Matthew White

The Great Big Book of Horrible Things

New York, Norton, 2012. 1st Edition. Hardcover. New hardcover book in dustjacket. .

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Book number: 1250865

Catalogue: European History

Joseph P. Widney

Race Life of the Aryan Peoples, Volumes I-II

New York, Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1907. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 2 vols. 347p; 359p. A set of two green cloth hardcover books in near-fine condition. The spines and foredges are faintly foxed, and the spine text has grown dull with age. Embossed stamp on both volumes' front free endpapers. Otherwise, text clean, binding tight, and pages crisp and smooth. Sturdy and attractive copy of this very scarce work! An anthropological-historical study of the so-called Aryan race, espousing the idea of white supremacy and manifest destiny. .

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Book number: 200109

Catalogue: European History

Will and Ariel Durant

The Age of Reason Begins: A History of European Civilization in the Period of Shakespeare, Bacon, Montaigne, Rembrandt, Galileo, and Descartes; 1558-1648

New York, Simon and Schuster, 1980. Hardcover. 729p. A hardcover book in fine condition with a very good dustjacket. The book is clean and tight. The jacket is faintly sunfaded and has a tiny closed tear at the top of the front panel. Volume 7 in the Durants' series, THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION. Very Good .

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Book number: 190714

Catalogue: European History

David Williamson

Debrett's Kings and Queen of Europe

Topsfield, MA, Salem House Publishers, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 208p. A large hardcover book in fine condition with a near-fine dustjacket. The book is clean and tight. The jacket has light wear at the top corners, but is otherwise intact. An illustrated history of the monarchies of each major European country. Measures approx. 11.25" x 9. Very Good .

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Book number: 193472

Catalogue: European History

Audrey Williamson

The Mystery of the Princes: An Investigation Into a Supposed Murder

Chicago, Academy Chicago Publishers, 1978. Paperback. 215p. A softcover book in near fine condition, save for an indentation and a crease on the side edge of the front cover. The text is clean and the binding tight. Includes black and white illustrations. A collection of evidence and questions surrounding the disappearance of Edward V and his brother Richard, and their possible murder by their uncle Richard III. .

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Book number: 203043

Catalogue: European History

Carl Wittke

Against the Current: The Life of Karl Heinzen (1809-80)

Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1945. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 342p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a like dustjacket. Faint soiling on front cover, and bottom corners lightly crinkled. Otherwise clean and tight. The jacket is wrinkled, having been exposed to some dampness, and is also worn along the edges. However, it remains essentially intact. Biography of a German revolutionary, one of the Forty-Eighters. He spent many years in the United States, where he published newspapers and pamphlets propagating his then-radical ideology. He died in Boston. Very Good .

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Book number: 191805

Catalogue: European History

Carl Wittke

The Utopian Communist: A Biography of Wilhelm Weitling, Nineteenth-Century Reformer

Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1950. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 327p. A hardcover book in fine condition with a very good dustjacket. The book is clean and tight. The jacket is lightly worn and foxed and has some small scratch marks on the front panel, but is otherwise intact. Among the first communist political theorists, German radical publisher Wilhelm Weitling (1808-1871) was also one of the Forty-Eighters. Very Good .

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Book number: 191866

Catalogue: European History

Robert Lee Wolff

The Balkans in Our Time

New York, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1967. Norton Library edition. Paperback. 618p. A softcover book in very good condition. Spine faintly creased and inside covers toned. Otherwise clean and tight. Very Good .

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Book number: 195094

Catalogue: European History

Michael Wood

Conquistadors

Berkeley, University of California Press, 2000. Paperback. 288p. A softcover book in fine condition. The text is clean and the binding tight. Illustrated throughout. .

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Book number: 203632

Catalogue: European History

Benjamin Woolley

The Queen's Conjurer: The Science and Magic of Dr. John Dee, Adviser to Queen Elizabeth

New York, Henry Holt and Company, 2001. Hardcover. 355p. A hardcover book and dustjacket in very good condition. Small creases in bottom corner of jacket; otherwise like new. Very Good .

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Book number: 204064

Catalogue: European History

Katharine Prescott Wormeley

Versailles Historical Series in 18 Volumes

Boston, Hardy, Pratt & Company, 1899. Limited Edition. Leather bound. COMPLETE SET OF 18 VOLUMES BOUND IN 3/4 LEATHER. THE VERSAILLES EDITION, BEING #62 OF 800 NUMBERED SETS. Each volume bound in 3/4 and marbled boards; top edges gilt, silk ribbon bookmark in each volume. The leather was originally a light purple but the spines and edges have faded to a light chocolate brown. A few touches of shelf wear but genrally in fine condition. Includes MEMOIRS OF CARDINAL DE BERNIS (2v); MEMOIRS OF THE DUC DE ST. SIMON (4v); THE PRINCE DE LIGNE (2v), MADAME ELISABETH, CORRESPONDENCE OF PRINCESS PALATINE et al, MADAME DE MONTVILLE (3v), MMLE. JULIE DE LESPINASSE, COUNT AXEL FERSON, MARQUIS D'ARGENSON (2v), and THE BOOK OF THE LADIES. A comprehensive selection of memoirs of prominent players at the French Royal Court at Versailles. .

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Book number: 1226039

Catalogue: European History

Keywords: France, French, monarchy

Alvar Zetterquist

Kriminalchefen Berattar

Stockholm, Medens, 1963. Third Edition. Hardcover. 453p. A 1/4 red faux-leather hardcover book in very good condition. No dustjacket. Former owner's private library stamps on endpapers. Otherwise clean and tight. Text in Swedish. A collection of true crime and detective stories. Black and white photographs throughout. The author was a lawyer and policeman. .

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Book number: 162010

Catalogue: European History