Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. Hardbound. Forest green buckram with gold lettering; dark green pictorial dj with white lettering; 877 pp. total; 4 bw illustrations in each volume. The annual expenditure accounts recorded in this Registe provide a marvellously complete picture of a Cluniac monastery, a house containing 15 monks..... More
Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1981. Hardcover. Terracotta cloth/boards with black lettering. White/black dj with bw lettering. 314 pp.a with several tables/charts and maps, all in bw. Fifteen original essays focus on the global impact of the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade. The essays explore the ironies and..... More
Boston: Leroy Phillips, 1920. Softbound. Original printed stiff paper wraps. 40 tipped-in color plates following a 2-page Preface and a 2-page Introduction (these p[atges still uncut) Each color plate has an accompanying page of written annotation and most also have a vignette after the annotation. A great reading copy that..... More
New Haven, Conn. Yale University Press, 2001. Hardcover. Black cloth, gilt letters on spine, yellow & color illus. dust jacket in mylar cover, 365 pp., 39 BW plates. Series: The History of the European Family, v. 1. The first of a 3-volume set. This collection of 9 essays begins the..... More
Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate / The Navy Records Society, 2013. Hardcover. Navy bluecloth, gilt letters on spine, gilt decoration on front cover, 777 pp., no illus. Provides details of the operations of Britain's Royal Navy during the reign of Elizabeth I (1558-1603), including treasurer's reports, papers relating to wages, and..... More
Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington Vermont: Ashgate for the Navy Records Society, 2011. Hardcover. Navy blue cloth boards with gilt cover decoration and spine titles. XLI, 652 pp. Includes several maps. The reigns of Edward VI and Mary I remain largely by-passed in naval history, yet it was a vital time..... More
London: Kogan Page Ltd., 1982. Hardbound. Red cloth with gold lettering; red and white dj with white lettering; 160 pp. with 4 pp. bw photographs. An inner look at the British Labour Party in the late 1970s and early 1980s. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1866. Hardcover. Spring green cloth/boards. Black lettering. xxii, 638 with double-page bw frontis, title page illustrations, and 36 bw illustrations; large folding map at back, illustrating Livingstone's travels. 6 pages of adverts at back. Written in 29 chapters plus an introduction about The Zambesi..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1917. Softcover. Blue stiff paper wraps, stapled, with 26 pp. and fold-out colour map. Discusses Romanian nationality, ethnicity, history, territory, linguistics, etc., along with how those things are/were intertwined with the Hungarians/Magyars. The map shows the distribution of Rumanians, Germans, Ruthenes, Magyars, Serbs, and Bulgars, as..... More
Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2015. Hardcover. Black ridged boards, gilt letters on spine, black & color illus. dust jacket, 297 pp., 12 color plates, sundry BW illus. "Tells the history of Christianity from the sixteenth century through the present by selecting the visual themes of faith that have..... More
London, England: Oxford University Press, 1971. First. Hardbound. Black cloth boards with gold lettering, [lxxxvii] 671 pp, plus 13 BW plates. From the publisher: The Paston family papers provide an incomparable picture of life in fifteenth-century England, and richly illustrate the resources of the language at an important period. They..... More
Jerusalem / Leiden: The Magnes Press, The Hebrew University, E. J. Brill, 1982. Hardcover. Royal blue cloth, gilt letters on spine and front cover, black & illus. dust jacket, 232 pp. "Proves that the Jews were not a party to the pagan-Christian polemic, but that the Jews' very existence and..... More
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. Hardbound. Navy cloth with gilt lettering on spine and motif on front cover; 734 pp. without illustrations. Includes the period between the wars, the Relief of Gibralter, and the Leeward Islands; with a list of documents and sources. More
Oxford: OUP, 1984. Softcover. Olive/black wraps with khaki lettering. 300 pp. with no illus. A major re-evaluation of the cultural, political, and sociological assumptions which have been held to distinguish the 'peculiar' course of modern German history from that of other western nations. Deals with the special character of the..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Hardcover. Black cloth boards, gray/green dj with color illus., [xiv] 312 pp., bw photo frontispiece. From the publisher: This volume ranges widely across the social, religious and political history of revolution in seventeenth-century Britain and Ireland, from contemporary responses to the outbreak of war..... More
Oxford, England: Blackwell, 1992. Softcover. Mauve illus. wraps; 484 pp.; 8 bw figures. An in-depth look at Venice between 1450 and 1630; Divided into 10 parts: General Descriptions; Authority and Government; Law, Order and Social Policy; Public and Private Wealth; 'The Present Face of Religion Here'; Social Orders; Charity and..... More
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1967. Hardcover. Orange cloth, tan and black and illus. dust jacket in mylar cover; 343 pp., 8 BW illus., 2 maps. A complete history of the Creek Indians during the colonial period. "The Creek Indians, who occupied Alabama, Georgia, and much of northern Florida from..... More
London: Trustees of the Wallace Collection, 1992. Softcover. Blue illus. wraps with white lettering; 16 colored plates with descriptions and an introduction. More
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1879, circa. Hardcover. Red publisheras cloth with applied paper labels to all volumes. Top edges gilt. A very nice, complete set. There is not date provided in any of the six volumes. Date is derived from Worldcat entry and is approximate. More
Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1988. reprint. Hardcover. Navy boards with gilt lettering. Color-illus. dj with white lettering on mocha spine. 489 pp. with 91 bw illus. Memory, history, and relics of earlier times shed light on the past, but the past they reveal is not simply what happened; it..... More
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1950, 1966. Second Printing. Hardcover. 2 vols. Maroon cloth, black title blocks with gilt letters on spines, 1661 pp., no illus. The complete two-volume set of this selective history of the region of Asia Minor. So well researched and documented that the first volume..... More
London: Reaktion Books Ltd., 1998. Hardcover. Evergreen cloth/boards; gilt lettering. Illustrated, spring-green dj with black lettering on spine. 367 pp. with 81 bw illus. Matless challenges the pervasive contemporary equation of landscape, Englishness and nostalgia, showing it to be a recent cultural formation and the contested nature of this vision..... More
London, England: Oxford University Press, 1976. First. Hardbound. Blue cloth boards with gold lettering, [xxxiv] 664 pp, plus 13 BW plates. From the publisher: The Paston family papers provide an incomparable picture of life in fifteenth-century England, and richly illustrate the resources of the language at an important period. They..... More
Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State University Press, 1989. Hardcover. Glossy grey boards with color photo and white lettering. 107 pp. with color and bw images throughout. Includes an introduction and chapters on symbolic forms, horse imagery in Native American art, iconographic problems, twined bags, otter imagery in the Midewiwin, pipe tomahawks..... More
New York, New York: Abbeville Press, 1991. Hardcover. Black cloth over boards; Color illus. dj.; 192 pp.; Profusely illustrated. Explores the reign of Henry VIII, including his palace at Greenwich, his various wives, and his court, which made England a major cultural center of Europe; Features essays on armor, medals..... More
