Visible area of painting measures approx. 17 x 14 inches, frame measures 20.5 x 17.5; appears to be of a part of the Alcazar, the fortified structure at the highest point in Toledo that was heavily damaged during the 1936 Siege of Alcazar and which underwent extensive renovations after 1939.....
Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. First Edition. c.1987. Hardcover. Cloth. 8vo. 183pp. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Mild soiling to text block edges. Sunning to dustjacket spine, light shelfwear.
London: Printed for the Oriental Translation Fund, 1840. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1840, 2 quarto volumes (13 inches, 33cm), original dark sea-green cloth with printed paper labels on spines, about very good copy, light wear along outer joints, rubbing to edges and slight edge loss to cloth here and.....
Madrid: Ediciones Ambos Mundos, (1951). Hardcover. Published 1951, inscribed by author to Philip Bonsal, a career diplomat and US ambassador to a number of South American countries. Wraps bound into quarter leather and marbled boards, large 8vo, 734 pp, illustrated. Canovas was a six-time Prime Minister of Spain, notable for.....
Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva, 1940. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 8vo, spanish flame calf, 222 pp, index, near fine copy, light age toning to contents. A fairly Francoist history of the Spanish Civil War; he was in the early '40s the governor of the Balearic Islands.
London: Edward Stanford, 1860. First printing. Hardcover. First printing, 1860, hardcover with contemporary half leather boards, small octavo, 163pp., illustrated with six colored plates, other b&w illustrations, and a fold out map. Book VG with edgewear to boards and spine, rubbing, binding tight, previous owner's plate to front pastedown and.....
Madrid: Typographia Mercurii, 1749. 12mo, old limp vellum, good with some rubbing and darkening to covers, old tidemark of damp staining to first several leaves and last several leaves, but generally good, solidly bound, rare on the market.
New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1912. Hardcover. 1912, Edition not stated. Hardcover, formerly part of a seminary library collection, with a call number, in light pencil, to the copyright page, and a call number, in white lettering, to the spine. Otherwise in Very Good condition, with light shelf wear.....
Sevilla / Seville: Fernando Diaz, 1588. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1588. Folio (30 cm), modern vellum and endpapers, title page in facsimile on old laid paper, a good copy, (18) 348ff. (i.e. 696 pp.) heavily illustrated with woodcuts of coats of arms of Andalusian nobility. First two leaves after.....
Madrid: Pedro Vindel, 1931. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1931. No. 245 of 400 copies. Small quarto (10 inches, 25 cm), full red calf, gilt titled on spine, 388 pp, index, illustrated, some foldouts. Very good, has long affectionate inscription on one of the preliminary blanks from 1957 but not.....
Huesca, Spain / Malibu: Excma. Diputacion Porvincial, Instituto de Estudios Altoaragoneses / Getty Museum, 1989. Hardcover. 1989. 2 folio volumes and booklet, housed in the original slipcase. All contents Fine. Includes slim folio volume with introduction and notes, in Spanish -- thick folio volume with facsimile reprint of the original.....
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. 1992. First edition. Hardcover, 8vo. in black cloth, with dust jacket. 281pp. Very good in very good dj. Small perforation to dj head, minor edgewear to dj extremities. Dj housed in mylar. Neat ownership signature to front flyleaf. Internally bright, clean, and.....
Madrid: Aguirre, 1935. Hardcover. 1935 publication, quarto, quarter leather, cloth boards, handsome binding, 465 pp, very good.
Madrid: Publicaciones de la Residencia de Estudiantes, 1915. Hardcover. Segunda Edition, 1915. 8vo, bound in dark spanish brown calf, near fine condition, touch of tanning to text and an uneven brown coloring to edges of text block.
Bilbao: Privately Printed, 1957. Hardcover. Published 1957, limited edition, this number 927 of 1000 copies, for a Mr. Daniel Rosenbaum, large 8vo, full red morocco gilt, handsome printing, very good, just the mildest shelfwear, comes with four calling cards from the directors of the bank, watered silk endpapers.
(Madrid): F. Nozal, ND - Ca. 1897. Hardcover. No date, but code of '974' in the imprint at rear suggests an 1897 printing, and there are no dates post-1894 mentioned in the text. 8vo, later dark red buckram, wraps bound in, very good, some evidence of ex-library status - ink.....
Paris: Librairie Plon, 1938. Paperback. 1938. Paperback, 361 pp. Good. Age-toning to pages. Foxing, soiling and wear to wraps. Bend to lower corner of book. Text in French.
Philadelphia: Carey and Lea, 1831. First edition. Hardcover. 1831. First edition. Hardcover, tall 8vo. in full original calf, housed in custom grey cloth clamshell slipcase, with title label. 327pp. Fair. Front board, endpapers, and title page detached entirely. Rear board almost entirely detached also. Loss to leather of spine and.....
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993. First printing. 2 volume set, black cloth boards, no DJ. 1806pp.
MadridEspasa-Calpe. Near Fine. Three volumes. Full-leather with spine labels and raised bands clean unmarked texts 1063 + 1200 + 1057 pp. illustrated books are all about near fine with slightest rubbing/soil to covers. Binding is Full-Leather.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1967. First printing. Hardcover. Inscribed by the author. First edition, 1967. Cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 396 pp., clean unmarked text, Very Good copy in Good dust jacket, minor age-toning or discoloration to the page-edges, light wear to the tips of the covers, a bit.....
Madrid: Imprenta de la Bolsa, 1912. Hardcover. Published 1912, oblong quarto, pictorial wraps bound into quarter red calf and red cloth boards (8.5 x 11.5 inches; 29.5 x 21 cm), unpaginated, ca. 30 pages, printed on rectos (front sides) only, 8 pp at rear printed on deep orange-tan paper, a......
Madrid: Se Hallara en la Negociacion Literaria, 1852. Hardcover. Quarto, original flame calf, very good, light wear. 1466 pp, errata.
London: John Lane, 1909. Hardcover. Hardcover, 1909, octavo, 169pp. + 453 plate b&w index. Book VG with mild sun and previous owner's sticker to spine, rubbing and mild shelfwear to boards and spine, handsome gilt decoration to front board and spine, small split to bottom of front outer hinge, binding.....
London: John Lane, 1912. Hardcover. Hardcover, 1912, octavo, 174pp. + 162 plate b&w index. Book VG with mild sun and small sticker to spine, general shelfwear, handsome gilt decoration to front board and spine, binding mostly tight, small red pencil mark to front endpaper, otherwise text clean and unmarked, gilt.....