European Interest Books

Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is one of the great works of historical scholarship and literature, tracing...

Frederic Prokosch's The Asiatics was his first novel and the work which established his literary reputation, presenting the episodic journey of a...

Frederic Prokosch's The Seven Who Fled is an atmospheric novel of adventure and psychological tension, following seven Europeans whose journeys c...

Rupert T. Gould's The Case for the Sea-Serpent is a serious and remarkably detailed investigation into one of the most enduring mysteries of mari...

Rupert T. Gould's Enigmas: Another Book of Unexplained Facts follows his successful Oddities with a further collection of historical mysteries, u...

Rupert T. Gould's Oddities: A Book of Unexplained Facts is a fascinating collection of historical mysteries, strange phenomena and apparently ine...

Evelyn Waugh's The Holy Places is a short account of his journey through the Holy Land, combining observations on the sacred sites of Chri...

Ida Pfeiffer's A Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North is the account of the celebrated Austrian traveller's journey to Iceland and Scandinav...

William Wagner's Asgard and the Gods is a substantial and attractively illustrated survey of Norse mythology, retelling the myths and legends prese...

H. A. Guerber's Myths of the Norsemen is a wide-ranging and highly readable account of Scandinavian mythology, drawing principally upon the Poetic ...

Alice S. Hoffman's The Book of the Sagas retells for younger readers a selection of the great legends and heroic stories of the medieval Scandinavi...

The Saga of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald the Tyrant presents in English the dramatic histories of two of medieval Norway's most celebrated warrior...

The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald is the first English translation of Kormáks saga, one of the Icelanders' sagas and an important example of t...

William Hickling Prescott's History of the Conquest of Mexico is one of the great nineteenth-century narrative histories of the Americas, tracing t...

William Hickling Prescott's History of the Conquest of Peru is one of the great nineteenth-century narrative histories of the Americas. First publi...

A striking collection of traditional French children's songs and singing games, Vieilles Éternelles Rondes et Chansons was produced by the celebrat...

Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy's History of the Ottoman Turks is a substantial history of the Ottoman Empire, tracing its development from its emergenc...

This interesting set comprises a text volume and a matching box resembling a book, which contains 10 full colour First World War battle ...

Written by Winston S. Churchill (1940-2010), grandson and namesake of Sir Winston Churchill, First Journey recounts the young author's a...

A useful collection of publications relating to the history and development of Freemasonry in Hong Kong, China and the wider Far East, principally ...

Joan Blaeu / Timothy Pont - Insulae Quaedam Minores ex Aebudis quae Mulam et Skiam insulas interjacent. Some of the Smaller Westerne Yles lying bet...

A handsome and substantial uniformly bound eight-volume collection of the principal historical and critical writings of Thomas Babington Macaulay (...

An attractive late nineteenth-century edition of the works of Molière, based upon the celebrated illustrated edition of 1734 and reproducing the de...

This handsome two-volume Glasgow University prize set was awarded for Mathematics in 1889 and personally signed on the presentation label by Willi...

This handsome Glasgow University prize volume was awarded for Latin in 1889 and personally signed on the presentation label by George Gilbert Rams...

Ars Quatuor Coronatorum; The Transactions of the Quatuor Coronati Lodge No. 2076, Volume 137, 2024. Edited by John Wade, PhD. Various authors. Publ...

Ars Quatuor Coronatorum; The Transactions of the Quatuor Coronati Lodge No. 2076, Volume 136, 2023. Edited by John Wade, PhD. Various authors. Publ...

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...

A reset new format hardback of this work by Tolkien, published in 1976; Farmer Giles of Ham, by J.R.R. Tolkien. With illustrations by Pauline Bayne...

A second edition hardback of this work by Tolkien, published in 1975; Smith of Wootton Manor, by J.R.R. Tolkien. With illustrations by Pauline Bayn...

A charming 1977 box set from Unwin Paperbacks with 3 illustrated volumes in their original slipcase, comprising works by J.R.R. Tolkien;  SOLD The...

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...

A substantial history of Christianity by the influential German church historian Johann Lorenz von Mosheim (1693-1755), whose Ecclesiastical Histor...

The Red and The Black, by Stendhal. Translated by Charles Tergie. With the Illustrations of Jean Paul Quint. Published by The Franklin Library, Pen...

A substantial eighteenth-century survey of the known world, William Guthrie's New Geographical, Historical, and Commercial Grammar was one of the p...

There and Back Again; J.R.R. Tolkien and the Origins of The Hobbit, by Mark Atherton. Published by I. B. Tauris & Co Ltd, London and New York. ...

The Mythology of Middle-Earth; A Study of Tolkien's Mythology and its Relationship to the Myths of the Ancient World. By Ruth S. Noel. SOLD Publish...

Volume I of the Sixth Series of Chambers's Journal, covering December 1897 to November 1898, marking the beginning of a new era for one of Britain'...

The Scots Magazine was Scotland's leading eighteenth-century periodical and remains one of the richest contemporary records of the political, socia...

The Constitution of England, or an Account of the English Government; in which it is compared with the Republican Form of Government, and occasiona...

Horace. Odes and Epodes; in the Original Latin and in English Translations Selected and Edited with an Introduction by Louis Untermeyer. Accompanie...

André Malraux; Man’s Fate. Translated by Haakon M. Chevalier. Published by The Franklin Library, Pennsylvania, 1981. This limited edition published...

First published in 1781, A View of Society and Manners in Italy is one of the finest eighteenth-century travel accounts of Italy, combining detaile...

First published in Germany as one of the nineteenth century's most influential architectural pattern books, The Gothic Model-Book was intended as a...

William Wallace's Kant provides an accessible introduction to the life, ideas and lasting influence of the German philosopher Immanuel Kant. Writte...

James Hutchison Stirling's The Text-Book to Kant is a substantial guide to some of the most challenging sections of Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pur...

The September Massacres of 1792 were among the most shocking episodes of the French Revolution. As fear and unrest spread through Paris, revolution...

The Philosophical Dictionary; or, the Opinions of Modern Philosophers on Metaphysical, Moral, and Political Subjects. In Four Volumes (this set com...