Books - "history"
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1812: Eyewitness Accounts of Napoleon's Defeat in Russia
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: Macmillan / St Martin's Press 1966
KEYWORDS: military history Napoleon Bonaparte Russia war defeat
Hit Men: Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business
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: Times Books 1990
KEYWORDS: rock music industry record companies business history
The Marquis of Pombal (Second Edition)
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: Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer 1871
KEYWORDS: Marquis of Pombal biography biographies memoir history historical
Queen Victoria: Her Life and Reign, a study of Monarchial Institutions in British Countries and Her Majesty's Imperial Influence
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 will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: The Linscott Publishing Company n/d (circa 1900)
KEYWORDS: queen victoria empire imperial biography colonialism history politics empress britain british
Wife to Mr Milton: The Story of Marie Powell
Octavo hard cover (G+) in d/w (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 will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Creative Age Press, Inc 1944
KEYWORDS: historical novel robert graves marie powell john milton poet britain england history literature fiction biography
The Human Comedy
Octavo hard cover (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 cost.
PUBLISHER: John Lane the Bodley Head 1937
KEYWORDS: humanity civilisation commentary history prehistory anthropology
Histoire Extra-Ordinaire: Essays on a Dream of Baudelaire's
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1969
KEYWORDS: history charles baudelaire literature essays
The Meeting of East and West: An Inquiry Concerning World Understanding
Octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (G-); 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: The MacMillan Company 1946
KEYWORDS: geopolitics history east west relations
Emperor of China: Self-portrait of K'ang-hsi
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1974
KEYWORDS: china emperor k'ang-hsi history biography
From Cave Paintings to Comic Strip: A Kaleidoscope of Human Communication
Super octavo hardcover (VG) lacks d/w; 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Max Parrish and Co. 1949
KEYWORDS: human communication cultural anthropology art media history
The Slavs in European History and Civilization
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Rutgers 1962
KEYWORDS: slav slavic history europe
Roundhead General: A Military Biography of Sir William Waller
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: MacDonald and Co. 1969
KEYWORDS: william waller roundhead britain english civil war history
Blood and Thunder: Mid-Victorian Melodrama and its Origins
Superoctavo 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Frederick Muller Ltd 1949
KEYWORDS: melodrama mid-victorian history theatre theatrical
The Great Lone Land: A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America (Fourth & Cheaper Edition)
Octavo, half leather bound marbled boards, gilt lettering & rule/decoration to spine, marbled page edges, x + 386pp, illus, folding map of British America to secret pocket to rear pastedown, VG (light to moderate rubbing & chafing/scuffing to leatherwork, light chafing & surface loss to boards, minor discolouration to page edges, light to moderate foxing & soiling to eps & prelims/terminals, occasional light cracking to gutters, minor soiling to map with 1cm loss to fold of map also)
PUBLISHER: Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle 1873
KEYWORDS: travel history writing literature America historical Captain W F Butler
The Naval History of Great Britain, from the Declaration of War by France in 1793, to the Accession of George IV (6 Vol Set)
6 VOL SET, octavo, half leather bound marbled boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spines, red speckling to page edges, frontispieces to vols 1+2 only, mixed pagination, illus, folding charts to rear, VG (light to moderate bruising to extrems, light rubbing to spines, moderate crackling & bruising to sine of vol 6, light chafing to boards, light to moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges, light to moderate soiling to eps, light cracking to some gutters, minor foxing & soiling throughout each vol, minor creasing & foxing/soiling to folding charts, prev. owner's name in pencil to ffep)
PUBLISHER: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street 1837
KEYWORDS: military history Great Britain British navy naval early 19th nineteenth century warfare
Kicking On: Through the History of Hunting in New Zealand
Oblong quarto, illus heavy boards, red lettering to spine, illus eps, 333pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl bruising to extrems & board edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges & chipping)
PUBLISHER: The New Zealand Hunts' Association Incorporated 2012
KEYWORDS: New Zealand hunting history hounds Theo Herbert
Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 1879 Vol XII
Super octavo, pink stiff card covers, blank brown cloth spine, black lettering to front board only, lxvi (total) + 472pp, illus/folding maps, VG- (heavy peeling to paper cover on heavy boards- cover paper completely missing to rear board, moderate chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, many page edges remain uncut, moderate tanning & soiling to eps, moderate cracking to gutters throughout)
PUBLISHER: Lyon & Blair, Printers 1880
KEYWORDS: New Zealand institute transactions proceedings history historical reports 1879 19th nineteenth century
White's Air Directory, and Who's Who in New Zealand Aviation: Volume No 12, 1961
Sm octavo, illus light card covers, green lettering to spine, printed/illus eps, 156pp, illus, VG- (moderate creasing, scuffing & soiling to spine & covers with some foxing also, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, moderate foxing to pages sporadically throughout, loss of adhesion to glue at rear gutter- rusting to staples)
PUBLISHER: Whites Aviation Ltd 1961
KEYWORDS: New Zealand flight aviation directories history past issues White's 60s sixties companies businesses
Rugby League Annual 1933, Volume No 1
Sm octavo, illus light card covers, brown lettering to spine & covers, printed eps, 224pp, illus/photos, G+ (heavy creasing & chipping/closed tearing to spine, moderate soiling & creasing to covers, moderate staining at binding/string, light foxing throughout, gutters v delicate & heavily cracked- some pages detached but still present)
PUBLISHER: NZ Newspapers 1933
KEYWORDS: New Zealand rugby league sport history annuals 1930s thirties past issues years data statistics
Whites Air Directory and Who's Who in New Zealand Aviation: Volume No 13, 1962
Sm octavo, illus light card covers, red lettering to spine, illus/printed eps, 160pp, illus, VG (moderate rubbing & creasing to spine & cover edges, light chafing & foxing to covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, minor rusting to staples)
PUBLISHER: Whites Aviation Ltd 1962
KEYWORDS: New Zealand flight aviation directories history past issues White's 60s sixties companies businesses