Author: Albert Romer FreyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Numismatics
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
A Dictionary of Numismatic Names
Author: Albert Romer FreyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Numismatics
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
When Scotland Was Jewish
Author: Elizabeth Caldwell HirschmanPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786455225
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
The popular image of Scotland is dominated by widely recognized elements of Celtic culture. But a significant non-Celtic influence on Scotland's history has been largely ignored for centuries? This book argues that much of Scotland's history and culture from 1100 forward is Jewish. The authors provide evidence that many of the national heroes, villains, rulers, nobles, traders, merchants, bishops, guild members, burgesses, and ministers of Scotland were of Jewish descent, their ancestors originating in France and Spain. Much of the traditional historical account of Scotland, it is proposed, rests on fundamental interpretive errors, perpetuated in order to affirm Scotland's identity as a Celtic, Christian society. A more accurate and profound understanding of Scottish history has thus been buried. The authors' wide-ranging research includes examination of census records, archaeological artifacts, castle carvings, cemetery inscriptions, religious seals, coinage, burgess and guild member rolls, noble genealogies, family crests, portraiture, and geographic place names.
Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society
Author: Nova Scotia Historical Society, HalifaxPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Anglo-Gallic Coins
Author: Lionel Mowbray HewlettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Numismatics
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Coins of Southern India
Author: A Collector's History of English Pottery
Author: Griselda LewisPublisher: ACC Distribution
ISBN: 9781851492916
Category : Pottery
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This is the fifth revised edition of a standard work of reference which was first published in 1969. It is a remarkable book that effortlessly and enjoyably takes the reader from the earliest pottery extant dating from the first Neolithic period, through the great classical names such as Wedgwood and Spode, Staffordshire and Ironstone to the more readily collectable pottery of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. There are many individual studies of potteries and potters but here Griselda Lewis succeeds in putting this vast array of them into an understandable historical perspective and traces the links in the development of the rich tradition of pottery in England. This book triumphantly succeeds in the most difficult task of all, that of arousing enthusiasm. - this comment by a reviewer on a previous edition of the work neatly sums up one of the main reasons for the book's enduring success. The new edition contains almost three times as much colour as the first edition and benefits from the wealth of research that has gone on in the past twelve years. There is a large section on modern studio potters and commercial wares that will be of particular interest to the contemporary collector. AUTHOR: Griselda Lewis is author of many books on pottery including An Introduction to English Pottery, A Picture History of English Pottery, Prattware (with John Lewis) and A Handbook of Crafts. 175 colour & 173 b/w illustrations
Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine
Author: William FalconerPublisher: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN: 9781861762047
Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
William Falconer first published his marine dictionary in 1769. It provided definitions of maritime terminology, data on technical aspects of shipbuilding and the Navy's administrative and operational practices. This is a reprint of the 1815 edition as revised by the naval historian William Burney.
An Universal Dictionary of the Marine
Author: William FalconerPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
This comprehensive dictionary of maritime terminology was first published in 1813 and designed as a reference work for shipbuilders and navigators. It was compiled by the naval historian William Burney and presented a revised and expanded version of the classic Universal Marine Dictionary originally published in 1769 by the poet and lexicographer William Falconer (1732–89). The dictionary with over 800 pages presents technical data on shipbuilding, navigation, the operation of ships, weaponry, and provisions, as well as historical, legal, and medical information.
Author: Rigby
Author: Samuel Johnson