Books - "history"
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Holy Places of the British Isles: A Guide to the Legendary and Sacred Sites
Quarto 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: Ebury Press 1983
KEYWORDS: Great Britain British isles travel guides sacred sites ancient history spirituality religious
Arthur and the Grail
Oblong quarto 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: Sidgwick & Jackson 1988
KEYWORDS: King Arthur history legends landscapes
Calanais: The Standing Stones
Square 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: Urras nan Tursachan 1995
KEYWORDS: Scotland Scottish heritage ancient history Calanais ritual sites astronomy spirituality
'This Wonderful Volcano of Water': Sir Joseph Banks Exploere and Protector if Iceland 1772-1820: Annual Lecture 2003
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: Hakluyt Society c/o Map Library 2004
KEYWORDS: hakluyt society annual lectures 2003 exploration history maritime nautical Sir Joseph Banks Iceland
Fort Yukon: The Hudson's Bay Company in Russian America: Annual Lecture 2005
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: Hakluyt Society 2005
KEYWORDS: hakluyt society annual lectures 2005 exploration history maritime nautical Fort Yukon
Untruth and Consequences: Ralegh's Discoverie of Guiana and the 'Salting' of the Gold Mine: Annual Lecture 2006
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: Hakluyt Society c/o Map Library 2007
KEYWORDS: hakluyt society annual lectures 2006 exploration history maritime nautical Ralegh
Voyaging Worlds: Annual Lecture 2007
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: Hakluyt Society c/o Map Library 2008
KEYWORDS: hakluyt society annual lectures 2007 exploration history maritime nautical voyages
Religion and the Rebel
FIRST EDITION, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-) underlining & annotations in ink- quite minor; 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: Victor Gollancz 1957
KEYWORDS: first editions religion Christianity history theology philosophy
Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches
FULL LEATHER BINDING, super octavo, maroon full leather boards, gilt lettering & raised bands to spine, gilt decoration to spine & boards, aeg, printed/illus eps, 432pp, illus/photos, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: The Easton Press 1990
KEYWORDS: full leather bindings library of the presidents series US American former presidents politics political leaders autobiography autobiographies memoir Ronald Reagan history speeches
Speeches of the American Presidents (2 Vol Set)
2 VOL SET, FULL LEATHER BINDING, imperial octavo, green full leather boards, gilt lettering & raised bands to spines, gilt decoration to spines & boards, aeg, illus/printed to eps, vol 1- xxv + 374pp + pgs819-848 index to rear, vol 2- vii + pgs375-848 which includes index to rear, illus, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: The Easton Press 1995
KEYWORDS: full leather bindings library of the presidents series US American former presidents politics political leaders speeches history historical
Bitter Victory: The Battle for Sicily, 1943
FULL LEATHER BINDING, super octavo, green full leather boards, gilt lettering & raised bands to spine, gilt decoration to spine & Boards, aeg, iridescent patterned eps, 666pp, maps to rear, Near FINE (v sm scuff to front board)
PUBLISHER: The Easton Press 2004
KEYWORDS: full leather bindings military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 battles Sicily operations
Syria: The Holy Land and Asia Minor, Illustrated (3 Vol Set)
3 VOL SET, imperial octavo, green textured buckram half leather bound boards, gilt lettering to leather title plates to spines, gilt tooling/decoration to spines & boards, marbled page edges & eps, frontispieces with tissue guards to vols 1+2, unguarded frontispiece to vol 3, folding maps to prelims of vol 1, maps to prelims of vol 3, plates, mixed pagination, illus/plates - all counted & present with tissue guards, G+ (v heavy chipping/scuffing/bruising to spines & board extrems/edges with some moderate loss, moderate tanning to spines, moderate to heavy staining/fading/discolouration to boards, heavy tanning to page edges, sm ex-libris plates to front pastedowns of all vols, moderate fading & water staining to eps, minor cracking to front and/or rear gutters to each vol, light to moderate tanning and/or foxing throughout with moderate water staining to top edges of most pages of each vol)
PUBLISHER: Peter Jackson, Late Fisher, Son & Co 1842
KEYWORDS: history culture travel writing literature Syria illustrated Asia Minor religion religious land
Chauvet Cave: The Discovery of the World's Oldest Paintings
Lg quarto, illus glossy light card covers with french flaps, white lettering to spine & covers, 135pp, illus/photos, VG+ (moderate bruising to spine, light chafing to covers)
PUBLISHER: Thames & Hudson 2001
KEYWORDS: prehistoric cave art archaeology archeology Chauvet Cave France Ardeche ancient history historical
Geschiedenis van de Tweede Wereldoorlog in Foto's en Documenten / History of the Second World War in Photos and Documents (20 Vol Set)
TEXT IN DUTCH, 20 VOL SET, sm octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering & black numbering to spines, mixed pagination, illus/photos, VG (light curling/creasing to cover edges, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to front eps of each vol)
PUBLISHER: Bosch & Keuning 1962-64
KEYWORDS: TEXT IN DUTCH ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 photography photos military history
The Life of John Marshall 1755-1835 (4 Vol Set)
4 VOL SET, super octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spines, subject's signature in gilt to front boards, deckled/roughcut page fore-edges, frontispieces, mixed pagination, illus, VG (light to moderate bruising & rubbing to spine & board extrems/edges, light chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, light tanning to eps, prev. bookseller's sm ink stamp to ffeps)
PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin 1916-19
KEYWORDS: history historical figures John Marshall biography biographies memoirs Americans
Collecting the Edged Weapons of the Third Reich (5 Vol Set)
5 VOL SET, VOLS 1 & 5 SIGNED, imperial octavo, grey buckram boards, red lettering to spines & front boards, mixed pagination, illus/photos, VG (light bruising to board extrems, light foxing to spines, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm labels to front pastedowns to vols 1 & 5, minor adhesion to pages, sl foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, light to moderate chafing & soiling, moderate foxing)
PUBLISHER: Thomas M Johnson 1976-85
KEYWORDS: military history memorabilia collectables collectibles weaponry nazi third reich swords ceremonial presentation war
Athenian Letters: or, the Epistolary Correspondence of an Agent of the King of Persia, Residing at Athens During the Peloponnesian War. Containing The History of the Times, in Dispatches to the Ministers of State at the Persian Court, Besides Letters
2 VOL SET, octavo, light green buckram boards with dark green half binding, gilt lettering & rule to spine, marbled page edges & eps, frontispiece to vol 1, vol 1- xlvi + 8pp + 397pp, vol 2- xxxi + 525pp, VG (light to moderate rubbing & soiling to boards, heavy tanning to page edges, moderate to heavy but historic water staining to pages, light age appropriate foxing throughout)
PUBLISHER: John Archer, No 80, Dame-Street 1792
KEYWORDS: letters correspondence classical ancient history Peloponnesian war Athenian
Historiarum Libri, qui Supersunt Omnes et Deperditorum Fragmenta. Ex Recensione Arn. Drakenborchii ad Codicum Bambergensis et Vindobonensis Fidum Passim Reficta a Ioanne Theophilo Kreyssig
TEXT IN LATIN, octavo, brown leather boards, gilt lettering & raised bands with tooling/decoration to spines, gilt rule to borders of boards, red speckling to page edges, mixed pagination, G- (boards of vols 1 & 4 detached- rear board of vol 1 missing, v heavy cracking to front hinge of spine to vol 4, heavy rubbing & surface loss to spines & board edges, moderate staining & chafing to boards, v heavy tanning/soiling to page edges, ex-libris plates to front pastedowns of all vols, occasional pencil annotations, moderate foxing to eps, light foxing to prelims & terminals)
PUBLISHER: Oxonii, Impensis D A Talboys 1840-41
KEYWORDS: TEXT IN LATIN T Livii Livius Patavin history historical books literature Drakenborchii Bambergen code classical
The Art of Angling, Rock and Sea-Fishing: With the Natural History of River, Pond and Sea-Fish. Illustrated with 133 Cutts
Sm octavo, marbled heavy half leather bound boards, ornate woodcut to full title page, unpaginated prelims, 249pp + unpaginate dindex to rear, illus/woodcuts, G- (heavy vertical crack to spine- page block completely cracked in half at spine, v heavy cracking to front gutter- front board partially detached, heavy cracking to rear gutter, v heavy rubbing to spine & boards/edges- some surface loss, 2cm loss to top spine extrem, heavy tanning & soiling to page edges, age appropriate staining to pages- esp. prelims & terminals, insect damage to terminals- moderate loss to last index page & glued to rear ep, historic prev. owner's name in ink to title page, light to moderate foxing throughout)
PUBLISHER: John Watts at the Printing Office in Wild-Court near Lincoln's-Inn Fields 1740
KEYWORDS: hobbies angling flyfishing fly fishing sea-fishing natural history marine life antiquarian books antique
Stranger to the Game
HANDSOME FULL LEATHER BINDING, SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS, super octavo, maroon full leather boards, gilt lettering & raised bands to spine, gilt decoration to spine & boards, aeg, iridescent patterned eps, xiv + 286pp, illus/photos, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: The Easton Press 1994
KEYWORDS: full leather bindings signed Bob Gibson Lonnie Wheeler US America American sport baseball history Cardinals autobiography autobiographies memoir