1. 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.

2.

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]

3. 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.

4. Batselier, Dom Pieter / Callender, Elsie (trans.)

Saint Benedict – Father of Western Civilization.

Antwerp, Mercatorfonds, 1981, 26 cm x 33 cm. 476 pages. 476 beautiful mononchrome and colour illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Near fine condition. Interior in excellent condition also.

5. Baillie-Grohman, W.A.

The Land in the Mountains – Being an Account of the Past & Present of Tyrol, Its People and Its Castles. Illustrated with Eighty-Two Plates and Maps of Modern Tyrol and Ancient Raetia.

London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd, 1907. 16 cm x 22.5 cm. Frontispiece, XXXI, 288 pages. Errata leaf opposite first page of Introduction. 2 colour maps within text. 80 illustrations in addition to frontispiece. Illustrations with captioned tissueguards. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Design to front board. Gilt top edges. Deckled fore and tail edges. Good- condition. Board corners bumped and rubbed. Lengthy cracks to gutter to between rear pastedowns and endpapers with exposed cloth. Binding tender. Partially loose foxed frontispiece and tissueguard. Textblock still solid. Occasional foxing throughout. Interior unmarked.

6. Barry, Gearóid.

The Disarmament of Hatred – Marc Sangnier, French Catholicism and the legacy of the First World War, 1914-45.

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire/New York, NY, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 23 cm. XIV, 293 pages. Illustrated. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Rare !

7. Spencer, Charles.

Blenheim – Battle for Europe.

Third impression. London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004. 16 cm x 24 cm. 365 pages. Several colour plates and three black and white maps. Original Hardcover with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Fine / As New. Out of print.

8. Glantz, David M. / House, Jonathan M.

When Titans Clashed – How the Red Army Stopped Hitler. Maps by Darin Grauberger and George F. McCleary, Jr.

Kansas, University Press of Kansas, 1995. 15.5 cm x 23.5 cm. XI, 414 pages. Original Hardcover with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Excellent, as new condition. Out of print.

9. 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.

10. Strong, Roy.

Small Period Gardens: A Practical Guide to Design and Planting.

London, Conran Octopus, 1992. 24.5 cm x 24.5 cm. 160 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.