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The Record of the Mediterranean Cruise of the United States Ship Saratoga CVA-60, Fall, Winter, Spring, 1959-1960

By: N/A

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Baltimore, Maryland, H. G. Roebuck and Son, Inc.: 1960

Seller ID: 2291347

Binding: Large Hardcover

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...
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Rome: A Soldier's Guide

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: ., Information and Education Section, Hq., MTOUSA: 1945

Seller ID: 2305224

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Near Fine

Light general wear. 1945 Stapled Binding. 96 pp. Includes black-and-white illustrations. CONTENTS: How to See Rome; History; A Tour of the Vatican; Ancient Rome: The Heart of the Ancient City - The Capitoline Hill - Outside the Forum and the Palatine - The Forum and the Palatine; A Walk on the Corso Vittorio Emmanuele; A Walk on the Corso Umberto; A Tour of the Churches; West of the Tiber; A Drive in Southeast Rome; Art Museums; Time for Relaxation; A List of Clubs, Theaters, Restaurants and Churches.
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The Villas of Tuscany [Formerly Titled: Great Houses of Italy]

By: Acton, Harold Mario Mitchell

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Thames and Hudson: 1985

Seller ID: 2199170

ISBN: 050024085X

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First thus. 1985 Large Hardcover. 288 pp.An architectural tour of Tuscany, profusely illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs, as well as reproductions of historical illustrations.
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The Art of the Pitti Palace, with a Short History of the Building of the Palace, and Its Owners, and an Appreciation of Its Treasures

By: Addison, Julia de Wolf

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Boston, L.C. Page & Company: 1904

Seller ID: 2199664

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Early reprint. Spine toned. 1904 Hard Cover. ix, 389 pp. 8vo. Blue-grey cloth, gilt titles, decoration & rules, gilt top page ridge. A survey of the famous gallery which focuses on the Golden Age of painting in Italy.
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The First Eden: The Mediterranean World and Man

By: Attenborough, David

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company: 1987

Seller ID: 2202128

ISBN: 0316057509

Binding: Large Hardcover

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...
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Rome and Its Story

By: Baddeley, St. Clair; Gordon, Lina Duff

Price: $250.00

Publisher: London, J.M. Dent & Co.: 1904

Seller ID: 2308485

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Presentation copy with ALS from author to a James N. Johnston tipped in on front flyleaf. Front and end matter lightly foxed, ink gift note to Johnston on front endpaper. 1904 Hard Cover. xv, 384 pp. Red cloth, gilt titles and decorations, top edge gilt. Color frontispiece and plates by Aubrey Waterfield. Also includes illustrations and reproductions of paintings and sculptures. From the preface: To present, within the compass of a single volume, anything like a serviceable sketch of the history and monuments of the city of Rome is a task of extreme difficulty, and one which it ...
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The Hellenistic and Roman Age (The History of Philosophy)

By: Brehier, Emile; Baskin, Wade - Translator

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Chicago, Phoenix Books / The University of Chicago Press: 1965

Seller ID: 2307985

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Top page ridge lightly foxed. 1965 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 261 pp. ...the second part of Brehier's great Histoire de la Philosophie... Following the Hellenic Age, it completes Brehier's account of the classical philosophers. The post-Aristotelian systems are taken up in this part--the Socratics, the Old Stoa, Epicureanism, Skepticism, Neo-Platonism, and Hellenism and Christianity.--rear wrapper
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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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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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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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The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books, ML 150)

By: Cellini, Benvenuto; Symonds, John Addington

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library: 1927

Seller ID: 2304978

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Includes original jacket (306 titles on reverse). A few light spots on top edge, jacket lightly rubbed and toned, ink name and address on front endpaper. 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 sh...
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Women of the Shadows

By: Cornelisen, Ann

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company: 1976

Seller ID: 2159306

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Personal copy of Abraham A. Rothberg with his blind stamp on the title page. Rothberg was a Jewish author whose books reimagined traditional Jewish stories and legends, and touched on themes relevant to the diaspora. Ink gift note on front endpaper. Very Good. 1976 Hard Cover. 228 pp. 8vo. A study of the lives of several women in Naples, Italy, with photographs by the author.
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City of Fortune: How Venice Ruled the Seas

By: Crowley, Roger

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 2013

Seller ID: 2305498

ISBN: 0812980220

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

1st printing. Sticker remnant. 2013 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. The New York Times bestselling author of Empires of the Sea charts Venices astounding five-hundred-year voyage to the pinnacle of power in an epic story that stands unrivaled for drama, intrigue, and sheer opulent majesty. City of Fortune traces the full arc of the Venetian imperial saga, from the ill-fated Fourth Crusade, which culminates in the sacking of Constantinople in 1204, to the Ottoman-Venetian War of 14991503, which sees the Ottoman Turks supplant the Venetians as the preeminent naval ...
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The Winged Lion; or, Stories of Venice (The Young Dodge Club)

By: de Mille, Prof. James

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Boston and New York, Lee and Shepard / Charles T. Dillingham: 1877

Seller ID: 2304199

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No jacket. A few small spots on front board, ink name and place on front free endpaper, pages lightly toned. 1877 Hard Cover. 323 pp. Red boards, gilt decor on spine. EXCERPT: After spending a few weeks in Florence, Uncle Moses and his young friends began to discuss the important question of their next movements; and here a difficulty arose which led to many odd adventures. As for Uncle Moses, that worthy man would gladly have left Italy altogether, and gone on as fast as possible to his destination; but the very hint of such a thing roused so great a storm of opposition and reproach that he d...
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Siren Land

By: Douglas, Norman

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company: 1923

Seller ID: 2206721

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No jacket, pages faintly toned. 1923 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 337 pp. Norman Douglass first travel book, Siren Land is an homage to a part of the world that captivated the author more than any other. Weaving the myths of the Sirens into the landscape and history of the region, Douglas writes with knowledge and an irrepressible exuberance of the past and the present, of legends and archaeology, folklore and daily life, patron saints, local ghosts, wine, and the wind.
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Mediterranean Picture Lands

By: Dunn, Emelene Abbey; [Dunn, Mary]

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Rochester, New York, The Du Bois Press: 1929

Seller ID: 1937657

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Ink note on front flyleaf presenting the book as a gift: 'Christmas 1929. In recognition of your friendship with the author.' Stain on rear board, otherwise excellent. 126 pp. Compiled from manuscripts located posthumously, and released in a limited memorial edition by her sister Mary. Includes color reproductions of the author's original watercolor sketches, which Dunn painted during a 1903 cruise in the Mediterranean. Prefaced by an account of Miss Dunn's life and work, which explains that Dunn was born in Rochester, New York, and taught at numerous schools, including the New ...
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Greek Science: It's Meaning for Us, in Two Volumes: Volume 1. Thales to Aristotle; Volume 2. Theophrastus to Galen (Pelican Books)

By: Farrington, Benjamin

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Great Britain, Penguin Books: 1949

Seller ID: 2307844

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Wrapper edges rubbed, pages lighlty toned. 1949 Mass Market Paperback. Two volume set. After a brief discussion of the achievement in science of the pre-Hellenic peoples, Professor Farrington describes the various phases of the development of science among the Greeks. The story begins about 600 B.C. and the first couple of centuries are conspicuous for the boldness of their thought and the rapidity with which the foundations of many of the chief branches of science were laid. In the next two or three centuries the Greeks continued to accumulate information and also showed their logical powers ...
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Ironwork, Part II. Being a Continuation of the First Handbook, and Comprising from the Close of the Mediaeval Period to the End of the Eighteenth Century, Excluding English Work

By: Gardner, J. Starkie

Price: $25.00

Publisher: ., Chapman and Hall: 1896

Seller ID: 2299762

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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Marcella Says...: Italian Cooking Wisdom from the Legendary Teacher's Master Classes

By: Hazan, Marcella

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Harper Collins: 2004

Seller ID: 2276113

ISBN: 0066209676

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Tiny smudge to page ridge. 2004 Hard Cover. Marcella Hazan is acclaimed for her trailblazing cookbooks, but first and foremost she is a teacher. From cooking classes held in her small New York City apartment kitchen in the 1960s to the avidly sought after Master Classes she led in her beautiful Venice home, Marcella has been the authoritative guide to Italian cooking.
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The Classic Italian Cookbook: The Art of Italian Cooking and the Italian Art of Eating

By: Hazan, Marcella

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1976

Seller ID: 2308428

ISBN: 0394405102

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Jacket spine chipped, additional smaller chips and smaller tears to jacket edges. 1976 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xv, 483 pp. Describes the techniques for making pasta and provides regional and traditional recipes for antipaste, vegetables, salads, desserts and fruits, and first, second, and cheese courses.
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The Italian American Family Album

By: Hoobler, Dorothy; Hoobler, Thomas

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, Oxford: 1994

Seller ID: 2262182

ISBN: 0195091248

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. An exceptional copy. 1994 Large Hardcover. Allows readers to journey to America with immigrants from Italy and understand the life they left behind, the struggles of their trip, and the difficulties of beginning life anew through a fascinating compilation of diary entries, letters, oral histories, and authentic photographs.
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Beyond Olympus: The Thrilling Story of the Train-Busters in Nazi-Occupied Greece

By: Jecchinis, Chris; Woodhouse, C.M.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: London, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.: 1960

Seller ID: 2075141

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Minor wear to corners. Very Good. 1960 Hard Cover. 218, [1] pp. 8vo. 38 half-tone illustrations, 2 maps. From the jacket: [A]n account of the Greek resistance to the Nazi occupation in Athens and Mt Olympus; a story of the guerrilla warfare and sabotage that was going on all over the country.'
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Naval Warfare in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1940-1945

By: Koburger, Charles W.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Westport, Connecticut, Praeger: 1993

Seller ID: 2204424

ISBN: 0275944654

Binding: Hard Cover

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...
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Panini, Bruschetta, Crostini: Sandwiches, Italian Style

By: La Place, Viana

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, Hearst Books: 1994

Seller ID: 2208552

ISBN: 0688113257

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Boards lightly bowed, pages faintly toned. Jacket lightly bumped. 1994 Hard Cover. 144 pp. Move over pasta and pizza, here come panini, bruschetta and crostini! The world of sandwiches, Italian style. But not sandwiches oozing mayonnaise and dripping with calories. Viana's panini are healthy and light and feature the very foods we want to eat today -- from sauted greens to lean ricotta, from fresh grilled fruit. These heavenly bread-based creations include recipes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, antipasti, party foods, and delicious desserts and indulgences for any time of the day. So instea...
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Greece [Rambles in Greece] (The World's Famous Places and Peoples)

By: Mahaffy, J.P.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Merrill and Baker: 1895

Seller ID: 2123362

Binding: Half-Leather

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.
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Fire in the City: Savonarola and the Struggle for the Soul of Renaissance Florence

By: Martines, Lauro

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press: 2006

Seller ID: 2307663

ISBN: 0195177487

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Light stain along spine head and spine base of jacket reverse. 2006 Hard Cover. xvi, 336 pp. A gripping and beautifully written narrative that reads like a novel, Fire in the City presents a compelling account of a key moment in the history of the Renaissance, illuminating the remarkable man who dominated the period, the charismatic Savonarola. Lauro Martines, whose decades of scholarship have made him one of the most admired historians of Renaissance Italy, here provides a remarkably fresh perspective on Girolamo Savonarola, the preacher and agitator who flamed like a comet through late fifte...
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Visiting Modern War in Risorgimento Italy

By: Marwil, Jonathan

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Palgrave MacMillan: 2010

Seller ID: 2307700

ISBN: 023010813X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

First edition. No jacket. A fine copy. 2010 Hard Cover. 262 pp. This book examines the social and cultural consequences of a war normally looked at for its role in the story of Italian unification - the convergence of French, Austrian, and Piedmont-Sardinian armies in northern Italy in 1859, referred to in Italy as the Second War for Independence.
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Aircraft Identification: Friend or Foe? Part Three, Italian Fighters, Bombers and Seaplanes

By: Masefield, Peter G.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, Temple Press, Ltd.: 1941

Seller ID: 2283117

Binding: Stapled Binding

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...
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The Spell of Italy (Illustrated) (The Spell Series)

By: Mason, Caroline Atwater

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Boston, The Page Company: 1920

Seller ID: 2286973

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Eighth printing. No jacket. An excellent copy. 1920 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 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 Be...
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