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From the Memoirs of a Minister of France

By: Weyman, Stanley J.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Longmans, Green & Co.: 1898

Seller ID: 2304366

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Third printing. No jacket. A nice copy. 1898 Hard Cover. 325 pp. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Stanley John Weyman (7 August 1855 10 April 1928) was an English writer of historical romance.--Wikipedia
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Italian Villas and Their Gardens

By: Wharton, Edith

Price: $350.00

Publisher: New York, The Century Co.: 1904

Seller ID: 2199395

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

1920 printing. Base of front board a bit scuffed, ink name and modern owner bookplate on front endpaper, small Brentano's bookseller plate on rear endpaper. 1904 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xii, 270 pp. 4to. Color and black-and-white illustrations by Maxfield Parrish throughout, as well as black-and-white photographs. A tour of Italy with a focus on the architecture of villas and their garden landscaping, by the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, etc. Both the author and the illustrator traveled to Ita...
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Spare the Rod: The Journal of a Victorian Schoolmaster in Dorset, 1863-64

By: Wheeler, Barry

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Dorset, The Winterborne Press: 1988

Seller ID: 2206913

ISBN: 0950828947

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Near Fine

1988 Stapled Binding. 36 pp. ...this Journal literally does give an impression of sparing the rod without spoiling the child, and the general picture is of earnest, kind endeavour to lift the children of the poor out of what the teachers no doubt thought of as a morass of benighted ignorance and prejudice. Barry Wheeler has compiled his journal of a Victorian schoolmaster from carefully researched facts drawn from school log-books and journals of the mid-nineteenth century in Dorset.
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Napoleon, 1769-1821

By: Wheeler, Harold F. B.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, George G. Harrap and Co., Ltd.: 1918

Seller ID: 2301426

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First printing of new enlarged edition. No jacket. Small stain on front board, bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. 1918 Hard Cover. 319 pp. Red boards. Color frontispiece, black-and-white plates. Napolon Bonaparte[a] (/n??po?li?n ?bo?n?p??rt/,[1] French: [nap?le?? b?n?pa?t]; 15 August 1769 5 May 1821) was a French statesman and military leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the French Revolutionary Wars. He was Emperor of the French as Napoleon I from 1804 until 1814 and again briefly in 1815 during the Hundred Days. Napoleo...
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The Forgotten Peace: Brest-Litovsk, March 1918 (Studies in Modern History)

By: Wheeler-Bennett, John W.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow & Company: 1939

Seller ID: 2302761

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Former library copy - usual marks. No jacket. Rebound with portions of original jacket mounted on verso of front endpaper. 1939 Hard Cover. xx, 478 pp. The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (also known as the Brest Peace in Russia) was a peace treaty signed on March 3, 1918, between the new Bolshevik government of Russia and the Central Powers (German Empire, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire), that ended Russia's participation in World War I. The treaty was signed at German-controlled Brest-Litovsk (Polish: Brze?? Litewski; since 1945, Brest, nowadays in Belarus), after two months of ne...
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The Anti-Philosophers: A Study of the Philosophes in Eighteenth-Century France

By: White, R.J.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: 1970

Seller ID: 2307822

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

A near fine copy in a near fine jacket. 1970 Hard Cover. vi, 175 pp. ...analyzes the individual and collective achievements of the philosophes. ...discusses the careers of such men as Diderot, Voltaire, Fontenelle, 'Alembert, Helvetius, Rousseau, Condillac La Mettrie and Buffon with wit and clarity...shows that these men were not, on the whole, original philosophers, but rather men of letters who were passionately committed, as Diderot expressed it, to changing the general way of thought'. ...In bringing philosophy and science down to earth, in translating them into a new, mundane outlook, the...
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German Cruisers of World War Two

By: Whitley, M.J.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Annapolis, Naval Institute Press: 19

Seller ID: 2299451

ISBN: 0870212176

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. 19 Large Hardcover. 176 pp. Black-and-white photographs, diagrams, and detailed specifications throughout. This book is a design and operational history of WWII German cruisers. With 175 photographs, line drawings, maps and diagrams, it tells the full story of each vessel from the drawing board to ultimate destruction.
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Wolfe and North America

By: Whitton, F.E.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, Ernest Benn Limited: 1929

Seller ID: 2204508

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket, spine toned, front hinge starting, ink name redacted. 1929 Hard Cover. 420 pp. CONTENTS: I. France and England in North America Up to the Time of Wolfe's Birth. II. The Early Military Career of James Wolfe. III. The Situation in North America After the Treaty of Utrecht. The Fall of Louisburg in 1745 and the French Efforts to Recapture It. IV. Wolfe's Early Manhood. The Beginning of the Final Struggle for North America in 1755. V. The Seven Years' War. French Successes in North America. The Turn of the Tide. Siedge and Capture of Louisburg in 1758. VI. The Capture of ...
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An Account of Russia as it was in the Year 1710

By: Whitworth, Charles

Price: $10.00

Publisher: ., Kessinger Publishing: 2009

Seller ID: 2283760

ISBN: 1104013371

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

2009 Trade Paperback. [ii], 165-231, [3] pp. A print-on-demand edition of an eighteenth-century Russian travelogue.
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Early English Stages, 1300 to 1660, Volume Two [2]: 1576 to 1660, Part I

By: Wickham, Glynne

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited: 1971

Seller ID: 2266402

ISBN: 0710022867

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Jacket rubbed, jacket spine faded. 1971 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xxiv, 408 pp. 8vo. The first of the two parts in the larger series of English theatrical history, covering the period from 1576 to 1660.
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Early English Stages, 1300 to 1660, Volume Two [2], 1576 to 1660, Part II

By: Wickham, Glynne

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited: 1972

Seller ID: 2266403

ISBN: 0710071442

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Jacket rubbed, jacket spine faded, corner of front jacket flap clipped. 1972 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xii, 266, [2] pp. 8vo. The second of the two parts in the larger series of English theatrical history, covering the period from 1576 to 1660.
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The East India Company: Trade and Conquest from 1600

By: Wild, Antony

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, Harper Collins: 1999

Seller ID: 2303554

ISBN: 1585740594

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. An excellent copy. 1999 Large Hardcover. 191 pp. Here is a historical chronicle of the most powerful corporation in world history, beautifully illustrated with full-color paintings, photographs, and maps. Established by Royal Charter in 1600, the East India Company was, and remains to this day, the largest and most powerful multinational business the world has ever seen. It controlled over half the world's trade and a quarter of its population. It singlehandedly ruled India, raised its own army and navy, minted its own currency, and traded with every corner of the globe. It also...
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Edward Burne-Jones: Victorian Artist-Dreamer

By: Wildman, Stephen; Christian, John; Crawford, Alan; des Cars, Laurence

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1999

Seller ID: 2288340

ISBN: 0870998587

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

An excellent copy. 1999 Large Hardcover. xi, 359 pp. A pupil of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and a protege of John Ruskin, Burne-Jones belonged to the second generation of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, creating a narrative style of romantic symbolism steeped in medieval legend and fused with the influence of Italian Renaissance masters that was to have widespread influence on both British and European art. Within the sophisticated culture of the late Victorian period, Burne-Jones's star rose rapidly, and by the 1880s he had become the establishment artist par excellence, one of the most admired an...
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A Queen of Tears: Caroline Matilda, Queen of Denmark and Norway and Princess of Great Britain and Ireland, in Two Volumes

By: Wilkins, W. H.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, Longmans, Green & Co.: 1904

Seller ID: 2302549

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Spines toned, sticker ghosts on front board of each volume, endpapers lightly foxed, ink name on front free endpaper of both volumes. 1904 Hard Cover. xii, 355; viii, 337, 40 pp. Two volume set. Caroline Matilda of Great Britain (Danish: Caroline Mathilde;[1] 22 July 1751 10 May 1775) was by birth a Princess of Great Britain and member of the House of Hanover and by marriage Queen consort of Denmark and Norway from 1766 to 1772. The youngest and posthumous daughter of Frederick, Prince of Wales, by Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Caroline Matilda was raised in a secluded family atmosphere awa...
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My Ancestors

By: William II; Zambra, W.W.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, William Heinemann, Ltd.: 1929

Seller ID: 2288931

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

First edition. Large chips and large tears to jacket. Newspaper clippings glued to front endpapers and to frontispiece recto. 1929 Hard Cover. xv, 288 pp. CONTENTS: Introduction; The First Zollerns; The Elector Frederick II; From the Successors of Frederick Irontooth to the Great Elector; The Great Elector; Kind Frederick I; Frederick William I; Frederick the Great; Frederick William II; Frederick William III; Frederick William IV; The Old Emperor; The Emperor Frederick III.
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A Princess of Intrigue: Anne Genevieve de Bourbon, Duchesse de Longueville, and Her Times, in Two Volumes

By: Williams, H. Noel

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, Hutchinson & Co.: 1907

Seller ID: 2284895

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Small spot on front board of second volume, a few pages lightly foxed, ink name on front endpaper of each volume. 1907 Hard Cover. Complete in two volumes. xii, 344; x, 345-745, [1] pp. 8vo. A biography of the French princess known for her beauty. She was influential during the Fronde (mid-17th century civil wars), and later converted to Jansenism.
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Ironclads in Action: A Sketch of Naval Warfare, from 1855 to 1895, with Some Account of the Development of the Battleship in England, in Two Volumes

By: Wilson, H.W. [Herbert Wrigley]

Price: $125.00

Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston & Company: 1896

Seller ID: 2305679

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Fourth edition. Volume I: map II plate loose but included, ink note on front free endpaper verso. Both volumes: bookplate on front paste-down endpaper, page ridges and some pages lightly foxed. 1896 Hard Cover. Two volume set. Blue cloth boards with gilt title on spine, gilt decor of a ship on front board, and gilt top page ridge. With maps, plans, and illustrations. The present work is an attempt to give, with fair detail, a sketch of naval warfare in the period of transition which has followed the introduction of steam.--p. [xvii]
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Disorderly Women and Female Power in the Street Literature of Early Modern England and Germany (Feminist Issues: Practice, Politics, Theory)

By: Wiltenburg, Joy

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia: 1992

Seller ID: 2303226

ISBN: 0813913519

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Spine lightly toned, rear wrapper creased, page ridges very lightly foxed. 1992 Trade Paperback. x, 352 pp. This work examines the lowest levels of early modern popular street literature (ballads, broadsides, song pamphlets, and chapbooks) to shed light on differences between German and English attitudes toward women and on the ways in which those attitudes intertwined with wider social and cultural conceptions.
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A Renaissance Treasury: The Flagg Collection of European Decorative Arts and Sculpture (A Collection of the Milwaukee Art Musuem)

By: Winters, Laurie; Bliss, Joseph R.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Hudson Hills Press: 1999

Seller ID: 2263710

ISBN: 0944110711

Binding: Large Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

A nice copy. 1999 Large Softcover. 176 pp. The Richard and Erna Flagg collection, given to the Milwaukee Art Museum in 1991, is one of the most important single donations of European decorative arts to an American museum.
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Ultra at Sea: How Breaking the Nazi Code Affected Allied Naval Strategy During World War II

By: Winton, John

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow and Company: 1988

Seller ID: 2205256

ISBN: 0688085466

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Page ridges very faintly foxed. Jacket edges lightly rubbed. 1988 Hard Cover. 207 pp. Includes black-and-white photographs. ...the first detailed examination of how Ultra intelligence obtained from Enigma was used to win the war at sea. Winton describes in exciting detail the way Ultra was used in the cat-and-mouse chase that led to the sinking of the Tirpitz and the Scharnhorst, two German battleships in the North Sea. In addition, Winton explains how carefully Ultra was used in order not to arouse Nazi suspicions that Enigma had been broken. He shows how an incident involving ...
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Ultra at Sea: How Breaking the Nazi Code Affected Allied Naval Strategy During World War II

By: Winton, John

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow and Company: 1988

Seller ID: 2306360

ISBN: 0688085466

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Jacket edges lightly rubbed. 1988 Hard Cover. 207 pp. Includes black-and-white photographs. ...the first detailed examination of how Ultra intelligence obtained from Enigma was used to win the war at sea. Winton describes in exciting detail the way Ultra was used in the cat-and-mouse chase that led to the sinking of the Tirpitz and the Scharnhorst, two German battleships in the North Sea. In addition, Winton explains how carefully Ultra was used in order not to arouse Nazi suspicions that Enigma had been broken. He shows how an incident involving intelligence given to the French...
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The European Scrap Book: The Year's Golden Harvest of Thought and Achievement

By: Wise, William H.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, William H. Wise & Co.: 1928

Seller ID: 2264763

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Lacks jacket. Faint edge wear. 1928 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. Contains essays and historical information, featuring such notable contributors as H.G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, and many others!
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The American Civil War: An English View

By: Wolseley, Field Marshal Visount; Rawley, James A.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Virginia, University Press of Virginia: 1964

Seller ID: 2304929

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Jacket spine toned, half-inch tear along jacket spine head. Minimal pencil marginalia. 1964 Hard Cover. xxxvii, 230 pp. Field Marshal Viscount Garnet Joseph Wolseley, born to a well-heeled Dublin family, was assigned in 1861 to service with the British army in Canada. Here he became engrossed by the mounting conflict in the United States and eventually decided to take two months' leave in order to observe the situation firsthand. His writings on the Civil War provide a fascinating and little-presented perspective on America's bloodiest conflict. Editor James Rawley's introductio...
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Shakespeare

By: Wood, Michael

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Basic Books: 2003

Seller ID: 2283945

ISBN: 0465092640

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Half inch tear along bottom edge of rear jacket panel. Faint stain on top page ridge. 2003 Large Hardcover. We have more books available by this author!. 352 pp. A brilliant piece of historical investigative journalism, Shakespeare is a fresh telling of the playwright's life based on a wide range of newly discovered sources, such as police and torture records. Rather than approaching Shakespeare as an isolated genius, Wood argues that he was very much a product of his place and time--a period of upheaval that straddled the medieval and modern worlds. It was a time of great tensi...
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The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845-1849

By: Woodham-Smith, Cecil

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: 1962

Seller ID: 2271328

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Spine faded, ink name on front endpaper, jacket corners rubbed with minimal loss. 1962 Hard Cover. xii, 510, [2] pp. 8vo. The Irish potato famine of the 1840s, perhaps the most appalling event of the Victorian era, killed over a million people and drove as many more to emigrate to America. It may not have been the result of deliberate government policy, yet British obtuseness, short-sightedness and ignorance and stubborn commitment to laissez-faire solutions largely caused the disaster and prevented any serious efforts to relieve suffering. The continuing impact on Anglo-Irish...
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The Queen's Conjurer: The Science and Magic of Dr. John Dee, Adviser to Queen Elizabeth I

By: Woolley, Benjamin

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Henry Holt and Company: 2001

Seller ID: 2307449

ISBN: 0805065091

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. 2001 Hard Cover. xii, 355 pp. A fascinating portrait of one of the most brilliant, complex, and colorful figures of the Renaissance. Although his accomplishments were substantial -- he became a trusted confidante to Queen Elizabeth I, inspired the formation of the British Empire, and plotted voyages to the New World-John Dee's story has been largely lost to history. Beyond the political sphere his intellectual pursuits ranged from the scientific to the occult. His mathematics anticipated Isaac Newton by nearly a century, while his mapmaking and navigation were critical to explor...
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The Last Empire: Photography in British India, 1855-1911

By: Worswick, Clark; Embree, Ainslie; The Earl Mountbatten of Burma

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Aperture: 1976

Seller ID: 2306965

ISBN: 0912334991

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

One-and-a-half inch tear along top edge of front jacket panel, jacket edges rubbed. 1976 Large Hardcover. 146 pp. A brilliant selection of virtually unknown and rare photographs of India taken between 1855 and 1911. Images include the work of early photographers and adventurers who first recorded the glories of the Himalayas, ancient archeological wonders and the picturesque facade of the British Raj in the subcontinent. This collection represents British views of a land that held romantic and exotic place in the western imagination.
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Historical Memoirs of My Own Time. in Two Volumes. Part the First, from 1772 to 1780. Part the Second, from 1781 to 1784.

By: Wraxall, N. William

Price: $125.00

Publisher: London, Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand. / J.M'Creery, Printer: 1815

Seller ID: 2289839

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Front joint of first volume neatly repaired by previous owner, spines toned and a bit dried, owner bookplate of Sir Robert Johnson Eden on front endpaper of first volume, a few pages lightly foxed, minimal marginalia on just a couple pages. 1815 Full-Leather. iv, 549, [3]; 583, [5] pp. 8vo. Full calf, black morocco spine labels, gilt titles and rules, marbled edges and endpapers. Wraxall references intent for a third volume in the preface, but this would not be published until 1818. After receiving some sort of education in Bristol, he was sent to Bombay in 1769 with the East In...
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The Quest for the Secret Nile: Victorian Exploration in Equatorial Africa

By: Yeoman, Guy

Price: $4.00

Publisher: London, Chaucer Press: 2004

Seller ID: 2089166

ISBN: 1904449158

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

2004 Large Hardcover. 192 pp. The Nile, stretching for a distance of 4,163 miles, is the longest river in the world. The ancient Greeks were obsessed by the provenance of so much water, feeding a river that flowed out of the desert. Aeschylus, in 500 BC, talked of Egypt being nurtured by the snows. For centuries, the only sporadic reports from the heart of equatorial Africa came from Arab seafarers, land travellers and slavers. In the mid-1850s in Britain, the great thirst for adventure and discovery, combined with the challenge posed by the ancient riddle of the secret sources of the Nile and...
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Philosophy, Religion and Science in the 17th and 18th Centuries (Library of the History of Ideas, Volume II)

By: Yolton, John W.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Rochester, New York, University of Rochester Press: 1990

Seller ID: 2308169

ISBN: 1878822012

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

A fine copy in a fine jacket. 1990 Hard Cover. xvii, 539 pp. The essays in this collection illustrate the interdisciplinary approach to the history of ideas fostered by the Journal of the History of Ideas. Science, philosophy and religion were closely connected in the 17th and 18th centuries, and common threads run through all the articles. A number of essays revolve around Locke: the implications of his doctrines for religion, and their relation to and support of the new science; several of these articles refer to Descartes, Leibniz and Hume. There are essays on optics and vision in the work ...
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