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European Interest Books

European Interest Books

A selection of books with a European flavour...

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Die Plastik Der Ägypter von Hedwig Fechheimer, Bruno Cassirer, Berlin, 1914 (The Sculpture of the Egyptians)

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First published in Berlin in 1914, Die Plastik der Ägypter (The Sculpture of the Egyptians) is one of the pioneering studies of ancient Egy...

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Journal of the Late Campaign in Egypt including Descriptions of That Country, and of Gibraltar, Minorca, Malta, Marmorice, and Macri; by Thomas Walsh, 1803

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A richly illustrated contemporary account of Britain's campaign against Napoleon's forces in Egypt, written by Thomas Walsh, who served as ...

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The Oxford History of England, Complete in 17 Volumes, from Roman Britain to English History 1914-1945 plus Index. Published 1985-1991

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The Oxford History of England. Complete in 17 Volumes, including the Consolidated Index. Edited by Sir George Clark. Published by Oxford University...

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The History of Freemasonry, Its Antiquities, Symbols, Constitutions, Customs etc, by Robert Freke Gould, T.C. & E.C. Jack, Edinburgh, c. 1888

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Robert Freke Gould's History of Freemasonry is one of the landmark nineteenth century studies of the subject, long regarded as a foundational work ...

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A complete original set of Reynolds' Geognostic Profiles, compiled and engraved by John Emslie, published by James Reynolds, London, 1853

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A complete original set of Reynolds' Geognostic Profiles, an exceptionally scarce and visually striking suite of Victorian scientific educational w...

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Arctic Adventure; My Life in the Frozen North, Peter Freuchen, Armed Services edition, 1943

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Arctic Adventure is the memoir of the Danish explorer, writer and anthropologist Peter Freuchen, one of the twentieth century's best-known Arc...

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The Householder, by R. Prawer Jhabvala, John Murray, 1960

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The Householder by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is the author's acclaimed early novel, first published in 1960, offering a perceptive and often gently humo...

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Cultural Amnesia; Necessary Memories from the History and the Arts, Clive James, signed first edition, 2007

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Cultural Amnesia by Clive James is an expansive and highly personal work of literary and cultural criticism, first published in 2007. Structured th...

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David Roberts; Egypt & Nubia, and The Holy Land, Two-volume gift edition in slipcase, 1999

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The work of David Roberts (1796-1864) remains among the most celebrated visual records of the Near East produced in the nineteenth century. Based o...

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A collection of 6 original albumen prints of Burma by Phillip Klier, circa 1880

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Philip Adolphe Klier (c.1845-1911) was a German photographer who worked in British Burma from the 1860s until the early 20th century. After establi...

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O diese Dackel! ; Allerlei Lustiges aus dem Leben unserer kleinen krummbeinigen Freunde, 2 volumes, 1923. Oh, those dachshunds!

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O diese Dackel! is a delightful and humorous German illustrated work devoted to the antics of dachshunds, presented here in two volumes. Published...

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The Lord of The Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien; 2nd edition set; all 3rd impressions, 1968

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First published between 1954 and 1955, The Lord of the Rings is Tolkien's epic high-fantasy masterpiece and one of the most influential works of mo...

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The Reminiscences and Recollections of Captain Gronow, 1889, Two Volume numbered limited edition set

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Captain Gronow’s lively recollections of Regency and early Victorian society remain one of the most engaging first-hand accounts of life in the cam...

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History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella The Catholic, by William H. Prescott, 1885. Bickers binding.

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History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic by William H. Prescott is a landmark work of nineteenth-century historical writ...

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Haig by Duff Cooper, in Two Volumes, Faber and Faber, 1935

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Haig by Duff Cooper is a major two-volume biography of Field Marshal Douglas Haig, first published in 1935. Drawing on extensive research a...

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Castle Richmond. A Novel. By Anthony Trollope. Chapman & Hall, London, 1861

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Castle Richmond by Anthony Trollope is a social novel set in Ireland during the Great Famine, first published in 1860. Drawing on his own e...

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Nouvelle Bibliothèque de Campagne, ou Choix d’Épisodes intéressans et curieux, Amsterdam and Paris, 1769-1784

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A complete twelve-volume, uniformly bound 18th century set assembled contemporarily, of Nouvelle Bibliotheque de Campagne, ou Choix d'Episo...

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Voyage du Jeune Anacharsis en Grèce, by Jean-Jacques Barthélemy. In Nine Volumes, complete, 1791.

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A celebrated work of the French Enlightenment, Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grèce by Jean-Jacques Barthélemy was first published in 1788 a...

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Oeuvres du Comte Antoine Hamilton. Paris, 1760–1762. In six volumes, complete.

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The collected works of Antoine Hamilton (c.1646–1720), the Franco-Irish court writer best known for his elegant and often playful prose, co...

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History of the English People, The Conquest of England, & The Making of England, by John Richard Green, Macmillan, 1884-1886

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A substantial and handsomely bound six-volume set of John Richard Green's celebrated histories of England, comprising the complete four-volume Hist...

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Histoire Secrète de la Cour de Berlin, ou Correspondance d’un Voyageur François, 1786-1787, by Le Comte de Mirabeau, 1789

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A scarce first edition of Histoire secrète de la cour de Berlin (1789) by Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, one of the most influ...

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The Battle of Waterloo, With Those of Ligny and Quatre Bras, George Jones, 1852

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A richly illustrated nineteenth century account of the Waterloo campaign, bringing together eyewitness testimony, official reports, and bio...

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Mediaeval Greece, Nicolas Cheetham, Yale University Press, 1981

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A smart first edition copy of Nicolas Cheetham's Mediaeval Greece, published by Yale University Press, New Haven and London. 1981 first edition. Pr...

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Pleasure of Ruins, first edition 1953, by Rose Macaulay. With interesting ephemera including her autograph correspondence to Roger Senhouse, Publisher, with 2 manuscript pages by him, & William St Clair provenance

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Pleasure in Ruins by Rose Macaulay, first published in 1953, is a highly personal work of nonfiction that blends travel writing, cultural history, ...

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An album of Photocrom prints of Portugal and Switzerland by Photochrom Zürich / Photoglob AG (P.Z.), c. 1890

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An album of fine early colour photographic views of the type assembled for affluent European travellers in the late nineteenth and early tw...

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Collection of 18 original Imperial Russian Cabinet Cards and Cartes de Visites, c. 1880 - 1910

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A coherent and historically interesting group of 18 original Imperial Russian photographic portraits, dating from the late nineteenth to ea...

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Un An a Rome et Dans Ses Environs, Recueil de dessins lithographiés, Antoine Jean Baptiste Thomas, Edizioni Di Gabriele E Mariateresa Benincasa, 1972

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A deluxe limited folio facsimile of Antoine-Jean-Baptiste Thomas's celebrated Un an à Rome et dans ses environs, issued in Rome in 1972 by Gabriele...

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The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien, BCA edition, 1992

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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, J.R.R. Tolkien, Illustrated by Alan Lee, HarperCollins, 1997 Hardback

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Further Experiences of an Irish R.M., E. OE. Somerville and Martin Ross, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1938

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Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. continues the comic adventures of Major Sinclair Yeates, the long-suffering English magistrate transplanted in...

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Some Experiences of an Irish R.M., E. OE. Somerville and Martin Ross, Thomas Nelson & Sons, c. 1938

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A much-loved classic of Anglo-Irish comic fiction, Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. follows Major Sinclair Yeates, an English ex-army officer appo...

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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, J.R.R. Tolkien, Third edition, Ninth impression, 1974

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Hamnet, by Maggie O'Farrell, Tinder Press, 2020, Signed first edition

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Winner of the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction, Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell is a richly imagined and deeply moving novel inspired by the life and loss...

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The Lord of The Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien; Illustrated by Alan Lee, HarperCollins, 1991 Centenary Edition

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Poems by J.R.R. Tolkien, HarperCollins box set, 1993 1st impression

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This is a scarce miniature edition boxed set featuring poems by J.R.R. Tolkien - from his writings in The Hobbit and The Adventures of Tom Bombadil...

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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, J.R.R. Tolkien, Illustrated by Alan Lee, HarperCollins, 2000

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Lord of the Rings boxed set, plus The Hobbit in matching edition, Unwin Paperbacks, 1981

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First published between 1937 and 1955, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings together form J.R.R. Tolkien's monumental contribution to modern fantas...

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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, J.R.R. Tolkien, Allen & Unwin Paperback Edition, 1975

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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, J.R.R. Tolkien, Third edition, Tenth impression, 1975

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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, J.R.R. Tolkien, First Paperback Edition, Puffin, 1961

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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, J.R.R. Tolkien, HarperCollins, 1995

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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, J.R.R. Tolkien, Second edition, Thirteenth impression, 1961

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The History of Middle Earth; The Book of Lost Tales, Part I, J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien, 1991

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The Book of Lost Tales, Part I is the opening volume in The History of Middle-earth series, edited by Christopher Tolkien from his father J.R.R. To...

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The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien, 1977 1st edition, 1st impression

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The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited and published after the author's death by his son Christopher Tolkien, presents the mythic prehistory of...

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The Lord of The Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien; 1st edition set; 5th, 4th & 3rd impressions, 1956-1957

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Egmont. Ein Trauerspiel von Goethe. Stuttgart; Verlag der J.G. Cotta’schen Buchhandlung, 1866.

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Goethe's Egmont (written 1775-1787, first published 1788) is one of his most celebrated tragedies, dramatising the life and execution of the Flemis...

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Cassigneul; Charles Sorlier, Jean-Francois Josselin, De Francony, Nice, 1983, Grand Luxe limited edition

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Cassigneul; Lithographe et Graveur 1965-1978. Preface by Roger Passeron & Jean Francois Josselin, Editions Andrew Sauret, Monte Carlo 1989

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