New York: Harper & Brothers, 1855. Hardcover. Red cloth boards, blind stamped design on front and rear covers; gilt spine lettering; 5 preliminary leaves, (13)- 348 pp; color illustrated frontispiece; 15 bw engravings. The history of Hernando Cortez, Spanish conquistador who overthrew the Aztec empire. More
H.E. Carrington, 1850. Softcover. Red cloth wraps with gilt lettering and gilt armorial illustration on front cover, marbled endpages, 72 (1) pp, 3 bw full page illustrations. "In compiling the history of a regiment from such records as are in its possession, it is intereting and necessary to shew its..... More
Paris: Jean Budry & Cie, 1927. 405/1120. Hardcover. Oversized portfolio; 3/4 burgundy cloth and marble illustrated boards with gilt lettering, 3 burgundy silk ribbon tie closures; 36 pp text and CXXVII leaves of bw plates. Text is in French. Printed in edition of 1120 copies, this being number 405. Reims..... More
Firenze: Enrico Ariani e L'Arte Della Stampa, 1959. Softcover. White wraps with blue lettering and illustrations, xi, 118 pp; bw illustrations. Text is in Italian. Includes bibliographical references (pages 98-103; bibliographical footnotes). More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. Hardcover. Red boards with gilt design and spine lettering. Gray dust jacket with terracotta lettering and illustration. xx, 302 pp. BW illustrations, maps. From the series: The Victoria History of the Counties of England. Includes bibliographical references. More
Montepulciano: Editrice Le Balze, 2003. Hardcover. Forest green boards with gilt stamped lettering. Glossy color-illustrated dust jacket with white lettering. 253 pp. BW and color illustrations. Text in Italian. Includes texts by Enzo Balocci, Laura Barile, Francesca Montuori, and Giuseppe Nicoletti. More
Paris: Editions de Cluny, 1947. Paperback. Marbled paper wraps with black lettering. 74 pages, 160 pages of BW illustrations. Text in French. More
Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1997. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; bw illustrated dj with red lettering, mylar cover; bw illustrated frontispiece, xiv, 184 pp, bw illustrations. "The late years of the Weimar Republic were a time of political disillusionment and economic disintegration. Nowhere were the forces competing..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with silver lettering; bw dust jacket with white lettering, color illustrated on front, mylar cover; xxv, 540 pp; bw illustrations. "The orders of lay knights founded in some profusion in the 14th and 15th centuries were a favorite subject of..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with silver lettering; bw dust jacket with white lettering, color illustrated on front, mylar cover; xxv, 540 pp; bw illustrations. Photo is of another copy in our collection. This copy is no ex-library. "The orders of lay knights founded in..... More
Boston: J.B. Millet Company, 1909. Hardcover. Purplish-blue cloth boards with title block and illustration on spine; illustrated end papers; bw illustrated frontispiece with protective guard sheet, red and black lettering on title page, top edge gilt, untrimmed pages, illustrated in bw. Marie Antoinette Edition limited to 600 numbered and registered..... More
Toronto/ Buffalo: University Of Toronto Press, 2004. Hardcover. Tan cloth boards with black spine lettering; tan dj with bw illustration and lettering, mylar cover; vii, 313 pp. Contents: Hrotsvit of Gandersheim and the problem of royal succession in the East Frankish kingdom /; Jay T. Lees --; Iudex Aequus... More
Cambridge/ New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Hardcover. Burgundy cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; bw illustrated dj, yellow spine with black lettering; mylar cover, x, 193 pp. "Since the work of Butterfield and Namier in the 1930s, it has commonly been said that eighteenth-century England appears atomised, left with..... More
Trieste: Tip di G. Caprin, 1892. Hardcover. Bound in half red leather and red and white marble boards, original tan wraps bound inside, 185 pp. Text is in Italian. Documents for the history of Grado, collected by Giuseppe Caprin. Extract from the "Triestine Archeographer". New series, vol. XVI and XVII..... More
Trieste: F.H. Schimpff, 1905-1907. Hardcover. Two volume set bound in white cloth boards, gilt lettering on front cover and spine; extensive color design on front covers and spines, red tinted block edges; Part 1 has a bw portrait frontispiece of Giuseppe Caprin, 285 (6) pp, profuse bw illustrations throughout. Part..... More
Trieste: G. Caprin, 1891. Hardcover. Three-quarters brown leather, three raised bands on spine with gilt tooling and lettering, all edge red tinted text block, white silk end pages, 527 pp, profusely illustrated in bw throughout with facsimiles, portraits and illustrations. Text is in Italian. Gone Times: Pages Of Triestine Life..... More
New York: The Bibliographical Society of America, 2002. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with gilt design on front cover, red title block with gilt lettering on spine, bw frontispiece, LXIII, 255 pp, several bw illustrations. Text in English; Excepts from many different French translations of Adam Smith's Wealth of nations. Includes..... More
London: Truslove & Shirley, 1890. Hardcover. Red cloth boards with gilt tooling and lettering; bw frontispiece with tissue guard; xii, 235 pp, bw illustrations, plates, portrait, maps and plans throughout. Two sections of chapters. Chapters 1-7 are under section Marylebone. Chapters 8-14 are in St. Pancras section. Included is a...... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. Softcover. Black and color illustrated wraps with white and tan lettering, xv, 415 pp, 16 unnumbered pages of plates, bw and color illustrated. Archaeologist Connelly gives us the first comprehensive cultural history of priestesses in the ancient Greek world. Connelly presents the fullest picture yet..... More
Gorizia, Italy: Editio a Cura Dell'Amministrazione Provinciale di Gorizia, 1934. Hardcover. Red and white decorative boards with white cloth spine. Red title block with gilt lettering on spine, 267 pp, profusely illustrated in 163 bw illustrations. Text is in Italian. Includes index. More
New York: John Wiley's Sons, 1883. 86/100. Hardcover. Tan paper boards with blue cloth spine; 152 pp, one bw plate. One hundred copies printed, this being number 86. From the title page; "With a complete index to the personages mentioned, now first published. Related and collected by Peter Cunningham"... More
Paris: Jean Schemit, 1912. Hardcover. Bound in half brown leather and brown and black marble boards; gilt lettering on spine; marble illustrated end papers; top edge red tinted, untrimmed pages; 191 pp, bw illustrations throughout. Text is in French. Includes a preface by M. Frantz Funck-Brentano and illustrated with 24..... More
New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1968. Hardcover. Two volumes bound in tan cloth, red title block with gilt lettering on spine. Volume 1 is xix, 473 pp. Volume 2 has a bw illustrated frontispiece; 452 pp of bw illustrations. Two volume set. Volume 1 is divided in two parts: Non-Alphabetic..... More
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1969. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; blue and white dj; mylar cover; xii, 180 pp; bw illustrations. Contents: Agricola and Germania / T.A. Dorey -- The Dialogus / C.D.N. Costa -- Tacitus on Britain / A.R. Burn -- Tacitus as a military..... More
London: Constable & Co., 1913. Hardcover. Burgundy cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; red and gilt illustration on front cover; color illustrated frontispiece; viii, 136 pp; illustrations throughout in bw and color. Contents include: Introduction; Leopards of England; The King's Beasts at Hampton Court; Armorial Glass in Salisbury Cathedral; A...... More
