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Spekke, Arnolds.
History of Latvia: an Outline.
Publisher: M. Goppers, Stockholm;
Date of Publication: 1951
Stock Code: 12704
FIRST EDITION (No explicit edition statement but no earlier editions found via Worldcat, preface dated August 1950.) Large octavo, pp. xx, 436. Illustrated with 60 black and white plates, numerous illustrations within the text. Bound in publisher’s red cloth over boards, gilt centrepiece to upper board, gilt titles and ornament to spine, brown place-marker ribbon.
Cloth a little rubbed and soiled to edges. Contents tight, secure and free from ownership marks and notes. Unclipped dust-jacket lightly soiled, nicked to edges with several closed tears including one 9cm tear. A very good book in a good dust-jacket. Professor Arnold Spekke’s erudite study of Latvian history, tracing the peoples of the Eastern Baltic littoral from 2,000 BC to the mid 20th century using previously unexplored archival material. Generously illustrated with maps, portraits and illustrations. Scarce. £65.00