Blaise Cendrars
Roma: Bulzoni Editore, 1991. Scritt di F. Bruera, et al. 281p., b/w front., original stiff printed wrappers (Quaderni del Novecento Francese, 12). More
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Contributions to Asian Studies
Leiden: E. J. Brill. Sponsored by the Canadian Association for South Asia Studies. General editor, K. Ishwaran, et al. Vol. 1(1971)-18(1984). Original stiff wrappers, ex libris (with withdrawal stamps, but internally very clean copies). More
Die Johanneskirche
Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Archäologischen Institutes, 1951. 308p., 72 b/w text illus., 78 pages of b/w plates (some folded and a few in color), original stiff plain printed wrappers, large folio format (40x30cm). (Foschungen in Ephesos, Band IV, Heft 3). More
Folia Linguistica Historica; Acta Societatis Linguisticae Europaeae
The Hague: Mouton & Co. Vols. 3:1-13:1/2 (1982-1993). [Lacking Vol. 7:1 only, with the eleven-year run]. Total of 16 issues (with the single gap noted above), original stiff wrappers. More
Statistisk Årsbok för Sverige; Statistical Abstract of Sweden
Stockholm: Statistika Centralbyrån. Årgang 55-85 (1968-1999). Total of 31 volumes. The first three yearbooks bound in brown buckram, the remainder in the original cloth or stiff printed boards as issued, ex libris. Nice run of this major journal on Swedish statistics. More
Les Prisons de l'Europe
Paris: Administration De Librairie, 1845. Bicêtre, la Conciergerie, la Force, la Salpêtrière, le For-l'Évèque, Saint-Lazare, le Chatelet, la Tournelle, l'Abbaye, Sainte-Pélagie, Pierre en Cize, Possy, Ham, Fenestrelles, le Chateau d'If, Chateau Trompette, le Mont Saint-Michel, Clairvaux, les Iles Sainte-Marguerite, la Tour de Londres, Pignerolles, le Speilberg, les Plombs de Venise..... More
Ehrengraf for the Defense
Royal Oak, MI. and Mission Viejo, CA: Airtight Seals Allied Production, 1994. 1st Edition. Introduction by Edward D. Hoch; afterword by Lawrence Block; illustrations by Phil Parks. 167p., colored front. photo, Original grey cloth, in the acrylic slipcase. One of only ten "p.c. collectors copies". SIGNED by Block, Hoch, and..... More
British Museum General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
New York: Readers Microprint Corporation. Compact edition. 1967-1980. 37 volumes complete, original blue cloth, quarto format, very clean set. Includes the 27 volumes, plus the Supplement 1956-1965 (in five volumes), Supplement 1966-1970 (in three volumes) and Supplement 1971-1975 (in two volumes). More
Chartae Latinae Antiquiores; Facsimile-Edition of the Latin Charters Prior to the Ninth Century. Pars II: Switzerland: St. Gall-Zurich
Olten & Lausanne: Urs Graf Verlag, 1956. xix, 134p., b/w facsimiles 109-178, original half-vellum with blue boaords, plain dj, folio format. More
Italiano, italiani regionali e Dialetti
Milano: FrancoAngeli, 2009. 195p., original stiff printed wrappers (Lingua, traduzione, didattica). More
A History of Mediaeval political Theory in the West
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1950. 6 volumes complete, lightly chipped dj. All from the 3d impression, except the first volume (4th impression) and the six volume (2d impression). Contents: v. 1, The second century to the ninth. v. 2, The political theory of the Roman lawyers and..... More
Nouveau traité élémentaire de perspective à l'usage des artistes et des personnes qui s'occupent du dessin, précédé des premières notions de la géometrie élémentaire, de la géometrie descriptive, de l'optique et de la projection des Ombres
Paris: Bachelier, Librarie (successeur de Mme Ve Courcier), 1823. viii, 333 [1]p., plus the 85 engraved plates of the "Atlas" interspersed in the copy. 19th-century brown half-leather with marbled boards (the marbled paper on the rear panel lightly chipped along the leather edge), faded gilt lettering on the upper spine..... More
The Practical grocer written By Specialist Contributors
London: Gresham Publishing Company, 1938. New edition reprinted. 2 vols. (xv, 320; xiii, 328p.), b/w illus., maps, folded tables, original brown cloth. More
Birds of New York
Albany: University of the State of New York, 1910. 2 vols. (501; 719p.), colored and b/w illus., original green cloth, large quarto format. Contents: v. 1, Introductory chapters; water birds and game birds. v. 2, General chapters; land birds. (New York State Museum memoir, 12). More
Socinianismus purus putus antichristianus; seu omnimodae Socinianismi iniquitatis Demonstratio
London: Typis J. M. & Prostant Venales Apud R. Wilkin, 1701. [4] iv, 133 [1] 2. BOUND IN WITH: William Whiston. Athanasius convicted of forgery. In a letter to Mr. Thirlby of Jesus-College in Cambridge. London: Printed for the author, and sold by A. Baldwin, 1711. [2] 30p., BOUND IN..... More
The Resolution Journal of Johann Reinhold Forster 1772-1775
London: Hakluyt Society, 1982. Edited by Michael E. Hoare. 4 vols. (xvii, 831p., colored front., b/w illus., maps (some folded), dj (Works issued by the Hakluyt Society. 2d series, 152-155). More
De jure praedae Commentarius
The Hague: Apud Martinum Nijhoff, 1868. 1st Edition. xvi, 359p., 3/4 pebbled cloth with marbled boards, very light foxing on the outer few leaves but o/w bright paper throughout, lightly scattered neat scholarly marginalia of a former private Dutch owner. Grotius' manuscript text appeared in 1604, but this is the..... More
Popular Beliefs and Superstitions; a Compendium of American Folklore from the Ohio Collection of Newbell Niles Puckett
Boston: G. K. Hall and Company, 1981. 3 vols. (lviii, 1829p.), b/w front., original burgundy cloth, quarto format. The essential ndexes in the final volume. More
The Works of Bret Harte
New York: McKinlay, Stone & Mackenzie. 1887-1912. 20 volumes complete, b/w fronts., original cloth. Final two volumes entitled: The complete poetical works of Bret Harte, with Boston and New York imprint of Houghton Mifflin Company. Contents: v. 1, The luck of Roaring Camp and other sketches. v. 2, Mrs. Skagg's..... More
The Fishes of North and Middle America
Jersey City: T. F. H. Publications, 1963. 4 vols. (lx, 3313p., plus 392 b/w plates), original cloth. Reprint of the 1896 Washington edition. More
Handzeichnungen
Berlin: Verlag der Reichsdruckerei, 1923. Neunundzwanzig Faksimiledrucke der Reichsdruckerei auf dreiundzwanzig Tafeln mit einer Einführung von Hans Rosenhagen. [1] folio leaf for the printed titlepage, plus 11 pages of introductory text and the 29 facsimile sketches (some colored) tipped on 23 stiff paper boards. Bound in the original half-cloth with..... More
Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Rechtslehre
Königsberg: ey Friedrich Nicolovius, 1797. 1e Auflage. xii, lii [53]-235 [1]p., nicely bound in period tan stiff boards (very minor rubbing on the corners), rubricated edges, small paper label with abbreviated title at head of the spine, former private owner's label on upper right corner of the front free endpaper..... More
Marxism, communism and Western Society; a Comparative Encyclopedia
New York: Herder and Herder. 1972-1973. 8 volumes complete, original blue cloth, ex libris. More
The Reality of Peace
London: The English Review, 1917. 1st Edition. All four parts issued in The English Review: 24 (May 1917), pp. 415-422; 24 (June 1917), pp. 516-523; 25 (July 1917, pp. 24-29; and 25 (August 1917), pp. 125-132. Original stiff wrappers in very nice condition. Lawrence claimed to have written a total..... More
Encyclopedia of the American Constitution
New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2000. 6 volumes complete, original stiff printed boards, quarto format, ex libris. More