THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE - Verbatim Reprint in Four Volumes by Gibbon, Edward - 1892

Brussels, Belgium: Cote D'Or Een Bloemfestoen Van Papieren Rozen, 1949, 1949 Pictorial Cover. Very Good. First Edition. Collectable. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Many dozens of beautiful color cards, some full page, laid in from Cote D'Or Chocolate Co. Bright colors, culture festivities, Text in Flemish, very scarce, some edgewear on boards and small taped top spine, otherwise quite nice 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Illus. by Kryn, Leo J.. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 1st Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good.

Paris; 1902 and 1910: Imprimerie Nationale. Quarto. 212pp. and 108pp.Two volumes in one with two title pages, volume two with the original wrapper bound in. At the initiative of the French government, an International Conference for the Suppression of the White Slave Trade Traffic was concluded in 1904. followed by an International Convention of the same name in 1910. The agreement provided for the establishment of national machinery to coordinate information relative to the procuring "for immoral purposes" abroad of women or girls. States parties pledged to exchange this information and to take concerted measures for detecting persons involved in the traffic and repatriating its victims. In addition, the parties undertook to punish the traffickers if the victim was under twenty years old, even in cased in which the victim had consented. In the case of older women, who were presumed to be exercising the profession freely, traffickers would be punished only if they had used fraud violence or… Read More

Strahan & Cadell, London, England, 1779. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 8mo - over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" tall. 891 pp. Pages are yellowed, but are tight and clean. Front hinge is cracked on Volume 1, and definite wear there on Volume 2. Scattered foxing, but text mostly clean. Light shelfwear to the cover, with a couple of small chips out of the spine on Volume 2. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 3-5 pounds. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; History::European History; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 106002. . Additional shipping charges may apply.

Warsaw: Polonia Publishers, 1990.. 1st edition. "In the years 1939-45, Poland was subjected to the extermination policy of the Third Reich, which set forth to biologically annihilate the nation, its material and cultural heritage." 28.5cms x 20.5cms. Pp.148/6 maps to end, inscribed by the author "With compliments to Madame Sue Ryder from Author" to copyright page, illustrated throughout with black & white photographs throughout. Black & white illustrated laminated board, slight rubbing to top and tail of spine. A scarce book. VG. **Sue Ryder was a British volunteer with Special Operations Executive in the Second World War. She was created Baroness Ryder of Warsaw in 1979, in recognition of her life's work. She established a home for concentration camp survivors in Cavendish, Suffolk which was later to provide nursing care for the elderly and disabled. Ryder continued to speak for Poland and when the Communist rule there collapsed, she arranged lorries of medical and food aid. In 1989 Ryder made… Read More

New York: E. P. Dutton. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Text is clean. Cover shows light wear, boards clean. Spine ends gently bumped. Dust jacket shows light wear, minor rubbing at spine ends, small closed tear to top edge of rear panel of DJ. Original bookstore price in pencil on base of rear flap. States First Edition. .

Naples: Francesco Savio, 1648. Leather_bound. Very Good. [8], 450 [i.e. 462], [10] p.; 22 cm. Signatures: a4 A-3N4 (4to). Contemorary limp vellum with handwritten spine title. Errors in pagination: p. 458-459 misnumbered 454-455; p. 462 misnumbered 450. Woodcut tail-pieces and initials; printed marginal notes. Includes index. The first edition of the first two parts of the author's history of Spain under the Goths and the Moors. The third and fourth parts of the history were published in 1653. In Very Good Condition: fore-edge of front cover curling up; occasional light soiling; some pages browned.

London, England: Smith, Elder & Co. Very Good with No Dust Jacket as issued. 1848. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 611 pages: 5 x 8 in.: 2.4: KB#011175: No Jacket As Issued. "St. Paul's To St. James's. With Forty-Five Illustrations." per the title pages, but, besides quite a few small chapter head illustrations, the two books contain frontispieces in each volume, plus a total of 26 large illustrations engraved by C. Thurston Thompson, from drawings by J. W. Archer and C. T. Thompson. Volume 1 contains 300 pages and Volume 2 has 311 pages, followed by a 12-page catalog of other works published by Smith, Elder & Co. Boards are original blind stamped, dark orange cloth, with gilt lettering on spine. Boards and pages are clean, unmarked (no writing, marks, or bookplates found at all), bright, tightly bound (except for beginning cracking of hinge in front of title page in vol. 1) and sharp cornered (except for some light wear at spine edges). Scarce, Out… Read More

Tucson, Arizona:: Spaceheater Editions,, 2015.. Edition of 50. 6.5 x 9"; 40 pages including covers. Acid-free French Paper. Images printed using archival inkjet ink with three-color foil stamping on the cover, the title page, and the back cover. Interior flame sheets are loose-inserted in a slot in each interior folio. Hard-bound using a multi-needle coptic stitch with sewn-on hard covers made of acid-free solid-core black museum board. Signed and numbered by the artist. Laid in acid-free phase box. Philip Zimmerman: "I started doing research on the history of book-burning after seeing a video posted by the Islamic State/Daesh showing jihadists burning all the books from the Mosul Library in Iraq. I found that burning books has a long and infamous history dating back a couple of thousand years. Most people know about the Nazi's burning books as well as the famous Ray Bradbury book 'Fahrenheit 451', but it turns out that almost every authoritarian regime (and some are nominally… Read More

Frankfurt und Leipzig: Göbhardt, 1762. Hardcover. Very Good. [32], 576, [8] p., frontispiece; 21 cm. Signatures: [pi]2 a-b8 A-2N8 2O4 (4to). Full contemporary calf with six spine compartments between raised bands. Leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title; blind-tooled decoration in remaining compartments. All page edges red. Paste paper endpapers. First volume of the first German edition of La Science du Gouvernement by Gaspard de Réal de Curban (1682-1752). Scarce. In Very Good Condition: leather is rubbed with loss at head of spine and at upper corner of back board; minor worm damage to back board; internally clean and tight.

Hangö, Finand: Hango?-bladets tryckeri, 1930. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. An extremely rare pamphlet published in Finland by the Swedish-speaking supporters of Finland's fascist/pro-Germany political organisation, The Lapua Movement. The Swedish title translates into English as, "The Lapua movement, its origin and development, its aims and possibilities: Finland's Swedish population and the Lapua movement". Stapled wrappers, pp. 23. The Lapua Movement was a brutal anti-communist organisation which sought to elevate the "White" principles of the earlier civil war, including, Anti-communism. Lutheranism, and Finnish nationalism. Initially it attracted sympathetic support from prominent members of the establishment but its increasingly violent activities - not least the kidnapping and murder of Social Democrat politician Onni Happonen - could not sustain this and the movement was ultimately outlawed after a failed coup-d'etat attempt in 1932.… Read More