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188025607European Origin: No Publisher Noted 1880. Large-format albumen process photographic images of a monastery; a cultivated inner courtyard & colonnaded hallway bell-towered church in background; and white-robed monks at a well with ornate wrought-iron pulley-surround. Both laid down to cardstock. Images approx. 7 1/2" x 9 1/2" size; the cardstock mounts make them approx. 13" x 15" overall. No place photographer studio or date noted; circa 1880; courtyard image with the studio number in the print of '831.' Cardstock with light edge tips wear; images clear and detailed; in very good condition. Photographs. Not Bound. Very Good. No Publisher Noted paperback books
188525535Edinburgh Scotland: No Publisher Noted 1885. A large-format albumen process photographic image of this site; laid down to cardstock. Image approx. 8" x 11" size; the cardstock makes it approx. 18" x 22" overall. No photographer studio or date noted; circa 1885. Cardstock with old discoloration at right margin; does not affect image. In good condition. . Photograph. Not Bound. Good. No Publisher Noted paperback books
189025534Europe: No Publisher Noted 1890. A large-format albumen process photographic image of this site; laid down to cardstock. Image approx. 10" x 14 1/2" size; the cardstock makes it approx. 18" x 22" overall. No place photographer studio or date noted; circa 1890. Cardstock with old discoloration at right margin; closed tear; does not affect image. Some fading in the town and river area; in good condition. . Photograph. Not Bound. Good. No Publisher Noted paperback 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
197525481European Origin: Fontana Grill 1975. Large menu 3 sides in a stiff cardstock over-cover. German text throughout steaks seafood variety of grilled items. Tournedos "Zigeunerbaron" sehr feurig Rinderfilet Kalbsleber gefullte Champignons Zigeunersaucen Champigions Schinken 7.50; warm desserts coffee. Not dated circa 1975 an unknown European location not noted. Approx. 7 1/4" x 13 1/4" size. Some light wear corners edges chipped a tiny bit; in very good condition. Menu. Soft Cover. Very Good. Fontana Grill paperback books
200229658NY: Crown. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2002. Hardcover. 060960614X . First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Crown hardcover books
198633899NY: Oxford University Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1986. Hardcover. 0195037448 . First printing. Fine in an about fine dust jacket. . Oxford University Press hardcover books
186620280London: John Murray 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo 226 pp bound in 3/4 green leather and green marbled boards top edge gilt green silk ribbon bookmark bound in. Binding signed William Taylor Morrell. Small bump to top edge of rear board light scuffing to leather 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. Dufferin an Irish peer and landowner became concerned with the sufferings of Irish tenants in the wake of the great famine leading him to take initiatives designed to relieve their distress on his own estates. This is one of several works he published on Irish land tenure issues. John Murray 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
1669001031Amsterdam: Giovanni Buaeu 1669. Full Vellum. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 16 471 57; 415 41 139 23 pp. 3 parts in two volumes. Including etched additional title and 2 blanks. Popular political and literary satires in the form of news reports from Parnassus. Brunet 1019 singles this edition out as the prettiest. Also Graesse 456. Eighteenth century Italian vellum with morocco lettering pieces. Armorial bookplates of Wilmopt Earl of Lisburne. Some scattered foxing. Binding is tight vellum is attractive and healthy. Very good or better! <br /><br /> Giovanni Buaeu hardcover books
2001220231Strasbourg: Directorate General of Human Rights / Council of Europe 2001. Pamphlet. 49p. stapled softbound in 8x5.5 inch decorated wraps a fine unblemished copy. Directorate General of Human Rights / Council of Europe unknown books
2004242528New York: RoutledgeCurzon 2004. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 253pp. Hardcover binding with very light edgewear at top of spine. ; no markings in text. Very Good binding. RoutledgeCurzon unknown books
18846Paris: Administration des Ouvrages de MM. Decembre-Allonier ND. Hardcover. Very good-. Undated c. 1866. Two folio volumes 8.75 x 14 inches pp. 796; 762 lvii; illustrated. Contemporary quarter-leather and marbled boards with original yellow wrappers bound in. Rubbing to edges of boards and spine some loss of marbled paper on front board of volume 1 minor damage to endpapers occasional light foxing. Good to very good overall. Comprehensive alphabetical reference to the people and events of the French Revolution. Oversized; shipping cost will be more than standard for priority or international orders. Administration des Ouvrages de MM. Decembre-Allonier 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
197211401Uppsala 1972. Soft cover. Near Fine. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis Historia Religionum #5. 593 pp. Bibliography index. Mild wear to wrappers; one corner lightly bumped. Pages unopened. paperback 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
4139Card with a die-cut image of the Kaiser in color laid onto a card with raised leaf pattern; colors still vibrant on the image; used postmarked 6.12.15. 1-2 N K.D. Feldpostexp. 107. Jnf. Div.; some edge tips wear and darkenining to card; good condition. Good. 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
2002004828Bloomsbury 2002. Book. As New. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Bloomsbury Hardcover books
200633391Woodstock: Overlook Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2006. Hardcover. 1585677337 . First American printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Overlook 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
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
P6877Munich: Free Europe Press 1954. Single folded leaf measuring 20.8 à 14.6 cm printed to recto and verso and when folded resembling a US airmail envelope. With one duplicate copy; laid in is a small flyer depicting the Czechoslovak and US flags with the text "The American people greet the Czechoslovak peoples' opposition in their fight for a free tomorrow." Very good. Scarce anti-communist flyer in Czech one duplicate copy in all likelihood printed in Germany by Free Europe Press and distributed over Czechoslovakia via balloon in 1954. The flier mentions the recent currency reform 1953 which decimated the savings of peasants and workers and led to considerable unrest. It addresses workers and peasants as members of a "people's opposition" and urges them to raise awareness among others about possible forms of resistance and the growth of the opposition movement. It also references the "Ten Demands" list compiled by Radio Free Europe workers based on interviews with Czechoslovak refugees. The "envelope" features a printed stamp with T. G. Masaryk and the "postal stamp" reads "Pravda vÃtÄžÃ" or "The truth wins." Also laid in is a small flyer depicting the Czechoslovak and US flags with the text "The American people greet the Czechoslovak peoples' opposition in their fight for a free tomorrow." The envelopes were sent on April 29 1954 and were also issued in Slovak. "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. The envelope cannot be traced via KVK or OCLC. unknown books
19771906Columbia MO: University of Missouri Press 1977. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. xii 253 pp with bibliography index. Name on front pastedown very light wear to bottom edge; else fine. Dust jacket shows very light shelf wear with a few short chips and tears price clipped. The authors "examine quantitatively the social and educational backgrounds and career patterns of the nearly six hundred men appointed by the Spanish crown to the American audiencias high cours from 1687 to 1808" dust jacket. University of Missouri Press hardcover 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
