Beacon Lights of History. Vol.XI: American Founders. Contents: Preliminary Chapter (the American Idea) - Benjamin Franklin (diplomacy) - George Washington (the American Revolution) - Alexander Hamilton (American Constitution) - John Adams (constructive statesmanship) - Thomas Jefferson (popular sovereignty) - John Marshall (the Supreme Court).

New edition, with four additional chapters, comprehending all the leading events which have occurred from the fall of Napoleon I to the fall of Napoleon III, also copious questions for examination. Prefaz.a cura dell'A. London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd. Ca.1900? cm.13x18,5, pp.XVI,518, legatura ed.con impressioni a secco al piatto ant.e titoli in oro al dorso.

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: 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). New York, James Clarke & Company 1888, cm.15x22, pp.(4),386,(4), 11 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. (piccola menda alla cuffia superiore.)

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.)

Firenze, Olschki Ed. 2000, cm.17x24, 116 pp., Collana Biblioteca dell'«Archivum Romanicum» - Serie II: Linguistica, 50. Il libro approfondisce un aspetto singolare della civiltà etrusca: specificamente il diritto privato, i cui frammenti sono raccolti e ordinati in un quadro complessivo. Le fonti sono soprattutto di natura epigrafica, e consentono un approccio diretto ad a The volume examines a particular aspect of Etruscan civilisation: that of private rights, whose fragments are collected together and systematically arranged in a comprehensive form. The sources are mainly of an epigraphic nature allowing a direct approach