Books - "history"
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Bloomingdale's Illustrated 1886 Catalog: Fashions, Dry Goods and Housewares
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: Dover Publications 1988
KEYWORDS: American department stores history catalogs catalogues Bloomingdale's fashion dry goods homewares 1886
Caves of Northern Thailand
Super octavo, illus heavy boards, white lettering to spine, printed/illus eps & prelims, 392pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (prev. owner's name in ink to verso of half title page)
PUBLISHER: River Books 2006
KEYWORDS: Thailand travel writing literature guide caves caving exploration adventure archaeology ancient history conservation geology
Life of Napoleon Bonaparte (5 Vol Set)
5 VOL SET, sm octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering & black decoration to spines & front boards, frontispiece to vol 1, illus title pages, various pagination, VG- (moderate to heavy scuffing & surface loss to spines & boards with minor soiling also, moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedowns of all vols, moderate cracking to gutters, occasional light foxing, prev. owner's name in ink to half title pages of all vols, moderate soiling to some pages of vols 4 & 5)
PUBLISHER: A & C Black 1875-6
KEYWORDS: history politics military Napoleon Bonaparte biographies memoir
A History of Modern Indonesia Since c.1300 (Second Edition)
Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xiii + 378pp, VG+ (sl scuffing & sioling to boards & edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, moderate fading to spine & front cover, light chafing & soiling, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear)
PUBLISHER: Macmillan 1993
KEYWORDS: Indonesia history culture government politics
The Beloved Princess: Princess Charlotte of Wales, the Lonely Daughter of a Lonely Queen
FIRST EDITION, super octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt illus/portrait to front board, teg, frontispiece with tissue guard, illus, VG (light scuffing to extrems, light fading to spine, light chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to front & rear eps, moderate foxing throughout)
PUBLISHER: Stanley Paul & Co N/D
KEYWORDS: royalty royal family Princess Charlotte of Wales monarchy history first editions British
Costume in England: A History of Dress to the End of the Eighteenth Century
Octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, black rule to spine & front board, 415pp, illus, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light tanning to spine, light chafing & soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, light cracking to some gutters, prev. owner's name in ink to title page)
PUBLISHER: George Bell and Sons 1885
KEYWORDS: England English history clothing fashion textiles culture costumes
Southern Lights: The Official Account of the British Graham Land Expedition 1934-37
Imperial octavo, illus glossy light card covers with french flaps, white lettering to spine, x + 298pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl creasing & curling to cover edges, light chafing & soiling to covers)
PUBLISHER: Scott Polar Research Institute 2012
KEYWORDS: Graham Land expedition exploration history south pole antarctica observations
Color Profiles of World War 1 Combat Planes
Lg quarto, blue heavy boards, white lettering to spine, 208pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising & fading to board & spine edges/extrems, sl soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light to moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, light occasional cracking to gutters) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, light to moderate chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Crescent Books 1974
KEYWORDS: military history ww1 first 1st world war i 1 one the great war combat aerial combat planes fighter aviation design identification markings
Germany Under Three Emperors
FIRST EDITION, super octavo, red buckram boards, black lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, x + 379pp, illus, VG- (moderate bruising to extrems, heavy fading to spine, moderate fading to board edges, moderate chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to front & rear pastedowns, prev. owner's name in ink to front & rear eps, light occasional cracking to some gutters, moderate foxing to pages throughout)
PUBLISHER: Cassell & Company 1917
KEYWORDS: first editions Germany German history rulers leaders empire Prussia Austria Russia government
Wanderings in the Middle East
FIRST EDITION, super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, deckled lower page edges, frontispiece, 318pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising & discolouration to extrems, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to front & rear eps, light foxing sporadically throughout) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping to spine &edges with loss & tidy archival tape repairs, moderate staining & discolouration to spine, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Hutchinson & Co 1924
KEYWORDS: travel writing literature Middle East A Sloan Palestine Syria Iraq culture customs first editions history
The Memoirs of the Crown Prince of Germany
FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue buckram boards, black lettering to spine, frontispiece, 299pp, illus/photos, VG- (moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems, moderate scuffing & tanning to spine, moderate scuffing to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to front & rear eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear pastedown, moderate cracking to gutters throughout, moderate foxing to pages throughout)
PUBLISHER: Thornton Butterworth 1922
KEYWORDS: first editions history Germany German crown prince Wilhelm ii 2nd second memoirs autobiography Kaiser Prussia
Observations on the State of the Aboriginal Inhabitants of New Zealand
FIRST EDITION, SCARCE, quarto, blue stiff card boards, black handwritten lettering to title plate on front cover, blue buckram spine, unpaginated prelims, 44pp, folding appendices, VG- (heavy creasing & scuffing to spine & covers with heavy staining & loss also, moderate tanning to page edges & eps, heavy cracking to front & rear gutter/hinge- front cover shaky/partially detached, heavy staining to top page edges)
PUBLISHER: W C Wilson, Gov't Printer 1859
KEYWORDS: anthropology New Zealand Australia Australian Aboriginal population history tribes first editions
Ralph Lauren: In His Own Fashion
Quarto, black heavy boards, black glossy lettering to spine & front board, patterned eps, frontispiece, 351pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl chafing to boards, sl wrinkling to pages) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Abrams 2019
KEYWORDS: fashion design designers Ralph Lauren history clothing
Old Korea: The Land of Morning Calm
FIRST EDITION, ex-library, quarto, cream buckram boards, black & red lettering to spine, frontispiece, 72pp, illus, VG- (heavy scuffing to spine & board edges, moderate chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, usual library markings, sm ex-libris label to front pastedown, moderate foxing to eps, heavy cracking to some gutters, some plates loose, light soiling & foxing to pages thorughout)
PUBLISHER: Hutchinson & Co 1946
KEYWORDS: travel writing literature Asia Korea history culture first editions
The Modernist Muslim Movement in Indonesia 1900-1942
Octavo, illus purple light card covers with french flaps, white lettering to spine, illus eps, x + 390pp, VG- (heavy chafing/surface loss & soiling to spine & covers, heavy fading to spine, moderate tanning & staining to page edges, moderate creasing & chafing/scuffing to eps & terminals)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1973
KEYWORDS: Indonesia Indonesian history religion religious Muslim Islam Islamic early 20th twentieth century
Now Showing: A History of the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery
Lg quarto, illus light card covers with french flaps, grey lettering to spine, printed eps, 300pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing to cover edges, light chafing & soiling to covers, light soiling & creasing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Govett-Brewster Art Gallery 2016
KEYWORDS: art history New Zealand Govett-Brewster art gallery
The Malays
Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, xiii + 293pp, VG+ (light chafing & curling to covers/edges, sl tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Wiley-Blackwell 2011
KEYWORDS: Asian history culture Malay civilisation civilization
How Richmond Grew
SIGNED, INSCRIBED & DATED, 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: J Sutton 1992
KEYWORDS: signed New Zealand history Jean Sutton Richmond south island Nelson region
Every Spy a Prince: The Complete History of Israel's Intelligence Community
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: Houghton Mifflin 1991
KEYWORDS: Israel idf military espionage history spies intelligence
Beyond the Blue Horizon: On the Track of Imperial Airways
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: Charles Scribner's Sons 1987
KEYWORDS: commercial aviation air travel history aeronautics Imperial Airways passenger transport