[Paris. 1777]. 12pp. Later boards. Fine. An important document, establishing a general archive at Versailles for French colonial papers, including those relating to America.
[Paris. 1778]. 4pp. Quarto. Modern marbled boards, leather label. Slight trace of foxing. Near fine. One of the earliest official French acts as a direct result of the Franco-American alliance of the spring of 1778. Having recognized American sovereignty, Louis XVI here relinquished the Crown prerogative of claiming the estates.....
[ Paris. 1791]. 3pp. Quarto. Modern half calf and cloth. Signed in contemporary manuscript hand at end of text. Very good. A landmark document in Franco-American relations. Here the French Republic extends a friendly hand to all democracies, but especially the United States and the Swiss Cantons, and announces its.....
Paris. 1795. Stipple engraving, with etching and mezzotint, 17 1/4 by 20 inches. Minor mat stain, small tape remnants on verso. Very good. A richly detailed and quite striking view of an African village, with families and their livestock and homes, situated near a waterfall, with a rope bridge connecting.....
Paris. [1795]. Stipple engraving, with etching and mezzotint, 17 x 20 3/4 inches. Light mat stain, small tape remnants on verso. Very good. An idealized image of life in Africa, produced as part of early anti-slavery campaigning during the French Republic. A finely detailed depiction of an African village in.....
Philadelphia. 1874. 312pp. plus advertisements, printed in double-column format. Original cloth. Cloth bit spotted, but very good. "This is a model of the nineteenth century American traveler's account of his European trip. The author's crisp journalistic style makes it of better-than-average readability" - Smith. The author visited Germany, Austria, Hungary.....
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Prussia. 1848-1850. [1]p. printed on a bifolium, with an additional page of manuscript annotations on verso. Folio. Previously folded, with separations along fold lies. Light dampstaining and tanning. Good. A Prussian passport for Carl Werderbrück, documenting his travels in central Europe from 1848 to 1850. The first page, completed in.....
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Concordia, Ks. [Camp Concordia], 1944-1945. Two volumes. Vol. 1: Nos. 34-35 (1944), 2. Jhrg. Nos. 1-3, 6, 8-13 (1945); Vol. 2: Nos. 1-12 (1945). Two-sided sheet laid into Vol. 1 with an essay on peace from Karl Teufel on one side and an anonymous reflection on the German occupation of.....
London. [ 1929]. 213pp. plus advertisements. Map endpapers. 12mo. Cloth. Cloth spotted. Very good. The map traces Gibbons' route through France.
London. 1821. [4],377pp. plus leaf of errata and [6]pp. of book advertisements. Contemporary boards, paper label. Front hinge cracked and rather tender. Some chipping at spine. Old circulating library chart adhered to front pastedown. Internally clean and nice. Good. The author, a chaplain-general in the British Army, was sent with.....
London. 1826. [4],377pp., plus one leaf of errata. Original paper boards, paper label, neatly rebacked. Bookplate on front pastedown, ownership signature on titlepage. Light scattered foxing. Untrimmed, very good. Second edition. The author, a chaplain-general in the British Army, was sent, with his regiment, from France to America to fight.....
London: T. Cooper, 1739. 32pp. Dbd. Very good. A pro-Walpole pamphlet preceding the War of Jenkins' Ear. "By the famous Thomas Gordon, editor of the "Independent Whig" who defends the Administration against the popular outcry against the Convention with Spain. He says: 'A Convention is settled in order to conclude.....
Londres: George Carenaught, 1780. 8,192pp. plus folding frontispiece plate. Original plain blue-green wrappers, manuscript paper spine label. Wrappers a bit soiled and edgeworn. Titlepage a bit dusty. Very good. In original condition, untrimmed. In a blue half calf and cloth slipcase and chemise. An interesting work satirizing the three European.....
London. 1815. 9pp. Modern half morocco and marbled boards. Fine. The final settlement between England and the Netherlands at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, this convention between Great Britain and the Netherlands restores Dutch colonies in America, Africa and Asia to the Prince Sovereign of the United Netherlands. It.....
London: Printed for J. Owen, 1796. [4],88pp. Dbd. Very good. Discusses the probable outcomes of the war with revolutionary France, with special attention to central and northern Europe and to holdings in the East and West Indies.
1742. 27pp. Text in parallel English and French columns. Quarto. Later plain wrappers (front wrap detached). Untrimmed. Clean and very good. A treaty of military alliance between Great Britain and Russia.
London. 1818. [1],28pp. Folio. Modern half morocco and marbled boards. Fine. An important agreement between Britain and Spain regarding the illicit slave trade. Britain herein agrees to pay £400,000 as compensation for all losses sustained by Spaniards in the slave trade "on account of vessels captured previously to the exchange.....
Godthaab. 1859-1860. 22,10pp. Dbd. Leaves loosening. Minor soiling and wear. About very good. Annual report of the Danish Inspektoratet for Sydgrønland, for the years 1858-59 and 1859-60.
London: Printed by John Beale, for W. Welby, 1613. [16],71pp. Small quarto. Sumptuous 19th-century crushed red morocco by Bedford, elaborately gilt. Trimmed close along the top edge, occasionally touching text. Very good. The Brayton Ives - E.D. Church copy, with an engraved bookplate from each on the front pastedown, of.....
London. 1939-51. Fifteen original parts in wrappers, in two volumes. Original printed wrappers bound in stiff wrappers. Indexes on covers. Very good. Topics include: English and foreign bibles, John Bunyan, Lewis Carroll, continental books including incunabula, bibliographical reference books, English theology, English pamphlet literature of the 17th-19th centuries, voyages, travels.....
London. 1779. lvi,iii-xxxii,312pp. Contemporary calf boards, rebacked in matching style, spine gilt, gilt morocco label. Early ownership signature of "William Robinson" on first preface page. Endpapers dampstained, text lightly tanned, else quite clean internally. Good. A very useful compilation of all the naval treaties entered into by Great Britain at.....
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[Holland. ca. 1778]. Broadside, engraved folio leaf affixed to folio text leaf, approximately 17 1/2 x 17 inches total. Plate size: 8 x 12 inches. In Dutch. Light toning and edge wear, small dampstain in right margin, not affecting image. Else a near fine copy, untrimmed. A rare, illustrated Dutch.....
New York. Feb. 14, 1921. 1p. Quarto. Old folds, else fine. Letter sent by the European Relief Council to Mr. Ashley T. Cole, soliciting a donation on behalf of "the suffering children of Central and Eastern Europe." Herbert Hoover was the chairman of the Council, and the letter is signed.....
Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1871. 48pp. of line drawings printed on recto only. Oblong quarto. Original gilt pictorial blue cloth. Worn at spine ends and corners, otherwise a bright, handsome copy. A fancifully illustrated record of a tour through Europe. The pleasing (and at times quite humorous) line.....
New York & London. 1908. [303]pp. plus plates. Frontis. Original gilt cloth, t.e.g. Some edge wear. Very good. The attractions for travellers in Italy and Spain.
