Search Results: HISTORY - Modern - 16th Century Books

New York: MJFBooks, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Book and jacket are fine, mildest edge wear, but there is a remainder mark on the lower page block. I assume the book is a Book Club Edition as there is no price on the dust jacket, but there is a full number line on the copyright page.

Yale University Press, 1982. Second printing. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo, 271 pages, pictorial wrappers "This first comprehensive account of More's intellectual career traces the connections between his spiritual and public lives as they are revealed in his writings."

Good throughout with  corner bumps to covers and adjacent pages.  No inscriptions or markings and not price clipped.

Very good throughout with minimal signs of use.  No inscriptions or markings and not price clipped.

xiv+369 pages with glossary and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's grey cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original jacket. First edition. This is a collection of documents written between 1589 and 1646 that seeks to shed light on the problems of defining the term puritan and to delimit its uses within the context of the English Renaissance. The focal point of each document is its concern with the various images evoked by the use of the work puritan. Condition: A fine copy in like jacket.

Princeton UP, 1969. Hard Cover. xii, 463 p.; 24 cm. Twenty essays by the likes of J.R. Strayer, Utopia and Geneva , J.H. Hexter; Felix Gilbert, Lynn White; Florence and its university, 1348-1434, Gene R. Brucker; Erasmus and Alberto Pio, Prince of Carpi, Myron P. Gilmore... Syock#29587

London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Low, 1875. Fifth edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 24mo, 255 pages, blue cloth, spine darkened Pierre Terrail, aka Bayard or Bayart (ca. 1473-1524), embodied the principles of chivalry and mastered techniques of knightly arms in France. With Notes and Introduction by Walford. The Loyal Servant was Jacques de Mailles.

Osprey Publishing , 2013 Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. The castles built by the Crusaders, Hospitallers, Venetians and Genoese in Cyprus, Greece, the Aegean, and on the Black Sea served to defend against a complex array of constantly changing threats: Mamluks, Catalan mercenaries, Ottoman Turks, Byzantines, independent Islamic states, Timur-i-Lenk, and widespread piracy, to name but few. The resulting fortifications some inherited from conquered the territories of the former Byzantine empire, some built from scratch were very different to those found in the Middle East. This superbly illustrated book explores their design, development and fate in detail, documenting the rich architectural heritage of this region and its complex history.65p.illus. maps, bibliography, index. .

Metro Books, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 4to, 224 pages, cloth; inked name on endpaper With chapters on mounted samurai, skirmishers, pikemen, commanders, firearms, artillery, and siege techniques. With more than 300 color line drawings, photographs, and maps, with step-by-step demonstrations of skills and postures, including how to fire a bow, fight with a katena, pike combat and tactics, firing an harquebus, etc.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/VG+.No owner inscrptn, but price- clip to dw/dj.Glossy,laminated,colour scenic photograph illustrated dw/dj (ship replica under sail at sea); with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing and rubbing to edges - no major nicks or tears present.Top+ fore-edges very lightly aged but clean; contents bright, tight and near pristine.Bright,clean,red paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,9-206pp includes half-title+title pages colour photographic frntis, contents+illus lists,an introduction,9 chapters,32 b/w plates/ photographs,5 b/w text figures,14 b/w maps+plans,appendix (Mayflower passenger list),a bibliography and an index. The story of the Pilgrim Fathers has passed into the folklore of English and American history.But just what did they do and why? Mayflower Remembered sorts out these facts; traces the people from their little villages in the… Read More

This is a book for anyone who loves Boston--or for that matter, anyone with an interest in the richness of America's past. It recall a Boston that has long since vanished, but which ,in countless ways , remains a potent influence on the Boston--and the United States of today. The setting of Boston: 1689--1776 is a town of less than fifteen thusand inhabitants, struggling to surmount a series of devastating fires,smallpox epidemics, poor harvest , and harsh winters...This book reads like fiction, but it is in fact the tribulations and disaster that our ancestors experienced. Great Gift for any Bostonian, history buff, and even your parentsor grandparents'

Hippocrene Books, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. some light general edgewear to jacket.. 395pgs. including an Index. Bibliography. Formation Diagrams.

London: Longman, Brown, Green, 1848. First edition. Hardcover. Good . Engraved frontispiece. Octavo, 252 pages, contemporary 3/4 red morocco, marbled boards, extra-gilt Pierre Terrail, aka Bayard or Bayart, embodied the principles of chivalry and mastered techniques of knightly arms in France. Engraved frontispiece, woodcut coat-of-arms, woodcut decoration.

Annamalainagar, : Annamalai University, 1964. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo, 418 pages, printed wrappers; drip of white paint on spine Issued as Annamalai University Historical Series no. 20. Originally Krishnaswami's doctoral thesis, this published edition has been enlarged.

Leiden: P. Somerwil, 1885. Hardcover. Fair. Oblong portfolio, 7 pages, embossed blue cloth, broken ties, text block detached. Contains 31 ( of 36? ) panels of this chromolithographed panorama, 27 x 35 cm. [ Note: WorldCat cites no copy in the Americas ]. Offered "as is", with some nicks, with panels separating or separated. Note: this is the portfolio only, which has a description of the panels, but does not have the supplemental historical volume. Ex libris Albert Paul Marin Adrien Storm de Grave (1878-1952), lieutenant de cavalerie, ritmestre. This is one of several panoramic costume cavalcades which depict the Leidsche Studenten Corps re-enacting historical sights. In this case it is a parade of personages from the foundation of Leyden University in 1574, to its 310th anniversary in 1884, in 223 figures, by Gerardus J. Bos.

New in new dust jacket and signed by author. SHINING BOOKS IN SHINING JACKETS AND IN their ORIGINAL BLACK SLIP-CASE. UNTOUCHED, UNREAD, AND PERHAPS ONLY OPENED BY AUTHOR WHEN HE SIGNED IT AS A GIFT. BETWEEN THE TWO VOLUMES IS THE MAP VOLUME, ALSO UNOPENED, UNMARKED, CONTAINING MAPS OF THE BATTLES. Would be expensive to ship outside North America.