Copenhagen, Denmark: Ejnar Munksgaard, 1950. First Edition. Softcover. Quarto (9" x 11)". 248pp. Original wrappers; b&w illustrations, index, appendix. Large tear to front wrapper near spine (closed from the inside with archival quality tissue tape); edges and spine ends creased with tears. Otherwise a tight, strong and clean Better than..... More
Dunedin: John McIndoe, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. 196pp. Black textured papered boards gilt-lettered on spine. Includes a list of NZ photographers to 1900. B/w illustrations. Sources & index. Slight bump to bottom of spine, top-of spine rubbed, otherwise a solid, clean VG copy in VG dust jacket (dust..... More
New York, NY: Schocken Books, 1976. Hardcover. Octavo. 220pp. Blue boards lettered in white on spine. Small bumps to spine ends, top-edge foxed, else a clean, tight VG copy in near-VG dust jacket (dust jacket slightly scuffed, tiny tear to bottom-edge of front panel). More
Baltimore, MD: American Jewish Historical Society, 1916. Hardcover. Large octavo. xii + 170pp. + 10pp. ads. Black cloth lettered in gilt on spine. 'Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society, Number 24.' Index. Spine ends slightly chafed, page-edges browned, bumps to top-corners of boards, small top-edge bump to rear board..... More
Schwerte/Ruhr: Hubert Freistühler, 1966. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo. Text in GERMAN. 608pp. Original red cloth with black rules and titling to upper board, black titling to spine, b&w illustrations. An extensive account of persecution of suspected witches in Europe in the Middle Ages, including the processes used to extract confessions, implements..... More
Munich: Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Religions- und Weltanschauungsfragen (A.R.W.), 2001. Revised Edition. Softcover. Octavo. (ii +) 504pp. + xipp. adverts. Yellow card covers lettered and illustrated in black on upper cover and spine. Text mostly in German with a small amount in English [mostly quoted documents]. Handwritten postcard from the editor, Peter..... More
Munich: Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Religions- und Weltanschauungsfragen (A.R.W.), 1994. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. 27pp. + i pp. advert. Pink card covers lettered in black on upper cover and spine. Text mostly in German with a small amount in English [mostly quoted documents]. The first edition of this highly controversial and somewhat..... More
Munich: Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Religions- und Weltanschauungsfragen (A.R.W.), 2001. Revised Edition. Softcover. Octavo. (ii +) 504pp. + xipp. adverts. Yellow card covers lettered and illustrated in black on upper cover and spine. Text mostly in German with a small amount inEnglish [mostly quoted documents]. A much revised and expanded version (this..... More
Munich: Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Religions- und Weltanschauungsfragen (A.R.W.), 1994. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. 125pp + xxvii pp. Blue card covers lettered in black on upper cover and spine. Text mostly in German with a small amount in English [mostly quoted documents]. A collection of documents and commentary relating to the Ordo..... More
London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1973. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. viii + 382pp. Original brown cloth lettered in black on spine. Pictorial endpapers. B/w illustrations. Index. An important collection of materials and documents on the history of witchcraft, many published for the first time in English. From..... More
Warsaw: Arkady Publishers, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Large quarto. 330pp. Colour and b&w illustrations. Map. Index. Original cloth boards. Extremities a little rubbed, otherwise a solid VG copy in Good+ dust jacket (dust jacket lightly worn & creased, with several 1" closed edge tears & 1" top-edge chip from front..... More
Hanover, NH: Brandeis University Press / University Press of New England, 1988. Softcover. Large octavo. xxvi + 232pp. B/w illustrations. Bibliography & index. Hint of foxing to page-edges, else a tight, clean VG+ copy. More
New York: William Morrow, 1991. Hardcover. Octavo. 320pp. Black & grey papered boards lettered in silver on spine. Illustrations. Bibliography & index. Light wear to edges of boards, bumps to spine ends, some foxing to page-edges, corners creases to some pages, else a solid Vg copy in near-VG dust jacket..... More
New York, NY: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1904. Hardcover, 8vo, 304pp, Original red cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine, gilt illustration of "The Cardinal's Necklace" on front cover, frontis of Elizabeth Canning. Light wear, spine a bit faded, corners and spine ends lightly rubbed, very light scattered foxing throughout..... More
London: Perpetua Press, 1975. Hardcover. Quarto. 192pp. Brown cloth gilt-lettered on spine. Map of London on endpapers. Color frontis., color plates, b/w illustrations. Index. Slight bump to bottom of spine, otherwise a clean VG+ copy in VG dust jacket (dust jacket price-clipped, spine faded). More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xii + 130pp. + 26pp. b/w plates. Red cloth lettered in gilt on spine. Index. Frontis. B/w illustrations. 'Being the Rhind Lectures delivered in Edinburgh 1935'. Ex-library copy: spine ends chafed, slight mark on lower spine from old label, top-edge browned..... More
Silver Spring, MD: Bartleby Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. large 8vo. xii + 308 pp. Black cloth with silver title, etc. to spine, bibliography. A serious historical and political study of the history of Transylvania up to the early 1940s, written firmly from the perspective of the Romanian majority. Fine..... More
London: MacMillan and Co., 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xxii + 564 + [ 6pp adverts ] Blue cloth with gilt rules and titling to spine, color fold out map at rear, footnotes, appendices and index. Cloth flecked, spine very slightly darkened, quarter inch tear to cloth at head..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Hardcover. Octavo. xx + 484pp. Dark blue boards gilt-lettered on spine. Maps, tables, appendices, bibliography, index. Small faint mark on top-edge, else a clean, sharp near-Fine copy in near-Fine dust jacket. More
Strassbourg: Heitz, 1888. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. xxxii + 188pp. Ex-library copy, rebound in cloth boards lettered in white on spine. German text. A study of the German humanist Hermann Wilken (1522 – 1603), also known as Hermann Witekind and Augustin Lercheimer, and his "Christlich bedenken und erinnerung von..... More
New York / London: Routledge, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. x + 538pp. Navy cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Dr. Brian P. Levack is John Green Regents Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin and a former Guggenheim Fellow. This is Volume 3 of the 6..... More
London: Quiller Press, 1992. Hardcover. Octavo. xvi + 224pp. Textured papered boards. Index. B/w plates. Signed by the author on half-title. History of the Acclimatisation Society of the United Kingdom and its sister societies. The acclimatisation movement was established at the heights of European Colonialism, which sought to establish familiar..... More
Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 1994. Hardcover. Large thick octavo. 464pp. Black textured papered boards lettered in silver on spine. B/w plates. Index. Hint of spotting to top-edge, else a clean near-Fine copy in near-Fine dust jacket. More
Boston, MA: Eastern Book Co., 1881. First edition. Hardcover, 8vo 416 pp., Original pictorial green cloth stamped in black and gilt, beveled edges, frontis portrait with tissue guard, 29 wood-engraved plates, Very light damp mark to fore-edge of final blank, one signature sprung at bottom. Still an unusually bright and..... More
London: The Macmillan Press, 1984. First Edition. Softcover. Slim octavo. x + 136pp. Index. 'New Studies in Medieval History' series. A serious academic study of the shaping of the eremitical tradition in the Dark Ages, and the changes that came to it in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, with the..... More
