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Amsterdam, Netherlands: Barent Greve 200pp/illus. no date. 100 remarkable scenes engraved by Petrus Schenk (1661-1715) displaying a panoramic view of old Amsterdam. Light scuff mark at bottom of cover. Text clean. 1st Edition. Illustrated Boards. Very Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall - Oblong.

Washington, D.C: U S Government Printing Office, 1982. 233pp/illus/maps. History of the Navy Oceanographic Office during the Civil War, Spanish American War & WWI. Clean. First Edition. Buckram. Near Fine/No Jacket - Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall (oblong).

Rockville Centre, New York, U.S.A.: Sarpedon Pub, 1996. 232pp/illus/maps. The heart of this book is the story of Bonnie Prince Charlie's army at Culloden. It strips away the myth and exposes the realities of life in the Jacobite rebel army. It begins with the raising of the army which included volunteers pressed men and mercenaries, as well as French forces that were sent over to assist as part of the 'Auld Alliance'. Unit organization, weapons, and tactics are discussed and the book also details the vicious battles that were fought in this doomed attempt to secure the British crown. Clean. 1st Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Washinton DC: Privately Published, 1986. Book contains 182 pages with a few illustrations. Preface by Barry Goldwater. . Cloth. Very Good++/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1975. 286pp. Clean. 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Osnabr?ck, Germany: sec Kommunikation Gestaltung GmbH, 1996. 168pp/illus. DJ in semi-transparent tracing type paper has a number of chips/tears. The unabridged texts of Whytes' musical satire, opera and dance drama containing performance photographs and newly published documentary material. The author is acknowledged as a world authority on the Dreyfus affair. Clean. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Philadelphia, PA: Chilton Book Co, 1959. 336pp/maps/illus. The Spectacular Career of Peter Wessel, Norway's Greatest Sea Hero. Text clean. 1st Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: The MacMillan Co, 1925. 424pp with numerous photos and a color foldout map at the rear. Original navy blue cloth binding with gilt lettering. Account of an expedition to colonise Wrangel Island, 1921-23. Includes an early history of the island, the organisation and end of the expedition. An Eskimo was the only survivor out of the five members, this narrative is based on E.L. Knight's diary. Clean. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Washington, DC, U.S.A.: Air Force History & Museums Program, 1994. Book has 432 pages with illustrations and some color maps. The author examines the practice of aerial interdiction in three wars: World War II, Korean War and the war in Southeast Asia.. Soft Cover. Very Good+/No Jacket - Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1983. 444pp. Nice clean copy.. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good+/No Jacket - Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Routledge Kegan & Paul, 1986. 306pp/illus/maps. Clean. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1967. 208pp., 94 plates of which 37 are in colour, 58 figures, 8 maps, bibliography & notes, index. "The age of Plantagenet and Valois (1328-1498) was dominated by the Hundred Years War between England and France. It was an age when the struggle for supremacy in Europe devastated much of France and absorbed England's energies and resources. . 1st American Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good(-). 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Williamsburg, Virginia, U.S.A.: College of William & Mary, 1990. 416 Pp.Illustrated throughout, Clean like new.. 1st Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket - Wraps. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Alberta, Canada: City of Medicine Hat, 1981. 299 pages, with illustrations. History of Medicine Hat, Alberta. Inscribed to the US Ambassador to Canada. Clean. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good+. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. 199pp/illus. Lee Wandel discusses the relationship between the reform of poor relief and the Protestant Reformation in early sixteenth-century Zurich. In the introduction she traces the various ways that poverty has been evaluated, and its social and religious connotations, up to the sixteenth century. After providing a portrait of sixteenth-century Zurich, the author goes on to explore the discussion of the poor in various media of the town: the sermons and pamphlets of Huldrych Zwingli, who was preaching that the poor were the true images of God; printed images depicting Christ calling beggars and other poor folk to Him (these appeared on title pages of Zwingli's pamphlets); the language of legislation (in particular the poor ordinances of 1520 and 1525). Clean no marks. 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Philadelphia and New York: Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1964, 1964. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Book has 429 pages with a few photographs/maps. Book has indent on binding at the bottom. Cloth is not torn. DJ is loose with chips. Book has library plate and library embossed stamp in front pages. For the first time, in 1963, an American team reached the top of Everest. They did it after weeks of exposure in the bitter cold air or Everest.after one of their group was crushed under a falling ice wall.and in the teeth of howling winds and snowstorms. Success came first on May 1, when two men gained the summit via the South Col route. This was followed three weeks later when four more men made the peak: two by the South Col route and two by the West Ridge. DJ has edgewear. Text clean. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Doubleday, 2001. Book contains 383 pages with a few illustrations and endpaper maps. The true storyof the worst constitutitonal crisis since the Civil War and of a major turinging point in American history. It takes readers into the eye of the chaotic and ferocious white uprisinig that occurred when Air Force veteran James Meredith tried to become the first black student to register at the University of Mississippi, only to be physically bloced by radical segregationist Governor Ross Marnett, hundreds of state police, and thousands of student and civilian "volunteers" from across the South. The revolt climaxed in a fourteen-hour battle and the lightning invasion of the state by 30,000 combat troops ordered in by President John F. Kennedy.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover/Boards. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cairo, Egypt: American University in Cairo Press, 1987. Book has 288 heavily illustrated pages. Light wear to edge of dj. Lavishly illustrated history of the university's 67 year contribution to the Egyptian people including expansion problems, cultural and religious differences and strains in American-Egyptian relations in the 50's and 60's.. Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good+. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1964. Book has 429 pages with a few photographs/maps. Book has indent on binding at the bottom. Cloth is not torn. DJ is loose with chips. Book has library plate and library embossed stamp in front pages. For the first time, in 1963, an American team reached the top of Everest. They did it after weeks of exposure in the bitter cold air or Everest..after one of their group was crushed under a falling ice wall...and in the teeth of howling winds and snowstorms. Success came first on May 1, when two men gained the summit via the South Col route. This was followed three weeks later when four more men made the peak: two by the South Col route and two by the West Ridge. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Bonanza Books, 1985. 313 pages with numerous b&w/color photos and illustrations. An authoritative survey of the great variety and design of bedcoverings created by past generations of Americans. Illustrated with 122 color plates and 472 black and white photos.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.