Books - "history"
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A Spirit of Play: The making of Australian consciousness
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: ABC Books 1998
KEYWORDS: australia social history anthropology australian boyer lectures
Dignity and Decadence: Victorian Art and the Classical Inheritance
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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins 1991
KEYWORDS: victorian art classical art history visual culture painting aesthetics aestheticism
Star Gods of the Maya: Astronomy in Art, Folklore, and Calendars
TIDY EX-LIBRARY, 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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: University of Texas Press 1999
KEYWORDS: maya mayans astronomy mesoamerica mesoamericans history anthropology archaeology
The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain
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: Harper Press 2013
KEYWORDS: franco regime fascist fascism spain spanish civil war crimes military history
The New Zealand Wars: Nga Pakanga O Aotearoa
Super octavo, illus light card covers with french flaps, beige & red lettering to spine, 272pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (v. light rubbing to covers)
PUBLISHER: Bridget Williams Books 2019
KEYWORDS: New Zealand wars Aotearoa conflict war military history Maori British colonialism
Lincoln Canberra & F-111 in Australian Service
Quarto, illus glossy light card covers, blue lettering to spine, 184pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, light chafing & soiling to spine & covers, prev. booksellers' labels to rear cover & inside front cover, light tanning & foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Aerospace Pubilcations 1993
KEYWORDS: military history aviation fighter planes Lincoln Canberra f-111 engineering design Australia Australian bombers
On the Diseases of Females; a Treatise Describing Their Symptoms, Causes, Varieties, and Treatment. Including the Diseases and Management of Pregnancy and Confinement (Eighth Edition)
Octavo, half leather bound marbled boards, gilt lettering to leather title plate with gilt rule & raised bands to spine, page edges speckled red, xii + 274pp + 31pp glossary to rear, scruffy (v heavy scuffing & surface loss to spine & boards, heavy cracking to leather at hinges, heavy warping & staining to spine & boards, moderate soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, some paper residue to front pastedown, heavy cracking at front gutter, 2cm loss to top corner of some prelim pgs with various ink numerals, light foxing to pages throughout, modern adhesive ref. label to copyright page & rear pastedown, heavy cracking to rear gutter)
PUBLISHER: Simpkin, Marshall and Company 1871
KEYWORDS: medical medicine women's health history female diseases pregnancy treatments
First Lines of the Practice of Physic. (Fourth Edition, Corrected and Enlarged)
THIS VOL ONLY, octavo, full brown leather bound boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, lvi + 380pp present but further rear pgs missing, VG (moderate scuffing & bruising to extrems, moderate scuffing & chafing to spine & boards with some moderate surface loss, heavy tanning to page edges, light cracking to hinges, moderate but age approriate tanning & occasional staining to pages throughout, various ink & pencil markings throughout- all unobtrusive, several pages to rear ripped out, modern adhesive reference label to rear pastedown, some prelim pages potentially missing, heavy cracking to some gutters)
PUBLISHER: Charles Elliot 1784
KEYWORDS: old antique medical books medicine health fever inflammation diseases William Cullen history historical practice practise
With Greek Guerillas
Octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine, printed front eps, iv + 260pp, illus/photos, VG (light creasing & scuffing to spine & cover edges, moderate chafing & soiling to spine & covers, moderate soiling to page edgeslight soiling to prelims)
PUBLISHER: Arthur Edmonds 1998
KEYWORDS: British special operations military history Greece Greek ww2 second 2nd world war two 2 ii Arthur Edmonds
With a Suitcase of Saris: From India to Aotearoa: Stories of Pioneer Indian Women
Square octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, 146pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, light chafing to covers)
PUBLISHER: My Sunroom 2016
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Aotearoa Indian India women pioneers settlers history family
Skepticism and Memory in Shakespeare and Donne
Octavo, beige heavy boards, red lettering to spine, xvi + 240pp, VG+ (light bruising to spine extrems, light to moderate fading to spine, sl chafing & soiling to boards, v occasional marking in ink to margins)
PUBLISHER: Palgrave Macmillan 2007
KEYWORDS: literature Shakespeare literary criticism Donne history
Sea Fury: From the Cockpit, No 12
Quarto, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, printed eps, 128pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, 1cm closed tear to lower spine extrem, prev. bookseller's label to rear cover, sl soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Ad Hoc Publications2010
KEYWORDS: aviation military history navy naval fighter jets engineering sea fury squadrons design
Writing and European Thought 1600-1830
Super octavo, maroon heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xv + 222pp, illus, Near FINE (sl bruising to extrems) in VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1994
KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism Europe European history historical
Writing From History: The Rhetoric of Exemplarity in Renaissance Literature
Super octavo, mauve glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, xiii + 309pp, VG+ (light creasing & curling to covers & edges, light chafing, light soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Cornell University Press 1990
KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism history renaissance writing intellectual culture
English Reformation Literature: The Tudor Origins of the Protestant Tradition
Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, xvi + 539pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing & curling to cover edges, light chafing & soiling to covers, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, sl soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 1982
KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism reformation history
Shakespeare's Religious Allusiveness: Its Play and Tolerance
Octavo, blue heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xv + 148pp, Near FINE (light bruising to boards) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges, sl chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Ashgate Publishing 2004
KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism history drama religion religious Christianity Shakespeare
Interpretation and Theology in Spenser
Super octavo, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xii + 273pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & fading to edges)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1994
KEYWORDS: theology religion religious literature literary doctrine Christianity Edmund Spenser poetry history criticism
Spectacle and Public Performance in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Super octavo, illus heavy boards, white & red lettering to spine, xxiv + 257pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to spine extrems, light fading to front board, sl soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Brill 2006
KEYWORDS: late middle ages renaissance history drama literature theatre theater England English criticism
The Meaning of Masonry: A Popular Guide to the Values of Ancient and Modern Freemasonry
FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue buckram boards, black lettering to spine & front board, 188pp, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light foxing & staining to boards & spine, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, masters lodge plate to front pastedown, prev. bookseller's sm ink stamp to ffep) in d/w, VG- (moderate to heavy creasing & chipping to edges with some sl loss, all corners lightly clipped, moderate chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Exposition Press 1960
KEYWORDS: first edition freemasons freemasonry masonic history guide values morals ethics secret societies
Horsemanship: A Bibliography of Printed Materials From the Sixteenth Century Through 1974
VERY TIDY EX-LIBRARY, quarto, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, xvii + 282pp, VG+ (minimal library markings, sl bruising to extrems)
PUBLISHER: Garland Publishing 1985
KEYWORDS: bibliography bibliographies literature literary horsemanship horses history historical