Leipzig: Verlag für Wissenschaft und Literatur, ca. 1946. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 130 (2)pp. Original illustrated two color wraps with white, red and black lettering on cover, protected in modern mylar. Brochure represents the collective work of a group of Leipzig citizens and survivors of the concentration camp Buchenwald. Detailed..... More
Paris: P. E. G. Durand, 1777. Fourth edition. Hardcover. 12mo. XXIV, 431, [1], 462, 465, [1]pp. Original full calf with gold lettering and borders on spines. Vivid chronicle dealing with French history from the reign of Clovis, (the first King of the Franks to unite all the Frankish tribes under..... More
Berlin: Deutscher Verlag, 1941. First edition. Softcover. 8vo. 42, [14]pp. Stapled cream wraps in original photographic color illustrated dust jacket protected by modern mylar. Early 1940's National Socialist propaganda publication documenting the support of the German workforce to Adolf Hitler. Illustrated with full-page b/w reproductions of photographs showing Hitler addressing..... More
Vienna: Im Selbstverlag des Bundeskommissariates für Heimatdienst, 1934. First edition. Softcover. Large Octavo. 121pp., 8 plates laid in. Original gray wrappers with black lettering on cover. Documentation of the failed coup of the National Socialists in Vienna to take over the Austrian government on July 25th, 1934, including the founding..... More
Venice/ Venezia: Presso Homoson Bettanin, 1737. Hardcover. This work is very rare: OCLC only lists one library worldwide [in Chile] that has a copy. 2/8 volumes: Vol. 1 and Vol. 6 [of the second part] 12mo. 608pp. 363-740(18)pp. Ex library. Contemporary vellum. With red spotting illustrated page edges, as issued. Frontispiece to..... More
Linkopingh: Daniel Kampe, 1671. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. [8], 519pp. 3/4 leather over marbled paper covered boards. Marbled endpapers. Fascinating account of the tumultuous affairs of Denmark, Norway and Sweden between 1518 to 1622. Some edge wear on binding with front board and spine detached and missing. However back board..... More
Ulverston: George Ashburner, 1805. William Close. New Edition. Hardcover. 8vo.426 pp plus index. Frontispiece, 7 plates, 3 color illustrations, including landscape drawings and floor plans. Brown leather w/ raised bands, gold stamping and gold border around front and back covers. A new edition with additions by William Close. Plates by..... More
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
Lorch (Würtemberg): Karl Rohm, ca. 1925. Third edition. Softcover. Large octavo. 70pp. Original illustrated wrappers. Rare German anti-Soviet and anti-Semite work intended to reveal the crimes of the Bolchevik regime in post World War I Russia. It is profusely illustrated with 12 b/w photographic reproductions of alleged Communist atrocities. Text..... More