Books - "history"
Showing 35701 to 35720 of 44979 results.
The Medieval Imagination: Illuminated Manuscripts from Cambridge, Australia and New Zealand
Lg quarto, illus light card covers with french flaps, blue & white lettering to spine, illus prelims, 286pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising & creasing/curling to spine & covers/edges, light fading to spine, light chafing to covers, sl tanning to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Macmillan Art Publishing 2008
KEYWORDS: manuscripts illuminations art medieval ancient history religious texts
Building Paris: Creating the World's Most Beautiful Capital City
Sm folio, illus grey heavy boards, white lettering to spine, illus prelims, 256pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl discolouration to base of boards, sl tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading/discolouration, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Endeavour London 2009
KEYWORDS: French cities France Paris history buildings infrastructure architecture
Political and Social Writings: Volume 3, 1961-1979: Recommencing the Revolution: From Socialism to the Autonomous Society
THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo, cream light card covers, green lettering to spine, xxviii + 403pp, VG (light to moderate wrinkling, chafing & soiling to spine & covers, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, minor cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: University of Minnesota Press 1993
KEYWORDS: politics political social science sciences sociology writings literature ideology Cornelius Castoriadis revolution socialism modern history 20th twentieth century
An Unhusbanded Life: Charlotte Despard: Suffragette, Socialist and Sinn Feiner
Octavo, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, 271pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine, light tanning/discolouration, light chafing & wrinkling)
PUBLISHER: Hutchinson & Co 1980
KEYWORDS: Charlotte Despard feminism feminists suffragette movement biography memoir politics political activists activism history
Workers Under the Ground, or, Mines and Mining
Octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering & illus to spine, black lettering & illus to front board, aeg, printed eps, frontispiece, 126pp, illus, VG- (sl bruising to extrems, heavy staining/soiling to boards, light tanning & moderate water staining to eps & prelims/terminals, roughly cut to base of pg 99/100, occasional light cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: Longmans, Green and Co 1888
KEYWORDS: mining history mines labour force labor underground coal precious metal metals gold silver copper tin iron lead salt
Fawlty Towers: The Story of a Sitcom
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: Hodder & Stoughton 2007
KEYWORDS: British sitcoms comedy humour humor Basil Fawlty Towers history biographies John Cleese Manuel
The Tales of a Grandfather: Volume I
THIS VOL ONLY, octavo hardcover (VG) frontispiece loose but still atatched; 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: Adam & Charles Black 1888
KEYWORDS: Scotland Scottish history Sir Walter Scott
The Outline of the Geology of New Zealand, December 1948
Octavo stapled light card covers (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: H H Tombs (Printer) 1948
KEYWORDS: New Zealand geology history geological surveys research archeology archaeology
Experiment Farm Cottage
Octavo stapled light card covers (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 National Trust of Australia / Ambassador Press 1976
KEYWORDS: Australia Australian history Farm Cottage
The Uchuck Years: A West Coast Shipping Saga
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: Harbour Publishing 2012
KEYWORDS: maritime nautical shipping boats British Columbia Nootka Sound history David Esson Young
The Master Builders: A History of Structural and Environmental Design from Ancient Egypt to the Nineteenth Century
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: John Wiley & Sons 1977
KEYWORDS: ancient Egypt history environmental design architecture building
Subterranean City: Beneath the Streets of London
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: Historical Publications 2000
KEYWORDS: English British cities London history underground tunnels railways
The Long March 1935: The Epic of Chinese Communism's Survival
Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (G-) jacket v scruffy; 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: Hamish Hamilton 1971
KEYWORDS: China Chinese communism politics political history
Bolingbroke and His Times: The Sequel
LACKS D/W, 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: James Nisbet & Co 1902
KEYWORDS: Bolingbroke history literature
The Art of the Faker: Three Thousand Years of Deception
Ex-library, 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: Little, Brown and Company 1961
KEYWORDS: forgers forgeries art crime Frank Arnau fakes history deception
Harlequin Story: The History of the Harlequin Football Club
Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (G+) jacket scruffy; 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: Phoenix House 1954
KEYWORDS: English rugby union clubs sport history Harlequins
Science and Building: Structural and Environmental Design in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
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: John Wiley & Sons 1978
KEYWORDS: architecture buildings history 19th 20th nineteenth twentieth century centuries design
The Persecution of Mary Stewart: The Queen's Cause: A Study in Criminology
LACKS D/W, 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: Cassell & Co 1931
KEYWORDS: Mary Stewart Queen of Scots history British royal family
Touring Edwardian New Zealand
Imperial 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: David Bateman 2022
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history travel writing literature Paul Moon
The Body in Pieces: The Fragment as a Metaphor of Modernity
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: Thames & Hudson 2001
KEYWORDS: art history criticism appreciation philosophy interpretation