11. Duby, Georges.

Der Sonntag von Bouvines, 27. Juli 1214. Aus dem Französischen von Grete Osterwald.

Berlin, Klaus Wagenbach, 1988. 14.5 cm x 21.5 cm. Frontispiece (Schlachtszene, 13. Jahrhundert), 205 pages. Some black and white plates throughout. Original Softcover. Unterstreichungen !! Very good- condition with only minor signs of external wear. Annotations throughout in ink pen. Sticker on inside of rear cover. Remains of sticker on title page. Ephemera loosely inserted as blank postcard.

12. Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles.

A Complete Guide to Heraldry. [With a chapter: “The Status and the Meaning of a Coat of Arms in Great Britain”]. Illustrated by Nearly 800 Designs, Mainly from Drawings by Graham Johnston, Herald Painter to the Lyon Court.

Revised Edition. London and Edinburgh, T. Nelson & Sons, Ltd. / T.C. & E.C. Jack, Ltd., no year [c.1925]. 18 cm x 24 cm. Frontispiece, XII, 647 pages. With 779 illustrations and 9 plates including frontispiece. Hardcover [publisher’s original tanned cloth] with lettering on spine and front board. Large heraldic device on front board. With rare illustrated dustjacket in protective mylar. Deckled fore and tail-edges. Gilt top edges. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Dustjacket chipped and torn. Some minor foxing to endpapers and edges. Some untrimmed pages. Unmarked interior.

13.

General Act of the Brussels Conference Relative to the African Slave Trade. Signed at Brussels, July 2, 1890. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty. February 1892.

London, His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1892. 15.3 cm x 24.3 cm. 82 pages. Softcover / Publisher’s original blue printed wrapper. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Small tears to front cover near spine. Binding still strong and firm. [Treaty Series, No.7]

14. Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah.

Hitler’s Willing Executioners – Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust.

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. 16.5 cm x 24 cm. X, 619 pages. Several black and white photographs, tables and maps throughout. Original Hardcover with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Excellent, close to new condition with only minor signs of external wear. Out of print.

15. Grape, Wolfgang.

The Bayeux Tapestry.

Munich / London / New York, Prestel, 1994. 24 cm x 28 cm. 174 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

16. Hodges, Richard.

Dark Age Economics: The origins of towns and trade, AD 600-1000.

Second Edition. London, Duckworth, 2001. 15.5 cm x 23.5 cm. X, 230 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with minor signs of external wear. Slightly fragile binding. Some underlinings, highlighted areas. [New Approaches in Archaeology]

17. Ireland.

The accession of Ireland to the European Communities. Laid by the Government before each House of the Oireachtas.

Dublin, Stationery Office, 1972. 21 cm. vi, 214 pages. Softcover. Good condition with some stronger signs of external wear. Former library copy (discarded).

18. Miller, Donald E. / Touryan Miller, Lorna.

Survivors: An Oral History of the Armenian Genocide.

Berkeley / London, University of California Press, 1999. 15.5 x 23cm. (12), 242 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition, other than minor signs of shelf wear.

19. Pradt, Abbé de [that is: Dominique Georges Frederic de Pradt].

Europe and America, in 1821; with an Examination of the Plan laid before the Cortes of Spain, for the Recognition of the Independence of South America. Translated from the French of The Abbé de Pradt, by J.D. Williams.

First Edition. Two Volumes (complete set). London, Printed for G. Cowie & Co., 1822. Octavo. X, 432, VI, 112, (4) pages. Hardcover / Modern, exceptional masterbindings. Rebound in quarter calf leather with cloth boards, spine caps, gold tooling on spine with 2 gilt lettered leather labels on each spine. Extremely rare in this original edition. Excellent condition. Provenance: With very subtle blindstamp of The Reynolds Library, Rochester, NY.

20. Pufendorf, Samuel / [Samuel Freiherr von Puffendorf] / [Provenance: Sir Patrick Hume].

An Introduction to the History of the Principal Kingdoms and States of Europe [including a section: “The English conquer Ireland” / “The English Parliament Forces Conquer Ireland” / “Constitution of the “Scotch” [Scottish] Nation”]. Made English from the Original, the High-Dutch – The Third Edition, with Additions. [With an “Epistle Dedicatory” by J. Crull].

London, Printed for M.Gilliflower at the Spread-Eagle in Westminster-Hall and T.Newborough at the Golden Ball in St.Paul’s Church-Yard, 1699. Octavo. Frontispice-Portrait of Pufendorf, [14], 515, [13] pages. Hardcover / Original 18th century full calf with later spinelabel. One of the previous owners has written his initials “GWH” in red ink verso the titlepage. Pastedown with armorial Bookplate / Exlibris of Scottish statesman, the Right Honorable Patrick Hume, Earl of Marchmont, Viscount of Blasonberry, Lord Polwarth of Polwarth & Lord High Chancellorof Scotland – [Bookplate dated at 1702 – Motto: “Fides Probata Coronat” – “True to the End”]. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor lesion/tear to outer margins of page 461. With manuscript entries by the preowner to the top of each page, detailing each page for easier access into sections of countries (Germany, Poland, France, Spain, Britain, Rome, Sweden etc.). This book is rare; but with the excellent provenance from the library of Sir Patrick Hume, an even more important and desirable publication.