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284 pages. Index. Photo illustrated endpapers. Black and white photographic plates. "This startling story, never revealed in its entiretly before, is told with full documentation by Major Jordan, who served as liaison officer with the Russians at Great Falls, Montana - the staging base for Russian Lend-Lease supplies... Documents the two known shipments of uranium; explains how engraving plates from the U.S. Treasury were made available to Russia with the help of Harry Dexter White... This book could well be titled 'How We Helped Russia and How the Russians Helped Themselves'." - from dust jacket. Unmarked book bears moderate wear and sound binding. Average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in a glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Quality copy of this important record. Book
588 + 375 pages. Index. Colour fold-out map at back of volume I. All plates present. Text in German. Contents unmarked and moderately age-toned. Foxing to plates and some pages. Average overall wear. Narrow openings along both hinges of volume I. Documents von Richthofen's important travel and research in China. Book
SOLE EDITION IN FACSIMILE OF SCOTT'S ENTIRE EXPEDITION DIARY FROM OCTOBER 1910 TO MARCH 1912. 'A story to stir the hearts of every Englishman'; thus Winston S. Churchill characterised the immortal story of Scott, Wilson, Oates, Bowers and Evans. 'The story of the journey back to their Base Camp on McMurdo Sound has become a legend. Their courage was magnificently exemplified by Oates who walked out into the blizzard, never to be seen again, in order to give the others a chance. Being able to read the story in the handwriting of the man who wrote it makes the legend substantially more real and compelling'. (Peter Scott, son of the explorer). Published with the close involvement of the British Museum Library (now the British Library), where all the original dairies are now held on behalf of the nation, this high-quality facsimile includes the expedition's Base Diaries, its Sledging Orders and Diaries together with the legendary South Polar Times (complete with all its illustrations). Vol. I: Base Diaries October 1910-April 1911 (B.M. ADD. MSS. 51024, 51025, 51028); Vol. II: Base Diaries April 1911-October 1911 (B.M. ADD. MSS. 51029, 51030, 51032); Vol. III: Sledging Orders 1910-1911 (B.M. ADD. MSS 51036, 51037, 51030); Vol. IV: South Polar Times 1911 (B.M. ADD. MSS. 51039, 51040, 51041); Vol. V: Sledging Diaries January 1911-September 1911 (B.M. ADD. MSS. 51026, 51027, 51031); Vol: VI: Sledging Diaries November 1911-March 1912 (B.M. ADD. MSS. 51033, 51034, 51035). A WORK OF FUNDAMENTAL INTEREST AND IMPORTANCE TO ANYONE WITH AN INTEREST IN POLAR EXPLORATION. EXTREMELY SCARCE. Spence 1078.
12 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispieces, the first three volumes with pictorial endpapers, a few tops lightly spotted; cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in dustwrapper. With their titles borrowed cheekily from Coleridge's 'Kubla Khan', Lees-Milne's diaries are widely recognised as one of the foremost continuous chronicles of England in the twentieth century. The twelve volumes cover the years 1942 to 1997, terminating only shortly before his death. The series as a whole passed through three publishers, the first three volumes by Chatto & Windus, the fourth by Faber (with characteristically non-uniform dustwrapper) and subsequent volumes (unsurprisingly) by John Murray. From 2001 onwards the diaries are edited by Michael Bloch. The series comprises 'Ancestral Voices. [Diaries 1942-1943]' (1975); 'Prophesying Peace: [Diaries 1944-1945]' (1977); 'Caves of Ice. [Diaries 1946-1947]' (1983); 'Midway on the Waves. [Diaries 1948-49]' (1985); 'A Mingled Measure. Diaries 1953-1972' (1994); 'Ancient as the Hills. Diaries 1973-1974' (1997); 'Through Wood and Dale. Diaries 1975-1978' (1998); 'Deep Romantic Chasm. Dairies 1979-1981' (2000); 'Holy Dread. Diaries 1982-1984' (2001); 'Beneath a Waning Moon. Diaries 1985-1987' (2003); 'Ceaseless Turnoil. Diaries 1988-1992 (2004); 'The Milk of Paradise. Diaries 1993-1997' (2005). A SPLENDID SET, RARE IN THIS CONDITION. The earlier volumes are very scarce and all are becoming difficult. It will be hard to rebuild a similar set at this price level.
RARE LIMITED EDITION OF 150 COPIES - COPY No.127. FIRST EDITION of the diaries by Theodor Herzl (1860-1904, born Benjamin Ze'ev/Binyamin Zeev) - an Austro-Hungarian journalist, playwright, political activist and writer who was one of the fathers of modern political Zionism. In his diaries Herzl described in details how he formed the World Zionist Organization and promoted Jewish migration to Palestine in an effort to form a Jewish state, from the beginnings of personal visions and literary efforts describing the Land of Promise to political movement encompassing Jewish communities from all over the world. Each volume contains three different portraits of Herzl pasted on whitepage following the title page. 5kg. [ALL VOLUMES]: 240x170mm. [648] + [620] + [661] pages. Half-leather marbled Hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. Text block upper edge gilt. Cover rubbed and slightly stained. Cover corners bumped and peeling. Cover edges rubbed. Spine heavily rubbed and somewhat stained. Inner cover and whitepages slightly age-stained. Text block edges dirty. Pages yellowing and rough-cut (as published). [VOL.I]: Spine upper edge and hinges upper part peeling. Bump-mark on spine. [VOL.II]: Spine edges bumped. Spine upper edge peeling. [VOL.III]: Spine upper edge bumped. Inner cover age-stained. Several extreme pages slightly age-stained. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare three volume limited numbered first edition of diaries by the Visionary of the State of Israel and one of the most important figures in modern Jewish history is overall in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
RARE BILINGUAL LATIN & GERMAN EDITION of Cicero's letters, with translation by the noted 16th-century philologist Stephan Reich. Cicero's letters to and from various public and private figures are considered some of the most reliable sources of information for the people and events surrounding the fall of the Roman Republic. Among the recipients of the letters were such illustrious figures as Caesar, Pompey, Octavian, and Cicero's son Marcus Tullius Cicero Minor. 150x95mm. 409 double pages. Rebound vellum Hardcover. Cover and spine stained and wrinkled. Front cover detached. Spine partly detached from binding. Front cover corners and spine hinges worn. Original title-page pasted on front whitepage. First Title-and dedication pages coming loose from binding. Small hole on first dedication page bottom corner near binding - NO damage to text. Small hole on last page upper corner with damage to only one letter of the text. Pages yellowing, age-stained and wavy. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare 16th-century bilingual Latin-German edition of Cicero's letters is otherwise in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This book's cover is very worn, loose or missing. If you'd like, we can send this book to be rebound for an extra charge.
5 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. The set comprises: Vol. I: September 1939 to September 1940 (1996); Vol. 2: September 1940 to December 1941 (1998); Vol. 3: January 1942 to June 1943 (2001); Vol. 4: July 1943 to June 1944 (2002); Vol. 5: June 1944 to May 1945 (2004). Complete sets of the first edition of this standard reference are very scarce.
11 vols., 8vo., with numerous frontispieces, plates and maps; green cloth, upper boards blocked in gilt, gilt backs, green tops, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. The definitive edition, comprising nine volumes of the diary, the Companion volume and the Index volume.
EXTREMELY RARE autobiography of Jewish artist Boris Schatz, founder of the Betzalel school of art. In this bilingual monograph, he relates his works to his life and ideals. The work is prefaced by historian Joseph Klausner and is accompanied by 40 plates large b&w plates, of which 8 are missing in this copy (missing plates - nos. 4, 15, 16, 17, 23, 27, 30 & 33). The text pages themselves also feature some illustrations and text decoration. 395x300mm. 28+35 pages. 32 plates (unbound-folder format). Text is in orange softcover booklet, placed along with the plates within a gray cloth slipcase with some decoration on front. Slipcase slightly worn and very lightly stained. Booklet spine worn and peeling at the middle. Pages slightly yellowing. [SUMMARY]: This rare album is else in good condition.
Roy. 8vo. First Edition thus with a frontispiece 7 plates and endpaper maps; navy buckram vellum back black label lettered in gilt gilt top uncut silk marker a very good bright clean copy in publisher's card slip-case the latter mildly worn at edges and c EDITION LIMITED TO 400 COPIES. Published in 'The Yale Edition of the Private Papers of James Boswell'.
LIMITED EDITION of 1400 copies - COPY No. 144. Contains 38 full-page color and b&w plates. Featuring previously unpublished excerpts from a journal kept by Malcolm Sadler, 1961/62, during his last years at W. E. Hill & Sons. 250x190mm. 202 pages. Half-leather green cloth Hardcover. Gilt front cover and spine. Cover faded and slightly dirty. Spine upper edge slightly bumped. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare book is otherwise in very good condition!
252 pages. Examines the social and economic aspects of life in St. Edmonds since its beginning. Contains a blend of information from a number of sources including newspapers, scrapbooks, diaries, letters, photos, and other authors' research. Includes a treasure trove of genealogical information. Numerous black-and-white illustrations. Black-and-white photographic endpapers. Other than some hand-written genealogical details hand-written upon the family tree on page 205, book is clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Moderate wear and bit of sunning to colourful dust jacket. Excellent copy overall. Book
FIRST EDITION of the travel account of Israel Joseph Benjamin (1818-1864), born in Falticeni, Moldavia, who after losing his money at the age of 25, decided to travel in search of the Ten Lost Tribes, leaving behind his pregnant wife and 5-year old son. Fashioning himself as Binyamin ha-Sheni (The Second Benjamin), the medieval Benjamin of Tudela (12th century) being the first, he recorded his travels to the Jewish communities in the Near East, Central Asia, and North Africa. The book appeared first in French. Traveling through Turkey, Eretz-Israel, Syria, Armenia, Iraq, Kurdistan, India, Afghanistan, Singapore, China, Iran and Egypt, he described not only the economic and social conditions of the various Jewish communities, but also numerous local legends associated with tombs, caves and other geographical features. In Morocco he recorded a unique version of the martyrdom story of Sol (Suleika) Hachuel of Tangier (1817-1834), the news of whose martyrdom reverberated through Europe in the middle of the 19th century. 220x140mm. 240 pages. Original quarter-leather marbled Hardcover with gilt ribbed spine. Cover and spine slightly worn. Cover edges and corners worn and somewhat peeling. Spine upper edge partly missing. Spine, spine hinges and bottom edge slightly rubbed. Binding visible on inner cover. Previous owner's stamp on whitepage. First whitepage detached. First and second whitepages upper corner and edge slightly torn (35&25mm). Pencil notes on first whitepage. Last 50 pages bottom corner water-stained - NO damage to text. Pages yellowing and slightly age-stained. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare book is overall in good condition.
166 pages. References. Signed by Toni Onley above his colour photo on title page. Illustrated in colour and black and white. Bookseller's sticker atop front free endpaper else clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. A handsome copy. Book
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with facsimile endpapers; black cloth, backstrips lettered in silver, a fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. The first appearance of Bloch's abridgement of the original twelve volume series. The set comprises: Vol. I: 1942-1954 (2006); Vol. II: 1971-1983 (2007); Vol. III: 1984-1997 (2008). THIS EDITION IS NOW SCARCE IN ITS OWN RIGHT, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
RARE journal of a voyage to the Holy Land, Sinai and Petra in 1899-1901 with beautiful color illustrations by the author's husband. 220x145mm. 244 pages. Green cloth Hardcover. Gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Cover dirty and rubbed/worn. Cover corners bumped. Cover and spine yellowing. Spine edges bumped and peeling/tattered. Inner cover, whitepages and few pages throughout the book age-stained. Pages yellowing. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare book, a real treat for any serious collector of Holy Land books, is in good condition.
FIRST EDITION of a RARE TWO VOLUME record of Sir Austen Henry Layard's first adventurous journey to the East and residence among different tribes of Persia in the years 1840-1842. This book mentioned by the late 19th-century English novelist George Gissing in his diary as 'one of the most interesting books'. The author - Sir Austen Henry Layard GCB PC (1817-1894), was an eminent English traveler, archaeologist, cuneiformist, art historian, draughtsman, collector, politician and diplomat, best known as the excavator of Nimrud and of Nineveh, where he uncovered a large proportion of the Assyrian palace reliefs known, and in 1851 the library of Ashurbanipal. Contains two beautiful b&w illustrations, two frontispieces and three fold-out maps. [BOTH VOLUMES]: 205x140mm. 490+511 pages [+20]. Olive green cloth Hardcover. Gilt lettering and red and green patterns on front cover and spine. Text block edges age-stained. Cover yellowing and dirty/stained. Cover corners and spine edges bumped and worn. Binding slightly visible on inner cover (but still intact). Small sticker on front whitepage. Illustrations and some pages slightly age-stained. Pages yellowing. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare first edition of a two-volume illustrated memoir of travels and residence in Persia by an illustrious Late Victorian England personality is in good condition.
RARE single volume containing THREE important texts on the Middle East, written in English during the 17th and 18th centuries. The first two are travel journals of pilgrims: the first is Henry Maundrell's journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem through the Galilee, and the second is an account of Italian missionaries' visit to mount Sinai. The third title is a detailed account of Islam, with a special emphasis on the rites of pilgrimage, written by the journalist Joseph Pitts. With 4 b&w plates and 2 fold-out plates. 210x125mm. VIII+520 pages. Patterned brown leather Hardcover. Embossed lettering and gilt decoration on spine. Text block edges marbled. Cover and spine worn. Cover heavily rubbed and scratched. Front cover detached. Cover corners/edges and spine edges bumped and peeling. Spine and spine edges peeling. Sticker on spine bottom edge. Ex-libris sticker and binder's sticker on endpaper. Ink inscription on whitepage. Rear whitepage bottom torn and partly missing (NO damage to text - blank whitepage). Pates and some pages somewhat age-stained. Pages yellowing and wavy. [SUMMARY]: Despite the damage to cover, this rare collection of early modern European texts on the Middle East is internally in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This book's cover is very worn, loose or missing. If you'd like, we can send this book to be rebound for an extra charge.
RARE war memoir of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of 1917 written by a member of the 53rd (Welsh) Division, which had a splendid record in the Great War. Contains 12 photographic plates (incl. frontispiece). 225x145mm. 232 pages. Red cloth Hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. Cover dirty and slightly stained. Cover slightly curved. Cover corners bumped. Front cover upper corner peeling. Cover edges faded from age. Spine yellowing, faded and somewhat stained. Two ex-libris stickers on front endpaper. Ink inscription on front whitepage. Text block edges, whitepages and few other pages age-stained. Binding slightly visible between pages 96-97. Ink notes near text on several pages. Pages yellowing. All plates in good condition. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare war memoir, of immense interest to any scholar and/or collector of materials on the legendary Sinai and Palestine Campaign of the Great War, is in good condition.
RARE travel book by George Chaworth Musters (1841-1879) in which he describes his stay among a tribe of Patagonian Indians for around a year, which led to his being awarded a gold watch in 1872 by the Royal Geographical Society. His nickname "the king of Patagonia" also dates from this period. With map and b&w illustrations. 195x135mm. [XIX]+[340]+[32] pages. Maroon cloth Hardcover with gilt illustration on front. Gilt lettering on spine. Cover edges and corners worn. Spine edges bumped and peeling/worn. Binding slightly loose. Map torn into two pieces and in several other places. Ex-libris on front inner cover. Previous owner's name written in pen on pre-title page. Binding visible between pages 96-97. Some page edges water-stained - NO damage to text! Pages XIV and 162-175 detached from binding with worn edges. Pages yellowing. [SUMMARY]: This rare book has sustained some wear, but is still in good reading condition.
Roy. 8vo., De Luxe Limited Edition, with 9 plates, and front and rear endpaper maps in red and black; buckram, vellum back, gilt top, uncut, solk marker, a very good, bright, clean copy in publisher's card slip-case, the latter mildly worn and frayed at edges and corners. EDITION LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES. Volume four of 'The Yale Edition of the Private Papers of James Boswell'. Brown 100
SIX VOLUME SET. [ALL VOLUMES]: 13X21.5 cm. xlviij+415+480+554+462+442+507 pages. Gilt hardcover. Spine slightly chafed. Sides of spine slightly worn. Pages are stained. [VOL. 4]: Several pages heavilly stained - text not damaged. [IN CONCLUSION]: Else in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
RARE ORIGINAL PEOPLE'S EDITION (Volksausgabe) of Adolf Hitler's notorious autobiography, where he describes the process of becoming an anti-Semite, and outlines his political ideology and future plans for Germany. Includes Hitler's b&w portrait as frontispiece. 190x125mm. XXXII+782 pages (+2). Dark blue cloth Hardcover with gilt front cover and spine. Binding slightly visible between frontispiece and title-page. Ex-library sticker on front inner cover. Dedication dated 13.7.1944 written in ink on front whitepage. Cover slightly curved. Cover corners and edges slightly peeling. Cover and spine somewhat stained. Pages slightly yellowing. [SUMMARY]: This rare original edition of the infamous autobiographical manifesto by German Nazi Party leader is in good condition.
342 pages including index and many black and white photographs. "The years between 1822 and 1967 saw Canadian history in the making, not only in large cities and populated areas, but also in small rural communities such as Douro in Peterborough County. Herein are chronicled facts of historical importance in the area. There are also glimpses into the lives of many who served the township well during the generations. Some of these were very colourful folk indeed. Several of Canada's best known writers were domiciled here. Pioneer days in Upper Canada are recalled from old records, diaries and family lore.... Those who get to know Douro in these pages will appreciate how proud its natives are of their township and why many visitors return here year after year. Here is law observance and a history of good interfaith and interracial relations which could be a model for all Canada" - from dust jacket. Small gift greetings atop page III else sparkling clean and unmarked. Faintest wear overall. Dust jacket now preserved in Brodart cover. A beautiful copy. Book
xliii, 859 pages. Footnotes, references, index. Black and white diagrams and reproductions of photos. "Provides insight at a ground level of Jenness' long, tough voyage of discovery, so that anyone interested in Arctic America or Canadian studies will find this journal a rare and enriching experience. Further, for Arctic scholars, this journal presents the detailed context for those pioneer monographs that launched the career of young Jenness and led to his becoming Canada's pre-eminent anthropologist." - dust jacket. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. Modest bow to front board. Possible light cigarette scent. A sound reading copy of this fascinating early Arctic diary. Book
