Item 3856Laws of Pennsylvania
Harrisburg, PA: 1949. hardcover. 8vo. 2273pp. legal code of Pennsylvania current to 1949. #03922 HEAVY ITEM WILL REQUIRE EXTRA S/H.
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Item 2308Nicolaus Copernicus and His Epoch
Philadelphia: Copernicus Society of America. hardcover. 4to 160pp + color and B/W photographs. Biography of the astronomer who proposed a heliocentric model of the solar system, as well as a history of the late 15th and early 16th century world of the Renaissance in which he lived. #02373.
Item 4225Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
New York: Heritage Press, 1957. Samuel Chamberlain. hardcover. 8vo. 348pp. introduction by Francis Taylor. #04306.
Item 1629The Adams Family
New York: The Literary Guild, 1930. hardcover. 8vo 364pp. from Preface: "The family whose story is told in this volume (and with which I am in no way connected) is the most distinguished in the United States. Suddenly passing from village obscurity into international fame in the latter part of.....
Item 3082The Adams Family
New York: The Literary Guild, 1930. hardcover. 8vo 364pp. from Preface: "The family whose story is told in this volume (and with which I am in no way connected) is the most distinguished in the United States. Suddenly passing from village obscurity into international fame in the latter part of.....
Item 4698The Adams Family
Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1930. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 364pp. Published June 1930. see pictures for synopsis. #04781.
Item 2599The March of Democracy
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. hardcover. 8vo 428pp. from front flap: "This vivid narration of the events which have distinguished the origin of the American people and their astounding ascent to world pre-eminence, is history in its finest form. Here mellow wisdom and accurate knowledge are presented with enthusiasm.....
Item 2498The People's Choice:
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1933. hardcover. 8vo 337pp. from Preface: "The lives of the American Presidents call attention, with dramatic sharpness, to a problem in their country's history. No one can consider the careers of these twenty-nine men without wondering why it is that, whereas six out of the first.....
Item 3861The Dream Palace of the Arabs
New York: Vintage Books, 1998. softcover. 8vo 344pp. see pictures for synopsis. #03927.
Item 2507The Meaning of the First World War
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1965. softcover. 12mo 181pp. see pictures for synopsis. #02572.
Item 5347Philosophies of Music History
New York: Dover Publications, 1962. softcover. 8vo. 382pp. see pictures for synopsis. #05430.
Item 4215The Precious Legacy:
New York: Summit Books, 1983. first thus. softcover. 8vo. 288pp. see pictures for synopsis. #04296 HEAVY ITEM WILL REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING.
Item 2146Rise to Globalism
Penguin Books, 1973. soft cover. 12mo 352pp. Pelican A1247. see pictures for synopsis. #02211.
Item 2417Byzantium:
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2001. first U.S. edition. hardcover. 8vo 186pp. from front flap: "Michael Angold's book is a clear, concise, and authoritative history of Imperial Rome's successor: the Byzantine Empire. Byzantium was a Greek polis on the Bosphorus that gained importance in A.D. 324 when it was refounded.....
Item 4378Queen Elizabeth
New York: Literary Guild, 1929. hardcover. 8vo. 263pp. + ixpp. index. #04460.
Item 2866Magic, Myth and Medicine
New York: Fawcett World Library, 1962. mass market paperback. 16mo 240pp. Fawcett World Library d69. see pictures for synopsis. #02931.
Item 3983The First Eden
Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1987. first American edition. hardcover. 8vo. 240pp. from front flap: "In The First Eden, David Attenborough's latest excursion into the field of natural history, he explores the history and current state of this fascinating region, which became the cradle of civilization." #04049.
Item 1713The Winged Horse
Garden City, New York: Doubleday Page and Company, 1927. Paul Honore. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 451pp. history of English language poetry (through ancient Greece and Rome, then Europe) written for children and young readers. 8vo.
Item 2200A Diplomatic History of the American People
New York: Appleton-Century Crofts, 1950. Fourth Edition. hardcover. 8vo 986pp. from Preface: "This book is designed as a general introduction to American diplomatic history. I have therefore eliminated or subordinated much unessential detail so as to emphasize the main currents. I have also striven for simplicity and directness, and have.....
Item 5135Vietnam
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1967. softcover. 8vo. 184pp. #05218.
Item 2120Christendom Volume II
New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1966. softcover. 12mo 215pp. from The Cloiser Library TB 132. Vol II From the Reformation to the Present Day. see pictures. #02182.
Item 3128The Pageant of Netherlands History
New York: Longmans Green and Company, 1952. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 370pp. stated first edition. from front flap: "This history of the Netherlands, an engaging portrait of a highly individual people, catches the spirit of the Dutch and Belgians. Their manners and customs, their beliefs and labor, their achievements in.....
Item 952Reminiscences and Reflexions of a Mid and Late Victorian
George Allen and Unwin, 1918. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 283pp. from Preface: "The following chapters were written at intervals during the year 1916. They were taken in hand on the suggestion of two well-known London publishers, who assured me that autobiographical notes, reminiscences, and reflexions were, barring fiction and travels.....
Item 1070Western Star
New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1943. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 181pp. narrative poem on the settling of the United States, published in the year after the author's death by heart attack at age 44. The work was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize. #01145.
Item 1790Sicily
Hanover, New Hampshire: Steerforth Press, 2006. hardcover. 8vo 498pp. second printing. from front flap: "The rich recorded history of Sicily reaches back for more than three thousand years. Greeks, Romans, Vandals, Goths, Byzantines, Muslims, Normans, Hohenstaufens, Spaniards, Bourbons, the Savoy Kingdom of Italy, and the modern era have all held.....