An Epistle to the Right Honourable Richard Lord Visct. Cobham
by Alexander 1688-1744 Pope
Book Making and Writing in the Hijaz: Era of the Prophet and the Rashidun Caliphate (Studies)
by Maged A. Badahdah
An Epistle to a Young Nobleman From His Praeceptor
by John 1709-1763 Dalton
The Foundling. A Comedy. As It is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane
by Edward 1712-1757 Moore
An Essay Upon the National Credit of England
by Charles 1656-1714 Davenant
A Compliment of Congratulation to a Nobleman, on His Return From Boeotia
A Letter to a Friend in Suffolk Occasion'd by a Report of Repealing the Triennial Act
Four hundred years ago, every barrister had to dance because dancing put them in harmony with the universe. John Ogilby's first job, in 1612, was to teach them. By the 1670s, he was Charles II's Royal Cosmographer, creating beautiful measured drawings that placed roads on maps for the first time. During the intervening years, Ogilby had travelled through fire and plague, war and shipwreck; had been an impresario in Dublin, a poet in London, a soldier and sea captain, as well as a secret agent, p...
Westeuropaische Buchmalerei (Big Sirrocco)
by Anrdei Sterligov and Tamara Voronova
Every child who grew up in the Fifties and Sixties remembers the Brooke Bond collecting cards that came with every packet of tea. Some were lucky enough to have the specially-produced albums in which to collect the cards that had either come with the latest packet of tea or been traded in the school playground. This beautifully printed, nostalgic book presents the best 12 original albums, reproduced slightly larger than they were forty years ago to bring out the best in the wonderfully detailed...