyn; 184 pp., paperback, fine. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0473203871
Subject/Keywords: fbf aviation history
Item #: 1310720
$35.00
Milwaukee Road Remembered (Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Books (Paperback))
Scribbins, Jim
/ Univ Of Minnesota Press 2008
168 pp., paperback, fine. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0816656258
Subject/Keywords: rw5 milwaukee railroad railway trains transportation history
Item #: 1310638
$18.00
New Haven in Color, Vol. 1: The Battle for Profits 1945-1961
Geoffrey H. Doughty
/ Morning Sun Books 2004
128 pp., hardcover, new in new dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 1582480966
Subject/Keywords: rw5 railorads railways trains transportation history
Item #: 1310636
$30.00
The Iron Feather A Corporate History Of The Western Pacific and Sacramento Northern Railroads
Jeff S. Asay
/ Lockridge Press 2018
512 pp., hardcover, fine in very good dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0692183957
Subject/Keywords: rw5 railroads railways trains transportatio history
Item #: 1310632
$80.00
Xiridaceas. Flora Ilustrada Catainense I Parte. Fasciculo: As Plantas Xiri
Lyman B. Smith, Robert J. Downs
/ Itajai 1965
54 pp., paperback, minor ownership markings to the front cover, else very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: natural history fbf
Item #: 1310818
$44.10
Colorado Memories of the Narrow Gauge Circle
Bob Krauss, Ross Grenard
/ Carstens Publications 1986
130 pp., Paperback, fine. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0911868356
Subject/Keywords: rw5 trains railways railroads transportation history
Item #: 1310615
$9.22
The Search for Safety: A History of Railroad Signals and the People Who Made Them
Mary Brignano, Hax McCullough
/ Union Switch & Signal Division, American Standard 1981
199 pp., plates, Hardcover, very good in an edge-rubbed dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0960620206
Subject/Keywords: history railroads rw5
Item #: 1310498
$29.00
Feel My Big Guitar: Prince and the Sound He Helped Create (American Made Music Series)
Jeffries, Judson L., Cochran, Shannon M., Reinhoudt, Molly
/ University Press of Mississippi 2023
202 pp., paperback, new. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 1496845269
Subject/Keywords: dg3 prince music history
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Item #: 1310134
$16.00