1,200円 This paper is the third of a series of preliminary studies of aboriginal ceramic art which are intended to be absorbed into a final work of a comprehensive character. The groups of relics selected for these studies are in all cases of limited extent, and are such as can lay claim to a considerabl...

551円 Who needs tall tales, legends, and myths when the turmoil and tribulation that resulted in the birth of the United States is chock-full of inspiring deeds and triumphs? In this volume, noted historian and statesman Henry Cabot Lodge compiles a collection of tales from different points in American...

1,200円 Vasari introduces himself sufficiently in his own prefaces and introduction; a translator need concern himself only with the system by which the Italian text can best be rendered in English. The style of that text is sometimes laboured and pompous; it is often ungrammatical. But the narrative is ...

1,604円 How 19th-century soldier, adventurer and scholar Henry Rawlinson deciphered cuneiform, the world’s earliest writing, and rediscovered Iraq's ancient civilisations. This is the exciting, true adventure story of Henry Rawlinson, a fearless soldier, sportsman and explorer. From 1827 he spent twenty-...

4,400円 This standard account of one of the most controversial wars in which Americans have fought is again available, with introductory materials and a bibliography revised to reflect the advances in scholarship since the 1969 edition. The first edition of Halbert and Ball's Creek War was published in 1...

315円 A LA MEMORIA SOBRE MISIONES El aislamiento en que vivían los padres de la Compañía de Jesús en sus misiones del Paraguay, cuyo acceso impedían a los mismos españoles, ha hecho ignorar hasta ahora el plan de esta singular república, y los arbitrios de que se valían para gobernarla. Las relaciones ...

1,200円 Sr. Henrique Marques Junior. Pede-me V. algumas palavras para acompanhar o decimo volumesinho da sua encantadora bibliotéca infantil; e eu, abrindo uma excéção aos meus hábitos, de bom grado lhe envio o que deseja para abrir as suas «Perolas e diamantes.» E digo abro uma excéção, porque até hoje ...

1,200円 Considero necesario dar una explicación sobre el origen de este libro. Una casa editorial cinematográfica de los Estados Unidos me pidió hace un año una novela para convertirla en film, recomendándome que fuese muy «interesante» y se despegase por completo de los convencionalismos y rutinas que h...

1,200円 THE science of Heraldry has faithfully preserved to modern times various phases of some of those remarkable legends, which, based upon a study of natural phenomena, exhibit the process whereby the greater part of mythology has come into existence. There we find the solar Gryphon, the solar Phoeni...

5,060円 To Come to the Land makes available in English a vast body of research, previously available only in Hebrew, on the early history of the land now known as Israel. Abraham David here focuses on the Spanish and Portuguese Jews who fled the Iberian Peninsula during the 16th century, tracing the begi...

1,200円 No such throng had ever before been seen in the building during all its eight years of existence. People were wedged together most uncomfortably upon the seats; they stood packed in the aisles and overflowed the galleries; at the back, in the shadows underneath these galleries, they formed broad,...

986円 Wie eine falsche Karte den Wettlauf zum Nordpol auslöste - Ein hinreißend erzähltes Wissensabenteuer für alle Leser von Dava Sobel, Simon Winchester und Sten Nadolny Nordpol: Ort der Sehnsucht und Entdeckerlust für das 19. Jahrhundert. Ein Deutscher will bei diesem Abenteuer mit dabei sein: der g...