- A 3 inch high by 2 inch wide sepia-toned portrait of Alberts Kviesis is mounted on a slightly larger piece of card. Inscribed & signed on the mount below the photo: To Mr. Seymour Halpern / A. Kviesis / Riga. 20.XII.30. The photo is slightly rubbed with short tears. It has been varnished for protection. Good. Latvian lawyer and politician Alberts Kviesis [1881-1944) served as President of Latvia from April 1930 to April 1936. He was a singularly ineffective president, never proposing or vetoing a law or calling an extraordinary cabinet meeting. Elected nonetheless to a second term, a coup d'... View More...
NY: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., (1964).. (1964).. Very good. - Large 8vo, tan cloth (rear joint split; bumped; small dents to bottom edge of front cover) titled in purple, in dw (soiled & chipped with small pieces out; dw spine darkened & torn; tear to rear panel). xvii & 552 pp. (soiling to front endpaper). B&W illustrations from wood engravings. Very good internally. Originally published in 1878, this compilation of text and more than 400 illustrations assembled by the 19th-century bibliophile, librarian and amateur historian Paul Lacroix unfolds an unusual panorama of the life of the ... View More...
New York: Arab Information Center, 1962.. 1962.. Fine. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed green stiff paper wraps. 88 pages. Black-and-white textual illustrations. Near fine. View More...
- Octavo. Softcover pamphlet, unbound, removed in the distant past. Half-title & 33 pages plus [1] page of publisher's ads. The half-title is detached with a few short tears to the edges. There are 2 short tears to the bottom edge of the leaves throughout. A good clean copy of this pamphlet and well worth binding. The first edition in English. This work was translated from the German edition published without the author's knowledge as "Ein Wort eines freyes [sic] Schweizers an die Franzosische Nation...".Subsequent to the French Revolution, France sought by force to impose its new syst... View More...
Grosvenor Square, November 30 [19th Century]. . Good. - Over 50 words penned on 7 inch high by 4-1/2 inch wide 52, Park Street, Grosvenor Square stationery framed by black mourning borders. Sir Balwyn Leighton writes to the historian Edward Pears that he is sending him a corrected proof copy of his pamphlet Poor Law, out-relief, requesting several copies when printed. He also inquires as to whether his other paper will also be printed. Signed Baldwyn Leighton. Folded for mailing, the top edge is darkened with a small hole to the top right corner. The letter was likely once mounted into an al... View More...
(Edinburgh, UK): Chambers, (2001).. (2001).. Fine. - Thick octavo, cloth in a dust wrapper. The covers are lightly bumped with a small dent to the front edge of the rear cover. There is creasing to the top section of the dust jacket front panel. x, 948 & [2] pages. Illustrated in black & white with maps & genealogical tables. Near fine in a very good dust wrapper. Dust jacket present. View More...
(London/New York: Peebles Press International, 1976).. 1976).. Good. - Small quarto [12 inches high by 9 inches wide], cloth, in a price- clipped dust wrapper. The covers are bumped & lightly rubbed. The dust jacket is rubbed & chipped with a piece out of the top corner of the rear panel. A tear to the dust jacket spine has been repaired internally with scotch tape. 255 pages. There is light staining to the front edge of the first text page & the page edges are slightly darkened. Profuse black-and- white photographic illustrations. Good. A textual and pictorial record of twenty assassinations ... View More...
- sc Octavo, 7-1/2 inches high by 5-1/8 inches wide. Disbound, lacking the covers, though the texblock is stitched and complete. 112 pages, illustrated with a full-page frontispiece portrait of King Louis XVI. The frontispiece is detached with a couple of tiny chips to the front edge. A complete bright and internally near fine copy which would be well worth rebinding. One of several editions published throughout Europe within 3 months of de Limon's discourse in Vienna. Geoffroi de Limon was an ardent defender of the monarchy who called for the reinstatement of that institution in France after ... View More...
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, Publishers, (1927).. (1927).. Good. - Octavo, cloth, in the remnants of a dust wrapper. The spine is faded & the covers are bumped with tiny tears to the cloth. The panels of the dust jacket are detached, darkened & heavily chipped with pieces out & soiling to the front panel. The flaps are partially detached & what is left of the jacket spine is laid in. Half-title, title, [1] leaf, 250 & [1] pages. 8 black-and-white plates, including a frontispiece. Good, in the remnants of the dust wrapper. First edition.Accounts of such historical mysteries as the dis... View More...
- 16mo, 6-1/4 inches high by 4 inches wide. Original buff cloth titled in black on the front covers and spine and with advertisement for Harper's Family Library books on the rear covers. The spines are darkened and the covers are rubbed & stained with wear to the corners. 288 pages; and 330 pages, with the publisher's catalog bound at the front of the first volume and included in the pagination. The set is illustrated with 5 copperplate portraits. A piece is out from the top corner of the front endpaper of the first volume. There is some scattered foxing throughout. Good. First American editio... View More...
- Over 130 words penned in a secretarial hand on an 11-3/4 inch high by 7-5/8 inch wide buff paper with an attached leaf. The document grants an individual permission to leave and return with his entourage. "Nous luy avons donne 'conge' de permission d'y aller a condition de retourner a sa [___] au premier Maudemt...." and more specifically "permission de les laissee [____] passer et repasser avec son Equipage et ses Valets...." Signed "Louis de Valois" with his seal stamped in blind at bottom left. The letter is annotated in a different hand along the top "Conge du 16-9[-]ve 1632". The docume... View More...
- Quarto, 10-1/4 inches high by 8-1/8 inches wide. Unbound self-wraps, with stab marks along the left edge and numbers penned in an early hand at the top right corner of each page. 3 pages on attractive watermarked paper, with a handsome engraved pictorial headpiece at the head of the first page. There is offsetting to the top front corner of the first leaf and some light creasing. Very good. Signed in print "Louis. Et plus bas, Par le Roi, Guignard." On August 26, 1789, France's National Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen which declared that "Men are born... View More...
London: April 15th, 1838.. 1838.. Very good.. - Part of the addressed & postmarked side of an envelope, 3 inches high by 4-1/2 inches wide, mounted on a slightly larger piece of card stock. Signed, as is usual, on the lower left of the envelope Mahon. Also dated and addressed to Richard Ford in his hand. Together with 2 newspaper cuttings of Stanhope obituaries. Very good. Philip Henry Stanhope, 5th Earl of Stanhope [1805-1875], styled Viscount Mahon between 1816 and 1855, was a British politician and historian. He held political office under Sir Robert Peel in the 1830s and 1840s but is best ... View More...
(Brighton, U.K.): Malu Publications, 2002.. 2002.. Very good. - Octavo, cloth in a dust wrapper. The binding is lightly bumped & there are some small stains to the front panel of the dust jacket. 300 pages. Photographic illustrations in color and black & white. 1 page corner is creased. Very good.
First edition. The life story of a Scottish boy from a poor family who rises to become Lord Mayor of London in 1992.
Inscribed by the author and signed in full on the front endpaper. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
- 16mo, 6-1/4 inches high by 4 inches wide. Original buff cloth titled in black on the front cover and spine and with an advertisement for Harper's Family Library books on the rear cover. The spine is darkened and the covers are rubbed & stained with wear to the head and tail of the spine. 396 pages, illustrated with two copperplate portraits of Josephine and Napoleon engraved by Illman & Pilbrow. There is some scattered foxing throughout. Good. First American edition. Volumes XXVIII of Harper's Family Library series. First Edition. View More...
(Pordenonesi): Grafiche Editoriali Artistiche Pordenonesi, (1984).. (1984).. Very good. - Quarto [12 inches high by 9-1/2 inches wide], dark green cloth titled in gilt on the front cover & spine, in a dust wrapper. The covers are lightly bumped with some very light spotting to the top edge of the front cover. The dust jacket is rubbed with the corners lightly creased & with spotting to the spine. 490 & [3] pages plus colophon. Profusely illustrated in color and black & white. Very good.
First edition. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
Vimercate, Italy: Pro Cultura di Vimercate, (1968).. (1968).. Very good. - Small quarto [12-3/8 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide], red cloth titled in gilt on the spine. The binding is very lightly bumped & the rear cover is rubbed with a price-sticker in the bottom inner corner. xix, 158 & [2] pages. Profuse black-and-white illustrations. Very good.
(Lausanne, Switzerland: Editions Clairefontaine), (1963).. (1963).. Good. - Small quarto [9-1/2 inches high by 8 inches wide], cream buckram in a dust wrapper. The top edges of the dust wrapper's front panel & flaps are darkened and the tail of its spine is lightly chipped. 156 & [1] pages plus colophon. Numerous black-and-white photographic illustrations by Pierre Strinati. The page edges are slightly darkened & the bottom page corners are bumped. Good. The story of King Ludwig of Bavaria, exiled from France at the age of nineteen, and the baroque chateaux and their elaborate decorations in w... View More...
London: David Bogue, 1847.. 1847.. Fair. - Octavo, 7-1/2 inches high by 5 inches wide. Softcovers. Six parts, each bound in pictorial tan wraps titled with an illustration of knights gathered around their seated king framed by trees as crowds line the street leading to the castle pictured in the background. Text, consisting of "Advertisement" for the series, is printed on the back cover of each volume. The front cover of the first volume is detached with dark tape stains along the left edge and to the remnants of the spine. The covers are darkened with some creases and chips to the edges and t... View More...
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