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New York: Random House. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1993. Hardcover. 0679737944 . A catalogue of various natural disasters that have historically occurred, especially in the United States. The accounts of these events (floods, fires, earthquakes, etc.) are richly illustrated with black & white photos and drawings. --- In blue paper-covered boards backed in darker blue cloth withand spine titling in silver. Volume wrapped in jacket a collage of color images to front panel. --- A well-preserved copy: tightly-bound, bright and lacking damages. Unclipped jacket ($20) also in excellent condition.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; viii, (2), 246 pages .
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Acts Of God: The Old Farmer's Almanac Guide to Weather and Natural Disasters
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The Adventure of Sail 1520-1914
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New York: Random House. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1970. First American Edition. Hardcover. Stated First American Edition, copyright page. A history of the four centuries of wind-powered ships by Captain Donald Macintyre, accompanied by a selection of period writings from 1520 to 1914 by the likes of Sir Francis Drake, Captain James Cook, Joseph Conrad and many others. With an introduction by Uffa Fox . With 44 color and 305 black and white illustrations which depict the fascinating array of various sailing ships. --- This oversize work (measuring 12.5 in. wide x 10 in tall) in full blue cloth-covered boards with spine titling in lighter blue, blindstamped compass image to cover. Unclipped jacket with wrap-around Adam Willaerts color painting. --- The covers are a little loose, otherwise a clean, firm copy. Jacket with a 1.5-inch tear to lower edge, with additional small creases and curling to edge, else bright, intact and protected in removable mylar wrapper.; Oblong Small Quarto (9…
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Alexander the Conquerer: The Epic Story of the Warrior King
by FOREMAN, Laura
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Cambridge, Massachusetts: Tehabi Books / Da Capo Press / Perseus. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. 0306812932 . First edition, first printing. The life story of the extraordinarily successful conqueror Alexander the Great is told in both words and over 250 dazzling full-color photos and illustrations. Though he died in 323 B.C., an amazing number of paintings, mosaics, sculptures and other works of art have survived to help tell the story. Also with numerous maps. --- In full black linen-finish paper-covered boards with cover and spine titling in blind. Black jacket bears image of a bust of Alexander. --- An excellent copy: bright, tightly-bound and clean, though with small remainder mark to textblock lower edge and slight sunning to head of spine. Unclipped jacket ($35/$49.95) with mild rubbing and a little creasing to edges, otherwise in excellent shape.; Oblong Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; 212 pages .
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Alexander the Great and His Time
by SAVILL, Agnes
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New York: Barnes & Noble Books. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1993. Hardcover. 0880295910 . A biography of Alexander the Great (356-323 BC) by Agnes Savill. Beginning as king of Macedon, he was able to lead his forces to conquer large parts of Asia Minor, Egypt, the Levant and part of India. With a map of the areas conquered. This work does not feature illustrations. --- In full terra cotta and black paper-covered boards with titling gilt-stamped on spine. Jacket features bust of Alexander. --- A well-preserved, tightly-bound, clean copy. Unclipped, unpriced jacket also very nice and newish; though with mild rubbing.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xix, [3], 300 pages .
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Alexander the Great
by LIPSIUS, Frank
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New York: Saturday Review Press. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1974. Hardcover. 0871503311 . An American edition of a biography of Alexander the Great (356-323 BC) by Frank Lipsius. The successful military leader set out from Greece and conquered much of present-day Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Egypt and the Levant. His achievements have led to much mystique about the man, and in this work, the author seeks to get ". . .beyond the romance and myths . . .and puts the man back into his historical setting." With 16 color plates and 100 b&w illustrations, showing images of sculptures, paintings, mosaics, geographic locations, coins, jewelry and at least one map. Includes an introduction by Lord Chalfont. This work first published in the UK by George Weidenfeld and Nicolson Limited. --- In full blue paper-covered boards with titling gilt-stamped on spine. Jacket features sculpture of Alexander mounted on his charger. --- An well-preserved,…
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The Allure of Battle: A History of How Wars Have Been Won and Lost
by NOLAN, Cathal J.
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New York: Oxford University Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. 0195383788 . A first printing of Cathal J. Nolan's hefty history of warfare, in which he presents detailed analyses of various battles in various wars throughout world history. His overall conclusion is that wars are decided more from prolonged stalemate and attrition, rather than individual battles which may be thought to be "turning points." With numerous black & white photos of people and events as well as 18 maps. --- In full gold paper-covered boards with spine titling in black. Jacket features astounding wrap-around photo of an immense collection of spent artillery shells in France during World War I. --- A clean, bright, newish copy lacking apparent damages. Jacket lacks a flap price, with mild creasing to tail of spine, else undamaged and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector (which has mild rubbing). (NOTE: Due to the weight of this item, extra shipping…
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Ambassador's Report
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New York: Harper & Brothers. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1954. Hardcover. Stated First Edition, copyright page. Lacks the dust jacket. With a section of b&w photo plates and maps of south Asia at endpapers and frontis. In full dark blue cloth-covered boards. Beginnings of cracks at mid-volume and near the front. Prev. owner's signat. at half title page. --- The author was the 3rd US ambassador to India and this volume, his memoir, recounts his time in that role. He was re-appointed to the same post in the early 1960s. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 415 pages .
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The American West and the Nazi East: A Comparative and Interpretive Perspective
by KAKEL III, Carroll P.
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Basingstoke, England / New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Fine. 2014. Softcover. 1349324663 . A softcover edition of the earlier hardcover issuance. In this work, the author attempts to advance arguments that the Holocaust perpetrated by the Nazis is roughly equivalent to American westward expansion at the expense of native Indian tribes. With a few black & white illustrations and a pair of maps. --- In gold wraps with similar images of an American wagon train and a German covered wagon convoy to front panel. --- A bright, clean, newish copy lacking noticeable damages.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xi, 299 pages .
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Anabasis of Alexander, Books I - IV and Books V - VII (Loeb Classical Library #236 & 269)
by ARRIAN (Flavius Arrianus); BRUNT, P. A. (translator)
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Cambridge, Massachusetts: Loeb Classical Library / Harvard University Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1999, 2000. Hardcover. 0674992601 . 1999 & 2000 printings of the 1976 & 1983 revisions. A two-volume set presenting Arrian's history of the campaigns of Alexander the Great, especially his Persian Empire forays. Originally published in seven books, the histories have been rendered into an English translation by P. A. Brunt. Arrian's text is presented side-by-side on facing pages in both Greek and English, with frequent footnotes in English. Includes a detailed fold-out map showing Alexander's conquests at rear of volume I and a lengthy introduction to vol. I (probably by Brunt). Indexes at rear of vol. II. Entries 236 & 269 in the Loeb Classical Library series, edited by Jeffrey Henderson. --- ISBNs 0674992601 & 0674992970. In full olive cloth-covered boards with publisher's device to cover, titling and classical Greek key decorations to spine;…
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The Annals of Tacitus
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Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1982. Hardcover. Tacitus was a consul, senator and historian of ancient Rome. His "Annals" tells the history of certain Roman Emperors after Augustus and is offered in this deluxe reprint edition with etchings of Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb. --- In full navy leatherette-look cloth-covered boards with gilt decorations on covers & spine, raised spine bands and titling gilt-stamped on spine. All edges gilt, and with patterned paper endpapers. Lacks a dust jacket (as issued). --- A bright, firm, clean copy lacking apparent damages, but with slight scratching to textblock fore-edge gilding. ; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; (8), 375 pages .
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The Arts
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New York =: Simon and Schuster. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1939. Hardcover. Author and illustrator Hendrik Willem van Loon shares with the reader, in words and with his pictures, the sweeping history of art. Beginning with cave drawings, he describes the history of paintings, sculpture, architecture, music and other "minor" arts, through the 19th century. Illustrated throughout by Mr. van Loon. With general outline of the history of art to endpapers, and a fold-out dust jacket with map of the history of art. --- In full red-orange cloth-covered boards with shield design in gilt to cover, pasted-on color illustration to spine with gilt-stamped spine titling; black topstain. Dust jacket with color van Loon painting to front panel. --- A well-preserved copy: bright and lacking significant damages. Fold-out dust jacket/map with a few tears but mostly in good shape.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; xxiii, 677, (2) pages .
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At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor
by PRANGE, Gordon W.; GOLDSTEIN, Donald M.; DILLON, Katherine V.
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New York: Penguin Books Ltd.. Good. 1982. Softcover. 0140064559 . This hefty work is the story of the planning and execution of the surprise Japanese attack on the U.S. Navy's base at Pearl Harbor, Oahu. With two sections of black & white photos, and with maps and diagrams. Gordon Prange was assisted by Donald M. Goldstein and Katherine V. Dillon. --- An oversized softcover, with rising sun image to cover. --- With general tanning to leaves and with some creasing to covers, else a sound, tightly-bound copy.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; xvi, 875 pages .
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The Australians from 1788 to Modern Times
by FISHER, John
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London: Robert Hale Limited. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. 1968. First Edition. Hard Cover. 0709101228 . A U.K. first edition of this history of Australia, from the arrival of the British Government's "First Fleet" under the command of Captain Arthur Phillip in 1788 to the time of publication in the 1960s. Much of the early history was rather miserable, as the principal residents were prisoners sent from England. With several black & white photos and a two-page map of Australia show early explorations. --- In full grey paper-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling. Jacket features an image of the First Fleet in Botany Bay to cover. --- With dampstains to lower portion of both covers and jacket, with cover corner bumps and what appears to be Calcutta bookseller's rubberstamping to rear endpapers; else a clean, sound copy. Besides the dampstains, the unclipped jacket has chafing and creasing to extremities, but remains mostly intact and protected in…
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Bismarck, the History of a Fighter
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Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1927. Hardcover. A biography of the German chancellor, Otto von Bismarck. Translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul. Third printing. With numerous b&w photos. In full blue-grey cloth-covered boards with titling in gilt on cover and spine. Lacks a dust jacket. --- In good shape, volume is clean and firm but leaves have separated at front of volume, exposing webbing. Cover edges with some wear. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 661 pages .
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The Book of Splendor
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New York: W. W. Norton & Company. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2002. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0393021386 . Popular novel set in Jewish community in 1601 Prague. In sharp condition; minor scratch back of DJ, otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. DJ in removable mylar protector. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 348 pages .
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Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763
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New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1950. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Book club edition. A diary kept by James Boswell in which the 22-year-old Scotsman recorded events over a period of 9 months during his visit to London. Though written in the 18th Century, the journal wasn't published until this 1950 edition. An entry in the publisher's series "The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell." With maps of central London and the Thames waterfront at endpapers, and two additional plates with facsimiles of the journal's leaves. Edited, and with an introduction by Frederick A. Pottle. Preface by Christopher Morley. --- In light blue paper-covered boards backed in darker blue cloth, with gilt-stamped spine titling; Boswell family crest to front cover. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- With a small area of soiling to front cover, otherwise a tightly-bound, intact copy.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; xxix, 370 pages .
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Bridgehead: The Drama of Israel
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New York: George Braziller, Inc.. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1957. Hardcover. Likely later printing of this examination of the state of Israel in the mid-1950s. --- In full blue cloth-covered boards with blindstamped Star of David to cover, with titling stamped in white on spine; blue topstain. Dust jacket repeats the Star of David, in red, white, blue and black. --- With prior owner's penciled notation to verso of front free endpaper, and dampstains to top edge; otherwise a clean, firm copy. Unclipped dust jacket with yellowing to spine, chipping and small tears along edges, is otherwise intact.; Octavo (8 to 9 in. tall); xiv, 220 pages .
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Burgen der Kreuzritter im Heiligen Land, auf Zypern und in der Ägäis (Crusader castles in the Holy Land, Cyprus and the Aegean Sea, in German language)
by MÜLLER-WIENER, Wolfgang (text); KERSTING, A. F. (photos)
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München: Deutscher Kunstverlag. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1966. Hardcover. A German language guide to the remains of various crusade-era castles that survived to the 20th century. The first half of the book provides descriptions and plans of the castles which are presented in the latter half on black & white plates depicting the castle remnants and statues that survive. With color frontis photo of Marqab castle in present-day Syria tipped in. Map of eastern Mediterranean area to rear endpapers. --- In white cloth-covered boards with titling in grey to cover and spine. Dust jacket repeats the image of Marqab. Book protected in stapled slipcase. --- An excellent copy: clean, bright and tightly bound. Jacket with a couple of small tears and minor edge curling.; Small Quarto (9 to 11 in. tall); 114, 160 pages .
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Caesar in Gaul and Selections From the Third Book of the Civil War: With Introduction, Review of First-Year Syntax, Notes, Grammar, Prose Composition and Vocabularies
by CAESAR, Julius; D'OOGE, Benjamin L.; EASTMAN, Frederick C. (editors)
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Boston: Ginn and Company. Good. 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (so indicated with number 119.1 on copyright page). The account of the Gallic War as written by Julius Caesar (as well as the Third Book of his "Civil War"), prepared for an English-speaking student of Latin. In these conflicts, Caesar conquered much of France, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and Britain. Caesar's texts are presented in Latin with plentiful illustrations & maps, as well as additional illustrations & color maps on plates. Editors B. L. D'Ooge and F. C. Eastman have provided background information about Caesar and these battles, as well as end notes, guides to grammar essentials, Latin compositions, pronunciations and vocabularies following the text; and with footnotes within the text. --- In dark brown cloth-covered boards with titling & image of Caesar to cover; spine titling on orange spine block. --- A Good-only copy, with extensive penciled notations to endpapers,…
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Cicero in Twenty-Eight Volumes, XIII: Pro Caelio, De Provinciis, Consularibus and Pro Balbo Loeb Classical Library #447
by CICERO; GARDNER, R. (translation)
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Cambridge, Massachusetts / London: Loeb Classical Library - Harvard University Press / William Heinemann Ltd.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1970. Hardcover. 0674994922 . A collection of speeches and other writings by the Roman lawyer, orator and politician are presented in this compact volume, side-by-side in both Latin and English. Translated by R. Gardner. Volume XIII in the Cicero series; number 447 in the Loeb Classical Library series. Per the jacket flap, it is due to the writings of Cicero that we know more about his life in ancient Rome than from any other of his contemporaries. --- In full dark red cloth-covered boards with LCL device to cover, titling and decorations to spine; all in bright gilt. Simple jacket with decorations in black & white on red paper. --- A clean, tightly-bound, bright copy lacking apparent damages. Both corners of dust jacket flap are clipped and with slight chafing to extremities and a small tear, else bright and in removable, archival mylar…
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