History & Historical Biography

Folio Society - The Folio History of Ancient Greece - 4 X HB - Slipcased - 2nd Printing 2002

A large and heavy set - weighs just over 4.3 kg unboxed.  All books in excellent ' as new' condition - matching uniform designs, light edgewear to the external slipcase, small compressed/ impacted...

Eamon Duffy / Saints and Sinners: A History of the Popes (Coffee Table Book)

Fifty black-and-white and one hundred col

Robert Kee / The Picture Post Album: A 50th Anniversary Collection (Coffee Table Book)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Makaziwe Mandela / Mandela: In Honor of an Extraordinary Life (Coffee Table Book)

A tribute to her father, Makaziwe Mandela shares the most definitive portrait of Nelson Mandela to date, revealing the man behind the anti-apartheid movement that changed the world.One of Time...

Johanna O'Mahony Walters / Tales of Awe and Wonder: Our Medieval Heritage (Coffee Table Book)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

David I. Harvie / Limeys (Hardback)

In 1740, Commander George Anson left Portsmouth with seven ships and nearly 2000 men. Three years later less than 600 returned. Only four were killed by the enemy - the rest not being killed by war,...

Hannah Jewell / 100 Nasty Women of History (Hardback)

' Vital reading ' STYLIST 'Because 100 Nasty Women is so easy to read and witty , I didn't expect it to be the life changing, important book that I'm discovering it to be' PHILIPPA PERRY * * * * * *...

Christer Jörgensen / Great Battles (Coffee Table Book)

Great Battles introduces 30 major battles

Frank Wallis / Ribbons of Time: World history Year by Year Since 1492 (Coffee Table Book)

Ribbons Of Time is an illustrated chart o

Tony Robinson / Worst Jobs In History: The Most Unenviable Jobs Of The Last Two Thousand Years (Coffee Table Book)

This is

Anna Bikont / The Crime and the Silence

Winner of the European Book Prize 'A masterpiece' Jan T. Gross 'Terrifying and necessary' Julian Barnes 'Scrupulously objective and profoundly personal' Kate Atkinson On 10 July 1941 a horrifying...

J.M. Roberts / Shorter Illustrated History of the World (Coffee Table Book)

Second revised edition, first published i

Patrick K. O'Brien / World History (Coffee Table Book)

From the

Tim Taylor / The Ultimate "Time Team" Companion: An Alternative History of Britain (Coffee Table Book)

Good: A copy that has been read, but rema

William C. Davis / The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the US Civil War: The Soldiers, Generals, Weapons and Battles (Coffee Table Book)

View the American Civil War as it really

Cecil Lewis - Sagittarius Rising - HB (Slipcased Folio Society Edition) - WW1

The aircraft were Morane Parasols, Sopwith Camels, SE 5s. The young warriors who flew them were the world's first aces. They piloted their flimsy planes in dawn patrols across no-man's-land and over...

H.V Morton - In Search of England - HB Folio Society

Hardcover in plain dark green slipcase, small bimp to lower spine of the slipcase, otherwise unmarked.  This edition Folio Society UK, 2002, introduction by Simon Jenkins, based on the 1927 original,...

Lesley & Roy Adkins / An Introduction to the Romans (Coffee Table Book)

The Romans came from a city and went on t

Angus Konstam / Historical Atlas Of The Celtic World (Coffee Table Book)

The rema

Simon Schama / The British Wars, 1603-1776 (Coffee Table Book)

The begi

Susan Bennett / Cultivating the Human Faculties: James Barry 1741-1806 and the Society of Arts (Coffee Table Book)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Evan S. Connell -Son of the Morning Star : General Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn - HB

Hardcover, published by Guild Publishing ( a BOOK CLUB EDITION), standard format hardcover. 1985   On a scorching June Sunday in 1876, thousands of Indian warriors - Lakota Sioux, Cheyenne and...

Ian Crofton / World History: 50 Events You Really Need to Know (Coffee Table Book)

People often complain that in history lessons at school they were taught just a few topics - the Romans, the Tudors, the Nazis - and how they have no idea at all about what happened in between. To...

Pamela Reeves / Ellis Island: Gateway to the American dream (Coffee Table Book)

Original pictures and text showing how ou

Dean Smith / Tempe: Arizona Crossroads, An Illustrated History (Coffee Table Book)

A VG copy or a little better due to cover

Nill / Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt (Coffee Table Book)

-- Dynamic and comprehensive history intr

William C. Atkinson - A History of Spain and Portugal - PB Pelican - 1973

Blue spine Penguin Pelican , 1973. In very good condition, light usual page tanning is the sole issue.  A concise history of both nations of the Iberian peninsula, covering the area from the Romans,...

Margaret Bunson / Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt (Coffee Table Book)

THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ANCIENT EGYPT is the first single-volume reference guide to the remarkable culture that flourished on the banks of the Nile from the predynastic period, 3200 B.C., to the fall of...

Tim Newark / In Heroes' Footsteps: A Walker's Guide to the Battlefields of the World (Coffee Table Book)

It's the

Paul Fitzgerald / Speechless: World History Without Words (Coffee Table Book)

Speechle

Donald Somervill / The Ultimate Illustrated History Of World War II: An Authoritative Account Of One Of The Deadliest Conflicts In Human History With Analysis Of Decisive Encounters And Landmark Engagements (Coffee Table Book)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Dale Brown / Ancient India : Land of Mystery (Coffee Table Book)

Discusses the archaeology and civilizatio

E.E. O'Donnell / Father Browne's Titanic Album: A Passenger's Photographs and Personal Memoir (Coffee Table Book)

Thanks t

Frances Bernstein / Classical Living: Reconnecting with the Rituals of Ancient Rome (Coffee Table Book)

Enhance your life using the riches of the Roman tradition. An authority on ancient Roman culture, Frances Bernstein shows you how to draw on the wisdom, history, myths and ancient prayers that were a...

R. Hamilton / Ancient Egypt Kingdom of the Pharaohs (Coffee Table Book)

Although they were created thousands of years ago, the great monuments of Ancient Egypt continue to absorb and astonish us today. These imposing constructions the Sphinx, the Pyramids, the tombs in...

Rosemary Lord / Los Angeles Then & Now (Coffee Table Book)

"I'm ready for my close-up, Mr. DeMille!" Los Angeles, the City of Angels, is the capital of show business, where to be young and beautiful is to have it all. This all-new edition of Los Angeles Then...

Antun Travirka / Dubrovnik - History Culture Art Heritage (Coffee Table Book)

Peter Ackroyd / Albion - The Origins of the English Imgination (Hardback)

This book covers the whole of English cultural history from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day -- from the Venerable Bede through English myths such as the legends about King Arthur and Albion...

Iain Zaczek / Clans and Tartans of Scotland (Coffee Table Book)

Scotland

Mary Blume / Cote d'Azur - Inventing the French Riviera (Coffee Table Book)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Rory Sweetnam & Lisa Marr - New Zealand’s Irish Revolution - BRAND NEW

Offering original New Zealand perspectives on the Irish Revolution from the third Home Rule crisis to the establishment of the Irish Free State, this collection explores the political, social, and...

Maurice J. Casey - Hotel Lux : An Intimate History of Communism's Forgotten Radicals - PB - BRAND NEW

Shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards 2024: History Book of the Year 'Hotel Lux is an unforgettable book, bringing to life not only its protagonists but an entire world, and offering a new glimpse of...

Maria E. Brower / Gold Rush Towns of Nevada County (Large Paperback)

Images of Americ

Colin Quigley - Music From the Heart : Compositions if a Folk Fiddler - HB

Music from the Heart follows Emile Benoit, a fiddler from French Newfoundland, through a rapidly changing musical milieu as he moves from a small rural community to international musical and folk...

James Holland / Darkest Hour

The second novel in the series featuring Sergeant Jack Tanner.May, 1940: Following his return from Norway and a short time on coast guard duty in Kent, Sergeant Jack Tanner finds himself in Belgium...

Deane Heller / Jaqueline Kennedy (Vintage Paperback)

      All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Please be aware that there will be a sticker with an identifying number on the spine of this book.

Desmond Forristal - The Second Burial of Bishop Shanahan - PB - 1990

Published by Veritas Books, 1990, a biography of Tipperay born Joseph Shanahan, who founded religious orders and worked on what were termed 'The Missions' in Southern Nigeria  as priest and bishop ,...

David Brown / 501 Most Devastating Disasters (Coffee Table Book)

This fantastic book will take you through

Bonechi / Holland: A Splendid Journey Through History, Traditions and Art (Coffee Table Book)

Discover Holland with the New Millenium c

George Rude / Revolutionary Europe 1783-1815 (Vintage Paperback)

      All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Please be aware that there will be a sticker with an identifying number on the spine of this book.

Simon Hornblower / The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization (Coffee Table Book)

Unrivaled in scope and scholarship, The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization is an indispensable guide to the richly textured history of ancient Greece and Rome. From military history to...

Hywel Williams / Days That Changed the World: The 50 Defining Events of World History (Coffee Table Book)

Sometimes the events of a single day shed