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Colonial Interiors, Second Series, Southern Colonial and Early Federl


Sale, Edith Tunis

Hardcover. New York, Bonanza Books, Reprint, N.D., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated, illustrated throughout in b&w. Year unknown, reprint from 1930. Red cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Light wear to covers, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, else a nice, tight copy.

Record # 606335


Price: $20.00 

Conquest of Mexico, The Thomas, Hugh
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Conquest of Mexico, The


Thomas, Hugh

Softcover. Pimlico, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 812 pages, b&w illustrations. Light wear to covers and edges of spine. Old UK price sticker on rear cover. Neat, tight copy.

Record # 454090


Price: $30.00 

Cradle of Colonialism, TheMasselman, George
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Cradle of Colonialism, The


Masselman, George

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press , 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 534 pages, black & white plates, maps. Dust jacket with light wear, soil.

Record # 51416


Price: $25.00 

 

Cultural Bond, The : Sport, Empire, Society (Sport in the Global Society)


Mangan, J.A.

Hardcover. US, Routledge, 1st US, 1993-12-31, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 228 pages. Minor edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 465858


Price: $44.00 

 

Decorative Arts and Paintings of the Colonies and New Republic 1740-1820, The


Childs Gallery

Softcover. Boston, MA, Childs Gallery, 1st, Unknown, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Catalog of works from one gallery. Glossy white covers with color plates on front and back. Light scratches. Staple wrappers tight, pages glossy, clean and crisp. Numerous small b/w plates of paintings, furniture, and other decorative art related to colonies. Catalog is divided up by historical period or subject. Brief explanations of each work provide some historical information.

Record # 808175


Price: $12.00 

 

Decorative Arts and Paintings of the Colonies and New Republic 1740-1820, The


Childs Gallery

Softcover. Boston, MA, Childs Gallery, 1st, Unknown, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Catalog of works from one gallery. Glossy white covers with color plates on front and back. Light scratches. Staple wrappers tight, pages glossy, clean and crisp. Numerous small b/w plates of paintings, furniture, and other decorative art related to colonies. Catalog is divided up by historical period or subject. Brief explanations of each work provide some historical information.

Record # 808174


Price: $12.00 

 

Defying Empire: Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New York


Truxes, Thomas M.

Hardcover. US, Yale University Press, 1st, 2008-11-18, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 464610


Price: $19.00 

 

DEMOCRATIC SPIRIT, THE. A COLLECTIONS OF AMERICAN WRITINGS FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY


Smith, Bernard, editor

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. 16 full color reproductions of family members in Colonial costumes. Intact and very clean.

Record # 219831


Price: $16.00 

 

Diary of Ebenezer Parkman 1703-1782: First Part- Three Volumes in One 1719-1755


Walett (Ed.), Francis G.

Hardcover. Worcester MA, American Antquarian Society, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 316 pages, red cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Very clean, tight copy.

Record # 850026


Price: $60.00 

Distant Relations: How My Ancestors Colonized North AmericaFreeman, Victoria
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Distant Relations: How My Ancestors Colonized North America


Freeman, Victoria

Hardcover. South Royalton, Vt., Steerforth Press, 1st, October 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 535 pages. Dust jacket price clipped with minor sunning to spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 458524


Price: $15.00 

Dwelling of Colonial America, TheWaterman, Thomas Tileston
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Dwelling of Colonial America, The


Waterman, Thomas Tileston

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 312 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Some fading to spine, slight foxing to covers. Spine very slightly cocked but tight. Clean copy. Small "Library of George Murphy" impressed in lower corner of front end papers.

Record # 2230931


Price: $23.00 

 

Early American Architecture: From the First Colonial Settlements to the National Period


Morrison, Hugh

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 4th pr., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue-green cloth stamped with white lettering on spine, 619 pages, many b&w drawings and photographs. Clean, bright copy lacking dust jacket.

Record # 412339


Price: $25.00 

 

Eighteenth-Century Houses of Williamsburg, The


Whiffen, Marcus

Hardcover. Williamsburg, VI, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Revised , 1984, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 289 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Dark blue cloth, gilt title to spine and gilt decoration to front cover. Pictorial endpapes. White pictorial dust jacket with tiny tear to upper right corner and minimal wear, otherwise like new.

Record # 605532


Price: $19.00 

 

Entangled Objects: Exchange, Material Culture, and Colonialism in the Pacific


Thomas, Nicholas

Softcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Light pen markings on only a few pages. Previous owners price sticker on back cover. A nice copy.

Record # 2230411


Price: $19.00 

 

Exercises in Celebrating the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Settlement of Cambridge


Clapp (Ed.), Robert P.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Cambridge City Council/Charles Sever, 1st, 1881, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 163 pages, 9 b&w plates. Brown cloth with dark brown and gilt decoration. Top edge gilt. Bright, clean copy with just a little edgewear to rear cover edge.

Record # 605718


Price: $26.00 

Face of Our Past, The: Images of Black Women from Colonial America to the PresentMacAustin, Hilary (Editor)
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Face of Our Past, The: Images of Black Women from Colonial America to the Present


MacAustin, Hilary (Editor)

Hardcover. Bloomington IL, Indiana University Press, reprint , 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 258 pages. Hardcover. Extensive b&w photography throughout. Small stain to top of dust jacket spine, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 468282


Price: $13.00 

 

Faith of Our Fathers - The Pilgrims


Wallace, Jr., Dewey D.

Wilmington, NC, Consortium/McGrath, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages.

Record # 305404


Price: $15.00 

 

Famous Colonial Houses


Hollister, Paul M. , Illust. by: James Preston

Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay Company Publishers, 1st, 1921, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Famous colonial houses with descriptions of their historical significance. Full-page color illustrations by James Preston. 170 pages. Paper shows some age toning. Blue cloth covers with gold gilt title. The cloth shows wear around the edges and has small piece torn loose at the top.

Record # 805106


Price: $29.00 

 

Federal Convention and the Formation of the Union of the American States, The


Solberg (Ed.), Winton U.

Paperback. NY, Liberal Arts Press, rep. wraps, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 409 pages. The American Heritage Series

Record # 55521


Price: $15.00 

 

Fones Record, The


Arnold, James N.

Hardcover. Baltimore MD, Clearfield Company Inc. , reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 199 pages, hardcover. The records of the proprietors of the Narragansett, otherwise called the Fones Record. Spotting to endpapers and flyleaf. Mild spotting to text block edges. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951889


Price: $19.00 

Foods from the Founding Fathers: Recipes from the Five Colonial SeaportsBurke, Helen Newbury
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Foods from the Founding Fathers: Recipes from the Five Colonial Seaports


Burke, Helen Newbury

Hardcover. Hicksville NY, Exposition Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 349 pages, illustrated with historic photographs and drawings by Nadia Samoiloff Reynolds. Dust jacket with light edgewear, unclipped. Top corner with a small bump. Spine cocked, otherwise clean.

Record # 411526


Price: $48.00 

 

Gardiners of Massachusetts, The: Provincial Ambition and the British-American Career


Milford, T.A.

Hardcover. Lebanon NH, University of New Hampshire Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 306 pages, hardcover. The account of three generations of the Gardiner family during the Revolutionary era. Light rubbing to boards. Light pencil marking to rear endpapers. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951916


Price: $19.00 

Gehennical Fire: The Lives of George Starkey, an American Alchemist in the Scientific RevolutionNewman, William R.
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Gehennical Fire: The Lives of George Starkey, an American Alchemist in the Scientific Revolution


Newman, William R.

Softcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 348 pages. Softcover. Light normal age wear, significant fading to spine and edges of front cover. Very light pencil marking in text.

Record # 2231101


Price: $25.00 

 

Gold of Peru - Masterpieces of Goldsmith's Work of Pre-Incan and Incan Time and the Colonial Period, The


Gallo, Miguel Mujica

Hardcover. Germany, Aurel Bongers, 1st US, 1959, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, 296 pages. Hardcover. Hand numbered #244 of English edition. Tipped-in full color plates. Darkening to top 1" of spine cloth. Dust jacket with tears, wear - dust jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611532


Price: $50.00