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.

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.

New York: Christian Herald, 1899. Octavo, red decorated cloth stamped in white. pp 416 + frontispiece with tissue guard and numerous other plates; many photos in text (over 220 illustrations). Spine sunned with most of imprint flaked away; old ink owner name at front; cracked rear inner hinge neatly repaired; else a VG clean, tight and unworn copy. Note: 2 kg parcel, extra postage will be required.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.