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Lot 140

Antique Books--Academic, Reference, Military History

Estimate: $100 - $200

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Early 19th Century Academic Books: a) “Letters on the Spanish Inquisition A Rare Work”, by M. Le Comte Joseph Le Maistre, translated by T.J. O’Flaherty, S.E.C; William Smith; Boston, 1830. Both boards detached, spine deficient. 164pp. b) “Elements of Astronomy, Illustrated with Plates, for the Use of Schools and Academies, with Questions”. By John H. Wilkins, A.M. Stereotype edition. Hilliard, Gray, Little and Watkins; Boston 1829. 152pp plus additional plates. Foldout frontispiece orbital chart. 7 1/4” x 4 3/4”. Front board loose but attached. [Reference Books]: c) “The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book” by Fannie Merritt Farmer. New Edition, Revised and Enlarged with 122 Half-Tone Illustrations. Little, Brown and Company, Boston; 1928. 808pp plus adverts. Octavo, tan cloth, no DJ. Well used condition. d) Open House in New England. By Samuel Chamberlain.. Hastings House, NY. 1948 (fifth revised edition).e) Familiar Quotations, by John Bartlett. Eleventh Edition, edited by Morley and Everett. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. 1939. f) Textbook of Anatomy and Physiology, by Diana Clifford Kimber, Carolyn E. Gray and Caroine E. Stackpole. Tenth Edition, The MacMillan Company, NY: 1937. g) An American Doctor’s Odyssey, by Victor Heiser. First Edition, Norton & Company, New York. 1936. Hardcover, no DJ. [Military History] h) My Experiences in the World War, by John J. Pershing, Commander in Chief of the American Expeditionary Forces. With sixty-nine reproductions from photographs and numerous maps. In 2 Volumes. Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York; 1931. First Edition, First Printing. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spines and reproduction signature on front board. No DJ. 836pp. i) The Fighting at Jutland : The Personal Experiences of Sixty Officers and Men of the British Fleet. By HW Fawcett and GWW Hooper. MacMillan and Co, London; 1921. Abridged edition, September 1921. 231pp. j) Our First Century: Being a Popular Descriptive Portraiture of the One Hundred Great and Memorable Evens of Perpetual Interest in the History of our Country. By R.M Devens. Published by C.A Nichols and Co, Springfield Mass, 1876. k) Life’s Picture History of World War II, Time Inc. NYC 1950. In slip case. l) New York Times Mid-Week Pictorial: The European War. 1915.

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