Books - "history"
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Our War Nurses: The History of the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps 1902-1988
Quarto, illus heavy card boards, xv + 294pp, illus, VG+ (v slight soiling to rear board, v slight bruising to board edges)
PUBLISHER: Boolarong Publications 1998
KEYWORDS: Australia Australian army nursing corps military history nuses medicine
An Account of the Sarcophagus of Setu I. King of Egypt, B.C.1370
Scarce, first edition, octavo, red light card covers with lettering to spine & front cover, frontispiece, 128pp, illus, VG- (paper surface mostly chipped off with significant loss to spine-binding fragile, light rubbing 7 moderate soiling to covers, light tanning to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Harrison & Sons 1908
KEYWORDS: Egypt ancient history monarchy Sarcophagus Setu archaeology
The Antiquarian Repertory: A Miscellaneous Assemblage of Topography, History, Biography, Customs, and Manner. Intended to Illustrate and Preserve Several Valuable Remains of Old Times. Four Volume Set
4-volume set, Includes double-page colour plate of Great Fire of London, quarto, halfbound, marbled boards with gilt lettering & gilt decorative rule between five raised bands to brown leather spine, all page edges stained red, xxii + 391pp (vol 1), xii + 432pp (vol 2), viii + 446pp (vol 3), xvi + 744pp, illus, boards VG- (moderate rubbing, heavy bruising to spine extrems & board corners, spine head detached significantly to vol 4, front board of vol 4 & front board and rear board of vol 1 fully detached from spine, moderate browning to leather on boards, heavy creasing to spine extrems, some wear to vol 1 & 4 spines), text block VG (owner's book plate to all front pastedowns, some foxing and sporadiic tanning) VERY HEAVY SET
PUBLISHER: Edward Geoffrey 1807 (vol1),1808 (vol 2&3), 1809 (vol 4)
KEYWORDS: history Great Britain antiquities
25 Centuries of Language Teaching
Super octavo, brown boards with black lettering to spine, illus eps, xi + 474pp, VG+ (light foxing to page edges) d/w VG- ( heavy rubbing with loss to fold repaired with archival tape, 1cm chipping to spine repaired with archival tape, light rubbing)
PUBLISHER: Newbury House 1969
KEYWORDS: languages Study teaching History Second language acquisition
Travels in South Africa: Undertaken at the Request of the Missionary Society
(Africana Collectanea Volume XLVII
Facsimile reprint, octavo, green boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt decoration to front board, decorative rule to boards, frontispiece, xxiv + 400pp + 2pp, illus, folding map, VG+ ( light foxing to upper page edges, slight bruising to board corners, v. slight browning to eps)
PUBLISHER: C. Struik Ltd. 1974
KEYWORDS: south africa travels biography John Campbell missionary history
Royal Flying Corps 1915-1916
Super octavo, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, upper edges stained red, 352pp, illus plates, VG+ ( light foxing and sunning to Upper page edges) in d/w VG (sunning to spine, creasing and small closed tears to upper edge)
PUBLISHER: WIliiam Kimber & Co. Ltd. 1969
KEYWORDS: british military history royal flying corps aviation planes airforce
Richard the Lionheart
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: Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1989
KEYWORDS: biography memoir history Richard the Lionheart British monarchy royal family
Man and the Maritime Environment
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: University of Exeter Press 1994
KEYWORDS: maritime history essays British European fishing climate conservation
Down in the Drink: True Stories of the Goldfish Club
Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (G+) torn; 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: Chatto and Windus 1955
KEYWORDS: British military history aviation raf
Rommel
Octavo hardcover (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
KEYWORDS: biography memoir field-marshall Rommel aviation military history Germany
Louis XIV
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: The Reprint Society 1965
KEYWORDS: history France Louis XIV royal family politics biography memoir
The Golden Century of Spain 1501-1621
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 and Co 1961
KEYWORDS: Spain history economics social science
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
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