N. P: [1963]. Contributor's Copy–Honoring Adenauer. From the library of Henry Cabot Lodge who was one on the contributors to this collection. The magazine “Der Spiegel” produced a special issue to honor Chancelor Adenauer on his retirement. This notebook contains facsimiles of the contributions. The contributors are Harold Macmillan, Dwight..... Read More about Abschied Von Konrad Adenauer. 42 Briefe
Price: $450
Osborne: 11August 1855. As Secretary for Prince Albert. Phipps, as private secretary to Prince Albert, responds to the invitation of Gourlie and Anderson to attend the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science as the Prince and the Queen will have just “arrived in the Highlands for..... Read More about ALS to William Gourlie and Thomas Anderson
Price: $50
1843. Rare - the plate for this print remained private and was never used for a published edition. Read More about “A nun and a small peasant girl” entitled "From a Watercolour Sketch by E. Landseer"
Price: $400
New York: Harper & Row, (1964). First edition. This copy is inscribed by the Author, famous WASP columnist, to his sister Corinne , 'sis", Alsop Chubb, "For darling Corinney with much love and infinite admiration, Joe." Read More about From the Silent Earth. A Report on the Greek Bronze Age
Price: $200
London: Published by William Miller, Albemarle Street and Edmund Lloyd, Harley Street, 1810. First Edition, Including a list of subscribers and half-title. Read More about Tunbridge Wells and Its Neighbourhood, Illustrated by a Series of Etchings and Historuical...
Price: $350
New York: 1966. The third of five issues published (the fourth was a double issue), this volume is dedicated to "A Vietnam Assemblage," published during the early days of the Vietnam War. The cover was designed by Andy Warhol with perforated glue-backed yellow stickers, each featuring the text "BOMB HANOI"..... Read More about Some/Thing: A Vietnam Assemblage [Volume Two, Number One, Winter 1966; Andy Warhol "Bomb...
Price: $650
Cairo: Maṭbaʻat Wādī al-Nīl, 1286 A.H. [C.E. 1869]. Speech on the history of Arab Ottoman trade, noting the key position of Egypt as nexus between Red Sea and Mediterranean commercial routes. This was delivered at a time when Egypt was asserting greater claims of sovereignty under Isma‘il and when the..... Read More about Khitab fima yahsan dhikrihi min Ta'rikh al-Tijarat ‘and al-‘Arab wa al-‘Uthmaniyin idhalan...
Price: $500
[Buenos Aires: 1948]. Inscribed by Péron to Dentist Stanley Tylman. Inscribed on the mount by Perón in Spanish, on December 23, 1948, to the internationally renowned dentist, Dr. Stanley D. Tylman, "in gratitude for his services to Argentina and the friendliness he has shown me with his exquisite delicacy ....... Read More about Portrait Photograph of Juan Péron in his first term of office as President
Price: $1,000
n.p. [Bavaria? c. 1779?]. The Morawitzky Family of Bavaria. Handsome and beautifully drawn genealogical tree of this noble Bavarian family, whose members of have served for Bavarian Kings and Electors. Theodor Graf Topor von Morawitzky (1735 -1810), whose descent is given here, had a disinguished career as a public servant..... Read More about Manuscript on vellum of the family tree of “Theodor Heinrich von Morawitzky zu Ruednitz aus dem...
Price: $2,000
Frankfurt: Sumptibus Sigismudi Latomi, [1607]. A bi-annual publication generally regarded as the first periodical, the present volume is the second book of the seventh volume and includes material and an illustration relating to the Battle of Gibralter in which the Dutch fleet surprised and destroyed much of the Spanish armada..... Read More about Mercvrii Gallobelgici Succenturiati, Sive Rervm In Gallia Et Belgio Potissimvm; Hispania Qvoque,...
Price: $600
London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 1860. First edition. Read More about Travels in the Regions of the Upper and Lower Amoor and the Russian Acquisitions on the Confines...
Price: $400
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1977. First edition. Inscribed by the Beale, who was ambassador to the US from Australia during the Kennedy administration, "for dear Jane [Engelhard] / with affectionate regards / from Howard Beale / Nov. 24 '77" Read More about This Inch of Time
Price: $350
[Reichenberg, Bohemia: July 1875]. A large and elaborate testimonial from the notables of the Bohemian town of Reichenberg (today Liberec in the Czech Republic) extending formal condolences to Maria Anna of Savoy, consort of Ferdinand I (1793-1875), who was ruler of Austria Hungary from 1835 to 1848. Following his abdication..... Read More about Calligraphic Testimonial to the Dowager Empress of Austria, on the death of Ferdinand, from the...
Price: $1,000
Frankfurt am Mann: Verlag der jägerischen Buchhandlung, 1790. Third part. War with Turkey. The continuation of the military history of the Russian and Austrian war on Turkey. Read More about Geschichte des gegenwartigen Kriegs zwischen den vereinigten Herren Oesterreichs und Russlands,...
Price: $200
Munich: published by the Academy, nd [ca 1773]. First German Edition. The First English Edition of this work was published in 1772. It contains a great deal on agricultural machinery and makes mention of machinery and practices in America as well as in England and the Continent. Read More about The Advancment of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce: or Descriptions of the Useful Machines and...
Price: $1,500
London: George Virtue, 1836. First edition. Read More about Switzerland illustrated in a series of views taken expressly for this work by W. H. Bartlett
Price: $1,250
London: George Virtue, 1838. The First Edition. Read More about The Waldenses or Protestant Valleys of Piedmont, Dauphiny, and the Ban de la Roche
Price: $1,000
London: John W. Parker and Son West Strand & Longmans, Green, 1854 & 1876. Read More about Charicles Illustrations of the Private Life of the Ancient Greeks WITH: Gallus or Roman Scenes of...
Price: $150
Brussels: Editions Pro Temporare, 1939. Number 4 of 5 copies printed on Japon Nacré. One of 5 copies, with original leaf of manuscript. With an original leaf of manuscript by Emile Léon Posschelle for his “Mater Beata” included in this work. Also a card reading “Avec les Remerciements des Editions..... Read More about Les Sculpteurs S. M. la Reine Elisabeth; Madame Robert Haerens; Alfred Courtens. Tome IX....
Price: $600
Glasgow: Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1763. First Edition. A British expatriate, Bell travelled throughout Russia and the east during the years 1715-38. He accompanied the embassies of Peter the Great to Ispahan in Persia in 1715-18, travelled to Peking in China through Siberia in 1719-21, to Derbent in Persia in..... Read More about Travels from St. Petersburg in Russia to diverse parts of Asia
Price: $2,250
![Item #217396 [Kurpfalz. Regierungsrath, Mannheim. Ordinance governing Bell-Ringing] Von Gottes...](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/217396.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1669650436)
Mannheim: Kurpfalz Regierungsrath … F. Stamm, 27 April 1784. Law regulating the permissible peals of bells in the territory, the May-Peal, ringing of the bells in thanks after the end of storms, and prohibiting others. Read More about Kurpfalz. Regierungsrath, Mannheim. Ordinance governing Bell-Ringing] Von Gottes Gnaden Wir Carl...
Price: $400
![Item #302352 Bismarck-Denkmal für das Deutsche Volk. [And:] Unseres Bismarck Heimgang. Ein...](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/302352.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1690406631)
Akron Ohio: The Werner Company, [1898]. Massive memorial volume to the great German statesman Otto von Bismarck. Read More about Bismarck-Denkmal für das Deutsche Volk. [And:] Unseres Bismarck Heimgang. Ein Trauertag...
Price: $275
Hanover: Gebrüder Hahn, 1807. From the Library of Tsar Alexander II. A book in Planck’s multi-volume history of the Papacy, in his Geschichte der christlich-kirchlichen Gesellschafts-Verfassung (published 1803-9), with Imperial Russian provenance, here repurposed into a book safe. Read More about Geschichte des Pabstthums in den abendländischen Kirchen von der Mitte des neunten Jahrhunderts...
Price: $300
c. 1923. STONE & WEBSTER CO. IN BRAZIL. A collection of photos of mostly local scenes, as well as construction projects and employees of Stone & Webster Co., and subsidiary, and Brightman & Co., Inc. Photos include William T. McCaskey and Mayor of Codo on mule; handcars transporting passengers and..... Read More about Photograpas: photograph album of local scenes and construction projects in various towns, in Brazil
Price: $450