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Fiennes, Ranulph
Agincourt. The Fight for France.
New York: Pegasus 2015. x 326pp index bibliography bw & col ills map. Or boards in jacket. Near new. Review copy with review slip loosely inserted. Dynamic account of the Battle of Agincourt 1415. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Pegasus Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 035730 ISBN : 1605989150 9781605989150
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Bennett, Michael.
The Battle of Bosworth.
Stroud: Alan Sutton 1993. xi 197pp index notes appendix bw ills maps. Or card covers. Light edge wear. Detailed reconstruction of the Battle of Bosworth Field 1485 in which Richard III lost his life and the Plantagenet line came to an end. Provides the background of war and politics in the preceeding thirty years which led up to the battle. First UK Paperback. Soft Cover. Near Fine. Small 4to. Alan Sutton Paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 035335 ISBN : 0312103204 9780312103200
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Ferguson, Robert.
The Hammer and the Cross. A New History of the Vikings.
London: Penguin 2010. xi 451pp index notes bw ills maps. Or card covers. Near new. From the first attack on Lindisfarne monastery in 793 to the settlement of Iceland and Greenland and the discovery of North America the Vikings dominated Europe for over 300 years. What caused thier outburst of violence and restless creativity; what sustained it and what brought it to an end. First Paperback. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Penguin Paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 034826 ISBN : 0141017759 9780141017754
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Weir, Alison.
Isabella. She-Wolf of France Queen of England.
London: Jonathan Cape 2005. xii 494pp index notes/references maps bibliography col plates. Or black cloth in jacket. Very light edge wear to jacket. Biography of Isabella wife to Edward II. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Jonathan Cape Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 034665 ISBN : 0224063200 9780224063203
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Blainey, Geoffrey
A Short History of the World.
Melbourne: Viking 2000. HEAVY. ix 669pp index 11 maps sources. Or black boards in jacket. Very light edge wear to jacket small bump to top edge of pages. A survey of history from the first people leaving Africa. Explores the development of technology and skills the rise of major religions and the role of geographical factors. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Viking Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 034682 ISBN : 0670880361 9780670880362
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Martines Lauro.
Scourge and Fire. Savanarola and Renaissance Italy.
London: Jonathan Cape 2006. xvi336pp index bibliography notes co plates. Or black cloth in jacket. Near new. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Jonathan Cape Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 034685 ISBN : 0224072528 9780224072526
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Shields, Sarah D.
Fezzes in the River. Identity Politics and European Diplomacy in the Middle East on the Eve of World War II.
New York: Oxford University Press 2011. xi 306pp index bibliography notes appendices bw ills maps. Or brown boards in jacket. Small crease to front flap else as new. Turkey and European diplomacy leading up to WWII. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Oxford University Press Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 033881 ISBN : 0195393317 9780195393316
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Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe; Wilson, Derek.
Reformation. Christianity and the World 1500-2000.
London: Bantam 1996. xii324pp index notes bw ills. Or black boards in jacket. Some light foxing and small light stain to bottom edge. The Reformation with an emphasis on people rather than dogma. First UK Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Bantam Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 033380 ISBN : 0593027493 9780593027493
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Banfield, Susan
The Rights of Man The Reign of Terror. The Story of the French Revolution
New York: HarperCollins 1989. 213pp index bibliography bw ills. Or red boards in jacket. Jacket taped to endpapers otherwise near new. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. HarperCollins Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 033114 ISBN : 0397323530 9780397323531
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Zamoyski, Adam
Rites of Peace. The Fall of Napoleon & the Congress of Vienna
London: Harper Perennial 2008. xviii 634pp index bibliography notes col ills. Or card covers. Light toning to page edges. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Harper Perennial Paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 032454 ISBN : 0007203063 9780007203062
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Bower, Tom
Nazi Gold: The Full Story of the Fifty-year Swiss-Nazi Conspiracy to Steal Billions from Europe's Jews and Holocaust Survivors
New York: HarperCollins 1997. xv 381pp 16pp b/w photos bibliography index sources. Near new. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. HarperCollins Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 031998 ISBN : 0060175354 9780060175351
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Tinniswood, Adrian
Pirates of Barbary. Corsairs Conquests and Captivity in the 17th Century Mediterranean
New York: Riverhead Books 2011. xx 343pp index bibliography notes bw ills. Or card covers. Near new. Explores a time when clashes between pirates protected by the rulkes of Tunis Algiers and Tripoli and the governments of England France Spain and Venice grew increasingly intense with the Mediterranean as their battlefield. First Trade Paperback. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Riverhead Books Paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 031843 ISBN : 1594485445 9781594485442
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Barlow, Frank
Edward the Confessor. English Monarchs
London: Eyre Methuen 1979. xxiv 375pp index maps folding family tree at rear bibliography chronology appendices bw ills. Or card covers. Some minor edge wear slight foxing to page edges. Vividly portrays the last years of the Anglo-Danish monarchy and recreates the man and his times. First Paperback. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Eyre Methuen Paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 031350 ISBN : 0413459500 9780413459503
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Ginzburg, Carlo (translators Tedeschi, John & Anne.)
Witchcraft & Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries
New York: Penguin 1986. xxii 209pp index notes appendix bw ills. Or card covers. Minor creasing to front cover short tears and minor damage to upper margin of a few pages. Based on official Inquisition archives from the 16th & 17th centuries this is a unique study of an isolated Italian peasant culture deeply rooted in early European fertility cults. Ginzburg's accounts of the heresy trials of the bernandanti who in their dream states regularly battled witches to safeguard the harvest reveals a culture through experiences ofa simple people. Second Penguin Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Penguin Paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 031141 ISBN : 0140076883 9780140076882
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Standage Tom
An Edible History of Humanity
London: Atlantic Books 2010. xiii 269pp index sources notes few bw ills. Or card covers. Near new. An account of the ways in which food has helped to shape and transform societies around the world. A dazzling account of gastronomic revolutions from pre-history to the present. First UK Paperback. Paperback. Fine. 8vo. Atlantic Books Paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 030646 ISBN : 1843546353 9781843546351
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Alexander, John T
Catherine the Great. Life and Legend
New York: Oxford University Press 1989. xii 418pp index bibliography notes bw ills. Or cloth backed boards in jacket. A few spots on fore-edge smal bump to fore-edge. Catherine the Great of Russia- her life and the legends that surround her. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Near Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Oxford University Press Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 030666 ISBN : 0195052366 9780195052367
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Troyat, Henri (Pinkham, Joan, translator)
Peter the Great
London: Hamish Hamilton 1988. viii 392pp index bibliography notres chronology bw ills. Or black cloth in jacket. Gift note on front free endpaper some light toning to endpapers and edges. A couple of short tears to jacket. Biography of Peter the Great. First UK Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Hamish Hamilton Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 030308 ISBN : 024112249x 9780241122495
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Kochan, Miriam
The Last Days of Imperial Russia. 1910-17
New York: Macmillan 1976. 224pp index bibliography bw ills pictorial endpapers. Or red cloth in jacket. Jacket faded on and adjacent to spine. Recreates Russian society with its sharp contrasts of privilege and poverty just before the three-hundred year old Romanov dynasty was toppled. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 4to. Macmillan Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 030072 ISBN : 0025649000 9780025649002
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Burgess Colin
The Age of Stonehenge
Edison NJ: Castle Books 2003. 402pp indexsources bibliography radiocarbon dates bw ills. or red boards in jacket. The prehistory of Britain and Ireland between 3000 and 1000 BC. Reprint. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Castle Books Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 029859 ISBN : 0785815937 9780785815938
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Ridley Jasper
Henry VIII
London: Constable 1984. 473pp index bibliography references col plates. Or green cloth in jacket. Some foxing to top edge. Spine somewhat faded. Biography of Henry VIII. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Very Good. 8vo. Constable Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 029460 ISBN : 0094659303 9780094659308
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Kagan, Richard L
Lucrecia's Dreams: Politics and Prophecy in Sixteenth-Century Spain
Berkeley: University of California Press 1990. xiii 229pp coloured frontis calendar of Lucrecia's dreams bibliography index pictorial endpapers. Or cloth boards in dust-jacket. 'The author investigates a woman whose politically oriented dream life transformed her into a cause celebre. Based on the records of her trial before the Inquisition the study examines the complex personal and political rmifications of Lucrecia's prophetic career.'. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. University of California Press Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 028239 ISBN : 0520066553 9780520066557
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Lord Kinross
Between Two Seas: The Creation of the Suez Canal
London: John Murray 1968. 306pp b/w plates folding map: Wyld's official map of the Suez Maritime Canal November 12 1869 bibliography index. Prelims endpages and page edges lightly foxed. Cloth boards gilt spine titles in dust-jacket. The publication of the book marked the centenary of the Suez Canal. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. John Murray Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 026988 ISBN : 071951813X 9780719518133
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Shiber, Etta in Collaboration with Anne and Paul Dupre
Paris -- Underground
Time- Life Books. 1989. Reprinted from the 1943 edition. vi 392pp decorative eps. Small section of black marker by the upper corner of the ffep. All edges gilt. With page marker. Dec cloth boards. The underground movement in France during the Second World War. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Time- Life Books. Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 028684 ISBN : 0809472589 9780809472581
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Hodgson, Godfrey
Lloyd's of London: A Reputation at Risk
Harmondsworth: Penguin Books 1986. 414pp index. Remainder line by the spine foot. Covers a little edge-worn with a slightly sunned spine. An assessment that traces the company's past and present and monitors the ebb and flow of the historic association and its work to the 1980s. Revised and Updated Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Trade Paperback. Penguin Books Paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 028533 ISBN : 0140056467 9780140056464
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Lowe, Keith
Inferno: The Fiery Destruction of Hamburg 1943
New York: Scribner 2007. vii 430pp 31 photos 19 maps bibliography index. Papered boards in jacket which has a lightly creased front flap. The summer 1943 bombing of Hamburg by RAF Bomber Command and the United States Eighth Air Force aircrews. Book Club Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Scribner Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 028348 ISBN : 0743269004 9780743269001
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Kinzer, Stephen
Crescent & Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds
New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 2001. xi 252pp index. Cloth-backed boards in jacket. The foreign-correspondent author offers an intimate report of Turkey at the turn of the century. He traces its development into a modern state and explains the great dilemmas it now faces. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Farrar, Straus and Giroux Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 028321 ISBN : 0374131430 9780374131432
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Harris, Melvin
The True Face of Jack the Ripper
London: Brockhampton Press 1999. viii 216 pages b/w photos 10 appendices index. Pictorial laminated boards in dust-jacket. The author presents his evidence identifying Jack the Ripper. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Brockhampton Press Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 027568 ISBN : 1860199151 9781860199158
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Links, J G
Travellers in Europe: Private Records of Journeys by the Great and the Forgotten from Horace to Pepys
London: The Bodley Head 1980. 253pp b/w ills maps. Papered boards in dust-jacket. The author selects 22 European travellers and letting them speak as far as possible in their own words achieves the full impact of an eye-witness report as he builds up a coherent picture of travel in four periods: Roman and Medieval and the15th- 16th- and 17th-centuries. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. The Bodley Head Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 027742 ISBN : 0370302028 9780370302027
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Crankshaw, Edward
Bismarck
London: Macmillan 1982. ix 451pp index notes bibliography bw ills 2 maps. Paperback. Excellent biography of Otto von Bismarck. PaperMac. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Macmillan Paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 027746 ISBN : 0333340388 9780333340387
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Weir, Alison
Eleanor of Aquitaine: By the Wrath of God Queen of England
London: Pimlico 2000. xvii 444pp 8pp b/w plates 3 maps bibliography genealogical tables index. A biography of one of the leading personalities of the Middle Ages. First Paperback. Soft Cover. Very Good. Trade Paperback. Pimlico Paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 027882 ISBN : 0712673172 9780712673174
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de Courcy Anne
Diana Mosley: Mitford Beauty British Fascist Hitler's Angel
New York: HarperCollins Publishers 2003. 432pp 24pp b/w photos bibliography two appendices index. Trace of old price sticker beneath the title on the front cover. A biography of 'the cleverest of the six Mitford sisters'. First US Paperback Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Trade Paperback. HarperCollins Publishers Paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 027230 ISBN : 0060565322 9780060565329
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Nachtstern, Moritz and Arntzen, Ragnar
Counterfeiter: How a Norwegian Jew Survived the Holocaust
New York: Osprey Publishing 2008. Translation by Margrit Rosenberg Stenge. Foreword by Sidsel Nachtstern. 288pp 16pp b/w plates glossary index. Papered boards in dust-jacket. The author's story from his arrest in Oslo journey to Germany and the horrors of the camps to his time in Block 19 in Sachsenhause concentration camp. Block19 prisoners had to produce exquisite forgeries of British bank notes which the Nazis planned to drop from planes over London to destabilize the British economy. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Osprey Publishing Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 027444 ISBN : 184603289x 9781846032899
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Macksey, Kenneth
Why the Germans Lose at War: The Myth of German Military Supremacy
New York: Barnes & Noble 2006. 240pp 16pp b/w plates campaign maps command-structure charts bibliography index. Papered boards in dust-jacket. The author reveals that Germany's catasgrophic failures were the inevitable result of its military structure leadership and history. New Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/Fine. 8vo. Barnes & Noble Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 026904 ISBN : 0760778825 9780760778821
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Harbison, Peter
Pre-Christian Ireland: From the First Settlers to the Early Celts
London: Thames and Hudson 1994. 208pp with 139 illustrations map bibliography index. Paperback. The author surveys human setlement in Ireland fromits beginnings 10000 years ago to St Patrick's Christianizing mission in the 5th century AD including accounts of major excavations at sites such as Carrowmore Rathgall and Navan Fort. The author also examines the controversial question of when the Celts first arrived in Ireland. First Paperback Edition with Revisions. Soft Cover. Fine. Illus. by Drawings by Edelgard Soergel-Harbison. 8vo. Thames and Hudson Paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 022210 ISBN : 0500278091 9780500278093
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Lewis, Bernard
The Middle East: 2000 years of History from the Rise of Christianity to the Present Day
London: Phoenix 1996. xiv 433pp 40pp b/w plates chronology maps index. As well as describing the forces which shaped the history of the Middle East the author looks at the pervasive impact in modern times of Western ideas and technology. . First Paperback. Soft Cover. Fine. Trade Paperback. Phoenix Paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 027055 ISBN : 1857994116 9781857994117
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Oldenbourg, Zoe
Massacre at Montesegur: A History of the Albigensian Crusade
London: Phoenix 1998. Translated from the French by Peter Green. xii 420pp 8pp b/w plates maps 6 appendices chronological table bibliography index. The 1208 Crusade called by Pope Innocent III against Raymond VI Count of Toulouse was the Catholic Church's response to the rapid growth of a rival Christian religion in the heart of Christendom -- the religion of the Cathars or 'pure ones'. The Albigensian Crusade culminated in 1244 with the massacre of Cathars at the mountain fortress of Montsegur. First Paperback. Soft Cover. Fine. Trade Paperback. Phoenix Paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 027056 ISBN : 0753802023 9780753802021
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Manceron, Claude
Twilight of the Old Order 1774-1778
New York: Alfred A Knopf 1977. HEAVY. Translated from the French by Patricia Wolf. 650pp with 68 illustrations notes index. Cloth boards in lightly edge-worn dust-jacket. France from the accession of Louis XVI to the death of Rousseau and the brink of revolution. . First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Alfred A Knopf Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 026490 ISBN : 0394489020 9780394489025
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Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah
Hitler's Willing Executioners. Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
New York: Alfred A Knopf 1996. x 622pp index notes bw ills maps. Or pictorial card covers. Slight edge wear and thumb soiling to bottom page corners. A new exploration of those who carried out the Holocaust and of German society and its ingrained anti-semitism; demanding a fundamental revision of our thinking about the years 1933-45. Not Stated. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Alfred A Knopf Paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 026038 ISBN : 0679446958 9780679446958
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Warner Philip
The Medieval Castle
New York: Barnes & Noble 1993. x 262pp b/w photos diagrams seven appendices glossary bibliography index. Cloth-backed papered boards in dust-jacket. The book explains why and how castles were built in the middle ages and why they were such a dominant influence on medieval life especially in times of war. The author recreates a complete picture of daily life in a medieval castle: how the nobles and peasants lived; how men fought in tournaments and trained in combat; how castles were sited designed managed attacked and defended; and what the people who lifed in them ate drank and wore. Reprint. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Barnes & Noble Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 026306 ISBN : 156619458X 9781566194587
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Gilbert, Martin
A History of the Twentieth Century. Volume Two: 1933-1951
London: HarperCollinsPublishers 1999. xxii 1050pp 24pp b/w photos maps bibliography index. Remainder line by the spine foot. Paperback. This second volume charts the inexorable build-up to the Second World War and concludes at the end of the Korean War. First Paperback. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 8vo. HarperCollinsPublishers Paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 025681 ISBN : 0006376622 9780006376620
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Gilbert, Martin
A History of the Twentieth Century. Volume One: 1900-1933
London: HarperCollinsPublishers 1997. xiv 927pp 24pp b/w photos maps bibliography index. Remainder line by the spine foot. Paperback with lightly creased lower front corner. This first volume covers the first thirty-three years of the twentieth century closing with Roosevent as the newly-elected President of the United States and the inauguration of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany. First Paperback. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 8vo. HarperCollinsPublishers Paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 025680 ISBN : 0006376614 9780006376613
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Gilmour, Ian
Riot Risings and Revolution: Governance and Violence in Eighteenth-Century England
London: Pimlico 1993. viii 504pp notes index. Paperback. In this history of the hidden side of the 18th century the author argues that violence usually stemmed from the incompetence or arrogance of the ruling class. He tells the story of the great rebellions -- of Scotland in 1715 and1745 of Ireland in 1798 and the famous episodes of Wilkes and Gordon. . First Pimlico Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine. Trade Paperback. Pimlico Paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 025934 ISBN : 0712655107 9780712655101
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Somerset, Anne
Elizabeth I
London: Phoenix 1997. viii 636pp Tudor family tree b/w plates notes bibliography index. In this biography the author examines Elizabeth's domestic and foreign conflicts her sexuality and her religion unravelling the complexities of Elizabethan politics and bringing alive the glamour and excitement of the Tudor Court. First Paperback. Soft Cover. Fine. Trade Paperback. Phoenix Paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 025915 ISBN : 1857998855 9781857998856
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Emerson, Steven and Duffy, Brian
The Fall of Pan Am 103
London: Futura 1990. 351pp index. Remainder line by the spine foot. Paperback. Inside the Lockerbie investigation. First Paperback. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Futura Paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 025998 ISBN : 0708883478 9780708883471
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Wirth, Andrzej (Introduction)
The Stroop Report: The Jewish Quarter of Warsaw is no More! Translated from the German and Annotated by Sybil Milton
New York: Pantheon Books 1979. Unpaginated illustrated throughout with photos notes maps. Prev owner's signature with a date by the upper edge of the front flyleaf. Black cloth boards gilt in heavily edge-worn dust-jacket which has tears with a some loss from its upper edge. The Report which looks like a family album consists of three parts: a descriptive narrative introduction; daily communiques on the progress of the 'operation'; and a series of photographs. After the liquidation of the Ghetto Krueger expressed a wish that a complete set of the communiques be sent to Himmler as a momento. That is how this album was created. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good Plus. 4to. Pantheon Books Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 026023 ISBN : 0394504437 9780394504438
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Beaumont, Tim (editor)
The Selective Ego: The Diaries of James Agate
London: George G Harrap 1976. 269pp biographies index. Prev owner's signature with a date by the upper edge of the front flyleaf. Papered boards lower front corner bumped in dust-jacket which is unevenly faded. The editor has reduced the nine volumes of Ego 1932-1946 to one giving a portrait of the man as well as of the London in which he lived. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good Plus. 8vo. George G Harrap Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 026013 ISBN : 0245528490 9780245528491
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Corti, Count
A History of Smoking
London: Bracken Books 1996. Translated by Paul England. 296pp b/w ills chronology bibliography index. Paperback. A history of smoking from about 3000 BC to 1856 the beginning of the popularity of the cigarette as a result of the Crimean War. The book was first published in 1931. . New Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Bracken Books Paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 025543 ISBN : 1851705430 9781851705436
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Briggs, Asa
Go To It! Working for Victory on the Home Front 1939-1945
London: Mitchell Beazley in Association with the Imperial War Museum 2000. Foreword by Tony Blair. 128pp illustrated with colour sepia and b/w photos index illustrated end-papers. Cloth boards in dust-jacket. Illustrated with photos from the Imperial War Museum's collections this is the story of the civilian war effort on the home front during the Second World War. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to. Mitchell Beazley in Association with the Imperial War Museum Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 025231 ISBN : 1840002336 9781840002331
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Ackroyd Peter
Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination
London: Vintage 2004. xxii 516pp 16pp of coloured plates b/w ills bibliography index. Paperback. Albion 'engages the reader with stories and surprises -- from Beowulf to King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table via Chaucer and Shakespeare to the Bronte sisters Alice through the Looking Glass and The Lord of the Rings'. New Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. Trade Paperback. Vintage Paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 025411 ISBN : 0099438070 9780099438076
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Liebreich, Karen
Fallen Order: Intrigue Heresy and Scaldal in the Rome of Galileo and Caravaggio
New York: Grove Press 2004. xxxiii 336 pages 8 pages of b/w plates bibliography index. Cloth boards in dust-jacket. This is the story of how the sexual abuse of children practiced by some of its leading priests led to the collapse of the Piarist Order. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Grove Press Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 024584 ISBN : 0802117848 9780802117847
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