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New listing
Van Doren, Carl
Benjamin Franklin, Volumes 1-3
$750

Hemingway x 14

New listing
[Ernest Hemingway]
Ken magazine – First 18 Issues, 1938.
SOLD

Postcards showing attack on Pearl Harbor from air

Ministry of Licensing Military Navy
PEARL HARBOR BOMBING - COMMEMORATIVE JAPANESE POST CARDS FOR THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY (1942), Hawai daikushu (Bombing of Hawaii)
SOLD

The story of the Mutiny on the Bounty

(John Barrow)
The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Practical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty: Its Cause and Consequences (1839), What happened to the descendants of the mutineers on Pitcairn island? See my listing for the Pitcairn Miscellany.
$285

Secret Speech denouncing Stalins personality cult

Khrushchev, Nikita
O kulcie jednostki I jego nastepstwach [The personality cult and its consequences]
$1999

Memoirs of the Countess Cosel

Kraszewski, Joseph J; Soissons
Memoirs of the Countess Cosel
$190

Definitive study of Nazism in the subconscious

Beradt, Charlotte
Third Reich of Dreams: Nightmares of a Nation 1933-1939
$360

Highly original Thucydides set

Gomme, Andrewes and Dover
Commentary On Thucydides (Books I - VII, 4 vols)
$453

Signed Soho Jeffrey Bernard icon

Norman, Frank; Bernard, Jeffrey
Soho Night and Day (Signed, dedicated to Randall Swingler)
$336

Exquisite, on the Beaton track

Beaton, Cecil
Japanese
$288

Substantial Cambridge historical box set

Royal Commission
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge box set
$233

Beautiful book on Cambridge and environs

Farren, Robert
Cambridge and Its Neighbourhood
$328

Cicero Letters, appealing edition

Shackleton Bailey, D. R.
Cicero's Letters to Atticus Volume I (Books I to II)
$137

The indisputable classic of WW2 history

Churchill, Winston S.
The Second World War (Cassell hardbacks complete 6 volumes)
$145

Highly regarded Cambridge two-volume set

Tarn, W W
The Greeks in Bactria and India
$121
STEWART, Major General David.
Sketches of the Character, Manners and Present State of the Highlanders of Scotland: With Details of The Military Service of the Highland Regiments of Scotland.
$650
Walker, George.
The Costume of Yorkshire, Illustrated to a Series of Forty Engravings.
$1500

First Elzevirian edition of this work in Latin.

GRAMONDO Gabr. Bartholamaeo
HISTORIARUM GALLIAE AB EXCESSU HENRICI IV LIBRI XVIII (1653), With large Ex-Libris with the coat of arms of Christoph Wenzel von Nostitz-Rockitnitz (1648-1712), a bibliophile and art collector.
$485

Sumptuous Folio Society production

Schama, Simon
Citizens
$130

Rare ancient history set

Fraser, P. M.
Ptolemaic Alexandra (3 volume set)
$800

Just published - already sold out - 1/180 copies

H. F. Talbot, Stephanie Dalley, Griffin Gonzales (translators)
The Descent of Ishtar - 3 ANNOTATED TRANSLATIONS OF A NEO-ASSYRIAN TABLET⠀•⠀ WITH A FACSIMILE OF THE TABLET ITSELF, "One of the essential works of Mesopotamian literature, in an edition that grapples with the monumental task of translation."
$895
$100 or less
PTOLEMY'S GEOGRAPHY
$100

Oriole Press

De Quincey, Thomas
EXECUTION OF JOAN OF ARC (FRAGMENT), [CONTAINS BRIEF SELECTION FROM THE WRITINGS OF ERNEST RENAN]
$125

Numismatics

$100 or less
Van Meter, David
HANDBOOK OF ROMAN IMPERIAL COINS, A COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE HISTORY, TYPES AND VALUES OF ROMAN IMPERIAL COINAGE
SOLD

The French Quarter Fine in near fine Jacket

$100 or less
Herbert Asbury
The French Quarter
SOLD
Denton, Daniel
A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF NEW YORK FORMERLY CALLED NEW NETHERLANDS
$150

NEWS from Pitcairn Island (less 100 inhabitants)

The resident school teacher and government advisor (editor)
Pitcairn Miscellany - ca. 350 monthly newspapers (1969 -1984; 1990 - 1999), How did the mutineers of the Bounty end up on Pitcairn island? See my listing for 'The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Practical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty: Its Cause and Consequences'
$325

The finest Copy History of Chicago Underworld

Herbert Asbury
Gem of the Prairie, An Informal History of the Chicago Underworld
SOLD

Earliest reference to staging a Shakespeare play

BACON, Sir Francis (1561-1626)
A Declaration (1601)
$3500

Commissioned Shakespeare's Richard II in 1601

[ELIZABETH I, Queen of England, DEVEREUX, Robert, 2nd Earl of Essex], and MEYRICK, Gelly
Highly important manuscript document by which Queen Elizabeth transferred the confiscated lands and property of Sir Francis Englefield to Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex
$11500

[Vietnam]

Indochine Francaise
Uncut Sheet of Stamps Depicting Pierre Paquier, c. 1944
$250