European History

Author: Edward GibbonBinding: HardbackPublished: BOOK CLUB ASSOCIATES - LONDON, 1972Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerEdward Gibbon's monumental work, The Decline And Fall Of The...

Author: Eric ThompsonBinding: HardbackPublished: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1952Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: one chip on back of jacketThis scholarly work meticulously chronicles...

Showcases the grand attractions and hidden charms of the romantic city of Venice. Through the watercolour paintings and pencil sketches of artist Fabrice Moireau, and the entrancing stories fo the...

Architecture in and from Berlin has established a brand name in the last 20 years. Berlin architectural subjects and debates are followed with great interest worldwide. Great buildings have been,...

Just as Carla's Paris Tango unveiled the hidden delights of the world's most stylish city. Italian Joy is an insider's tribute to a country of grand passion and true beauty....

The book titled Italian Dynasties: Great Families of Italy from the Renaissance to the by the author Edward Burman. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information.

"Handmade in Italy" is both a celebration of the materials, methods and designs used by Italian artisans drawn from the traditions which are part of their culture, and a decorative...

An introduction to the causes and consequences of the Korean War, this history seeks to challenge presumptions about Korea favoured by American politicians and network news pundits. Through a judicious...

Circassia was a small independent nation on the northeastern shore of the Black Sea. For no reason other than ethnic hatred, over the course of hundreds of raids the Russians...

In the Polish countryside, magnificent estates and medieval castles are nestled in picturesque valleys and alongside lengthy rivers. In "The Great Country Houses of Poland", based on the seminal "The...

In this text, Dorothy Rowe demonstrates how the sexualized image of Berlin in Weimar Germany arose at the same time as radical social changes in the history and position of...

This book is both an absorbing social history and a comprehensive reference guide to 19th-century British and American artists who took Venice as their inspiration. The first part of the...

Medieval Europe witnessed the spectacular flowering of religious architecture. In this illustrated portrait of an age, Jean Gimpel gives an account of astonishing feats of engineering and artistry. He explores...

The expansion of the Paris sewer system during the Second Empire and Third Republic was both a technological and political triumph. The sewers themselves were an important cultural phenomenon, and...

The book titled Living in Venice by the author Elisabeth Vedrenne. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information.

The book titled The Viking Dig: Excavations at York by the author Richard A. Hall. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information.

This important and innovative book examines artists' mobility as a critical aspect of Italian Renaissance art. It is well known that many eminent artists such as Cimabue, Giotto, Donatello, Lotto,...

Red at Heart conjures a tale of cross-cultural romance from a topic that is normally seen in geopolitical or ideological terms--and thereby offers a new interpretation of twentieth century communism's...

Forty years after the 1966 floods, a conference recalls that tragic event, offering the opportunity to debate the current decline of the city of Venice and to propose solutions to...

Windsor Castle is the largest and oldest occupied castle in existence. It is the home of the Queen, and with its skyline of battlements, turrets and great Round Tower it...

The years between the Revolution of 1848 and the end of World War II were characterised by profound social, intellectual and political change in France. The art world, centred in...

Lavishly illustrated and rich with historical information, Jewish Itineraries is an indispensable guide to Jewish monuments and treasures in Venice and its environs. Epic and lyrical fragments of an unspoken...

Story of Danny Butler, a Catholic from Belfast, who unsuccessfully sought political asylum in New Zealand.

Real wages, the result of a simple division of wages by prices, are at the centre of historical and socio-economic research. In a time of growing commercial and industrial internationalism,...

This analysis of the changes - especially those in the visual arts - which occurred between AD 150 and 600, and led into the medieval world has been widely hailed...

Biographer of both Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, Stanley Wientraub employs previously little-used or unknown diaries, letters, memoirs and reportage from both sides of the Atlantic to throw fresh light...

This illustrated guide to the 1000-year-old city of Prague covers its history, cultural heritage, architecture, literature, art, folk traditions and people. Despite a turbulent history of invasions and rebellions, conquests...

John Julius Norwich, in this latest of the "Travellers' Companion" series, has produced an anthology from the writings of James, Disraeli, Mark Twain and John Evelyn, among many others. This...

Author: Brendan CassidyBinding: HardbackPublished: HARVEY MILLER PUBLISHERS, 2011Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis scholarly biography The Life & Letters Of Gavin Hamilton: Artist & Art Dealer In Eighteenth-Century...

Author: Frederick PalmerBinding: HardbackPublished: JOHN MURRAY, 1917Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Worn and dull spine. Hinges cracked....

Author: Richard CobbBinding: PaperbackPublished: Penguin Books, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageRichard Cobb's A Classical Education presents a vivid, often humorous, memoir...

Author: A.J. Berry, With Appendices By David FrewBinding: HardbackPublished: Blackie and Son Limited, 1911Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerLands...

Author: -Binding: HardbackPublished: ATHENS U.A., 2006Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsUnknown

Author: Emile MaleBinding: HardbackPublished: Princeton University Press, 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsReligious Art In France: The Thirteenth Century, A Study Of Medieval Iconography And Its Sources presents...

Author: Ellis WaterhouseBinding: HardbackPublished: PHAIDON, 1976Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis richly detailed study maps the flourishing world of Roman Baroque painting through its artists, commissions,...

Author: Mark GisbourneBinding: HardbackPublished: Hatje Cantz, 2015Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis photographic work circles Rome’s domes and rotundas, revealing the quiet geometry beneath the city’s grandeur. Through carefully composed...

Author: Jennifer MontaguBinding: HardbackPublished: Yale University Press, 1989Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis scholarly work chronicles the intricate world of Roman Baroque sculpture, moving beyond aesthetic analysis to...

Author: Howard Levi Gray, Ph.D.Binding: HardbackPublished: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS; THE MERLIN PRESS (LONDON), 1915Condition:Book: Fair, ex-libraryJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: Dent / rip at back of binding...

Author: Robert BrannerBinding: PaperbackPublished: A. Zwemmer Ltd, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageRobert Branner's St Louis And The Court Style In Gothic...

Author: Anthony BluntBinding: HardbackPublished: Penguin Books, 1953Condition:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsThis authoritative volume chronicles the rich tapestry of French artistic and architectural achievements spanning the...

Author: Peter ThorntonBinding: PaperbackPublished: New Haven/London (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art/ Yale University Press), 1981Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: No...

Author: Glynn BarrattBinding: PaperbackPublished: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: sun bleaching on spine; slight mildew on...

Author: Seton GordonBinding: HardbackPublished: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1923Condition:Book: Acceptable, ex-libraryJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsSeton Gordon's Hebridean Memories transports...

Author: Richard CobbBinding: HardbackPublished: Duckworth, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: sun bleaching on dust jacket spine; some rubbing of hard cover edgesA collection of...

Author: Peter UstinovBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan London, 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerMy Russia presents Peter Ustinov's deeply personal and often humorous reflections on the vast and complex nation....

Author: -Binding: HardbackPublished: Thomson and Niven Melbourne , 1890Condition:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Inscriptions on boards. Hinges...