History And Travel from Capricorn Books

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2000. 179 pp, 11" H. B&w photographs, drawings. Contents: Notes to the Reader; Abbreviations; Introduction: "Her Parents Gave Her the Name Claudia"; Livia to Helena: Women in Power, Women in the Provinces; Livia: Portrait and Propaganda; Family Ties: Mothers and Sons in Elite and Non-Elite Roman Art; Just Window Dressing?: Imperial Women as… Read more about this item

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. 335 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w maps, colour plates. "In 1099, when the first crusaders arrived triumphant and bloody before the walls of Jerusalem, they carved out a Christian European presence in the Islamic world that remained for centuries, bolstered by subsequent waves of new crusades and pilgrimages. But how did medieval Muslims understand… Read more about this item

Boston: David R. Godine, 1980. 208 pp, 9 3/4" H. Map endpapers, b&w and colour illustrations. "From the day they were first written, Julius Caesar's seven books of 'Commentaries', on his campaigns in Gaul (58 to 50 BC) - modern France, Belgium, southern Netherlands, Germany west of the Rhine, most of Switzerland - have provided an unmatched account of… Read more about this item

London: Thames & Hudson, 2015. 240 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w photographs, maps, charts, reproductions. "New discoveries in genetics have overturned the dogma of decades about the Celts. Today Celtic languages cling to precarious life on the northwestern fringes of Europe. Delve into the pre-Roman past and we find Celtic spoken across the contintent. The heritage of the Celts… Read more about this item

Amritsar: Singh Brothers, 2010. 174 pp, 8 3/4" H. Integral ribbon bookmark. "This volume contains detailed interviews with 11 prominent leaders, intellectuals and officials who were at the helm of Punjab affairs in the first half of the twentieth century. The interviews included in this volume constitute important and reliable primary source of history of the Punjab for the… Read more about this item

New York: Harcourt, 2000. 452 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w photographs. "When Jose Saramago decided some twenty years ago to write a book about Portugal, his only desire was that it be unlike any other book on the subject, and in this he certainly has succeeded. Recording the events and observations of a journey across the length and breadth… Read more about this item

Simla: Government Monotype Press, 1910. 126 pp + folded map (34 1/2" H x 33 3/4" W) in pocket at rear, 10 1/4" H, red cloth with black lettering on front board, two paper labels on spine. 10 b&w fold-out maps/plans, including map at rear - all present. Chapter headings: India in 1817; The Opposing Forces; The Theatre of… Read more about this item

Two volume set, rebound in dark green buckram with paper labels on front boards and spines, 9 5/8" H. B&w illustrations. A facsimile reprint of the 1699 edition printed in London for Henry Bonwicke. Ex-college library with the following markings: stamps on bottom edges of text blocks, faint residue on spines from removal of labels, rear free endpapers show… Read more about this item

New York: Amistad / HarperCollins, 2018. 171 pp, 8 1/2" H. "In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston traveled to Plateau, Alabama, to visit eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis, a survivor of the 'Clotilda', the last slaver known to have made the transatlantic journey. Illegally brought to the United States, Cudjo was enslaved fifty years after the slave trade was outlawed. At the… Read more about this item

Edinburgh / London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1874. Two volume set - [xii], 428 pp + [vii], 367 pp, 9" H, faded red cloth boards with gilt lettering/decoration on spines, gilt lettering and gilt/black decoration on front boards, blindstamped decoration on rear boards. All maps/illustrations are present, although the list states that two maps are in a pocket at… Read more about this item

Vancouver / Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, 2006. 411 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w photographs, maps, reproductions. "The shared history of Christianity and Islam began in the ealy seventh century AD with a question: Who would inherit the Greco-Roman world of the Mediterranean? Sprung from the same source - Abraham and the Revelation given to the Jews - the two… Read more about this item

Toronto: Musson, 1930. 140 pp, 7 5/8" H, red cloth with black lettering/banding on spine. Inscribed on front free endpaper: "To / Maggie ? / With Cordial Good Wishes / From / Archer Wallace / Christmas 1930." "Here are fifteeen stories of men who as boys were handicapped or baffled, who had seemingly lost, but who by pluck came… Read more about this item

London: J.M. Dent, 1965. 230 pp, 9" H, teale green cloth with gilt lettering/decoration on spine, gilt 'duck in flight' on front board, top edge of textblock dark green. B&w illustrations throughout. The author/illustrator describes his leisurely journey down the Thames, from the designing and building of his boat, The Willow, through excursions to churches, woodlands, pubs, etc. along… Read more about this item

London: Quiller, 1992. 117 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w illustrations. "Marie Tussaud's achievement was phenomenal. In the first half of the nineteenth century it was hard for a woman to make a success of any kind of business without male partnership, money, or influence behind her. Marie had none of these, and yet proved herself a career woman ahead… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 1936. 525 pp, 8 3/4" H, orange cloth with gilt lettering on spine, gilt decoration on front board. B&w frontispiece & title page drawing, 6 b&w photographs, fold-out map after Epilogue, a few examples of musical notation. Describes "the further adventures of a musical picaroon mounted on a frisky hobby-horse." Contents: Prologue / Barbary: The Oracle of… Read more about this item

New York: George Sully 337 pp, 8 7/8" H, blue cloth with gilt lettering/banding on spine, blindstamped decoration on front board. No date, but previous owner has written "1926" on front free endpaper in fountain pen. 28 b&w plates (including frontispiece), several with two photographs per plate - all present. Chapter headings: The Dawn of British North American Shipping; The… Read more about this item

London: Arcturus, 2011. 554 pp, 10 1/4" H. "(D)escribes in meticulous yet vivid detail manners, customs and dress during the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Wide ranging in its coverage, it provides a complete picture of what it must have been like to be alive in this momentous point in history. Profusely illustrated, it is a veritable treasure-trove of information… Read more about this item

Toronto: HarperCollins, 2022. 308 pp, 9 5/16" H. B&w photographs, reproductions. "A knife, a diary, a recipe book, a stringed instrument, and a cotton pouch. Each belonged to an individual who was in their twenties during the Second World War: a fresh-faced prairie boy, a melancholic youth, a capable cook, a musician wounded at the front, and a survivor.… Read more about this item

London: British Museum Press, 2020. 110 pp, 8 1/4" H, soft cover with self-flaps. Colour photographs, map. B&w reproductions. "Originating before 3000 BC, cuneiform script is, as far as we know, the oldest form of writing in the world. The choice of clay as a writing medium in ancient Mesopotamia meant that records of all kinds could survive down to… Read more about this item

Budapest: Corvina, 2017. 356 pp, 8 3/8" H, soft cover with self-flaps. B&w photographs. The author introduces 30 of his personal 'Hungarian heroes', including "an aristrocrat who renounced wealth and title, a Gypsy artist born in poverty, and Hungarian patriots of German, Greek, Jewish and Syrian origin. I write of persons in the churches who were persecuted under regimes that… Read more about this item