History from Ariadne Books

London: Folio Society, 2003. Folio Society, London, 2003. First Folio Society edition. Hardback. 279pp. Slipcase. Cities and Civilisations was first published in 1987 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Profusely illustrated. The book is divided into three sections: The Ancient City, The Developing City, The Modern City. Beautifully produced and a fascinating read. Bound in buckram with a blocked design by… Read more about this item

London: Folio Society, 2002. The Folio Society, London, 2002. Hardback. 336pp. Original slipcase with illustration laid-on to front. It is natural to be curious about what people might have been up to, or thinking, or writing to each other on a particular day in a previous century. This book provides one set of answers among the myriad available… Read more about this item

Stroud: Alan Sutton, 1990. First illustrated edition, 1990. Hardback. viii, 220pp. Dust jacket. This study describes the changing fortunes of country people, concentrating on each part of the rural community in turn, not forgetting the farm workers and the workers in country industries, the professional men, land agents, and other elements of the country towns. By marshalling a mass… Read more about this item

London: Guild Publishing, 1989. Hardback. 320pp. Dust jacket. With the death of Edward III in 1377, in the arms of his mistress, this turbulent period came to a close. The Plantagenet world was at the centre of great changes in political power and in social and economic structures. For the first time in history, parliaments included townsfolk and simple… Read more about this item

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1984. First edition, 1984. Hardback. xvi, 544pp. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. A brilliant and entertaining book, which looks at a woman's lot between the death of one queen regnant and the accession of another. Antonia Fraser draws attention to the many changes which have affected women's position in society since 1700. At the… Read more about this item

Stroud: Alan Sutton Publishing Lts, 1991. First edition, 1991. Hardback. xxi, 177pp. Dust jacket. The reminiscences selected and presented by G. K. Nelson within this volume provide a vivid picture of the lives of those who grew up and worked on farms from the beginning of the twentieth century up to the end of the Second World War -… Read more about this item

London: Simon & Schuster, 1989. First edition, 1989. Hardback. 120pp. Dust jacket. Roosevelt's pursuit of Stalin during WWII is well known but it is not generally well understood or well remembered. This book focuses on that courtship. All of the important and pertinent episodes of the war are dealt with and the various summits which served as vital contexts… Read more about this item

London: Viking, 2000. First edition, 2000. Hardback. 246pp. Dust jacket. From servant girls who made themselves princesses and the footman who turned cannibal chief, to Red Indians born hundreds of miles from the nearest tepee, university professors and surgeons with no qualifications but their genius, and men from all walks of life who turned out, on their deaths to… Read more about this item

London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1896. Hardback. 245pp plus 8 pages of publisher's ads at end. Original publisher's cloth binding with gilt to upper board and spine.No jacket. Book in fair condition. Upper board and spine almost completely sunbleached. Lower board still shows the original purple colour - albeit rather patchily. Gilt faded. Boards generally rubbed… Read more about this item

London: Dix Noonan webb, June 2017.. Softcover. Unpaginated. Auction catalogue from June 14th -16th, 2017. Illustrated. Near fine.

London: Dix Noonan webb, December 2017.. Softcover. Unpaginated. Auction catalogue from December 13th and 14th, 2017. Illustrated. Near fine.

London: Spink & Son Ltd, 1988. Hardback. lxxxi, Plates I - XLI to rectos with identification details to versos (unpaginated), pp 142 - 171. Publisher's original blue cloth with gilt to upper board and spine. No jacket. Book in near fine condition.

London: Head of Zeus, 2020. First edition, eighth impression, 2020. Hardback. xx, 326pp. Publisher's original red cloth binding with gilt to spine and red page marker. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. Paul Lay narrates in entertaining but always rigorous fashion the story of England's first and only experiment with republican government. He brings the febrile world of Cromwell's… Read more about this item

London: Seaby, 1986. Hardback. x, 292pp. Publisher's original green cloth with gilt to spine. Dust jacket. This catalogue was the first in almost one hundred years to list all major types of the seventeenth century series of token coinage issued in the British Isles between 1648 and 1679. The tokens were mostly struck in copper or bronze in denominations… Read more about this item

London: The Fleuron Ltd, 1928. Limited edition of 300 copies, this being number 232. Signed in his calligraphic hand by the author on the front free end paper with the dedication "for Barbara Mackenzie-Smith this conversational tribute from A J A Symons" (was this the artist Barbara Mackenzie-Smith?). Hardback. Small quarto. 47pp. Dark brown spine with nice Curwen Press… Read more about this item

Norwalk. Connecticut: Easton Press, 2009. Signed first edition from Easton Press. Full leather with gilt to boards and spine. Text block edges all gilt. New and still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1967. First edition, 1967. Hardback. 296pp. Dust jacket. Many books on the slave trade have tended to focus on the statistical and economic aspects at the expense of the personal. James Pope-Hennessy has aimed to recreate the atmosphere both of the West African Coast and of the transatlantic plantations and slave markets. The slave-trading activities… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber, 1942. First edition, 1942. Hardback. xii, 283pp plus illustrations. Green cloth covered boards with contrasting text blocks and silver text to spine. Top edge tinted. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. In this book the author has constructed a series of scenes or tablaux upon an immense scale, relating them in their symbols to the… Read more about this item

Paris: Payot, 1930. Hardback. viii, 234, (2)pp plus graphs at rear. Contemporary leather over patterned paper covered boards. Marbled end papers. Preface by Winston S. Churchill. 8 photographs and 4 graphs on fold-out sheet at rear. Text in French. Book in good condition. Spine a little faded. Generally a little rubbed, particularly at extremities. Edges of boards and… Read more about this item

Geneva: Journal de Geneve, 1914. Volume II signed by Albert Bonnard with a handwritten dedication to Madame Edouard de Bavier. Both volumes bound in contemporary matching leather over marbled paper covered boards. Gilt to edges of leather and to spines. Silk page markers. Original paper covers bound-in. Marbled end papers. Volume I: 88pp; Volume II: 123, (2)pp. Albert Bonnard… Read more about this item