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66755 VOYAGES OF THE CABOTS AND THE DISCOVERY OF NORTH AMERICA edited by James Williamson


First published in 1929 by the Argonaut Press and here in rare 1970 facsimile, it is edited by N. M. Penzer. This present volume differs in form from the others of the series like Drake’s World Encompassed or Ralegh’s Guiana. The story lies in a heterogeneous collection of short pieces, administrative documents, contemporary letters and extracts from histories and commentaries from 1497-1536. 290pp in gold blocked hardback, 13 maps. £40 WAS £20 NOW £7.50


66757 WILLIAM MACGILLIVRAY: Creatures of Air, Land and Sea by Robert Ralph In A History of British Birds MacGillivray developed a revolutionary new classification based not only on external features but on dissection of the internal organs. He introduced terms of his own, such as Palpatores and Deglubitores. Among the colour plates are his beautiful red-headed Pochard, and most his most impressive fish drawings. 29 x 23cm. 128pp, quality colour plates. £29.95 WAS £18.50 NOW £7.25


66759 THE WORLD ENCOMPASSED BY SIR FRANCIS DRAKE edited by N. M. Penzer Originally published in 1926 by the Argonaut Press, London, we have a beautiful 1971 rare edition. Here are experiences such as being in a ship in uncharted waters full of coral reefs, and to know what it was like to go in a launch to explore the Caribbean sea, the Straits of Magellan or the Malay Archipelago. Woodcut illus, marginalia, gatefold and maps. Gold embossed hardback, no dust jacket. £30 WAS £20 NOW £6.25


68251 GROSVENOR GALLERY: A Palace of Art in Victorian England


edited by Susan Casteras and Colleen Denney This first in-depth study of the Grosvenor Gallery consists of essays which explore the significance of the gallery’s social ambience, the diverse content of its winter and summer exhibitions and its status in the context of other exhibition sites. Also considered are artists and groups who exhibited there. 209 large pages in b/w and colour. $80 WAS £22.50 NOW £9


from the Antlers Hotel in Colorado Springs featuring Terrapin Bouillon and Roast Plover with Cress. Among the illustrations are a Florida steamboat in 1886, the Pueblo Indians’ Moki Snake dance in 1902, spectacular shots of the Niagara, Shoshone and the Bridal Veil waterfalls, the famed Kentucky Art Deco Seelbach Hotel and amazing railroad pictures, from Colorado gorges to Sixth Avenue elevated trains. Hundreds of colour and sepia photos, travellers’ quotations, insets. 318pp. £35 NOW £11


70065 THE ANDES: A Cultural History by Jason Wilson


The Andes form the backbone of South America. The clash between Atahualpa, the last Inca, and the illiterate conquistador Pizarro, between indigenous identity and European mercantile values, had forged Andean culture and history for the last 500 years. Wilson explores the Andes’ mystery, inaccessibility and power through the insights of chroniclers, scientists and modern-day novelists. His accounts start at sacred Cuzco and Machu Picchu, moves along the imagined Inca routes south to Lake Titicaca and then follows the Argentine and Chilean Andes to Patagonia. Then it moves north and into Colombia, along the Cauca Valley up to Bogotá and then east to Caracas. Spectacular landscapes, many imagined, are recalled in this rather dramatic travelogue. 266pp in illus softback. £12 NOW £4.50


70072 SNOW TOURIST by Charlie English Subtitled A Search for the World’s Purest, Deepest Snowfall. From Alaska and Glencoe to Baffin Island, Wildstrubel, Chamonix, Vermont, Cairngorm, Vienna and back to London, here is a tale of one man’s search for snow, a report on the precarious state of our extreme climates, an evocative poem for lost childhood winters and more. What is it about snow that leaves us spellbound? What draws us to play with it, sledge over it, ski on it, tell stories about it, build our homes or hotels out of it and even risk our lives in it? Self- confessed snow obsessive Charlie English wraps up warm and goes in search of the answers. 276pp in paperback. £8.99 NOW £3


70162 MALARIA DREAMS: An African


Adventure by Stuart Stevens There is no water in Lake Chad. There is no road to Timbuktu. And there is no point in trying to drive across the skull of Africa unless you are either well prepared or slightly mad. Stuart Stevens was not well prepared. Enthusiasm and a favour for a friend inspired his drive from Bangui in the Central African Republic to Algiers, and optimism, luck and his insouciant ex-model companion kept him going. Stevens learns not to be surprised by anything - by the village mechanic whose sole tool was a sledgehammer, by soldiers hurling tear-gas canisters into trees to dislodge mangoes, or by naked cow herders carrying elegant umbrellas. A brave and funny memoir, 236pp in paperback. £9.99 NOW £4


WAR AND MILITARIA


Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.


- Otto von Bismarck


70649 CHILDREN OF THE CAMPS: Japan’s Last


Forgotten Victims by Mark Felton


In 1942 Singapore was a disaster area. Families were fighting on the quayside to board the last few ships, only to be torpedoed by the advancing Japanese, while those who remained were transported to prisoner of war camps, joining people who had been left behind in


British outposts such as Shanghai. Conditions in the camps were notoriously appalling and for the 40,000 children who were interned it was a damaging psychological experience from which many of those who survived were never to recover. On the march to


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66662 IMAGINING PARADISE: The Richard and Ronay Menschel Library by Sheila Foster, Manfred Heiting, Rachel Stuhlman More than 250 rare books have been carefully selected for this superb tome to reflect the incomparable strength and depth of this unparalleled remarkable library. Featured photographers include William Henry Fox Talbot and Francis Frith. Rare works include the copy of the Treaty between Great Britain and China signed at Nanking in 1842 and a two volume edition of The Holy Bible dating from 1862-3. 2007 first edition. 288pp lavishly illus, 11" x 12".


$85 WAS £40 NOW £12.50


66754 VOYAGES OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS by Cecil Jane


First published in 1930 by the Argonaut Press, we have the 1970 facsimile reprint, a rare first edition published by Nico Israel of Amsterdam. Translated, edited and with an introduction and notes by Cecil Jane and illustrated with five maps. 347pp in elegant gold blocked hardback. £25 WAS £10 NOW £4.50


68252 AMERICAN LUXURY JEWELS FROM THE HOUSE OF TIFFANY edited by Jeannine Falino and Yvonne Markowitz The exquisite jewels shown here include such awe- inspiring items as: earrings designed by Paloma Picasso in platinum, gold, yellow sapphire, pink tourmaline, tsavorite and amethyst, alongside orchid brooches of gold, diamond and emerald. 207 very large pages, colour and b/w archive photos, with chronology. WAS £29.95 NOW £10


68017 ROYAL MUMMIES: Immortality in Ancient Egypt


by Francis Janot and Zahi Hawass This book not only covers the rituals of mummification but also describes the discoveries and identifications of key figures in Egyptian ancient history. Hawass describes the process which led him to the identification of Queen Hatshepsut’s mummy using the remains originally discovered by Howard Carter. Scanning the mummies of Hatshepsut’s close relations was the first step, and a wooden box containing her cartouches was the final key to the riddle. 10" x 14". 366pp, colour illus. £40 WAS £17.50 NOW £6.25


Changi, the worst of the internment camps, heads of recently executed people were displayed as a warning on spikes by the road. Life was cheap, food was scarce and children became accustomed to scavenging for pigswill. Some children were assigned to nursing and orderly duties in fever and cholera wards. Children were usually separated from their parents, but at the Japanese Santo Tomas camp, in a rare humanitarian gesture, fathers were reunited with their families. Survivor Jacqueline Honnor describes how her family was able to improvise a shelter on stilts by selling mango jam made from the tree which sheltered them. There were occasional acts of defiance, for instance when the band struck up the British National Anthem during the infamous tenko, a roll-call which involved standing around for hours in intense heat. This gripping book draws extensively on the eyewitness accounts of survivors. 202pp. £19.99 NOW £6.50


70371 HUNTING EICHMANN by Neal Bascomb


The suspenseful story of Adolf Eichmann’s capture, tracking the Nazi as he escapes two American POW camps, hides out in the mountains, slips out of Europe on the rat lines and builds an anonymous life in Buenos Aires. Witness how concentration camp survivor Simon Wiesenthal’s persistent search for the monster evolved into an


international man-hunt that involved the bulldog West German prosecutor, an Argentinean Jew and his beloved daughter, and a budding, ragtag spy agency called the Mossad. Presented in a pulse-pounding, hour-by-hour account, the capture of Eichman and efforts by Israeli agents to smuggle him out of Argentina for trial bring the narrative to a stunning conclusion. Told as if it were great spy fiction. 388pp in paperback. $15.95 NOW £5


70019 GUERRILLA


WARFARE by Che Guevara This is Che’s political testament, his own story of the Cuban Revolution. It was written in 1960, just after the 1956-59 Revolution and, originally intended as a manual for other guerrilla movements of Latin America, grew into Che’s classic account of the motivations and justifications of revolution. Before Che became an icon of


revolutionary martyrdom, he was a soldier, a military strategist and inspirational leader. His dream was to unite the developing worlds through armed revolution and to end the poverty and injustice that had dominated it for centuries. This is the work of a man before he was turned into a myth. The Cuban Revolution against the Batista dictatorship was also a struggle against American imperialism in Latin America. For Che, American capitalism had merely replaced colonial exploitation, and his prophetic insights into the globalisation that now dominates world politics are as pertinent today. He sets out the faith necessary for political action. 175pp in illustrated paperback. £7.99 NOW £3.50


70080 CHARGE! Great Cavalry Charges of the


Napoleonic Wars by Digby Smith


Absolutely packed with eyewitness accounts, this volume is at once a gripping read and an incisive analysis of the role and performance of the cavalry in the Napoleonic battlefield. In a dramatic and spirited history, the author brings to life some of the most exciting and


sensational cavalry charges of the wars against Napoleon. First the different types of cavalry have been minutely described so that readers can judge which type would be best deployed in any given situation. Each of the featured battles has been carefully selected to reveal how cavalry could be used in both an offensive and defensive capacity, and the factors that could affect


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55792 WORLD MAP OF 1611 BY PIETER VAN DEN KEERE


by Günter Schilder and James Welu First edition 1980 by Nico Israel of Amsterdam in an edition limited to 600 copies. The large world maps published in the first decade of the 17th century in Amsterdam reflected the rapid progress in the art of printing. Our book introduces us to the life and work of Peter van den Keere, his cartographic work, the map of the world in 12 sheets, a history of the map, description, layout and decorative contents, the geographical contents, the second edition and a later edition by Jan Houwens. 48 outsize pages measuring 17" x 21". Collector’s item. UK delivery only. WAS £45 NOW £19


67241 BRONTE COLLECTION: The Masterpiece Library


by Emily, Charlotte and Anne Brontë Wuthering Heights, The Professor, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Jane Eyre and Agnes Grey are the five ever- popular classic novels selected for this elegant box set. 5 paperback classics, slipcase with colour illustration. WAS £16 NOW £5


66664 REMBRANDT, REPUTATION, AND THE PRACTICE OF CONNOISSEURSHIP by Catherine B. Scallen


This first edition is the first full-length study of the scholarly formation of the corpus of Rembrandt’s 700 paintings at the end of the 19th century. The book concentrates on the written connoisseurship of Wilhelm von Bode, Abraham Bredius, Cornelius Hofstede de Grott and Wilhelm Valentiner who shaped the modern conception of Rembrandt as a painter. 416pp, 61 b/w plates.


£38 WAS £20 NOW £5


68000 EGYPT YESTERDAY AND TODAY by David Roberts


A collection of lithographs produced from the drawings of David Roberts, an artist who visited Egypt in 1838. His views range from pyramids, temples and the sphinx to sacred trees, obelisks and Nile boats with present day image alongside. 14½” x 10½”. 272pp with colour illus. WAS £15 NOW £5


the success of each charge. Here is the Battle of Borodino, which describes not only the Russian raid on the northern flank but also the storming of the grand battery. Marengo, Austerlitz, and Moeckern feature, as do many others, and the clashes at García Hernandez, Haynau and Liebertwolkwitz, as well as the Allied Cavalry Raids of 1813 spring to life. When it comes to the famous Battle of Waterloo the author pulls no punches, writing: ‘This dramatic... action demonstrated all the frightening power of mounted troops against infantry but it also showed how cavalry ought not to be used’. From the French point of view, the Battle of Waterloo was The Grand Failure, and is vividly described as such. 304 paperback pages illustrated in b/ w with maps, index of persons and appendices with Orders of Battle and list of abbreviations. £14.99 NOW £6


70503 A SENSELESS SQUALID WAR: Voices from


Palestine 1890-1948 by Norman Rose


‘An admirably concise narrative of events from the arrival of Sir Herbert Samuel as the first High Commissioner of Palestine in July 1920 to the departure of Sir Alan Cunningham as the last.’ - Sunday Times. The events in Palestine between the end of the Second


World War and the declaration of the State of Israel in May 1948 ruptured Middle Eastern history and left an indelible mark on the modern world. Despite the repeated attempts at reconciliation between Israel and Palestine, there has been six decades of fierce fighting. Norman Rose uses letters, songs and diaries as well as official propaganda to reveal the attitudes and experiences of the participants from all sides - be they foot-soldiers, generals, politicians, diplomats, or women and children on the street, each is given their own voice. Amidst the horrific revelations of the Holocaust and a diplomatic stalemate over the partitioning of Palestine, militant guerrilla groups sought to undermine the British presence. Jewish refugees had been trying to enter Palestine in their thousands since the early 1940s, many on the notorious ‘death ships’ from Eastern Europe and often with fatal consequences. The massacre at Deir Yassin and the forced transfer of up to 700,000 Palestinians, the British withdrawal and the celebration of independence are all voiced by those who lived through it. 278pp in paperback with illus and maps. £12.99 NOW £4.50


70401 THE BURDEN OF GUILT: How Germany Shattered the Last Days of


Peace, Summer 1914 by Daniel Allen Butler For nearly 90 years, it has been argued that the responsibility for the First World War was a shared one, spread among all the Great Powers. Here a historian challenges that point of view, establishing that the Treaty of Versailles was actually a correct


and fair judgement: Germany did indeed bear the true responsibility for the Great War. Working from government archives and records, as well as the personal papers and memoirs of the men who made the decisions, the author interweaves the events of summer 1914 with portraits of the monarchs, diplomats and national leaders involved. He explores the policies and goals these men were pursuing and shows conclusively how, on three distinct occasions, the Imperial German government was presented with opportunities to contain the spreading crisis yet, each time, it consciously and deliberately chose the path which virtually assured that the Continent would be consumed by war. Instead of using her diplomatic might to contain the situation, Germany was guilty of not just poking the smouldering coals lit by the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and his wife, but of fanning the flames of war until an inferno swept across Europe. Here, vividly portrayed are the players in that game: Kaiser Wilhelm II, vain, neurotic, pompous, blustering and more than a little unstable, Count Leopold von Berchtold, Foreign Minister without a conscience, the politically amoral Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Holweg, who regarded a European war as an opportunity to divert the


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68039 EDMUND BURKE: A Life in Caricature by Nicholas Robinson


Born Irish, and with Catholic connections, the statesman and writer Edmund Burke was a favourite target of leading caricaturists such as Gillray and Rowlandson. Unravels the caricaturists’ devices and investigates how Burke, amongst other political figures, fared as the subjects of the satirical prints. 214 very large pages, illus in b/w and colour with addresses of print sellers and publishers.


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68225 TRINNY AND SUSANNAH WHAT YOU WEAR CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE by Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine How to organise your underwear drawer, which boots will suit your leg shape best, how to wear accessories depending on your body shape. Includes disguising under eye circles and scars with concealer and classic mistakes in your make-up. 336pp. Colour photos. £20 WAS £7.50 NOW £3


68092 ENRICO DONATI: Surrealism and Beyond by Theodore Wolff


Enrico Donati started his long artistic career as a Surrealist disciple of André Breton and in 1947 he helped Duchamp to organise the Paris International Exhibition of Surrealism. During the 1950s, Donati felt that Surrealism was dying and in the next few years he developed a completely different style - crisply delineated, geometric and compartmentalised. 168 page 1996 monograph has 87 colour plates, 28 b/w illus, 26x25cm. £35 WAS £15 NOW £5


68448 HOT ROD PIN-UPS II: Gearhead Girls and Dragstrip Dolls by David Perry 140-odd stunning colour photos of gorgeous gals draped over sleek 50s US cars are complemented by commentaries from respected hot rod scribes Tony Thacker, Chris Shelton and Kevin Thomson. Also included are The Exception to the Rule - an all-new short story by US noir author Jim Nisbet - and Charles Verne’s The Rat Race, a 1955 pulp chestnut dusted off especially for this volume. Colour, 144pp, 11¼”×9½”. £25 WAS £12 NOW £4


German people’s attention from domestic problems, and many more. 330 pages with b/w archive photos, postscript and four appendices. £20 NOW £7


70091 MILITARY AIRFIELDS OF BRITAIN -


NORTHERN ENGLAND: Co. Durham, Cumbria, Isle of Man, Lancashire, Merseyside, Manchester, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, Yorkshire by Ken Delve


Designed for the historian, the tourist and anyone with an interest in their local area, this book - one of a popular series - provides a user-


friendly look at the military airfields of Britain past and present. It comprises not only a brief history of each particular airfield, its construction, location and use (including decoy sites) but also a comprehensive list of flying units with dates and aircraft types, a list of HQ units based at the airfield, and details of memorials. The 1930s saw the beginnings of frantic airfield building, with acres of land acquired for the construction of bases for Bomber, Fighter and Coastal Commands. In the latter years of World War Two, hundreds of bombers left airfields in Yorkshire on missions to Germany, while Lancashire rapidly developed into an important centre of the aircraft industry. Throughout the War, Northern England was a hive of activity with combat squadrons operating in the east and training in the safer west. The end of the war meant that many of these airfields returned to agricultural use, although, in the Cold War period, the east of the region played host to a number of active sites, and both training and aircraft manufacture remained important. Now, sadly, activity is centred on the Vale of York but almost all else is gone. This series is a timely and nostalgic reminder of a vital life-line. 320 paperback pages lavishly illustrated in b/w with period photos, maps and plans. £16.99 NOW £7.50


70368 HITLER’S FIRST WAR by Thomas Weber


Subtitled ‘Adolf Hitler, the Men of the List Regiment, and the First World War’. Turning received wisdom about Hitler’s life story on its head, this volume investigates for the first time what really happened to Private Hitler during the First World War, revealing a man very different from the one portrayed in his own self-mythologizing account of Mein Kampf. Apart from this,


and the equally mythical reports by his comrades, little is known. Now, in a radical revision of the period of Hitler’s life that is said to have made him, an award-winning historical expert looks at what really happened to Private Hitler and the men of the Bavarian List Regiment during that period. Using new evidence from an officer who became Hitler’s personal adjutant in the 1930s but then offered himself to British intelligence, a soldier-turned Concentration Camp Commander, Jewish veterans who fell victim to the Holocaust and others, the author presents a man who was shunned by the frontline soldiers of his regiment as a ‘rear area pig’, and who was still unsure of his political ideology even at the end of the war in 1918. The author also challenges the commonly accepted notion that the First World War was somehow a seminal catastrophe in 20th century German history, and even questions just how deep-seated Nazi ideology really was in its home state. An eye-opening 450 pages with b/w archive photos, list of abbreviations, notes and postscript: Hugo Gutmann’s Story. £18.99 NOW £7.50


69489 HIGHLANDER: The History of the


Highland Soldier by Tim Newark The Highlanders are one of the fiercest regiments in the British Army and the most feared soldiers in the world. On the fields of Waterloo, the deserts of Sudan, the trenches of Flanders and the jungles of Burma, the great Highland regiments have made their mark. At the Battle of Quebec in 1759, only a few years after their defeat at Culloden, the 78th Highlanders faced down the French guns and turned the battle. At Waterloo, Highlanders


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