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LOCKS AND DAMS, MONONGAHELA RIVER [w/ nine maps and plans, many folding]  Letter from the Acting Secretary of War with a letter from the Chief of  Engineers

LOCKS AND DAMS, MONONGAHELA RIVER [w/ nine maps and plans, many folding] Letter from the Acting Secretary of War with a letter from the Chief of Engineers

by Lamont, Daniel S. ; Thomas Lincoln Casey

Washington, DC: GPO. Very Good. 1900. First Edition. Removed Document. 65, 9 folding maps and plans pages; 53d Congress, 3d Session, Ex. Doc. No. 249. Transmitting The report of the Chief of Engineers on the subject of acquiring by purchase the locks and dams on the Monongahela River, Pennsylvania. Sixty-five pages of text and tables including 8 appendices; accompanied by 9 maps and plans (6 folding). Contributors: Daniel S. Lamont, Secretary of War; Thomas Lincoln Casey, Brigadier General, Chief... Read more about this item
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€33.22
THE FRIEND : A Religious and Literary Journal     [Eight Individual Issues]

THE FRIEND : A Religious and Literary Journal [Eight Individual Issues]

by Smith, Robert ; [editor]

Philadelphia: Printed by Joseph and William Kite, 50 N. Fourth Street. Very Good. 1845. First Edition. Paperback. 64 pages; Seven individual issues from 1845 and one from 1847 of this American Quaker weekly journal edited by Robert Smith and printed by Joseph and William Kite, 50 N. Fourth Street, Philadelphia. Each issue is a single sheet folded into 8 printed pages (uncut); then folded into quarters horizontally, as originally mailed. Each issue bears the original owner's name signed at one... Read more about this item
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€95.01
The Temperance Reform and Its Great Reformers, 1879, First Ed

The Temperance Reform and Its Great Reformers, 1879, First Ed

by Daniels, W H

The Temperance Reform and Its Great Reformers. An Illustrated History, Including the Temperance "blue laws" of the New England Colonies; the Liquor Laws of the States; A Sketch of the Various Temperance Organizations; Biographies of Lyman Beecher, John B Gough, Dr Jewett, etc., A Chapter on the Medical and Chemical Phases of the Movement; "The Crusades"; the Woman's Christian Temperance Unions; "Red Ribbon" reform under Dr Reynolds; the Evangelistic Temperance Work Under Messrs Moody, Sawyer, etc.;... Read more about this item
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€123.34
Crinkles Before the Wedding
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€0.95
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€23.76
National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art

by National Gallery of Art

clean and unmarked
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€9.51
National Debt - Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury

National Debt - Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury

by Rush, Richard

Washington, DC: Gales & Seaton. Very Good+. 1828. Paperback. 8 pages; transmitting the information required by a reduction of the House of Representatives, of 8th instant, in relation to the Sum which will be required annually to discharge the whole Of the National Debt in the year 1835. March 13, 1828 ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. .
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€14.22
Prisoners of War and Military Prisons,  Personal Narratives of Experience in the Prisons ...In the South, 1890 FIRST EDITION

Prisoners of War and Military Prisons, Personal Narratives of Experience in the Prisons ...In the South, 1890 FIRST EDITION

by Isham, Asa B; Davidson, Henry M; Furness, Henry B

Prisoners of War and Military Prisons. Personal Narratives of Experience in the Prisons at Richmond, Danville, Macon, Andersonville, Savannah, Millen, Charleston, and Columbia, with A General Account of Prison Life and Prisons in the South during the War of the Rebellion, Including Statistical Information Pertaining to Prisoners of War; Together with a list of Officers who were Prisoners of War from January 1, 1864. by Asa B Isham, Henry M Davidson, and Henry B Furness. Cincinnati: Lyman & Cushing, 99... Read more about this item
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€475.06
Speech of N. P. Banks, Jr. of Mass., on the Employment of Army Officers in  National Armories delivered at the House of Representatives

Speech of N. P. Banks, Jr. of Mass., on the Employment of Army Officers in National Armories delivered at the House of Representatives

by Banks, Nathaniel P

Washington, D.C: U.S. Congress. Very Good. 1854. First Edition. Original Wrappers. 16 pages; Original printed wrappers. This is the original 1854 printing. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. .
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€14.22
WILLIAM SAWYER AND OTHERS - Committee on Private Lands

WILLIAM SAWYER AND OTHERS - Committee on Private Lands

by Edgerton, Mr

Washington, DC: U. S. House of Representatives. Very Good. 1852. First Edition. Self Wrappers. 4 pages; Report 98, 37th Congress, 2nd Session. Regarding the grants to members of the Miami Indian tribe and their heirs of tracts of land on each side of the St. Mary's River by the Treaty of Greenville in 1795; the subsequent 1826 treaty providing that the US repurchase some of said granted land in 1795 and in 1818, etc... ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed... Read more about this item
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€9.47
CENTENARY MEMORIAL OF THE PLANTING AND GROWTH OF PRESBYTERIANISM IN  WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA AND PARTS ADJACENT

CENTENARY MEMORIAL OF THE PLANTING AND GROWTH OF PRESBYTERIANISM IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA AND PARTS ADJACENT

by Convention, Presbyterian Centennial

Benjamin Singerly. Very Good-. 1876. First Edition. Hardcover. 445 pages; Green cloth binding with decorative gilt lettering at spine and front cover. Cloth rubbed at spine ends, bumped and chipped at bottom front corner, label at base of spine, endpapers chipped at corners and splitting across hinges, binding still tight. Containing the historical discourses delivered at a convention of the Synods of Pittsburgh, Erie, Cleveland, and Columbus, held in Pittsburgh, December 7-9, 1875. With... Read more about this item
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€23.72
Mary Lou Barker age 3 months, Syracuse Ne

Mary Lou Barker age 3 months, Syracuse Ne

Mary Lou Barker age 3 months, Syracuse Ne
3.5x5.5, mounted on trifold mat., photographer pittinger, Syracuse ne, date unk. Mary Lou Barker. 3 month old. Date unk. Local purchase. Good condition.
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€28.52
Matted Prize Collie

Matted Prize Collie

Matted Prize Collie
Professional Photo. Mounted on designer mat. C.G. Crooke , Coleshill. Purchased on line. Photo scuffed but quite lovely
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€23.76
Life in Prairie Land, 1855

Life in Prairie Land, 1855

by Farnham, Eliza W

Life in Prairie Land, by Eliza W Farnham. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1855.Poignant description of the harsh life of women on the Illinois prairie written by an early woman activist.
Condition: NOT a library book. Re-backed as pictured. Please review photos and ask for more if necessary to make your best buying decision!
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€136.65
PROHIBITION - A FAILURE OR, THE TRUE SOLUTION OF THE TEMPERANCE QUESTION

PROHIBITION - A FAILURE OR, THE TRUE SOLUTION OF THE TEMPERANCE QUESTION

by Lewis, Dio

Boston: James R. Osgood. Very Good. 1875. First Edition. Hardcover. Pages toned, otherwise clean and tight in original green cloth binding with gilt lettering. Cloth a bit scuffed. OCLC: 4721018 Dioclesian Lewis was a temperance lecturer and a pioneer in physical education and practiced homeopathy. He studied at the Harvard Medical School. He argued that Prohibition was ineffective in encouraging Temperance and organized thousands of women to rally at saloons seeking their closing. Very scarce... Read more about this item
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€47.54
The Life of Benjamin Franklin; with Many Choice Anecdotes...1829

The Life of Benjamin Franklin; with Many Choice Anecdotes...1829

by Weems, M. L

The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and Admirable Sayings of the Great Man,Never Before Published by Any of his Biographers. M. L. Weems, Author of Life of Washington. Philadelphia: Published by Uriah Hunt...and Louisville, KY, Published by Morton & Co. 239 pp, 4-1/2" x 71/8". 1829.Early edition of M. L. Weems biography of Benjamin Franklin. First published in 1817 as "Life of Benjamin Franklin with Essays"...a bit different content. Considered one of the cornerstone biographies of... Read more about this item
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€233.61
SPEECH OF JOSIAH QUINCY in the House of Representatives of the  U.S.  delivered 5th January 1813  on the bill in addition to the act entitled  "An Act to Raise an Additional Military Force", and for other purposes

SPEECH OF JOSIAH QUINCY in the House of Representatives of the U.S. delivered 5th January 1813 on the bill in addition to the act entitled "An Act to Raise an Additional Military Force", and for other purposes

by Quincy, Josiah

Alexandria: S. Snowden & J. D. Simms. Very Good. 1813. First Edition. Self-wrappers. 36 pages; Speech of the Hon. Josiah Quincy, in the House of Representatives of the United State4s, Delivered the 5th January, 1813. on the Bill in Addition to the Act Entitled "an Act to Raise an Additional Military Force, " and for Other Purposes. Small chip at lower right corner of 1st leaf, otherwise a Very Good copy of this early Virginia imprint regarding the raising of troops for the War against... Read more about this item
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€28.48
An Essay on Liberty and Slavery, 1856, First Edition

An Essay on Liberty and Slavery, 1856, First Edition

by Bledsoe, Albert Taylor

An Essay on Liberty and Slavery by Albert Taylor Bledsoe, LL.D., Professor of Mathematics in the University of Virginia. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co.: 383 pp. 1856 Rare First EditionAbolitionists, the religious implications, the public good, and the Fugitive Slave Law are all addressed in what has been termed "a highly important and sophisticated proslavery argument". Author was a friend of Jefferson Davis, a Confederate soldier, and a defender of both the South and Slavery. He became the first... Read more about this item
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€290.65
PHILADELPHIA AND ITS ENVIRONS AND THE RAILROAD SCENERY OF PENNSYLVANIA

PHILADELPHIA AND ITS ENVIRONS AND THE RAILROAD SCENERY OF PENNSYLVANIA

by Anonymous

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott. Very Good-. 1875. Hardcover. 110; 50 pages; With 225 Illustrations and a double-page map of Philadelphia. OCLC: 3661579 Original brown cloth binding worn at spine ends and corners, lacks free endpapers. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. .
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€33.22
Matted Mescalero Apache Weaving Basket

Matted Mescalero Apache Weaving Basket

First Nations Matted Mescalero Apache Weaving Basket
Original cabinet photo
1890
Photo in mat
Condition: Excellent
Purchased from
Rodger Bassett
P.O. Box 536
Fullerton, NE 68638
308-536-2377
7 x 9"
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€380.24
CENTENARY MEMORIAL OF THE ERECTION OF THE COUNTY OF DAUPHIN AND THE  FOUNDING OF THE CITY OF HARRISBURG 1785-1885

CENTENARY MEMORIAL OF THE ERECTION OF THE COUNTY OF DAUPHIN AND THE FOUNDING OF THE CITY OF HARRISBURG 1785-1885

by Egle, William Henry

Harrisburg: Telegraph Printing House. Very Good-. 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. 397 pages; A couple scattered pencil marks in margin of name index, 1/2" closed tear at edge of one page. Otherwise, clean and tight in original brown cloth binding with gilt lettering at spine. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. .
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€18.96
Afoot and Alone; A Walk from Sea to Sea, by the Southern Route,1872

Afoot and Alone; A Walk from Sea to Sea, by the Southern Route,1872

by Powers, Stephen

Afoot and Alone; A Walk from Sea to Sea By the Southern Route. Adventures and Observations in Southern California, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, etc. By Stephen Powers. Illustrated by Numerous Engravings. Hartford, Conn: Columbian Book Company, 1872"These were the happiest days of my life..in the large liberty and lawlessness of the prairies..." [from the Preface]
Condition: This original cloth hardcover is shown in the photographs. Binding is secure, toning is minimal, and no stamps, crimps or writing was... Read more about this item
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€195.59
THE NEW WEST CALIFORNIA IN 1867-1868

THE NEW WEST CALIFORNIA IN 1867-1868

by Brace, Charles Loring

New York: G.P. Putnam. Very Good+. 1869. First Edition. Hardcover. xii, 13-373, (1), 2 ads pages; Clean and secure in original green cloth binding with gilt lettering at spine, minor rubbing at extremities. Includes sections on various aspects of mining, the Pacific Railroad, Yosemite Canyon, the California University, various aspects of agricultural production (including wine production, bees, silk-making, etc.), California petroleum, etc. Cowan p. 68, Six guns 252. Brace presents a very... Read more about this item
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€142.54
The Conquest of Kansas by Missouri and her Allies...from the Passage of the Organic Act until the Close of July, 1856, FIRST EDITION 1856

The Conquest of Kansas by Missouri and her Allies...from the Passage of the Organic Act until the Close of July, 1856, FIRST EDITION 1856

by Phillips, William

The Conquest of Kansas by Missouri and her Allies, A History of the Troubles in Kansas from the Passage of the Organic Act until the Close of July, 1856. William Phillips, Phillips Sampson and Company, 1856. First Edition. Boston: 414 pp plus ads 6pp in back and ads on front and back paste downs and fly pages.Narrative includes some of the following notable sections:Kansas before the Passage of the Organic Act, The First Invasion, Governor Reeder, the First Election, Smart Electioneering TrickThe March... Read more about this item
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€149.96
A complete genealogical, historical, chronological and geographical atlas

A complete genealogical, historical, chronological and geographical atlas

by C V Lavoisne

C V Lavoisne; C Gros; Jehoshaphat Aspin; E PaguenaudA complete genealogical, historical, chronological and geographical atlas; being a general guide to history, both ancient and modern: exhibiting an accurate account of the origin, descent, and marriages of all the royal families . the whole forming a complete system of history and geographyPhiladelphia, Published by M. Carey and Son; printed by T.H. Palmer, 1820-01-01. 2nd American ed., carefully rev. Hardcover. Good. Second American edition, published... Read more about this item
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€2,376.50