1869 1ed POLYGAMY History & Philosophy Marriage

1869 1ed POLYGAMY History & Philosophy Marriage Monogamy Creation Indians Rome “The History and Philosophy of Marriage” is a mid-19th-century treatise written to compare polygamy and monogamy. Wri

1869 1ed History of Brooklyn New York City SLAVES Civil War Merrimac Ironclad 2v Henry Stiles “History of the City of Brooklyn” is a rare 19th-century account of the history of New York Ci

1852 Sir Thomas More 1ed Manning History Philosophy Biography Humanism Utopia “[how can anyone] be silly enough to think himself better than other people.” ― Thomas More, Utopia "Th

1882 1ed CHINA History Alchemy Buddhism Confucius Philosophy Illustrated Douglas “Years of careful training will make a tree whose shoots should spring heavenwards bend the points of its branches to

1885 Justification for POLYGAMY Monogamy Marriage Mormon History LDS Church Thirteen years prior to writing the bizarre and controversial, A Plea for Polygamy, author, E.N. Jencks wrote, The History a

1869 1ed Human Races Jeffries Slavery Racism INDIANS Illustrated Ethnography “The Natural History of the Human Race” is a popular ethnographic compilation of the post-civil war that contains infor

1869 1ed Great Metropolis New York City Crime Gambling Chinese Witches + Junius Browne was a Civil War reporter known for his works of American history. Perhaps his most well-known work is ‘The Grea

1869 1ed BEAUTIFUL Cathedrals of England Church Architecture Illustrated York 2v Handbook of the Cathedrals is an impressive and highly desirable 19th-century set of books on the history of British ca

1869 New York 1ed Great Metropolis City Crime Gambling Chinese Witches Gangs Junius Browne was a Civil War reporter known for his works of American history. Perhaps his most well-known work is The Gre

Includes Barron's Lectures. Barron. 1806;Sacred Biography and History. Tiffany. 1869; Knowledge and Truth. Reid. 1923; A Hundred Years of British Philosophy. Metz. 1950;Developments in Psycho-Analysis

1786 SYLVA 1ed Ralph Heathcote Anecdotes LAW Philosophy Paracelsus Letters Ralph Heathcote was an 18th-century English writer known for his studies in astronomy, history, the early Church, and even at

1785 1ed History of VENICE Italy Ottoman Wars Popes Laws 6v Christoforo Tentori Christoforo Tentori was a notable Italian historian who published an important account of the history of the Republic of

1850 1ed History of IRELAND Geography MAP Queen Victoria Oliver Cromwell 3v SET Thomas Wrights “History of Ireland” is a mid-19th-century account of the earliest times in Irish history thr

1869 1ed Mark Twain Innocents Abroad Illustrated Travel Guide Holy Land “One must travel, to learn.” – Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad This famous Mark Twain novel, “The Innocents Abroad”,

1662 Francis Bacon Natural History & Philosophy Scientific Experiments WIND “Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.” ―

1797 1ed History of Pennsylvania by Proud Colonial Americana Penn QUAKERS A first edition of the first published history of Pennsylvania! Written by Robert Proud, this work focuses primarily on the ea

1748 1ed History of Germany Frankish Carolingian Holy Roman Empire MAPS Barre 5v Joseph Barre was an 18th-century French theologian who today is much better known for his book History of Germany. This

A group of forty four books on Literature, History, and Philosophyhighlights of this lot are: Tender is the Night. F. Scott Fitzgerald. London: Grey Walls, 1948. in dust jacket. 2. This Side of Paradi

1869 1ed Life of Kit Carson American Expeditions INDIANS Hunting John C Fremont Kit Carson was one of the most famous American West frontiersmen, known for being an Indian Guide and Agent of the Unite

1827 1ed History of United States America Salma Hale Revolutionary WAR Campaigns Salma Hale was a 19th-century member of the United States House of Representatives. Before his rise in the American gov

1851 Anthropology 1ed History of Humans Primitive Culture AFRICA China India Japan ‘The Natural History of the Human Species’ is a rare, mid-19th-century treatise on the history of humans

1863 CIVIL WAR 1ed History of US Slavery Lincoln Grant Lee Union Confederate 2v A scarce first edition of John Stevens Cabot Abbotts two-volume historical biography entitled, The History of the Civil

1869 1ed Life of Kit Carson American Expeditions INDIANS Hunting John C Fremont Kit Carson was one of the most famous American West frontiersmen, known for being an Indian Guide and Agent of the Unite

1878 JEWISH 1ed History of Jews Milman Josephus Judaism Hebrew Israel Jerusalem A scarce 1878 printing of Oxford poetry professor Henry Hart Milmans historical treatise, The History of the Jews. One o