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This volume does not pretend to be an exhaustive history of Sotheby's first 250 years. Instead, in these brief pages, we have attempted to celebrate the artists, the collectors, the owners, the personalities, the experts and some of the more extraordinary items that have passed through our salerooms over the years.

Another delightful collection of photographs compiled by Gordon Winter, following the tradtion of A Country Camera. This time he has chosen London as the field for his studies, and the result is a spectacular record of Victorian and Edwardian town life.

An immortal comic caricature has been born in this novel. Superbly written, outrageous and original in spirit, this book is a work of a genius.

A well known reference work for all practioners and students of Homeopathy.

Not for over forty years has there been so comprehensive a study of the many and various strands that were woven into the pattern of European civilisation. 'How' in the author's own words, 'Europeans came to develop their resources and their own original culture, technology and way of life in all their variety and then, form being on the defensive after the decline of the Graeco-Roman civilisation, became the predominant world influence, will be the main theme of this study'.

Bowle produced, aided by much new material not available when the last history of Europe was written, a masterley synthesis of European civilisation. Above all, politics and culture march hand in hand, often in partnership, often in opposition. The whole spectrum of unfolding European history is displayed, from prehistoric times to 1939 when, in the author's view, the direct predominance of Europe in world history vanished.

'John Bowle is an historian who combines good scholarship and a persuasive style with the courage to attempt great and controversial subjects......he controls his huge and varied subject matter with unfailing lucidity.......a remarkable book'. C.V. Wedgwood, Daily Telegraph.

Heidi Holder has selected nine of the classic fables to illustrate with brilliant originality.

From de series: World of Wildlife. The fascinating animal inhabitants of the African rivers, lakes, forests and mountains are vividly described and pictured in their natural habitat, each an integral part of a self-contained community.

Elephants have fascinated man since early civilisation. They have been used as symbols of wisdom and power; they have featured in myths and religions, and appeared on coins, in architecture, sculpture and painting, in folklore and nursery tales. Yet elephant history has been dominated by periods of brutality and persecution. African elephants were used in ancient times to fight in wars. The Romans threw them into gladiatorial games. But, above all, it was the demand for their ivory, prized for centuries as a badge of wealth and status and used in modern times to manufacture piano keys and billiard balls, that has made Africa's elephant one of the most vulnerable animals on earth. A beautiful book, with illustrations.

This novel is set in the 1950s, the time of the Passive Resistance campaign of the South African Liberal Party and the early stages of the Nationalist government in power. In a series of vivid and compelling episodes Paton examines what happens between people when such political events overtake their lives.

This book brings together the mythology of the ancient Egyptians, who buried their priceless treasures thousands of years BC because of their religious beliefs, and the history of Greek civilisation enriched with its myths, gods and heroes.