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A landmark study of William Caxton (c.1422-c.1491), the merchant, translator and printer who introduced the printing press to England and produced ...

An extensive contemporary account of the extraordinary political and military events of 1815, written and published immediately following Napoleon'...

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...

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...

Stanley Jackson's The Sassoons traces the remarkable history of the wealthy and influential Sassoon family, from their origins in Baghdad and the e...

An important and substantial resource for Scottish history, genealogy and antiquarian studies, Northern Notes & Queries was founded in 1886 und...

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...

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 ...

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

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...