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Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 2010 8vo (23.5 cm), XVIII, 637 pp. Laminated wrappers. "In the first complete history of the War of 1812 written from a British perspective, Jon Latimer offers an authoritative and compelling account that places the conflict in its strategic context within the Napoleonic wars. The British viewed the War of 1812 as an ill-fated attempt by the young American republic to annex Canada. For British Canada, populated by many loyalists who had fled the American Revolution, this was a war for survival. The Americans aimed both to assert their nationhood on the global stage and to expand their territory northward and westward." (from the publisher's description)

Paris: chez Vincent, Imprimeur-Libraire, 1768 2 volumes in-8, XXIII, 694, [9] pp; [III], 786, [1] pp. Cont. marbled calf, marbled edges, raised bands, spine gild, red morocco labels (corners slightly bumped, in volume 1 the tail of the spine chipped, occasional foxing and staining). Bookplate affixed to the front pastedown of volume one. This is the first edition chronicling the history of the Ottoman Empire. A. L. M. Pétis de la Croix, the son of Francois Pétit the younger (who served as the Arabic interpreter of the French court, a post inherited from his father, Francois Pétit de la Croix the elder), continued in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, establishing himself as a notable orientalist. Atabey 945; Blackmer 745.

Yale University Press, 2010 8vo (20.5 cm), X, 256 pp. Laminated wrappers. From the blurb: "A tough, evenhanded investigation of changing public perceptions of the Alger Hiss case and why it has served as a litmus test of American political loyalties for sixty years. Books on Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss abound, as countless scholars have labored to uncover the facts behind Chambers’s shocking accusation before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in the summer of 1948 - that Alger Hiss, a former rising star in the State Department, had been a Communist and engaged in espionage. In this highly original work, Susan Jacoby turns her attention to the Hiss case, including his trial and imprisonment for perjury, as a mirror of shifting American political views and passions. Unfettered by political ax-grinding, the author examines conflicting responses, from scholars and the media on both the left and the right, and the ways in which they have changed from 1948 to our present post -… Read More

Harvard University Press, 1998 8vo (23.5 cm), XII, 346 pp. Laminated wrappers. " This narrative history surveying one thousand years of Jewish life integrates the Jewish experience into the context of the overall culture and society of medieval Europe. It presents a new picture of the interaction between Christians and Jews in this tumultuous era. Alienated Minority shows us what it meant to be a Jew in Europe in the Middle Ages. The story begins in the fifth century, when autonomous Jewish rule in Palestine came to a close, and when the papacy, led by Gregory the Great, established enduring principles regarding Christian policy toward Jews. Kenneth Stow examines the structures of self-government in the European Jewish community and the centrality of emerging concepts of representation. He studies economic enterprise, especially banking; constructs a clear image of the medieval Jewish family; and portrays in detail the very rich Jewish intellectual life." (from the blurb)

Belknap Press, 2009 8vo (22 cm), [6], 439 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. The Cold War dominated world affairs during the half century following World War II. It ended in victory for the United States, yet it was a costly triumph. In a brilliant new interpretation, Campbell Craig and Fredrik Logevall reexamine the successes and failures of America's Cold War. The United States dealt effectively with the threats of Soviet predominance in Europe and of nuclear war in the early years of the conflict. But in engineering this policy, American leaders successfully paved the way for domestic actors and institutions with a vested interest in the struggle's continuation. Long after the USSR had been effectively contained, Washington continued to wage a virulent Cold War that entailed a massive arms buildup, wars in Korea and Vietnam, the support of repressive regimes and counterinsurgencies, and a pronounced militarization of American political culture.

Harvard University Press, 2000 12mo (17 cm), L, 583 pp, 2 maps. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (bookplate). With an English translation by John C. Rolfe.

Harvard University Press, 2006 8vo (21.5 cm), [8], 373 pp. Publisher's cloth backed boards and dust jacket. From the blurb: "Contemporary America, with its unparalleled armaments and ambition, seems to many commentators a new empire. Others angrily reject the designation. What stakes would being an empire have for our identity at home and our role abroad? A pre-eminent American historian addresses these issues in light of the history of empires since antiquity. This elegantly written book examines the structure and impact of these mega-states and asks whether the United States shares their traits and behaviour."

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1982 8vo (23.5 cm), X, 254 pp. Publisher's cloth (minor shelf-wear). Papers presented at the October 22-23, 1977 conference at Dumbarton Oaks. Contents include: "Introduction: the importance of late Post-Classic central Mexico for Mesoamerican studies" by H. B. Nicholson; "Tlazolteotl-Ixcuina: the great spinner and weaver" by Thelma D. Sullivan; "Analysis of the Aztec Quechquemitl: an exercise in inference" by Patricia Anawalt; "The formal pattern of anthropomorphic sculpture and the ideology of the Aztec State" by Felipe R. Solís Olguín; "Malinalco and the lords of Tenochititlan" by Richard F. Townsend; "Aztec legal process: the case of Texcoco" by Jerome A. Offner; "Archaeology and the art of Mexican picture writing" by Bodo Spranz; "The interpretation of postures and gestures in the Mixtec codices" by Nancy P. Troike; "Skeletonization in Mixtec art:… Read More

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1992 8vo (23.5 cm), XII, 463 pp. Publisher's cloth (minor shelf-wear). Papers from a conference held in Oct. 1988 at Dumbarton Oaks. Contents include: "Teotihuacan: an introduction" by Susan T. Evans and Janet Catherine Berlo; "Economic and social implications of variations in mortuary practices at Teotihuacan" by Martha L. Sempowski; "Tlailotlacan, a Zapotec enclave in Teotihuacan" by Michael W. Spence; "Style in lapidary technology: identifying the Teotihuacan lapidary industry" by Margaret H. Turner; "A survey of recently excavated murals at Teotihuacan" by Ruben Cabrera Castro; "Icons and ideologies at Teotihuacan: the great goddess reconsidered" by Janet Catherine Berlo; "The iconography of mirrors at Teotihuacan" by Karl A. Taube; "Rulership, warfare, and human sacrifice at the Ciudadela: an iconographic study of feathered serpent representations" by Saburo… Read More

Editions Du Seuil, 2010 8vo (24 cm), 400 pp. Laminated wrappers.

Viyana: Dar tibaʹ al-imberaturiyy, 1846 8vo (23.5 x 15 cm), 88 pp. Publisher's wrappers (wrapper slightly faded, title page soiled, inventory number, stamp of a defunct library on the last page). Printed in red and gold with a beautiful title page in gold and blue. In Ottoman Turkish. A curious edition of texts of commercial treaties between Turkey and the Habsburg Empire, published in oriental style in Vienna by Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, an imperial printshop.

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1996 4to (31 cm), VIII, 392 pp. Publisher's cloth (minor shelf-wear). Papers from the 1986 Summer Seminar, Empire, Province, and Village in Aztec History. The book is a comprehensive analysis of the economic and political geography of the Aztec empire. It is the fruit of a joint research project among ethnohistorians, archaeologists, and art historians. The authors researched every town in the Aztec empire, recording a set of standard information for each. They drew a new map of the empire by first plotting local towns and city-states and then grouping these by province. This map, the first complete map of Aztec territory since Robert Barlow's 1949 study, reveals new principles of provincial organization.

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1987 8vo (23.5 cm), VI, 513 pp. Publisher's cloth (minor shelf-wear). Papers presented at the October 8-9, 1983 symposium at Dumbarton Oaks. Contents include: "Templo Mayor research, 1521-1978" by Elizabeth Hill Boone; "The ethnohistorical record for the Huey Teocalli of Tenochtitlan" by Miguel Leon-Portilla; "Templo Mayor architecture: so what's new?" by Augusto F. Molina Montes; "Symbolism of ceramics from the Templo Mayor" by Doris Heyden; "Offering 48 of the Templo Mayor: a case of child sacrifice" by Juan Alberto Roman Berrelleza; "Mezcala style anthropomorphic artifacts in the Templo Mayor" by Carlos Javier Gonzalez Gonzalez; "The economics of Aztec luxury trade and tribute" by Frances F. Berdan; "Symbolism of the Templo Mayor" by Eduardo Matos Moctezuma; "The provenience of the offerings: tribute and cosmovision" by Johanna Broda; "The masked… Read More

Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969 8vo (22 cm), 128 pp, plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (few closed tears to dj, canceled stamp of an institutional library on the title). The classical study focuses on the concept of bandits within the mythology, folklore, and literature of Europe, specifically its relation to classical Marxist concepts of class struggle.

Laterza, 2006 8vo (21 cm), XVIII, 333, [17] pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (minor shelf-wear). From the blurb: "Un mondo che si considera prospero e civile, segnato da disuguaglianze e squilibri al suo interno, ma forte di unamministrazione stabile e di uneconomia integrata; allesterno, popoli costretti a sopravvivere, minacciati dalla fame e dalla guerra, e che sempre più spesso chiedono di entrare; una frontiera militarizzata per filtrare profughi e immigrati; e autorità di governo che debbono decidere volta per volta il comportamento da tenere verso queste emergenze. Potrebbe sembrare una descrizione del nostro mondo, e invece è la situazione in cui si trovò per secoli limpero romano di fronte ai barbari."

Genève: Librairie Droz, 1956 Small 4to (26 cm), front, 184 pp., 2 ff of plates. Untrimmed publisher's wrappers (wrappers slightly frayed).

Oxford University Press, 1940 8vo (23 cm), XVI, 256 pp, 3 plates. Publisher's cloth, gilt-lettered spine (binding slightly rubbed at extremities). The first edition of a bibliography dedicated to English historian Edward Gibbon (1737-1794), renowned for his seminal work "History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." Primarily focused on editions published before 1838, this bibliography provides comprehensive collations of all editions released before 1800, as well as significant editions thereafter. The introductory essays aim to contextualize the collations within a broader historical and bibliographical framework, appealing to both general readers and bibliophiles.

‎Paris: Guillaume-François de Bure, 1768 2 volumes in-8, XXIII, 631 pp; 685 pp. Contemporary mottled calf, five raised bands, spines gilt, morocco gilt-lettered labels, gilt supralibros on the front boards (an elephant’s head holding in its trunk a crown pierced by three arrows), all edges painted red, marbled endpapers (edges of bindings rubbed, joints rubbed but firm, bottom corners slightly scuffed, inscriptions on the recto of the front free endpapers, numbers written at the top of the title, the first volume lacking a half-title). From the library of Bolle Willum Luxdorph (1716-1788), a Danish government official, historian, and book collector. Luxdorph left a book collection of 15,000 volumes, which was auctioned after his death. A very good copy of Volumes 2 & 3 devoted to the history of Guillaume-François de Bure's "Bibliographie instructive." It was "the best of the 18th-century rare book bibliographies, important for the new classification… Read More

Prague, 1938 8vo (23 cm), XV, 445, [3] pp. Cont. cloth backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine, original wrappers bound in (paper slightly toned). In Russian. A very good copy of a bibliography covering the Russian Revolution and Civil War (1917-1921).

Harvard University Press, 2005 8vo (23.5 cm) XIV, 310 pp. Laminated wrappers. "This is a biography of a borderland between Russia and Poland, a region where, in 1925, people identified as Poles, Germans, Jews, Ukrainians, and Russians lived side by side. Over the next three decades, this mosaic of cultures was modernized and homogenized out of existence by the ruling might of the Soviet Union, then Nazi Germany, and finally, Polish and Ukrainian nationalism. By the 1950s, this no place emerged as a Ukrainian heartland, and the fertile mix of peoples that defined the region was destroyed. Brown's study is grounded in the life of the village and shtetl, in the personalities and small histories of everyday life in this area. In impressive detail, she documents how these regimes, bureaucratically and then violently, separated, named, and regimented this intricate community into distinct ethnic groups. Drawing on recently opened archives, ethnography, and oral interviews that were unavailable a… Read More