Category: European History

The History of Napoleon Bonaparte. New Edition. [Four volume set].

Price: $90.00

Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers, (1883).

Seller ID: 5139bd

Four volume set. Octavo, green cloth (hardcover), top edges gilt, uncut, 304 pp + [305] - 611 pp + 336 pp + [337] - 666 pp. Frontis., illus. Good; Volumes 1-3 have minor wear; Volume IV has damp-staining to cover along fore-edges. Photographs gladly provided upon request.
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Bref Resume de L'Histoire du Portugal. Traduction de Jean Bayle.

By: Ameal, Joao.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Editions Lisbonne, SNI, n.d.

Seller ID: 17621scs

Octavo, paperbound, (full-color illus. stiff printed wrappers), 102 pp + 28 pages of illus. Very Good. French translation of Portuguese history.
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Anton Ritter von Schmerling. Epsoden aus seinem Leben. 1835. 1848-1849.

By: Arneth, Alfred Ritter von.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Wien: F. Tempsky, 1895.

Seller ID: m1330

1st edition. Octavo, cloth, marbled edges, ribbon-marker, xvi, 343 pp. Portraits. Very Good.
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Friendship's Garland: Being the Conversations, Letters, and Opinions of the Late Arminius, Baron von Thunder-Ten-Tronckh. Collected and Edited, with a Dedicatory Letter to Adolescens Leo, Esq., of The Daily Telegraph.

By: Arnold, Matthew.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1871. First Edition.

Seller ID: qms1549

Octavo, white cloth (hardcover), gilt letters & decoration to upper cover, xiv + 172 pp. Good+, with darkened spine & foxing to covers, edgewear & rubbing to spine. Contents: Dedicatory Letter; Letter I: I introduce Arminius and Geist to the British Public; Letter II: Arminius appears as his own Interpreter; Letter III: I expostulate with Arminius on his Revolutionary Sentiments; Letter IV: Arminius assails the British Press for its Free and Independent Comments on Foreign Politics; Letter V: I communicate a Valuable Exposition, by Arminius, of the System of Tenant-right in Prussia; Le...
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Bilder aus der Solothurner Geschichte. Zusammengestellt und herausgegeben vom Historischen Verein des Kantons Solothurn

By: Arx, Ferdinand von.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Solothurn, Switzerland: Buch- und Kunstdruckerei Union AG., 1939.

Seller ID: m2527

2 volumes. 1st edition. Octavo, softbound, xv, 595 pp. + [622] pp. Very Good; few marginal notes.
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Margot Asquith, An Autobiography. [Full Set of Four Volumes].

By: Asquith, Margot.

Price: $85.00

Publisher: New York: George H. Doran Company, (1920). First American Edition.

Seller ID: qms1343

Octavo, red cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, uncut, 276 pp + 282 pp + 239 pp + 227pp. Volumes I and II: Fine, in Very Good dust jackets with foxing & slightly rubbed edges. Volumes III has 1/2 chip to lower spine and its dust jacket has a tear along the upper spine, otherwise, both book and dust jacket are in nice condition, with light edgewear. Volume IV is in Near-Fine condition in a Very Good dust jacket with foxing & lightly rubbed edges. All are housed in their original, but broken & rubbed boxes. Pages pertaining to the volume have been clipped from The Yale Review and enclosed wit...
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Die Flucht: Uber die Vertreibung der Deutschen aus dem Osten.

By: Aust, Stefan and Stephan Burgdorff; Editors.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Stuttgart/Munchen: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, (2002).

Seller ID: qms1328

Octavo, grey boards (hardcover), full-color map illus. endapers, 237 pp. Full-color photo. illus. Near-Fine, with small former-owner signature and slight foxing (age darkened spotting); in a Fine (As New) dust jacket. From dust jacket: Vertreibungsaktionen von beispiellosem Ausmass begleiteten die Kriege des 20. Jahrhunderts. Die ethnischen Flurbereinigungen der nationalsozialistischen Bevolkerungspolitik setzten im Verlauf des Zweiten Weltkriegs im ostlichen Mitteleuropa ein gigantisches Volkerkarussell in Gang, das schliesslich die Vertreibung und Flucht auch von rund 14 Millionen Deut...
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Le Cronache Italianae nel Medio Evo.

By: Balzani, Ugo.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Milano: Ulrico Hoepli, 1909. Third Edition, Revised.

Seller ID: 3235bd

Octavo, half vellum & marbled boards, gilt-stamped spine, zic, [ii], 333 pp. Near-Fine.
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The Early Slavs: Culture and Society in Early Medieval Eastern Europe.

By: Barford, P. M.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London: The British Museum Press, (2001). First Edition.

Seller ID: vas839

Octavo, blue boards (hardcover), xvi, 416 pp. Maps, illustrations. Fine in Fine dust jacket.
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The Trial of Gilles de Rais. Documents Presented by Georges Bataille. Translated by Richard Robinson.

By: Bataille, Georges.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Los Angeles: Amok, (1991).

Seller ID: 9564gcs

Octavo, softbound (slick, illus. wrappers), 285 pp. Near-Fine. From lower cover: George Bataille presents the case of the most infamous villain of the Middle Ages: Gilles de Rais. Fascinated with the depths of human experience -- the meeting points of sexuality, violence, ritual, spirituality, and death -- Bataille examines with dispassionate clarity the legendary crimes, tirals and confessions of this grotesque and still horrifying 15th century child-murderer, sadist, alchemist, necrophile and practitioner of the Black Arts. Gilles de Rais began his remarkable career as lieutenant to th...
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Der Heilige Stuhl und Hitler-Deutschland: Die Faszination des Totalitaren.

By: Besier, Gerhard.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Munchen: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, (2004).

Seller ID: qms1274

Octavo, grey boards, 415 pp. Fine (As New) in a Near-Fine dust jacket with small tear along lower cover flap. Pius XI. und Pius XII. standen seit Jahrzehnten unter dem Generalverdacht, zu den Verbrechen der Nazisund zur Vernichtung der europaischen Juden geschwiegen zu haben. Ihr Urteil sei durch den Antisemitismus und den einseitigen Antibolschewismus der katholischen Kirche getrubt gewesen...
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Bismarck: The Man & The Statesman; Being the Reflections and Reminiscences of Otto, Prince von Bismarck, Written and Dictated by Himself after His Retirement from Office. Translated from the German under the Supervision of A. J. Butler. [Two volumes].

By: Bismarck, Ott, Prince von.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York: Harper & Brother, 1899.

Seller ID: vas553

Two volumes. Octavo, blue cloth with gilt lettering (hardcover), top edge gilt, uncut, xxi, 415 pp + xx, 362 pp. Two Fronttispieces, facsimile. Very Good.
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Hamburg: 24 Ansichten nach kunstlerischen Aufnahmen.

By: Blumlein & Co., Gerhard.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Frankfurt a. M.: Gerhard Blumlein & Co., n.d. [ca. 1910].

Seller ID: 4562bd

Oblong octavo, red wrappers. Title and 24 views, with captions in French, German and English. Near-Fine.
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The Dramatic Criticism of Elizabeth Charlotte, Duchesse D'Orleans. With an Annotated Chronology of Performances of the Popular and Court Theatres in France (1671 - 1722), Reconstructed from her Letters. [Studies in French Civilization, Volume 9.

By: Brooks, W. S. and P. J. Yarrow.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press, (1996).

Seller ID: 9645gcs

Octavo, red cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 366 pp. Near Fine.
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Artists' Images and the Self-Descriptions of Elisabeth Charlotte, Duchess of Orleans (1652 - 1722), The Second Madame. Representations of a Royal Princess in the Time of Louis XIV and the Regency. With a Preface by Henriette Goldwyn.

By: Brooks, William.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press, (2007).

Seller ID: 9646gcs

Signed and inscribed note by the author laid-in. Octavo, blue illustrated cloth (hardcover), 352 pp. Near-Fine.
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Leitfaden der Verfassungskunde der osterreichisch-ungarischen Monarchie. 2 revidierte Auflage.

By: Burckhard, Dr.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Wien: Manz'sche k. u. k. hof-Verlags, 1895.

Seller ID: m1345

Octavo, cloth, 141 pp. Very Good.
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Discorsi Letterari e Storici.

By: Carducci, Giosue.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli, 1905. Third Edition.

Seller ID: 3236bd

Octavo, half vellum & marbled boards (hardcover), uncut, 448 pp. Very Good; former-owner signature, spine a bit soiled, light shelf wear.
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Haugesund: Life and Landscape. Picture Editors: Sverre G. Hauge, Ronny Sture Carlsson, Torbjorn Nervik Jr., Alf Axelsen. Translation: Susan Tyrrell.

By: Carlsson, Ronny Sture.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Dreyer Bok, (1994).

Seller ID: 12816ss

Royal octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 144 pp. Illustrated in full-color. Fine, in a Fine (As New) dust jacket.
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The Life of Benvenuto Cellini, Written by Himself. Edited and Translated by John Addington Symonds with a Biographical Sketch of Cellini by the Same Hand Together with an Introduction to this Edition upon Benvenuto Cellini, Artist and WRiter by Royal Cortissoz with Reproductions of Forty Original Portraits and Views Illustrating the Life. [Two volumes].

By: Cellini, Benvenuto.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York: Brentano's, (1906).

Seller ID: els2608

Two volumes. Octavo, bound by Mcdonald for Charles Scribner's Sons in 3/4 crimson morocco & red linen, spines decorated with gilt-stamped fleur de lys, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut, xxx, 360 pp + viii, 387 pp. Plates, initials in red. Near-Fine, light scuffing at spine extremities.
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The Lapps.

By: Collinder, Bjorn.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Princeton: Princeton University Press for the American Scandinavian Foundation, 1949.

Seller ID: 28158

1st edition. Octavo, cloth, 252 pp. Color frontis., photos. Very Good; minor cover soiling.
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Category: European History