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$15.00
xxsof181623

Christian Jihad


CANER, ERGUN MEHMET & CANER, EMIR FETHI

Octavo softcover (Near FINE); 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: Kregel Publications 2004

KEYWORDS: religion religious history Christianity Muslims crusades

$70.00
1y99d/18

In the Strange South Seas


GRIMSHAW, BEATRICE

Sm octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt publisher's motif to front board, teg, frontispiece, 352pp, VG (spine sl cocked, light to moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems, moderate fading to spine, light soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, moderate tanning & light foxing to frontis)

PUBLISHER: Hutchinson & Co 1907

KEYWORDS: travel exploration south seas islands pacific history culture Beatrice Grimshaw

$100.00
1y99d/34

E Tu Ake: Maori Standing Strong


SMITH, HUHANA

Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers with french flaps, white & black lettering to spine, illus prelims, 192pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl creasing & chafing to spine & covers)

PUBLISHER: Te Papa Press 2011

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Aotearoa Maori culture art artefacts taonga tawhito contemporary history treasures E Tu Ake te papa exhibition mana whakapapa kaitiakitanga tino rangatiratanga

$65.00
1y99d/37

Aspects of the History of Irish Dancing; in Ireland, England, New Zealand, N. America and Australia


CULLINANE, Dr JOHN P. (Compiled by)

Quarto, green illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to front cover, 128pp, VG (light to moderate creasing & curling to spine & covers, light chafing, light tanning & soiling to rear cover, light tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: John P Cullinane 1987

KEYWORDS: Irish dancing history dance international Ireland ceili cork tradition traditional

$80.00
1y99d/42

A Picturesque Tour of the River Thames in its Western Course; including Particular Descriptions of Richmond, Windsor, and Hampton Court


MURRAY, JOHN FISHER

Octavo, red textured buckram boards, gilt lettering & tooling to spine, blind stamp decoration & gilt tooling to front board, blind stamp decoration to rear board, aeg, frontispiece, 304pp, illus, VG (moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems, moderate chafing & soiling to spine & boards, light soiling to eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear pastedown, light to moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, occasional foxing to pages throughout)

PUBLISHER: Henry G. Bohn 1853

KEYWORDS: London history travel literature John Fisher Murray river Thames English British cities

$75.00
1y99d/43

The Lives of Eminent & Remarkable Characters, Born or Long Resident in the Counties of Essex, Suffolk & Norfolk


N/A

Duodecimo, full leather textured boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, gilt tooling & blind stamp decoration to boards, aeg, unpaginated, illus/portraits with tissue guards, VG (light bruising to extrems, light to moderate scuffing to spine & board edges, age appropriate discolouration to spine & boards, sl cracking to gutters, prev. owner's details in ink to verso of ffep, moderate foxing to pages sporadically throughout, moderate tanning to tissue guards)

PUBLISHER: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown 1820

KEYWORDS: biographies portraits Essex Suffolk Norfolk English counties East Anglia history

$60.00
1y99d/44

The History of Fettercairn: A Parish in the County of Kincardine


CAMERON, ARCHd. COWIE

FIRST EDITION, octavo, burgundy buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, patterned eps, frontispiece, 280pp, illus, VG- (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, moderate soiling to spine & front board, heavy damp staining to rear board, moderate to heavy tanning & soiling to page edges, moderate tanning to eps, damp wrinkling to rear eps, light tanning & foxing to prelims)

PUBLISHER: J & R Parlane 1899

KEYWORDS: first edition Scotland Scottish towns Fettercairn history culture geography topography antiquity

$60.00
1y99d/52

Poulton-Lancelyn: The Story of an Ancestral Home


GREEN, ROGER LANCELYN

Octavo, grey textured light card covers, black lettering to spine & front cover, frontispiece, 86pp, VG- (moderate curling & tanning to cover edges, 4cm closed tear to rear gutter, 1cm archival tape repair to top spine extrem, light to moderate tanning & soiling to page edges & eps, gift inscription in ink to ffep, light cracking to some gutters) in d/w, VG- (v roughly price clipped, moderate to heavy creasing & chipping to edges with some archival tape repairs, moderate chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: The Oxonian Press 1948

KEYWORDS: history Poulton-Lancelyn English country homes Wirral Cheshire ancestry family genealogy

$80.00
1y99d/58

A History of Rome; from the Earliest Times to the Establishment of the Empire in Two Volumes (2 Vol Set)


LIDDELL, HENRY G.

FIRST EDITION, 2 VOL SET, NEEDS A LOT OF REPAIRS! super octavo, full leather bound boards, gilt lettering to leather title plates on spine, raised bands & gilt tooling to spines, gilt library motifs & rule to front boards, gilt tooling to board edges, marbled page edges & eps, vol 1- xxii + 470pp, vol 2- xix + 576pp, V TATTY (boards detached but present- both vols, spines loose & flapping- considerable loss to vol 2, heavy chafing & discolouration & soiling to boards, some prelims detached, heavy foxing & moderate tanning to prelims & terminals)

PUBLISHER: John Murray 1855

KEYWORDS: first edition Rome rome history antiquity Henry G Liddell

$15.00
xxsok181635

SAS Sniper: The World of an Elite Australian Marksman


MAYLOR, ROB & MACKLIN, ROBERT

Octavo softcover (Near Fine) ; 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: Hachette 2010

KEYWORDS: sas military australia australian sniper sharpshooter history memoir

$16.50
xxsok181648

Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different


WOOD, GORDON S.

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: Penguin 2007

KEYWORDS: american history revolution revolutionary usa united states us washington adams jefferson franklin hamilton madison paine

$175.00
1y99d/65

Grimoires: A History of Magic Books


DAVIES, OWEN

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, x + 368pp, illus/photos, VG+ (ligth bruising to board edges, light foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, prev. bookseller's labels to rear & front flap, 1cm closed tear with archival tape repairs to lower edge of front cover)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2009

KEYWORDS: magic magick grimoires books of spells history esoteric supernatural sorcery occult religion culture first edition

$60.00
1y99d/70

Chinese Creeds & Customs (3 Vol Set)


BURKHARDT, V. R.

3 VOL SET, super octavo, red heavy boards, black lettering to spines & front boards, vol 1- x + 180pp + v index, vol 2- x + 201pp + ix index, vol 3- 164pp + appendix, illus, VG (light bruising to extrems, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges & eps, v hefty gift inscription in ink & pencil to ffep of vol 1) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping to edges, moderate staining, tanning & foxing, some archival tape repairs to chipping along edges)

PUBLISHER: South China Morning Post 1972

KEYWORDS: China Chinese ancient history antiquity creeds customs moon moons festivals spirituality religion

$40.00
1y99d/82

Plundering Beauty: A History of Art Crime During War


TOMPKINS, ARTHUR

Super octavo, illus heavy boards, white lettering to spine, 192pp, illus, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems & spine, prev. bookseller's lable to ffep, light scuffing & bruising to rear board)

PUBLISHER: Lund Humphries 2018

KEYWORDS: art crime antiquities war history plundering

$60.00
2i3a/3

A History of Indian Buddhism


GOYAL, S. R.

SIGNED BY AUTHOR, LACKS FEP, octavo, black buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, l + 532pp, plates to rear- not counted presumed all present, VG (boards sl shaky, light bruising & soiling to extrems & edges, light chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's ex-libris ink stamp to page edges, eps & full title page, ffep completely missing, tape residue to pastedowns, light cracking to some gutters, occasional markings to margins) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate fading to spine, moderate chafing & soiling to covers)

PUBLISHER: Kusumanjali Prakashan 1987

KEYWORDS: signed history India buddhism religion religious spirituality S R Goyal antiquity

$25.00
xxsom181660

Dark Navy: the Regia Marina and the Armistice of 8 September 1943


O'HARA, VINCENT P. & CERNUSCHI, ENRICO

Quarto softcover (Near Fine) ; 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: Nimble Books 2009

KEYWORDS: regia marina italian armistice military history second world war two ww2 wwii naval navy marine battleship battles maritime

$15.00
xxsom181662

The Illustrated Dictionary of Special Forces


MILLER, DAVID

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: MBI 2002

KEYWORDS: special forces illustrated military history photograph photographs

$20.00
xxspa181670

The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the the Rise and Development of Nations as Recorded by the Great Writers of All Ages


Supplement to Volume XXII - Australia and New Zealand

WILLIAMS, HENRY SMITH (ed.) et al.

THIS VOLUME ONLY, imperial 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: The Times 1908

KEYWORDS: the times historians' historians history of the world

$15.00
xxspa181673

The Roman Way


HAMILTON, EDITH

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: W.W. Norton 1993

KEYWORDS: edith hamilton roman way rome popular history classical classics

$35.00
xxspa181678

The Johnson Family: 1879-1984


TAYLOR, BETTY

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 costs

PUBLISHER: The Tablet Printing Co. 1984

KEYWORDS: johnson family dunedin new zealand local history family otago

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