Books - "history"
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Uphill Battle: Cycling's Great Climbers
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: Velo Press 2003
KEYWORDS: cycling sport history anecdotes illustrated athletes
Heisenberg's War: The Secret History of the German Bomb
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 1994
KEYWORDS: military war history bombs weaponry atomic nuclear Germany ww2 second world war
The Very Bloody History of Britain: 1945 to Now
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: Red Fox/Random House Children's Books 1995
KEYWORDS: children's literature history humour
On Giants' Shoulders: Great Scientists and Their Discoveries from Archimedes to DNA
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: Hodder and Stoughton 1998
KEYWORDS: science philosophy history
The Story of the Goths: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Gothic Dominion in Spain
super octavo, dark green cloth boards, gilt lettering & illus. to spine & fr. cover, frontis, illus. chapter pages, xviii+376pp, illus, shabby (covers a little grubby & rubbed, with some surface loss, partic. on corners; spine sl.faded; previous owner's name , in ink, on fep; sl. damp staining; mod. foxing, partic. on eps; fr. gutter cracked; sl. cocked; some signatures a little loose but inatact)
PUBLISHER: T Fisher Unwin 1898
KEYWORDS: history East Germanic Visigoths Ostrogoths fall of the Western Roman Empire Medieval Europe Getica Jordanes migration Scandza (Scandinavia) Gothiscandza
The Great North Road: Auckland - Whangarei Section
octavo, textured green leather boards with gilt lettering on spine, 171pp, illus, VG+ (light foxing to top page edges) in d/w VG (light foxing and soiling to covers, spine tanned, sl. chipping to edges)
PUBLISHER: Institute Press 1981
KEYWORDS: history autobiography journey New Zealand townships farming industry travel society culture
An Interpretation of Prophecy
super octavo, navy blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine, xxiii+532pp, VG+ (inscription, in ink, on fep; covers a little bruised, rubbed & fr. cover is sl. soiled but internally is v. nice) in d/w VG (sl. chipping to edges; sl. browning, partic. to spine)
PUBLISHER: Banner of Truth 1964
KEYWORDS: prophecy nature proof belief place church history religion Christianity Bible
Magical and Mystical Sites - Europe and the British Isles
Paperback (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: Abacus 1978
KEYWORDS: archaeology history Europe Malta Delphi Granada Stonehenge Chartres druids magik magic witches wicca fairies
Nature Guide to Wales
Paperback (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: Usborne 1981
KEYWORDS: Wales natural history walks plants animals birds
The Angel of Death: The Story of Smallpox
imperial octavo, black cloth boards with silver lettering on spine, 425pp, illus, Near FINE, in d/w Near FINE
PUBLISHER: Palgrave MacMillan 2010
KEYWORDS: smallpox history vaccination only disease ever to be successfully exterminated by a public health campaign Jenner
Illustrated English Social History: Vol 1- Chaucer's England and the Early Tudors, Vol 2- The Age of Shakespeare and the Stuart Period, Vol 3- The Eighteenth Century, Vol 4- The Nineteenth Century
4 VOLUME SET, octavo, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spines & front boards, top page edges stained red, frontispieces, xi-xvi + 175pp-209pp, illus, VG (light bruising to board corners, light discolouration to board edges, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, owner's name in ink to front pastedown of vol 2) in d/w, VG- (vols 1 & 2 price clipped, light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, heavy chipping to top edges of vol 4 with some loss & tape repairs, tape repair to top spine extrem of vol 3, 7cm closed tear to rear cover of vol 4, moderate discolouration & foxing to covers of all vols, vol 2 has removable protective clear plastic cover to d/w)
PUBLISHER: Longmans, Green & Co 1950-1954
KEYWORDS: history illustrated English England Great Britain
Evolutionary Biology of Ostracoda Its Fundamentals and Applications: Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on Ostracado, Held in Shizuoka, Japan 29 July-2 August 1985
Imperial octavo, grey buckram boards, black lettering to spine, xvi + 1356pp, illus, VG (light bruising to board edges, moderate puncturing to spine, boards sl shaky)
PUBLISHER: Kodansha/Elsevier 1988
KEYWORDS: text book education palaeontology stratigraphy developments ecology ancient history illustrated evolution ostracoda biology
With a Pack on My Back: The Story of Tramping in the New Zealand Bush During the Years 1917-1927
DATED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, quarto, illus light card covers, black lettering to covers, v + 162pp, illus, VG (moderate fading to spine & cover edges, light chafing & soiling to covers, light foxing to page edges & eps)
PUBLISHER: C. Norman Nicholls 1985
KEYWORDS: New Zealand outdoors hobbies tramping hiking history illustrated signed
The Goondah-Burrinjuck Railway
Quarto 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: Australian Railway Historical Society 1999
KEYWORDS: australia history railway trains
The Shaping of New Zealand
Lacks d/w, quarto 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: Paul Hamlyn Ltd 1974
KEYWORDS: new zealand history colonisation
A Guide to the Parish Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul Godalming
Quarto 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: Paraochial Church Council of St. Peter & St. Paul 1987
KEYWORDS: history england church godalming
Trafalgar and Alamein
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: Withy Grove Press 1948
KEYWORDS: history memoir war
The Voyage of Their Life: SS Derna and Its Passengers
Chipped Spine, 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: Harper Collins 2001
KEYWORDS: history wwii world war 2 immigration refugee
To Steal a Kingdom: Probing Hawaiian History
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: Island Style Press 1996
KEYWORDS: colonisation hawaii history
Rogue Nation: American Unilateralism and the Failure of Good Intentions
Imperial 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: Basic Books 2003
KEYWORDS: american politics history
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