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The Timetables of History, by Bernard Grun, based on Werner
Stein’s Kulturfahrplan
New York: Simon & Schuster/Touchstone, First Touchstone
Edition, 1982 The year starts from 5000 BC to 1978
$3.00
The Timetables of History, The New Third Revised Edition by
Bernard Grun, New York: Simon & Schuster/Touchstone, 1975, 774
pages 2 copies
$2.00
Wonders of the Past
$4.00
The Political and Cultural History of the Ancient World by Van
Sickle 2 Vol. set
$9.00
The Age of Ambition by F. R. H. Du Boulay
$3.00
A History of the Arab Peoples, 1991, Albert Hourani, 551 pages no
region in the world today is more important than the Middle East; no
people more misunderstood than the Arabs. In this definitive
masterwork, Hourani offers the most lucid, enlightening history ever
written on the subject. From the rise of Island to the Palestinian
issue, from the Prophet Mohammed to Mu’ammar al-Qadhafi, A
History of the Arab Peoples chronicles the rich spiritual, political,
and cultural institutions of this civilization through thirteen centuries
of war, peace, literature, and religion.
$0.50
The Romans: by Donald R. Dudley
$0.50
The Complete Roman Drama 2 volumes
$10.00
Sir William Smith’s Smaller History of Rome
$3.00
The Annals of Imperial Rome, translated by Michael Grant
$0.50
The Roman Emperors, A Biographical Guide to the Rulers of
Imperial Rome 31 BC – AD 476 by Michael Grant 367pp pub.
1985
$1.00
A History of Private Life (From Pagan Rome to Byzantium) by
Paul Veyne, Editor, Arthur Goldhammer, Translator 670 pp
published in 1987 Subjects include Marriage, Slavery, Patrimony,
Church and Leadership, Body and Heart, Violence and Death, and
much more
$6.00
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Christianizing the Roman Empire (A.D. 100-400), MacMullen
$0.50
Diocletian and the Roman Recovery, by Stephen Williams
$6.00
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire copyright 1946
Vol 1, 2, 3 total of 2537pp by Edward Gibbon
Gibbons' classic work on the decline and fall of the Roman Empire.
This complete three volume set features beautiful illustrations by
Italian artist Gian Battista Pirenesi on each cover.
$35.00
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Sources of Chinese Tradition, 1999, Second Edition volume 1,
compiled by William Theodore deBary and Irene Bloom. Subjects
include The Shang Dynasty, The Oracle Bone Inscriptions, The
Legacy of Shang, Transformation and Transcendence in the
Zhuangzi, Mencius, Xunzi, Legalist Theories in Practice, Codigying
of the Confucian Canon, The Record of Rites and the Ritual
Tradition, the Reforms of Wang Mang, Records of the Grand
Historian, Wang Bi, Basic Teachings of Buddhism, The Great Tang
Code, and much more. 998 pages
$20.00
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The History of Ancient Israel, by Michael Grant
$0.50
History of the Hebrew Commonwealth by Baily and Kent
$0.50
Five Hundred Years, A History of South Africa, edited by C. F. J.
Muller., D. Phil, Extraordinary Professor of History, University of
South Africa, Pretoria (632 pages)
Subjects include First movements towards the south, arrival of Van
Riebeeck at the cape, settlement under the Van Der Stels, domestic
strife, the Anglo-Boer War, reconstruction, Hertzog in power, Smuts
in Power, the Republic of South Africa and much more including
many illustrations.
$25.00
South Africa by Gerald Cubitt & Arnold Helfet
$1.00
Panoramic South Africa, C. Struik Publishers 1979,
$2.00
The Last Plantagenets by Thomas B. Costain
$0.50
Every One A Witness, The Plantagenet Age, Commentaries of
An Era by A. F. Scott
$5.00
Eclipse of Kings, European Monarchies in the Twentieth Century
by Denis Judd, copyright 1976 224pp
$6.95
The Waning of the Middle Ages
$2.00
Life on a Mediaeval Barony, by William Stearns Davis
$3.00
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A Sourcebook of Mediaeval History edited by Frederic Austin Ogg
$1.00
Mediaeval Feudalism: by Carl Stephenson, Cornell University
Press, 1942 - 116 pages. An explanation of the historical
significance of the feudal system.
$0.25
The Crucible of Europe: the Ninth and Tenth Centuries in
European History: by Carl Stephenson, University of California
Press, Berkeley, 1976, 180 pages.
$0.50
Renaissance in Italy: The Age of the Despots, by Peter Smith
$4.00
Reform & Reformation England, 1509-1558
$0.50
The Gunpowder Plot, The Narrative of Oswald Tesimond
1605 plot by Guy Fawkres to assassinate James I
$3.00
The Spirit of Britain by Roy Strong
Book Condition: Very Good, 708 pp, color and black and white
illustrations throughout.
Sir Roy Strong's cohesive, passionate and timely chronicling of the
movements which have shaped all that is best in British art and
culture serves to remind us what we have and to preserve in all its
richness and diversity.
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English Social History, A Survey of Six Centuries from Chaucer
to Queen Victoria by George M. Trevelyan
Subject include Chaucer’s England, Tudor England, Shakespeare’s
England, Restoration of England, Cobbett’s England, The Growth of
London, London during the Napoleonic wars, The Countries of
England and Wales before 1974 and much more. This book is filled
with beautiful pictures, drawings, and maps 555pp
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A Concise History of England, by R. J. White
$0.50
Kingdoms of Europe, pub. 1982 by Gene Gurney 627pp
An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Ruling Monarchs from Ancient
Times to the Present
This book is handsomely illustrated with subjects that include:
The Roman Empire and Italy, England, Great Britain, and the United
Kingdom, Imperial Germany, the Holy Roman Empire, and Prussia,
the Empires of Austria, The Kingdom of Hungary, the Yugoslav
Kingdom and the Kingdoms of Spain, the Portuguese Monarchy, the
Kingdom of the Netherlands-Denmark-Norway-Sweden-RomaniaBulgaria-Albania- Belgium, the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires,
and the Sultanates of Turkey and much more
$6.50
"The Scottish Nation" is the most comprehensive history of
modern Scotland ever published the first examination of this period
(from 1700 to the present) to appear in our generation. Drawing on a
huge range of research, "The Scottish Nation" takes both the
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"traditional" topics of Scottish history and new themes and makes
them fascinating and accessible to a wide new audience. (696 pages)
The Norman Fate 1100-1154 by David C. Douglas
$0.50
The Old Regime in France by Frantz Funck-Brentano, translated
by Herbert Wilson 1970, 376pp
Subjects include Feudal State and Tradition, The King, Franchises,
Liberties, the Reign of Louis XVI, Public Opinion and much more.
Funck-Brentano writes a book which explains the fundamental ideas
of the old social system in France and their influence on the
government of the Monarch.
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France in the Age of Louis XIII and Richelieu, by Victor-L.
Tapie, translated and edited by D. McN. Lockie
Subjects include France in Decline and Prey to Factions, Richelieu in
the Service of King and Nation, The Interest of the State (1630-43)
published in 1974 622pp.
$10.00
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The Monarchy of France, Claude De Seyssel
$2.00
The Age of Louis XVI
$2.00
The Mongol Empire, Its Rise and Legacy, by Michael Prawdin
$1.00
The Devil’s Horsemen, The Mongol Invasion of Europe
$4.00
The First Crusade, Sir Steven Runciman
This work is based on the first of the three-volume History of the
Crusades. The author abridged the introductory chapters and
brought the book to a close with the Crusaders’ capture of Jerusalem,
so as to concentrate on the extraordinary story of the First Crusade
Chronicles of the Crusades, by M. R. B. Shaw
$4.00
The Northern Crusades, The Baltic and the Catholic Frontier,
1100-1525 by Eric Christiansen
$4.00
The Muslim Discovery of Europe, by Bernard Lewis
The eleventh-century Muslim world was a great civilization while
Europe lay slumbering in the Dark Ages. Slowly, inevitably, Europe
and Islam came together, through trade and war, crusade and
diplomacy. The ebb and flow between these two worlds for seven
hundred years, illuminated here by a brilliant historian, is one of the
great sagas of world history. 350pp
$10.00
A History of the Habsburg Empire 1526-1918
$2.50
The Slavs in European History and Civilization by Francis
Dvornik, 688 pages
$1.00
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Russia and the Golden Horde, by Charles J. Halperin
$2.00
The Land and Government of Muscovy, a sixteenth century
account, translated and edited by Thomas Esper (142pp) 1967
copyright
$4.00
The Etruscans, translated by F. Cremona
$3.00
The Etruscans, translated from the German by Alexander and
Elizabeth Henderson
$3.00
The Phoenicians, Gerhard Herm
$2.00
Art in the Age of Exploration Circa 1492, edited by Jay A.
Levenson, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Yale University
Press, New Haven and London 671 pp
$10.00
Maya, by Charles Gallenkamp
$2.00
Letter to a King, A Peruvian Chief’s Account of Life Under the
Incas and Under Spanish Rule by Huaman Poma
$4.00
A Concise History of Bolivia – Herbert S. Klein Columbia
University 2003; 320 pages
$9.00
Bolivia – Its People and Scenery, photographs by Herbert
Kirchhoff, second edition, 1944 - 105 pages
$5.00
The Andean Republics: William Weber Johnson and the Editors
of Life, Time Inc., 1965 - 160 pages. This book contains maps and
photographs. Good insight on the history of Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador,
and Peru.
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