New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. "Claudius was proclaimed Emperor at Rome after the assassination of Caligula in A.D. 41, and his thirteen-year reign included some significant accomplishments. Claudius added Mauretania, Lycia, and Thrace to the Roman Empire and began the systematic conquest of Britain. He extended the rights of Roman citizenship to many provincials and opened the Senate to prominent men from the western provinces..... More

Long Island City, NY: Osprey Publishing, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. "The image of the Roman legionary is as familiar today as it was to the citizens- and enemies- of the vast Roman Empire two thousand years ago. This book goes beyond the stereotypes found in popular culture to examine the Roman Army from the first armed citizens of the early Republic through the glorious heights of the Imperial legions to..... More

Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. "After World War II, most scientists in Germany maintained that they had been apolitical or actively resisted the Nazi regime, but the true story is much more complicated. In 'Serving the Reich,' Philip Ball takes a fresh look at that controversial history, contrasting the career of Peter Debye, director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics in Berlin, with those..... More

New York, NY: Viking Penguin/ Penguin Putnam Inc., 2002. First American Edition. Hardcover. "The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945. Frenzied by their terrible experiences with Wehrmacht and SS brutality, they wreaked havoc- tanks crushing refugee columns under their tracks, mass rape, pillage and destruction. Hundreds of thousands of women and children froze to death or were massacred..... More

New York, NY: Little, Brown & Co., 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. "Thrillingly written and brilliantly researched, "The Second World War" is the epic, authoritative work on the defining event of the twentieth century, taking us from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific and from the first battle in August 1939 on the borders of Manchuria to V-J Day six years later. Antony Beevor's wide lens lets us see the..... More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Henry Beston. "The author of The Outermost House, which...remains one of the most beautiful and popular accounts of an experience with nature, again writes of an adventure with the earth, this time with the herbs in his own garden. He lists and describes the various herbs and their culture and associates them with their ancient historical..... More

London, England: Geoffrey Cumberlege/ Oxford University Press, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. "Marc Bloch, a world-renowned medieval historian who was read and valued by scholars far beyond the Sorbonne, of which he was a distinguished member, had many devoted friends in England. He fought in both World Wars, and in 1942, when fifty, became active in the French Resistance. Two years later he was caught by the Germans, tortured, and executed..... More

New York, NY: Clarkson Potter Publishers, 1998. First Edition, Fourth Printing. Hardcover. “How the [Grateful] Dead…survived to speak to successive generations is the subject of this intensely provocative and personal narrative. Social critic and biographer Carol Brightman, who was active in the political struggles of the era, presents a Whitmanesque tableau of America’s colliding countercultures. Here’s the Dead—with their original fondness for folk, bluegrass, and blues; their immersion in psychedelics;..... More

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. First American Edition. Hardcover. "The following book is not a novel, but it is a work of fiction all the same--a fiction based on this author's visualization of Charlemagne. And even though the resulting image does, quite properly, adduce all the available evidence from the period in question, it is nonetheless subjectively formed and colored. It is impossible nowadays to fathom the depths of..... More

New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1990. First American Edition. Hardcover. "The Story of the Malakand Field Force, Winston Churchill's first book, was originally published in 1898. The author was at the time a subaltern in the 4th Hussars but, finding regimental life too quiet to satisfy his adventurous spirit and hearing that a field force of three brigades was being formed under General Sir Bindon Blood to..... More

Washington DC: National Geographic Partners, LLC, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. "Come with National Geographic on a fascinating journey through ancient Greece: the land of marathons and wrestling, debate and city-states, Plato, Socrates, and Alexander the Great. In this lavishly illustrated book, historian Diane Harris Cline creates a dynamic and engaging portrait of politics, social life, inventions, conquests, ideas, art, and more. These vivid pages are filled with amazing history, gripping..... More

Silver Springs, FL: Carita Doggett Corse, 1938. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "Water Worship holds first place in the primitive religions of the world. It was the first of all things, the parent of all things. Even the gods themselves were born of water. Adoration of springs, or rather of the spirits that ruled them, prevailed everywhere among the American Indians, and a grove by a spring provided a ready-made shrine..... More

London, England: Simon & Schuster UK Ltd., 2010. First UK Edition. Hardcover. "No leader of modern times was more unique and more uniquely national than Charles de Gaulle. As founder and first President of the Fifth Republic, General de Gaulle saw himself 'carrying France on my shoulders'. When he first emerged on to the world stage in 1940, his insistence that he spoke for his nation might well have appeared..... More