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• History of Mexico

Benjamin W. Hitchcock, 1862. New York: Benjamin W. Hitchcock, 1862. A complete deck of 52 Civil War playing cards. Each card standard size (3 9/16 x 2 1/2 inches; 91 x 63 mm). The usual suits are replaced with "National Emblems" including blue Federal eagles, blue 13-star shields.....

C. Whittingham, 1803. Full Description: WINTERBOTTOM, Thomas. An Account of the Native Africans in the Neighbourhood of Sierra Leone; to which is added an account of the present state of medicine among them. London: C. Whittingham, 1803. First edition. Two octavo volumes (8 1/4 x 5 inches; 210 x......

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London: Havcock & Sons, 1903. A Fairy Tale of Home, Adapted from the Celebrated Story by Charles Dickens, in a Warble and Three Chirps. London: Havcock & Sons, [N.d., ca. 1903]. Octavo. Measures 7 1/4 x 5 inches. Fourteen page pamphlet printed in black and white. Illustrated with charming ads..... London: Privately Printed, 1931. DICKENS, Charles. A Dickens Friendship. Told In his Own Letters. With Notes by W.M. London: Privately Printed, 1931. First edition. Octavo. Limited to 75 copies. Original cream paper wrappers, printed paper label on front cover. Friendly inscription on title-page. Housed in a custom quarter red morocco..... Portland Maine: The Mosher Press, 1921. DICKENS, Charles. Dickens The Cricket on the Hearth. Portland Maine: The Mosher Press, 1921. First edition. Limited to 50 copies printed on Japan vellum, of which this is number 12. Octavo. Cream paper boards with cream dust jacket, slipcase. Pages uncut. Slipcase torn, otherwise..... London: Chapman and Hall, 1848. DICKENS, Charles. BROWNE, Hablot Knight, [illustrator]. YOUNG, Robert, [illustrator]. Four Plates.. The Old Curiosity Shop. Engraved Under the Superintendence of Hablot K. Browne and Robert Young, to Illustrate The Cheap Edition of The Old Curiosity Shop. Little Nell and Her Grandfather, The Marchioness, Barbara, and..... New York: Published by McElrath & Barker, 1854. DICKENS, Charles. Household Words. A Journal Conducted by Charles Dickens. "Familiar in their mouths as Household Words." Shakepeare... New York: Published by McElrath & Barker, 1854. First American edition. Octavo. Original printed paper wrappers. Covers have small tears along extremities with some.....

Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1962. Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, [1962]. First edition, one of 510 numbered copies, this being number 503, signed by James A. Michener and the ten contributing artists listed above. Large folio (21 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches; 547.....

George Girdler Smith, 1841. Boston: George Girdler Smith, [n.d.c.a. 1841]. First Edition of George Smith's engraved broadside of the Declaration of Independence. Broadside (11 15/16 x 9 3/8 inches; 303 x 239 mm). With engravings of the first ten presidents and the seals of the thirteen original colonies. Printed.....

G.P. Putnam, 1852. DICKENS, Charles, [editor]. Home and Social Philosophy: Or, Chapters on Every-Day Copies. From "Household Words," Edited by Charles Dickens. First Series. New York: G.P. Putnam, 1852. Octavo. Publisher's full brown cloth, gilt-stamped on spine. Yellow mark on front cover, spine sunned. Very good. Gimbel. Hatton.....

John Murray, 1819. Uncut in Original Boards With Seven Hand-Colored Aquatint Plates BOWDICH, T[homas] Edward. Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee, with a Statistical Account of that Kingdom, and Geographical Notices of Other Parts of the Interior of Africa. London: John Murray, 1819. First edition. Quarto (11 5/16.....

Joseph Antonio de Hogel, 1770. LORENZANA, Francisco Antonio. Historia de Nueva-Espana. Escrita por su Conquistador Hernan Cortes aumentada con otros documentos, y notas Mexico: Joseph Antonio de Hogel, 1770. First edition of one of the seminal works on the early civilization of Mexico and its conquest. Folio (10 11/16.....

Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1842. First edition. Octavo (8 5/16 x 5 1/4 inches; 211 x 135 mm). 177, [1, colophon] pp. We could find no copies at auction since 1977. Modern half calf over marbled boards. Black morocco spine label. Spine lettered and stamped in gilt. Previous.....

Nathaniel Wiley, 1804. Full Description: CLARKSON, Thomas. An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species,. Particularly the African: In Three Parts. Translated from a Latin Dissertation, which was honoured with the First Prize in the University of Cambridge, for the year 1785... with Additions. Philadelphia: Nathaniel.....