HISTORY / WORLD from Chilton Books

Jefferson: McFarland & Company, 1995.. 1st edition. A History of Letters in the British Press During the American Revolution, 1775-1781. "This narrative is grounded on letters to the printer which appeared in the British press from the outbreak of the American War for Independence at Lexington and Concord to the surrender of the British army at Yorktown." … Read more about this item

BCA / The Boydell Press, 2004.. The Black Death was a disaster of such magnitude that it no only shook the Old World to its economic and social foundations, but changed the course of human history. Yet astonishingly, this book is the first comprehensive history and assessment of its progress, and of the death and devastation it left in… Read more about this item

London: Robinson, 2002.. Francisco de Miranda, Simon Bolivar, San Martin, Bernardo O'Higgins, Admiral Lord Cochrane, Iturbide, and Crown Prince Pedro of Portugal. "Seven extraordinary young men led South America to independence in the early years of the nineteenth century...Despite their great daring and ultimate success all seven died amid pathos and tragedy. This epic tale is one of history's… Read more about this item

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.. Introduction, Translation, and Historical Commentary with the Latin Text of R.A.B.Mynors. "Panegyrics are topical speeches or poems delivered in praise of rulers and other public figures, both living and deceased....'In Praise of Later Roman Emperors' provides...an annotated English translation of the eleven later panegyrics in the corpus, as well as the original Latin… Read more about this item

London: Headley Brothers, 1914... Sixth year of issue. "To the ordinary mortal the course of the world seemed normal until the last days of July. The Balkan fires had been quenched and the danger zone was apparently removed to torrid Mexico, where internal troubles were causing anxiety to the United States. Then Europe woke with a start to find… Read more about this item

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1889.. 1st edition. Contents: I. The Land; II.Climate and Productions; III.The People - Origin and Characteristics; IV.The Cities; V.The Colonies; VI.Architecture; VII.Aesthetic Art; VIII.Industrial Art and Manufactures; IX.Ships, Navigation, and Commerce; X.Mining; XI.Religion; XII.Dress, Ornaments, and Social Habits; XIII.Writing, Language and Literature; XIV.Political History: 1.Phoenicia Before the Establishment of the Hegemony of Tyre; 2.Phoenicia… Read more about this item

Allahabad: Kitab Mahal, 1966.. Beginning with the ancient period when Manu's code guided the deliberations of kings and kingdoms...the author has dealt exhaustively with the mood and tendency of rulers and the ruled, noting with care all the vicissitudes through which the country passed. Signalled by the 7th century invasion of Sindh by the Arabs the religion of Mohamedans… Read more about this item

Shannon: Irish University Press, 1972.. Unabridged facsimile of the original 1856 edition. Full title: The Chinese and Their Rebellions, Viewed in Connection with their National Philosophy, Ethics, Legislation, and Administration, to which is added, An Essay on Civilzation and its Present State in the East and West. Pp.lx/656. Green cloth, gilt title to spine. VG.** Thomas… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1934.. 1st edition. Pp.xxii/970, 21 maps, owner's name to front free endpaper, slight toning to pages, minor spotting to endpapers but mainly affecting closed page edges, rippled creasing affecting pp.293-310. Green cloth, gilt title to spine, bleached spots (from water damage?) to rear board + top and tail of spine and edges of front board.… Read more about this item

Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1966.. 1st edition. Volume 25 of Duke University Coomonwealth-Studies Center Publications. Pp.xx/567. Navy cloth, red and gilt title to spine. VG.

London: Viking, 2011.. Exclusive signed edition. "Paxman brings brilliantly to life the tragedy and comedy of empire and reveals its profound and lasting effect on our nation and on ourselves." Pp.x/356, signed by the author to inner front endpaper (No.415 of a 1000), map of the British Empire in 1815 to prelimaries + 14 further black & white… Read more about this item

Gwinn, Michigan: Avery Color Studios Inc., 2008.. 1st edition. "Tells the exciting tales of ships lost on the Great Lakes with all hands and still missing. Their dead hulls till rest somewhere out in the stormy waters, undiscovered by searchers, past and present....Went Missing Redux takes a detailed look at nine of these "went missing" ships and tries… Read more about this item

London: J.M.Dent & Sons Ltd, 1913.. 1st edition. "The present work is a result of my humble attempts to bring about a better understanding of my native land by the Occidental mind. Its main object is to show that Japan, in spite of such modern developments as the feminist or the anarchist movements, still remains in spirit very much… Read more about this item

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1946.. 1st edition. Pp.viii/151, black & white photo frontispiece with 10 further photos and maps, ownership details to front free endpaper. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine, slightly rubbed. G+.

Gosford, Australia: Central Coast Printery, nd. (c.1984).. Charles Swancott - Fellow Brisbane Water Historical Society. Snippets of local Australian history. Sixty-Five of these highlights of Central Coast History were broadcast over Radio Station 2GO Gosford during 1972 taken from: "Gosford and the Kendall Country"; "Good Old Woy Woy; " Enchanted Waters;" and "Blue Gum Flat to Budgewoi". Pp.iv/47.… Read more about this item

London: Frank Cass, 1980.. 1st edition. "focuses attention on the 'first' British Commonwealth, whose development may be said to span the years from the turn of the (20th) century to 1947. In this period at least, distinctions between empire and commonwealth were not nearly so clear-cut as they would later be....Even in the most sensitive, nationalistic and isolationist of… Read more about this item

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998.. Special edition for Sandpiper Books. "Traces the diffusion of the Greek city as a political institution throughout the lands of the Roman Empire bordering the Eastern Mediterranean over a period extending from Alexander's conquest of the East to the sixth century....Professor Jones describes the restrictive effect of centralized administrative policy on some dynasties and the… Read more about this item

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989.. 1st edition. "Is Britain prepared to defend itself, or only to a play a part in Armageddon?...the country's security has depended on a willingness to begin a nuclear exchange which would destroy it along with the rest of Europe, and to obliterate Russian cities i a final act of retaliation. Meanwhile econmic and political… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1891 .. First edition with an interesting provenance. 8vo. 23cm x 15cm x 4cm. pp.28/pp.469/pp.28 Original black cloth covered boards. Gilt image of a Pharaoh to the front board and gilt titles an decoration to the spine. Boards and spine lightly rubbed. Hinges and edges carefully strengthened. Loose letter signed… Read more about this item

London; Heinemann, 1972.. 1st edition. "Tells the story of how, out in the nameless wilds of Tibet...a bitter guerrilla war againt China has been fought by a race of nomadic warriors, the Khambas - men formerly branded by Peking, Britain and the Dalai Lama himself as "cavaliers, wild and accustomed to living by loot"...Michel Peissel reports on the great… Read more about this item