Books - "history"
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London's Glory
twenty paintings of the city's ruins
first edition 52pp ills.[20 tipped-in col.plates by wanda ostrowska] NF (red cloth,sl.sunned,owner's inscr.to front pastedown,plates are clean and bright) in VG+ d/w (sl.rubbed and soiled,sl.wear to extrems.,sl.browned)
PUBLISHER: george allen & unwin london 1945
KEYWORDS: geography history london arts viola g.garvin wanda ostrowska
Syria As It Is
first edition 211pp ills.[b/w] VG+ (blue cloth,sl.rubbed and soiled,maps to eps,owner's inscr.to half-title,prelims.and edges sl.foxed,spine cracked)
PUBLISHER: methuen london 1939
KEYWORDS: history geography travel syria helen cameron gordon
ANGLO - SAXON UNITY
And Other Essays
reprint, ex lib with minimal markings, 306pp, FINE
PUBLISHER: Kennikat Press New York 1971
KEYWORDS: essays anglo saxon history
THE RIGHTS OF NATIONS
ex lib, minimal markings, 192pp, VG+(v sl foxing to board & text edges) d/w VG(sl tears & chipping to spine head & foot, v sl wear, tears & chipped to remainder of extrems, sl sunned & soiled)
PUBLISHER: Roy Publishers New York 1945
KEYWORDS: history politics czeslaw poznanski league of nations
VOTE OF CENSURE
ex lib, minimal markings, 253pp illus, VG+(v sl gum stains to ep's & boards, v sl cocked) d/w in plastic VG+(v sl sunned & soiled)
PUBLISHER: Secker & Warburg London 1968
KEYWORDS: history WWII winston churchill
STRUGGLE FOR THE WORLD
The Cold War from its Origin in 1917
ex lib, minimal markings, 511pp maps, VG+(v sl gum stains to ep's & boards, v sl edgewear, v sl paste action to ep's) d/w in plastic, VG+(v sl sunned & rubbed)
PUBLISHER: Collins London 1965
KEYWORDS: history cold war
ROMANTICISM AND REVOLT
Europe 1815-1848
ex lib, minimal markings, 216pp illus, VG+(v sl gum stains to ep's & boards, v sl paste action to ep's) d/w in plastic, VG+(rear flap trimmed, v sl sunned)
PUBLISHER: Thames & Hudson London 1967
KEYWORDS: history french revolution
CONTINENTAL STAKES
Marshes of Invasion - Valley of Conquest and Peni
ex lib, minimal markings, 135pp, VG+(v sl edgewear) d/w VG-(sl wear & tears to extrems with sl chipped spine head & foot, sl sunned, soiled & creased)
PUBLISHER: British Continental Syndicate London 1944
KEYWORDS: history russia rumania czechoslovakia yugoslavia WWII
England at War
first edition 49pp.illus.(col.and b/w) VG(white decor.paper boards,mod.soiled and foxed,sl.creased with mod.shelf wear to extrems.,mod.foxing to eps.,inscribed by author and dated 1943 at ffep.) in VG- d/w(heavy foxing,mod.soiled,small tears and chips to spine and extrems.)
PUBLISHER: chiswick press london nd
KEYWORDS: rosie newman world war two military history photography film
HISTORY IN COMMUNIST CHINA
ex lib, minimal markings, unissued, 382pp, VG+ (v sl gum stains to eps and boards, v sl rubbed) d/w in plastic VG+ (v sl rubbed & soiled, v sl surface loss to front cover)
PUBLISHER: The M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, 1968
KEYWORDS: china albert feuerwerker history communist china mao tse tung
THE MEANING OF HISTORY
AND OTHER HISTORICAL PIECES
ex lib, minimal markings, 507pp, G+ (cocked, internal separation at joints and to gutters in several locations, binding holding, v sl edge wear, sl bumped spine head & foot, v sl rubbed sunned & soiled, marginalia in pencil at several locations in text)
PUBLISHER: Macmillan and Co, London, 1894
KEYWORDS: history frederic harrison schools french revolution city rome athens constantinople byzantine paris london buildings paleography
PORTGUAL GATEWAY TO GREATNESS
ex lib, minimal markings, 188pp, illus, VG- (sl cocked, internal separation at joints and to gutters in several locations, binding holding, sl edge wear, sl rubbed sunned & soiled, text sl soiled)
PUBLISHER: Edward Stanford, London, 1950
KEYWORDS: portugal w j barnes history geography ethnography explorers vasco da gama diego homen henry the navigator christianity st francis xavier ignatius loyola companions dr salazar carmona
THE RUSSIAN COMMUNIST PARTY AND THE SOVIETIZATION
A STUDY IN THE COMMUNIST DOCTRINE OF THE SELF-DETE
ex lib, minimal markings, 374pp, map, tables, errata leaf inserted, VG (library rebacked with stiffened boards, taped spine and new eps, v sl internal separation to front joint, binding holding, v sl sunned rubbed & soiled)
PUBLISHER: Almquist & Wiksell, Stockholm, 1960
KEYWORDS: social history jurij borys communism ukraine
America Pictorially Described
144pp, ills (b/w) VG- (blue cloth with black, silver and gold decorative stamps, uneven fading and bumps, owners inscription to ffep, paste action to feps, minor soils to some contents, contents browned, sl cocked.)
PUBLISHER: james knapp, london, nd
KEYWORDS: matthew johnson america history
The Royal College of Physicians of London Portrait
468pp, ills (b/w) VG+ (red weave cloth with gold decorative stamps, spine sl faded, v minor soiling to ffep gutter, minor thumb marking to foredges.) in VG- d/w (minor creasing and closed tears to some extrems, price clipped, foxing and soils.)
PUBLISHER: j & a churchill, london, 1964
KEYWORDS: gordon wolstenholme david piper medicine history biography
Steel Ships
their construction and maintenance
ex-lib.ninth edition 353pp [b/w diagrams w.fold-outs] VG+ (blue cloth,sl.rubbed and soiled w.libr.mark to spine,sl.bumps to extrems.,usual stamps and labels,spine cracked)
PUBLISHER: griffin london 1964
KEYWORDS: nautical history transport thomas walton steel ships
Unbelief in the Nineteenth Century
a critical history
399pp VG+ (blue cloth,sl.rubbed and soiled,sl.wear to extrems.,prelims.and edges sl.foxed)
PUBLISHER: robert culley london [nd]
KEYWORDS: history theology henry c.sheldon
A HISTORY OF EUROPE
FROM THE REFORMATION TO THE PRESENT DAY
revised edition, ex lib, minimal markings, 937pp, illus, VG- (sl edge wear and boards sl sunned soiled & rubbed w mod sunning to spine, contents excellent)
PUBLISHER: G. Bell & Sons, London, 1947
KEYWORDS: history europe reformation monarchy revolution democracy ww1 ww2
The Art of Ancient Peru
first edition 368pp.illus.(b/w some col.)VG+(brown cloth,edges and contents mod.foxed) in VG+ d/w(sl.soiled, sl.shelf-wear to extrems.)
PUBLISHER: putnam new york 1972
KEYWORDS: ferdinand anton ancient history peru art archaeology
Wien
kultur kunst geschichte
first edition 429pp.illus.(b/w) VG+(brown cloth,title to front board and spine,edges,eps.and contents mod.foxed) in G d/w(large chips, creased) and VG slipcase(mod.wear to extrems.,heavily foxed,title and author stamped on one side)
PUBLISHER: verlag wien 1931
KEYWORDS: hans tietze vienna wien austria history travel