Boston; Cleveland; London: John P. Jewett & Co.; Jewett, Proctor & Worthington; Sampson Low, Son & Co., 1853. First edition. xvi, 493 pp. Bound in publisher's brown ribbed cloth stamped in blind with gilt spine lettering, pale yellow endpapers. Very Good+ with some staining to cloth, foxing to tissue guard..... More
Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office, 1964. First edition. Complete in 26 volumes plus summary report, all bound in publisher's navy cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good, sunning to spines (vols. 2-16 less sunned than the rest), some bumping to corners and shelf wear, a few notes in pencil, clippings and..... More
London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper and R. Dodsley, 1753. First edition of Duncan's translation. Folio, 16 1/4" x 10 1/8". [xii], civ, 335, [1], [20] pp. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece portrait of Caesar and 84 engraved plates (including 52 double-page, 23 single page, six..... More
[Various Places]: [No Publisher], 1920-1960. A large and in-depth collection of approximately 3,500 original photos from a post-revolutionary Russian exile "prince" of aristocratic bearing and aspirations but not pedigree, Michael Evlanoff. He gained notoriety for his marriage to cosmetics pioneer Elizabeth Arden in 1942. It would end two years later..... More
New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988. First edition. Signed by Christopher Simpson on the half title, inscribed to the former owner on behalf of a third party. xviii, 398 pp. with 16 pages of b/w photos. Bound in publisher's boards with dark navy cloth backstrip lettered in silver. Near Fine..... More
New York: For the Council on Foreign Relations by Harper & Brothers, 1957. First edition. Signed by Henry Kissinger in the year of publication, inscribed to the man who has been called The Architect of the Cold War, Paul Nitze. Nitze's copy with his penciled annotations and marginalia throughout. While..... More
Paris: Emile Lévy, 1923. First edition. Complete in two imperial folio volumes, immense illustrated boards with cloth ties containing loose sheets. Copy #49 of 200 total. Text in French. Ex-art museum library copies with tiny call numbers written on spines, card pocket on paste down, tape stains to cloth and..... More
Paris: Albert Lévy, 1923. First edition. Complete in two imperial folio volumes, immense illustrated boards with cloth ties containing loose sheets. Copy #52 of 300 total. Text in French. Ex-art museum library copies with tiny call numbers written on spines, card pocket on paste down, stamps on the verso of..... More
Boston: Wiggin & Lunt, 1867. First edition. xl, [ii],469; [vi], 553 pp. with illustrations and folding map at front of first volume. Complete in two volumes, bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt stamping. Very Good, lightly worn with a few marginal notes in pencil; repair along back edge of..... More