Famous Trials
New York: Dorset Press, 1986. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. The four murder trials in this volume, each a cause celebre in its day, continue to fascinate and intrigue the reader decades later.
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“If you don’t know history, it’s as if you were born yesterday. If you were born yesterday then any leader can tell you anything.”
Howard Zinn, American historian (1924-2010)
New York: Dorset Press, 1986. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. The four murder trials in this volume, each a cause celebre in its day, continue to fascinate and intrigue the reader decades later.
Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons, 1907. Limited Edition. Fine Hardcovers in a Very Good Dust Jackets. Deemed as one of the most excellent works of its kind, one of the greatest contemporary European accounts of its period and "a valuable and much esteemed work." [1]Collectible and rare in this condition.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. The dramatic story of the rebellion of the Mahdist in 1885 and of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, under H.M. Stanley, journeying to the rescue of General Gordon's lieutenant and friend, Emin Pasha (the German doctor.....
Miami, FL: Colegio de Ingenieros Agronomon y Azucareros, 1992. Hardcover.
New York: Viking, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Peter C. Newman's series on The Canadian Establishment has made publishing history, its two previous volumes having sold more than half a million copies. In this new book, Titans: How the New Canadian Establishment Seized.....
London: Day & Son, Limited, 1865. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good Hardcovers. An account of the English archaeologist's travels and discoveries in the Levant and Asia Minor from 1852 until 1859. The work provides details regarding Newton's studies and excavations in Calymnos; when the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, one of.....
London: The Caravel Press, 1958. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Subjects: British-Sudan; Sudan-History-1899 -1956;. Sudan--Politics and government; Africa.
Edinburgh: Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1806. 1st Edition. Soft cover in modern boards. The Grampian Mountains are one of the three major mountain ranges in Scotland, occupying a considerable portion of the Scottish Highlands in northern Scotland. The other major mountain ranges in Scotland are the Northwest Highlands and the.....
New York: Harry N Abrams Inc., 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. This compendium of snake iconography and lore from ancient times. This book is heavily illustrated with works of art depicting serpents and dragons in their many mythological roles as well as realistic.....
Warrendale, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Society of Automotive Engineers, 1996. Hardcover. This book provides background information on the advantages and disadvantages of hydrogen as a fuel for surface transportation, it describes the current state of technology of hydrogen-fueled vehicles and discusses the future requirements of the so-called 'hydrogen economy'. Contents: Hydrogen Engines.....
London: Folio Society, 2005. Second Printing. Hardcover in a Slipcase. In a highly acclaimed account, Dr. Oates describes the rise of Babylon from Sargon of Agade to Hammurapi, the great law-giver under whom in the 18th century BC the city first attained pre-eminence.She charts its progress under his successors, its.....
1992: HarperCollins, Hardcover with Dust Jacket. This masterpiece of scholarship and compression, The African Experience, covers the entire span of human history across the African continent, from the earliest emergence of hominids in eastern and southern Africa up to the present day. Drawing on more than forty years of teaching.....
Oregon: Oregon Historical Society Press, 1985. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. A Traveller's History of Russia gives a comprehensive survey of the country's past from the earliest times through the era of 'perestroika' and the end This volume combines two source accounts of the event. The first.....
Routledge Kegan & Paul, 1983. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. King Edward III's fifty-year reign during the 14th century saw the transformation of England from a fractured land into a cohesive nation. Despite spectacular military victories like Sluys, Crécy, and Poitiers, and the founding of the Order of the Garter, it.....
Washington, DC: Pan American Union, 1945. Cover by Dorothy Sweetser. First Edition, First Printing. Stapled wraps. Background Information:The Pan American Union is the home of the world’s oldest international association, founded in 1890 to foster cultural and commercial ties among the Western Hemisphere republics.This pamphlet was one of a series.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1846. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. Travels through Russian Caucasus and Armenia to the legendary mountain Ararat, including an account of the ascent includes technical scientific reports. In February 1828, the Russian Empire annexed the historical Armenian province of Erivan (Yerevan) from.....
Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2005. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Features maps, charts, and more than two hundred photographs, many in color. An international group of expert scholars sympathetically discuss the world's major religious traditions (including Buddhism, Baha'i, and Jainism) and new religious movements.
New York: William Sloane, 1961. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Cattle ranching in the Alberta foothills of the Rockies in the 1930’s, including some experiences in British Columbia. A history of Buffalo Head Ranch located south of Calgary during the 1930's.
Israel: Original Artworks Ltd, 1980. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket.
London: R.H. Porter, 1899. First Edition, First Printing. A Near Fine Hardcover. A remarkable account of an ambitious project, this book forms part of the nineteenth-century genre of scientific travel literature and contains still-relevant information about the Arctic environment.In 1895, naturalists Henry J. Pearson and Colonel H. W. Feilden sailed.....
New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Through his writing and photography, Michael Peissel brings to life the geographical, spiritual, and intellectual heart of Tibet.
New York: Horace Thayer, 1858. Hardcover. William Pidgeon was an antiquarian and archaeologist his most famous work, Traditions of Dee-Coo-Dah, a history about lost tribes of the Upper Mississippi and the mounds they left behind. The book was eventually revealed to be partly a hoax, and partly embellishment of actual.....
Stanford, California: Stanford Univ Press. 1978. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Gianfranco Poggi reviews the main phases in the institutional history of the modern state, discusses the nineteenth-century constitutional state, points out the major developments which have occurred since the end of the last century in the relationship between the state.....
Annapolis, Maryland:. Naval Inst Press, 1999. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. The story is based on the real-life adventures of George Shelvocke, commander of the 22-gun privateer Speedwell that set sail in 1718 to steal treasure from Spanish ships in the South Seas. Filled with pirates, mutinies, sea battles, violent storms.....
London: The Folio Society, 2001. Third Printing. Hardcover in a Slipcase. Largely untouched by fame (with the exception of Marco Polo), the lives and activities of these common people offer a unique glimpse of various aspects of the medieval world — peasant life, monastic life, the wool trade, Venetian trade.....