(Hong Kong: Zero to One Publishing Ltd.), (1999).. (1999).. Very good. - Quarto [11-1/4 inches high by 8-7/8 inches wide], maroon cloth in a pictorial dust wrapper. The bottom corner of the rear cover is rubbed. The dust jacket is rubbed with some light creasing to its top & bottom edges and with a chip to the top of the front fold. 219 & [4] pages plus colophon with an order form laid in. Profuse illustrations, including numerous facsimiles, in color and black & white. Very good. First edition.The third volume in the series Historical Treasures of China which aims to provide historians and sc... View More...
Paris: V. Giard & E. Briere Libraires-Editeurs, 1898.. 1898.. Good. - Small octavo, marbled boards backed with blue cloth with a gilt-lettered maroon leather label on the spine. The boards are rubbed & bumped. The front joint is partially split. The spine is faded with the head & tail chipped & frayed and the label is rubbed & chipped. Half-title, title, [1] leaf, 187 & [2] pages. There are red ink underlinings & notations to a few pages. There are 2 small stamps & 2 notations on the verso of the rear endpaper. The page edges are darkened. Good only.
First edition in French. First Edition. View More...
Circa [1865].. [1865].. Good. - A black-bordered, 2-3/4 inch high by 4-5/8 inch wide cover has been mounted on a slightly larger cream card. The cover is addressed in black ink in Raglan's hand and signed by him at bottom left: "Raglan". There is some staining below the stamp. Good. This front panel of an envelope is addressed by Raglan to Francis Cavendish at the Foreign Office in London.Richard Somerset, 2nd Baron Raglan [1817-1884] was a British peer who began his career as Private Secretary to Lieutenant General Sir Colin Campbell in Ceylon. He subsequently joined the Ceylon civil ... View More...
- Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial wrappers. 232 pages. Near fine.
First edition.
The history, recounted by various authors, including the three editors, of "Haus 3" in Berlin, the home of the Soviet secret service and State Security in East Germany. The text is in German. First Edition. View More...
- Quarto, 9-1/8 inches high by 7-1/4 inches wide. Two-and-a-half pages. Over 180 words penned on 3 sides of a folded sheet. Herbert Taylor thanks the recipient who is caring for his brother for his letter regarding his concerns. I cannot sufficiently thank you for your friendly & considered attention in writing to me on the 30th Jany upon the subject of the accident which unfortunately happened to my dear Brother on the 27th..... He goes on to state I thank God that he has escaped more serious injury.... It is most satisfying to know that he is in such good hands and that he has with him so k... View More...
- The close of a letter on a 3-1/4 inch high by approximately 6 inch wide piece of note paper is signed "Geo Thompson". The paper is darkened with some staining, not affecting the signature. The paper is mounted on a sheet of yellow paper and has been folded twice for mailing. Good. The British antislavery orator and activist George Donisthorpe Thompson (1804-1878) worked toward the abolition of slavery through lecture tours and by introducing legislation while serving as a member of Parliament. An able orator, he was hired by the London Anti-Slavery Society in 1831. While in Scotland in 1832,... View More...
Circa [1880].. [1880].. Very good. - A card, 2-5/8 inches high by 4-1/2 inches wide, signed in black ink Edward Thornton, H. B. M's [Her British Majesty's] Minister. The card is slightly darkened around the edges. Very good. Sir Edward Thornton [1817-1906] was a prominent British diplomat who held posts in Latin America, Turkey, and Russia and served for fourteen years [1867-1881] as Minister to the United States. While Secretary to the Legation in Mexico City, he was active in forwarding the conclusion of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, which ended the Mexican-American War. In 1871, ... View More...
- An autograph document penned in an unknown hand on 1-7/8 inch high by 8-1/4 inch wide parchment paper with clipped corners. A bankruptcy document dated 21st April 1789 reading Let a Commission issue as prayed and be directed to Samuel Buck Nicholas Smith Esquires Thomas Bolland Charles Coupland and James Nixon Gentlemen, signed Thurlow by the British attorney and Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. Closely cropped with a partial line of text along the top edge. Once likely mounted in an album, there is some soiling with offsetting to the edges of the document from the glue which adhered t... View More...
Beirut, Lebanon: The Institute for Palestine Studies, 1969.. 1969.. Very good. - Small quarto [8-7/8 inches high by 6-1/2 inches wide], softcover bound in printed white & green wraps. The edges of the wraps are foxed & somewhat darkened. 26 pages. Very good.
Monograph Series No. 20, reprinted from a symposium, The Middle East Crisis: Test of International Law, appearing in Law and Contemporary Problems, Winter 1968, published by Duke University School of Law. View More...
Berlin: May 18th, 1935.. 1935.. Very good. - 88 words typed on sheet of cream paper, 11-5/8 inches high by 8-1/4 inches wide, with her name & address typed at the top. Signed "Dr. M. Unger" with 2 ink corrections. Attached is a typed, single-spaced report on the 1934/35 Winterhilfswerk campaign filling a 2nd sheet of the same paper. The top corners of both sheets are creased with light creasing to their top & bottom edges. There is a paper-clip mark to the letter at bottom left. Folded twice for mailing. Very good. Marta Unger writes in English to a Mr. B. von Schenk in Hoboken, New Jersey tha... View More...
New York: The Macmillan Company, (1966).. (1966).. Good. - Octavo, cloth in a dust wrapper. The binding is bumped & lightly rubbed. The dust jacket is soiled & chipped with its spine & extremities darkened. 319 pages. Black-and-white portrait frontispiece & black-and-white illustrations, including 2 maps. Good. With historical notes, foreword and epilogue by Detlev von Uexkull. Translated by Joel Carmichael. Baron Boris Uxkull was a supply officer in the Russian Army during the Napoleonic Wars. Some of the notable contemporaries who appear in his diaries are also encountered in Tolstoy's "... View More...
(Sarnico: Libreria Vaini, 1986).. 1986).. Very good. - Quarto [11-1/4 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide], blue cloth titled in gilt on the front cover & spine, in a dust wrapper. The covers are bumped & the dust jacket is rubbed. 179 pages. Profusely illustrated in color and black & white. Very good.
Signed by Adriano Vaini on the title.
Number 635 of an unstated limited edition.The text is in Italian Dust jacket present. View More...
- Octavo, bound in gray cloth titled in gilt on a leather label on the spine. The covers are unevenly darkened & lightly bumped. The spine is darkened with its head & tail and the right edge of the label chipped. The cloth is bubbled along the joints. 152 & [3] pages. The pastedowns and endpapers are darkened. Good. First trade edition. From the library of C. H. St John Hornby, founder and owner of the Ashendene Press, with his book label on the front pastedown. Verhaeren writes about his disillusionment with Germany, a country he had once admired, with the outbreak of the first World War. Th... View More...
- Approximately 17 words penned on a 5 inch high by 4-1/2 inch white piece of creamy white paper. Villiers writes that he has much pleasure in sending his autograph. He signs the note Clarendon. There is minor staining to the sheet and it has been mounted on a slightly larger piece of heavier stock. Good. George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon (1800-1870) was an English diplomat who served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1847 to 1852 and twice as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. View More...
- Octavo, self-wraps unbound and removed. 46 pages. There is a tiny chip out fromt he bottom edge of the title page, some occasional soiling throughout and some slight brown staining to the bottom corner of the last few leaves. Very good. First edition. A defense of English public [i.e. private] education against charges made by the Lord Bishop of Meath. Since the Lord Bishop of Meath had based his arguments on testimony made by Dr. Rennell, William Vincent attempts to disprove Dr. Rennell's position and cast doubt upon his credibility. First Edition. View More...
Ivrea, Italy: Enrico Editore. (1981).. (1981).. Fine. - Quarto [11-3/4 inches high by 8-3/8 inches wide], brown cloth titled in gilt on the front cover & spine, in a dust wrapper. The covers are lightly bumped. The dust jacket is rubbed with a price-sticker on the tail of the spine & a small tear to the bottom of the front fold. 381 & [2] pages plus colophon. Black-and-white illustrations, architectural plans and maps. Near fine in a very good dust wrapper.
First edition.
The text is in Italian. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
Ivrea, Italy: Enrico Editore, (1981).. (1981).. Very good. - Quarto [approximately 11-3/4 inches high by 9-1/2 inches wide], brown cloth titled in gilt on the front cover & spine, in a dust wrapper. The covers are lightly bumped. The dust jacket is rubbed with some chipping to the top edge & there is a price-sticker on the jacket spine. 381 & [3] pages. Illustrated with black-and-white photographic illustrations, maps & plans. Very good.
First edition. The text is in Italian. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
New York: Rudd & Carleton / Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1860.. 1860.. Fair. - Octavo, brown cloth titled in gilt on the spine with decorations in blind on the covers. The Covers are rubbed and soiled with slight wear to the corners and edges and chipping to the head and tail of the spine. The cloth is split along the top of the joints. Though stained, new blue endpapers have replaced the originals. 407 pages plus an 8 page publisher's catalog, illustrated with a frontispiece. A fair copy.
The first American edition. First Edition. View More...
- sc - 25 words penned on 7-1/8 inch high by 4-1/2 inch wide light blue paper with an attached leaf. There is an attractive embossed mark at top left of the sheet. Admiral Walker has penned a few brief words addressed to Richard Ford and his wife, accepting a dinner invitation. Penned by the Admiral, the note is signed in the first line: Sir Baldwin Walker will do himself the honor of dining with.... Folded for mailing, the note is tipped from the verso of the attached leaf onto creamy stiff paper mount. Near fine. Admiral Sir Baldwin Wake Walker (1802-1876) was first lieutenant of the bomb s... View More...
