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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 on ffep...
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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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Image for HARVARD LIBRARY NOTES Number 28, May 1938 -- William Dean Howells Collection Friends of the Library 1925-1937; Who Reads Treasure Room Books?

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. 1900 -- si...
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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 title page, there a...
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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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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 most often...
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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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THE SCOT IN HISTORY A Study of the Interplay of Character and History

By: Notestein, Wallace

Price: $14.94

Publisher: New Haven, Yale University Press: 1947

Seller ID: 42416

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

xvii, (1), 371 pages; Clean and secure in original pale green cloth binding on very good dustjacket (price-clipped). "The folklore of the English-speaking people is filled with the exploits of the early Scots; there are innumerable stories about them, comic and otherwise; but little is known about how they came to be their hardy, dour, genial selves. Wallace Notestein in this learned but informal and amusing book tells what happened to mould the character of an extraordinary people, how they have been shaped and changed by history, and how their character has also shaped that history. In med...
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Standish O'Grady - Selected Essays and Passages

By: O'Grady, Standish

Price: $29.94

Publisher: Dublin, London, The Talbot Press Ltd ; T. F. Unwin Ltd.: 1918

Seller ID: 40638

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Every Irishman's Library; viii, 340 pages; Former owner's name on front endpaper, otherwise clean and secure in original green cloth binding with gilt lettering and decorative stamping in blind, cloth worn at spine ends. OCLC: 4859618 Standish James O'Grady (1846 1928) was an Irish author, journalist, and historian. O'Grady played a formative role in the Celtic Revival, publishing the tales of Irish mythology. Proud of his Gaelic heritage, he was also a champion of aristocratic virtues and at one point advocated a revitalised Irish people taking over the British Empire and renaming it the ...
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The Irish Abroad and at Home , At the Court and in the Camp ; With Souvenirs of the "Brigade" Reminiscences of an Emigrant Milesian

By: O'Reilly, Andrew

Price: $99.94

Publisher: New York, P. M. Haverty: 1857

Seller ID: 40636

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

xii, 13-358, (2) pages; Unmarked and secure in original olive green cloth binding, cloth chipped and worn along spine, gilt flaked from spine, toning and oblong tide-mark to text block. OCLC: 58878278 Excerpt: "During those two centuries oppression and resistance, revolt and repression, rebellion and defeat, with their accompanying horrors, succeeded to each other incessantly in that land for which the Almighty has done so much and man so little. The soul sickens at the catalogue of barbarities on the one hand, and of heroic endurance on the other, presented by the history of Ireland, thro...
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Geographiskt hand-lexicon ofver Nya Testamentets heliga skrifter med philologiska anmrkningar with the two folding engraved maps

By: Odmann, Samuel

Price: $74.94

Publisher: Upsala, Stenhammar och Palmblad: 1812

Seller ID: 38926

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

238 pages; Contemporary binding: brown half calf over marbled boards, flat spine with gilt stamped decoration and a gilt-lettered label in citron, text block edges decoratively stained blue-green. Two folding engraved maps at the end. A lovely copy of this geographical dictionary of the Holy Land in Swedish. The author, Samuel dmann [1750-1829], was a Swedish theologian , naturalist , goegrapher, cultural historian and hymn writer. He was a student a Upsala University, where he was part of the circle of the great natural scientist Linnaeus. After taking a degree in 1772, he settled as ...
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NOACK - DIE GESCHICHTE EINER BIDGEISSER-DYNASTIE

By: Ohff, Heinz ; Noack Corporation

Price: $19.94

Publisher: Noack Corp: 1967

Seller ID: 41357

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good-

124 pages; 1897 - 1967 70 Jahre . Oblong quarto in original printed stiff wrappers, closed tear near spine. Beautifully illustrated with photographs of the amazing sculpture and other works forged by Hermann NOACK's Company -- including works by August Gaul, Henry Moore, Erich Reischke, Kenneth Armitage, Karl Hartung, Wolff Stehende, Rudi Wagner, Georg Kolbe, Rudolf Belling, 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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Image for DIARY AND CORRESPONDENCE OF SAMUEL PEPYS, F.R.S. Secretary of the Admiralty in the Reigns of Charles II and James II Diary deciphered by Rev. J. Smith, A.M. with a Life and Notes by Richard Lord Braybrooke

DIARY AND CORRESPONDENCE OF SAMUEL PEPYS, F.R.S. Secretary of the Admiralty in the Reigns of Charles II and James II Diary deciphered by Rev. J. Smith, A.M. with a Life and Notes by Richard Lord Braybrooke

By: Pepys, Samuel ; Richard Lord Braybrooke ; Rev. J. Smith ; [William H. Davis' set]

Price: $249.94

Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott: 1866

Seller ID: 42409

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

All four volumes in splendid condition, clean and secure in original brown cloth bindings with gilt lettering at spines and decorative stamping in blind to front and rear boards, minor wear to cloth at foot of spine of volume 1, otherwise near fine. From the fifth London edition with the preface from the fourth London edition. OCLC 9356158 Frontispiece steel engraved portraits with tissue guards in volumes 1 and 2, comprising Portrait of Pepys engraved by J. W. Steel, Philadelphia engraver, after a portrait by Sir G. Kneller and a portrait of Mrs. Pepys engraved by J. W. Steel after Haile...
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