Search Results: Authors starting with A from Pelargos Bookstore, MBS

286 pp.+ 8 engravings (2 maps: Persian Empire and Map of Greece) h.t. Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York, 1878.
--- Darius the Great was the ruler of Persia in the 6th and 5th Centuries B.C. The book is in good condition, though the cover is split at the junction of the bottom spine and bottom back.

With engravings. 368 pp. 17,5x11,8 cm. Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York, 1868.
--- Blindstamped cloth gilt. Wear at corners and spine ends. A note written on first blank page. Full-page engravings. Foxing.

Nouvelle édition illustrée de 158 dessins par Gustave Doré. 297 pp. 26x17,5 cm. Librairie Hachette et Cie, Paris, 1913.
--- Half-cloth and marbled covers (private binding). Gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Some wear at the corners of the covers and the edges of the covers and spine. All edges gilt. Tight binding, pages bright and clean.

Dessins de Charles Delort, gravés par Mongin. 300 pp.+7 planches et un portrait de l'auteur d'après une photo de Nadar h.t. 20,7x13,3 cm. Collection Bibliothèque Artistique Moderne / Librairie des Bibliophiles, Paris, 1883. Tirage limité.
--- Some edgewear. Fore edge and bottom edge untrimmed. Very light occasional foxing. Beautiful engravings.

A Story of Travel and Adventure. 347 pp.+2 pl. h.t. 19x13,5 cm. Young America Abroad-Second Series / Lee and Shepard Publishers, Boston, 1900.
--- Pictorial cloth (publishers binding). Some edgewear. A very small piece of cloth is missing on spine. Library's stamp on front endpaper. Pages bright and clean.
--- "Cross and Crescent, the third volume of the second series of "Young America Abroad", contains the history of a portion of the Academy Squadron on the voyage from the Baltic to Constantinople, and the experience of the young travellers in Turkey and Greece. (...) An outline of history of each of these countries is given, with its form of government, something about its commerce, the manners and customs of its people, and descriptions of its principal cities, and its natural and artificial objects of interest. (...)"

Panorama des littératures européennes, 1900-1959. 444 pp. 21,2x13,7 cm. Nouvelle édition, revue et augmentée. Éditions Albin Michel, Paris, 1959.
--- Some wear on covers, underlinings only on the introduction. Other pages bright and clean.

Or, the quest of Jason for the golden fleece, the epic poem first set down in the ancient greek tongue by Apollonius of Rhodes in the third century B.C. Together with the translation into english prose by Edward P. Coleridge; with a preface by Moses Hadas, and illustrations by A. Tassos. xix+307 pp. 28,50x21 cm. The Heritage Press, New York, 1960.
--- Half cloth (publishers binding) with gilt lettering and decoration on front cover and spine. Unmarked. Top edges red. In a box, with some wear on the corners. Text in ancient greek - english.

Second impression. xxx+467 pp.+1 folding map h.t. 20,2x14,5 cm. The Story of the Nations / T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1899.
--- Pictorial cloth gilt (publishers binding). Some wear to extremities. B&W illustrations. Tight binding. Occasional light foxing. Unmarked.

In collaboration with Seabury Ashmead-Bartlett. Illustrated. First edition. x+326 pp.+1 map and 36 b&w photographs h.t. 23,5x16,5 cm. William Heinemann, London, 1913.
--- Cloth-bound (publisher's binding). Light edgewear. Pages bright and clean.

Histoire des guerres, de l'après-guerre. 2ème édition. 316 pp. 21x15 cm. Editions de Breteuil, Paris, 1973.
--- B&W illustrations. A few pages with underlinings in pencil.

1ère édition. xii+73 pp.+7 rares photos h.t. Imprimerie de l'Institut Français, Le Caire, 1942. --- Paperback. B&W photos.