Beacon Lights of History. Vol.III: Ancient Achievements. Contents: Governments and laws (greek and roman jurisprudence) - The fine arts (architecture, sculpture, painting) - Ancient scientific knowledge (astronomy, geography, etc.) - Material life of the Ancients (mechanical and useful arts) - The military art (weapons, engines, discipline) - Cicero (roman literature) - Cleopatra (the woman of paganism) - Pagan society (glory and shame).

Contents: Mohammed (saracenic conquests) - Charlemagne (revival of the Western Empire) - Hildebrand (the papal empire) - Saint Bernard (monastic institutions) - Saint Anselm (mediaeval theology) - Thomas Aquinas (the scholastic philosophy) - Thomas Becket (prelatical power) - The feudal system - The Crusades - William of Wykeham (gothic architecture) - John Wyclif (dawn of the Reformation). New York, James Clarke & Company 1888, cm.15x22, pp.(4),427,(5), 14 incis. in bn.ft. di cui una protetta da velina all'antip., rilegatura coeva in mz.pelle verde scuro con grandi angoli ai piatti, dorso a 4 nervi con titoli e filetti in oro al dorso, piatti in tela grigia. [buon esemplare.]

Contents: William IV (english reforms) - Sir Robert Peel (political economy) - Cavour (united Italy) - Czar Nicholas (the Crimean War) - Louis Napoleon (the Second Empire) - Prince Bismarck (the German Empire) - William Ewart Gladstone (the enfranchisement of the people). New York, James Clarke & Company 1891, cm.15x22, pp.377,(5), 16 incis. in bn.ft. di cui una protetta da velina all'antip., rilegatura coeva in mz.pelle verde scuro con grandi angoli ai piatti, dorso a 4 nervi con titoli e filetti in oro al dorso, piatti in tela grigia. (piccole abrasioni alle cerniere esterne.)

Contents: Héloïse (love) - Joan of Arc (heroic women) - Saint Theresa (religious enthusiasm) - Madame de Maintenon (the political woman) - Sarah, duchess of Marlborough (the woman of the world) - Madame Récamier (the woman of society) - Madame de Staël (woman in literature) - Hannah More (education of woman) - George Eliot (woman as novelist). New York, James Clarke & Company 1886, cm.15x22, pp.(6),390,(4), 15 incis. in bn.ft. di cui una protetta da velina all'antip., rilegatura coeva in mz.pelle verde scuro con grandi angoli ai piatti, dorso a 4 nervi con titoli e filetti in oro al dorso, piatti in tela grigia. [buon esemplare.]

Contents: Mirabeau (the French Revolution) - Edmund Burke (political morality) - Napoleon Bonaparte (the French Empire) - Prince Metternich (conservatism) - Chateaubriand (the restoration and fall of the Bourbons) - George IV (Toryism) - The Greek Revolution - Louis Philippe (the citizen king). New York, James Clarke & Company 1886, cm.15x22, pp.369,(5), 14 incis. in bn.ft. di cui una protetta da velina all'antip., rilegatura coeva in mz.pelle verde scuro con grandi angoli ai piatti, dorso a 4 nervi con titoli e filetti in oro al dorso, piatti in tela grigia. [buon esemplare.]