History: World from The Owl at the Bridge

"The main reason for a new edition at this time is, of course, the discovery of inscribed tablets of the Bronze Age at Pylos and Mycenae by, respectively, Carl W. Blegen... lan J. B. Wace... together with Michael Ventris' extraordinary accomplishment in deciphering them and proving them to be written in an early form of Greek." xxiii, 519 pages,… Saber más sobre este artículo

Gothic European cathedrals, sculpture, painting, stained glass, manuscript illumination, metalwork, tapestries. 287 pages, 206 illus. (32 color); 21 cm. Paper; ink owner name, pencil underlining, yellow highlighting; a working copy. Stock#ofc0003.

Hardcover. x, 275 pages, index; 23.5 cm. "History writing... lays claim, both rhetorically and actually, to a validity of correspondence to the public processes of the real world. Thus the central reference of a historical work is the past about which it speaks, which is in some ways subverted as well as furthered by the mode of expression, historiography,… Saber más sobre este artículo

"In The First Eden, David Attenborough not only describes the natural history of the Mediterranean, but also tells the fascinating story of mankind's changing attitudes toward and relationship with the natural world. The Mediterranean is perhaps the oldest humanized landscape in the world, and it is here that mankind has left the most continuous, detailed, and abundant evidence of its… Saber más sobre este artículo

NY, Harper & Row, 1969. "As Kenneth Clark takes us from the fall of the Roman Empire to the present day, he concentrates on crucial cultural episodes-- from Iona in the ninth century to France in the twelfth, from Florence to Urbino, from Germany to Rome, England, Holland and America." Hard Cover. xviii, 359 pages, index, 286 illus.,… Saber más sobre este artículo

Mansfield Centre, CT : Martino Pub., c2006.. Hard Cover. 3 p. l., v-viii, 299 p. maps. This is a history of the various accounts of eye-witnesses and participants to the first crusade. Chapters include:The Summons; The March to Constantinople; Alexius and the Crusaders; From Nicaea to Antioch Kerbogha and the Finding of the Lance; Dissension among the Leaders; Capture… Saber más sobre este artículo

Hartford, Published by Silas Andrus, 1826. The Commerce was lost "upon the Western Coast of Africa, August 28th, 1815: Also of the slavery and sufferings of the author and the rest of the crew." When white folk were made slaves, all of white America trembled. American Imprints 25948. Hard Cover. 275 pages, folding map; 20 cm. VG; map… Saber más sobre este artículo

Title continues: A Full Report from the Short-hand Notes of W. B. Gurney, Esq. With An Address To The Merchants, Manufacturers And Traders Of Great Britain, By Pedro De Zulueta, Jun., Esq. And Documents Illustrative Of The Case. Zulueta had financed the slave-trading voyage of the ship Augusta, siezed by the British on its way to Africa; the Augusta had… Saber más sobre este artículo

NY, Putnam, 1999. Soft Cover. 449 p.; 22.5 cm. "Uncorrected manuscript for limited Distribution". Numbered in ms. 20 articles in typescript form with no maps or illustrations. This is how books are (were?) promoted. ISBN (10): 0399145761 Stock#47557. Vg / soft cover.

Providence, John Carter Brown Library, 1991.. Soft Cover. Signed. 94 p. illus.,4 col., 25.5 cm. Sixty-one representative examples from the Library's collection. '1,200 copies of this catalog designed by Malcolm Greer Designers have been typeset and printed by the Stinehour Press.' Stock #100,947x. Vg/ wrappers. Americana Bibliography.

Horn / Vienna, Berger & Sohne, 1966. Soft Cover. 856 pages, 24 cm. The fifth of five volumes. Articles are in English, French, German, Spanish. Stock#33107. Vg/ Paper.

New York : Dryden press, 1945.. Hard Cover. vi, 370 p., maps, index, 28.5 cm. Sumner Welles,Under Secretary of State from 1937 to 1943, a key figure in U.S. foreign policy surveys the world as it appeared in 1944 when the Axis powers were clearly beaten. It is a country-by-country analysis for the post World War II prospects. Stock#… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley, 1830. First Edition. Hard Cover. Three octavo volumes: xxiv, 302; iv, 302; iv, 370 pages; 21 cm. Title continues: Commemorated in the Works of Poets, Painters, and Sculptors. Selected and Written by a Lady, for the Amusement and Instruction of Her Own Daughters. First edition. At a time when women were not afforded… Saber más sobre este artículo

Contents include The abuses of history, Personal reflections on a calling, The central themes of American history, Dealing with the evidence, Persistence themes and hard facts, The uses of history. Hardcover. xi, 437 pages; 24 cm. Good but red-ink marginal ticks on early pages; in Fair dust jacket with nicks, spine sunned. Stock#NEU209/h.

Paris: Simart, 1729. Cioranescu 38963. First edition of this French translation by Antoine Legras, 1680-1751. Hard Cover. 12mo, xxii, 392, [4] pages; 17.5 cm. Bound in contemporary full leather with gilt spine; binding worn, label lost, top quarter-inch of spine missing, hinges starting. Stock#NS0212.

New York, G. Braziller, 1956.. Hard Cover. [x], 700 p. 21 cm. Educated in a number of disciplines in Vienna, Munich, Berlin, Heidelberg, and Freiburg, Kahler came to the United States in 1938 and became a U.S. citizen in 1944. He lived most of hs years at Princeton. His wide circle of friends, dubbed the "Kahler-Kreis" by Charles… Saber más sobre este artículo

Austin, University of Texas, 1969. Hard Cover. xxi, 366 p. Distinguished historian and man of letters, Prescott (1796-1859) was the author of two classics: The Conquest of Mexico and The Conquest of Peru. Stock #26427. Vg/vg, a few minor tears. Historiography.

München, Justin Moser [c1933]. Hard Cover. [xii], 1019, [1] pages, front., illus. (incl. maps, plan, facsims.) plates, ports. 31 cm. This Nazi interpretation of revolutions lauds the one underway in Germany. Other copies in WorldCat and ViaLibri have 991 pages. This copy has 30 additional pages on Die Neueste Zeit-- the wonderful world to be introduced by Uncle Adolph and his… Saber más sobre este artículo

VOLUME ONE ONLY. xvii, 551 pages, frontispiece, illustrations including maps, portraits, facsimiles; 23 cm. Contents: Before Sarajevo: Underlying Causes of the War. LACKS VOLUME TWO. Hard Cover. Bound in navy cloth, spine stamped in gold; owner stamp on flyleaf, frequent marginal pencil marks, stain from small newspaper clipping at pages 168/9; withal Good+. Stock#41153/h.

Torino, Einaudi, 1953. Hard Cover. 2 vols.: xxxviii, 1558 p., [17] leaves of plates, 21.5 cm. Series: Biblioteca di cultura storica. Translation of La Mediterranee et le monde mediterraneen a l'epoque de Philippe 2. First Italian translation. Stock# 36,832. Vg, Italian gift inscription on front fly vol. 2/ no dj.