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  • Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    'We are all travellers in what John Bunyan calls the wilderness of this world-all, too,travellers with a donkey: and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend. He is a fortunate voyager who finds many.'-Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879) Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879) is a classic of travel literature by Robert Lo...
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    15,78 €

  • Following the Equator
    Mark Twain
    'Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.'-Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897)Following the Equator-A Journey Around the World (1889), a travel book about Mark Twain’s lecture tour in the British Empire, undertaken late in his life to repay his debts after becoming nearly broke. This book describes Twain’s fascinating experiences in Australia, India, ...
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    36,30 €

  • Modern American Drinks 1895 Reprint
    GEORGE J. KAPPELER / GEORGE JKAPPELER
    Unabridged reproduction of the 1895 Modern American Drinks bartenders guide, by George J. Kappeler.What a special book in many ways. Not only does it have five different Absinthe recipes (Straight, California Style, Dripped, Italian Style, and Swiss Style) with a warning never to serve it unless specifically asked due to the injurious qualities of Absinthe, it features an estim...
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    18,34 €

  • Modern American Drinks 1895 Reprint
    GEORGE J. KAPPELER / GEORGE JKAPPELER
    Unabridged reproduction of the 1895 Modern American Drinks bartenders guide, by George J. Kappeler.What a special book in many ways. Not only does it have five different Absinthe recipes (Straight, California Style, Dripped, Italian Style, and Swiss Style) with a warning never to serve it unless specifically asked due to the injurious qualities of Absinthe, it features an estim...
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    9,58 €

  • The Amateur Emigrant
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    'For in emigration the young men enter direct by the shipload on their heritage of work; empty continents swarm, as at the bosun’s whistle, with industrious hands, and whole hew empires are domesticated to the service of man.' -Robert Louis Stevenson, The Amateur Emigrant The Amateur Emigrant from the Clyde to Sandy Hook (1895), by Robert Louis Stevenson is the first book (fol...
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    18,88 €

  • Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan
    Isabella L. Bird
    Isabella Bird spent much of 1890 roaming the exotic lands of Persia and Kurdistan, traversing the coast and secluded towns and villages, keeping this vivid, descriptive, diary of local life and culture.While much of Europe had industrialized over the century prior, the Middle East of the late 19th century had not undergone such a transformation. Isabella Bird traversed Persia -...
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    12,14 €

  • Meditations
    Marcus Aurelius / George Long
    Unabridged private reflections of the Emperor of Rome, on how one is to exist in a world of chaos. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius and in the most accepted translation by George Long, is a book that belongs on everyone’s shelf.A favorite of Bill Clinton and John Steinbeck, and influencer of many others for 2,000 years, it is as relevant today to those in power struggles over emp...
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    16,43 €

  • Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior In Company and Conversation
    George Washington
    Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior In Company and Conversation began as a school exercise in 1744 for George Washington, who became the first president of the United States of America.  Washington copied a translation of these rules by Francis Hawkins’, which was first published in England around 1640.The majority of the 110 rules originated from a French etiquette manual writ...
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    13,11 €

  • Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior In Company and Conversation
    George Washington
    Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior In Company and Conversation began as a school exercise in 1744 for George Washington, who became the first president of the United States of America.  Washington copied a translation of these rules by Francis Hawkins’, which was first published in England around 1640.The majority of the 110 rules originated from a French etiquette manual writ...
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    5,29 €

  • Jerry Thomas Bartenders Guide 1887 Reprint
    Jerry Thomas
    Unabridged reproduction of the 1887 Jerry Thomas Bartenders Guide with a new introduction by Ross Bolton. This book in its various reprints is accepted to be the first real cocktail book, and includes such classics as Mint Julep and the Daisy.It was first known as “How to Mix Drinks,” or the “Bon Vivant's Companion” and published in 1862 with “A Manual for the Manufacture o...
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    18,76 €

  • Jerry Thomas Bartenders Guide 1887 Reprint
    Jerry Thomas
    Unabridged reproduction of the 1887 Jerry Thomas Bartenders Guide with a new introduction by Ross Bolton. This book in its various reprints is accepted to be the first real cocktail book, and includes such classics as Mint Julep and the Daisy.It was first known as “How to Mix Drinks,” or the “Bon Vivant's Companion” and published in 1862 with “A Manual for the Manufacture o...
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    9,66 €

  • The Mountains of California
    John Muir
    The Mountains of California is a classic nature essay by John Muir that vividly describes those California mountains and the wildlife found within them and is among the finest examples of John Muir nature writings.Go where you may within the bounds of California, mountains are ever in sight, charming and glorifying every landscape.John Muir (April 21, 1838 – December 24, 1914) ...
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    25,28 €

  • 1601
    Mark Twain
    [Date: 1601.] Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors. or simply 1601 is the title of a short risqué squib by Mark Twain, first published anonymously in 1880, and finally acknowledged by the author in 1906.Written as an extract from the diary of one of Queen Elizabeth I's ladies-in-waiting, the pamphlet purports to record a conversation bet...
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    9,97 €

  • A Tramp Abroad
    Mark Twain
    'That’s the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don’t care, individuals do.'-Mark Twain, A Tramp Abroad (1880)A Tramp Abroad (1880), by Mark Twain, is about his travels with his friend Joseph Twichell through the German Black Forest, the Swiss Alps, and Italy. The storyteller, Twain, acts as a typical American tourist of the time touring Europe, believin...
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    26,14 €

  • The Power of Movement in Plants
    Charles Darwin / Francis Darwin
    '...I think that I have succeeded in showing. . . kind of movement common to all parts of all plants from their earliest youth.' - Charles Darwin, The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume II (1880) The Power of Movement in Plants (1880) includes illustrations and documents the extensive research and study of phototropism among other plant movements by Charles Darwin and h...
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    30,23 €

  • The Power of Movement in Plants
    Charles Darwin / Francis Darwin
    '...I think that I have succeeded in showing. . . kind of movement common to all parts of all plants from their earliest youth.' - Charles Darwin, The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume II (1880) The Power of Movement in Plants (1880) includes illustrations and documents the extensive research and study of phototropism among other plant movements by Charles Darwin and h...
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    37,71 €

  • An Inland Voyage
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    'For will anyone dare to tell me that business is more entertaining than fooling among boats? He must have never seen a boat, or never seen an office, who says so.'-Robert Louis Stevenson, An Inland Voyage (1878)An Inland Voyage (1878), by Robert Louis Stevenson, describes a canoe trip through France and Belgium that he took with his friend Sir Walter Grindlay Simpson in 1876. ...
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    18,84 €

  • Edinburgh
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    'Half a capital and half a country town, the whole city leads a double existence; it has long trances of the one and flashes of the other; like the king of the Black Isles, it is half alive and half a monumental marble.' ―Robert Louis Stevenson, Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes This edition of Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes (1878) by Robert Louis Stevenson is a travel book by one of...
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    18,84 €

  • Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms
    Fa Xian
    Faxian (337 – c. 422) was a Chinese Buddhist monk and translator who traveled by foot from Ancient China to Ancient India, visiting many sacred Buddhist sites in Central Asia, the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia between 399-412 to acquire Buddhist texts. His journey is described in his important travelogue, A Record of Buddhist Kingdoms, Being an Account by the Chinese M...
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    25,68 €

  • Robert’s Rules of Order
    Henry M. Robert / Henry MRobert / TBD
    Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised, commonly referred to as Robert’s Rules of Order (or simply Robert’s Rules), is a "Pocket Manual of Rules of Order for Deliberative Assemblies" and the most widely used manual of parliamentary procedure in the United States. It governs the meetings of a diverse range of organizations—including church groups, county commissions, homeowne...
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    21,18 €

  • Cooling Cups and Dainty Drinks
    WILLIAM TERRINGTON
    Full recipe reproduction of the 1869 Cooling Cups and Dainty Drinks, by William Terrington. This book is the first British cocktail book, so is a MUST with which every student of libation should be fortified.Jerry Thomas had the first American cocktail book in 1862 with his Bartender’s Guide. This book, Cooling Cups and Dainty Drinks, takes some of those popular drinks, plus ad...
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    22,22 €

  • Cooling Cups and Dainty Drinks
    WILLIAM TERRINGTON
    Full recipe reproduction of the 1869 Cooling Cups and Dainty Drinks, by William Terrington. This book is the first British cocktail book, so is a MUST with which every student of libation should be fortified.Jerry Thomas had the first American cocktail book in 1862 with his Bartender’s Guide. This book, Cooling Cups and Dainty Drinks, takes some of those popular drinks, plus ad...
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    13,12 €

  • Jerry Thomas Bartenders Guide 1862 Reprint
    Jerry Thomas
    Unabridged text of the Jerry Thomas 1862 Bartenders Guide, offered here for chump change. It is considered the first cocktail book, and this reproduction is based on the first published edition.This 1862 edition includes “A Manual for the Manufacture of Cordials, Liquors, Fancy Syrups, etc., etc.” by Christian Schultz appended at the back, since any good bartender was supposed ...
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    13,10 €

  • Jerry Thomas Bartenders Guide 1862 Reprint
    Jerry Thomas
    The 1862 Bartenders Guide is the FIRST cocktail book, in its FIRST version, now in an affordable reprint as it first appeared, in Hardback.It was first known as "How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon Vivant’s Companion" and published in 1862 with "A Manual for the Manufacture of Cordials, Liquors, Fancy Syrups, etc, etc" by Christian Schultz appended at the back, since any good bartend...
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    23,50 €

  • Falconry
    Gage Earle Freeman
    This guide to falconry dates to mid-19th century Britain, and explains both the history and practical elements of using birds of prey to hunt wild animals.The practice of raising and training intelligent birds of prey to hunt animals was popular in Europe from the Middle Ages onward. Over the centuries, techniques and practices were refined, with the peculiarities of the variou...
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    12,44 €

  • Forty-Four Years, the Life of a Hunter
    Meshach Browning
    Meshach Browning spent decades as a professional hunter and trapper of bears, boars and deer in rural Maryland during the early 1800s – this is his story, in his own words.Born in modest circumstances, Browning grew up at a time when the United States as a nation was in its infancy, with much of the population living in rural areas. From his youth, the author vowed to be self-s...
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    17,36 €

  • Forty-Four Years, the Life of a Hunter
    Meshach Browning
    Meshach Browning spent decades as a professional hunter and trapper of bears, boars and deer in rural Maryland during the early 1800s – this is his story, in his own words.Born in modest circumstances, Browning grew up at a time when the United States as a nation was in its infancy, with much of the population living in rural areas. From his youth, the author vowed to be self-s...
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    27,75 €

  • The Arts of Beauty
    Lola Montez
    Lola Montez, one of the most opulent actresses and dancers of the 19th century, offers her advice on beauty oneself through cultivating physical charm, a debonair personality, and a sharp sense of style and dress.Chapters focus on different aspects of feminine beauty; the face, skin, eyes, complexion and chest all receive examination. The hair is of particular concern to the au...
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    11,25 €

  • English Traits
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    'The book has no equal in its kind. It is the wittiest work of America’s wittiest writer.' -Mark van Doren, American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, writer, and criticIn English Traits (1856), Ralph Waldo Emerson blends his observations of the English character based on travels in England with insights gained from his extensive reading of British history. Because of its playfulnes...
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    17,94 €

  • Walden (Chump Change Edition)
    HENRY DAVID THOREAU
    Unabridged version of Walden, by Henry David Thoreau, offered here for chump change. The noted transcendentalist Thoreau wrote Walden as a reflection upon simple living. It is part personal declaration, part social experiment, and part manual for self-reliance.Nature was a study for the essayist, naturalist, and environmentalist David Thoreau. He communed from his cabin on Wald...
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    8,43 €


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