European History from Antiquarian Book Shop

Paris: Grimbert, Librairie, successeur de Maradan. Very Good. 1825. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Halftitle, title & 520 pp pages; Contemporary green half morocco over marbled boards, plain tan endpapers. The half title is a bit wrinkled and the bottom third is loose at the gutter margin. A few minor brown paper flaws scattered through the text.… Read more about this item

Washington DC: Government Printing Office. Very Good. 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. 329 pages; Publisher's brown morocco leather spine over tan cloth boards, top edges gilt, others trimmed rough. An excellent copy; the spine is intact and the gilt lettering fresh, corners and the foot of the spine very slightly bumped, internally clean and free from foxing.… Read more about this item

Leipzig. Very Good-. 1773. Second Edition. Hardcover. viii, 294 pages; Contents complete and unmarked in original paper-covered boards; paper chipped all along spine; paper toned, but supple remnants f a pper covering adhered to endpapers. OCLC 603521068 Engraved frontispiece portrait of Johann Friedrich Struensee. Johann Friedrich Struensee (1737 – 1772)… Read more about this item

Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. Text clean and secure in original red binding in very nice dustjacket. Front board and front panel of dustjacket have crease at right upper corner. The never-before told story of how Napoleon's top brass … Read more about this item

London: Archibald Constable & Co.. Very Good. 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. 2 p.l., 282 & ads pages; Contemporary full calf, flamed decoration, swirl marbled endpapers, edges decoratively stained red. Minor rubbing to the binding; outer hinge of front board tender -- still quite handsome; some diffuse foxing to the title page and the fore-edges of the… Read more about this item

Kyiv, [Ukraine]: Drukarnia S.V. Kul'zhenko. Very Good-. 1905. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. [2 p.l.], 519 pages; Library of Congress binding in dark red buckram, preserving the publisher's color pictorial wrappers (front and rear), the color pictorial title page and the color pictorial first sectional title -- the front wrapper depicts a "Kobzar" -- a traditional Ukrainian… Read more about this item

London: Cassell. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 1956. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Contents clean and secure in original red cloth binding, only flaw is bump to lower corner of front board in dustjacket with minor wear at spine ends and a very small spot at spine edge of front panel in protective acetate protector.… Read more about this item

Paris: Chez P. Dumenil, Editeur. Good. 1845. Hardcover. avec une notice sur tous les faits importants, et l'indication des lieux ou ils se sont passes; destine a faciliter la Lecture et l'Intelligence de tous les ouvrages relatifs a l'histoire de la Grece et de l'Italie et redige d'apres les meilleures sources par A. Houze. Contents clean… Read more about this item

London: George Allen and Unwin for Royal Economic Society. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1952-54. First Edition. Hardcover. 412; 458; 600 pages; Clean and secure in original black cloth bindings in very good dustjackets. Jeremy Bentham (1748 -1832) was an English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism. Bentham… Read more about this item

London: Privately printed. Very Good+. 1829. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. viii, 358 & [1] pages; Contemporary full polished calf, tobacco brown, covers paneled with incised lines in blind, decorative devices stamped in the corners and the panels of the spine, title lettered in gilt in the second panel, marbled endpapers, all edges decoratively stained red. … Read more about this item

Southampton: Ordnance Survey Office. Very Good. 1920. Map. lovely map of North Wales mounted on cloth. Very Good condition, with one tiny worn spot at a corner fold. .

n.p.: H.B.M. Government. Very Good. 1914. First Edition. Paperback. [A 1773] (B143) 2000 7/14 [July 1914] H&S 772wo ; 23, (2) maps pages; A fascinating survivor of the Great War [World War I] This booklet issued in July 1914 contains two folding maps showing the region of Belgium where the… Read more about this item

Francofurdi -- [Frankfurt]: Apud Andrae Wecheli heredes. Very Good-. 1590. First Edition. Hardcover. 4 p.l., 1052 & 69 pp pages; Folio in contemporary full vellum, raised bands on the spine, central lozenge in blind on both covers. Minor wear and soiling, some local splitting at the tops and bottoms of the hinges, some tears and lifting… Read more about this item

Washington: Royal Norwegian Embassy. Very Good+. 1942. First Edition. Cards. 1 pages; Printed invitation reads: "To celebrate the Seventieth Birthday Anniversary of / His Majesty King Haakon of Norway / The Ambassador of Norway and Mrs. Munthe Morgenstierne / request the pleasure of your company / at a reception / on Monday, August the third /… Read more about this item

London: Collins. Very Good. 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. 320 pages; Some pencil markings made by Susan Mary Alsop on several pages; otherwise contents clean and secure in original cloth binding with gilt lettering at spinein very good dustjacket. This was a reference book for Alsop's research for her book The Congress Dances: Vienna 1814-1815. … Read more about this item

Moscow: V.V Kuibyshev Military Engineering Academy. Very Good. 1939. Hardcover. 37 ff & 13 ff. plates pages; Typescript, versos only of quarto sheets -- carbon. Thirteen plates (which appear to be photographs of the original text's illustrations, mounted to plain paper sheets). In a contemporary binder, citron buckram covers, metal hinges retaining leaves at the… Read more about this item

London: Collins. Very Good. 1957. Second Printing. Hardcover. 766 pages; Former owner's note on ffep - "For Bill / from Bill / in memory of lunch at the / Travellers Club in Paris on the / 10th April 1957 - gratefully." Laid in is a printed invitation with manuscript annotation ; Pour memoire // Le… Read more about this item

Paris: Flammarion. Very Good. 1981. Paperback. From the collection of Susan Mary Alsop, with her manuscript notes laid-in keyed to some ink markings in the text, particularly in the chapter on Le Congres de Vienne. This was a reference source for Alsop's book The Congress Dances: Vienna 1814-1815. From the collection of Susan Mary … Read more about this item

Paris: Librairie Academique Perrin. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. 379 pages; Avant-Propos Du Duc de Levis Mirepoix de L'Academie Francaise. Clean and secure in original red binding in very good dustjacket with minor wear at spine ends. Fascinating history of the role of the French in the American Revolution… Read more about this item

Wien: Bundesministerium für Unterricht. Very Good-. 1965. First Edition. Paperback. 510 pages; 1. Juni bis 15. Oktober 1965 Schauräume der Hofburg -- Kaiserappartements Wien. Contents clean and unmarked, wrappers creased and curled at corner. From the collection of Susan Mary Patten Alsop, a popular historian and a pillar of Washington society, was the daughter of… Read more about this item