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Vancouver's A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean - 6 Octavo Volumes, 1 Folio Atlas: George Vancouver's A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and Round the World; in which the Coast of North-west America has been carefully examined and accurately surveyed undertaken by His

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Blaeu's Tooneel des Aerdrycx - Fifth Volume with 55 Engraved Maps: This remarkable fifth volume of 55 maps with original hand-coloring is is Jan & Willem Blaeu's Tooneel des Aerdrycx, oft Nieuwe Atlas ? Vyfde Deel or Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Dutch edition. This was p

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1489 St Augustine City of God Incunabula Philosophy: 1489 St Augustine City of God Incunabula Philosophy Existence God Waleys Trivet Augustine of Hippo was a 5th-century early Christian church philosopher and theologian. He is most known for his work ��

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1870 Life Among the Indians George Catlin Native Americans Travel Exploration: 1870 Life Among the Indians George Catlin Native Americans Travel Exploration â€œLife Among the Indians” by George Catlin is a fascinating account detailing the authors experiences and obser

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1924 Conan Doyle Autobiography Voyages Sherlock Holmes: 1924 Conan Doyle Autobiography Voyages Sherlock Holmes Memories & Adventures Arthur Conan Doyle is one of the most important mystery novelists of the 19th-century, best-known for his stories of detect

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1400s BEAUTIFUL Medieval Manuscript Handwritten Vellum: 1400s BEAUTIFUL Medieval Manuscript Handwritten Vellum Leaves Latin Liturgy Color A beautiful gathering of five 15th-century handwritten manuscript leaves. Each leaf is written in double-column format

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1747 1ed Bible History Creation Noah Flood EGYPT: 1747 1ed Bible History Creation Noah Flood EGYPT Cosmogony MAPS Pyramids The “Universal History” is a mid-18th-century history of the world. Written by numerous authors and contributors, this enor

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1885 Mark Twain 1st/1st ed Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer Adventures CLASSIC: 1885 Mark Twain 1st/1st ed Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer Adventures CLASSIC â€œthe most praised and most condemned 19th-century American work of fiction” - Legacies of Genius. â€œAll moder

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Easton Press Presidents Collection Including Six SIGNED Editions 77 Volumes: Easton Press Presidents Collection Including Six SIGNED Editions, 77 Volumes. Published by Easton Press, Norwalk. SIGNED Editions Include: The Memoirs Of Richard Nixon by Richard Nixon, A Time To Heal

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1885 1ed Civil War Memoirs of Union General Ulysses S.: 1885 1ed Civil War Memoirs of Union General Ulysses S. Grant MAPS 2v Leather Set â€œThe art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard

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1848 History of the French Revolution Illustrated: 1848 History of the French Revolution Illustrated Fine BINDING 2v Set Poujoulat Jean Joseph Françoise Poujoulat was a 19th-century French historian who published a surprisingly pro-Revolution ac

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1740 Isaac Newton OPTICS Mathematics: 1740 Isaac Newton OPTICS Mathematics, Science, Physics Light Illustrated OPTICE Famous printing of Isaac Newton on Optics and his discovery of the behavior of light and light rays. Sir Isaac Newton (1

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1497 Medieval Saint Bonaventure Incunabula: 1497 Medieval Saint Bonaventure Incunabula Dieta Salutis Bible Sermons Catholic “To know much and taste nothing-of what use is that?” ― Bonaventure An exceedingly rare example of “Dieta Sa

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Five 20th century books, c/o Behind the Scenes with the Kaiser by The Baroness Von Larisch (New York, 1922; complete in two volumes); The Notion-Counter: a Farrago of Foibles by Nobody, illustrated by Somebody (Boston, 1922); The Roycroft Dictionary by Ali Baba and the Bunch (Elbert Hubbard) (n.p., 1914); and Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung (Peking, 1969).

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(5) 20th century books

Name: (5) 20th century books
SKU: 152343039
Price: 20 USD
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