Books - "history"
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Louis XIV
Octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Collins Harvill 1990
KEYWORDS: history France biography memoir Louis XIV
Europe in the Seventeenth Century
Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Adam & Charles Black 1963
KEYWORDS: history Europe 17th seventeenth century politics religion
Bulfinch's Complete Mythology
Octavo hardcover (VG) no d/w; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Spring Books 1989
KEYWORDS: mythology legends myths history gods deities goddesses
Vorster's Africa: Friendship and Frustration
Octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Ernest Stanton Publishers 1977
KEYWORDS: South Africa politics war military current affairs history
Gustave Courbet: His Life and Art
Imperial octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (tatty); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Jupiter 1977
KEYWORDS: art history biography memoir Gustave Courbet
Victorian Outsider: A Biography of J. A. M. Whistler
Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Macmillan 1974
KEYWORDS: art history biography memoir Whistler
The Art of the Woman: The Life and Work of Elisabet Ney
Ex-library, super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: University of Nebraska Press 1988
KEYWORDS: art history sculptor biography memoir Elisabet Ney
Official History of the Otago Regiment, N.Z.E.F. in the Great War 1914-1918
Super octavo, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 407pp + folding map, illus, VG (heavy sunning to spine, moderate sunning and scuffing to boards, slight soiling, moderate bruising to spine extrems, corner removed from fep, gutter cracked at preface, light tanning and soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: K. Wilkie & Co. (n/d)
KEYWORDS: World War One WW1 military history New Zealand Otago regiment
A First Year in Canterbury Settlement and Other Early Essays
Very Nice Copy, Octavo, black cloth boards with black lettering to spine, xi + 272pp, VG (ligth bruising to spine extrems & board corners, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges, light browning to eps) in d/w VG- (moderate tanning to spine, light tanning to covers, moderate fading, moderate bruising to spine extrems, 1.5cm closed tear to upper spine)
PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1923
KEYWORDS: New Zealand literature history Canterbury essays settlers
Canterbury Sketches; or, Life From the Early Days.
Inscribed & signed by author + tipped in two page holograph signed letter from author explaining why f.e.p. is missing, octavo, green boards with black lettering & black ruling to front board, frontispiece, v + 213pp, VG (light rubbing to boards, light soiling to spine, light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, internal front hinge slightly cracked - prelims coming loose, litgh tanning & very light foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Lyttleton Times Office 1879
KEYWORDS: Canterbury New Zealand travel History autobiography
History of Bundaberg, A Typical Queensland Agricultural Settlement
Facsimile Reprint, Super octavo, red boards with black lettering to spine & front board, black ruling to boards, frontispiece, 215pp + xv, VG+ (light soiling to boards, light tanning & light foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Gordon & Gotch 1890
KEYWORDS: history Australia Queensland Bundaberg agriculture
Human/ In Human Terms/ Oh, No, Sorry, 'I' Meant in Human Terms!: Three volume Set
3 Volume Set, Super octavo, illus light card covers, 338pp (vol1), 231pp (vol2), 202pp (vol3), Nr Fine
PUBLISHER: M. Thomas Fairs 2013-2016
KEYWORDS: cosmology philosophy religion history
Mightier Than the Sword
First edition, Super octavo, green cloth boards with red spine, gilt lettering to spine, top page edges coloured red, frontispiece, 292pp + 4pp adverts, illus, VG (light soiling & light rubbing to boards, light fading to spine, library label to fep, light tanning & light foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Allen & Unwin 1938
KEYWORDS: biography history literature
Memoir of Commodore Goodenough: With Extracts From His Letters and Journals
Octavo, blue boards with gilt lettering to spine & front boards, gilt illus to front board, green eps, Frontispiece, 223pp + 46pp adverts, VG- (heavy soiling to rear board, moderate rubbing to boards, light tanning to page edges, a small gouge to lower spine, closed tear to spine extrem reapired with archival tape, moderate bruising to soine extrems & board corners, previous owner's name & date to fep in ink, some staining to frontispiece)
PUBLISHER: C. Kegan Paul & Co. 1878
KEYWORDS: Royal Navy nautical history autobiography
Lhasa: An Account of the Country and People of Central Tibet and of the Progress of the Mission Sent There by the English Government in the Year 1903-04
This Volume Only, Super octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, t.e.g., frontispiece, xix + 414pp, illus, VG (light soiling & light rubbing to boards, moderate fading to spine, moderate bruising to spine extrems & board corners, previous owner's name on label to fep, light foxing to eps, moderate tanning to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Hurst & Blackett 1905
KEYWORDS: Travel Tibet China History sociology
Yves Saint Laurent - Forty Years of Creation
Quarto, black cloth boards with white & pink lettering to spine, black eps, 198pp, illus VG+ light soiling to boards, previous owner's name on label to fep) in d/w VG+ (light rubbing, light soiling)
PUBLISHER: International Festival of Fashion Photography 1998
KEYWORDS: arts Yves Saint Laurent history Costume design France Exhibitions Fashion photography
Challenger and Barracuda 1970-1974
Quarto, illus light card covers, illus title page, 127pp, illus, Nr Fine
PUBLISHER: Motorbooks 2003
KEYWORDS: Barracuda automobile Challenger cars tansport history
The Apocalyptic Sublime
Imperial octavo, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, black eps, illus title page, xii + 196pp, illus, VG+ (light soiling to page edges) in d/w VG+ (light rubbing, light soiling)
PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 1986
KEYWORDS: history British paintings Critical studies arts
England's Constable: The Life and Letters of John Constable
Octavo hardcover (VG) no d/w; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 1985
KEYWORDS: Constable painter artist art history British
Lionel Constable
Square octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: The Tate Gallery 1982
KEYWORDS: art history Constable collection