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Anthropos. Revue Internationale d'Ethnologie et de Linguistique. Band IV, 1909 and V, 1910
Wien, Mechitharisten-Buchdruckerei, 1909 and 1910. Not least, Bird, W. H.: 'Some Remarks on the grammatical construction of the Chowie Language as spoken by the Buccaneer Islanders, North-Western Australia'. 'Anthropos' was a 'leading journal in cultural anthropology; focussing on Anthropology of Religion, Economic and Social Anthropology, Culture History, Linguistics [and] cover[ing]..... More
Ayer's Australasian Almanac, 1894 [cover title]
Lowell, Massachusetts, Dr J.C. Ayer & Co., Practical and Analytical Chemists, 1894. Largely an advertisement for Ayer's Saraparilla and other tonics, along with a calendar for the Australian colonies and New Zealand. Printed on the rear wrapper is a small panel reading 'Presented by T. Kast & Co., Hair Dresser..... More
Combat History of the Second Infantry Division in World War 2
Nashville, The Battery Press, 1979. More
In The Temperate Regions; or Nature and Natural History in the Temperate Zones. With Anecdotes and Stories of Adventure and Travel
London, T. Nelson and Sons, 1887. Presentation copy. Inscribed ('from Grandpapa'), dated (September 1985) and signed in ink to a young Thorburn Brailsford Robertson (1884-1930), biochemist and professor, with his scientific bookplate ('In Limine'). More
Interior Spaces. A Pictorial Review of Significant Interiors in the U.S.A.
Melbourne, Images Publishing, 1992. More
Report of Operations. The Seventh United States Army in France and Germany, 1944-1945
Nashville, The Battery Press, Inc, 1988 (facsimle reprint)/ 1946. This two-volume reprint edition contains all the material found in the original three-volume set published in Germany in 1946. More
Report on the Loss of HMAS Sydney
Canberra, Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia, 1999. More
Robert Dawson. Photographs. April 9-May 10, 1988
Tokyo, Gallery Min, 1987. Introduction by Ellen Manchester. More
St-Lo. (7 July - 19 July 1944). American Forces in Action Series
Nashville, The Battery Press, 1984 (facsimile reprint)/ 1946. With 29 maps (7 double-page) and numerous illustrations from photographs. More
Thirty-Eighth Anniversary of The Dutch Treat Club. With a Documentary History of the Club by Will Irwin [and] A Play, with a Moral, by Westbrook Pegler ...
New York, [The Dutch Treat Club], 1943. The loosely inserted Dutch Treat Club contact card states, 'This Dutch Treat Club Year-Book is larger in size and contains double the number of pages in our past Annuals'. Only 1,000 copies numbered copies were issued, this copy is out of series. The..... More
History of the 40th Infantry Division in the Philippines
[No Place, The Division, circa 1945]. The front cover of this copy has the ink ownership name 'Maj. Boyd'. More
Between Continents/ Between Seas. Precolumbian Art of Costa Rica
New York, Harry N. Abrams/ Detroit Institute of the Arts, 1981. More
A New Slant on America. 'Un Oeil Neuf Sur L'Amerique'
Chicago, Rand McNally, 1931. Translation from the French by Margaret Gaffey Mel. With Drawings from the French Edition by D. Olere. More
Ships and Memories
Brighton, Teredo Books Ltd., 1975. With an Introduction by Alex. A. Hurst. 'The story of the years the author spent in the four-masted barque 'Silberhorn', running to Oregon and San Francisco ... together with many memories and reflections' (dustwrapper). More
Democracy. An American Novel
London, Macmillan and Co., 1882 (first UK edition)/ 1880. 'Democracy is a novel about political power, its acquisition, use and abuse. It is set at the beginning of a new administration, with the election campaign just over and the new President of the United States just having been elected' (Wikipedia)..... More
Bookplates. A Selection from the Works of Charles R. Capon. Together with a Foreword and Complete Check List of over Fifty Plates
Portland, The Anthoensen Press, [c.1950]. Number 147 of 300 copies (250 of which were for sale). Eight leaves of illustrations include one tipped-in bookplate. More
The New York Apartment Houses of Rosario Candela and James Carpenter
New York, Acanthus Press, 2001. 'The supreme addresses of choice in New York are on Park Avenue and on Fifth Avenue. But merely living on either of these famous boulevards is not enough. The ultimate aspiration is to dwell in a suite of rooms designed by one of the two..... More
The original muster roll of A Company, 124th Regiment, Illinois Infantry
'Companies A and F were from the village of Kewanee, in Henry county [Illinois] ... The exigencies of the struggle and the call had wrought the enthusiasm of the village to its highest pitch, when, on the morning of August 7th, a muster roll was opened in the office of..... More
I Wear the Morning Star. An Exhibition of American Indian Ghost Dance Objects
Minneapolis, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1976. The catalogue produced for this important exhibition. More
The Standard-Vacuum Oil Company and United States East Asian Policy 1933-1941
Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1975. '... the first extensive analysis of the intricacies of petroleum diplomacy in the prewar Far East'. More
International Allied World Championship Army Rodeo... Sunday, October 31, 1943, 2pm, Exhibition Stadium (Somewhere in Australia) [cover title]
[Brisbane], Simpson, Halligan & Co. Pty. Ltd., 1943. The 141 competitors are listed; the majority are American servicemen. More
Union Pacific Northwest. The Oregon-Washington Railroad and Navigation Company
Edmonds, Pacific Fast Mail, 1991. More
Patchwork Child. Early Memories
New York, Random House, 1993 [first thus]. More