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Item #864 Responce [i.e. response] d'un notable serviteur du roy a un sien amy, sur le discours...

Responce [i.e. response] d'un notable serviteur du roy a un sien amy, sur le discours de deux lettres [...] l'une souz le nom des pretenduz Estats du Royaume et l'autre du Cardinal de Plaisance

Tours: Chez Jamet Mettayer, Imprimeur ordinaire du Roy, 1594. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 33 pp. Mettayer's wodcut device on title-page with motto: "Omni praestantior arte." Sympathetically bound in the antique style: recent quarter calf over speckled boards, red morocco label; small blemish on title; four leaves (including title) with blind-stamp..... More

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Item #584 [SCOTTISH RESISTANCE 1682]. A serious expostulation with that party in Scotland,...

[SCOTTISH RESISTANCE 1682]. A serious expostulation with that party in Scotland, commonly known by the name of Whigs: Wherein is [...] plainly laid open the inconsistency of their practices

London: Printed by J[ohn] D[arby] for Richard Chiswell, 1682. First Edition. Softcover. Small quarto. Collation: A-H4 (final verso blank), COMPLETE. Pagination: 63, [1] pp. Recent sympathetic wrappers. Small 19th-century printed booklabel on upper left corner of title-page ("1047"). Unobtrusive blind-stamp of the Theological Institute of Connecticut (now known as the..... More

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Item #4217 [PROTEST BROADSIDE AGAINST CONSERVATIVE EXTREMISM]. What About the Hate Books?...
Three "Hate Books" Exposed: Warnings by the 1964 Democratic National Committee against Far-Right Extremism

[PROTEST BROADSIDE AGAINST CONSERVATIVE EXTREMISM]. What About the Hate Books?

Washington DC: Democratic National Committee, 1964. First Edition. Broadside (8 1/2" x 14"), printed on both sides on slightly tan-tinted paper, folded horizontally as issued (two corners slightly curled). In very fresh state, suitable for exhibition and study. AN UNPRECEDENTED BROADSIDE ISSUED BY THE 1964 DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE, DENOUNCING THREE..... More

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Item #4576 [MILITARIA: WWI ARMISTICE DAY 1918]. "The End of the War" (caption title). Evening...
One of the first public announcements of the Armistice: "Hostilities are to cease on all Fronts at 11 a.m. to-day" (11 November 1918)

[MILITARIA: WWI ARMISTICE DAY 1918]. "The End of the War" (caption title)

London: The Evening News, 1918. Newsprint broadsheet (643 x 444). 2 pp. (not examined outside sleeve), printed in black with red "6:30" edition (?) stamp. Toned, particularly along the two folds, some evidence of staining and marginal tears (not objectionable). A remarkable survival, preserved in very good condition. ONE OF..... More

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Item #565 [GLORIOUS REVOLUTION / ABDICATION OF JAMES II]. The debate at large, between the House...

[GLORIOUS REVOLUTION / ABDICATION OF JAMES II]. The debate at large, between the House of Lords and House of Commons [...] anno 1688

London: Printed for J. Wickins; and to be sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster, 1695. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Octavo. COLLATION: A-B4 C-F8 G-Q4, COMPLETE. [2], 19-176 pp. Attractive half calf antique, marbled boards, red morocco label gilt, compartments gilt with small tools. ¶ FIRST EDITION of this important..... More

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Item #3671 [COLLECTION OF 8 JEANNE D'ARC / JOAN OF ARC PAMPHLETS, IN FRENCH, 1886-1956]. Joan of...

[COLLECTION OF 8 JEANNE D'ARC / JOAN OF ARC PAMPHLETS, IN FRENCH, 1886-1956]

1886-1956. All in original wrappers, conditions vary from fair to very good (some wrappers chipped and worn; some textblocks browned and brittle on account of the WWI paper supply). One pamphlet is ex-Harvard (duplicate) with associated markings, another is a presentation copy. Small collection of 8 French pamphlets celebrating the..... More

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Item #4316 [PALEOGRAPHY, GERMAN 18th Century]. Erbteilung Kagelmann-Oldesloe (cover title)....
Valuable for learning to transcribe "impossible" 18th-century German cursive handwriting

[PALEOGRAPHY, GERMAN 18th Century]. Erbteilung Kagelmann-Oldesloe (cover title). [Transcriptions of German documents dated 1776]

S.l. Privately Printed, 1935 (ca.). Folio. 18 ff. including 9 negative photographic reproductions on thin paper (curling) of manuscript documents, tipped in + 9 typescript pages facing the plates. Loosely inserted: 1 f. typescript "Ahnenreige Sonnemann / Kagelmann." Original boards covered with linen, stamped in blue: Erbteilung Kagelmann-Oldesloe. OUTSTANDING OPPORTUNITIES..... More

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Item #4581 [POLITICAL BOOKBINDING]. Evenemens de Paris, des 26, 27, 28 et 29 juillet 1830....
Book Arts in the service of the 1830 "July Revolution": Printed on blue, white and pale-red "Tricolore" paper (1830)

[POLITICAL BOOKBINDING]. Evenemens de Paris, des 26, 27, 28 et 29 juillet 1830

Paris: Audot, 1830. Quatrieme edition. 18mo (132 × 88 mm) in alternating gatherings of twelves and sixes. 210, [5], 214-215, [1] pp. Printed on blue (pp. [1]-72), white (pp. 73-144), and pale red paper (pp. 145-215). White pages with some scattered spotting (no doubt inherent in the paper stock). Bound..... More

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Item #4562 [INQUISITION: RULES AND METHODOLOGY OF INTERROGATION AND TORTURE 1665]. Sacro Arsenale...
Astonishing 1665 Inquisition Manual: Torture normalized and legally justified (not a punishment but a vehicle for extracting truth)

[INQUISITION: RULES AND METHODOLOGY OF INTERROGATION AND TORTURE 1665]. Sacro Arsenale ouero prattica dell'officio della Santa Inquisitione. [BOUND WITH]: Aggionte al sacro arsenale della Santa Inquisitione

Bologna: Printed at the behest of Paolo Baglioni, 1665. New, revised edition. 8vo (162 x 105 mm). 432, [64] pp. (without the 32-page "Aggionte" that was bound into some copies -- see below). Collation: A-Z8, Aa-Hh8. Eighteenth-century calf (Belgium? France?), five raised bands on spine, lettering piece in the second..... More

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Item #156 [WOMEN'S HISTORY]. Les Imperatrices Romaines, ou Histoire de la Vie & des Intrigues...
History of the Empresses of Ancient Rome: "Exhibits the Enormities of Vice in their Greatest Variety, and Most Unlimited Extent"

[WOMEN'S HISTORY]. Les Imperatrices Romaines, ou Histoire de la Vie & des Intrigues secretes des Femmes des douze Cesars, de celles des Empereurs Romains, & des Princesses de leur Sang

Paris: Hourdel, 1744. New edition, corrected and enlarged. Three volumes, octavo (170 x 90 mm). Decorative head- and tailpieces throughout. (4), 455; vii, 444; (2), 408 pp., collated and complete (pages iii-vi of Preface of Volume II bound in error at end of Volume III). Slight wear to head and..... More

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Item #564 [SCOTLAND, 1703]. Some thoughts on the present state of affairs. Humbly offered to the...

[SCOTLAND, 1703]. Some thoughts on the present state of affairs. Humbly offered to the high court of Parliament / by a lover of his Queen and countrey (sic). WITH: Some thoughts *upon* the present state of affairs

[Edinburgh]: 1703. First Edition. Softcover. Together two volumes, small quarto. 12 pp., COMPLETE. Stitched in old blue paper wrappers at a recent date. Contemporary (or near-contemporary) author attributions in ink on title-pages, faint blind-stamps on first and final leaves of both pamphlets. BOTH editions of Sinclair's pamphlet recommending Scottish parliamentary..... More

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Item #3877 [UKRAINE - Two Unrecorded Nazi Wehrmacht Field Printings of Kyiv]. "Blick v.d. Lissa...
Tragically topical: Nazi field printings of two views of Kyiv (both unrecorded)

[UKRAINE - Two Unrecorded Nazi Wehrmacht Field Printings of Kyiv]. "Blick v.d. Lissa Gora auf die Stadt Kijew" Together with: "Blick v.d. Zitadelle (Lawra) nach Osten und Nordosten"

Kyiv: 1941 (before Nov. 3). Together 2 views (205 x 325 mm; 8" x 13") printed on cheap, thin paper (Ad 1: long closed tear through image without loss, light staining creasing, edges a little frayed; Ad 2: short closed tears along edges, two small holes in blank area at..... More

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Item #4209 [HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR NARRATIVE]. I Cannot Forgive. Rudolf . Bestic Vrba, Alan,...
"One of the Most Terrible Documents Ever Penned"

[HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR NARRATIVE]. I Cannot Forgive

London: Sidgwick & Jackson and Anthony Gibbs & Phillips, 1963 (copyright 1964). First Edition. 8vo. 278 pp. Original cloth, dust-jacket with 1/4" tear at top of front panel which is lightly faded, slight wear to dust-jacket at head and tail. In mylar sleeve. HAUNTING AND UNIMAGINABLY HARROWING AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT OF..... More

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