from The Owl at the Bridge

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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)

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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