1. Jones, Stephen.

A New Biographical Dictionary: Containing a brief account of the lives and writings of the most eminent persons and remarkable characters in every age and nation.

Fourth edition (corrected). London, Robinson / Longman and Rees / Wallis, 1802. 8.5 x 13.5cm. Unpaginated. Hardcover / Contemporary, full morocco with gilt lettering on spine and gilt tooling on board edges. Marbled endpapers and all edges gilt. Very minor signs of wear to spine and corners, otherwise excellent condition. Binding solid and text clear and bright. Previous owner’s name on title page: “Susan Courteney, died 10 June 1808”.

2. Cresswell, Julia.

Bloomsbury Dictionary of First Names.

London, Bloomsbury, 1990. 16 cm x 24 cm. 248 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Spine sunned.

3. Nove, Alec [Alexander] [Born Aleksandr Yakovlevich Novakovsky].

Collection of First Editions (including one signed Pamphlet) by Alexander [Alec] Nove, Professor of Economics at the University of Glasgow and a noted authority on Russian and Soviet Economic History. The rare Pamphlets and Publications by Alec Nove came to us together with a small archive of Communist and Soviet Economic and Educational Material (″How Communists Educate Children”) and used to belong to a member and local educator of the British Branch of the Communist Party. See full list of the Communist Material below and find a list of the Alec Nove-Material here: 1. Alec Nove – “The Soviet Village in Press and Literature” [Rare original offprint from “St.Anthony Papers on Soviet Afairs” (Estratto dalla Rivista “Occidente” – Anno XII – 1 – 1956)] / 2. Alec Nove – “Communist Economic Strategy: Soviet Growth and Capabilities” [SIGNED by Alec Nove] (1959) / 3. Alec Nove – “The Politics Of Economic Rationality – Observations on the Soviet Economy” [1958] / 4. Alec Nove – “Collectivization of Agriculture in Russia and China” (Original, rare “Preprint” in 1961) / 5. Alec Nove – “The Soviet Economy” [Heavily annotated] (1961) //.

c. 1956-1970. Octavo. Hardcover / Pamphlets and Softover publications. Most of the publications in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Some publications with stronger signs of wear or annotations or markings. A very interesting collection on Soviet Economy, Planing and Educational Material on Communist Ideology.

4. Anonymus [Schier, Xystus].

De Maria Porphyrogenita Sponsa, Anna et Margarita conjugibus Reginis Belae III. Hungariae Regis. In Quibus Tentamen Historiae Reginarum Hungariae Primae Stirpis. Facere conatus est F. Xystus Schier Eremita Augustinianus.

Wien / Vienna, Kaliwoda, o.j. (ca. 1770). 8°. 34 Seiten. Interimsbroschur des 19.Jahrhunderts. Sehr guter Zustand.

5. Kippenberg, Anton.

Die Sage vom Herzog von Luxemburg und die historische Persönlichkeit ihres Trägers. Mit 2 Vollbildern und 11 Abbildungen im Text. Neudruck der Ausgab Leipzig, Engelmann, 1901. Mit einem Vorwort von Friedrich Michael: “Anton Kippenberg: Buchhaendler – Philologe – Sammler”.

Niederwalluf b. Wiesbaden, M. Sändig, 1970. 8°. VIII, 280 Seiten. 1 Titelbild. Hardcover / Blaues Leinen. Sehr guter, neuwertiger Zustand mit nur ganz geringen äusserlichen Gebrauchsspuren. KEINE Anstreichungen. KEIN Mängelexemplar.

6. [Palme, Olof]

Fataburen – Nordiska Museets och Skansens Arsbok [signed and inscribed by former swedish prime minister Olof Palme to english theatre director Peter Ashmore: “To Peter – A Great Englishman and a true friend of Sweden – Your friend Olof Palme”].

1973. Octavo. 206 pages with several photographs. Original, illustrated Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

7. Platzhoff, Walter.

Geschichte des europäischen Staatensystems 1559-1660 [incl.: Die politischen Gegensaetze und die Glieder des europäischen Staatensystems [am Beispiel Russland, Tuerkei, Baltikum, Polen, etc.].

München, R. Oldenbourg, 1967. Gr.-8°. XVIII, 279 Seiten. Hardcover / Gebundene Ausgabe. Leinen mit eingebundener Originalbroschur. Sehr gut erhaltenes, ehemaliges Bibliotheksexemplar des Instituts fuer Wirtschaftswissenschaft der Universitaet Frankfurt.. [Handbuch der mittelalterlichen und neueren Geschichte ; Abt. 2, [Bd. 6]]

8. [Frederick the Great] Carlyle, Thomas.

History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, called Frederick The Great.

First Edition. Four Volumes (complete Set). London, Chapman and Hall, 1858. Quarto (15 cm wide x 22 cm high). Volume I: Frontispiece, VIII, 634 pages including a double-map of the Duchies of Cleve and Juelich as well as the Principalities of Bayreuth – Anspach and a fold-out-diagram of the Two Genealogical Lines of the Culmbach-Family / / Volume II: Frontispiece, VII, 715 pages including a folded, hand-coloured Map of “The Kingdom of Prussia” / Volume III: Frontispiece, X, 770 pages including a hand-coloured Map of the First and Second Silesian War / Volume IV: Frontispiece, VII, 631 pages including a hand-coloured Map of the Battle of Hohenfriedberg as well as the Battle of Sohr, including a hand-coloured Map of the Battle of Lobositz and the Camp of Pirna as well as the often missing two-page-Facsimile of Frederick’s secret Instructions to Graf von Finck and also included in the last Volume is the ;arger fold-out-map of the Second and the Third Silesian War and an Index. Hardcover / Original, extremely decorative full leather with marbled edges and gilt lettering and ornament to spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. A STUNNING set !

9. Engel, Gisela [Hrsg.].

Konjunkturen der Höflichkeit in der frühen Neuzeit.

Frankfurt, M., Klostermann, 2009. 8°. S. 160 – 550. Softcover / Broschur. Sehr guter, nahezu neuwertiger Zustand. [Zeitsprünge ; Bd. 13, H. 3/4].

10. Strong, E.W.

On Judging History.

Yellow Springs, Ohio, The Antioch Press, 1952. 8°. 16 pages. Softcover. Offprint. Presidential address – delivered before the twenty-sixth annual meeting of the Pacific-Division of the American Philosophical Association at the University of Southern California – 1952.