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La Peinture Tissee: Theorie de L'art et Tapisseries des Gobelins Sous Louis XIV


BERTRAND, PASCAL-FRANCOIS

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

$85.00
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Britain's Persian Connection 1798-1828: Prelude to the Great Game in Asia


INGRAM, EDWARD

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

$24.50
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The Making of Russell McVeagh: The First 125 Years of the Practice of Russell McVeagh McKenzie Bartleet and Co, 1863-1988


STONE, R.C.J.

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

$40.00
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Allegory and the Migration of Symbols


WITTKOWER, RUDOLF

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

$40.00
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Leninas


GUDYNAS, FRANAS

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

$50.00
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Le Chateau de Madrid: Au Bois de Boulogne


N/A

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

$50.00
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The M.C.C. in South Africa


WARNER, P. F.

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

$150.00
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The Tailed Head-Hunters of Nigeria


TREMEARNE, MAJOR A. J. N

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

$175.00
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Through Canterbury and Otago with Bishop Harper in 1859-60


STACK, J. W.

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

$185.00
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Russian California, 1806-1860: A History in Documents Volumes I & II


GIBSON, JAMES R. (Trans) & ISTOMIN, ALEXEI A. & TISHKOV, VALERY (Eds)

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

$125.00
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Pedro Paez's History of Ethiopia, 1622: Volumes I & II


BOAVIDA, ISABEL & PENNEC, HERVE & RAMOS, MANUEL JOAO (Eds) & PAEZ, PEDRO

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

$100.00
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A Scientific, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour: John (Fiott) Lee in Ireland, England and Wales, 1806-1807


LEE, JOHN (FIOTT) & BYRNE, ANGELA (Ed)

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

$20.00
xxpai128349

De Geschiedenis van de St. Lucasgilden in Nederland


HOOGEWERFF, Dr G.J.

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

$10.00
xxpai128351

HMNZ Te Kaha Meko 200 ANZ Frigate


N/A

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

$15.00
xxpai128352

The Arab Lands of Western Asia


MALONE, JOSEPH J.

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

$12.50
xxpai128353

Nesselrode and the Russian Rapprochement with Britain, 1836-1844


INGLE, HAROLD N.

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

$24.50
xxpai128354

Blenheim: Biography of a Palace


FOWLER, MARIAN

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

$30.00
xxpai128355

Reluctant Icon: Gladstone, Bulgaria, and the Working Clases, 1856-1878


SAAB, ANN POTTINGER

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

$15.00
xxpai128359

The Arabian Peninsula


HOPWOOD, DEREK (Ed)

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

$15.00
xxpai128365

The Letters of the Third Viscount Palmerston to Laurence and Elizabeth Sulican, 1804-1863


BOURNE, KENNETH (Ed)

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

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