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

New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 740 pp. From the dust jacket flap, "The Church in Ancient Society provides a full and enjoyable narrative history of the Christian Church. Ancient Greek and Roman society had many gods and an addiction to astrology and..... 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

Paris: Librairie de Firmin-Didot Freres, Fils et Cie, 1874. Second Edition. Hardcover. Quarto size, 640 pp., text in French. The best known work by knight and historian Geoffroi de Ville-Hardouin (c. 1150-c.1213/18), written between 1207 and 1213. This work is one of the oldest known examples of historical French prose..... More

London: Printed for T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies... 1798. First Edition. Leather bound. Octavo size, 544 pp. The Turkish Empire (Ottoman Empire) ended the Byzantine Empire in 1453 with the conquest of Constantinople; for almost seven centures they controlled much of Northern Africa, Western Asia,and Southeast Europe (n.b., info..... More

New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885 - 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes (complete), octavo size, Volume I published in 1885 with 584 pp., Volume II published in 1886 with 647 pp. Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) is arguably one of the most important generals in U.S. history, at..... More

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Three volumes (complete) with errata slip, folio size, approx. 1060 pp., with Errata slip. For those familiar with this incredible work, you may skip the following paragraph. For those who may be asking themselves, whyever should I be interested in an..... 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 Castle [and] London: Oak Knoll Press & The British Library, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes (complete), first printing, quarto size, approx. 1050 total pp. "This remarkable book represents over twenty years of research and scholarship by one of the most celebrated fine press printers of the twentieth-century. With..... 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