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UNITED STATES OF THE WORLD. (World Peace and its Realization)

By: Yurevits, Jacob (Jurevics, Jekabs)

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Buffalo, NY: Edition Otto Karklin, (1932).: (1932).

Seller ID: 11336

Condition: Good

Buffalo, NY: Edition Otto Karklin, (1932).. (1932).. Good. - Small octavo [6-5/8 inches high by 5 inches wide], softcover bound in printed red wraps. The spine is slightly faded. There is a small, light stain to the rear wrap & some small black stains to the spine & the adjacent edges of the wraps. 153 plus 4 blank pages headed "Memorandum" & colophon. The top edge is lightly foxed & there is some light creasing[probably a defect in the printing] to a few leaves of the text. The page edges are slightly darkened. Illustrated with a brown & white portrait frontispiece. Good.

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DECLARACION LAMENTABLE CONTRA LOS FRANCESES / hecha por el Obispo de La Rochela, residente en Guadalajara, en el mes de febrero de 1793.

By: [Coucy, Jean Charles de], Bishop of La Rochelle.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Cadiz [Spain]: En la Imprenta de Don Antonio Murguia, Plazuela de Correo, (1793).: (1793).

Seller ID: 95926

Condition: Very good

- Small quarto [7 inches high by 5-3/8 inches wide], printed self-wraps, removed by a previous owner from a larger collection of pamphlets. 11 pages plus 1 blank with a decorative rule above the first page of text. The edges of the title & the rear blank are slightly darkened & there is some light staining to the title. The bottom corners of the last 3 leaves are creased. Very good. An impassioned denunciation of the French for their execution of Louis XVI. The French king was killed in December 1792. The text is in Spanish. Jean Charles de Coucy [1746-1824] was a refugee in Spain during the F...
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HOLOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED PENNED on SUPERB NAPOLEONIC WATERMARKED PAPER by JOHANNOT.

By: [F. Johannot]; [Napoleon Bonaparte]. C. Cornetto?

Price: $750.00

Publisher: Paris: September 29, 1812.: 1812.

Seller ID: 35517

Condition: Fine

- Approximately 110 words penned on 9-1/2 inch high by 7-1/2 inch wide creamy white Napoleonic watermarked paper. Addressed to "Monsieur L'Administrateur", the author acknowledges receipt of the administrator's letter appointing Mr. Bobone to the position of overseer of declarations at Port Maurice "vous m'avez fait l'honneur de m'ecrire le 26 de ce mois, l'annonce de la nomination qui vient d'etre faire, sur votre proposition, de M. Bobone a la place de Receveur aux declarations au Bureau principal de Port Maurice...." Signed "C. Cornetto". The letter is penned on Napo...
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ANCIENT EGYPT

By: [Mayde, Richard]

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, [1879].: [1879].

Seller ID: 19065

Condition: Good

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, [1879].. [1879].. Good. - Octavo, pictorial red cloth titled and elaborately illustrated in gilt and black on the front cover and the spine. The covers are soiled and faded, with a few light stains. 120 pages, with 48 illustraions, including a frontispiece and 16 full-page plates. Four of the plates were roughly opened and thus the edges of those plates and facing pages are chipped . The pages are darkened with some soiling and occasional minor stains. A previous owner's inscription is penned on the front endpaper. Good.

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THE RESIGNERS VINDICATED; OR, THE DEFECTION RE-CONSIDERED. In Which The Designs of All Parties Are Set In a True Light. By a Gentleman.

By: [Sewell, George].

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London: printed for R. Burleigh, 1718.: 1718.

Seller ID: 36824

Condition: Good

- Octavo, unbound, removed from a larger collection of pamphlets. 34 pages. There is some light creasing to the pamphlet & the outer pages are darkened & chipped with an area of light staining to the last page. Good. Third edition. A reply by "A Gentleman" [George Sewell] to Matthew Tindal's consideration of the defection of Robert Walpole, Earl of Oxford.
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LIGHTS, SHADOWS, AND REFLECTIONS OF WHIGS AND TORIES. By a Country Gentleman.

By: [William Fletcher, of Dublin].

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1843.: 1843.

Seller ID: 36070

Condition: Fair

- Octavo, brown cloth with a printed title label on the spine. The covers are rubbed, bumped and stained. The head of the faded spine is chipped and the title label is stained an chipped. The cloth is partially split with evidence of early worming along the joints. 190 pages followed by a blank leaf and 12 pages of the publisher's ads. The hinges are cracked and the endpapers and pastedowns are heavily foxed. There is occasional scattered foxing and some of the pages are darkened with occasional offsetting. Despite its flaws, it is still a decent reading copy.

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Category: History

UNITED STATES OF THE WORLD. (World Peace and its Realization)

DECLARACION LAMENTABLE CONTRA LOS FRANCESES / hecha por el Obispo de La Rochela, residente en Guadalajara, en el mes de febrero de 1793.

HOLOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED PENNED on SUPERB NAPOLEONIC WATERMARKED PAPER by JOHANNOT.

ANCIENT EGYPT

THE RESIGNERS VINDICATED; OR, THE DEFECTION RE-CONSIDERED. In Which The Designs of All Parties Are Set In a True Light. By a Gentleman.

LIGHTS, SHADOWS, AND REFLECTIONS OF WHIGS AND TORIES. By a Country Gentleman.