Books - "history"
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The Invisible World: Early Modern Philosophy and the Invention of the Microscope
FIRST EDITION, super octavo, green cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, x + 280pp, VG (moderate warping & soiling to boards, sl fading to board edges, light foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, sl chafing & wrinkling, light creasing to front flap)
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 1995
KEYWORDS: first edtions intellectual history philosophy science microscopes 17th seventeenth century
The Building in the Text: Alberti to Shakespeare and Milton
Super octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxi + 194pp, illus, VG+ (sl bruising & fading to spine extrems, boards sl warped) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine, sl creasing to front flap)
PUBLISHER: Pennsylvania State University Press 2001
KEYWORDS: literature literary history criticism Italian
A Forest of Symbols: Art, Science, and Truth in the Long Nineteenth Century
Super octavo, black cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 315pp, illus, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sm scuff to rear cover)
PUBLISHER: Zone Books 2019
KEYWORDS: art mathematics symbolism history 19th nineteenth century theory
The Poethical Wager
Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, red & black lettering to spine, xii + 279pp, VG+ (sl chafing & curling to covers, sl tanning & soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: University of California Press 2003
KEYWORDS: poetry literature art feminism feminist theory critical women morals history morals criticism
The Real Price of Everything: Rediscovering the Six Classics of Economics
Super octavo, white heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to red spine, 1467pp, VG+ (light bruising & fading to spine extrems, sl chafing & soiling to boards, light soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Sterling Publishing 2007
KEYWORDS: economics economy politics political Thomas Robert Malthus David Ricardo Charles Mackay Thorstein Veblen John Maynard Keynes history taxation theory
Leon Battista Alberti: Master Builder of the Italian Renaissance
FIRST EDITION, super octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering & illus to black buckram spine, gilt illus to front board, illus eps, frontispiece, xi + 417pp, illus, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: Hill and Wang 2000
KEYWORDS: first editions history architecture Italian renaissance Leon Battista Alberti historical buildings design art 15th fifteenth century
Remembering This: A History of the Auckland Primary Principals' Association 1901-2000
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: Primary Principals' Association 2000
KEYWORDS: New Zealand primary principals schools association history Auckland education institutions
In Darkest England and the Way Out
Super 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: International Headquarters of the Salvation Army N/D (c.1890)
KEYWORDS: salvation army England English chapters history charity charitable institutes institutions organisations
Singapore at War: Secrets From the Fall, Liberation & Aftermath of WWII
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: Marshall Cavendish Editions 2012
KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 Singapore
A Bibliography of Early Modern Algebra 1500-1800
Tidy ex-library, 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: University of California 1982
KEYWORDS: bibliography bibliographies catalogues mathematics algebra history historical science
The Boyds: A family Biography
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: Melbourne University Press 2003
KEYWORDS: biographies memoir Boyd family history Australia Australian literary art
The Siege of Leningrad
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: Secker & Warburg 1969
KEYWORDS: military history Leningrad ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 battles sieges
Funeral Service: A Bibliography of Literature on its Past, Present and Future, the Various Means of Disposition and Memorialization
Tidy ex-library- possbily unread, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: The Scarecrow Press 1976
KEYWORDS: bibliography bibliographies catalogues literature undertakers rites rituals history
From Archangel to New Zealand: The Diaries of Robert Henry Harding
DATED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, 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: Rimu Publishing 1985
KEYWORDS: signed Gregor McShane New Zealand diaries journals autobiographies history military royal navy
The Arts of Korea: An Illustrated History
Tidy ex-library, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Charles E Tuttle Company 1962
KEYWORDS: Korea Korean history art illustrated dynasties
Studies in the Intellectual History of Tokugawa Japan
Tidy 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: University of Tokyo Press 1979
KEYWORDS: Japan Japanese intellectual history Tokugawa
The Tulip
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: Bloomsbury 1999
KEYWORDS: flowers history tulips culture cultural
The Voyages of Joshua Slocum
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: Sheridan House 1995
KEYWORDS: exploration history Joshua Slocum voyages The Destroyer travel writing literature
The Great War
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: Pan Macmillan 2006
KEYWORDS: military history ww1 first 1st world war one i 1 the great war Australians Australian New Zealand army corps campaigns western front
Japanese Netsuke
Square 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Spring Books 1960
KEYWORDS: Japan Japanese art netsuke history
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