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67966 LONDON RISING: The Men Who Made Modern London by Leo Hollis


London as we know it rose out of the ashes of the Great Fire of 1666, which destroyed the old city and opened the way for new designs and technology. Five men were at the heart of London’s regeneration: the architect Christopher Wren, his scientific colleague Robert Hooke, bitter rival to Sir Isaac Newton, the philosopher John Locke, whose work on liberty, society and the self was at the centre of Enlightenment thinking, the aristocratic diarist John Evelyn whose knowledge of continental urban theory had a profound influence on the new city plans, and finally the speculator Nicholas Barbon, son of the Millenarist “Praise-God” Barebone, who ignored building regulations and threw up new houses everywhere between the City and Westminster. The author follows the life and fortunes of these five men in parallel. 390pp, colour photos. £17.50 NOW £5


69767 RED FLAG: A History


of Communism by David Priestland At the height of their influence, Communists ruled a third of the world’s population. Beginning with the first modern Communists in the age of Robespierre, Priestland examines the motives of thinkers and leaders including Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Castro, Che Guevara, Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Gorbachev and


many other men of steel. Violent repression of anybody who refused to submit was the inevitable result of this utopianism. Priestland asks whether the militants of 1920s Russia, the guerrilla fighters of China, the Marxist students of Ethiopia or the urban terrorists of Europe in the 1970s founded their inspiration in Communism. 674pp with 45 illus, many in colour. £19.99 NOW £6.50


68062 MEMOIRS OF DUC DE SAINT-SIMON


1710-1715: The Bastards Triumphant by Duc de Saint-Simon


The Sun King Louis XIV is dying, and the French court is erupting in a frenzy of twisted alliances and dark schemes in the struggle for power. In this volume, the author witnesses the birth of the future Louis XV, learns of Vendôme’s ‘shabby alliance’ with Mlle d’Enghien, is himself ‘vilely slandered’ and is protected by Mme la Duchesse de Bourgogne. Then he feels himself ‘betrayed, deceived and supplanted by Pontchartrain’ so he breaks with him! Later, Saint-Simon finds himself in grave danger but recovers enough to describe a comical interlude at the session of the Parlement, followed by a description of the Duc de Noailles who also has turned against him. Then everything is forgotten with the death of the King. 525 paperback pages with maps, note on coinage, and list of the royal family in 1710 including Louis XIV’s bastards. Edited by Lucy Norton. $21.95 NOW £6


68063 MEMOIRS OF DUC DE SAINT-SIMON


1715-1723: Fatal Weakness by Duc De Saint-Simon


This third volume of Saint-Simon’s memoirs starts at a time when Louis XIV, the Sun King, is dead. Intrigue and espionage run rampant at a royal court where indulgence and excess are the norm and the new king is only five years old. Saint-Simon has close ties to the most powerful man in France, the Regent Duc d’Orléans, but he also has enemies stronger than ever before. There is plenty of time for the author to titillate us with salacious details of what the members of the court are up to as he relates the ‘obstinate debauchery’ of the Regent and an extraordinary conversation at the Opéra, not to mention the shocking news that the old king’s bastards are to be excluded from the succession, followed shortly afterwards by their re-instatement. Never a dull moment. Edited by Lucy Norton. 524 paperback pages with map.


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FUSEE CHAIN GANG by Sue Newman


Nowadays Christchurch is a pleasant tourist spot on the south coast, but in the past it has been a poverty-stricken community where life was tough. In the 18th century smuggling was a major industry, involving not only fishermen but also the local farmers who supplied wagons to transport the contraband


to inland distribution centres. The 18th century clergyman Richard Warner described how as a schoolboy he saw several hundred men on horses accompanying a convoy of wagons loaded with spirits, while the revenue men were taking bribes to look the other way. In the 19th century the wives and daughters of the village began to earn money as fusee chain-makers for the local watch industry, and this book examines that industry in detail from its foundation by Robert Cox in the late 18th century to its decline 100 years later. 256pp, illus and photos.


£16.99 NOW £5.50


68375 A GAMBLING MAN: Charles II and the Restoration by Jenny Uglow


The Restoration decade was one of experiment, from the science of the Royal Society to the startling role of credit and risk, from the shocking licence of the court to the failed attempts at tolerance of different beliefs. While Charles’ II’s grandeur, his court and his colourful sex life were on display, his true intentions lay hidden. Exactly ten years after the King landed in England to reclaim the crown in 1660, he would stand again on the shore at Dover in a secret deal with Louis XIV. 580 pages, illus. £25 NOW £2.50


68946 BEDLAM: London and its Mad by Catharine Arnold


Bethlehem Hospital or Bedlam as it became in cockney slang, is the world’s oldest psychiatric hospital. Founded in 1247, it developed from a ramshackle hovel to the magnificent ‘Palace Beautiful’ where visitors could pay to gawp at the chained inmates, through to the great Victorian hospital in Lambeth, now the Imperial War Museum. Catharine Arnold takes us on a tour and looks at the capital’s attitude to madness along the way. We travel from the barbaric ‘exorcisms’ of the medieval era to the Tudor belief that a roast mouse, eaten whole, was the cure. 306pp in paperback. Woodcuts and illus. £7.99 NOW £3.50


68608 KING TUTANKHAMUN: The


Treasures of the Tomb by Zahi Hawass


Since their discovery in 1922 and the British Museum exhibition in the 1970s, the fabulous treasures of King Tutankhamun have fascinated the British public. This volume by world-renowned Egyptologist Zahi Hawass is probably the most


exciting ever. In all there are 324 illustrations, 317 in colour and 26 gatefold pages. Organised to follow the chambers of the tomb in order in which Henry Carter excavated them, the tome illustrates the site’s most magnificent artefacts including all of the objects in two travelling Tutankhamun exhibitions. We go through the stairway and entrance corridor, into the ante-chamber, the burial chamber, the treasury and the annex, go backstage and look at a chronology. The famous golden mask, beautiful gold collars, necklaces with scarabs - a vast array of gleaming jewellery, coloured with lapis lazuli, quartz, turquoise, carnelian and glass leap from the pages of this very lavish 9½” x 13" tome. 296pp. £39.95 NOW £15


68615 AFTER TAMERLANE: The Global


History of Empire Since 1405 by John Darwin The death of Tamerlane in 1405 was a turning point in world history. He was the last of the series of ‘world- conquerors’ in the tradition of Attila and Genghis Khan, who strove to bring the whole of Eurasia under the rule of a single vast empire. His armies marauded from the shores of the Mediterranean to the frontier of China. But after Tamerlane’s death, the future belonged to the great dynastic empires - Chinese, Mughal, Iranian and Ottoman - that held most of Eurasia’s culture and wealth, and to the oceanic voyages from Eurasia’s Far West, the European kingdoms, just beginning to venture across the dark seas. 574pp, nine illus and 23 maps. $34.95 NOW £5


68628 MEMOIRS OF A SURVIVOR by Sergei Golitsyn


Born on a small family estate near Moscow in 1909, Sergei Golitsyn lived through the social, political and industrial upheavals that created the Soviet Union. In 1941 he joined the army as an engineer, advancing with the Red Army all the way to victory in Berlin. His sense of the spiritual and cultural losses caused by the transformation of Old Russia drove him to share something of his past in his writings with his young listeners and readers. The Golitsyn family were one of Russia’s most powerful families until the Revolution turned their world upside down. In fear of his life he fled Moscow to work on remote construction sites deep in Siberia. 556pp in paperback with illus. £14.99 NOW £4.50


68687 CONSTANTINOPLE: Istanbul’s


Historical Heritage by Stephane Yerasimos


Constantinople was the capital of two of the world’s greatest empires: the Eastern Roman Empire of Byzantium and the Turkish Ottoman Empire. The city was christened by Constantine the Great and following its conquest by the Ottomans in 1453, they chose the legendary Metropolis as the centre of their empire and renamed it Istanbul. The art of the Ottoman Empire, permeated by Arab and Persian forms, made a lasting mark on the city’s appearance. The Topkapi Sarayi, the Palace of the Sultans, became one of the most famous of the new rulers’ building projects. In the 16th century, the era of Süleyman the Magnificent, gorgeous mosques were created and the decorative arts, including calligraphy, illumination, miniature painting, ceramics, textiles and carpet weaving all flourished. Here are many facets and priceless artistic treasures. 400 large pages, 8½” x 10", packed with colour photos, plans and diagrams.


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68730 PEOPLE OF THE FIRST CRUSADE by Michael Foss


Subtitled ‘The Truth About the Christian-Muslim War Revealed’. In a desperate attempt to cleanse the spiritual chaos infecting most of Western Europe in the 11th century, Pope Urban II launched an army of knights and peasants to fight those who had seized the Holy Land. The recapture of Jerusalem and the Holy Land from the Muslims was regarded as a redemptive task worthy of men who might call themselves ‘soldiers of Christ’. They were threatened not only by internal corruption but also by the spectre of the Seljuk Turks, recently converted to Islam and intent on claiming the Holy Land for their own. Pope Urban II exhorted the faithful to free Jerusalem from the ‘infidels’. The response was immediate and enthusiastic. 323pp, line art. $24.95 NOW £4


68809 VALVERDÉ’S GOLD: A True Tale of Greed, Obsession and Grit by Mark Honigsbaum


Legend has it that treasure had been collected by the Indians to pay the ransom demanded in November 1532 by the Spanish for the release of an uncrowned Inca chief. English botanist Richard Spruce, described how his uncle had stumbled on an ancient Spanish treasure guide composed by a former conquistador named Valverde. In 1861 Spruce had published the guide in the Journals of the Royal Geographical Society in London but the guide was cryptic and confusing. In a quest for the truth, Honigsbaum travels to Ecuador where he meets a bizarre array of playboys, arms dealers and secretive priests. 363pp in paperback, photos and maps. £7.99 NOW £1.50


69438 IF A PIRATE I MUST BE... by Richard Sanders


Subtitled The True Story of ‘Black Bart’, King of the Caribbean Pirates, Richard Sanders tells the larger-than- life story of Bartholomew Roberts, aka Black Bart. Born in a rural town, Roberts rose from third mate on a slave ship to pirate captain in a matter of months. Before long, his combination of audacity and cunning won him fame and fortune from the fisheries of Newfoundland to the slave ports of West Africa. Sanders brings to life a world where men, a third of whom were black, lived a close- knit egalitarian life, democratically electing their officers and sharing their spoils. Yet with a fierce team of Royal Navy pirate-hunters tracking his every move, Black Bart’s heyday would prove a brief one. 278pp in paperback, plates plus maps. $14.95 NOW £5


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68905 DUELLING HANDBOOK 1829 by Joseph Hamilton


In this engrossing historical record of the codes and conduct of the duel, originally written in 1829 as ‘The Only Approved Guide Through All the Stages of a Quarrel’, every aspect of the arcane practice is brought to life. It offers authentic advice on such subjects as withdrawal of challenges, weapons, distance and the fate of survivors. It brims with vivid anecdotes recounting duels arising from disagreements over religion, women, gambling and other volatile standpoints. 167pp in paperback.


£9.99 NOW £3.50


69217 THE MIDDLE EAST: The Cradle of


Civilisation Revealed by Dr Stephen Bourke Compiled by an international team of historians, linguists and archaeologists, this monumental tome discusses the rise and fall of the Ancient Middle Eastern societies including Sumeria, Babylonia, Anatolia, the Levant, Assyria and


Persia, and the lasting impact that these cultures have had on the modern world. We look at the compelling story from the Neolithic period through to the Arab conquest of how a group of linguistically disparate, nomadic tribes responded to specific social, economic and environmental factors. 500 stunning colour photos of artefacts, artworks, statues, reliefs, buildings and landscapes. With six detailed maps illustrating the geography and archaeology of the regions. CD-Rom and poster for this edition only. Apologies if the mailing box is slightly damaged - the book inside is perfect. 368pp, 9" x 12". ONLY £22


69116 OFF WITH HER HEAD! Henry VIII, The


Life and Loves of Bluff King Hal by English Heritage


It is the power and the passion, the intrigues and in- fighting that make the reign of Henry VIII so fascinating. Whether or not he ever exclaimed ‘Off with her head!’, history suggests that the sentiment would have appealed to his fiery nature. Of his six spouses, one died, one survived, he divorced two and beheaded two. Henry stamped his formidable mark on English history. 92 pocket-sized pages illustrated in b/w. £7.99 NOW £1.75


69164 MEDIEVAL LIFE Manners, Customs and


Dress During the Middle Ages by Paul Lacroix This edition includes over 400 original woodcuts from the original and many colour plates and expounds upon such aspects as condition of persons and land, privileges and rights, private life in castles, towns and rural districts, food and cookery hunting, games and pastimes, commerce, guilds and trade corporations, taxes, money and finance, law and administration of justice, secret tribunals, punishments, gypsies, tramps and beggars, ceremonials, costumes, the Jewish communities and much more. A triumph of scholarship and the tour de force of the prolific writer Paul Lacroix (1806-1884), aka “Bibliophile Jacob”, it was first published in the 1870s. Facsimile edition. 554pp. £19.99 NOW £12.50


69585 SLAVERY: Antiquity


and its Legacy by Page duBois


A quick perusal of any modern country’s constitution will see the words “freedom”, “liberty” and “equality” liberally employed - today we take these concepts for granted. In the ancient world, however, slavery was a major and essential part of every civilisation, and society was unequal at every level. The author juxtaposes the


modern experience of economic or sexual bondage, gained from extensive travel and interviews with those involved, with the slavery of antiquity, as described in the writings of Aristotle, Plautus and Aristophanes amongst others, and revisits the life of Spartacus and his followers in their revolt against Rome. The parallels between ancient notions of enslavement and liberation and to what is going on right now are striking and often appalling. 154pp OUP paperback. $24.95 NOW £5


69330 EGYPT FROM ALEXANDER TO THE COPTS


edited by Roger Bagnall and Dominic Rathbone This archaeological and historical guide to Egypt in the ten centuries between its conquest by Alexander the Great (332BC) and conquest by the Arabs (641) is written by 12 leading Egyptologists. The years the book describes are rich in interest and well documented too, with over 50,000 extant papyri in Greek, Latin, Egyptian and other languages. With over 170 colour and b/w photos, site and building plans and maps we are offered a vivid picture into Egyptian society of the period at all social and economic levels. A general introduction is followed by a study of Alexandria, founded by Alexander in 331BC and the most important city in the eastern Mediterranean for centuries, and the Nile Delta. There are some truly awe-inspiring sites described in detail and photographed here, particularly the various necropoleis and catacombs. Other sites described include Cairo, Memphis, Herakleopolis, Thebes, Upper Egypt, the amazing western oases such as Kharga, Dakhla and Bahariya and the eastern desert, with the all-important ports.


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69783 WAR THAT KILLED ACHILLES: The True Story of Homer’s Iliad and the Trojan War


by Caroline Alexander


Is a warrior ever justified in challenging his commander? Must he sacrifice his life for someone else’s cause? Can glory ever compensate for death? The dramatic events of the Trojan War are legend - the beauty of Helen, the tragic deaths of Ajax, Hector and Achilles, the scheme of the Trojan Horse, the pillage of Troy - but the Iliad is actually devoted entirely to a few mundane weeks at the end of a debilitating ten-year campaign. The combatants want nothing more than to stop fighting and go home. The author takes apart a story that we think we know and puts it back together. 296 pages with map.


£20 NOW £5 e-mail: orders@bibliophilebooks.com 69704 A HISTORIE OF LONDON AND


LONDONERS: A Romp Through the Capital by Sean Boru


The Roman invasion of A.D. 43 is the starting point for this chronological selection of quirky and fascinating metropolitan facts. 1514 saw the biggest warship in naval history being launched by Henry VIII. Shortly before he died he closed all the brothels and gambling houses on London’s Bankside, a sign of very different Puritan times to come. The 17th century saw the Civil War, Black Death and Fire. In the 1690s William III cynically imported cheap gin from Holland in order to keep the poor happy. The story takes us to 2009 and the economic downturn, and the final chapters are on general topics such as policing, pub signs, public health and a selection of famous residents. 214pp, paperback. £12.99 NOW £4


69727 KHUBILAI KHAN’S LOST FLEET: In


Search of a Legendary Armada by James Delgado


Drawing on clues found in sunken ships, hand-painted scrolls, drowned bodies and historical and literary records, Delgado and his Japanese team were able to throw light on one of history’s greatest mysteries. What sank the great Mongol fleet of 700 ships whose leader, Khubilai Khan, had already conquered China and who was set to conquer the rest of the world? Was the gigantic fleet no more than a legend? Was the culprit what the Japanese call a typhoon, the ‘divine wind’, which was the original kamikaze after which their World War II suicide bombers were named? Or had the breaking apart and quick settlement of the ships a more sinister cause? 225 pages illustrated in b/w with maps, notes, timeline of Chinese, Japanese and Korean Dynasties and Periods. £20.95 NOW £7.50


69849 OFF WITH THEIR HEADS! All the Cool


Bits in British History by Martin Oliver The author zips at speed through British history in short, snappy paragraphs enlivened with cartoons. The Celts exuberantly combined bloodthirstiness with a passion for poetry, but the Romans were less romantic, introducing plumbing and underfloor heating. The conflicts of the Tudor and Stuart eras are made crystal clear (well, almost), and although 18th century monarchs were rather a staid lot, piracy, the slave trade and the industrial revolution meant the Hanoverian age was packed with incident. 128pp, cartoons, royal timeline. £7.99 NOW £3


70258 CODEBREAKER: The History of Secret Communication by Stephen


Pincock and Mark Frary If you want to pit your wits against famously unbroken codes like the Dorabella or the Beale ciphers, discover more about the Navajo wind talkers of World War Two, or simply get a taste of the long and distinguished history of the


codemakers’ craft, here is a fascinating and enlightening guide. From the Bible code to the Voynich manuscript, from subtly altered hieroglyphs carved into Ancient Egyptian monuments to clues hidden in Renaissance paintings, we are surrounded by mysterious codes from the past. Covers all periods of history. 176 large pages, colour photos.


£14.99 NOW £6.50


69842 ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF PATRIOTISM: The Bestselling Phenomenon that Makes History Simple by George Courtauld The use of timelines to set key events in British history alongside those of world history allows readers to view the whole panorama in a simple way. At a glance, fascinating parallels are revealed. As Britain perfects the longbow, gunpowder reaches Europe. As Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn, the Inca Empire collapses. There are words, deeds, dates, phrases, songs, speeches and commandments from Stonehenge to the present day. 160 large pages, 100 colour and b/w plates. £15 NOW £5


67867 PREHISTORIC ROCK ART IN BRITAIN by Stan Beckensall


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These curious marks vary from simple, circular hollows known as ‘cups’ to more complex patterns with rings and intertwining grooves. Some are also found on monuments such as standing stones and stone circles, or within burial mounds. The carvings were made by Neolithic and early Bronze Age people between 3,500 and 6,000 years ago. Their original meanings are now lost but they provide a unique personal link with our prehistoric ancestors. 160 paperback pages, plates in colour and b/w.


£18.99 NOW £5.50


69554 CODEX BODLEY: A Painted Chronicle from the Mixtec Highlands, Mexico


by Maarten Jansen and G. A. Pérez Jiménez Treasures from the Bodleian Library. Superb facsimile, first published 2005, we have found abroad and imported this important book. Codex Bodley has long been recognised as one of the most important ancient Mexican manuscripts of which fewer than 20 survive today. Painted shortly before the Spanish Conquest of Mexico (1521) in the Mixtec region, it is a magnificent example of ancient Mexican pictorial writing in screen fold format. It depicts and recounts the history of the kings and queens who ruled the village-state of Nuu Dzaui from the 10th century to the early 16th century. The history of the manuscript, its provenance and the circumstances behind its creation are all studied. It offers insights into the politics, calendar, marriage ceremony and ancient naming process of the Mixtec people. The techniques necessary for interpreting the pictograms are provided with important keys to decode the dating system. Illus, 32cm x 28cm, 96pp.


£19.99 NOW £10


69754 CHAPTER OF KINGS by Mr Collins A facsimile of the original edition published by the Bodleian Library who acquired the book from the Opie Collection of Children’s Literature in 1988. The book was first published on the 1st August 1888. It is an irreverent and beautifully illustrated overview, one line from each ruler from Caesar we go through Willy the Conqueror, Red Billy his son, Henry 1st, Stephen, Henry Plantagenet, Richard Coeur de Lion (famed Magna- Charta we gained from John, which Henry the Third put his seal upon). Dates and reigns. 37pp. £4.99 NOW £3


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