England im Achtzehnten Jahrhundert
Berlin: Askanischer Verlag, 1920. Hardcover. Off-white boards with gilt illustration and lettering; VII, 678 pp.; richly illustrated. Text in German. More
Berlin: Askanischer Verlag, 1920. Hardcover. Off-white boards with gilt illustration and lettering; VII, 678 pp.; richly illustrated. Text in German. More
Berlin: Hyperionverlag, 1917. Hardcover. German language text. Decorative cloth boards. xv, 491 pages, 24 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits. Most of the colored plates depict French fashion in the 19th century. More
Chicago: Spravedlnost. Softcover. Grey wraps with title in Czech with 40 total pp. The text is written in Czech followed by versions in English, French, German, and Russian. An appeal "to proclaim the right of the Bohemian nation to free development and to existence as an independent political state." Discusses..... More
Prague: Académie Tchécoslovaque des Sciences, 1963. Softcover. Glossy white/magenta card wraps with bw illustration and black letters. 137 pp. with 33 bw illustrations. Includes an introduction (in French only) and 4 different essays, two in French and two in English. Topics include Moravians during the time of the Grand Moravian..... More
New York, New York: Harper Torchbooks / Harper & Row, Publishers, 1964. Softcover. Yellow illus. wraps; 591 pp.; No illustrations. How Classical thought and teachings spread into later ages, up until the end of the Renaissance. More
Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, 1989 (1920). Facsimile reprint. Softbound. White with BW pictorial wraps, [x] 398 pp, over 40 illustrations. From the publisher: This work is the primary reference on the topic. It covers the conditions in Ulster which prompted the immigration of the Scotch-Irish to the New World about..... More
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1859. Hardcover. Turquoise stamped cloth, gilt letters on spine and cover, gilt design on cover, 154 pp., no illus. Translated from the original French, published in Brussels in 1839, by James A. Dorr. More
Paris, France: Editions Emile-Paul Freres, 1927. Leather bound. green leather boards w/ vertical, inlaid green & gilt flecked marbled paper w/ gilt trim; gilt spine printing. green & gilt flecked marbled pastedowns & endpapers. green 95 pgs w/ double bw frontispiece. top edge gilt. Original wraps and wrap spine bound..... More
New York: H.N. Abrams, 1991. Hardcover. Two volumes in a colorfully illustrated slipcase; 1024 pp.; richly illustrated. Contains: "Book One: Time -- The heavenly empire -- From sun time to clock time -- The missionary clock; Book Two: The earth and the seas -- The geography of the imagination --..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1903. Hardcover. Cream vellum/boards with gilt lettering and design. 349 pp. + errata + xiii pp. Deckle edges. Several charts/tables, including one folding, which is separated into two pieces from wear and has a small tear across one section. Volume 5 only of the series..... More
Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2018. Paperback. Tan paper wraps with color illustration. x, 552 pages : illustrations (some color). Contents: Introduction : the anti-Gothic turn -- 1. Getting the point : antiquity to 1300 -- 2. From Gothic to late Gothic : 1300 to 1350 -- 3. The evolution of late..... More
Charleston and London: The History Press, 2011. Paperback. Burgundy and color wraps, reddish-black spine with tan lettering. 189 pp. Approx 30 BW illustrations. "Richard Borkow has done a first-rate job of telling the stoyr of the American Revolution in Westchester county and putting dramatic events there in the context of..... More
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1917. Softcover. Grey stapled stiff paper wraps; 48 pp. English, translated from the Italian. A rebuttal to Germany's criticism that England provoked the Great War. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. Hardcover. Black cloth, black illus. dj. xiii + 189 pp. A few bw plates. This sequel to Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair, which plotted the course of espionage in Salisbury House (the French embassy in London) in the 1580s, sniffs out a mole..... More
Boston: J.H. Eastburn, city printer, 1852. Hardcover. Green boards, gilt decorative elements. 288 pages, [1] leaf of plates : map. Report prepared at the request of a City Council committee./ Includes index./ Includes index. More
London: Eccles,; Viscountess, 1995. Hardcover. xii, 225 pp, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, map, portraits 1995 Published in a small edition for Roxburghe Club members, with a small overrun. Quarter burgundy morocco over burgundy cloth boards, gilt spine. Folio. With sixty-eight pages of manuscript facsimiles, plus seventeen..... More
Bogotá, Colombia: Convenio Andrés Bello, 2001. Hardcover. Color pictorial boards with orange cloth spine, red lettering. 207 pp. Many illustrations. Text in Spanish. Historical background and cookbook; discusses Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Spain, Pamana, Peru, and Venezuela. More
New Haven: Nathan Witing, 1834. Fourth Edition, in Two Volumes, Revised and Corrected. Hardcover. Original leather boards; black mounted title cards with gilt lettering on the spine; 2 volumes; richly illustrated. Translated from the Italian by Carlo Botta. More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1931. First (Unstated). Hardcover. Royal purple cloth/boards; gilt lettering. Formerly yellow (now beige with yellow flaps) dj with red stripes and black lettering. 210 pp. with no illustrations. Awarded the John G. Agar prize of $3,000 for the best book on the soul of America..... More
Philadelphia: W.P. Hazard, 1852. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue-grey boards with debossed and gilt design and lettering; 268, 2, 13-192 pp.; richly illustrated. This book lacks the map that was originally included in this book. More
Philadelphia: J. Kay, 1844. Hardcover. Tan leather boards. 298 pages, illustrations. More
Strasbourg: Götz Seltz, 1529. Hardcover. Vellum tooled 4-ridge spine, Tooling extends to 1/2 of covers, front and back. Wood boards with beveled edges. Metal clasps on outer edge. Sheet Illustrations. 2 volumes in 1. Text in German. Alternate title is Magistrates' complaint mirror. So this appears to be a record..... More
Aachen, Germany: Europarates, 1965. Softcover. Plain white wraps; White illus. dj.; 567 pp. plus 158 pp. of plates; 4 gatefolds; 158 bw plates. Text in German; From a 1965 exhibition held at the Rathaus zu Aachen and in the Kreuzgang des Domes; Includes extensive information about Karl der Grosse (also..... More
Philadelphia: Lutheran Publication Society, 1882. Hardcover. Brown leather boards. Gilt lettering on spine. Gilt decorative elements on cover. x, 475 pages, 20 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits. "Published for the Alumni association of Pennsylvania College."/ The illustrations include 17 mounted albumen photographs of Pennsylvania College faculty, campus buildings..... More
London: Dennis Dobson Ltd., 1948. Hardbound. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering; 178 pp. with 8 bw plates and 34 figures. An excellent sociological study of the city of Wolverhampton in the West Midland Region of England. Numerous tables and charts are included concerning canals, population, housing, industry, un/employment, consumerism..... More