Search Results: Authors starting with B from Schooner Books Ltd

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2 maps, numerous graphs and charts

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Frontis photo of Samuel Cunard as well as many other ills. throughout. A history of the Cunard Steamship Line and its founder, Samuel Cunard.

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Sketch maps

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photo illustrations

Photos by W.R. MacAskill throughout

B. & w. photo illus. many by W.R. MacAskill , diagram and foldout b.&w. reproduction of a painting by Jack Grey

Frontis to Vol. I. Francis I (French: François Ier) (12 September 1494 – 31 March 1547) was the first King of France from the Angoulême branch of the House of Valois, reigning from 1515 until his death. He was the son of Charles, Count of Angoulême, and Louise of Savoy. He succeeded his cousin and father-in-law Louis XII, who died without a son. A prodigious patron of the arts, he initiated the French Renaissance by attracting many Italian artists to work on the Château de Chambord, including Leonardo da Vinci, who brought the Mona Lisa with him, which Francis had acquired. Francis' reign saw important cultural changes with the rise of absolute monarchy in France, the spread of humanism and Protestantism, and the beginning of French exploration of the New World. Jacques Cartier and others claimed lands in the Americas for France and paved the way for the expansion of the first French colonial empire.

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Color frontis, color photo illus. throughout

B&w frontis

14 maps and 12 plans

With 7 Maps and 24 Plans

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