Books - "history"
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The Foveaux Whaling Yarns of Yankee Jack: Burr Osborn's Adventures in Southern New Zealand, 1845
Octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine, frontispiece, 152pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing & chafing to spine, sl soiling to covers)
PUBLISHER: Otago Heritage Books 1995
KEYWORDS: New Zealand south island whaling Burr Osborn history Rakiura Stewart Island Foveaux Strait Southland
Roger Byrne: Captain of the Busby Babes
Octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, ix + 165pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl bruising to extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, sl fading to spine, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: Empire Publications 2000
KEYWORDS: soccer football English premiership teams history Man Manchester Utd United Busby Babes Roger Byrne biographies memoir Old Trafford
Long Range Desert Group: The Story of its Work in Libya 1940-1943
FIRST EDITION, LACKS D/W, octavo, beige buckram boards, black lettering to spine, 255pp, illus/photos, folding map to rear, VG (light to moderate scuffing & bruising to spine & extrems, sl soiling to boards, light tanning to page edges, prev. owner's name in inkn to front pastedown, light tanning & soiling to eps, occasional light cracking to gutters, light to moderate creasing & chipping to folding map)
PUBLISHER: Collins 1945
KEYWORDS: first editions military history long range deserrt group intelligence gathering Libya
Harry Graham: The Little Dasher
Imperial octavo, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, printed eps, xxiii + 148pp, illus/photos, Near FINE, in d/w, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: The Cricket Publishing Company 2017
KEYWORDS: cricket sport history biographies memoir Harry Graham Australian Australia
Uniquely Celtic: The Soul and the Spirit
Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white & yellow lettering to spine, viii + 547pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl curling to cover edges, light soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Grosvenor House 2015
KEYWORDS: Scottish Scotland football soccer history Celtic FC culture
The Age of Motoring
Folio, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt car motifs to front board, 204pp, illus, VG+ (light discolouration to board edges, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG (light creasing & discolouration to edges, light to moderate tanning, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Edita S A Lausanne 1965
KEYWORDS: cars automotive history design motoring
A Bibliography of Firework Books: Works on Recreative Fireworks From the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century
Very tidy ex-library- possibly unread, super octavo, red heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xxix + 168pp + plates to rear, illus, VG+ (minimal library markings, light bruising to extrems, sl tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (minimal library markings, light creasing to edges, light tanning to flaps)
PUBLISHER: C Philip 1985
KEYWORDS: bibliography bibliographies catalogues fireworks history literature texts historical
Protest and Crime in China: A Bibliography of Secret Associations, Popular Uprisings, Peasant Rebellions
Very tidy ex-library- possibly unread, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xiii + 455pp, VG+ (minimal library markings, sl bruising to extrems)
PUBLISHER: Garland Publishing 1981
KEYWORDS: bibliography bibliographies catalogues China Chinese history revolution uprisings rebellion
Theoretical Naval Architecture
Octavo, blue buckram boards, black lettering & rule to spine, black rule & gilt insignia to front board, folding charts to rear, ix + 512pp, illus/diagrams, VG (moderate bruising & scuffing to spine & extrems, light chafing & soiling to spine & boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, presentation plate to front pastedown, light tanning & creasing to folding diagrams)
PUBLISHER: Longmans, Green and Co 1922
KEYWORDS: military history navy naval architecture design building calculations theory
Travels in China and Japan
FIRST EDITION, octavo, yellow cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 382pp, VG (light bruising to extrems, light to moderate soiling to spine & boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light foxing sporadically throughout) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, heavy creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, moderate chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Bruno Cassirer 1964
KEYWORDS: first editions travel writing literature China Japan Asia oriental history culture Nikos Kazantzakis far east
Claudius: The Emperor and His Achievement
FIRST EDITION, octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xvi + 125pp, VG (light scuffing to extrems, moderate discolouration & soiling to spine, light chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to front & rear eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear pastedown, light to moderate foxing to prelims & terminals)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1934
KEYWORDS: first editions ancient Rome roman emperors Claudius history antiquity julio-claudian
The Tragedy of the Stuarts
FIRST EDITION, octavo, mauve cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, black & gilt insignia to front board, 314pp, VG+ (moderate fading to spine, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to front & rear eps, light foxing sporadically throughout)
PUBLISHER: Cecil Palmer 1930
KEYWORDS: first editions English history Stuarts
Environmental Bibliography of Wales 1900-1976
Tidy ex-library, quarto, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, v + 282pp, VG (moderate creasing & scuffing to spine & cover edges, minimal library markings, light chafing to covers, light tanning & soiling to page edges with som eminor creasing also)
PUBLISHER: Burgess & Son 1978
KEYWORDS: bibliography bibliographies catalogues Wales Welsh environment environmental 20th twentieth century history
Best Wheel Forward
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: Sportsman Book Club 1966
KEYWORDS: automotive cars motoring design engineering history
The Wild Wheel: The World of Henry Ford
Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (tatty); 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: Cresset Press 1952
KEYWORDS: automotive cars history biographies memoir Henry Ford
Henry Ford
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: The Bodley Head 1955
KEYWORDS: automotive cars history biographies memoir Henry Ford
Under my Bonnet
Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (tatty); 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: G T Foulis & Co 1950
KEYWORDS: cars automotive history
Early Erotic Photography
Lg 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: Benedikt Taschen 1993
KEYWORDS: erotica art photos photography collection history
Renault
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: The Bodley Head 1957
KEYWORDS: Louis Renault history cars automotive biographies memoir
Motor Racing Year 1961
LACKS D/W, 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: Knightsbridge Group 1961
KEYWORDS: cars automotive motor racing year books past issues 1961 history