Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds. A Collection of Ancient Texts
Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2006. Second Edition. Paperback. Paperback. xvii, [1], 544 pages. More
New Arrivals
The Muses of Gwinn: Art and Nature in Garden Designed by Warren H. Manning Charles AS. Platt & Ellen Biddle Shipman
Sagaponack, New York: Sagepress, Inc. Distributed by Harry N. Abrams, 1996. Hardcover. Hardcover with color pictorial dust jacket. x, 204 pages. Illustrated in black and white. More
Graphic Work From the Bauhaus
Greenwich, Connecticut: New York Graphic Society Ltd., 1969. Hardcover. Quarto. 168 pages. Illustrated in color and black and white. Includes tipped in illustrations. Red cloth hardcover with title on the spine. Illustrated dust jacket. Light edge wear to the dust jacket on the spine. First English translated edition. More
Historic Sydney Sketchbook
Australia: Rigby. Printed in Hong Kong. 1977. Hardcover. Hard cover with an illustrated dust jacket. 247 pages. Dust jacket has a small chipped section on the upper edge rear panel. Light edge wear to jacket elsewhere. Gift inscription written on the right front flyleaf. More
Victorian Landscape Gardening: A Facsimile of Jacob Weidenmann's Beautifying Country Homes
With a new introduction by David Schuyler. Watkins Glen, New York: Published by The American Life Foundation for The Athenaeum Library of Nineteenth Century America, 1978. Soft cover. Folio sized soft cover. 40 pages text and illustrations. Part II consists of 24 black and white plates with explanations and text... More
Nirvana: Beyond Dark
Photographs by Yi Wangyo. Sung-nam City, Korea: Photograph Art Co, 2006. Hardcover. Hardcover with white illustrated dust jacket. 179 pages. More
A Dravidian Etymological Dictionary
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984. Second Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xli, 853 pages. Black cloth hardcover with gilt title on the front cover and spine. More
Rastafari and Other African-Caribbean Worldviews
The Hague: Institute of Social Sciences, 1998. Reprint. Paperback. Paperback. xxv, 282 pages. Pictorial front cover. More
The Ethnic Origins of Nations
New York: Basil Blackwell, Inc., 1987. First American Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover with brown glossy illustrated dust jacket. x, [4] pages of map illustrations, 312 pages. More
My Father The Spirit-Priest: Religion and Social Organization in the Amaa Tribe (Southwestern Sudan)
African Studies Volume 4. Volume Editor Pat McGill. Lewiston, Queenston, Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1989. Soft cover. Soft cover. [6], 127 pages, [1]. Photograph of the author in front. More
White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race
New York: New York University Press, 1996. Paperback. Paperback. xiv, 296 pages. More
Black Linguistics: Language, Society, and Politics in Africa and the Americas
Foreword by Ngugi wa Thiong' o. London: Routledge, 2003. Paperback. Paperback. xii, 228 pages. Illustrated covers. More
Ancient Egyptian Literature: An Anthology
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. Third paperback printing. Paperback. Paperback. xxiii, [1], 272 pages. Glossy illustrated front cover. More
Les Eglises chretiennes et la traite atlantique du xv au xix siecle
Paris: Karthala, 1993. Paperback. Paperback. 341 pages, [1]. Illustrated front cover with title. Light reading wear to the paperback. More
Memories and Viewpoints
Roswell, New Mexico: Privately Printed. Press of Williams Printing Company Richmond, Virginia, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 183 pages. Gray cloth hardcover with gilt title on the front cover. Inscribed by the author "To Dr. S. B. Woolford With the compliments and best wishes of the author Jason W. James... More
An Appeal to Christians, on the Subject of Slavery
Baltimore: Printed by Sherwood & Co., [1837]. Third Edition. Leather bound. 12mo. [1], xi, xii (blank), 199 pages, [1] page blank. Restored. Original calf leather boards. New brown buckram spine with gilt title. Front and rear paste downs and end sheets added. The original front end paper with the previous... More
The Ladies Scrap-Book: A New Year and Christmas Gift.
New York: Leavitt & Allen, ca. 1860. Hardcover. 12mo. iv, 7-268 pages. Illustrated with frontispiece steel engraving, color engraved presentation page, and steel engravings. Dark burgundy embossed leather binding. Embossed floral border designs, gilt floral borders and ornate gilt decorations and title on the front cover and spine. All edges... More
Point Lookout Prison Camp for Confederates
Abell, Maryland: Self Published, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Tall quarto. x, 217 pages. Illustrated. Gray cloth hardcover with illustrated view of prison on front cover. Illustrated dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on the right front flyleaf. Book includes a written personal note by the author to the previous book... More
Narrative of Military Operations, Directed, During the Late War Between the States
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1874. First Edition. Full calf. Octavo. [1], 602 pages, [6] pages of publisher advertisements, [1]. Frontispiece steel engraving of Johnston. Illustrated with steel engravings and a folding map. Brown calf leather hardcover with gilt lines and title label on the spine. Marbled end papers... More
A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States; Its Causes, Character, Conduct and Results. Presented in a Series of Colloquies at Liberty Hall.
In Two volumes. Philadelphia: National Publishing Company, 1868-70. First Edition. Leather bound. Octavos. 2 volumes: [3], 655 pages, [4] pages publisher advertisements tipped in back; xii, 5-827 pages, [4] pages publisher ads. Illustrated with 7 engravings volume I and 9 engravings volume II. Brown calf leather hardcovers with black leather... More
Stonewall Jackson: A Military Biography
With portrait and maps. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [1], 470 pages, [2] pages publisher advertisements, [1]. Illustrated with frontispiece engraving of Jackson and maps. Brown cloth hardcover with title on the spine. Cloth is worn, damp-stained, split on the front joint, and chipped... More
Confederate Stamps, Old Letters and History
Griffin, Georgia: Self published, [1959]. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 67 pages, 22 pages appendix, [1]. Illustrated. Gray cloth hardcover with gilt title and flag illustration on the front cover. Gilt title on spine. Previous owner 1959 inscription on the right front flyleaf. Book includes signed letters from McCowat-Mercer Publisher Seale... More
Pleasure and Pain Reminiscences of Georgia in the 1840's
Savannah: The Beehive Press, 1978. Later printing. Hardcover. Slim quarto. xii, 97 pages, [1]. Frontispiece portrait of Emily Burke. Tan paper covered boards with title in black and green surrounded by a green floral pattern. Some fading to the cloth upper edges of the covers. Later printing. Originally published in... More
The Shenandoah Valley in 1864
Campaigns of the Civil War. XI. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. [1], xi, 287 pages. 4 pages of advertisements. Illustrated with maps. Blue cloth embossed illustrated hardcover with gilt title on front cover and spine. Light edge wear to cloth extremities. More
Official Army Register for January, 1870; Official Army Register for January, 1871; Official Army Register for January, 1872
Published by Order of the Secretary of War, In Compliance with Resolution of the Senate of December 13, 1815, and Resolutions of the House of Representatives Dated February 1, 1830, and August 30, 1842. Washington DC: Adjutant General's Office, 1869-1871. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Ex-institutional bound volume. Three Army Registers... More