Search Results: Titles starting with V from Motte & Bailey, Booksellers

Dusseldorf: Verlag Wirtschaft und Finanzen Gmbh, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Very good, thin octavo hardcover in reddish-salmon colored binding without dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to the edges of the covers with minor bumping to the head and heel of the spine. Laid in is a note from Jurg Niehans to the previous owner, Wolfgang Stolper, the noted professor of economics from the University of Michigan best known for his work on international trade and Joseph Schumpeter. 120 pages with notes. A collection of 3 articles on the economic theories of Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Launhardt. The articles are in German. The final article is titled: Das Vordringen der Mathematischen Methode ausserhalb der Naturwissenschaften im 19.Jahrhundert.

Leyden: A. W. Sijthoff, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Good octavo hardcover in red cloth biding without dust jacket. Wear and light rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine and upper corners of panels. Light scuffing to covers. Page edges are lightly browned and have some minor foxing. 427 pages with footnotes and chronological bibliography of the writings of Francois. A festschrift on international law featuring articles in English, Dutch, German, and French.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good octavo hardcover in blue cloth binding without dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with minor bumping to heel of spine. 237 pages with map, tables, footnotes, genealogy, 4 appendices (1. the Mowbray and Percy honors, 2. gentry families with property in York, 3. history and a miraculous rise form the dead, 4. the Langbargh Charter and political dissent), bibliography, and index. A description of the gentry of Yorkshire and their role in the political and social developments in England during the reigns of Henry II, Richard I and John.

Montpelier, VT: Vermont Historical Society, 1971. First edition. Original Wraps. Good. Octavao (standard size). Some wear to edges and corners of covers. Stamp of a library on cover with a line drawn thru it, but no other markings or evidence of library ownership. Old price in ink on front cover, along with a couple spots of coffee. Rear cover has a coffee ring. A few spots of foxing along the textblock. Name of former owner on title page in pencil. xii, 317 (3) p. w/ appendices, select bibliography, and indexes of place and name.

Munchen and Leipzig: Verlag von Duncker & Humblot, 1913.. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Good octavo hardcover in marbled boards without dust jacket. Wear and rubbing along the edges of the boards with bumping to the head and heel of the spine. Some light scuffing to the covers. Page edges are lightly foxed and slightly browned. Some notes and underlining in red and black pencil in text. 155 pages. text of this work on British economics is in German.

Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2020. First edition. Hardcover w/pictorial boards. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued. 394 p. w/footnotes, indices. 6 scholarly essays in German plus 8 original sources relating to the topic in Greek and German

Paris, 1997.. Oversized Paperback. Very Good. First edition. Very good quarto-sized softcover in illustrated wrapper with stiff dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing along the edges with slight creasing on the corners. Covers are lightly scuffed. The dj has some light wear along edges and some scuffing. 312 pages with illustrations, tables, and bibliography. Text of this work is in French examining village life along the Euphrates.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Quarto ( over size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. Name of former owner on flyleaf. xx, 428 p. w/many b&w illus., endnotes, index. A study of select villas and their gardens in 16th - 18th c. France and Italy, looking in an interdisciplinary way at culture, politics, landscapes, and more.

Champaign, IL: Distributed by the University of Illinois Press, 1986. First edition. Trade Paperback. Very good. Octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. Some old glue marks at title page. 182 p. w/illus., appendix, index. A study of a century of stuggle for collective representation of bakers and candy makers in the US, in the years of gincreasing conglomerates in the industry,

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Good/good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. A couple old coffee stains to foredge of textblock. Dust jacket has a substantial wrinkle to upper right front. Spotting to flaps of dust jacket. xii, 270 p. w/footnotes, illus., appendices, bibliography, index. A look at the survival of astrology into the 19th century, via almanacs. Perkins also examines the increasing cultural divide between "science" and "superstition".

Lund,London, Paris, Oxford, Leipzig: C. W. K. Gleerup / Various, 1920. First edition. Hardcover in full cloth. Very good. Octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket. Insctiption in ink at top of title page. xi, 456 p. w/footnotes, indices. An important work on the hermits and desert fathers of early Christianity by this Finnish clascial philologist.

Amsterdam: J. C. Gieben, Publisher, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Near fine octavo hardcover in red cloth binding without dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards and slight mark on front cover. 440 pages with footnotes, bibliography, and list of promoti. A festschrift featuring a number of papers on Roman law written mainly in English, French, and German.

London: Quadrille Publishing, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Thin smallish octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and half-sized dust jacket. With commercial bookplate of former owner on pastedown. 160 p. w/color and b&w illus., index, references. A survey of the work, life and impact of fashion designer and taste maker Schiaparelli, whose decades long career began in the late 1920s.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards, more so dust jacket. 264 p. w/ notes at end of essays, select bibliography, index. 11 scholarly essays on medieval women (usually noble born ) troubadours of the 12th and 13th centuries and their poetry - the Trobairitz, composed and performed at noble courts in Occitania in southern France.

Volos: Volos Publications, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Tall quarto. (oversize) Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. In English. 325 p. A history covering 70 years of this coastal Greek seaport in Thessaly, newest of the Greek ports. Section B

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013. Updated edition of a 1960 work. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. Big sticker on back dj cover. xvix, 403 p. w/maps, footnotes, index, and end chapter by LInderski. A classic work on the tribes of Rome, along with their probably geographic locations.

Paris: A l'Imprimerie Nationale, 1874-1879. Various . Three quarter brown cloth over marbeled boards. Very good. Thick octavos (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Spines slightly faded but Gilt titles still bright and legible. Name of former owner, Prof. James Bellamy,written in ink at half title of each volume. 4 volumes: v. 1 (2nd edition) xlv, 443 p. 1874 ; v. 2 (2nd edition) xiv, 465 p. 1877 ; v. 3 (2nd edition) xxvi, 476 p, 1877; v. 4 (2nd edition) 479p. 1879. Index in v. 4. In French and Arabic. Does not include the later index. The uncommon first complete translation of this travel narrative by the now famous 14th century Berber traveller and scholar from North Africa. He left on his first hajj in 1325 and for 24 years followed the trade routes, visiting the Crimea, Anatolia, all over the Near East, Eastern Africa, India, and Asia including China and Sumatra in 25 years of voyaging. On his brief return home duing the Black Death, he shortly after continued on to… Read More

Florence: Alinari, 2004. First edition. Oversized Paperback. Very good. Quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. 258 p. Many photographs, text in French. An attractive exhibition catalogue and visual history.