World History from First Landing Books & Art

New York: Walker Books, 2001. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Near Fine hardcover in a Near Fine dust jacket. 377pp plus list of Sisters of San Matteo.red ribbon sewn in. When she was 13, Virginia Galilei, eldest daughter of the great scientist Galileo, was placed by her father in a convent near him… Read more about this item

New York: Routledge, 1997. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 2nd. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very Good softcover. 316pp including biographical essay, index of authors and a general index. This second edition has been thoroughly revised to include the very latest research. The updated bibliographical information provides an invaluable resource, synthesising the major work in the field, in… Read more about this item

New York: Routledge, 2001. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Near Fine softcover. 304pp including bibliography and Index. Aberth's informative and originally shaped volume is well tailored to bring out the dynamic of man's struggle with his enviorment in the last two medieval centuries. In his story, War, Plague" and famine play very… Read more about this item

Phoenix Mill: Sutton Publishing Limited, 1997. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. near fine book with near fine cover. First edition. 209pp with notes, bibliography and index. B&W and color illustrations. In this controversial new study, Hughes (history and English, Edward's School, Oxford) argues that although Richard was indeed guilty of, or implicated in,… Read more about this item

Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1998. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 3rd. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. This book is a Near Fine in a soft cover. 8vo. World History. 3rd Edition. 1998. 317pp with index, bibliograhy, and notes. The horrors of the Great Famine (1315-1322), one of the severest catastrophes ever to strike northern Europe, lived… Read more about this item

Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley and Sons, 2011. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. This first editon copy is near fine wtih a near fine jacket. The size is 8vo. 397pp. index, bibliography, notes to pages. The truth of the enduring mystery of Anastasia's fate-and the life of her most convincing impostor The passage… Read more about this item

London: Hodder Education Publishers, 1997. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. This copy is a near fine first edition. It is a soft cover pubished by Hodder Education. 369pp with notes, index, and suggestions for further reading. Under the influence of "revisionist" writings the history of the English Civil War has splintered. This… Read more about this item

New York: Free Press, 1985. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fascinating work of detective history, The Black Death traces the causes and far-reaching consequences of this infamous outbreak of plague that spread across the continent of Europe from 1347 to 1351. Drawing on sources as diverse as monastic manuscripts and dendrochronological… Read more about this item

London: HarperCollins, 2008. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Adam Nicolson takes a single great family, the Earls of Pembroke, their wives, children, estates, tenants and allies, and folllows their high and glamorous trajectory across three generations.287 pp..

Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1995. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 282pp including index. This is the first translation into English of a work of late German enlightenment by Karl Leonhard Reinhold (1757-1823). Reinhold was an acute thinker, who is best known for his interpretations of Kant and whose writings on theoretical… Read more about this item

New York: Abrams, 2008. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Many color photos of decorative arts ... The creation of Napoleonic Symbolism and its spread throughout the Imperial Era. Large and heavy softcover. 352 pp including index and photo credits.

Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols (distributed), 2012. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Politics of Memory and Identity in Carolingian Royal Diplomas: The West Frankish Kingdom (840-987) (Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy). as new copy. 661pp including bibliography and index. Based upon a performative interpretation of royal charters, The Politics of Memory and Identity offers… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scriber's Sons, 1902. Book. Illus. by John S. Sargent. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Brown hardcover with Title in Gilt on front cover and spine. 448 pp plus a large fold out map tipped in rear. also four plans. Edges untrimed First Edition. Boar wars South Africann Republic and the… Read more about this item

Scotts Valley, CA: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012. Book. As New. Soft cover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. As new softcover. 136pp including resources and a note on the author. Compiled from lectures and blog posts on Edwardian Promenade, the Pocket Guide to Edwardian England poses to give a fun, frothy, but thorough look at the time… Read more about this item

U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 2nd. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. "this book was organized and written by Randolph and Winston Chirchill, son and grandson respectively of the late Sir Winston Churchill. Winston was in Israel (briefly also in Jordan and Lebanon) for three weeks before the war, writing atricles for the London News… Read more about this item

England: Pryor Publications, 1993. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 32 chapters; contents: the girl in society, decadence of the curtsey, learning to laugh, in the street, bicycling, cards and calls, the engaged girl, wedding receptions, fashionable weddings, marrying a maughter,'brides two a penny,' ethics of dress, dress at fashionable restauraunts, dress at… Read more about this item

United Kingdom: Amberley, 2010. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 156 pp; contents include preface, chapters 1. the sweep in the palace, 2. the boy jones, 3.return of in-I-go jones, 4. the boy jones finds himself famous, 5. the mysterious disappearance of the boy jones, 6 shanghaied again!, 7. britain's galley slave, 8. what… Read more about this item

Chicago: A.C. Mclurg & Co., 1909. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 8vo. translated from the german of carl kuchler; with four illustrations; "one of the saddest stories in the history of royalty" contents include an introduction, & 20 chapters from the diamond wedding to death of the empress, also includes appendix. illustrations are as follows: elizabeth as the young empress,… Read more about this item

Middletown, De: Drcrm, 2018. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. a replication of a book originally published before 1899; 150 pp; contents include introduction, chapter 1. the princess elizabeth of bavaria, 2. the empress elizabeth, 3. the queen of hungary, 4. the empress as a woman, philanthropist, friend, and mistress, 5. the empress… Read more about this item

Wilshire: Windsor Publications, 1995. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 292 pp; 16pp of black and white photographs; includes 23 chapters on the life and a list of illustrations; chapter 1. a tomboy princess, 2. the emperor's choices, 3. arrival in vienna, 4. the bewildered bride, 5. the end of happiness, 6. crisis in… Read more about this item