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Berlin, Germany: Press and Information Office of the Land Berlin, 1967 Press and Information Office of the Land Berlin, Berlin, Germany. 1967. Softcover/Trade Wraps. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for former owner stamp on title page and rear of front wrap; former owner bookplate on rear of front wrap. Book Condition: VG; scratches to wraps. Pictorial Wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split. 111 pp. A look at the German capital in 1967. This booklet is intended to provide you quickly with the full facts about the German capital. Together with the introductory historical section, the figures, facts and tables provide a well-founded survey of the city. A very presentable and clean copy.
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Berlin; In Brief
by John K. Brose, Editor
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Charlemagne's Mustache and Other Cultural Clusters of a Dark Age (The New Middle Ages)
by Paul Edward Dutton
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New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009 Palgrave Macmillan, New York. 2009. Softcover/Trade Wraps. Stated First Edition/ First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Fine. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 279 pp 8vo. This book presents the reader with seven engaging studies of cultural life and thought in the Carolingian world: Why did Charlemagne have a mustache and why did hair matter? Why did the king own peacocks and other exotic animals? Why was he writing in bed and could he write at all? How did medieval kings become stars? How were secrets kept and conveyed in the early Middle Ages? Does the world age with the aged? And why did early medieval peoples believe in storm- and hailmakers? The answers are often surprising. A clean very presentable copy.
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Chaucer's The Prologue and The Knightes Tale
by A.M. Van Dyke, Editor
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New York, NY: American Book Company, 1898 American Book Company, New York. c1898. Hardcover. First Edition (NAP). Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light shelfwear to tips; small mottling patch at head; light soiling to boards. No DJ. Brown cloth over boards with dark brown lettering on the spine; brown lettering and decorations on front board. Clean internals; interior hinges are sound and not split. 150 pp 16mo. Geoffrey Chaucer was a great epic poet of the 1300s who is buried in Westminster Abbey, and is recognized today as the father of English literature. The General Prologue is the first part of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. It introduces the frame story, in which a group of pilgrims traveling to the shrine of Thomas Becket in Canterbury agree to take part in a storytelling competition, and describes the pilgrims themselves. The Knightes Tale) is the first tale from Chaucer's magnum opus, The Canterbury Tales. The Knight is described by Chaucer in…
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China Classics; 1. Majolica
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Watkins Glen, NY: Century House, 1949 Century House, Watkins Glen, NY. 1949. Hardcover. First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for former owner name on the front pastedown. Book Condition: Good +; wear to head, tail, and tips from shelving; suntanning and light wear to spine; small splash stains to textblock top. No DJ. Green tweed boards and spine with gilt titles on spine and front board; front board title outlined in gilt shadowbox. Non-paginated 8vo. This was the first book in the series to assist china collectors. This pottery was probably the first made for export and the first art product of the Renaissance marking the end of Medieval and beginning of Modern Times. It has been made in Italy and all the countries of Europe from 1500 to the present. Through discussion and B&W photos the author describes the various types of Majolica from country to country through the years with a large section on maker's marks. A clean very presentable copy.
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The Great Pox; The French Disease in Renaissance Europe
by Jon Arrizabalaga, John Henderson, Roger French.
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New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996 Yale University Press, New Haven, CT. 1996. Hardcover. First Printing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for former owner blindstamp and signature on the FFFP. Blue-green boards and spine with bright silver lettering on the spine. 352 pp. After the Great Death swept across Europe, The Great Pox known as the French Disease, brought a different type of horror; it did not kill rapidly, it stayed in the body for years causing acute pain, disfigurement, and ultimately an agonizing death. The disease confused the medical theory of the time, struck across all society, and all through Italy, France, and Germany. A clean pristine copy.
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A History of War and Weapons 449 to 1660: English Warfare from the Anglo-Saxons to Cromwell
by A.V.B. Norman, Don Pottinger
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1966 Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New york. 1966. Hardcover. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for ex-military library stamp on front pastedwown. Book Condition: Near Fine; light bumping to head and heel of spine. DJ: VG; chipping and small pieces missing at top and bottom of cover at spine. Light brown boards and spine with strong black lettering on spine. 224 pp 8vo. The evolution of warfare and weapons in England from the time of the Anglo-Saxon invasions to the founding of the first modern army is skillfully surveyed in this study, which features nearly two hundred authentically detailed, but clear and uncomplicated line drawings. The variety of weapons is matched by descriptions and illustrations of the men who wielded them, and of castles, forts, and battle strategies. A clean and very presentable copy in Brodart mylar.
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A History of the Medieval Church 590-1500
by Margaret Deanesly
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London, UK: Methuen & Co. LTD, 1957 Methuen & Co. LTD, London, UK. 1957. Hardcover. Stated Eighth Edition/Reprinted 1957. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; light bumping to head; light bump to bottom of front board; small scuff to rear board at tip. DJ: Very Good +; Price Clipped; light suntoning to spine; slight bumping to head and tail. Black cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. Clean internals; internal hinges are sound and not split. 284 pp 12mo. This book is intended to fill the need of a readable, accurate, and moderate sized volume dealing with the medieval period of Church history, and covers both European and English Church history between the accession of Gregory the Great and the Reformation. This book is intended for students and the general reader with its broad general outline. It also represents the Church at work in society in the different epochs. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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Midnight Thief
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New York, NY : Hyperion, 2014 Hyperion, New York. 2014. Hardcover. Stated First Edition/First Printing by Line Number. Signed by the author on the half title page Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; light bumping to head, tail, and lower tips; light board bottom shelfwear. DJ: Near Fine; NOT Price Clipped ($16.99); light edge bumping along top edge. Black boards and spine with bright blue lettering on the spine. 376 pp 8vo. Growing up on Forge's streets has taught Kyra how to stretch a coin. And when that's not enough, her uncanny ability to scale walls and bypass guards helps her take what she needs. But when the leader of the Assassins Guild offers Kyra a lucrative job, she hesitates. She knows how to get by on her own, and she's not sure she wants to play by his rules. But he is persistent-and darkly attractive-and Kyra can't quite resist his pull. Tristam of Brancel is a young Palace knight on a mission. After his best friend is brutally murdered by the…
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The Praise of Folly
by Desiderius Erasmus; Leonard Dean, Translator
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Chicago, IL : Packard and Company / University Classics, 1946 Packard and Company / University Classics, 1946. Hardcover. Reprint edition of the 1511 original. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light bumping to head and tail; light shelfwear to head, tail, and tips. No DJ. Khaki cloth boards and spine with gilt lettering in black shadowboxes on the spine. Clean internals. Interior hinges are sound and not split. 152 pp 8vo. In Praise of Folly begins with a satirical learned encomium, in which Folly praises herself, in the manner of the Greek satirist Lucian (2nd century AD), whose work Erasmus and Sir Thomas More had recently translated into Latin; it then takes a darker tone in a series of orations, as Folly praises self-deception and madness and moves to a satirical examination of pious but superstitious abuses of Catholic doctrine and corrupt practices in parts of the Roman Catholic Church—to which Erasmus was ever faithful—and the folly of pedants. Erasmus…
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The Sack of Rome
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New York, NY: Dorset Press, 1985 Dorset Press, New York. 1985. Hardcover. First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Fine; DJ: Very Good; NOT Price Clipped ($25.00); sunfading to spine; bump to rear upper tip; bump to rear panel near gutter. Gold paper over boards with black cloth overlay on the spine with bright gold lettering on the spine. 218 pp 8vo. This is the author's account of the tragedy of Rome through the personalities of the people whose miscalculations brought it about: Charled, Duke of Bourbon, Francois I, Frundsburg, Charles V, and Pope Clement VII. This book recounts the collection of mercenaries and their great march on Rome, the assault itself, and the events and people involved in the looting, vandalism, and rape that followed. A clean very presentable copy.
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Syria: An Historical Appreciation
by Robin Fedden
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London, UK : Readers Union / Robert Hale, 1955 Readers Union / Robert Hale, London, UK. 1955. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light sunfading to spine; splash stain on textblock fore edge. No DJ. Rust colored cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. Maps as endpapers. 243 pp 8vo. This 1955 book gives a very detailed book about the history, culture, and life of the people in Syria and Lebanon. This book covers the Phoenicians, the Romans, Byzantium, the Crusades, the Turks, the French, and finally after WWII - freedom. A clean very presentable copy.
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