Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2000). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 755 pp. The examination by John Barrell, Professor of English, University of York, on the three years following the execution of Louis XVI and its consequences upon those in Britain. Barrell "shows how the law of treason was..... More

Boston: Walker, Wise, and Company, 1862. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Second printing (first printing was in 1861), duodecimo size, 131 pp. One of many voices calling for an end to slavery in the United States, Moncure Daniel Conway (1832-1907) writes an impassioned plea for the emancipation of slaves in "The Rejected..... More

New Haven: Yale University Press, (2008). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, quarto size, 528 pp. From the dustjacket flap: "Weaving together titanic concepts while remaining sensitive to specifics, [Barry] Cunliffe has produced an interdisciplinary tour de force. His is a bold book of exceptional scholarship, erudite and engaging, and it..... More

Dayton, Ohio: Odell & Mayer, 1881. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo size, 1039 pp. The first written history of Fayette County, Ohio, this volume describes its discovery, engagements with Native Americans, the involvement of citizens in both the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, information on agriculture and industries, and significant information on..... More

Berkeley: University of California Press, (1995). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, quarto size, 507 pp. For any student of the history of Venice or the madrigal form, this scholarly work is indispensible to have a thorough understanding of such in medieval Venetian culture. ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in full green cloth over..... More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Comany, c. 1961. Ninth Printing. Hardcover. Octavo size, 186 pp., in dust jacket, inscribed by John Griffin. The year was 1959; while the Civil Rights Movement was gaining momentum, in many parts of America and particularly in the South, African Americans were considered inferior to whites and..... More

Rockford, Illinois: Gazette Publishing House, 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo size, 295 pp. A relatively scarce account by a woman of "frontier life in different localities...The climate, the soil, society, schools and churches, in many places in Kentucky, Illinois and Nebraska are described, and I hope it will interest all..... More

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1873. First Edition. Leather bound. Large octavo size, 750 pp., inscribed by Olive Risley Seward. William Henry Seward (1801-1872) served as the U.S. Secretary of State (1861-1869), before which he was the twelfth Governor of New York (1839-1842) and a U.S. Senator. A prominent..... More

[San Francisco]: The Book Club of California [Printed by the Grabhorn Press], [1946]. Dean, Mallette. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 280 copies, folio size, 107 pp., with prospectus. Hernando de Soto (1495-1542), the hero of this story, was a Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the first European expedition into..... More

Milwaukee: Ernst G. Timme, 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto size, 570 pp., with the original presentation card from the author tipped in. The twenty-fourth volume of the Wisconsin Blue Book, with contents including the law of 1885, prescribing the number of officers and employees of both the senate and assembly..... More

Cambridge, Massachusettes: Harvard University Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 795 pp. From the dust jacket flap, "…the indispensable work for historians, sociologists, population experts, and scholars of developing countries. It is the first national population history to provide basic demographic information over a period of 300..... More