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Image for Green Coats and Glory: The United States Regiment of Riflemen 1808 -1821 / Old Fort Niagara Association ( Benjamin Forsyth / Thomas Adams Smith / Daniel Appling related)( War of 1812 related)

Green Coats and Glory: The United States Regiment of Riflemen 1808 -1821 / Old Fort Niagara Association ( Benjamin Forsyth / Thomas Adams Smith / Daniel Appling related)( War of 1812 related)

By: Fredriksen, John C / Old Fort Niagara Association

Price: $33.68 CAD

Publisher: Youngstown, New York, Youngstown, N.Y.: Fort Niagara Publications, 2000, 1st Edition, First Printing: 2000

Seller ID: 165849

ISBN: 0941967220

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see description)

----------softcover, a Near Fine example with a very slight bump to the upper corner, 80 pages, illustrated with photos and b&w illustrations and a colour illustration on the verso of each cover, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE///
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Image for The FRESCOBALDI: A Florentine Family -by Dino Frescobaldi and Francesco Solinas ( Florence, Italy / Wine / Tuscany ) ( Medici / Lorenzo Lippi related)

The FRESCOBALDI: A Florentine Family -by Dino Frescobaldi and Francesco Solinas ( Florence, Italy / Wine / Tuscany ) ( Medici / Lorenzo Lippi related)

By: Frescobaldi, Dino; Francesco Solinas; Introduction By Antonio Paolucci ( with Texts By Roberta Bartoli; Roberto Contini )

Price: $80.93 CAD

Publisher: Italy, Florence, Italy: Casa Editrice Le Lettere , 2004, 1st Edition, First Printing: 2004

Seller ID: 163200

ISBN: 8871668707

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine (see description)

----------hardcover, about 9.75w x 12h inches, a Fine example, in a Fine dustjacket, looks and feels new and unread, 325 pages, colour and b&w photos and illustrations throughout ---overseas shipping (anywhere outside of Canada and the USA ) will require additional charges, ---"The Frescobaldi are a prominent Florentine noble family that have been involved in the political, sociological, and economic history of Tuscany since the Middle Ages;. Originating in the Val di Pesa in the Chianti, they appear holding important posts in Florence in the twelfth century. In the struggles of Guelfs and Ghi...
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Palazzo Sani: Gia Micheli - Sede Della Confcommercio Di Lucca

By: Giambastiani, Massimo; Iacopo Lazzareschi Cervelli, Introduction By Umberto Tenucci

Price: $40.43 CAD

Publisher: Italy, Lucca, Italy: Titiana Editrice / Pegaso Group / Lucca, 2004, 1st edition, First Printing (presumed): 2004

Seller ID: 147125

ISBN: 8889245050

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see description)

-----------large (quarto) hardcover, a Near Fine copy in an attractive Very Good+ dustjacket witrh a bit of very light rubbing, 79 pages, colour and b&w illustrations and photos, ALL TEXT is in ITALIAN, the story and history (?) of a building in Lucca, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo, ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE///
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The Lauries of Maxwelton -by I O J Gladstone ( Scotland . Scottish Family History )

By: Gladstone, I O J ( Isabel Olive Joan ) (foreword By Frederica Oswell )

Price: $33.68 CAD

Publisher: London, England, London, UK: The Research Publishing Co. / Estate of I O J Gladstone, 1972, 1st Edition, First Printing: 1972

Seller ID: 164952

ISBN: 0705000117

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see desciption)

----------hardcover, a Near Fine example with a bit of fading to the lower edge of the front board, in an attractive Very Good dustjacket, light wear and rubbing, short closed tear at lower front flap fold, 216 pages, b&w photos and illustrations, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE///
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Image for The Drug Scene in Great Britain: Journey Into Loneliness (inc. The Jazz Junkie; The Purple Heart Craze; Young Heroin and Cocaine Addicts; Glossary, etc)

The Drug Scene in Great Britain: Journey Into Loneliness (inc. The Jazz Junkie; The Purple Heart Craze; Young Heroin and Cocaine Addicts; Glossary, etc)

By: Glatt, Max M; David J Pittman; Dugg G Gillespie; Donald R Hills

Price: $26.93 CAD

Publisher: London, England, London, UK: Edward Arnold, 1967, 1st Edition, First Printing: 1967

Seller ID: 163783

ISBN: 0713141247

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see desciption)

-----------hardcover, a Near Fine example, in a Good dustjacket with some rubbing and light wear, 117 pages, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE///
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Opium and Empire: The Lives and Careers of William Jardine and James Matheson by Richard J Grace / McGill - Queen's University Press

By: Grace, Richard J / McGill - Queen's University Press

Price: $26.93 CAD

Publisher: Montreal, Quebec / Kingston, Ontario, Montreal, PQ / Kingston, ON: McGill - Queen's University Press ( MQUP ), 2014, 1st Edition, First Printing: 2014

Seller ID: 158749

ISBN: 0773544526

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see description)

------------hardcover, about 6.25 x 9.25 inches, a Near Fine copy in a Near Fine dustjacket, upper corners are gently bumped, 453 pages, b&w illustrations, ---"In 1832 William Jardine and James Matheson established what would become the greatest British trading company in East Asia in the nineteenth century. After the termination of the East India Company's monopoly in the tea trade, Jardine, Matheson & Company's aggressive marketing strategies concentrated on the export of teas and the import of opium, sold offshore to Chinese smugglers. Jardine and Matheson, recognized as giants on the scen...
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History of Western Science, 1543 - 2001 / Folio Society

By: Gribbin, John / Folio Society

Price: $47.18 CAD

Publisher: London, England, London, UK: Folio Society, 2006, 1st Folio Edition, First Printing: 2006

Seller ID: 147288

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see description)

----------hardcover, a Near Fine copy which is likely unread, no dustjacket as issued, in a lightly rubbed Near Fine slipcase, 706 pages, b&w and colour plates, leather spine with decorated boards, previously published as Science, a History 1543 - 2001 (done by random House ), one page has a corner crease, a few pages have had corner tips creased, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE///
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Image for 1896: Jno A Haddock's Island and River Pictorial: The Grand St Lawrence River, Its Islands, Rapids, Cottages and Water Scenery / Jno (John) A Haddock (Thousand Islands / Ontario / New York )

1896: Jno A Haddock's Island and River Pictorial: The Grand St Lawrence River, Its Islands, Rapids, Cottages and Water Scenery / Jno (John) A Haddock (Thousand Islands / Ontario / New York )

By: Haddock, JNO A ( John ) ( Souvenir View Book Publisher - 1896 Edition )

Price: $107.93 CAD

Publisher: New York, Watertown, N.Y.: Jno A Haddock ( John ), 1896, 2nd edition, 1st Printing ( Printed By Weed-Parsons Printing Company, Albany New York ): 1896

Seller ID: 165994

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good (see description)

-----------hardcover, a solid Good example, overall rubbing and tip wear with show through to the boards beneath, some very short tears to edges of pages as often seen with these early souvenir view books, still quite presentable overall and all images are present, ink gift inscription on front blank endpaper, 56 pages, b&w photos throughout, images include: Mr Emerys four views ( Calumet Island; Charles E Emery Summer Residence (2 views); The Veranda / View in seven Isles property of Gen. Bradley Winslow; The Old Seth Green House on Manhattan Island (rebuilt); Piazza of Judge Spencers House; ...
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The Uncensored War: The Media and Vietnam

By: Hallin, Daniel C

Price: $13.43 CAD

Publisher: New York, NY, N.Y. / Oxford: Oxford University Press ( OUP ), 1986, 1st Edition, First Printing: 1986

Seller ID: 148086

ISBN: 0195038142

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see description)

----------hardcover, a Near Fine copy in a Near Fine price clipped dustjacket, 285 pages, ---"Vietnam was America's most divisive and unsuccessful foreign war. It was also the first to be televised and the first of the modern era fought without military censorship. From the earliest days of the Kennedy-Johnson escalation right up to the American withdrawal, and even today, the media's role in Vietnam has continued to be intensely controversial. The "Uncensored War" gives a richly detailed account of what Americans read and watched about Vietnam. Hallin draws on the complete body of...
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Bath Boating Station: An Illustrated History -by Terry Hardick -a Signed Copy ( England Local History )

By: Hardick, Terry (signed)

Price: $47.18 CAD

Publisher: England, Bath, UK: Millstream Books, 2005, 1st Edition, First Printing: 2005

Seller ID: 162318

ISBN: 094897575X

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see desciption)

-----------softcover, about 7w x 9.75h inches, a Near Fine example, looks new, signed and inscribed "To N___ from Terry 03/11 T M Hardick", 112 pages, b&w photos, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo /// SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE///
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Image for The Sword of Islam, or Suffering Armenia - Annals of Turkish Power and the Eastern Question (inc. Russia & Turkey; Struggles of Modern Greece; Bulgaria & Turks; Servia & Roumania; Bosnia & Herzegovina; Egypt & Ottoman Empire; Armenian Question, etc)

The Sword of Islam, or Suffering Armenia - Annals of Turkish Power and the Eastern Question (inc. Russia & Turkey; Struggles of Modern Greece; Bulgaria & Turks; Servia & Roumania; Bosnia & Herzegovina; Egypt & Ottoman Empire; Armenian Question, etc)

By: Hopkins, J Castell ( John ); Preface By Right Reverend A Sweatman

Price: $33.68 CAD

Publisher: Ontario, Brantford / Toronto, ON: The Bradley Garretson Co. Ltd., 1896, 1st Edition, First Printing: 1896

Seller ID: 164581

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good (see description)

----------hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering and b&w decoraton on front board and gilt design on spine, overall a solid Very Good example, light edge and tip wear, a bit of rubbing, browning to paper, 450 pages, b&w illustrations, ---contents include: The Rise and Fall of Turkish Power; The Mahometan Creed; Modern Turkey; Constantinople - The Centre of Islam; Russia and Turkey; The Greek Church and Eastern Christianity; A Survey of European Turkey; The Struggles of Modern Greece; Bulgaria and the Turks; Servia and Roumania; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Egypt and the Ottoman Empire; Historic...
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Nelson and Emma / Folio Society Edition ( Admiral Horatio Nelson / Emma Hamilton - Letters / Correspondence )

By: Hudson, Roger (ed.) ( ( Admiral )Horatio Nelson / Emma Hamilton )/ Folio Society Edition

Price: $13.43 CAD

Publisher: London, England, London, UK: Folio Society, 1994, 1st Folio Edition, First Printing: 1994

Seller ID: 160272

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine (see description)

----------hardcover, about 7w x 9.5h inches, a Fine copy, no dustjacket as issued, housed in a lightly rubbed Near Fine slipcase, 256 pages, colour and b&w illustrations, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE///
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The Face of Fritwell, 1900 - 2000 -by Charles Hughes -a Signed Copy ( Village / North Oxfordshire, England )( Local History )

By: Hughes, Charles (signed)

Price: $26.93 CAD

Publisher: England, Souldern, Oxfordshire, UK: Satin Paperbacks / SatinPaperbacks, 2015, 1st Edition, First Printing: 2015

Seller ID: 159369

ISBN: 0993077773

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see description)

-----------softcover, about 5.75w x 8.5h inches, a Near Fine copy, a wee bit of rubbing to covers and corner tips, signed by Hughes, 135 pages, colour and b&w photos, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo /// SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE///
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Karachiwala, a Subcontinent within a City ( Karachi, Pakistan /inc. Photographs; Family Trees; Maps; Diagrams; Foldouts )

By: Husain, Rumana; Designed By Asma Husain; Essays By Arif Hasan; Dr Hamida Khuhro; Luthfullah Khan; S Akbar Zaidi; Zubeida Mustafa

Price: $67.43 CAD

Publisher: Pakistan, Karachi, Pakistan: JAAL / Koninkrijk Der Nederlanden, 2010, 1st Edition, First Printing: 2010

Seller ID: 164356

ISBN: 9698559019

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see desciption)

----------hardcover, about 9.75w x 12h inches, a Near Fine example, in a lightly rubbed Very Good+ dustjacket, some crinkling to the laminate on the rear panel of the jacket, ---326 pages, colour photographs throughout, overseas shipping (outside of Canada and the USA ) will require additional postage, ---" Karachiwala: a subcontinent within a city, describes the diversity and change within Karachi, as a microcosm and not only for Pakistan but of the entire South Asian region. A selection of interviews converges into a unique celebration of the people and their chosen city. Karachiwala offers...
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The Greek Point of View ---by Maurice Hutton -a signed copy

By: Hutton, Maurice (signed)( Principal of University College, Toronto )

Price: $26.93 CAD

Publisher: London, England, London, UK: Hodder and Stoughton ( H&S ), No Date ( 1925 ), 1st Edition, First Printing: 1925

Seller ID: 143766

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+ ( see Description )

-----------hardcover, a Very Good+ copy red cloth, in a lightly chipped and torn Good dustjacket, signed and inscribed on the front blank endpaper "Isabel Walton from Maurice Hutton in grateful remembrance of the unfailing encouragement with which she has helped his efforts at popular lecturing. October 1925", a bit of age toning to endpapers, 207 pages, contents include: The Greek City-State; Virtue is Knowledge; Virtue and Art; Hellenism in Character; Hellenism in Language; Naturalism; Socrates and Plato and Theists; Greek religion; Stoicism; Rome; Epilogue; Index, any image directly beside...
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Image for The Black Deeds of the Kremlin: A White Book, Volume 2 -The Great Famine in Ukraine 1932 - 1933 / FUP -The World Federation of Ukrainian Former Political Prisoners and Victims of the Soviet Regime ( Holodomor / Famine-Genocide of Ukrainians )( Vol. ii )

The Black Deeds of the Kremlin: A White Book, Volume 2 -The Great Famine in Ukraine 1932 - 1933 / FUP -The World Federation of Ukrainian Former Political Prisoners and Victims of the Soviet Regime ( Holodomor / Famine-Genocide of Ukrainians )( Vol. ii )

By: Hyrshko, V ( Vasyl ) I; P P Pavlovych; S( Semen ) O Pidhainy (eds.), Introduction By Charles J Kersten / FUP -The World Federation of Ukrainian Former Political Prisoners and Victims of the Soviet Regime

Price: $101.18 CAD

Publisher: Detroit, Michigan, Detroit, MI: DOBRUS - The Democratic Organization of Ukrainians Formerly Persecuted By the Soviet Regime in USA:, 1955, 1st Edition, First Printing: 1955

Seller ID: 166154

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see desciption)

-------------hardcover, a Near Fine example with a bit of light rubbing, gift inscription on first blank endpaper, in a FAIR only chipped and torn dustjacket which is now in a hi-quality mylar protector, 712 pages, b&w photos, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE///
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The Queen's Rangers in the Revolutionary War ( 1st American Regiment )( Now the 25th Armoured Regiment )( John Graves Simcoe Related )

By: Ingles, Colonel C J, with an Introduction, and Edited By Lieutenant-Colonel H M Jackson . Queen's Rangers, 1st American Regiment

Price: $53.93 CAD

Publisher: Canada, No Place ( Canada ): No Publisher ( Queen's Rangers 1st American Regiment / C J Ingles ( Printed By The Industrial Shops for the Deaf, Montreal, Quebec ), 1956, 1st Edition, First Printing: 1956

Seller ID: 166317

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good (see description)

------------hardcover, about 6 x 9.25 inches, green cloth, a solid Very Good to Very Good+ copy, a bit of foxing, ink gift inscription on blank, 301 pages, b&w illustrations and maps, contents include: Introduction; The Crisis in America; New York; Burgoyne and Howe; Brandywine; Philadelphia; Monmouth; Oyster Bay; The Summer of '79 ( 1779 ); The Middlebrook raid; Staten Island; Charleston; Andre and Arnold ( Benedict ); The Carolinas; Virginia; Spencer's Ordinary; Yprktown; The End of the War; Biographical Sketches of Officers; APPENDICES ( Strength Return, 14th December 1777; Articles of Cap...
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Image for The Habsburg Empire: A New History -by Pieter M Judson / The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press ( Monarchy / Austrian Empire / Austria - Hungary )

The Habsburg Empire: A New History -by Pieter M Judson / The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press ( Monarchy / Austrian Empire / Austria - Hungary )

By: Judson, Pieter M ( PM Judson ) / The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

Price: $20.18 CAD

Publisher: Cambridge, Massachussetts, Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016, 1st Edition, Later Printing: 2016

Seller ID: 163500

ISBN: 0674047761

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see desciption)

------------hardcover, a Near Fine example, in a Near Fine dustjacket, barely noticeable two-inch cut on the front panel of the jacket, jacket is now in a hi-quality mylar protector, overall this looks new, 567 pages, b&w photos, ---"In a panoramic and pioneering reappraisal, Pieter Judson shows why the Habsburg Empire mattered so much, for so long, to millions of Central Europeans. Across divides of language, religion, region, and history, ordinary women and men felt a common attachment to their empire, while bureaucrats, soldiers, politicians, and academics devised inventive solutions to the...
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Image for In the Shadow of the Gantries: Reflections on a Lost Era in East Belfast -by Noel Kirkpatrick ( Northern Ireland Memoir (inc. Tales of the Yard [ Harland & Wolff Shipyard ]; Along the Lagan; The Albertbridge Road Area; The Blitz; Powered Bicycles; etc)

In the Shadow of the Gantries: Reflections on a Lost Era in East Belfast -by Noel Kirkpatrick ( Northern Ireland Memoir (inc. Tales of the Yard [ Harland & Wolff Shipyard ]; Along the Lagan; The Albertbridge Road Area; The Blitz; Powered Bicycles; etc)

By: Kirkpatrick, Noel

Price: $17.48 CAD

Publisher: United Kingdom, Comber, Co. Down, Northern Ireland, UK: Alkon Press, 1992, 1962, First edition, 1st Printing: 1992

Seller ID: 165439

ISBN: 0952019000

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good+ ( see Description )

------------softcover, a Very Good+ example, light rubbing, 107 pages, b&w photos, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE///
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The Voodoo Journal: Dispatches from a Haitian Grave -by Don Lajoie ( Journalist ) / Photography / Photographs By Rob Gurdebeke ( Haiti )

By: Lajoie, Don; Photography / Photographs By Rob Gurdebeke

Price: $40.43 CAD

Publisher: Windsor, Ontario, Windsor, ON: Black Moss Press, 2016, 1st Edition, First Printing: 2016

Seller ID: 163779

ISBN: 0887535623

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good+ ( see Description )

-----------softcover, about 6w x 9h inches, a Very Good+ to Near Fine example, a bit of light rubbing, a bit of curling to corners, 155 pages, b&w photos ---"Some stories insist on being told. In his first published book, award winning Post Media journalist Don Lajoie, gives the reader a gripping and un-apologetically honest tale of his experiences as an award-winning journalist in Haiti. With stories accumulated over his many years of work in Haiti, Lajoie leads the reader confidently through the dichotomy of the country: its garbage-lined streets, the devastating earthquake of 2010, the div...
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Category: History