Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1854. Hardcover. Ninth Edition. vi, 394 p., 2 leaves of plates; 19 cm. Contemporary half dark green morocco with dark green morocco-grain cloth over boards. Red leather spine labels in two spine compartments with gilt-tooled title, author, and volume number; gilt-tooled decoration in..... More
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1855. Hardcover. Ninth Edition. vi, 407, [1] p., 2 leaves of plates: tables; [2], 235, [1] p.; 19 cm. Contemporary half dark green morocco with dark green morocco-grain cloth over boards. Red leather spine labels in two spine compartments with gilt-tooled title, author..... More
![Item #004653 The French Revolution by George H. Allen [4 volumes]. George H. Allen](/pictures/thumb/004653.JPG?v=1472082375)
Philadelphia: George Barrie's Sons, 1922. Hardcover. 4 volumes, many leaves of plates including plans, portraits, facsimiles, maps, and music (some in color and some folded) and 3 tipped-in color plates with captioned tissue guards; 25 cm. Red cloth with gilt-stamped spine titles and spine and cover decoration. Top page edges..... More
London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1918. 11 pages of text numbered pp. 13099-13109; 31 cm. Stapled. Printed by Wyman & Sons. This newspaper supplement contains a report by Gen. Edmund Allenby, Commanding-in-Chief of the Eqyptian Expeditionary Force, on operations in Egypt and Palestine since Dec. 11, 1917; during this period..... More
La Haye [the Hague]: Pierre Gosse Junior et Daniel Pinet, 1764. Hardcover. viii, 346 p.; 20 cm. Contemporary calf with six spine compartments between raised bands. Leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title "Mr. Pitt." Gilt-tooled decoration in remaining compartments. All page edges red. Engraved armorial bookplate on front..... More
London: Mathews & Leigh, 1809. Hardcover. Printed for Mathews & Leigh, Strand, by W. Clowes, Northumberland-Court. 2 volumes (viii, 224, [4] p.; [4], 155, [13] p.); 18 cm. Contemporary full tree calf with six spine compartments between gilt rules; red leather label in second compartments with gilt-tooled title: A Dane's..... More
London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1802. Hardcover. [8], xxv, [1], xxv, 448 p., 1 leaf of a facsimile; 43 cm. Half calf with gilt-tooled spine title on leather label; marbled paper over boards. Running title: Taxatio Ecclesiastica P. Nicholai. Edited by Thomas Astle, Samuel Ayscough and John..... More
Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1962. Paperback. cvi, 341, [1] p.; 20 cm. Paperback. John Aubrey (1626-1697), English writer and antiquary, left a large number of manuscript accounts of acquaintances. Although heavily edited versions of his biographical essays had been published previously, this edition was "the first one..... More
London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1917. 3, [1] p.; 33 cm. "Miscellaneous. No. 3 (1917)." Arthur James Balfour (1848-1930) had become foreign secretary in David Lloyd George' coalition the previous month. In response to the United States' desire for a peaceful resolution to the war, he argues here that Britain..... More
London and New York: London Printing and Publishing Co., 1858. Hardcover. "Illustrated with Battle Scenes, Views of Places, Portraits and Maps, Beautifully Engraved on Steel." 2 volumes: [8], 2, vii, [1], 647, [1] p.; [4], viii, 663, [1] p., frontispiece and added engraved title page in each volume and 77..... More
Rome: Scuola Archeologica di Atene, 1942. Paperback. Offprint from Annuario della R. Scuola Archeologica di Atene vol. III-IV Nuova Serie, 1941-42. [4], 11-74 p.: illustrations, plans; 31 cm. Plain wrapper printed in black. Stamped at lower edge of front wrapper and on one page: "Department of Classical and Near Eastern..... More
Chicago: American Journal of Archaeology, 1922. Paperback. [2], pp. 411-425, 1 folded leaf of illustration: in-text illustrations; 24 cm. Stapled. no wrapper. Stamped at lower edge of title page and p. 425: Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College. American artist Albert Winslow Barker (1874-1947) studied at..... More
London: Printed under the Authority of His Majesty's Stationery Office by Harrison and Sons, 1916. [2], 40, [2] p.; 33 cm. Stapled. "Miscellaneous. No. 30 (1916)." Contains 23 reports by American embassy attaché Boylston A. Beal (1865-1944) on camps in the United Kingdom in which Germans were held. In Very..... More
London, Eng. Effingham Wilson, 1818. First Edition. Hardcover. xlii, [3], vi-lii, 248, 456 p.; 22 cm. Half calf with marbled paper over boards. Includes Table of Errata following Preface on Publication. Oval stamp of the New York Society Library on the title page and on page 456, each with "Withdrawn"..... More
![Item #003373 An Abstract of the Sufferings of the People call'd Quakers [vol. 3]. Joseph Besse](/pictures/thumb/003373.JPG?v=1472082287)
London: Assigns of J. Sowle, 1738. Hardcover. "For the Testimony of a Good Conscience, From the Time of Their being first distinguished by that Name, Taken from Original Records, and other Authentick Accounts; Volume III From the year 1660 to the year 1666." [2], 546, xxviii, [10] p.: 1 leaf..... More
London, Eng. Assigns of J. Sowle, 1736. First Edition. Title continued: "for Demands Recoverable by the Acts made in the 7th and 8th Years of the Reign of King William the Third, for the more Easie Recovery of Tithes, Church-Rates, &c. Printed and Sold by the Assigns of J. Sowle..... More
New Haven, Conn. Yale University Press, 1990. First Edition. Edited and translated by Trista Selous. vi, [2], 252 p.; 24 cm. Includes select bibliography and index. Blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine title; illustrated dust jacket. No price listed. First English edition. First published in French under the title Le Duel..... More
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1974. Hardcover. ix, [1], 283 p., [16] p. of illustrations: map, genealogical tables; 22 cm. Red cover with gilt spine title. Top page edges red. Illustrated dust jacket. An "immensely readable and entertaining survey of Scottish history from the fourteenth century to the reign of James..... More
New York: Metro Books, 2012. Hardcover. 208 p.: illustrations; 25 cm. Hardback with illustrated cover. Dust jacket repeats cover illustrations. Dark brown endpapers. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Near Fine Condition: edges rubbed; clean and bright. More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Paperback. x, [2], 432 p.23 cm. Paperback. "A sweeping historical survey and a pointed rejection of current cliches, After Progress examines social reform past, present and future." -- back cover. In Near Fine- Condition: cover lightly soiled; year of publication written on first (blank) page;..... More
Chicago: Denoyer-Geppert Co., 1956. Map. 1 folded linen-backed color map (33 x 44 inches) attached to a dark green cover (30 cm.) with brown printed paper label. In Very Good+ Condition; edges are starting to fray; map is clean, bright, and intact. More
London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1918. 24 p.; 33 cm. Stapled. "Miscellaneous. No. 7 (1918)." The report by the Government Committee on Treatment by the Enemy of British Prisoners of War was presented by its chair, Robert Younger, Baron Blanesburgh (1861-1946). The committee concluded that British prisoners of war had..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1883. Hardcover. Vol. 2 only: vii, [1], 348 p., frontispiece portrait of Nicholas I and 4 leaves of plates; 23 cm. Red cloth with bevelled edges and gilt-stamped spine title: Court and Diplomatic Life. Gilt-stamped emblem on front cover with motto "Fortes Fortuna Juvat." Light..... More
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1970. Hardcover. xiv, [2], 312 p.: tables; 21 cm. Blue cloth with gilt spine title. Dust jacket. "This is the first thorough appraisal of Franco-American diplomatic relations in their historical perspective, from the beginning of the American republic in 1789 to the outbreak..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1917. 10 parts in 2 portfolios: illustrations, portraits; 32 cm. Brown cloth spine with printed paper spine label; brown paper over boards, printed in black. With original wrapper for each of 10 parts. Each portfolio contains 100 plates, with text, issued in fascicles of..... More