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By: N/A
Price: $20.00 $16.00
Publisher: Doubleday: 1969
Seller ID: 2291335
ISBN: 0437765040
Condition: Very Good
No publisher date (circa 1969). No jacket. Board corners lightly rubbed, ink gift note on front flyleaf verso. Unpaginated. From silver bells and cockle shells to roof-top flower pots, every kind of garden grows in these pictures of 19th-Century Italy.--Rear board. Illustrations by Peter Spier. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $95.00
Publisher: H. G. Roebuck and Son, Inc.: 1960
Seller ID: 2291347
Condition: Very Good
Ink name on front endpaper, ink date on title page. Ink notes by previous owner on VA-34 Blue Blasters pages, providing names, nicknames, and assignments of other members. 1960 Large Hardcover. 256 pp. Lavishly illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs. USS Saratoga (CV/CVA/CVB-60), was the second of four Forrestal-class supercarriers built for the United States Navy in the 1950s. Saratoga was the sixth U.S. Navy ship, and the second aircraft carrier, to be named for the Battles of Saratoga in the American Revolutionary War. Commissioned in 1956, she spent most of her career in th... View more info
Price: $13.00
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company: 1987
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 2202128
ISBN: 0316057509
Condition: Very Good
First American edition. Pages faintly toned. Jacket lightly toned. 1987 Large Hardcover. 240 pp. Five and a half million years ago, the waters of the Atlantic flooded across an isthmus joining Morocco and Spain and into a vast trench in the earth's crust. The resulting cataract plunged for a century or so over a cliff many miles long and fifty times higher than Niagara, until at last the basin was filled and the Mediterranean Sea had been born. ...explores the history and current state of this fascinating region, which became the cradle of civilization. ...David Attenborough not only describes... View more info
Price: $6.00 $4.80
Publisher: The Pennsylvania State University Press: 1992
Seller ID: 2279076
ISBN: 0271008148
Condition: Very Good
Spine faintly toned, minor general wear, ink name on half-title page. 1992 Trade Paperback. x, 325 pp. During the Renaissance the nature of womankind was a major topic of debate. Numerous dialogues, defenses, paradoxes, and tributes devoted to sustaining woman's excellence were published, and in them history was rewritten to include the achievements of womankind. Often these texts demonstrate that women are capable of acting with prudence, temperance, fortitude, and justice, and thus are capable of being independent of male political and moral authority. Pamela Benson argues that the writers u... View more info
By: Bulwer-Lytton, Sir Edward G. E.
Price: $10.00 $8.00
Publisher: International Collectors Library: 1946
Seller ID: 2300974
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... View more info
By: Caggiano, Pietro; Rak, Michele; Turchini, Angelo
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Pontifical Sanctuary of Pompeii: 1990
Seller ID: 2286735
ISBN: 8885291023
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. View more info
By: Cellini, Benvenuto; Symonds, John Addington
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Modern Library: 1927
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 2260192
Condition: Very Good
First thus (Toledano 3.2). Flexible boards. Edges lightly rubbed, front hinge starting. 1927 Hard Cover. 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 extravagances which are impossible to credit. ... View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: The Macmillan Company: 1905
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2266483
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. 1905 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xi, [1], 517, [7]; x, [2], 441, [7] pp. 8vo. Teal cloth, gilt titles, white and gilt decorations. Includes 225 illustrations from etchings by Joseph Pennell. View more info
By: Delta, Penelope; Bobick, Ruth
Price: $15.00 $12.00
Publisher: Peter E. Randall Publishers: 2012
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2262959
ISBN: 1931807876
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. First English translation of the 1937 work. Very minor tear along top edge of jacket front. A very nice copy. 2012 Hard Cover. ix, 475 pp. As the Macedonian Struggle intensifies in 1906, two Greek military officers arrive at the swamp at Lake Giannitsa to lead the Greek rebels. Captain Agras--the ideal hero--radiates energy and spirit; Captain Nikiphoros, in contrast, is more deliberate and reflective. Both are courageous and fearless--united in their aims and dedication. A child and an adolescent dominate a plot resembling that of a spy story: Jovan, the little Bulgarian, and A... View more info
Price: $45.00
Publisher: J.B. Burr & Company: 1867
Seller ID: 2275018
Condition: Very Good
Edges lightly rubbed, a few pages lightly foxed. 1867 Hard Cover. xxiii, 640 pp. Gilt title and page ridges. Includes hand-colored map of the Holy Land (page 339) and steel engravings. CONTENTS: The Patriarchal Life, By Theodore D. Woolsey; Abraham the Wanderer, B.C. 1921; Isaac and Ishmael; Jacob, Esau, and Joseph; Did the Patriarchs Live to the Age of One Hundred and Eight?; Egypt in Darkness; Moses the Leader--B.C. 1625, Poole: 1491, A.V.; Joshua the Conqueror, B.C. 1451; The Judges of Israel, B.C. 1426-1095; Saul the King, B.C. 1095-1056; Jonathan the Friend; David the Beloved, B.C. 1056-1... View more info
By: Freeman, Philip
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks: 2011
Seller ID: 2299496
ISBN: 1416592814
Condition: Very Good
Spine very slightly creased, blurb page toned, a few small stains on top page ridge. 2011 Trade Paperback. xxii, 391 pp. The celebrated Macedonian king has been one of the most enduring figures in history. He was a general of such skill and renown that for two thousand years other great leaders studied his strategy and tactics, from Hannibal to Napoleon, with countless more in between. He flashed across the sky of history like a comet, glowing brightly and burning out quickly: crowned at age nineteen, dead by thirty-two. He established the greatest empire of the ancient world; Greek coins and ... View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Chapman and Hall: 1896
Seller ID: 2299762
Condition: Good
No jacket. Top edge lightly stained, one plate loose but included, top page ridge and a few pages lightly foxed. 1896 Hard Cover. xvi, 202 pp. With 134 illustrations. CONTENTS: Italian Art Renaissance Ironwork; German Renaissance Ironwork; Renaissance Ironwork in the Netherlands; Spanish Ironwork; Renaissance Ironwork in France; The Baroque and Rococo Periods in France, and Their Influence; Appendix: Alphabetical List of Illustrations of Ironwork Published in France, and in Germany, between the Sixteenth and Eighteenth Centuries; Index. View more info
By: Hewlett, Maurice
Price: $25.00
Publisher: The Macmillan Company: 1904
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2201424
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Small light stain on volume 1 spine, volume 1 spine slightly faded. 1904 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xiv, 383; xiii, 377, [7] pp. 8vo. A profusely illustrated Italian travelogue, with photogravures, etchings, and woodcuts throughout text. Keywords: TRAVEL ITALY TUSCANY TUSCAN View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: William Heinemann, Ltd.: 1970
Seller ID: 2288953
ISBN: 0434991945
Condition: Very Good
Half-inch chip to jacket spine head, corners of front jacket flap clipped, pencil note on rear jacket flap. 1970 Small Hard Cover. xxx, 508, 8 pp. Dual text in Latin and in English. Translated by H.R. Fairclough. In the two books of Satires Horace is a moderate social critic and commentator; the two books of Epistles are more intimate and polished, the second book being literary criticism as is also the Ars Poetica. The Epodes in various (mostly iambic) metres are akin to the 'discourses' (as Horace called his satires and epistles) but also look towards the famous Odes, in four books, in the o... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Praeger: 1993
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2204424
ISBN: 0275944654
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. No jacket, near fine. 1993 Hard Cover. xiv, 169 pp. The purpose of this book is two-fold. First, it presents in a single place a coherent account of the tumultuous naval events that took place in the Eastern Mediterranean between 1940 and 1945 during World War II. Second, the book aims to demonstrate in an interesting fashion what naval warfare in the narrow seas is really like. Koburger demonstrates that there was a definite Allied strategy in the Eastern Mediterranean during World War II. He delineates that strategy, showing its two halves, and demonstrates the roles of Yugosl... View more info
Price: $95.00
Publisher: New York University Press: 1957
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2097826
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Inscribed, signed, & dated by author on half-title page. Jacket spine faded with minor loss from head, jacket price clipped. 1957 Hard Cover. xv, 357 pp. 8vo. Includes two sections of black & white reproductions of historical illustrations. An examination of the travels of American citizens in Greece from the revolutionary era through the American Civil War, and the Greek influence upon American literature, culture, and politics. An interesting juxtaposition of American and Greek history which illuminates new aspects of each society. View more info
By: Lucas, E.V.
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Methuen & Co., Ltd.: 1923
Edition: Sixth Edition
Seller ID: 2291623
Condition: Near Fine
Sixth edition. No jacket. Spine very faintly toned, ink name and date on frontispiece recto. 1923 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xv, 318, 8 pp. Red boards. Gilt titles on spine. Front endpapers illustrated with maps of a bird's eye view of Venice. Color frontispiece. With sixteen illustrations in colour by Harry Morley. Thirty-two photographs from paintings and a map. CONTENTS: Preface to First Edition; Preface to the Revised Edition, 1923; The Bride of the Adriatic; St. Mark's: The Exterior; St. Mark's: The Interior; The Piazza and the Campanile; The Doges' Palace: ... View more info
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By: Mahaffy, J.P.
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Merrill and Baker: 1895
Edition: Limited Edition
Seller ID: 2123362
Condition: Very Good
Limited edition, one of 1000 copies. No date - late 19th century, probably 1890s. Edges rubbed. 1895 Half-Leather. Part of a larger history of various countries, but these two volumes comprise the full portion dedicated to Greece. Red leather spines & corners, marbled boards & endpapers, gilt titles, top edge gilt. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Temple Press, Ltd.: 1941
Seller ID: 2283117
Condition: Very Good
Wrapper edges rubbed. 1941 Stapled Binding. We have more books available by this author!. 64 pp. Thirty-seven types of Italian aeroplanes are described in this book. This book serves as a record of all the types in service with the Regia Aeronautica... View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: The Page Company: 1920
Edition: 8th Printing
Seller ID: 2286973
Condition: Near Fine
Eighth printing. No jacket. An excellent copy. 1920 Hard Cover. 400 pp. Top page ridge gilt. Includes color frontispiece, fold-out map, photographic plates. CONTENTS: On Lake Como; Map of Italy; Naples from the Ship; Where We Lived in Naples; Statue of Count Cavour, Milan; Giuseppe Mazzini; Statue of Vittorio Emanuele II., Genoa; Giuseppe Garibaldi; Bust of Homer, Museo Nazionale, Naples; Farnese Bull, Museo Nazionale, Naples; Ganymede and the Eagle, Museo Nazionale, Naples; House of the Vettii, Pompeii, - Street in Pompe; Capri; Sorrento; Tasso Before Lenora d'Este, by Kaulbach; Positano; Rav... View more info
By: Michelangelo; Carden, Robert W.
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Constable & Company Ltd: 1913
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2293316
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Front hinge repaired, spine a bit faded. 1913 Hard Cover. xiv, [2], 335, [1] pp. 8vo. A biography of the famous painter of the Sistine Chapel, sculptor of the Medicean tombs, architect, and writer, compiled from his own letters and papers. Translated and edited by Robert W. Carden. Includes frontispiece and 11 plates. View more info
By: Miltoun, Francis
Price: $75.00
Publisher: L.C. Page & Company: 1908
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2286946
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. No jacket. A very nice copy. 1908 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. ix, 442 pp. Top page ridge gilt. Color frontispiece by Blanche McManus. With illustrations from drawings and paintings done by Blanche McManus. A travelogue of Mediterranean Africa. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Naval Institute Press: 2007
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2203952
ISBN: 1591148936
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. 2007 Hard Cover. v, 202 pp. Between September 1941 and May 1944 the Germans sent 62 U-boats into the Mediterranean. To get there, the boats had to pass through the Straits of Gibraltar the British-held entry point, where nearly a third of them were sunk or forced to turn back. Of the U-boats that made it into the clear, calm waters of the Mediterranean, not one of them ever made it back into the Atlantic: they were all either sunk in battle or scuttled by their own crews. U-Boats in the Mediterranean looks at the perilous history of the German submarine operations in the Mediter... View more info
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Naval Institute Press: 2007
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2285063
ISBN: 1591148936
Condition: Near Fine
First American edition. 2007 Hard Cover. v, 202 pp. Between September 1941 and May 1944 the Germans sent 62 U-boats into the Mediterranean. To get there, the boats had to pass through the Straits of Gibraltar the British-held entry point, where nearly a third of them were sunk or forced to turn back. Of the U-boats that made it into the clear, calm waters of the Mediterranean, not one of them ever made it back into the Atlantic: they were all either sunk in battle or scuttled by their own crews. U-Boats in the Mediterranean looks at the perilous history of the German submarine operations in th... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Charles Scriber's Sons: 1928
Seller ID: 2301222
Condition: Near Fine
No jacket. Quarter-inch tear to cloth spine head. 1928 Hard Cover. 471 pp. Purple boards. Gilt title on spine. Maria Letizia Buonaparte née Ramolino (Marie-Lætitia Ramolino, Madame Mère de l'Empereur) (24 August 1750 – 2 February 1836) was an Italian noblewoman, mother of Napoleon I of France. View more info
Price: $300.00
Publisher: Wilson, Robertson, and Tennent, for A. Kincaid and J. Bell, J. Dickson, Edinburgh; J. Gilmour and Son, Glasgow; E. Wilson, Dumfries; J. Meuros, Kilmarnock; and A. Angus and Son, Aberdeen: 1770
Seller ID: 2289607
Condition: Good
Half of set lacks spine labels, other labels with some loss, edges rubbed, spine leather dried, bookplate of John Gould on front paste-down endpapers of each volume, with his name in ink on opposite page. 1770 Full-Leather. Complete in ten volumes. 12mo. Charles Rollin (30 January 1661 – 14 December 1741) was a French historian and educator. He was born in Paris. He was the son of a cutler, and at the age of twenty-two was made a master in the Collège du Plessis. In 1694 he was rector of the University of Paris, rendering great service among other things by reviving the study of Greek. He h... View more info
By: Roscoe, William
Price: $500.00
Publisher: T. Cadell: 1827
Edition: Third Edition
Seller ID: 2289645
Condition: Fair
Third edition, corrected. Some loss from spines, volume 1 frontispiece stained, ink name and owner bookplate on front endpapers of each volume. A good candidate for restoration. 1827 Hard Cover. Complete in four volumes. Vellum spines and corners, morocco spine labels, gilt titles and decorations, marbled boards. A biography of Pope Leo the Tenth, who served from 1513-1521. A member of the influential Medici family, Leo granted indulgences to donors for the reconstruction of St. Peter's Basilica, which Martin Luther denounced in his 95 Theses. Despite these difficulties, Leo is also remembered... View more info
By: Ross, Janet
Price: $75.00 $60.00
Publisher: Chatto & Windus: 1910
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2290357
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Spine faintly toned. 1910 Hard Cover. xix, 351 pp. Blue boards. Deckled edges. With 12 portraits and facsimiles. CONTENTS: Introductory; Cosimo Di Giovanni De' Medici (1389-1464); Piero Di Cosimo De' Medici (1416-1469); Lorenzo Di Piero De' Medici (1450-1492); Index. Includes illustrations. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Konecky & Konecky:
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2285907
ISBN: 156852191X
Condition: Near Fine
No jacket. A nice copy. xi, 240 pp. Modern reissue of 1949 original. The House of Medici (English: /'m?d?t?i/ MED-i-chee or UK: /m?'di?t?i/ m?-DEE-chee, Italian: ['m??dit?i]) was an Italian banking family and political dynasty that first began to gather prominence under Cosimo de' Medici in the Republic of Florence during the first half of the 15th century. The family originated in the Mugello region of Tuscany, and prospered gradually until it was able to fund the Medici Bank. This bank was the largest in Europe during the 15th century, and it facilitated the Medicis' rise to political power ... View more info
Price: $5.00
Publisher: White Lion Publishers Limited: 1976
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2205228
ISBN: 0727400770
Condition: Very Good
Pages lightly toned. Near Fine. 1976 Hard Cover. xii, 306 pp. Includes black-and-white photographs. After two years' extensive research the author has written a thorough account of the political and military background to the German invasion of Crete and the bitter fighting that followed the first airborne assault on an island in history. The book tells of confused negotiations between the British and Greek governments; the misunderstandings between Winston Churchill's War Cabinet and commanders in the field; the near capture of the King of Greece; the lack of preparation by the defenders and ... View more info
