European History

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1887. Hardcover. Fair. Gift inscription signed by author on half-title page - dated March 2, 1888. No chips, tears, creases to pages. Green boards with gilt lettering on spine. Boards have bumping at corners and fraying at head and tail of spine. Book is cocked. Hinges are exposed. Front board partially separated from text block. 355 pp.

London: John C. Nimmo, [printed by Ballantyne, Hanson, and Co., Edinburgh and London], 1889. 4to [28.4 cm]. xxxvii, [1], 396 pages, including half title. Complete with frontispiece portrait and 11 plates. The other etchings are vignettes appearing as chapter headpieces and tailpieces. Contemporary half dark blue morocco by Bumpus of Oxford Street (London), with raised bands and gilt tooling on spine, single gilt rules on covers, and top edge gilt. Penciled ownership inscription of North Carolina collector, Forster A. Sondley, on the front flyleaf. Tasteful bookplate of Sondley Reference Library and gilt manuscript call number on front pastedown. Ink stamp on front free endpaper, verso of title, and in margin of one other page. Embossed stamp on title page and on each of the plates, placed on the border of the printed area, not affecting the subject matter. Else very good plus. Binding shows some minor wear, but hinges are solid, inside and out. Occasional and light traces of marginal… Read More

Robert Jennings. London. 1826. First edition, Large Paper. Engraved title. Dedication to the Countess of Pembroke, 60 tissue guarded engraved plates with accompanying text, as indexed, vignette. Half calf, marbled boards. Spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilt lettering and motifs. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Marbled endpapers. Light variable foxing. Spotting to engraved title page. A handsome copy with historic provenance.
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Batty (1789-1848) army officer and artist Batty compiled books illustrated with plates etched by himself. He served in the Peninsular War, in the Duke of Wellington's 1815 Campaign, at Waterloo, where he was injured in the thigh. "Following Wellington's victory, Batty entered Paris with the 3rd battalion on 7 July, having en route been at the storming of the fortress of Péronne on 26 June. Three days later, he became a lieutenant and captain in the first guards. He served in the army of occupation in France." He was elected FRS in 1822.… Read More

Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. London. 1855. First English edition. Octavo. 493pp. Half calf, marbled boards. Spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilt rules, leather label. All edges marbled. Neat signature (M.C.E.S. Douglas) to upper edge of first blank. Shelf wear to extremities and boards.

Ferdinand Gregorovius (1821 - 1891) historian and writer.

Russell Martineau (1831 - 1898), Linguist, translator and librarian of Early Printed Books at the British Museum. The eldest son of James Martineau.

"The entrepot of all the surrounding nations of the continent"

Second edition revised and greatly enlarged. William Blackwood and Sons. London. 1900. Octavo. xxv, 452pp. Photo frontis., 40 plates, 4 sketch maps, illus. Original green cloth, gilt lettering to spine and blind lettering to cover. Top edge green.

Extended sections, with the additional index lacking in the first edition.

Robert Munro (1835–1920) Scottish archaeologist.

B. F. French, 1830 Contemporary brown calf w/gilt title plates, rubbing at corners, top spine scuffed/chip Vol. 2 boards all tight. foxing, damp stains. Rare OCLC finds 0 copies of 4 volume edition. Nice solid set of classic work. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. Very Good.

ANZIA YEZIERSKA: 1932, Brewer, Warren & Putnam, First Edition, 1932. Printed and bound in the U.S.A. by Chas. H. Bohn & Co. . USED. Good/ No DJ Included. About the author: "Yezierska's fiction focuses on Jewish immigrant life at the turn of the century, and she sees herself as giving voice to her people".

Cologne: De L'imprimerie Jacob Stoer, 1625. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo (super). Two volumes in one. Place of publication stamped out, with "Geneue" stamped below printer. On second title page, no placeof publication, but "Geneue" stamped in place. Bound in full vellum with red leather spine label, slightly raised bands. Text in French. Vol. I: [56] 533 p.p., plus table [219 p.p., unpaginated]; Vol. II: [22] 624 p.p. plus table [142 p.p. unpaginated]. Early doodles to front and rear boards. Vellum chipped to bottom corners with bruising to corners and spine ends. Doodles also to f.f.e. and fly leaves, with early ownership signature on title page of Vol. I. Light sporadic stains and smudges to pages. Some pages trimmed, with sporadic tears to edges and margins throughout. Noticeably on p. 103 (partially affecting text), and bottom corner of p. 441 in Vol. I, and in Vol. II small tear to p. 83 (partially affecting text), head of 167 and p. 361. Otherwise in very good condition. These two books… Read More

Few scratches on hinge, slight discoloration of cover, mild age-browning of pages, Very little foxing. Five raised bands on spine, title, author and date gilt stamped in compartments. Aspin's classic, highly specific, detailed, interesting and actually quite readable accounts of naval and military campaigns and encounters with France, Spain, Native Americans, the new United States of America during the American Revolution, wars in India, as well as conflicts with Holland, Cuba, Napoleon, the storming of Algiers and the freeing of Christian slaves, etc.. Many coloured (aquatint) plates. 3 Page edges gilded. 784 pages. A rare and handsomely bound little book in Very Good condition.

179 pages. Rebound in full vellum; binding tight, all pages clean, no tears, no repairs, some pencil marks. Very slight foxing here and there and delicate age-tinting. Five raised bands, title stamped in gold on red leather label.Scholar, poet, musician, literary figure and Cardinal Pietro Bembo's (1470-1547) vernacular translation of his famous history of Venice (originally in Latin).

Oblong-folio plate volume from Robert von Spalart's multi-volume series on the costumes of ancient civilizations to medieval and modern times.Title on spine reads Spalart Kostum, Foliotafeln 1-5, but collection contains all 112 folio plates to Antiquity parts 1-5, plus 43 plates illustrating the Middle Ages.With allegorical frontispiece, and 154 fine handcolored copperplate engravings A to SSSSS (ancient world from Egypt to Rome including Pompeii and Herculaneum) and I to XLIII (Anglo-Saxon and Norman). Plates engraved by K. Ponheimer, Paul Weindl, after illustrations by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Julien-David Le Roy, Johann Just Winckelmann, Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Antonio Jolli, Friedrich Justin Bertuch, Sir William Hamilton, Carsten Niebuhr, Jean Chardin, Cornelis Le Bruyn, Juan Bautista Villalpando, Alessandro Galilei, Antoine Augustin Calmet,Karl Gottlieb Guischardt, Gabriel Daniel, Johann Georg Graevius, Ferdinando Galiani, Jean-Claude Richard Abbé de Saint-Non, etc.Robert von… Read More

Sinclair, Upton. Boston: A Novel. Complete in two volumes by Upton Sinclair. The Sacco & Vanzetti Case. Albert and Charles Boni, NY. 1928 1st Edition. Used. Good Condition/ No Dust jackets included. Green, embossed Independence Hall with golden dome front boards. Pages no longer bright. Please see our photos. Based on the true story of Industrial Age Massachusetts. Per Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. site. "The trial resulted from the murders in South Braintree, Massachusetts, on April 15, 1920, of F.A. Parmenter, paymaster of a shoe factory, and Alessandro Berardelli, the guard accompanying him, in order to secure the payroll that they were carrying. On May 5 Sacco & Vanzetti , two Italian anarchists who had immigrated to the United States in 1908, one a shoemaker and the other a fish peddler, were arrested for (and later executed for) the crime..the two men were sentenced to death on April 9, 1927."

Edition of 1854: "New edition, for the most part re-written." 460 pages plus fold-out map. Rebound in 1959. Bears name of K.M. Setton (1914-1995) of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and his initials on spine. Very little age-darkening, spine somewhat tanned, Small abrasion on upper left corner of front board. Small tear and inexpert (tape) repair on fold-out map, but all present and readable. Binding tight, all pages tight, bright, unstained and untorn. Bound with 1859 Murray's Handbook Advertiser.John Murray's famous Handbooks for Travelers accompanied Victorians as they traveled throughout Europe, Asia and North Africa.in an era of burgeoning railroads and flourishing British imperialism. This is a through compendium for the well-to-do traveler in Greece in the middle of the 19th century, with many practical hints and "maxims," information and advice on routes, traveling with servants, hiring horses, preserving health, shooting and firearms, the state of the Greek church,… Read More

Henri Lamertin, 1901. Hardcover. Good. Complete 13-volume set of the Catalogue des Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique - a catalogue of the voluminous manuscript holdings of the Belgian Royal Library in Brussels. Bruxelles, Henri Lamertin, 1901. Rebound in library buckram. Over 6,000 pages of entries. Text in French. Includes the following: Écriture sainte et Liturgie, Patrologie, ThéologieJurisprudence et Philosophie, Histoire & Hagiographie, Histoire des ordres religieux et des églises particulières, Histoire des Pays: Allemagne, Angleterre, Autriche, Belgique (histoire générale), Histoire de Belgique (Histoire particulière): Anvers et Brabant, Flandre, Hainaut, Liège, Limbourg, Luxembourg et Namur, Histoire d'Espagne, de France et d'Italie Histoire de Hollande Mélanges d'histoire, Géographie, Voyages, Itinéraires,… Read More

1598 NETHERLANDS 1ed Historia Belgica van Meteren Belgium Flanders MAP Portraits
Emanuel van Meteren was a 16th-century Flemish historian who is known for his histories on the Low Countries. He chronicled many of the events of the late 1500s in the Netherlands and Belgium. Perhaps his most important book was "Historia Belgica" which was a thorough history of the Netherlands focusing on the reigns of important monarchs and military leaders. Notable figures covered in this work include:
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Maximillian I, Holy Roman Emperor
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Charles V and Phillip II of Spain
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Margaret of Parma, Dutch Governor
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Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alba
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John of Austria, Spanish military leader
This highly desirable 1598 first Latin edition contains 19 portrait engravings along with a folding map of the Low Countries.
Item number: #18173
Price: $1500
METEREN, Emanuel van
Historia Belgica Nostri Potissimvm Temporis : Belgii Svb Qvatvor Burgundis & totidem Austriacis Principibus… Read More