New York: Public Affairs, 1999. Illustrated, maps. xxiii + 579 pages, thick 8vo, black and grey boards, d.w. New York: Public Affairs, (1999). A near fine copy in a near fine dust wapper. More about Argument Without End: In Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990. Illustrated. 748 pages. Thick 8vo, blue cloth backed stamped red boards; boards and cloth lightly soiled. New York: Simon & Schuster, (1990). First edition. A very good copy. More about An American Life
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1968. 184 pages. 8vo, stamped black cloth, dust wrapper; wrapper with a tear at front mid-spine, price clipped. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, (1968). First edition. A near fine copy in a very good wrapper. More about The Mulberry Tree; A reporter's Pulitzer Prize-winning story of an innocent man's release from...
New York: St. Martin's, 2013. Illustrated. 327 pages. 8vo, red cloth, dust wrapper. New York: St. Martin's Press, (2013). First edition. A near fine copy. More about Paris Reborn; Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann, and the Quest to Build a Modern City
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. Illustrated. xv + 557 pages, thick 8vo, black boards, d.w. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. A near fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper. More about A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950
New York: Carroll & Graf, 2007. Illustrated. x + 612 pages, thick 8vo, boards, d.w. New York: Carroll & Graf, (2007). A very good(+) copy in a very good dust wrapper. More about Bobby and J. Edgar: The Historic Face-off between the Kennedys and J. Edgar Hoover that...
London: Macmillan, 1901. With 214 Illustrations by Hugh Thomson and Herbert Railton. 376 pages. Small 8vo, beautifully bound in 3/4 blue calf with gold images of horses on spine, marbled boards, top edge gilt. London: Macmillan, 1901. A fine copy in a lovely binding. More about Coaching Days and Coaching Ways
New York: Scribner, 1851. 336 pages. 8vo, gilt-stamped sunned and faded cloth; ex-library with bookplate inside front cover and bookseller's embossed stamp on flyleaf, small notations in pencil on title page and first page. New York: Charles Scribner, 1851. First edition. A very good(+) copy. More about Fresh Gleanings; or, A New Sheaf from the Old Fields of Continental Europe
New York: Penguin, 2017. 339 pages. 8vo, black cloth backed black boards, dust wrapper; previous owner's book plate on flyleaf. New York: Penguin, 2017. First edition. A very good(+) copy. More about A World In Disarray; American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order
London: Dodsley, 1774. 4 volumes. Frontispiece copperplate portrait. Tall slim 8vo, exquisitely bound in full brown straight grained morocco, ornately gilt spines and covers, bookplates. London: J. Dodsley, 1774. Fifth Edition. Near fine. More about Letters Written by the Late Right Honorable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to His...
New York: Norton, 1964. Illustrated (b/w). 214 pages. 8vo, red and green cloth; head and foot of spine are worn. New York: W.W. Norton, (1964). First American edition. A very good copy. More about The Ritz of Paris
Edinburgh: John Thomson, 1817. Map. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 19.25" x 23.25". This spectacular map of the East Indian Islands covers from the Andaman Islands and Burma or Myanmar eastward to New Guinea and from southern China and Taiwan (Formosa) south to Timor. Centered on Borneo, it includes the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Bali, Borneo, the Celebes, and the Philippines. Singapore Island (Sincapoor) is also labeled. The Island of Krakatoa, located in the Sunda Strait between Java... More about East India Isles
London: James Wyld, 1844. Map. Engraving with original color outline. Image measures 20.5" x 25.5". This well designed map by James Wyld covers the entire continent of Asia from the Mediterranean Sea to New Guinea. Notes the political divisions circa 1840 with outline color and labels important cities, towns, rivers, islands, mountains, deserts, seas, lakes, and other topographical features. The Great Wall of China and the Grand Canal are both identified, so is the seat of the Mogul Empire of... More about Map of Asia
Philadelphia: Tanner, H.S., 1823. Map. Engraving with hand coloring. Image measures 18 x 20.75". Sheet measures 23.75 x 31". In very good condition. This large map of Asia offers ample detail in both the mainland and the islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It extends from the Arctic Circle south to New Zealand, and from Italy east to Polynesia. With its fine engraving and wealth of labeled information, the map exemplifies the qualities that have led historians to consider... More about Asia
Edinburgh: Stirling, 1819. 5 volumes. Frontispiece copperplate portraits in each volume. 8vo, full contemporary brown crushed morocco, ornately gilt spines, marbled page edges. Hinges on volume 1 and 5 reinforced. Edinburgh: Printed For Stirling and Slade, And Archibald Constable. 1819. A New Edition, Carefully Revised. (First published in English in 1756, this is the first edition with the appendix.). A handsome set. More about Memoirs of The Duke Of Sully, Prime Minister of Henry The Great With the Trial of Francis...
London: Sherwood, Neely, 1821. With an original pencil sketch "Rotten Row" by George Cruikshank, inserted before page 155. 36 magnificent colored aquatint plates and 21 wood engravings by George and Isaac Robert Cruikshank. 3 folding leaves of music sheets (6 pages). Lacks the half title. xvi, 376 pages, all edges gilt, 8vo, full burgundy crushed levant by Riviere, ornately gilt spine with floral designs, inner dentelles. Armorial bookplate. London: Sherwood Neely, 1821. First Edition. Third issue. The 1821 bestseller that... More about Life in London, or, the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq. and His Elegant Friend...
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1912. Ed. by Max Farrand. 64pp. 8vo, 1/2 tan cloth, cloth lightly soiled, edges of board corners worn. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1912. Author was niece of Timothy Dwight, president of Yale. She travelled from New Haven to Warren Ohio. vg One of 600 copies. More about A Journey to Ohio in 1810; as recorded in the Journal of Margaret Van Horn Dwight
London: R. Axkermann, 1815. 2 volumes. Color frontispiece in first volume along with an extra illustrated tinted title page, dated 1816, vii, [5] 295; frontispiece, [6], 299 pages. In all, there are 74 fine hand-colored aquatint plates (38 in first volume including title vignette; 36 in second volume). Tall 8vo, elegantly bound by Riviere & Son in full crimson morocco; ornate gilt-decorated spines with raised bands; thick inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, uncut edges, t.e.g. (some light wear at outer joints)... More about The English Dance of Death, from the Designs of Thomas Rowlandson, with Metrical Illustrations,...
London: Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 1817. 26 hand-colored aquatint plates (including the frontispiece and engraved title) by Thomas Rowlandson. Bound in 3/4 green polished morocco, decoratively gilt spine, marbled boards, top edge gilt. London: Published by R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 1817. First edition. Tall 8vo, [10 ], 285 pages. London:R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 1817. First Edition. Ownership bookplate, still a near fine copy. More about The Dance of Life. A Poem
New York: The Architectural History Foundation, 1985. Illustrated (b/w). 456 pages. Large 4to, red cloth, dust wrapper. New York: The Architectural History Foundation and MIT Press, (1985). A near fine copy. More about Synagogues of Europe; Architecture History Meaning
London: George Bell, 1899. 10 volumes. With Lord Braybrooke's notes, edited with additions by Henry B. Wheatley. Frontispiece portrait, other illustrations. Tall 8vo, 3/4 crimson polished calf, top edge gilt, slight shelf wear. London: George Bell & Sons, 1897-1899. Includes the Index & Supplemental Pepysiana volumes. Very good (+). More about The Diary of Samuel Pepys
London: Batsford, 2008. Illustrated (color). 140 pages. 4to, red cloth, dust wrapper. London: Batsford, (2008). First edition. Fine. More about Magnificent Miniatures; Inspiration and Technique for Grand Houses on a Small Scale
Naples, FL: The Naples Art Museum, 2001. Illustrated (color). 112 pages. Tall 4to, gilt-stamped blue cloth, dust wrapper. Naples, FL: Naples Art Museum, (2010). A near fine copy in a very good wrapper. More about The Pinster House... A Master in Miniature
London: Colburn, 1844. 3 volumes, slim 8vo, full contemporary brown polished tree calf, red spine labels (small chip on one label), ornately gilt spines, cloth slipcase. London: Henry Colburn, 1844. First Edition. Very good(+). Sadlier 709. Elegant bookplates. More about Coningsby; or, the New Generation
Beverly Hills, CA: Regan Books, 2006. Well illustrated in color. Tall 4to, gilt-stamped boards, dust wrapper. Beverly Hills: Regan Books, (2006). A near fine copy. More about Domicilium Decoratus
Dear Argosy - you've made my day - my order (Netherlands at War, 1940-1945) arrived on my doorstep this morning unheralded and very, very welcome. My sisters and I are Dutch immigrants in New Zealand and we all lived through that war 60 plus years ago as young kids. We had occasion to share what we remembered recently and now you've supplied the book. I can't tell you what this means...
Hello. The Richard Lower (Tractatus de Corde) has arrived and it is a nice copy. Thanks for getting the minor restorations done and sending this so promptly.