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  • Bååth-Holmberg, Cecilia

    Bååth-Holmberg, Cecilia; Kampen för och emot negerslafveriet. Ett blad ur Förenta Staternas historia. Stockholm, Fahlcrantz & Co. , 1896. Första upplagan.
    4:o i förlagets gröna klotband med texten förgylld på ryggen och främre pärm. Mycket lätt slitage och aningen lös i bindingen, men ett bra exemplar. Intressant illustrerad med foto-reproduktioner i svart och vitt. IV, 304 sid.
    The struggle for and against the slavery. A phase in the history of the USA. Hardbound 4o in publishers green cloth (hardbound) with only mild wear.
    400 SEK
  • Gard, Wayne

    Gard, Wayne; The Great Buffalo Hunt. With drawings by Nick Eggenhofer. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1959. First edition.
    Hardbound 8o in publisher's grey, decorated, cloth binding in a picorial dust jacket. Top edge red, else just trimmed édges. Fine/fine. Illustrated with 17 halftone reproductions and line drawings by Nick Eggerhofer. XII, 324 p. , XIV (index+ notes.)
    A beautiful copy !
    400 SEK
  • Hakluyt, Richard

    Hakluyt, Richard; The First Colonists. Hakluyt's voyages to North America. A. modern version with an introduction by A.L. Rowse. The Folio Society. London, 1986.
    4:o. Clothbinding (hardbound), in a slip-case. 142 pages and 16 coloured plates, and 28 black and white plates. Good condition.
    200 SEK
  • Johnson, Amandus

    Johnson, Amandus; The Swedish Settlements on the Delaware I-II. Their History and Relation to the Indians, Dutch and English 1638-1664 With an Account of The South, The New Sweden, and The American Companies, and The Efforts of Sweden to regain the Colony. 2 volumes. University of Pennsylvania, Appleton & Company, New York, 1911. First edition.
    Two large, hardbound, 8o-volumes in publishers´green cloth with gilt lettering on front boards and spines. Top edges gilt. Mild wear to extremities and some rubbing to boards. Vol. 2 with slightly cracked corners, but a very good, uncut, copy. The most comprahensiv work on the Swedish settlements published with 146 illustrations, among them plans, maps, reproduced photographs etc. With interesting biographical information such as lists of officers, soldiers and settlers in New Sweden, translations of documents into Swedish, bibliographies for the subject etc. Vol. I; XX, (II), 466 pages. Vol. 2; XII, page 467-879, (I) List of American Germanica.
    Interesting copy with the exlibris and autographed name of the reknown Swedish book-collector Thore Virgin dated ,Stockholm d. 12. IV. 1912.
    3000 SEK
  • Kauffman, Sandra

    Kauffman, Sandra. The Cowboy Catalog. Clarkson N. Potter, Inc./Publishers, New York 1980.
    4o. Softbound with illustrated covers. A minor tear in upper spine and a small crease in front cover. Else fine condition. Richly illustrated in colour and black and white. 192 pages.
    Everything a cowboy kan need will you find in this catalogue, including a list of the 27 top rodeos in the United States and Canada.
    200 SEK
  • Åberg, Alf

    Åberg, Alf. Folket i Nya Sverige. Vår koloni vid Delawarefloden 1638-1655. Natur & Kultur, Sthlm 1987.
    8o. Förlagsinbunden med illustrerad främre pärm. Mycket fint skick. Rikt fotoillustrerad i svartvitt. 197 sidor.
    150 SEK