DEATH CUSTOMS: An Analytical Study of Burial Rites.
London: Kegan Paul, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. xiii, 304 pp., publisher's 19 pp. catalog at rear; octavo, original blue cloth. From the publisher's "The History of Civilization" series.
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THE CRUSADER KINGDOM OF VALENCIA: Reconstruction on a Thirteenth-Century Frontier
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes; xviii, [2], 305; v, (306)-561 pp. several full-page illustrations and maps in first volume; 8vo, original red cloth. Second volume consists of 3 appendices, bibliograpy, notes, etc. Author was a professor of history at the University of San Francisco at...
ANECDOTES AFRICAINES: Depuis L'Origine ou la Decouverte des Differents Royaumes qui Composent L'Afrique, Jusqu'a Nos Jours.
Paris: Chez Vincent, 1775. First edition. Hardcover. (Sections individually paginated) viii, 230, 62, 60, 60, 30, 16, 80, 184 pp.; 8vo, contemporary full calf, marbled endpapers. Wear to covers, especially at corners and spine ends, joints skinned, still a sturdy and relatively presentable copy and internally near fine. Histories of...
LE PROCES DE CONDAMNATION DE JEANNE D'ARC. Reproduction en Fac-simile du Manuscrit Authentique, Sur Velin, Nr. 1119 de la Bibliotheque de l'Assemblee Nationale
Paris: Plon, (1955). First edition thus. Hardcover. Folio. (18) pp. separate pamphlet of introductory text with the (240) pp. exact facsimile of the 15th century manuscript, printed on Japan vellum. Bound in cream vellum over boards with title in red. Together in stiff folder and slipcase. Fine in moderately worn...
THE JEWS IN VISIGOTHIC AND FRANKISH KINGDOMS OF SPAIN AND GAUL. (Monographs of the Mediaeval Academy of America No. 12)
Cambridge: The Mediaeval Academy of America, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. xi, 182 pp. 6 monochrome plates, 8vo, original dark green cloth. Inscribed by author on front free endpaper: "To Dean F. M. Padelford with kindest regards, Solomon Katz." Frederick Morgan Padelford's bookplate to front pastedown. F.M. Padelford taught in the...
(3 volumes) BARTOLOME DE LAS CASAS IN HISTORY: Toward an Understanding of the Man and His Work (edited by Juan Friede and Benjamin Keen); IN DEFENSE OF THE INDIANS: The Defense of the Most Reverend Lord, Don Fray Bartolome de Las Casas, of the Order of Preachers, Late Bishop of Chiapa, Against the Persecutors and Slanderers of the Peoples of the New World Discovered Across the Seas (translated by Stafford Poole); ALL MANKIND IS ONE: A Study of the Disputation Between Bartolome de Las Casas and Juan Gines de Sepulveda on the Religious and Intellectual Capacity of the American Indians (by Lewis Hanke)
De Kalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1971, 1974, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. 3 volumes; octavos, original green cloth, various paginations, jackets. Bartolome de Las Casas (circa 1484-1566) was a Dominican friar, historian, and advocate for the rights of the native peoples of the new world.
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