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Napoleon (Modern Library #95.2)
by LUDWIG, Emil
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- [c.1957-59]
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New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good- in Fair dust jacket. [c.1957-59]. Hardcover. Emil Ludwig's popular biography of Napoleon Bonaparte in a Modern Library reprint edition. Mr. Ludwig (1881-1948) was a German Jew who emigrated to Switzerland in 1906 and later to the United States. Translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul.… Read more about this item Item Price
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A History of the Borgias (Modern Library #192.1)
by CORVO, Frederick Baron; [ROLFE, Frederick William]
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- [c.1939-59]
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New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good- with no dust jacket. [c.1939-59]. Hardcover. To say that Frederick William Rolfe (who wrote this pseudo-history under his famous nom de plume of Frederick Baron Corvo) was an eccentric would be to understate the turbulent life of the author. In this Modern Library reprint edition, he describes… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Medici (First Modern Library Edition, ML #179.1)
by YOUNG, Col. G. F.
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New York: The Modern Library. Good with no dust jacket. N.D.. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Stated First Modern Library Edition, 1930. Colonel G. F. Young's profile of the House of Medici, who wielded great power in Florence and Tuscany starting in the 14th century through the early 18th century. With a preface by the author and extensive… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Medici (Modern Library #179.1)
by YOUNG, Col. G. F.
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- [c.1952]
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New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. [c.1952]. Hardcover. A Modern Library edition of a profile of the House of Medici, who wielded great power in Florence and Tuscany starting in the 14th century through the early 18th century. With a preface by the author and extensive end notes.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Froissart's Chronicles (First Modern Library edition, ML #387.1)
by FROISSART, John; JOLLIFFE, John (translator & editor)
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- 1968
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SGD 37.00
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London / New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated first Modern Library edition, February 1968. A presentation of the famous writings of John Froissart, a Frenchman who spent much time in England in the Court of Edward III. Eyewitnessing many historic events from 1326… Read more about this item Item Price
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Renaissance in Italy (2-volume complete set) (Modern Library Giants #G20.1 & G21.1)
by SYMONDS, John Addington
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- 1936, 1941
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SGD 90.44
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New York: The Modern Library. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1936, 1941. Hardcover. This review of the Italian Renaissance by John Addington Symonds was originally published from 1875 to 1886 in 7 volumes. It is presented here in two unabridged Modern Library Giant volumes. The author was an English literary critic and poet. Volumes wrapped in… Read more about this item Item Price
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Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres (Franklin Library 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature series)
by ADAMS, Henry
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- 1978
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- Hard Cover
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SGD 49.33
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Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1978. Hard Cover. The erudite Henry Adams (1838-1918) takes the reader on a guided tour of Mont-Saint-Michel, Chartres and other historic sites in northern France in a deluxe leatherbound reprint edition by the Franklin Library. The author was the great-grandson of President John Adams and… Read more about this item Item Price
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History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella
by PRESCOTT, William Hickling
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- 1967
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SGD 36.31
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New York: The Heritage Press. Near Fine. 1967. Hardcover. William Hickling Prescott's landmark work of Spanish history first appeared in 1837 and is presented here in a handsome Heritage Press reprint edition. Edited, and with a preface, by C. Harvey Gardiner, with eye-catching color illustrations by Lima De Freitas. With brightly colored map of Spain at… Read more about this item Item Price
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London: The Biography
by ACKROYD, Peter
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- 2001
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- Softcover
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- 9780099422587
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SGD 34.26
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London: Vintage / Random House. Very Good. 2001. Softcover. 0099422581 . A softcover UK edition of Peter Ackroyd's history of the great English capital, which has been acclaimed as THE book about London. From the earliest days with Caesar's first expedition to Britain in 54 BC, to the turn of the twenty-first century, this work carries the… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Rise of the Dutch Republic: A History. Volumes 2 & 3 only, of 3 (Everyman's Library #87 & 88)
by MOTLEY, John Lothrop
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- 1911
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London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1911. Hardcover. 1911 reprints of the 1906 issuances. Volumes two and three only of the 3 volume set of John Lothrop Motley's history of the establishment of a republic in the Netherlands… Read more about this item Item Price
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Legends of Charlemagne (Everyman's Library #556)
by BULFINCH, Thomas
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- [c.1911]
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London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.. Very Good with no dust jacket. [c.1911]. First Edition. Hardcover. An undated, probable 1911 first edition. An Everyman's Library edition presenting Legends of Charlemagne by Thomas Bulfinch (1796-1867) for a younger reader. Some of the legends surrounding the… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volume Two only (of the 6-volume set) (The Great Books of the Western World series)
by GIBBON, Edward
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- 1981
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SGD 121.96
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Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1981. Leather. Volume two only (of six) in a deluxe Franklin Library edition presenting this most famous work in the field of world history, in which Mr. Gibbon clearly and thoroughly details the decline of the Empire of Rome and offers theories as to why… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Oxford Reformers [John Colet, Erasmus and Sir Thomas More] (Everyman's Library #665)
by SEEBOHM, Frederic
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- [1914]
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SGD 23.30
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London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.. Fair with no dust jacket. [1914]. Hardcover. Ex-library. Undated but likely first Everyman's Library edition (1914). The English economic historian Frederic Seebohm (1833-1912) focuses on the influences of University of Oxford lecturers John Colet, Erasmus, and Sir … Read more about this item Item Price
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Lost Atlantis: New Light on an Old Legend
by LUCE, J.V.
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- 1970
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SGD 15.07
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New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1970. Hardcover. Stated 3rd [U.S.] printing, July, 1970. J. V. Luce's examination of archaeological and other evidence to support the theory that an ancient land of Atlantis in the eastern Mediterranean really could have existed, as described by Plato and others. With 14 color, 100… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Armada
by MATTINGLY, Garrett
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- BCE
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- 1959
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- Hardcover
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1959. BCE. Hardcover. A book club edition (despite first printing statement) of author's account of the lead-up and eventual defeat of the Spanish Armada by the Royal Navy in 1588. The author presents the story from alternating Spanish and English points of view. With maps at… Read more about this item Item Price
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Livy: A History of Rome, Selections (Modern Library #325.1)
by LIVY [Titus Livius Patavinus]; HADAS, Moses; POE, Joe P. (translators)
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- [c.1965]
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SGD 32.89
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New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Fair in Fair dust jacket. [c.1965]. Hardcover. A Modern Library edition presenting selections from the ancient Roman historian's famous history of Rome, which originally consisted of 142 separate books. Includes a map of the Mediterranean area. Translation and with an introduction by Moses Hadas and Joe P. Poe. Volume… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Modern Library #32.4)
by BURCKHARDT, Jacob
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- [c.1957]
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SGD 47.28
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New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. [c.1957]. Hardcover. A Modern Library edition presenting Jacob Burckhardt's look at the "colorful period of Italian life and thought between 1350 and 1550." With details about the arts, fashions, manners and thought of the period. The Swiss-born author first published this work… Read more about this item Item Price
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Bauhaus
by FIEDLER, Jeannine; FEIERABEND, Peter (editors)
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- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
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- 2000
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- Hardcover
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- 9783829025935
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SGD 68.52
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Cologne: Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbH. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2000. Hardcover. 3829025939 . A first printing of the English-language edition of an examination of the Bauhaus school of art and arts & crafts. The institution was founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius in Weimar, Germany. It only existed for 14 years, but its impact on… Read more about this item Item Price
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A History of Europe
by ROBERTS, J. M.
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- Used - Near Fine in Fine dust jacket
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- First US Edition
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- 1997
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- Hardcover
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- 9780713992045
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New York: Allen Lane / The Penguin Press. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1997. First US Edition. Hardcover. 0713992042 . A first U.S. printing of Oxford historian J. M. Roberts's in-depth telling of the history of Europe. He begins with the first Europeans and the ancient Greeks, and proceeds through both World Wars to the downfall of… Read more about this item Item Price
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City of Darkness, City of Light
by PIERCY, Marge
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- First Edition
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- 1996
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- Hardcover
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- 9780449912683
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New York: Fawcett Columbine / Ballantine Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. 044991268X . A first printing of Marge Piercy's novel, which tells of the French Revolution through the eyes of three different women. With chart depicting cast of characters at rear of volume. --- In pictorial boards, wrapped in clear… Read more about this item Item Price
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