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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 background and possible significance of the "Smile" in ancient Greek art. Maps showing the distribution of mints and a basic chronology of the Archaic Period are included. All coins are illustrated with enlarged photographs.

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 coin markings, a detailed chronology, and over 120 coin photos. The FIFTH EDITION has some important new features. It divides the light cross and pellets issues into two groups for the first time! It also introduces an entirely new coinage: the Rose and Sun Coinage of Edward V. Also new and of great historical importance is a detailed chronology with dates and moneyers for most issues. In addition, a probably new type for Richard III is described as well as several other new types and photographs. Jasper Burns is the author of many articles about ancient coins as well as more than fifty books, including Coin Stories (Pietas), The 'Archaic Smile' and Greek Coins (Pietas), Great Women of Imperial Rome (Routledge), Bulla Felix: The Roman Robin Hood (Pietas), and Fossil Collecting in the Mid-Atlantic States (Johns Hopkins University Press). "I consider that you have individually tackled a task that most collectors of Irish coins have avoided or been unable to tackle. And the key to this was your identifying that many of these coins were languishing misidentified as English coins, and this combined with the development of the internet coin market ... has meant that you have been able to assemble a lot of examples and have been able to start identifying them by the portraits and styles so that pieces with virtually no legends can now be properly identified as Irish." - John Stafford-Langan

Less than a year and a half before her death, a young woman from Virginia - a great (x3) niece of Thomas Jefferson - took ship in New York City for an extended tour of Jamaica. What she found there was exotic to her - the plants, the topography, the customs - not least the equality of races, which was still far in the future in her homeland. Martha was a teacher and published poet, and her journal and letters home are vivid, humorous, and often moving. She traveled in grand style in a four-in-hand carriage, visiting Kingston and Spanish Town in the south, Black River and Savannah La Mar in the west, and Lucea, Montego Bay, and Falmouth in the north. At Black River, she had her first ever experience of the seashore. She also visited some of the large sugar plantations that still flourished on the island. Martha endured several close calls on precipitous mountain roads and an ongoing struggle with a bad-tempered, unwanted suitor, the son of her hostess. Martha Jefferson Trice died unmarried at the age of 24 in 1880, but she lives on through her writings. This book includes a brief biography by her great (x2) nephew, Jasper Burns.

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 humor, history, piety, and romance, with echoes of the worlds of Jane Austen, Scarlett O'Hara, Queen Victoria - even Sigmund Freud and Mary Poppins, Virginia style. These were highly educated, well-connected people with close ties to the land. Their writings are sprinkled with French and literary references, mixed in with down-to-earth reports on fowl raising and harvest conditions. Profusely illustrated. The families related to this branch of the Trice family, originally from Middlesex County, include: the Davises of Willoughby, Edgewood, and the University of Virginia; the Minors of Gale Hill, Windieknowe, Riggory, Sunning Hill, and the University of Virginia; the Jeffersons of Monticello and Shadwell; the Cockes of Bremo and Red Hills, Fluvanna County; the Dabneys of Charlottesville, Albemarle County, and the University of Virginia; the Caskies of Richmond and Gale Hill; the Terrells of Albemarle County and Kentucky; the Carrs of Carrsbrook, Red Hills, Bentivar, and Dunlora in Albemarle County; the Sampsons of Albemarle County; the Evans, Forbes, and Churchills of Jamaica, and many others.

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 Time" (Pietas), "Exploring Fossils" (Virginia Museum of Natural History, 1998), "Trilobites: Common Trilobites of North America" (NatureGuide Books, 1999), and the illustrator of "Discovering Fossils" by Frank A. Garcia and Donald S. Miller (Stackpole Books, 1998). "Fossil Dreams" includes numerous black and white drawings and photographs of fossils to illustrate the author's anecdotes and reflections about fossils, fossil collecting, and time.

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 path: home - New York - Ireland - Scotland - England - Netherlands - Belgium - Germany - Austria - Italy - Switzerland - France - England - Scotland - New York - home. The tour featured some rare and unforgettable moments. For example: performances by the legendary actresses Sarah Bernhardt and Mary Anderson, a meeting with the American sculptor Longworth Powers (son of Hiram Powers) at his studio in Florence, a minor eruption of Mt. Vesuvius at the crater's rim, a sermon delivered by the famous preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon in London, and a moving recital in Lucerne by Professor Meyer, the most noted organist of the day. These experiences were in addition to planned encounters with famous buildings, cities, natural wonders, and works of art.The Lucys traveled to Europe on the S. S. Furnessia, a steamer of the Anchor Line, and returned on the S. S. City of Rome. They were more than just traveling companions; they were close friends and first cousins, both descended from Thomas Jefferson's sister Martha Jefferson Carr. Each Lucy possessed a keen mind, a passion for reading, a profound Christian faith, and deep interests in art, literature, and history. They were well-read with some French, Latin, and a little German at their disposal. In other words, they were intellectually armed for Europe.With more than 160 illustrations.

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 allegorical exercise in the form of imaginary letters from emperor to emperor that reveal a progression in their characters that parallels the moral development of a single individual. To simplify: from shrewdness (Nerva) to activity (Trajan) to knowledge (Hadrian) to virtue (Antoninus Pius) to wisdom (Marcus Aurelius).How could Marcus Aurelius' son Commodus (the bad guy in "Gladiator" and "Fall of the Roman Empire") surpass his excellent predecessors? According to history, he didn't. He broke the string of good emperors and his reign began an unrelenting decline in the Empire. However, he certainly tried to outdo all previous rulers - by attaining god-consciousness. He proclaimed himself to be the reincarnation of Hercules and the "son of God."This book is not a serious reappraisal of Commodus, but it may give a greater understanding of his aspirations in light of his predecessors and his father's values and advice (as shown in selected passages from the famous "Meditations").By the author of "Great Women of Imperial Rome," "Roman Empresses," "Bulla Felix: The Roman Robin Hood," and "Vipsania: A Roman Odyssey."

This book offers a portfolio of photographs of 200 ancient coins with depictions of animals. There is also a discussion of ancient attitudes toward and treatment of animals wild and domesticated and the various roles animals played in ancient life, culture, religion, and mythology. All coins are illustrated with greatly enlarged photographs. Jasper Burns is the author and illustrator of more than 50 books. His titles include The 'Archaic Smile' and Greek Coins (Pietas), Irish Hammered Pennies of Edward IV-Henry VII (Pietas), Fossil Collecting in the Mid-Atlantic States (Johns Hopkins), Vipsania: A Roman Odyssey (Pietas), Coin Stories (Pietas), and Great Women of Imperial Rome (Routledge).

..".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 Castle" by King George II in 1735. It was the home of many members of the prominent Carr, Jefferson, Terrell, Minor, and Caskie families, as well as generations of African-Americans, both slave and free. When it burned to the ground in 1930, it was mourned by many of its descendants. Fortunately for us, several of them, both black and white, wrote down recollections of the old place that are rich in history, humor, and descriptive detail. Gale Hill's history embraces Colonial, Revolutionary, Antebellum, Victorian, Edwardian, and early 20th century life on a plantation in the Old South. Its residents were colorful, eloquent, attractive people and they left an important - and entertaining - historical record. This book presents an illustrated historical narrative followed by a wide variety of memoirs, letters, diary entries, and other documents relating to Gale Hill, its families, and its neighbors. It is illustrated with over 120 photographs and drawings. About the Author: Jasper Burns is the author and illustrator of over 30 fiction and nonfiction books. Topics include history, fossils, numismatics, and spirituality. He currently lives in Waynesboro, Va.

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 country, for love of power.Six years later, Tiberius defied Augustus, abandoned his powers, and followed Vipsania half way across the Roman world. He renounced love for power, and then he renounced power for the dream of love.Was Tiberius an ancient Edward VIII, trading his throne for a woman? No, because his destiny would carry him forward, to unimagined highs and lows. He was an exile, despised and abused. And then, against all odds, he became the most powerful man in the world.And what of Vipsania, remarried to an ambitious senator, the mother of ten children, one of them abandoned by her husband to the mercies of the gods. And through it all, still in love with Tiberius.Most of this story is true. Where it exceeds the historical facts, it remains consistent with them, offering possible answers to the puzzles of Tiberius and his odyssey of power and love.

(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 pocket change and gradually expanded into Lincoln Cent die varieties and world, ancient, and medieval coins. Includes the author's experiences at coin shows and his involvement with a large collection assembled during the 1930s. Often amusing and educational, these stories touch a wide range of topics - including the psychology of collecting. By the author of Irish Hammered Pennies of Edward IV - Henry VII, The 'Archaic Smile' and Greek Coins, Ancient Animals and Their Coins, The Early Coins of Athens, numerous articles in The Celator: Journal of Ancient and Medieval Numismatics, Great Women of Imperial Rome, Commodus and the Five Good Emperors, and much more.

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, and Platonists are right. Imagine that an individual soul inhabits many bodies, lives many lives, experiences many roles and places and times. What would the autobiography of a soul be like?

A new look at the early coinages of ancient Athens, including the mysterious "Wappenmünzen" issues and the Seltman groups of "un-wreathed" owls. A new chronology and classification of these important coins is proposed. This book includes numerous enlarged photographs of representative specimens and keys to their identification.

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 quiz book for children aged 8 and up presents 61 lists of interesting and little known facts about different animals. Most are mammals, but there are also a few birds, reptiles, fish, and other creatures. Most of the animals are familiar, but a few are less well-known. After each list of facts is a picture of the animal it describes.How many animals can you identify before seeing the full-page picture of the animal and its habitat?

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 animals as well as fossil specimens. Simplified paleogeographic and geologic maps are provided for each period of Earth's history that is represented in Virginia's fossil record. By the author of "Fossil Collecting in the Mid-Atlantic States" and many other books about fossils, prehistoric life, and human and natural history.Also available in full color as a paperback and Kindle e-book.

(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 the present day. Includes color drawings of representative living plants and animals as well as fossil specimens. Simplified paleogeographic and geologic maps are provided for each period of Earth's history that is represented in Virginia's fossil record.By the author of "Fossil Collecting in the Mid-Atlantic States" and many other books about fossils, prehistoric life, and human and natural history.