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Heat Wave In Berlin
$15.00 AUD
Author: Dymphna CusackBinding: HardbackPublisher: Heinemann, London, 1961Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Yellowed Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageHeat Wave in Berlin chronicles the tense atmosphere...
Connoisseurs And Secret Agents: In Eighteenth Century Rome
$80.00 AUD
Author: Lesley LewisBinding: HardbackPublisher: CHATTO & WINDUS, 1961Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsThis compelling historical account, Connoisseurs And Secret Agents In Eighteenth Century...
Secession: The Vienna Secession From Temple Of Art To Exhibition Hall
$45.00 AUD
Author: Otto KapfingerBinding: HardbackPublisher: HATJE, 1997Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis compelling art history volume chronicles the revolutionary spirit of the Vienna Secession, tracing its...
The Colosseum
$30.00 AUD
Author: Peter QuennellBinding: HardbackPublisher: NEWSWEEK, 1981Edition: 8th impr.Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed Markings: No markingsThis historical account The Colosseum chronicles the monumental construction and enduring legacy of...
Wellington: Years of the Sword & Pillar of State (Two-Volume Set)
$40.00 AUD
Author: Elizabeth LongfordBinding: HardbackPublisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969; 1972Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed , price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis two volume political and military biography presents a commanding...
Kirkniemi: An Estate With A Glorious Past
$15.00 AUD
Author: Veikko KallioBinding: HardbackPublisher: Veikko Kallio; Edita, 2001Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Good Markings: No markingsKirkniemi: An Estate With A Glorious Past chronicles...
Venice: An Illustrated Anthology
$20.00 AUD
Author: Michael MarquseeBinding: HardbackPublisher: CONRAN OCTOPUS, 1988Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsVenice: An Illustrated Anthology presents a rich...
Wiener Barockpaläste
$35.00 AUD
Author: Bruno GrimschitzBinding: HardbackPublisher: WIENER VERLAG, 1944Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Yellowed Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: ** GERMAN text only**Wiener Barock...
The San Rocco Villa At Francolise
$30.00 AUD
Author: M. Aylwin Cotton And Guy P. R. MetrauxBinding: HardbackPublisher: The British School at Rome and The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1985Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust...
France Observed
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Author: Henri Gougaud And Colette GouvionBinding: HardbackPublisher: Bracken Books, 1986Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsFrance Observed presents a captivating journey through the diverse landscapes and...
Carolingian Art
$40.00 AUD
Author: J. Hubert, J. Porcher, W. F. VolbachBinding: HardbackPublisher: THAMES AND HUDSON, 1970Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis authoritative volume, Carolingian Art, chronicles the vibrant artistic...
Volume 1 Of Russia And The South Pacific, 1696-1840: The Russians And Australia
$35.00 AUD
Author: Glynn BarrattBinding: HardbackPublisher: UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS, 1988Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis comprehensive historical account, Volume One Of Russia And The South...
The First Respectable Spy: The Life And Times Of Colquhoun Grant, Wellington's Head Of Intelligence
$600.00 AUD
Author: Jock HaswellBinding: HardbackPublisher: Hamish Hamilton, 1969Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed , price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Boards in good condition with light bumping on...
The Eiffel Tower
This book features the iron colossus: the construction of the Eiffel Tower in drawings and photographs.When it was completed in 1889, the Eiffel Tower was the highest structure in the...
Annette Kierulf, Caroline Kierulf: To Make a World
Since the mid-1990s, Annette and Caroline Kierulf have practiced what they themselves call "woodcut as cultural critique". Drawing on the medium's rich history as a means of communication and protest,...
Anita Albus (Bilingual edition): Die Kunst zu sehen The Art of Seeing
At first glance, Anita Albus's artistic practice seems like a welcome anachronism in the midst of the fast pace of contemporary art production: the artist creates detailed images of plants...
Who Will Defend Europe?: An Awakened Russia and a Sleeping Continent
While Ukraine holds back Russia's onslaught, Moscow has been working hard at rebuilding its army for the next invasion. But for the past 30 years, Britain and Europe have been...
Tuscan Elements
The design of the Tuscan House has remained virtually unchanged since the Middle Ages, when landowners in the golden hills of Tuscany built country retreats with gardens, porticoes and loggias,...
Emperors of Rome
In 27 BC, after the tumultuous period of civil war that followed the assassination of Julius Caesar, Octavian was proclaimed emperor by the Roman Senate and given the title 'Augustus'....
Beneath Another Sky: A Global Journey into History
Where have the people in any particular place actually come from? What are the historical complexities in any particular place? This evocative historical journey around the world shows us. Native...
Cooking Italian with Kids
$12.00 AUD
The book titled Cooking Italian with Kids by the author Liz Franlin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Black Prince and the Capture of a King: Poitiers 1356
A new detailed account of the battle of Poitiers in 1356 which saw one of the most sensational episodes of the Hundred Years War: the capture of the French King...
Wellington's Brigade Commanders
Recent research into the Duke of Wellington's armies during the Peninsular War and the Waterloo campaign has enhanced our understanding of the men he led, and this new biographical guide...
Tuscany: Landscape of Art and Beauty
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The book titled Tuscany: Landscape of Art and Beauty by the author Chiara Libero. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Cathedrals Built by the Masons
Through well-researched text, as well as drawings and colour photography, this book captures the magnificence of European cathedrals and the brilliance of the Master Builders and craftsmen who designed and...
Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens
The luxury of the ancient world is legendary, but the Athenian reputation is sober because this wealthy, successful city-state spent all its money on the conspicuous consumption of ephemeral things....
Lenin In Zürich
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Author: Alexander SolzhenitsynBinding: HardbackPublisher: The Bodley Head, 1976Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: rubbing of cover and...
Cyprus: The Unfinished Agony
$30.00 AUD
Author: P N VanezisBinding: HardbackPublisher: Abelard, 1977Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: inscription on inside cover by previous owner; stickered on inside cover; some...
Turgenev: His Life And Times
$30.00 AUD
Author: Leonard SchapiroBinding: HardbackPublisher: Oxford University Press, 1978Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerThis compelling biography, Turgenev: His Life And Times, chronicles the intricate existence of the...
Renaissance Paris: Architecture And Growth 1475-1600
$50.00 AUD
Author: David ThomsonBinding: HardbackPublisher: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS, 1984Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: image torn away on front of dust jacket as shown...
From Corunna to Waterloo: The Letters and Journals of Two Napoleonic
This is the story of two young Welsh cavalry officers who served for much of the Napoleonic Wars with the 15th (King's) Hussars. Major Edwin Griffith and his nephew, Captain...
Imperial Emotions: The Politics of Empathy across the British Empire
Emotions are not universal, but are experienced and expressed in diverse ways within different cultures and times. This overview of the history of emotions within nineteenth-century British imperialism focuses on...
By the Light of the Sea
This beautifully illustrated book, a companion volume to the best-selling "En passant par la demeure" (published by Verba Volant in 2005), presents three new extraordinary residences decorated by noted French...
American Sharpe
Sharpe and his adventures has made the 95th Foot renowned again and the discovery of an unpublished diary by an American from Charleston South Carolina who served, despite his father's...
Charging Against Wellington: the French Cavalry in the Peninsular War,
Like the author's previous book, The British Army Against Napoleon, Charging Against Wellington draws heavily on primary sources, manuals, memoirs, and regimental histories to bring to life the officers and...
Walking into Hell 1st July 1916
The 1st July 1916 was the blackest day in the history of the British Army when 60,000 unsuspecting men of the British 4th Army advanced into the teeth of a...
Napoleon in Defeat and Captivity 1815-1821
The book tells the fascinating, compelling and tragic tale of Napoleon Bonaparte from his defeat at Waterloo, through the period of his abdication in Paris to his capture by the...
The Lost Story of the Ocean Monarch
The ship was almost instantly in flames . . . Some jumped overboard immediately, and all was in indescribable confusion. The masts began to fall one after another, and it...
The Cambrai Campaign 1917
Cambrai Campaign 1917 is an account of the British Expeditionary Force s battles in November and December of 1917. It starts with the plan to carry out a tank raid...
Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou: A Marriage of Unequals
He became king before his first birthday, inheriting a vast empire from his military hero father; she was the daughter of a king without power, who made an unexpected marriage...
Burgoyne Diaries
These are the diaries of Gerald Achilles Burgoyne, wrote from the trenches just south of Ypres while he was with the Royal Irish Rifles in the Great War. The author's...
Liturgy and the Emotions in Byzantium: Compunction and Hymnody
This book explores the liturgical experience of emotions in Byzantium through the hymns of Romanos the Melodist, Andrew of Crete and Kassia. It reimagines the performance of their hymns during...
The Italian 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential, Cultural,
$20.00 AUD
The book titled The Italian 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential, Cultural, by the author Stephen J Spignesi. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...
Raj: Making and Unmaking of British India
This is the brilliantly told story of one of the wonders of the modern world - how in less than a hundred years the British made themselves masters of India....
The Muslim Question and Russian Imperial Governance
From the time of the Crimean War through the fall of the Tsar, the question of what to do about the Russian empire's large Muslim population was a highly contested...
Royal Hospital Chelsea: A Year in Pictures
***SPECIAL PRICE down from $90.00 while stocks last*** Founded by Charles II 'for the succour and relief of veterans broken by age and war', designed by Sir Christopher Wren and...
Garden of the World: Italy in the Age of Turner
After the Napoleonic War British artists red iscovered Italy. The heat of the South lured chilly Northene rs to discover passion amongst its pagan idylls, an allure w hich was...
Walking the Western Front: The Somme in Pictures
The Walking the Western Front series started in 2012 with the release of two films on the Ypres Salient. Directed by acclaimed film maker Ed Skelding with guest historian Nigel...