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INDIA, MINTO, AND MORLEY 1905-1910 Compiled from the correspondence between the Viceroy and the Secretary of State. With extracts from her Indian Journal

By: Mary, Countess of Minto

Price: $34.94

Publisher: London, Macmillan: 1935

Seller ID: 42425

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

(xii), 447 pages; Clean and tight in original navy blue cloth binding with gilt lettering at spine; original owner's name on ffep - "M. Jennings / August 1935." Mary Minto left behind a substantial body of written material, which is held by the National Library of Scotland, in Edinburgh. Her journals and diaries span the India years through her Court service (1906-1936) and her General Correspondence (MS 12433-12451) covers a vast period of her life and family history, 1877-1939. These materials have provided source material for several writers besides herself, in particular polit...
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THE MAN WITH TWO SHADOWS [SIGNED]

By: Maugham, Robin

Price: $9.94

Publisher: New York, Dell: 1970

Seller ID: 41231

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

Autograph; Inscribed on the title page with the author's signature, otherwise clean and tight in original pictorial wrappers. A shattering novel about a man's sexual double life. "My name is Peter Grant. And my life has become a strange and sordid nightmare..." Maugham's novel is not only a study of that strange and frightening phenomenon of the mind known as dissociation of personality, but is also an enthralling story of adventure, love and intrigue in North Africa. The hero's appalling disability, as a result of a head wound during the war (WWII), adds immeasurably to the danger o...
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Image for THE BRITISH NEPOS - Consisting of Select Lives of Illustrious Britons, who have distinguished themselves by their virtues, talents, or remarkable advancement in life, with incidental practical reflections Written Purposefully for the Use of Schools And Carefully Adapted To The Situations And Capacities Of Youth

THE BRITISH NEPOS - Consisting of Select Lives of Illustrious Britons, who have distinguished themselves by their virtues, talents, or remarkable advancement in life, with incidental practical reflections Written Purposefully for the Use of Schools And Carefully Adapted To The Situations And Capacities Of Youth

By: Mavor, William

Price: $29.94

Publisher: London, Richard Phillips: 1806

Seller ID: 38606

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

462, (8) pages; This particular example of Mavor's popular text book is distinguished by it's binding. Sometime in the 19th century the original calf binding was enveloped in plain sheepskin with just a small square cut out at the spine to reveal the red leather spine label with gilt lettering. Even the sheepskin is a bit rubbed and worn, but it has well served its purpose of maintaining the integrity of this book, though the blank endpapers are missing, the text block is intact. Illustrated frontispiece and four full page plates, each printed with six portraits of notable Brits. Frontispiece ...
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THE FRENCH REVOLUTION [Complete in Four Volumes]

By: McCarthy, Justin H. ; [Hennen Jennings' set]

Price: $124.94

Publisher: London, Chatto and Windus: 1898

Seller ID: 42408

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

1634 pages; Contents clean and secure in navy blue cloth bindings with gilt lettering at spines. OCLC 643785636 Original owner's name signed into each volume on first blank (after brown endpapers) "H. Jennings" -- James Hennen Jennings (1854-1920) was a mining engineer, born at Hawesville, KY. After attending private schools in London and Derbyshire, England, Jennings returned to Kentucky and set up a lumber business, but soon wanted to further his engineeering education. He graduated from the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard University in 1877 with the degree C.E. Jennings ...
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ITALIAN ARCHITECTURE 1750-1914

By: Meeks, Carroll L. V

Price: $39.94

Publisher: New Haven, Yale University Press: 1966

Seller ID: 41397

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

xxviii, 546 pages; A comprehensive study of Italian architecture, with two hundred and sixty-six illustrations, a reference bibliography, and a bibliography chronologically listing works on Italian architecture published between 1700 and 1800. Rear panel of dustjacket foxxed, with wear at head of spine. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.
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Neue Sittenlehre

By: Menger, Anton

Price: $14.94

Publisher: Jena, Verlag von Gustav Fischer: 1905

Seller ID: 38897

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

viii, 82 pages; Publisher's cloth, olive-tan linen, lettered in black on the front cover within a decorative frame with a design inspired by Jugenstil. [OLwd. With the lettered stamp of Julius Hager, Buchbinderei, Leipzig -- on the lower portion of the rear cover]. First edition. Erste Ausgabe. The copies like this one bound in cloth were 1 Mark 50 Pf. (copies in paper wrappers were 1 Mark). The author was an Austrian juridical expert and social theorist who mainly dedicated himself to propagating socialist literature on juridical grounds. Menger had been a university professor for...
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THE VOICE OF GOD - Pastoral Letter

By: Mercier, D. J. Cardinal

Price: $4.93

Publisher: London, Burrup, Mathieson & Sprague: 1916

Seller ID: 36958

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

29 pages; An address by Cardinal Mercier, the Archbishop of Mechlin, Primate of Belgium, who was a great source of inspiration and comfort during the privations of World War I. Wrappers creased at left edge, otherwise very good.; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.
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Grunde for den Mening, at Slvvrdiegield kan stricte erlgges med sit paalydende Belb i Slv, saavel efter, som til Forfaldstiden

By: Mller, Erik Christian

Price: $124.94

Publisher: Aarhuus - [rhus, Denmark], Aarhuus Stifsbogtrykkerie: 1818

Seller ID: 41600

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

22 & [1, errata] pages; Nineteenth century binding, green pattern-printed paper-covered boards with spine and corners of brown pebbled cloth. Title lettered in gilt on a dark green slip mounted to the front cover. Errata leaf at the end. The author, Erik Christian Rasmussen Mller, was the owner of a significant manor house -- Mllerup, in Feldballe parish in Southdjurs Municipality. Records on the property, which exends to 385 acres, date back to 1285. The main house, which still stands, was built in 1681, with extended wings constructed in the middle of the eighteenth century. Erik Chr...
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VAINCRE - Esquisse d'une Doctrine de la Guerre base sur la Connaissance de l'Homme et de la Morale in Three Volumes

By: Montaigne, Lieutenant Colonel Jean-Baptiste

Price: $99.94

Publisher: Nancy / Paris, Berger-Levrault: 1913

Seller ID: 38627

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

3 volumes bound in brown cloth over marbled boards with gilt lettering at spines. xiii, (1), 253 pp.; xiii, (1), 253 pp.; xiii, (1), 187 pp. I: Prparation l'tude de la guerre. L'Homme et la peur. II: tude de la guerre. Les faits et les doctrines. III: La Guerre. La guerre dans sa forme et dans son essence. Each volume contains the bookplate of Colonel Apotheloz with an image of two soldiers moving shells under a stone arch and the legend "Munitions-Nachschubdienst 1939-40" Apotheloz's name is also written in volume one in blue pencil and discreetly stamped in the other two volumes...
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Auf Vielen Wegen - Gedichte

By: Morgenstern, Christian

Price: $34.94

Publisher: Berlin, Schuster & Loeffler: 1897

Seller ID: 39130

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

136 pp. pages; Publisher's green wrappers, lettered in black and with a design by Friedrich Karl Ewald Beblo, called Fritz Beblo (1872 - 1947) - a German city planner, architect and painter, who was a boyhood friend of Christian Morgenstern's from their time together as students at the Maria-Magdalenen-Gymnasium in Breslau. This copy is unusually well preserved, with just a hint of toning at the edges of the fugitive green wrappers, the spine of which is intact, with clear, dark lettering. Internally fresh and perfect, with edges of the text block trimmed rough, as issued. There is only wear...
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GHIDUL SECTIEI DE ETNOGRAFIE

By: Mozes, Tereza ; Ioan Godea

Price: $12.94

Publisher: Oradea, Muzeul Tarii Crisurilor: 1973

Seller ID: 39605

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

93 pages; Title translated in pencil on the half-title and title pages, ink number on copyright page, blindstamp of precious owner at bottom of title page. Otherwise clean and tight in original printed wrappers. Black and white illustrations (some folding). Text in Romanian. Guide to the Ethnographic Section of the Museum of the Crish Country - pottery, jewelry, textiles, tools and implements, etc.
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17th Century Straw Bindings by Giles Barber and David Roger in Bodleian Library Record - Volume VIII, Number 5 (June 1971)

By: Multiple Authors

Price: $6.94

Publisher: Oxford, Bodleian Library: 1971

Seller ID: 38416

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fine

Clean and tight in original printed wrappers. Articles include: Catholics and Bodley by Alan Davidson; Bindings from Oxford Libraries IV: 17th Century Straw Bindings by Giles Barber and David Rogers; Dr. Samuel Johnson and the Principal of St. Mary Hall by David Greenwood; etc. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.
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HARVARD LIBRARY NOTES Number 28, May 1938 -- William Dean Howells Collection Friends of the Library 1925-1937; Who Reads Treasure Room Books?

By: Multiple Authors

Price: $12.94

Publisher: Cambridge, Harvard University Library: 1938

Seller ID: 38794

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Clean and tight in original printed wrappers with minor toning at spine. Number 28, Mau 1938. Contents include: William Dean Howells Collection; Friends of the Library 1925-1937; Who Reads Treasure Room Books?
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Leipziger Musenalmanach aufs Jahr 1776

By: Multiple Authors

Price: $99.99

Publisher: Leipzig, im Schwickertschen Verlage: 1776

Seller ID: 41629

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

316 & [2] ads pages; Contemporary full sheepskin, covers with decorative acid stained pattern, five raised bands on the spine, gilt stamped labels in black and red, swirl marbled endpapers, edges decoratively stained red. An early Muses Almanach from the first period of the German annuals of poetry, etc. published as tributes to the influential Almanach des Muses, (published in Paris, 1765-1833). Published by Engelhard Benjamin Schwickert. With the faint oval stamps of "R. Werckmeister - Museum" on the title page and the next leaf, and a fine etched bookplate of S. R. Feder [ca. 19...
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Codex diplomatarius Monasterii Sancti Michaelis, Bergensis diocesis, vulgo Munkalif dicti, conscriptus anno Chr. MCCCCXXVII Ex originali libro membraneo, qui in Bibliotheca Academiae Hafniensis asservatur (Additamentorum no. 98 qu.) una cum Registro praediorum ad idem monasterium pertinentium et ipsa in eadem bibliotheca asservato (Addit. no. 99 qu.) nunc primum in lucem editu

By: Munch, P[eter] A[ndreas] ; editor ; Munkeliv Abbey

Price: $199.97

Publisher: Christianiae [Norway], typis C. Grndahl: 1845

Seller ID: 40569

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

[2], vi, 220 & 3 ff. facs pages; Contemporary patterned brown cloth, somewhat shaken, lacks the spine. The title page is detached, but present (having been attached to the following pair of leaves by an old-fashioned paper-clip). With the Library of Congress bookplate ("Huitfeldt-Kaas Collection") mounted to the front paste-down endpaper. There is a handsome presentation inscription on the facing blank leaf, from Peter Andreas Munch, to Christian Lange. Beneath this inscription is the LC Surplus-Duplicate stamp in red ink. Apart from a tiny "LC" perforated stamp on the tit...
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Jahrbuch fr Deutschlands Seeinteressen Zweiter Jahrgang: 1900

By: Nauticus [Henry de Mville], editor

Price: $39.94

Publisher: Berlin, Ernst Siegfried Mittler und Sohn: 1900

Seller ID: 38609

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

xii, 521 pages; Publisher's binding: White cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, with paper label centered on the front cover - printed in black and red, pattern-printed gilt endpapers, all edges gilt. Second year of this long-running yearbook devoted to German Navy, maritime and seafaring subjects. Frontispiece of the S. M.S. Kaiser Willhelm II. Three folding plans of the Panama and Nicaragua canals - [Plan vom Nicaragua-Canal. General-Plan des Panama-Kanales. Profil-Karte des Panama-Kanales]. The text is divided into parts. First Part -- 'Aufstze maritimen, politischen und historischen...
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YESTERDAY AND TO-DAY

By: Nevill, Ralph

Price: $24.94

Publisher: London, Metheun & Co: 1922

Seller ID: 42368

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

285 pages; Contents clean and scure in original blue cloth binding, toning and tiny holes in ffep, former owner's name on ffep - ""Anne P. Fletcher" otherwise very good. Ralph Nevill (1865-1930) was the illegitimate son of Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and Lady Dorothy Fanny Nevill.
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KING GEORGE V : His Life and Reign

By: Nicolson, Harold

Price: $49.94

Publisher: London, Constable and Co.: 1952

Seller ID: 42367

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

xxiii, (1), 570 pages; Clean and secure in orignal blue polished cloth binding with gilt lettering at spine and gilt decorative stamping to front board. Bookplate on front pastedown of Madeleine Midleton, second wife of William St. John Freemantle Broderick, 9th Viscount Midleton and Unionist politician. The biography of King George V of Great Britain covers all aspects of his life. Besides the House of Lords controversy, the Home Rule dispute and his role in the war it describes the King's childhood and naval training. New information is also provided concerning the 1931 crisis. Nicolson...
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DEGENERATION

By: Nordau, Max

Price: $29.94

Publisher: New York, D. Appleton: 1896

Seller ID: 42492

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Clean and secure in original ran cloth binding with stamping in gilt and brown. Spine toned, some rubbing to boards. Original owner's name on blank "E. O. Jennings." Edith O. Jennings (1866 -1931) Max Simon Nordau (1849 1923) was a Zionist leader, physician, author, and social critic. He was a co-founder of the World Zionist Organization together with Theodor Herzl, and was president or vice president of several Zionist congresses. As a social critic, he wrote The Conventional Lies of Our Civilisation (1883), Degeneration (1892), and Paradoxes (1896). Degeneration is the book mo...
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L'AMI DES MONUMENTS - Volumes 1, 2, 3, and 4

By: Normand, Charles

Price: $249.94

Publisher: Paris, Comite des Monuments Francais: 1890

Seller ID: 39493

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

Four quarto volumes bound in half brown leather over marbled boards with five raised bands at spine with gilt lettering. Printed bookplate on ffeps, remains of pockets on rear endpapers, otherwise contents clean and tight. Chipped at the top of volume 4, still an attractive set. These are the first four annual volumes of this prestigious journal of French public art and architectural history Charles Normand was born into a long line of architects, including his father Alfred Normand (1822-1909). Normand studied in Paris at the School of Fine Arts in the architecture department from 1877 to...
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Category: European History