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Art of the West, Romanesque & Gothic, 2 Vols, Focillon
Books and Publications: Art
Richards Antiques 
$20 with free Media Mail shipping in USA
Beautiful two-volume set of The Art of the West by Henri Focillon, handsomely printed by Phaidon in 1963. Heavily illustrated. Volume I, Romanesque Art, has 159 plates. The previous owner's name is written on the inside cover and there are numerous underlinings and notes on the text pages. That owner apparently did not get to Volume II, Gothic Art, because there are no underlinings. That volume has 165 plates. The plates are very high quality black and white a was typical of the Phaidon art book... Click for details
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CAPTAIN COOK by Alistair MacLean
Books and Publications: Historical
Big Foot Cat's Collectibles 
$29.00
FREE SHIPPING. Better known for many fictional adventures such as The Guns of Navarone and Ice Station Zebra, Alistair MacLean wrote only 2 non fiction books. Captain Cook, written in 1972, is one of these. There have been many thousands of pages written about the life and adventures of Captain James Cook. MacLean successfully conveys the essence of this lifetime in less than 200 pages. Our copy, printed on rice paper is replete with illustrations from original period drawings and paintings. Mac... Click for details
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Useful for Travelers: Book on Spanish Fish & Seafood
Books and Publications: Travel
Richards Antiques 
$55 including free Priority Mail shipping within the USA
"Guía de Pescados y Mariscos de consumo usual en España" is a very interesting and useful guide to the fish and seafood available in Spain. We used it to good advantage on a six-week drive through the country; we had found it difficult to translate the names of all the menu offerings. This is a laminated hardback, 7 7/8 inches by 4 7/8 inches — pocketable. It contains information on 197 items: drawings, names in other languages, size, distribution and quality of taste. There are also color pla... Click for details
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Marine Distance and Speed Table, Waterman Steamship Co.
Books and Publications: Transportation
Richards Antiques 
$30 with free shipping in USA
Loads of interesting information in 716 pages in a leatherette binding in very good condition. "RP Operations" written on ffep. Speed table shows how long it takes a ship to travel various distances at various speeds. Most of the pages contain distances between various ports of call. Published by Waterman Steamship Corporation of Mobile, Alabama, whose home building is illustrated in a drawing on the first page. This is Third Printing, with corrections, March 1970. Label on back pastedown from m... Click for details
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Mystery Reader's Walking Guide: England - 14 Tours
Books and Publications: Travel
Richards Antiques 
$10 with free shipping
"14 FASCINATING WALKS THAT FOLLOW THE PATHS OF THE MOST WIDELY READ MYSTERY WRITERS, THEIR SLEUTHS AND CHARACTERS." -- from the cover. Authors are Alzina Stone Dall and Barbara Sloane Hendershott. Walks are: Bath, Brighton, Cambridge, Canterbury, Dorchester/Charmouth, Ely, Greenwich/Blackheath, Newmarket, Oxford, Salisbury, Shrewsbuy, Stratford-on-Avon, Thames River trip, and Windsor/Eton/Ascot. Includes maps. Endpapers are maps of England. Like new condition with small bit of residue from stor... Click for details
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Charlevoix
Books and Publications: Travel
The Litterrat 
Bk190 $10.00
Foster, Dianne (text) and Scott, Ken (photographs). Charlevoix, Michigan, Petunia Press, 1998. A beautifully presented photographic tour of Charlevoix, Michigan. Very good in very good dust jacket.
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Hyderabad 400 Years
Books and Publications: Travel
The Litterrat 
Bkm004 $12.00
Alikhan, Raza. Hyderabad, India, Zenith Services, n.d. Paperback history of Hyderabad, India. A couple of bent pages, cover is scuffed and slightly creased. A presentation card from an Indian company is stapled to front overleafs.
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Firenze E Toscana
Books and Publications: Travel
The Litterrat 
Bkm003 $35.00
Roiter, Fulvio, Pampaloni, Geno, Chiaradia, Giusue. Udine, Italy, Magnus Edizioni Spa, 1981. Hardcover, grey cloth with dust jacket and slipcase with pictorial paste ons on front and back. Excellent. Written in Italian. Has 235 color pictures of the area, most full page.
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"Hollywood Boulevard at Night".
vintage postcard. California, 1940s
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