1. ALL FOR NORWAY!, Royal Norwegian Govn Info Of, London, 1942, B&W and color illustrations, 150pp, good, brown cloth (hardcover), Published on the occasion of H. M. King Haakon's 70th Birthday August 3, 1942. Contents include: King Haakon VII; Map of Norway; The Eidsvold Meeting-1814; The Norwegian Government in London; King Haakon and Crown Prince Olav in London; The Land King Haakon Came to in 1905; Haakon Elected King of Norway; Norway under King Haakon; Norway and its King at War; and, King Haakon and Norways's "Home Front.", (Order No: 52883 ), $15.00
2. Anonymous, CAMP LIFE AND SPORT IN DALMATIA AND THE HERZEGOVINA - THE LAND OF THE BORA 1894-1896, Kegan Paul, London, (2003), B&W illustrations, 406pp, fine, pictorial boards (hardcover), ISBN 0710308604 This largely unknown travel book, written by a sporting and hunting enthusiast in 1896, recalls his journey with his wife and two dachshunds in what was then a largely unknown part of Europe. The author was an English gentleman, keen sportsman and traveller. Originally published in 1897., (Order No: 39520 ), $100.00
3. Ashley, Maurice (John Roberts, editor), THE AGE OF ABSOLUTISM: 1648-1775 - HISTORY OF THE WESTERN WORLD SERIES, G.&C. Merriam Company, Pub., Springfield, MA, (1974), 90 B&W ill., 16pp color ill., 336pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0877790612 Part of the History of the Western World series. This book covers the Anglo-Dutch struggle for maritime supremacy, the expanison of Prussia as a rival to Austria in Central Europe, the emergence of two British empires against the opposition of France and Spain; it describes the greatness of France under Louis XIV and its decline under his successors, the political growth of Russia, and European triumphs in painting, architecture, and music, and examines the social and political situation in North America where, in 1775, the first shots were fired in a War of Independence which was to establish a federal republic based on a written constitution and a declaration of rights alien to the assumptions of the Age of Absolutism., (Order No: 15515 ), $5.00
4. Aston, Margaret, THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY: THE PROSPECT OF EUROPE, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York, (1979), B&W and color illustrations, 216pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0393950972, (Order No: 52611 ), $3.50
5. Bailyn, Bernard (edited by Edward Connery Lathem), ON THE TEACHING AND WRITING OF HISTORY: RESPONSES TO A SERIES OF QUESTIONS, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, (1994), B&W frontis, 97pp, fine, blue/green boards (hardcover), ISBN 0874517125 This presentation is based upon and extends from two tape-recorded "Conversations" that were engaged in by Bernard Bailyn with Professors Jere R. Daniell and Charles T. Wood of the Dartmouth College Department of History, during Professor Bailyn's period in residence as Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth in 1991., (Order No: 32863 ), $10.00
6. Baker, Daniel B. (edited by), EXPLORERS AND DISCOVERERS OF THE WORLD, Gale Research Inc., Detroit, MI, (1993), B&W illustrations, 637pp, fine, pictorial boards (hardcover), ISBN 0810354217 Examines the lives of history's greatest adventureers - 322 men and women whose journeys shaped the modern world., (Order No: 53684 ), $10.00
7. Balchin, Jon, TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH - JOURNEYS OF THE GREAT EXPLORERS, Arcturus Publishing Limited, London, (2005), B&W illustrations, 207pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 1841932884 Charts the astonishing feats of history's most intrepid explorers., (Order No: 55982 ), $7.50
8. Banac, Ivo (edited by), EASTERN EUROPE IN REVOLUTION, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, (1992) 2nd ptg, 255pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0801499976 In this book twelve outstanding authorites present their thorough-going assessments of the East European revolution of 1989 - the definite collapse of communism as an ideology, a political movement, and a system of power in eight countries., (Order No: 50361 ), $5.00
9. Bangs, Richard, (color photographs by Pamela Roberson), ISLANDGODS: EXPLORING THE WORLD'S MOST EXOTIC ISLANDS, Taylor Publishing Company, Dallas, TX, (1991) 1st ptg, color illustrations, 198pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0878337423 Over a period of 11 years, author/adventurer Richard Bangs and photographer Pamela Roberson circled the globe, determined to experience and capture the splendor of the planet through its islands., (Order No: 37157 ), $12.50
10. Barea, Ilsa, VIENNA, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1967 3rd ptg, B&W illustrations, 381pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), The legend and reality of an urban civilization, from its beginnings as a frontier fortress to the dissolution of the Habsburg empire., (Order No: 52917 ), $5.00
11. Baretti, Joseph (with an introduction by Ian Robertson), A JOURNEY FROM LONDON TO GENOA, THROUGH ENGLAND, PORTUGAL, SPAIN, AND FRANCE, Praeger Publishers, New York, (1970), 420pp, index, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), This volume, here reissued from the original 1779 edition, is Baretti's longest and best-sustained work in English., (Order No: 34048 ), $40.00
12. Baring, Maurice, ROUND THE WORLD IN ANY NUMBER OF DAYS, William Heinemann, Ltd., Londona, 1926 1st ed, ill. by B.T.B., 140pp, very good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), "This is one of the lightest books of travel ever written.", (Order No: 55673 ), $14.50
13. Bates, Marston and Abbott, Donald P. (inscribed by Marston Bates), IFALUK: PORTRAIT OF A CORAL ISLAND, Museum Press Limited, London, (1959), B&W illustrations, 287pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover) author inscribed, Ifaluk is a small atoll in the Caroline group of islands in the South Pacific. Here is an intimate picture of the atoll--its people, its animals and fishes, its vegetation, its physical structure., (Order No: 54566 ), $20.00
14. Bell, Andrew, HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF FEUDALISM, BRITISH AND CONTINENTAL, Partridge and Oakey, London, 1852 1st ed, 447pp, very good, original black cloth (hardcover), Title continued: "... with Numerous Notices of the Doings of the Feudalry, in all ages and countries.", (Order No: 3376 ), $30.00
15. Ben-Elia, Nahum (edited by), STRATEGIC CHANGES AND ORGANIZATIONAL REORIENTATIONS IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT: A CROSS-NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE, Macmillan Press Ltd, London, (1966), B&W figures and tables, 160pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0333646274 This book explores a wide range of change processes and responses: from the constrained change possibilities of Canadian local government to the unresolved future of Russian local government; from the centralistic dirigisme of British central government to the cooperative experimentation of central and local government in Norway; from the German blueprint approach to the pragmatic incrementalism of Israeli local authorities., (Order No: 38523 ), $75.00
16. Bereciartu, Gurutz Jauregui (translated by William A. Douglass), DECLINE OF THE NATION-STATE, University of Nevada Press, Reno, NV, (1994) 1st ptg, 230pp, very good+, tan cloth (hardcover), ISBN 0874172381 Contents include: Nation and the Bourgeois Revolution; Nation and the Working Class; and, Nation and Technological Society., (Order No: 37969 ), $25.00
17. Bernard, Paul P., FROM THE ENLIGHTENMENT TO THE POLICE STATE: THE PUBLIC LIFE OF JOHANN ANTON PERGEN, University of Illinois Press, Urbana, IL, (1991), 252pp, fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0252017455 A meticulously detailed view of Pergen (1724-1814) and the intricate social milieu in which he moved as an Austrian administrator and a diplomat., (Order No: 22184 ), $4.50
18. Berneri, Marie Louise, NEITHER EAST NOR WEST: SELECTED WRITINGS, Freedom Press, London, 1952, 192pp, very good w/lightly edgeworn dustjacket (hardcover), A selection of political writings of the late Marie Louise Berneri., (Order No: 26974 ), $20.00
19. Bernstein, Ann and Weiner, Myron (edited by), MIGRATION AND REFUGEE POLICIES: AN OVERVIEW, Pinter, London, (1999), figures, tables, chart, 300pp, very good, pictorial boards (hardcover), ISBN 1855675056 Migration and refugee movements are becoming increasingly prominent features of the millennial world. The book casts invaluable new light, both conceptual and empirical, on this issue., (Order No: 38120 ), $60.00
20. Besson, Ferny, SAHARA - TERRE DE VERITE, Editions Albin Michel, Paris, (1965), B&W illustrations, map, 285pp, good+, wraps (softcover), Text in French., (Order No: 48950 ), $15.00
21. Birnie, Arthur, AN ECONOMIC HISTORY OF EUROPE, 1760-1930 - THIRD EDITION, Methuen & Co. Ltd., London, (1933) 3rd ed, 290pp, good, blue cloth (hardcover) EX-LIB spine mark & bookplate only, The object of this book is to describe and emphasize the outstanding features in the economic development of Europe during the last hundred and fifty years., (Order No: 46101 ), $7.50
22. Bisson, T. A., AMERICAN POLICY IN THE FAR EAST: 1931-1940, Inst. of Pacific Relations, New York, 1940, 162pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 3704 ), $12.50
23. Black, Cyril E.; Helmreich, Jonathan E.; Helmreich, Paul C.; Issawi, Charles P.; and, McAdams, A, James, REBIRTH - A HISTORY OF EUROPE SINCE WORLD WAR II, Westview Press, Boulder, CO, (1992) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 565pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 081331366X, (Order No: 50485 ), $7.50
24. Blum, Jerome, IN THE BEGINNING: THE ADVENT OF THE MODERN AGE, EUROPE IN THE 1840S, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, (1994), 405pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0684195674 The author focuses on five dominant European powers, Great Britain, France, Austria, Germany, and Russia. Each in its own way underwent immense political change as autocratic absolutism began to give way and early steps were taken toward the modern social welfare state., (Order No: 20984 ), $7.50
25. Blumberg, Nathaniel (editor), THE MANSFIELD LECTURES IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS - TWO VOLUME DELUXE EDITION SET, Calliopea Press/Univ Montana, n.p., 1979, fine, black cloth (hardcover) in very good+ slipcase, The first eleven lectures of the Mansfield Lectures in International Relations have been published in these two volumes. Two editions were published, 1) 300 copies of each volume printed on Warren Olde Style; and this set 2) 150 special copies printed on Ragson paper, slipcased, and numbered. Volume One 1968-1973: Mike Mansfield, John Kenneth Galbraith, Edward Kennedy, Milton Friedman and Nelson Rockefeller, 99pp; and Volume Two 1974-1978: Daniel Ellsberg, George Ball, Walt Rostow, Archibald Cox, James Reston, and Barbara Tuchman, 133pp., (Order No: 31673 ), $125.00
26. Boardman, Fon W., HISTORY AND HISTORIANS, Henry Z. Walck, Inc., New York, 1965, 131pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) inscribed by author in 1965, Mr. Boardman explains what history is, what historians do, and describes the splendid challenge presented by the investigation of man's past., (Order No: 34271 ), $15.00
27. Boorstin, Daniel J., CLEOPATRA'S NOSE: ESSAYS ON THE UNEXPECTED, Random House, New York, (1994) 1st ed, 210pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0679435050 "This provocative new collection of essays by a Pulitzer Prize winner deals with the challenging themes of discovery and surprise in history.", (Order No: 4440 ), $4.00
28. Bowle, John, MAN THROUGH THE AGES, Atheneum, New York, 1977 1st ed, 4 B&W maps, 312pp, very good+ w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0689107978 "A World History of Stunning Scope From Archaic Origins to the Present Dealing not Only with the West But with the Entire Globe." A revised and extended version of the author's own classic survey, he describes comprehensively but succinctly the turning points in the history of civilization., (Order No: 10886 ), $10.00
29. Branagan, Thomas, FLOWERS OF LITERATURE. BEING AN EXHIBITION OF THE MOST INTERESTING GEOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL, MISCELLANEOUS ..., John Cline, Printer, Philadelphia. PA, 1810, B&W frontis, 324pp, very good, rebound in 3/4 leather (hardcover), "... AND THEOLOGICAL SUBJECTS. TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED, PRELIMINARY ADDRESSES, TO PARENTS, TEACHERS AND THEIR PUPILS - A NEW EDITION, TO WHICH IS ADDED THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES." Printed for Daniel Fenton, Trenton, NJ. Handsome 3/4 leather binding with raised bands and gilt stampings, probably done in the 19th century. Book block was retrimmed during the binding process, and is tight on the last few pages. A very handsome copy., (Order No: 48661 ), $75.00
30. Brandstatter, Christian; Franke, Traute; and Langthaler, Gerhart, THE OTHER AUSTRIA - THE REAL PERSPECTIVE; DAS ANDERE OSTERREICH DIE REALE PERSPEKTIVE; L'AUTRE AUTRICHE - LA PERSPECTIVE REELLE, Molden Edition, Wien - Munchen - Zurich, (1981), color illustrations, 203pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 3217012100 Text in English, German, and French., (Order No: 47513 ), $35.00
31. Brown, Berit I. (edited by), NORDIC EXPERIENCES - EXPLORATION OF SCANDINAVIAN CULTURES, Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, (1997) 1st ptg, 316pp, fine, blue cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket as published, ISBN 0313299544 Contributions to the Study of World Literature - Number 71., (Order No: 46479 ), $20.00
32. Bullock, Alan (editor), THE FACES OF EUROPE, Phaidon Press Ltd., Oxford, 1980, 108 ill. w/93 in color, 448pp, fine w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0714820946 The chapters in this book are arranged according to the different professions and activities in which people spend their lives-each has a different picture of Europe, a different experience, a different set of associations. It is the history of these diverse worlds and of their influence on society at large that forms the theme of this book., (Order No: 12026 ), $12.50
33. Burgess, Anthony and Haskell, Francis, THE AGE OF THE GRAND TOUR, Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, 1967, B&W and color illustrations, 137pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), "...containing Sketches of the Manners, Society and Customs of FRANCE, FLANDERS, THE UNITED PROVINCES, GERMANY, SWITZERLAND and ITALY in the letters, journals and writings of the most celebrated voyagers between the years 1720 and 1820; with descriptions of the most illustrious Antiquities and Curiosities in these countries. Together with the Story of such Traffic by ANTHONY BURGESS and an Appreciation of the Art of Europe in the Eighteenth Century by FRANCIS HASKELL. And in addition decorated with a great variety of engravings, paintings, watercolours and drawings gathered especially for this particular work." This is the massive folio presentation that gives and impressive overview of those who took and experienced the Grand Tour at its heyday., (Order No: 29048 ), $45.00
34. Calasso, Roberto (translated by William Weaver and Stephen Sartarelli), THE RUIN OF KASCH, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, (1994) 2nd ptg, B&W frontis, 386pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), Taking as his focus the periods immediately before and after the French Revolution but making occasional sallies backward and forward in time--from Vedic India to the porticoes of the Palais-Royal and to the killing fields of Pol Pot--Calasso recounts, elucidates, and interprets the downfall of what Baudelaire was already calling "the Modern.", (Order No: 31555 ), $10.00
35. Capek, Thomas, THE SLOVAKS OF HUNGARY: SLAVS AND PANSLAVISM, The Knickerbocker Press, New York, 1906, B&W illustrations, 209pp, good, red cloth (hardcover), Contents include: The Slavs; Panslavis; The Slovaks: Past and Present; Language and Literature; Social Conditions; Magyar Brothers-in-Law; and, Persecution., (Order No: 55951 ), $45.00
36. Carey, Henry F. (edited by), NATIONAL RECONCILIATION IN EASTERN EUROPE, East European Monographs, Boulder, CO, 2003, 405pp, fine, blue cloth (hardcover), ISBN 0880335122 Most of the essays in this book originated at a conference on National Reconciliation organized by Henry F. Carey on behalf of the Bucharest Social Science Center in Bucharest in June 1994. The book is divided into two parts, the first devoted to thematic and comparative insights; the second to case studies of inter-ethnic frictions and rivalries between the majorities and minorities in different countries., (Order No: 40690 ), $35.00
37. Carrington, Richard, THE MEDITERRANEAN: CRADLE OF WESTERN CULTURE, The Viking Press, New York, (1971), B&W and color ill., 287pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0670465593 The author describes the physical characteristics of the region, its islands, mountains, rivers, volcanoes, and its climate; he explores the Mediterranean as it was, or probably was, in prehistoric times, and as it has changed throughout the centuries., (Order No: 15242 ), $8.50
38. Carrington, Dorothy, THIS CORSICA - A COMPLETE GUIDE, Hammond, Hammond & Company, London, (1962), B&W and color illustrations, 272pp, good++ w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), Corsica, although only 45 minutes by air from the French Riviera, has remained one of the most mysterious spots in Western Europe., (Order No: 55633 ), $12.50
39. Christian, F. W., EASTERN PACIFIC LANDS: TAHITI AND THE MARQUESAS ISLANDS, Robert Scott, London, 1910, B&W illustrations, 269pp, good, red cloth (hardcover) some "chew marks" top rear board, Contents include: New Zealand to Tahiti; Scenery and Topography; Moorea; The Marquesas Group; The Three Highways of Hiva-Oa; Hiva-Oa to Tahuata; Fatu-Hiva; Hiva-Oa to Nuku-Hiva; Nuku-Hiva to Uauna; Uauna to Nuku-Hiva; Visit of H.M.S. "Hyacinth" to Taiohae-Departure for Tahiti by "The Tropic Bird.", (Order No: 39673 ), $225.00
40. Chubb, Thomas Caldecot, SLAVIC PEOPLES, The World Publishing Company, Cleveland, OH, (1962) 1st ed, ill. by W. T. Mars, 128pp, good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover), The story of the Slavs. Their legacy to the world includes both their colorful folk arts and such great individuals as Copernicus, Tolstoy, Jan Hus, Tchaikovsky, Mendeleev, and two great leaders of our own American Revolution, Thaddeus Kosciusko and Count Casimir Pulaski., (Order No: 51975 ), $12.00
41. Clark, G. N., THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1929, 372pp, good, green cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), (Order No: 5352 ), $4.50
42. Clarke, Helen and Ambrosiani, Bjorn, TOWNS IN THE VIKING AGE, St. Martin's Press, New York, (1991), B&W illustrations, 207pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0312060866 This book describes the progress of urbanization during the three centuries from AD 700 in an area extending from Dublin in the west to Kiev in the east. Evidence from excavations forms the basis for understanding the topography, chronology, economy and social organization of towns in the Viking Age., (Order No: 55477 ), $20.00
43. Cobban, Alfred (edited by), THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY - EUROPE IN THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, (1969), B&W and color illustrations, 360pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 44036 ), $15.00
44. Cocteau, Jean (introduction by Simon Callow), ROUND THE WORLD AGAIN IN 80 DAYS (MON PREMIER VOYAGE), Tauris Parke Paperbacks, London, (2000), 250pp, fine, wraps (softcover) review press release laid in, ISBN 1860645925 Originally written for the newspaper PARIS-SOIR in 1936, Jean Cocteau retraces the famous voyage round the world undertaken by Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg in 1873., (Order No: 35263 ), $5.00
45. Cogswell, P. B., GLINTS FROM OVER THE WATER, Republican Press Association, Concord, NH, 1880, 443pp, good+, dark brown cloth (hardcover) light wear top/bottom spine, "The series of letters presented in this books were written for and published in the CONCORD DAILY MONITOR and the INDEPENDENT STATESMAN, during nearly a year spent in travelling in the Old World in 1878-'79." In Paris the author visited the world exhibition in Paris, and compares it to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876 in Philadelphia., (Order No: 50318 ), $20.00
46. Collins, Francis, VOYAGES TO PORTUGAL, SPAIN, SICILY, MALTA, ASIA- MINOR, EGYPT, &C. &C. FROM 1796 TO 1801 ..., Solomon Wiatt, Philadelphia, PA, 1809, 335pp, good, original calf binding (hardcover) light foxing/dampstain, "... WITH HISTORICAL SKETCHES, AND OCCASIONAL REFLECTIONS, BOTH MORAL AND RELIGIOUS." Nice tight copy in the original binding and spine label, with some light foxing and faint dampstaining on some preliminary and ending pages., (Order No: 55716 ), $200.00
47. Congdon, Lee, EXILE AND SOCIAL THOUGHT: HUNGARIAN INTELLECTUALS IN GERMANY AND AUSTRIA, 1919-1933, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, (1991), 15 B&W ill., 376pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0691031592 In this collective portrait combining intellectual history with biographical detail, the author describes how Hungarian thinkers, each in a different way, passionately advocated the need for community in a Europe torn by war and revolution., (Order No: 10998 ), $15.00
48. Cowan, Alexander, URBAN EUROPE 1500-1700, Arnold, London, (1998), 229pp, very good++, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0340719818 The premise of this study is that not only was there a shared urban dimension to the history of the period, but that it was a dimension whose influence substantially outweighed the relatively small numbers of people who lived in the towns and cities., (Order No: 55539 ), $15.00
49. Crane, John O. and Crane, Sylvia (foreword by Corliss Lamont), CZECHOSLOVAKIA: ANVIL OF THE COLD WAR, Praeger, New York, (1991) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 353pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) inscribed by the author, ISBN 0275935779 This groundbreaking work presents a revisionist history of Czechoslovakia's struggle for independence from 1917 to the death of Jan Masaryk in March 1948., (Order No: 53704 ), $40.00
50. Cunliffe, Marcus, THE AGE OF EXPANSION: 1848-1917, G.&C. Merriam Company, Pub., Springfield, MA, (1974), 90 B&W ill., 16pp color ill., 336pp, very good+ w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0877790604 Part of the History of the Western World series. This book focuses on the Western nations, and takes up three major themes of the age: the terrifying and transforming element of technology; society and the changes wrought upon it by the population explosion; and nationalism, the major ideological force for change in Western society in the 1800s., (Order No: 15516 ), $5.00
51. Darby, William, DARBY'S EDITION OF BROOKES' UNIVERSAL GAZETTEER; OR, A NEW GEOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY: ..., Bennett & Walton, Philadelphia, PA, 1823, LACKS MAJORITY OF MAP, 1119pp, good, original full calf (hardcover) light rubbing to leather, "...CONTAINING A DESCRIPTION OF THE EMPIRES, KINGDOMS, STATES, PROVINCES; CITIES, TOWNS; FORTS, SEAS, HARBOURS, RIVERS, LAKES, MOUNTIANS, CAPES, &c. IN THE KNOWN WORLD; WITH THE GOVERNMENT, CUSTOMS, AND MANNERS, OF THE INHABITANTS; THE EXTENT, BOUNDARIES, AND NATURAL PRODUCTIONS OF EACH COUNTRY; AND THE TRADE, MANUFACTURES, AND CURIOSITIES OF THE CITIES AND TOWNS. TO WHICH ARE ADDED, THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, AND THE CONSTITUITONS OF THE RESPECTIVE STATES. ... THE THIRD AMERICAN EDITION, WITH AMPLE ADDITIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS." The US section comprises an additional 133 numbered pages following the main text. A nice tight copy with some occasional light foxing., (Order No: 51820 ), $150.00
52. Davies, W. J. K., AUSTRIAN TRAVEL WONDERLAND, Ian Allan Ltd, London, (1974), B&W illustrations, 125pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0711004862 Davies, acknowledged expert on Europe's railways and tramways, has made a close study of the whole Austrian transport system., (Order No: 42668 ), $14.50
53. Davis, Robert H. (foreword by Richard le Gallienne), WITH BOB DAVIS HITHER AND YON, D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1931 1st ptg, 362pp, very good, red cloth (hardcover) (dustjacket cut and laid in), The author, famous editor, raconteur and traveler, now adds to his volumes of reminiscence a book of sketches drawn from his recent travels in Germany, Sweden, Ireland, and the Mediterranean countries., (Order No: 18768 ), $12.50
54. de Bustamante, Antonio Sanchez (translated by Elizabeth F. Read), THE WORLD COURT, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1925 1st ed, 379pp, good, dark blue cloth (EX-LIB) (no dustjacket), (Order No: 28831 ), $6.00
55. de Marco, Guido and Bartolo, Michael, A SECOND GENERATION UNITED NATIONS: FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM IN THE 21ST CENTURY, NEW EDITION, Kegan Paul, London, (1997), 172pp, very good+, pictorial boards (hardcover), ISBN 0710306989 This study on the United Nations is both a political and structured approach to the working and the future of the Organization., (Order No: 35880 ), $65.00
56. Deak, Istvan, THE LAWFUL REVOLUTION: LOUIS KOSSUTH AND THE HUNGARIANS 1848-1849, Phoenix Press, London, (2001), B&W illustrations, 415pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 1842121480 Hungary's War of Independence was the bloodiest conflict of a European revolutionary era., (Order No: 52887 ), $6.00
57. Denison, George T., THE STRUGGLE FOR IMPERIAL UNITY: RECOLLECTIONS & EXPERIENCES, Macmillan and Co., Limited, London, 1909, B&W frontis, 422pp, good, maroon cloth (hardcover) pages essentially unopened-unread, "I have not attempted to write a history of the Imperial Unity movement, but only my personal recollections of the work which I have been doing in connection with it for so many years.", (Order No: 20877 ), $30.00
58. Diffie, Bailey W. and Noland, Aaron (editors), SELECTED READINGS IN THE HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION, City College of New York, New York, (1964) 2nd ptg, 364pp, good, gray cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), (Order No: 11594 ), $8.50
59. Dillon, Myles and Chadwick, Nora K., THE CELTIC REALMS, The New American Library, New York, (1967) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 355pp, very good, dark green cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket, The Celts were one of the peoples in prehistoric Europe who helped to create the European civilization of the past thousand years. Our purpose in this book is to trace their history from its remote beginning through the formation of the separate Celtic kingdoms in the British Isles, and down to the end of their independence., (Order No: 51882 ), $7.50
60. Dor-Ner, Zvi, COLUMBUS AND THE AGE OF DISCOVERY, William Morrow and Co., New York, (1991) 1st ed, color illustrations, 370pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0688085458 The companion volume to the epic, seven-part PBS series of the same name., (Order No: 4786 ), $6.00
61. Duche, Jean, THE GREAT TRADE ROUTES, Collins, London, (1969), B&W and color illustrations, 128pp, very good+, pictorial boards (hardcover), This book takes us from the beginnings of trade between nomadic tribes in the East to the present day, when industrialization and technology have created vast and compex pattern of modern trade routes., (Order No: 49764 ), $7.50
62. Duckett, Eleanor, DEATH AND LIFE IN THE TENTH CENTURY, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI, (1967), 359pp, very good, faded gray cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket, (Order No: 52269 ), $5.00
63. Edward, George W. and Radin, Herald D., THE BIG WHEEL - MONTE CARLO'S OPULENT CENTURY, William Morrow and Company, New York, 1963, B&W illustrations, 247pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 55780 ), $5.00
64. Endler, Franz, WIEN IM BAROCK -- VIENNA IN THE BAROQUE (TRANSLATION OF TITLE), Ueberreuter, Vienna, Austria, (1979), B&W and color illustrations, 256pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 3800031590 Text in German., (Order No: 49351 ), $20.00
65. Erickson, Carolly, THE MEDIEVAL VISION: ESSAYS IN HISTORY AND PERCEPTION, Oxford University Press, New York, 1976, 247pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover) acidic paper, ISBN 0195019644 Writing primarily of the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries, the author explores religious belief, the clergy, land and property, heresy, women, lawlessness, kingship and the everpresent supernatural world. Based upon contemporary accounts., (Order No: 53566 ), $5.00
66. Field, Henry M., GIBRALTAR, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1890, B&W illustrations, 139pp, good+, decorated red cloth, teg (hardcover) EX-LIB, Contents include: Entering the Straits; Climbing the Rock; The Fortifications; Round the Town; Parade on the Alameda, and Presentation of Colors to the South Staffordshire Regiment; The Society of Gibraltar; A Chapter of History--The Great Siege; Holding a Fortress in a Foreign Country; Farewell to Gibraltar--Leaving for Africa. EX-LIB from a small country library, minimal marks, and never checked out. Some fading to red cloth., (Order No: 52841 ), $50.00
67. Finer, Herman, GOVERNMENTS OF GREATER EUROPEAN POWERS, Methuen & Co. Ltd., London, (1956), B&W tables, maps, 931pp, appd., good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover), "A Comparative Study of the Governments and Political Culture of Great Britain, France, Germany, and the Soviet Union." The author has selected bits of history, social structure, economics and so forth in each country which have direct relevance to the political institutions., (Order No: 15418 ), $20.00
68. Fines, John, WHO'S WHO IN THE MIDDLE AGES, Barnes & Noble Books, New York, (1995), 218pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 1566197163 First published in 1970. Dictionary of that chronicles the lives of the men and women who dominated the time between the collapse of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance., (Order No: 6713 ), $6.00
69. Fischer-Galati, Stephen (edited by), MAN, STATE, AND SOCIETY IN EAST EUROPEAN HISTORY, Praeger Publishers, New York, (1970), 343pp, very good, wraps (softcover), The area covered in this book includes what are today the states of Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Rumania, and Yugoslavia during the period between the fall of Constantinople, in 1453, and the beginning of World War II., (Order No: 50534 ), $7.50
70. Fiske, John, EXCURSIONS OF AN EVOLUTIONIST, Houghton, Mifflin and Co., Boston, MA, (1883) 1st ed, 379pp, very good, blue cloth, teg (hardcover), (Order No: 46057 ), $14.50
71. Flinn, Michael W., THE EUROPEAN DEMOGRAPHIC SYSTEM, 1500-1820, Johns Hopkins University Pr., Baltimore, MD, (1981), B&W tables, 175pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0801824265 The author draws together local demographic research from many countries to trace and explain some of the profound changes in the European population from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth century., (Order No: 26760 ), $12.50
72. Fodor, Eugene (edited by), WOMAN'S GUIDE TO EUROPE - FODOR'S FEATURE SERIES, David McKay Company, Inc., New York, [1957], 456pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), "A special Guide for women, designed to make it possible for you to shop in Paris, dine out in Stockholm or explore Istanbul with the same assurance as if you were in your own home town.", (Order No: 55748 ), $8.00
73. Ford, Ford Madox (edited by Solon Beinfeld and Sondra J. Stang), A HISTORY OF OUR OWN TIMES, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, (1988), B&W ill., B&W maps, 262pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0253328187 This book was intended to be a three-volume study that would cover a period contemporaneous with Ford's own life (1873-1939). Ford, however, completed only Volume One, which covers the years 1870-95. The issuance of this book marks the first publication of this unique and interesting material., (Order No: 23269 ), $5.00
74. Fox, Edward Whiting (edited by with the assistance of H. S. Deighton), ATLAS OF EUROPEAN HISTORY, Oxford University Press, New York, 1957, color maps, 87pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), Planned for use in American colleges and schools, this atlas contains sixty-four pages of maps--and two endpapers--designed according to the most modern techniques by the Cartographic Department of the Clarendon Press., (Order No: 33925 ), $15.00
75. Gainham, Sarah, THE HABSBURG TWILIGHT: TALES FROM VIENNA, Atheneum, New York, 1979 1st Amer, B&W illustrations, 243pp, fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0689109571 Contents include: Mayerling; Handsome Karl, the Mayor of Vienna; Hotel Sacher; Katharina Schratt; Caught in his own Trap--Alfred Redl; The SOund of the Danube--Gustav Mahler; The Successful Artist--Gustav Klimt; Herzl in Vienna; Index., (Order No: 54098 ), $5.00
76. Galbraith, John Kenneth, JOURNEY TO POLAND AND YUGOSLAVIA: 1958, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1958, 118pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), This book is the remarkable personal journal that Mr. Galbraith kept during his trip to Poland and Yugoslavia as a lecturer., (Order No: 14773 ), $6.00
77. Gallhofer, Irmtraud N. and Saris, Willem E., COLLECTIVE CHOICE PROCESSES, Praeger, Westport, CT, (1997) 1st ptg, B&W figures, 213pp, very good++, blue cloth (hardcover), ISBN 0275960293 This book consists of two parts. Part 1 deals with a qualitative study of decision-making processes in different decision-making groups, and Part 2 relates to a quantitative study of decision-making by the Dutch government in this century., (Order No: 37809 ), $40.00
78. Garber, Marjorie, SYMPTOMS OF CULTURE, Routledge, New York, (1998), 273pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0415918596 The symptoms of culture are the anxieties that underlie modern life., (Order No: 55887 ), $5.00
79. Gerhardie, William (edited and with an introduction by Michael Holroyd and Robert Skidelsky), GOD'S FIFTH COLUMN: A BIOGRAPHY OF THE AGE - 1890-1940, Simon & Schuster, New York, (1981) 1st ptg, 360pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 067143652X, (Order No: 5661 ), $6.50
80. Giblin, James L., THE POLITICS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL IN NORTHEASTERN TANZANIA, 1840-1940, Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, PA, (1992), 6 B&W figures, 4 maps, 209pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0812231775 A historical study of the relationship between political and environmental change in Tanzania's northeastern lowlands, an impoverished region that has been afflicted by severe food shortages throughout the twentieth century., (Order No: 13894 ), $7.50
81. Gies, Frances and Gies, Joseph, MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY IN THE MIDDLE AGES, Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, (1987) 1st ed, 372pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0060157917 This book traces the development of marriage and the family from the Middle Ages to the early modern era., (Order No: 20585 ), $5.00
82. Giustino, Cathleen M., TEARING DOWN PRAGUE'S JEWISH TOWN: GHETTO CLEARANCE AND THE LEGACY OF MIDDLE-CLASS ETHNIC POLITICS AROUND 1900, East European Monographs, Boulder, CO, 2003, B&W illustrations, 425pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0880335165 This study of the local politics of architecture in Prague around 1900 is a contribution to the revisionist studies on Central European liberalism., (Order No: 42226 ), $40.00
83. Gooch, G. P., RECENT REVELATIONS OF EUROPEAN DIPLOMACY, Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., London, 1927, 218pp, good, blue cloth (hardcover) some ink notes and underlining, Written to aid students of the World War and its causes., (Order No: 39896 ), $15.00
84. Graham, Malbone W., NEW GOVERNMENTS OF EASTERN EUROPE, Henry Holt and Company, New York, (1927), charts and maps, 826pp, good+, green cloth (hardcover) light wear edge rear board, Clean, tight and bright copy., (Order No: 36461 ), $15.00
85. Grattan, C. Hartley, THE UNITED STATES AND THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1961, 273pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), The Southwest Pacific is here understood to consist of Australia, New Zealand, the South Sea Islands, and Antarctica. The author sketches American relations in the region from the 1790's to 1940, in the context of American participation in Pacific Basin affairs., (Order No: 34963 ), $10.00
86. Graubard, Stephen R. (edited by), EASTERN EUROPE ... CENTRAL EUROPE ... EUROPE, Westview Press, Boulder, CO, (1991) 1st ptg, 365pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0813381509 This book "provides solid analyses of the events and trends that are rapidly reshaping the region.", (Order No: 50491 ), $7.50
87. Grayson, Henry; Gruchy, Allan G. (foreword by), THE CRISIS OF THE MIDDLE CLASS, Rinehart & Company, Inc., New York, (1955) 1st ed, 172pp, very good, tan cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket, (Order No: 51839 ), $7.50
88. Gregorian, Arthur and Gregorian, Phebe (inscribed by) (also inscribed by Armenag), ARMENAG'S STORY, Lower Falls Publishing Co., Newton, MA, (1989), color frontis, B&W ill., 191pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), The story of Arthur (Armenag) Gregorian's family's uprooting in 1918 from Rahvah, their home on the western shore of Lake Urmia in the Persian Azerbaijan. Armenag has called this book "the story of the making of refugees.", (Order No: 48843 ), $30.00
89. Grin, Gilles, THE BATTLE OF THE SINGLE EUROPEAN MARKET: ACHIEVEMENTS AND ECONOMIC THOUGHT 1985-2000, Kegan Paul, London, (2003), 375pp, very good++, pictorial boards (hardcover) bump lower corners, ISBN 0710309384, (Order No: 40672 ), $125.00
90. Guadalupi, Gianni and Shugaar, Antony, LATITUDE ZERO: TALES OF THE EQUATOR, Carroll & Graf Publishers, New York, (2001) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 258pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0786709014 Thirty centuries of adventure on the seas and in the lush tropical lands crossed by the Equator., (Order No: 39429 ), $12.50
91. Gunn, Geoffrey C., FIRST GLOBALIZATION: THE EURASIAN EXCHANGE, 1500-1800, Rowman & Littlefield Pub., Lanhan, MD, (2003), B&W illustrations, 342pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0742526623 Gunn shows how between 1500 and 1800, a lively two-way flow in ideas, philosophies, and cultural products brought competing civilizations into serious dialogue and mostly peaceful exchange., (Order No: 51012 ), $25.00
92. Hall, Marie Boas (editor), NATURE AND NATURE'S LAWS: DOCUMENTS OF THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION, Walker and Company, New York, (1970), 12 B&W ill., 381pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0802720161 A volume in THE DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF WESTERN CIVILZATION series. This volume documents the history of the scientific revolution, from early in the sixteenth century to about 1790., (Order No: 13968 ), $12.50
93. Hall, Mrs. Herman J. (A. S. Hall), TWO TRAVELERS IN EUROPE: A UNIQUE STORY TOLD BY ONE OF THEM, Hampden Publishing Co., Springfield, MA, (1898), B&W illustrations, 510pp, very good, decorated gray cloth (hardcover), WHAT THEY SAW AND HOW THEY LIVED WHILE TRAVELING AMONG THE HALF-CIVILIZED PEOPLE OF MOROCCO, THE PEASANTS OF ITALY AND FRANCE, AS WELL AS THE EDUCATED CLASSES OF SPAIN, GREECE, AND OTHER COUNTRIES., (Order No: 51288 ), $25.00
94. Hallam, Henry, VIEW OF THE STATE OF EUROPE DURING THE MIDDLE AGES; IN THREE VOLUMES - VOLUME I, II, AND III - THREE VOLUME SET COMPLETE, Crosby, Nichols, Lee and Co., Boston, MA, 1861, very good, brown cloth (hardcover), First published in 1818. Volume I, 484pp; Volume II, 404pp; and, Volume III, 488pp. Nice clean, tight and bright set, albiet some slight wear at the top of the spine of Volume III., (Order No: 52765 ), $35.00
95. Hamilton, Frederic, HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE, George H. Doran Company, New York, (1921), 332pp, good+, blue cloth (hardcover), "This is less a book of reminiscences than a recapitulation of various personal experiences in many lands, some of which may be viewed from unaccustomed angles.", (Order No: 40256 ), $7.50
96. Hamilton, Charles William, A SUMMER IN NORTHERN LANDS: THE JOURNAL OF A TRIP TO SCANDINAVIA, David D. Nickerson & Co., Boston, MA, (1922), B&W illustrations, 188pp, very good, bright red cloth (hardcover) WHITE SPOT FRONT BOARD, Recollections of a very happy summer! Nice clean, tight and bright copy, but at some point in time something opague white was dropped on the lower part of the front board., (Order No: 53402 ), $8.50
97. Hannau, Hans W., THE CARIBBEAN ISLANDS, Argos Inc., Miami, FL, n.d. c1970s, 104 color ill., 30 B&W maps, 144pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0895300044 A comprehensive pictorial volume about the Caribbean Islands., (Order No: 27373 ), $5.00
98. Hardy, W. G., THE GREEK AND ROMAN WORLD, Schenkman Publishing Company, Cambridge, MA, (1970) rev ed, B&W illustrations, 124pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), This book vividly reconstructs the day-to-day life of the Greeks and Romans--how they worked and amused themselves, what they ate and wore, and, above all, how they thought and how they reacted to the world about them., (Order No: 15388 ), $5.00
99. Harrison, Barbara Grizzuti, THE ASTONISHING WORLD: ESSAYS, Ticknor & Fields, New York, 1992 1st ptg, 285pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover) review photo laid in, ISBN 0395591058 This collection of essays spreads before us the rich abundance of life as it documents the author's love affair with the world. The most perceptive of travelers, Harrison takes us from Bensonhurst to Budapest to Morocco, from the hills of Tuscany to the walled city of Dubrovnik., (Order No: 10604 ), $7.50
100. Hart, B. H. Liddell, WHY DON'T WE LEARN FROM HISTORY?, Hawthorne Books, Inc., New York, (1971) 1st ptg, 95pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), Shortly before his death in 1970 the distinguished expert on military warfare Sir Basil H. Liddell Hart revised and expanded this classic essay on the philosophy of history, originally published in England in 1944., (Order No: 55641 ), $20.00
101. Hay, Denys (edited by), THE AGE OF THE RENAISSANCE, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, (1967), 600 ill. w/180 in color, 359pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) couple small chips on dj, Text was printed on an acidic paper which has discolored., (Order No: 54131 ), $15.00
102. Headlam-Morley, James, STUDIES IN DIPLOMATIC HISTORY, Alfred H. King, Inc., New York, [1930], 312pp, very good+, blue cloth (hardcover) in lightly worn slipcase, Essays written by the Historical Adviser to the British Foreign Office. Among the subjects included are the difficult questions of Arbitration, Treaties of Guarantee, and the "Problem of Security" dealing with the Low Countries and the Rhine Frontier. Other chapters give an historical summary of British policy in Egypt up to the present time, and also the history of Russia and the Straits., (Order No: 15249 ), $25.00
103. Hillaby, John, HILLABY'S WORLD: ADVENTURES ACROSS THREE CONTINENTS, Sinclair-Stevenson, UK, (1992), B&W and color illustrations, 238pp, fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 1856191664 A selection of insights into the most exotic and dramatic of Hillaby's walking adventures, including much that he has never written about before., (Order No: 37939 ), $8.50
104. Hooker, Mark T., THE HISTORY OF HOLLAND - THE GREENWOOD HISTORIES OF THE MODERN NATIONS SERIES, Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, (1999), 236pp, fine, pictorial boards (hardcover), ISBN 0313306583 This history of Holland, from its earliest beginnings to the present day, provides the most up-to-date survey of modern Dutch history, including the current Dutch approach to a number of social issues., (Order No: 51768 ), $50.00
105. Hopstock, Carsten, NORWEGIAN DESIGN FROM VIKING AGE TO INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, Dreyers Forlag, Oslo, Norway, n.d. c1958, B&W and color illustrations, 212pp, very good, full red leather, teg (hardcover), Contents divided into: Viking Times and the Middle Ages c850 to 1550; Renaissance c1550 to 1650; Barogue and Rococo c1650 to 1789; and, Louis XVI and Empire c1780 to 1850., (Order No: 52878 ), $20.00
106. Huddleston, Sisley, MEDITERRANEAN BLUE, Evans Brothers Limited, London, (1950) 3rd ptg, B&W illustrations, 132pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), "For many years the author has spent his leisure time in exploring Provence, the Cote d'Azur and its extensions into Italy, revelling in the ever-changing panorama, sometimes of voluptuous languor, sometimes of awe-inspiring grandeur: in the rich romance, gay spectacle and ancient customs of a region in which the very names--Avignon, Corniche d'Or, Vence--have a touch of magic enchantment.", (Order No: 20065 ), $6.50
107. Hudson, W. H., IDLE DAYS IN PATAGONIA, E. P. Dutton & Co., New York, (1917), ill Alfred Hartley, J. Smit, 249pp, good, olive green cloth (hardcover), Contents include: At Last, Patagonia!; How I Became An Idler; Valley of the Black River; Aspects of the Valley; A Dog in Exile; The War with Nature; Life in Patagonia; Snow, and the Quality of Whiteness; Idle Days; Bird Music in South America; Sight in Savages; Concerning Eyes; The Plains of Patagonia; The Perfume of an Evening Primrose., (Order No: 45456 ), $30.00
108. Huntington, Ellsworth, WEST OF THE PACIFIC, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1925, B&W illustrations, 453pp, very good, green cloth (hardcover), This is an account of a journey of a delegate to the Second Pan-Pacific Science Congress, held in Australia, at Melbourne and Sydney, in August, 1923., (Order No: 39635 ), $15.00
109. Iorga, N. (translated from the Second Enlarged Edition by Joseph McCabe), A HISTORY OF ROUMANIA. LAND, PEOPLE, CIVILISATION, AMS Press, New York, (1970), 284pp, fine, blue cloth (hardcover), Reprinted from the London edition of 1925., (Order No: 31507 ), $75.00
110. Irwin, Eyles, A SERIES OF ADVENTURES IN THE COURSE OF A VOYAGE UP THE RED-SEA ON THE COASTS OF ARABIA AND EGYPT ... IN LETTERS TO A LADY, Printed for W. Sleater, etal, Dublin, 1780, 576pp, very good internally, full calf w/some wear (hardcover), "...AND OF A ROUTE THROUGH THE DEFARTS OF THE BAIS, HITHERTO UNKNOWN TO THE EUROPEAN TRAVELLER, IN THE YEAR M.DCC.LXXVII. IN LETTERS TO A LADY. BY EYLES IRWIN, ESQ. IN THE SERVICE OF THE HONOURABLE THE EAST-INDIA COMPANY, ILLUSTRATED WITH MAPS." Dedication page to The East-India Company from author who had been in the service of the company, and is dated 1780. This edition, published in Dublin, is most likely a "pirated edition" published with the three folding maps only, and without plates. An exceptionally clean and tight copy, minimal foxing, copper- plate maps are crisp and appear to have been opened seldom in the last 225 years, only one has a minute tear on a fold., (Order No: 46820 ), $450.00
111. Jackson, Stanley, INSIDE MONTE CARLO, Stein and Day Publishers, New York, (1975), B&W illustrations, 278pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 081281827X This is an intimate and entertaining social history of the last hundred years of that sunny place., (Order No: 19528 ), $7.50
112. Janvier, Thomas A., AN EMBASSY TO PROVENCE, The Century Co., New York, 1893 1st ed, B&W frontis, 132pp, good+, decorated orange (hardcover) inscribed by the author, BAL 10847 Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper and also signed by his wife, Catherine. Obituary of Catherine (Ann Drinker) Janvier laid in., (Order No: 36973 ), $75.00
113. Karatnycky, Adrian (general editor); Piano, Aili (managing editor), FREEDOM IN THE WORLD: THE ANNUAL SURVEY OF POLITICAL RIGHTS AND CIVIL LIBERTIES 2001-2002, Freedom House, New York, (2002), 740pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 076580977X, (Order No: 53675 ), $10.00
114. Kiraly, Bela K.; Balogh, Piroska and Vitek, Tamas (edited by), ART OF SURVIVAL: HUNGARIAN NATIONAL DEFENSE AND SOCIETY IN MODERN TIMES, Social Science Monographs, Boulder, CO, 2003, 515pp, fine, blue cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket as published), ISBN 0880335386, (Order No: 40750 ), $55.00
115. Klindt-Jensen, Ole, THE WORLD OF THE VIKINGS, Robert B. Luce, Inc., Washington-New York, (1970), ill. by Svenolov Ehren, 240pp, very good, white cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket, Contents include: Under Way; To England; The Scottish Islands; Irish Hermits; The Ship; Emigrants across the Atlantic; Dukes of Normandy and Southern Italy; On the River-Routes to the South-East; An Historical Cross-Section; Viking Society; The Farm; Town Life; The Thing; Profiles of Artists; Myths and Cults; The Holy Drott; Reality and Fantasy; Bibliography; Index., (Order No: 52419 ), $17.50
116. Klingaman, William K., 1919: THE YEAR OUR WORLD BEGAN, St. Martin's Press, New York, (1987) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 689pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0312005563 In this fascinating work, Klingaman reconstructs the pivotal year of 1919, tracing the political, diplomatic, social, cultural, and psychological changes that combined to make 1919, in essence, the first year of the twentieth century., (Order No: 50912 ), $7.50
117. Knorr, Klaus and Verba, Sidney (edited by), THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM: THEORETICAL ESSAYS, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1961, 239pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), These essays investigate the nature of the simplifying assumptions made in models of the international system., (Order No: 40375 ), $15.00
118. Koeves, Tibor, TIMETABLE FOR TRAMPS: A EUROPEAN TESTAMENT, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, 1939, 244pp, good+ w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), After a preliminary section on travel in general and the chief varieties of vagabonds, he writes of cities and travelers, of the soul of cities, of the soul of the traveler, of famous individual travelers., (Order No: 43797 ), $12.00
119. Kosary, Domokos, HUNGARY AND INTERNATIONAL POLITICS IN 1848-1849, Social Science Monographs, Boulder, CO, 2003, 699pp, fine, blue cloth (hardcover) - minute bump lower corner, ISBN 0880335211, (Order No: 41581 ), $44.50
120. Kummel, Gerhard (translated from the German by Carvel de Bussy), TRANSNATIONAL ECONOMIC COOPERATION AND THE NATION STATE, VOLUME I, Social Science Monographs, Boulder, CO, 2001, B&W tables, 182pp, fine, blue cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket as published, ISBN 088033987X Contents include: Basic Theoretical Considerations; German-American Trade Relations Between the Wars; From Cooperation to Confrontation: The Development of German-American Opposition; and, German-American Business Relations Between the Wars: The Automobile Industry., (Order No: 35012 ), $30.00
121. Larrabee, F. Stephen, EAST EUROPEAN SECURITY AFTER THE COLD WAR, RAND, Santa Monica, CA, (1993), 195pp, very good, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0833014714, (Order No: 50237 ), $12.50
122. Leavitt, Daniel Bliss (with a foreword by Senator Mark Hatfield), COGWHEELING WITH HISTORY: EYEWITNESS TO AN AWESOME AGE, Daniel Bliss Leavitt, n.p., (2000), B&W ill., 159pp, very good++, wraps (softcover), This book is a "bio-history", an attempt to see one's life against the backdrop of historical events. Thus it becomes part autobiography and part history., (Order No: 44284 ), $14.50
123. Leithauser, Joachim G., WORLDS BEYOND THE HORIZON: THE GREAT AGE OF DISCOVERY FROM COLUMBUS TO THE PRESENT, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1955 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 412pp, index, good+ w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 5605 ), $3.00
124. Lengyel, Emil, NATIONALISM - THE LAST STAGE OF COMMUNISM, Funk & Wagnalls, New York, (1969), 369pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), The author analyzes the Communist nations from Czechoslovakia to Mongolia., (Order No: 35975 ), $10.00
125. Lobeck, Armin K., THINGS MAPS DON'T TELL US: AN ADVENTURE INTO MAP INTERPRETATION, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1964 8th ptg, B&W maps, 159pp, good, blue cloth (hardcover), A unique and insightful introduction to the origins of landforms., (Order No: 34297 ), $6.00
126. M'Collester, Sullivan Holman, ROUND THE GLOBE: IN OLD AND NEW PATHS, Universalist Publishing Hous, Boston, MA, 1890 3rd ed, B&W illustrations, 354pp, good++, decorated olive green cloth (hardcover) EX-LIB See Note, "The present volume is the record of sight-seeing and after-reflection of more than nine months' experience in detours round the world." Ex-lib from a small country library with minimal marks and never circulated., (Order No: 53417 ), $7.50
127. MacIver, R. M., THE MODERN STATE, Oxford University Press, London, (1947), 504pp, good, blue cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), First published in 1926. Contents include: Book One--The Emergence of the State; Book Two--Powers and Functions; Book Three--Forms and Institutions; Book Four--Theories and Interpretations., (Order No: 33625 ), $10.00
128. Magocsi, Paul Robert, OF THE MAKING OF NATIONALITIES THERE IS NO END - VOLUME 1 AND VOLUME 2 -- TWO VOLUME SET, East European Monographs, New York, 1999, fine, blue cloth (hardcover) (no dustjackets as published), ISBN 088033438X Volume One: CARPATHO-RUSYNS IN EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA, with an introduction by Christopher M. Hann, 482pp; Volume Two: SPEECHES, DEBATES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC WORKS, with an introduction by Tom Trier, 536pp., (Order No: 31551 ), $95.00
129. Man, John, ATLAS OF THE YEAR 1000, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1999, color illustrations, 144pp, very good+, black cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket, ISBN 0674541871, (Order No: 52758 ), $8.00
130. Maranon, Gregorio (forword by Ronald Syme), TIBERIUS: THE RESENTFUL CAESAR, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, (1956) 1st ed, 234pp, good+, blue cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), Dr. Maranon presents with rare brilliance the personalities, the forces, the motives which shaped the Emperor's character and guided his acts., (Order No: 16645 ), $7.50
131. Matthew, Donald, ATLAS OF MEDIEVAL EUROPE, Facts On File, Inc., New York, (1983), 64 maps, 293 B&W & color ill, 240pp, fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0871961334 This atlas surveys the history of European culture and society from the decline of the Roman empire to the discovery of America in the late 15th century., (Order No: 17977 ), $12.00
132. Maynard, Kimberly A., HEALING COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT: INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE IN COMPLEX EMERGENCIES, Columbia University Press, New York, (1999) 1st ptg, 245pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0231112785 A comprehensive analysis of today's international emergencies that not only addresses how these crises unfold, but also the process of recovery., (Order No: 39443 ), $15.00
133. McKenzie, John R. P. and Sharpe, Lesley, THE AUSTRIAN COMIC TRADITION: STUDIES IN HONOUR OF W. E. YATES, AUSTRIAN STUDIES IX, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, (1998), B&W frontis, 279pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0748610863 This volume brings together fourteen essays from internationally renowned scholars, ranging over 150 years of the Austrian comic tradition, from Blumauer in the late eighteenth century to Horvath in the twentieth., (Order No: 31631 ), $75.00
134. Medill, Robert, NORWEGIAN TOWNS AND PEOPLES: VISTAS IN THE LAND OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN, Robert M. McBride & Company, New York, 1927 3rd ptg, B&W illustrations, 101pp, good, green cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket light wear to spine, (Order No: 52911 ), $10.00
135. Merrick, Henrietta Sands, IN THE WORLD'S ATTIC, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1931, B&W and color ill., map, 259pp, good+, red cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), (Order No: 3367 ), $12.50
136. Merrill, Charles, THE JOURNEY: MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS, Kenet Media, Cambridge, UK, 1996, B&W illustrations, 347pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0964479842 Author's travels in Berlin, Warsaw, Bucharest, Vienna, and Prague in the 30s and 40s and again in the 80s and 90s., (Order No: 52276 ), $5.00
137. Michelet, Jules (translated by Mary J. Serrano), ON THE HIGHWAYS OF EUROPE, Cassell Publishing Company, New York, (1893), 441pp, very good, decorated olive green cloth (hardcover) lt edgewear, Author's travels starting in 1834 in England; Flanders and Holland (1837-40); and, Switzerland - Lombardy - Tyrol (1838)., (Order No: 52882 ), $20.00
138. Miller, Helen Hill, GREEK HORIZONS, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, (1961), B&W illustrations, 255pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) couple closed tears dj, For anyone planning a trip to Greece this is an ideal and stimulating introduction, since it provides a quick view of the Greek mainland and islands as the traveler today sees them-the landscape, the people, and the prehistoric, classical and Byzantine remains., (Order No: 11839 ), $4.00
139. Milton, Giles, THE RIDDLE AND THE KNIGHT: IN SEARCH OF SIR JOHN MANDEVILLE, THE WORLD'S GREATEST TRAVELLER, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, (1996), 230pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0374249970, (Order No: 40833 ), $5.00
140. Minzhu, Han (edited by) and Sheng, Hua (assistant editor) (preface by Yan Jiaqi; introduction by Jonathan Spence), CRIES FOR DEMOCRACY: WRITINGS AND SPEECHES FROM THE 1989 CHINESE DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, (1990) 1st ptg, B&W ill., 401pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0691008574 "Han Minzhu" and her assistant editor, "Hua Sheng," both writing under pseudonyms to protect their identities, present a rich collection of translations of original writings and speeches from the 1989 Chinese Democracy Movement., (Order No: 32674 ), $4.00
141. Morrison, Leonard A., RAMBLES IN EUROPE: IN IRELAND, SCOTLAND, ENGLAND, BELGIUM, GERMANY, SWITZERLAND, AND FRANCE, Cupples, Upham & Co., Boston, MA, n.p.c 1885, B&W illustrations, 351pp, good+, brown cloth (hardcover), WITH HISTORICAL FACTS RELATING TO SCOTCH-AMERICAN FAMILIES, GATHERED IN SCOTLAND AND THE NORTH OF IRELAND. This work is largely a personal narrative. Its objective is to tell of countries visited during the ramblings of five months, of people seen, of their customs and thoughts, their systems of government, and the influence of those governments upon the people. The trip made in 1884, was for Morrison to search for information on his Scottish family history., (Order No: 52198 ), $25.00
142. Muller, Herbert J., FREEDOM IN THE WESTERN WORLD: FROM THE DARK AGES TO THE RISE OF DEMOCRACY, Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, (1963) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 428pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), A synthesis of the various major developments that have affected Western civilization from the dark ages to the rise of democracy., (Order No: 27619 ), $8.00
143. Nagel, Stuart S. and Rukavishnikov, Vladimir (edited by), EASTERN EUROPEAN DEVELOPMENT AND PUBLIC POLICY, St. Martin's Press, New York, (1994), 244pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0312106483 This book analyses various important aspects of methodology and substance regarding economic, social, and political policy in Eastern Europe directed toward achieving more effective, efficient, and equitable societal institutions., (Order No: 50194 ), $50.00
144. Nastase, Adrian (English translation by Ilinca Anghelescu; Fabiola Hosu; and, Roxana Petcu), BATTLE FOR THE FUTURE, East European Monographs, Boulder, CO, 2001, 262pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0880334835 Contents include: Change, Between Utopia and the Need for a Political Project; 1989--Significance and Interpretations; From the Revolution to Checking on Democracy; Globalization and the Future of Transition; Political Will and Political Elite--Structures and Patterns; Elitism, Populism, Social Democracy; Political Will Versus Civil Society?; Economic Reform and the Transition Myths; Political Parties Between Ideology and Political Crisis; Political Romania--The Game of Substanceless Forms; Social Democracy Between History and Futurology; A Plea for a Social-Democrat Romania; Romania in the Context of Globalization; The Ages of Europe; Romania's Image Worldwide: An Unmarketable Product?; Questions at the End of the Century; and, From Karl Marx to Coca-Cola., (Order No: 35879 ), $12.50
145. Ney, John, THE EUROPEAN SURRENDER: A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY OF THE AMERICAN SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONQUEST, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, (1970) 1st ed, 500pp, very good+ w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), This provocative books says that western Europe no longer has a chance to become a third force because it has already surrendered to the American way of "produce and consume." To bring itself up to a modern technological, industrial and managerial par, Europe can only become more Americanized., (Order No: 10689 ), $8.00
146. O'Daniel, John W., THE NATION THAT REFUSED TO STARVE: THE CHALLENGE OF THE NEW VIETNAM, Coward-McCann, Inc., New York, (1960), B&W ill., B&W maps, 121pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), The author's eyewitness report of how American aid helped Vietnam., (Order No: 27672 ), $10.00
147. Outhwaite, Leonard (with drawings of ships by Gordon Grant; introduction by Walter Wood), UNROLLING THE MAP: THE STORY OF EXPLORATION - REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION, The John Day Company, New York, (1972), B&W drawings, 57 B&W maps, 360pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), Original edition published in 1935, this edition is updated through 1972. " Exploration of the Earth from 2750 B.C. to the Space Age." The author brings together here all the information that helps us to understand the history and character of exploration, and he has worked into the background of their eras the stories of the great discoverers and adventurers who slowly invaded the unknown parts of the world., (Order No: 15244 ), $14.50
148. Parker, Geoffrey, THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR, Military Heritage Press, New York, (1987) rev ed, B&W illustrations, 340pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0880292962 The Thirty Years' War (1618-48) presents the historian with immense problems; source material in a dozen languages, a geographical span covering most of Europe, and a long term of years. It is also the key issue of early modern history, the core of the "General Crisis" of the seventeenth century. This book covers the horrors of the war, and the contorted politics of the period., (Order No: 54942 ), $8.00
149. Parker, John, DISCOVERY: DEVELOPING VIEWS OF THE EARTH FROM ANCIENT TIMES TO THE VOYAGES OF CAPTAIN COOK, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, (1972), B&W maps and drawings, 216pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0684127253 In the interlocking of text and map, the author puts together a case for the study of geography as an evolution in knowledge., (Order No: 16593 ), $3.50
150. Perry, George and Mason, Nicholas (edited by), THE VICTORIANS: A WORLD BUILT TO LAST, Studio Books / Viking Press, New York, (1975), B&W and color illustrations, 254pp, good+ w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0670745995 Sheds light on this most extraordinary epoch., (Order No: 55096 ), $7.50
151. Pinto, Antonio Costa and Teixeira, Nuno Severiano (edited by), SOUTHERN EUROPE AND THE MAKING OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, 1945-1980S, Social Science Monographs, Boulder, CO, 2002, 273pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0880339918 This book, by leading historians and political scientists, provides an overview of the impact on the four southern European countries of ever closer European integration since 1945., (Order No: 37881 ), $30.00
152. Piozzi, Hester Lynch (edited by Herbert Barrows), OBSERVATIONS AND REFLECTIONS: MADE IN THE COURSE OF A JOURNEY THROUGH FRANCE, ITALY, AND GERMANY, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI, (1967), 457pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), From 1784 to 1787 Hester Lynch Piozzi, the former Mrs. Thrale, friend of Dr. Johnson, kept a journal of the Grand Tour she and her second husband were making. This is the version of her journal which Mrs. Piozzi published in 1789--a lively, perceptive personal account, an excellent example of eighteenth-century travel literature, and an important source for the cultural history of the period., (Order No: 34708 ), $20.00
153. Postan, M. M. (edited by), THE CAMBRIDGE ECONOMIC HISTORY OF EUROPE - VOLUME I: THE AGRARIAN LIFE OF THE MIDDLE AGES - SECOND EDITION, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1966 2nd ed, 871pp, maps, good+ w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), First published in 1941, and now completely revised., (Order No: 51614 ), $35.00
154. Pranger, Robert J., ACTION, SYMBOLISM, AND ORDER: THE EXISTENTIAL DIMENSIONS OF POLITICS IN MODERN CITIZENSHIP, Vanderbilt University Press, Nashville, TN, 1968, 225pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), In this study, the author discusses the process by which a mere individual in the vast social order is transformed into an active political entity in a political system. His chief concern is to revive the reality of a meaningful citizenship in the context of contemporary life., (Order No: 26686 ), $10.00
155. Reti, Gyorgy, HUNGARIAN-ITALIAN RELATIONS IN THE SHADOW OF HITLER'S GERMANY, 1933-1940, Social Science Monographs, Boulder, CO, 2003, 348pp, fine, blue cloth (hardcover), ISBN 0880335238, (Order No: 41587 ), $45.00
156. Reynolds, Francis J. (edited by); assisted by Henri Klein, A. M. Nikolieff, G. Seibold, and others, MARVELS OF 1924: AN AUTHORITATIVE RECORD OF THE OUTSTANDING EVENTS OF THE YEAR, International Magazine Co., New York, 1925, color frontis, B&W ill., 184pp, very good, maroon cloth (hardcover), (Order No: 55091 ), $7.50
157. Rider, Fremont, THE GREAT DILEMMA OF WORLD ORGANIZATION, The Hadam Press, New York City, 1946, 85pp, good++, olive green cloth (hardcover), Author looks at the dilemma of a "new United Nations Organization.", (Order No: 45224 ), $17.50
158. Rotch, William Boylston (editor) - with author's gift card laid in, TRAVEL LETTERS: A SHEAF OF NOTES AND HAPPY MEMORIES OF A REALIZED DREAM OF A BRIEF JOURNEY TO EUROPE IN 1901, published by the author, Milford, New Hampshire, 1933, B&W illustrations, 126pp, good w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover), Travels to Italy, Germany, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Holland and England. "This little book descriptive of things we saw and places visited is not published for sale purposes, but to keep alive in memory the interesting experience of four months travel.", (Order No: 46990 ), $40.00
159. Rothmyer, Karen, WINNING PULITZERS: THE STORIES BEHIND SOME OF THE BEST NEWS COVERAGE OF OUR TIME, Columbia University Press, New York, (1991), B&W illustrations, 211pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0231070284 A series of fifteen first-person accounts by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists describing the events that led to their award winning stories., (Order No: 32073 ), $5.00
160. Rudy, Willis, TOTAL WAR AND TWENTIETH-CENTURY HIGHER LEARNING: UNIVERSITIES OF THE WESTERN WORLD IN THE FIRST AND SECOND WORLD WARS, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Pr, Rutherford, NJ, (1991), 133pp, very good+ w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0838634095 Author evaluates the impact of modern war in all its aspects upon this hallowed institution of Western civilization., (Order No: 23274 ), $20.00
161. Russell, William; and, Coote, Charles, THE HISTORY OF MODERN EUROPE IN SIX VOLUMES (COMPLETE) WITH AN ADDITIONAL SEVENTH VOLUME, Printed for F. Riverton etal, London, 1814, good, 3/4 leather, marbled boards (hardcover), "...WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE; AND A VIEW OF THE PROGRESS OF SOCIETY, FROM THE RISE OF THE MODERN KINGDOMS TO THE PEACE OF PARIS IN 1763, IN A SERIES OF LETTERS FROM A NOBLEMAN TO HIS SON. A NEW EDITION, WITH A CONTINUATION, EXTENDING TO THE TREATY OF AMIENS, IN 1802. IN SIX VOLUME." Included, uniformly bound is the Seventh Volume by Coote; THE HISTORY OF EUROPE FROM THE TREATY OF AMIENS, IN 1801, TO THE PACIFICATION OF PARIS, IN 1815, published in 1817. Internally a very good+ set (probably never read). Extremities of the leather has some light edgewear., (Order No: 49306 ), $250.00
162. Sagan, Eli, THE HONEY AND THE HEMLOCK: DEMOCRACY AND PARANOIA IN ANCIENT ATHENS AND MODERN AMERICA, Basic Books, New York, (1991) 1st ptg, 429pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover) review press release laid in, ISBN 0465030580 "Democracy is a miracle," Eli Sagan writes, "considering human psychological disabilities." To shed light on this "miracle," Sagan focuses on the world's first democratic society, Athens, and mounts a compelling argument that Athens and the modern American republic, although separated by more than two thousand years, share the same fundamental moral and psychological dilemmas., (Order No: 9021 ), $6.00
163. Salwen, Peter, GALAPAGOS - THE LOST PARADISE, Mallard Press, New York, (1989), color illustrations, 192pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) bump bottom corner, ISBN 0792450914 A photographic study of the species of wildlife on the Galapagos archipelago., (Order No: 50448 ), $18.50
164. Scott, James Brown (edited, with an introduction by) (prefatory note by Elihu Root), TEXTS OF THE PEACE CONFERENCES AT THE HAGUE, 1899 AND 1907 WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION AND APPENDIX OF RELATED DOCUMENTS, Ginn & Company, Boston, MA, 1908, 447pp, good+, black cloth (hardcover), The most valuable result of the Conference of 1899 was that it made the work of the Conference of 1907 possible. The achievements of the Conferences justify the belief that the world has entered upon an orderly process through which, step by step, in successive Conferences, each taking the work of its predecessor as its point of departure, there may be continual progress toward making the practices of civilized nations conform to their peaceful professions., (Order No: 40292 ), $60.00
165. Seccombe, Wally, A MILLENNIUM OF FAMILY CHANGE: FEUDALISM TO CAPITALISM IN NORTHWESTERN EUROPE, Verso, London, (1995), 343pp, very good+, wraps (softcover), ISBN 1859840523 A Millennium of Family Change provides a magisterial history of peasant and proletarian family relations in northwestern Europe., (Order No: 9732 ), $15.00
166. Sekal, Josef, SLOVENSKO -- SLOVAKIA, Sport Bratislava, (1989), color illustrations, 192pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 8070960035 31 Pages of translations of the text in various languages (including English) follow the main text of 192 pages that give an illustrated tour of all parts of Slovakia., (Order No: 50446 ), $10.00
167. Sennett, Richard, FLESH AND STONE: THE BODY AND THE CITY IN WESTERN CIVILIZATION, W. W. Norton & Company, New York, (1994) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 431pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0393036847 A history of the city in Western civilization, one that tells the story of urban life through bodily experience., (Order No: 30251 ), $12.50
168. Shackleton, Robert, UNVISITED PLACES OF OLD EUROPE, The Penn Publishing Company, Philadelphia, 1913, 26 B&W ill., color frontis, 320pp, good+, blue cloth w/gilt stampings (hardcover), (Order No: 10786 ), $12.00
169. Shafer, Boyd C., NATIONALISM: MYTH AND REALITY, Victor Gollancz Limited, London, 1955, 319pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), "This is an inquiry based on twenty years of reading and reflection into the meaning of nationalism, how and why it arose, illusions concerning its origins and delusions concerning its nature, and finally its relation to some fundamental similarities among men and nations.", (Order No: 34979 ), $14.50
170. Sigourney, L. H. (Mrs.), PLEASANT MEMORIES OF PLEASANT LANDS, James Munroe and Company, Boston, MA, 1842, engraved frontis, 368pp, good+, brown cloth (hardcover) nice clean and tight copy, (Order No: 54823 ), $25.00
171. Silliman, B.; and Goodrich, C. R. (edited by), THE WORLD OF SCIENCE, ART, AND INDUSTRY ILLUSTRATED FROM EXAMPLES IN THE NEW-YORK EXHIBITION, 1853-54, G. P. Putnam and Company, New York, 1854, 500 B&W illustrations, 208pp, good+, original decorated red cloth, aeg (hardcover), An exceptional history of the New York Exhibition, its buildings and exhibits in over 500 illustrations. A handsome, clean and tight copy., (Order No: 49412 ), $200.00
172. Sinclair, Andrew, WAR LIKE A WASP: THE LOST DECADE OF THE 'FORTIES, Hamish Hamilton, London, (1989), B&W and color ill., 321pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0241125316, (Order No: 6667 ), $7.50
173. Sitwell, Osbert, THE FOUR CONTINENTS: BEING MORE DISCURSIONS ON TRAVEL, ART AND LIFE, Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, (1954), B&W ill., 282pp, good w/chipped dustjacket, Drawings by Daniel Maloney. Over Europe, Asia, Africa and America, Sir Osbert's sharp eye has recorded impressions of people, places and incidents with startling vividness., (Order No: 11907 ), $12.50
174. Sitwell, Sacheverell, THE GOTHICK NORTH: A STUDY OF MEDIAEVAL LIFE, ART, AND THOUGHT, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, 1929, color frontis, B&W ill., 454pp, very good (hardcover) (dustjacket panels cut and laid in), Among the chapter titles are 'A Castle and an Abbey,' 'The Visit of the Gypsies,' 'Dialogue in Applewood,' 'These Sad Ruins,' 'At the Play,' 'Casement and Guitar,' 'Love Scene.', (Order No: 30489 ), $7.50
175. Small, Melvin (edited by), PUBLIC OPINION AND HISTORIANS: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES, Wayne State University Press, Detroit, MI, 1970, 199pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0814314120 This volume brings together a score of distinguished social scientists and historians who talked to one another about the study of public opinion and foreign policy. The contributors explore the possible extent to which public opinion has influenced developments in international politics in the past, but more significantly they endeavor to find the tools by which that influence might be properly measured., (Order No: 16623 ), $12.00
176. Somlyody, Laszlo and Somlyody, Nora (edited by) (copyedited by Tim Wilkinson; typeset by Andrea T. Kulcsar), HUNGARIAN ARTS AND SCIENCES, 1848-2000, Social Science Monographs, Boulder, CO, 2003, B&W illustrations, 719pp, fine, blue cloth (hardcover), ISBN 0880335335 Offers a brief sketch of Hungary's history, geography, cultural influences and other factors that have shaped the creativity of her populace. Also deals with the natural sciences and technology, with subsections on mathematics, physics, computer technology, biology, astronomy, chemistry, agriculture and engineering. Includes chapters on architecture, the visual arts, the cinema, literature, music, and sport., (Order No: 41778 ), $60.00
177. Spekke, Arnolds, THE BALTIC SEA IN ANCIENT MAPS, M. Goppers Golden Appletree, Stockholm, 1961, B&W illustrations, 76pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), Contents include: Ptolemy and the Baltic; The Contours of Western Europe in the Tenth Century (Cottonian); Edrisi; The Crusades and the Mapamonds; The Masterpiece of the Monk of Murano; Catalan; The Threshold of a new era, the end of the Fifteenth Century; Modern Geography is born in a quiet valley of the Vosges; The Baltic and its proper projection; Scandinavia and the Carta Marina by Olaus Magnus; Livonia and the Latvians by Dutch artists and engravers; Mercator and the Sixteenth Century; Epilogue and Bibliography., (Order No: 51432 ), $150.00
178. Spender, J. A., THE PUBLIC LIFE - VOLUME I AND VOLUME II - TWO VOLUME SET COMPLETE, Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York, (1925), B&W illustrations, very good, maroon cloth (hardcover), Discusses the types of people in Public Life and various sectors of public life, including: Background; Types of Public Men; Politicians and Parliament; American and Foreign Examples; Democracy and Government; The Press and the Public Life; The Ideas of the Public Man. Volume I, 236pp; Volume II, 232pp., (Order No: 31268 ), $20.00
179. Stasik, Florian (translated by Eugene Podraza) (edited with an introduction by James S. Pula), POLISH POLITICAL EMIGRES IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 1831-1864, East European Monographs, Boulder, CO, 2002, 232pp, fine, blue cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket as published, ISBN 088033486X, (Order No: 36695 ), $30.00
180. Steinberg, S. H. (with a foreword by G. P. Gooch), HISTORICAL TABLES: 58 B.C. - A.D. 1945, Macmillan and Co., Limited, London, 1949 3rd ed, 251pp, good w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover), Beginning at 58- 51 B.C. and including the second world war, the leading events of history and outstanding achievements of art, literature and science throughout the world are briefly noted side by side., (Order No: 25795 ), $10.00
181. Strauss, W. Patrick, AMERICANS IN POLYNESIA 1783-1842, Michigan State Univ. Press, East Lansing, MI, 1963, 187pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), The story of America's initial penetration in the South Pacific. This is essentially a history of individuals-Yankee traders at first, then sealers and whalers and, finally, missionaries. Within three decades after their initial contact, these groups had effected fundamental changes in the natives' culture., (Order No: 13088 ), $14.50
182. Stromberg, Roland N. (editor), REALISM, NATURALISM, AND SYMBOLISM: MODES OF THOUGHT AND EXPRESSION IN EUROPE, 1848-1914, Walker and Company, New York, (1968), 296pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), A volume in the Documentary History of Western Civilization series. This volume presents a stimulating sample of three movements in the history of ideas, falling mainly within the three generations from the mid-nineteenth century to the beginning of World War I. Among the writers chosen to illustrate them are Shopenhauer, Baudelaire, Ruskin, Dostoyevsky, Marx and the Goncourts for realism; Zola, Nietzsche, Shaw and Freud for naturalism; and Rimbaud, Mallarme, Huysmans, Wilde, Housman and Peguy for symbolism., (Order No: 13987 ), $7.00
183. Strong, E. E. (editorial secretary), IN LANDS AFAR: A SECOND SERIES OF MISSION STORIES OF MANY LANDS, A BOOK FOR YOUNG PEOPLE, Amer. Board of Commissioners, Boston, MA, 1897, B&W illustrations, 400pp, good+, maroon cloth (hardcover) fade to spine, EX-LIB few marks, A Second Series of Mission Stories of Many Lands, focusing on Africa, Turkey, India and Ceylon, China, Japan, Micronesia, Papal Lands, and other lands. EX-LIB from a small country library, and never circulated., (Order No: 54121 ), $35.00
184. Stubbs, William (edited by Arthur Hassall), LECTURES ON EUROPEAN HISTORY, Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1904, 424pp, ads, very good, blue cloth (hardcover) nice clean tight & bright copy, "These lectures were first delivered between 1860 and 1870 by Bishop Stubbs, when Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford.", (Order No: 52014 ), $20.00
185. Stucley, Elizabeth, A HEBRIDEAN JOURNEY: WITH JOHNSON AND BOSWELL, Christopher Johnson, London, (1956), B&W illustrations, 212pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), The author describes her journey to the Hebrides in the track of Johnson and Boswell on their famous tour of 1773., (Order No: 19537 ), $10.00
186. Sulkin, Edith, CONTINENT IN LIMBO, Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, (1947) 2nd ptg, 304pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), "A personal story of Europe's people today.", (Order No: 52469 ), $6.00
187. Szelenyi, Ivan (in collaboration with Robert Manchin, Pal Juhasz, Balint Magyar, and Bill Martin), SOCIALIST ENTREPRENEURS: EMBOURGEOISEMENT IN RURAL HUNGARY, University of Wisconsin Pr., Madison, WI, (1988) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 255pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0299113604 In the years since the government relaxed its policy of forced collectivization, approximately ten percent of rural Hungarian families have taken up entrepreneurial opportunities in agriculture. Why they have chosen this course and why ninety percent of families have chosen to remain in proletarian or cadre positions--are central questions in Szelenyi's inquiry., (Order No: 54565 ), $15.00
188. Talbert, Ernest, OLD COUNTRIES DISCOVERED ANEW: A MOTOR BOOK FOR EVERYBODY, Dana Estes & Company Pub., Boston, MA, (1913), color frontis, B&W ill., 369pp, good, decorated purple cloth (hardcover) spine a tad faded, "This book was begun to aid the motorist in planning European tours. Each chapter, as far as practicable, represents either a day's run including sightseeing, or a day or more given to sightseeing where the locality merits it.", (Order No: 40041 ), $25.00
189. Tapie, Victor-L. (translated by Stephen Hardman), THE RISE AND FALL OF THE HABSBURG MONARCHY, Praeger Publishers, New York, (1971), 430pp, good, black cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), (Order No: 16755 ), $5.00
190. Taylor, A. J. P., THE HABSBURG MONARCHY 1815-1918 - A HISTORY OF THE AUSTRIAN EMPIRE AND AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, Macmillan and Co., Ltd., London, 1941, 316pp, good, blue cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket, light fade to spine, (Order No: 55781 ), $10.00
191. Toth, Laszlo, THE STARS TOO FAR: A MEMOIR OF DIPLOMATIC CONFRONTATION IN YUGOSLAVIA, East European Monographs, Boulder, CO, 2001, 506pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0880334762 During the author's visit to his home town of Vrbas, Toth was shocked to find himself arrested by the Yugoslav State Security, charged with spying as a CIA agent, tried in a "kangaroo court," and sentenced to seven years in the notorious maximum-security prison Sremska Mitrovica., (Order No: 34878 ), $14.00
192. Trevor-Roper, Hugh (editor), THE AGE OF EXPANSION: EUROPE AND THE WORLD 1559-1660, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, (1968), 184 color, 419 B&W ill., 360pp, good, brown cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), Magnificent lavishly illustrated volume by the leading historians of the period, exploring themes of world expansion, religious conflict and political upheaval, with hundreds of excellent illustrations. Texts by Henry Kamen, Charles Wilson, Claus-Peter Clasen, H.G. Koenigsberger, Menna Prestwich, G.E. Aylmer, Henry Willetts, Peter Avery, Ivan Morris, Hans Bielenstein. 604 illustrations; 185 in color, 419 photographs, engravings, drawings and maps., (Order No: 9212 ), $10.00
193. Tyrrell, Albert E., MISADVENTURES OF AN AMERICAN ABROAD: BIG BROTHER EXPOSED, Albert E. Terril, Everett, WA, (1990) 1st ed, B&W ill., B&W maps, 642pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0962605506 In addition to a travelogue and several autobiographical sketches, the author describes numerous strange and illogical experiences, which were encountered in every country that he visited during a 3-month trip around the world., (Order No: 32428 ), $10.00
194. Vaizey, John, SOCIAL DEMOCRACY - REVOLUTIONS OF OUR TIME, Praeger Publishers, New York, (1972), 120 B&W ill., 6 diagrams, 224pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), Part of the REVOLUTIONS OF OUR TIME series. The author argues that democratic socialists have altogether failed to come to terms with the two biggest problems that face them--the militarism of their countries and the trade unions which finance them., (Order No: 16417 ), $12.50
195. Verdery, Katherine, THE VANISHING HECTARE: PROPERTY AND VALUE IN POSTSOCIALIST TRANSYLVANIA, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, (2003), B&W illustrations, 426pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0810488699 The author traces how collective forms of land use were transformed into 'private property.' This volume explores the importance of land and land ownership to the people of one Transylvanian community, Aurel Vlaicu., (Order No: 49341 ), $27.50
196. Vincent, Benjamin, HAYDN'S DICTIONARY OF DATES AND UNIVERSAL INFORMATION RELATING TO ALL AGES AND NATIONS ... 18TH EDITION, Harper & Brothers, New York, 1891, 847pp, good++, dark blue cloth (hardcover) EX-LIB minimal marks, "...CONTAINING THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD." Revised and Englarged for American Readers with Copious Appendix. EX-LIB from a small country library with a bookplate, and never circulated., (Order No: 52805 ), $20.00
197. Waddell, Eric, THE MOUND BUILDERS: AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES, ENVIRONMENT, AND SOCIETY IN THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS OF NEW GUINEA, Univ. of Washington Press, Seattle, WA, (1972) 1st ed, 22 B&W figures, 8 B&W photos, 253pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0295951699 The author's analysis of the Raiapu Enga agricultural system is an important contribution to this field, while at the same time it increases our understanding of Highland societies., (Order No: 10464 ), $12.00
198. Wagar, W. Warren (edited by), HISTORY AND THE IDEA OF MANKIND, Univ. of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM, (1971) 1st ed, 227pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0826302246 This book is an effort by historians and scholars in related fields to explore the ways in which man has understood and conceptualized the idea of universal human kinship. It is a project of the Council for the Study of Mankind, an association of scholars founded in Chicago in 1952., (Order No: 16592 ), $10.00
199. Waissenberger, Robert (edited by), VIENNA IN THE BIEDERMEIER ERA 1815-1848, Alpine Fine Arts Collection, London, (1986), 300 ill. with 80 in color, 280pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) closed tear on jacket, ISBN 0881681903 A late-twentieth century revival of interest in the Biedermeier style is the occasion for this new study of its origins., (Order No: 4974 ), $10.00
200. Waley, Daniel, LATER MEDIEVAL EUROPE: FROM SAINT LOUIS TO LUTHER, Longmans, London, (1964), B&W illustrations, 306pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), Dr. Waley examines certain selected aspects of the history of later medieval Europe (c.1250-c.1520)., (Order No: 38850 ), $10.00
201. Walker, Mack (edited by), METTERNICH'S EUROPE, Walker and Company, New York, (1968), 352pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), A volume in The Documentary History of Western Civilization. Rarely has conservatism held so strong a grip in high places as it did in the Europe of 1815 to 1848, Metternich's Europe. The theory at that time was that international warfare went together with domestic upheaval and change transformed the principle of international equilibrium and peace into political repression and fear of change. This became the policy of Metternich in making Austria and its satellites secure and the Habsburg domain pre-eminent on the Continent., (Order No: 15321 ), $12.50
202. Waller, Mary E., THROUGH THE GATES OF THE NETHERLANDS, Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, MA, 1907, B&W illustrations, 337pp, very good, olive green cloth, teg (hardcover), (Order No: 46741 ), $5.00
203. Wallis, Frank (editor), RIBBONS OF TIME: WORLD HISTORY YEAR BY YEAR SINCE 1492, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, New York, (1988) 1st Amer, color illustrations, 128pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 1555842550 An illustrated chart of the most significant things that have happened, year by year, since 1492., (Order No: 39637 ), $8.50
204. Walter, Richard, CANARY ISLAND ADVENTURE: A YOUNG FAMILY'S QUEST FOR THE SIMPLE LIFE, E. P. Dutton and Company, New York, 1956 1st ed, B&W ill., 255pp, good, green cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), Inscribed by the author on the half-title page., (Order No: 32123 ), $15.00
205. Waugh, Alec, THIRTEEN SUCH YEARS, Farrar & Rinehart, New York, (1932) 1st ed, frontispiece by Lynd Ward, 277pp, good w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover), The author pictures the post-war times and tries to explain what has happened to the war generation., (Order No: 26212 ), $30.00
206. Whiting, Lilian, ATHENS: THE VIOLET-CROWNED, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1913 1st ed, 36 B&W ill., 361pp, very good, pictorial gray cloth, teg (hardcover), (Order No: 11595 ), $15.00
207. Wilde, Norman, THE ETHICAL BASIS OF THE STATE, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1924, 236pp, very good, blue cloth (hardcover), This book is a study of some of the ethical aspects of the problem of the State., (Order No: 37975 ), $20.00
208. Wingfield-Stratford, Esme, THE VICTORIAN SUNSET, George Routledge and Sons, London, 1932, 396pp, good+, red cloth (hardcover) light fading to spine, "In THE VICTORIAN TRAGEDY, the first volume in this series, I tried to describe the four mid decades of the nineteenth century. In this, I carry on the story to the end of the century and the passing of its most conspicuous figure.", (Order No: 43080 ), $12.50