Results for 'kelsey jackson williams'

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  1. Portrait of an Obsession
    1. Kelsey Jackson Williams

    Portrait of an Obsession

    How England's Greatest Private Library was Built from the Ruins of Europe's Monasteries

    George John Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758-1834) spent his life and fortune acquiring the rarest books in the world and Bibliomania recovers how he did so, threading its way through a Europe torn apart by the Napoleonic Wars and unpicking what made one man assemble perhaps the greatest private library ever formed in Great Britain.

    € 34,50
  2. Aubrey's Villa
    1. Kate Bennett

    Aubrey's Villa

    € 41,50
  3. Miscellany XVII

    Miscellany XVII

    € 55,50
  4. The Poems of Roderick MacLean
    1. Roderick MacLean

    The Poems of Roderick MacLean

    (Ruairidh MacEachainn MhicIllEathain - d. 1553)
    € 124,95
  5. A History and Catalogue of the Lindsay Library, 1570–1792
    1. Kelsey Jackson Williams
    2. Jane Stevenson
    3. William Zachs

    A History and Catalogue of the Lindsay Library, 1570–1792

    The Story of 'Some bonie litle bookes'

    This is the first study of Jacobean Scotland's largest library: the collection assembled over several generations by the Lindsays of Balcarres.

    € 247,50
  6. The First Scottish Enlightenment
    1. Kelsey Jackson Williams

    The First Scottish Enlightenment

    Rebels, Priests, and History

    This book argues that the 'first' Scottish Enlightenment was championed by minority groups traditionally assumed to have been backward-looking and conservative--Jacobites, Episcopalians, and Catholics--and that it resulted in a dramatic transformation of how Scots understood their history.

    € 159,50
  7. The Antiquary
    1. Kelsey Jackson Williams

    The Antiquary

    John Aubrey's Historical Scholarship

    Kelsey Jackson Williams presents the first full account of the manuscript notebooks of the antiquary John Aubrey (1626-1697), which cover everything from the origins of Stonehenge to the evolution of folklore. He reshapes our understanding of Aubrey, and of the methodologies, ambitions, and achievements of antiquarianism across early modern Europe.

    € 155,95