Adkins, Lesley and Roy,

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ROMANS.

Quantum / Eagle Editions, Royston, 2002, paperback, 128pp, maps, diagrams, coloured and half tone ills. throughout, large format (11 x 8.5 inches approx.), coloured pictorial wrappers, an exploration of aspects of Roman life 2000 years ago and the rich legacy of Roman civilisation, illustrated with numerous images of artefacts and remains from all over Europe, with an introduction to the rituals and religion that influenced Ancient Rome, lightly rubbed at extrems., cnrs. slightly inclined to curl, very good,

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Book number: 39035

Catalogue: European History

Keywords: history europe italy roman culture religion ritual

Balsdon, J. P. V. D.,

LIFE AND LEISURE IN ANCIENT ROME.

Phoenix, London, 2004, 3rd imp., paperback, 463pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., large format (8.5 x 5 inches approx.), coloured pictorial upper wrapper, an account of daily life in Rome, of the family both rich and poor, of work and leisure, of travel and entertainments, of the lives of slaves and gladiators, lightly rubbed at tips, faint vertical crease in spine, very good plus,

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Book number: 39036

Catalogue: European History

Keywords: history europe italy rome

Bascom, Willard,

DEEP WATERS, ANCIENT SHIPS - The Treasure Vault of the Mediterranean.

David and Charles, Newton Abbot, ND (copyright 1976), 1st edn., [xiv], 226pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., in text line drawings and diagrams by Willard Bascom, red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, written by a professional oceanographer and engineer, an examination of the ancient wraships and trading ships lyingat the bottom of the Mediterranean and of the techniques and equipment used to locate, inspect and salvage them, a little bumped at lower edge of lower board, upper edge faintly foxed, all edges stanned, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed with sl. loss at at extrems., repaired to reverse, very good in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 42286

Catalogue: European History

Keywords: european history mediterranean shipwrecks exploration salvage treasure artifacts oceanographer engineer deep-water archaeology

Brondsted, Johannes (trans. by Kalle Skov),

THE VIKINGS.

Pelican / Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1973, reprint, paperback, 347pp, 24pp half tone photo ills., [iii] ads., coloured pictorial montage upper wrapper, the background and origins of the Vikings, the motives of the voyages and raids, their industries and equipment, ships and armies, social organization and daily life, lightly rubbed at extrems., slight creasing to wrappers, edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 39360

Catalogue: European History

Keywords: european history nordic vikings

Butterworth, Alex and Laurence, Ray,

POMPEII - THE LIVING CITY.

Phoenix, London, 2006, ist in imprint, trade paperback, [xiv inc. 2 maps and diagram], 417pp, pictorial title, 16pp coloured and half tone photo ills., coloured pictorial montage upper wrapper, an award winning account of everyday life in Pompeii, during the twenty-five years before the devastating eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, lightly rubbed at tips, faint vertical crease in spine, very good,

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Book number: 39040

Catalogue: European History

Keywords: history europe italy pompeii vesuvius

Chadwick, Nora (intro. J. X. W. P. Corcoran),

THE CELTS.

Pelican / Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1979, reprint, paperback, 302pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., 3 in text maps, [ii] ads., coloured photo pictorial upper wrapper, the origin, rise and spread of the Celts and their arrival in the British Isles about the eighth century, a little rubbed at extrems., light creasing to wrappers, edges tanned, good plus,

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Book number: 39362

Catalogue: European History

Keywords: european history celtic britian ireland

Cole, John P.,

A GEOGRAPHY OF THE U.S.S.R..

Pelican / Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1967, 1st edn., paperback original, 326pp, maps, charts and diagrams in text, [vii] ads.], pictorial upper wrapper by Bruce Robertson, light vertical creasing to spine, a little rubbed at extrems., edges tanned, ink namd first blank, very good,

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Book number: 33991

Catalogue: European History

Keywords: miscellaneous geography ussr

Collins, Irene,

LIBERALISM IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY EUROPE.

Historic Association / Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1959, reprint, paperback, 26pp, stapled lettered card wrappers, pamphlet G.34 in the general series published by the Historical Association by accomplished contemporary historians, lightly rubbed at extrems., wrappers lightly creased, very good,

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Book number: 40778

Catalogue: European History

Keywords: european history liberalism

Cunliffe, Barry (edited by),

THE OXFORD ILLUSTRATED PREHISTORY OF EUROPE.

Oxford University Press, Oxford, ND (circa 1998), 4th impression, 24pp coloured photo ils., maps, half tone ills., line drawings and diagrams in text, pictorial endpapers, large format (10 x 7.5 inches approx.), black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, by the professor of European Archaeology at Oxford University, a history of Europe from the coming of Stoone Age man to the fall of the Roman Empire, very heavy, lightly rubbed at tips, light bump at head of spine, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at extrems., some creasing to lower panel, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 39043

Catalogue: European History

Keywords: history prehistory europe

Dodge, Theodore Ayrault,

ALEXANDER - A history of the origin and growth of the art of war from the earliest times to the Battle of Ipsus, 301 BC, with a detailed account of the campaigns of the great Macedonian - Volume II.

Greenhill Books, London, 1993, facsimile edn., viii, page 353 to page 692pp, folding map at rear, line drawings, maps and diagrams in text, [i] list of dates, dark green laminated boards lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, a facsimile reprint of the 1890 Houghton Mifflin edition, this volume containing Chapters 26 to 49 from Spring of 331 BC to June 323 BC, with appendices of ancient marches, Alexander's marches and routes, battle losses and his genealogy, with the index and a folding map of Alexander's Conquests, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 40433

Catalogue: European History

Keywords: european history alexander macedonia

Dornberg, John,

THE PUTSCH THAT FAILED - Munich 1923 : Hitler's Rehearsal for Power.

Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, ND (copyright 1982), [viii], 385pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., double page street plan of Munich showing route of Putchists' march, red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, lettered dustwrapper, a reconstruction of the Munich beer-hall putsch, based on newspaper reports, police depositions, trial records and the personal recollections of participants and eye-witnesses, in which Hitler failed to take over of the government of Bavaria and instead led to his imprisonment and the opportunity to write Mein Kampf, lightly rubbed at extrems., edges tanned, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at extrems., light overall soiling, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 39315

Catalogue: European History

Keywords: europe germany munich putsch weimar republic nazi party

Etienne, Robert (translated by Caroline Palmer),

POMPEII - THE DAY A CITY DIED.

Thames and Hudson / New Horizons, London, 1998, reprint, paperback, 216pp, coloured and half tone ills., line drawings, city plans and folding panoramas in text, coloured pictorial wrappers, an account of the rediscovery of Pompeii, of the excavations and of the discoveries of the almost complete city ait its inhabitants buried under three metres of volcanic ash, lightly rubbed at tips, cnrs. slightly inclined to curl, faint creasing to wrappers, very good,

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Book number: 39045

Catalogue: European History

Keywords: history europe italy pompeii vesuvius

Footman, David (ills. by C. W. Bacon),

THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONS.

Faber and Faber, London, 1973, reprint, paperback, 134pp, maps and half tone ills. in text, pictorial wrappers, in the World Outlook 1900-1965 Study Series, an account of the revolutions which created the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from the Holy Russia of the Czars, ligjhtly rubbed at extrems., slight ripple to binding, faint creasing at upper hinge, very good,

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Book number: 39366

Catalogue: European History

Keywords: russia ussr history lenin trotsky marx ww1 tsar nicholas rasputin stalin kalinin kerensky petrograd

Gilliver, Kate, Goldsworthy, Adrian and Whitby, Michael (foreword by Steven Saylor),

ROME AT WAR.

Osprey, Oxford, 2005, paperback, 288pp, coloured and half tone ills., line drawings, maps and diagrams throughout, large format (9.5 x 6.5 inches approx.), coloured pictorial wrappers, previously published as Essential Histories 43: Caesar's Gallic War 58-50 BC, Caesar's Civil War 49-44 BC and Essential Histories 21: Rome at War AD293 - 696; here as Essential Histories Special 6, lightly rubbed at tips, slight rippling to corners, faint creasing to wrappers, very good,

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Book number: 39046

Catalogue: European History

Keywords: history europe italy rome war

Godechot, Jacques (trans. by Herbert H. Bowen),

FRANCE AND THE ATLANTIC REVOLUTION OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, 1770-1799.

Collier-Macmillan, London, 1977, reprint, trade paperback, [viii], 279pp, pictorial upper wrapper, an Open University Set Book, the French Revolution discussed as a part of the wide-ranging social, cultural and philosophical change in France as well as being a part of a world transforming phenomenon involving revolutions and uprisings in other parts of the world, a little rubbed at extrems., spine sunned, light vertical crease in spine, cnrs. slightly inclined to curl, edges tanned, good,

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Book number: 39247

Catalogue: European History

Keywords: european history france revolution