Category: Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Russia/USSR

A Handbook for Travellers in Switzerland, and the Alps of Savoy and Piedmont

Price: $150.00

Publisher: London and Paris, John Murray/A. & W. Galignani & Co.; Stassin & Xavier : 1858

Seller ID: 059265

Condition: Very Good

Custom-bound full calf, bordered and with spine panel compartments in gilt, 5 raised bands, dentilled edges, marbled text block edges and endpapers. Rubbed joints, corners, and bands, spine gilt partially rubbed away, title and publisher labels now lacking. Firm binding, clean interior. Lacking front blank preceding main title, interior otherwise fully intact. Stated 8th edition. lxvii,422 pp., (6) folding maps and plans. A respectable copy, quite scarce early edition.
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Bavaria Sketch Book

Price: $20.00

Seller ID: 044545

Binding: Unbound

Condition: Near Fine

Die-cut portfolio w/ 24 post cards (colored or tinted), 3 larger plates all depicting scenes of life in Bavaria. Undated but probably ca. 1910 (post cards are divided-back, thus 1907 or later). Contents Fine, outer portfolio mildly soiled/toned.
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Die Grossen der Weltgeschichte

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Dresden, Germany, Eckstein-Halpaus GmbH : 1922

Seller ID: 061593

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Stiff tan wraps, lettered/illus. in gilt, front cover color pastedown portrait. Covers mildly spotted/foxed, mild spotting to text block edges, some rubbing to pastedown. Interior clean and intact, with all 252 stamps present. Undated, circa 1922.
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Die Grossen der Weltgeschichte [Sammelalbum = Stamp Album]

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Dresden, Germany, Eckstein-Halpaus GmbH : 1936

Seller ID: 045712

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Near Fine

Stiff tan wraps, color front cover pastedown illus. 63 pp., printed on rectos only, with 252 mounted color stickers. Front cover shows slight dampstaining along upper fore-edge, light surface rubbing to pastedown. Contents fine.
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Die Olympischen Spiele 1936 in Berlin und Garmisch-Partenkirchen [Band 1 + 2, Complete]

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Hamburg-Bahrenfeld, Germany, Cigaretten-Bilderdienst : 1936

Seller ID: 061594

ISBN: B006IV7V7K

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Complete in two (2) volumes, uniformly bound in royal blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Vol. 1 includes pictorial dust jacket lacking 2" x 2" area along bottom front edge and with closed tear/creasing extending another few inches, Vol. 2 dj lacking, both books now wrapped in protective plastic. 128 + 168 pp., Vol. 1 w/ 168 photos, 369 total over both volumes, all present and intact, a few showing minor corner wear or a crease, and quite a few (esp. in Vol. 2) not affixed but laid in at the appropriate page, also color folding map at rear of Vol. 1.
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Die Schne Heimat: Bilder aus Deutschland [Die Schone Heimat] [Die Blauen Bucher]

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Konigstein im Taunus, Germany, Karl Robert Langewiesche Nachfolger/Hans Koster : 1959

Seller ID: 032773

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Gray stiff wraps, lettered in dark blue. Gift inscription dated 1961 on front flyleaf, otherwise essentially as issued. Dark blue pictorial paper dust wrapper with mere hints of shelf wear, essentially as issued. 112 pp., illus. w/ b&w photographs. Later printing. A notably well preserved copy.
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Erfurt [II. Auflage] - Bearbeitet im Auftrage des Magistrats von Stadtrat und Stadtbaurat Boegl Erfurt [Deutschlands Stadtebau]

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Berlin-Halensee, Germany, Dari-Verlag : 1927

Seller ID: 037478

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Brown 1/4 cloth, tan paper covered boards, lettered/illus. in brown. Minor shelf wear, text block edges a bit dulled by age. Several vintage news clippings laid in at rear. 154,[62] pp., illus., w/ advertisements at rear. Many full-page black and white plates with tissue guards, additional photographs in text. Notably well preserved copy of a scarce work.
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Handbook to Switzerland, with General and Railway Maps of Switzerland; Five District Maps, and Plans of Bale, Zurich, Lucerne, Berne, Lausanne, and Geneva [7th Edition, Revised] [Ward, Lock & Co.'s Switzerland]

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co., Ltd. : 1920

Seller ID: 018369

Binding: Cloth

Condition: VG+

Dark fred cloth, lettered and decorated in black. Mildly sunned spine panel, light shelf wear. Foxed text block edges and endpapers, clean interior. 224 pp., b&w plates, 12 color foldout maps + 1 large color fold-out frontis. map. Similar format to Baedeker's. Nicely preserved copy.
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Katalog des Kniglichen Rheinischen Museums Vaterlndischer Alterhmer bei der Universitt Bonn [Katalog des Koniglichen Rheinischen Museums Vaterlandischer Alterhumer bei der Universitat Bonn]

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Bonn, Germany, Max Cohen und Sohn : 1876

Seller ID: 020022

Binding: Original Wraps

Condition: Good-VG

Tan paper wraps. vi,99 pp. Covers modestly toned, with light vertical crease. Chipped with loss at head of spine and along top front edge. Annotations in pencil on back cover and a few scattered internally. Original edition, not a modern-era facsimile.
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Ottoman Siege of Vienna 1683

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Orange Blossom Special : 1995

Seller ID: 047027

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Booklet, color illus. wraps, unbound as issued with elastic bands across corners. 8,12,6,2,[2] pp., 4 plates. Very scarce.
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Persecuted for the Truth: Ukrainian Greek-Catholics Behind the Iron Curtain

Price: $39.95

Publisher: Institute of Church History of the Ukrainian Catholic University/Ukrainian Catholic University Press : 2017

Seller ID: 053450

ISBN-13: 9789662778595

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Burgundy cloth-effect boards, lettered in silver foil, oblong format. Gift inscription inked on half-title, otherwise as issued, dust jacket now in mylar. 184 pp., illus. 1st ed.
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Post aus dem Hessenlande an die Auslandsdeutschen Hessen-Darmstdter Herkunft in aller Welt [Briefe 1-4, 1938-1939]

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Darmstadt, Germany, Forschungsstelle Stammheimat "Hessen in aller Welt" : 1938

Seller ID: 030224

Binding: Original Wraps

Condition: VG+

Partial run (all published?), booklet, illus. wraps, stapled binding. 16 pp. per issue, illus. w/ b&w photographs. Brief 1 (Feb. 1938), 2 (Okt. 1938), 3 (Dez. 1938), 4 (Mai 1939). Issue 1 shows moderate handling wear and mildly soiled covers, other 3 issues with only light handling wear. Text in German. A fascinating pictorial glimpse at mostly rural Germany on the eve of the Second World War, with several photographs and the rear cover map showing swastikas proudly displayed. Accompanied by original subscription post card. Very scarce.
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Ruhmesblätter Deutscher Geschichte

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Dresden, Germany, Eckstein-Halpaus GmbH : 1934

Seller ID: 061592

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Stiff tan wraps, lettered/illus. in gilt. Covers spotted/foxed, with light vertical crease and minor surface loss to front cover, mild spotting to text block edges. Interior clean and intact, with all 252 stamps and translucent guards present. Undated, circa 1934-36.
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The Russian Museum - Leningrad

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Moscow, Izobrazitelnoye Iskusstvo Publishing House : 1987

Seller ID: 025010

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Near Fine

Light blue cloth, lettered in gold foil. Lightly sunned along edges, slight shelf wear. Color illus. dust jacket shows rubbing/chipping at head of spine and several closed tears/creasing with tape repair to lower front panel, modest shelf wear, area of soiling on white rear panel, now in archival mylar. 24 pp. + 100 full -page color plates at rear. Text in English and Russian.
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Wien [Stadtebildband 7] [Vienna]

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Salzburg, Vienna and Regensburg, Helmut Schmid Verlag : 1988

Seller ID: 021086

ISBN-13: 9783900284008

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Color laminated boards, oblong format. 64 pp., illus. w/ 103 color photographs. Text in German, English, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese. As issued.
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Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State

By: Aly, Götz; Jefferson Chase (transl.)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Metropolitan Books-Henry Holt and Co. : 2007

Seller ID: 058518

ISBN-13: 9780805079265

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Gray paper covered boards, lettered in gold foil. Mild binding lean, otherwise about as issued. Dust jacket shows slight shelf wear, essentially as issued, now in mylar. BOMC ed.
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Practicing Democracy: Elections and Political Culture in Imperial Germany

By: Anderson, Margaret Lavinia

Price: $24.95

Publisher: Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press : 2000

Seller ID: 051640

ISBN-13: 9780691048543

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Stiff color illus. wraps. New/as issued. xix,483 pp. 1st ptg.
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The Reforms of Peter the Great: Progress Through Violence in Russia [New Russian History Series]

By: Anisimov, Evgenii V.; John T. Alexander (transl., intro.)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Armonk, NY and London, M. E. Sharpe : 1993

Seller ID: 054117

ISBN-13: 9781563240478

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Olive green 1/4 cloth, teal paper covered boards, lettered in black. As issued. Color illus. dust jacket is a bit wrinkled along spine panel and upper rear panel, otherwise as issued. 1st ptg. xi,327 pp.
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Anne Frank In The World: Die Welt Der Anne Frank, 1929-1945

By: Anne-Frankstichting

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Anne Frank Stichtung/Bert Bakker : 1985

Seller ID: 039187

ISBN-13: 9789035102736

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Stiff yellow pictorial wraps. Slight foxing to text block edges, otherwie only mere hints of shelf wear, essentially as issued. 144 pp., illus. Text in English and German.
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Oriental and Western Siberia: A Narrative of Seven Years' Explorations and Adventures in Siberia, Mongolia, the Kirghis Steppes, Chinese Tartary, and Part of Central Asia

By: Atkinson, Thomas Witlam

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, PA, John E. Potter and Co. : 1852

Seller ID: 057590

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Rust cloth, decorated in black, lettered in rust. Mild binding lean, a bit rubbed along joints and spine extremities, corners rubbed with very slight exposure to bottom corners. Text block edges typically somewhat dulled by age. Firm binding, clean interior beyond former owner's address inscription penciled on front blank. xii,13-483,12 pp.
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Russian Anarchists (Studies of the Russian Institute, Columbia University)

By: Avrich, Paul

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press : 1971

Seller ID: 045203

ISBN-13: 9780691007663

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Stiff pictorial wraps. Mild shelf wear, spine panel faded. Square, uncreased binding, clean and unmarked interior beyond former owner's signature inside front cover. vii,303 pp., illus. w/ b&w photographs. 1st softcover ptg.
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Deutsche im Ausland, Fremde in Deutschland: Migration in Geschichte und Gegenwart (German Edition)

By: Bade, Klaus J. (editor)

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Munich, Germany, C. H. Beck : 1992

Seller ID: 051726

ISBN-13: 9783406359613

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Green paper covered boards. As issued. 542,[2] pp., illus. Dust jacket spine panel slightly sunned along spine panel, otherwise as issued, now in mylar. Text in German.
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Switzerland and the Adjacent Portions of Italy, Savoy, and Tyrol: Handbook for Travellers [23rd Edition]

By: Baedeker, Karl

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Leipzig, London and New York, Karl Baedeker, Publisher : 1909

Seller ID: 040422

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Flexible red cloth boards, lettered in gilt, marbled text block edges. Mild external wear, with mild soiling to covers, minor sunning to spine panel. xl,584 pp., 72 maps, 19 plans, 12 panoramas. Interior and maps nicely intact, several maps incorrectly folded with a worn edge projecting beyond text block. Former owner's signature on upper front flyleaf.
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A Portrait of Tsarist Russia: Unknown Photographs from the Soviet Archives

By: Barchatova, Y., T. Saburova, G. Mirolubova, T. Petrova, E. Norkute, T. Shipova, A. Golovina, A. Yuskin; Michael Robinson (transl.)

Price: $23.50

Publisher: New York, NY, Pantheon Books : 1989

Seller ID: 015689

ISBN-13: 9780394580319

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Gray paper covered boards, lettered in black. Essentially as issued. Mild shelf wear to dust jacket. 260 pp., illus. w/ b&w photographic plates.
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Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow [SIGNED]

By: Bartoletti, Susan Campbell

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Scholastic : 2005

Seller ID: 061105

ISBN-13: 9780439353793

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

SIGNED. Brown pictorial paper-covered boards, square format. New/as issued, dust jacket now in mylar. 1st ptg. 176 pp., illus. Signed by author on lower main title, full signature, not inscribed or personalized, dated 2006.
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Category: Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Russia/USSR