Recent Arrivals from Focloir

Eng Lit wwbk Beyer, Werner W. (Werner William), 1911- Keats and the daemon king. New York: Oxford University Press, 1947, xii, 414 pages, bib, index. Good copy of an uncommon book. Some light offsetting on lining papers from dust jacket. Dust jacket is present but only poor at best. $14.50 Box 7654 Inluence of German writers on… Read more about this item

Serbia 256 Todorovich, Slavko. The Childandarians: Serbian monks on the Green Mountain. (Series: East European Monographs No. 264) Boulder, Colorado/New York: Distributed by Columbia University Press, 1989, v, 161, [10] p. of plates: illus, bib, index. Good copy of the hardback. $10.00 Box 7654 Serbian monks on Mt. Athos in Greece

Mongolia cquc Genghis Khan, 1162-1227. Mongol chronicle Činggis Qagan u čidig including Altan tobči: Meng wen Meng-ku shih chi. Mongol chronicle Činggis Qagan u čidig including Altan tobči : 蒙文蒙古史記. Peking : publisher not identified, 1940, 196 pages, bound in sturdy black library buckram, some pencilling on back free endpaper in English and Mongolian? Text in Mongolian script. Full title of Altan… Read more about this item

Italy gesf Gardner, Edmund G., 1869-1935. The Story of Florence. Illustrated by Nelly Erichsen. (Series: Mediaeval town series). London: J.M. Dent; New York: Dutton, 1924, 436 pages, illus.; maps; index. In usual Mediaeval town series format. Book is a little dusty, splitting to top side edge of spine, decent otherwise. Maybe good condition overall. Has an interesting bookplate from 1926… Read more about this item

Ancient world jiga Jenkins, Ian (Ian Dennis). Greek architecture and its sculpture. Line illustrations by Kate Morton. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2006, 271 pages: illustrations (some color), map, plans, notes, bib, index. Fine in like dust jacket. A handsome book. $15.00 Box 7654 Summary:"Drawing on the Greek and Lycian architecture and sculpture in the British Museum -… Read more about this item

Ireland igsia Irish Georgian Society. Irish architectural and decorative studies: Journal of the Irish Georgian Society. Dublin: Irish Georgian Society, 1998- This is Volume 1 of the journal from 1998. 224 pages. Edited by Sean O'Reilly. Sumptuous production of a softbound volume printed on glossy paper with eleven essays with notes and illustrations, some in color, where appropriate,… Read more about this item

Ireland hdls Hyde, Douglas, 1860-1949, editor and translator. Legends of saints and sinners. Collected and translated from the Irish by Douglas Hyde. (Series: Every Irishman's library). Dublin: Talbot Press, (1915?), xiv, 295 pages, illus. Intermittent damp spotting in book, signed by American Celtic scholar, 1978, on front free endpaper. Good, tight copy else. $15.00 Den Notes: … Read more about this item

France rlcmn Restif de La Bretonne, 1734-1806. Monsieur Nicolas; ou, Le cœur humain dévoilé. Paris: I. Liseux, 1883, Réimprimé sur l' édition unique et rarissime publie par lui-meme en 1796. 14 volumes facsimile, bound in 7 volumes. Good, tight clean copies overall. $175.00 Box 999 Will require additional postage General Notes: Ex-library copy from a governmental library in… Read more about this item

Ireland mcmc Craig, Maurice James. and Michael Craig. Mausolea Hibernica. Dublin, Ireland: Lilliput Press, 1999, x, 118 pages, ill., index. Good to very good in dust jacket. $12.50 Box 27

Tibet lmdte Lobzang Mingyur Dorje. A Tibetan-English primer by Lama Lobzang mingyur dorje ... Revised edition. [Calcutta]: [University of Calcutta], 1938, 2 preliminary leaves, 37 pages. Paperbound book with some small tears to edges. There is also some ink staining to very edge of side paper edge, else good copy of a fragile and uncommon work. $14.50 … Read more about this item

Thurman, Michael E. The Naval Department of San Blas: New Spain's Bastion for Alta California and Nootka, 1767 to 1798. (Series: Spain in the West, No. 11). Glendale, California: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1967, 382 pages, frontispiece, illus, bib, index. Bound in red cloth with rubbing along edge of spine and at head and heel of same. … Read more about this item

Civil War al21 Anders, Leslie. The Twenty-First Missouri: from Home Guard to Union Regiment. (Series: Contributions in Military History, Number 11). Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1975, x, 298 pages, bib, index, illus. Bound in a bright green cloth with silver lettering Fine copy of the hardcover. Box 45 12.50 Anders also wrote a history of… Read more about this item

Reformation wdcc Willis-Watkins, David. Calvin's catholic christology. The function of the so-called extra Calvinisticum in Calvin's theology. (Series: Studies in medieval and Reformation thought; v. 2). Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1966, 164 pages, bib, index. Book is bound in attractive blue cloth with gilt lettering, typical of many of the Brill publications. The work has the signatures of two… Read more about this item

Germany mrdf Mandrou, Robert. Die Fugger als Grundbesitzer in Schwaben, 1560-1618: eine Fallstudie sozioökonomischen Verhaltens am Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts. übersetzt von Eckart Birnstiel. Series: Schwäbische Forschungsgemeinschaft bei der Kommission für Bayerische Landesgeschichte. Reihe 4; Bd. 26). Göttingen:Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1997, 206 pages, illus, maps, bib. Fine copy of the hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering.. No marks. $25.00… Read more about this item

Persia rfpj Richards, Fred. A Persian Journey: Being An Etcher's Impressions of The Middle East. With Forty-Eight Drawings by Fred Richards, R.E. New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith,1932, 240 pages, illus. Tan cloth boards with gilt lettering on front cover, lettering on spine is worn and the spine is somewhat sun faded. What is left of the… Read more about this item

Americana nafp Nevins, Allan. Fremont: Pathmaker of the West. New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1955. xiv, 689 pages, bib, index. Has frontispiece, maps -maps on endpapers. Reprint of 1939 edition which had 649 pages. No dust jacket. Over the years, page block has toned a bit and blue cloth cover is a little dull with light shelfwear. Good… Read more about this item

Middle Ages awsc Aird, William M., 1961- St Cuthbert and the Normans: the Church of Durham, 1071-1153. (Series: Studies in the history of medieval religion, 0955-2480; v. 14). Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press, 1998, xvi, 311 pages, bib, index, ill., maps. Very nice copy in like dust jacket. This was Aird's Ph. D. thesis from the… Read more about this item

Civil War mmjt (Civil War – New York, 136th) McMahon, John T. John T. McMahon's diary of the 136th New York, 1861-1864. Edited by John Michael Priest. Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Publishing Company, 1993, vi, 142p, index. Like new, hardcover in deep blue leatherette. $18.50 Box 45 McMahon was a devout member of the… Read more about this item

Egypt bpif Landes, David S. Bankers and pashas; international finance and economic imperialism in Egypt. (Series: Studies in entrepreneurial history). Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1958, xvi, 354 p. illus., ports., map, bib, index. Good to very good copy in red cloth. The dust jacket is OK, did its job, but has some tears and wear. This, the first… Read more about this item

Civil War ctlah Connelly, Thomas Lawrence. Army of the heartland; the Army of Tennessee, 1861-1862. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, [1967], xiv, 305 pages, illus., maps, bib, index. This hardcover book is in very good condition; the dust jacket good. Not ex-library but a previous owner has highlighted in yellow a number of lines, including the preface and first… Read more about this item