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Global History of Techniques. (Nineteenth to Twenty-First Centuries)

Guillaume Carnino, Liliane Hilaire-Perez, Jérôme Lamy (eds) · 2024 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,121)

, Brepols, 2024 Hardback, 781 pages, Size:178 x 254 mm, Illustrations:37 b/w, Language: English. ISBN 9782503591513. Summary It is impossible to understand societies without looking at their technological underpinnings. Technology constitutes the very fabric of societies' poli…

Trains Magazine, December 1941, Vol. 2, No. 2

MULTIPLE CONTRIBUTORS · 1941 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$89.95 (€81.61 | £68.09 | ¥14,364)

USA: Kalmbach Publishing Co, 1941. First Edition. Paperback. 50 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: Florence & Cripple Creek - famous narrow-gauge line of an earlier day hauled rich ores through a scenic empire; The Ma & Pa - two narrow-gauge lines were the a…

Against the death penalty : writings from the first abolitionists--Giuseppe Pelli and Ceasare Beccaria.

Pelli Bencivenni, Guiseppe & Cesare, marchese di Beccaria, · 2020 · Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag

€14.00 ($15.43 | £11.68 | ¥2,464)

Texts translated and with historical commentary by Peter Garnsey. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2020. Hardcover. Dustjacket. ix, 215 pp. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. - The Italian political and legal thinker Cesare B…

German East Africa - Adolf Lehmann, ca. 1900

1900 · Inter-Antiquariaat Mefferdt & De Jonge

€375.00 ($413.32 | £312.85 | ¥66,002)

„Aus Deutsch-Ostafrika. Landschaft Moschi am Kilimandscharo“ (from German East Africa. Landscape of Moshi at Kilimanjaro.) Lithograph made around 1900 by Adolf Lehmann for a series of Geographische Charakterbilder” published by the Leipziger Schulbilderverlag von F. E. Wachsmuth…

World Without End the Middle East

Lengyel Emil · 1953 · Phoenix Books (Joanne's Used Books)

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

John Day, 1953. Unstated. Hardback. World without End The Middle East by Lengyel Emil John Day, 1953 Hardback in good condition, with acceptable dust jacket. Text is clean and unmarked, some start of tanning due to paper used and age. Dust jacket shows heavy signs of wear, with …

The Great War Magazine: Part 260, 9 August, 1919

MULTIPLE CONTRIBUTORS · 1919 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$149.95 (€136.05 | £113.50 | ¥23,945)

London: Amalgamated Press, Ltd, 1919. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Dozens of great black and white photos. Features: Cover photo of the Prince of Wales presenting colours to Canadians; Conclusion of Chapter CCCIX - Wonders of Wireless in the War; Chapter CCCX - The Empi…

Rebellions and Revolutions: China from the 1800s to the 1980s.

[China]. Gray, Jack. · 1990 · Fahrenheit 451

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1990, LXIV,(8),456 pag., maps, paperback. = Owner's name on divisional title; else fine. This is a study of China from the 1800s to the present day. It focuses on China's problems of development - the decay and collapse of the Chinese Empire, it…

Coins and Money in the Middle Ages. Studies in Honor of Alan Stahl

Merle Eisenberg, Lee Mordechai, David Yoon (eds) · 2026 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€165.00 ($181.86 | £137.65 | ¥29,041)

, Brepols - American Numismatic Society, 2026 Hardback, Pages: viii + 406, Size:210 x 297 mm, Illustrations:157 b/w, 21 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9780897224406. Summary Alan Stahl's distinguished career in numismatics has ranged over numerous topics in the study of …

King and Court in Ancient Persia 559 to 331 Bce

Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd · 2013 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

Edinburgh, Scotland, Edinburgh University Press, 2013. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the series, Debates and Documents in Ancient History. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals,…

Index to James&Apos; Naval History Letters and Papers Relating to the War with France 1512-1513 Letters and Papers of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Thos. Byam Martin Volume I Volume II Volume III Selections from the Correspondence of Admiral John Markham During the Years 1801-4 and 1806-7 Letters and Papers of Charles, Lord Barham Admiral of the Red Squadron 1758-1813 Volume I Volume II Volume III

Various · 1895 · Rooke Books

£335.00 (€401.55 | $442.58 | ¥70,675)

N/A, The Navy Records Society , 1895-1911. Cloth. A mixed volume set of publications by the Navy Records Society, from 1895 to 1911. The Navy Records society publish rare and original documents on naval history. It was established in 1893 and has to this day published over 160 v…

1908 Olive Whipple Peabody Manuscript Travel Journal of Tsarist Russia, with 17 Real Photo Postcards of St. Petersburg and Moscow Before the Revolution

OLIVE PEABODY · 1908 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$4,955.99 (€4,496.53 | £3,751.30 | ¥791,408)

RUSSIA, 1908. Unbound. Illustrated by /. On offer is a wonderful description of an American girl visiting Tsarist Russia in the years before the revolution. The author of this travel journal is Olive Whipple Peabody (1886-1969) , the adopted daughter of the American lawyer and p…

Andrew Carnegie "Free Libraries

Spy (Sir Leslie Ward, 1851-1922). (Lith.) · 1903 · Wittenborn Art Books

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.62 | ¥19,961)

London: Vanity Fair, 1903. Chromolithograph. 34.5 x 19.5 cm. (image). 40 x 26.5 cm. (sheet). Dated 29 October 1903. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son (Lithographers). Very Good. Light toning along sheet edges. Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist. Car…

American Dynasty

Kevin Phillips · 2004 · Book Haven

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Viking Adult 2004 Hardback 397 A in-depth and critical portrait of the Bush political dynasty describes their rise to political power over the course of four generations, from World War I to the present day, arguing that the Bush family has used its financial and social empire t…

Malice

Robert K. Tanenbaum, Robert K. Tanenbaum · 2008 · Klondyke BV

€5.00 ($5.51 | £4.17 | ¥880)

Paperback; 2008; Simon & Schuster; 528pp.; Pocket Star Books 2008/1st. Schoon en fris binnenwerk, over de lofpagina met vilstift, groot, cijfer '17'. Hol gelezen rug met leesvouwen. Op voorplat rest van sticker. Lichte slijtage langs alle randen en hoeken omslag. -- Conditie: Re…

Asia - L. Mertens + Theodore Lefevre, ca. 1870

1870 · Inter-Antiquariaat Mefferdt & De Jonge

€1,450.00 ($1,598.16 | £1,209.69 | ¥255,206)

LARGE 19TH CENTURY FIGURATIVE MAP OF ASIA “Carte d’Asie”, lithograph in colours made by L. Mertens and published around 1870 by Théodore Lefèvre, bookseller in Brussels. Size: 62,5 x 83,5 cm. Before the Industrial Revolution in the mid-to-late 19th century, demand for oriental g…

Collecting and Empires. An Historical and Global Perspective

Maia W. Gahtan, Eva-Maria Troelenberg (eds) · 2019 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€140.00 ($154.31 | £116.80 | ¥24,641)

, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2019 Hardback, 404 pages, Size:220 x 280 mm, Illustrations:115 b/w, Language: English. ISBN 9781909400634. Summary The creation and dissolution of empires has been a constant feature of human history from ancient times through the present day. Establ…

Mémoires du comte Horace de Viel Castel sous le règne de Napoléon III (1851-1864) publiés d'après le manuscrit original

Horace de VIEL-CASTEL · 1883 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€600.00 ($661.31 | £500.56 | ¥105,603)

Chez tous les libraires | Paris 1883 | 15.50 x 24 cm | 6 tomes en 3 volumes reliés | Edition originale de cet ouvrage capital pour la compréhension du Second Empire. Préface de Louis-Antoine Léouzon Le Duc. Le tome 1 se trouve en seconde édition. Un portrait au frontispice en li…

A Dark and Distant Shore

Reay Tannahill · 1803 · Klondyke BV

€7.95 ($8.76 | £6.63 | ¥1,399)

Pocket; 767pp.; redelijk - goed: omslag lichte gebruiksspoortjes -- Conditie: Redelijk; Kinveil is the castle, set above a swirling sea. Vilia is the woman determined to reclaim it, as it once belonged to her family. From the day she left in 1803, Vilia fought to repossess her b…

Actiones et monimenta martyrum, eorum qui a Wicleffo et Husso ad nostram hanc aetatem ... veritatem evangelicam sanguine suo constanter obsignaverunt.Genève, Jean Crespin, 1560.With: (2) [PIBRAC, Guy du Faur, seigneur de]. De rebus Gallicis, ad Stanislaum Elvidium, epistola. Et ad hanc de iisdem rebus Gallicis responsio.[Paris, Fédérique Morel], 1573.(3) [A. Q. F]. Memoriae Casparis Coligni Chastilonaei com. ductoris classis Gallicae ... una cum aliis ex nobilitate Gallica insidiose interfecti D. XXIIII. M. Vil. ann. Christi M. D. LXXII.1572. 3 works in 1 volume. 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page of ad 1, several decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary richly blind-tooled panelled pigskin, with the arms of the Holy Roman Empire in the central panel on the front, and the arms of August of Saxony on the back, surrounded by two figurative and one ornamental border, the initials G.F.N. and the date 1573 on the front, signed by bookbinder S. Rab(e).

CRESPIN, Jean. · 1554 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€6,000.00 ($6,613.09 | £5,005.60 | ¥1,056,025)

[18], 321, [1] ll.; 102, [2 blank]; [1], [1 blank], 5, [1 blank] pp.Extended Latin edition of a celebrated Protestant martyrology, in a beautiful contemporary blind-stamped pigskin binding, which has been signed by the binder. The work comprises descriptions of the lives and wor…

Northern India - Johannes Janssonius, 1641

Janssonius-- Johannes · 1638 · Inter-Antiquariaat Mefferdt & De Jonge

€650.00 ($716.42 | £542.27 | ¥114,403)

THE MUGHAL EMPIRE IN NORTHERN INDIA, MID-17TH CENTURY “Magni Mogolis Imperium” [The Empire of the Great Mughal], copper engraving published by Johannes Janssonius in Amsterdam, mid-17th century. The map was originally published by Henricus Hondius in 1638 and appeared with Ja…