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ANTIQUARIAN, RARE & COLLECTABLE BOOKS & SOUTH EAST ASIAN ANTIQUES
ANTIQUARIAN, RARE & COLLECTABLE BOOKS & SOUTH EAST ASIAN ANTIQUES
European Interest Books

European Interest Books

A selection of books with a European flavour...

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The History of Ancient Europe; With a View of the Revolutions in Asia and Africa, William Russell, 1793

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This substantial historical work by Scottish historian William Russell (1741–1793) presents a broad, Enlightenment-era view of ancient global histo...

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A New Method Of Learning with Facility the Latin Tongue, Translated from the French of the Messieurs de Port Royal, and Improved by T. Nugent, 1791

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This two-volume 1791 edition of A New Method of Learning with Facility the Latin Tongue is an English translation of a well-known Latin grammar ori...

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Glimpses of the Dark Ages; and The Dawn of Modern Civilization; or Sketches of the Social Condition of Europe, c. 1850

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A most handsome full leather prize binding combining Glimpses of the Dark Ages; or Sketches of the Social Condition of Europe, from the Fifth to th...

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Folio Society; Etruscan Places, D.H. Lawrence, 1972

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An attractive Folio Society production of a classic D.H. Lawrence travel book, exploring the culture of the Etruscans in Italy. Etruscan Places, by...

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Folio Society; The Grand Tour 1592-1796, Roger Hudson, 1993

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An attractive Folio Society production, which is well illustrated throughout, exploring 'the culmination of the rich young eighteenth-century Engli...

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Folio Society; Lives of the Artists, Giorgio Vasari, 1993, 3 Volume set

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An attractive Folio Society production of Vasari's classic work, presenting biographies of the artists of the Renaissance. First published in 1550 ...

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La Béotie Antique, Pierre Guillon, Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 1948

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An attractive French publication on Ancient Boeotia, a region in central Greece, characterized by fertile plains and a rich history. It was a disti...

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The Oxford History of England, 7 Volumes, from Roman Britain to The Age of Reform, early editions

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A very smart set of 7 volumes from the classic series 'The Oxford History of England', which have been attractively and uniformly rebound in navy b...

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The Scallop; Studies of a shell and its influences on humankind, edited by Ian Cox, Shell Transport and Trading Company, 1957

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An interesting and well produced book from the Shell Transport and Trading Company, Limited, marking their Diamond Jubilee. Based on their famous s...

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Antiquity Explained and Represented in Sculptures, Vol IV, by the Learned Father Montfaucon, Translated by David Humphreys, Printed by J. Tonson & J. Watts, 1721

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First published in Paris in 1719, this is David Humphrey's 1721 translation of this work by Father Bernard de Montfaucon. This folio size volume is...

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The Concept of Freedom; An Interpretation of the Fall in terms of Self-Consciousness. A Thesis presented for the degree of Doctor of Divinity by Philip Austin Louis Meldrum of St. John's College, Durham University, 1960

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An original typescript thesis for a Doctor of Divinity Degree at Durham University. Almost certainly a unique document of considerable depth in ter...

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Mediterranean Picture Lands, Emelene Abbey Dunn, with Illustrations from Water-Color Sketches by the Author, 1929

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A beautiful copy of this work by American artist, Emelene Abbey Dunn (1859-1929), who founded the New York Normal Art School, after studying art in...

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Greece, The Hidden Centuries; Turkish Rule from the Fall of Constantinople to Greek Independence, David Brewer, 2010

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A smart copy of David Brewer's study of seven centuries of Greek life under the rule of the Ottoman Turks, before Greece became a self-governing na...

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Campaign of the Falieri and Piraeus In the Year 1827, C.W.J. Eliot, 1992, Author's gift copy to William St Clair

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A smart gift copy from the author to William St Clair as denoted in St Clair's own hand on the first pastedown and with accompanying Publisher's pa...

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Les Aventures de Telemaque, Fils D'Ulysse, par Fenelon, Librairie de A. Pougin, Paris, 1837. 2 Volumes bound as one, complete.

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A very smart copy of this important French novel by Francois Fenelon, which has been professionally rebound in russet cloth, and presents the book ...

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Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries; With Recollections of The Author's Life, and of His Visit to Italy, Leigh Hunt, 1828, 2 Volume set

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A very smart 2 volume set of professionally rebacked full leather volumes containing fine condition text. Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries...

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Specimens of the Classic Poets in a Chronological Series from Homer to Tryphiodorus, Charles Abraham Elton, 2 Vols, 1814

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Specimens of the Classic Poets in a Chronological Series from Homer to Tryphiodorus, Translated into English Verse, And Illustrated with Biographic...

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French Odysseys; Greece in French Travel Literature from the Renaissance to the Romantic Era, Olga Augustinos, John Hopkins, 1994

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"In French Odysseys Olga Augustinos offers the first comprehensive treatment of French travel literature about Greece - from the mid-sixteenth-cent...

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Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics; The Logic of Violence in Civil War, Stathis N. Kalyvas, 2013

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A highly respected work on civil war and insurgency. Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics; The Logic of Violence in Civil War. By Stathis N. K...

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The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rhetoric, Erik Gunderson, 2009. William St Clair's copy.

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"Rhetoric thoroughly infused the world and literature of Greco-Roman antiquity. This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of rhetorical theo...

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The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy, P.E. Easterling, 2001. William St Clair's copy.

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"The Companion...is an attempt, by seven distinguished scholars, to present the familiar corpus in the context of modern reading, criticism, and pe...

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Les Comedies de Terence, Traduites en Francois par Madame Dacier, George Gallet, Amsterdam, 1700

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A volume with two of the plays of Terence (Publius Terentius Afer - c. 190-159 BC). He was a Roman playwright and the author of six plays based on ...

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Roman Society; From Nero to Marcus Aurelius, Samuel Dill, 1905

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Roman Society; From Nero to Marcus Aurelius. By Samuel Dill, M.A. Published by Macmillan and Co., Limited, London and The Macmillan Company, New Yo...

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Marius the Epicurian; His Sensations and Ideas, Walter Pater, 1909

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Historical and philosophical novel by Walter Pater, first published in 1885, and set in 161–177 AD, in the Rome of the Antonines. Marius the Epicur...

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