Paris: Printed by E. Desfosses-Neogravure [for the state], 1936, 1949. Pamphlet. Respectively [35] and [25]p., both items are 10x8 inch pamphlets, staplebound. The 1936 piece is illustrated in b&w with facsimiles of documents establishing the game and remarkably clear small photogravures from various periods; somewhat handled and dusty with a...... More

Cat.No: 223480

Duham NC [sic]: Duke University Press, 1927. xii, 240p., illustrations on glazed inserted stock: a frontis portrait, a folded line map of the Mixton War (last attempt to be delivered from the Spanish) and a grim battlefield scene. First edition hardbound in textured dark green cloth boards and plain printed..... More

Cat.No: 264040

Wiltshire, UK: The E.J.W. Gibb Memorial Trust, 2001. Hardcover. xxvii, 160p., cloth-covered boards, 6.25x8.75 inches, very good condition in like dj. Domenico Hiersolimitano was a Rabbi, doctor and court physican to Sultan Murat III before converting to Catholicism and working at an instructor of Hebrew in Rome. More

Cat.No: 265401

Rome: Jouvence - Viella, 1982. Various paginations, nice clear reproduction of texts and facsimile maps, the doublespreads mounted on stubs so these open fully, a small folio in rather utilitarian decorated papered boards, 12x8.5 inches. Mild edgewear, spine rims slightly crimped with a touch of paper-fray to topmost, generally sound..... More

Cat.No: 265004

Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1990. Hardcover. xii, 201p., introduction, map, very good first edition in English,cloth and unclipped dj with one-inch closed tear at top front gutter and light sunning to spine. Novel of Columbus by the Cuban American author a former director of the Center for Caribbean..... More

Cat.No: 144483

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1954. Paperback. Unpaginated preliminaries, 170p., illustrated with ;tables and a dinky line map, softbound in plain printed skyblue wraps (these resemble a pre-pub fastening) punch-holed along spine for a 3-ring binder, no ownership or institutional markings, light toning and no soil, a good to very..... More

Cat.No: 220643

Amsterdam: NEHA, 1993. xi, 208p., an elegant hardcover in dark blue openweave cloth boards titled silverfoil and enclosed in the glossy dust jacket. Illustrated with a doublespread line-map, a large number of vignette period facsimiles scattered throughout text, though this "large number" is overwhelmed by a fantastic accumulation of tabled..... More

Cat.No: 265477

Pomona: Kelly-Winterton Press, 2005. Paperback. 115p., very good limited edition of 150 copies printed by letterpress on Fabriano Paper from several typefaces designed by Robert Slimbach with typography by Jerry Kelly, decorative green paper wraps with paper spine label. More

Cat.No: 243720

Milan: Arnoldo Mondadori Arte, 1991. Paperback. 62p., 7.5x10.25 inches, color plates, very good slim oversized trade paperback in pictorial wraps. More

Cat.No: 169141

Geneva: imprimerie Atar, 1930. xi, 163p. + contents, errata leaf, illustrated with genealogical material (listed every entry, with a long folded chart at terminus). Find a single color-lithographed armorial, numerous portraits on inserted coated stock, a facsimile map, and many facsimile signatures. The original issue was evidently much-thumbed and resorted-to..... More

Cat.No: 253720

Ciudad de Zacatecas: Fresnillo Zacatecas, 2000. Paperback. 148p., text in Spanish, illustrated with b&w period images, very good first edition paperback in pictorial white wraps. Issued in a run of 500. Brief business history of the largest silver-from-ore mining company in Mexico (second-largest gold producer) headquartered in the UK. More

Cat.No: 205926

Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau / Xavier Center of Historical Research, 1992. Paperback. 415p., substantial paperback printed on coated alkaline paperstock and softbound in 9x6 inch glossy black wraps titled bronze. Text is in the English language throughout. Owing to careless storage, front cover's top margin is slightly bent and..... More

Cat.No: 265922

New York: J. F. Taylor & Company, 1903. Hardcover. xvi, 231p., a few facsimile cuts, these illustrations and all text printed on Japan vellum with large-paper margins; hardbound in 10x8 inch papered boards gilt and quarter-vellum spine with titling and rulings gilt. Number 25 of fifty copies so printed and..... More

Cat.No: 210579