Gustav Adolf The Great.
Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1940. ix, 314 pp. Illus. with b/w photos. 8vo. Cloth. First edition. Translated from the Swedish by Michael Roberts. A very good+ crisp copy in a very good dust jacket. More
Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1940. ix, 314 pp. Illus. with b/w photos. 8vo. Cloth. First edition. Translated from the Swedish by Michael Roberts. A very good+ crisp copy in a very good dust jacket. More
Valladolid: Imprenta Castellana, [1918]. xvi, 328, cliv, [4] pp. Illus. with 2 plates, one in color, and one b/w tipped in. Sm. 4to. Quarter morocco over marbled boards, gilt title and rules. First edition. At the head of the title: Anales Universitarios. The first volume of seven. A very good-..... More
London: Printed for John Murray by W. Bulmer & Co., 1814. v, [132] p., 64 lvs of plates. Illus. with 64 hand-colored plates. Sm. 4to. Three quarter later navy blue pebbled morocco over blue cloth boards, four raised bands with gilt links, four medallions, and titles in gilt, recent endpapers..... More
n.p. Wahlstrom and Widstrand, 1976. Illus. with color & b/w photos, drawings and maps. Sq. 4to. First edition. This well-illustrated book was the collaborative effort of Swedish, Icelandic and English scholars. A very good+ copy. No dust jacket. More
Porto: Typographia do "Commercio do Porto" 1894. 125 pp. 4to. (28 x 22 cm.). Marble paper covered boards, original wrappers bound in. First edition. Provenance: Bookplate of Henry Vignaud (scholar, book collector, historian of Columbus, and secretary of the American legation in Paris). A very good copy, spine ends and..... More
Madrid: Librería de Don Antonio San Martín, 1886. 499 pp., 566 pp. 8vo. Quarter morocco over marbled boards. First edition. Lacking Volume III. T.I: Sociedad española al principiar el siglo XIX, La. El Príncipe de la Paz... Moret y Prendergast, Segismundo; Duque de Bailén, El. El ejército español en 1808....... More
Paris: Payot, 1936. 308 pp. Illus. with 5 b/w maps. 8vo. Three quarter red morocco over marbled boards, spine decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, original wrappers bound in. First edition. A. Lageix, trans. Translation of Charlemagne and the united states of Europe. Tiny chip to head of..... More
Moskva: Gos. izd-vo geograficheskoi lit-ry, 1950. 355 pp. + Plates [3]. 8vo. Paper wrappers. First edition. Nauchnye sborniki moskovskogo filiala geograficheskogo obshchestva Soiuza SSR. Two foldout maps, one of Greater Norvgoroda 16-17th c. and one of Russian Varangian sites. Spine reinforced with clear tape, a good copy. More
Gijon: Imp. "El Noroeste" 1924. 264 pp. Sm. 8vo. Paper wrappers. First edition. Warmly inscribed by the author to Enrique Naranjo on the first text page, and dated 1927 in pencil. José Fernández Barcia (1887-1948) born in Gijón, emigrated to Argentina, knocked around in dead end jobs, served in the..... More
Bruxelles, Th. Lejeune, La Haye, 1836. xii, 452 pp. Sm. 8vo. Modern quarter cloth over paper covered boards. Seconde Édition, revue, corrigée et augmentée par l'auteur. The first edition was entitled: 'Les Flandre et la révolution belge.'. A very good+ copy, scattered foxing, mostly to first and last leaves. More
Madrid: En La Imprenta De Vega y Compaña, 1805. [1], title, 3-244 pp., [3 pp.] index. Sm. 8vo. Quarter calf over blue marbled boards, spine title & compartments ruled in gilt, tan spine label, speckled edges. First year of publication of this periodical (October 1st, 1805 through December 31st, 1805..... More
Paris: Payot, 1928. 531 pp. 8vo. Three quarter brown mottled calf over marbled boards, spine decorated in gilt, raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, silk bookmark sewn in. First French edition. Collection d'études, de documents et de témoignages pour servir a l'histoire de notre temps. Henri Besson, trans. A...... More
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1942. 734 pp. 8vo. Cloth. First edition. Signed by author. A very good+ copy, clean and unmarked. No dust jacket. More
Bologna: Stampe della Colomba, 1799. [4], 31, [1] pp. 16mo. Later plain paper wrappers. First edition. Luigi Morandi (1759-1839) was a priest in the Church of San Sebastiano in Bologna and author of a number of works. OCLC locates only one copy in the U.S.: Univ. Conn. OPAC locates two..... More
Tot Nymegen: voor Andries van Hoogenhuyse, (Harderwyck, : J. Toll), 1659. [12], 648, [16] pp. Illus. with engraved extra title and 98 [of 101(?)] portraits. Sm. 8vo. Later calf stamped in blind over beveled wood boards, four raised bands, metal clasps. Second edition. Hoogenhuyse published his first edition of the..... More
Madrid: En la oficina de Joachin de Ibarra, 1768. [2], [10] pp., 2-204 leaves. 4to. Old paper-covered boards. First edition. Mostly consists of comments on certain writings of Isidro Carbajal y Lancaster, Bishop of Cuenca, who had accused the monarchy of setting the country "hopelessly adrift" and stripping the church..... More
[Minneapolis]: Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, Univ. of Minnesota, 1975. 13 pp. Sm. 8vo. Paper wrappers. First edition. James Ford Bell Lectures, No. 13. A fine copy. More
New York: McGraw-Hill, (1965). 360 pp. Illus. with 200 color plates and 475b/w photos, drawings, and maps. Tall 8vo. Cloth. First American edition. Leaves darkening at the edges else a very good copy in a good worn dust jacket with tears and chips at the edges. More
New York: W. W. Norton, 1966. 500 pp. Illus. with 13 b/w reproductions. Sm. 8vo. Paper wrappers. Reprint. A prize-winning study providing a detailed reconstruction of the bank's operating methods, loan policies, organization, trading and investments, and role in the florentine gild system, based on secret account books. The most..... More
London: Chatto & Windus. 1913. Frontis, xxxvi, 769 pp., 1 fold-out map. Sm. 4to. Cloth. First edition. Stokes, Griffin, intro. A fair to good reading copy, complete but sunned spine, torn and worn at spine and extremities, worm holes to boards and leaves through first 150 pages and index at..... More
's-Gravenhage: Nijhoff, 1940. [8], 22 p., IV pp. Illus. mit 8 kaarten en platen. Sm. 4to. Stapled stiff paper wrappers. First edition. One hundred copies printed. A sketch of the historical relations betwen Portugal and the Netherlands. Wrapper partial split at hinge else a very good copy. More
Madrid: Est. Tipográfico "Sucesores de Rivadeneyra" 1909. 69 pp. 8vo. Paper wrappers. First edition. Trial of Francisco Ferrer y Guardia (1859-1909) who was a Spanish anarchist executed after the Tragic Week in 1909. A very good copy, light foxing on paper wrappers, leaves browning, in original glassine wrappers. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1888. 303 pp. Map. Illus. with b/w photo and color drawings. 8vo. Cloth. First edition. Inscribed by the author to Dwight Dunkee on a free endpaper. Henry M. [Martyn] Field (1822—1907), American author and clergyman, was from 1854 to 1898 editor of The Evangelist, a...... More
Moskva: Izd-vo polit. lit-ry, 1960. 836 pp. Illus. with 1 folding map. Cloth. First edition. In Russian. Ministry of Foreign Affairs USSR. Documents of Internal Politics in the USSR. March 19,1921-December 31, 1921. Volume IV. A very good clean unmarked copy. More
1834 & 1891. 44 pp. In the last decade of the 19th century Lily Braun, feminist and writer, was beginning her research on Weimar in Goethe's era and her family's relationship to Goethe and Napoleon, which would become her book about her grandmother, "Im Schatten der Titanen" (1908). But in..... More