El Toreo (The Art of Bullfighting): Short Historical Notes
Mexico: Editorial Eduardo Cabal, 1975. Alvarez, Rafael Vilar. Stapled Binding.
No publisher date. Rear wrapper soiled.
50 pp. A history of bullfighting with illustrations.
Mexico: Editorial Eduardo Cabal, 1975. Alvarez, Rafael Vilar. Stapled Binding.
No publisher date. Rear wrapper soiled.
50 pp. A history of bullfighting with illustrations.
San Francisco, California: Chandler & Sharp, 1975. Trade Paperback.
Covers lightly rubbed.
228 pp. Alvah Cecil Bessie (June 4, 1904 – July 21, 1985) was an American novelist, journalist and screenwriter who was blacklisted by the movie studios for being one of the Hollywood Ten who refused to testify before.....
London: John Murray, 1843. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Front joint starting, edge wear, surface tears on front paste-down endpaper.
x, 328, 6 pp. Leather spine, marbled boards. Borrow, George Henry (1803–1881), writer and traveller, was born on 5 July 1803 at East Dereham in Norfolk, the son of.....
UK: Osprey, 2004. Hook, Richard. First Edition. Soft Cover.
First edition. Covers lightly toned.
64 pp. Constant Spanish guerrilla activity so drained the resources and diverted the attention of the French military that Wellington was able to advance against and overcome a numerically superior enemy. So many French soldiers were.....
New York: Osprey, 2019. Dennis, Peter. 1st Printing. Soft Cover.
First printing. An exceptional copy.
96 pp. Nieuwpoort 1600 uses specially commissioned artwork to reveal one of the greatest battles of the Eighty Years' War--one whose influence on military theory and practice ever since has been highly significant. The Eighty.....
New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2002. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Scratch on rear jacket panel.
x, 294 pp. In 1493 Christopher Columbus led a fleet of seventeen ships and more than twelve hundred men to found a royal trading colony in America. Columbus had high hopes for.....
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
1st printing. An exceptional copy.
608 pp. This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus’s arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the early nineteenth century.....
New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1989. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Minor general wear.
xvi, 295 pp. It used to be said that the sun never set on the empire of the King of Spain. It was therefore appropriate that Emperor Charles V should have commissioned from Battista.....
Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1989. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Smudge on rear board and page ridge.
x, 334 pp. In this comprehensive analysis of Hungarian political and economic developments over the past 30 years, Felkay focuses particularly on the role played by the country's long-tenured Communist leader.....
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1888. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Ink name on first blank.
303 pp. Deep green cloth boards with gilt titles on spine, top edge gilt. Color map of Spain frontispiece. Dedication page dedicated to Edward Everett Hale (American author, historian, Unitarian minister and grand-nephew.....
UK: Osprey, 2003. Taylor, Chris. First Edition. Soft Cover.
First edition. A few very minor spots on covers.
64 pp. In the course of the Peninsular War, Wellington's army fought several hard battles and smaller actions, but it was the bloody sieges that troubled him more than anything else. Indeed.....
UK: Osprey, 2003. Younghusband, Bill. First Edition. Soft Cover.
First edition. An excellent copy.
64 pp. Following the battle of Bussaco on 27 September 1810 Wellington's heavily outnumbered troops began to withdraw towards Lisbon. By the evening of 9 October the British and Portuguese began to withdraw behind a line.....
Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2005. 1st Printing. Hard Cover.
First printing. Rear board lightly soiled.
96 pp. Despite Wellington's success against Marmont's army at Salamanca in July, the year of 1812 ended in bitter disappointment for the British. However, a year later Wellington's series of brilliant manoeuvres threw the French onto.....
New York: Osprey, 2013. First Edition. Soft Cover.
First edition. An exceptional copy.
96 pp. Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin independently led the South American revolutionary armies that freed much of Latin America of Spanish rule. In 1808, Napoleon Bonaparte treacherously outmaneuvered the corrupt Spanish Bourbons and installed.....
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Faint edge wear to jacket.
399 pp. An exploration of Spanish culture in Spain and the Americas traces the social, political, and economic forces that created that culture, taking a fresh look at the events of 1492 and setting.....
London: Eveleigh Nash, 1912. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Loss to spine head, spine lightly toned.
xi, 345 pp. Red boards. Gilt titles and gilt decor. Top page ridge gilt. The story of the Borgia family has always been one of strangely fascinating interest; but a lurid.....
Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1972. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Half inch tear along bottom edge of front jacket panel. Lightly foxed, jacket and pages faintly toned.
288 pp. 32 pages of color plates and 109 black-and-white illustrations. "A vivid summary is made of the disruptive.....
Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2005. 1st Printing. Hard Cover.
First printing. An exceptional copy.
96 pp. The retreat to Corunna is one of the epic campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars. Late in 1808 Sir John Moore found himself virtually alone with his small British army deep inside Spain. The armies of.....
Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2004. 1st Printing. Hard Cover.
First printing. Minor general wear.
96 pp. The last major Republican offensive of the Spanish Civil War, the Battle of the Ebro was a vitally important episode in the Spanish conflict and, although ultimately a Republican defeat, it proved a severe setback.....
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1913. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Ink name on front endpaper.
326 pp. Green cloth boards with gilt titles on front board and spine, gilt decor of castle on front board, top edge gilt. Illustrated with black-and-white plates. CONTENTS: Autobiographical.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. First American Edition. Large Hardcover.
First American edition. Jacket rubbed, jacket price clipped.
436 pp. This enthralling study which examines the impact of the Spaniards upon the Aztec and Inca worlds is dominated by the personalities involved, in particular Cortes and Montezuma. Their confrontation.....
New York: Osprey Publishing, 2009. Bujeiro, Ramiro. 1st Printing. Soft Cover.
First printing. An exceptional copy.
64 pp. The all-volunteer 'Blue Division' was a formation that allowed Franco's technically neutral Spain to support Nazi Germany's invasion of Russia. Following initial training in Germany, the Blue Division's units were sent to.....
New York: Osprey Publishing, 2011. Dennis, Peter; Gilliland, Alan; Delf, Brian; Kozik, Mariusz. 1st Printing. Soft Cover.
First printing. An exceptional copy.
80 pp. In 1585, war between Spain and Elizabethan England was all but inevitable. Consequently, Queen Elizabeth's spymaster proposed a pre-emptive strike designed to paralyse Spain's economy by.....
New York: Osprey Publishing, 2004. Bryan, Tony. 2nd Printing. Soft Cover.
Second printing. Covers faintly toned.
48 pp. During the middle decade of the 16th century a new type of sailing vessel emerged, designed to carry the wealth of the Americas to Spain. This was the galleon, and over the.....
New York: Osprey Publishing, 2020. Hook, Adam. 1st Printing. Soft Cover.
First printing. An exceptional copy.
80 pp. This fascinating title explores the conflict between two formidable warship types of the Age of Discovery--the Spanish and English Galleon--as they battled for control of the Atlantic. Between 1550–1605, Europe witnessed a......