Jacob van Ellinckhuysen, 1694. First Edition. Hardcover. Tome Premier: [2], [12], [42], 488 pp. Covers years 1574-1579 Tome Second: 394 pp. Covers years 1578-1585. Last volume is missing. Henry III reigned from 1551-1589. First edition (first printing). Very good in vellum covers. Covers with some wear and discoloration. Title written.....
Auguste Picard, 1927, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. 565, 88 pages. First editions (first printings). Near fine copy of La Litterature rebound with original paper wrappers in marbled paper over boards and leather covers. Spine with 5 raised bands, Title in bright gilt on spine. Marbled endpapers. Limited edition, #183/500. Stamp.....
Princeton University Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. 241 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Focusing on the highest-ranking segment of the nobility, Mark Motley examines why a social group whose very essence was based on hereditary status would need or seek instruction and.....
Ballantine Books, April 2001. Trade Paperback. In this beautifully written biography, Alison Weir paints a vibrant portrait of a truly exceptional woman and provides new insights into her intimate world. Renowned in her time for being the most beautiful woman in Europe, the wife of two kings and mother of.....
Cornell University Press, March 1998. Trade Paperback. Medieval society was dominated by its knights and nobles. The literature created in medieval Europe was primarily a literature of knightly deeds, and the modern imagination has also been captured by these leaders and warriors. This book explores the nature of the nobility.....
Broadway, October 2013. Trade Paperback. WINNER OF THE 2013 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY General Alex Dumas is a man almost unknown today, yet his story is strikingly familiar--because his son, the novelist Alexandre Dumas, used his larger-than-life feats as inspiration for such classics as The Count of Monte Cristo and.....
Random House, October 2002. Trade Paperback. Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize Winner of the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize Between January and July 1919, after "the war to end all wars," men and women from around the world converged on Paris to shape the.....
Flammarion, July 2002. Hardcover. Edith Wharton's love affair with the French Riviera began in 1919, and continued to the end of her days. She found there a microcosm of the sort of society that had always fascinated her, that she described in her classic novels. Between the two world wars.....
Novelty.
Carlton Hotel, (n.d. but 1960s). Trade Paperback. 6-panel brochure.
Harmony, November 1989. Hardcover.
University of Pennsylvania Press, February 1988. Trade Paperback. In the growth of towns and the revival of commerce, historians have seen the development of a bourgeois and capitalist Europe, but Pierre Riché reminds us that Carolingians saw a world of forest and wasteland, in which scattered castles and villages were.....
Garden City, January 1926. Hardcover.
University of Wales Press, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. 241 pages. Dialects and grammar of the Celtic language. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a dust jacket that is lightly chipped at the spine head and a bit worn at the edges, else very good.
W. W. Norton & Company, August 2005. Trade Paperback. At one time an underground hero in the world of journalism, with prose on a par with Tolstoy and Kafka, Joseph Roth now looms large in the pantheon of European literature. Indeed, the last five years have seen a major Roth.....
Bedford/St. Martin's, October 1995. Trade Paperback. This brief documentary history includes 38 documents that explore the issue of rights and citizenship in Revolutionary France and the movement that helped define modern notions of civil rights.
University of California Press, May 2004. Trade Paperback. When this book was published in 1984, it reframed the debate on the French Revolution, shifting the discussion from the Revolution's role in wider, extrinsic processes (such as modernization, capitalist development, and the rise of twentieth-century totalitarian regimes) to its central political.....
W. W. Norton, October 2008. Trade Paperback. A narrative of exploration--full of strange landscapes and even stranger inhabitants--that explains the enduring fascination of France. While Gustave Eiffel was changing the skyline of Paris, large parts of France were still terra incognita. Even in the age of railways and newspapers, France.....
Phoenix, January 2000. Trade Paperback.
St. Martin's Griffin, October 2003. Trade Paperback. Louis-Charles, Duc de Normandie, enjoyed a charmed early childhood in the gilded palace of Versailles. At the age of four, he became the dauphin, heir to the most powerful throne in Europe. Yet within five years he was to lose everything. Drawn into.....
St. Martin's Press, January 1965. Hardcover.
Little, Brown, January 1974. Hardcover.
St. Martin's Griffin, September 2003. Trade Paperback. A sumptuous new biography of one of the most famous dangerous liaisons When Jeanne Antoinette Poisson was a child, a fortune-teller predicted that she would one day be the mistress of a king. Born into the financial bourgeoisie that was a world apart.....
Oxford University Press, USA, September 1973. Hardcover. This is a history of the French, which attempts to explain their idiosyncrasies, enthusiasms, and prejudices. It goes beyond a mere recital of events to investigate the attitudes and behavior over an unusually wide range of activities. The first part scrutinizes the peculiar.....
John Murray, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. 284 pages. Biographies and genealogies of French kings and queens from the 14th to the 19th century. First edition (first printing). A very good hardcover copy in a dust jacket missing an inch at the top and bottom of the spine. Inscribed by the.....