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Leipzig / Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, 1905. 5th or later Edition . Red Leather. Near Fine/Very Good. 6 1/2" Tall. 15 Maps, 30 Plans. Lxx, 474 Pp + Folding Map At Rear. Red Cloth, Gilt. Book Near Fine, No Names Or Marks, Gilt Brilliant. Dj Virtually Complete, A Few Minute Losses At Corners; However, Was Kept Folded Inside Book For Many Decades And Eventually Split Along Vertical Fold On Front Cover And Another On Rear Cover, Also With A Partial Split Down Center Of Spine, But Fits Together, Without Gaps, In The Dust Jacket Protector.

New York: Dodd, Mead And Company (1909), 1912. First American Edition Printing Unknown. Hardcover. Very Good. Color Plates From Paintings By The Author. . Xi, 358 Pp. Red Cloth, Gilt, Top Edge Gilt. Early Printing, 1912 Date On Title Page, Originally Published In 1909 By Dodd Mead In The Usa. Lightly Used, Gilt Brilliant, Cloth Clean And Unfaded, No Marks, Would Be Near Fine But Front Hinge Cracked Before Half Title And Rear Hinge Cracked At Endpapers. William Wiehe Collins H.R.I. R.B.C. (1862 - 1951) Was An English Architectural And Landscape Genre Painter. Between 1884 And 1885, Collins Studied At The Lambeth School Of Art Following Which He Attended The Académie Julian In Paris Between 1886 And 1887. From 1886 He Exhibited At Many Of The London Galleries Including The Royal Academy, Royal Society Of British Artists (Elected 1906) And The Royal Institution (Elected 1898). He Served In The Dardanelles And Egypt In The Navy During World War I. He Traveled Widely Producing Paintings In… Read More

London (1904?): T. Werner Laurie, 1904. First Edition . Blue Illustrated Cloth. Very Good/Very Good Dustjacket. 90 illustrations, Plans, and Drawings. 554 pp. Blue cloth, embossed, decorated and lettered in black, white, and grey, and embossed and lettered in gilt on spine. Six page publisher's fold-out catalogue laid in (indicating, among others, six other volumes on European cathedrals). A lightly worn copy with a little loss of color along edges, hinges cracked internally but holding. Decorated endpapers. In the scarce dustjacket with illustrations of two cathedrals, lightly chipped at corners and separated along rear spine edge, but otherwise clean, clear, unworn, and complete.

Ohio State University Press, 1980. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Xi, 1045 Pp. Gray Cloth, Spine Gilt. First Edition, 1980. Fine.

Circa 1968: CIvilisations, 1968. Offprint . Stapled Sheets. Very Good +.

New York [1914]: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1915. First Edition, Second Printing . Green Cloth, Gilt. Very Good. Many Photographs. 576 pp. Lightly worn, one small area of fraying on spine near foredge, no fraying at tips/corners, hinges tight. Previous owner's small name, many small pencil notes on rear endpapers.

Paris: Cimaise 1971 1972 1973, 1971. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Illustrations Throughout. Bound Volume From Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, Containing All Issues 1971-1973, Library Binding And With A Few Otis Stamps, Charge-Out Slips, And Remains Of Charge Date Slips, But Contents Otherwise Fine, No Wear.

London Melbourne Toronto: William Heinemann Ltd., 1950. First Edition . Blue Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8" Tall. Photographs. 315 pp. A classic of travel literature, about Czechoslovakia. A very bright, clean copy with no loss of silver gilt lettering on apine, just a touch of rubbing at corners without fraying or bruising. Top edge of pages shows foxing; endpapers show considerable age toning; first front endpaper has been pulled from 1/4" of attachment to second blank endpaper, without damage to binding; dated by previous owner in Toronto 1955. Dustjacket complete, with age toned spine panel, all lattering and design bright and clear, paper worn away for a slight distance at corners and top and bottom of spine, with three short closed tears along flap folds, but still attractive and complete.

French Historical Studies, 1972. Offprint . Stapled Sheets. Very Good +. 25 pp.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1915. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 208 Pp + Catalog At End. Green Cloth, Gilt. First Edition. Thwe Origin Of The Gospel Of Inhumanity Preached By Von Bernhardi On His "Germany And The Next War" Is To Be Found In The Confessions..." Light Wear, Cover Gilt Brilliant, Spine Gilt Complete But Weak, Front Hinge Partly Cracked, No Names Or Marks Or Stains, No Fading To Spine. Ownership Signature Of Astronomer George Ellery Hale, Founder Of The Mt. Wilson Observatory (Pasadena), Dated October 1917 (Not Signed By Others Directly Involved With This Book, Just Hale, And With His Emphasis Marks On P 27 And P. 158 And His Reference To Those "Quotations" On Rear Free Endpaper).

New York [circa 1910]: Frederick A. Stokes, 1910. First American Edition . Red Cloth. Very Good +. Plates from Fine Photographs. Part of a series of books published by T. Fisher Unwin in the UK. Gilt lettering and decorations, all presenet and bright, spine slightly faded. Endpapers and contents immaculate, no names or stains, small handwritten three digit number on back of title page, no other marks.

Dresden: Der Verlag Der Kunst, 1956. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 200 Pp. Beige Cloth. First German Language Edition, 1956. Lightly Used Book In Lightly Worn Dust Jacket. Inscribed "With Friendship And Esteem..." From Hogarth To Social Artist William Gropper. Paul Hogarth (1917 - 2001) Was An English Artist And Illustrator. He Is Best Known For The Cover Drawings That He Prepared In The 1980S For The Penguin Edition Of Graham Greene's Books. He Had Distant Connection With William Hogarth, Whose Father Was Also Born Hogarth. Paul Hogarth Was Born In Kendal, Westmorland, And Aged 6 Moved In 1923 With His Family To Manchester. He Attended The Manchester School Of Art From 1934 To 1936, Where He Became Involved In The Artists' International Association And The Communist Party Of Great Britain. After 1936 He Attended Saint Martin's School Of Art In London, And Drove Lorries In The Spanish Civil War For The International Brigade. Paul Hogarth Was A… Read More

Mexico D. F. [Mexico City]: Grupo America, 1943. Soft cover. Very Good. 16 Pp. Very Large Paperback16 Pp. Gray Covers. Near Fine But 1" Dampstain At Lower Spine Edge Of Covers And All Pages, A Little Foxing Too.

New York: G P Putnam's Sons, 1905. First Edition, First Printing . Blue Cloth, Gilt. Near Fine. 9 1/8" Tall. Maps. xi, 376 pp. + 4 pp ads at rear. Publisher's blue ribbed cloth, gilt lettering on spine, top edge gilt. Very slight wear at corners and along part of bottom edge, no fraying of course, no names or marks.

Freiburg 1939 And 1940: Herder & Co, 1939. First Edition 1st Printing. Cloth. Near Fine. 436, 332. Very Clean, Solid, Almost Unworn Volumes. With Small Authorial Inscription Dated 1939 In Volume I; A Photo Of Lortz In Front Of His Books, Signed And Dated 1939; Another Photo Signed And Dated 1950; An Announcement Printed On Card, 1972; And A Related Newspaper Clipping, 1948. Joseph (Adam) Lortz (13 December 1887 In Grevenmacher, Luxembourg - 21 February 1975 In Luxembourg) Was A Roman Catholic Church Historian. He Was A Highly Regarded Reformation Historian And Ecumenist. Beginning In The 1940'S, Lortz Made His Ecumenical Views Available To General Readers As Well As To Scholars In Order To Promote Reconciliation Between Catholics And Protestants. His Writings Played A Role In The Thinking That Manifested Itself In The Second Vatican Council's Decree On Ecumenism, Unitatis Redintegratio (21 November 1964). What Was Not Widely Known, However, Was Lortz's Involvement With Nazism From… Read More

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1913. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Plates. Xi, 354 Pp. Green Cloth, Gilt. No Date But Issued With Sheets From The English First Edition (1913). Near Fine, Gilt Brilliant, Cloth Clean, Bright, Unfaded, Endpapers Clean And Bright, Pages Clean And Bright, Just A Touch Of Rubbing At Corners.

Chicago: A. C. Mcclurg, 1895. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Plates, Illustrations In Text. [Vii], 451 Pp. Gray-Blue Cloth, Gilt. First Edition, With 1895 Date On Title Page. Gilt Bright, No Fraying, Gift Inscription Dated Xmas '96 And A 1946 Ownership Signature.

Lubeck: Wassner, 1930. First Edition . Decorated Boards. Fine. 9" High. 50 Wassner Photographs. 50 full-page photographic views of Lubeck. Cloth spine, attractive textured paper boards, attractive illustrated paper on front cover.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1919. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 535 Pp + 4 Pp Ads At Rear. Red Cloth. Volume Ii Only. Cloth Clean And Unfaded, Gilt Bright, Beginning To Fray Along Top Edge Of Spine.No Names Or Marks.

Frankfurt an Der Oder: Akademischen Buchhandlung, 1806. First Edition . Marbled Boards. Very Good. 20.4 Cm Tall. 261; 331. Two Volumes Bound In One. Marbled Boards, Leather Label With Author's Last Name And Short Title In Gilt. 1806 Date At Foot Of Title Pages, No Additional Printing Or Later Date Anywhere In Book. Karl Dietrich Hüllmann (1765-1846 ) Was A German Historian And University Teacher . In 1818/19 He Was The First Rector Of Bonn University. Light Wear, Gilt Brilliant,Marbled Paper Is Worn And Frayed Along Edges But Otherwise Book Is Clean, Unmarked, Hinges Tight, And Remarkably Well Preserved With Square Pages And Some Original Shine Remaining At Edges Of Page Block.