Allgemeine Geschichte der Waldenser oder der evangelischen Kirchen in den Thälern von Piemont in zwey Büchern by Johan Legers - 1750: 1. Theil

Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. London. 1855. First English edition. Octavo. 493pp. Half calf, marbled boards. Spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilt rules, leather label. All edges marbled. Neat signature (M.C.E.S. Douglas) to upper edge of first blank. Shelf wear to extremities and boards.

Ferdinand Gregorovius (1821 - 1891) historian and writer.

Russell Martineau (1831 - 1898), Linguist, translator and librarian of Early Printed Books at the British Museum. The eldest son of James Martineau.

"The entrepot of all the surrounding nations of the continent"

Venezia: Venezia Casa Editrice Libeccio, 1957. Volume Two. First edition. Hard cover. Published Venezia: Venezia Casa Editrice Libeccio, 1957, first printing. Small 4to., 8" x 11", 436pp., profusely illustrated with color and black and white plates, fold-outs. Gilt stamped cream cloth with gilt cover design, ribbon marker. Text in Italian. Partial foxing along two edges, else very good plus. . 1st. Hard. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. 4to.

Boston: Jenks, Hickling, and Swan. Good with no dust jacket; Pages toned, boards worn, dampstained and . sunned, vol. 1 gift inscription and dampstaining to lower half of boards . and text.. 1854. Hardcover. A married set in two volumes (volume one in ribbed dark brown cloth while volume two is in patterned lighter brown cloth). Uniform gilt lettering and designs on spines, boards stamped in blind. 332; 355 pp. An early American edition of Dickens’ only book written for children - his own, in fact - which provides his lively view of English history from ancient times through the beginning of Queen Victoria’s reign. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

This is a 17-Volume collection of works of Historical Fiction by Luise Mühlbach, a well-known German Author, who wrote most of her work in the 1860s and early 1870s. Her Books focus on several well-known German and European personalities including Frederick the Great, Joseph the Second, Empress Josephine, Goethe and Schiller, Napoleon, Marie Antoinette, King Henry and others. Her Books were translated into English by several different translators and published as a set by A.L. Fowle, Publisher, of New York in 1905. This Set was not published with Volume Numbers for each Book. Each Book contains 400-650 pages of text and three to five illustrations.There are 20 Volumes in the complete set. However, the set being offered here is limited to 17 Volumes and are listed below:BERLIN AND SANS-SOUCI, Translated by Mrs. Chapman Coleman and Daughters;FREDERICK THE GREAT AND HIS FAMILY, Translated by Mrs. Chapman Coleman and Daughters;MARIE ANTOINETTE AND HER SON, Translated by Rev. W. L. Gage;ANDREAS HOFER,… Read More

Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1898. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Original wrappers. Folio. (32 x 21 cm). bilingual in English and French. [8], 26, [2] p. First printed edition of these minutes by the Foreign Ministry of France in 1897-1898 on Bahr Al-Ghazal, Lake Chad, and the Upper Nile regions. The tensions between French and British relations were high in the 1875-1898 era. especially over Egyptian and African issues. At several points, these issues brought the two nations to the brink of war; but the situation was always defused diplomatically. For two decades, there was peace-but it was "an armed peace, characterized by alarms, distrust, rancor, and irritation." During the Scramble for Africa in the 1880s, the British and French generally recognized each other's spheres of influence. In an agreement in 1890, Great Britain was recognized in Bahr-el-Ghazal and Darfur, while Wadai, Bagirmi, Kanem, and the territory to the north and east… Read More

Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. London. 1855. First English edition. Octavo. 493pp. Half calf, marbled boards. Spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilt rules, leather label. All edges marbled. Neat signature (M.C.E.S. Douglas) to upper edge of first blank. Shelf wear to extremities and boards.

Ferdinand Gregorovius (1821 - 1891) historian and writer.

Russell Martineau (1831 - 1898), Linguist, translator and librarian of Early Printed Books at the British Museum. The eldest son of James Martineau.

"The entrepot of all the surrounding nations of the continent"

Venezia: Venezia Casa Editrice Libeccio, 1957. Volume Two. First edition. Hard cover. Published Venezia: Venezia Casa Editrice Libeccio, 1957, first printing. Small 4to., 8" x 11", 436pp., profusely illustrated with color and black and white plates, fold-outs. Gilt stamped cream cloth with gilt cover design, ribbon marker. Text in Italian. Partial foxing along two edges, else very good plus. . 1st. Hard. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. 4to.

Boston: Jenks, Hickling, and Swan. Good with no dust jacket; Pages toned, boards worn, dampstained and . sunned, vol. 1 gift inscription and dampstaining to lower half of boards . and text.. 1854. Hardcover. A married set in two volumes (volume one in ribbed dark brown cloth while volume two is in patterned lighter brown cloth). Uniform gilt lettering and designs on spines, boards stamped in blind. 332; 355 pp. An early American edition of Dickens’ only book written for children - his own, in fact - which provides his lively view of English history from ancient times through the beginning of Queen Victoria’s reign. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

This is a 17-Volume collection of works of Historical Fiction by Luise Mühlbach, a well-known German Author, who wrote most of her work in the 1860s and early 1870s. Her Books focus on several well-known German and European personalities including Frederick the Great, Joseph the Second, Empress Josephine, Goethe and Schiller, Napoleon, Marie Antoinette, King Henry and others. Her Books were translated into English by several different translators and published as a set by A.L. Fowle, Publisher, of New York in 1905. This Set was not published with Volume Numbers for each Book. Each Book contains 400-650 pages of text and three to five illustrations.There are 20 Volumes in the complete set. However, the set being offered here is limited to 17 Volumes and are listed below:BERLIN AND SANS-SOUCI, Translated by Mrs. Chapman Coleman and Daughters;FREDERICK THE GREAT AND HIS FAMILY, Translated by Mrs. Chapman Coleman and Daughters;MARIE ANTOINETTE AND HER SON, Translated by Rev. W. L. Gage;ANDREAS HOFER,… Read More

Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1898. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Original wrappers. Folio. (32 x 21 cm). bilingual in English and French. [8], 26, [2] p. First printed edition of these minutes by the Foreign Ministry of France in 1897-1898 on Bahr Al-Ghazal, Lake Chad, and the Upper Nile regions. The tensions between French and British relations were high in the 1875-1898 era. especially over Egyptian and African issues. At several points, these issues brought the two nations to the brink of war; but the situation was always defused diplomatically. For two decades, there was peace-but it was "an armed peace, characterized by alarms, distrust, rancor, and irritation." During the Scramble for Africa in the 1880s, the British and French generally recognized each other's spheres of influence. In an agreement in 1890, Great Britain was recognized in Bahr-el-Ghazal and Darfur, while Wadai, Bagirmi, Kanem, and the territory to the north and east… Read More