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...