SMILES, SAMUEL (Ed)

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PUBLISHER: John Murray 1897

KEYWORDS: engineering engineers James Nasmyth autobiography memoir history

HOME, GORDON

Super octavo, blue buckram boards, black lettering & rule to spine, deckled page edges, frontispiece, xviii + 382pp, illus, VG (light scuffing to extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, light cracking to some gutters, light foxing sporadically throughout) in d/w, G+ (heavy creasing & chipping to spine & edges with some loss- heavy adhesive repairs to internal sides, moderate soiling & chafing with some staining also)

PUBLISHER: John Lane / The Bodley Head 1931

KEYWORDS: London Bridge civil engineering history construction medieval

SANDSTROM, GOSTA E

Octavo, brown/orange buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, xii + 427pp, illus, VG+ (light scuffing & bruising to spine & extrems, light tanning & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate tanning & chafing, light soiling)

PUBLISHER: Barrie and Rockliff 1963

KEYWORDS: history civil engineering tunnels tunnelling construction

SMILES, SAMUEL

Octavo, maroon buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt decoration & black rule/decoration to front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, viii + 416pp, illus, VG (light bruising to extrems, light to moderate fading to spine, light chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & moderate soiling to page edges, light foxing to prelims, occasional minor cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: John Murray 1874

KEYWORDS: civil engineering engineers Matthew Boulton James Watt biographies history construction design steam engines

SMILES, SAMUEL

Octavo, maroon buckram boards, gilt lettering with black & gilt rule to spine & front board, xii + 474pp, VG- (minor scuffing to extrems, light fading & chafing to spine, light chafing to boards, light tanning & moderate soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name to ffep, v heavy crack to front gutter- front board v shaky, minor cracking sporadically throughout)

PUBLISHER: John Murray 1887

KEYWORDS: history industry biographies Samuel Smiles

SMILES, SAMUEL

Octavo, maroon buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt illus & black rule & decoration to front board, frontispiece, xxxiii + 320pp, illus, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, moderate fading to spine, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, light soiling to eps, light to moderate foxing to prelims & terminals)

PUBLISHER: John Murray 1874

KEYWORDS: Samuel Smiles civil enginnering engineers biographies history Cornelius Vermuyden Hugh Myddelton Captain Perry James Brindley

OPIE, IONA and PETER

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PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1984

KEYWORDS: children's games street playground recreation hide seek dares pretend history British

STEPHAN, ENNO & DAVIDSON, ARTHUR (Trans)

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PUBLISHER: Macdonald & Co 1963

KEYWORDS: military history spies espionage German ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2

GRIMSHAW, PATRICIA & LAKE, MARILYN & McGRATH, ANN & QUARTLY, MARIAN

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PUBLISHER: McPhee Gribble Publishers 1994

KEYWORDS: Australia Australian history anthropology British ancestry culture

OSBORNE, GRAEME & LEWIS, GLEN

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PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2001

KEYWORDS: Australia Australian communication mass media history

LIANG, ZHANG (Compiled by) & NATHAN, ANDREW J (Ed) & LINK, PERRY (Ed) & SCHELL, ORVILLE (Afterword)

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PUBLISHER: Abacus 2002

KEYWORDS: China Chinese modern history Tiananmen Square government Beijing Politburo democracy

McNEISH, JAMES & TURNER, DENNIS (Illus)

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PUBLISHER: A H & A W Reed 1957

KEYWORDS: New Zealand literature James McNeish history pubs taverns culture

TOYNBEE, ARNOLD J & SOMERVELL, D C (Abridgement by)

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PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1949

KEYWORDS: history historiography Arnold J Toynbee anthropology civilisations civilizations

OATES, STEPHEN B

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PUBLISHER: Harper & Row 1970

KEYWORDS: biographies memoir John Brown civil rights American history

WORTHEN, JOHN

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PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 2001

KEYWORDS: literature literary history biographies Coleridge Hutchinson Worssworth

MAGNUS, PHILIP

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PUBLISHER: E P Dutton & Co 1964

KEYWORDS: monarchy kings British Great Britain King Edward 7th vii seventh history biography memoir royal family

MASON, ROB

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PUBLISHER: Know the Score Books / Pitch Publishing 2010

KEYWORDS: soccer football sport history English premiership teams Sunderland

OSGOOD, ERNEST STAPLES

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PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press 1970

KEYWORDS: history cattle farmers farming wild west US America

LINDSAY, OLIVER

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PUBLISHER: Hamish Hamilton 1978

KEYWORDS: modern history China Hong Kong 20th twentieth century government ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2

HARRIS, PETER

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PUBLISHER: Heinemann Educational Books 1978

KEYWORDS: Hong Kong China modern history politics government bureacracy