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A COMPARATIVE VIEW OF FRENCH AND BRITISH CIVILIZATION (1850-1870)
Edition: First printing
London: Dent, 1965. Black cloth. pp viii, 196. Ink name at front else fine in VG price-clipped jacket. " Professor Green makes detailed comparative studies of the British and French concepts of education, religion, justice, morality, freedom, and then compares the literature of the two countries, presenting a discussion of the theatre, the novel and poetry, giving a picture of Anglo-French contrasts, influences and tastes." - jacket.; Octavo
Book ID: 47947More details Price: USD $9.95 USD $8.96 -
A HISTORY OF THE HABSBURG EMPIRE 1526-1918
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977. Second printing, corrected. Cloth & boards. pp 646. Chronology, maps, index. Ink owner name, else fine in very nearly fine jacket. 1.5 kg parcel.; Octavo
Book ID: 48003More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
Adults In The Room: My Battle With Europe's Deep Establishment
London: Bodley Head, 2017. Card covers. pp (x), 550. Index. Just a little leaned, else fine. 1.1 kg parcel; Octavo 1847924468
Book ID: 52604More details Price: USD $13.95 USD $12.56 -
AMERICA AND BELGIUM. A Study of the Influence of the United States Upon the Belgian Revolution of 1789-1790
Edition: First Edition
London: Unwin, 1925. Dark blue cloth. xii, 316 pp, indexed. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise fine, no owner marks, in a VG dust jacket, quite a nice copy of an uncommon book.; Octavo.
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
Book ID: 22763More details Price: USD $65.00 USD $58.50 -
Balaton albuma : emlék Füred s környékéro"l = Album des Balaton : Erinnerung an Füred und seine Umgebung / rajzolta s szerkesztette Szerelmey Miklós.
Budapest: Állami Könyvterjeszto" Vállala, 1983. Facsimile reprint of the Pest: Edelman, 1851, with text in German and Hungarian. Octavo, blue leather grain boards gilt. pp (ii), (30) plus maps and views. A fine copy, no owner names. ; Octavo 9630224046
Condition: Fine
Book ID: 32685More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
DANUBE. Translated from the Italian by Patrick Creagh
London: Harvill Press, c2001. Inscribed by Author; Second printing of the paperback edition. Card covers. Text paper a bit yellowed, else fine. Inscribed by the author to Canadian author and academic Constance Rooke. A book about the great European river. ; Octavo; Signed by Author
Book ID: 53308More details Price: USD $9.95 USD $8.96 -
Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 (Studies in Environment and History)
Cambridge University Press, 1988. Fifth printing. Green cloth. pp xiv, 368 + plates. Notes, index. Ink owner name at front (twice), corner crease to two leaves, else fine. Dust jacket has two nicks, else fine. "By focusing on the ecological side of European expansion, Crosby shows how the Europeans were able to take over temperate lands because of the rapid triumph of the plants, animals and germs they brought with them." 0521320097
Book ID: 43963More details Price: USD $18.00 USD $16.20 -
From the Boer War to the Cold War: Essays on Twentieth-Century Europe. Edited with an introduction by Chris Wrigley
New York: Allen Lane / Penguin / Viking, 1995. Black boards. pp (xxvi), 454. Index. Ink owner name at front, else fine in fine, price-clipped jacket. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required. 0713991216
Book ID: 44219More details Price: USD $22.00 USD $19.80 -
GLADSTONE AND THE BULGARIAN AGITATION 1876. With an Introduction by G.S.R. Kitson Clark.
(Hassocks, Sussex, and Hamden, Connecticut): Harvester Press / Archon Books, 1975. Second edition (first was Nelson, 1963). Red boards. xii, v-xxviii, 308 pp. Fine copy, no previous owner marks. Orange dust jacket very lightly sunned to spine, narrow corner chip to rear panel repaired with cellotape, VG otherwise. Adds a new 6+ page introduction by Shannon.; Octavo
Condition: Fine in Very Good dust jacket
Book ID: 18357More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
HISTOIRE DE GENÈVE, depuis les tems les plus anciens, jusqu’à nos jours, accompagnée de détails sur les antiquités, de la ville et sa territoire, sur les moeurs, les usages, le gouvernement, les lois, les monnoies, les progrès des sciences et des arts
Edition: First Edition
Genève: Manget et Cherbulez, 1811. Three volumes, 8vo (20.5 cm), in contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spines lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers; 432, 466, 487 pp.; with the half-title pages, engraved folding map. Bindings with rubbing to the joints, partial split to front joint of Vol. 3 but still sound, slight wear to heads of spines, contents with very occasional minor foxing, light tanning to a few leaves, else clean and fresh, firmly bound, VG+. Front flyleaves with the ownership signature of the English historian and civil servant Rohan Butler (1917-1996), historical adviser to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and editor of the multi-volume Documents on British Foreign Policy 1919-1939. ; Octavo
Book ID: 54475More details Price: USD $395.00 USD $355.50 -
HISTORY OF ICELAND
Edition: First printing
New York: Macmillan, 1924. Blue cloth, pp (10), 482, [2] + colour frontispiece. Index. Minor rubbing to spine ends, glass ring stain on front cover, text paper a little toned, else a VG clean, tight and unworn copy. ; Octavo
Book ID: 51458More details Price: USD $27.50 USD $24.75 -
Holy Madness: Romantics, Patriots, and Revolutionaries, 1776-1871
Edition: First US Edition
New York: Viking, 2000. Black boards. pp (xiv), 498 + plates. Index. Ink owner name at front, else fine in jacket.American and French Revolutions, Irish Rebellion, Polish uprisings, liberation of South America, and the Italian Risorgimento. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required. 0670892718
Book ID: 44180More details Price: USD $17.00 USD $15.30 -
LIFE AND LOVES OF MARIE WALEWSKA. With 18 illustrations including 11 hitherto unpublished
Edition: First Canadian Edition
Montreal: Louis Carrier, 1934. The trade issue (also a limited ed. of 99 copies). Octavo, decorated cloth stamped in white. pp 429, [3] + plates. Small tear at head of very lightly sunned spine neatly repaired, bit of bubbling to front pastedown, else a bright, fine, jacketless copy." Maria Countess Walewska (née Laczynska; 7 December 1786 - 11 December 1817) was a Polish noblewoman and a mistress of Emperor Napoleon I. In her later years she married count Philippe Antoine d'Ornano, an influential Napoleonic officer." - Wikipedia. Her life was the basis of the 1937 film "Conquest", starring Greta Garbo and Charles Boyer. Walewska claimed she became Napoleon's mistress for patriotic reasons, to elict his aid in freeing Poland from the Habsburgs, Prussia, and Russia.
Book ID: 44289More details Price: USD $20.00 USD $18.00 -
LIFE WITH TITINA
Edition: First printing
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1961. Inscribed by Author.; Octavo, black and olive boards. pp 160 + plates. Fine copy. Dust jacket has a small chip at head of yellowed spine; light yellowing and dust soiling to rear panel; VG otherwise, flap price intact. Inscribed by the author "For Denis, With love from us all - an our thanks. Nöel. Oct., 1961". Story of Barber's married life starting at age 45, in old farmhouse on Lake Geneva.; Octavo; Signed by Author.
Condition: Fine in Very Good dust jacket
Book ID: 32006More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
LOCARNO: A Collection of Documents, with a preface by Joachim Von Ribbentrop, Ambassador of the German Reich.
Edition: First UK edition
Condition: Good
Book ID: 22645More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
MIRROR OF THE PAST: a history of saecret diplomacy
New York: Cuurrent Books / A.A. Wyn, 1946. Black cloth. pp 362; index. Ink owner name at front, small bruise to one outer corner, else fine in VG jacket. "This book is one of the most significant contributions to the history of world diplomacy to be published in the United States. It shows for the first time, in all its incredible and unsavory details, how the diplomacy of WWI, and its aftermath led logically to Munich and WWII. Most devastating of all is the revelation that the British Government, in complete control of Europe after WWI, had no serious intention at any time of making the political and economic sacrifices necessary for world peace." Written by a British Labour Party M.P. ; Octavo
Book ID: 48699More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
MODERN NATIONALISM AND RELIGION
Edition: First printing
New York: Harper, 1947. Green cloth. pp 363, extensive notes, index. Ink owner name, page edges yellowed, else a VG clean and unworn jacketless copy. ; Octavo
Book ID: 48055More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
Nights in the Big City: Paris, Berlin, London 1840-1930
Edition: First edition in English
London: Reaktion Books, 1998. Card covers with flaps. pp (352); illustrations, notes, index. Ink owner name, VG clean and unworn copy otherwise. The rise of "night life" in three European cities. ; Octavo 186189015x
Book ID: 48686More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
NOVEMBER 1918
Warsaw: Interpress Publishers, 1984. pp (232) + plates. Erratum slip laid in. Ink owner name at front, else near fine. Translated from the Polish by Jan Sek. Polish political history. November, 1918, was when the independent Polish state was reestablished. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Book ID: 44158More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT IN WESTERN EUROPE IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. Commentary and Documents for the Study of Comparative Constitutional History.
Clarendon Press / Oxford University Press, 1968. Tall octavo, navy cloth. [2], xviii, 622, [2] pp. Index. Fine in VG dust jacket. Note: 2 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required.
Book ID: 13363More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50