New Delhi, India: Sahitya Akademi, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear and fading to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 306 p. 21 essays and 4 addresses on various aspects of the Mahabharata, such as poetry, performance, art, architecture, literary tradition, and more. Uncommon. More
London: Lodestar Books, 2014. First edition. paperback with french flaps. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. 239 p. w/ color and b&w illus., kit list and stowage lan, further reading. The adventure memoir of two Royal Marines who followed the Northwest passage across the top... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin and company, 1906. Limited edition. Leather Bound Hardcover. Manuscript edition with one sheet of an original manuscript by Thoreau himself, written on both sides. 20 volumes. Limited, numbered edition, number 35 of 600 copies. Signed "Houghton Mifflin Co." on the limitation page in a lovely hand. An... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 211 p. w/ footnotes, bibliography, index. A study of the fall of the Polish - Lithuanian Commonwealth, brought about by the great weakening of the State by the... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 290 p. w/ footnotes, index. A collection of 12 scholarly essays examining Irish political thought and culture, drawing attention to neglected writers and treatises. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 299 p. w/ footnotes, bibliography, index. Discusses the rise of the duke of Lerma as the closest minister to the king, as well as court favoritism and the... More
London: Conway Maritime Press, 1995. Later printing. Hardcover. Quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 224 p. w/ many b&w illus., appendices, tables, endnotes, index. Covers the historical background of English line of battle sailing ships, with exensive tables noting all ships above 50 guns. More
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 191 p. w/ many b&w illus., appendices, tables, endnotes, index. Covers English line of battle sailing ships, from the late 17th to early 19th century. More
Tokyo: Process Architecture Publishing Co., 1977. First edition. Oversized Paperback. Quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. 258 p. w/ many illus. (one fold out), biographies. All articles are in both Japanese and English. 42 short works on various Scandinavian buildings. First issue of this influential Japanese architecture journal. More
New York, NY: Praeger, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Squarish quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. Text in black with some in red. 195 p. w/ many b&w illus., glossary, biographical notes, bibliography, index. A look at the permanent and sometime temporary architecture of... More
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 315 p. w/ figures, b&w illus., bibliography, index. a study of the more reserved "estilo chao" popular after the riches of the spice trade trailed off. More
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 437 p. w/ illus., maps, endnotes, select bibliography, index. Focuses on Europe through the 19th c. More
Austin, TX: One Touchpoint Ginnys, 2015. First edition. Hardcover w/glossy pictorial boards. Quaro (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued. 195 p. w/ glossary. A very personal memoir of the assistant chief of saff, 5th Air Force in the South Pacific under General Kenney... More
Jerusalem: 1966. First edition. Paperback. Thin octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. Name of former owner on inside cover. 74 p. w/ footnotes, addenda. A detailed look at an Arabic anti-Christian manuscript that adapted many views and traditions of Jewish Christian sources, some of which... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed by the author on the flyleaf. 277 p. w/ endnotes, select bibliography, index. A study of this major phenomenon in writing across Europe, beginning with... More
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 238 p. w/ footnotes, select bibliography, index. A study suggesting Baudelaire was indirectly mocking bourgeoise values and attitudes in his work, Le Spleen de Paris. More
New Haven, CT. National Gallery of Art / Yale University Press, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 343 p. w/ tables, drawings, b&w illus., chapter bibliographies, index. 15 scholarly essays on various aspects of the Moche, from war to... More
Mexico: Centre d'Etudes Mexicaines et Centramericaines, 1983. First edition. Oversized Paperback. Quarto (oversized). Some wear to edges and corners of covers. Name and address of former owner on flyleaf. 166 p. w/ map, b&w illus., bibliography. More
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994. First ed. Hardcover. Quarto (oversized). Hardcover. Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. Spine a bit faded. 300 p. w/ b&w illus., drawings, charts, appendices, bibliography, index. Covers motifs and major themes in the sculpture of this important Maya... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. Small tear at edge of dj at front panel. A few maginal notes in light pencil. 371 p. w/ footnotes, appendices, glossary, bibliography, index. A scholarly comparison... More
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo ( standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of dj and boards. 236 p. w/ illustrations, notes, tables, appendices, glossary, bibliography, index. A look at the rise and decline of the Turkish port of Izmir ( Smyrna ) over... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 460 p. w/ a few illus., footnotes, appendices, bibliography, index. A history of the States General of Burgundy during the classic period of absolute monarchy when they were... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 381 p. w/ a few illus., footnotes, bibliography, index. A history of the States General through two -phases of monarchical rule, the Burgundian Dukes in the fifteenth century... More
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. Slight soiling to top edge of text block. 273 p. w/ illus., endnotes, index. 20 essays on a variety of Italian Renaissance topics, including Giordano Bruno, Shakespeare... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 479 p. w/ illus., footnotes, select bibliography, index. A study of the change from court culture to more public cultural institutionsm including coffee houses, novels, newspapers, voluntary associaations, and more. More
