The British Isles / England has its own category. Additional Titles may be found in the Travel and Exploration Category
“What experience and history teach is that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.”
Georg Hegel, German philosopher (1770-1831)
Greece. Soft cover. 26 b/w photographs of the region around the Temple of Delphi, Greece. No date, c1900 - 1920 minimal text and no publishing information but Greek on rear of wraps. String tied wraps. 6.75 by 10 inches. Wraps worn, toned and chipped. The photos are all in good.....
London: Bradbury, Evans, and CO., 1852. Illustrated by John Leech (1894-1941). First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. Irreverent recounting of British and Roman histories with illustrations. The style of writing was uncommon this early in the 19th century.the Preface states, "to blend amusement with instruction by serving up.....
New York: Nan A. Talese, 2010. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. "Thoughtful, thorough and insightful, [Ackroyd] is at least as much interpreter as historian. He brings this iconic city to vivid life ... While Venice is by no means an orthodox traveler's guide, it's a wonderful introduction.....
New York and London: Metro Books, 2008. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket.
Bruxelles [Belgium]: J.J. Vanderborght, 1843. A Very Good Hardcover. Alexis-François Artaud De Montor was a diplomat and historian. An émigré during the French Revolution, he was entrusted by the royal princes with missions to the Holy See and served during the campaign of Champagne in the Army of Condé. Napoleon.....
Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Louis XIV's younger brother Philippe (1640-1701) is usually portrayed as a court buffoon, one who took delight in displaying his male lovers and suffering public humiliation. Making judicious, undogmatic, and expert use of some.....
Berkley: University of California Press, 1976. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Near Fine Dust Jacket. The ninth and tenth centuries are too frequently overlooked by historians, and consequently history readers. The book focuses on France, Germany, Italy, and to a lesser extent, England.
Philadelphia: Cary and Hart, 1847. Hardcovers. With the armorial bookplate of Thomas Streatfield Clarkson whose family founded Clarkson University a private research university with its main campus in Potsdam, New York, and additional graduate program and research facilities in the New York Capital Region and Beacon, New York.Ref: Hathi; wiki;.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1871. First Edition, First Printing. A Near Fine Hardcover. Is it possible to connect two continents by a telegraph line through Bering Strait? Richard J. Bush thought it was possible even though he encountered challenges such as a sinking ship, shortage of supplies, annoying.....
New York: Harry N Abrams Inc, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. The representation of love in medieval decorations, paintings, and drawings offers an intriguing glimpse into the society and philosophy of that time. Interpreting these depictions as having a specific purpose to inspire love or eroticism.....
New York: The Dial Press, 1974. Book Club Edition. Near Fine Hardcover in a Near Fine Dust Jacket. As important as the characters in the foreground is the Italy against which this drama is played out, a place of warring cities and dynastic machinations where high culture and gross cruelty.....
![Item #16274 Romance of the Italian Villas [Northern Italy]. Elizabeth Champney, illiams](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/16274.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1667846098)
New York and London: G.P. Putnam & Sons, 1906. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. A collection of short stories based on the legends surrounding the villas of northern Italy.Background Information:Elizabeth "Lizzie" Williams Champney (born Elizabeth Johnson Williams) was an American author of books for young girls and.....
New York: Crescent, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. The well researched book traces the use of heraldic and floral design by artists, artisans, and designers throughout the ages.
![Item #15409 Rome: Reconstructed [with DVD]. Giuliana Coletta](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/15409.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1649886754)
Italy: Archeolibri, 2007. Spiral bound. Ancient Rome reconstructed to its original magnificence; An archeological guide to Imperial era monuments as they were and as they are today.
![Item #010810 [Norway] With Ski & Sledge Over Arctic Glaciers. Sir Martin Conway](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/010810.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1647802057)
London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1898. Photography by E. J. Garwood (1864-1949). First Edition, First Printing. A Good Hardcover. Difficult to find in any condition.Background Information:An exploration of the interior of West Spitsbergen undertaken during the summers of 1896 and 1897, in the company of E. J. Garwood, whose photographs.....
New York: James Pott & Co., 1900. Two Volumes complete; A Reprint Edition. Good Hardcovers. A romantic look at the castles and great country houses of the French countryside of Touraine, first published in 1887.
New York: Viking Adult, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Describes how German scientists under Hitler knowingly broke international agreements in order to build deadly weapons prior to World War I, discussing German innovation and breakthroughs that paved the way to the discovery of.....
New York: 1950: Prentice Hall. 1950. A Very Good Hardcover.
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. People of European descent form the bulk of the population in most of the temperate zones of the world - North America, Australia and New Zealand. The military successes of European.....
![Item #001842 The Edge of the Quicksands. [World War I]. D. Thomas Curtin](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/001842.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1647201942)
New York: George H. Doran Co., 1918. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. An account of World War I showing the differences between the German and Americans.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1972. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover in Dust Jacket.
London and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. "The depth and richness of this interdisciplinary study is remarkable...[Gill] makes a most valuable contribution to the humanities at large. Linguistics, historians, literary critics, philosophers, psychologists, sociologists, and anyone else even vaguely interested in.....
New Haven and London: Oxford University Press, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Reforming Sex reconstructs the complicated history of a movement that has been romanticized as the harbinger of 1960s sexual radicalism and deionized as a precursor to Nazi racial policy, but.....
Ohio: Kent State Univ Press, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. The Danse Macabre of Women is a 15th-century French poem found in a lavishly illuminated late medieval manuscript. The only Dance of Death devoted entirely to women, it was written by an anonymous author and subsequently.....
New York: Atheneum, 1971. First American Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Holt dates the Risorgimento from the 1815 restoration of absolutism in the Italian states (rather than from the French Revolution) and sensibly ends it in 1870 when Rome was incorporated into the new Italian nation.