Books - "history"
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Picture Titles: How and Why Western Paintings Acquired Their Names
Super octavo, cream heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xiii + 331pp, illus, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 2015
KEYWORDS: art titles naming names history reading interpretation paintings artists
Fictions of the Pose: Rembrandt Against the Italian Renaissance
SOME PENCIL ANNOTATION BY ART CRITIC FRANCIS POUND, imperial octavo, illus light card covers, yellow & white lettering to spine, frontispiece, xxi + 624pp, illus, VG (moderate creasing & curling to spine & covers with some minor soiling, light fading to spine, light to moderate soiling to page edges, occasional cracking to gutters, aforementioned pencil annotations)
PUBLISHER: Stanford University Press 2000
KEYWORDS: art history criticism portrait painting psychology self-portraits Rembrandt
Historical Grammar of the Visual Arts
Super octavo, black cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 495pp, illus, Near FINE (occasional sm pencil annotations) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing, prev. bookseller's sm label to front flap)
PUBLISHER: Zone Books 2004
KEYWORDS: art history philosophy visual arts criticism appreciation
Aristocrats: Power, Grace and Decadence: Britain's Great Ruling Classes Since 1066
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Little, Brown 2009
KEYWORDS: British aristocracy history ruling classes social customs bourgeoisie bourgeois
Twelve Minutes of Love: A Tango Story
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Portobello 2011
KEYWORDS: dance tango history hobbies entertainment
William the Silent: William of Nassau, Prince of Orange 1533-1584
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Phoenix Press 2001
KEYWORDS: military history Netherlands William the Silent of Nassau Prince of Orange biographies memoir revolution dutch leaders
Crucified Heroes: The Films of Sam Peckinpah
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Gordon Fraser Gallery 1979
KEYWORDS: film history filmography Sam Peckinpah films movies Hollywood criticism
Meaty Beaty Big & Bouncy! Classic Rock and Pop Writing From Elvis to Oasis
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton 1996
KEYWORDS: music history entertainment literary literature
Earthquakes: Their History, Phenomena and Probable Causes (New and Revised Edition)
Octavo hardcover (tatty); 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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: T. Nelson and Sons 1888
KEYWORDS: natural disasters earthquakes geology environment causes history
Jorwerd: The Death of a Village in Late Twentieth-Century Europe
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: The Harvill Press 2000
KEYWORDS: history Europe European villages Jorwerd rural sociology
Much Ado..... : A Century in Hanmer Springs 1883-1983
SIGNED, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Hanmer Springs Centennial Committee 1983
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Hanmer Springs signed Rosemary Ensor centenary centennial
Turner's Human Landscape
TIDY EX-LIBRARY, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: William Heinemann 1990
KEYWORDS: art history criticism appreciation J M W Turner landscapes
After the War: The RSA in New Zealand
Imperial 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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Penguin Books 2016
KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history rsa anzacs post-war organisations organizations
Top Secret Mission
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Evans Brothers Ltd 1954
KEYWORDS: post-war military history ww2 second 2nd world war two 2 ii Europe Madelaine Duke missing people persons
Cooking Times
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins 2008
KEYWORDS: New Zealand kiwi cooking cookery cookbooks recipes history food
William Davidson 125: A Lasting Legacy: A 125 Year History of New Zealand Farming Since the First Frozen Meat Shipment
162 PAGE COMMEMORATIVE MAGAZINE, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: NZ Rural Press 2007
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history meat farming frozen agriculture shipments William Davidson 125
The Paddocks Beneath: A History of Burnside From the Beginning
Quarto 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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Corporation of the City of Burnside 1981
KEYWORDS: Australia Australian history suburbs Burnside south sa settlers pioneers
Destroyers of the Royal Navy 1893-1981
EX-LIBRARY, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Ian Allan 1981
KEYWORDS: military history navies naval maritime royal navy destroyers torpedo submarines British design engineering
Te Papa to Berlin: The Making of Two Museums
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Otago University Press 2020
KEYWORDS: museums history te papa Wellington Ken Gorbey Jewish Museum Berlin
Did British Capitalism Breed Inequality?
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Allen & Unwin 1985
KEYWORDS: British history capitalism economics income wealth distribution equality inequality social aspects sociology