Search Results: History- Britain & Europe from Lawrence Jones

New York: Barnes & Noble, 1993. 207pp, index, bw ills. Or tan papered boards with gray cloth spine in jacket. Very light marking to page edges. Places the Norman conquest in the context of the entire dramatic year it took place. . Reprint. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Floyd, Gareth.. 8vo.

Barcelona: Lunwerg Editores, 2000. 297pp, illustrated throughout, glossary, bibliography. Illustrated light card cover with integral flaps. In this book, divided into three sections, 'the author makes an entertaining but rigorous analysis of the development of Spanish photography from the first daguerrotype, taken in 1839, up to the lastest and most regenerating photographic trends in the country'. For this edition the author has revised the texts published in the previous two editions, added new photographs, updated information and qualified a few ofhis opinions and observations in the light of recent discoveries.. Third Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 8vo.

New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2015. xii, 370pp, index, bibliography, notes, bw ills. or boards in jacket. Near new. The bizarre nazi plot to make Edward VIII, Duke of Windsor, a puppet king, the alleged affair between Wallace Simpson and the German foreign minister and top-secret correspondence about Edward and Nazi high command. A saga of intrigue, betrayal and deception suffused with sex and suspicion.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

London: Greenhill Books, 2005. 368pp, index, sources, order of battle, appendices, bw ills, maps. Or boards in jacket. Near new. Revealing new study of Napoleon's greatest victory.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1966. viii, 312pp, index, bibliography, maps, bw ills. Or brown cloth in pictorial jacket. Black lines on top and bottom edges, something removed from rear free endpaper ( possibly ex-lib). Jacket price clipped and flaps trimmed close to print. Eyewitness acounts of Napoleon's defeat in Russia.. First Printing. Hard Cover. Near Very Good/Good. 8vo.

Sydney: William Heinemann, 2013. xxix, 704pp, index, bibliography, notes/references, appendices, bw ills, maps. Or boards in jacket. Page edges tanned. In 1914 European leaders chose war and brought about the death of the old world-here we get a clear sense of what happened and why.. First Australian Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

London: Selden Society., 2021. HEAVY. 2 VOLUMES. lix, 936pp, index, appendices. Or blue cloth. Near new. Eyre rolls of Hugh Bigod, justiciar of England from June 1258 to October 1260 including actions against Henry III.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 4to.

London: Macmillan & Co., 1900. HEAVY. 2 volumes (complete). xiii, 391; ix, 407pp; indexeschronology, bw ills, folding maps. Blue cloth with title and vignette in gilt, top edge gilt. Volume I hinge cracked at half-title, Volume II with minor flecking to cloth. Both volumes have prev owner name on front free endpaper, small bookseller label to front pastedown and offset toning to endpapers. Attractive set covering the history of Sicily, Calabria and Malta from the times of the ancient Greeks and Romans.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/None, as Issued.. 8vo.

London: Bracken Books, 1996. xiii, 313 pages, b/w ills, maps, index. Paperback. The book reconstructs the past from the rich traces that remain and includes discussion of the complex architecture of the later Gothic cathedrals and Tudor mansions in addition to furniture and the manner and habits of the English.. New Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Utgefandi, Iceland. 1984-1991: Olafsfjardarkaupstadur, 1984. VERY HEAVY-will require additional postage to most destinations. 3 volume set-complete in slipcase. 334, 404, 378pp; index, bw & col ills, endpaper maps. Blue leather (faux?) in jackets with slipcase. Volume 3 has some bug marks to edges but otherwise all volumes show only minor edge wear to jacket. TEXT IN ICELANDIC. Extensive local history of the small town of Olafsfjordur in northern Iceland with a population of only 785 in 2019. It is located north of Akureiry right on the Arctic Ocean coastline. Volume 1 (1984) Saga Olafsfjardar 1883-1944 Pettbylismundun, fiskveidar og fiskvinnsla (the commercial side of town-fishing, fishing industry etc). Volume 2 (1988) Saga Olafsfjardar 1883-1944 (social life) and Volume 3 (1991) Saga Olafsfjardar eftir 1945 (town & community after 1945). 1944 was chosen as the year of changes as it was the year Iceland gained independence from Denmark.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972. 3 volumes (complete). 884pp (total) + prelims/bibliographies. Black cloth in jackets. Ex-library with usual stamps etc (inc withdrawn stamps). Slight fading to spines, light foxing. A nice set. Vol 1: Early Times to te Late Seventeenth Century; Vol 2:Peter the great to Nicholas I; Vol 3 Alexander II to the february Revolution.Include selections representing about 700 primary sources dealing with political, legal, and administrative history (including central and local government, armed forces, revolutionary movements); economic history; social, cultural and intellectual history (including literature, science, education, religion, the press); history of the Lithuanian Russian state, the Ukraine, Belorussia, Siberia, the Cossacks, history of Russion expansion, history of non-Russian nationalities; diplomatic history and the history of Russian foreign relations. Approx 75% of the items have not previously been published in English. Important reference.. First… Read More

London: The Folio Society, 2001. VERY HEAVY-will require additional postage if mailed outside Australia. 5 volumes complete in slipcase. xxvi, 364; xvii, 330; xviii, 342; xxxi, 321; xv, 486pp; indexes, references, bw& col ills, maps. Or decorative cloth in slipcase. All volumes have some foxing to page edges, some have some tiny dark spots-otherwise very nice. . Second Folio Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Slipcase. Small 4to.

Basingstoke: Drive Publications, 1983. HEAVY. 448 pages, more than 400 full-colour and 100 b/w illustrations, 26 pages of colourful maps. Cloth-backed pictorial boards in price-clipped dust-jacket. The villages, chosen and described by authors who know and love the places about which they write, are arranged in alphabetical order, from Abbots Bromley to Zennor. Experts in a dozen aspects of rural life discuss topics from cottage gardens to village history. Five famous personalites who have strong links with the countryside give 'guided tours' of their favourite villages.. Reprint with Amendments. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to.

Secaucus: Chartwell Books Inc, 1990. 127 pages, illustrated throughout with color photos, glossary, index, end-paper maps. Cloth boards in dust-jacket. 'A broad spectrum of places have been abaondoned over the centuries for different reasons, such as natural disaster, social strife, and the abandonment of emptied gold mines.The authors give a description of what each site was like in its heyday, with examples from all over the world, the reasons its original inhabitants abandoned it, and what the site is like today [1990s].. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to.

London: Millington Ltd, 1974. xvi, 238pp, biographical note, index. Prev owner's details on the toned front flyleaf. Or cloth boards in dust-jacket. This study describes the known life of Abelard, the medieval philosopher and explores the legend of Heloise.. First UK Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1944. 97 pages. Prelims, endpages and page edges foxed with occasional foxing throughout. Papered boards in edge-worn dust-jacket. An Australia's record of her time in the Warwickshire countryside.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo.

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991. xx, 579pp, index, bibliographical notes, maps. Or green papered boards with red cloth spine in jacket. Slightest of shelf wear to jacket. Sophisticated and innovative account of the conduct of war from the Battle of Breitenfeld in 1631 to Waterloo in 1815.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Large 8vo.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002. 478pp, b/w ills, map of the Military Campaigns of Napoleon 1796-1812, index. This is the biography of 'an enigmtic and legendary personality as well as the portrait of an entire age.. Mariner Books Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Edison, NJ: Castle Books, 2003. 402pp, indexsources, bibliography, radiocarbon dates, bw ills. or red boards in jacket. The prehistory of Britain and Ireland between 3000 and 1000 BC.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

New York: Pegasus, 2015. x, 326pp, index, bibliography, bw & col ills, map. Or boards in jacket. Near new. Review copy with review slip loosely inserted. Dynamic account of the Battle of Agincourt (1415).. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.