![Item #4004 [WEST AFRICAN HISTORY AND RELIGION]. Ife, Cradle of the Yoruba: A Handbook on the...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4004.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1683658218)
Lagos, Nigeria: Published by the author, and printed by Pacific Printing Works, 1958. First Edition. COMPLETE SET. Together 2 vols., 8vo. [4], 88; [4], 56 pp. Illustrated with reproductions of photographs throughout. Original printed wrappers, stapled as issued (front cover of Part II slightly stained, toning to the text and..... More
![Item #3224 [FRENCH GOTHIC COFFRET CA. 1560 WITH CONTEMPORARY WOODCUT IN SITU]. Anonymous French...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3224.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1601261704)
(Lyon or Paris): Ca. 1550-1570 (?). The coffret measures (in mm) ca. 280 (long) x 190 (wide) x 115 (high): around sides are four looped metal fittings for leather straps, all five original hinges on back, on front the original iron hasp facade with forged "pine leaf" decoration, keyhole &..... More
![Item #3899 [LAMOIGNON COPY]. Memoirs of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, from the year 1581 till her...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3899.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1681219795)
London: Printed for A. Millar, 1754. First Edition. 2 vols., 4to. Elegant contemporary French blue morocco, smooth spines gilt (faded to chestnut brown), vol. 1 with special label at the foot of the spine gilt with the author's name, place of imprint, and date, inner dentelles gilt, marbled pastedowns and..... More
![Item #864 Responce [i.e. response] d'un notable serviteur du roy a un sien amy, sur le discours...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/864.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1676569083)
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
![Item #584 [SCOTTISH RESISTANCE 1682]. A serious expostulation with that party in Scotland,...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/584.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1584884763)
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
![Item #565 [GLORIOUS REVOLUTION / ABDICATION OF JAMES II]. The debate at large, between the House...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/565.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1584829864)
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
New York: Doubleday, 1996. Hardcover. Octavo, 470 pages, original cloth with dustjacket. Illustrated throughout in black and white and color. ¶ The flowering of civilization, the rebirth of classical scholarship, and the emergence of some of the greatest artists and thinkers the world has known: this is the traditional view..... More
![Item #3671 [COLLECTION OF 8 JEANNE D'ARC / JOAN OF ARC PAMPHLETS, IN FRENCH, 1886-1956]. Joan of...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3671.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1642864044)
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
![Item #3158 [REFORMATION]. Johannes Zwick und die Reformation in Konstanz / Quellen und...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3158.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1595430184)
Gutersloh, Germany: Gutersloher Verlagshaus Gerd Mohn, 1961. First Edition. 8vo. 308 pp. pp. Original cloth (a trifle dusty). NOT ex-library! The definitive, critical biography of Johannes Zwick (ca. 1496-1542) who with his brother Konrad, and Ambrosius and Thomas Blarer, implemented the Reformation in Constance and "deputized" other brothers in other..... More
![Item #1779 [BOOK THIEF / BOOK THEFTS]. Scientist, Scholar & Scoundrel: A Bibliographical...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1779.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1589687433)
New York: The Grolier Club, 2013. Softcover. Octavo, 176 numbered pages, illustrations in both black and white and color. ¶ Biographical and bibliographic account of Count Libri, known for his activity as a book collector and book thief. More
![Item #564 [SCOTLAND, 1703]. Some thoughts on the present state of affairs. Humbly offered to the...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/564.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1553284717)
[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
![Item #3877 [UKRAINE - TWO UNRECORDED NAZI WEHRMACHT FIELD PRINTINGS OF KYIV]. "Blick v.d. Lissa...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3877.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1666718343)
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
![Item #3632 [MEXICAN SOCIALIST ANTI-FASCIST BROADSIDE, 1930s] "Atencion Mexicanos" Union General...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3632.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1639666804)
Broadsheet (297 x 200 mm). Printed in red on inferior paper (creased, frayed at margins). Preserved in a mylar sleeve. RARE MEXICAN SOCIALIST ANTI-FASCIST / ANTI-FALANGE BROADSIDE, PRINTED ON THE CHEAPEST PAPER POSSIBLE, INEXPLICABLY PRESERVED FOR AT LEAST 80 YEARS. The dating of the broadside can be determined by the..... More
![Item #3950 [1805 HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, WRITTEN BY A WOMAN HISTORIAN]. History of...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3950.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1681227059)
Boston: Printed by Manning and Loring, for E. Larkin, 1805. First Edition. 3 vols., 8vo. xii, 447; vii, [1], 412; vi pp., 1 f. (blank), 475 pp., browning and foxing throughout. Nineteenth-century quarter buckram over marbled boards, WORN, front board of vol. 1 reattached, some binder's blanks detached or starting..... More
