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Pratiques des Harems Marocains: Sorcellerie, Medecine, Beaute, avec une Preface par les Docteurs Speder et Lepinay
by Mme A R de Lens
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Paris; Paul Geuthner Librairie Orientaliste; 1925. Brown wraps stamped in red, wear to corners, spine darkened. 95 pp including index. Mme de Lens was the daughter and granddaughter of French physicians: "Mme A R de Lens ne pouvait manquer de s...
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Your Price $85.00
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The Dutch Navy of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
by Jaap R. Bruijn
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Columbia: University of South California Press (1990). Octavo in format in gilt stamped white cloth; 258pp. Illustrated in black & white. Near fine in a near fine pictorial dust wrapper...
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Your Price $125.00
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Arizona Sketches
by J. A. Munk
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New York: The Grafton Press. 1905, 1st edition. 8vo. Tan pictorial cloth, pp. 230. Slight fraying to spine ends; spine lettering shows minor rubbing; light soiling to binding. Condition good...
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Your Price $70.00
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Albertus Seba's Cabinet of Natural Curiosities
by Albertus Seba
Publisher Comments
Albertus Seba's "Cabinet of Curiosities" is one of the 18th century's greatest natural history achievements and remains one of the most prized natural history books of all time.
Though it was common for men of his profession to collect natural...
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Your Price $179.98
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Asconius: Commentaries on Speeches of Cicero (Clarendon Ancient History)
by Asconius
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Asconius lived about a century after Cicero and wrote commentaries on Cicero's speeches to help his sons understand them. Five of these have survived. They are not only interesting in their own right but also provide a mine of information about the...
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Your Price $99.98
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Constantinople Ancient and Modern, with Excursions to the Shores and Islands of the Archipelago and to the Troad, 1st Edition
by James Dallaway
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London: T. Bensley for T. Cadell Junr. & W. Davies, 1797. Quarto, 23 x 28 cm. xi,[i],415,[6],[11]pp. First edition. Contemporary blue paper over boards, skillfully rebacked with a modern tan paper-covered spine and printed paper spine label, and...
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Your Price $1400.00
Rare Books - Hardcover
Pirates in Oz, 1st Edition
by Ruth Plumly Thompson
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Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., (1931). Octavo, 17.5 x 23.5 cm. 280pp. First edition as per Hanff, in the primary binding (medium-green). Original cloth, spine stamped in black, pictorial paper label on the front board. Lacking a dust jacket...
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Your Price $125.00
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Hawks of Outremer
by Robert E. Howard
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West Kingston: Donald M. Grant, Publisher. 1979. Edited by Richard L. Tierney. Illustrated by Rob Macintyre & Chris Pappas. Red cloth, pp.153. No noticable wear, corners are sharp, dust jacket is bright, has been protected in mylar. G/G. CG...
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Your Price $120.00
Rare Books - Hardcover
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