1 Volume. Andrew C.P. Haggard, The Amours of Navarre and de Valois

1 Volume. H. Noel Williams, The Fascinating Duc de Richelieu. First Edition. Bound by Bayntun in 3/4 wine morocco and marbled boards bordered in gilt-tooling with a gilt-tooled raise...

1 Volume. The Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi. Edited by "Boz." Bound in full red morocco with colored inlay on front cover. Gilt-tooling on the covers and raised band spine. Top edges gi...

1 Volume. Richard Henry Stoddard, The Loves and Heroines of the Poets. Bound in full brown morocco with the covers and raised band spine displaying ornate gilt and open-tooled detail...

1 Volume. Douglas Sladen, The Secrets of the Vatican. Bound by Bayntun in 3/4 tan morocco and linen boards. The covers and raised band spine display gilt-tooled detailing. The top ed...

Parton, James. Life of Andrew Jackson. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1876. Three volume set, later printing. Rebound in ¼ calf and matching blue cloth boards with gilt titles, stamps, and raised bands to spine. With matching archival blue cloth slip case with ribbon and inlaid portrait of Jackson on the cover. Presented is an 1876 printing of James Parton’s three volume biography of President Andrew Jackson. First published in 1859-60 by Mason Brothers of New York, this is a later printing by Boston-based James R. Osgood and Company. James Parton's biography of the life of Andrew Jackson is one of the most important and best accounts on the early American president. In fact, Bunn and Williams call this work "the first serious biography of the [Jackson]" (Bunn). Parton’s biography appeared in print amid the escalating political crisis of 1860, providing readers and pundits with a historical lens through which to view current events. Born in England and raised primarily in the United States, James Parton (1822-1891) was among the leading biographers of the mid-nineteenth century. His Life of Horace Greeley (1855) and Life and Times of Aaron Burr (1857) garnered widespread acclaim, and he would later publish books on Benjamin Butler...

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION / FIRST ISSUE London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1887. 8vo. 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 (184 x 120 mm); viii, 31, ii advert.; two color lithographs facing one another on a sin...

Antique map titled 'Le Pais de Valois'. Old map of the historic region of Valois, France. It corresponds to the southeastern quarter of the modern département of Oise, with an adjace...

Antique print titled 'Nouvelle Carte Genealogique des Branches du Cote Gauche (..)'. Set of two prints with a chart of the left branch of the genealogy of the Valois House, and the various branches formed through alliances, each with its coat of arms including the Counts and Dukes of Alencon, Anjou, Naples, Calabria, Burgundy, Brabant. With inset engraved views of the Hotel des Invalides in Paris, the Trianon, Versailles and St. Cloud. This print orginates from 'Atlas Historique'. The House of Valois...