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Storms and Dreams: The Life of Louis-Antoine de Bougainville
Louis-Antoine Comte de Bougainville (1729-1811) is best known for his circumnavigation of the globe from 1766 to 1769. throughout a long and distinguished life however, he participated in many of...
The Diaries of A.L.Rowse
A.L. Rowse's journals extend over the greater part of the 20th century. Born in 1903, the son of a poor, virtually illiterate Cornish china-clay worker, he became one of the...
The Spirit Of Britain
A unique and beautifully illustrated survey of the arts in Britain from the Celts to the present day - the companion volume to The Story of Britain. In this comprehensive...
Jewish Self-Government In The Middle Ages (SIGNED)
$100.00 AUD
Author: Rabbi Louis FinkelsteinBinding: HardbackPublished: The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1924Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Signed with inscriptionThis scholarly work examines the intricate systems of self-governance developed...
The Age Of Sultan Süleyman The Magnificent
$20.00 AUD
Author: International Culteral Corporation of Australia Limited.Binding: SoftbackPublished: The Beagle Press, 1990Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis publication chronicles the era of Sultan Süleyman, a pivotal figure...
Europe Emerges: Transition Toward An Industrial World-Wide Society 600-1750
$20.00 AUD
Author: Robert L. ReynoldsBinding: HardbackPublished: University of Wisconsin Press, 1970Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe book chronicles Europe's significant transformation during a pivotal period. It examines the...
Lectures On Modern History
$60.00 AUD
Author: John Emerich Edward Dalberg ActonBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan and Co, Limited, 1952Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe book compiles a series of insightful lectures on the evolution...
St. George's Hospital, Kew 1912-1980: An Early Anglican Hospital (SIGNED)
$35.00 AUD
Author: Norman J. MarshallBinding: HardbackPublished: Norman J. Marshall, 1981Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: SignedThis book chronicles the significant history of St. George's Hospital in Kew. It meticulously...
The Appointed Hour: Death, Worldview And Social Change In Brittany
$75.00 AUD
Author: Ellen BadoneBinding: HardbackPublished: University of California Press, 1989Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book examines the intricate relationship between death, cultural worldview, and societal transformation within...
The Victorians (Three-Volume Set) (SIGNED)
$200.00 AUD
Author: Tony Dingle, Richard Broome, and Susan PriestleyBinding: HardbackPublished: Fairfax, Syme, & Weldon Associates, 1984Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: SignedThe Victorians: Arriving, Making Their Mark, Settling is a...
Roman Comedy (SIGNED)
$65.00 AUD
Author: David KonstanBinding: HardbackPublished: Cornell University Press, 1983Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionThis book examines Roman comedy. The author analyzes the works of Plautus and Terence....
The Inheritance of Solomon Farthing
From The Times bestselling author of The Other Mrs Walker - Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2017 - comes Mary Paulson-Ellis's second stunning historical mystery, The Inheritance of Solomon...
My Vue: Modern French Cookery
$100.00 AUD
Shannon Bennett, the chef and owner of Melbourne's renowned French Restaurant, Vue de monde, takes readers on a tour of exquisite French cuisine. Sharing his passion and obsession with classical...
Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King
The book centres around the Sun King and his relationship with numerous and fascinating women. Naturally dividing into five parts it will concentrate on the King's mother, Anne of Austria...
Lambeth Palace: A History of the Archbishops of Canterbury and Their
Lambeth Palace has been the London home of the Archbishops of Canterbury for almost one thousand years. Archaeologist Timothy Tatton-Brown has a particular interest in ecclesiastical buildings. This work examines...
The Pope's Legion: The Multinational Fighting Force That Defended the
With Arthurian grandeur the Papal Zouaves marched into Italy in the mid-nineteenth century, summoned by the Pope under siege as the Wars of the Risorgimento raged. Motivated by wanderlust, a...
The Man Who Outshone the Sun King: A Life of Gleaming Opulence and
Late in 1664, the musketeer DArtagnan rode beside a carriage as it left Paris, carrying his friend Nicolas Fouquet to life imprisonment in a cell next door to the Man...
Teller of Tales: the Life of Arthur Conan Doyle: Arthur Conan Doyle
Winner of the 1999 Edgar Award for Best Biographical Work, this is "an excellent biography of the man who created Sherlock Holmes" (David Walton, The New York Times Book Review)...
Germany
Fodor's Germany 2001"Fodor's guides cover culture authoritatively and rarely miss a sight or museum." - National Geographic Traveler "The king of guidebooks." - Newsweek No matter what your budget or...
DK Eyewitness Top 10 Venice
Your Guide to the 10 Best of Everything in Venice. Discover the best of everything the city has to offer with this essential, pocketsized DK Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide-...
The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos
A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water were the first two volumes in a projected trilogy that would describe the walk that Patrick Leigh Fermor undertook...
Letters to Camondo: 'Immerses you in another age' Financial Times
A haunting sequence of imagined letters to the Count de Camondo -- the owner of a Parisian palace filled with beautiful objects, turned into a memorial for his lost son...
The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1944-1945
$20.00 AUD
From the preeminent Hitler biographer, a fascinating and original exploration of how the Third Reich was willing and able to fight to the bitter end of World War II. Countless...
Palaces of Revolution: Life, Death and Art at the Stuart Court
The story of the Stuart dynasty is a breathless soap opera played out in just a hundred years in an array of buildings that span Europe from Scotland, via Denmark,...
Spy Hook
The long-awaited reissue of the first part of the classic spy trilogy, HOOK, LINE and SINKER, when the Berlin Wall divided not just a city but a world. Working for...
Foundation: A History of England Volume I
Having written enthralling biographies of London and of its great river, the Thames, Peter Ackroyd now turns to England itself. This first volume of six takes us from the time...
Children Of The Ghetto (SIGNED)
$120.00 AUD
Author: Sheva Glas-Wiener; translated from the Yiddish by the author and Shirley YoungBinding: HardbackPublished: Globe Press, 1983Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: Signed with inscriptionThis poignant narrative transports readers...
Greek Tragedy
$35.00 AUD
Author: Gilbert NorwoodBinding: HardbackPublished: Methuen & Company, 1948Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerThis book examines the profound and enduring impact of Greek tragedy on Western literature and thought. It...
Guide To League Of Nations Publications
$90.00 AUD
Author: Hans AufrichtBinding: HardbackPublished: Columbia University Press, 1951Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis book provides a bibliographical survey of the League of Nation's work from...
The Victoria History of the County of York. The City of York.
$130.00 AUD
Author: R.B. PughBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford University Press, London, 1961Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book provides a detailed historical overview of York, specifically focusing on the City...
Europe Divided: 1559-1598
$40.00 AUD
Author: J.H. ElliottBinding: HardbackPublished: Harper & Row, 1968Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsEurope underwent significant transformations during the period of 1559-1598. Religious conflicts and political rivalries shaped the continent....
For Want Of The Golden City
$25.00 AUD
Author: Sacheverell SitwellBinding: HardbackPublished: Thames and Hudson, London, 1973Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsAutobiographical self-portrait that roams freely between his own life and Western culture.
Lady Blessington At Naples
$20.00 AUD
Author: Edith ClayBinding: HardbackPublished: Hamish Hamilton, 1979Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis narrative recounts the life of Lady Blessington while she resided in Naples. Society regarded her...
To the Beach!: Seaside Posters
From De Panne to Knokke, nothing beats a holiday by the North Sea. People have been flocking to the coast for more than a century, and this richly illustrated book...
Donkeys on My Doorstep: Hoofing it in the Mallorcan Hills
The dream is near completion. Anna is loosening the reins on her London PR company to spend more time in Mallorca with her family, cattery, chickens and goats, and insists...
Ve Day - a Day to Remember
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Necessary Women: The Untold Story of Parliament's Working Women
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Montauban: Somme
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Under Two Flags: Life Of General Sir Edward Spears
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Cupid and the King: Five Royal Paramours
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Our Hidden Lives
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The Holy Roman Empire
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Nightingales in the Mud: The Digger Sisters of the Great War 1914-1918
$80.00 AUD
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Caring For Our Children: The History Of Nursing Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne
$80.00 AUD
Author: Margaret McinnesBinding: SoftbackPublished: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2006Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book tells the history of nursing at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne....