Tel Aviv: Israel Bar-Publishing House, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 308 pp. Blue paper covered boards with gold lettering on front cover and spine. Includes essays on a myriad of topics concerning Israeli law. Author is professor of Family and Private International Law at Tel Aviv University and a faculty... More about Selected Topics in Family and Private International Law
Berlin: Walter De Gruyter & Co., 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Lg. 4to. xii. 264pp. of text followed by 103pp. of plates. Red cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped. Minor scuffing to boards. A beautiful catalogue of terra-cotta sculptures from "Pergamon". Wonderfully... More about Terrakotten von Pergamon
Moscow: Verlag für Fremdsprachige Literatur, 1942. First edition. Softcover. Sextodecimo. 78 (2)pp. Original tan printed wraps with green lettering on cover. Pamphlet on the subject of Germany planning to rearrange the European status quo. Scathing critique of the imperialistic politics of Nazi Germany elaborating on Germany intend to conquer and... More about Hitlers "Neuordnung" in Europa: "Theorie" und Praxis
Oxford: Oxford University Press, Printed by Horace Hart, 1907. Ex-Library First Edition. Hardcover. Folio. xii, 142pp., 96 plates, 1 folding map. Modern green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Frontispiece lithograph. Title page printed in red and black with publisher's device. "This report does not pretend to be a finished... More about A Report on the Antiquities of Lower Nubia (The First Cataract to the Sudan Frontier) and Their...
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1998. First printing. Hardcover. Quarto. XXI, [1], 632, [2], 287, [3]pp. Original illustrated dust-jackets over turquoise cloth with gold lettering on spines. Half-title of first volume inscribed and signed by Robert L. Welsch. Photo-illustrated title pages. This two-volume work, based around the field diaries and... More about An American Anthropologist in Melanesia: A. B. Lewis and the Joseph N. Field South Pacific...
Philadelphia: The University Museum, 1910. First edition. Hardcover. Small folio (12 x 9 1/2"). xi, [1], 286pp, [4] leaves of plates (Text volume); ix, [1]pp, 116 leaves (Plates volume). Original half burgundy cloth over printed paper covered boards, with gold lettering to spines, and dark blue lettering to front covers... More about Karanòg: The Romano-Nubian Cemetery. Text and Plates volumes. 2-vol. set (Complete) [Eckley B....
London: Egypt Exploration Fund, 1911. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. viii, 39pp., xxxviii plates. Original black cloth over tan boards with black lettering on cover, red on spine. Thirty-First Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund. "El Mahasna... after a cursory examination, we found that the place had been badly plundered, yet... More about Pre-Dynastic Cemetery at El Mahasna
Oxford: Griffith Institute, Ashmolean Museum, 1968. Reprint. Hardcover. Elephant Folio. (6)pp., 10 plates, 33 (8)pp. Original green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Frontispiece collotype. "The Ashmolean ostracon of the Story of Sinuhe has been more fortunate than some other important texts from Egypt in that its two halves, discovered... More about The Ashmolean Ostracon of Sinuhe
New York: Hacker Art Books, 1976. Reprint. Hardcover. Sm. 4to. xvi. 352pp. of text followed by 42pp. of plates. Illustrated sienna cloth. Minor bumping to head and tail of spine. An extensive look at Etruscan Vase painting. Wonderfully illustrated with 42 full page b/w plates. Includes list of plates, list... More about Etruscan Vase Painting
Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, 1962. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 1/3000 copies. 4to. xvi. 634pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering and illustration to cover and spine. Ex-libris plate to inside of front board. Title page in red and black lettering with red illustration. Bibliographical work on Archaelogy and Ethnography... More about Bibliografia de Arqueologia y Etnografia: Mesoamerika y Norte de Mexico 1514-1960
Hardcover. Signed. 4to. 286pp. Original brown half cloth over blue cloth boards with red lettering on the spine and gold lettering on the cover in original printed illustrated dust jacket. Frontispiece illustrated plate depicting a cultic image from New Ireland with breasts and a phallus. Dr. Bruno Bettelheim was one... More about Symbolic Wounds: Puberty Rites and the Envious Male
New York: Industrial Extension Institute, 1918. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed and signed by author on front endpaper. Octavo. xvi, 445pp. Bound in modern green cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Factory Extension Institute title page with logo. Factory Management Course volume 7. Early work on "man-management" covering employment... More about Factory Management Course and Service: Labor and Compensation [SIGNED
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XIII, 194pp, 36 plates. Original half buckram over cloth boards, with gold lettering on spine. Fascination work displaying for the first time the Aramaic texts found during the excavation of Persepolis in the years 1936 through 1938. It is... More about Aramaic Ritual Texts from Persepolis (Oriental Institute Publications. Volume XCI
Munich: Verlag der K.B. Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1916. Hardcover. 4to. 200pp. Brown cloth over illustrated boards. Rebound. Head and tail of spine slightly frayed. Corners bumped and worn. Heavy staining and discoloration to boards. Ex-Library stamp to inside of cover. Tape from rebinding along spine on inside. "Festrede gehalten in... More about Die Anfänge des modernen Kapitalismus
Honolulu: Bishop Museum, 1936. Ex-Library. Softcover. Quarto. 239 [11] pp. Original brown wraps with black lettering on cover and spine. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 138. Bishop Museum's survey of Polynesia features the little know island of Futuna. Consists primarily of detailed ethnographic materials on all phases of the culture... More about Ethnology of Futuna
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Lrg. 4tp. (7) 110pp. Half cloth over gray boards. Gilt decorated spine. Head and tail of spine and upper corners rubbed. Lower corners bumped and rubbed. Minor staining to back board. Five pages of analysis of contents in regards to... More about Sumerian Texts of Varied Contents
Paris: Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1951. First edition. Softcover. Quarto (11 x 9"). VI, 153, [1]pp (Text), XCVIpp (Plates). Original printed wrappers. This scholarly work provides a valuable contribution to the study of ancient Syrian religion. The authors, continuing the researches of the German excavators of Baalbek, discovered before the... More about L'Autel Monumental de Baalbek [INSTITUT FRANÇAIS D'ARCHÉOLOGIE DE BEYROUTH, BIBLIOTHÈQUE...
New York: Exposition Press, 1950. Hardcover. 8vo. 96 pp. Brown cloth with gold writing on front cover and spine, original dj. Inscription by author on front endpaper reads: "August XXIV 1950 To Rabbi Kramer: Let us hope that this little volume will find its way into the hearts of many... More about Thoughts [INSCRIBED
Berlin: Verlag von Otto Janke, 1879. Hardcover. 8vo. iv. 220pp. 3/4 blue leather over marbled boards with gilt lettering to spine. Raised bands. Work on reason in law, written by renowned German historian, jurist and poet Felix Dahn (see below). Age wear to binding, especially at spine and edges, with... More about Die Vernunft im Recht
Dublin: Printed by Peter Hoey, at the Mercury (No. 1) in Skinner-Row, 1776. Seventh Edition. Hardcover. 16mo. ix, 253, [1]pp. Original calf. Raised bands. De Britaine's work on the virtue of social behavior and etiquette (with a heavy emphasis on Christian ideals) was first published in the late 17th century... More about Human Prudence, or The Art by Which a Man May Raise Himself and Fortune to Grandeur
St. Louis: Woodward & Tiernan Printing Co., 1888. Hardcover. 8vo. xviii, 182 pp. Maroon cloth binding. With an appendix containing the proceedings of the committee on notification, organization of the National Democratic Committee of 1888, the presentation of the resolutions to Hon. F. O. Prince, and the letters of acceptance... More about Official Proceedings of the National Democratic Convention Held in St. Louis, Mo., June 5th, 6th...
Lauf, near Nürnberg: Rudolf Zitzmann Verlag, 1931. First edition. Softcover. Inscribed in pencil on the title page by the author. Small Octavo. 48pp. Original color illustrated wraps with black lettering on cover. Issued by the Office of the German Alliance for Free Economy (Geschäftsstelle des Deutschen Freiwirtschaftsbundes). An analysis of..... More about Wohin führt uns der Nationalsozialismus? [INSCRIBED
Paris: Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1955. First edition. Softcover. Quarto (11 x 9"). 234, [2]pp. Uncut. Original printed wrappers, with publisher's logo on front cover and title page. In this scholarly work, the author envisages the history of the border areas in the north and northeast of the Arabian Peninsula as... More about La Pénétration des Arabes en Syrie Avant l'Islam [INSTITUT FRANÇAIS D'ARCHÉOLOGIE DE...
Los Angeles: Geo, Rice & Sons, n/d. Hardcover. 8vo. Unpaginated. Half cloth over illustrated paper-covered boards. Head and tail of spine bumped and rubbed. Wear to edges and corners. Discoloration and staining to boards. Signed by previous owner. Los Angeles High School Yearbook of 1901. Delightfully illustrated with b/w reproductions..... More about Blue and White (Summer '01
Paris: Mme Lamy, 1800. Nouvelle Edition (New Edition). Hardcover. 12mo. XXXVI, 240, [4]pp. Full red morocco with gold lettering on spine. Dentelles. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Fénelon. François de Salignac de la Mothe Fénelon published this pedagogical work "Traité de l'éducation des filles" (Treatise on..... More about Traité de l'Education des Filles