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WORLD WAR I IN EUROPE LETTER
An American Living In Vienna Experiences The Beginning Of World War One – “…We Are Still In No Danger As Long As We Stay Here… Every Available Place Is Filled With Wounded Soldiers… Many Americans Went Home When Your Letter Wentâ€
WORLD WAR I. ALS. 3pgs. November 13 1914. Vienna. An autograph letter signed “Libbie Tappan†by an American living in Vienna at the start of World War One. Tappan writes home to her sister in America concerning wartime conditions in Vienna. She mentions lies of the media and the fear that her letter will be censored: “My Dear Sister: I wrote you a letter sent 21 by a lady who was going home to America. She would amil it in New York. Irene sent one to her Mother she has received an answer to hers. SO I am wondering why I don’t hear from you At that time every thing was excitement. All mails from here was stopped and now we have to leave our letters open. Irene’s Mother wrote her to come home at once but we thought it was to big a risk to run. We had no idea that they were writing all lies until we got hold of an American paper. War was first declared here on account of the to be next king and his wife were killed by the Serbians. There is such a lot to tell but for fear it will never reach you I will only say the German Kaiser is not to blame. The Germans and Austrian Hungarians have never lost a battle we are not starving and there is no…here. All places of amusement were closed trotting was stopped the first of August. Things are beginning to brighten a bit now but there will be no racing until next year. Every available place is filled with wounded soldiers and we don’t see much else but soldiers although there has never been a battle here in Vienna. I am so sorry about Marvin. It seems too bad he had to be taken. I hope you let Eugene and the rest of the folks know about us. We are still in no danger as long as we stay here. I am so sorry I cannot send you some money but it is impossible now. But just as soon as it can be sent will send. Remember me to all the ladies There was a call for linen for the wounded. Irene did two pounds out of my old linen. I thought of you all how busy you would be if you was here there was a ship load of red cross nurses and doctors come over some of them are here in Vienna. There were many Americans went home when your letter went. They were nearly a month on the way. I suppose it cost them a small fortune to go I don’t think of any thing else just now. Will write soon again. Trust you are well and all the ladies also. Berdette & Irene sends love Ever your loving sister Libbie Tappanâ€. An interesting first-hand account. It is in very good condition and the original envelope is enclosed. unknown books
Bookseller reference : 4314
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EASTERN EUROPE WW1 LABBE Paul
Servia's Effort - "French Homage
Paris: Bloud and Gay 1916. Staple-bound pamphlet; 22pp. Wear and sunning to edges of covers pages foxed and chipped at two points of fore edge else a clean and sound copy. Praise for Serbia's role in WW1. Publication of the Committee "The Effort of France and of her Allies. Bloud and Gay unknown books
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Girls' Education Europe
Photo Schoolgirls Perform Science Experiments c. 1920s
Girls' Education Science Laboratory with 6 figures around a table filled with special equipment. c. 1920s. Real photo postcard. 3.5 x 5.5 in. From unknown European country. 4 girls in matching uniforms stand around a table engage in experiments and write observations in their notebooks. 1 uniformed young man stands nearby while an older student or teacher supervises. This dates from the 1920s after WWI had ended but a period in which militarization in Europe was considered of upmost national importance. The early 20th century was also a period of great development for women's education as more schools and programs opened to girls. Real photo postcard was never mailed and has no message written on verso. Creases in lower and upper right corners. In good condition. unknown books
Bookseller reference : 17142
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Europe North Africa Middle East Photo Album
American Couple Photo Album c. 1920s: Bethlehem The Dead Sea Nazareth Galilee Monte Carlo Alexandria Cairo the Pyramids France Cologne Paris Nice Parthenon Greece Constantinople Rome Milan Venice the Swiss alps Germany and England
Travel Album of over 225 photos from a tour of Europe North Africa and the Middle East in the 1920s; photos from France Italy Egypt Greece Constantinople Istanbul Monaco Switzerland Germany and England. This album takes us to a world of a century ago with 228 original silver gelatin prints 2 3/4 x 4 1/2 in. Original brown cloth boards. 7 1/2 x 12 inches. 100 pages last 8 are blank. Pasted in 22 souvenir postcards of monuments from Brussels the Hague and Milan. c. 1921-1930. Album documents the travels of an American couple on an international vacation. Photos begin with journey leaving New York harbor "Aboard the Vallendam" headed towards France. They land in Cologne and their first stop is in Paris where they document their lodging "Our hotel in Paris "Victoria Palace" and include snapshots of famous landmarks including the Louvre Church of St. Genevieve the Trocadero the Eiffel Tower Tuileries Gardens and the Champ-Elysees. They visit Versailles and Trianon Palace and then travel around France to Rheims Nice and Eze a medieval village. They include many charming photos of coastal views and bucolic countryside.<br/><br/>They make stops at Monaco and Monte Carlo making sure to visit the famous Casino in its prime in the 1920's before boarding the next ship which would carry them across the Mediterranean Sea. Large image of a ship "Theophile Gautier" pasted in with the handwritten caption "Our boat on the Med. Sea and our home for more than two weeks." They sail past Stromboli on the way to Alexandria Egypt where they disembark to travel down the Nile River to Cairo. "Old Cairo and the Nile from the citadel." They visit the Great Pyramids and see the Sphinx. They travel to the Middle East. The next stop is Palestine and Jerusalem where they visit many important religious sites including "Garden of Geshsamine sic" Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Wailing Wall. They also take interest Islamic practices in the city as there is one snapshot of the group seated outside a mosque with the caption: "Group waiting to hear the Mohammedan call to prayer." They also tour Bethlehem Solomon's Quarries and Jewish University before moving on to other places: The Jordan River The Dead Sea Nazareth Galilee and Beirut. They travel on various ways during this time and document many markets and street scenes of a century ago. "Meeting a camel caravan."<br/><br/>They visit ancient sites in Greece such as the ancient city of Smyrna and the island of Rhodes home to the Colossus one of the ancient wonders of the world. Caption for a photo of the island's harbor reads "Rhodes showing the sight site of the ancient Colossus". In Athens they visit the Acropolis and even take a photo where they are standing inside the Parthenon no longer allowed for conservation reasons. They document Hadrian's Arch the Temple of Athena Nike "the wingless victor" Mars Hill the Temple of Theseus and Socrates' prison. They go to Constantinople renamed Istanbul in 1930 and take photos of "The Mosque of St. Sophia" Hagia Sophia. They travel up the boot of Italy with photos of Mt. Vesuvius Naples Rome Milan and Venice. In the capital city they visit the "Tomb of the Italy's Unknown Soldier" erected 1921 and visit the ancient forum in Rome. They take many photos in Venice documenting experiences such as a gondola ride and important landmarks such as St. Mark's Square and the Doge's Palace. The final leg of the trip is an overland journey through the Swiss alps through Lucerne and past the Rhone Glacier. They journey through southern Germany stopping at Baden-Baden Heidelberg and Bonn before making it back to their final destination: England. They go for a tour of Windsor Castle and take in the sights. "Eton College from Windsor." They also visit Oxford University and save two large pages for their photos of Shakespeare's former residences. "Anne Hathaway's Home" and "In the gardens at Stradford on the Avon - Both have Shakespear's sic house". 2 pages are detached. Very good condition. unknown books
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Rostovtzeff M.
The Social & Economic History of the Hellenistic World Three-Volume Set
Oxford: Clarendon Press 1953. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. From the corrected sheets of the first edition." Three volumes in original green cloth illustrated with b/w plates indexed. Minor rubbing to extremities offsetting from the dust jacket flaps to the endpapers; else a fine set. Dust jackets have some chipping to the lower edges and spine ends and there is some spotting to the front panel of Volume II and spine of Volume I. Overall still a very attractive set of this comprehensive and influential work. Rostovtzeff defines the "Hellenistic World" as that "created by Alexander's conquest of the East which existed as long as the States into which it disintegrated retained their political independence and the Greeks in those states held the leading role in all spheres of life; that is to say approximately from the time of Alexander to Augustus." Additional shipping charges will be requested for priority or international orders. Clarendon Press hardcover books
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Europe 19th Century Photography
Circa 1890 Large Format Photograph of a European Town and Ruins on Hillside River & Bridge in Distance
Europe: No Publisher Noted 1890. A large-format albumen process photographic image of this site; laid down to cardstock. Image approx. 10" x 14 1/2" size; the cardstock makes it approx. 18" x 22" overall. No place photographer studio or date noted; circa 1890. Cardstock with old discoloration at right margin; closed tear; does not affect image. Some fading in the town and river area; in good condition. . Photograph. Not Bound. Good. No Publisher Noted paperback books
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WWII Division of Europe
WWII Newspaper featuring the cover story "Big 3 Decisions Strip Reich of Industry Fix Reparations; Poles Reds Split Prussia
The Chicago Sun Original Newspaper dated Friday August 3 1945 just 3 days before the bombing of Hiroshima. 28 pages recto verso. Front page stories include "116 Jap Ships Halsey Toll For One Day" "King George And Truman Hold Meeting" "Germany To Be Farm Nation". Front page also includes a large map of Europe illustrating the division of Germany to Poland and the Soviet Union. The paper has some age spotting and slight wear to edges otherwise in very good condition. unknown books
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West Rebecca
The New Meaning of Treason
New York: Viking Press 1964. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. viii 374 pp with index. Slight rubbing to extremities light dust soiling to top edge else fine. Dust jacket is chipped at corners and spine ends and has a small crease. Revised and expanded version of West's work on World War II traitors and defectors. Viking Press hardcover books
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Free Europe Press
Free Europe Press Czech Propaganda Leaflet Distributed by Air Balloon. Svobodná Evropa Free Europe no. 34
Munich: Free Europe Press 1954-1956. Single leaf measuring 14.5 Ã 57 cm folded four times to create a pamphlet with ten pages of text and images. Very good. Scarce anti-communist flyer in Czech printed in Germany by Free Europe Press and distributed over Czechoslovakia via balloon from 1954 to 1956. With short articles in Czech and Slovak the publication informed Czechoslovak readers about political news unavailable to them. It also explained the "Ten Demands" program compiled by Radio Free Europe workers based on interviews with Czechoslovak refugees. Approximately 56 numbered issues were printed many of them such as the present one illustrated with drawings and small photographs. "In the 1950s at the height of the Cold War numerous psychological warfare leaflets were prepared by the Free Europe Press FEP of the Free Europe Committee. The group worked in cooperation with Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency CIA funding much of the operations. FEP leaflets were a major part of the post-World War II psychological warfare battle between East and West. The operation sent 590415 balloons that carried 301636883 leaflets posters books and other printed matter from West Germany over the Iron Curtain to Czechoslovakia Hungary and Poland from August 1951 to November 1956" Source: Free Europe Press Cold War Leaflets Accessed 2019 http://www.psywarrior.com/RadioFreeEurope.html. KVK OCLC show three issues at the British Library and a more significant run lacking only 12 issues at Wisconsin-Madison. unknown books
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Free Europe Press
Free Europe Press Czech Propaganda Leaflet. "V jednotÄ sÃla. VÅ¡em Älenům Äeskoslovenské lidové oposice" Strength is in unity. To all members of the Czechoslovak peoples' opposition
Munich: Free Europe Press 1954. Single folded leaf measuring 20.8 à 14.6 cm printed to recto and verso and when folded resembling a US airmail envelope. With one duplicate copy; laid in is a small flyer depicting the Czechoslovak and US flags with the text "The American people greet the Czechoslovak peoples' opposition in their fight for a free tomorrow." Very good. Scarce anti-communist flyer in Czech one duplicate copy in all likelihood printed in Germany by Free Europe Press and distributed over Czechoslovakia via balloon in 1954. The flier mentions the recent currency reform 1953 which decimated the savings of peasants and workers and led to considerable unrest. It addresses workers and peasants as members of a "people's opposition" and urges them to raise awareness among others about possible forms of resistance and the growth of the opposition movement. It also references the "Ten Demands" list compiled by Radio Free Europe workers based on interviews with Czechoslovak refugees. The "envelope" features a printed stamp with T. G. Masaryk and the "postal stamp" reads "Pravda vÃtÄžÃ" or "The truth wins." Also laid in is a small flyer depicting the Czechoslovak and US flags with the text "The American people greet the Czechoslovak peoples' opposition in their fight for a free tomorrow." The envelopes were sent on April 29 1954 and were also issued in Slovak. "In the 1950s at the height of the Cold War numerous psychological warfare leaflets were prepared by the Free Europe Press FEP of the Free Europe Committee. The group worked in cooperation with Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency CIA funding much of the operations. FEP leaflets were a major part of the post-World War II psychological warfare battle between East and West. The operation sent 590415 balloons that carried 301636883 leaflets posters books and other printed matter from West Germany over the Iron Curtain to Czechoslovakia Hungary and Poland from August 1951 to November 1956" Source: Free Europe Press Cold War Leaflets Accessed 2019 http://www.psywarrior.com/RadioFreeEurope.html. The envelope cannot be traced via KVK or OCLC. unknown books
Bookseller reference : P6877
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H. R. Fox Bourne
THE ROMANCE OF TRADE
London: Cassell Petter Galpin & Co. Hard Cover. near Very Good binding. 379pp. Dampstaining to the endpapers. Previous owner name label on the front endpaper. Decorated cred cloth with some fade to the titling and the decorations but a sturdy and serviceable copy. All edges gilt. near Very Good binding. Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co unknown books
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Vues d'Optique: Europe
TWO ALBUMS OF MORE THAN 120 VUES D'OPTIQUE OF DIFFERENT LOCATIONS IN EUROPE
Paris 1762. Two volumes. 62; 61 leaves each with a mounted plate. Images vary in size either 11 x 16 inches or 8 x 12 inches. Oblong folio. 19th-century gilt cloth rebacked in red morocco. Corners repaired. Wear and soiling to boards. Internally clean colors bright and fresh. Very good. Two large albums containing 123 brightly colored VUES D'OPTIQUE depicting scenes from Paris Rome London and many other locations in Europe. Lettering is typically printed at the top and bottom of the plate primarily in French with the letters at the top reading backwards. The letters above the text were deliberately reversed since these prints were designed for viewing in optical machines with a magnifying glass and a reflective mirror which gave the viewer an illusion of depth and reversed the image. The views are mostly of France including many scenes from Versailles and the ports of the realm. There are likewise a significant number of views of important landmarks around Rome. Other views depict notable locations in the Netherlands Denmark Germany Spain Poland and London. A handful of the plates show more unusual locales such as Mexico City Siberia St. Petersburg Peking Cayenne and French Guiana. Altogether an impressive collection of these handsome engravings. hardcover books
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Bengtson Hermann ed et al; Translated By John Conway
THE GREEKS AND THE PERSIANS: From the Sixth to the Fourth Centuries
New York: Delacorte Press 1968. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/near Very Good dust jacket. No pencil or ink markings in text. Boards clean. Very small bump on spine near top. Corners very lightly bumped. Dustjacket lightly soiled. Small tears and chips at top and bottom of front and rear dustjacket covers at folds with very small pieces missing. Chip on dustjacket spine at front dustjacket cover about 1 inch down from top. Small closed tears at top and bottom of dustjacket spine. Small closed tears at top and bottom of front and rear dustjacket covers. DJ protected with Mylar Cover. Very Good binding / near Very Good dust jacket. Delacorte Press unknown books
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Travel 19th Century Europe Satchel Guide
A Satchel Guide for the Vacation Tourist in Europe. A Compact Itinerary of the British Isles Belgium and Holland Germany and The Rhine Switzerland France Austria and Italy
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1886. 4 ad pages xxxii 337 16 blank memoranda pages 8 pages of additional advertisements at back; with a useful index and an appendix with additional travel hints per country. Includes all folding maps per the list provided at the contents: Great Britain - Ireland in front pocket; London in back pocket; Continental Europe Switzerland and Paris all found within the text at their respective chapters. Title page with the small owner name-stamp of collector George R. Brush M.D. U.S. Navy; in service as a surgeon & medical inspector from 1861-1894. Approx. 4" x 6"size; bound in the original gilt-stamped red full thin leather; spine chipped at edge of title; some edge tips wear and rubbing; loose maps with some browning darkening at folds; contents generally clean and in good condition. Edition for 1886. Leather. Good. Houghton, Mifflin and Company books
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20th Century Photography Europe Education
1929 - 1935 Two Photograph Albums With Boys and Young Men's Education & Activities in Austria & Germany
European Origin: No Publisher Noted 1929. Containing approximately 90 black and white photographic images of varying sizes; from 1 1/4" square to 3 ½" x 5 ½" postcard size; most of them average about 2 ½" x 3 ½." Mostly these are candid photographs of the life of young boys and men in Austria and Germany with internal dating on some of the photographs of 1929 to 1935 and additional place and dating information on some. There are photos of children mostly young boys at class and later as young men on class trips hiking cycling; with adult chaperones; for the older boys the educational duties appear to be supervised by Christian religious male instructors only. Also containing a few group photographs of men students priests; and some church interior views. Some of the images have the photography studio rubber stamps on the reverse of the state pharmacy in Rottweil. Five of the images are commercial images of architectural landmarks in Vienna. The photographs are corner-mounted not glued into two hardcover albums with black paper pages side-string tied. One album measures 6" x 8 ¼" and the other 7 ½" x 10 ½" approx. size; both albums with art-deco themed cloth covers. Some edge tips wear and soiling to the album bindings; photographs are generally sharply taken detailed and in very good condition. Photograph Albums. Photo Album. Very Good. No Publisher Noted hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 25609
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Decembre Allonier Joseph Decembre; Edmund Allonier
Dictionnaire de la Révolution française 1789-1799
Paris: Administration des Ouvrages de MM. Decembre-Allonier ND. Hardcover. Very good-. Undated c. 1866. Two folio volumes 8.75 x 14 inches pp. 796; 762 lvii; illustrated. Contemporary quarter-leather and marbled boards with original yellow wrappers bound in. Rubbing to edges of boards and spine some loss of marbled paper on front board of volume 1 minor damage to endpapers occasional light foxing. Good to very good overall. Comprehensive alphabetical reference to the people and events of the French Revolution. Oversized; shipping cost will be more than standard for priority or international orders. Administration des Ouvrages de MM. Decembre-Allonier hardcover books
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Northall John 1723?a1759
Travels through Italy. Containing New and curious Obfervations on that Country; particularly The Grand duchy of Tuscany; the Ecclesiastical State or the Dominions of the Pope; The Kingdom of Naples; The Republic of Venice and Genoa; and Other Italian Sta
A 41 B-2K8 2L2. 10 476 12 pages with five folding engraved plates several signed by R. Bennett folding map by D'Anville. Octavo 8" x 5 1/4" bound in modern sheep spine banded title gilt on black leather label edges in blue. ESTC t153068. Pine-Coffin752.2 var. imprint. Borroni 3182.Cox I 136. D'Ancona 672 First edition as a reissue of the edition "printed for S. Hooper; H. Webley; W. Nicol; and S. Bladon" 1766 with a cancel title page and an additional dedication to David Garrick.<br /><br />John Northall 1723-1759 army officer and travel writer "entered the service as a gentleman cadet in the Royal Regiment of Artillery on 1 July 1741 and was promoted to lieutenant fireworker on 1 April 1742. He served under Thomas Pattison with the Royal Artillery in Flanders in 1742 and was promoted second lieutenant on 1 April 1744. He was at the battle of Fontenoy on 11 May 1745 and became first lieutenant on 3 October 1745 captain-lieutenant on 24 March 1752 and captain on 1 October 1755. In February 1752 he went to Minorca and thence to Livorno. He was recorded in Capua on 1 April 1752. Instead of making the usual tour of Italy he visited the principal cities of Tuscany and after a cursory visit to Rome went to Naples. Then after a more lengthened stay in Rome he went to Loreto Bologna Venice Mantua Parma Modena and returned to Livorno whence he sailed for Genoa. From Genoa he went by sea to Villafranca and on by land to Marseilles. He died in 1759. An account of his Italian tour was published posthumously in July 1766 Travels through Italy; Containing New and Curious Observations on that Country but the work has been criticized as following closely J. G. Keysler's Travels 1740; Eng. trans. 1756." Oxford DNB<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Binding lightly rubbed vertical creases on title label; new endpapers title page re-inserted with repairs along inner margin holograph ink signature on title page crossed through and pencil year beneath roman numerals; occasional small tears and spots of minor paper loss mostly in the margins; ink stamp of "Scott County Public Library" on dedication leaf and page twenty-five some smudges and soiling rust stain on B3 few pages misprinted or mis-bound at an angle; nonetheless in overall very good condition. Printed for S Hooper hardcover books
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Photography Europe
Reise-Erinnerungen cover title
V.p. in Europe chiefly Germany France Switzerland & Italy 1900. 92 vintage albumen and gelatin silver prints many hand-colored mounted to album leaves photos measure from approximately 6-1/2 x 4-3/4 inches to 10-1/2 x 8 inches. 4to. Full contemporary padded morocco with brass clasp a.e.g. Fine. 92 vintage albumen and gelatin silver prints many hand-colored mounted to album leaves photos measure from approximately 6-1/2 x 4-3/4 inches to 10-1/2 x 8 inches. 4to. Album of professional photographs of European travel destinations including the Midi Monte Carlo Stockholm Brussels London Capri Innsbruck Jena Paris Venice and St. Moritz. Many of the images are hand-colored; a few of the photographers are named including C. Hertel Sommer Naples and C. Naya Venice. The front cover title translates to "Memories of Travel unknown books
Bookseller reference : 309837
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Europe
Karte der Eisenbahnen Mittel-Europa's mit Angabe sämmtlicher Bahnstationen Hauptpost und Dampfschiffahrts Vergindungen. Entworfen und nach den zuverlUassigsten Quellen bearbeitet von H. Musser
Glogau Polland: Verlag von Carl Flemming 1864. 8th edition. Water tinted. 1 vols. 38 x 32 1/2 inches unfolded; 8vo. Original brown cloth folder with title in gilt on upper cover advertisement on yellow paper on pastedown printed title torn on yellow on upper fold of folded map with stamp on title. Rubbed some soiling map panels mounted on linen tear along inner hinge of binding some browning of linen and panels offsetting else very good. 8th edition. Water tinted. 1 vols. 38 x 32 1/2 inches unfolded; 8vo. Railroads and Steamships. Verlag von Carl Flemming unknown books
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Europe Pinkerton John
A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels . Europe
London: Longman Hurst Rees and Orme 1809. Frontispieces 2 maps 1 folding & 18 plates. xiv 852; 834 pp. 6 vols. 4to. Recently bound in half brown calf and marbled boards spine labels gilt. Ex-library with perforated stamp on title pages & finals pages some browning of leaves plates offset. Very good. Frontispieces 2 maps 1 folding & 18 plates. xiv 852; 834 pp. 6 vols. 4to. Pinkerton's collection of voyages was published over the course of six years in a total of seventeen volumes. The six volumes devoted to Europe comprise the largest section of the collection. They are "of great value for its texts which are sometimes given entire and sometimes abridged with as much as possible of the traveler's own language" Hill. <br/><br/>Pinkerton was something of a character. Having apprenticed to an Edinburgh solicitor upon the death of his father and receipt of his inheritance he immediately turned his back to a legal career and dedicated himself to literary matters. Through his works as a historian poet and playwrite he made friendships with the likes of Horace Walpole Walter Scott and Edward Gibbon and through his controversial religious views and short temper he eventually lost them. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme unknown books
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Lancelot; Joseph Stevenson.
The Scottish metrical romance of Lancelot du Lak.
Edinburgh: Printed for the Maitland Club 1839. First edition. Leather. Very Good/First printing of a fifteenth-century Scottish version of the Arthurian romance that was composed for the court of James III. It survived in a unique and incomplete manuscript in the Cambridge library. The text was edited by the librarian of Durham Cathedral Joseph Stevenson and published by the Maitland Club an association dedicated to the promotion of Scottish literature and culture. 28 cm; xxiv 185 pages. Bound in contemporary red half morocco over pebbled boards edged with gilt rules . Spine decorated and titled in gilt. Marbled endleaves. Moderate wear especially at extremities with spine chipped a bit at heel. Two labels removed from pastedowns. A little foxing at front blank and the pages are not bright but text is effectively unblemished. Reference: Graesse 4 92; Printed for the Maitland Club hardcover books
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Davis Richard Harding
With the French in France & Salonika
London: Duckworth & Co 1916. Hardcover. Very good. Second impression. xvi 240 pp illustrations 16 publisher's catalogue. Some light general wear to boards short gift inscription Christmas 1919 on front free endpaper; else clean and sound. No dust jacket. Compiled from letters written by the author from France Greece Serbia and England. Duckworth & Co hardcover books
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Sadler Michael Thomas
Ireland; Its Evils and their Remedies: Being a Refutation of the Errors of the Emigration Committee and Others Touching that Country. To which is Prefixed A Synopsis of an Original Treatise About to be Published on the Law of Population
London: John Murray 1829. Hardcover. Very good. Second edition. 8vo pp.lvii 464. Bound in 3/4 green leather and green marbled boards spine with gilt lettering and ornaments all edges marbled green silk ribbon bookmark bound in. Binding signed William Taylor Morrell. Scuffing to leather at extremities spine slightly faded foxing to first and last few leaves otherwise clean and sound. Armorial bookplate of William Ruddell Clarke of Trabolgan County Cork Ireland on front pastedown. "Clarke 1870-1937 inherited Trabolgan a large Georgian house and the surrounding estate of 1500 acres from his father in 1911. After his death the estate was purchased by the Irish Land Commission" National Library of Australia. Sadler 1780-1835 was a social reformer and political economist whose beliefs are described by his DNB biographer as "violenty anti-Malthusian." On this work specifically the biographical entry continues "Against the individualist and Ricardian views that underlay most English thinking about Ireland Sadler here proposed the establishment of an Irish poor law on the paternalist principle that in proportion to its means 'wealth should be compelled to assist destitute poverty but that dissimilar to English practice assistance should in all cases except in those of actual incapacity from age or disease be connected with labour.'" John Murray hardcover books
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Berkeley CA: University Art Museum Apr. 15 to May 31 1981 five other locations three in Europe
Neil Jenney: Paintings and Sculpture 1967-1980
1980. Softcover. VG previous owner stamps inside cover. Wraps. 58 pp. 21 color plates. Catalogue and short essay written by Mark Rosenthal. Also includes some isolated and I suppose important quotations by the artist arranged chronologically. Catalogue lists 34 works. Bibliography. Lovely color plates. unknown books
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Rhodes James M.
The Hitler Movement A Modern Millenarian Revolution
Stanford CA: Hoover Institution Press 1980. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. 253 pp with index bibliography and notes. Light dust soiling to top edge else a fine copy: clean tightly bound unmarked. Dust jacket has moderate edgewear and a few short tears. Analyzes the nature and causes of the Nazi movement from the standpoint of classical Greek and Christian political theory arguing that Nazi self-interpretations should be taken seriously as starting points from the analyses of National Socialism. Hoover Institution Press hardcover books
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David Paton
EARLY EGYPTIAN RECORDS OF TRAVEL Volume II: Some Texts of The SVIIIth Dynasty Exclusive of The Annals of Thutmosis III
Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press 1916. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Red cloth binding with gilt lettering. Light silverfishing to front and rear boards. Top of spine lightly bumped. Light edgewear to extremities. no markings in text. Very Good binding. Princeton University Press unknown books
Bookseller reference : 241078
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Lord Courtney of Penwith
Nationalism and War in the Near East By a Diplomatist
Oxford: Clarendon Press 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. xxvi 428 pp 6 general appendix. Moderate general wear to boards light offsetting to endpapers; contents clean and sound. No dust jacket. Includes sections on Nationalism and National Identity in the Near East Byzantism Hellenism Panslavism the Macedonian Questions the Ottoman Revolution the War of the Coalition Turkish Greek and Balkan Militarism and the War of Partition. Clarendon Press hardcover books
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Spalinger Anthony John
ASPECTS OF THE MILITARY DOCUMENTS OF THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS
New Haven: Yale University Press 1982. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/no dust jacket. Previous owner's name stamped on front free endpaper. No pencil or ink markings in text. Boards clean; binding sound. Green cloth gilt lettering. ~. Very Good binding / no dust jacket. Yale University Press unknown books
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Asilo "Vittorio Veneto" per gli Orfani dei Caduto in Guerra
Firenze: Tip. Barbera Alfani e Venturi 1922. Softcover. Very good. 6.75 x 9.25 in. 32 pp in photographically illustrated wrappers with 11 half-tone illustrations in the text. Light dust soiling wear to spine ends; very good. Describes the work of an asylum for war orphans opened in 1921 by the Florentine branch of the Associazione Nazionale Mutilati e Combattenti--an organization formed in the aftermath of World War I to assist those disabled or mutilated during the war. Illustrations show some of the facilities and groups of orphans who received education work experience and recreational opportunities and the final pages list individual and organizational donors to the institution. Not found in OCLC. Tip. Barbera, Alfani e Venturi paperback books
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Page Arthur W. ed
The World's Work Volume XXIX Number 5 March 1915: Pensions and Politics The Russian Battlefront
Garden City NY: Doubleday Page & Company 1915. First Edition. Softcover. Good. pp. 482-600 130 pp advertisements. Some general wear to wrappers including sticker damage and rubbing to back cover and tears to spine amateur re-sewing of spine; contents clean and complete. Portrait of Grand Duke Nikolas Russian General Nicholas Nikolaevich on front cover. Articles on the war on the Eastern Front the cost of war "A Day in the Belgian Relief Stations" "How Capital Brings Trade" and more. Doubleday, Page & Company unknown books
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Eiguren Joe V.
The Basque History Past & Present
Boise ID: Offset Printer 1972. Softcover. Very Good. 115 pp with illustrations footnotes in original wrappers. Price sticker on inside front cover very light handling wear; else clean. From the Introduction: "The first part is an expanded version of the publication 'History and Origin of the Basque' first published in 1962 . Part II points out the highlights of recent Basque history from 1931 to the present and deals primarily with the short-lived Basque Republic and the Spanish Civil War which followed." Offset Printer paperback books
Bookseller reference : 3166
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Arnauld Antoine and Pierre Nicole
The Perpetuity of the Faith of the Catholic Church on the Eucharist
<p>First English edition. Octavo. Original green cloth uncut spine taped. No dust jacket. Good edges rubbed; lightly foxed throughout. 423 pages 1 page ads at front.</p><p>Bookplate of Vincent Lloyd Russell on the front pastedown.</p> John Coyne hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 2222044
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Jasper Ridley author
MAXIMILIAN AND JUAREZ
New York: Ticknor & Fields 1992. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Signed & Personally Inscribed by Ridley on title page. Signed & Personally Inscribed by Ridley on title page. Previous owner sticker to frontispiece previous owner notes to title page; number penned to top corner of frontispiece otherwise no markings in text. Dust jacket protected in a new mylar cover. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket. Ticknor & Fields unknown books
Bookseller reference : 258632 ISBN : 0899199895 9780899199894
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McCormick Donald
The Mask of Merlin A Critical Study of David Lloyd George
London: MacDonald 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very Good. 343 pp illustrations with bibliography index. Slight rubbing to extremities else fine. Dust jacket show very light shelf wear with a few short chips and tears. From the dust jacketL "Lloyd George achieved more absolute power than even Sir Winston Churchill secured in World War II. He was it has been argued 'the maker of Europe'. The theme of this book is how power corrupts. Lloyd George's pecadilloes which more than once threatened his career his intrigues with Zaharoff and the building up of his political fund with which to hold the main parties to ransom are shown as influences in the process of corruption." MacDonald hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 1126
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Europe 19th Century Political Philosophy Niccolo Machiavelli
Ouevres Politiques De Machiavel Le Prince Les Discours Sur Tite Live Traduction Revue et Corrigee
Paris France.: Garnier Freres Libraires-Editeurs 1853. 480 pages. A 19th century French translation of the Niccolo Machiavelli classic of political philosophy and a discussion of the content. Previous owner small book-number ticket on front endpaper. Volume approx. 4 3/4" x 7" size; Bound in marbled paper covered boards dark green morocco leather spine gilt decorated & titled marbled endpapers. Some edge tips wear to the binding; title page with some spotting; in very good condition. Later Edition. Leather. Very Good. Garnier Freres, Libraires-Editeurs books
Bookseller reference : 27146
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Percy Earl Henry Algernon George
Highlands of Asiatic Turkey
London: Edward Arnold 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 331 pp publisher's catalogue with 8 plates additional illustrations in the text and two folding maps. Original burgundy cloth with some uneven discoloration to the spine and mild wear to the corners small stain on front board. Internals clean and sound. An interesting travel narrative in which Percy also expresses his deep sympathy with the Turks and his belief that Britain and Germany should work together to stem Russian influence in Constantinople. Edward Arnold hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 16723
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Jasper Ridley author
NAPOLEON III AND EUGENIE
New York: Viking Press 1979. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Signed & Personally Inscribed by Ridley on title page. Previous owner sticker to frontispiece number penned to front pastedown otherwise no markings in text.Signed & Personally Inscribed by Ridley on title page Dust jacket has small closed tear to top; dust jacket protected in a new mylar cover. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket. Viking Press unknown books
Bookseller reference : 258641 ISBN : 0670504289 9780670504282
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Map of Europe
Map of Europe
New York: A.J. Johnson Company 1894. Single-side printed map; drawn and engraved on copper-plate; Hand-colored; 10 3/4" x 13 1/2" size; cities rivers countries; with portions of Western Russia & Turkey; decorative border; ample margins for framing; shrink-wrapped to archival foam core for protection and shipping; very good condition; an attractive and decorative map. . Very Good. A.J. Johnson Company unknown books
Bookseller reference : 7898
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Adams George Burton
The British Empire and a League of Peace Suggesting the Purpose and Form of an Alliance of the English-Speaking Peoples
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1919. Softcover. Very Good. 21 pp in original wrappers with stapled binding. Some general handling wear including one short tear to front cover at spine; previous owner's book plate affixed to verso of cover and small name stamp on back cover.Contents clean. G.P. Putnam's Sons paperback books
Bookseller reference : 651
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Pinkas Zaglembie
Tel Aviv: Hamenora for the Zaglembier Society and Pinkas-Zaglembier Committee Melbourne 1972. Hardcover. Very good/very good. pp. 613 82. Extensively illustrated with historic photographs b/w. Text in English Yiddish Hebrew. Corners bumped boards lightly edgeworn contents clean and sound. In original dust jacket which has some creasing and chipping to the spine ends. Holocaust memorial book for Zaglembie Poland. Oversized; shipping will be more than standard for priority or international orders. Hamenora for the Zaglembier Society and Pinkas-Zaglembier Committee, Melbourne hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 15687
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Phillpotts Bertha Surtees Dame Bertha Newall 1877 1932 editor
The Life of the Icelander Jon Olfasson: Traveller to India Written by himself and completed about 1661 AD with a continuation by Another Hand up to his Death in 1679
2 volumes: xxxiv238pp with frontispiece and 2 other plates 3 maps of which 2 are foldouts1 chart and index list of works by the society at end; xxx290pp with frontispiece and 2 other plates and index. Octavo 9" x 6" issued in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and pictorial representation of the ship Victoria on the cover decorative blind stamp to covers. Translated and edited from the <i>Icelandic edition</i> of Sigfus Blondal by Betrtha S Phillpotts. Works issued by the Hakluyt Society Second Series Numbers 53 and 68. First edition.<br /><br />The autobiography of Jon Olafsson Traveler to the Indies remained unprinted in Icelandic save for a few excerpts until 1908-9 when an edition by Sigfus Blondal Librarian to the Royal Library was published in Copenhagen by the Icelandic Literary Society. The text in this edition which was based on a scholarly collation of the extant MMS. has been implicitly followed in the English translation. The life of Jon Olafsson falls into three parts; or perhaps more properly since only the first two parts are written by himself into two parts and an appendix. The first part opening with his childhood and youth in the remote north-west of Iceland his voyage to England in 1615 and his brief stay in that country has for its main subject his experiences as gunner's mate in Copenhagen and on various Northern voyages in the service of King Christian IV. It is this part which is comprised in the present volume. The second part edited by the Hakluyt Society deals with Jon Olafsson's voyage to India in 1622 his life as a member of the Danish garrison in the fort at Tranquebaar and the voyage home in 1624-5 a terrible record of privation in a rudderless vessel; his stay with other survivors at Youghal in Ireland and his return to Copenhagen towards the end of the year which had seen Christian IV's ill-fated entry into the Thirty Years' War. The autobiographical part ends with his return to Iceland in the Spring of 1626. It is followed by an account of the remainder of his life probably composed by someone in the household of Magnus Magnusson sheriff of Isafjoro Jon's native country--possibly the sheriff himself--and ending with Jon's death in 1679 in his eighty-fifth year. This third part is of value for the full account of the raid on the Barbary corsairs on Iceland in 1627.<br /><br /><b>Condition:</b><br /><br />Spine ends moderately rubbed volume II spine lightly sunned else a very good set. Hakluyt Society hardcover books
Bookseller reference : BOOKS004232
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Dufferin Lord Frederick Temple Hamilton Temple Blackwood
Contributions to an Inquiry into the State of Ireland
London: John Murray 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo 226 pp bound in 3/4 green leather and green marbled boards top edge gilt green silk ribbon bookmark bound in. Binding signed William Taylor Morrell. Small bump to top edge of rear board light scuffing to leather foxing to first and last few leaves otherwise clean and sound. Armorial bookplate of William Ruddell Clarke of Trabolgan County Cork Ireland on front pastedown. "Clarke 1870-1937 inherited Trabolgan a large Georgian house and the surrounding estate of 1500 acres from his father in 1911. After his death the estate was purchased by the Irish Land Commission" National Library of Australia. Dufferin an Irish peer and landowner became concerned with the sufferings of Irish tenants in the wake of the great famine leading him to take initiatives designed to relieve their distress on his own estates. This is one of several works he published on Irish land tenure issues. John Murray hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 20280
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Emma Gilligan
DEFENDING HUMAN RIGHTS IN RUSSIA: Sergai Kovalyov Dissident and Human Rights Commissioner 1969-2003
New York: RoutledgeCurzon 2004. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 253pp. Hardcover binding with very light edgewear at top of spine. ; no markings in text. Very Good binding. RoutledgeCurzon unknown books
Bookseller reference : 242528 ISBN : 041532369x 9780415323697
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American Committee to Survey Labor Conditions in Europe
U.S. Labor Looks At Europe
New York: American Committee to Survey Labor Conditions in Europe 1951. 39p. 3.75x5.25 inches illustrations map cover stapled pictorial wraps wraps worn top corner of pages 29-32 torn off with no loss of text else good condition. Report of eleven trade unionists who traveled to Paris Rome Prague Warsaw and Moscow. The American Committee to Survey Labor Conditions in Europe was targeted by HUAC as a possible Communist front group. American Committee to Survey Labor Conditions in Europe unknown books
Bookseller reference : 233326
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American Committee to Survey Labor Conditions in Europe
U.S. Labor Looks At Europe
New York: American Committee to Survey Labor Conditions in Europe 1951. 39p. 3.75x5.25 inches illustrations map cover very good in stapled pictorial wraps. Report of eleven trade unionists who traveled to Paris Rome Prague Warsaw and Moscow. The American Committee to Survey Labor Conditions in Europe was targeted by HUAC as a possible Communist front group. American Committee to Survey Labor Conditions in Europe unknown books
Bookseller reference : 145096
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American Committee to Survey Labor Conditions in Europe
U.S. Labor Looks At Europe
New York: American Committee to Survey Labor Conditions in Europe 1951. 39p. illustrated wraps small tear at bottom of back cover and last two pages else very good condition. Report of eleven trade unionists who traveled to Paris Rome Prague Warsaw and Moscow. The American Committee to Survey Labor Conditions in Europe was targeted by HUAC as a possible Communist front group. American Committee to Survey Labor Conditions in Europe unknown books
Bookseller reference : 129315
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Burkholder Mark A.; Chandler DS. D. S.
From Impotence to Authority The Spanish Crown and the American Audiencias 1687-1808
Columbia MO: University of Missouri Press 1977. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. xii 253 pp with bibliography index. Name on front pastedown very light wear to bottom edge; else fine. Dust jacket shows very light shelf wear with a few short chips and tears price clipped. The authors "examine quantitatively the social and educational backgrounds and career patterns of the nearly six hundred men appointed by the Spanish crown to the American audiencias high cours from 1687 to 1808" dust jacket. University of Missouri Press hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 1906
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Toynbee Arnold J.
Acquaintances
London: Oxford University Press 1967. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 312 pp illustrations portraits with index. A fine copy in clean dust jacket with light shelf wear. Sketches of twenty-four people or couples considered here as equivalent to one person such as the Webbs the Tawneys and the Hammonds who made a personal impression on Toynbee. Includes essays on T.E. Lawrence Sir Lewis Namier Lionel Curtis W.L. Westermann C.P. Scott Lord Bryce Jan Smuts Lord Samuel and Sri Jawaharalal Nehru among others. Oxford University Press hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 770
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Feis Herbert
Churchill Roosevelt Stalin The War They Waged and the Peace They Brought
Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. xi 692 pp with maps appendix index. A few slightly dog-eared pages light offsetting to rear endpapers; otherwise clean and sound. Dust jacket has a small abrasion to the upper spine where a label was removed. "This is the story of a great coalition formed by the United States Great Britain and Soviet Russia to combat the Axis in World War II. Mr. Feis traces the ideas and purposes which governed each member of this alliance their clashes and cooperation and the gradual separation between the West and Russia as victory over Germany was achieved" dust jacket. Princeton University Press hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 507
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Robida A.
Francois 1er Le Roi Chevalier
Paris: Boivin & Cie. 1909. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Toudouze G. Gustave. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. ii 80 pp. Lavish color illustrations generally full page every other page by Toudouze of Renaissance king warrior and builder of fantastic chateaux. Soilage on rear board and RFEP. Minor soilage and wear to boards elsewhere. Toning to pages. Overall very good. <br/><br/> Boivin & Cie. hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 001090
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