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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 -
RES BALTICA. A Collection of Essays in Honor of the Memory of Dr. Alfred Bilmanis (1887-1948). Preface by Professor Loy W. Henderson.
Leyden: A.W. Sijthoff, 1968. Blue cloth. 303 pp + frontispiece portrait. Slight yellowing to page edges, ink inscription to verso of front free endpaper, VG clean and unworn copy otherwise. Dust jacket has short tears at head of spine, VG otherwise. "Among the many unresolved world problems, the fate of the three independent states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, absorbed by the USSR in 1940, provides a striking illustration of the perennial struggle of right versus might. RES BALTICA, published in honor of the memory of Dr. Alfred Bilmanis, a prominent Latvia diplomat, journalist and scholar, attempts to throw some light on the lesser known aspects of the Baltic problem." - jacket.; Octavo
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Book ID: 16110More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
REVOLUTIONS OF 1848: a social history
Edition: First printing
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1952. Brown cloth; pp 464; index. Light sunning to spine and margins of sides; ink owner name; VG clean and unworn jacketless copy otherwise. 1.5 kg parcel.; Octavo
Book ID: 48029More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
Stefan Stambolov and the Emergence of Modern Bulgaria, 1870-1895
Edition: First printing
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1993. Grey cloth. pp 309 + plates; index. Ink owner name at front, black stripe to bottom page edges, else fine in fine jacket.; Octavo 0822313138
Book ID: 48685More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF FRANCE AND GERMANY 1815-1914
Cambridge University Press, 1951. Later printing of the 1936 fourth edtion. Dark green cloth. pp 420 + 4 foldiing maps at rear. Index. Ink owner name, page edges yellowed, else fine. Pale grey jacket has yellowing to spine, price-clipped, else fine. ; Octavo
Book ID: 48322More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
THE HISTORY OF COMINES. Englished by Thomas Danett anno 1596. With an Introduction by Charles Whibley
London: David Nutt, 1897. Two volumes. pp [2], (xli), [1]. (328), [2]; [2], (xv), [1], (384), [2]. Recent rebinding in quarter vellum and marbled boards, top edges gilt. The Tudor Translations series. Text paper lightly toned; a fine, handsome pair. "Philippe de Commines (or de Commynes or 'Philippe de Comines'; Latin: Philippus Cominaeus; 1447 - 18 October 1511) was a writer and diplomat in the courts of Burgundy and France. He has been called 'the first truly modern writer' (Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve) and 'the first critical and philosophical historian since classical times' (Oxford Companion to English Literature). Neither a chronicler nor a historian in the usual sense of the word, his analyses of the contemporary political scene are what made him virtually unique in his own time." - Wikipedia. 2 kg parcel; Octavo
Book ID: 49694More details Price: USD $125.00 USD $112.50 -
THE LORDS OF HUMAN KIND: Black Man, Yellow Man, and White Man in an Age of Empire
Edition: First US printing
Boston: Little, Brown, 1969. Yellow boards. pp 336; notes, plates, index. Bookplate and ink owner name at front, VG otherwise. Dust jacket has tears, rubbing, good. " Best known for THE LORDS OF HUMAN KIND (1969), V. G. Kiernan created a work ‘concerned with the impressions and opinions of Europeans and non-Europeans about one another, their attitudes and behaviour towards one another, in the century or century and a half before the First World War, the epoch when Europe's importance in the world was greatest.’ The Palestinian intellectual Edward Said regarded it as a central influence in developing his modern-day classic Orientalism (1978)." - publisher.; Octavo
Book ID: 47974More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
THE PRINCES IN THE TOWER and Other Medical Mysteries.
Edition: First printing
London: Christopher Johnson, 1955. Blue boards. 212 pp. Bit of tanning to front free endpaper, else fine, no owner names. Yellow price-clipped jacket has spine tanning, one inch tear at foot of spine, generally VG. Nine historical mysteries re-examined from a medical angle. Suspected poisoning of Caroline Matilda, Queen of Denmark; Don Carlos and Alexis, sons of Phillip II and Peter the Great respectively; the Dauphin, son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette; Henry VI I didn't do it, Richard III did; and more. A volume in the publisher's Medical Viewpoint series.
Book ID: 17906More details Price: USD $19.00 USD $17.10 -
THE SCANDINAVIAN RACES; the sea-kings and Vikings, their manners and customs, discoveries, maritime expeditions, struggles, and wars, up to the present time. Second Edition
New York: Author, 1877. Octavo, dark blue cloth, yellow endpapers. pp [4], (iii)-xiv, 15-493, [5] + frontispiece with tissue guard. Yellowing to page edges; a fine, bright copy, no owner marks. Sinding was an honorary member of the Quebec Historical Society. First published 1858 as A HISTORY OF SCANDINAVIA. Sinding, a Danish emigrant, was Professor of the Scandinavian Languages and Literature at the University of the City of New York. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping may be required.
Book ID: 41818More details Price: USD $85.00 USD $76.50 -
THE SECRET HISTORY OF EUROPE, PART I. [bound with] PART II
Book ID: 49758More details Price: USD $450.00 USD $405.00 -
The Story of Europe and the Nations at War : A Graphic Narrative of the Nations Involved in the Great War, Their History and Former Wars, Their Rulers and Leaders, Their Armies and Navies, Their Resources, the Reasons for Conflict and the Issues at Stake
Philadelphia: International Press, 1914. Octavo, blue cloth gilt lettered, colour pictorial label on front cover. pp (2), (400) + colour map at front and 32 double-sided photo plates. Ink owner name at front, else a VG+ bright, tight, and uworn copy. Historical background to WWI. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Book ID: 44152More details Price: USD $19.50 USD $17.55 -
Vienna's Golden Autumn 1866-1938
Edition: First Edition
New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987. Brown boards. pp 248 + plates (some in colour). Index. Ink owner name at front, small bumps to outer corners of covers, soft bump to lower outer corner of text, VG otherwise in fine, price-clipped jacket. 1555841368
Book ID: 44238More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
WAR AND PEACE IN EUROPE 1815-1870 and other essays
Edition: First Edition
London: Constable, 1931. Octavo, maroon cloth. pp (viii), (292). Index. Minor wear to ends of lightly sunned spine, very light damp spotting to covers, ink owner names at front, just a mite leaned, VG otherwise.
Book ID: 44047More details Price: USD $19.50 USD $17.55