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  • WOMEN OF ASHDOON: Bridges Over Time, Book III (Three.) by Anand, Valerie.
    Anand, Valerie.
    WOMEN OF ASHDOON: Bridges Over Time, Book III (Three.)

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: St Martin's, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Well-researched and fascinating historical novel,set in 15th and 16th century England, during the time of the Tudors. 373 pp.

    Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket (closed tear to front cover of dj.)

    Book ID: 50444
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  • THE HOUSE OF LANYON. by Anand, Valerie.
    Anand, Valerie.
    THE HOUSE OF LANYON.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: MIRA, (2007). First edition - The first book in the Exmoor Saga series, set in 15th century England. "When two ambitious families occupy the same patch of English soil, rivalry is sure to take root and flourish. . . minor hurts, nursed with jealousy, fester into a malignant hatred. When a bitter feud is born the price for this wild and beautiful piece of ground will take more than three generations to settle." Author's note. 586 pp.

    Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers (the top of the spine just beginning to tear, toning to textblock)

    Book ID: 86844
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  • A MAPMAKER'S DREAM: The Meditations of Fra Mauro, Cartographer to the Court of Venice. by Cowan, James.
    Cowan, James.
    A MAPMAKER'S DREAM: The Meditations of Fra Mauro, Cartographer to the Court of Venice.

    Edition: First printing.

    Boston & London: Shambhala, 1996, dj. Hardcover first edition - Part history, part fiction, a "fantasy of a Venetian cartographer speculates on geography as a construct of the human consciousness, with tales of explorations into an imaginary world. Through the purported journals of Fra Mauro, a cloistered monk who actually lived during the 15th century and who, in Cowan's novel, has resolved to create a map of the world without ever leaving his cell, we learn of a race of men with one foot the size of an umbrella, about the Vatican emissary to the Mongol court,and about the devil worshippers of the land called Mosul. Over the course of the book, Fra Mauro creates a world of his…

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    Boston & London: Shambhala, 1996, dj. Hardcover first edition - Part history, part fiction, a "fantasy of a Venetian cartographer speculates on geography as a construct of the human consciousness, with tales of explorations into an imaginary world. Through the purported journals of Fra Mauro, a cloistered monk who actually lived during the 15th century and who, in Cowan's novel, has resolved to create a map of the world without ever leaving his cell, we learn of a race of men with one foot the size of an umbrella, about the Vatican emissary to the Mongol court,and about the devil worshippers of the land called Mosul. Over the course of the book, Fra Mauro creates a world of his own, composed less of geographical knowledge than of meditation, folklore, and books." Illustrated maps on endpapers and chapter headings are from actual preserved works of Mauro. xvii, 151 pp. ISBN: 1-570621969.

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    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)

    Book ID: 88971
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  • Dunnett, Dorothy.
    CAPRICE AND RONDO: The House of Niccolo.

    Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.

    New York: Vintage Books, (1999.). The 7th book in this gripping and highly praised series of historical novels, set in 15th century Renaissance Europe and feauturing Nicholas de Fleury (formerly vander Poele) of Bruges, a good-natured dyer's apprentice who schemes and swashbuckles his way to the head of a mercantile empire. 539 pp. Map of Europe and the Near East ca 1474. ISBN: 0-375-706127.

    Condition: Near fine.

    Book ID: 33222
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  • Haasse, Hella S.
    IN A DARK WOOD WANDERING: A Novel of the Middle Ages.

    Edition: Book of the Month Club edition (same size and quality as trade edition).

    Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers, (1989.) dj. Hardcover - An historical epic, originally published in the Netherlands in 1949, set in the fifthteenth century, during the Hundred Years War between France and England. Revised and Edited by Anita Miller from an English translation from the Dutch by Lewis C. Kaplan 574 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-897333365.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 37466
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