Books - "history"
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A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance
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: Papermac 1994
KEYWORDS: history medieval Europe renaissance
Gestapo: The History of the German Secret Service
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: Senate 1996
KEYWORDS: Germany history military secret service ss ww2 second world war
George Fox's Journal
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: Sir Isaac Pitman 1905
KEYWORDS: journal memoir autobiography George Fox religion quakers friends diaries history
Berlin: The Downfall 1945
Super octavo softcover (scruffy-chewed corners); 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: Penguin Books 2003
KEYWORDS: history military world war 2 second ww2 Berlin Germany politics nazism Hitler
Captain Cook and Australia
Octavo softcover, stapled light card covers (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: n/a 1973 approx
KEYWORDS: history exploration Australia Captain Cook maritime nautical Endeavour
Who's Who in the Ancient World: A Handbook to the Survivors of the Greek and Roman Classics
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: Penguin Books 1973
KEYWORDS: ancient history reference biographies collection anthology genealogy
Fighting Dirty: The Inside Story of Covert Operations From Ho Chi Minh to Osama bin Laden
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Cassell 2002
KEYWORDS: military current affairs operations modern history weaponry counter terrorism
The Yellow Cross: The Story of the Last Cathars 1290-1329
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: Penguin Books 2001
KEYWORDS: cathar priests Europe history religion
A Very Slippery Fellow: The Life of Sir Robert Wilson 1777-1849
First edition, 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: Oxford University Press 1978
KEYWORDS: first edition biography memoir Sir Robert Wilson military history
Cracking Chinese Puzzles by Conceptualizing and Philosophizing Approach
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: Stockflows 1996
KEYWORDS: Chinese language linguistics history evolution guide
Dragon Tales: Beginning to Three Kingdoms
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Asiapac 2000
KEYWORDS: China history literature three kingdoms
Red Haze: Australians & New Zealanders in Vietnam
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Black Dog 2006
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Australia Vietnam military history conflict
Marlboro Grand Prix Guide: 1950-90
Octavo, illus light card covers, 904pp, illus, VG (light rubbing to covers, light foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Charles Stewart & Co, Brentford 1991
KEYWORDS: sports racing cars grand prix history
Dominion Museum Bulletin No. 8: Games and Pastimes of the Maori
First Edition, quarto, brown light card covers, viii + 191pp, illus, VG (light wear to spine extrems, moderate soiling & light rubbing to cover, prev owners name in ink to front cover, light foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Govt printer 1925
KEYWORDS: Maori New Zealand history Games Music songs Folklore
The Crookedest Railroad in the World: A History of the Mt. Tamalpais and Muir Woods Railroad of California
Association copy, ownership of Barry Brickell creator of one of NZ's finest Privately owned railways, 123pp, illus, VG (bookseller's label to fep, previous owner's name in ink to fep, light tanning to page edges) in d/w VG- (light rubbing & moderate soiling, 7cm tear with loss to bottom of spine, moderate bruising to upper spine extrems)
PUBLISHER: Howell-North 1960
KEYWORDS: locomotion railways trains railroad history
The Philosophy of Sage Yajnavalkya
Octavo, yellow boards with blue cloth spines, xxxvii + 391pp, VG (light fading to spine, light dampstaining to page edges, tape residue to eps, ligth tanning to page edges) in d/w VG (light dampstaining, light rubbing, light bruising to spine extrems, tape residue to flaps)
PUBLISHER: Divine life Society 1981
KEYWORDS: Yajnavalkya Upanishads literature history Brhadaranyakopanisad Hindu philosophy
Singapore: A Developmental City State
loosely enclosed signed holograph note from author martin Perry, Octavo, illus boards, xviii + 339pp, illus, VG+ (light soiling to boards)
PUBLISHER: John Wiley & Sons 1997
KEYWORDS: signed singapore history city
Early Chinese Immigrant Societies: Case Studies From North America and British Southeast Asia
Octavo, illus light card covers, vii + 248pp, Nr Fine
PUBLISHER: Heinemann 1988
KEYWORDS: history Chinese Immigrants North America British Southeast Asia
Where Did You Go My Lovelies: Jane Zusters Revisits the 70s
Numbered limited edition, signed, oblong, super octavo, illus light card covers, illus title page, 80pp, illus, VG+ (small nic to rear cover)
PUBLISHER: Hoe Press 2015
KEYWORDS: history New Zealand photography seventies
Dreadnought Gunnery and the Battle of Jutland: The Question of Fire Control
Occassional light pencil annotation, Octavo, blue heavy card boards, white lettering to spine & boards, illus to front board, xiv + 321pp, VG+ ( light rubbing to boards, light brusing to board corners, light soiling to rear board, light annotation in pencil)
PUBLISHER: Routledge 2005
KEYWORDS: military history naval policy british royal navy dreadnoughts gunnery tactics WW1 world war one