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A New Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome
The first such dictionary since that of Platner and Ashby in 1929, 'A New Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome' defines and describes the known buildings and monuments, as well as...
Robert Hooke and the Rebuilding of London
Robert Hooke was one of the most gifted men of his age, but it was his great misfortune to work in the sphere of two remarkable men - Isaac Newton...
Nero: the man behind the myth
One of the best known figures from Roman history, Nero (r. AD 54-68) is most often characterised as a tyrannical and ineffectual ruler, who fiddled while Rome burnt. Such a...
The Building of London: From the Conquest to the Great Fire
This is a fully revised survey of London up to the Great Fire.
The Polite Tourist: Country House Visiting Through the Centuries
Country house visiting is one of Britain's favorite leisure activities. For more than five centuries, historic buildings have opened their doors, inviting the tourist to step inside. Elizabethans strolled around...
The Other Paris: An illustrated journey through a city's poor and
Paris, the City of Light. We think of it as the city of the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre, of white facades, discreet traffic and well-mannered exchanges. But there was...
In The Shadow of St. Paul's Cathedral: The Churchyard that Shaped
The extraordinary story of St. Paul's Churchyard-the area of London that was a center of social and intellectual life for more than a millennium St. Paul's Cathedral stands at the...
Urban Society In Roman Italy
This collection of original essays focuses upon Roman Italy where, with over 400 cities, urbanization was at the very centre of Italian civilization. Informed by an awareness of the social...
Arafat: The Biography
Based on hundreds of interviews with senior Israeli and Palestinian officials, including Arafat himself, this book examines his once triumphant transition from terrorist to statesman, and his subsequent marginalization following...
The Old Devil: Clarence Darrow: The World's Greatest Trial Lawyer
In the crammed and dizzying space of two years, from June 1924 to June 1926, America was transfixed by three contrasting courtroom trials. Each was described as a 'Trial of...
The Rome Plague Diaries: Lockdown Life in the Eternal City
On the first morning of Rome's Covid-19 lockdown Matthew Kneale felt an urge to connect with friends and acquaintances and began writing an email, describing where he was, what was...
Don Dunstan: Intimacy and Liberty: A Political Biography
Don Dunstan, Premier of South Australia in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s, is acknowledged as one of Australia's foremost civil rights advocates of the twentieth century. He actively...
Mona Lisa: A Life Discovered
A genius immortalized her. A French king paid a fortune for her. An emperor coveted her. Every year more than 9 million visitors trek to view her portrait in the...
Don John of Balaclava
$25.00 AUD
Author: Miles LewisBinding: HardbackPublished: Brian Atkins, 1977Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Minor yellowing of external dust jacketThis compelling historical account, Don John Of Balaclava, chronicles the...
The Art Of Rome
$90.00 AUD
Author: Bernard AndreaeBinding: HardbackPublished: MACMILLAN LONDON LIMITED, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Minor yellowing of external dust jacketThis authoritative volume chronicles the magnificent artistic achievements of...
Patrons And Painters: A Study In The Relations Between Italian Art And Society In The Age Of The Baroque
$40.00 AUD
Author: Francis HaskellBinding: HardbackPublished: Chatto & Windus, 1963Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Previous owner's details in FEP, discoloured top-edge from tanning, some...
The Long Weekend: Australian Artists In France 1918 - 1939
$40.00 AUD
Author: Karen QuinlanBinding: HardbackPublished: Bendigo Art Gallery., 2007Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Tanned edges.The historical study The Long Weekend: Australian Artists In France 1918 - 1939...
The Trevi Fountain
$40.00 AUD
Author: John A. PintoBinding: HardbackPublished: Yale University Press, 1986Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Some slight markings to DJ, foxed pages, previous owner's name to...
Views Of Rome: From The Thomas Ashby Collection In The Vatican Library
$40.00 AUD
Author: Paul HolbertonBinding: PaperbackPublished: Scala Publications., 1988Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Minor bumps to edges.This volume presents a magnificent visual journey through the Eternal City, showcasing...
Tecnica Costruttiva A Roma Nel Medioevo: Construction Techniques Of The Middle Ages In Rome
$40.00 AUD
Author: Roberto MartaBinding: PaperbackPublished: Edizioni Kappa, 1998Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageRoberto Marta's Tecnica Costruttiva A Roma Nel Medioevo: Construction Techniques Of...
Rome and the Literature of Gardens
"Rome and the Literature of Gardens" explores the garden as a powerful locus of transformation and transgression in the "De Re Rustica" of Columella, the "Satires" of Horace, the "Annals"...
Roman Housing
Illustrated and provided with a glossary and site index, this text examines the archaeology of housing throughout the Roman world. This breadth of scale enables the author to set local...
The English Rebel: One Thousand Years of Trouble-making from the
The English have a rich and glorious history of making trouble for themselves. One hundred and forty years before the French Revolution, the English executed their king and instituted a...
High Season in Nice
Nice is the queen of the Cote d'Azur. Founded by the Greeks some time after the sixth century BC, it has borne the tread of Roman legionnaires and Italy-bound Englishmen...
Mr Barry's War: Rebuilding the Houses of Parliament after the Great
When the brilliant classical architect Charles Barry won the competition to build a new, Gothic, Houses of Parliament in London he thought it was the chance of a lifetime. It...
Rome: The Biography of a City
This beautifully written, informative study is a portrait, a history and a superb guide book, capturing fully the seductive beauty and the many layered past of the Eternal City. It...
Paris at the End of the World: The City of Light During the Great War,
Through a lively blend of memoirs, reminiscences, and modern day adventure, John Baxter (author of The Perfect Meal and Immoveable Feast ) takes us into the heart of Paris during...
The Gentry: Stories of the English
Prize-winning author Adam Nicolson tells the story he was born to write - the real story of England. It is the gentry that has made England what it was and,...
Raise Your Soul: A Personal History of Resistance
An engrossing portrait of #1 bestseller Yanis Varoufakis's political awakening, told through the extraordinary history of his family and the tumultuous twentieth century in Europe A captivating portrait of number-one...
Greece
$15.00 AUD
Author: Henry MillerBinding: HardbackPublished: Thames & Hudson., 1964Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerA captivating travelogue, Greece chronicles Henry Miller's profound...
Greece, Crete And Syria: Australia in the War of 1939-1945
$25.00 AUD
Author: Gavin LongBinding: HardbackPublished: Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 1962Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis authoritative historical account chronicles the Australian Army's...
Winston and the Windsors: How Churchill Shaped a Royal Dynasty
Few figures in British history have been so deeply and so consequentially involved with the British royal family as Winston Spencer Churchill. While numerous men of stature have advised kings...
The History Of The Thirteenth Battalion, A.I.F.
$100.00 AUD
Author: Captain Thomas A. WhiteBinding: HardbackPublished: -Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Some moisture damage on DJ. This compelling historical account chronicles the formation, training, and combat...
Trails to Freedom: The True Story of the Medieval Trails Used by Anzac
Trails to Freedom is the story of a solo hike across the Alps that brings to life the fascinating, largely unknown history of the Anzac POWs who escaped Fascist Italy...
The Roads To Rome: A Journey Into Europe's Past
Brimming with life and drama, this is a magnificent journey into two thousand years of history, from the acclaimed and beloved historian of Europe 'All roads lead to Rome.' It's...
London: A History in Verse
Called "the flour of Cities all," London has long been understood through the poetry it has inspired. Now poet Mark Ford has assembled the most capacious and wide-ranging anthology of...
Rome in the Ancient World: From Romulus to Justinian
How did the Romans go from a small village on the banks of the Tiber to an imperial power that at its height encompassed some 64 million people across three...
Paris '44: The Shame and the Glory
From the Sunday Times-bestselling author, comes a heart-stopping countdown narrative recreating the liberation of Paris in 1944, one of the great and most dramatic hinge moments of WW2 ** THE...
Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of Japan
A remarkable account of the terrible climax of the Second World War in Asia, published to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing. In the closing months of...
The Great Siege of Malta
A major new history of the epic siege of the island fortress of Malta Even as the great siege began it was understood by both sides to be an epic...
Capitalism and Its Critics: A Battle of Ideas in the Modern World
A sweeping, dramatic history of capitalism as seen through the eyes of its fiercest critics At a time when we are faced with fundamental questions about the sustainability and morality...
Friends in Youth: Choosing Sides in the English Civil War
Two old friends end up on opposite sides of the English Civil War, in this scintillating history At the Inns of Court, the intellectual, literary, and social heart of early...
The Great Exchange: Making the News in Early Modern Europe
An epic history of the birth of news in Europe 'Highly ambitious and impressive ... a rich, multifaceted and thought-provoking book' Noel Malcolm, Times Literary Supplement News moves. It is...
London: A Social History
Describes London's social life, its growth and the experiences of living in the city. With the redevelopment of Docklands and much of the East End, London is now beginning to...
