Books - "history"
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Business-Government Relations in Prewar Japan
Octavo blue heavy card boards, xiii+181pp, VG (light scuffing to boards, light soiling within)
PUBLISHER: Routledge 2008
KEYWORDS: routledge studies in the modern history of asia east asian japan business economics finance politics political japanese sociology culture
Lamarck's Evolution: Two Centuries of Genius and Jealousy
Octavo illus. light card covers with French flaps, 205pp, nr. FINE (sl. fading to spine, touch of soiling to bottom edge)
PUBLISHER: Pier 9 2008
KEYWORDS: jean-baptiste de lamarck lamarckian evolution science history theory biology natural selection
Hitler's War on Russia: The Story of the German Defeat in the East
FIRST EDITION, super octavo red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 640pp, illus., w/ folding map at rear, erratum slip to contents, VG- (heavy rubbing & creasing to spine, front joint a little sloppy and sl. cracked, moderate scuffing and rubbing and soiling to boards, moderate tanning and foxing within, lacks d/w, numerous ink markings to front eps)
PUBLISHER: George G. Harrap & Co. 1964
KEYWORDS: eastern front german russian military history world war two second ww2 european theatre hitler nazi third reich
Iceland; or the Journal of a Residence in that Island, during the Years 1814 and 1815 (volume 2 only)
THIS VOLUME ONLY (volume 2); super octavo half bound marbelled heavy card boards, vii+412pp, illus., VG- (front board attached but shakey, binding sound but leather surface of spine almost completelty absent; light tanning and foxing within)
PUBLISHER: Oliphant, Waugh and Innes / T. Hamilton, J. Hatchard, and L. B. Seeley 1818
KEYWORDS: iceland travel icelandic ebenezer henderson exploration history sociology culture natural
One More Hour
Octavo blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, pp, nr. FINE (save for prev. owner's catalogue number in pen to fep, unobtrusive) in d/w nr. FINE (save for some light soiling to reverse)
PUBLISHER: Hutchinson 1989
KEYWORDS: desmond scott raf royal air force wigram typhoon combat military history aviation planes aircraft pilot world war two second ww2
Les Spectacles: A Travers Les Ages: Musique Danse
This volume only; text in French, quarto marbelled heavy card boards half bound with leather, gilt lettering and raised bands to spine, decorated endpapers, 363pp, illus., VG (moderate scuffing to boards, moderate tanning to edges and within with occasional light foxing, prev. owner's details to fep. in pen)
PUBLISHER: Les Editions du Cygne c. 1932
KEYWORDS: les spectacles text in french music dance art history danse musique
Les Spectacles: A Travers Les Ages: Theatre Cirque Music-Hall Cafes-Concerts Cabarets Artistiques
This volume only; text in French, quarto marbelled heavy card boards half bound with leather, gilt lettering and raised bands to spine, decorated endpapers, 364pp, illus., VG (moderate scuffing to boards, moderate tanning to edges and within with occasional light foxing, prev. owner's details to fep. in pen)
PUBLISHER: Les Editions du Cygne c. 1932
KEYWORDS: les spectacles text in french language art history theatre circus music hall musichall music-hall cafes-concerts cafe cabaret
New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity (3 volume set)
3x VOLUME SET (HEAVY) in slipcase; quarto illus. heavy card boards, illus. endpapers, i. kingdom animalia: radiata, lophotrochoza, deuterostomia, 566pp / ii. kingdom animalia: chaetognatha, ecdysozoa, ichnofossils, 528pp / iii. kingdom bacteria, protozoa, chromista, plantae, fungi, 616pp, nr. FINE (v. sl. soiling to edges of vol. iii, with prev. owner's signature to prelims. (eminent lychenologist David Galloway) in slipcase VG (light scuffing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Canterbury Universtiy Press 2012
KEYWORDS: new zealand natural history biology zoology animals science reference kingdom animalia radiata lophotrochoza deuterostomia chaetognatha ecdysozoa ichnofossils bacteria protozoa chromista plantae plants plant botany fungi
A Geology of Ireland
Oblong super octavo green cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, x+335pp, illus, VG (light tanning and soiling within, light scuffing to boards) in d/w VG+ (light scuffing)
PUBLISHER: Scottish Academic Press 1981
KEYWORDS: geology ireland irish natural history earth science land landscape
The Discovery of Evolution
Quarto blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 256pp, illus., VG+ (light tanning within) in d/w VG+ (light fading)
PUBLISHER: Natural History Museum Publications / Cambridge University Press 1992
KEYWORDS: evolution natural selection lamarck charles darwin wallace science history biology life zoology
Evangile Selon Saint Luc (Etudes Bibliques)
Text in French; imperial octavo marbelled heavy card boards quarter bound with leather, gilt lettering and raised bands to spine; marbelled endpapers; clxvii+630pp, VG (tidy ex-library, usual stamps and markings but none to exterior, although a trace of sticker residue remains (unobtrusive) where one once presumably sat; light scuffing and rubbing to boards; heavy tanning within, v. light foxing within and to edges, a couple of stray ink stains to edges (unobtrusive))
PUBLISHER: Librairie Victor Lecoffre 1921 (deuxieme edition)
KEYWORDS: text in french etudes bibliques evangile saint luke luc haigiography christian christianity biblical theology history religion religious
The Resolution Journal of Johann Reinhold Forster
4x VOLUME SET, octavo blue cloth boards, gilt emblem to front and gilt lettering to spine, i. xvii+182pp ; ii. viii+187 ; iii. viii+183pp ; iv. viii+276pp; VG+ (occasional light foxing to edges) in d/w VG (light to moderate scuffing, creasing; minor closed tears and chips, v. sl. fading to spines)
PUBLISHER: Hakluyt Society 1982
KEYWORDS: resolution maritime exploration history johann reinhold forster journal journals memoir hakluyt society captain james cook pacific ocean
This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980's
Super octavo flexible cream cloth covers, bold black lettering to front & spine, black edges with colour coded thumb notches, 445pp, illus., nr. FINE (orig. retail sticker to rear)
PUBLISHER: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago / Yale University Press 2012
KEYWORDS: johanna burton bill horrigan elisabeth lebovici kobena mercer helen molesworth sarah schulman frazer ward claire grace kevin lotery jennifer quick trevor stark jordan troeller 1980s politics political art history exhibtion museum contemporary chicago
London in the Sixties
Super octavo red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind stamp dolphin emblem to front, illus. endpapers, 368pp, illus., nr. FINE in d/w nr. FINE
PUBLISHER: Thames & Hudson 2012
KEYWORDS: london swinging sixties history british english cultural social sociology photography beatles pop popular counter culture
Corot
Quarto black cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 144pp, illus., VG- (main detraction: some very heavy soiling to half title, and lighter soiling to title prelims and endpapers, with main text/images unaffected; otherwise, nr FINE) in d/w VG (heavy fading, light scuffing)
PUBLISHER: Studio Editions 1994
KEYWORDS: jean-baptiste-camille corot french painting painter art history france impressionism jean baptiste camille corot landscape
William Thomas Horton (1864 - 1919): A Selection of His Work with a Biographical Sketch
FIRST EDITION; super octavo quarter bound grey heavy card boards, brown cloth spine, vi+149pp, illus, VG (moderate soiling and light scuffing to boards, moderate tanning to edges and within, light soiling to endpapers, prev. owner's name in pen to fep.) in d/w G+ (quite presentable in current state, however: extensive archival tape repairs, to edges and spine, reconstituting significant segements lost; otherwise, heavy tanning, moderate soiling, moderate scuffing rubbing and chipping, price-clipped)
PUBLISHER: Ingpen and Grant [n/d]
KEYWORDS: william thomas horton art history english fin de siecle decadent symbolist symbolism silhouette silhouettes ink drawing
Tadeusz Brzozowski: Opracowala
Text in Polish; oblong super octavo black cloth boards, white lettering to front and spine, illus. endpapers, illus., 86pp, VG+ (light tanning within) in d/w VG+ (light scuffing, light tanning to reverse)
PUBLISHER: Wydawnictwo Arkady Warsaw 1986
KEYWORDS: tadeusz brzozowski art history painting polish poland text in expressionism
Transvestism: A Handbook With Case Studies For Psychologists Psychiatrists And Counsellors
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: Pergamon Press 1979
KEYWORDS: lgbt lgbtq trans transgender transvestite mental health history
Sexual Perversions As A Scientific Problem
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: Haldeman-Julius Publications 1947
KEYWORDS: sexuality kink history historical lgbt
The Key To Love And Sex - Volume 4 of 8 The Abnormal Aspects of Sex; Perversities And Aberrations Of The Human Sexual Impluse And It's Expressions
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: Haldeman-Julius Publications ND
KEYWORDS: sexuality kink history historical lgbt