Search Results: Authors starting with V from Michael's Pride and Joys

Publisher: Fairbanks and Co, Chicago, 1878 First edition.. Hard cover. Used - Very Good Very good No dust jacket as issued Fine for age in burgundy boards with gilt Spine sunned . Inside frint board is bookplate. On facing (comng looses) page in small print type "Garret Biblical Institute, Evanston, Illionis and number 268. 268 again on title page. On Index page in small purple print  "122290 Dec 1925" and manuscript name that looks like Mrs. N.J. Kent. 174 pages text and music. This is one of the great rarities. According to WorldCat only one copy is held in libraries around the world; held United Library, Evanton, Illinois. Author Mrs  in 1878 by Fairbanks & Co. Madison St. Chicago. I believe the author's full name was Virginia Josephine Carter Kent. The book is in excellent condition; apart from the extremely neat annotaions I have listed, the books and feels new after one hundred plus years. Burgundy boards with still-bright gilt.

Like new because opens as never-read and leaves not yet sliced open but covers sunned or soiled. scan available. This is an early (2nd) edition published by l'Union des Combattanys de la Resistance before being published by Larousse (to whom the parties were connected), This is a particularly important association copy signed by Thierry, the son of author Jean Valeur- true name Jules Hollier-Larousse . Inscription reads: Pour mon Ami Noël MEILLEUR qui est venu en Normandie en 1944 Pour nous rendre le Bien le plus précieux "la Liberté" and beneath the title Les Quatrains....Ecrits par mon père pendant les années douloureuses de l'Occupation Nazie. pour redonner courage aux Français. En toute amitié Signature. With book comes a card of m et mme Thierry-Hollier Larousse on the back of which is written "Madame BARJAUD-VERINAUD Jean with their address in Caen. She was president of the Old Combatant Association. Thierry was also a resistance fighter in his own rightA GREAT PIECE OF WWII HISTORY

translation: Containing the names and images of coins, beaten in the seven former Dutch United Provinces, since the peace of Ghent to the present time. EXTENSIVELY ILLUSTRATED.Massive work of research full of illustrations and data on coins of the United Provinces from 16th century. Includes provinces now part of Belgium. No prices. Leather-look binding oversize and overweight. Title page gives date of 1848 TOO HEAVY TO SEND BY AIR. Can only ship to USA or Canada Verkade P. -Coin Book, Writer: Verkade P. Title: Currency Book, Language: Dutch Publisher: Schiedam Specifics: 1848 (reprint) 212 pages, ill. No date but believed to be 1971. I bought it in Amsterdam in the late seventies when I had hoard of shipwreck United Provinces coins

New or like new, hardback. Introduction by H. W. J. Sonius. Black and white frontispiece, lxvii + 307pp, , notes, bibliography, indices, The introduction to this English translation of a selection from Van Vollenhoven's study of indigenous Indonesian law. Adat (from the Arabic) includes the set of local and traditional laws and dispute resolution systems by which Indonesian and other societies were regulated. The author shows Adat Law in the administrative and legal system of the Dutch East Indies. Adat is still used in the courts of Malaysia as well as Indonesia. Cornelis van Vollenhoven (1874–1933) was a Dutch law professor and legal scholar, best known for his work on the legal systems of the Dutch East Indies

Broken Stairways to Consensus: Village Justice and State Courts in Minangkabau
by Benda-Beckmann, Keebet Von Trade paperback. Foris Publications, Dordrecht, Holland: Cinnaminson [N.J. ], U. S. A (1984) Coloured illustration on front. On back summary text "deals with proceses of dispute management in the highlands of West Sumatra inhabited by the Minangkabau. Islamic law, adat law, inheritance law, and national law. New and bright and fresh. No dust jacket as issued. xviii, 210 p. : ill.; 25 cm. Includes Illustrations. At back top right corner is a tiny tiny barely noticeable [6MM X 3MM] crinkle that extends back over several pages.
xviii, 210 p. : ill.; 25 cm. Includes Illustrations. Study based in West Sumatra looks at pre-colonial, colonial. and mainly post-colonial systems Includes index. Bibliography: p. [183]-204.
Dr. von Benda- Beckman led this project at the Max Plank Institite for Social Anthropology. After the fall of Suharto, she specialized in studies of law and society… Read More

by V? ? Bus, ArthurPapers of the Estonian Theological Society in Exile Volumes 1 and IITrue First Editions. Hard covers. Published by ETSE, Stockholm in 1969. Volume I has xxxii prelims + 207 pages. Volume II (1970) has unnumbered prelims + 209 pages. Boards and pages are all in new or indistinguishable-from-new condition.indexes. If you want just one volume, please tell me.