1. Evans-Freke, John [Lord Carbery] / Castle Freke [Rathbarry] / Castlefreke Library Bookplate.

Collection of Books and Art with a relation to Castle Freke. Some of the books being from the historical library of Castle Freke with the original Exlibris / Bookplate / Some of the books from the libraries and private collections of relatives to the Freke Family / Some of the books by famous writer Mary Carbery, wife of Algernon [″Algy”] William George Evans-Freke, 9th Baron Carbery of Castle Freke, County Cork, Ireland, until his death in 1898. At least one book with direct connections to “Algy” Evans-Freke and Mary Carbery.

Ireland, 1811 – c. 1950 Octavo. Hardcover Editions. Find detailed descriptions and many photographs on all these titles on our website under “Library & Collections” [Castle Freke Collection”].

2. Fleckenstein, Josef.

Sonderdruck-Sammlung / Kleinschriften-Sammlung / Offprint-Collection of Prof.Dr.Josef Fleckenstein, one of the worlds most eminent historians for the medieval period / middle Ages (Mittelalter), and especially the development and background of knights, knighthoods, chivalry. The collection includes roughly 5000 (fivethousand) offprints and pamphlets in 166 folders, alphabetized, neatly sorted and assisted by a special, old-fashioned card catalog. Most of the offprints and pamphlets were sent to Prof.Fleckenstein by international colleagues in his field of medieval studies, history and related studies. The majority of the publications are in german but many are also in italian, french and english as well. Many of the publications are signed and beautifully inscribed to Fleckenstein.

Germany, different publishers, c.1960 – 2002. Octavo. More than 100000 pages (onehundredthousand pages). Original Softcovers. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Ask for images. Price does NOT include extra international shipping-costs needed for this collection.

3. Foster, Vere [Henry Louis / Lewis] / [Emily Albinia “Alba” Foster] / [Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire / Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire].

Amazing Vere Foster-Collection including Educational Materials and as a centerpiece the “Presentation Copy of “The Two Duchesses” with Autograph / Manuscript – Letter by Vere Foster to his niece, Emily Albinia “Alba” Foster. With a stunning, unpublished, two-page-letter, revealing several important details about the immediately favorable reviews and reception of the book [″in the Daily Telegraph”] and Vere Foster’s disdain about some criticism from one J.Donohue [which led to an alteration in the second edition of the book]. Vere Foster is also expecting a review to appear in the “Athenaeum” but reports “the Athenaeum has nothing yet”. Vere Foster apologizes to his niece for the delay in sending the book and explains that he had left 12 “parcels″£ with Blackie’s agent and gave instructions to send them but a few days later found they had been “untouched”. / The Two Duchesses – Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire / Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire – Family Correspondence of and Relating to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire / Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire, Earl of Bristol (Bishop of Derby), The Countess of Bristol, Lord and Lady Byron, The Earl of Aberdeen, Sir Augustus Foster Bart, and Others, 1777-1859. [See Full list of items which are part of this collection, on our website under the topic “Libraries & Collections”].

First Edition. London / Glasgow and Dublin, Blackie & Son Limited, 1898. Octavo (15 cm x 22 cm). Pagination: Frontispiece, IX, [3], 497 pages with 18 Illustrations (including frontispiece and one Vignette of the two Duchesses opposite page 1). Hardcover / Original, publisher’s green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear only. This is an astonishing find for the Vere Foster Research Community and the letter gives significant insight into the importance the publication had for him, its reception as seen by Vere Foster and it solves the riddle why an altertaion was necessary for the second edition [which Vere Foster explains in a brief note to the reader at the beginning of the second edition]. The heartfelt inscription to his niece Albinia Foster is also of great importance and to our knowledge the only presentation-copy of this book on the international market for the several decades we can look back at auction records.

4. [Liddell Hart, Adrian John / Lehmann, John (publisher)]

Collection of 118 manuscript postcards, sent by friends, colleagues and lovers to Adrian John Liddell Hart, son of Sir Basil Liddel Hart. Among the postcards also three (3) manuscript postcards by Adrian Liddel Hart’s lover, publisher John Lehmann, with interesting content (″Am staying with Harold Acton in this marvellous Villa…pity you aren’t with me….your old friend is wavering – Love J.” / another postcard by Lehmann to Adrian mentions Florence Nightingale and is also signed “Love – J.” / Other postcards with interesting content (″When the foreign ministers go bust, do you go bust too ? – Where are you and what happened to you ? )

Santa Barbara / Firenze / Washington / Sweden / Germany etc. etc., etc. 1942 – c. 1989. Small Oblong Octavo. postcards. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Content of the postcards mainly of private nature (about travel, meetings, small talk etc.)

5. [Liddell Hart, Captain B.H. / Sir Basil Liddell Hart / Adrian John Liddell Hart / Kathleen Liddell Hart]

Collection of 45 manuscript postcards, signed and sent by Sir Basil Liddell Hart’s second wife Kathleen Liddell Hart to Adrian Liddell Hart. 32 of the postcards were sent by Kathleen from trips she undertook with Basil throughout the world, reporting to Sir Basil’s son Adrian from their experiences at conferences, meetings with governments, exhausting visits to war cemeteries etc. etc. A lot of the postcards very detailed with a good insight into Basil Liddell Hart’s routines (″Basil is sweating over two articles” / “At the moment he is seeing Monnel to discuss the Schumann Plan” / etc. ). The remaining 13 postcards were all written after Sir Basil Liddel Hart’s death and for example deal with the sale of the estate: John Cooper telling me that the N.P.G. paid 9500 Sterling for the picture. He wants more information on Hein and Basil. Wonder how much our Kennington’s are worth ? /

Firenze / Reims / Tanger / Dingle etc. etc., 1944 – 1970. Small Oblong Octavo. 45 postcards. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

6. [Liddell Hart, Captain B.H. / Sir Basil Liddell Hart / Adrian John Liddell Hart]

Collection of seven (7) manuscript postcards; correspondence between Captain B.H.Liddell Hart and his son Adrian.

Namur / Stockholm / Panama / Gibraltar / Tarjeta, etc. 1950 – 1965. Small Oblong Octavo. 7 postcards. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Content of the postcards mainly of private nature (about travel etc.)

7. Russell, Bertrand.

Collection of important publications by and on the British Philosopher Bertrand Russell [some of the publications from libraries of important philosophers like Quine]. The collection includes: 1. Bertrand Russell – War – The Offspring of Fear (First Edition – London, 1914) / 2. Bertrand Russell – Ideas that have harmed Mankind – Man’s Unfortunate Experience with his self-made enemies, including sadistic Impulses, Religion, Superstition, Envy, Economic Nationalism, Pride, Racism, Sex Superiority, Creeds and other evil things. (First Edition – Girard (Kansas), 1946) [From the library of Henry David Aiken] / 3. Bertrand Russell – Scientific Method in Philosophy (First Edition – Oxford, 1914) / 4. [Bertrand Russell] Paul Foulkes – Wisdom of the West (London, 1960) / 5. Bertrand Russell – The Analysis of Mind (London, 1951) / 6. Bertrand Russell – “Per Aspera ad Astra” (in: “Science and the Future of Mankind” – together with essays by Albert Einstein, Robert Oppenheimer others, this copy used to belong to the library of Boston’s “Simmons College”) / 7. Ronald Jager – The Development of Bertrand Russell’s Philosophy [From the library of philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine (with inscription and signed by Jager to Quine)] / 8. Quine, Willard Van Orman / Heimpel, Carl G./ Wang, Hao – Symposium – Issue on Bertrand Russell by “The Journal of Philosophy”: ‘The Philosophy of Bertrand Russell’: Willard van Orman Quine – Russell’s Ontological Development / Carl G. Hempel – On Russell’s Phenomenological Constructionism / Hao Wang – Russell and Philosophy // A Historical Survey of Western Philosophy in its Social and Political Setting.

London / Oxford / Den Haag and others, Clarendon Press / Dr.Junk / Allen and Unwin / Macdonald & Co. Ltd., 1914 – 1972. Original Hardcover and Softcover – Bindings. Only one publications iwth some minor damage, otherwise all publications in very good or even better condition with only minor signs of external wear.

8. Savigny, Friedrich Carl von.

Fascinating and important, international collection of more than twentyfive (25) original editions, first editions, revised and definitive editions by one of the most important figures of the german legal and historical school, Friedrich Carl von Savigny, as well as publications by his disciples, immediate circle of friends and colleagues (like Eichhorn, Rudorff and Ihering/Jhering). The collection also includes first and revised editions of translations in french and spanish as well as a large number of original first editions of lectures Savigny had given to the Academy of Sciences in Berlin (all these in original edition and separately bound) [see full list on our website under “Libraries and Collections”].

Vienna / Berlin and others, Nicolai / Veit and Comp. and others, 1803 – 1911. Octavo. Original Hardcover and Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Several of the publications with excellent provenance. [See detailed listing on our website under “Libraries & Collections”].

9. Weimarer Republik.

Collection of thirteen (13) Publications on the History of the Weimar Republic and the transition into the Third Reich (12 german Publications, 1 english publication) / Kleine Sammlung mit dreizehn (13) wichtigen Publikationen zum Thema Weimarer Republik. Die Sammlung enthält die folgenden Titel: 1. Renate Breipohl – Religiöser Sozialismus und bürgerliches Geschichtsbewußtsein zur Zeit der Weimarer Republik. Zürich, 1971. 285 pages. / 2. Günter Brakelmann – Evangelische Kirche in sozialen Konflikten der Weimarer Zeit. Das Beispiel des Ruhreisenstreits. Bochum, 1986. 136 Seiten. / 3. Christoph Führ – Zur Schulpolitik der Weimarer Republik. Darstellung und Quellen. Die Zusammenarbeit von Reich und Ländern im Reichsschulausschuß (1919-1923) und im Ausschuß für das Unterrichtswesen (1924-1933). Darstellung und Quellen. Weinheim, 1970. 371 pages. / 4. Karl Holl / Adolf Wild – Ein Demokrat kommentiert Weimar. Die Berichte Hellmut von Gerlachs an die Carnegie-Friedensstiftung in New York 1922-1930. Bremen, 1973. 268 Seiten / 5. Maser, Werner – Der Sturm auf die Republik. Frühgeschichte der NSDAP. Stuttgart, 1973. 524 Seiten / 6. Gossweiler, Kurt – Kapital, Reichswehr und NSDAP 1919-1924. Berlin, 1982. 616 Seiten. 35 Abbildungen. / 7. Nicholls, Anthony and Matthias, Erich – German Democracy and the Triumph of Hitler. Essays in Recent German History. London, 1971. 271 pages. / 8. Fischer, Kurt Gerhard – Politische Bildung in der Weimarer Republik. Grundsatzreferate der “Staatsbürgerlichen Woche” 1923. Grundsatzreferate der “Staatsbürgerlichen Woche” 1923. Frankfurt, 1970. 190 Seiten. / 9. Holl, K. – Wette, W. – Pazifismus in der Weimarer Republik. Beiträge zur historischen Friedensforschung. Paderborn, 1981. 181 Seiten. / 10. Köhler, Henning – Adenauer und die Rheinische Republik. Der erste Anlauf 1918-1924. Opladen, 1986. 287 Seiten / 11. Hildemarie Dieckmann – Johannes Popitz. Entwicklung und Wirksamkeit in der Zeit der Weimarer Republik. Berlin, 1960. 157 Seiten. / 12. Hans-Hermann Hartwich – Arbeitsmarkt, Verbände und Staat 1918-1933. Die öffentliche Bindung unternehmerischer Funktionen in der Weimarer Republik. Mit einem Vorwort von Georg Kotowski. Berlin, 1967. 488 Seiten / 13. Fritz Berber – LOCARNO – Eine Dokumentensammlung. (Locarno-Vertrag). Mit einer Einleitung des Botschafters Joachim von Ribbentrop. Berlin, 1936. 408 Seiten //

Berlin (und andere Verlags-Orte), Junker und Duennhaupt (und andere Verlage), 1936 – 1986. 8°. c.2000 pages. Mix of Hardcover and Softcover Volumes. All Volumes are former Library-copies with the usual markings / Alle Bände sind Bibliotheksexemplare in guten Zuständen aber mit den üblichen, teilweise unschönen Merkmalen (Stempel, Rückenschilder, ggfs. Stempel auf Schnitt).