First Edition. An important association copy of this Pulitzer Prize-winning contribution to European intellectual history, inscribed by Schorske to his editor, Robert Gottlieb. Carl Schorske (1915–2015) was a leading American scholar of German society. He was in the first group of MacArthur Fellows (the so-called "Genius" grants) and he won.....
Price: $1,000
A large, beautiful engraved map of Paris within the boundaries of the recently completed wall around the perimeter of the city. The map has very attractive handcoloring of buildings, forts, parks, and, of course, the Seine. The map is dissected and mounted on the original brown linen and comes with.....
Price: $1,250
First Edition. Accounts of Edward, Prince of Wales; Empress Maria-Feodorowna, Sophie of Albania, Michael of Rumania, Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith of England, and other European royalty written by a Romanian princess. This is one of Bibesco's scarcer books. First edition (first printing, with a 1 on the last text page—the.....
Price: $100
Five carte de visite (CDV) photographs of women employed in coal mining at Wigan and vicinity in the 1880s. Pit brow women (or lasses, formerly) worked at the top of British coal shafts, sifting coal and removing rocks, which was some of the most physically demanding work done by women anywhere.....
Price: $1,750
A brief biography of a British Quaker prison reformer, told in part through extended quotations from her writings. Fry was honored in the UK with her picture on the 5-pound note. This is an adaptation of a book published by the London Tract Association. 94 pages. 4-1/8 by 6-1/4 inches.....
Price: $25
First Edition. xvi, 152 pages. A collection of German and Slavic proverbs. First edition (first printing). A fine set of folded and gathered pages. Never bound or sewn, as issued from the printer.
Price: $75
