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| This selection contains 15 title(s) on 1 page. This is page 1 with nrs. 1 to 15 |
| ASTON, MARGARET The Fifteenth Century: The Prospect of Europe W.W. Norton . Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. "The theme of this absorbing study of the fifteenth century is the emergence of Europe as an entity..The great events of the century were the plague, the capture of Constantinople by the Turks, the invention of the printing-press, the exploration of the world and the revival of classical studies." Well illustrated. ISBN: 0393950972 USD 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 | £UK 4.75 | JP¥ 662] Book number: 4049 Click here to order or inquire at The Elephant's Foot Books. | ||
| BRADFORD, SARAH Lucrezia Borgia Penguin . Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. Drawing from a trove of contemporary documents and fascinating first-hand accounts, Bradford brings to life the art, the pageantry, and the dangerous politics of the Renaissance world Lucrezia Borgia helped to create. ISBN: 0143035959 USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 | £UK 5 | JP¥ 706] Book number: 7106 Click here to order or inquire at The Elephant's Foot Books. | ||
| BROTTON, JERRY The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to MIchelangelo Oxford University Press First Edition . Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. The Renaissance Bizaar tells the story of the intense exchange of ideas, objects, and skills that shaped the European Renaissance. ISBN: 0192802682 USD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 | £UK 8.5 | JP¥ 1236] Book number: 6752 Click here to order or inquire at The Elephant's Foot Books. | ||
| CUMMINS, JOHN The Art of Medieval Hunting: The Hound and the Hawk Castle . Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Richly illustrated from a variety of sources, The Art of Medieval Hunting: The Hound and the Hawk shows us a pageant of Medieval and Renaissance life lived in its grandest, most flamboyant, most allusive manner. ISBN: 0783815929 USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 | £UK 9.25 | JP¥ 1324] Book number: 7709 Click here to order or inquire at The Elephant's Foot Books. | ||
| EISENBICHLER, KONRAD The Boys of the Archangel Raphael: A Youth Confraternity in Florence, 1411 - 1785 University of Toronto Press First Edition . Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Confraternities and their contribution to the fabric of society have become invisible for us today...Konrad Eisenbichler brings to light the daily life and history of one such organization from its founding in 1411 to its final suppression in 1785. ISBN: 0802043291 USD 27.50 [Appr.: EURO 18.5 | £UK 16.75 | JP¥ 2427] Book number: 6709 Click here to order or inquire at The Elephant's Foot Books. | ||
| EISENBICHLER, KONRAD The Boys of the Archangel Raphael: A Youth Confraternity in Florence, 1411-1785 University of Toronto Press First Edition . Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Confraternities and their contribution to the fabric of society have become invisible for us today...Konrad Eisenbichler brings to light the daily life and history of one such organization from its founding in 1411 to its final suppression in 1785. ISBN: 0802043291 USD 27.50 [Appr.: EURO 18.5 | £UK 16.75 | JP¥ 2427] Book number: 6789 Click here to order or inquire at The Elephant's Foot Books. | ||
| FRASER, ANTONIA Mary, Queen of Scots (Illustrated Abridged Edition) Delacort First U.S.A. Abridged Edition . Near Fine Tall (4to) Hardcover in Fair Dustjacket. A trace of very faint edge spotting and slight wear of binding - else Fine. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with several chips and closed tears; now held in a clear protective cover. A superbly illustrated condensed edition of the highly acclaimed and immensely successful biography by Antonia Fraser. ISBN: 0440052610 USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 | £UK 9.25 | JP¥ 1324] Book number: 5262 Click here to order or inquire at The Elephant's Foot Books. | ||
| HOLLINGSWORTH, MARY The Cardinal’s Hat: Money, Ambition, and Everyday Life in the Court of a Borgia Prince Overlook . New Unread Trade Paperback. Unmarked. Through his own letters and ledgers, recently uncovered in the basement of an archive in the northern Italian town of Modena, Mary Hollingsworth has pieced together a fascinating and undeniably titillating tale of a real-life Renaissance cardinal and how he achieved his ambition to acquire the coveted cardinal’s hat - a road to power and wealth that had little to do with piety. Illustrated. ISBN: 1585678031 USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 883] Book number: 7512 Click here to order or inquire at The Elephant's Foot Books. | ||
| HOLMES, GEORGE (EDIT.) The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe Oxford University Press Book Club Edition . Fine Hardcover in Fair Dustjacket. Decorated endpapers. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with edge/corner wear and scuffing; now held in a clear protective cover. This richly illustrated book tells the story of Europe and the Mediterranean over a thousand years which saw the creation of Western civilization. ISBN: 0198200730 USD 10.50 [Appr.: EURO 7.25 | £UK 6.5 | JP¥ 927] Book number: 4352 Click here to order or inquire at The Elephant's Foot Books. | ||
| MARTIN, SEAN The Cathers Chartwell First Edition . New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. The story of the most successful heresy of the Middle Ages. ISBN: 0785821716 USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 | £UK 7.25 | JP¥ 1059] Book number: 7519 Click here to order or inquire at The Elephant's Foot Books. | ||
| MARTIN, SEAN The Cathers Chartwell First Edition . New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. The story of the most successful heresy of the Middle Ages. ISBN: 0785821716 USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 | £UK 7.25 | JP¥ 1059] Book number: 7520 Click here to order or inquire at The Elephant's Foot Books. | ||
| PAGE, NICK Lord Minimus: The Extraordinary Life of Britain’s Smallest Man St. Martin’s First U.S. Edition . New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. The first complete biography of the seventeeth century’s Jeffrey Hudson, “The smallest man in Englandà ¶. ISBN: 0312291612 USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 | £UK 7.25 | JP¥ 1059] Book number: 7328 Click here to order or inquire at The Elephant's Foot Books. | ||
| ROWSE, A.L. Sex and Society in Shakespeare's Age: Simon Forman the Astologer Charles Scribner's Sons First Edition . Fine Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with edge wear and scuffing; now in a clear protective cover. Simon Forman's name has been known since his own time, but until now his case books - which give perhaps the most intimate close-up of Elizabethan social life, particularly its sex life, that we possess - had never been explored. In Simon Forman, A. L. Rowse discovers an Elizabethan diarist more revealing even than Pepys or Boswell. Illustrated. ISBN: 0684140519 USD 18.75 [Appr.: EURO 12.75 | £UK 11.5 | JP¥ 1655] Book number: 5283 Click here to order or inquire at The Elephant's Foot Books. | ||
| O’SHEA, STEPHAN Sea of Faith: Islam and Christianity in the Medieval Mediterranean World Profile First Edition . New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. The sea of faith is the Mediterranean in the millenium that we, in the west, call the Middle Ages. In that long and misunderstood era, the lands round what the Romans knews as ‘mare nostrum - our sea’ witnessed an unceasing struggle between Christianity and Islam... Illustrated. ISBN: 186197521X USD 16.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.75 | £UK 9.75 | JP¥ 1412] Book number: 7613 Click here to order or inquire at The Elephant's Foot Books. | ||
| O’SHEA, STEPHAN Sea of Faith: Islam and Christianity in the Medieval Mediterranean World Profile First Edition . New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. The sea of faith is the Mediterranean in the millenium that we, in the west, call the Middle Ages. In that long and misunderstood era, the lands round what the Romans knews as ‘mare nostrum - our sea’ witnessed an unceasing struggle between Christianity and Islam... Illustrated. ISBN: 186197521X USD 16.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.75 | £UK 9.75 | JP¥ 1412] Book number: 7614 Click here to order or inquire at The Elephant's Foot Books. |
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