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réf. 4314WORLD 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 Tappan”. An interesting first-hand account. It is in very good condition and the original envelope is enclosed. unknown books
1916réf. 9067Paris: 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
réf. 17142Girls' 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
réf. 16779Travel 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. 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." 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
1953réf. 21187Oxford: 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
1890réf. 25534Europe: 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
réf. 12971The 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
1964réf. 1358New 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
réf. P6897Munich: Free Europe Press 1954-1956. Single leaf measuring 14.5 × 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
réf. P6877Munich: Free Europe Press 1954. Single folded leaf measuring 20.8 × 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 vítěží" 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
réf. 251773London: 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
1762réf. WRCAM46155Paris 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
1968réf. 206784New 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
1886réf. 27038Boston 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
1929réf. 25609European 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
réf. 18846Paris: 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
1766réf. E0550A 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. 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 Condition: 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
1900réf. 309837V.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
1864réf. 33077Glogau 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
1809réf. 39882London: 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. 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
1839réf. 4904Edinburgh: 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
1916réf. 892London: 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
1829réf. 20283London: 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
1980réf. 66251980. 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
1980réf. 13966Stanford 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
