London: The Iranian's Women's Liberation Group, 1980. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 29 (3)pp. Original photo-illustrated yellow wraps with black lettering on cover, protected by modern mylar. The Iranian Women's Liberation Group was set up in May 1979 following a conference on the Iranian women that was held in London at..... More

Leiden: Brill, 2003. Hardcover. Thick octavo. x, 781, (1)pp. Indices. Magenta cloth lettered in gilt, publisher's device on front cover. An ex-library copy with minimal rubber stamping on title & at bottom of text block. Faint, minor stain near bottom of front hinge, but still a near fine copy. In..... More

London: Alexander Strahan, 1866. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xv,428pp. Purple cloth with gold lettering on spine. Age wearing throughout binding. Spine sunned. Corners bumped and worn. Discoloration, staining and scuffing to boards. Small bookplate of previous owner to inside of front board. Color frontispiece. "During my visit in America in..... More

Stuttgart: Gerd Hatje, (1959). First edition. Hardcover. Oblong 4to. 175,[1]pp. Blue cloth with white lettering on cover and spine in original pictorial dust jacket. Interesting work and study on childrens' playgrounds and recreation centers for the young and old with articles by various authors and experts looking at examples from..... More

Halberstadt: H. Meyer's Buchdruckerei, 1924. Softcover. Sm. 4to. 276pp. Original printed wraps. Pages unopened as issued. History of the Internationale Genossenschaftsbewegung from its beginnings in the mid to late-nineteenth century up until the Internationale Genossenschaftskongreß in 1921 in Basel. Nr. 1 of "Soziale Organisationen der Gegenwart. Forschungen und Beiträge. Herausgegeben..... More

NP, n/d. Hardcover. 1) Nietzold, Johannes. Die Ehe in Ägypten zur Ptolemäisch-Römischen Zeit nach den Griechischen Heiratskontrakten und Verwandte Urkunden. Leipzig. 1903. Veit & Comp. First edition. vi,108pp. Fascinating work on the laws and customs of marriage in the Ptolemaic-Roman period in Egypt. 2) Hunger, Johannes. Becherwahrsagung bei den Babyloniern..... More

München: Duncker & Humblot, 1918. Neuntes Tausend. Hardcover. Lg. 8vo. xxvi,476pp. Half tan cloth with black lettering on spine over paper-covered boards. 'Die Juden und das Wirtschaftsleben' by German economist and sociologist Werner Sombart (1863-1941), is a pendant to Max Weber's study on the connection between Protestantism and Capitalism, only..... More

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. viii,320pp. Blue cloth in original dust jacket. Head and tail of spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Minor wear to parts of bottom edge. Dj price clipped. Some discoloration and creasing to dj. Name and address of previous owner..... More

New York and London: Putnam's Sons, 1913. Hardcover. This work is inscribed and signed in black pen by the author at free front endpaper to renowned Jewish-American scholar Henry Slonimsky (see below): " To my courteous Host and esteemed colleague D. Henry Slonimsky with the author's kind regards. A. J...... More

London: Methuen & Co., (1937). Hardcover. Sm. 8vo. viii, 307pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on spine in original printed dust jacket. Partly autobiographical work by the Warden of the Bernhard Baron St. George's Settlement, describing Henrique's call to social service in 1912, relating the growth of the settlement to..... More

Regensburg: Montag- und Weißischen Buchhandlung, 1793. Dritte und letzte Sammlung. Hardcover. 8vo. 200pp. Bound in contemporary half leather over red paper-covered boards with finely gold-tooled spine. Deckled edges. Modern endpapers. Late 18th century work looking at the characters and customs of Aurora Gräfin von Serini, Madame la Baliere, Marquise von..... More