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I was able to acquire another LIKE NEW copy of this valuable resource book. A full 364 pages with numerous illustrations and photographs.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art with editors: Douglas Newton and Jean Barbier.
This is an excellent coffee table book or a research…
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- Item Number: R-6769
- Provenance/Origin: Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1988. Like New Condition.
- Dimensions: 9 x 12" format
- Price: $ 28.00 USD
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Don’t run to Wikipedia to decipher your Egyptian hieroglyphics. This book, in a very methodical way, takes some of the most important of these symbol strings and deciphers them into both Egyptian and English texts / translation.
Truly fascinating and a great conversation piece for your…
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- Item Number: R-1909
- Provenance/Origin: First Edition. 1909.
- Dimensions: 8" x 5.5"
- Weight: 2 pounds
- Price: $ 52.00 USD
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The full title is: Museum of Antiquity: A Description of Ancient Life – the Employments, Amusements, Customs and Habits, The Cities, Palaces, Monuments and Tombs, the Literature and Fine Arts of 3,000 years ago. Whew!
This is a first edition from 1883 and it…
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- Item Number: R-9085
- Provenance/Origin: First Edition. 1883
- Dimensions: 9.5" x 7"
- Weight: 5.5 pounds
- Price: $ 48.00 USD
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The Man-Easters and Other Odd People, A Popular Description of Singular Races of Man,” takes on all races from all continents . . . from Patagonia to the Texan frontier. This edition that was first printed in 1861, includes a memoir of Mayne Reid by R. H. Stoddard.…
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- Item Number: R-1235
- Provenance/Origin: Published in 1889. Very rare in this condition.
- Composition: Hardcover book
- Dimensions: 5.5" x 7.75"
- Weight: 1.5 pounds
- Price: $ 38.00 USD
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Extremely rare. These two volumes are a comprehensive account of the manners, customs plus physical, mental, social, moral and religious characteristics. It is various accounts of travelers who have written about cultures and their personal views of habits and modes of life.
Written by John…
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- Item Number: R-4409
- Provenance/Origin: 2 volumes. Published in 1877. Good condition.
- Composition: Hardcover books
- Dimensions: 10.25" x 7" each for 2 volumes
- Weight: 8.5 pounds
- Price: $ 79.00 USD for set
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A scarce book for those who hunt rare books. The Man-Eaters and Other Odd People, A Popular Description of Singular Races of Man” takes on all races from all continents . . . from Patagonia to the Texan frontier.
He has an interesting perspective being…
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- Item Number: R-6232
- Provenance/Origin: Published in 1878. Scarce in this condition.
- Composition: Hardcover Book
- Dimensions: 5.5" x 7.75"
- Price: $ 48.00 USD
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Dial Press Inc. Woodcuts by A. Horace Gerrar and K. Leigh-Pemberton plus other illustrators. 189 pages are clean. Vertical page edges reesotericstuff.com untrimmed (this is cool).
Covers are sturdy but I had them examined, reinforced with archival materials to a very good…
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- Item Number: R-1358
- Provenance/Origin: 1924 edition in very good condition
- Dimensions: 9" x 11"
- Weight: 3 pounds
- Price: $ 95.00 USD
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The title page says it best:
“A complete, graphic, and comparative history of the many strange beliefs, superstitious practices, domestic peculiarities, sacred writings, systems of philosophy, legends and traditions, customs and habits of mankind throughout the world, ancient and modern.
By: Frank S. Dobbins of…
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- Item Number: R-7070
- Provenance/Origin: Published Standard Publishing House, NY, USA, 1884
- Dimensions: 7" x 9.5" x 2.5" thick
- Weight: 4.5 pounds
- Price: $ 240.00 USD
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This set was scheduled for a limited edition printing of 1000 copies by The Gruber Foundation, 1969. However, since William B. Gruber – who financed this project – died before it was completed, only 300 sets were published. So, this is one of those 300 editions.
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- Item Number: R-0764
- Provenance/Origin: Published 1969. Limited edition of 300 sets. Pristine condition.
- Composition: Printed books, View-Master reels and slipcovers. Projectors.
- Dimensions: 11.5" tall x 8.5" wide x 9" deep - the set in slipcovers.
- Weight: 4.75 pounds
- Price: $ 825.00 USD
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Reference and source book of Asian furniture design through the centuries. Wonderful photographs.
Handcover. 307 pages. English. October 2007. Dust jacket.
- Item Number: R-1801
- Provenance/Origin: New
- Dimensions: 11.50" x 12.50"
- Weight: 6.5 pounds
- Price: $ 29.00 USD
