The Black Death
by Ziegler, Philip
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- Hardcover
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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About This Item
(London: Collins, 1969). 8vo; original green boards, lettered in gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; tinted top edge; pp. 319, incl. index; frontis.; map. Dustwrapper a little sunned on spine panel, and very slightly edgeworn. Very good condition. "No human event has been more aptly named than the Black Death. Europe of the mid-fourteenth century suddenly found itself in the grip of a disease that seemed inexplicable, irresistible, incurable. Travelling along the trade-routes from Manchuria to the Black Sea, from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean, from the Mediterranean to the centres of European commerce and civilisation, the loathsome infection was to reach, at its own leisurely but remorseless pace, the remotest hamlets on the farthest fringes of Christendom. After a reign of terror and sudden death, it ebbed away as mysteriously as it had come. ... The general reader ... will find here a clear, incisive, well-marshalled command of the established facts, informed by an imaginative sympathy without which history is nothing." .
Synopsis
First hardcover edition published: New York : John Day Co., 1969.
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- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4729
- Title
- The Black Death
- Author
- Ziegler, Philip
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- (London: Collins, 1969)
- Keywords
- Black Death. Plague. European History. Pandemic. Pestilence History
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About Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
Christison Rare Books operates as a mail order business, based in Port Elizabeth. We are members of IOBA and SABDA. Whereas we stock thousands of books on a wide variety of subjects, our focus has always been on SE Africa - its peoples, wildlife and history. The store is managed by Lindsay Christison. Although we do not run an open book shop, prospective customers who would like to examine items described in our on-line list of stock are welcome to make an appointment.
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