New York: The Baker & Taylor Compan, 1911. First Edition. 8vo. 415 pp. Index. Photographic plates, including frontispiece with tissue guard. Gilt, black, tan and green pictorial binding; map endpapers. Light wear to extremities; top edge gilt; a near fine copy. Lee Meriwether boards a steamer in Brooklyn for Italy..... More
Albany: State University of New York Press, 1981. 1st. Hardcover. Octavo; x, 464 pp. Near Fine copy in publisher's yellow cloth. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 20th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request. More
Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2005. 1st. Paperback. Octavo; (xxxvi), 382 pages. Text in French; Errat slip laid in. More
London: Essential News, c1933. 1st. Softcover. Octavo, 534pp. 3 fold-out maps. Light green wraps with black lettering and decoration. REVIEW COPY with letter laid in. Preface by Bertrand Russell. Cover design by Eric Gill. More
Consell Valencia de Cultura, 2011. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto; 260pp. Near Fine copy (lower corners bumped) in original illustrated laminated boards. Bibliography on Jews. Text in Spanish. Historical development of Judaism and Jewish Society in Valencia. The varied activities of the Jews; the variables and difficult relations with the..... More
New York: The Anderson Galleries, 1917. First Edition. Octavo; 100pp; illustrated with 19 plates. Edgewear, leaf 30/31 roughly separated (text & image unaffected), else a Very Good copy in original printed tan wrappers. Lists 365 items 'gathered in Peking by the well-known connoisseur Frederick Moore' auctioned in NY on March..... More
Lanham: University Press of America, 1997. 1st. Hardbound. Octavo, (xvii), 381 pp. Handmade bookmark from the author laid in along with sheet of illustrations for book. Warmly INSCRIBED on title page 'For ---/With thanks for/your talk on Fontane/last month, and for our/days at Princeton a/half century earlier!!/Best wishes/John Mosher/Arlington, 29.7.97'..... More
Leipzig: Verlag Von Otto Harrassowitz, 1919. First Edition. INSCRIBED "With author's best compliments, HM". 8vo. 19 pp. 4 illustrated plates (3 depicting various coins & 1 map). Text in German and some Chinese. Original green printed wrappers bound in brown cloth spine over brown boards with typed title label to..... More
Swindon: English Heritage, 2014. 1st. Hardcover. First edition. 4to. xv, 167pp, including appendix, bibliography, and index. Full color and black & white illustrations; photographs; drawings; maps. Blue boards; color illustrated dust jacket. Ex-library (black marker on page edges, otherwise new and unread. More
Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2011. 1st. Paperback. Octavo; 308 pages. New and unread. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 15th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request. More
Nanking: Nanking Woman's Club, 1922-1923. First Edition. 8vo; (v), 55 pp. 4 photo-illustrated plates including frontis 'Section of Nanking Wall'; 'Beh Tgi Ko (North Pole Star Temple); Pagoda Outside City;' and 'Confucious Temple...' Green paper covers with black illustration and lettering. Small loss to lower front corner & spine end;..... More
Tokyo: Tokyo Insatsu Kabushiki Kaisha, 1938. 1st. Hard Cover. 1st edition thus. Octavo; (v), (xix), (iii), (iv), 399 pages. Frontis photograph of the Viscount. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 20th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request. More
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; x, 125pp. A Fine copy in a Near Fine (tanning and some faint discoloration to spine) dust jacket. With ten illustrations and a map of Asia. 'This... book is devoted to a Parisian master who lived asnd worked in the..... More
New York, Cincinnati, and Chicago: Published by John C. Yorston & Company, 1884 - 1886. First Edition. Complete in 8 volumes. Large 8vo. Various paginations. Frontispiece in each volume (7 folded). Volumes 1-5 and 8 have extra title page printed in black & red. Profusely illustrated with upwards of two..... More
Rome: Istituto Storico Italiano per l'Età Moderna e Contemporanea, 2008. First Edition. Volume diciannovesimo and description to Quarto; lxviii, 889pp. A Near Fine copy (many pages unopened) in publisher's buff wrappers; lettered in black and gold, of Fonti per la storia d'Italia; 149. During his long episcopate he was absent..... More
Rome: Istituto storico italiano per l'eta moderna e contemporanea, 2011. 1st. Paperback. Quarto; 525 pages. Near Fine copy - unread (pages are uncut). Next day shipping. Celebrating our 18th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request. More
Paris: Chez Ledentu, 1832. Hardcover. Small 16mo. Half-title; xv; (1): 1052pp. Full calf; gilt lettering and decoration to spine; blue silk marker. Front board splayed; small loss of leather at lower spine and front cover; minor wear to extremities; light foxing else a very good copy; hinges are solid. No..... More
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1943. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 313 pp. INSCRIBED "To ***/who is one of/the valuable/people/who help operate the/finest shipyard/in the United States/and therefore the/world. You are doing/more than you know/to defeat the bitterest/enemy we have/ever known/John Patric/Aug. 4, 1943." On facing page, Patric has written "May..... More
Japan: Printed in Japan by the Osaka Mainichi, N.d. (ca. 1937). 1st. 12mo. 14 pp. Color illustrated wrappers. Staples mildly rusting; light wear down spine else a fine copy of an uncommon pamphlet. An appeal to common sense from the people of Japan regarding the China Emergency by presenting the..... More
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1889. First Edition. 8o. vii, 338 pp; 16 pp publisher's catalog. Wood-engraved frontispiece of "The Bund, Shanghai" with tissue guard, vignette of "The Little Orphan" on title page; fold-out map in blue and black. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt dragon and red & gilt lettering to..... More
Costa Mesa, California and New York: Mazda Publishing, 1991. Small 4to. xvi, 243, [11 pp Appendix: The Modern Persian Inventory]. Text in English and Persian.Bibliography; Index. Green cloth with gilt lettering in fine condition. More
United States: Hoover Institution, 1970. 1st. Paperback. 4to. 60pp. Very good condition (slight markings on cover). All domestic orders are fully trackable - Images available upon request. More
Isernia: Cosmo Iannone Editore, 2007. First Edition. Paperback. Tall octavo; 156, [3]. Fine copy in illustrated wraps. 'Take one of the leading Italian experts in reclamation of the last century, take a heterogeneous group of farming families from all over Italy and a group of former officials of Italian Africa..... More
Philadelphia: William F. M'Laughlin, 1805. 1st. Hardcover. First American Edition. The first 2 volumes of a 5 volume set. 8vo. Volume I: xxiv, 228pp., + 232pp. Volume II: xvi, 334pp, +120pp. Full leather bindings, with gilt titles to red leather labels on the spines. A near very good set (water..... More
Tübingen: J. G. Cotta, 1797. Octavo; 312 pages, 352 pages and 347 pages. Several foldouts, including map at rear of volume one. Ex-library w/usual flaws, scattered heavy foxing and wear, o/w Very Good copies in solid bindings. More