Search Results: History from Friends of the Cazenovia Public Library

Circa 1930s two volume hardcover set as pictured. A well made edition of the Gibbon classic in nice condition given its age. Bindings are firm. Blue cloth boards with gold and red stamping in the typical Modern Library pattern are bright and show only light edge wear. Endpapers and text are age tanned but appear otherwise clean and unmarked. Dust jackets are rubbed and lightly soiled with small tears and chips at edges. Price includes extra mailing charges due to weight. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s OD4

1899 hardcover as pictured. This is a very worn but still quite readable copy of an early travelogue by the originator of that genre, John Lawson Stoddard. It includes over 100 large format photographs from around the US, Canada and Europe with accompanying commentary. Binding is intact but relaxed. Front hinge cracked (see photo). Red cloth boards with black stamping are scuffed and soiled with fraying at spine and edges. Endpapers are foxed. Half of FFEP is missing. Text is age tanned but appears otherwise clean and unmarked. No dust jacket. Price reflects condition. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s (F-top)

2018 softcover as pictured. This is a collection of essays exploring aspects of life in an often neglected section of the US. Included are pieces on history, immigration, religion, geography, art, race, culture, and politics written by well-known scholars in the field such as Michael Allen, Jon Butler, and Nicole Etcheson. Binding is firm, spine uncreased. Covers show minimal shelf wear. Text appears clean and unmarked. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s AR
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1999 softcover as pictured. A provocative examination of the relation between rhetoric and historiography. Binding is firm, spine uncreased. Covers are lightly rubbed with gently curled corners. Text is unmarked. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s AR

1907 hardcovers as pictured. These are supplementary volumes 2, 3 and 4 to the John Stoddard Lecture Series. Topics covered include Sicily, Genoa, The Engadine, South Tyrol, Lake Garda, The Dolomites, Canada, Malta and Gibralter. Bindings are firm. Green cloth boards with gold stamping are soiled and show varying degrees of edge wear. Volume 2 with fraying at base of spine. Endpapers mottled. Edges of text blocks are mottled. Texts are unmarked. Each volume has some tanning and a few mottled pages. Many b&w and color illustrations. No dust jackets. Your purchase helps support our small village library. Cost includes extra mailing fee due to weight. s AR

1734 hardcover set as pictured. Please note that this set includes 7 of the 8 original books, volume 2 is not included. This is a marvelous set, "Giving an impartial account to the Divan at Constantinople of the most remarkable transactions of Europe: And discovering several intrigues and secrets of the Christian courts, (especially that of France) continued from the year 1637, to the year 1682." The set has seen considerable wear but remains in reasonable shape given its age. Bindings are intact in all. Full leather boards with gold stamping on front and rear. Head and tail bands. Spines with raised bands, gold stamping and paste on labels, most of which are missing. The leather is dry, rubbed and scuffed with cracking at hinges and noticeable edge wear. Each volume has two bookplates from previous owners, the most recent of which was placed in 1891. Several volumes have writing on the endpapers including a note about the author in volume 1. Volumes 5 and 8 have water staining of the endpapers. The… Read More

1994 three volume softcover set as pictured. These books constitute a "masterwork of political theory and comparative politics", spanning the breadth of history from ancient Greece to the present. Volume 1 - Binding is firm. Covers are rubbed with curling corners. Text block mottled at top edge with a stain at upper corner. Text with some notations and underlining. Volume 2 and 3 - Bindings firm with uncreased spines. Text block mottled at top edge. Texts appear clean and unmarked. Each volumes contains voluminous notes and detailed index. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s AR

1938 softcover as pictured. This is the 16th biennial report of the Idaho State Historical Society. It includes articles on the Nez Pirce reservation, the city of Lewiston, the Elo Settlement in Long Valley, the first census of Idaho in 1863 and more. Stapled binding is firm. Covers are soiled and rubbed. Previous owner's library stamp and name on front cover, endpapers and title page. Text appears clean. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s AR

2010 hardcover as pictured. A controversial "for the right reasons" book arguing that the United States constitution was pro-slavery "in its politics, its law, and its economics." Well documented with several appendices and an extensive bibliography. This copy is in very good condition. Binding firm. Dust jacket and boards show minimal shelf wear. Endpapers and text appear clean and unmarked. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s OB2