The Oaken Heart by Allingham, Margery - 1941

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"

Venezia: Venezia Casa Editrice Libeccio, 1957. Volume Two. First edition. Hard cover. Published Venezia: Venezia Casa Editrice Libeccio, 1957, first printing. Small 4to., 8" x 11", 436pp., profusely illustrated with color and black and white plates, fold-outs. Gilt stamped cream cloth with gilt cover design, ribbon marker. Text in Italian. Partial foxing along two edges, else very good plus. . 1st. Hard. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. 4to.

Boston: Jenks, Hickling, and Swan. Good with no dust jacket; Pages toned, boards worn, dampstained and . sunned, vol. 1 gift inscription and dampstaining to lower half of boards . and text.. 1854. Hardcover. A married set in two volumes (volume one in ribbed dark brown cloth while volume two is in patterned lighter brown cloth). Uniform gilt lettering and designs on spines, boards stamped in blind. 332; 355 pp. An early American edition of Dickens’ only book written for children - his own, in fact - which provides his lively view of English history from ancient times through the beginning of Queen Victoria’s reign. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

This is a 17-Volume collection of works of Historical Fiction by Luise Mühlbach, a well-known German Author, who wrote most of her work in the 1860s and early 1870s. Her Books focus on several well-known German and European personalities including Frederick the Great, Joseph the Second, Empress Josephine, Goethe and Schiller, Napoleon, Marie Antoinette, King Henry and others. Her Books were translated into English by several different translators and published as a set by A.L. Fowle, Publisher, of New York in 1905. This Set was not published with Volume Numbers for each Book. Each Book contains 400-650 pages of text and three to five illustrations.There are 20 Volumes in the complete set. However, the set being offered here is limited to 17 Volumes and are listed below:BERLIN AND SANS-SOUCI, Translated by Mrs. Chapman Coleman and Daughters;FREDERICK THE GREAT AND HIS FAMILY, Translated by Mrs. Chapman Coleman and Daughters;MARIE ANTOINETTE AND HER SON, Translated by Rev. W. L. Gage;ANDREAS HOFER,… Read More

Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1898. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Original wrappers. Folio. (32 x 21 cm). bilingual in English and French. [8], 26, [2] p. First printed edition of these minutes by the Foreign Ministry of France in 1897-1898 on Bahr Al-Ghazal, Lake Chad, and the Upper Nile regions. The tensions between French and British relations were high in the 1875-1898 era. especially over Egyptian and African issues. At several points, these issues brought the two nations to the brink of war; but the situation was always defused diplomatically. For two decades, there was peace-but it was "an armed peace, characterized by alarms, distrust, rancor, and irritation." During the Scramble for Africa in the 1880s, the British and French generally recognized each other's spheres of influence. In an agreement in 1890, Great Britain was recognized in Bahr-el-Ghazal and Darfur, while Wadai, Bagirmi, Kanem, and the territory to the north and east… Read More

Simon Carmiggelt (1913-1987). Dutch author Amsterdam. Text in Dutch. NEW! 'Mooi weer vandaag & Fluiten in het donker'. First print (1999). With dust jacket. Short stories of daily life in Amsterdam in the sixties of the 20th century.The two volumes that form this book: 'Mooi weer vandaag' and 'Fluiten in het donker',have been published in 1965 and 1966. Free Shipping with registered post and tracking number worldwide.Also available :The Diary of Anne Frank. [First Edition, Second Print]. AF.02.01.15.(1)The Diary of Anne Frank. [First Edition, Second Print]. AF.02.01.15.(2+) ;dustjacket.The Diary of Anne Frank. [First Edition/First Print]. AF.01.01.15.(3+) ;dustjacket.The Diary of Anne Frank. [First Edition, First Print]. AF.01.01.15.(4)

Set of 25 Volumes. Impressed to look like leather, In remarkable condition considering there are. Printing very good. Photography throughout some in color. He traveled all over Europe and made talks lectures on what he had experienced and seen.Vol I Norway, Switzerland, Athens, Venice Vol II Japan I, Japan II, ChinaVol IV India I, India II, The Passion PlayVol V Paris, La Belle France, SpainVol VI Berlin, Vienna, St. Petersburg, MoscowVol VII The Rhine, Belgium, Holland, MexicoVol VIII Florence, Naples, RomeVol IX Scotland, England, LondonVol X Southern California, Grand Canyon, Conon of the Colorado River, Yellowstone National ParkVol XI IrelandI, Ireland II, Denmark, SwedenVol XII Canada I, Canada II, Malta & GibraltarVol XIII South Tyrol, Around Lake Garda, The DolomiteVol XIV Sicily, Genoa, A drive through the EngadineVol XV Lake Como, The Upper Danube, Bohemia

Terug Uit De De Hel Van Buchenwald / Return from The Hell Of Buchenwald. K R van Staal Gevangene 22046 Concentratiekamp Buchenwald mei 1945. First Edition, First Print.Author: K R van Staal. Publisher: "Nieuwe Wieken", Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 1945. Pp 48. The pages are a bit tanned after 76 years.Booklet in the Dutch language with a report of the prisoner K R van Staal during his time in the Concentration Camp Buchenwald during the Second World War. Included the description of the last days and the liberation of the camp by the U.S Army at 10 april 1945.Inventorynumber: KRS.01.01.102.(1)Also available : BUCHENWALD, Lieu de Martyre et de Souvenir. CRA.01.01.103.(1)The Diary of Anne Frank. [First Edition, Second Print]. The Diary of Anne Frank. [First Edition, Second Print]+dustjacket.The Diary of Anne Frank. [First Edition, First Print]. The Diary of Anne Frank. [First Edition, Third Print].
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Budapest: Akademiai Kiado [963-05-5290-6] 1989. (Small 4to) 824pp. Very good in very good plus dust jacket. Blue boards with white spine lettering. Illustrations, tables, folding maps. The top of the front board and bottom of the back board have been damp with resulting blue staining to the inner side of the jacket. Otherwise a tight sound book. Text in Hungarian Language. (History--Hungary, History--Hungary).

Harper & Row - Israeli Publishing Institute, 1963. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very Good ; Good Jacket. 1963 Harper & Row - Israeli Publishing Institute. First edition, stated. "Limited edition of one hundred volumes of the first world edition... specially printed and bound for Mr. Leo Robinson, Member of the Board of Directors of the Israeli Publishing Institute of Jerusalem", with hand-written presentation name and date. Oversize hardcover has beige cloth-covered boards with blue and gold spine lettering. Illustrated endpapers. Color plates. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Maps. 407 pages + index. NOT ex-library. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Covers have light surface and edge wear. Mild foxing to covers. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has light surface rubbing, chipped and nicked edges, a few creases, and a half-inch tear at the top edge of the back panel and a two-inch tear at the top edge of the front panel. Small corner crease on inner front flap; old tape stain on… Read More