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BRAUDEL, Fernand.
Civilization And Capitalism 15th-18th Century... Vol. I: The Structures of Everyday Life: The Limits of the Possible; Vol. II: The Wheels of Commerce; Vol. III: The Perspective of the World.
New York: Harper & Row, [1981]..
3 Volumes. 8vo. numerous text illus. (some full-page). index. cloth. dws. (few short tears in dws.). First American Edition.
$250 USD Book Number: dola2548 Order / Enquire

BRONGERS, Georg A.
Nicotiana Tabacum The History Of Tobacco And Tobacco Smoking In The Netherlands.
Groningen: Theodorus Niemeyer N.V., 1964..
4to. pp. 259, xxi, [7]. numerous illus. (some colour). cloth. dw (few tears in upper edge of dw).
$55 USD Book Number: aly1361 Order / Enquire

BROUGHAM, Henry [Peter], first Baron Brougham [and Vaux] [1778-1868].
Lives Of Men Of Letters And Science, Who Flourished In The Time Of George III.
London: Charles Knight And Co., 1845-46..
2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 2 p.l., vii-xv, [1 leaf]errata, 516; 2 p.l., [v]-xi, [1]errata, 516. lacking half-titles. 14 engraved portraits (incl. 2 frontis.), with tissue guards. full 19th century red chagrin, gilt backs all edges gilt, gilt inside dentelles (spines bit faded, some rubbing to joints & extremities, occasional light foxing). First Edition. Including chapters on Voltaire, Jean Jacques Rousseau, David Hume, William Robertson, Joseph Black, James Watt, Joseph Priestley, Henry Cavendish, Sir Humphry Davy, Robert Simson, Samuel Johnson, Adam Smith, Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, Edward Gibbon, Sir Joseph Banks, and Jean le Rond d'Alembert.
$400 USD Book Number: elala3043 Order / Enquire

BROWNING, Robert.
The Pied Piper Of Hamelin Illustrated By Kate Greenaway.
London & New York: Frederick Warne And Co., Ltd., [c1903]..
4to. pp. 48. numerous colour illus. cloth-backed pictorial bds. Very good copy.
$100 USD Book Number: dola2003 Order / Enquire

BURNZ, Eliza Boardman [1823-1903].
Help For Young Reporters Giving Full Directions For Reporting In All Its Branches Also Containing An Explanation Of The Proposed Revision Of English Spelling.
New York: Burnz & Co., 1885..
12mo. pp. 47, [1]. original limp cloth (scuffed, short tear to title). First published in 1881. Burnz taught and promoted the use of Pitman shorthand and even developed her own system. She was a member and first librarian of the New York State Stenographers' Association, and a founder of the Spelling Reform Association in Philadelphia and the League for Short Spelling. Not found in NUC.
$125 USD Book Number: elala2410 Order / Enquire

BUSS, Georg.
Der Fächer.
Bielefeld & Leipzig: Verlag von Velhagen & Klasinng, 1904..
4to. pp. [2], 139. 120 illus. (few colour). index. wrs.(front cover curled, discolouration in front end paper & ex-libris sticker on corner of front paste down).
$75 USD Book Number: aly176 Order / Enquire

CELLARIUS, Christoph [1638-1707].
Breviarium Antiquitatum Romanarum Accurante Hieronymo Freyero.
Verona: Jacopo Vallarsi, 1739..
8vo. pp. xiv, 144, xv. woodcut ornaments, initial, & title vignette. modern half calf. First published in 1715. Cellarius (Keller), an eminent German philologist and author, was rector of the College of Weimar (1673), and professor of eloquence and history at the University of Halle (1693). Brunet 29167. Clarke II p. 166
$205 USD Book Number: GLLevCEL97 Order / Enquire

CENTENNIAL COMMISSION.
Visitor's Guide To The Centennial Exhibition And Philadelphia. May 10th To November 10th, 1876. Authorized By The Centennial Board Of Finance, And Approved By The Director-General The Only Guide-Book Sold On The Exhibition Grounds.
Philadelphia: J.B.Lippincott & Co., [1876]..
16mo. pp. 48. 2 folding maps - the plan of the exhibition grounds in colour. original printed wrs. (spine covered with worn cloth, wrs. rubbed).
$150 USD Book Number: elala1307 Order / Enquire

CHAPONE, [Hester] 1727-1801].
Letters On The Improvement Of The Mind. Addressed to a Lady.
London: Printed [by C.Whittingham, Chiswick] For John Sharpe, 1829..
16mo. pp. viii, 180. with half-title. 5 engraved plates by W.Greatbatch after William Westall. A pretty copy in contemporary blind & gilt-stamped chagrin, all edges gilt (some foxing to plates).
$154 USD Book Number: GAPttCHA89 Order / Enquire

COCTEAU, Jean.
Opium The Diary of an Addict.Translated by Ernest Boyd.
London, New York, & Toronto: Longmans, Green And Co., 1932..
12mo. pp. 2 p.l., 188. 27 full-page text illus. by Cocteau. gilt-lettered green cloth (upper rear cover dampstained, lower edges of covers darkened). dw. (some chipping & soiling to edges & along folds of dw). First Canadian Edition.
$500 USD Book Number: GCTiuCOC71 Order / Enquire

CONKEY, W.B., COMPANY, PUBLISHERS.
Views Of.The World's Fair And Midway Plaisance.
Chicago: 1894..
oblong 16mo. unpaginated. illus. throughout (full-page). original pictorial wrs., recased (bit soiled, edges chipped). First Edition.
$100 USD Book Number: elala1309 Order / Enquire

[COOTE, Charles].
The History Of Modern Europe, From The Treaty Of Amiens In 1802, To The Pacification Of Paris, In 1815.Being A Continuation Of Russell's History.
Keene, N.H.: John Prentiss, 1822..
12mo. pp. 430. Uncut in original bds. (head of spine chipped, some browning & foxing).
$125 USD Book Number: elala531 Order / Enquire

COPE BROS. & CO., LTD., LIVERPOOL & LONDON.
Cope's Smoke-Room Booklets. Nos. 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14.
Liverpool: At the Office of "Cope's Tobacco Plant",-1889-93..
11 Numbers (of 14): lacking Nos. 1, 5, & 12. 12mo. circa 70 pp. each. illus. original chromolithographed wrs. original cloth & marbled bd. slipcases (some wrs. loose & some wr. spines worn, 1 case damaged; upper outer corner of last 2 leaves & rear wr. of part VI defective, repairs to inside of wrs. of part IX, piece torn from rear wr. of part X, also incl. empty cases for Nos. 1 & 5, some occasional light foxing, some dampstaining to part XI). several mounted chromolithographed pipe/tobacco ads. A collection of booklets containing smoking and tobacco literature, poems, essays, and tales, comprising (2) The Smoker's Garland. Part 1. (incl a full-page illus. advert for Cope's Old Crow Tobacco showing Pocahontas and Captain Smith). (3) Selections From Original Contributions By James Thomson To Cope's Tobacco Plant. (4) Charles Lamb In Pipefuls Selected And Arranged By Walter Lewin. (6) The Smoker's Garland. Part II. (7) Amber All About It By J.G.Haddow. (with a 3-page checklist of books relating to amber). (8) Cope's Mixture Selected From His Tobacco Plant. (incl. 2 full-page illus. of golfing scenes.). (9) Pipes And Meerschaum Part The First. American Pipes. (with Canadian content; sections on native peace-pipes and tales). (10) The Smoker's Garland Part III. (11) Pipes And Meerschaum Part The Second. The Pipes Of Asia And America. (Turkish pipes and customs, Arab and Persian pipes, the Indian hookah, pipes of Africa, China, Japan, and Australasia). (13) John Ruskin On Himself And Things In General. (14) Sir Walter Ralegh. A Day In A Tobacco Factory. By Joseph Hatton (name in ms.) Illustrated by John Wallace. (incl. 3 full-page illus. of golfing scenes and a second part entitled 'A Day In A Tobacco Factory', with illus. of Cope's saleroom in London & bonded works in Liverpool, spinning tobacco, sifting snuff, making cavendish, making cigars, stripping the leaves). Arendts IV 3217.
$833 USD Book Number: cops13 Order / Enquire

CORNOVA, Ignaz [1740-1822].
Geschichte des Waiseninstituts zum heiligen Johann dem Taüfer in Prag.
Prague: Gesellschaft von Menschenfreunden, 1785..
8vo. pp. 4 p.l., 118. engraved vignette of the orphanage on title. original wrs. ( spine ends of wrs. chipped, light dampmark in upper corner of outer leaves). First Edition of this history of the Orphanage of St. John the Baptist in Prague, founded and financed by the Prague Freemasons in 1773. From 1780 to 1794 the orphanage was also the home to three Masonic Lodges. The author, a Jesuit priest, was a representative of the European Catholic Enlightenment movement and a prominent Freemason. Only 2 copies cited in Worldcat.
$750 USD Book Number: elala5758 Order / Enquire

CORTI, Count.
A History Of Smoking.
London: Bracken Books, [1996]..
8vo. pp. 295, [1]. 33 plates (31 double-sided). biblio. index. wrs.
$31 USD Book Number: GRTHiCOR34 Order / Enquire

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