Search Results: Titles starting with E from Setton Book Collection

One corner bumped, front hinge a little weak, some scuffing, but all pages tight, bright, clean and intact, with a few neat penciled notes. Bears bookplate of Prof. K.M. Setton (1914-1995) of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study. Translation of: Wirtschaftliche und soziale Grundlagen der europäishchen Kulturentwicklung. The first American edition of Dopsch's second edition (1923-24) of Die Wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Grundlagen der Europäischen Kulturentwicklung. Somewhat condensed by Prof. Erna Patzelt from the original.Dopsch's ambitious and magisterial account of the foundations of European civilization from the the so-called "earliest" period (Caesar to Tacitus), the division of the soil and agrarian economy in the late Roman and early medieval periods, the development of political structure and the organization of society, the influence of the church, the rise of feudalism, town life, industry and trade, the development of currency and a money economy, and more. A… Read More

Very Good; faded spine, Vol 1 has slight tear in tissue protecting frontispiece, frontispiece picture of Emma is detached. Some pages (pedigrees in Vol 2) uncut.The first rst American edition of Henrietta Emma Litchfield's famous biography and collection of Darwin family letters. Henrietta ("Etty") was Charles and Emma Darwin's fourth child.This work contains a large number of letters from Charles, as well as from other family members, and has been an invaluable source of information about Darwin's family and daily life and thoughts. It was at first privately printed and circulated among family and friends. This is the first published edition.

5 Volumes Complete. Deluxe edition, privately printed for the Navarre Society on fine laid paper in a hand-set, specially cast font. front. Front boards with a gilt fleur-de-lis in center, gilt ruled edges, top page edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, some uncut. Bindings tight, text clean and bright throughout, not a library copy, no bookplates, a few minor pencil marks, cream cloth, spines browned, end-pages have some brown staining, prob. from paste-down paste. Very Good Minus condition.