London: Abacus, 2015. 1st Canadian Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. A fine copy.
xix, 506 pp. In 1381, England erupted in a violent popular uprising as unexpected as it was unprecedented. Juliet Barker's narrative history depicts a volatile society on the brink of profound change. Treating contemporary chronicles with scepticism.....
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2013. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Spine bumped.
x, 210 pp. An examination of medieval historian writings through the prism of violence. The concept of medieval historiography as "usable past" is here challenged and reassessed. The contributors' shared claim is that the value of.....
London / Nottingham: Hamilton, Adams, and Co. / J. Hicklin, 1836. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Boards lightly soiled with minor loss from spine ends and edges of label, owner bookplate and ink gift note (dated 17th May 1844) on front endpapers, front hinge repaired, a few pages lightly.....
Springfield, Mass. The C.A. Nichols Company, 1905. First Edition. Half-Leather.
First edition. Minor tear to leather of bottom corner on front board of Volume II, leather spines of both volumes lightly toned, pencil name on frontispiece recto of both volumes.
xviii, 465; xv, 539 pp. Two volume set. Top page.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924. First Thus. Hard Cover.
First thus. Numbered 1844 of 2000. No jacket. Minor general wear.
xxv, 385 pp. Green boards with gilt titles and decor on spine and on front board. Top page ridge gilt. "In the early 1500s five men and five women.....
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. A fine copy in a fine jacket.
vi, 364 pp. By the middle of the fourteenth century, Christian control of the Iberian Peninsula extended to the borders of the emirate of Granada, whose Muslim rulers acknowledged Castilian.....
New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Second Edition. Trade Paperback.
Second edition. An exceptional copy.
344 pp. Between the year 1000 and the mid-14th century, several remarkable events unfolded as Europeans made contact with a very substantial part of the inhabited world, much of it never previously known or suspected.....