Europe
What a Way to Run the Tribe; Selected Articles 1948-67
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company [1968], 1968. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], 6-347, [5] pp. Orange cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $6.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. With a review slip from the publisher laid in. Various articles from the decorated British journalist..... More
Verbrannte Erde; Schlacht zwischen Wolga und Weichsel
[Berlin]: Ullstein [1966], 1966. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], 5-511, [1] pp. Light grey cloth with brown lettering on the front board and spine; brown topstain. Illustrated with several plates and in-text diagrams, also with a colorful folding map tucked in the rear pastedown's pocket. Text in German, the first..... More
Liber Albus: The White Book of the City of London
London: Richard Griffin and Company, 1861. First edition thus. Hardcover. 4to. [5], vi-x, [5], 4-660, [2] pp. Contemporary sheep over beveled-edge boards, decorations in blind on the boards, spine in six compartments with gilt lettering and rules in blind on the spine; all edges red. Decorative endpapers and pastedowns. Bound..... More
Tausendjahr-Feier der Residenz Cassel vom. 27. bis 29. September 1913; Heft 3 "Fest-Nummer"
Cassel: Gebr. Gotthelft, Kgl. Hofbuchdrucker, 1913. Pamphlet. Folio. Unpaginated. 61 c.m. x 52 c.m. White wrappers printed in black, purple, blue, gold, and red. Title page printed in black with a blue decorative border around it. Several additional pages with the decorative blue border. Illustrated with two plates, which combine..... More
Marlborough as Military Commander
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons [1973], 1973. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [16], 17-368 pp. Brown cloth with gold lettering on the spine; brown topstain. The original price and publication stamp on the free front endpaper. Illustrated with a frontispiece, also with several black and white plates, photographs of paintings and..... More
A Vagabond Voyage through Brittany
London: Hutchinson & Co., 1915. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], iv-vi, [2], 316 pp. Blue cloth lettered in white on the front board with a pictorial inset, gold lettering and a decoration of a woman on the spine; blue topstain. Illustrated by a frontispiece and numerous additional photograph plates, photographs..... More
Cathedrals, Abbeys, and Churches of England and Wales; Descriptive, Historical, Pictorial
London: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1891. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 4to. [5], vi-xxvii, [2], 2-404; [5], viii-xv, [2], 406-838, [2], [4] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering and decorations on the front board, gilt lettering on the spines; all edges gilt. Floral green endpapers..... More
Fighting the Plague in Seventeenth-Century Italy
[Madison, WI]: The University Of Wisconsin Press (1981), 1981. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v, [1], vii, [1], ix, [1], xi, [3], 3-123, [1] pp. Brown cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated with ten figures (including charts and maps) and seven tables. Includes a bibliography and an index..... More
The Queen of the Adriatic or Venice, Mediaeval and Modern
Boston: Estes and Lauriat Publishers [1893], 1893. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 1-380, [2] pp. Red cloth with gold lettering and decorations on the front board and spine; top edge gilt. With a frontispiece and 19 additional plates, all black and white. Clement presents her record of travel in Venice..... More
Police
London: Oxford University Press, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [6], vii-ix, [2], 2-248, [2] pp. Navy cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Price of 7s. 6d. net on the front flap of the dust jacket. Inscription on the free front endpaper that reads: "To Professor Jon Witte, In..... More
Florence in the Forgotten Centuries 1527-1800; A History of Florence and the Florentines in the Age of the Grand Dukes
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press (1973), 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [5], vi-xiv, [3], 4-593, [1] pp. Quarter tan cloth over purple cloth boards with gold lettering on the spine. Grey endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $12.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a...... More
Heide-Album; Ein Album mit 53 Bildern in Hochfeiner Farbiger Ausführung
Halberstadt: Louis Koch, ca. 1920. Hardcover. Oblong 8vo. Unpaginated. Green paper wrappers printed in white with a mounted illustration of trees on the front wrapper. Title page printed in red and black. 53 color prints depicting life in rural Germany, especially Lower Saxony. Villages, families, lanes, farms, churches, town squares..... More
Queen Victoria ... and a Life of the New King, Edward VII with a Brief History of England; Her Grand Life and Glorious Reign (Salesman's Sample)
Cincinnati, O. W.H. Fergson Co., 1901. Salesman's Sample. Hardcover. Slim 4to. [4], 15-24, 65-120, 289, 337, 379, 411, 501-508, [1] (final page is an advertisement for the trade edition, and advertises the two binding styles that the trade edition would be released in, an extra silk cloth binding and a...... More
Naval Surgeon; The Voyages of Dr. Edward H. Cree, Royal Navy, as Related in His Private Journals, 1837-1856
New York: E.P. Dutton [1982], 1982. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. [3], 5-275 pp. Three quarter maroon cloth over yellow cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $24.75 on front flap. Illustrated by numerous color illustrations. A Near Fine book with mild warping to the boards; tiny wrinkle to..... More
The Notebooks of Major Thompson; An Englishman Discovers France & the French
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 3-212, [4] pp. Blue paper boards with red decorations on the front board and spine, red and blue lettering blocked in purple and white on the front board and white. Price of $2.95 net on the front flap..... More
The Sword in Anglo-Saxon England; Its Archaeology and Literature
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xxvii, [2], 2-237, [3] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of 55d. net on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a few in-text figures and with sixteen plates of black and white..... More
The Memoirs of Philip De Commines, Lord of Argenton: Containing the Histories of Louis XI and Charles VIII Kings of France and of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy; To Which is Added the Scandalous Chronicle or Secret History of Louis XI, by Jean do Troyes
London: George Bell and Sons, 1890. Later edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [5], vi-xlvii, [2], 2-399, [1], [3], 4-10, [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements); [3], iv-vii, [2], 2-444, [3], 4-10, [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Publisher's maroon cloth with the Bohn's device on each front board, gilt lettering and..... More
De L'Allemagne
Paris: Librairie de Firmon Didot Frères, 1871. Reprint. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [4], 1-592, [2] pp. Quarter brown sheep made to look like morocco over brown paper boards, spine in six compartments with gilt lettering and decorations on the spine. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of De..... More
The Battle of Britain
New York: Coward McCann & Geoghegan [1980], 1980. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 7-224 pp. Blue cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $19.95 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated with several photographs (in black and white and in color) and a few charts and diagrams. Remainder..... More
The Vaagso Raid; The Commando Attack that Changed the Course of World War II
Philadelphia: Chilton Book Company (1968), 1968. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], 6-222, [2] pp. Black cloth with red lettering on the spine. Price of $4.50 on front flap of dust jacket. Illustrated by a map and a few black and white photographs. Near Fine book in a near Very Good..... More
A Child's History of England
New York: The F.M. Lupton Publishing Company, n.d. Reprint. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [3], vi, [1], 8-387, [1] pp. Blue-green cloth with purple decorations on the front board and spine, lettered in gold on the spine. A Very Good book with a small scratch to the front panel and severe age..... More
The Cottages and the Village Life of Rural England
London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1912. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. [4], v-xiii, [1], 1-184, [4] pp. Grey cloth with gold lettering and green and black decorations on the front board and spine; top edge gilt. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and with 51 mounted color plates, with several line drawings..... More
A Chronicle of England B.C. 55 - A.D. 1485
London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. [5], vi-viii, [1], 2-462, [2] pp. Full brown pebbled leather with gold decorations and rules on the boards, the spine in six compartments with gold decorations and lettering, gilt tooling to the turn-ins; all edges gilt. Purple and..... More
Interesting Anecdotes of the Heroic Conduct of Women, During the Revolution; Translated from the French of M. Du Broca
London: H.D. Symonds, 1802. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [5], 2-219, [1] (page of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Bound in contemporary tree calf with an attractive expertly rebacked spine (in six compartments) retaining the original black morocco label, boards with gilt tooling to the edges. The volume is illustrated by..... More