Pp. [viii]+348(last blank)+32 pp. publisher's catalogue, frontispiece and 1 plate, 3 full page text maps, appendices; demy 8vo; maroon cloth, lettered and ruled in gilt & blind, boards lightly browned and marked, fore-corners slightly bruised; uncut; bookseller's stamp at foot of upper free endpaper, publisher's 'With compliments' stamp on half-title..... More
Pp. xxvi+438, 8 coloured and 16 black & white plates, double page map and family trees, bibliography, sources, index; thick med. 8vo; black boards, spine lettered in gilt, head of spine slightly bruised; dust wrapper, edges lightly bruised; leaves browned, fore-edges marked; HarperCollins, London, n.d.[1999]. First edition. *From the library..... More
Seven parts in three volumes, totalling over 2,200 pages, 18 folding maps, mostly linen-backed, plus numerous full page maps; demy 8vo; green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, gilt lettered red leather titling pieces (lightly rubbed), insignia in gilt on upper boards, the boards lightly marked and soiled, rebound by Birrell..... More
The siege and the commune, 1870-1. Pp. xiv+458, 16 plates, pictorial headpieces, text plus endpaper maps, bibliography, reference notes, index; demy 8vo; grey cloth, spine blocked in black and lettered and ruled in gilt and black; dust wrapper, rubbed, edges a little worn and verso a trifle soiled; Macmillan, London..... More
The Paris Commune, 1871. Pp. 172, printed in red, blue & black, numerous text illustrations and maps (some coloured or tinted), pictorial endpapers, further reading; demy 4to; beige cloth, the spine blocked in red and lettered in gilt, edges of boards slightly browned; dust wrapper, lightly soiled and worn, edges..... More
Pp. 120, title-page and text illustrations (some full page), notes select bibliography; med. 4to; pictorial stiff paper wrappers, worn, a little soiled and edges foxed; endpapers and edges of leaves browned and foxed; Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 1971. First edition. *From the library of Sydney bibliophile David Levine, with..... More
Pp. xvi+240, 8 plates, 1 text plus endpaper maps, notes, bibliography, index of names; demy 8vo; blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, the boards slightly marked; dust wrapper, worn and browned, edges rubbed and lightly creased, piece torn from head of backstrip; edges of leaves and plates browned, a little..... More
Pp. [xii]+356, text illustrations; impl. 8vo; printed paper wrappers, the backstrip cracked and chipped, with sections of text loose, the wrappers browned and foxed, with edges chipped and split; uncut and mostly unopened; upper free endpaper with piece cut from top quarter; Maurice Dreyfous, Paris, 1891. *Inscribed by the author..... More
Pp. xii+256, 22 text illustrations 4 text maps, pictorial endpapers, appendices, notes, bibliography, index; demy 8vo; blue cloth, spine blocked in red and lettered in gilt, lower edges of boards slightly bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper, 2 cm. split in front panel from backstrip fold; top edges of leaves lightly foxed;..... More
The German Conquest of France in 1870-1871. Pp. xvi+328(last blank), text figures and maps, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; black boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; Cambridge University Press, New York, 2003. First U.S. edition. More