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Gothic Art.
by Martindale, Andrew.
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- 1967
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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.
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The Age of the Baroque, 1610-1660
by Friedrich, Carl J. (Joachim), 1901-1984
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- c1952
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xv, 367 p., 49 illus., 12 leaves of plates, portraits, maps (on lining paper); 22 cm. Series: The Rise of modern Europe. Subjects include: Baroque in life and letters -- in art and music; Religion, philosophy and the sciences; Dutch ascendancy; Thirty Years' War; France under Richelieu and Mazarin; Parliament, Civil War, Commonwealth. Stock#48131-3.
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The Dawn of a New Era, 1250-1453
by Cheyney, Edward P. (Potts), 1861-1947
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x p., 2 leaves, 389 p., 50 illus., 2 maps, plates, portraits; 23 cm. Series: The Rise of Modern Europe. Contents: The expansion of trade and the increase of wealth; Merchant princes and bankers; The rise of the middle class: the development of representative government; Popular insurrections; The Hundred Years' War; The decline of the Church: the weakening of… Read more
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Western Civilization
by Langer, William L. (Leonard), 1896-1977, editor.
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- 1968
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872 p., illus., maps, 26 cm. European civilization from about 1715 to the early years of the Cold War. Besides being well written and illustrated, the annotated bibliography is a good guide to the literature. Stock#48094.
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Europe Divided 1559-1598
by Elliott, J. H. (John Huxtable), 1930-
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- [1969, c1968]
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432 p., 4 genealogical tables, 6 maps; 20 cm. Published as part of the Fontana History of Europe series edited by J. H. Plumb, this covers the complex 40 years 1559-1598 by one of the great historians of his era. Stock#48037.
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Choiseul, 1719-1785
by Chaussinand-Nogaret, Guy
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- 1998
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Paris, Perrin, 1998. Soft Cover. 362, [6] p. Biography of Duc Etienne de Choiseul, politician, statesman; he negotiated the peace treaty to end the Seven Years War in 1763. Stock#30882. Vg/stiff wrappers.
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The Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance
by Baron, Hans, b. 1900
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- 1955
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Princeton University Press, 1955.. Hard Cover. VOLUME TWO ONLY, x, [379]- 656 p., 22 cm. Hans Baron, refugee from German tyranny, saw, in the political writings of Florentines Coluccio Salutati and Leonaro Bruni in the period 1395-1405, expressions of republican, liberal freedom that heralded a new spirit. Baron created the idea of civic humanism; his thesis was central to… Read more
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Naples: an Early Guide
by Bacco, Enrico, Cesare d'Engenio Caracciolo, et al.
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N.Y. Italica Press, 1991.. Soft Cover. ed. & transl. Eileen Gardiner, introductory essays by Caroline Bruzelius & Ronald G. Musto. lxxxix, 176 p., index, maps, plans, illus.; Stock #28,123x. Fine/paper. Italian history, culture, guidebook.
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The Medieval Foundations of England.
by Sayles, G. O.
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Methuen, London [1958]. Hard Cover. xxv, 482 p., index. "A thousand years of historical development-- social, economic, ecclesiastical, and cultural as well as strictly political." Blue cloth; ink blot on flyleaf, no dj; VG. Stock#23330.
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The Growth of London AD 43-1964
by Victoria and Albert Museum
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London, V & A, 1964. Soft Cover. x, 102 p., illus., 25 cm. "The same name is used to describe the original city of London sited on the north bank of the River Thames, the administrative county of London created in 1888, and the whole sprawing built-up area with its eight million inhabitants." Stock# 34,460. Vg/ paper
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Historiae Tomus Posterior [Volume II only].
by Thucydidis.
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Oxford, Clarendon, 1949. Hard Cover. The Greek edition of Henry Stuart Jones, first published 1901. Series: Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis. Pagination by book; has pencil student's textual notes of Albert Cook, poet, critic, translator of Homer. Good + no dj. (14710)
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Ecumenism in the Age of the Reformation
by Nugent, Donald
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Cambridge, Harvard UP, 1974. Hard Cover. xi, 258 p. front., 21.5 cm. The Colloquy of Poissy held in 1561, on the eve of the Religious Wars, was a failed effort to achieve understanding between Catholics and Protestants. Stock #28,452. Vg/ dj good. History; religion; philosophy; Europe.
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Creative Imitation. New Essays on Renaissance Literature in Honor of Thomas M. Greene.
by Greene, Thomas M.]
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Binghamton, MRTS, 1992. Hard Cover. xiii, 441 p.; 23.5 cm.; 8 figures in text. Fourteen essays on European literature-- Italian, French, English. Vg/no dj as issued. stock#101886x.
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Les Bourgeois Gentilhommes: An Essay on the Definition of Elites in Renaissance France
by Huppert, George
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Chicago UP, [1977]. Hard Cover. xii, 237 p., index; 23.5 cm. Vg/ dj slightly worn. Huppert identifies a new class which emerged from the wealthiest merchant families and invested their capital in land, education and royal offices. Stock #28,339. Social history & culture.
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Twentieth Century Europe. A History. Second Edition, Revised. Maps by Theodore A. Miller.
by Black, C. E. (Cyril Edwin) & E. C. (Ernst Christian) Helmreich
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Knopf, NY, 1959. 'Revised, Reset, and Printed from New Plates'. Hard Cover. xxi, 865, xxii p., index, illus. Includes World War I; Treaty of Versailles; Experiments in International Organization; Soviet Union, 1917-28; Weimar Republic; Establishment of Fascist Italy; France During the Twenties; United Kingdom and the Empire; World Depression; Smaller Powers in the Interwar Period (Lowlands, Scandinavia, Switzerland, Danubian… Read more
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Shakespeare Country.
by Hill, Susan. Talbot, Rob, photographer. Whiteman, Robin.
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Michael Joseph, London [c1987]. Hard Cover. "With photographs by Rob Talbot in association with Robin Whiteman." Stratford-upon-Avon, Charlecote, Chipping Campden, Hidcote Manor Gardens, Around Alcester, Henley-in-Arden and two jewels, Kenilworth, Warwick, From Edge Hill, Upton House. 192 p., index, color photos throughout, 24.5 cm.; navy cloth boards, spine stamped in gold; no dj; VG. 33990.
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Massimo D'Azeglio al Castello di Envie
by Pavesio, P. [Paolo]
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Torino, Eredi Botta, 1901. Soft Cover. 32p., 24.5 cm. IV Congresso Storico Subalpino. Stock# 41,315. Offprint. Vg, ink inscription / paper. Italian literature, history.
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Furia Española
by Cleugh, James, 1891-1969
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- [1964]
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Barcelona, Juventud [1964]. Hard Cover. 232 p., index; 22.5 cm. Translation of "Spanish Fury: the story of a civil war", first published London, 1962. Stock#38970. Vg/ dj, fair, worn.
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Venice: The Most Triumphant City
by Bull, George
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London, Folio Society, 1980. Hard Cover. 192 p. 88 illustration in color, 24 cm. 'A city out of time, Venice is perpetually recreated as a work of art through the eyes of the artist and writer.' Stock #27,967. Vg/no dj. Italian History
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The Life of Charles Stewart Parnell, with an Account of His Ancestry
by Sherlock, Thomas
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Boston, Murphy & McCarthy / Providence, 1881. Hard Cover. 202 p., [1] leaf of plates, port.; 19.5 cm. Although a Protestant, Parnell led the Irish movement for home rule. Called the "uncrowned king of Ireland", this was published just when he invented the boycott tactic. Could there be a more Irish publisher than Murphy & McCarthy? Stock#46398. Vg, spine… Read more
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