Books - "history"
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Ettore Sottsass: Architect and Designer
Quarto illus heavy card boards, black and grey lettering to spine, frontispiece, 160pp, illus, Nr FINE (sl creasing to front hinge, small scuff mark to outer page edges) in d/w VG+ (light creasing to extrems, light scuffing to covers, sl. tanning to edges of rear cover and spine)
PUBLISHER: Merrell Publishers Ltd 2006
KEYWORDS: architecture design Sottsass history photography illustrated
Bibliotheca Australiana #36: A Voyage to the South Atlantic and Round Cape Horn into the Pacific Ocean
OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF PROMINENT BOTANIST DAVID GALLOWAY, imperial octavo, cream coloured vinyl heavy card boards with gilt lettering to spine and cover, vi+ xviii+179pp, folding maps throughout, Nr FINE (v. s. strip of tanning on front board, owners name in ink to fep, small ink stain on pastedown transferred from fep) in plastic mylar cover.
PUBLISHER: N. Israel & De Capo Press 1968 (facsimile reprint of 1798 publication)
KEYWORDS: voyage exploration adventure maps sea history facsimile
The Cinema as Art
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: Pelican / Penguin 1965
KEYWORDS: cinema history art
Film as Film: Understanding and Judging Movies
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PUBLISHER: Pelican / Penguin 1972
KEYWORDS: cinema history art critique media film studies
The Vote: How it Was Won and How it Was Undermined
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 2006
KEYWORDS: history politics democracy voting
On Natural Selection
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PUBLISHER: Penguin 2004
KEYWORDS: Darwin natural history evolution prehistory
The End of Empire
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 cost
PUBLISHER: Random House 1960
KEYWORDS: Britain Empire political history imperialism
Colonialism 1870-1945: An Introduction
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: Macmillan 1983
KEYWORDS: colonialism history Europe
Visions of Culture: Voltaire, Guizot, Burkhardt, Lamprecht, Huizinga, Ortega Y Gasset
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 Chicago Press 1969
KEYWORDS: culture civilization history philosophy writing literary criticism analysis
Legendary and Mythological Art
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: Bracken Books 1994
KEYWORDS: art mythology history illustrated religion painting sculpture
Roman Art: A Modern Survey of the Art of Imperial Rome
Square 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: W.W. Norton & Co 1975
KEYWORDS: Roman art Rome history culture illustrated
From the Classicists to the Impressionists: Art and Architecture in the Nineteenth Century Volume III of A Documentary History of Art
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PUBLISHER: Anchor Books/ Doubleday 1966
KEYWORDS: art architecture history
The Rough Guide History of Islam
Duodecimo 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: Rough Guides 2003
KEYWORDS: Islam history religion
Synopsis Methodica Lichenum
TEXT IN LATIN, OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF LICHEN SPECIALIST DAVID GALLOWAY, LIMITED NUMBERED FACSIMILIE EDITION, octavo, brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, green eps, xvi+xiii+392pp, Near FINE (v. slight tanning & soiling to upper pg edges, v. slight annotation in pencil throughout)
PUBLISHER: Richmond Publishing Co. 1978
KEYWORDS: botany lichen Latin language natural history nature moss
Specimen of a Lichenographia Britannica
TEXT IN LATIN, OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF LICHEN SPECIALIST DAVID GALLOWAY, LIMITED NUMBERED FACSIMILIE EDITION, octavo, brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, green eps, xxiii+248pp, Near FINE (v. slight tanning to upper page edges)
PUBLISHER: Richmond Publishing Co. 1978
KEYWORDS: botany lichen Latin language natural history nature moss
Sir Joseph banks and the Plant Collection from Kew sent to the Empress Catherine II of Russia 1795
Reprinted from the Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Historical Series, Volume 4 Number 5
Imperial octavo, quarter bound blue buckram & leather, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, x+103pp+viii plates at rear, illus, Near FINE (light creasing at front & rear hinges, slight bruising to board corners)
PUBLISHER: Trustees of the British Museum 1974
KEYWORDS: Sir Joeseph Banks natural history Catherine II Russia collections England British
Plantarum Cryptogamicarum Britanniae
OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF BOTANIST DAVID GALLOWAY, LIMITED NUMBERED FACSIMILIE EDITION (THIS COPY NOT NUMBERED), quarto, brown buckram cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated, illus, plates, VG (light surface loss to spine extrems and board corners, light rubbing to boards with some slight surface loss, light creasing to prelims, small open hole to rear 6pp)
PUBLISHER: Richmond Publishing Co. 1976
KEYWORDS: natural history ecology plants science
Bits and Pieces: An Factual History of Toi Tois and Waikawa Districts Southland
LENGTHILY INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo, blue light card covers, black lettering to spine & front cover, 132pp, plates, VG (v. light soiling to covers, light tanning to pg. edges)
PUBLISHER: Whitcome & Tombs 1967
KEYWORDS: history new zealand southland fortrose tokanui waikawa toi tois
British Butterflies. Figures and Descriptions of Every Native Species, With an Account of Butterfly Development, Structure, Habits, Localities, Mode of Capture and Preservation, Etc.
Octavo, red cloth boards, gilt lettering & decorative rule to spine, blind embossed butterflies & decorative rule to both boards, frontispiece, vii+180pp+4pp catalogue to rear, plates, VG (age appropriate wear & tear, moderate spoiling to upper page edges & boards, owners signature in ink to paste down, blind embossed booksellers stamp to fep, light sporadic tanning throughout)
PUBLISHER: Routeledge, Warne & Routledge 1863
KEYWORDS: butterflies insects entomology england natural history science
Towards the Mountain - A Story of Grief and Hope Forty Years on frm Erebus
Softcover super octavo(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: Allen and Unwin 2019
KEYWORDS: history NZ New Zealand Erebus aviation
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