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Professor Jasper Burns
A new look at the early coinages of ancient Athens, including the mysterious Wappenmunzen issues and the Seltman groups of un-wreathed owls. A new chronology and classification of these important…
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An illustrated guide to the known Irish hammered pennies minted under the English kings Edward IV, Edward V, Richard III, and Henry VII. This book includes a quick index to…
Animals had important roles in the Classical Greek and Roman world - in transportation and warfare, as food and as pets, and in religion and mythology. They were also popular…
A personal memoir by a hobbyist who started collecting U. S. coins in the 1950s from pocket change and gradually expanded into Lincoln Cent die varieties and world, ancient, and…
Presents full page reconstructions of life in Virginia from the Cambrian Period (over 500 million years ago) down to the present day. Includes detailed drawings of representative living plants and…
How much do we really know about the animals around us? Can you identify an animal from just a few interesting facts about it? This fully illustrated, just for fun…
Biographical sketches of the five good Roman emperors: Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius, as well as the bad emperor Commodus. These short biographies are followed by an…
(Also available in a less expensive black and white edition.) RECENTLY UPDATED (Aug. 2018)! A personal memoir by a hobbyist who started collecting U. S. coins in the 1950s from…
A picture book about reincarnation - a journey through time, from 1 billion years ago to the present and beyond.Imagine the Hindus, Buddhists, Pythagoreans, Orphics, Theosophists, Essenes, Gnostics, Bantus, Jains…
.. .I am going to that sweetest of all places, Gale Hill. Patsy Morris Davis, 1845 Gale Hill was an estate in old Virginia, granted to John Minor of Topping…
(Also available in a less expensive black and white edition.) Full color, full page reconstructions of life in Virginia from the Cambrian Period (over 500 million years ago) down to…
In 12 BC, the Roman Emperor Augustus ordered his stepson Tiberius to divorce his wife Vipsania - the love of his life. Tiberius obeyed - for duty, for love of…
The story and collected papers of a delightfully eloquent and genteel Virginia family, told through intimate letters and journal entries spanning more than 150 years. There are ample doses of…
This profusely illustrated book presents a fully annotated portfolio of 84 spectacular ancient Greek coins displaying the famous Archaic Smile. It also includes a discussion of the historical and cultural…
A richly illustrated collection of musings about fossils and fossil collecting from the author of Fossil Collecting in the Mid-Atlantic States (Johns Hopkins University Press), Fossil Beach (Pietas), Virginia Through…
Lucy Minor Davis,Professor Jasper Burns,Lucy Lee Trice
In the summer of 1884, two Lucys from Virginia - Lucy Minor Davis (1840-1925) and Lucy Lee Trice (1857-1897) - took a grand tour of Europe. They followed a well-beaten…
