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  • Bonnie Prince Charlie
    Roderick Graham
    Bonnie Prince Charlie is one of the best-known and romantic names in Scottish and British history. As with so many legends, the truth is often obscure and the debate continues to rage over questions of his plans to become Charles III, his wish to make Britain a Catholic country, the battle of Culloden, France’s role in the ’45 Rebellion, whether he ultimately proved to be a cow...
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    28,13 €

  • Grace of Monaco
    Jeffrey Robinson
    The acclaimed biography by Jeffrey Robinson, now revised and updated to coincide with the major motion picture starring Nicole Kidman as Princess Grace.It was one of the most famous romances of the 20th century--Europe's most eligible bachelor, Prince Rainier of Monaco, and America's most beautiful movie star, the Academy Award-winning actress Grace Kelly, fell in love ...
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    26,82 €

  • Queen Victoria
    E. F. Benson / EFBenson
    This book’s pages contains the classic biography of Queen Victoria by E. F. Benson. Using sources such letters and other writings Benson provides an immensely interesting insight in the woman, wide, mother and Queen that is Victoria. Ben was a prolific writer of his time producing over 90 works. Queen Victoria was first published in 1935 and is here republished with an introduc...
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    34,07 €

  • Two Years in the Forbidden City
    Noel Fletcher / Noel Marie Fletcher / Princess Der Ling
    Take a journey into the world of China’s most feared Empress. This true story was the first eyewitness account of the Imperial Court written by a Chinese aristocrat for Western readers. Enhanced with rich imagery and additional historical notes, 'Two Years in the Forbidden City' is a vivid trip into the grandeur and intrigue of China’s last dynasty. * Featuring a new introduc...
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    23,35 €

  • The Stuarts in Italy, 1719-1766
    Edward Corp
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    70,54 €

  • Queen Victoria
    1stworldpublishing / Lytton Strachey
    Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - ~~~~~~On November 6, 1817, died the Princess Charlotte, only child of the Prince Regent, and heir to the crown of England. Her short life had hardly been a happy one. By nature impulsive, capricious, and vehement, sh...
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    17,16 €

  • Queen Victoria
    Lytton Strachey / 1stworldpublishing
    Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - ~~~~~~On November 6, 1817, died the Princess Charlotte, only child of the Prince Regent, and heir to the crown of England. Her short life had hardly been a happy one. By nature impulsive, capricious, and vehement, sh...
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    33,02 €

  • The Way Out
    Craig Childs
    A breakout book from a writer increasingly celebrated as the 21st-century bard of the American Southwest -- a writer in the tradition of Barry Lopez, Peter Matthiessen, Terry Tempest Williams, among others. In March 2003, Craig Childs received the Spirit of the West Literary Achievement Award, given to a writer whose body of work captures the unique spirit of the American West....
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    23,38 €

  • Farewell, Josephine
    Gerald Hausman / Loretta Hausman
    Josephine grows up on the island of Martinique longing for a glorious life in Paris. A West Indian seer has told her she is destined to be 'more than a queen.' An arranged marriage to a French nobleman brings her to the city of lights. But instead of the grand life, she experiences the French Revolution. Her husband is executed, she is imprisoned and all of her dreams of diamon...
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    21,25 €

  • The Organ Grinder’s Monkey
    Robert Rangel Hui / Steve
    A riveting saga of deceit, scandal, sex, greed and power…I’ve traveled all over the world. I’ve stayed in the best hotels and eaten in the best restaurants. But that isn’t me. I’m a simple man. I have simple tastes and I live in a simple house. But people who knew of my past life still want to know . . . what’s it like? What’s it like to work for the richest family on earth, th...
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    22,76 €

  • The Organ Grinder’s Monkey
    Robert Rangel Hui / Steve
    A riveting saga of deceit, scandal, sex, greed and power…I’ve traveled all over the world. I’ve stayed in the best hotels and eaten in the best restaurants. But that isn’t me. I’m a simple man. I have simple tastes and I live in a simple house. But people who knew of my past life still want to know . . . what’s it like? What’s it like to work for the richest family on earth, th...
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    29,94 €

  • Seven Centuries of Service
    Margaret Bolton
    The title of Duke of York is traditionally assigned to the second son of the English monarch. But what exactly does a Duke of York do? Across the centuries dukes have served in the armed services on land, at sea and in the air. They have worked as diplomats and ambassadors and been patrons of the arts and sciences. Some have also been given more unusual jobs such as investig...
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    53,83 €

  • Victorious Charles
    Caroline (Cally) Rogers Neill Sehnaoui
    Victorious Charles: A Ladies’ Man is a fascinating historical account of the lives of the nobility and the poor in 15th Century France, under the reign of King Charles VII. Charles VII was a warrior King who reigned at the time of France’s decades-long war against Henry V’s England. Charles is also often remembered for his numerous high-profile affairs, including one with the ...
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    17,00 €

  • Theodore von Neuhoff, King of Corsica
    Julia Gasper
    “A visionary and a madman” was how one British statesman, Lord Carteret, described Theodore von Neuhoff. This exciting biography, Theodore von Neuhoff, King of Corsica: The Man behind the Legend by Julia Gasper, traces the unlikely career of the German baron who in 1736 had himself proclaimed and crowned King of Corsica. ...
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    134,37 €

  • Royal Mistresses of the House of Hanover-Windsor
    Susanna de Vries
    Secrets, Scandals and Betrayals. The genuine love match between Prince William and Kate Middleton has rekindled enthusiasm for the British monarchy. In the past, young princes reluctantly entered into arranged marriages and took mistresses. Perdita Robinson, a famous actress, was enticed from the stage with promises of money to live with the fickle Prince of Wales, who turned ...
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    24,79 €

  • The reign of Richard II
    A source reader covering the first twenty years (1377-97) of Richard II’s reign. Includes well-known English chronicles, foreign chronicles, and legal, administrative and financial records with clear and lively commentary and notes to enable readers to make the fullest use of each document. ...
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    28,97 €

  • A Collection of all the Wills, Now Known to Be Extant, of the Kings and Queens of England, Princes and Princesses of Wales, and every Branch of the ... to that of Henry the Seventh Exclusive
    John Nichols / Richard Gough
    A Collection of all the Wills Now Known to Be Extant, of the Kings and Queens of England, Princes and Princesses of Wales, and every Branch of the Blood Royal, from the Reign of William the Conqueror, to that of Henry the Seventh Exclusive: With Explanatory Notes and a Glossary 'These wills of members of the English Royalty from William the Conqueror through Henry VII are in th...
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    33,42 €

  • A Collection of All the Wills, Now Known to Be Extant, of the Kings and Queens of England, Princes and Princesses of Wales, and Every Branch of the
    John Nichols / Richard Gough
    These wills of members of the English Royalty from William the Conqueror through Henry VII are in their original language and often have brief introductions, annotations and postscripts in English. With a Glossary and "Additional Observations and Corrections." x, 434 pp. Originally published: London: J. Nichols, 1780."This series of miscellaneous and different wills presents us...
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    45,13 €

  • The reign of Richard II
    A source reader covering the first twenty years (1377-97) of Richard II’s reign. Includes well-known English chronicles, foreign chronicles, and legal, administrative and financial records with clear and lively commentary and notes to enable readers to make the fullest use of each document. ...
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    144,50 €

  • Fanny Lear
    Eva And Daniel McDonald
    Fanny Lear: Love and Scandal in Tsarist Russia>/i> tells the story of Harriet Clarissima Ely Blackford, also known as Fanny Lear. She was an American courtesan in the late nineteenth century, a strong, independent woman who refused to accept the restrictions placed on women by society at the time. In her short, adventure-filled life, her travels took her from Philadelphia to th...
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    35,05 €

  • Fanny Lear
    Eva And Daniel McDonald
    Fanny Lear: Love and Scandal in Tsarist Russia>/i> tells the story of Harriet Clarissima Ely Blackford, also known as Fanny Lear. She was an American courtesan in the late nineteenth century, a strong, independent woman who refused to accept the restrictions placed on women by society at the time. In her short, adventure-filled life, her travels took her from Philadelphia to th...
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    26,63 €

  • The Journal of Countess Francoise Krasinska
    Klementyna Tanska Hoffman
    The journal of the Francoise Krasinksa begins with her as a young girl living comfortably with her parents in the court of Maleszow in southern Poland. She is happy and innocent and  nurses a crush on Prince Charles, pretender to the Polish throne. Francoise was related to nearly all the noblest families in Poland. Eminently beautiful, intelligent and witty, her escapades and h...
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    14,29 €

  • The Tudors
    David Loades
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    69,39 €

  • Henri IV of France
    Vincent J Pitts
    Vincent J. Pitts chronicles the life and times of one of France’s most remarkable kings in the first English-language biography of Henri IV to be published in twenty-five years. An unwelcome heir to the throne, Henri ruled over a kingdom plagued by religious civil war and political and economic instability. By the end of his reign in 1610 he had pacified his warring country, re...
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    56,73 €

  • The Stuarts in Italy, 1719-1766
    Edward Corp
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    168,81 €

  • Imperial Triangle of Napoleon III, Empress Eugenie and the Intriguing Duke of Sesto
    Nancy Becker
    The Untold True History of Love, Power and Revenge Amidst the Gaslights & Carriages of Old Paris & Madrid that Changed the World from China to MexicoIf you think you know Paris and Madrid, think again! This is the book that unlocks the charm, romance, heart-ache and mysteries of Paris and Madrid that directly preceded the contemporary. After reading this incredible history, you...
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    52,67 €

  • Imperial Triangle of Napoleon III, Empress Eugenie and the Intriguing Duke of Sesto
    Nancy Becker
    The Untold True History of Love, Power and Revenge Amidst the Gaslights & Carriages of Old Paris & Madrid that Changed the World from China to MexicoIf you think you know Paris and Madrid, think again! This is the book that unlocks the charm, romance, heart-ache and mysteries of Paris and Madrid that directly preceded the contemporary. After reading this incredible history, you...
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    61,59 €

  • Early Kings of Norway (Large Print Edition)
    Thomas Carlyle
    Special Large Print edition, with easy to read text, of Thomas Carlyle’s classic work. ...
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    9,73 €

  • Lozikeyi Dlodlo. Queen of the Ndebele
    Marieke Clarke / Merieke Faber Clarke / Pathisa Nyathi
    In 1999, a defiant 76-year old Mr Stanley Mhlanga confronted the Zimbabwean Forestry Commission. He claimed that Queen Lozikeyi had given his people the land from which they had been evicted. Who was this woman, an inspiration to an old man 80 years after her death? Queen Lozikeyi was the senior queen of Lobhengula, king of the Ndebele people in what is now Zimbabwe. Her early ...
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    78,58 €

  • The Life of Henry VII
    Bernard Andr / Bernard Andreas / Daniel Hobbins
    Composed between 1500 and 1502, 'The Life of Henry VII' is the first 'official' Tudor account of the triumph of Henry VII over Richard III. Its author, the French humanist Bernard André, was a poet and historian at the court of Henry VII and tutor to the young Prince Arthur. Steeped in classical literature and familiar with all the tropes of the ancient biographical tradition, ...
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    30,38 €


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