Search Results: Titles starting with L from Mike's Library

The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1965. Hardcover. 9024701856 . Light wear; Dust Jacket light wear. Solid hardcover.; "Part one of this work constitutes a monograph on Nicolay consisting of three chapters. The first deals with his education and contact with prominent men in Western Europe. The next two chapters discuss Nicolay's Russian period and his retirement respectively. Part two is devoted to Nicolay's unpublished "Erinnerungen" which are the best evidence of his contact with the "beaux esprits" of his time, since they are not a chronological presentation of his life but rather individual character sketches of famous men based on his own unbiased observation." ; International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives internationales d'histoire des idées; Vol. 9; 220 pages .

Budapest / Paris: Akademiai Kiado / Editions du CNRS. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1985. Hardcover. 963053665X . Front hinge creaks, library stamps/marks/labels/pocket residue on rear paste-down, spine sunned, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; French language. 3e colloque de Mátrafüred, 1975.; Société hongroise d'étude du 18e siècle : Colloques de Mátrafüred : études sur les lumieres; Ex-Library; 360 pages .

Paris: Joël Cherbuliez, Éditeur. Good with no dust jacket. 1857. Hardcover. Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, toned text, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcovers.; French language. Two of two volumes, complete set. Quarter leather binding with gilt spine lettering and ruling, marbled paper boards and endpapers. Joseph Sabin; A Dictionary of Books Relating to America; 70384. Wright Howes; USIANA 1650-1950: A Selective Bibliography; R 231. Account of 1855 travel to the United States, with emphasis on the role of Protestant churches in American society. Along with descriptions of travel through the northern states and mid-west, there are interesting sections on missions to Native Americans, the Mormon religion and Utah, freedom of religion, and the Smithsonian Institution. An uncommon pre-Civil War European traveler's view of the United States. ; Ex-Library; vii, 326; 370 pages .

Paris: Masson Et Cie. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1936. Hardcover. Library REBIND with original paperback wraps bound in , library stamps/marks/labels, light tone, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover. Errata sheet bound in.; French language. Originally Konstantin Toumanoff's doctoral dissertation, exploring insect vectors in Indochina for contagious diseases (malaria). ; Collection de la Société de Pathologie Exotique : Monographie; Ex-Library; viii, 434 pages .

New York: Garland Publishing. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1972. Reprint Ed. Hardcover. 0824003349 . Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; French language. Reprint of the 1900 edition, Paris: Editions de la Revue Blanche, with new introduction in English. ""The existing military structure was condemned both on grounds of its inordinate expense and its incipient danger to republican institutions. In polemical terms, it was too "Prussian." Moch also assumed that France would never be the aggressor in a war of the future. Militarily, French expansionism in Europe would have been foolhardy. In addition, on the high seas, Franc should never undertake a major naval war. That would be sheer folly for a number of reasons, not the least of which was the far greater power of Britain and the fact that the British were excellent customers of French products ... Thus, an alternative form of military organization appropriate to France… Read More

Bruxelles: Le Cri. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1992. Trade Paperback. 2871060614 . Check marks, light cock, light wear. Solid trade paperback.; INSCRIBED. French language play. Signed by author on half-title page to late author Irving Stettner.; 94 pages; Signed by Author .

Paris: Chez la Veuve Nyon, Libraire. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1805. 4ième édition. Hardcover. Spines dry and flaking, joints rubbed, chipping to spine heads and tails, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcovers. ; French language. Four of four volumes, complete. Full tree calf binding with two spine labels, gilt decor, marbled endpapers and marbled edges. Fourth Edition - An XIII-1805. "Magistrat, il fut exilé pour sa résistance à Maupeou ; il émigra dès 1789, mais son dénuement l’obligea à rentrer en France en 1801 ; il fut ministre d’État et Directeur général des Postes en 1814, pair de France et membre du Conseil privé en 1815. Poète, historien politique et auteur dramatique, il publia des tragédies qui ne furent pas représentées et l'Esprit de l'Histoire, ouvrage en quatre volumes, qui fut poursuivi, fit prime et eut six éditions." -… Read More

Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1999. Trade Paperback. 8876943897 . Edgewear, corner creasing, light wear. Solid copy.; SIGNED by Editor-in-Chief of "Napoleonic Scholarship" and contributor, J David Markham. Volume One ONLY of two volume set. Italian and English language essays. Indice del Primo Volume: Il legato militare di Napoleone all'Europa ed al mundo; I giacobini italiani fra Bonaparte e Napoleone; La Repubblica di Venezia incontra Napoleone; An Early Commentator on Napoleon: Charles Andre Pozzo di Borgo; Promoting Napoleon: Early Contributors to the Career of the Emperor; The Siege of Toulon and the Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte; The French Jacobin's View of Italy at the Time of Napoleon's Rise to Power; Francois Cabarrus and Napoleon Bonaparte: a One Way Admiration; Napoleone e la classicita: il guidizio del contemporanei; La difficolta della diplomazia italiana in periodo napoleonico dalla Republica al Regno… Read More

Madrid: Asociación Española de Astronáutica. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1966. Reprint. Hardcover. Cigarette burn on page 121/122, otherwise slight wear. Crisp hardcove.; French language. Facsimile of 1648 edition, Paris: Chez Francois Piot et chez I Gvignard. French translation of Francis Godwin's The Man in the Moone, published after his death in 1638. Facsimile published on the occasion of the convening in Madrid of the 17th Congreso Internacional de Astronáutica, 1966, with four page Spanish language introductory text. "Very important historically, both in the English version and the French translation, as a work familiar to almost all subsequent early writers of lunar voyages. It is still enjoyable reading." - Everett F Bleiler; Science-Fiction: The Early Years; 898. An attractive facsimile of this classic moon travel fantasy. ; [xiv], 176 pages .

Gubbio: Scuola Tiopgrafica Oderisi. Good with no dust jacket. 1931. Hardcover. Library REBIND in hardcover, library stamps/marks/labels/pocket/slip, covers creased, spine chipped and taped, toned, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; Italian language. Ernest Naville was an influential Swiss historian and philosopher, and advocate of Esperanto. Analysis of the philosophy of Naville, focused on his 1880 work, La logique de l'hypothèse." ; Ex-Library; 52 pages .

Paris: Payot. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1958. Trade Paperback. Cover tone, some UNDERLINING, owner's signature, otherwise light wear. Solid trade paperback.; French language. History of Islam in Asia, from the beginning into the post-World War II era. ; Bibliotheque Historique; 304 pages .

Berlin: Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht. Good with no dust jacket. 1922. Hardcover. Library REBIND in hardcover with paperback front cover bound in, library stamps/marks/labels/pocket/slip, toned, some edge tears, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; French language; some documents in original languages including Romanian, Russian and Polish. "Le lecteur y trouvera non seulement les traces de la lutte âpre que depuis quatre ans l'Ukraine ouvrière et pasanne livre pour son existence, mais encore la preuve des menaces qui restent suspendues sur elle comme d'ailleurs sur toutes Républiques Soviétistes. La guerre et l'ntervention, officiellement désapprouvée par les gouvernements bourgeois, contenuent toujours mais sous la forme sournoise de l'expédition des bandes, organisées et équipées sur les territoires des autres Etats et envoyées périodiquement en Ukraine et en Russie." -… Read More

Buenos Aires: Libreria "El Ateneo" Editorial. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1989. First Edition; First Printing. Trade Paperback. 9500236109 . Light rub, light wear. Solid trade paperback. ; Spanish language text. Printing of 2,000 copies. "Este ensayo examina las hondas raíces del problema inflacionario que afecta a la Argentina desde hace ya cuatro décadas; en la historia económica no se registra un desequilibrio monetrio que haya durado tanto con nivel tan elevado. Por ello resulta interestante revisar las causas que originaron esta situación y advertir como se tornaron más complejas con el trascurso del tiempo." ; Serie: Temas de economia; 126 pages .

Paris: Bray et Retaux, Libraires-Éditeurs. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1881. 1ière Édition. Hardcover. Rebound in marbled paper boards and marbled endpapers with speckled edges and leather spine label, light tone near edges, random foxing, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover. ; French language. Massive history of the Carthusian monastery in the Pas de Calais area, founded in 1325, and published shortly after the structure was reconstructed 1872-1875. Large paper edition with its 12 plates, differing from other 1881 printing with only frontispiece and one plan. ; ix, 521 pages .

Paris: Librairie des Bibliophiles. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1876. First Edition. Hardcover. Library REBIND in hardcover, library stamps/marks/labels/slip, 3" gutter tear to half-title page, light tone, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; French language. # I5. Biographies of noted 19th century French actors/actresses of La Comédie Française. Each section contains etching by Léon Gaucherel. Paginated by parts. Contents: La maison de Molière; Regnier; Got; Sophie Croizette; Sarah Bernhardt; Coquelin; Madeleine Brohan; Maria Favart; Bressant; Arnould-Plessy; Febvre; Clémentine Jouassain; Maubant - Thiron; Reichemberg - Barretta - Broisat; Mounet-Sully Laroche [Post-Face]. ; Ex-Library; Etching .

Montpellier: Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier III. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 2005. Trade Paperback. 2842697049 . Slight wear. Crisp trade paperback.; French language. Deals with the November/December 2004 crisis during the Ivorian Civil War and the roles of the French government, French army, United Nations, and African Union. ; Collection « Premières armes » ; 170 pages .

New York: Garland Publishing. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1972. Reprint Ed. Hardcover. 0824003497 . Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, otherwise slight wear. Crisp copy. ; Facsimile reprint of the 1901 second edition. French language text. "La Fédération de l'Europe contains many of the common ideas, perspectives and attitudes of the peace mentality at the opening of the twentieth century. But unlike those persons concerned with developing arbitration among nations as the most realistic route to world peace, Novicow argued for the creation of a federation of European states." - New Introduction. ; The Garland Library of War and Peace; Ex-Library; 807 pages .

Neuchatel: Éditions de la Baconnière. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1966. Hardcover. Library REBIND in hardcover with original stiff wraps bound in, library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, otherwise light wear. Crisp hardcover.; French language. "Ce livre se propose d'éclaircir cet épisode relativement mal connu de l'histoire européenne, et particulierement l'évolution de la situation internationale de la Finlande et de sa politique extérieure pendant la période qui va du 13 mars 1940, lendemain de la signature du traité de paix mettant fin à la guerre russo-finlandaise de 1939-1940, communément appelée la guerre d'hiver, au 26 juin 1941, date à laquelle commencera une seconde guerre entre la Finlande et l'URSS." - Introduction ; Histoire et société d'aujourd'hui; Ex-Library; 380 pages .

Geneve: Slatkine - Megariotis Reprints. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1976. Reprint. Hardcover. Library stamps/marks/labels/slip, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; French language. Reprint of the 1892 edition, Paris: Perrin et Cie.; Ex-Library; xxiii, 794 pages .

Rome: Bulzoni editore. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1992. Trade Paperback. 887119490X . Corner bump, light wear. Solid trade paperback. ; Italian language text. "L'opera, che trova una sua collocazione nel rinnovato interesse per il tema della frontiera da parte della storiografia internazionale, analizza il processo di colonizzazione agricola dell'Ovest canadese, le prairies, dal 1896 alla prima guerra mondiale; particolare attenzione è rivolta ai movimenti cooperativistici ed al ruolo delle donne nello sviluppo economico e sociale di quella regione." ; Biblioteca Di Cultura; Vol. 469; 253 pages .