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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
1700WB16426Paris: Chez Nicolas le Gras 1700. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 155 x 94mm. Pagination: 341pp. 2. Folding map for Poland before p. 1 and for Sweden Norway and Denmark before p. 225. Period French speckled calf minor tear in the map for Sweden minor edgewear otherwise good and sound. This is the eighth volume of the Voyages. <br/><br/> Chez Nicolas le Gras 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
1846001217Napoli Naples: Tipografia Floriana 1846. 1st Edition thus. Quarter Calf. Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 787 pp. 11 color plates of soldiers and fighters and 4 steel engravings of panoramas or views. Comprehensive history of Algeria from Ancient Carthage to the then present of French control. Binding and text blocks are tight. Some occasional foxing and on some pages it is considerable as inevitable given the paper stock used. The costume color plates though are attractive and mostly clean albeit their paper is toned a bit. Red calf spine and boards have a fair amount of rubbing scuffing and wear with some rawness on spine extremities. Overall better than a good copy. <br/><br/> Tipografia Floriana unknown 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
184821287London: Charles Gilpin 1848. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo 512 pp publisher's ads bound in original brown cloth. Old staining to boards. loss of cloth at head of spine mild spine slant. Internally clean but with a section of pages 283-317 that were opened roughly and have creasing and or chipping at the top margin. Text unaffected. Penciled ownership signature dated 1859 on front free endpaper binder's ticket Remnant & Edmonds London on rear pastedown. Somerville was a British radical journalist soldier and promoter of free trade. After being hired by the Anti-Corn-Law League in 1842 "travelled over the entire country for much of four years writing a prodigious number of articles for newspapers. In the spirit of a social anthropologist he described farming communities-work habits the condition of the soil crops prices rents wages the state of the roads diets dwellings crime discontents religious beliefs-all laced with arguments for free trade" ODNB. Much of his autobiography focuses on the political agitation he engaged in while in the Army and the fallout from his actions. Charles Gilpin 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
188318425London: Richard Bentley 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes pp xii 374; xii 424 illustrated with portraits. Bound for John N. Guss in three-quarter green leather with marbled boards; gilt spines in six compartments top edges gilt marbled endpapers. Rubbing to corners spine heads and hinges; internals fine. Richard Bentley hardcover books
P6897Munich: Free Europe Press 1954-1956. Single leaf measuring 14.5 Ã 57 cm folded four times to create a pamphlet with ten pages of text and images. Very good. Scarce anti-communist flyer in Czech printed in Germany by Free Europe Press and distributed over Czechoslovakia via balloon from 1954 to 1956. With short articles in Czech and Slovak the publication informed Czechoslovak readers about political news unavailable to them. It also explained the "Ten Demands" program compiled by Radio Free Europe workers based on interviews with Czechoslovak refugees. Approximately 56 numbered issues were printed many of them such as the present one illustrated with drawings and small photographs. "In the 1950s at the height of the Cold War numerous psychological warfare leaflets were prepared by the Free Europe Press FEP of the Free Europe Committee. The group worked in cooperation with Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency CIA funding much of the operations. FEP leaflets were a major part of the post-World War II psychological warfare battle between East and West. The operation sent 590415 balloons that carried 301636883 leaflets posters books and other printed matter from West Germany over the Iron Curtain to Czechoslovakia Hungary and Poland from August 1951 to November 1956" Source: Free Europe Press Cold War Leaflets Accessed 2019 http://www.psywarrior.com/RadioFreeEurope.html. KVK OCLC show three issues at the British Library and a more significant run lacking only 12 issues at Wisconsin-Madison. unknown books
17142Girls' Education Science Laboratory with 6 figures around a table filled with special equipment. c. 1920s. Real photo postcard. 3.5 x 5.5 in. From unknown European country. 4 girls in matching uniforms stand around a table engage in experiments and write observations in their notebooks. 1 uniformed young man stands nearby while an older student or teacher supervises. This dates from the 1920s after WWI had ended but a period in which militarization in Europe was considered of upmost national importance. The early 20th century was also a period of great development for women's education as more schools and programs opened to girls. Real photo postcard was never mailed and has no message written on verso. Creases in lower and upper right corners. In good condition. unknown books
188627038Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1886. 4 ad pages xxxii 337 16 blank memoranda pages 8 pages of additional advertisements at back; with a useful index and an appendix with additional travel hints per country. Includes all folding maps per the list provided at the contents: Great Britain - Ireland in front pocket; London in back pocket; Continental Europe Switzerland and Paris all found within the text at their respective chapters. Title page with the small owner name-stamp of collector George R. Brush M.D. U.S. Navy; in service as a surgeon & medical inspector from 1861-1894. Approx. 4" x 6"size; bound in the original gilt-stamped red full thin leather; spine chipped at edge of title; some edge tips wear and rubbing; loose maps with some browning darkening at folds; contents generally clean and in good condition. Edition for 1886. Leather. Good. Houghton, Mifflin and Company 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
186018974Edinburgh: William Tait 1860. Softcover. Good. 7 x 10.25 in pp 5 179 with frontis portrait of the author. Wrappers chipped at the corners with some dust soilng and foxing dampstain to portrait leaf only presumably occurred prior to being bound in some dogeared corners; contents clean binding sound. Elliott 1781-1849 was an English poet and merchant. In his youth he wrote pastoral poems but by the early 1830s he had begun to infuse poltiics into his work "by denouncing the 'bread tax' the exploitation of child and adult labour and the low wages of the working classes and by advocating free trade. In 1830 Elliott helped to found the short-lived Sheffield Mechanics Anti-Bread Tax Society and formed the Sheffield Anti-Corn Law Society in 1834.it was his protest verse favourably reviewed by Thomas Carlyle Bulwer-Lytton the Howitts W. J. Fox and Geraldine Jewsbury which bolstered his reputation as poet of the poor even after he had accumulated substantial wealth" DNB. This volume collects both his early worth and his Corn-Law Rhymes. William Tait paperback books
186820282London: Longmans Green Reader and Dyer 1868. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo pp.vii 302 with corrigenda slip tipped in. Bound in 3/4 green leather and green marbled boards spine with gilt lettering and ornaments top edge gilt green silk ribbon bookmark bound in. Binding signed William Taylor Morrell. Scuffing to leather at extremities spine slightly faded foxing to first and last few leaves otherwise clean and sound. Armorial bookplate of William Ruddell Clarke of Trabolgan County Cork Ireland on front pastedown. "Clarke 1870-1937 inherited Trabolgan a large Georgian house and the surrounding estate of 1500 acres from his father in 1911. After his death the estate was purchased by the Irish Land Commission" National Library of Australia. Fitzgibbon 1793-1882 was a prominent Irish barrister. This work addresses the educational land religious and other questions of the time. Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer hardcover books
185121515London: James Watson 1851. Hardcover. Good. Second thousand. 100 pp in publisher's purple cloth with blind-stamped decoration. Significant chipping to the spine cloth small water stain on front board paper cracked over front hinge but hinge secure. Foxing to title page only otherwise interally clean binding tight. "George Jacob Holyoake was mainly self-educated and a vigorous campaigner for secularism and freethought during the 19th century. He wrote 160 books and pamphlets and edited several magazines including The Movement and The Reasoner. Holyoake was the last person in England to be imprisoned on a charge of atheism for saying at a public lecture in Cheltenham in 1842 at a time of economic hardship: "If I could have my way I would place the deity on half pay as the Government of this country did its subaltern officers" Humanists UK. James Watson 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
18902222234<p>First edition thus. Octavo. Illustrated with fine photogravures of Florence and other Italian sites of historical architecture. Original white cloth with rich gilt and red decorative stamping t.e.g. Original red linen dust jacket. No foxing. Fine. 2 volumes. No signatures or bookplates.</p> Estes and Lauriat hardcover books
001018Leipzig: Kayser'sche Buchhandlung; Franz Beyer 2840. Half Calf. Marbled boards. Near Fine. Opiz G. 652 iv pp. 25 steel engraved plates. 9 x 6.5 inches or 24 by 16 cm. Plates generally depict famous battle milestones in the development of Switzerland and scenes depicted framed with small cameos of other scenes all rendered with intricate detail. Some scuffing to calf on spine and wear to corner triangles. Calf over attractive marbled boards. Marbled endpapers. Book tight. Plates clean. Tissue protectors well preserved. Slight browning where verso pages not touched by tissue. A very attractive copy. Near fine. <br/><br/> Kayser'sche Buchhandlung; Franz Beyer hardcover books
183915214New York: D. Appleton & Co 1839. Hardcover. Good. pp ix 13-275. Publisher's brown cloth somewhat puckered and stained; ownership signature of John Taylor Pratt dated 1839 on front pastedown; half of front free endpaper torn out. Binding sound text unmarked but heavily foxed. A solid reference copy. Ellis authored many books about the role of women in society emphasizing their role as a stabilizing moral influence. D. Appleton & Co hardcover 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
200113584Riga: Latvijas vestures instituta apgads 2001. Soft cover. Near Fine. 743 pp in original printed wrappers. Light soiling to front cover else fine. Most text in Latvian some in English. Papers on the Soviet Occupation of Latvia 1940-41 and 1944-mid 50s; Nazi German Occupation of Latvia 1941-45. Latvijas vestures instituta apgads paperback books
258094Appears to be about the Turkish military coup d'etat of 1960. Illutratated throughout with black and white photographs. unknown 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