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The White Book: Evidence, Facts, Documents - Part I: Rightless in an Alien World; Part II: Espionage and Subversion under Cover of 'Human Rights' Campaign

By: Association of Soviet Lawyers; Smirnov, L.; Modjoryan, L.; Modrzhinskaya, E.; Bannov, B.; Gorshunova, Tatyana; Grace, Yevgenia

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Moscow, Progress Publishers: 1981

Seller ID: 2205906

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Jacket lightly toned, 1/4 inch closed tear on front jacket edge. 1981 Hard Cover. 246, [2] pp. 8vo. A Cold War propaganda piece claiming the emigrants 'from the USSR to the capitalist world are oppressed and deprived of rights. It tells that freedom of the individual in the West means unemployment, social inequality, humiliation, and family tragedies. The book gives evidence of how imperialist special services make use of freedom of movement for ideological subversion and espionage against the USSR.
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The First Eden: The Mediterranean World and Man

By: Attenborough, David

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company: 1987

Seller ID: 2202128

ISBN: 0316057509

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First American edition. Pages faintly toned. Jacket lightly toned. 1987 Large Hardcover. 240 pp. Five and a half million years ago, the waters of the Atlantic flooded across an isthmus joining Morocco and Spain and into a vast trench in the earth's crust. The resulting cataract plunged for a century or so over a cliff many miles long and fifty times higher than Niagara, until at last the basin was filled and the Mediterranean Sea had been born. ...explores the history and current state of this fascinating region, which became the cradle of civilization. ...David Attenborough not only describes...
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Napoleon

By: Aubry, Octave

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Crown: 1964

Seller ID: 2308387

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Jacket edges lightly bumped with a few small tears and small chips, front jacket flap creased, jacket lightly toned. Small surface tear to top corner of rear paste-down endpaper. 1964 Large Hardcover. 384 pp. Includes 817 illustrations, including 12 colour plates. Octave Aubry considers Napoleon's greatness and his faults. He traces Napoleon's life and achievements from his childhood and adolescence in Corsica, through his meteoric rise to power--captain at twenty, general at twenty-five, commander-in-chief at twenty-six, First Consul at thirty and Emperor at thirty-five--to his abdication, hi...
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The King of Rome Napoleon II L'Aiglon

By: Aubry, Octave; Abbott, Elisabeth

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company: 1932

Seller ID: 2301225

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket. Spine lighlty toned, top edge of front board lightly bumped. 1932 Hard Cover. 272 pp. Green boards. Gilt title and decoration on front board. 16 aquatone illustrations. Napolon Franois Joseph Charles Bonaparte (20 March 1811 22 July 1832), Prince Imperial, King of Rome, known in the Austrian court as Franz from 1814 onward, Duke of Reichstadt from 1818, was the son of Napoleon, Emperor of the French, and his second wife, Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria. At the time of his birth, by Title III, article 9 of the French Constitution, he was Prince Imperial, but he wa...
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1812: The Great Retreat, Told by the Survivors

By: Austin, Paul Britten

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Great Britain, Greenhill Book: 1996

Seller ID: 2305545

ISBN: 1853672467

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Jacket spine head lightly bumped. Smudge on page ridge. 1996 Hard Cover. 464 pp. 1812: The Great Retreat tells the story of the end of the most famously disastrous campaign in history, using the words of the survivors to describe their desperate withdrawal from Russia. Napoleon's campaign had begun with more than a third of a million men setting out on what was to be a long and terrible march to the glittering city of Moscow. Only 100,000 were to reach it. Forced to turn back in the face of winter's onset, almost nothing of the drastically reduced army lived to recross the Niemen River. Using ...
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The War with Germany: A Statistical Summary

By: Ayres, Leonard P.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Washington, Government Printing Office: 1919

Seller ID: 2308149

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Former high school library copy - usual marks. Boards soiled. 1919 Hard Cover. 154 pp. A statistical overview of the American effort in the Great War.
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Rome and Its Story

By: Baddeley, St. Clair; Gordon, Lina Duff

Price: $250.00

Publisher: London, J.M. Dent & Co.: 1904

Seller ID: 2308485

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Presentation copy with ALS from author to a James N. Johnston tipped in on front flyleaf. Front and end matter lightly foxed, ink gift note to Johnston on front endpaper. 1904 Hard Cover. xv, 384 pp. Red cloth, gilt titles and decorations, top edge gilt. Color frontispiece and plates by Aubrey Waterfield. Also includes illustrations and reproductions of paintings and sculptures. From the preface: To present, within the compass of a single volume, anything like a serviceable sketch of the history and monuments of the city of Rome is a task of extreme difficulty, and one which it ...
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Belgium and Holland: Handbook for Travellers

By: Baedeker, K. [Karl]

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Leipsic, Karl Baedeker: 1891

Seller ID: 2202711

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Marbled page ridges. Front and rear hinges starting, ink name to front endpaper. 1891 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. lxii, 401 pp. With 13 maps and 20 plans. CONTENTS: Introduction: A) Belgium, B) Holland; Belgium; Luxembourg; Holland; Maps; Plans of Towns; Abbreviations.
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Switzerland and the Adjacent Portions of Italy, Savoy, and the Tyrol: Handbook for Travellers

By: Baedeker, K. [Karl]

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Leipsic, Karl Baedeker: 1891

Seller ID: 2202712

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Marbled page ridges. Front and rear hinges starting, ink name to front endpaper. 1891 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xxviii, 498 pp. With 39 maps, 11 plans, and 21 panoramas. CONTENTS: I. Northern Switzerland; II. Lake of Lucerne and Environs. The St. Gotthard.; III. The Bernese Oberland; IV. Western Switzerland. Lake of Geneva. Lower Valley of the Rhone.; V. Savoy, the Valais, and the adjacent Italian Alps; VI. S.E. Switzerland. The Grisons.; VII. The Italian Lakes; List of Maps; Panoramas and Views; Plans of Towns; Abbreviations.
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The Rhine, Including the Black Forest and the Vosges

By: Baedeker, Karl

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Leipzig, Karl Baedeker: 1911

Seller ID: 2294994

Binding: Small Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Seventeenth revised edition. General wear. 1911 Small Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xxxiv, 554 pp. 6 1/4 x 4 1/4. Marbled page ridges. Fold-out maps in text. With 69 maps and 59 plans. CONTENTS: I. North Part of Rhenish Prussia; II. The Rhine from Cologne to Coblez; Valley of the Lahn; Westerwald; III. West Part of Rhenish Prussia and Lorraine; IV. The Rhine from Coblenz to Mayence; Frankfort; Taunus; V. Grand-Duchies of Hesse (right bank of the Rhine) and Baden; VI. Rhenish Hesse; Bavarian Palatinate; Alsace; Maps. Plans.
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Northern France from Belgium and the English Channel to the Loire Excluding Paris and Its Environs

By: Baedeker, Karl

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Leipzig, Karl Baedeker: 1909

Seller ID: 2299193

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Fifth edition. Fold-out maps in text. Coloring marks on some pages, light stain. 1909 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xxxvi, 454 pp. Page ridges marbled. Handbook for travellers. With 16 maps and 55 plans. Fold-out maps in text. CONTENTS: Introduction; Northern France: North-Eastern France; Normandy; Brittany and the Banks of the Loire; District between Paris, the Vosges, the Jura and the Loire; Maps; Plans of Towns.
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Submarines of World War Two

By: Bagnasco, Erminio

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Annapolis, Naval Institute Press: 1977

Seller ID: 2299447

ISBN: 0870219626

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

1985 2nd printing. 1977 Large Hardcover. 256 pp. Black-and-white photographs, diagrams, and detailed specifications throughout. Describes and pictures all classes and types of submarines used by combatant nations during the war, compiling information on the construction, dimensions, speed, range, and performance record of each vessel.
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Holy Blood, Holy Grail

By: Baigent, Michael; Leigh, Richard; Lincoln, Henry

Price: $4.00

Publisher: New York, Dell: 1983

Seller ID: 2266946

ISBN: 0440136482

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Reprint. Faint edge wear. 1983 Mass Market Paperback. 489 pages. Black & white photographs. Is the traditional, accepted view of the life of Christ in some way incomplete? Is it possible Christ did not die on the cross? Is it possible Jesus was married, a father, and that his bloodline still exists? Is it possible that parchments found in the South of France a century ago reveal one of the best-kept secrets of Christendom? Is it possible that these parchments contain the very heart of the mystery of the Holy Grail? According to the authors of this extraordinarily provocative, meticulously rese...
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British Military Flintlock Rifles, 1740-1840: With a Remarkable Wealth of Data about the Riflemen and Regiments that Carried These Weapons

By: Bailey, De Witt

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Rhode Island, Andrew Mowbray Publishers: 2002

Seller ID: 2307681

ISBN: 1931464030

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Bottom corners of boards slightly bumped. 2002 Large Hardcover. 264 pp. History enthusiasts have always been intrigued by Riflemen and the special weapons that they carried. This new book covers such famous weapons as the Ferguson, the Pattern 1776 and the rifles used by German mercenaries and American loyalists during the Revolution. And naturally, a large portion of the book is dedicated to the most famous rifle of them all, the Baker. Illustrated with 320 exceptional photos, this book also includes a remarkable wealth of data about the Rifleman and Regiments that carried thes...
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The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675

By: Bailyn, Bernard

Price: $28.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 2013

Seller ID: 2307008

ISBN: 0394515706

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Second printing. Jacket spine head lightly bumped. 2013 Hard Cover. xv, 614 pp. A compelling, fresh account of the first great transit of people from Britain, Europe, and Africa to British North America, their involvements with each other, and their struggles with the indigenous peoples of the eastern seaboard. The immigrants were a mixed multitude. They came from England, the Netherlands, the German and Italian states, France, Africa, Sweden, and Finland, and they moved to the western hemisphere for different reasons, from different social backgrounds and cultures. They represented a spectrum...
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Victoria, the Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire

By: Baird, Julia

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 2016

Seller ID: 2308118

ISBN: 1400069882

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Small hole in front jacket flap joint. A few pages wrinkled. 2016 Hard Cover. xlvii, 696 pp. The true story for fans of the PBS Masterpiece series Victoria, this page-turning biography reveals the real woman behind the myth: a bold, glamorous, unbreakable queena Victoria for our times. Drawing on previously unpublished papers, this stunning portrait is a story of love and heartbreak, of devotion and grief, of strength and resilience. When Victoria was born, in 1819, the world was a very different place. Revolution would threaten many of Europes monarchies in the coming decades. ...
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James Claypoole's Letter Book: London and Philadelphia, 1681-1684

By: Balderston, Marion

Price: $125.00

Publisher: San Marino, California, The Huntington Library: 1967

Seller ID: 2308093

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket. 1967 Hard Cover. vii, 256 pp. The letters that make up this book present a vivid account of the life of an active and successful businessman in the latter seventeenth century. The London Quaker merchant James Claypoole was by turns generous and penny-pinching, forbearing with important clients intolerant with others, deeply religious, often irritable, but certainly never dull.
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Napoleon, an Outline

By: Ballard, Colin R.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, D. Appleton & Company: 1924

Seller ID: 2301238

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No jacket. Page ridges faintly foxed, bookplate on front paste-down endpaper, front hinge starting. 1924 Hard Cover. 325 pp. Blue boards. Gilt title on spine. A biography of Napoleon.
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The Pastons: A Family in the Wars of the Roses

By: Barber, Richard

Price: $10.00

Publisher: UK, Boydell Press: 2004

Seller ID: 2280244

ISBN: 1843831112

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

First printing. Front wrapper edge very lightly bumped. 2004 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 208 pp. Within three generations (1426 to 1485), and through the dark and dangerous years of the Wars of the Roses, the Pastons established themselves as a family of consequence, both in their native Norfolk and within court circles. Ambitious and highly mobile - womenfolk as well as men - they kept in touch by correspondence, usually but not invariably through the medium of a clerk. These letters, a rare survival, break upon us across the centuries with the urgency - and...
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A History of the Regiments and Uniforms of the British Army

By: Barnes, Major R. Money

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Seeley Service & Co.: 1962

Seller ID: 2306029

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Fifth edition. No jacket. Tape ghosting on endpapers, ink stamp on rear free endpaper. 1962 Hard Cover. 335 pp. A history of the regiments and uniforms of the British Army from 1642 through the end of World War II. Includes color illustrations.
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Queen Elizabeth's Daughter (A Novel of Elizabeth I)

By: Barnhill, Anne Clinard

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martins Griffin: 2014

Seller ID: 2304971

ISBN: 0312662122

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

First printing. Remainder mark, address label on half-title page, some pages lightly dog-eared. 2014 Trade Paperback. ix, 371 pp. Mistress Mary Shelton is Queen Elizabeth's favorite ward, enjoying every privilege the position affords. The British queen loves Mary like a daughter, and, like any good mother, she wants her to make a powerful match. The most likely prospect: Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford. But while Oxford seems to be everything the queen admires: clever, polished and wealthy, Mary knows him to be lecherous, cruel, and full of treachery. No matter how hard the queen tries to push ...
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Memoirs of Baron Stockmar, in Two Volumes

By: Baron Stockmar; Baron E. Von Stockmar; G. A. M.; Muler, F. Max

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, Longmans, Green & Co.: 1872

Seller ID: 2302547

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Boards of both volumes rubbed with minor split to rear board of each along spine head, bookplate on front paste-down endpaper of both volumes. 1872 Hard Cover. cx, 391; xiii, 555 pp. Two volume set. Christian Friedrich Freiherr von Stockmar (22 August 1787 9 July 1863) was a German physician and statesman, who was a leading player in the affairs of the United Kingdom under Queen Victoria.
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The Crucible of Europe: The Ninth and Tenth Centuries in European History

By: Barraclough, Geoffrey

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Berkeley, University of California: 1976

Seller ID: 2307300

ISBN: 0520031059

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Foxing to ridge. 1976 Hard Cover. An interpretive survey of social, political, and religious events and developments in the Carolingian empire and its successor states, centering on the emergence of the distinct institutions of medieval France, Germany, Italy, England, and other monarchies.
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Courage

By: Barrie, J. M.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1922

Seller ID: 2307125

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

No jacket. Bookplate on front free endpaper. 1922 Hard Cover. 45 pp. By author of Peter Pan. The Recreational Address delivered at St. Andrews University, May 3rd, 1922. Upon his election as Lord Rector of St. Andrew's University, Sir J.M. Barrie delivered an inaugural address in which he sought to inspire the youth sitting before him. His stirring words on the subject of courage are just as invigorating today, more than eight decades after they appeared in book form in 1923. Barrie advised young people never to ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own; to know what you mean; to ins...
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The Zulu War: A Pictorial History

By: Barthorp, Michael

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Poole / Dorset, Blandford Press: 1986

Seller ID: 2302818

ISBN: 0713710055

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Edge wear. 1986 Hard Cover. ix, [1], 181, [1] pp. Of all the many colonial campaigns of the Victorian era, few have gripped the imagination more than the Zulu War of 1879. Its dramatic events and the high courage displayed by men of both sides have provided the material for books, articles and paintings, while in recent times its more remarkable incidents have featured in television programmes and films. Among military and colonial history enthusiasts its fascination has few equals. Even though a century has passed, there can be few who are not aware of the annihilation of a British column at ...
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The Life of Lady Jane Grey

By: Bartlett, David W.

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Auburn, Derby & Miller: 1853

Seller ID: 2307276

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition, second thousand. Corners slightly pushed, front and end matter and edges faintly foxed. 1853 Hard Cover. xii, [13]-298 pp. Brown stamped cloth, gilt titles. Frontispiece of Lady Jane Grey, which has a few points of resemblance to the Streatham portrait. English noblewoman Lady Jane Grey is one of the most romanticized monarchs of Tudor England. Her short, nine-day rule was an unsuccessful attempt to maintain Protestant rule. This challenge cost her the throne and her head. Lady Jane Grey was born in 1537, in Leicester, England. Her life began with promise and high expectations b...
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A Chronology of Printing, XVIII Century, Excerpts from the Typographic Treasures in Europe

By: Bartlett, Edward E.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Rochester, New York, Press of the Good Mountain, Rochester Institute of Technology:

Seller ID: 2303578

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

A fine copy. 26 pp. A chronology of print history in18th century Europe.
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England Under the Norman and Angevin Kings: England 1075-1225 (The New Oxford History of England)

By: Bartlett, Robert; Roberts, J.M.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon Press: 2000

Seller ID: 2303733

ISBN: 0199564493

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

2000 Hard Cover. xxx, 772 pp. Chronology, bibliography, and index follow text. This lively and far-reaching account of the politics, religion, and culture of England in the century and a half after the Norman Conquest provides a vivid picture of everyday existence, and increases our understanding of all aspects of medieval society. There are colourful details of the everyday life of ordinary men and women, with their views on the past, on sexuality, on animals, on death, the undead, and the occult. The result is a fascinating and comprehensive portrayal of a period which begins with conquest a...
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Reminiscences

By: Battersea, Constance

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co. Ltd.: 1922

Seller ID: 2304114

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Bookplate on front paste down endpaper. 1922 Hard Cover. xvii, 470, 2 pp. Includes fold-out genealogical table of the Rothschild and Montefiore families. Constance Flower, Baroness Battersea (29 April 1843, Piccadilly, London 22 November 1931, Overstrand; ne de Rothschild), also known as Lady Battersea, was a society hostess and philanthropist in London who established the Jewish Association for the Protection of Girls, Women and Children (now subsumed by Jewish Care) in 1885 and was prominent in the Temperance movement in the United Kingdom.[1][2]
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Louvre: Masterpieces of Italian Painting

By: Bazin, Germain

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Greenwich, Connecticut, New York Graphic Society: 1956

Seller ID: 2199985

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Good

No jacket, boards toned, pages toned. 1956 Large Hardcover. 21 pp. Colored plates follow text. 54 illustrations with 46 in color. A look at Italian paintings found in the Louvre's collection.
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