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19151338Garden City NY: Doubleday Page & Company 1915. First Edition. Softcover. Good. pp. 482-600 130 pp advertisements. Some general wear to wrappers including sticker damage and rubbing to back cover and tears to spine amateur re-sewing of spine; contents clean and complete. Portrait of Grand Duke Nikolas Russian General Nicholas Nikolaevich on front cover. Articles on the war on the Eastern Front the cost of war "A Day in the Belgian Relief Stations" "How Capital Brings Trade" and more. Doubleday, Page & Company unknown books
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
1958252355London: MacGibbon & Kee 1958. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket. MacGibbon & Kee unknown books
200540193NY:: Cambridge University Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2005. Hardcover. 0521770904 . First edition. Previous owner's book-plate on front paste-down else fine in a very near fine short closed edge tear at the crown of the spine dust jacket. . Cambridge University Press, 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
195823905Holland: Not Published 1958. 5 color slides; windmill people in folk costumes country scenery; all mounted in thin black and white paper; all with color loss; good condition. Photography. Not Bound. Very Good. Not Published Paperback books
1900309837V.p. in Europe chiefly Germany France Switzerland & Italy 1900. 92 vintage albumen and gelatin silver prints many hand-colored mounted to album leaves photos measure from approximately 6-1/2 x 4-3/4 inches to 10-1/2 x 8 inches. 4to. Full contemporary padded morocco with brass clasp a.e.g. Fine. 92 vintage albumen and gelatin silver prints many hand-colored mounted to album leaves photos measure from approximately 6-1/2 x 4-3/4 inches to 10-1/2 x 8 inches. 4to. Album of professional photographs of European travel destinations including the Midi Monte Carlo Stockholm Brussels London Capri Innsbruck Jena Paris Venice and St. Moritz. Many of the images are hand-colored; a few of the photographers are named including C. Hertel Sommer Naples and C. Naya Venice. The front cover title translates to "Memories of Travel unknown books
199514453Riga: Centre of Baltic-Nordic History and Political Studies 1995. Hardcover. Near fine. 335 pp indexed illustrated. Clean tightly bound and unmarked with just a touch of wear to the corners. Centre of Baltic-Nordic History and Political Studies 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
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
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
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
182920283London: John Murray 1829. Hardcover. Very good. Second edition. 8vo pp.lvii 464. Bound in 3/4 green leather and green marbled boards spine with gilt lettering and ornaments all edges marbled 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. Sadler 1780-1835 was a social reformer and political economist whose beliefs are described by his DNB biographer as "violenty anti-Malthusian." On this work specifically the biographical entry continues "Against the individualist and Ricardian views that underlay most English thinking about Ireland Sadler here proposed the establishment of an Irish poor law on the paternalist principle that in proportion to its means 'wealth should be compelled to assist destitute poverty but that dissimilar to English practice assistance should in all cases except in those of actual incapacity from age or disease be connected with labour.'" John Murray hardcover books
1921316New York: William Edwin Rudge 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 36 pp with illustrations in the text. Original paper covered boards with spine label. Edgeworn backstrip rubbed chipped and loosening at head of spine. Small bookplate of W. Van R. Whitall on front pastedown; contents clean and sound. No dust jacket. Designed by Bruce Rogers and printed by Rudge at Mount Vernon NY in December 1921. One of five hundred copies printed on antique wove paper. William Edwin Rudge hardcover books
1988000630New York: Dorset Press 1988. Soft cover. Like New/Like New. <br/><br/> Dorset Press paperback 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
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
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
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
200127894Oxford: Oxbow Books. Fine. 2001. Hardcover. 1842170333 . Illustrated. First edition. Fine in glossy pictorial boards. No dust jacket as issued. . Oxbow Books hardcover books
18952441London: William Heinemann 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. xviii 312 pp publisher's catalogue with frontispiece many illustrations from photgraphs one map and three plans. Re-cased with new endpapers. Mild spine slant moderate wear and soilding to boards light foxing--mostly concentrated around illustrations--owner's name on title page and page 1. Chitral a remote mountainous region in the north of modern-day Pakistan was the subject of a power struggle between Czarist Russia and the British Empire. In early 1895 the British fort at Chitral was attacked and beseiged by Pashtun chief Umra Khan who sought official recognition. Relief troops were sent from Gilgit to the East and then in a second wave--described in this book--from India proper. The author joined this relief force as press correspondent. William Heinemann hardcover books
2755London: Walter Scott. Hardcover. Good. Undated. xii 132 pp publisher's catalogue. Ex-library with no markings on the binding but ink stamp on the top edge and endpapers foxing to endpapers; text clean. Walter Scott 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
1967770London: Oxford University Press 1967. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 312 pp illustrations portraits with index. A fine copy in clean dust jacket with light shelf wear. Sketches of twenty-four people or couples considered here as equivalent to one person such as the Webbs the Tawneys and the Hammonds who made a personal impression on Toynbee. Includes essays on T.E. Lawrence Sir Lewis Namier Lionel Curtis W.L. Westermann C.P. Scott Lord Bryce Jan Smuts Lord Samuel and Sri Jawaharalal Nehru among others. Oxford University Press hardcover 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
