THE SAXON CHRONICLE
First edition in modern English of the complete ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE, a key historical document of the Early Medieval era composed during the reign of Alfred the Great.
First edition in modern English of the complete ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE, a key historical document of the Early Medieval era composed during the reign of Alfred the Great.
Sammelband of five French titles in one volume, including a contemporary court argument against an abusive man who employed a chastity belt to control a woman — evidently, a true account of a device frequently thought apocryphal.
First edition of this collaborative record of the authors' travels in East Africa from Sudan to the Kenyan Rift Valley, with text by Matthiessen and striking color photographs by Porter.
Anthology published to benefit Spanish Republicans in their fight against Franco via the North American Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy, an outgrowth of American Communist relief organizing.
Uncommon first US edition and first English translation of this major work by the French medieval historian, with an admiring foreword by Katherine Anne Porter.
First edition of this history of Arab and European invasions and occupations of the African continent, with great attention to the eventual British opposition to the slave trade.
First edition of this account of the Anglo-French cartographer's explorations in Jubaland, now a member state of Somalia, illustrated with the author's own photographs and maps.
A history of Oxford University by the academic and folklorist.
First edition of this hunting and wildlife manual published by the government of what was formerly Italian Somaliland, illustrated with the faces, figures, and footprints of the Bat-Eared Fox, Common Genet, assorted antelopes and others, many of which are protected.
First edition of the world-famous "Diary of a Young Girl," a moving monument of the Holocaust and Nazi Germany's cataclysmic destruction of individual lives, communities, and cultures.
First edition, second issue (as common) of Burton's classic account of his travels in Somalia and Ethiopia, with appendices including the diary and observations of John Speke and an early effort at a grammar of the Harari language.
First edition in English of Exquemelin's illustrated history of famous pirates, the central primary source on the subject during its most famous era, with the continuation by Ringrose.
First edition of this anthology of African, Arab, European, and Asian historical sources, from Pharaonic inscriptions to twentieth-century accounts.
First edition of this study of world civilization meant for a popular audience.
First edition of this sweeping history of Paris, from Gallo-Roman Lutèce to the imagined future of 1987 — featuring transmission screens and flying swan-boats, the latter depicted in a stellar full-page image by Robida.
Deluxe limited first edition, in a striking Art Deco binding, of this midcentury popular history of England.
First paperback printing of this 1958 account of capturing and handing over for execution the leader of the Mau Mau uprising by proud British imperialist and 'Butcher of Bahrain' Ian Henderson, assisted by Conservative MP Goodhart.
First edition of these essays presenting arguments for the international abolition of the slavery by the Treasurer of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, specially bound for presentation and inscribed by the author.
Original annotated photograph album of the Buchenwald concentration camp compiled by an anonymous American G.I. soon after liberation.
Rare first edition in English of this investigation of life after death, seeking to explain scientifically phantoms, lycanthropes, vampires, and Doubles by reference to "magnetic fluid" and the mesmeric ether.
First edition of this illustrated tour of horrible things and the people they happened to, undertaken with great enthusiasm by the author-publisher, whose quarter-century of prior research formed the basis for this work.
First edition thus of this lively and vindictive argument for the historicity of Pope Joan, adapted with a new preface from Alexander Cooke's 1610 DIALOGUE BETWEEN A PAPIST AND A PROTESTANT.
First edition of this historic account of Virginia, the Roanoke colony, and its environs, including the landmark map of Virginia and all the famed engravings of Native American life in the 1580s.
Reprint of Brown's 1924 study of Easter Island archaeology and ethnology.
First edition of this comical post-war chronicle of culture shock, a witty survey of the everyday differences that US servicemen will experience at home after living in occupied Japan.