Europe

A HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS ON THE RIVIERA FROM MARSEILLES TO PISA With Outlines of the Routes Thither, and Some Introductory Information on the Climate and the Choice of Winter Stations for Invalids

Boards a bit worn. Spine ends frayed. Significant dampstaining to boards and first 10-15 pgs. Front hinge and first few pages frail and with one page detached but present; A very rare Murray's with lightly browned VG+ maps; 12mo - 7" to 7½" tall; 138, 64 pages

A Handbook on Hanging

Being a short introduction to the fine art of Execution, and containing much useful information on Neckbreaking, Throttling, Strangling, Asphyxiation, Decapitation and Electrocution; as well as Data and Wrinkles for Hangmen, an account of the late Mr. Berry's method of Killing and his working list of Drops; to which is added a Hagman's Ready Reckoner and certain other items of interest. New and enlarged edition. Hardcover with lightly bumped and rubbed spine ends and leading corners. Discoloration of foot of spine. Tiny surface chip to upper edge of front board. Lightly water damaged, grubby, scratched and edgeworn dust jacket has creased and nicked spine ends and slightly chipped leading corners. Page edges are roughly cut. Bookplates on front pastedown and FEP. Noticeable age spotting to pages. Binding is sound, and text remains clear throughout. T Used

A Handbook to Switzerland. Ninth Edition - Revised.

Sm. 8vo., Ninth Edition, with a folding coloured map (one small tear) as frontispiece, 59 plates on 48 and 12 folding maps (5 coloured); original series binding of red cloth, upper board lettered in black, gilt back, radial corners, red and blue sprinkled edges, a very good, clean copy. With the small trade stamp of Robert of Geneve on front paste-down.

A HANDY ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO VIENNA AND ENVIRONS With 48 Illustrations: Maps of Vienna and the Semmering; and Plans of Schönbrunn and Laxenburg

Very small spots to front board. Former owner's name on front free endpaper ; A rare "Baedeker-clone" including VG+ rear fold out map ; 16mo; 128 pages

A HISTORICAL SURVEY OF THE CUSTOMS, HABITS, & PRESENT STATE OF THE GYPSIES Designed to Develope the Origin of This Singular People, and to Promote the Amelioration of Their Condition

Significant wear to original boards, but spine seems to be from a later date. Foxing first few & last few pages. Front hinge well started, rear hinge less so. Front free endpaper and title page detached but present, the former showing a previous owner's name. Occasional pencil underlining; The Gypsy people as they were known two centuries ago. And, yes, the subtitle really says "develope" in case you were wondering ; 8vo; 265 pages

A History of Democracy in Europe

Hardcover Clean Copy

A History of Eastern Europe: Crisis and Change

Paperback, very good condition. Minor bumps to the corners and a remnant of previous price sticker on the rear, no other issues. Text is excellent throughout. DP Used

A History of Europe from the Earliest Times to 1713.

A HISTORY OF EUROPE- 3 VOLL.(2011)

3 voll'in 8', leg. ed. cofanetto:vol I- ancient and medieval, introduced by Richard Vinen, pp. XXV+430, ill. col. f.t., una in antiporta(foto);vol II- renaissance, reformation, reason, pp. X+377, ill. col. f.t., una in antiporta;vol. III- the liberal experiment, pp. XII+484, ill. col. f.t., una in antiporta.Volumi e cofanetto in buono stato.

A History of European Thought in the Nineteenth Century: Vol. I

No dust jacket. Hardcover. Gilt lettering on spine. Boards are a little worn and rubbed. Boards have two or three light stains and surface marks. Spine ends are worn, rubbed and bumped. Leading corners are worn, bumped and frayed. Considerable age - spotting on page block. Minor liquid staining to inner corners of front pastedown, front endpaper and first few pages. Moderate age - spotting on first and last few pages. Light liquid staining on lower edges of several pages near end of book. Binding is sound, pages are tight and text is clear throughout. AF Used

A History of France

First UK edition translated from the French by Henry L. Binsse. No dust jacket and boards are sunned at spine and bumped at corners. Gift dedication penned to FEP. Spine is tight and pages are clean througout. AD Used

A History of Greece: Volumes I & II

Hardcovers in acceptable condition. No jackets. Two volumes. Ancient Greece only. Ex - university library. From Brasenose College, Oxford. Boards and spines are marked. Volume one spine is blotched. Label residue on spines. Leading corners, edges and spines are worn, bumped and nicked. One inch tears on spine ends of volume one. Pages are tanned, foxed and rough - cut. Pages are detached from cover of volume one, but remain intact. BEP of volume one is nicked. Five centimetre tear on front pastedown hinge of volume two. Pen and library stamp on FEP of volume two. One or two pages are dog - eared. Hinges between one or two pages are split, but binding for volume two remains intact. Text remains clear throughout both volumes. HCW Ex - Library

A History of Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby, 1620-1970 (SIGNED By AUTHOR)

Signed 'H Mark Luft' on title page. Previous owner's name on front end paper and title page. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. The book is wrapped in a professionally printed removable plastic cover imprinted with the title and author. A little marking to the insides of the boards where this sleeve had been secured. 338pp. Detailed history of this Liverpool school with illustrations. Scarce with dust jacket.

A History of Montenegro. THE ORIGINAL EDITION

8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, some light age-staining, fore-edges mildly mottled; original red ribbed cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, a very good, bright copy. Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front paste-down and small inked Dewey on backstrip. Extremely scarce. No copy is listed in BLPC.

A History of Slovakia : The Struggle for Survival

350 pages including notes, bibliography and index. Describes the history of the Slovak nation from its arrival on the Danubian Plain and the valleys of the Tatra Mountains to its declaration of independence in 1993. Remarkably light wear. Usual library markings. Nice clean copy. Book

A HISTORY OF THE BIRDS OF EUROPE. Including all the species inhabiting the Western palaearctic region.

In-4 p., 9 volumi (di cui 1 di Supplemento), mz. pelle coeva con ang., dorso a cordoni con filetti e tit. oro, tagli sup. dorati. L'opera, in 8 volumi, pubblicati nel 1871-1881, è cosi' composta: - Vol. 1°: pp. XIII (list of subscribers), III-XLVI,102 (prefatory matter and indices) /// Vol. 2°: pp. (2),VIII,644, con 95 tavv. /// Vol. III: pp. (2),VIII,620, con 86 tavv. /// Vol. 4°: pp. (2),VIII,636, con 92 tavv. di cui 1 (la 262) in b.n. /// Vol. 5°: pp. (2),VIII,668, con 90 tavv. /// Vol. 6°: pp. (2),VIII,708, con 92 tavv. /// Vol. 7°: pp. (2),VIII,660, con 89 tavv. di cui 1 (la 485) in b.n. /// Vol. 8°: pp. (2),VIII,666, con 90 tavv. (la 599 è bis). - Il "Supplement", vol. 9°, pubblicato nel 1895-96, pp. (2),XXV,441, con 89 tavv. Importante e ricercata opera di ornitologia, magnificamente illustrata da complessive 723 tavole litografate di cui: 721 con pregevole coloritura a mano e 2 in b.n. Le bibliografie citano 722 tavv. "Ediz. originale", rara. Cfr. Zimmer,I, p. 177/179: "A very thorough manual of the subject, beautifully illustrated by J.G. Keulemans, Joseph Wolf, E. Neale and others.. Vol. IX was intended to treat only of species not included in the original work, but offers occasional corrections to the original letterpress, also" - Nissen,DIV,267 - The British Museum (Natural History),I, p. 479. Cfr. anche Benezit,VII, p. 774 che dell'artista olandese precisa: "Johannes Gerardus Keulemans (1842-1912), peintre animalier, graveur, illustrateur. Passionné d'histoire naturelle, ornithologue, il représente, selon un graphisme très précis, toutes les sortes d'oiseaux qu'il connait". Benezit,XIV, p. 687, dell'illustratore tedesco Joseph Wolf (1820-1899) così precisa: "Il peignit un grand nombre de tableaux d'oiseaux, s'amusant à les représenter dans les mutations de l'éclairage". Solo nel 9° volume 4 cc. con alone al margine super. bianco, altrimenti bellissimo esemplare.

A HISTORY OF THE CRUSADES VOLUME III: the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries

Top corner is bumped. Minor shelfwear. Former owner's bookplate. Dustjacket has chipping and a few tears. ; Completes the telling of the events of four centuries of the crusades, focusing upon the major currents of the period. Includes 21 informative maps. ; Vol. 3; 2.31 x 13.67 x 7.53 Inches; 836 pages

A History of the Ottoman Empire to 1730: Chapters from The Cambridge History of Islam and the New Cambridge Modern History

Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. Minor edgewear to jacket and faint marks to page block. No other notable flaws. AD Used

A History of War and Peace 1939 -1965

Some wear to the dust jacket with one inch long tear to the back. Pages are clean and tight. Used

A Hoard Of Third Century Antoniniani

Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket in very good condition, from the collection of Dr Cathy E. King. Jacket spine is sunned, and edges are creased and nicked. Board corners and spine ends are bumped and rubbed. Pages and text are clear and unmarked throughout. LW Used

A JEWISH TOWN IN WOOD SCULPTURE

Original Publisher's Cloth. 4to. Xxii, xvi, 32 plates. Illus. 31 cm. In English and Yidddish. Added title page and text in Yiddish: "A Yidish shtetl in holz skupltur. " Artist preserves the mode of life & types of the Jewish towns in Eastern Europe that were obliterated in the Holocaust. Includes loose program from exhibit. Minimal staining. Slight toning. Very good condition +. (SPEC-23-13B)

A Journal of Occurrences at the Temple during the Confinement of Louis XVI, King of France. By M. Clery, the King's Valet-de-Chambre. Translated from the original Manuscript by R.C. Dallas. ['The Journal of the Terror']. ATTRACTIVE COPY

8vo., First English Edition, with an engraved plate (moderately spotted), 2 engraved plans on one plate, and two engraved facsimiles on one plate, rear free endpaper and one rear blank preliminary lightly spotted; attractively bound in nineteenth century half calf, marbled boards, back gilt extra with five raised bands, second compartment with red leather label lettered in gilt, all other compartments ruled and elaborately tooled in gilt to a floral design, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers, corners lightly bruised else a remarkably bright, crisp, clean copy in elegant binding. With the 16pp list of subscribers, which includes virtually every member of the Royal family extended to Prince William of Gloucester. This is the early issue with 'Bookselllers' in the publisher's imprint (see ESTCT110766). The plates depict the Temple tower, plans of the second and third floors and two facsimiles of Marie Antoinette's handwriting. Clery's family had been in the service of the French Royal Family since the time of Louis XIV. Together with his brother, he began his career with the Princesse de Guenenee, governess to the royal children, and became valet-de-chambre to the Duke of Normandy (later the Dauphin) in 1785. From 1789, he acted as valet to King Louis XVI and was permitted by Petion to continue to wait on the Royal Family during their imprisonment in the Temple. After the King's execution, Clery accompanied the Madame Royale (Marie-Therese de Bourbon) on her exile to Vienna where he continued to serve until his death. LOVELY COPY OF A KEY DOCUMENTARY RECORD IN THE HISTORY OF FRANCE, THE REVOLUTION AND THE TERROR, AND THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNT OF THE IMPRISONMENT OF LOUIS XVI.

A Journey from la Trappe to Rome. Second Edition.

XI, 267 S., 2 gefalt. Tabellen. Mit gestoch. Frontispiz und 2 Tafeln. Leinwand d. Zt. mit geprägtem Deckel und Rückentitel. Berieben, Rücken leicht beschädigt. *With 3 lithogr. plates. Spnie with small defects. In all still a good copy. Bücher de

A Journey from Omdurman to Mombasa viâ Lake Rudolf - 06

8vo. 22 pages, plus a large folding colour map for illustration. Missing the original spine. Bound with new black spine, otherwise in original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. Not to be deceived by such a modest title, Austin's is a most vivid description of a deadly 2,400 mile journey through British Sudan to Kenya, encountering numerous hostile tribes. He recounts repeated instances, in the environs of Lake Rudolf, of expedition members being hunted and speared to death by indigenous tribesmen, of bold night attacks by warriors, and brutal devious killings of travelers wandering from camp. His expedition journal begins to resemble a diary of deaths. The survey party traversed swampy regions of the Nile through Sudan, to reach the magnificent highlands of British East Africa. The perilous overland journey endured not only shortage of food, illness, and dangerous encounters, but a most dramatic loss of 75 per cent of the party of sixty-two, at the hands of previously friendly tribes!