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Who Built The Newport Tower? The Cartographic Evidence NEARA JOURNAL VOLUME 38 NUMBER 2 WINTER 2004

By: Editors Curt F. Waldmann, Suzanne Carlson, Rex Weeks, Deb Twigg, Terry J. Deveau, Charles Bailet

Price: $39.00

Publisher: U.S.A., New England Antiquities Research Association: 2004

Seller ID: 5257

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Very Good+ Condition of NEARA Vol. 38 No.2 Winter 2004 47 pp. B/W Illus. Photos. Original Issue in Very Good condition. except for a very small barely noticeable closed tear at the very top of front cover and a little smudging on inside of front cover clean, tight and nice. NOT a library copy. Seven essays Including an early Map study of evidence of the round tower of Newport Rhode Island called a "Norman Villa" Also "American Stonehenge" "Spanish Hill" by Deb Twigg, so much in here also book reviews Wrapping with care as only an independent small bookseller in busines...
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NEARA JOURNAL VOLUME NUMBER 2 WINTER, 2013 Mission Malta Exploring The Sound And Energy Properties in Ancient Architecture

By: Editors Glenn Kreisberg, Suzanne Carlson, James L. Guthrie, Nicholas Newman, Charles F. Herberger

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Maine, NEARA: 2013

Seller ID: 5245

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fine

Fine Condition Original Complete Edition of the NEARA JOURNAL VOLUME NUMBER 2 WINTER, 2013 Clean 47 pp. free of any writing or marks B/W Photos, Maps, Drawings.. Six complete essays i.e. " Mission Malta Exploring The Sound And Energy Properties in Ancient Architecture" by Glenn Kreisberg on the acoustics in Megalithic sites and the amazing science here the focus on the womb site of Malta! Also "Where is Kvenland" a Norse mystery Suzanne Carlson and "American Stonehenge" or ("Mystery Hill") by Nicholas Newman. Also "Pioneer Valley" near Sturbridge Village...
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A Compleat System of Fencing: Or, The Art of Defence, In the Use of the Small- Sword Handmade Colonial Williamsburg Letterpress Copy

By: Edward Blackwell

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Williamsburg Virginia, William Parks: 1987

Seller ID: 9000105

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Very Good

Near Very Good Clean Handmade Marble Paper Williamsburg Virginia handmade Limited Edition Single Copy C.1987 handmade Letterpress copy of a 1734 Williamsburg Letterpress 91 pp early Colonial American manual of self defense and short sword fighting. Made in the Williamsburg Stationary shop on the same press the original was made .Clean not a library copy sewn in binding with cord. Marble paper covers some slight loss at head and tail and small tear at top with snipped leading edge of front cover. Internally very good, No signatures or writing and the letterpress is so sharp you can almost read ...
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The Life of Colonel Paul Revere (Volume I) Original Hardcover

By: Elbridge Henry Goss

Price: $19.00

Publisher: Boston, Howard W. Spurr,: 1909

Seller ID: 11099

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Very Good- First American Edition Handsome Blue Cloth with bright Gilt design and lettering 314 pp. Clean pages, some darkening on outside corner of last sixty pages perhaps from damp but no scent and no page crinkling.Rub od edge of board Many illus. photos. A super bargain for the first vol.of a two volume set. NO Writing NOT a library copy. Spine pristine but as is for this truly great man, artist and open minded progressive American hero.Super bargain Three Geese In Flight Books since 1977
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The Mutinous Wind A Sorcerer's Tale

By: Elizabeth Reynard

Price: $28.00

Publisher: Boston Massachusetts, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1951

Seller ID: 11137

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

Very Good- Hardcover Good Dust Jacket First American Edition Clean 209 pp. Blue Cloth clean pages. As is often the case with this book slight fades at spine edges. Price Intact on dust jacket. Some small chips with loss at head and heal and some rubs to the coloring else 'Good'. This Cape Cod Colonial Mythic romance is one of the best little known American fantasy novels. The American Grey Witchcraft is real and the Cornish Piskies here in Colonial Cape Cod are called 'Sand Dobies' are also real and not explained away. A real knowledge of the Cape and 'Sea Spells' the author from a long seafar...
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Sacagawea of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

By: Ella E. Clark; Margot Edmonds

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press: September 15, 1983

Seller ID: 11038

ISBN: 0520050606

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Collectible Near Fine First Trade Paperback Edition A few lines of an original song to Sacagawea written in pencil on front endpaper. Else clean free of underlines No writing NOT a library copy First Edition.
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France at Mackinac;: A pictorial record of French life and culture 1715-1760, Paperback

By: Eugene T. Petersen

Price: $18.00

Publisher: U.S.A., Mackinac State Historic Parks,: 1968

Seller ID: 678

Condition: Very Good

Very Good- First Edition 38 pp. b/w Photo and drawing and map of the French Colonial Life of the Eighteenth century soldier and the Woman on the post from 1715-1760 Clean pages a little frayed edge wear along two inches of the rear back card stock cover and a touch of rear two pages. Tight no writing or underlines.A window in French clothing, weapons on the Great lakes in the French and Indian wars era. Nicely done. First Edition.
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Katharine Tekakwitha The Lily of the Mohawks Being The Original Documents First Published Into English and Presented for the Edification of the Faithful Original Hardcover With Dust Jacket

By: Fordham University Press Extracts from the Jesuit Relations

Price: $225.00

Publisher: New York, Fordham University Press: 1940

Seller ID: 014969

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Original Very Good+ First Edition Hardcover with Mylar Protected Dust Jacket LeRoy H.Appleton.Many B/W Evocative Illus. New York: Fordham University Press, 1940.Book First American Edition. 4to . Large Original 468 p LeRoy H.Appleton. Hardcover with Rare Dust Jacket with Mylar. Hardcover Very Good+ shape. Dust Jacket Good- .Chips at head of dust jacket. Small one in front. Front flap separated but present and in place with the Mylar cover Bright in it's Mylar jacket.Rest Good See photo. Hardcover Very Good+ Clean pages.Great woodcuts Beautiful map end Papers. NOT a library book. Evocative fu...
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Hunting for Witches A Visitor's Guide to the Salem Witch Trials

By: Frances Hill

Price: $24.00

Publisher: Beverly, Ma, Commonwealth Editions: April 2002

Seller ID: 015884

ISBN: 1889833304

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fine

Collectible Condition Fine Trade Paperback U. S. A.: Commonwealth Books, 2006. 8vo. Trade Paperback Illustrated Clean 143 pp. NOwriting NOT a library copy. Fine Condition.This book gives honest view as well as fine photos. Wrapped with care
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King Arthur In The Medieval Low Countries

By: Geert H.M. Claassens

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Netherlands, Leuven Univrsity Press: 2000

Seller ID: 5272

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fine

Fine Condition Original Wrap Around European Dust Jacket Paperback Clean Collectible 272 pp.Rare Academic study from the Netherlands on all the Low Country Arthurian, Merlin, and Grail texts with a description of all the stories. Least known of the major countries contributing Arthurian texts this is finally changing. The story "Roman von Walewein" where Gawain, or "Walewein" much like in his "Green Knight" challenge bravely follows a Flying Chess set to retrieve it for Arthur, has in my mind's eye, one of the most ferocious fight scenes between a Knight and a Dragon, ...
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The American Revolution How Revolutionary Was It?

By: George Athan Billias Edited

Price: $18.00

Publisher: U.S.A., 1980

Seller ID: 5279

Binding: Good

Condition: Good

Good tight Working Copy. Some underlines here and there. Tight binding. NOT a library copy. Trade Paperback of the One Volume Political Course of the American revolution and the real sense of it. Was it really Left wing? or Right wing? Liberal or Conservative? Here is those Patriots victory. Freedom. You will make up your own mind! Sixteen political essays by conservative AND Liberal historians and commentators. Really great. 203 pp. Since 1977 Three Geese In Flight Books wrapping first in brown paper to protect your book.
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The St. Lawrence River

By: George W. Browne

Price: $33.00

Publisher: New York, Weathervane: 1985

Seller ID: 619

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Near Fine Clean hardcover Near Fine Completely intact Dust Jacket 365 pp. NO writing NOT a library copy. I find this a more usable edition than the old 1900s more often than not fragile edition. Here we have one of the most interesting Heroic ages of North America , the four way struggle between the Five Nations Iroquois and the Algonquins and the French in Quebec and Montreal and the English and Dutch in Albany. Then the when spins and you have the nascent Thirteen colonies all this swirls around Medieval French Fort Chambly, Quebec, Montreal Ticonderoga English Crown Point and Mohawks and Le...
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The St. Lawrence River Historical Legendary Picturesque

By: George W. Browne

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Weathervane: 1985

Seller ID: 621

ISBN: 0517177854

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Hardcover Near Fine Near Fine Completely intact Dust Jacket 365 pp. NO writing NOT a library copy. I find this a more usable edition than the old 1900s more often than not fragile edition. Here we have one of the most interesting Heroic ages of North America culminating at the Battle of Saratoga, Clean bright book and jacket. NO STICKERS Dust jacket present.
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An Account of the British Expedition Above the Highlands of the Hudson River, and of The Events Connected With The Burning of Kingston in 1777 Collectible First Edition

By: George W. Pratt

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Ulster County Historical Society: 1977

Seller ID: 9000187

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fine

Fine First Thus This is the Larger 'First Edition" of the bicentennial of the Burning of Kingston in the American Revolution. This is the original edition after the 1860 edition and larger than the later 1998 edition. This captures the movements of General Vaughan as he burned Livingston manor to the ground a signer of the Declaration of Independence and torched the Plebian progressive city of Kingston a Dutch Town still unhappy about the British to begin with. One forgets American Patriots tore down the statue of George the III in NYC How quickly one forgets If the Hessians were heard att...
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Burgoyne of Saratoga: A Biography

By: Gerald Howson

Price: $16.00

Publisher: New York, Times Books: 1979

Seller ID: 008242

ISBN: 0812907701

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Good First Edition Hardcover Good Dust Jacket NOT Price Clipped Clean 360 pp. NOT a library book. NO jacket chips but some discoloration on INSIDE of jacket and some fades on boards Pages free of writing!. Map endpapers.Tight binding but a solid reading copy. It sounds far worse than it is The real hero at Saratoga was Philip Schuyler. Horatio Gates got the lasting glory, Benedict Arnold got a statue of his wounded boot! Insight into the battle that changed the world. NOT a library book. Dust jacket present. First Edition.
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Folk Medicine of the Delaware & Related Algonkian Indians

By: Gladys Tantaquidgeon

Price: $79.00

Publisher: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, U.s.a., Pennsylvania Historical &: April 2000

Seller ID: 9000168

ISBN: 0892710896

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Collectible Very Good+ Hardcover Very Good+ Dust Jacket Clean pages NOT a library copy. Gladys Tantaquidgeon was a genuine Mohegan New England Medicine Woman who told as here Algonquin Little People traditions. Great hardcover and jacket Dust jacket present.
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The Atlas of North American Exploration From the Norse Voyages to the Race to the Pole

By: Glyndwr.; Malcolm Swanston; Isabelle Lewis; Jacqueline Land Williams

Price: $39.00

Publisher: New York, Macmillan General Reference: October 1992

Seller ID: 874716933

ISBN: 0132971283

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Fine First Edition Hardcover Near Fine Dust Jacket Stated "First Edition" Clean 224 pp. Color Maps on every page. Book clean NOT a library copy Dust Jacket Near Fine One tiny tear on back jacket and handling but NO chips Near Fine A well written Amazing maps French, Dutch, Spanish British even Norse and a bit of St. Brendan Dust jacket present. First Edition.
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The Hoosac Valley Its Legends and Its History

By: Grace Greylock Niles

Price: $49.00

Publisher: Heritage Books, Inc.: 2002

Seller ID: 66718

ISBN: 0788406868

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Very Good Trade Paperback Solid Clean 584 pp. B/W Filled Illus. NO Writing in book. Great Classic Trade Paperback 1997 Reprint of the 1912 Original History and Folklore Classic of the Taconic region between Dutch New Netherlands and Puritan New England and Algonquin Mahican and Iroquois Mohawk. Photos of Peace Trees and sacred White Quartz Beacon rocks of this mystic are between New York and vermont and Massachusetts. Also site of French and Indian war and Rev war battles all documented with massive Genealogy lists of soldiers and settlers and Native besides everything else. Clean Not a librar...
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The Friar's Map of Ancient America 1360 AD: The Story of Nicholas of Lynn and the Franciscan Map of America (Guernsey Museum Monograph, Multicultural Heritage Series No. 3)

By: Gunnar Thompson

Price: $39.00

Publisher: Bellevue, L. Lee Productions: 1996

Seller ID: 11105

ISBN: 0962199087

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good+

Good+ Large Trade Paperback 304 pp. Medieval Cartography Clean pages NOT a library copy. Dusky cover soiling. No markings No plates or No underlines Many maps Study of this enigmatic Friar and arctic voyage and surely knew about the Knight Templars First Edition.
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Journey Into Mohawk Country

By: H.M van den Bogaert & George O' Connor

Price: $34.00

Publisher: Brookfield, Connecticut, U.S.A, First Second: September 5, 2006

Seller ID: 6649

ISBN: 1596431067

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fine

Fine First Edition 145 pp.Color Graphic Novel of the Actual Journal of H.M van den Bogaert's and color drawings by George O' Connor Journey into Mohawk Country. Clean excellent condition. NOT a library copy. Three Geese In Flight Books wrapping books since 1977 first in brown paper to protect them. First Edition.
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Portraits of Jews

By: Hannah R. London

Price: $29.00

Publisher: Rutland, Vt, Tuttle Publishing: 1969

Seller ID: 874716900

ISBN: 0804804591

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Fine Clean hardcover Fine Mylared Dust Jacket Clean jacket clipped. 197 pp. 58 Illus. NO Writing NOT a library copy. Living portraits of important Colonial Americans by Gilbert Stuart portrait painter of George Washington. These faces looking back at you flies in the face of the stereotype which seeks to portray Jewish people as having all arrived in the Twentieth century. In fact visiting Swedish naturalist Peter Kalm comments on meeting Jews in 1744 in Manhattan. Excellent condition as is Mylar protected dust jacket. Red cloth handsomely bound like most if not all Tuttle books in Japan. Dust...
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Currier & Ives Printmakers to the American People Special Edition Hardcover

By: Harry T.Peters

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Doran & Co, inc: 1942

Seller ID: 550

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Very Good+ Large Color Illustrated Anthology of Famous and some little known Color prints of Currier and Ives. Clean pages. NOT a library copy [xvi] text and 189 Color and B/W full page Currier 7 Ives prints. History, biography and gallery. Some well known like the horse drawn sled in snow and others like the Ironclad gunboat battle in Civil war little seen and great bear fight with pioneer! This is the Special Edition of 1942 Embossed cover and floral design. Large quarto. Clean NOT a library copy. Clean handsome copy. Since 1977 we wrap our books first in brown paper to protect the cover
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The Six Nations of New York The 1892 United States Extra Census Bulletin (Documents in American Social History)

By: Henry B. Carrington

Price: $29.00

Publisher: Ithaca, Cornell University Press: August 1996

Seller ID: 013136

ISBN: 0801483174

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Very Good+ Clean. Trade Paperback. 1st Thus. 4to .Large Clean 89 pp. Trade Paperback No writing, NOT a library book as well, Cornell University reprint of the rare United States Census on The Six Nations Longhouse peoples in 1892 Portraits on the people the population, witchcraft, folklore, botany, Longhouse and Christian faiths, Longhouse beliefs. Very good shape, Small creases on a corner of the cover, else very good and internally clean.with NO markings. First Edition.
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The Wars of the Iroquois: A Study in Intertribal Trade Relations

By: Hunt, George T.

Price: $29.00

Publisher: Madison, Wi, University of Wisconsin Press: April 15, 1960

Seller ID: 630

ISBN: 0299001644

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fine

Fine Clean Trade Paperback 209 pp. Excellent Classic History of the Five Nations battle with the Great Lakes nations, The .Fine clean collectible pages tight binding One black marker line on top right of cover over price I assume Otherwise like new which is special for a 1960 book.. Three Geese in Flight Books since 1977
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Warpaths Invasions of North America Hardcover First Edition

By: Ian K. Steele

Price: $39.05

Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press, USA: August 18, 1994

Seller ID: 6679

ISBN: 0195082222

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First Edition Nimber 1-10 Near Fine Clean 281 pp Hardcover Near Fine Dust Jacket. NOT a library copy. NO jacket chips. Expansion of the history of Native and colonists that the author explored in "Masacre" the story of Fort wWlliam and Mary. Excellent historyy of the Five Nation war with the Hurons and the use of firearms. Excellent history. Great condition too. Dust jacket present. First Edition.
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BURNING OF ROYALTON, VERMONT BY INDIANS Original 1906 Edition

By: Ivah Dunklee

Price: $89.00

Publisher: Boston, Geo. H. Ellis Co., Printers: 1906

Seller ID: 5312

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

Original 1906 BURNING OF ROYALTON, VERMONT BY INDIANS First Edition 88 pp. B/W Illus photos bound in Card Stock Covers with painting of Native Mohawk and stone headed War club in red and green. Very Good+ clean pages. Small tear on bottom of front cover and a little one where rear cover touches spine. Spine very good. NOT a library copy NO writing. This Card stock 1906 edition has great advertisements for Chocolate and coffee. But the historical heart of the book is a treasure. Account of a Caughnawaga Mohawk raid down into Vermont. Also includes actual Zadock Steele's Captivity Narrative as w...
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The French Renaissance in Prints, From the Bibliotheque Nationale de France

By: JACOBSON, Karen, ed

Price: $49.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, UCLA: 1994

Seller ID: 90042

ISBN: 0962816221

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

Very Good+ Clean Massive B/W Illustrated 492 pp. NOT a library copy. NO writing Exhibition catalog and extensive study Hundreds of b/w French prints. Excellent condition Five star customer service since 1977
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The Works of John Dee: Modernizations of his Main Mathematical Masterpieces

By: James Alan Egan

Price: $89.00

Publisher: U.S.A., Createspace Independent Publishing Platform: 2012-04

Seller ID: 874716930

ISBN: 1475099150

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fine

Collectible Fine Condition Large 252 pp. Many of John Dee's great works translated into modern English. A "Monas Hieroglyphica" in large letters in modern English, Euclid more! Many of his illus and maps! First Edition.
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Tudor Adventurers: The Voyage of Discovery that Transformed England The Hunt for the Northeast Passage

By: James Evans

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Pegasus: 2014

Seller ID: 781605986111

ISBN: 1605986119

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Fine Collectible Hardcover Fine Dust Jacket First Edition 383 pp. NOT Clipped NOT a library copy Brilliant study of the visionary sailors inspired by the legendary John Dee B/W color plates. Clean collectible great shape. Dust jacket present. First Edition.
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Benedict Arnold's Navy: The Ragtag Fleet That Lost the Battle of Lake Champlain but Won the American Revolution

By: James Nelson

Price: $29.00

Publisher: Camden, International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press: April 21, 2006

Seller ID: 11039

ISBN: 0071468064

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Near Fine Hardcover Near Fine Dust Jacket Price intact NO Jacket chips. Clean 386 pp. NOT a library copy Would be "Fine" but for the remainder line on bottom of book. Exciting Revolutionary War Lake Champlain after Ticonderoga. Really well told while he was a hero he was still a traitor and rightfully remains one today. Country first Money second! Three Geese In Flight Books packs with care since 1977 Dust jacket present.
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