Beacon Lights of History. Vol.V: The Middle Ages. 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 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: Alfred the Great (the Saxons in England) - Queen Elizabeth (woman as a sovereign) - Henry of navarre (the Huguenots) - Gustavus Adolphus (Thirty Years' War) - Cardinal Richelieu (absolutism) - Oliver Cromwell (English Revolution) - Louis XIV (the French Monarchy) - Louis XV (remote causes of Revolution) - Peter the Great (his services to Russia) - Frederic the Great (the Prussian Power). New York, James Clarke & Company 1886, cm.15x22, pp.404,(4), 17 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: Dante (rise of modern poetry) - Geoffrey Chaucer (english life in the fourteenth century) - Christopher Columbus (maritime discoveries) - Savonarola (unsuccessful reforms) - Michael Angelo (the revival of art) - Martin Luther (the protestant Reformation) - Thomas Cranmer (the english Reformation) - Ignatius Loyola (rise and influence of the Jesuits) - John Calvin (protestant theology) - Lord Bacon (the new philosophy) - Galileo (astronomical discoveries). New York, James Clarke & Company 1884, cm.15x22, pp.(6),463,(5), 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. (piccola menda alla sommità della cerniera anteriore.)

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.]

Milano, Curci ed. 1982, cm.17x24, pp.32, fascicolo spillato.

Traduz.dal francese di Maria Heller. Milano, Bompiani 1964, cm.12x20,5, pp.209,(9), brossura, sopraccop.fig. a colori. Coll. I Più Famosi Libri Moderni,107. VIII edizione.