Books - "history"
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Live to Ride: The Rumbling, Roaring World of Speed, Escape, and Adventure on Two Wheels
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PUBLISHER: Atria Books 2010
KEYWORDS: vehicles motorcycles history speed sport
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk: A Sketch
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PUBLISHER: Hesperus Press 2003
KEYWORDS: Russian romance fiction social history women
Voyages and Discoveries: The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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PUBLISHER: Penguin Books 1972
KEYWORDS: English voyages ship renaissance anecdote history Richard Hakluyt
Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine
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PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster 2020
KEYWORDS: classical history ancient Roman emperors Augustus Caesar Constantine
Rare Pacific Voyage Books from The Parsons Collection of David Parson (2 vols)
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PUBLISHER: Hordern House Rare Books 2005
KEYWORDS: rare books antiquarian pacific voyage history historical catalogue
New Found Land: Maps in the History of Exploration
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PUBLISHER: The British Library 1998
KEYWORDS: maps cartology history voyages discovery exploration
The Life and Letters of the Great Earl of Cork
Super 8vo, grey/brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, teg, frontis. & plates with tissue guards, xvi + 531 pp., plates, VG- (light to moderate soiling/scuffing to boards, moderate 2cm tear to front joint, moderate scuffing & tearing to edges & extrems, light to moderate tanning & foxing to pg edges & eps/prelims/terminals, prev owner's inscription in black ink to ffep, moderate tanning to plate tissue guards, sporadic light soiling & foxing throughout, light to moderate cracking to front hinge, bgd sl sloppy).
PUBLISHER: Duckworth and Company 1904
KEYWORDS: 16th century Earl of Cork England renaissance social history biography life lives esquire gentlemen
Prometheus and the Bolsheviks
8vo, red buckram boards, tooled label to front board & spine with gilt lettering & rules, frontis., [12] + 256 pp., plates, foldout map to rear, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to boards & spine, moderate fading to spine, light bruising to edges & extrems, light to moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges, minor foxing throughout), lacking d/w.
PUBLISHER: The Cresset Press 1937
KEYWORDS: Soviet Union Georgia Europe 20th century history Russia socialism communism
Treasure-House of the Language: The Living OED
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PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 2007
KEYWORDS: linguistics language dictionaries Oxford English dictionary etymology history
Empire of Words: The Reign of the OED
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PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 1994
KEYWORDS: linguistics language dictionaries Oxford English dictionary etymology history
Byron's Journal of His Circumnavigation 1764-1766
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PUBLISHER: Hakluyt / Cambridge University Press 1964
KEYWORDS: hakluyt exploration history maritime nautical John Byron 18th eighteenth century journals diaries voyages
The Navigation of the Frobisher Voyages: The Hakluyt Society Annual Talk 1997
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PUBLISHER: Hakluyt Society 1998
KEYWORDS: Hakluyt society annual talks past years 1997 exploration voyages Frobisher history historical nautical maritime
The Impact of Physical, Spiritual & Mental Health on Shipboard Order in the Early English East India Company Voyages, 1601-1611: The Hakluyt Society Annual Lecture 2018
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PUBLISHER: Hakluyt Society 2019
KEYWORDS: Hakluyt society annual talks past years 2018 exploration voyages history historical nautical maritime early English East India 17th seventeenth century
From Geneva to the Rigi: British Images of Switzerland in Texts, Guidebooks and Maps, 1650-1904: The Hakluyt Society Annual Lecture 2020
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PUBLISHER: Hakluyt Society 2020
KEYWORDS: Hakluyt society annual talks past years 2020 exploration voyages history historical nautical maritime Switzerland
The Struggle for the South Atlantic: Sources and Serendipity: The Hakluyt Society Annual Lecture 2019
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PUBLISHER: Hakluyt Society 2020
KEYWORDS: Hakluyt society annual talks past years 2019 exploration voyages history historical nautical maritime South Atlantic
Farewell Pamir
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PUBLISHER: None Stated
KEYWORDS: New Zealand maritime nautical voyages exploration Pamir sailing vessels history
Travels in the Tian'-Shan' 1856-1857
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PUBLISHER: Hakluyt Society c/o The Map Library 1998
KEYWORDS: hakluyt society history historical exploration voyages maritime nautical Tian'-Shan'
Pieter van den Broecke's Journal of Voyages to Cape Verde, Guinea and Angola (1605-1612)
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PUBLISHER: Hakluyt Society c/o The Map Library 2000
KEYWORDS: hakluyt society history historical exploration voyages maritime nautical Pieter van den Broecke journals diaries 17th seventeenth century Cape Verde Guinea Angola
The Third Voyage of Martin Frobisher to Baffin Island 1578
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PUBLISHER: Hakluyt Society c/o The Map Library 2001
KEYWORDS: hakluyt society history historical exploration voyages maritime nautical Martin Frobisher Baffin Island 16th sixteenth century
The Discovery of River Gambra (1623)
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PUBLISHER: Hakluyt Society c/o The Map Library 1999
KEYWORDS: hakluyt society history historical exploration voyages maritime nautical River Gambra 17th seventeenth century