New York: Printed for W. W. Reed & Co., 1832. 21921. Hardcover. Sm. 4to. 799,[25],pp. Original calf with gold lettering on spine. Marbled page edges and endpapers. Bookplate of previous owner on inside of front board. Stamp of another owner and writing in pencil on blank pages following front endpapers..... More
Bucharest: Paideia, 1998. First edition. Softcover. Quartos. Vol.1: 249pp. [1]. Vol.2: 192pp. [4]. Photo-illustrated yellow and orange wrappers. Black and white lettering on the front cover and spine. A vast collection of recently declassified archival documents dating from the Communist era of Romania, relating to the covert and secretive repressive..... More
Zürich: Friedrich Schulthess, 1900 - 1904. Dritte & Vierte, verbesserte und vermehrte Auflage. Hardcover. 8vo. 3 volumes & 1 supplement volume. 738pp. 861pp. 955pp. 63, [4], pp. Three-quarter embossed leather over marbled boards with gilt-decorated spine and title-plate. Head and tail of spine slightly rubbed. Minor wear to edges. Some..... More
Trieste: NP, April 1950. Softcover. 8vo. Unpaginated. Original wrappers. Creasing and staining to wraps. Some tearing on head and tail of spine. Some age browning to outer edges of pages. Interesting report of the suffering of the Istrian population in the Venezia Giulia Territory after the end of W.W.II. Illustrated..... More
Baden-Baden: Neuer Bücherdienst, 1946. First edition (1. bis 200. Tausend). Softcover. 8vo. 33pp. Original photographic wraps protected by modern mylar. Written by Hans Fiedeler which is a pseudonym for Alfred Döblin (1878-1957). Döblin was a German expressionist novelist who became famous for his 1929 work "Berlin Alexanderplatz." Scarce pamphlet on..... More
Madrid: [S. Aguirre. impresor], 1935. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. x, 465 pp. Peach colored cloth with gold lettering on spine. Interesting bibliography of legal documents and texts from Castile and Spain. Text in Spanish. Book is in very good - near fine condition. More
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1861. Second edition. Hardcover. 4to. xxiii,350pp. Gilt decorated maroon cloth and spine. Raised bands. Age wearing throughout binding. Discoloration and staining to front board. Wear along spine on front and back board. Wear to edges and corners. All gilt edges. Hinges starting. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece of..... More
Stuttgart: Belser Verlag, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 155(1)pp., 8 plates , (2)pp. Original tan cloth with red lettering on cover and spine. Sacrifices made by the youth on all fronts with introductions by Hermann Göring, Baldur von Schirach and Hanns Oberlindober including facsimile signatures. The book is "a modest..... More
Madrid: Diputación Provincial de Badajoz, Institución de Servicios Culturales Publicaiones, 1945. First edition. Softcover. 1/500 copies. 8vo. 124 + [2] pp. Original paper wraps. Illustrated with a number of b/w and b/red gorgeous plates portraying illustrated title pages, coats of arms, facsimiles of signatures, important historical proclamations and much more..... More
Dresden: Paul Aretz, (1928). Vorzugsausgabe. Hardcover. 1/500. 8vo. 430,[2],pp. Three-quarter leather over decorated paper-covered boards with gilt decorated spine. Top edge gilt. Rubbing to parts of leather. Wear to corners. Ex-libris of E. Lorenz on free front endpaper. Color frontispiece. Illustrated throughout with color and b/w reproductions of paintings and..... More
Frankfurt am Main: Moritz Diesterweg, 1916. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong folio. VIII + 123 pages printed on recto only. Original 3/4 maroon cloth over tan cloth. Fascinating work on the history of the city of Frankfurt-am-Main, profusely illustrated with 123 plates of b/w photographic reproductions. Some soiling on boards. Lower..... More
Berlin: Int'l Büro des Bundes der Freunde der Sowjetunion. 1932. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 32pp. Original photo-illustrated wrappers with white lettering on cover. A pamphlet published by German sympathizers celebrating the 15th anniversary of the Soviet Union. Profusely illustrated with photogravure images of the revolutionary struggle, buildup and development of..... More
Wien: (1949). Ausgabe des Sowjetischen Informationsdienstes. Softcover. Oblong quarto. 48pp. Original photographic wraps. Fascinating post-World War II. Russian propaganda piece on the supposedly superior educational system in the Soviet Union. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of photographs in sepia-tone and charts. Includes one reproduction of a drawing by Wassiljew of Lenin..... More
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846. Later edition. Hardcover. 3 volumes. 8vo. vi, 581pp., 579pp. iv,608pp. Original leather with gold borders and blind-embossed spine. Maroon and black title-labels with gold lettering. Marbled page edges and endpapers. Ex-libris of M. Corthorn on inside of front board. Complete 3 volume set..... More
(Lisboa): Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 1984. Offset. Hardcover. 1/3000. Large 8vo. 530 pp. Original black blind stamped cloth in printed dust jacket. Frontispiece of a reproduction of a color photograph of book page Codice 13. Vol 1 of 5 vol. set. Documents of the Torre do Tombo on Portuguese law and..... More
Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1906. First edition. Softcover. Folio (13 1/4 x 10"). xxiv, 156pp. Original printed wrappers, with publisher's logo to front cover and title page. Front free endpaper handsigned by John Burn.* Decorative head-, and tailpieces. Book housed in its original soft peppled cloth chemise, with gold lettering to..... More
New York: The Russian Information Bureau in U.S, 1920. First edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 4to. [6],420pp. [6],422-828pp. Green cloth with black lettering on cover and spine. "This magazine represents the realization of an old desire to publish here, in the United States, a weekly devoted to Russian affairs. The desire..... More
London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1851. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. cxxx, 357, 548, viii, 621, 656, xxvii, 726, 2 folding maps, 644, 2 folding maps. Original navy blue cloth with blind-stamped tooling on cover and spine, gilt lettering on spine. Yellow endpapers. Frontispiece with tissue guard in volume one..... More
Paris: Librairie Hachette & Cie, 1912. Hardcover. Sm. folio. 464pp. Half-leather over marbled boards with gold lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. Fascinating work by Emmanuel Rodocanachi on the "First Renaissance " in Rome at the time of Pope Julius II's reign from 1503-1513 up to Pope Leo X 's..... More
Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1964, 1965. First edition. Softcover. Small Quarto. xl, 724, xvi, 725-1383pp. Original cream wrappers with black lettering on cover an spine. Covering the activities of the national church committee from 1935 to 28th of May 1936 (part one) and from 29th of May 1936 until the..... More
Berlin: Zentralverlag der NSDAP, 1938. 41.-60. Tausend. Softcover. Octavo. 40pp., 8 photographic plates. Original illustrated white wraps with black and red lettering on cover. Publisher's device on title page. Polemic pamphlet repudiating foreign press agitation regarding repression of religion in Germany. With statistical data of religious activities in 1936 refuting..... More
Karlsbad: Verlagsanstalt "Graphia" 1934. First edition. Paperback. Quarto. 76, [4]pp. Original printed wrappers. Set up on March 21, 1933, the Oranienburg concentration camp was an early concentration camp, and one of the first detention facilities established by the Nazis when they gained power in 1933. It held the Nazis' political..... More
London: Printed by W. Bowyer for the Editor, 1723. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (8 x 5"). [14], xcviii, 427, [5]pp. Later blind-stamped paneled calf, with gold lettering and ruling to spine. Decorative headpieces and initials. First edition of this biography of George Monk, one of the key figures in English..... More
Berlin: VVN-Verlag, 1949. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 64 leaves. Original photo-illustrated green wraps with white, green and red lettering on cover, with publisher's device in red, protected by modern mylar. Tear-off-calendar depicting photographs of victims of the Nazi Regime who were killed in concentration camps, including Klaus Bonhoeffer, Ernst Thälmann..... More
Bern: Schmid, Francke & Co., 1891. First edition. Folio. vi, 97 (9), 114 (4), 92, 143 (2), 100 (1), 7pp., 1 (2). Original gilt, black and red stamped tan buckram with black and red lettering on cover and spine. All edges red. Marbled endpapers. Six title pages with vignettes, frontispiece..... More