Ithaca: Cornell University Press 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Good/Very good. 8vo. pp.316.Ex-lib but very good nonetheless ""How does the decline of the hegemony--the dominant rule-making power of the international system--affect middle-level nations By examining monetary and credit policy in postwar France Michael Loriaux illuminates this question tracing the relationship of domestic economic reform to specific changes in the international political economy which have resulted from U.S.… Cornell University Press hardcover
Rome: The Gregorian University Press. Very Good with no dust jacket; Owner signature US Senator James Buckley . on front flyleaf. 1958. First Printing. Hardcover. Pictorial paper boards quarter-bound in maroon cloth. Unpaginated. Black and white photos. A history of Jasna Gora monastery in Czestochowa the Spiritual Capital of Poland. Text in Polish and English. Three photos of the Monastery's Black Madonna laid in. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall . The Gregorian University Press hardcover
Oxford: OUP 2009. Reprint. Paperback. Very good/No Dustjacket. 8vo. pp.288.paperback edition.""In this concise history of France since 1815 David Parry and Pierre Girard examine distinctive features of contemporary France tracing their origins and investigating their continuities and transformations. Each chapter focuses on a particular chronological period: beginning by setting the scene in terms of political events the narrative then broadens out to consider the… OUP paperback
Hersham: Ian Allan Publishing 2013. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. 8vo. pp. 256.""This narrative history tells the story of the German occupation of Normandy 1940–44 and the Allied liberation. Following the fall of France in 1940 Normandy formed part of the Reich’s western border and its history for the next four years. On the coast vast defenses were built up and large numbers of German troops… Ian Allan Publishing hardcover
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. 8vo. pp. 181 ep maps University of Nebraska Press hardcover
New York: The Hubbell Publishing Company 1915. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/No Dustjacket. 8vo. pp. xliii 395 pp. x 376.Previous owners bookplate on FEP of both books heavy set additional postage will apply .The date is taken from the introduction no edition stated on the copyright page TEG The Hubbell Publishing Company hardcover
London: Facts on File Inc. 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Larger 8vo. pp. 572 A comprehensive guide to the Napoleonic era Facts on File Inc. hardcover
Kentucky: University of Kentucky Press 1957. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/Slightly worn. 8vo. pp. 274 ""The French Revolution with its extremes of violence and rash action has obscured many French cultural contributions of enduring value. In this book the author examines the great French achievements in humanitarian reform."" University of Kentucky Press hardcover
Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press 2011. Paperback. Very good/No Dustjacket. Larger 8vo. pp. xiii 314.paperback edition University of Notre Dame Press paperback
Westport: Greenwood Pub Group 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dj. 8vo. as new pp. xvii 4 532 and xvii 2 1141 vg in red/cloth with gilt titles 2 volumes ""“Stating that no comprehensive historical dictionary on the French Revolution exists in English the editors present an alphabetically arranged compendium of 525 articles on persons events places laws and other aspects of the Revolution for both students… Greenwood Pub Group hardcover
Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dj. 8vo. pp. xv 203. Wilfrid Laurier University Press hardcover
New York: University of Rochester Press 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Illustrated Boards. 8vo. pp. xii 326. ""In 'The King's Bench' Zoe Schneider vividly brings to life the teeming world of the local courts with their magistrates and jailers townspeople and peasants. Together they contested that vital border where the private world of families and property collided with the public commonwealth. Schneider chronicles the transformation of local governance after… University of Rochester Press hardcover
Montreal: McGill Queens Univ Pr 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. pp. xxii 3 261. ""In ""Ambitions Tamed"" Pierre Reynard profiles Morand's career to provide a case-study of the possibilities of urban reform and refashioning within the courtly society of the Old Regime. Morand's story offers fascinating insights into social and professional advancement in a society defined by privilege the workings of a complex urban political… McGill Queens Univ Pr hardcover
Bracknell: Bellona Publications 1970. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good/No Dj. 8vo. Pp. 30. ""This is the first book in a series devoted to French armoured fighting vehicles by the noted experts Pierre Touzin and Christian Gurtner and covers all the vehicles of French construction. This is number 1 in the series. French and English text. paperback edition Bellona Publications paperback
New york.: Kensington Books 1996. First edition . Paperback. Very Good/No Dj. 8vo. pp. 555 faded spine o/w very good ""Provides a colorful richly textured dual portrait of the flamboyant French emperor his sensual Creole wife and the turbulent social political and cultural world in which Napoleon and Josephine lived."" Kensington Books paperback
London: Oxford University Press 1963. First edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. pp. 191 index 22 black and white plates Oxford University Press hardcover
U.S.A.: Kent Archaeological Society 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. pp. 320 16 b/w plates Kent Archaeological Society hardcover
Woodbridge: Univ of Rochester Pr 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Larger 8vo. pp. 276 ""Almost all of the great medieval shrines disappeared at the Reformation yet for several centuries they were the outward and visible sign of the spiritual benefits believed to flow from proximity to the saint's body and an important witness to the spiritual life of the Middle Ages. They were the focal point of… Univ of Rochester Pr hardcover
New York: Broadway Books 2002. Paperback. Very Good/No Dustjacket. 8vo. pp. 290 b/w illustrations ""how the French devoted the same tenacity in saving their greatest wines from the Nazis as they did in safeguarding the treasures of the Louvre"". paperback edition Broadway Books paperback
Toronto : Dundurn Group 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. pp. 208 color photographs throughout ""The conveyance of royalty whether to Balmoral or Buffalo by Rolls Royce or Canadian Pacific train has its own mysterious traditions and protocols. With dry humour and a keen sense of history Peter Pigott describes how the British royal family has adapted to technological innovations. Organized thematically the book is… Dundurn Group hardcover
London: Prion 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Larger 8vo. pp.293 ""London has stimulated and fascinated writers from Chaucer Dickens and De Quincey to Orton Orwell and more recently Peter Ackroyd. Both a bedside companion and an imaginative travel guide it leads you through the literary history of each district. Discover Boswell's Fleet Street the Dickensian London of The Pickwick Papers and Little Dorrit and… Prion hardcover
Northampton: Northamptonshire Library & Information Service 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Larger 8vo. Unpaginated b/w photographs Northamptonshire Library & Information Service hardcover
New York: Da Capo Press/ Theatrvm Orbis Terrarvm 2007. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good/No Dj. 8vo. pp. 3 308. ""Stephen Coote vividly re-creates the rise and fall of Bonaparte's empire and brings to life the characters who shaped it. With the eye of an historian and the dramatic style of a novelist Coote describes how the path to war became inevitable and how at the Battle of Waterloo the fatigued but… Da Capo Press/ Theatrvm Orbis Terrarvm paperback
London: The Franfrolico Press 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Dj as Published. Larger 8vo. pp. 8 47. This is an advance copy which preceded a projected limited print run of 550 -- this was eventually reduced to a run of 500. The cover has an ""XXX"" printed diagonally across the front board and the colourized cartoon illustrations are by Pearl Binder. There is water damage to the bottom- and… The Franfrolico Press hardcover
Oxford: Clarendon Press 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Dj. 8vo. pp. x 202.Half title page creased and torn. J stamped on to verso of front cover Clarendon Press hardcover
Wellington: A.H.& A.W.Reed 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/sl/worn. 4to. pp. 620 plus 64 plates of B&W photographic images heavy book extra shipping will apply A.H.& A.W.Reed hardcover
London: Duckworth 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. pp334.""The author begins by examing the approaches adopted by other geographers of religion in a comprehensive worldwide survey of research already completed and follows this with an analysis of the source of material available for a geographical study of religion in England attaching considerable significance to the 1851 Census"". Duckworth hardcover
New York: The Jewish Publication Society of America 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Slightly Chipped and Creased. 8vo. pp.xiv 3 370.has all the usual ex library marks The Jewish Publication Society of America hardcover
Montreal: McGill Queens Univ Pr 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. pp. 214 ""In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries congenital syphilis was a major cause of infant mortality in France but mercury the preferred treatment for the disease could not be safely given to infants. In the 1780s the Vaugirard hospital in Paris began to treat affected infants by giving mercury to wet nurses who transmitted… McGill Queens Univ Pr hardcover
London: Hakluyt Society 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/sl/worn. 8vo. pp. xvi 365 19 figures folding charts frontis. blue/gilt cloth. Hakluyt Society hardcover
London: Jonathan Cape 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dj. 8vo. Signed by Author. pp. xii 4 323. Signed and dedicated to the British Drama league by the author on title page. Has all the usual ex library marks. Jonathan Cape hardcover