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

"The purpose of this book is to tell in outline the story of European geographical exploration, trade and settlement outside the bounds of Europe in the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; to define the factors which stimulated expansion and made it possible; and to describe briefly the consequences which followed from it." xv, 365 pages, 80 illustrations, 5 maps, index; 25 cm.; dust jacket desperately tattered, mostly present; book Very Good. Stock#ofc0584.

Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press [1970]. Soft Cover. ix, 434 p.; 23 cm. Eight essays in 3 sections: Introduction: Reappraisal of American policy by Robert E. Osgood; Pt. 1. The Principals: The American outlook by Robert W. Tucker --The Soviet outlook by Herbert S. Dinerstein --pt. 2. The conditions: The domestic scene by Francis E. Rourke --The military issues by Robert E. Osgood --The economic constraints by Isaiah Frank --pt. 3. The arenas: Europe by Laurence W. Martin --The Third World by George Liska. ISBN(10) 0801811031. Stock#NEU195. Good+, used soft cover.

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

Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin, 1970. Four numbers paged consecutively. Contents include (1) Jahresbericht des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts für 1968; Die Sockelinschrift eines attischen Sarkophags in Saloniki; A Mycenean Pictorial Fragment from Palaepaphos; Zur Geschichte Thessaliens im 5. Jahrhundert v. Chr.; Mythological Themes in the Plaques from Penteskouphia; Die Nordtoranlage der Stadtmauer von Resafa in Syrien; Eine Nekropole nordwestlich von Soma; Aegina, Alpha-Tempel I. Die südliche Stätzmauer der Temenosterrasse; (2) Die Kolossalstatue des Severus Alexander in Neapel; Der 'Hekatompedos' von Naxos & der Burgtempel von Paros; A Wild Goat Style Oenochoe in Christchurch (NZ); Der Diadumenian Woburn-München; Sondierungen auf der Akropolis von Elea; Ein alexandeinisches Grabrelief aus Beirut; Zur Chronologie der kappadokischen Felsmalereien; Laufende Gorgo, stehende Artemis?; Die Ausgrabungen zu Pergamon im Asklepieion; (3) Jahresbericht... 1969; Archäologische Funde & Grabungen in… Read More

"The Commentary is an essential adjunct to the facsimiles published in 1970 as The Blathwayt Atlas, Volume I: The Maps. ...Assembled by English colonial administrators, for whom they were working tools, these maps show the areas of English overseas colonial and commercial interest, especially in the Western Hemisphere, in the latter part of the seventeenth century." xx, 235 pages, index; 26 cm. Bound in maroon binder's cloth, maroon dust jacket protected in mylar, spine sunned; Very Good+. Stock#ofc0526.

"After The Discoverers, a tale of man's search to know the world and himself, I was more than ever convinced that the pursuit of knowledge is only one path to human fulfillment. This companion book, also a view from the literate West, is a saga of Heroes of the Imagination. While The Discoverers told of the conquest of illusions-- the illusions of knowledge-- this will be a story of visions (and illusions) newly created. For this is a story of how creators in all the arts have enlarged, embellished, fantasized, and filigreed our experience. While ancient science has only a historical interest, and Galen and Ptolemy live only for the scholar, the ancient arts are living treasures for all of us." --A Personal Note to the Reader. 811 pages; 20 cm. Paperback; as new. Stock#ofc0587.

Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia For Promoting Useful Knowledge, Volume 112. "The fifteenth-century Italian merchant and traveler Cyriacus of Ancona... journeyed tirelessly in Italy, Dalmatia, Greece, and the Levant in search of classical inscriptions..., recording his findings... in notebooks which are now almost entirely lost. Much of their content, however, has come down in the derivative form-- sometimes autograph-- of extracts, transcripts, and fragments, and in old prints of lost codices." "Father Edward W. Bodnar... and Professor Charles Mitchell... present a critical edition of the surviving records of two journeys [Cyriacus] made in the Propontis and Northern Aegean in 1444 and 1445, when he inspected such important sites as Cyzicus, Thasos, and Samothrace, as well as many books in monasteries on Mount Athos. The text-- parts of it hitherto unpublished-- is constituted from all the related manuscripts..." 90 pages of typescript, 24 b/w illustrations; 25… Read More

This high-school textbook has as one of its goals "to give to students some understanding of why they study, or ought to be studying, history." xiv, 740, xiv pages, illustrations, maps, 20.5 cm. Stock#48125.

Chapter headings: The Earth Takes Shape; The Habitable World; The World of Claudius Ptolemy; The Middle Ages; Charts and the Haven-Finding Art; The Map and Chart Trade; The Latitude; The Longitude; Survey of a Country; Survey of a World; Bibliography, pages 341-373; Index. 393 pages, illustrations include color frontispiece; 26 cm. Pictorial dust jacket worn & chipped, spine darkened; the book Very Good. Stock#ofc0591.
A second copy, paperback (PLEASE SPECIFY WHEN ORDERING). N.Y., Dover, 1979. First published 1949, Lloyd Brown's history of maps is still the one to read. Soft Cover. xix, 397 pages, 86 illustrations, 23.5 cm. Softcover; Very Good, slight shelfwear. Stock#ofc0591b / $20.

"The exploration and exploitation of non-European areas by Europeans during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries form one of the greatest phenomena of the Renaissance, one that had never been previously witnessed on such a scale and one that is still of prime importance in the world today." Contents: 1. The Background-- Classical and Medieval; 2. Some Free-lance Travelers of the Early Renaissance; 3. Henry the Navigator and the African Voyages; 4. Portuguese in the Orient; 5. Columbian Voyages; 6. Conquistadores; 7. Eastern South America; 8. Africa in the Sixteenth Century; 9. Early Exploration of North America; 10. Magellan and His Successors; 11. Search for the Northern Passages; 12. Age of Drake; 13. English and Dutch Reach the Orient; 14. Tourists in the East; 15. Early Colonization of North America; 16. Cartography and Navigation of the Renaissance; 17. Geographical Literature of the Renaissance; Bibliography, pages 327-348; Index. xvi, 369 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Color pictorial dust… Read More

NY, Scribner's, 1980. Revised translation of the work published in 1956 under title: Handbuch der Uniformkunde. ISBN(10): 0684163047. Hard Cover. xii, 483 pages, illus.; 26 cm. Vg / dj vg. Stock#46745.

NY, Putnam, 1999. Soft Cover. 449 p.; 22.5 cm. "Uncorrected manuscript for limited Distribution". Numbered in ms. 20 articles in typescript form with no maps or illustrations. This is how books are (were?) promoted. ISBN (10): 0399145761 Stock#47557. Vg / soft cover.