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Encountering the Pacific in the Age of the Enlightenment
The Pacific Ocean was the setting for the last great chapter in the convergence of humankind from across the globe. Driven by Enlightenment ideals, Europeans sought to extend control to...
The Age of Disenchantments: The Epic Story of Spain's Most Notorious
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A gripping narrative history of Spain's most brilliant and troubled literary family--a tale about the making of art, myth, and legacy--set against the upheaval of the Spanish Civil War and...
The House of Fragile Things: Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of
In the dramatic years between 1870 and the end of World War II, a number of prominent French Jews-pillars of an embattled community-invested their fortunes in France's cultural artifacts, sacrificed...
English Historical Documents: 1485 - 1558
$50.00 AUD
Author: C. H. WilliamsBinding: HardbackPublished: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1967Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis scholarly compilation presents a comprehensive collection of primary source materials from a pivotal era...
Révélations Sur La Russie, Ou L'Empereur Nicolas Et Son Empire En 1844. II
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Author: Un Resident Anglais - HENNINGSEN, Charles-Frederick Binding: HardbackPublished: JULES LABITTE, 1845Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: FRENCH...
The Origin And Progress Of The Preceptory Of St. George, 1795-1895: With Roll Of Members And Preceptors Carried Down To 1910
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Author: C. Fitzgerald MatierBinding: HardbackPublished: Spencer & Co., 1910Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Minor marks and...
My Childhood In Siberia
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Author: Tatiana TchernavinBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom, 1972Condition:Book: Acceptable, ex-libraryJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: Cut on title page. Clean text. This...
Bedlam
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Author: André SoubiranBinding: HardbackPublished: W.H. Allen, 1956Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsAndré Soubiran's Bedlam chronicles the harrowing realities within a notorious 18th-century Parisian asylum, vividly portraying...
Nights Of The Long Knives
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Author: H.H. Kirst; Translated by J Maxwell BrownjohnBinding: HardbackPublished: Collins, London, 1976Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis gripping historical novel plunges into the treacherous...
Feast of the Dragon Cookbook: The Unofficial House of the Dragon and
Rule your kitchen with fire and blood! This regal collection of 60 recipes will bring Westerosi cuisine to your table, with dishes like sweet pumpkin soup, royal boar ribs, and...
Tuscany
The incomparable region of Tuscany and beyond, where the beauty of nature rivals the wealth of art, by the photographers of the much heralded Provence. For three decades these photographers...
Home To Poland: A Vivid Eye-Witness Account Of The New Poland
$35.00 AUD
Author: Christine HotchkissBinding: HardbackPublished: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1958Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsChristine Hotchkiss presents Home To Poland: A Vivid Eye-Witness Account Of The New Poland,...
Born 1900
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Author: Julius HayBinding: HardbackPublished: Hutchinson, 1974Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: DJ worn and faded with some rips. Light...
The World Turned Upside Down
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Author: Donald McleanBinding: HardbackPublished: Heinemann, 1962Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe historical account The World Turned Upside Down chronicles a pivotal era of profound societal transformation, presenting a...
Brecht In Exile
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Author: Bruce CookBinding: HardbackPublished: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis biographical account chronicles the tumultuous period of Bertolt...
The Flight Of The Eagle
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Author: Donald ThomasBinding: HardbackPublished: Viking Press, 1975Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe historical thriller The Flight Of The Eagle chronicles a gripping tale of espionage and daring escapes set...
The S.S. Officer's Armchair: Uncovering the Hidden Life of a Nazi
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Based on documents discovered concealed within a simple chair for seventy years, this gripping investigation into the life of a single S.S. officer during World War Two encapsulates the tragic...
Happy Families
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Author: Ghislain De DiesbachBinding: HardbackPublished: Chapman & Hall London, 1963Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsHappy Families presents a sharp and satirical portrait of European aristocracy in...
The Most Beautiful Country Towns of Tuscany
Author of the highly successful The Most Beautiful Villages of Tuscany, James Bentley, along with photographer Alex Ramsay, has now turned his attention to more extensive, though equally beautiful, Tuscan...
VE Day: Victory In Europe 1945
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Author: Robin CrossBinding: HardbackPublished: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis historical account chronicles the momentous events leading up to and immediately following the Allied victory...
The Cardinal & The Secretary
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Author: Neville WilliamsBinding: HardbackPublished: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1975Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThe historical work The Cardinal & The Secretary chronicles a pivotal era in European...
Elizabeth: Queen Of England
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Author: Neville WilliamsBinding: HardbackPublished: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1967Condition:Book: FairJacket: DamagedPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsA compelling historical biography, Elizabeth: Queen Of England chronicles the remarkable life and reign of one...
Europe In Renaissance And Reformation
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Author: S. Harrison ThomsonBinding: HardbackPublished: London : R. Hart-Davis, 1963Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis scholarly work chronicles the profound transformations that reshaped the European continent during the...
A Year To Remember: A Reminiscence Of 1931
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Author: Alec WaughBinding: HardbackPublished: RU, 1976Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsA Year To Remember: A Reminiscence Of 1931 chronicles a pivotal year through the eyes of a keen...
Medieval Papalism: The Political Theories Of The Medieval Canonists
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Author: Walter UllmannBinding: HardbackPublished: London : Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1949Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerWalter Ullmann's Medieval Papalism: The Political Theories...
The Growth Of The Manor
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Author: Sir Paul VinogradoffBinding: HardbackPublished: London : George Allen and Unwin, 1951Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis seminal work, The Growth Of The Manor,...
Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths
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A witty, inspiring reckoning with the ancient Greek and Roman myths and their legacy, from what they can illuminate about #MeToo to the radical imagery of Beyonce . The picture...
First World War
Magisterial in its scope, beautifully written and literally unputdownable.I cannot recommend Keegan's book too highly.'Julian Critchley, Scotsman 'Nobody describes a battle as Keegan does, vividly relating the unfolding events to...
Dances Of Death: The Group Theatre Of London In The Thirties
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Author: Michael SidnellBinding: HardbackPublished: Faber and Faber, 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsDances Of Death: The Group Theatre Of London In The Thirties chronicles the influential and...
Inventing The Middle Ages: The Lives, Works, And Ideas Of The Great Medievalists Of The Twentieth Century
$120.00 AUD
Author: Norman F. CantorBinding: HardbackPublished: The Legal Classics Library, 2016Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis scholarly work chronicles the intellectual history behind...
Shakespeare and the Resistance: The Earl of Southampton, the Essex
The 1590s were black years for England. The queen was old, the succession unclear, and the treasury empty after decades of war. Amid the rising tension, William Shakespeare published a...
The Betrayal of the Duchess: The Scandal That Unmade the Bourbon
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Fighting to reclaim the French crown for the Bourbons, the duchesse de Berry faces betrayal at the hands of one of her closest advisors in this dramatic history of power...
In Europe's Shadow
Robert Kaplan first visited Romania in the 1970s, when he was a young journalist and the country was a bleak Communist backwater. What ensued was a lifelong fascination with a...
Kings & Queens Of England
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Author: Alan PalmerBinding: HardbackPublished: Octopus Books, 1976Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis comprehensive historical account chronicles the fascinating lineage of England's rulers, from the earliest Anglo-Saxon kings to...
Liberty's Exiles: The Loss of America and the Remaking of the British
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'More than just a work of first-class scholarship, Liberty's Exile's is a deeply moving masterpiece that fulfil's the historian's most challenging ambition: to revivify past experience.' Niall Fergusson On a...
Apokrimata: Decisions Of Septimius Severus On Legal Matters
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Author: William Linn Westermann And A. Arthur SchillerBinding: HardbackPublished: The Legal Classics Library, New York, 1999Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis scholarly...
The Death of Hitler: The Final Word
On April 30, 1945, Hitler committed suicide in his bunker as the Red Army closed in on Berlin. Within four days the Soviets had recovered his body. But the truth...
La Pittura Di Storia Dell'OttocentoaItaliano
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Author: Giuseppe Mare AmoreBinding: HardbackPublished: Fratelli Fabbri Editori, 1967Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: ITALIAN TEXT ONLY.Historian Giuseppe Mare Amore presents a comprehensive analysis of historical painting...
A Distant View Of The Vatican
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Author: Alfred StirlingBinding: HardbackPublished: The Hawthorn Press, Melbourne, 1975Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis work presents an insightful historical and political analysis of the Vatican, offering a unique...
Ireland And Britain 1170-1450
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Author: Robin FrameBinding: HardbackPublished: THE HAMBLEDON PRESS, 1998Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsIreland And Britain 1170-1450 chronicles the intricate and often tumultuous relationship between these two islands during a pivotal...
Catalina Then And Now
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Author: W. Somerset MaughamBinding: HardbackPublished: HERON BOOKS, LONDON, 1968Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsW. Somerset Maugham casts his keen, dispassionate eye upon Catalina Island, that isolated crescent off the California...
Happy Families: Growing Up In The Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries
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Author: Jean LathamBinding: HardbackPublished: A. and C. Black, London, 1974Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis historical account, Happy Families: Growing Up In The Eighteenth And Nineteenth...
Elizabethan England
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Author: Peter LaneBinding: HardbackPublished: Batsford Academic and Educational Ltd, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imagePeter Lane's Elizabethan England chronicles a pivotal era...
The Young Freud: The Origins Of Psychoanalysis In Late Nineteenth-Century Viennese Culture
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Author: Billa ZanusoBinding: HardbackPublished: Basil Blackwell, 1986Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe scholarly work The Young Freud: The Origins Of Psychoanalysis In Late Nineteenth-Century Viennese Culture chronicles the formative...
The Works Of Washington Irving: In Ten Volumes, Volume Vi
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Author: Washington IrvingBinding: HardbackPublished: Bell & Daldy, 1866Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsWashington Irving's Irving's Works: Life Of Columbus presents a...
The Potemkin Mutiny
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Author: Richard HoughBinding: HardbackPublished: Heron Books, 1111Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis gripping historical account chronicles the dramatic 1905 uprising aboard the Imperial Russian battleship Potemkin, an event that sent...
Soviet Painting In The Tretyakov Gallery
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Author: A. LebedevBinding: HardbackPublished: Aurora Art Publishers, Leningrad, 1976Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsSoviet Painting In The Tretyakov Gallery presents a comprehensive...
Acts Of Parliament
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Author: Gavin SouterBinding: HardbackPublished: Melbourne University Press., 1988Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Slight tear to back of DJ, minor sin-fading...