European Wars

London, Collins, 1979.. 1st edition, first printing. The sixth Jack Aubrey novel. Fine condition, unmarked, in a fine unclipped dustwrapper.

Robert Jennings. London. 1826. First edition, Large Paper. Engraved title. Dedication to the Countess of Pembroke, 60 tissue guarded engraved plates with accompanying text, vignette. Half calf, marbled boards. Spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilt lettering and motifs. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Marbled endpapers. Light foxing. Spotting to engraved title page. A handsome copy.
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Batty (1789-1848) army officer and artist Batty compiled books illustrated with plates etched by himself. He served in the Peninsular War, in the Duke of Wellington's 1815 Campaign, at Waterloo, where he was injured in the thigh. "Following Wellington's victory, Batty entered Paris with the 3rd battalion on 7 July, having en route been at the storming of the fortress of Péronne on 26 June. Three days later, he became a lieutenant and captain in the first guards. He served in the army of occupation in France." He was elected FRS in 1822. "Batty acted as Lieutenant-General Sir… Read More

Hardcover. Original blue cloth, faded and worn; enclosed in blue cloth box. New Directions (New York, James Laughlin 1949). New (Offset) Edition. Gallup A27B. Presentation copy inscribed from Pound to a literary critic. "Mr. . . . Aug. 56 Ezra Pound." With the recipient's notes in the text. A nice copy.

Leipzig: Verlag Karl H. Hiersemann, 1923. Precious Weapons from the Dresden Armory, with 82 illuminated plates, 2 of them colored. Text in German. Bound in original quarter vellum and green leather boards, spine gilt ruled and decorated, and with two gilt morocco labels, boards gilt ruled, upper front cover lettered in gilt, With full page black and white photographic illustrations, text verso. Very Good Plus, small repaired tear to vellum at head of spine, light rubbing to leather boards at the tips. Contents are clean, tight, and unmarked. This over-sized and heavy book will require extra postage from international buyers. . First Edition. Leather. Very Good Plus/No Jacket, As Issued. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Few scratches on hinge, slight discoloration of cover, mild age-browning of pages, Very little foxing. Five raised bands on spine, title, author and date gilt stamped in compartments. Aspin's classic, highly specific, detailed, interesting and actually quite readable accounts of naval and military campaigns and encounters with France, Spain, Native Americans, the new United States of America during the American Revolution, wars in India, as well as conflicts with Holland, Cuba, Napoleon, the storming of Algiers and the freeing of Christian slaves, etc.. Many coloured (aquatint) plates. 3 Page edges gilded. 784 pages. A rare and handsomely bound little book in Very Good condition.

Offene Worte, 1932. Pre-ISBN. Paperback. Used- Good condition. Contains 4 volumes in a slipcase. German edition. Books show some shelf wear. Slipcase has scuffing along edges and corners, but is still intact. All books have two "B's" written on the spine in pen. Book A has small fold on the top right corner on the front cover. Spine has some creases. Two spots of discoloration on the right side on the title page. Book B has a crease on the bottom right corner on the front cover. Spine has some creases. Book C has small crease on the bottom right corner on the front cover. Pg. 1-31 has some discoloration along the right edge. Book D has a small fold on the upper right corner on the front cover. Some creasing on the spine. Pg. 1-8 has some discoloration along the right edge. None of the books have writing on the inside. Books have a slight musky scent.Photos are of the books we have here at Barbed Wire Books.Written in the German language. 4 volumes in a slipcase. Summary: Issue A: military system,… Read More

First thus : Hamburg: Hofmann, 1805, 1805. Second edition expanded and improved. Very good.
365 pages, 58 line drawings in the text. Moderately browned. Very good condition.
Book is more than 200 years old and text block in outstanding condition. Previous owner's signature on title page is that of Louis Tronchin, colonel in the Swiss Federal Army.

Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Contact, dec 1947. Anne.Frank; 'Het Achterhuis, Dagboekbrieven van 14 Juni 1942 - 1 Augustus 1944'. Very good condition. Small octavo. Hard cover, pp 253. No dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, SECOND PRINTING of the diary of Anne Frank in the original Dutch language. One of the booklets printed ALMOST 75 YEARS AGO in dec 1947. Original white and red paper-covered boards. Illustration with 3 photo's of the hiding place ('Het Achterhuis'), 1 groundfloor-plan and 2 examples (facsimile) of the handwriting of Anne Frank. Introduction by Annie Romein-Verschoor.Title on the front board and spine. A very good copy! Pages are a little bit tanned after all these years. No inscriptions.Anne began her diary on her 13th birthday, 12 June 1942 during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The diary was found in the hiding place ( 'Het Achterhuis') by Miep Gies, after Anne Frank, her Jewish family and other Jews were taken away to the concentration-camps. Miep Gies was one of the helpers during their… Read More

De Wervelwind. Maandblad voor Vrijheid, Waarheid en Recht."Whirlwind, Monthly Magazine for Freedom, Truth and Justice."No.1, April 1942, First Year Edition. Text in the Dutch language; pp 31. Very rare.Flyer for the Netherlands during World War II, spread by dropping by the Royal Air Force on behalf of the Dutch people and Dutch Resistance during the occupation of Nazi Germany.The magazine is very small for passing in secret from one to another.Photo's of Queen Wilhelmina, Royal Dutch Family, resistance in other European countries, Raid on St. Nazaire by British Forces, German failure in Russia, etc.Shipping with track and trace.Inventory number: RAF.01.01.100.(1)Also available :The Diary of Anne Frank. [First Edition, Second Print]. AF.02.01.15.(1)The Diary of Anne Frank. [First Edition, Second Print]. AF.02.01.15.(2+) ;dustjacket.The Diary of Anne Frank. [First Edition/First Print]. AF.01.01.15.(3+) ;dustjacket.The Diary of Anne Frank. [First Edition, First Print]. AF.01.01.15.(4)

Eindstation Auschwitz; 1946. Eddy de Wind. Published and printed in the Netherlands.Text in the original Dutch language. First edition, first print. Very rare. Pp 195. Pages are tanned after 75 years with paper of that period. Professional restauration of the spine. Powerful inscription of first owner on titelpage with a tiny hole as result. Amateurish repair with tape. No other inscriptions. Some wear of the boards. At the end of the book is The Report of the State Committee of the USSR of investigation of circumstances of concentration-camp Oswiecim ( Auschwitz).Eliazar (Eddy) de Wind (Den Haag, 6 februari 1916 – Amsterdam, 27 september 1987) was a Dutch doctor and psychiatrist of Jewish birth. De Wind was a surviver of the Holocaust in the concentration-camp Auschwitz in Poland.
Eddy de Wind went first to the deportation-camp Westerbork in the Netherlands as a volunteer to help the(Jewish) people that were transported from here to the concentration-camps in the east.
In the end he was deported… Read More

[1945], 98pp. original binding. Memories of colleague resistance fighters privately published in 1945 It is very rare. The authors of these personal memories, however, remain anonymous. Erik Schaap published a book about Walraven van Hall and mentions this early book on Walraven van Hall.Walraven (Wally) van Hall (10 February 1906 - 12 February 1945) was a Dutch banker and resistance leader during the occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. He founded the bank of the Resistance, which was used to distribute funds to victims of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands and fund the Dutch resistance.A film was made about his wartime activities.The present volume belonged to a member of his family (on his mother's side).This volume is available at a negotiable and substantially reduced price to Dutch museums, libraries and other institutions involved in the maintenance of an historical record of Dutch WWII resistance and the fate of the Jewish community. Contact seller.

London: Folio Society 2007, 3rd printing. (Hardcover in slipcase) 602pp. Near fine, no dust jacket. Brown cloth with gilt illustrations to the front cover and spine in a near fine brown slipcase. Map endpapers, photographic frontispiece, color photographs and illustrations, appendices, bibliography, index. There are a few spots at the top of the slipcase and a small residue mark where a sticker has been removed. "Thucydides... Focused on just one conflict, the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta, in which he himself participated. But the keenness of his observations, the rigour with which he reached his conclusions, the power of his arguments and the persuasiveness with which he explained the causes of the war... Set a standard that has never been excelled" - from the Preface. Identified on spine as The Peloponnesian War. Preface by Theodore K. Rabb. Translated by Rex Warner. Introduction and notes by M.I. Finley. Locale: Athens--Greece; Sparta. (History--Ancient,… Read More

Montabaur-Frankfurt, Germany: Printing Office Martin Flock, 1919. First Edition First Printing . Soft cover. Fair. 12mo. 92 pages. Soft cover bound in salmon colored wrappers. The binding is worn and bumped, and the spine ends are chipped. Bottom corner bumped and creased. Scuffing along the fore edge of the front cover. A sound copy. The text is toned. The two leaves for pages 63-66 have large creases at the top right, affecting the text. Signed by an officer on the front cover. Signed "A. F. Kingman" who is listed in the rear of the book as 2nd Lt / 1st Lt. Capt. Early markings (presumably by Kingman), have pencil notations in the list of names, some marginal notes reading "KIA" for those killed in action. Scarce.

Title, advertisement leaf, Contents. 232 pages. Original paper covered boards, new endpapers, cream paper spine. A nice, sympathetically restored copy re-using the original boards.. Mild grubbiness, else VG.Gift inscription dated 1821 to front flyleaf. On the title page the name Capt Pococke has been added then scored through in pencil. Above the words 'sedond edition' the name Thomas Howell has been added. Though neither is correct.The Journal is usually attributed to Captain Thomas Pococke or Thomas Howell. Recent research, however has shown that Howell was the editor and not the author. G. Jones in the Bulletin of the Military Historical Society for May 1992 wrote that the Royal Highland Fusiliers owns a copy of the third edition inscribed by Howell, who writes 'the real name of the hero is not Thomas, the Christian name used in the Journal - James Todd is the individual I got the greater part of the journal from.'Most of the memoir concerns the Peninsular Campaign under Wellington ending at… Read More

1641 ENGLISH 1ed Henri II Duke of Rohan Huguenot Memoirs Civil Wars Savoy Spain
Henri II Duke of Rohan was an early 17th-century Huguenot leader whose personal memoirs offer an important insight into the life of a 17th-century French noble. A work which was widely read throughout Europe and England, Rohan's memoirs covered the vast impact of European civil wars, wars of the Savoy, the political and diplomatic interests of Spain, Italy, and France, the papacy of Paul V, on the Kingdom of Bohemia, and succession of the nobles in Mantua and Montserrat.
This 1641 first edition was translated into English by Henry Hunt.
Item number: #22684
Price: $2500
HENRY, Duke of Rohan
A treatise of the interest of the princes and states of Christendome : written in French by the most noble and illustrious prince, the Duke of Rohan
London: printed by Ric. Hodgkinsonne, 1641. 1st edition
Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
o Part 1 – [24], 59, [1]
o Part 2 – [6], 146, [4]
Includes separate title page
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