Search Results: History: World from The Owl at the Bridge

Zurich, Droemer, 1965. Hard Cover. 405 p. fold. color map, 20 cm. No index or bibliography. A popular history of Alexander of Macedonia, The Great, and his decade-long reign. Stock# 30,423. Vg/ dj good+

Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press,1969.. Hard Cover. xv, 485 p. maps. 24 cm. NEU047. Red ink side markings.Good+/ dj good+.

Glenview, IL, Scott, Foresman [1973]. Soft Cover. 156 p., index, maps, diagrams; 23 cm. Introduction to Archaeology in the Americas. Stock# 30,845. Good, but much ink underlining/ wrappers. Spanish American history. Indians

New York, McGraw-Hill [1966]. Hard Cover. 176 p., index, illus. incl. color; endpaper map 29 cm. Series: Landmarks of the World's Art.The art of the Ancient Middle East. Stock# 39,428. Vg/ plastic dj.

N.Y., Harper & Row, 1965. Hard Cover. xlii, 1048 p. 24 cm. Series: History of Mankind Scientific and Cultural Development volume II. ”Sponsored by UNESCO, this is the first global history, planned and executed from an international point of view.” Stock# 37,185. Vg/ dj vg.

NY, HarperCollins, ©2003. Hard Cover. ix, 240 p., maps; 22 cm. Antiquity: From the Birth of Sumerian Civilization to the Fall of the Roman Empire. ISBN (10): 0060174099. Stock#47321. Vg, gift inscription on front fly/ dj fine.

New York, N.Y., Facts on File, c1982.. Soft Cover. 253 p., illus. (some col.), index, 19 cm. Translation of: Das grosse Buch der Baustile. Stock# 40,115. Vg/ paper.

Princeton UP, 1965. . Hard Cover. 131 p., 67 illus. 22.5 cm. First published in Danish, 1958. Most of the book is about The Great Crisis and its solution under Diocletian. Stock# 34,323. Vg/ no dj. Classical world. Rome history culture

Andre Emmerich Gallery Inc., NY, 1968. Soft Cover. 52 p., 65 items, photos, 23 cm. Title continues: An Exhibition organized in cooperation with Münzen und Medaillen AG, Basle, Switzerland. February 7-March 13, 1968. Pictorial paper covers a bit scuffed; good+. Stock#31558.

New York, NY : HarperCollins Publishers, c1991.. Soft Cover. xx, 1095 p., index, 23.5 cm. Much on Britain and the United States. Includes bibliographical references (p.1001-1071). S-B. Stock# 40,441. Good+/ paper.

NY, Viking, 1969. Soft Cover. xiv, 306 p., 16 p. of plates, map; 19.5 cm. First published 1962. "This is the story of how the Negro colonists were brought to the two Americas, as the result of a gigantic commercial operation that changed the history of the world." Good+, used for teaching / soft cover. Stock#47726.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, 1977. Periodical. 96 p.; illus. & photos incl. color; 28 cm. Kurt Weitzmann on the transition from classical to early Christian art. Stock# 40,239. Vg/ paper;

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1977. Periodical. 80 p., illus. incl. color; 28 cm. Casson, The Thracians; Venedikov, The Archaeological Wealth of Ancient Thrace. Stock# 40,238. Vg, color pictorial covers.

N.Y., Knopf, 1954. Hard Cover. 5 p.l., 359, iv p.24 cm.There are 16 pieces and no table of contents (the back of the dust jacket lists them) in four sections: Maritime,Biographical, Saints,Scholars, and Sinners; History and Historians. Stock# 32,270. Vg/ dj good+.

Berkeley, U of Calif. Press, [1979]. Hard Cover. viii, 245 p., photos, diagrams, illus.; 26 cm. Includes Anderson, On the Tegernsee MS of Ovid's Metamorphoses (Munich Clm 29007); Foss, Explorations in Mount Timolus; Gruen, The Consular Elections for 216 B.C. and the Veracity of Livy; Henry, The Dating of Fifth-Century Attic Inscriptions; Lebek, Love in the Cloister: A Pseudo-Ovidian Metamorphosis (altera sed nostris eqs.); Miller, The Date of the First Pythiad; Murgia, Loci Conclamati in the Minor Works of Tacitus; Race, Odes 1.20: An Horatian Recusatio; Rogers, The Apuleius of the Geoponica; Rosenmeyer, On Snow and Stones; Vanderpool, Roads and Forts in Northwestern Attica.Stock# 40,282. Vg, blue cloth / no dj. Roman & Greek archeology, history, culture.

Yale UP, 1990. Book-of-the-Month-Club edition. Hard Cover. xxvi, 334 p., index; 24 cm. "The Roman Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus, commonly known by his childhood nickname of Caligula ('Little Boots'), ruled only four years, from AD 37 to 41. But in that short time he earned a lasting reputation as the quintessential mad despot... while Caligula may not have been mad, he was devoid of any sense of moral responsibility. With little talent for governing, he was appointed emperor through a series of accidents." Vg/vg. We also offer the softcover edition at $15. Stock#31911x.

Berkeley, Calif UP, [1978]. Hard Cover. Williams presents the question as whether change is a more accurate description than decline. viii, 344 p. 23 cm.; Vg, as new/vg. 28653.

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1986.. Hard Cover. xv, 223 p. : illus. ; index, 25 cm. Series: Minorities in modern America. On nineteenth-century Chinese immigration. Bibliography: p. 214-219. NEU017. Vg / no dj.

NY, Harper & Row, 1969. "As Kenneth Clark takes us from the fall of the Roman Empire to the present day, he concentrates on crucial cultural episodes-- from Iona in the ninth century to France in the twelfth, from Florence to Urbino, from Germany to Rome, England, Holland and America." Hard Cover. xviii, 359 pages, index, 286 illus., 48 pages of color. Ink gift inscription on flyleaf; Very Good. Stock#101652x.

NY, Harper & Row, 1969. Hard Cover. xviii, 359 p., index, 286 illus., 48 pages of color. "As Kenneth Clark takes us from the fall of the Roman Empire to the present day, he concentrates on crucial cultural episodes-- from Iona in the ninth century to France in the twelfth, from Florence to Urbino, from Germany to Rome, England, Holland and America." Vg, gift inscription/ vg. Stock#101651x.