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Rare and spectacular French game of aerostatic navigation from the great Age of Airships.
Rare and spectacular French game of aerostatic navigation from the great Age of Airships.
Advertising fan for showman Albert Smith's long-running "lecture" on his ascent of Europe's tallest peak — a sensational example of capitalizing upon the early days of the alpinism craze.
Regency-era edition of these richly hand-colored engravings by one of the finest imitators of Holbein, in a handsome contemporary binding.
First UK edition of this famed collection of poker stories and anecdotes from the latter half of the 19th century, told from the Effete East to the Wild and Wooly West of the American continent.
Beautiful velvet-bound copy of the classic Christian devotional texts, with gauffered edges and brass fittings, in contemporary leather box.
Attractively bound Victorian edition of the classic Christian devotional texts, demonstrating its importance as a devotional and genealogical tool.
Lovely Regency-era edition of this book of Psalms along with the classic Christian devotional texts, featuring touches of extra ornamentation to the text's gilt edges.
Versatile original sales sample book, front-loaded with the expected popular hit about Ulysses S. Grant's world tour — and followed by a more exciting sexual title.
Second Dublin edition of this textbook for beginning Latin learners, focusing on vocabulary "from the purest Latin classics."
Lovely chapbook edition of a selection of Isaac Watts's hymns, bound in an attractive vernacular wallpaper wrapper.
Scarce first edition of this etymological textbook of English affixes.
First edition of this collection carefully selected from Samuels's monumental and authoritative larger six-volume set of Adams's letters.