I saw a copy of Sarea's illustrated History of Namarre, that contains the story of Naamah's daughter Mara, Kushiel's handmaiden and, some say, the first-ever anguissette.
The main focus of Braikenridge's activity was his copy of William Barrett's History and Antiquities of the City of Bristol.
In the Second World War, the American general George S. Patton had a dog-eared copy of Lloyd's History in his library.
And it breaks the nonfiction record that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton appears to have set last year with 200,000 copies of her "Living History" sold on its first day.
His main interest though was in grangerizing his copy of William Barrett's History and Antiquities of the City of Bristol.
Surprisingly he held a thick battered book in his lap, a copy of Macaulay's History of England.
At their birth, Hendrick had asked Moses to name them, and he had chosen their names from his treasured copy of Macaulay's History of England.
Le Blanc translated David Hume's Political Discourses (1752), and was entrusted, on leaving England, with a copy of Hume's History intended for Voltaire.
I could conjure a mental picture of the small, tattered brown copy of A Child's History of England, read by the flickering light of a kerosene lantern in a mud hut somewhere in Persia.
I have here, Mr. Zabotski, a copy of your 'Pristine History of the World'.