MARTYRS AND MURDERERS: THE GUISE FAMILY AND THE MAKING OF EUROPE
Written by Stuart Carroll.
Stock no. 1831629
Published by Oxford University Press. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The story of three generations of treacherous, bloodthirsty power-brokers. One of the richest and most powerful families in sixteenth-century France, the House of Guise played a pivotal role in the history of Europe. Black cloth boards, silver title to spine. B/w illustrations. xiv and 345 pages including index. ISBN: 9780199229079. Third printing. Boards clean. Text block has some minor foxing. Some minor surface paper damage to plates where plates have stuck together and been prised apart. Else a nice, clean copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed, lightly rubbed at corners.

THE AGE OF RECONNAISSANCE
Written by John H. Parry.
Stock no. 1331406
Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 2nd 1966. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Discovery, Exploration and Settlement 1450 to 1650. History of Civilisation series. Second Edition. Dark green cloth, red title label with gilt title to spine. 365 pages including notes and index. B/w photos. Spine slightly bumped and rubbed. Small mark to base of spine. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Foxing to endpapers and textblock. Dustwrapper is edge worn and has a large tear to front panel and smaller tear to rear panel.

VENDETTA: HIGH ART AND LOW CUNNING AT THE BIRTH OF THE RENAISSANCE
Written by Hugh Bicheno.
Stock no. 1331403
Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1st 2008. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A story of unbridled lust, treachery and murder featuring an extraordinary cast of characters who fought, poisioned, betrayed and cheated their way from the late middle ages into the modern era, and in the process produced some of the most enduringly beautiful works of art ever seen. Red boards, gilt title to spine. 290 pages including index. B/w text illustrations and diagrams plus colour plates. ISBN: 9780297846345. Heavy foxing throughout. Dustwrapper is ever so slightly edge creased.

ERASMUS THE REFORMER
Written by A.G. Dickens; Whitney R.D. Jones.
Stock no. 1331400
Published by Methuen. 1st 1994. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Tracing the impact of Erasmus upon the movement for religious reform in early sixteenth-century Europe, as well as delineating a most unusual and arresting personality. Black boards, gilt title to spine. Red endpapers. 367 pages including index. B/w plates. ISBN: 0413334805. Spine slightly bumped. Page browning and textblock slightly grubby else contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge rubbed and slightly faded to spine.

PARIS: CITY OF LIGHT 1919-1939
Written by Vincent Cronin.
Stock no. 1831524
Published by Harpercollins Publishers. 1st 1994. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

This is an intellectual, artistic, political and moral history of Paris after World War I to 1939, said to be one of the most creative decades in history, important in itself and by virtue of its influence on our culture today. It was a period of both intense political rethinking and of "folly". Blue cloth boards, silver title to spine. A few b/w photos. xvii and 334 pages including index. ISBN: 000215191X. Boards clean. Text block lightly foxed and very slightly grubby. Foxing to endpapers else contents clean. White pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed. Musty odour present.

THE LOCUST YEARS: THE STORY OF THE FOURTH FRENCH REPUBLIC 1946-1958
Written by Frank Giles.
Stock no. 1831520
Published by Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd.. 1st 1991. Almost very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The author charts the complexities of post-war French politics, focusing on both the men and the issues which dominated the Fourth Republic. Chief among the latter were German rearmament and nationalist uprisings in France's former colonies, and among the former Jean Monet and Charles de Gaulle. Black cloth boards, silver title to spine. A few b/w photos. xv and 431 pages including index. ISBN: 0436200228. Top & tail of spine lightly shelf-worn. Personal inscription in ink to free front endpaper. Contents browned with some heavier browning at margins. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed, lightly rubbed at top & tail of spine.

THE CIVILIZATION OF EUROPE IN THE RENAISSANCE
Written by John Hale.
Stock no. 1831458
Published by Harpercollins Publishers. 1st 1993. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The author examines the dramatic changes during the period between 1450 and 1620 in religion, politics, economics and global discoveries. And throughout his book approaches the art of war and the art created for princes from the point of view of their impact on the imaginations, sensibilities and lives of ordinary people. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. xx and 648 pages including index. ISBN: 0002153394. A few light marks to boards. Text block a little grubby. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly sunned/faded to spine and a little scuffed, minor foxing to verso not visible to front.

PRINCE OF THE RENAISSANCE: THE LIFE OF FRANCOIS I
Written by Desmond Seward.
Stock no. 1831444
Published by The History Book Club. 1973. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Biography. The life and character of Francois I, his manifold activities, his relations with the great men about him, and the turbulent events of the time are vividly described by a writer who loves the period and has made it his special study. Peach cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour & b/w illustrations. 264 pages including index. Top edge peach. Text block lightly browned, top edge peach colour has faded towards spine (sunned). Front joint is nicked to lower edge. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-worn, faded to spine, foxing to verso (not visible to front). Musty odour present.

EUROPE'S TRAGEDY: A HISTORY OF THE THIRTY YEARS WAR
Written by Peter H. Wilson.
Stock no. 1831440
Published by Allen Lane. 1st 2009. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

The horrific series of conflicts known as the Thirty Years War (1618-48) tore the heart out of Europe, killing perhaps a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to whole areas of Central Europe to such a degree that many towns and regions never recovered. The extraordinary narrative of the war haunted Europe's leaders into the twentieth century and modern Europe cannot be understood without reference to this dreadful conflict. Burgundy boards, gilt title to spine. Map of Central Europe 1618 to endpapers. Colour plates. xxii and 996 pages including index. ISBN: 9780713995923. Light rubbing to base of spine. Text block slightly grubby. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly rubbed to lower edge. A very decent copy.

THE KINGS DEPART
Written by Richard M. Watt.
Stock no. 1831413
Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1st 1969. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The Tragedy of Germany: Versailles and the German Revolution. German history, the collapse of the Kaiser's armies. Extraordinary drama in an era of violent upheaval. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Maps to endpapers. 604 pages including index. Top edge red. ISBN: 029717858X. Lower edge of spine lightly shelf-rubbed. Light foxing to top of boards and spine. Text block a little grubby and foxing to vertical edge. Else contents clean. Dustwrapper is lightly edge-worn. Musty odour present.

FRANCE: FIN DE SIECLE
Written by Eugen Weber.
Stock no. 1831412
Published by Belknap Press. 1st 1986. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

In Eugen Weber's France, Fin de Siècle, statesmen and treaties are set aside in favor of the stuff of everyday existence. We learn about bathing, smells, sanitation, domestic quarrels, underwear, sexuality and the bicycle as they evolved during the last two decades of the nineteenth century… Terracotta cloth spine with gilt title on blue to spine, beige cloth boards. B/w illustrations. x and 294 pages including index. ISBN: 0674318129. Boards clean. Light foxing to text block. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Else contents clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded to spine and a little grubby to rear panel which also has a barcode label stuck over last three lines of writing.

PATRIOTS AND LIBERATORS: REVOLUTION IN THE NETHERLANDS 1780-1813
Written by Simon Schama.
Stock no. 1831331
Published by Fontana Press. 2nd 1992. Slightly better than very good condition.

A tale of a once-powerful nation's desparate struggle to survive the treacheries and brutality of European war and politics. Second edition with revisions and corrections. Pictorial cardwraps. A few b/w illustrations. xviii and 745 pages including index. ISBN: 0006861563. A few scuffs to covers. Light vertical creasing to spine. Front joint is pulled but binding is tight. Light foxing to text block. Contents clean.