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190116723London: Edward Arnold 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 331 pp publisher's catalogue with 8 plates additional illustrations in the text and two folding maps. Original burgundy cloth with some uneven discoloration to the spine and mild wear to the corners small stain on front board. Internals clean and sound. An interesting travel narrative in which Percy also expresses his deep sympathy with the Turks and his belief that Britain and Germany should work together to stem Russian influence in Constantinople. Edward Arnold hardcover books
195321187Oxford: Clarendon Press 1953. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. From the corrected sheets of the first edition." Three volumes in original green cloth illustrated with b/w plates indexed. Minor rubbing to extremities offsetting from the dust jacket flaps to the endpapers; else a fine set. Dust jackets have some chipping to the lower edges and spine ends and there is some spotting to the front panel of Volume II and spine of Volume I. Overall still a very attractive set of this comprehensive and influential work. Rostovtzeff defines the "Hellenistic World" as that "created by Alexander's conquest of the East which existed as long as the States into which it disintegrated retained their political independence and the Greeks in those states held the leading role in all spheres of life; that is to say approximately from the time of Alexander to Augustus." Additional shipping charges will be requested for priority or international orders. Clarendon Press hardcover books
191920744Russian Socialist Federation 1919. Hardcover. Good. Oblong folio 11 x 14 inches string-tied 47 pp with half-tone photographs of scenes and people relating to the Russian Revolution. Place of publication not indicated; we have seen credible suggestions of both Petrograd and New York. We have seen other copies described as having 48 pages so it is possible this copy is missing a page though we do not see evidence of removal. Boards worn spine re-covered and ties replaced title page unprofessionally re-attached on a stub with cloth tape. Chipping to title page and staining to first illustrated page otherwise internally clean and sound. Apparently produced for an American audience captions are in Russian and English a price in dollars is printed on the back cover the album includes portraits of various leaders of the Revolution and officials of the new republic images of groups of workers soldiers and scenes of military action demonstrations celebrations political meetings etc. Russian Socialist Federation hardcover books
1923BOOKS0042322 volumes: xxxiv238pp with frontispiece and 2 other plates 3 maps of which 2 are foldouts1 chart and index list of works by the society at end; xxx290pp with frontispiece and 2 other plates and index. Octavo 9" x 6" issued in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and pictorial representation of the ship Victoria on the cover decorative blind stamp to covers. Translated and edited from the <i>Icelandic edition</i> of Sigfus Blondal by Betrtha S Phillpotts. Works issued by the Hakluyt Society Second Series Numbers 53 and 68. First edition.<br /><br />The autobiography of Jon Olafsson Traveler to the Indies remained unprinted in Icelandic save for a few excerpts until 1908-9 when an edition by Sigfus Blondal Librarian to the Royal Library was published in Copenhagen by the Icelandic Literary Society. The text in this edition which was based on a scholarly collation of the extant MMS. has been implicitly followed in the English translation. The life of Jon Olafsson falls into three parts; or perhaps more properly since only the first two parts are written by himself into two parts and an appendix. The first part opening with his childhood and youth in the remote north-west of Iceland his voyage to England in 1615 and his brief stay in that country has for its main subject his experiences as gunner's mate in Copenhagen and on various Northern voyages in the service of King Christian IV. It is this part which is comprised in the present volume. The second part edited by the Hakluyt Society deals with Jon Olafsson's voyage to India in 1622 his life as a member of the Danish garrison in the fort at Tranquebaar and the voyage home in 1624-5 a terrible record of privation in a rudderless vessel; his stay with other survivors at Youghal in Ireland and his return to Copenhagen towards the end of the year which had seen Christian IV's ill-fated entry into the Thirty Years' War. The autobiographical part ends with his return to Iceland in the Spring of 1626. It is followed by an account of the remainder of his life probably composed by someone in the household of Magnus Magnusson sheriff of Isafjoro Jon's native country--possibly the sheriff himself--and ending with Jon's death in 1679 in his eighty-fifth year. This third part is of value for the full account of the raid on the Barbary corsairs on Iceland in 1627.<br /><br /><b>Condition:</b><br /><br />Spine ends moderately rubbed volume II spine lightly sunned else a very good set. Hakluyt Society hardcover books
1901001091Paris: Combet & Cie. Ancienne Librairie Furne 1901. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Leloir Maurice. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. iv 84 pp. Lavish color illustrations many full page others underlaying the text as was a winsome feature of this series of young adult biographies of French heroes and leaders from the early twentieth century. The Maurice Leloir illustrations for this biography of Cardinal Richelieu are arguably the finest of this series. A few tiny blisters on the decorated boards. Top corner with bumping. A very good copy or better. <br/><br/> Combet & Cie. (Ancienne Librairie Furne) hardcover books
1909001090Paris: Boivin & Cie. 1909. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Toudouze G. Gustave. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. ii 80 pp. Lavish color illustrations generally full page every other page by Toudouze of Renaissance king warrior and builder of fantastic chateaux. Soilage on rear board and RFEP. Minor soilage and wear to boards elsewhere. Toning to pages. Overall very good. <br/><br/> Boivin & Cie. hardcover books
1904001026Paris: Ancienne Librairie Furne Combet & Cie. 1904. 1st Edition. Decorated Cloth. Very Good. Leloir Maurice. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. 92 pp. Lavishly illustrated luscious folio sized 14.75 by 11.75 inches children's and/or young adult biography part of series of such covering monarchs and towering figures of French history this being of Louis XIV the "Sun King". Virtually every other page has bright color illustrations some illustrations cover two pages and some are underlay to the print as the norm of the genre. Also lovely header decoration. Some soilage to the boards and wear in corners and spine tips. Page with age toning. Minor chips on FFEP and half title page. Text and plates are clean and bright. Overall comfortably very good. <br/><br/> Ancienne Librairie Furne, Combet & Cie. hardcover books
1912001092Paris: Combet & Cie. Ancienne Librairie Furne 1912. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Guillonnet O.D.V. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. 84 pp. Lavish full page color illustrations virtually every other page. Part of series of young adult biographies of French heroes and leaders from the early twentieth century. Soilage on white decorated boards. One page with close tear about 1.5 inches in margin. Overall a very good copy. <br/><br/> Combet & Cie. (Ancienne Librairie Furne) hardcover books
192925609European Origin: No Publisher Noted 1929. Containing approximately 90 black and white photographic images of varying sizes; from 1 1/4" square to 3 ½" x 5 ½" postcard size; most of them average about 2 ½" x 3 ½." Mostly these are candid photographs of the life of young boys and men in Austria and Germany with internal dating on some of the photographs of 1929 to 1935 and additional place and dating information on some. There are photos of children mostly young boys at class and later as young men on class trips hiking cycling; with adult chaperones; for the older boys the educational duties appear to be supervised by Christian religious male instructors only. Also containing a few group photographs of men students priests; and some church interior views. Some of the images have the photography studio rubber stamps on the reverse of the state pharmacy in Rottweil. Five of the images are commercial images of architectural landmarks in Vienna. The photographs are corner-mounted not glued into two hardcover albums with black paper pages side-string tied. One album measures 6" x 8 ¼" and the other 7 ½" x 10 ½" approx. size; both albums with art-deco themed cloth covers. Some edge tips wear and soiling to the album bindings; photographs are generally sharply taken detailed and in very good condition. Photograph Albums. Photo Album. Very Good. No Publisher Noted hardcover books
195721188Oxford: Clarendon Press 1957. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Second edition revised by P.M. Fraser. Two volumes in original green cloth illustrated with b/w plates indexed. A few corners lightly bumped else a fine set in very nice dust jackets with some very minor creasing. Clarendon Press hardcover books
1982202761New Haven: Yale University Press 1982. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/no dust jacket. Previous owner's name stamped on front free endpaper. No pencil or ink markings in text. Boards clean; binding sound. Green cloth gilt lettering. ~. Very Good binding / no dust jacket. Yale University Press unknown books
192220620Firenze: Tip. Barbera Alfani e Venturi 1922. Softcover. Very good. 6.75 x 9.25 in. 32 pp in photographically illustrated wrappers with 11 half-tone illustrations in the text. Light dust soiling wear to spine ends; very good. Describes the work of an asylum for war orphans opened in 1921 by the Florentine branch of the Associazione Nazionale Mutilati e Combattenti--an organization formed in the aftermath of World War I to assist those disabled or mutilated during the war. Illustrations show some of the facilities and groups of orphans who received education work experience and recreational opportunities and the final pages list individual and organizational donors to the institution. Not found in OCLC. Tip. Barbera, Alfani e Venturi paperback books
197215687Tel Aviv: Hamenora for the Zaglembier Society and Pinkas-Zaglembier Committee Melbourne 1972. Hardcover. Very good/very good. pp. 613 82. Extensively illustrated with historic photographs b/w. Text in English Yiddish Hebrew. Corners bumped boards lightly edgeworn contents clean and sound. In original dust jacket which has some creasing and chipping to the spine ends. Holocaust memorial book for Zaglembie Poland. Oversized; shipping will be more than standard for priority or international orders. Hamenora for the Zaglembier Society and Pinkas-Zaglembier Committee, Melbourne hardcover books
1993182896Frankfurt: Sotheby's Europe 1993. Softcover. VG. 6 volumes plus the separate introduction and pricelist housed in a printed board slipcase. Text in German and English. Fine. Historic sale of the splendid collections of the House of Thurn und Taxis. Volume I: Mobel & Dekorationen Furnture & Decorations. Volume II: Kunsthandwerk Works of Art. Volume III: Keramik & Glas Ceramics & Glass. Volume IV: Gemalde Paintings. Volume V: Mobel & Kostume Furniture & Costume. Volume VI: Wein Wine. Sotheby's [Europe] unknown books
19311831Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. xxx 408 pp illustrations with frontispiece. Majority of pages are unopened name written on front pastedown small embossed stamp on title page; else fine. No dust jacket. A selection of letters published for the first time in this volume most addressed to Dom Antonio de Ataide King John's Chancellor of the Exchequer. Harvard University Press hardcover books
19322757London: Hurst & Blackett Ltd 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good-. xii 287 pp. Light wear to boards and edges 2 inch x 1 inch spot of sticker damage to front pastedown library stamp on top edge of text block no other library markings; text clean. No dust jacket. Signed and dated by Hird in the year of publication on front free endpaper. As described in the Foreword by A.F. Kerensky "the author's pen stroke by stroke pictures for the reader life in Soviet Russia life in all its phases: individual family educational industrial military etc." Hurst & Blackett, Ltd hardcover books
1916241078Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press 1916. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Red cloth binding with gilt lettering. Light silverfishing to front and rear boards. Top of spine lightly bumped. Light edgewear to extremities. no markings in text. Very Good binding. Princeton University Press unknown books
1960300990<p>First English edition so stated. Octavo. Frontispiece and 27 halftones from b/w photographs. 1 page introduction by Wilhelmina. Dust jacket designed by Patricia Davey unclipped; short tear; rubbing on back panel; few nicks; front hinge cracked. Very good. 248 pages. Enclosed in a full red morocco pull box.</p> Hutchinson of London hardcover books
198013966Stanford CA: Hoover Institution Press 1980. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. 253 pp with index bibliography and notes. Light dust soiling to top edge else a fine copy: clean tightly bound unmarked. Dust jacket has moderate edgewear and a few short tears. Analyzes the nature and causes of the Nazi movement from the standpoint of classical Greek and Christian political theory arguing that Nazi self-interpretations should be taken seriously as starting points from the analyses of National Socialism. Hoover Institution Press hardcover books
19151272Oxford: Clarendon Press 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. xxvi 428 pp 6 general appendix. Moderate general wear to boards light offsetting to endpapers; contents clean and sound. No dust jacket. Includes sections on Nationalism and National Identity in the Near East Byzantism Hellenism Panslavism the Macedonian Questions the Ottoman Revolution the War of the Coalition Turkish Greek and Balkan Militarism and the War of Partition. Clarendon Press hardcover books
19202770London: Cassell and Company Ltd 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. xii 278 pp illustrations from photographs frontis portrait of the author index. Library stamp on top edge no other library markings; text clean binding sound. No dust jacket. Signature of historical novelist Alfred Duggan on front endpaper. From the Foreword: "Originally written for the private use of my sons in case I did not return this narrative of events connected with the expedition to Siberia must of necessity lack many of the necessary elements which go to make a history. I wrote of things as they occurred and recorded the reasons and motives which prompted the participants." Cassell and Company, Ltd hardcover books
19169067Paris: Bloud and Gay 1916. Staple-bound pamphlet; 22pp. Wear and sunning to edges of covers pages foxed and chipped at two points of fore edge else a clean and sound copy. Praise for Serbia's role in WW1. Publication of the Committee "The Effort of France and of her Allies. Bloud and Gay unknown books
19723166Boise ID: Offset Printer 1972. Softcover. Very Good. 115 pp with illustrations footnotes in original wrappers. Price sticker on inside front cover very light handling wear; else clean. From the Introduction: "The first part is an expanded version of the publication 'History and Origin of the Basque' first published in 1962 . Part II points out the highlights of recent Basque history from 1931 to the present and deals primarily with the short-lived Basque Republic and the Spanish Civil War which followed." Offset Printer paperback books
198111903Littleton MA: Gramatas salikums-Gunara Indara Apgads 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 9 x 11 inches oblong. Slight wear to boards else fine. No dust jacket. 267 pp primarily consisting of black and white photographs with captions in Latvian. Introductory text in Latvian and English. A fascinating pictorial history of the Latvian refugee/immigrant experience. "Photographer Vilis Gravitas has documented on film the years of transition from a refugee a virtual 'non-person' to the rank of an immigrant and ultimately to a full-fledged member of society again as a naturalized citizen of the United States." Shipping for priority or international orders may be more than standard. Gramatas salikums-Gunara Indara Apgads hardcover books
1992258632New York: Ticknor & Fields 1992. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Signed & Personally Inscribed by Ridley on title page. Signed & Personally Inscribed by Ridley on title page. Previous owner sticker to frontispiece previous owner notes to title page; number penned to top corner of frontispiece otherwise no markings in text. Dust jacket protected in a new mylar cover. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket. Ticknor & Fields unknown books
