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Item #295380 [SCIENCE] [NATURAL SELECTION] THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES: TWO ESSAYS...

Charles Darwin; Francis Darwin (Editor)

[SCIENCE] [NATURAL SELECTION] THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES: TWO ESSAYS WRITTEN IN 1842 AND 1844

Cambridge at the University Press, 1909. Hard Cover. An attractive First Edition of this fore-runner of one of the most important books of the 19th century.~~Two essays written in 1842 and 1844, in which Darwin’s theory of natural selection is.....

Price: $1,250.00

Item #297338 [POETRY] [ANTIQUARIAN] THE SHEPHEARDS ORACLES: DELIVERED IN CERTAIN ECLOGUES....

Fra: [Francis] Quarles | [Isaac Walton ?]

[POETRY] [ANTIQUARIAN] THE SHEPHEARDS ORACLES: DELIVERED IN CERTAIN ECLOGUES. |[with] SOLOMON’S RECANTATION, ENTITLED ECCLESIASTES, PARAPHRASED. WITH A SOLILOQUIE OR MEDITATION ~UPON EVERY CHAPTER. VERY SEASONABLE AND USEFULL FOR THESE TIMES. BY FRANCIS QUARLES. WITH SHORT RELATION OF HIS LIFE AND DEATH.

London: Printed by M. F. for John Marriot and Richard Marriot | Richard Royston, 1646; 1648. Half Leather. Third Edition. The two works by Fracnis Quarles bound together, in much later (late 19th century) half- calf over brown pebbled cloth.....

Price: $750.00

Francis Bacon; Abraham Cowley

[SPECIAL PRESS] ON GARDENS. TWO ESSAYS [THE ASTOLAT OAKLEAF SERIES]

Guildford: A. C. Curtis, The Astolat Press, 1903. Full Leather. Title leaf printed in red and black, and printed with red initials throughout. 23 pages. Attractively bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in green morocco, with floral devices and lettering in.....

Price: $250.00

Francis Brundage; Elizabeth S. Tucker

LITTLE BELLES AND BEAUX.

London and New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1896==============================. With numerous full-page color-plates after paintings in water-colors by Francis Brundage; and with decorative borders and other designs together with new stories and verses by Elizabeth S. Tucker. Pictorial paper-covered boards.....

Price: $300.00

Item #286699 NARRATIVE OF THE EXPEDITION OF AN AMERICAN SQUADRON TO THE CHINA SEAS AND JAPAN,...

Francis L. Hawks (Editor) | Commodore M. C. Perry

NARRATIVE OF THE EXPEDITION OF AN AMERICAN SQUADRON TO THE CHINA SEAS AND JAPAN, PERFORMED IN THE YEARS 1852, 1853, AND 1854, UNDER THE COMMAND OF COMMODORE M. C. PERRY, UNITED STATES NAVY, BY ORDER OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES. COMPILED FROM THE ORIGINAL NOTES AND JOURNALS OF COMMODORE PERRY AND HIS OFFICERS, AT HIS REQUEST, AND UNDER HIS SUPERVISION, BY FRANCIS L. HAWKS.

Washington: Beverley Tucker, Senate Printer, 1856. Hard Cover. Second Edition. Second Edition of Vol. I and II only of Commodore Perry’s Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, compiled by Francis L. Hawks.....

Price: $950.00

Item #299916 [PHILOSOPHY] NATURAL LAW, LAWS OF NATURE, NATURAL RIGHTS CONTINUITY IN THE HISTORY...

Francis Oakley

[PHILOSOPHY] NATURAL LAW, LAWS OF NATURE, NATURAL RIGHTS CONTINUITY IN THE HISTORY OF IDEAS

New York: Continuum, 2005. Hard Cover. Octavo; in black paper covered boards; with titling on the spine in silver; in an unclipped jacket; 143 pages including the Index; some light scuffs to the jacket; pencil annotations in the margins.

Price: $50.00

Item #296087 [LAW] [UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA] REPORT OF CASES DECIDED IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF...

Francis W. Gilmer

[LAW] [UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA] REPORT OF CASES DECIDED IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF VIRGINIA, FROM APRIL 10th 1820, TO JUNE 28th, 1821

Richmond: N. Pollard --Franklin Press, 1821. Full Leather. First Edition. 8vo. (8 1/8” x 5 3/8”); in full sheep with morocco title label, and lacking the volume label; viii, [1], 2-367 pages including the Index, with Errata slip tipped in.....

Price: $95.00

Item #286883 AN ESSAY ON THE NATURE AND LAWS OF USES AND TRUSTS. INCLUDING A TREATISE ON...

Francis Williams Sanders

AN ESSAY ON THE NATURE AND LAWS OF USES AND TRUSTS. INCLUDING A TREATISE ON CONVEYANCES AT COMMON LAW; AND THOSE DERIVING THEIR EFFECT FROM THE STATUTE OF USES.

London: Printed for E. and R. Brooke, 1791. Full Leather. First Edition. First Edition of Francis Williams Sanders’ Essay on the Nature and Laws of Uses and Trusts. “A professional treatise of deservedly high repute” (DNB). Collates complete, with index.....

Price: $600.00

Item #293171 SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF A SOLDIER IN ACTIVE SERVICE. I. AUSTRIAN CAMPAIGN IN...

[Friedrich Wilhelm Hacklander] | [Francis Egerton Ellesmere] [Translator]

SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF A SOLDIER IN ACTIVE SERVICE. I. AUSTRIAN CAMPAIGN IN PIEDMONT, 1849; II. NOTICE OF THE DEFENCE OF TEMESWAR. III. THE CAMP OF THE BAN

London: John Murray, 1850. Hard Cover. First English Edition. Signed. 8vo.; in publisher’s green embossed cloth, with titling at the spine in gilt; xvi; 245 pages; with folding map at the rear of the book; the gutter between the first.....

Price: $250.00

Item #288258 COMPANY “A,” CORPS OF ENGINEERS, U. S. A., 1846-’48, IN THE MEXICAN WAR. |...

Gustavus W. Smith | John Stephen Sewell | Engineer School, United States Army | Smith S. Leach | Francis J. Behr

COMPANY “A,” CORPS OF ENGINEERS, U. S. A., 1846-’48, IN THE MEXICAN WAR. | LECTURES ON BUILDING CONSTRUCTION. | REPORT ON THE TEST-FIRING AT ELECTRICAL SEARCHLIGHTS IN CAMP AT HARSKAMP IN SEPTEMBER, 1904. TRANSLATION FROM THE DUTCH IN THE MILITARY INFORMATION DIVISION GENERAL STAFF. | REPORTS OF MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF ENGINEERS AND THE ENGINEER OFFICER, DEPARTMENT OF THE EAST, UPON THE JOINT ARMY AND NAVY MANEUVRES HELD AT PORTLAND, MAINE, AUGUST, 1903. | REPORT ON ENGINEER EQUIPMENT REQUIRED FOR EXPEDITIONS OF 25,000, 50,000, 150,000 AND 250,000 MEN. PREPARED IN ACCORDANCE WITH INSTRUCTIONS FROM THE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS, U. S. A. | DRILL REGULATIONS FOR THE INFANTRY, GERMAN ARMY 1906. (ONE VOLUME)

Washington Barracks, D. C. The Battalion Press | Press of the Engineer School | Government Printing Office, 1896, 1906, 1908, 1904, 1906, 1907. Hard Cover. Six pamphlets from the late 19th, early 20th century, primarily on military engineering, bound together.....

Price: $250.00

Item #300129 [LITERATURE] [PRESENTATION COPY] TO GWEN WITH LOVE: AN ANTHOLOGY DEDICATED TO...

Patricia L. Brown; Don L. Lee; Francis Ward (Editors) | Lerone Bennett (Introduction)

[LITERATURE] [PRESENTATION COPY] TO GWEN WITH LOVE: AN ANTHOLOGY DEDICATED TO GWENDOLYN BROOKS

Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company, 1971. Soft Cover. Signed. A tribute anthology by black poets attests to Gwendolyn Brooks’ “support and championing of poets” and considered “her most cherished award” (Harry B. Shaw. Black Popular Culture, p. 72). This copy is.....

Price: $250.00

Item #297096 [SPECIAL PRESS] CANTICLE OF THE SUN. CANTICO DI FRATE SOLE. [WITH PROSPECTUS]...

Saint Francis of Assisi | Carol J. Blinn

[SPECIAL PRESS] CANTICLE OF THE SUN. CANTICO DI FRATE SOLE. [WITH PROSPECTUS] [CASE]

Easthampton, Mass. Warwick Press, 1983. Limited Edition. 8vo; small pamphlet stitched into a non-adhesive limp vellum binding with titling in gilt to the front board; with title page printed with phases of the sun (or is it the moon?); with.....

Price: $400.00

[Vera and Francis Meynell (Editors)]

[SPECIAL PRESS] THE WEEKEND BOOK

London: The Nonesuch Press, 1928. Bound up by the publisher in orange paper-vellum boards with double fillets to the perimeter of the boards and yapp edges. Some rippling to the binding as the corners. All edges gilt. On thin paper.....

Price: $75.00

Item #298938 [SPECIAL PRESS] OUR LADY’S CHOIR A CONTEMPORARY ANTHOLOGY OF VERSE BY CATHOLIC...

William Stanley Braithwaite | Rev Hugh Francis Blunt [Foreword | Ralph Adams Cram, Litt. D. [Introduction] [Fred Anthoenson]

[SPECIAL PRESS] OUR LADY’S CHOIR A CONTEMPORARY ANTHOLOGY OF VERSE BY CATHOLIC SISTERS

Boston: Bruce Humphries, 1931. Limited Edition. 8vo; in elaborately decorated cloth covered boards; with a label on the spine with titling and decorations in gilt; xxx, 213 pages; housed inside of a red slipcase with a paper label.~~This copy of.....

Price: $500.00