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Florence As Described by Great Writers, Collected and Edited by Esther Singleton... With Numerous Illustrations.

Singleton, Esther, ed · 1910

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

New York, Dodd, Mead and company, 1910. Hardcover. xii, 358 p. front, plates. 22 cm. Very good condition .

The Travels of Marco Polo <the Venetian> Revised from Marsden's Translation and Edited with Introduction by Manuel Komroff.

Polo, Marco · 0

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

New York, Boni & liveright, c1936. 4th printing. Hardcover. 370 p. Very good condition/good.

Roman Life in Pliny's Time, by Maurice Pellisson; Tr. From the French by Maud Wilkinson, with an Introduction by Frank Justus Miller...

Pellisson, Maurice · 0

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

Philadelphia, George W. Jacobs and Co, c1897. Hardcover. xviii, 315 p. front. illus. 20 cm. Good condition, spine darkened .

Estudos Sobre a Bahia Cabralia a Vera-Cruz

Aragão, Salvador Pires de Carvalho e · 1899

$220.00 (€199.60 | £166.52 | ¥35,131)

Bahia, Reis, 1899. Hardcover. iv, 104 p. [41] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Good condition, leather spine chipped and worn, some plates foxed Salvador Pires de Carvalho e Aragão was a 19th-century Bahian historian and publicist known for documenting early Portuguese explora...

Sketches and Views, Points of Interest, Richmond, Virginia. : Description and Map, Historic Battlefields.

Burgess, Mary Abigail (Smith) · 1904

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

Richmond, M.A. Burgess , 1904. Paperback. 104 p. illus. (incl. port.) map. 17 cm. Good condition, faint damp stain upper corner v .

The Life and Times of Aaron Burr... By James Parton... Enl. Ed. , with Numerous Appendices, Containing New and Interesting Information...

Parton, James · 1892

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1892. Hardcover. 2 v. fronts. (ports.) 23 cm. Very good condition Shipping weight 4.5 lbs.

History of the Hartford Convention: With a Review of the Policy of the United States Government Which Led to the War of 1812. By Theodore Dwight...

Dwight, Theodore · 1833

$345.00 (€313.02 | £261.14 | ¥55,092)

New York, N. & J. White, 1833. First edition. Hardcover. 447 p. 22 cm. Very good condition References: Sabin 21554; Howes D612; Shaw & Shoemaker 18462 A primary source documenting one of the most controversial political episodes in early American history. Written by Theodore D...

The War in Kansas. A Rough Trip to the Border, Among New Homes and a Strange People

Brewerton, George Douglas · 1856

$144.00 (€130.65 | £109.00 | ¥22,995)

New York, Derby & Jackson, 1856. Hardcover. xii, [13]-400 p. front. (port.) plates. 19 cm. Very good condition. Rebacked with original backstrip. Plates and text clean; binding sound. References: Howes B763; Sabin 7749; Wagner-Camp 275. This firsthand account offers a vivid po...

Lee's Lieutenants, a Study in Command, by Douglas Southall Freeman

Freeman, Douglas Southall · 1942

$69.00 (€62.60 | £52.23 | ¥11,018)

New York, C. Scribner's sons, 1942-44. Hardcover. 3 v. illus. (ports.) maps (part fold.) 24 cm. Good condition/tattered.

A Complete History of England, Deduced from the Descent of Julius Caesar to the Treaty of Aix la Chapelle, 1748...

Smollett, Tobias · 1757

$1,380.00 (€1,252.06 | £1,044.55 | ¥220,368)

London, Printed for James Rivington & James Fletcher, 1757-58. First edition. Hardcover. 4 vols. plates : map ; 27cm. Very good condition, in full contemporary calf, worn and rubbed, with scuffing and some edgewear; spines with raised bands and red and black leather spine labe...

La Chine: Des Pays Et Des Hommes

Meaux Saint Marc, Françoise, ed. · 0

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Paris, Larousse, c1983. Hardcover. 140 p. [3] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 30 cm. very good condition, slight damp warping in upper margin .

Highlanders : A History of the Scottish Clans

Maclean, Fitzroy · 1995

$21.00 (€19.05 | £15.90 | ¥3,353)

New York, Viking Studio Books, 1995. Hardcover. xi, 276 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 30 cm. Very good condition, small coffee stain edge of fly leaf/good.

The Hebrides at War

Hughes, Mike · 2001

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Edinburgh, Birlinn Limited, 2001. Paperback. 119 pages : illustrations ; 20 x 27 cm. Very good condition .

Sea People : The Puzzle of Polynesia / Christina Thompson

Thompson, Christina · 2019

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

New York, Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2019. First printing. Hardcover. xvi, 365 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm. Very good condition/good, How did the earliest Polynesians reach these far-flung isla...

We Are Lincoln Men" : Abraham Lincoln and His Friends / David Herbert Donald

Donald, David Herbert · 2003

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

New York, Simon & Schuster, c2003. First printing. Hardcover. viii, 269 p. [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. Very good condition/good.

Blood of the Celts : The New Ancestral Story

Manco, Jean · 2015

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

New York, Thames & Hudson, 2015. Hardcover. 240 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. Very good condition/very good, The heritage of the Celts turns up from Portugal to Romania, from Scotland to Spain. Yet debate continues about who exactly were the Celts, where ultimately they...

A Soldier of the Cumberland: Memoir of Mead Holmes Jr. , Sergeant of Company K, 21st Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers. By His Father. With an Introduction by John S. Hart... 9

Holmes, Mead · 0

$81.00 (€73.49 | £61.31 | ¥12,935)

Boston, American Tract Society, c1864. Hardcover. xiv, 15-240 p. incl. front. (port.) plates. 17 cm. Very good condition, small repaired edge tear on t.p. gift inscription on flyleaf A firsthand account of the experiences of a Union soldier during the American Civil War; it ca...

Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands from 1848 to 1861. To Which Are Prefixed and Added Extracts from the Same Journal Giving an Account of Earlier Visits to Scotland, and Tours in England and Ireland, and Yachting Excursions. Edited by Arthur Helps

Victoria, Queen of England · 1868

$1,093.00 (€991.67 | £827.32 | ¥174,538)

London, Smith, Elder and Co. 1868. Second edition. Hardcover. 2 p.l. [vii]-xv, [3], 315, [1] p. 22 cm. Very good condition, preliminary leaves lightly foxed, inner front hinge cracked Inscribed: Presented to Mr. Robert H. Chester by Victoria R.

As Lincoln Wanted It / by James E. Edmonds.

Edmonds, James E. (James Ezekiel) · 1950

$23.00 (€20.87 | £17.41 | ¥3,673)

New York, Carlton Press, c1964. Hardcover. 257 p. ; 21 cm. Inscribed and signed by the author. Very good condition/good, While Lincoln serves as an inspirational figure, the book’s primary emphasis lies in its examination of broader racist themes of the 1950's & 60's, making i...

General Smuts, by Sarah Gertrude Millin

Millin, Sarah Gertrude Liebson · 1936

$52.00 (€47.18 | £39.36 | ¥8,304)

London, Faber and Faber, 1936. Hardcover. 2 v. (394, 496p.) illus. front. ports. 24 cm. Very good condition, gift inscription on flyleves A detailed and sympathetic account of Jan Smuts's contributions to politics, military strategy, and philosophy. Smuts was a key figure in s...