Traite de Palaephate, touchant les histoires incroyables, traduit du grec avec une preface et des notes du trad. C.-G.P.D.B. by PALAEPHATE [Palaephatus]; Charles-Godefroi-Etienne POLIER DE BOTTENS (1753-1782) - 1771

Kyev: Ynstytut Ystoryy Akademmy Nauk USSR 1978. (4to) 794pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. One volume from a series of 26 covering the history of the cities and villages of each district of the province. Maps, photographs, illustrations, notes, index. There is some chipping and edgewear to the dust jacket and minor bumping to the corners of the cover. Series Editor Tron'ko. P.T. Text in Ukrainian Language. Locale: ; Lviv Oblast--Ukraine. (History--Ukraine, History--Ukraine, Local History--Ukraine).

Amsterdam, Netherlands: IOS Press - Delft University Press. Very Good with No Dust Jacket as issued. 2006. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 272 pages: 6.5 x 9.5 in.: 1.8: KB#007498: BRAND NEW. Boards and pages are clean, unmarked, bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered (except for slightly bumped upper corner of front board). Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. "A general trend in our modern society is a growing complexity. It is therefore logical that in most countries there has been a definite tendency to give weight to issues of adapting also the physical space to this complexity and to find methods to do this in an efficient way, giving satisfactory use of land and other natural resources. During the twentieth century we have seen a very active development of legal instruments for this purpose, aimed at steering spatial planning and plan implementation according to the objectives and policies chosen. This book presents basic information on how different countries within the… Read More

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 .

Lugduni [Lyon]:: Seb. Gryphium, 1556., 1556. Small 8vo. Pagination: 473, [23] pp. Signatures: a-z8, A-H8. Printer’s device on the title page, woodcut initials, printed marginalia; editor's name on title and p. 2 are lined out in ink, three small worm holes from title-page. Nineteenth century quarter gilt-ruled calf, red paper board boards. Early ink name on title of "Carolus . . ." and occasional marginalia (pp. 58, 61, 62, 80-83 [heavy notes] - in the same hand. Very good. Beautifully printed early pocket edition printed by Sebastianus Gryphius (1493-1556), of Suetonius' most famous work and one of the few of his texts that survive, with excellent annotations by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam. Commonly known as The Twelve Caesars, the work contains a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first eleven emperors of the Roman Empire [Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian, Titus, Domitian]. It is a primary source for the study of Roman history.… Read More

Leiden:: Apud Ludovicum Elzevirium (Louis Elzevier), 1614., 1614. 2 works in 1 volume. Small quarto (approximately 8.25 x 6.25 inches; 208 x 160 mm.). [8], 319, [1, blank] (pages 212, 213, 216, and 217 mis-numbered 202, 203, 206, and 207); [10], [2, blank], 67, [1, blank] pp. Signatures: )(4, A-Z4, Aa-Rr4; 6, A-H4, I2. Errata. First work with title-page printed in red and black with woodcut device; decorative woodcut initials. Second work with typographic ornament on title; decorative woodcut tail-pieces and initial; historiated woodcut initial; printer's imprint at foot of page 67: "Matriti, Apud Joannem Flandrum, Anno M. DC. X." In the Del Rio, the Approbation by Spanish Jesuit Diego Daca, or Daza (1579-1623), once covered by paper in this copy, has been exposed revealing the text [apparently contemporary with imprint]. A small clipped manuscript leaf is mounted to the foot of the title: "De Meursii rarum belicarum historia, qua . . . Halens. Collect. Libr. Rarior . . . p. 33. Manuscript leaf on… Read More

New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1904. Hardcover. Very Good. Vol. 1- xviii + 529 pages + 40 pages of publisher's list of works. Vol. 2- xiv + 525 pages. 6 x 9 in. Each volume in green cloth binding, gilt lettering on spine. Condition of the volumes is VERY GOOD: Spines faded, light wear and soiling to covers and spines, covers have spotty fading, top edge of text block darkened, pages very clean, binding fine except front hinge cracked on Vol. 1. Signature in ink on second ffep. in Vol. 1 of David B. Ogden.

Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle. London. 1873. First edition. Octavo. xii, 347pp, 48pp publisher's adverts. Engraved frontis., map, coloured in outline, 3 further engraved plates, text engravings. Original cloth, gilt lettering, rules and cover vignette. Bumped and rubbed. Hinges cracked. Untrimmed, and partially unopened. Short closed tear to first page of index. Sporadic minor foxing/spotting. Blue silk bookmark. Inscription dated Dec 27th 1873 to verso ffep. WH Smith stamp embossed to ffep.

Hutchinson & Co. London. nd. [1925] First edition. Octavo. xvii, 328pp. Photo frontis., 31 further plates, text and endpaper maps. Original red cloth, gilt lettering, slightly sunned to spine. A little rubbed, marked and bumped. Endpapers slightly toned, light occasional spotting.
"I realised that a new Europe had been moulded out of the old…It mattered little whether it was economically sound or unsound that this or that race should be given national status… independence was in itself sufficient to justify the map of Europe being made out anew".

Lugduni [Lyon]:: Seb. Gryphium, 1556., 1556. Small 8vo. Pagination: 473, [23] pp. Signatures: a-z8, A-H8. Printer’s device on the title page, woodcut initials, printed marginalia; editor's name on title and p. 2 are lined out in ink, three small worm holes from title-page. Nineteenth century quarter gilt-ruled calf, red paper board boards. Early ink name on title of "Carolus . . ." and occasional marginalia (pp. 58, 61, 62, 80-83 [heavy notes] - in the same hand. Very good. Beautifully printed early pocket edition printed by Sebastianus Gryphius (1493-1556), of Suetonius' most famous work and one of the few of his texts that survive, with excellent annotations by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam. Commonly known as The Twelve Caesars, the work contains a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first eleven emperors of the Roman Empire [Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian, Titus, Domitian]. It is a primary source for the study of Roman history.… Read More

Leiden:: Apud Ludovicum Elzevirium (Louis Elzevier), 1614., 1614. 2 works in 1 volume. Small quarto (approximately 8.25 x 6.25 inches; 208 x 160 mm.). [8], 319, [1, blank] (pages 212, 213, 216, and 217 mis-numbered 202, 203, 206, and 207); [10], [2, blank], 67, [1, blank] pp. Signatures: )(4, A-Z4, Aa-Rr4; 6, A-H4, I2. Errata. First work with title-page printed in red and black with woodcut device; decorative woodcut initials. Second work with typographic ornament on title; decorative woodcut tail-pieces and initial; historiated woodcut initial; printer's imprint at foot of page 67: "Matriti, Apud Joannem Flandrum, Anno M. DC. X." In the Del Rio, the Approbation by Spanish Jesuit Diego Daca, or Daza (1579-1623), once covered by paper in this copy, has been exposed revealing the text [apparently contemporary with imprint]. A small clipped manuscript leaf is mounted to the foot of the title: "De Meursii rarum belicarum historia, qua . . . Halens. Collect. Libr. Rarior . . . p. 33. Manuscript leaf on… Read More