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The Stuart Legacy: English Art 1603-1714

By: Brown, Walter R.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Birmingham, Alabama, Birmingham Museum of Art: 1991

Seller ID: 2198682

ISBN: 0295971304

Binding: Large Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Very Good. 1991 Large Softcover. 176 pp. The purpose of this exhibition and catalogue is to take a broad look at the art of the Stuart era and to draw attention to the traditions that it inherited and developed, as well as to the extraordinary innovations and advances that took place during little more than a hundred years from the accession of James I in 1603 to the death of his great-grand-daughter, Queen Anne, in 1714.
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Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany

By: Brubaker, Rogers

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press: 1994

Seller ID: 2294836

ISBN: 0674131789

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Second printing. A very nice copy. 1994 Trade Paperback. xii, 270 pp. The difference between French and German definitions of citizenship is instructive?and, for immigrants from North Africa, Turkey, and Eastern Europe, decisive. Brubaker shows how this difference?between the territorial basis of the French citizenry and German emphasis on blood descent?was shaped by sharply differing understandings of nationhood.
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The Lion and the Unicorn: A Historian's Testament

By: Bryant, Sir Arthur

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1970

Seller ID: 2206143

ISBN: 0002114712

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First American edition. Jacket lightly rubbed and toned. 1970 Hard Cover. 367 pp. A personal history of twentieth-century England. With eloquence and perception, Sir Arthur recalls the quiet beauty of a still unspoiled countryside; the ardors, endurances, and dramatic changes of the war years; the ambitious, yet often shattered hopes of the post-war era; and the landscape, buildings, institutions, and traditions which are the living witnesses to Britain's past and the key to her future. But above all, he has succeeded in capturing the unique dichotomy of the English character, that indomitable...
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Essays, with a Biographical Sketch of the Author

By: Buckle, Henry Thomas

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, D. Appleton & Company: 1863

Seller ID: 2305027

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Former library copy - usual marks. 1863 Hard Cover. 209 pp. Brown cloth boards. CONTENTS: Biographical Sketch of Henry Thomas Buckle; Mill on Liberty; The Influence of Women on the Progress of Knowledge. Henry Thomas Buckle (24 November 1821 29 May 1862)[1] was an English historian, the author of an unfinished History of Civilization, and a strong amateur chess player.[2] He is sometimes called the Father of Scientific History.[3]--Wikipedia
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Essays, with a Biographical Sketch of the Author

By: Buckle, Henry Thomas

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, D. Appleton & Company: 1866

Seller ID: 2305028

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Minor loss to spine head and to spine base, pencil note and label on front free endpaper, some pages stained, minor marginalia. 1866 Hard Cover. 209 pp. Brown cloth boards. CONTENTS: Biographical Sketch of Henry Thomas Buckle; Mill on Liberty; The Influence of Women on the Progress of Knowledge. Henry Thomas Buckle (24 November 1821 29 May 1862)[1] was an English historian, the author of an unfinished History of Civilization, and a strong amateur chess player.[2] He is sometimes called the Father of Scientific History.[3]--Wikipedia
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Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable; The Age of Chivalry; The Legends of Charlemagne (A Modern Library Giant, G14)

By: Bulfinch, Thomas

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library:

Seller ID: 2276970

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No jacket, top corners of boards lightly bumped, pencil name on front endpaper, no publisher date. We have more books available by this author!. xi, 778 pp. Bulfinch's Mythology is a collection of the works of Thomas Bulfinch, renamed after him and published after his death. It is a classic work of mythology and is still being printed, even 150 years after the first work, Age of Fable, was published in 1855. The following is a table of contents of the work, which itself can serve as an interesting pantheon of the characters of ancient European mythology. - Wikipedia
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Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable; The Age of Chivalry; The Legends of Charlemagne (A Modern Library Giant, G14)

By: Bulfinch, Thomas

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library: 1930

Seller ID: 2291646

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

1930s printing of Toledano G014.1. Very good in fair jacket. Small dealer plate on rear endpaper, jacket edges rubbed with large chip from top edge of rear panel and minor loss elsewhere. We have more books available by this author!. xi, [1] 778 pp. 8vo. Bulfinch's Mythology is a collection of the works of Thomas Bulfinch, renamed after him and published after his death. It is a classic work of mythology and is still being printed, even 150 years after the first work, Age of Fable, was published in 1855. The following is a table of contents of the work, which itself can serve as an interesting...
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The Secret Service of the Confederate States in Europe; or, How the Confederate Cruisers were Equipped, in Two Volumes

By: Bulloch, James D.; Van Doren Stern, Philip

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, Thomas Yoseloff: 1959

Seller ID: 2305678

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

1959 reissue of 1883 original. Near fine copies in near fine publisher slipcase. A few light spots on slipcase panels. Some pages in both volumes dog-eared. Two volume set in publisher's slipcase. Blue cloth boards. With new introduction by Philip Van Doren Stern. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Jefferson Davis sent merchant marine James D. Bulloch to Europe to clandestinely acquire arms and ships for the Confederate navy. His first stop was Britain, a country hedging its bets on who would win the War Between the States and willing to secretly provide the Confederacy with the naval technolog...
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The Last Days of Pompeii

By: Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Edward

Price: $10.00

Publisher: ., Collins: 1960

Seller ID: 2205653

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

1960 printing. Imitation leather hardcover in publisher's slipcase with clear acetate jacket. Slipcase lightly rubbed. A fictional look at the famous and tragic Roman city leading up to it's destruction by a volcano.
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The Last Days of Pompeii (International Collectors Library)

By: Bulwer-Lytton, Sir Edward G. E.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, International Collectors Library: 1946

Seller ID: 2300974

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Front joint starting. 1946 Hard Cover. 356 pp. Original green leatherette hardcover binding with gold lettering & design, gilt top page ridge, green ribbon marker. The Last Days of Pompeii is a novel written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834. The novel was inspired by the painting The Last Day of Pompeii by the Russian painter Karl Briullov, which Bulwer-Lytton had seen in Milan.[1] It culminates in the cataclysmic destruction of the city of Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. The novel uses its characters to contrast the decadent culture of 1st-century Rome with both older cultu...
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The Diary and Letters of Frances Burney, Madame D'Arblay, in Two Volumes (Windsor Edition)

By: Burney, Frances; Woolsey, Sarah Chauncey

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company: 1902

Seller ID: 2304491

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Limited edition. One of 500 copies. Spines very slightly toned, otherwise an excellent set. 1902 Hard Cover. viii, 487; 551 pp. Two volume set. Original cloth-backed boards. Top page ridges gilt. Deckled edges. Frontispiece portrait in each volume. Frances Burney (13 June 1752 6 January 1840), also known as Fanny Burney and later as Madame d'Arblay, was an English satirical novelist, diarist and playwright. Born in Lynn Regis, now King's Lynn, England, on 13 June 1752, to the musician Dr Charles Burney (17261814) and his first wife, Esther Sleepe Burney (17251762), she was the third of her mo...
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The English Philosophers from Bacon to Mill (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books, Giant G 47)

By: Burtt, Edwin A. (Editor)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library: 1939

Seller ID: 2304597

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. General light wear to jacket. Page ridges lightly foxed. 1939 Hard Cover. xxiv, 1041, [7] pp. 8vo. The thirteen essays in this volume comprise a complete survey of the golden age of English philosophy. Forerunners of the Industrial Revolution, the thinkers here represented are the prophets and the creators of the twentieth century world. From them stem the economists, sociologists and political leaders whose work has so profoundly influenced the life and thought of our own time
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German U-Boat Commanders of World War II: A Biographical Dictionary

By: Busch, Rainer; Roll, Hans-Joachim; Brooks, Geoffrey

Price: $95.00

Publisher: London / Annapolis, Maryland, Greenhill Books / Naval Institute Press: 1999

Seller ID: 2303482

ISBN: 1853673668

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Sticker on jacket spine, jacket edges lightly bumped. 1999 Large Hardcover. 301 pp. Details the service records of some 1,400 officers of the German Kriegsmarine known to have commanded a U-boat between the commissioning of U-1 in June 1935, and the final surrender of U-977 to Argentina in August 1945.
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Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (Op. 6)

By: Butler, Samuel; Streatfeild, R.A.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, A.C. Fifield: 1913

Seller ID: 2198747

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

New and enlarged edition. Front matter and page ridges foxed, owner bookplate on front endpaper. 1913 Hard Cover. 335, [16] pp. 8vo. An account of holidays in Italy, by the author of the Utopian satire Erewhon and the semi-autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh. This edition includes author's revisions, an index, and an introduction by R.A. Streatfeild.
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The Works of Lord Byron, In Verse and Prose. Including His Letters, Journals, Etc., with a Sketch of His Life

By: Byron, Lord (Byron, George Gordon)

Price: $95.00

Publisher: New York, Geo. A. Leavitt: 1867

Seller ID: 2306296

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Boards lightly rubbed. 1867 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xxviii, 627 pp. Full leather. Gilt page ridges. Marbled endpapers. George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS (22 January 1788 19 April 1824), known simply as Lord Byron, was a British peer, who was a poet and politician. He was one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement,[1][2][3] and is regarded as one of the greatest British poets.[4] He remains widely read and influential. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage; many of his shorter lyri...
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The Life of Lord Byron, with His Letters and Journals, Two Volumes in One

By: Byron, Lord [George Gordon]; Moore, Thomas

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & Co.: 1857

Seller ID: 2304468

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No jacket. Minor loss to spine head and spine base with minor tears to both. 1857 Hard Cover. xiii, 609; viii, 702 pp. Two volumes in one. A collection of Lord Byron's letters and journals. George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS (22 January 1788 19 April 1824), known simply as Lord Byron, was an English poet, peer and politician who became a revolutionary in the Greek War of Independence, and is considered one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement.[1][2][3] He is regarded as one of the greatest English poets[4] and remains widely read and influential. Among his best-known works a...
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The Dragons and George

By: Cadigan, George Leslie

Price: $15.00

Publisher: ., G. Cadigan: 1987

Seller ID: 2298886

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Spine creased, ink gift note on front flyleaf. 1987 Trade Paperback. 255 pp. A history of the Cadigan family, from early times in Ireland to today, featuring various notes, documents, etc.
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The Battle for Gaul: A New Illustrated Translation

By: Caesar, Julius; Wiseman, Anne and Peter

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Boston, David R. Godine, Publisher: 1980

Seller ID: 2303558

ISBN: 0879233060

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First thus. Jacket edges lightly bumped. 1980 Hard Cover. 208 pp. New translation with color plates and illustrations. Julius Caesar was for a few years the undisputed master of the Roman world -- devoted to expanding Roman supremacy and his own fame. THE BATTLE FOR GAUL contains seven books of Caesar's Commentaries on his campaign in Gaul from 58 to 50 B.C. in their original narrative sequence. These unparalleled accounts of war in Western Europe in the closing years of the Roman republic are clear and exciting. We feel the immediacy of the moment as we listen to Caesar's dramatic story of hi...
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Sweet Mother

By: Caggiano, Pietro; Rak, Michele; Turchini, Angelo

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Italy, Pontifical Sanctuary of Pompeii: 1990

Seller ID: 2286735

ISBN: 8885291023

Binding: Large Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Minor general wear. 1990 Large Softcover. 202 pp. Collaboration between three friends of the Sanctuary: Msgr. Pietro Caggiano, Prof. Michele Rak and Prof. Angelo Turchini, has given us an authentic trilogy of popular sacredness. In their own particular fields, each of them has seen the popular expressions of Marian devotion in Pompeii in the ex voto sector.
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Ireland's Shannon Story

By: Callahan, Brian

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Dublin, Irish Academic Press: 1999

Seller ID: 2269667

ISBN: 0716526433

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

2nd printing. An exceptional copy. 1999 Trade Paperback. xvii, [1], 204 pp. The book explains how the Shannon Airport experiment originated through local effort spurred by sympathetic political leaders which developed into a multi-million pound enterprise in a remote location in the west of Ireland.
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Yesterday Was Mine

By: Callimachi, Anne-Marie; Sitwell, Sacheverell

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, McGraw Hill Book Company, Inc.: 1949

Seller ID: 2263028

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Very good in good jacket. Several 1 inch jacket tears, 1/2 inch chip from rear jacket edge. 1949 Hard Cover. xiii, 267 pp. 8vo. Foreword by Sacheverell Sitwell. A firsthand account of European high society in the years preceding World War I, by the princess of Romania, detailing the bygone era of glamorous galas, Parisian salons, and the romances and scandals of the aristocracy.
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Image for The Private Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France Navarre to Which are Added Personal Recollections Illustrative of the Reigns of Louis XIV, XV, XVI [with] Autobiographical Memoirs of Madame Campan, First Lady-in-Waiting to Marie Antoinette, Queen of France and Navarre, with Some Records of Her Life and Conversations, in Two Volumes

The Private Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France Navarre to Which are Added Personal Recollections Illustrative of the Reigns of Louis XIV, XV, XVI [with] Autobiographical Memoirs of Madame Campan, First Lady-in-Waiting to Marie Antoinette, Queen of France and Navarre, with Some Records of Her Life and Conversations, in Two Volumes

By: Campan, Jeanne Louise Henriette; Mm. Barriere & Maigne

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, Scribner and Welford: 1883

Seller ID: 2283887

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

New and revised edition. Edges lightly rubbed, bookplates on front endpaper of each indicating these belonged to someone named Salisbury. 1883 Hard Cover. Complete in two volumes. lxxvi, [2], 397, [1]; ix, [3], 398 pp. 8vo. Brown cloth, gilt titles and black and gold decorations.. Marie Antoinette; born Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna; 2 November 1755 16 October 1793) was the last Queen of France before the French Revolution. She was born an Archduchess of Austria and was the penultimate child and youngest daughter of Empress Maria Theresa and Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor. She became Dauphine ...
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Campbell's Illustrated History of the Paris International Exposition Universelle of 1900

By: Campbell, James B.

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Chicago, Ill., Chicago and Omaha Publishing Company: 1900

Seller ID: 2292236

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Good

Some soiling to boards, hinges starting. 1900 Large Hardcover. 196 pp. A presentation of the world's achievements in literature, science, industry, art and architecture, as shown at the Paris Exposition at the close of the Nineteenth Century.
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Europe, 1492: Portrait of a Continent Five Hundred Years Ago

By: Cardini, Franco

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Facts on File: 1989

Seller ID: 2295718

ISBN: 0816021880

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Half inch tear along bottom edge of rear jacket panel, minor tear along top edge of front jacket panel, jacket spine base rubbed. Ink stamp on page base. 1989 Large Hardcover. 238 pp. Describes life in Europe in 1492, and discusses government, religion, culture, and social conditions.
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Stalingrad: The Defeat of the German 6th Army

By: Carell, Paul

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Atglen, PA, Schiffer Military/Aviation History: 1993

Seller ID: 2205163

ISBN: 0887404693

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A fine copy. Near Fine. 1993 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 348 pp. With the 50th Anniversary of the battle of Stalingrad approaching, we present Paul Carell's first eastern front work in over twenty-five years on this legendary battle, considered by many to be the turning point of the Second World War. His previous works Hitler Moves East and Scorched Earth are considered the definitive works on the war in Russia.In this brand new book, Carell sets his talents to discussing the operations of the 6th Army from the 1942 German summer offensive, through ...
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Dall'Arno al Tebro: Escursioni per la Provincia d'Arezzo

By: Carloni, Giuseppe

Price: $40.00

Publisher: ., Arnaldo Forni Editore: 1986

Seller ID: 2198617

ISBN: 8827125744

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Owner bookplate on front endpaper. 1986 Hard Cover. 346 pp. 8vo. Italian text. 1986 facsimile of the edition published in Pistoia in 1889-90. A guide to the Italian province of Arezzo, including several large fold-outs.
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Phases of Thought in England

By: Carre, Meyrick H.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Oxford, At the Clarendon Press: 1949

Seller ID: 2305093

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

No jacket. Very minor general wear. 1949 Hard Cover. xix, 392 pp. CONTENTS: Introduction; Biblical Philosophy; The Development of Augustinianism; The New Logic and the new Knowledge; The Advance of Aristotlelianism; Criticism and Sterility; Humanism and Reformation; The New Philosophy; The Empirical Philosophy; Naturalism and Idealism; Index of Names.
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Napoleon: A Biography

By: Castelot, Andre

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row, Publishers: 1971

Seller ID: 2285510

ISBN: 0060106786

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with a few minor tears, front jacket flap creased, jacket faintly toned. 1971 Hard Cover. vii, 627 pp. Andr Castelot was a French writer born in Belgium who wrote 65 biographies of famous persons in the History of France. He is perhaps best known for his biography of Josephine. His biography of Napoleon emphasizes not only his military campaigns, but his many love affairs and his many mistresses. It shows how his tumultuous relationship with Josephine influenced and affected his Napoleonic Code. It was because of Josephine's fickleness and unfaithfulness to N...
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Adventures of Lafayette

By: Cecil, E.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company: 1929

Seller ID: 2208484

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Pages lightly toned. Multiple chips and tears to jacket edges, jacket front lightly foxed. 1929 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 256 pp. This book tells the fascinating life of the adventurous Marquis de Lafayette. It relates his exciting career as a volunteer during the days of the American Revolution and his stirring experiences during the early days of the French Revolution. His intimate association with the thrilling events in France during the days of Napoleon Bonaparte is also told. Illustrated in black and white with drawings that convey the spirit of the times....
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Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini (Modern Library)

By: Cellini, Benvenuto; Symonds, John Addington

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Modern Library: 1927

Seller ID: 2260192

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First thus (Toledano 3.2). Flexible boards. Edges lightly rubbed, front hinge starting. 1927 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 485 pp. The autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini was started in the year 1558 at the age of 58 and ended abruptly just before his last trip to Pisa around the year 1563 when Cellini was approximately 63 years old. The memoirs give a detailed account of his singular career, as well as his loves, hatreds, passions, and delights, written in an energetic, direct, and racy style. They show a great self-regard and self-assertion, sometimes running into ...
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