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New York: William Edwin Rudge Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1930, folio, xviii, 46pp, plus fifty two full page plates on recto, the frontispiece in color. Extremities lightly worn, else G+ in Poor, stained and worn dj, which is splitting at the spine. Limited to 1000cc. Part one is Yarmolinsky's account of Svinin's travels in the United States, and Part two consists of black and white reproductions of Svinin's water color sketches..

Washington, DC: GPO Book. VG. Soft cover. 1881, 4to, pp87-203, illustrated including full-page colored plates, one internal page missing a piece near the spine edge including a few words of text, removed from a disbound copy of the First Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1879-80. VG. In report covers. Burial superstitions and rituals of the various tribes. An extensive article..

Great Falls: The Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation, Inc. Book. VG. Soft cover. 1992, 4to, 24pp. Wrps. VG. The young men fromm Kentucky who accompanied Lewis and Clark were Joseph and Reubin Field, Sergeant Charles Floyd, Sergeant Nathaniel Pryor, Private John Shields, Private John Colter, William Bratton, Private George Gibson. Although technically not one of the nine young men from Kentucky, and not in military service, York, William Clark's black servant, was from Kentucky, was young, and went all the way to the Pacific and back performing valuable service and frequently mentioned in the journals.".

Elizabeth: William A. Yates Book. Good. Soft cover. 1974-1982, 4to. Includes Volume III, Volume XIII, Volume XIV, and Volume XV, Numbers 1-4, issued separately. In all seven items. Wrps. Previous owner's embossed stamp on front page of each issue, else generally G. Includes genealogy from Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, and the Ozark region. A wealth of genealogical information including extensive pedigree charts submitted by subscribers, family Bible notations, and hundreds of queries. Shipping at cost. .

Ozark: William A. Yates Magazine. Good. Soft cover. 1983-1986, 4to. Wrps. Previous owner's embossed stamp on the front page of most issues, else G. Includes Volume II, Numbers 1-4. Volume III, Numbers 1-4. Volume V, Number 3. In all eight items. (Numbers 3&4 of Vol II are combined in one issue). SEVENTEEN SEVENTY-SIX contains genealogy for anyone with ancestors who lived in the United States of America. It is published quarterly, with 60 pages or more in each issue. Includes extensive pedigree charts submitted by subscribers, numerous queries and a wealth of general genealogical information. Shipping at cost..

Berkeley: University of California Press Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. (1981), viii, 214pp, index, illustrated. VG in VG dj. Alice James, (1848-1892), was the sister of William and Henry James. From the dj: "The only daughter of the most intellectually remarkable of American families, Alice James made of invalidism a perverse kind of vocation. She was to die of breast cancer, but for most of her adult life she was ill without a clearly nameable disease, her history marked by mysterious symptoms, baffled doctors, and obscure diagnoses. 'Getting myself dead' became for her the ironic equivalent of her famous brothers fiction and philosophy.".

Ager Yellen & Bornstein Inc. , (1923). Sheet Music, 6pp, pictorial cover, with an inset of Miss Margie Coate. Neat tape repairs, else G..

Chicago: Union Book Company Book. VG. Soft cover. 1901, pp83-94, removed from WITH THE WORLD'S GREAT TRAVELLERS, Edited by Charles Morris and Oliver H.G. Leigh. May include a first or last copied page. VG. From the introduction: "Among the many marvels of nature in the United States, the Mammoth Cave holds a prominent position, and we feel it incumbent on us to accompany some of our company of travellers into its depths. The TERESINA IN AMERICA, of Therese Yelverton (Viscountess Avonmore) affords us the opportunity, of which we avail ourselves in the following selection." .

Devon,: Pennsylvania German Society, Book. Very Good. Soft cover. pp29-32, printed in double columns. Removed from DER REGGEBOGE (THE RAINBOW), The Journal of the Pennsylvania German Society, Volume 27, 1993, No. 1. VG. In report covers. May include a first or last copied page. In 1993 the author and thirty nine of his cousins traveled to their ancestral villages and valleys in Southwest Germany. The emigrant ancestor to which most of them were related was CasparHepler (1713-1769). The group inlcuded Klingers, Beisels, Reinerts, Morgans, Diehls, Kesslers, Tices, Snyders, Millers, Schrefflers, Colemans, Brosiuses, Gehreses, Schankweilers, Haases, Matterns, and others. Not much genealogical information, just a narrative of the trip and what things must have been like for their ancestors..

Bloomington: Indiana University Book. Good. Soft cover. pp135-151. Removed from INDIANA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY, Volume 59, No. 2, June, 1963. Wrps. G. An interesting article. The inns during the period 1775-1850, were characterized by a lack of class distinction and very primitive accommodations. The author mentions that the "ubiquitous bedbug was emphatically no respecter of persons" but doesn't mention lice and fleas which, I understand, were also frequent "guests." .

London: Henry G. Bohn Book. Good. Hardcover. 1854, pp817-1252, plus 24-page publisher's catalog, index for all three volumes. Covers somewhat discolored, extremities moderately worn, contents VG. With an appendix of poetical fragments, rendered into English verse by various authors, and a general index. Each volume complete in itself. From Bohn's Classical Library series. Athenaeus was a Greek rhetorician and grammarian, who lived during the end of the 2nd and beginning of the 3rd century AD. Several of his publications are lost, but the fifteen-volume Deipnosophistae mostly survives. It is a work of literary, historical, and antiquarian references set in Rome at a series of banquets held by the protagonist Publius Livius Larensis for an assembly of grammarians, lexicographers, jurists, musicians, and hangers-on. It is filled with the type of scholarly material that learned men might discuss over dinner, thus the title. .

NY: E.P. Dutton Book. Good. Hardcover. (1925), two volumes, xxix, 538; xii, 576pp, index, illustrated. The spines of both volumes are badly faded/sunned, extremities lightly worn, first free endpaper missing from volume one and a section of the rear endpaper neatly removed, else G. Requires the shipping charges for two books. The Medicis were the famous Florentine family which came to prominence during the Italian Renaissance, and held sway for almost three hundred years. Their source of wealth was banking and trade, but they were great patrons of art and literature. Among their ranks were popes and two queens of France..

Chicago: Laird & Lee Inc. Book. Good. Hardcover. (1915), 240pp, 16 illustrations, of 17 called for. Another version, published the same year by Wells & Co. in Portland, Oregon is said to be the first printing. Light speckling to covers, contents generally foxed as is common with this edition, pencil notations in margin on several pages, front inner hinge neatly reinforced, else G+. The author says he was born in Cape Vincent, New York in 1849 and ran away at age 14. He had many interesting adventures in the west, claiming to have known Calamity Jane and to have been present when Wild Bill Hickok was killed. Howes 27. Six Guns 2466. Adams finds many discrepancies, but who can say whether the author was lying or just forgetful..

Eaton and Mains Book. Good. Hardcover. (1895,240pp, illustrated. The backstrip is chipped at the top and bottom, tiny split at the rear hinge, extremities worn, contents G+. Smith Pacific Northwest Americana 11266..

London: John Murray Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1924, pp160-175. Removed from THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND VOLUME THE EIGHTY-FIFTH. VG. In report covers. May include a first or last copied page. .

Chicago: Union Book Company Book. VG. Soft cover. 1901, pp84-92. Removed from WITH THE WORLD'S GREAT TRAVELLERS, Edited by Charles Morris and Oliver H.G. Leigh. May include a first or last copied page. VG. From the introduction: "Cornwall, one of the last strongholds of the ancient Britains in their island realm, and famous as the scene of many of the adventures recorded of King Arthur and his Round Table Knights, has much in itself worthy of description, and we give in the following selection some appreciative Cornish notes.".

Buffalo Book. Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 1908, 142pp. Lightly soiled, else G. Limited to 1000cc, this number 729, signed by the author. Also signed and dated on the first free endpapder by the author with a short inscription to Louisville, Kentucky poet Madison Cawein. With the bookplate of Louisville poet Mercedes Rosebery. The author (1857-1915) was born in Buffalo, NY, where her father was the chief city engineer. Her poems first appeared in Peterson's and Leslie's magazines. This is a long poem, consisting of nineteen parts..

Taipei: National Palace Museum Book. Very Good. Hardcover. (1976), 4to, 97pp, fifty color plates. VG+ in VG, clear plastic dj, in G, moderately worn and scuffed slipcase. Some of the ivory and horn pieces are unbelievably intricate. I can't imagine the skill and patience it takes to carve these masterpieces. The text is in Chinese and English. .

Taipei: National Palace Museum Book. Very Good. Hardcover. (1973), 4to, 110pp, fifty color plates. VG+ in VG, clear plastic dj, in G, lightly worn slipcase. From the preface: "These 50 selections are chosen from some 25,000 odd items, all treasures of unexcelled value. The fine colour reproductions show them to an advantage." The text is in Chinese and English. .