Black Swan Books

A. M. Goichon | M. S. Kahn [Translator]

[PHILOSOPHY] THE PHILOSOPHY OF AVICENNA AND ITS INFLUENCE ON MEDIEVAL EUROPE

Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1969. Hard Cover. First Edition. 8vo.; in the publisher’s faded grey cloth-covered boards, with a dustjacket which has minor chipping at the bottom edge; there are no ownership marks in the book.

Price: $75.00

A. M. H. Henley

[HUNTING] ROUND THE CAMPFIRE

Clinton, NJ: Amwell Press | National Sporting Fraternity Limited, 1989. Octavo. Hard Cover. Signed. Limited Edition #236 of 1000 copies. An African Hunting Heritage Book. With a foreward by Jim Rikhoff. Signed by A.M.H. Henley on the limitation page as.....

Price: $95.00

Abbe Prevost | T. M. Cleland [Illustrator}

[SPECIAL PRESS] HISTOIRE DU CHEVALIER DES GRIEUX ET DE MANON LESCAUT

Stamford, Connecticut: The Overbrook Press, 1958. Full Leather. Limited Edition. Quarto; in full brown calf with label stamped in gilt to the spine; 207 pages; housed in the published brown cloth covered slipcase with ends tipped in calf; one of.....

Price: $600.00

Alvin M. Josephy, Jr. | Gary W. Gallagher

[CIVIL WAR] THE CIVIL WAR IN THE AMERICAN WEST

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. Hard Cover. Third Printing. 8vo.; in tan paper-covered boards, backed in brown cloth; xiv, [2], 3-448 pages, including the Index.~~This copy is from the personal library of Civil War historian Gary Gallagher; Dr. Gallagher.....

Price: $40.00

Item #295499 [RELIGION] [ANTIQUARIAN] LES CONFESSIONS DE S. AUGUSTIN. TRADUCTION NOUVELLE SUR...

Augustin; M. [Phillippe] Du Bois [Goiband]

[RELIGION] [ANTIQUARIAN] LES CONFESSIONS DE S. AUGUSTIN. TRADUCTION NOUVELLE SUR L’EDITION LATINE DES PERES BENEDICTINS DE LA CONGREGATION DE SAINT MAUR. AVEC DES NOTES, ET DE NOUVEAUX SOMMAIRES DES CHAPITRES.

Paris: Jean-Bapstiste Coignard, 1712. Full Leather. Dernier Edition. 12mo. (6 3/8” x 3 3/4”) .contemporary worn calf binding with corners down to the boards; with raised bands, decorations in gild, and a morocco title label; marbled endpapers; lacking the last.....

Price: $125.00

Banerji, R. D., M.A. (Indian Museum, Calcutta)

THE PALAS OF BENGAL

New Delhi, India: Bhartiya Publishing House, 1973. Hard Cover. With 26 Inscriptions; Note and ink stamp attached to ffep. Some discoloration to front and rear endpapers and paste-downs. Blue cloth binding. Boards slightly cocked. Moderate edgewear to extremities...

Price: $135.00

Item #232056 [RICHMOND] Commemoraton of Forty-five Years of Service By the Rev. Moses Drury...

Barksdale, C. R.; Henry, W. W.; Gilliam, M. M. (Committee)

[RICHMOND] Commemoraton of Forty-five Years of Service By the Rev. Moses Drury Hoge, D.D., LL.D., As Pastor of The Second Presbyterian Church, of the City of Richmond, Virginia. 1845 - 1890.

Richmond, VA: Whittet & Shepperson. Hard Cover. No pencil or ink markings in text. Blue cloth binding with gilt lettering. Light edgewear to boards.

Price: $75.00

Blagg, Thos. M. (gen. Ed.)

CORNWALL PARISH REGISTERS. Marriages. Vol. XXVI.

London: Phillimore & Co., Ltd., 1935. Octavo. Hard Cover. Limited Edition. Only 100 copies printed. Pencil writing on reverse of front free endpaper. Scant pencil underlining in text. Boards very lightly soiled. Corners bumped. Boards slightly cocked. Blue cloth binding.....

Price: $75.00

Item #291320 [MANUSCRIPT MUSIC; VIRGINIA] GRAND POT-POURRI FROM THE OPERA (DER FREYSCHUTZ) BY C....

C. M. de Weber | J. K. Opl

[MANUSCRIPT MUSIC; VIRGINIA] GRAND POT-POURRI FROM THE OPERA (DER FREYSCHUTZ) BY C. M. de WEBER ARRANGED FOR PIANO-FORTE BY J. K. OPL

A finely penned manuscript of an arrangement for piano forte of “Grand Pot-pourri” from Carl Maria Weber’s opera Der Freischutz, completed by Weber in 1822. The arrangement, and perhaps this transcription, was by J. K. Ohl, probably Joseph Ohl, sometime.....

Price: $200.00

Capt. J. M. Stick [Chaplain]

[MILITARY] THE DEFENDER. THIRD CORPS AREA. CAMP MEADE, MARYLAND. 1923

Military Training Camps Association, [1923]. Hard Cover. Quarto; in the publisher’s blue cloth binding with titling and decoration in gilt; 153 pages, followed by xviii pages of ads; there are no marks in the book; dedicated to the memory of.....

Price: $75.00

Item #299213 [SHENANDOAH VALLEY] SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY: BEING A HISTORY OF THE VIRGINIA BLUE RIDGE...

Carl M. Lathrop

[SHENANDOAH VALLEY] SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY: BEING A HISTORY OF THE VIRGINIA BLUE RIDGE RAILWAY, THE BEE TREE LUMBER COMPANY AND THE LEFTWICH TIMBER COMPANY

Madison, NJ: Self-published, 1979. Quarto. Soft Cover. First Edition. Quarto; stapled pamphlet in photographic wrappers; 92 pages, including the Appendix; heavily illustrated with black and white photographs.~~A history of the Virginia Blue Ridge Railway and the two sawmills that originally.....

Price: $85.00

Charles M. Blackford

[CIVIL WAR] CAMPAIGN AND BATTLE OF LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA

Lynchburg, Virgina: Warwick House Publishing, 1994. Hard Cover. Reprint Edition. 8vo.; in publisher’s blue cloth with titling in gilt to the upper board, with dustjacket; 127 pages including Index; this reprint edition is had photographic illustrations throguhout, not included in.....

Price: $95.00

Item #298464 [AMERICANA] JOHN C. CALHOUN. NATIONALIST, 1782-1828; NULLIFIER, 1829-1839;...

Charles M. Wiltse

[AMERICANA] JOHN C. CALHOUN. NATIONALIST, 1782-1828; NULLIFIER, 1829-1839; SECTIONALIST, 1840-1850 [3 VOLUMES]

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1944, 1949, 1951. Hard Cover. First Edition. Three large 8vo. volumes, in the publisher’s brown cloth bindings, with dustjackets; [10], 11-477 pages, including the Index; [10] 11-511 pages, including the Index; [10], 11-592 pages, including.....

Price: $300.00

Colonel Sir Charles M. Watson

[MILITARY] THE LIFE OF MAJOR-GENERAL SIR CHARLES WILLIAM WILSON, ROYAL ENGINEERS

London: John Murray, 1909. Hard Cover. First Edition. Large 8vo; in the publisher’s red cloth binding with decoration and titling in gilt; xv, 419, [1] pages, with 15 plates; 5 folding maps; there are no ownership masks in the book;.....

Price: $75.00

Crosby, Adelaide Upton; Illustrated by Mrs. S. M. Clark and the Author

THE ENCHANTED BUTTERFLIES

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1895. Illustrated by: Mrs. S. M. Clark and the Author. Hard Cover. No pencil or ink markings in text. Decorated cloth binding. Gilt lettering on front board, silver lettering on spine. Moderate edgewear with.....

Price: $150.00

Dante | Mark Musa (Translator) ; Illustrated by Richard M. Powers

[LITERATURE] DANTE’S INFERNO

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1971. Illustrated by: Richard M. Powers. Hard Cover. Small Octavo; in the publisher’s black cloth; in an unclipped dust jacket; xxxii, 286 pages; some edgewear to the jacket; a few chips and a couple of closed.....

Price: $200.00

Item #266980 A CHILD’S BIBLE. BEING THE INCIDENTS AND NARRATIVES OF SACRED SCRIPTURES, SIMPLY...

Edward M. Calisch

A CHILD’S BIBLE. BEING THE INCIDENTS AND NARRATIVES OF SACRED SCRIPTURES, SIMPLY TOLD. (In two parts, this being PART II only).

Richmond, VA: Ezekiel & Bass, 1894. Hard Cover. First Edition. Calisch was the late 19th century Rabbi of Congregation Beth Ahaba in Richmond. This is Part II only of his Child’s Bible, “From the Birth of Moses to the Entrance.....

Price: $75.00

Item #298932 [EXPLORATION] ARCTIC EXPLORATIONS: THE SECOND GRINNELL EXPEDITION IN SEARCH OF SIR...

Elisha Kent Kane, M.D., U.S.N.

[EXPLORATION] ARCTIC EXPLORATIONS: THE SECOND GRINNELL EXPEDITION IN SEARCH OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN, 1853, ‘54, ‘55.

Philadelphia: Childs & Peterson, 1856. Hard Cover. First Edition. Two volume set; in half-calf over marbled boards, the marbled boards are rubbed; the calf appears to be new, with old morocco labels, one of which is chipped; new endpapers; each.....

Price: $200.00

Erik Fugedi | J. M. Bak (Translator)

[HUNGARY] CASTLE AND SOCIETY IN MEDIEVAL HUNGARY (1000-1437)

Budapest: Akademiai Kiado, 1986. Hard Cover. Large 8vo.; in the publisher’s gray cloth binding, with dustjakcet; [15], 16-162 pages, including the Index; with drawings throughout; there are no marks of any kind in the book.~~From Bak’s Foreward: Fugedi’s book was.....

Price: $100.00

E[dwin] M[ortimer] Haynes

A HISTORY OF THE TENTH REGIMENT, VT. VOLS., WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

Rutland, Vt. The Tuttle Company, Printers, 1894. Hard Cover. Second Edition. From the library of Civil War historian, James I. “ Bud” Robertson, with his bookplate on the front pastedown, on top of what we surmise is an old library.....

Price: $150.00

Item #298982 [FIRST TWENTY FOUR VOLUMES OF A SPORTING MAGAZINE] FORES’S SPORTING NOTES &...

Finch Mason; R. M. Alexander (Illustrator)

[FIRST TWENTY FOUR VOLUMES OF A SPORTING MAGAZINE] FORES’S SPORTING NOTES & SKETCHES. A QUARTERLY MAGAZINE DESCRIPTIVE OF BRITISH AND FOREIGN SPORT. ILLUSTRATED. VOL. I-XXIV, 1884-1907.

London: Messrs. Forres, 1885-1907. Hard Cover. 8vo; in red cloth bindings, decorated in gilt and black. All edges gilt; generally in Very Good condition; the spines are sunned and faded, though the decorated front boards are generally quite bright; silverfishing.....

Price: $350.00

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

G. W. F. Hegel | T. M. Knox (Translator)

[PHILOSOPHY] EARLY THEOLOGICAL WRITINGS

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1948. Hard Cover. First Edition. Octavo; in the publisher’s blue cloth; with titling on the spine in gold; xi, 340 pages including the Index; in a clipped jacket; light wear to the jacket.

Price: $45.00

Item #294557 [SIGNED] [WINCHESTER] [SCHOOLS] THE LENGTHENED SHADOW. PAPERS AND SPEECHES OF...

Garland R. Quarles | Dorothy M. Overcash; Ralph S. Sheppard (Editors) [ [Gary Gallagher]

[SIGNED] [WINCHESTER] [SCHOOLS] THE LENGTHENED SHADOW. PAPERS AND SPEECHES OF GARLAND R. QUARLES

Sheperdstown, West Virginia: The Sheperdstown Register, Inc., 1965. Hard Cover. First Edtiion, Limited. Signed. 8vo.; the publisher’s burgundy cloth binding with titling in gilt, and the publisher’s plain brown wrapper; xiv, [1], 2-185 pages, including the Appendix; limitation plate on.....

Price: $75.00