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Stainton, Lindsay and White, Christopher
Drawing in England from Hilliard to Hogarth
London: British Museum Publications 1987. Foreword by J K Rowlands. 255pp 240 illustrations 80 in colour bibliography index. Prev owner's four-line stamp on the otherwise blank index verso and on the inside rear cover. Reference number taped to the lower spine. Illustrated light card cover. This is a major survey of drawing in 17th-century England. Two hundred masterpieces by 70 artists are cataalogued and discussed. Introductory essays examine the contribution of foreign-born artists working in England; the styles techniques methods and purposes of drawing at this time; the role of patronage and the increasing status of the artist in 17th-century England. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to. British Museum Publications Paperback
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 015198 ISBN : 0714116297 9780714116297
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Wilk, Christopher (editor)
Western Furniture 1350 to the Present Day in the Victoria and Albert Museum London
London: Philip Wilson Publishers in Association with the Victoria and Albert Museum 1996. HEAVY. 231pp illustrated throughout with colour illustrations including paintings prints drawings architecture and interiors as well as specially taken photos of each piece of furniture discussed index index of Museum numbers tinted end-papers. Previous owner's stamp on the verso of the otherwise blank p231. Or cloth boards in dust-jacket which has a reference number taped to the lower spine and a small shop sticker by the lower edge of the front flap no text affected. One hundred piece of furniture highlights of the V&A collection demonstrate craftsmanship techniques and styles as well as important designers and makers of furniture. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to. Philip Wilson Publishers in Association with the Victoria and Albert Museum Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 015197 ISBN : 1856674435 9781856674430
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De Saint-Amand, Imbert
Women of the Valois Court
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1894. Translated by Gilbert Martin. vii 356pp portrait frontis: Marguerite of Angouleme with tissue-guard and five portraits Catherine de'Medici Diane de Poitiers Marie Stuart when Dauphiness of France Jeanne d'Albret. Front hinge slackening by title page. Or green cloth boards lightly rubbed gilt spine titles. The French court in the 16th-century. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12mo. Charles Scribner's Sons Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 015202
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Grey Ian
Boris Godunov. The Tragic Tsar
Newton Abbot UK: Readers Union 1974. 188pp index bibliography bw ills. Or black cloth in jacket. Jacket slightly edgeworn and faded at spine and edges. Traces the life of Boris Godunov chief minister to Ivan the Terrible and later himself Tsar from 1598. . Book Club. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo. Readers Union Hardcover
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Spectator Italus
Der Italienische Irredentismus
Innsbruck: Druch Der Verlagsanstalt Tyrolia 1912. 34pp. Marbled boards with cloth spine. Notation in Hungarian on title page some pencil underlining throughout. Scarce pre-WWI title on the Italian 'irredentismus' movement which sought to unify all Italian speaking regions of Europe under the Italian flag. Much of that aim was accomplished after WWI though such regions as Ticino in Switzerland were not included. Printed in German Gothic black letter type. Text in German/auf Deutsch. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Druch Der Verlagsanstalt Tyrolia Hardcover
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Chapman, Hester W
Caroline Matilda: Queen of Denmark
New York: Coward McCann & Geoghegan 1972. 221pp index bibliography bw ills family trees on endpapers. Or brown cloth in jacket. Several short tears and some creasing to jacket. Biography of the sister of England's George III including her betrothal and marriage to the sadistic Christian VII of Denmark and her affair with the Rasputin'like German doctor that led to a 2 year dictatorship a spectacular palace coup d'etat and ultimately betrayal disgrace and death. . First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo. Coward, McCann & Geoghegan Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 015264
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Bowers, Claude G
Pierre Vergniaud: Voice of the French Revolution
New York: The Macmillan Co 1950. xiii 535pp 12pp b/w plates bibliography index. Or cl boards worn at the spine head gilt titles in price-clipped worn torn and damp-stained dust-jacket faded at the spine. Traces of the blind side of the jacket have been transferred in a few small sections to the boards. The biogrpahy of Pierre Vergniaud Girondist hero of the French Revolution lawyer man of culture and magnetic orator. 'A romance and tragedy of the two fateful years that witnessed the rise and fall of the First Republic.'. First Printing. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. 8vo. The Macmillan Co Hardcover
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Herm, Gerhard
The Celts: The People Who Came Out of the Darkness
London: Book Club Associates 1976. 312pp 16pp b/w plates 13 maps chronology bibliography index. Or cl boards in dust-jacket. The jacket is protected with clear plastic which has a tear over the rear cover jacket itself is not affected. The author brings to life the story of the Celts' wars and battles but also their mythology social forms and customs and their art. Book Club. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Book Club Associates Hardcover
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Hammond, P W and Sutton, Anne F
Richard III: The Road to Bosworth Field
London: Guild Publishing 1985. Foreword by HRH The Duke of Gloucester. 238pp profusely illustrated in colour and b/w with text-ills references index tinted end-papers. Page edges lightly foxed. Or cloth boards in dust-jacket. The book tells the story of Richard's life from personal and official documents written during his lifetime. Readers can see Richard's life and actions as his contemporaries saw them and judge the controversies surrounding him for themselves. The book was published to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Richard's death at the Battle of Bosworth. Book Club. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Guild Publishing Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 015302
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Morris, Mark
Domesday Revisited: A Traveller's Guide
London: Severn House 1987. 156pp b/w photos maps bibliography index. Two small spots on the page edges. Illustrated card cover. In this book the author recaptures for the reader the spirit and life of the Anglo-Saxon world for and details the sites to visit for the traveller. First Paperback Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to. Severn House Paperback
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 015336 ISBN : 0727821016 9780727821010
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Dorsey Hebe
The Belle Epoque in The Paris Herald
London: Thames and Hudson 1986. 224pp 147pp of illustrations 16 in colour from the archives of the International Herald Tribune. Apart from a 60mm line in ink from the lower edge of the publications page the book is in Fine condition. Or cloth boards in dust-jacket. 'In this book culled from the files of the Paris Herald from 1890 to 1914 the daily activities and preoccupations of the Belle Epoque come to vivid life. In addition to major news stories the Herald's reporters covered 'the scene' in Paris and the other capitals of Europe -- the latest fashions and scandals the new crazes such as bicycling and automobilism the art shows and the auctions the new plays operas ballets.'. First UK Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Large 4to. Thames and Hudson Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 015330
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Grunfeld, Frederic V
Prophets Without Honour: A Background to Freud Kafka Einstein and Their World
London: Hutchinson of London. Printed and Bound in the USA 1979. xiii 347pp 12pp of b/w photos bibliography index. Cloth-backed papered boards in dust-jacket which has a torn and creased upper front cover. From the Vienna of Freud and the Berlin of Einstein to the migration of Schoenberg to America and the death of Erich Muhsam in one of Hitler's concentration camps the book tells the whole epic story of the German-Jewish intellectuals in the period between the 19th century and the end of World War II. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo. Hutchinson of London. Printed and Bound in the USA Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 015377 ISBN : 0091391504 9780091391508
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Brown, Stephen R
Scurvy: How a Surgeon a Mariner and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail
Camberwell: Penguin Books Australia 2003. 284pp b/w ills three maps bibliography index. Light wear at the spine by the publications page. Or cl boards in dust-jacket. A cure for scurvey had 'eluded doctors and philosophers since the time of the ancient Greeks but in the late 18th century the surgeon James Lind the great sea captain James Cook and the physician Sir Gilber Blane undertook to crack the riddle of scurvey. Their timely discovery irrevocably altered the course of world history'. First Australian Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo. Penguin Books Australia Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 015430 ISBN : 0670041203 9780670041206
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Laqueur Walter
Stalin: The Glasnost Revelations
London: Unwin Hyman Ltd 1990. xiii 382pp bibliographic note index. Remainder star on the lower page edges. Cloth-backed papered boards in dust-jacket. This is a 'remarkable reconsideration of Josef Stalin the demonic dictator who ruled over the Soviet Union for the better part of three decades. It was not until the rise of Mikhail Gorbachev and the advent of glasnost that a sweeping de-Stalinization came into the open'. First UK Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Unwin Hyman Ltd Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 015439 ISBN : 0044407696 9780044407690
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Service, Robert W
Russia: Experiment with People from 1991 to the Present 2002
London: Macmillan 2002. x 406pp 8pp of colour and 8 pp b/w photos bibliography index. Paperback. From the back cover 'The book gives a vivid account of 'ordinary' Russians the people of the provincial towns and villages. It highlights the concerns of daily life and work and finds a society upbeat as often as it is depressed. And while the modern Russian culture steps ever further into the contemporary world traditions live on adapted by a culture used to constant change'. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo. Macmillan Paperback
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 015464 ISBN : 0330488627 9780330488624
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Schimmelpenninck M A
Select Memoirs of Port Royal to Which are Appended Tour to Alet; Visit to Port Royal; Gift of an Abbess; Biolographical Notices Etc Taken from Original Documents. Two Volumes
London: Hamilton Adams & Co 1835. Vol I: xxvi 487pp; Vol II: 456 pp. Both volumes marbled boards half-leather with raised bands on the spine and gilt titles marbled page edges. Condition: Vol I: Worn section at the upper edge of the rear board spine leather rubbed otherwise in Very Good condition with a possible repair at the spine by the title page which has a short tear at the spne edge. Stains including damp stains at the preliminary page edges. Volume II: Spine worn rubbed gilt rubbed from bands 7 cm tear from spine head and 11 cm tear from spine foot but spine still attached at the centre. Hinges cracked. Two religious societies are presented: the monks of La Trappe and the Port Royalists. The Select Memoirs of Port Royal are 'intended to present a succinct sketch of the rise progress and extinction of the celebrated religious and literary institution'. Fourth Edition. Marbled Boards Leather. Very Good/Good. 8vo. Hamilton, Adams & Co Hardcover
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Thompson, R W
The Montgomery Legend
London: George Allen & Unwin 1969. 276pp double-page map 8pp b/w photos index. Prev owner's name by the upper edge of the ffep. Or cl boards in damp-stained rubbed and edge-worn dust-jacket with traces of blue biro. The foundations and the substance of the Montgomery legend. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo. George Allen & Unwin Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 014932
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Warner, Philip
Army Life in the '90s 1890s
London: Country Life 1975. 144pp profusely illustrated. Prelims and end-pages foxed. Or cl boards in dust-jacket which shows some wear at extremeities. The book contains a remarkable collection of photos and articles from Navy and War Illustrated and provides an insight into Victoria's army before it disappeared under the weight of 20th-century technological warfare. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Country Life Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 014919 ISBN : 0600320342 9780600320340
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Hadfield A. M
Time to Finish the Game. The English and the Armada
London: Phoenix House Ltd 1964. 228pp index bibliography bw ills maps endpaper maps. Or red cloth in jacket. Jacket price clipped stained on rear panel near spine several short tears with associated creasing. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo. Phoenix House Ltd Hardcover
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Summers, Anthony; Mangold, Tom
The File on the Tsar. The Fate of the Romanovs - Dramatic New Evidence
London: Book Club Associates 1976. 416pp inedex bibliography notes bw ills endpaper maps. Or blue cloth in jacket. Cloth slightly faded at top edge. Very light edge wear to jacket. Presents 'new and compelling evidence that most of the Romanovs were not massacred in Ekaterinburg and did survive after July 1918'. Book Club. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Book Club Associates Hardcover
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Katz, Jacob
Tradition and Crisis: Jewish Society at the End of the Middle Ages
New York: Schocken Books 1974. viii 280pp index. Paperback. The author presents the major historical sociological religious cultural and economic issues of the early modern period 1500-1800 with particular emphasis on Eastern and Central Europe. Schocken Paperback Edition 2nd Printing. Soft Cover. Fine. Trade Paperback. Schocken Books Paperback
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 015067 ISBN : 0805203168 9780805203165
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Litvinoff, Emanuel, Editor
Jews in Eastern Europe: World Communist Ferment Over Soviet Jews. A Period Survey of Events Affecting Jews in the Soviet Bloc
London: European Jewish Publications No date 1964. 104pp. Stapled wrapper with tears at staples although they are still holding and some loss at the lower edge of the front cover. The booklet's sections cover Communists and Soviet Jewry; Religion; Death sentences; Soviet Press; and Documents; Interventions: Khrushchev in Scandinavia; Soviet Jew writes to Bertrand Russell; Poland Hungary Czechoslovakia. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. 8vo. European Jewish Publications Paperback
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Oprea, J. M
Nicolae Titulescu's Diplomatic Activity
Bucharest: Academy of the Socialist Republic of Romania 1968. 189pp notes few bw ills. Or card covers. Some toning to edges of covers minor edge wear and corner crease to cover place /date written on half-title page. Volume 22 in the Bibliotheca Historica Romaniae series. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Academy of the Socialist Republic of Romania Paperback
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Mackay, Sheila
The Forth Bridge: a Picture History
Edinburgh: Moubray House Publishing 1990. 112 pp illustrated throughout with photos and diagrams. Illustrated light card wrapper. From the Vision to the Opening Ceremony. Reprint with Revisions. Soft Cover. Very Good. Oblong 4to. Moubray House Publishing Paperback
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 014340
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Rolls Roger and Guy Jean and John R editors
A Pox on the Provinces: Proceedings of the 12th Annual Congress of the British Society for the History of Medicine
Bath: Bath University Press 1990. viii 222 pp b/w photos. b/w ills index. Or blue cloth dust-jacket. The papers examine various aspects of medical history in the British provinces from the Roman period to the 1980s. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to. Bath University Press Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 014355 ISBN : 0861971124 9780861971121
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Soldier: The British Army Magazine 1955 Full Set of 12 Issues Bound In Green Cloth
British Army 1955. HEAVY. Vol 10 No 11 January 1955 to Vol 11 No 10 December 1955. Each issue c40 pp with b/w ills cartoons advertisements throughout and colour illustrated wraps with a pin-up girl on the back cover. The volumes are bound in green cloth boards with a printed title label on the front board. Hard Cover. Very Good. 4to. British Army Hardcover
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Haslip, Joan
Die Freundin Des Kaisers. Franz Joseph Und Die Schauspielerin Katharina Schratt
Stuttgart: Engelhorn Verlag 1985. 399pp index bibliography bw ills. Or maroon cloth in jacket. Place/year written on 1/2 title notes in Hangarian on title page and margin of one page only. Originally publsihed in English as The Emporor and the Actress the book details the relationship of Kaiser Franz Joseph with actress Katherina Schratt. Text in German/auf Deutsch. First German Edition. Hard Cover. Good Plus/Fine. 8vo. Engelhorn Verlag Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 014573 ISBN : 3872030035 9783872030030
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Streeruwik, Ernst
Wie es War. Erinnerungen und Erlebnisse Eines Alten Osterrichers
Wien.: Stenrermuhl Verlag 1934. 348ppbw ills. Or gray cloth with tile and crest in red and black in jacket. Place/date written at top of 1/2 title page. Jacket slightly edgeworn with several small chips spine sunned. Text in German/auf Deutsch printed in Gothic type. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Stenrermuhl Verlag Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 014569
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Steinacker, Harold
Austro -Hungarica. Ausgewahlte Aufsatze Und Vortrage Zur Geschichte Ungarns Und Der Osterreich-Ungarischen Monarchire. Buchreihe Der Sudostdeutschen Historischen Kommission Band 8
Munich: R. Oldenbourg 1963. xiii 362pp. Or green card covers. Minor edge wear place written on 1/2 title note in Hungarian on title page. Text in German/auf Deutsch. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to. R. Oldenbourg Paperback
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 014070
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Matsch Erwin
November 1918 Auf Dem Ballhausplatz. Erinnerungen Ludwigs Freiherrn Von Flotow 1895-1920
Vienna: Verlag Bohlau 1982. 422pp index. Or green cloth in jacket. Place/year written on half-title page very slight edge wear to jacket. Text in German/auf Deutsch. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo. Verlag Bohlau Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 014068 ISBN : 3205071905 9783205071907
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Leser Norbert
Werk Und Widerhall. Grosse Gestalten Des Osterreichischen Sozialismus
Vienna VA: Verlag Die Wiener Volksbuchhandlung 1964. 458pp index bw ills. Or red cloth in jacket. Additional pictures and clippings taped in at front and rear. Minor edge wear to jacket. Text in German. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Verlag Die Wiener Volksbuchhandlung Hardcover
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Bernier, Olivier
Words of Fire Deeds of Blood: The Mob the Monarchy and the French Revolution
Boston: Little Brown & Company 1989. x 452pp index bibliography notes bw ills. Or tan & green boards with jacket. Small scuff mark on front paste down. Very slight edge wear to jacket. Popular history of the French Revolution. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Little Brown & Company Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 014172 ISBN : 0316092061 9780316092067
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Bolton Glorney
Roman Century. A Portrait of Rome as the Capital of Italy 1870-1970
New York: Viking 1971. xi 306pp index bibliography bw ills map. Or brown and cream cloth in jacket. Some minor toning. Slight edge wear and minor creasing to jacket minor foxing to verso of jacket. Looks at Rome's role as the Italian capital over a 100 year period from 1870. Includes much on Garibaldi Mussolini and wars. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Viking Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 014174
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Toynbee, Philip (editor)
The Distant Drum. Refelctions on the Spanish Civil War
New York: David McKay Co 1976. 192pp index notes bw ills. Or red coth in jacket. Some occasional toning to pages. Jacket price clipped and spine faded. . First American Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo. David McKay Co Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 014175 ISBN : 0679506977 9780679506973
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Bernotti, Romeo
Storia Della Guerra Nel Mediterraneo 1940-43
Roma: Vito Bianco 1960. 343pp index bw ills maps. Or black cloth in jacket. Additioonal articles photocopies and pictures taped in at front and rear place/date written on blank page notes in Hungarian on title and preface pages. Noted 2 articles glued in in body of text also. Jacket slightly faded on spine minor edgewear. Appears to be Volume 10 in a set titled I Libri Del Tempo. Deals with the Second World War in the Mediterranean theatre. Text in Italian. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Good Plus/Very Good. 4to. Vito Bianco Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 013607
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Attanasio, Sandro
Gli Italiani e La Guerra Di Spagna
Milano: Mursia 1974. 306pp index bw ills. Or green cloth in jacket. Place/year written on half-title page. Slightest of edge wear to jacket. Story of Italian troops in the Spanish Civil War. Includes list of recipients of Medaglie d' Oro. Text in Italian. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Mursia Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 013631
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Griesser Pecar Tamara
Die Mission Sixtus. Osterreichs Friedensversuch in Ersten Weltkrieg
Munchen Munich: Amalthea 1988. 414pp index bibliography notes bw ills. Or black cloth lacking jacket. Extra picture taped in inside front cover long notation in Hungarian on title page very few marginal notes also in Hungarian. Austria in the First World War. Text in German/Deutsch. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Amalthea Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 013674 ISBN : 3850022455 9783850022453
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Prost, Henri
Destin De La Roumanie. 1918-1954
Paris: Editions Berger-Levrault 1954. xiv 279pp index map. Or thin card covers. Some toning to covers/spine tape reinforcement to base of spine place/year written on 1/2 title page. History and politics of Romania from 1918-1954. Text in French. . First Paperback. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Editions Berger-Levrault Paperback
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 013761
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Maur, Gilbert in Der
Die Jugoslawen Einst Und Jetzt. 2 Volumes. 1. Aus Der Geschichte Der Sudslawen. 2. Jugoslawiens Aussenpolitik
Leipzig: Johannes Gunther Verlag 1936. HEAVY. 2 volumes. xv 286; xix 619pp; index maps 1 folding. Or green pebbled boards. Bumped at head and foot of spine volume 2. Place/date written at front of Volume 1. Prev owners name removed from front pastedown of both volumes. Volume 1 has notes written on non-folding map. Volume 2 has numerous clippings taped in. Jugoslavian history and politics 'then and now'. Text in German. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Johannes Gunther Verlag Hardcover
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Reichert, Gunter
Das Scheitern Der Kleinen Entente. Internationale Beziehungen in Donauraum Von 1933 Bis 1938. Veroffentlichung Des Sudetendeutschen Achivs 6
Munchen Munich: Fides-Verlagsgesellschaft 1971. 186pp index bibliography. Or white card covers. Place/year written on first page brief pencil note on last page. Very light edge weat to covers. Text in German. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine. 8vo. Fides-Verlagsgesellschaft Paperback
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 013762
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Brydone, F. (Brydone, Patrick.)
Travels in Sicily and Malta. A New and Complete Edition
Aberdeen Scotland.: George Clark & Son 1848. 284pp 4pp catalogue at rear index appendix. Contemporary blind stamped gray cloth. Boards stained on rear rubbed and somewhat faded on spine. Rear free endpaper torn in half. Front hinge cracked. Prev owners names and other writing on front endpapers title page and advertisement page and in margin of several other pages. A few small marks internally but complete and intact. While the author is given in this edition as F. Brydone the author is actually Patrick Brydone and the book originally published as A Tour of Sicily and Malta. Scarce book consisting of letters by Brydone originally to William Beckford detailing travels in Malta and Sicily in the 18th century. New Edition. Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo. George Clark & Son Hardcover
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Green, David
Sarah Duchess of Marlborough
London: Collins 1967. 351pp index notes appendices genealogy bw ills pictorial endpapers. Or green cloth in jacket. Minor foxing to first/last few pages page edges toned. Jacket faded on spine with slight edge wear and toning to rear panel and edges. Biography of this extraordinary woman brought up in the court of Charles II and friend and confidant to Queen Anne. She was an ancestor of Winston Churchill. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Collins Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 012589
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Weir, Alison
The Princes in the Tower
London: The Bodley Head 1992. xv 287pp index bibliography bw ills. Inside of covers heavily toned page edges and margins toned. An investigation into the imprisonment and deaths of the Princes in the Tower long held to have been murdered by their uncle Richard III last of the Plantagenet kings. First Paperback. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. The Bodley Head Paperback
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 012592 ISBN : 0370317920 9780370317922
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Lisle, Arthur Plantagenet; (Byrne, Muriel St. Clare,editor)
The Lisle Letters : An Abridgement
London: Secker & Warburg 1983. xxvi 436pp index bw ills. Or blue and red cloth in jacket. Fore-edge foxed. Jacket price clipped front flap creased very slight edge wear. An abridgement of the 6 volume Lisle letters. The letters were originally assembled in search of evidence to be used in the trial for treason of Arthur Plantagenet Lord Lisle under henry VIII. Written from 1533-1540 they provide an unparalleled glimpse into day-to-day Tudor family concerns. Lord Lisle was Deputy of Calais at the time so all his family affairs had to be conducted by correspondence. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Secker & Warburg Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 012601 ISBN : 0436079054 9780436079054
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Scott, Ronald McNair
Robert the Bruce : King of Scots
Edina MN: Canongate 1988. xviii 254pp index notes references bibliography chronology genealogy maps. Slight edge wear to card covers spine creased sligh toning to page edges. Using accounts of contemporary chronicles particularly those of John Barbour the author reconstructs the stroy of one of the most remarkable of medieval kings. First Paperback. Trade Paperback. Fine. 8vo. Canongate Paperback
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 012172 ISBN : 0862411726 9780862411725
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Filmer Don F
Kent Windmills 2000. A Survey of Kent's Mill Remains
West Malling Kent UK: Kent Mills Group 2000. 36pp num bw ills maps bibliography. Or pictorial thin card wraps. Bent and creased at bottom corner. A view of what remains of mills to be found in the county of Kent in 2000. About 70 mill sites remain in Kent of which only a dozen or so are now recognizable as mills. Chapters include existing mills mill conversions visible remains other purpose mills and loat mills. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good. 4to. Kent Mills Group Paperback
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 012195
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Ambrosy, Anna
Brave Nation : A Short Political and Social History of 20th Century Hungary
Melbourne: Hungarian Life 2001. x 216pp index appendices num bw ills. Or blue leatherette with jacket. Very slight edge wear to jacket. SIGNED by author on fly leaf. Begins with a brief history of Hungary from approx 500AD-1914 then deals in detail with the history political and social aspects of Hungary through the 20th century. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to. Hungarian Life Hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 011562 ISBN : 0957977603 9780957977600
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Cleugh, James
Love Locked Out. A Survey of Love Licence and Restriction in the Middle Ages
London: Anthony Blond 1963. 320pp index bibliography. Or black cloth in jacket. Some light rubbing to jacket short tear and associated crease at top left front. A sociological study of the irrepressible sexuality of the Middle Ages in spite of the Church's attempts to impose a morality on the libidinous society. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo. Anthony Blond Hardcover
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Ingram J. H
Companion Into Cheshire
London: Methuen 1947. xii 228pp index bibliography 15 bw plates endpaper maps. Or red cloth in jacket. Corners slightly bumped. Jacket has several chips and short tears. The jacket has been damp on rear panel and stuck to rear board pink stain to rear panel of jacket. Nice little guide to Cheshire covering history scenery archaeology folklore and character sketches. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo. Methuen Hardcover
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Hunt, Christopher John; Embleton, G. A
The Years of Napoleon
London: Almark Publishing Co. Ltd 1972. 88pp appendices num bw & col ills. Very light wear to edges of card covers. Volume in the Focus on History series. Deals with the years 1789-1815 when Napoleon was the major power and influence in Europe. First Paperback. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Almark Publishing Co. Ltd Paperback
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 011146 ISBN : 0855241063 9780855241063
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