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Letters to Father : Sister Maria Celeste to Galileo, 1623-1633
by Galilei, Maria
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Near Fine
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- 1st
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- 2001
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- Hardcover
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- 9780802713872
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Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
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New York: Walker Books, 2001. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Near Fine hardcover in a Near Fine dust jacket. 377pp plus list of Sisters of San Matteo.red ribbon sewn in. When she was 13, Virginia Galilei, eldest daughter of the great scientist Galileo, was placed by her father in a convent near him… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Thirty Years' War
by Parker, Geoffrey
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- Used - Very Good
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- Not Issued
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- 2nd
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- 1997
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- Paperback
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- 9780415128834
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- 1
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New York: Routledge, 1997. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 2nd. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very Good softcover. 316pp including biographical essay, index of authors and a general index. This second edition has been thoroughly revised to include the very latest research. The updated bibliographical information provides an invaluable resource, synthesising the major work in the field, in… Read more about this item Item Price
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From the Brink of Apocalypse: Confronting Famine, War, Plague, and Death in the Later Middle Ages
by Aberth, John
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- Used - Near Fine
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- No Jacket
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- 1st
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- 2001
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- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780415927161
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- 1
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Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
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New York: Routledge, 2001. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Near Fine softcover. 304pp including bibliography and Index. Aberth's informative and originally shaped volume is well tailored to bring out the dynamic of man's struggle with his enviorment in the last two medieval centuries. In his story, War, Plague" and famine play very… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Religious Life of Richard III: Piety and Prayer in the North of England
by Hughes, Jonathan
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Near Fine
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- 1st
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- 1997
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780750911153
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Phoenix Mill: Sutton Publishing Limited, 1997. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. near fine book with near fine cover. First edition. 209pp with notes, bibliography and index. B&W and color illustrations. In this controversial new study, Hughes (history and English, Edward's School, Oxford) argues that although Richard was indeed guilty of, or implicated in,… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Great Famine
by Jordan, William Chester
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- Used - Near Fine
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- 3rd
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- 1998
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- Paperback
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- 9780691058917
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Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1998. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 3rd. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. This book is a Near Fine in a soft cover. 8vo. World History. 3rd Edition. 1998. 317pp with index, bibliograhy, and notes. The horrors of the Great Famine (1315-1322), one of the severest catastrophes ever to strike northern Europe, lived… Read more about this item Item Price
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Resurrection of the Romanovs, The
by King, Greg and Wilson, Penny
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Near Fine
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- 1st
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- 2011
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- Hardcover
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- 9780470891063
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Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
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Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley and Sons, 2011. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. This first editon copy is near fine wtih a near fine jacket. The size is 8vo. 397pp. index, bibliography, notes to pages. The truth of the enduring mystery of Anastasia's fate-and the life of her most convincing impostor The passage… Read more about this item Item Price
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The English Civil War (Arnold Readers in History)
by Cust, Richard and Hughes, Ann (editors)
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- Used - Near Fine
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- 1st
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- 1997
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- Paperback
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- 9780340631737
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London: Hodder Education Publishers, 1997. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. This copy is a near fine first edition. It is a soft cover pubished by Hodder Education. 369pp with notes, index, and suggestions for further reading. Under the influence of "revisionist" writings the history of the English Civil War has splintered. This… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Black Death: Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval Europe
by Gottfried, Robert S.
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Not Issued
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- 1st
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- 1985
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- Paperback
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- 9780029123706
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New York: Free Press, 1985. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fascinating work of detective history, The Black Death traces the causes and far-reaching consequences of this infamous outbreak of plague that spread across the continent of Europe from 1347 to 1351. Drawing on sources as diverse as monastic manuscripts and dendrochronological… Read more about this item Item Price
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Earls of Paradise
by Nicolson, Adam
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
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- 1st
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- 2008
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780007240524
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Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
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London: HarperCollins, 2008. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Adam Nicolson takes a single great family, the Earls of Pembroke, their wives, children, estates, tenants and allies, and folllows their high and glamorous trajectory across three generations.287 pp.. Item Price
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A Primer on German Enlightenment: With a Translation of Karl Leonhard Reinhold's The Fundamental Concepts and Principles of Ethics (Volume 1)
by Roehr, Sabine
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
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- 1995
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780826209979
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Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1995. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 282pp including index. This is the first translation into English of a work of late German enlightenment by Karl Leonhard Reinhold (1757-1823). Reinhold was an acute thinker, who is best known for his interpretations of Kant and whose writings on theoretical… Read more about this item Item Price
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Symbols of Power: Napoleon and the Art of the Empire Style
by Nouvel-Kammerer, Odile
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- 1st
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- 2008
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- Paperback
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New York: Abrams, 2008. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Many color photos of decorative arts ... The creation of Napoleonic Symbolism and its spread throughout the Imperial Era. Large and heavy softcover. 352 pp including index and photo credits. Item Price
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The Politics of Memory and Identity in Carolingian Royal Diplomas: The West Frankish Kingdom (840-987) (Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy)
by Koziol, Geoffrey
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- Not Issued
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- 1st
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- 2012
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- Hardcover
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- 9782503535951
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Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols (distributed), 2012. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Politics of Memory and Identity in Carolingian Royal Diplomas: The West Frankish Kingdom (840-987) (Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy). as new copy. 661pp including bibliography and index. Based upon a performative interpretation of royal charters, The Politics of Memory and Identity offers… Read more about this item Item Price
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Three Years' War
by De Wit, Christiaan Rudolf
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1st
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- 1902
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- Hardcover
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New York: Charles Scriber's Sons, 1902. Book. Illus. by John S. Sargent. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Brown hardcover with Title in Gilt on front cover and spine. 448 pp plus a large fold out map tipped in rear. also four plans. Edges untrimed First Edition. Boar wars South Africann Republic and the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Pocket Guide to Edwardian England
by Holland, Evangeline
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- As New
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- Not Issued
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- 1st
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- 2012
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- Paperback
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- 9781478113447
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Scotts Valley, CA: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012. Book. As New. Soft cover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. As new softcover. 136pp including resources and a note on the author. Compiled from lectures and blog posts on Edwardian Promenade, the Pocket Guide to Edwardian England poses to give a fun, frothy, but thorough look at the time… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Six Day War
by Randolph S. Churchill and Winston S. Churchill
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- Used - Very Good
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- Good
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- 2nd
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- 1967
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- Hardcover
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U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 2nd. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. "this book was organized and written by Randolph and Winston Chirchill, son and grandson respectively of the late Sir Winston Churchill. Winston was in Israel (briefly also in Jordan and Lebanon) for three weeks before the war, writing atricles for the London News… Read more about this item Item Price
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Manners for Women
by Humphry, Mrs
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Near Fine
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- 1st
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- 1993
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- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780946014170
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Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
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England: Pryor Publications, 1993. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 32 chapters; contents: the girl in society, decadence of the curtsey, learning to laugh, in the street, bicycling, cards and calls, the engaged girl, wedding receptions, fashionable weddings, marrying a maughter,'brides two a penny,' ethics of dress, dress at fashionable restauraunts, dress at… Read more about this item Item Price
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Queen Victoria's Stalker the Strange Case of the Boy Jones
by Jan Bondeson
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Near Fine
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- 1st
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- 2010
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- Hardcover
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- 9781606350775
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- 1
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Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
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United Kingdom: Amberley, 2010. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 156 pp; contents include preface, chapters 1. the sweep in the palace, 2. the boy jones, 3.return of in-I-go jones, 4. the boy jones finds himself famous, 5. the mysterious disappearance of the boy jones, 6 shanghaied again!, 7. britain's galley slave, 8. what… Read more about this item Item Price
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Elizabeth, Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary
by George P. Upton
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Not Issued
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- 1909
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- Paperback
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Chicago: A.C. Mclurg & Co., 1909. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 8vo. translated from the german of carl kuchler; with four illustrations; "one of the saddest stories in the history of royalty" contents include an introduction, & 20 chapters from the diamond wedding to death of the empress, also includes appendix. illustrations are as follows: elizabeth as the young empress,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Elizabeth the Empress of Austria
by Alborough De Burgh
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
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- 1st
- Published
- 2018
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- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9781537177809
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Middletown, De: Drcrm, 2018. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. a replication of a book originally published before 1899; 150 pp; contents include introduction, chapter 1. the princess elizabeth of bavaria, 2. the empress elizabeth, 3. the queen of hungary, 4. the empress as a woman, philanthropist, friend, and mistress, 5. the empress… Read more about this item Item Price
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Elisabeth of Austria a Life Misunderstood
by Katerina Von Burg
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
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- 1st
- Published
- 1995
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9781870417044
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Wilshire: Windsor Publications, 1995. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 292 pp; 16pp of black and white photographs; includes 23 chapters on the life and a list of illustrations; chapter 1. a tomboy princess, 2. the emperor's choices, 3. arrival in vienna, 4. the bewildered bride, 5. the end of happiness, 6. crisis in… Read more about this item Item Price
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