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The Strategy of Peace.
KENNEDY, John F.Original price $12,211.00 - Original price $12,211.00Original price $0.00$12,211.00$12,211.00 - $12,211.00Current price $12,211.00Inscribed by the President. The first edition, first impression of this collection of essays and speeches by John F. Kennedy on his foreign policy ...
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Picturesque Hong Kong.
[HONG KONG]. HAZELL, Denis H. (photographer).Original price $1,286.00 - Original price $1,286.00Original price $0.00$1,286.00$1,286.00 - $1,286.00Current price $1,286.00A very attractive series of photographs showing Hong Kong in the colonial era.'Denis Henry Hazell (1897-1970) was a British businessman. Some of h...
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Reaching for the Moon.
ALDRIN, Buzz & MINOR, Wendell (illustrator).Original price $482.00 - Original price $482.00Original price $0.00$482.00$482.00 - $482.00Current price $482.00Signed by buzz aldrin. First edition, first printing of this picture book autobiography of Buzz Aldrin, signed by both Aldrin and illustrator Wende...
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The Capital of the Tycoon.
ALCOCK, Sir John Rutherford.Original price $1,607.00 - Original price $1,607.00Original price $0.00$1,607.00$1,607.00 - $1,607.00Current price $1,607.00A handsome set of Sir John Rutherford Alcock's (1809-1897) account of his time as the first British diplomatic representative to reside in Japan.A...
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Operations in Waziristan 1919-1920.
[CONFIDENTIAL] - General Staff Army Headquarters, India.Original price $1,928.00 - Original price $1,928.00Original price $0.00$1,928.00$1,928.00 - $1,928.00Current price $1,928.00The scarce official account of the Waziristan campaign 1919–1920, and preceding 1917 conflict, with copious views and maps of the scarcely travers...
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Travels to Tana and Persia. [WITH] A narrative of Italian travels in Persia in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
BARBARO, Josafa; Ambrogio ContariniOriginal price $258.00 - Original price $258.00Original price $0.00$258.00$258.00 - $258.00Current price $258.00Hakluyt Society, first series, 49a & 49b.Important collection of early travels to Persia. The second part contains accounts by Caterino Zeno. ...
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Bilingual Coptic-Arabic Psalter,
[PSALTER].Original price $16,067.00 - Original price $16,067.00Original price $0.00$16,067.00$16,067.00 - $16,067.00Current price $16,067.00From the monastery of saint anthony. This volume bears witness to a very specific monastery in Egypt known as the Monastery of Saint Anthony, in th...
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