London: The Labour Publishing Company, Ltd., 1924. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 249, [1]pp. Original paper covered boards with yellow lettering on spine and front cover. Printer's device on title page. Captivating eye-witness account and analysis of the new Russia under the Soviets. Some age wear on binding with spine and..... More
Amsterdam: Em. Querido, 1936. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 284, 262, 298, 262, 351pp. Original black and red cloth with gold lettering on spines and printer's device on front covers. Frontispiece on each volume. Printer's device on each title-page. First Dutch edition of this scarce and fascinating work on the history..... More
New York: Bergman Publishers, (1970). Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo. 181pp. Silver stamped maroon cloth. Important work on the corruption of Russian government during the time of revolutionary Russia [1900s] as exposed by Prince Serge, a fervent patriot and descendant of noble family who served Russia for five-hundred years. Text honestly brings..... More
Philadelphia: F. W. Thomas, 1853. Dritte Stereotyp Ausgabe. Hardcover. Sm. 8vo. 220pp. Blind-stamped brown cloth with gold decorated spine. Small plate with "27" handwritten near head of spine. Chipping to head and tail of spine. Wear to edges. Staining and rubbing to boards. Sporadic foxing throughout. Bookplate of school-district on..... More
Berlin: Reichsnährstand Verlags-Ges.m.b.H., (1936). First edition. Softcover. 8vo. 37, [3]pp. Original color-illustrated wraps. 1936 publication by the Reichsnährstand organization on the extracting of colors from plants and its use in various products. The Reichsnährstand (RNS) was a government body in Nazi Germany to regulate food production. It had legal authority..... More
London: Privately printed by Blades, East & Blades, 1892. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. vii, 308pp., 6 plates with tissue guards. Original textured burgundy cloth with gilt-stamped seal on cover, gilt lettering on spine, protected by modern mylar. Beveled edges. Presentation bookplate "Presented by the Mercers' Company to James Sutton Esq..... More
Paris: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Centro Cultural Português, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. 333 pp. Original printed glossy boards, gold lettering. Illustrated with 3 fold out geneological charts. Top right corner of front board bumped. Text in Portuguese. Binding in near fine, interior in fine condition. More
Brussel: Arcade, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Large quarto. 360, [6]pp. Original pictorial wrappers over green cloth, with gold lettering on spine. Pictorial endpapers. Printer's device on title-page. Fascinating work on the history of Laken, the Royal castle of Belgian kings, profusely illustrated with numerous color tipped-in and b/w and color..... More
London: Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1939. Hardcover. 8vo. xc,236pp. Gold-stamped purple cloth with gold decoration and lettering on spine. Spine sunned. Heavy staining to boards. Minor chipping on tail of spine. Wear to front bottom corner. Arnulf of Lisieux (1141-1181), was deeply involved with many major events in..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1853. First American edition. Hardcover. 12mo (6 3/4 x 4 1/2"). X, [11]-202, 6pp (Publisher's advertisement). Original blind-stamped olive cloth, with gold lettering to spine. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the Dauphin. First American edition on the life, captivity, and death of Louis-Charles, Dauphin of France..... More
Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & Soners Forlag, 1918. Limited first edition. Softcover. 1/300. 48pp. [2] (+ 15 plates). Folio. Tan paper wrappers with black and red lettering on the front covers. Title page and front cover with publisher's device. One of a limited edition of 300 copies printed on linen rag..... More
London: Constable, [1963]. Reprint. Softcover. Quarto. XI, [1], 352pp (text), 80pp. (plates). Original photographic wrappers over orange cloth with gold lettering on spine. This remarkable work is the first truly realistic approach to the civilization of the ancient Greeks. Burckhardt stripped the subject of all superficial trappings, preconception and sentimentality..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1860. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 8vo. xv, 560pp. x, 613pp. Original blind-stamped black cloth with gold lettering on spine. Lacking backstrip in vol. II. Frontispiece engraving in both volumes. Contents: Vol. I: Introduction. To the Beginning of the Civil War 1636-42. To the End of the..... More
Lisboa: Livraria Bertrand, ca. 1963. Softcover. 8vo. 63pp. Original wraps. Some discoloration, minor creasing and staining to wraps. "In this careful and impartial appraisal of the role of the Armenians in the Byzantine empire, Professor Charanis has laid the foundation for further investigations, and has given us the most important..... More
S.-Peterburg (St. Petersburg): Tipografia M. Stilasiulevicha, 1909. Hardcover. Ex library. 8vo. 317pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on spine. White tape with library inventory number near tail of spine extending slightly into front-and back cover. Minor chipping to head and tail of spine. Wear to corners. Hinges starting. Small stamp..... More
Köln: Böhlau Verlag, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Small Quarto. xxvi, 207pp., folding map in back pocket. Original orange cloth with ruling and black and white lettering on cover, black on spine. Part of the series Bonner Beiträge zur Kirchengeschichte (Bonn Contributions to the History of the Church). Treatise on the..... More
Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1929. Hardcover. 12mo. xv,285pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped. Ex-libris of Arthur S. Wolpe and stamp of the same in front endpapers. History of Jews in Frankfort (Frankfurt). Jewish Communities Series. Illustrated..... More
Berkeley; Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1943. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. VIII, [2], 238pp. Original printed dust-jacket over cloth with gold lettering on spine. The primary purpose of this study is to show how before 1914, the machinery of Junker protectionism in agriculture, coupled with the Junker philosophy -..... More
New York: Maizel, 1918. 8vo. 329pp. Binding missing. Staining, chipping and tearing on title-and content page. Last few pages creased on upper right corner. Maksim Gorky (1868-1936), pseudonym of Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov, was a Russian short-story writer, playwright, essayist and novelist. He was known for his naturalistic and sympathetic stories..... More
Painettu Keravalla: Keravan Kirjapainossa, 1924. Softcover. 8vo. 308pp. Original wrappers. Bottom corner chipped. Small puncture on front wrapper. "FF Communications No. 52." Translated from the Finnish into German by Arno Bussenius. Wraps in good, interior in very good condition. More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1962. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. VIII, [2], 357, [1]pp. Original printed wrappers over red cloth with gold lettering on spine. Frontispiece. Captivating work on Paul de Lagarde, the famed polymath German biblical scholar and orientalist who also took an important part in politics. Indeed, Lagarde..... More
London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co. Ltd, 1896. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. VIII, 372pp. Original burgundy cloth with gold lettering and borders on spine. Frontispiece map. Printer's device on title page. Captivating history of the world's first socialist working class uprising. The workers of Paris, joined by mutinous National Guardsmen, seized..... More
NP: Gallimard Le Seuil, 1985. First edition. Softcover. Small Quarto. 600 (7)pp. original beige wrappers with red ruling and black lettering on cover and spine. A study on the systematic extermination of the Jews by the German Nazis featuring essays by some of the most renowned French historians. Illustrated with..... More
Lisboa: Academia Portuguesa da Historia, 1974. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. XXII, 159pp. Uncut and unopened copy! Original printed wrappers. Red and black lettering on title-page. Fascinating work which is a book of receipts received for the year 1470 at the court of Afonso V. Minor edge wear to wrappers with..... More
Leipzig: Dörffling und Franke, 1874. Hardcover. 8vo. vii,488pp. 468pp. Marbled boards, rebacked with tan binders tape, corners in leather. Marbled page edges. Age wear to binding. Abrasions to boards. Head and tail of spine chipped. Front board almost detached but still holding. Gutter crudely reinforced with white binders tape at..... More