Religious Liberty and the Courts
Mountain View, CA: Pacific Press Publishing Assoc. 1944. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. A very scarce title by this highly esteemed Frederick County, Maryland jurist and author. Small 34 page essay, bound.
History
Armenia And The Byzantine Empire: A Brief Study Of Armenian Art and Civilization
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1945. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. An extremely clean, bright and solid copy. Original blue cloth, lettered in silver on the spine. Warmly inscribed and signed by the author at the half-title to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss of Dumbarton Oaks. A fine copy in all respects.
The Courts of Europe
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1977. FIRST. F / NF. Sub-titled: Politics, Patronage and Royalty 1400-1800. A very clean, bright and attractive copy with a few very small closed tears. A lovely copy.
Her Majesty's Tower
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1869. NF. Four volumes: Vol I: 406pp, 6th ed. Vol II: 376 pp. 2nd ed. Vol III, 387pp. 1st ed. Vol iv: 370 pp. 3rd ed. Half brown morocco withwith blindstamp design extending from spine to boards. Blue marbled boards and endpapers. teg. Lettered in gilt on the spine. Lovely double fold-out engraving of The Tower.....
Byzantine Silver Stamps. With an Excursus on the Comes Sacrararum Largitionum by J. P. C. Kent
Washington DC: The Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, 1961. First printing. Hardcover. Fine / Near Fine. Large quarto publication, bound in original blue buckram with lettering and designs in gilt. Volume VII of the Dumbarton Oaks Studies. In a very nice example of the scarce dust jacket, showing only minor wear at the spine ends. "This is the first comprehensive study.....
Isabella and the Strange Death of Edward II
London: Constable, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / fine. As new. Unopened and unread. Signed by the author on the title page.
The Mysterious Death of Tutankhamun
London: Constable, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. Signed by the author on the title page.
English Historical Documents Volume XII (Two Volumes ) 1833-1874 and 1874-1914
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Two volumes, complete. This copy of Volume I is missing the jacket. Previous owner signature to the front paste-down of both volumes. The text block in both volumes are clean and without underlining or marginal notation. The dust jacket on Volume II has a bit of wear.....
The Norman Achievement
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Fine. An extremely clean, bright and solid copy. Illustrated throughout. Previous owner book plate to the front paste-down, else fine. The text block is without underlining and marginal notation. The complete dust jacket is fine.
English Historical Documents Volume V 1485-1558
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Original blue cloth lettered in silver on the spine. Previous owner sigature to the front paste-down, else fine. The text block is without underlining or marginal notation. The dust jacket is very nice indee.d.
English Historical Documents Volume X 1714-1783
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Good. A very clean, bright and solid copy. Previous owner signature to the front paste-down, else fine. The text block is without underlining or marginal notation. The dust jacket's front and rear panels are fine but the jacket's spine is missing most of the bottom two inches. Large fold-out.....
Slave Ships And Slaving
Salem: Marine Research Society, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / very good. Quarto. Original navy blue cloth on boards, lettered in gilt on the spine. Plain buff dust jacket present but looks to me like a home-made project. Still, the book is in "as new" condition so the jacket has done a fine job. Illustrated throughout.
The Fifty Days Napoleon In England
Coral Gables: University of Miami Press, 1970. FIRST. NF / NF. A clean, bright and solid copy. The jacket is price-clipped. Previous owner embossed name on the title page.
Larousse Encyclopedia of Ancient and Medieval History
New York: Harper & Row, 1963. FIRST. NF / VG. A very nice copy in a jacket which shows some minor wear at the spine ends.
Harvard Slavic Studies
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. Volume II of this ongoing series of essays concerning Slavic Studies. This volume is dedicated to Father Dvornik on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday and his essay is printed first. Other contributers are: Dimitri Obolensky, Ihor Sevcenko, Hugh McLean and Albert B. Lord, to mention only a few.....
The Mediaeval Cultural Heritage Of The Mid-European Area
Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1956. Soft Cover. Very Good. An offprint from "The Review Of Politics." Stapeled soft covered volume. A good copy.
Byzance Et La Primaute Romaine
Paris: Cerf, 1964. First edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Original gray soft covers. This volume warmly inscribed by the author to Mrs. Robert Bliss, of Dumbarton Oaks, with the Dumbarton Oaks/Bliss Book-Plate present. Many pages un-cut. Toning evenly throughout.
Alsace-Lorraine
Philadelphia: Penn Publishing, 1918. FIRST. NF.
London
Philadelphia: Penn Publlishing, 1922. FIRST. VG. Missing the protective box.
Vanished Towers and Chimes of Flanders
Philadelphia: Penn Publishing, 1910. FIRST. NF.
Plassey: The Founding of an Empire
New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, 1970. First American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Fine. A very clean, bright and solid copy. Previous owner signature to the front paste-down, else fine. Illustrated throughout and with illustrated endpapers. The complete dust jacket is fine.
The Transit of Civilization
Gloucester, Mass. Peter Smith, 1972. FIRST. NF. A perfect copy of a reprint edition. From England to America in the Seventeenth Century.
The Spanish World
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1991. FIRST. F / F. As new. Civilization and Empire, Europe and the Americas, Past and Present. A beautiful production.
Our Republic
New York: Stafford Press Co., 1900. VG.
The Celtic Empire The First Mellennium of Celtic History 1000BC-51AD
Durham, NC: Caroline Academic Press, 1990. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. A fine copy in all respects. Illustrated with photographs, both color and black and white. Illustrated map endpapers.