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

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, (1980). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 240 pp. David Joseph Bohm (1917-1992) was "one of the most significant theoretical physicists of the 20th century...who contributed unorthodox ideas to quantum theory, neuropsychology and the philosophy of mind. Among his many contributions to physics is..... More

London: Verso, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition in book form, first printing, octavo size, 399 pp. From the jacket flap: "In this commanding survey of the world economy from 1950 to the present,a revised and newly introduced edition of his acclaimed New Left Review special report, he [Brenner] charts..... More

New York: International Publishers, 1947. Hardcover. Octavo size, 346 pp. Per Wikipedia, "Christopher Caudwell was the pseudonym of Christopher St John Sprigg (20 October 1907 – 13 February 1937), a British Marxist writer, literary critic, intellectual and activist..published The Crisis of Physics in 1936... According to Marxist historian Helena Sheehan..... More

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. 2nd impression (printing), octavo size, 620 pp. From Oxford University Press, "Written by an internationally renowned Bach scholar; Explores Bach's interaction of the special character of John's gospel; First work to look at the St. John Passion and the Cantatas for spring..... More

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 738 pp. From the dust jacket flap: "The French Realist painter Gustave Courbet (1819-77), a pivotal figure in the emergence of modern painting, remains an artist whose interests, attitudes, and friendships are little understood. A voluminous correspondent..... More

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 473 pp. From the dust jacket flap, "This is a study of Hegel’s intellectual development up to the writing of 'The Phenomenology of Spirit' in 1807. It argues that his thought is best approached contextually, in terms of..... More

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (2006). First Edition. Hardcover. first printing, octavo size, 356 pp. Angus Gowland investigates the theory of melancholy and its many applications in the Renaissance by means of a wide-ranging contextual analysis of Robert Burton's encylopaedic "Anatomy of Melancholy" (first edition 1621) (n.b., from dust jacket flap)..... More

Paris: Larousse, (2001). Cardboard covers. Two volumes (complete), quarto size, 2267 pp., in publisher's slipcase, all text in French. A two volume boxed set of the most comprehensive reference of French writers. Over 1100 entries detailing the genre and biography of French authors, along with Prize recipients and an index..... More

Calcutta: Seagull Books, 2017. First English Language Edition. Hardcover. Octavo size, pp. 717. From the dust jacket flap, "One of the towering classics of twentieth-century French literature...one man's...travel journal as well as an exhaustively detailed account of the first French state-sponsored anthropological expedition to sub-Saharan Africa....a book whose broad canvas..... More

[London]: The Pierpont Morgan Library / Cornell University Press, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, folio size, 598 pp. Per the jacket flap: "These volumes constitute the first comprehensive history in English of French book illustration from 1700-1914. By their inclusion of Romantic lithographic albums, indeed they go beyond any..... More

New Haven: Yale University Press, (2019). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 598 pp. From dust jacket flap: "A wide-ranging study that illuminates the connection between epidemic deseases and societal change, from the Black Death to Ebola". ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in full grey paper over boards, silver lettering on the..... More

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 523 pp. From the dust jacket flap, "In this magisterial account of the life and work of St Anselm, Sir Richard Southern provides a study in depth of one of the most fascinating minds in Christian history." From..... More