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1. [Beaufoy, Mark, 1764-1827] /[ Barrington, Daines, 1727-1800]  
Bering Strait 

Publisher: London? New York? or Philadelphia?
Map from book. 37 x 42.5 cm. 160 x 175 degrees (so indicated along bottom) West longitude. The only text: "Bering Strait"; "Cape Prince of Wales"; "1817. July. Ice" Stock# Flat181.
Item number: Flat181
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Click for larger image 2. [Black, Jeannette Dora] 1909-1983  
Early Maps and Their Uses. An Exhibition Illustrating Some of the Practical Uses Found for Maps in Daily Life 

Publisher: Providence, RI, John Carter Brown Library, 1963
15 leaves. Reproduced from typescript. Opened by Alexander O. Vietor at the annual meeting of the Associates of the John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, May 17, 1963. Describes 58 maps. Stock#L-311. Vg, cover browned / stapled.
Item number: L-311
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Click for larger image 3. [Burr, E. F. (Enoch Fitch), 1818-1907]  
Ecce Cœlum / Coelum or Parish Astronomy in Six Lectures by a Connecticut Pastor 

Publisher: Boston, Nichols & Noyes, 1870
[vi], 198 p.; 19.5 cm. "Eighth Edition." First published 1867. Burr "was a theologian and astronomer who lectured extensively on the relationship between science and religion." Stock#47228 (mnb). VG; embossed boards with gilt label.
Item number: 47228
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Click for larger image 4. [Damon, S. (Samuel) Foster] 1893-1971  
The Harvard Advocate... 

Publisher: Cambridge, MA: Harvard Advocate / Crimson Printing Company, 1917
Three numbers. Published every two weeks during the academic year, 1869-1917. These are issues CIII, numbers 3, 5 and 10, of March 28, May 14, and August 30 of 1917. They contain poems of S. Foster Damon, class of 1914, then doing graduate studies. The editorials reflect American involvement with the war in Europe. These were Damon's own copies. Stock#L-302. Good, covers of March number detached.
Item number: L-303
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5. [Gill, Eric] 1882-1940???  
Saint Patrick 

Publisher: [Ditch;ling, Sussex??] [Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic ??] 1920?
Print 12.7 x 7.5 cm. This is the size and the format of prints of Catholic saints designed by Gill at Ditchling before 1924. But I find no description or image of it. Stock # Flat 177. Good, there is a sign of a fold diagonally on the upper right corner.
Item number: Flat177
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Click for larger image 6. [Pepler, H. D. C. (Hilary Douglas Clarke), 1878-1951. Gill, Eric, 1882-1940, illustrator  
The Song of the Dressmaker 

Publisher: [Ditchling, Sussex] St. Dominic's Press [1923]
Broadside, illus.; 31 x 16.5 cm. Series: Rhyme Sheet No.1. Wood engravings by Eric Gill. Stock#Flat169. VG.
Item number: Flat169
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Click for larger image 7. [West, Austin] editor  
It's On Your Way... A Guide Book of Long Island Sound and Vicinity 

Publisher: [Mystic? Conn.: A. West] 1959
Various pagings, illus., maps; 28 cm. Promotes the Connecticut coast of Long Island Sound. Stock#L-301. Spiral binding. Vg.
Item number: L-301
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8. A Citizen.  
To the Freemen of the State of Rhode Island, &.&. 

Publisher: [Providence, 1817]
14 p.; 25 cm. Caption title; dated at end: Warwick, March 6, 1817. A poltical pamphlet in favor of Governor William Jones against Nehemiah Knight. Suppots Rhode Island's states rights over federalism. Jones had opposed the War of 1812, and opposed centralized taxes, a standing army, military academies, and all similar restrictions of freedom. Bartlett, p. 7; American Imprints 42299. NUC NT 0240590. Uncut, untrimmed, with last leaf blank; stitched. stock#OB158.
Item number: OB158
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9. A Lady.  
Tales of the Classics: A New Delineation Of the Most Popular Fables, Legends, and Allegories... 

Publisher: London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830
Octavo; three volumes: xxiv, 302; iv, 302; iv, 370 p. 21 cm. Title continues: Commemorated in the Works of Poets, Painters, and Sculptors. Selected and Written by a Lady, for the Amusement and Instruction of Her Own Daughters. First edition. At a time when women were not afforded education, the author undertook this work 'with a view to acquiring, in an eligible and agreeable manner, a competent knowledge of the Grecian mythology, and other subjects therewith connected.' Among its goals was to provide 'an interesting work for the young traveller in his tour through Italy and other countries of classic interest.' A good example of feminist learning and women participants in the Grand Tour. Bound in publisher's boards, brown cloth spine & paper labels. This flimsy, temporary binding has been restored and reinforced to make it appear as new but with greater strength. A very good copy with 19th century bookplates. stock#OB340.
Item number: OB340
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Click for larger image 10. A Poker of Fun (Amy Lowell), 1874-1925.  
Dear Sir (or Dear Madam) Who happens to glance at this title-page [Critical Fable]... 

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1922
ix, 99 p.; 21.5 cm. In verse. Takes on contemporary poets-- Frost, Eliot, Pound, even herself. Vg in illustrated wrappers. stock#NS0074.
Item number: NS0074
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11. A Society of Gentlemen.  
The Medical Magazine, or, General Repository of Practical Physic and Surgery. 

Publisher: London: Printed for the authors, and sold by G. Kearsly, 1774
iv, 56, 108, 56, 56, 56, 56, 56, [96] p., 22 cm. The 4-page introduction announces the magazine's goals. Section 1, The Complete System of Modern Surgery; 2, The Modern Practice of Physic; 3, Pathological Observations; 4, Anatomical Lectures; 5, Elements of Physiology; 6, Theoretical and Practical Chemistry; 7, Miscellaneous Pieces (including two by John Hunter). The last [96] pages consist of signatures B-C4, F-P4 of A New and Comprehensive Medicinal Dictionary (caption title), missing signatures A, D, and E. This appears to be a very rare work. A torn signature on the front flyleaf reads "A [loss] N. York May 4 1776." A bookplate of "Aaron [lost] Medford 1787." Original leather, rebacked by Dragonfly Bindery (George Sargent). stock#OB675.
Item number: OB675
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12. A Young Man.  
Lines Composed by a Young Man, whilst in the penitentiary, in the city of Philadelphia, under the sentence of imprisonment for Life. Verse. 

Publisher: [Philadelphia? 1795?]
Broadside, 38 x 10.5 cm. Eight stanzas of four lines, followed by another poem, Adieu my Friend, six stanzas of four lines of ABAB rhyme. Seems to be unrecorded. stock#NSb003. Very good.
Item number: NSb0063
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13. A. E. (Russell, George William), 1862-1935.  
Song and its Fountains. 

Publisher: London, Macmillan, 1932
4 p.l., 133 p., 20 cm. The Irish poet writes, "In what follows I have tried to track song back to its secret fountains. ...I have here placed some songs in their natural psychic atmosphere." Vg/dj good+, toned. stock#101486 (dr).
Item number: 101486
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14. A. L. A. (Automobile Legal Association).  
The Automobile Green Book. Road Reference and Tourist Guide. 

Publisher: Boston, Mass., Scarborough Motor Guide Co., 1933
964 p., illus., maps, folded map; 22.5 cm. "All states east of the Mississippi River, Eastern Ontario, Quebec, and Maritime Provinces." Stock#39936. Vg/ no dj.
Item number: 39936
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Click for larger image 15. A. L. O. E. (A Lady Of England) [Tucker, Charlotte Maria], 1832-1911  
The Look of the Thing. By A. L. O. E. 

Publisher: Boston: Henry Hoyt [1877?]
62 p., frontis., 3 illus.; 15.5 cm. Also includes: Good for Nothing, pp. 25-43, and How Like it is, pp. 45-62. Gift inscription dated Christmas 1877. Stock#45937. Good+ / corners rubbed.
Item number: 45937
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Click for larger image 16. A. L. O. E. (A Lady Of England) [Tucker, Charlotte Maria], 1832-1911  
Hold Fast. By A. L. O. E. 

Publisher: Boston: Henry Hoyt [1877?]
62 p., frontis., 3 illus.; 15.5 cm. Also includes Good-By, pp. 25-41, and "Don't Be Too Sure," pp. 45-60. Gift inscription dated Christmas 1877. Stock#45934.Good+ / corners worn, spine partially split.
Item number: 45938
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Click for larger image 17. A. L. O. E. [Tucker, Charlotte Maria], 1832-1911  
Paying Dear For It. By A.L.O.E. [A Lady of England] 

Publisher: Boston: Henry Hoyt [1877?]
61 p., frontis., 3 illus.; 15.5 cm. Gift inscription dated Christmas 1877. Stock#45934. Good, black crayon markings on front fly and pp. 26, 28, 29, 31, 33, 39, 47, 53; red cloth boards worn.
Item number: 45934
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18. Aaron, Daniel, 1912-  
Men of Good Hope; a story of American Progressives. 

Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press, 1951.
xiv, 329 p. 22 cm. Chapters: Emerson and the progressive tradition.--Theodore Parker: "the battle of the nineteenth century."--Henry George: the great paradox.--Edward Bellamy: village utopian.--Henry Demarest Lloyd: the middle-class conscience.--William Dean Howells: the gentleman from Altruria.--Thorstein Veblen: moralist and rhetorician.--Theodore Roosevelt pseudo-progressives.--In retrospect: 1912-1950.--Notes on sources (p. 309-321). NEU081. Good+, extensive pencil markings / no dj.
Item number: NEU081
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Click for larger image 19. Aaron, R I. (Richard Ithamar), 1901-1987  
The Theory of Universals 

Publisher: Oxford [Eng.] Clarendon Press, 1952
viii, 247 p., index of persons, 22.5 cm. From the library of Prof. Vincent Tomas of the Brown University Department of Philosophy. This was a review copy for the journal Erasmus. The paper of the envelope containing a prospectus for it has badly darkened pp 138 and 139. Stock# 43,936. Good+ / no dj.
Item number: 43936
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20. Abbagnano, Nicola, 1901-  
Per o Contro l'Uomo. 

Publisher: Rizzoli [Milano, 1968]
387 p., 21 cm. "Articoli pubblicati dal 1964 al 1967 su La Stampa." Stock# 38,149. Vg/ paper.
Item number: 38149
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