Search Results: History: Europe from The Owl at the Bridge

N.Y., Harper Torchback, 1962.. Soft Cover. 114 p. 20.5 cm. Paperback /good. France and Europe in the period 1550-1590. A few pencil underlinings. Stock #28,383.

"In this book one sees how democratically oriented political movements and their opposition were polarized and brought into one great conflict, throughout Europe and America, by the wars of the French Revolution from 1792-1800." "Second Printing 1965." 584 pages; 24 cm. Dust jacket has minor wear & rubbing; Very Good. Stock#ofc0594.

Providence, R.I., Brown UP, 1961. Adapted from the French, Napoleon et la Garde Imperiale, by Anne S. K. Brown. First edition. Hard Cover. xviii, 564 pages, 173 plates, 14 maps (2 folding); 27 cm. VG; no dj; inscribed by ASKB. Stock#29425.

Two volumes. Book One: Antiquity and the Middle Ages; The Renaissance Before the Great Discoveries; The Spice Trade; The Printed Word; The Christian Mission; India. xxviii, 492 pages, illus., endpaper maps; dj worn, one-inch tear from bottom of spine; good. Book Two: Southeast Asia. xii, 493-965 pages, illus.; dj shelfworn, chipped; Good+. Stock#ofc0126.

Bankers and Merchants of Siena [Italy]. In Italian. Chapters: Per un profilo di storia economica senese; Siena e il commercio internazionale nel Duecento e nel Trecento; La banca senese nei secoli XIII e XIV; I mercanti e il potere; I mercanti e la terra; L'argento e i sogni: cultura, immaginario, orizzonti mentali; Bibliografia. 384 pages, color & b/w illus. throughout; 33 cm.; color pictorial dust jacket edges slightly curled; Very Good+. Stock#ofc0251.

"From the mysterious cave drawings at Altamira to the explosive graffiti on the walls of East Los Angeles, images of Spain and the Americas speak to us of the great variety of Spanish culture. ...Combining a sophisticated perspective on world events and a novelist's eye for irony and metaphor, he weaves a historical narrative of dazzling color and vibrancy" (dust jacket). 399 pages, index, illus.; 26 cm. Very Good in VG pictorial dust jacket. Stock#ofc0445.

Two bookseller catalogues listing works on humanism and the Renaissance. 493 & 232 items, illus.; stapled in paper covers; Good. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0301.

Four bookseller catalogues on Renaissance & Baroque European history, literature, politics, government, society; a totl of 1631 titles. Stapled in paper covers; Good. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0299.

Four catalogues from William Salloch, bookman. 259: Part II. The Revival of Classical Antiquity. The Classical Tradition. Editiones Principes. 16th Century Editions of Classics. 210 items, index. 261 & 262: Parts III & IV. Renaissance in Italy and Italian Books of the 16th Century. 409 items, index. All stapled in pictorial paper covers; all Good+. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0300.

Heritage of the Ancient World; Foundations of the Middle Ages; Age of Barbarian Invasions; Justinian & Mohammed; Advance of Ecclesiastical Leadership; Making of Carolingian Kingship; Culture & Society in the First Europe; Ecclesia & Mundus; Byzantium, Islam, & the West; Europe in 1050; Gregorian World-Revolution; Anglo-Norman Monarchy & Emergence of the Bureaucratic State; First Crusade & After; Intellectual Expansion of Europe; Moslem & Jewish Thought: The Aristotelian Challenge; Varieties of Religious Experience; Entrenchment of Secular Leadership; Peace of Innocent III; New Consensus & its Limitations; Search for Order; Late Medieval & Renaissance Culture. xv, 604 pages; Very Good+ in VG+ dust jacket; gift quality. Stock#ofc0361.

Sections include The Character of the Classical Heritage; The Educational Inheritance; The Patristic Tradition; The Greek East; The Carolingian Age; the Pre-scholastic Age; The High Renaissance; The End of the Renaissance and the Appearance of New Patterns in Classical Education and Scholarship. vii, 592 pages, index, appendices, notes; red cloth, no dust jacket; Good. Stock#ofc0344.

Contents include Latin Manuscripts and their Catalogues (R.D. Sweeney, M.-Th. d'Alverny & M.-C. Garand); The Readers and Fortunes of Classical Manuscripts (L. Bieler, R.W. Hunt, G. Billanovich, R. Weiss, L. Gargan); Methods of Teaching and Scholarship (B. Bischoff, E. Jeauneau, A. Gerlo, J. Ijsewijn, E.J. Kenney; The Influence of Classical Literature (P. Courcelle, U. Drinke, D. Schaller, E.P.M. Drinke, B. Smalley, J.H. Whitfield, T. Kardos; The Influence of Classical Ideas (A.H. Armstrong, S. Viarre, C.N.J. Mann, F. Schalk, J.B. Trapp); Classical Themes Common to Literature and Art and Classical Influences in Architecture (E.H. Gombrich, T. Buddensieg, H. Burns). xvi, 320 pages, 12 plates, 6 text figures, index; Very Good in VG dust jacket. Bookplate of Samuel J. Hough. Stock#ofc0349.

[Harmondsworth], Penguin, [1982]. Soft Cover. 424 p., index, 18 cm. Translated by Audrey de Sélincourt with an introduction by R. M. Ogilvie. Stock#40084. Good+/ paper.

N.Y., Harvest Books [1975?]. HB-14. Soft Cover. x, 239 p.; 18.5 cm. "I have tried to envisage this great area as a single whole, of which the parts were in continuous communication with each other." Contents include The Revival of Commerce (Mediterranean, North Sea & the Baltic); The Towns (Revival of Urban Life; Merchants & the Bourgeoisie; Urban Institutions & Law); Land and the Rural Classes (Manorial Organization and Serfdom; Changes in Agriculture from the Beginning of the 12th Century); Commerce to the End of the 13th Century (Movement of Trade; Fairs; Money; Credit & the Traffic in Money); International Trade to the End of the 13th Century (Commodities & Directions of International Trade; The Capitalistic Character of International Trade); Urban Economy & the Regulation of Industry (Towns as Economic Centres. The Provisioning of the Towns; Urban Industry); Economic Changes of the 14th & 15th Centuries (Catasstrophes & Social Disturbances; Protectionism, Capitalism & Mercantilism); General… Read More

Penguin, 1999. Soft Cover. 309 p., index; 19.5 cm. "Being English used to be so easy. They were one of the most easily identified peoples on earth, recognized by their language, their manners, their clothes and the fact that they drank tea by the bucketload. ...the end of empire, the cracks opening in the so-called United Kingdom, the pressures for the English to plunge into Europe, and the uncontrollability of international business-- set me wondering. What did it mean to be English?" Contents incl. The Land of Lost Content, Funny Foreigners, The English Empire, 'True Born Englishmen' and Other Lies, We Happy Few, The Parish of the Senses, Home Alone, There Always Was an England, The Ideal Englishman, Meet the Wife; Old Country, New Clothes; Bibliography, p. 283-296. Paper; minor soiling to covers; VG. stock#45855.

Boston, Beacon Press [1961]. First published 1931. Soft Cover. 336 pages, 20 cm. Much student underlining. Stock#31767.

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.

Paris, Armand Colin, 1949. The first edition of a classic of history which altered the way history was conceived in the post-World War II era. Jack Hexter, in a brilliant and funny essay published in the Journal of Modern History (44: 4, December 1972), points out that Braudel's view of the longue durée developed during five years of imprisonment. Publication of this dissertation on the Mediterranean region eventually rocked the historical world. "Les sources": pages [1161]-1128. xv, 1160 pages, index, 26 cm. Lacks original paper wraps (as issued); recently bound in maroon cloth over boards, black spine label stamped in gold; Very Good. Stock#39638/house.

Six bookseller catalogues listing books on the Middle Ages. 710, 600, 637, 347, 709, and 370 items respectively, the last three indexed; a few illustrations; all stapled in pictorial paper covers; all Very Good except 224 which is worn. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0259.

xi, 500 p., 9 illus., 3 maps, tables; 20 cm. Compass book edition C164. Second printing. "First published in 1948, this engrossing narrative briliantly examines the fateful events leading up to Munich and the crisis of 1938... In a 1962 Foreword... [he] re-examines his conclusions and relates them to today's theories about the Munich crisis." Stock#Neu414.