ALBUM DI ANTICHE CARTOLINE BERGAMASCHE
Bergamo: Grafica Gutenberg, 1979. Hard Cover. A clean copy with no marks of any kind. With black and white as well as colored images of vintage postcards. Bergamo is Northern Italy. More
History--Europe
SELECT HISTORICAL ESSAYS. IN ONE VOLUME.
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1873. 16mo. Quarter Leather. Quarter morocco over marbled boards, with raised bands and gilt titling. The Copyright Edition. In the Tauchnitz “Collection of British Authors” series. Vol. 1296. With folding plan of Lucknow. Some rubbing to the..... More
LES COTILLONS CELEBRES. ORNEE DE PORTRAITS.
Paris: E. Dentu, 1870. Half Leather. Sixieme Edition. Appears to be two volumes bound in one. Short biographies of famous French persons, with a few in text portrait illustrations. Text in French. Surface wear to the front joint. Half leather..... More
LES FETES EN EUROPE AU XVIIE SIECLE.
Paris: Martin-Dupuis, [1930]. Soft Cover. Emile Magne’s Holidays in Europe from the 17th Century. Illustrations throughout reproducing the artwork. Tan paper wrappers, with titling and illustration printed in black. With the publisher’s glassing wrapper; small chips and tears to the..... More
DEFENDING HUMAN RIGHTS IN RUSSIA: Sergai Kovalyov, Dissident and Human Rights Commissioner, 1969-2003
New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004. Octavo. Hard Cover. 253pp. Hardcover binding with very light edgewear at top of spine. ; no markings in text. More
IL VATICANO DESCRITTO ED ILLUSTRATO DA ERASMO PISTOLESI CON DISEGNI A CONTORNI DIRETTI DAL PITTORE CAMILLO GUERRA: (VOLUME II ONLY)
Roma: Typographia Della Societa Editrice, 1829. Oversized. Hard Cover. A handsome folio, bound in half-vellum over red cloth, with raised bands, decorations in gold, and morocco lables. This Volume 2 contains La Grotte Vaticane; Sagrestia del Vaticano; and Cupola del..... More
IL VATICANO DESCRITTO ED ILLUSTRATO DA ERASMO PISTOLESI CON DISEGNI A CONTORNI DIRETTI DAL PITTORE CAMILLO GUERRA: (VOLUME I ONLY)
Roma: Typographia Della Societa Editrice, 1829. Oversized. Hard Cover. A handsome folio, bound in half-vellum over red cloth, with raised bands, decorations in gold, and morocco labels. This is volume 1 only. With 86 engraved plates. There is some minor..... More
IL VATICANO DESCRITTO ED ILLUSTRATO DA ERASMO PISTOLESI CON DISEGNI A CONTORNI DIRETTI DAL PITTORE CAMILLO GUERRA : (VOLUME VI ONLY)
Roma: Typographia Della Societa Editrice, 1829. Oversized. Hard Cover. A handsome folio, bound in half-vellum over red cloth, with raised bands, decorations in gold, and morocco labels. This Volume 6 contains description of Sala della Biga, as well as the..... More
IL VATICANO DESCRITTO ED ILLUSTRATO DA ERASMO PISTOLESI CON DISEGNI A CONTORNI DIRETTI DAL PITTORE CAMILLO GUERRA : (VOLUME III ONLY)
Roma: Typographia Della Societa Editrice, 1829. Oversized. Hard Cover. A handsome folio, bound in half-vellum over red cloth, with raised bands, decorations in gold, and morocco labels. This Volume 3 contains description of the Palazzo del Vaticano, the Corridojo delle..... More
AN ITALIAN DIARY.
London: John Murray, 1945. Hard Cover. First Edition. Frontispiece. A diary written by an English woman living in Italy at the outbreak of World War II. Contemporary owner’s name on the front endpaper. Sunning to the spine, and minor shelfwear..... More
DIE ALTEN STADTEBILDER: Ein Verzeichnis Der Graphischen Ortsanichten Von Schedel Bis Merian
Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann, 1965. Quarto. Hard Cover. No pencil or ink markings in text. Text written in German. Green cloth binding with gilt lettering. Very light edgewear at head of spine. Light edgewear at head of dustjacket spine. DJ protected..... More
BRITAIN AND CENTRAL EUROPE, 1918-1933.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999. Hard Cover. First Printing. A First Printing copy of Britain and Central Europe, 1918-1933, which details the role that Britain played in restoring peace and stability in Central Europe immediately after World War I, as well..... More
HISTOIRE GENERALE DE NORMANDIE. CONTENANT LES CHOSE MEMORABLES ADUENUES DEPUIS LES PREMIERES COURSES DES NORMANDS PAYENS, TANT EN FRANCE QU’AUX AUTRES PAYS, DE CEUS QUI S’EMPERANT DU PAYS DE NEUSTRIE SOUS CHARLES LE SIMPLE. AVEC L’HISTOIRE DE LEURS DUCS, LEUR GENEALOGIE, & LEURS CONQUESTES, TANT EN FRANCE, ITALIE, ANGLETERRE QU’EN ORIENT, IUSQUES A LA REUNION DE LA NORMANDIE A LA COURONNE DE FRANCE.
Rouen: Jean Osmont, 1631. Quarto. Full Leather. First Edition of this 17th century History of Normandie. It collates complete EXCEPT the last leaf of the index is supplied in manuscript. Dedication; publication statement; sonnet; epigrams; Ode to the history of..... More
RUSSIA LEAVES THE WAR | THE DECISION TO INTERVENE (2 Volumes)
Princeton University Press, 1956. Frist Edtiion. Two 8vo. volumes; gorgeously bound set, in full crimson calf with raised bands, titling and decorations in gold. Previous owner initials at the bottom of the spines. Silk moire endpapers.~~A recent issue of Foreign..... More
PARIS; ITS HISTORICAL BUILDINGS AND ITS REVOLUTIONS. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS. (2 VOLUMES)
London: C. Cox, 1849. Half Leather. New Edition. The copy bound in two volumes, with continuous pagination. Half-calf over marbled boards, with raised bands and morocco title labels. A clean little set, with no marks in the books... More
THE ORIGINS OF COMMUNISM IN TURKEY
Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace - Stanford University, 1967. Octavo. Hard Cover. Binding sound; dust jacket shows small chip to top spine and light soiling to covers; dust jacket protected in a new mylar cover; no..... More
CZECHOSLOVAKIA’S INTERRUPTED REVOLUTION.
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, [1976]. Hard Cover. H. Gordon Skilling’s Czechoslovakia’s Interrupted Revolution, a history of the Prague Spring of 1968. Very Good dustjacket, with spots of rubbing to the front and spine. A Near Fine copy, with..... More
THE FASCINATING DUC DE RICHELIEU
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1910. Hard Cover. An attractive copy, with a faint previous owner name to the endpaper and no other marks. There is minor fade to the still legible spine; the binding is tight and square... More
THE ITALIAN WAR, 1848-9, AND THE LAST ITALIAN POET. THREE ESSAYS.
Cambridge: Macmillan and co., 1859. Hard Cover. First Edition. 8vo.; in the publisher’s faded red cloth binding, with titling to the spine; [ix]. x-ci, Memoir of the Author; 106-278 pages, followed by 24 pages of publihser’s ads; a bit of..... More
MUNICH: BEFORE AND AFTER. | A FULLY DOCUMENTED CZECHOSLOVAK ACCOUNT OF THE CRISES OF SEPTEMBER 1938 AND MARCH 1939 WITH A DETAILED ANALYSIS OF THE REPERCUSSIONS OF THE MUNICH AGREEMENT ON THE SITUATION OF EUROPE AS A WHOLE AND OF CENTRAL EUROPE IN PARTICULAR, TOGETHER WITH AN ESSAY ON THE RECONSTRUCTION OF A FREE EUROPE.
New York: Howard Fertig, 1969. Hard Cover. A translated Czechoslovakian account of The Munich Agreements, when the Sudetenland was ceded to Nazi Germany by France and England without the consent of Czechoslovakia. With detailed analysis of the situation and its..... More
OUR NEW REGION VAR NYA REGION, VORES NYE REGION
Copenhagen: Cities of Copenhagen and Malmoe, 1999. Hard Cover. Oblong Octavo; no markings of any kind. More
PRINCE ALBRECHT OF BRANDENBURG; A STORY OF THE REFORMATION
Burlington, IA: German Literary Board, 1907. Hard Cover. bound in gray cloth; light rubbing to the extremities with a small tear in the cloth at the tail of the spine; there is a small discolored spot on the front board;..... More
CITIZEN INSPECTORS IN THE SOVIET UNION: THE PEOPLE’S CONTROL COMMITTEE
New York: Praeger Publishers, 1977. Octavo. Hard Cover. Signed & Inscribed by Adams on front free endpaper. Binding sound with light wear to extremities; scattered pencil marginalia/underlining to text. More
VADERLANDSCHE HISTORIE, VERVATTENDE DE GESCHIEDENISSEN DER NU VEREENIGDE NEDERLANDEN, INZONDERHEID DIE VAN HOLLAND, VAN DE VROEGSTE TYDEN AF: UIT DE GELOOFWAARDISTE SCHRYVERS EN EGTE GEDENKSTUKKEN SAMENGESTELD, DOOR JAN WAGENAAR. MET PLAATEN EN KAARTEN. | BYVOEGSELS EN AANMERKINGEN VOOR VADERLANDSCHE HISTORIE VAN JAN WAGENAAR. DOOR MR. H. VAN WYN, MR. N. C. LAMBRECHTSEN, MR. ANT. MARTINI, E. M. ENGELBERTS EN ANDEREN. (COMPLETE, 21 VOLUMES)
Amsterdam: Johannes Allart, 1790-1796. Hard Cover. Jan Wagenaar’s highly influential history of the Netherlands, complete in 21 volumes. Each volume bound together with a separate volume of index and notes by other historians, Byvoegsels en Aanmerkingen or “additions and comments”..... More
MAXIMILIAN AND JUAREZ
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1992. Octavo. Hard Cover. First Edition. Signed & Personally Inscribed by Ridley on title page. Signed & Personally Inscribed by Ridley on title page. Previous owner sticker to frontispiece, previous owner notes to title page;..... More