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Ramsay, Andrew Michael Chevalier Histoire du Vicomte de Turenne, Marechal - General des Armees du Roi.

Illustrated with frontis pieces and 12 large folding maps. Amsterdam - Leipzig Arkstee and Merkus. 1771. Illustrated with frontis pieces and 12 large folding maps. 4 volumes. 16mo. Bound in... (Item #3660)
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Rennolds, Lieut. Edwin H. A History of the Henry County Commands Which Served in the Confederate States Army, Including Rosters of the Various companies enlisted in Henry County, Tenn.

Illustrated throughout by monochrome photographic portraits. Jacksonville. Sun Publishing Company. 1904. The First Edition. Illustrated throughout by monochrome photographic portraits. 12mo. 5.25" x 7.50 Bound in cloth covered boards, Spine... (Item #8703)
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Robinson, Alfred. Life in California Before the Conquest...Reprinted From the First Edition Publisheshed in New York 1846, and Edited and Corrected Typographically, With Synopses of the Chapters, and Forward and Notes, by Thomas C. Russell.

Illustrated with reproductions in mezzotints, directly from the lithographs in the First Edition. San Francisco. The Private Press of Thonas C. Russell. 1925. This edition limited to 250 numbered copies... (Item #8686)
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( Roman Empire )Duruy, Victor. Histoire Des Romains - Depuis Les Temps Les Plus Recules Jusqu'a l'Invasion Des Barbares.

Illustrated with 50 brilliantly illuminated full page tissue-guarded chromolithographic plates. Further illustrated with over 3400 gravure engravings and 30 colour maps. Paris. Librairie Hachette. 1879. New Edition. Illustrated with 50... (Item #4026)
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Saint-Prosper, Auguste. Histoire de Tous Les Peuples et des Revolutions du Monde...

Illustrated with 74 full page, tissue-guarded plates of which 64 are magnificently hand-coloured. Complete as issued. Paris. Eugene Penaud et Compie. n.d. c. 1845. Illustrated with 74 full page, tissue-guarded... (Item #8723)
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Sale, George. The Koran, Commonly Called The Alcoran of Mohammed, Translated into English Immediately for the Original Arabic; With Explanatory Notes, Taken from the Most Approved Commentators. To Which is Prefixed a Preliminary Discourse.

Illustrated with 4 engraved maps and plates. Complete as issued. London. Thomas Tegg. 1825. A New Edition with a memoir of the translator, and with various readings and illustrative notes... (Item #8622)
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Standring, Sgt. Gibbard Selkirk. (1.) Royal Automobile Club Driver's Certificate. (2.)Regular Army Certificate of Service. ((3.) Personal Observer's and Gunners Flying Log Book.

1932. 1934.1942. (1) in plain red boards. Illustrated with a small gravure of the author. 24mo. (2) in pictorial printed red boards. Faint RAC shield embossing to front cover. Various... (Item #5929)
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Thompson, Benjamin. History of Long Island from its Discovery and Settlement to the Present Time.

Illustrated throughout with monochrome plates, maps etc. New York. Robert H. Dodd. 1918. The Third Edition Illustrated throughout with monochrome plates, maps etc. 3 volumes. Thick 8vo. Bound in red... (Item #6871)
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Thorndyke, Lynn. A History of Magic and Experimental Science During the First Thirteen Centuries of Our Era.

New York. Columbia University Press. 1947-1953. Volumes 1 and 2 indicate fourth printing 1947. Volumes 3-6 indicate second printing 1953. Six volumes complete as issued. Thick 8vo. Bound in gilt... (Item #8353)
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Vallet, Leon. A Travelers L'Europe Croquis de Cavalerie.

Sumptuously illustrated with fifty colour lithographic plates and 300 further monochrome drawings en texte. Also an original hand coloured litho mounted onto flyleaf. Paris. Librairie de Firmin/didot. 1893. Number thirty... (Item #6935)
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Von Hammer-Purgstall, Joseph Histoire De L'Empire Ottoman- Depuis son Origine Jusqu'A Nos Jours...

Illustrated throughout with 8 fold-out genealogical tables complete as issued. Paris. Bellizard, Barthes, Dufour et Lowell. 1835-1841. First Edition in French, from the original Amsterdam Issue - "Geschichte des Osmanischen... (Item #8722)
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Wilkinson, John Gardner. Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, Including Their Private Life, Government, Laws, Arts, Manufactures, Religion, and Early History...

Splendidly and profusely illustrated throughout with full page coloured, duotone and monochrome lithographic plates (some folding) and further by a plethora woodcuts en texte. London. John Murray. 1837-1841. First Editions... (Item #8694)
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(William Richards). Queen Keopuolani. Memoir of Keopuolani, Late Queen of the Sandwich Islands.

Illustrated with two woodcut engravings. Boston. Crocker & Brewster. 1825. The First Edition. Illustrated with two woodcut engravings. vii, [1], [9]-48 pp. 12mo. 175 x 96 mm. Bound in handmade... (Item #8696)
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