Chubb Thomas Caldecott (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. 286 pages. 1969 reprint of 1930 book. Ex-university library marks, light wear and discoloring to the covers; pages yellowed; a good sound binding. No jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Inventory No: 216143.

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. red & black illustrated (venetian lion on cover) full cloth 4to ~ 4º (quarto ~ 10"x7"). large book. dustwrapper in protective brodart book jacket cover. fine cond. binding tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in vg cond. spine rubbed & chipped at top & bottom. corners rubbed, 1cm tear front top near spine. not price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing (FPu1968 & nap). b&w illustrated 1/2 title, frontis. & title pg. 162p. 2 b&w maps. 8 pages of glossy full color plates. b&w illustrated chapter headings. suggestions for further reading. index. world history. medieval history. byzantine empire. history of the crusades. renaissance history. maritime history. ~ From the very beginning, when the site that became Venice was only a miserable hamlet built on timber piles driven into the mud flats of the lagoon, these people of the marshes were traders. More specifically, they were waterborne traders, carrying waterfowl and fish and salt~a most important commodity~to inland villages on their crude river craft. Soon their boats coasted the length of Italy, and by the time Byzantium replaced Rome as their overlord, Venetian sailors and Venetian boats dominated Mediterranean trade. "The fairest and noblest and most pleasant city of this day and age, and the most beautiful and wealthiest in the world, for indeed merchandise gushes through it as does water in a fountain," wrote an admiring observer as early as 1267. And that was only the beginning. For with the corning of the Crusades and the fall of Constantinople, Venice and her proud merchant citizens created a dazzling city~state ~ the meeting point of the fabulous East and the newly awakened West ~ which is still unique in history.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Signed and inscribed by author on ffep. DJ is price-clipped. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Small corner chip and scratch on dust jacket. Out of print Renaissance biography.