Books - "history"
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La Peinture Tissee: Theorie de L'art et Tapisseries des Gobelins Sous Louis XIV
Loosely enclosed 7 pages of holograph notes by reviewer and art historian Iain Buchanan, together with his typed annotated copy of the review he wrote of this book, text in french, Imperial octavo, illus boards, 164pp, illus, VG+ (light soiling to boards)
PUBLISHER: Presses Universitaires De Rennes 2015
KEYWORDS: Text in french art history painting
Britain's Persian Connection 1798-1828: Prelude to the Great Game in Asia
Octavo, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, xv + 351pp, VG+ (light soilling to page edges) in d/w VG (light fading, light soiling)
PUBLISHER: Clarendon Press Oxford 1992
KEYWORDS: Middle East Great Britain Iran Foreign relations History
The Making of Russell McVeagh: The First 125 Years of the Practice of Russell McVeagh McKenzie Bartleet and Co, 1863-1988
Super octavo, green cloth boards with silver lettering to spine & front board, illus eps, frontispiece, xi + 372pp, illus, VG+ (light foxing to page edges) in d/w VG+
PUBLISHER: Auckland University Press 1991
KEYWORDS: Russell McVeagh McKenzie Bartleet Co Law firms New Zealand Auckland History Partnerships
Allegory and the Migration of Symbols
Super octavo, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 223pp, illus, VG+ (light foxing to page edges) in d/w VG (light fading)
PUBLISHER: Thames & Hudson 1977
KEYWORDS: Kunst Symbol Allegories Renaissance Allegory Symbolism art Europa history
Leninas
Imperial octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, silver eps, unpaginated, illus, VG (light foxing to pages, light bruising to spine extrems) in d/w VG (light rubbing, moderate creasing, heavy bruising to spine extrems & cover corner repaired with archival tape, light soiling)
PUBLISHER: Vilnius 1970
KEYWORDS: Vladimir Lenin biography arts painting statues history
Le Chateau de Madrid: Au Bois de Boulogne
Imperial octavo, illus light card cover, frontispiece, 264pp, illus, VG+ (light fading to spine) TEXT IN FRENCH
PUBLISHER: Picard 1987
KEYWORDS: text in french Architecture Renaissance history France
The M.C.C. in South Africa
Octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to front board, xiii + 233pp, illus, TATTY (lacks spine, lacks frontispiece, heavy staining & wear to boards & page edges, rear board almost detached, heavy browning to page edges & eps, moderate foxing)
PUBLISHER: Chapman & Hall 1906
KEYWORDS: sport cricket MCC SOuth Africa history
The Tailed Head-Hunters of Nigeria
Scarce, super octavo, orange cloth boards with brown lettering to spine & orange lettering to front board, 342pp +10pp book adverts, illus, POOR (very having staining & fading to boards & spine, creasing to spine, half of spine side split, moderate browning to page edges, heavy browning & staining to eps, LACKS frontispiece and LACKS maps)
PUBLISHER: Seeley, Service & Co 1912 (2nd Edition)
KEYWORDS: Africa Nigeria Nigerian head hunters history anthroplogy
Through Canterbury and Otago with Bishop Harper in 1859-60
First edition, Bagnall S1463, scarce, octavo, beige paper stapled wrappers iwth brown cloth spine, 28pp, VG (some staining & soiling to covers, creasing to cover corners, moderate browning to edges)
PUBLISHER: Akaroa Mail Office (printer) 1906
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Canterbury Otago Bishop Harper travel history
Russian California, 1806-1860: A History in Documents Volumes I & II
2 volume set, super octavo, dark blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, gilt motif to front board, frontispiece, lxii + 547pp (vol 1), xii + 640pp (vol 2), Nr. FINE in Nr. FINE d/w
PUBLISHER: Hakluyt Society / Ashgate Publishing 2014
KEYWORDS: exploration travel Russian Russia California history
Pedro Paez's History of Ethiopia, 1622: Volumes I & II
2 volume set, super octavo, dark blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, gilt motif to front board, frontispiece, xx + 501pp (vol 1), ix + 429pp (vol 2), FINE in NR FINE d/w
PUBLISHER: Hakluyt Society / Ashgate Publishing 2011
KEYWORDS: Pedro Paez Ethiopia history exploration
A Scientific, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour: John (Fiott) Lee in Ireland, England and Wales, 1806-1807
Super octavo, dark blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, gilt motif to front board, frontispiece, xx + 377pp, NR FINE in VG+ d/w
PUBLISHER: The Hakluyt Society / Routledge 2018
KEYWORDS: John Fiott Lee Ireland England Wales travel exploration history
De Geschiedenis van de St. Lucasgilden in Nederland
TEXT IN DUTCH. 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 costs
PUBLISHER: P.N. Van Kamper and Zoon N.V 1947
KEYWORDS: history guild of Saint Luke Netherlands Holland Christian
HMNZ Te Kaha Meko 200 ANZ Frigate
Octavo, in stapled wrapper (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 costs
PUBLISHER:
KEYWORDS: New Zealand navy HMNZ Te Kaha boat naval history
The Arab Lands of Western Asia
Super 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 costs
PUBLISHER: Prentice-Hall Inc. 1973
KEYWORDS: politics society sociology Arab countries Western Asia history
Nesselrode and the Russian Rapprochement with Britain, 1836-1844
Super octavo hardcover (VG+), lacks 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 costs
PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1976
KEYWORDS: military history Russia Britain Nesselrode
Blenheim: Biography of a Palace
Imperial octavo hardcover (VG+) 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 costs
PUBLISHER: Viking 1989
KEYWORDS: Blenheim Palace British history Britain
Reluctant Icon: Gladstone, Bulgaria, and the Working Clases, 1856-1878
Imperial octavo hardcover (VG+) 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 costs
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 1991
KEYWORDS: military history politics Ottoman Empire Britain William Ewart Gladstone
The Arabian Peninsula
Uncorrected proof copy, super 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 costs
PUBLISHER: Allen and Unwin 1971
KEYWORDS: Arabia Peninsula society history politics
The Letters of the Third Viscount Palmerston to Laurence and Elizabeth Sulican, 1804-1863
Super 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 costs
PUBLISHER: The Royal Historical Society, University College London 1979
KEYWORDS: letters Britain British history politics