Books - "history"
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A Voyage Round the World in His Majesty's Frigate Pandora
Octavo, quarter leather bound marbled boards, gilt lettering to leather title plate on spine with gilt rule also, frontispiece, 37pp + 164pp, illus, VG+ (sl fading & scuffing to spine, light bruising to board corners)
PUBLISHER: Hordern House Rare Books 1998
KEYWORDS: maritime exploration voyages history historical journeys Pandora Bounty Oceania
With Captain James Cook in the Antarctic and Pacific: The Private Journal of James Burney Second Lieutenant of the Adventure on Cook's Second Voyage 1772-1773
Super octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt nautical illus to boards, illus eps, xi + 112pp, illus/maps, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, minor soilng to front board, sl foxing to top page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light soiling)
PUBLISHER: National Library of Australia 1975
KEYWORDS: history historical voyages exploration maritime nautical journeys Pacific Antarctic 18th eighteenth century journals diaries James Burney James Cook
SAS: A Pictorial History of the Australian Special Air Service 1957-1997
Super octavo, illus glossy heavy boards, white lettering to spine, illus eps, unpaginated prelims, 416pp, illus/photos, VG+ (spine cocked & sl faded, light bruising/rubbing to spine & board corners, light chafing to boards, sl tanning & soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Access Press 1997
KEYWORDS: Australia Australian military history sas special air service illustrated special forces
Farthest North
Super octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xii + maps + 508pp, illus/photos, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl tanning & chafing)
PUBLISHER: Gerald Duckworth & Co 2000
KEYWORDS: history historical journeys maritime exploration nautical voyages north North Pole Fram Fridtjof Nansen
John Quincey Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy / John Quincey Adams and the Union (2 Vol Set)
2 VOL SET, FULL LEATHER BINDING, super octavo, maroon full leather binding, gilt lettering & rasied bands to spine, gilt decoration to spine & boards, aeg, printed eps, frontispiece to vol 1, vol 1- xix + 588pp + xv index & folding map to rear, vol 2- xv + 546pp + xix index to rear, illus, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: The Easton Press 1987
KEYWORDS: full leather bindings the library of the presidents series John Quincey Adams former US leaders politics political leaders foreign policy history government
The Book of Government or Rules for Kings: The Siyasat-nama or Siyar al-Muluk
Octavo, grey buckram boards, gilt lettering with red & gilt decoration to spine, xi + 259pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light fading to spine extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, ink stamp to ffep) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, heavy creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges with some minor loss, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling)
PUBLISHER: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1960
KEYWORDS: ancient Persian literature English translations history historical philosophy antiquity Nizam al-Mulk
An Ambassador's Memoirs 1914-1917
LACKS D/W, super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt & red lettering to spine, gilt decoration/illus to front board, top page edges stained red, frontispiece, illus/photos, VG (light rubbing & fading to spine, light tanning & staining to page edges, ex-libris plate & label to half title page, moderate cracking & light staining to prelims)
PUBLISHER: Hutchinson & Co 1973
KEYWORDS: journals diaries autobiography autobiographies memoir Maurice Paleologue Russia Russian history France French politics political
With the Cameliers in Palestine
FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue buckram boards, black lettering to spine, blind lettering & rule to front board, frontispiece, 244pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising & rubbing to spine & board extrems, light fading/tanning to spine, light soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing/soilinng to page edges & eps, light foxing to prelims & terminals)
PUBLISHER: A H & A W Reed 1938
KEYWORDS: first editions New Zealand Palestine military war history cameliers ww1 first 1st world war one i 1 the great war
A Lady's Diary of the Siege of Lucknow, Written for the Perusal of Friends at Home
Sm octavo, red textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind rule to boards, vii + 211pp + 32pp to rear, VG (moderate tanning/fading to spine & board edges, moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, light cracking to gutters, light soiling to eps, light foxing sporadically throughout, binder's sm label to rear pastedown)
PUBLISHER: John Murray 1858
KEYWORDS: diary journal diaries journals G Mrs James P Harris Lucknow sieges history
Ka Ngangana Tonu a Hineamaru
TEXT IN TE REO MAORI, super octavo, red heavy boards, blind stamp lettering to spine & front board, illus eps, 178pp, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing)
PUBLISHER: Auckland University Press 2022
KEYWORDS: TEXT IN TE REO MAORI New Zealand history north island culture
A Changing Land: Sir Donald McLean's Maraekakaho - 1857 to Today
Super octavo, illu slgossy light card covers with french flaps, white & brown lettering to spine, xii + 595pp, illus + folding map, Near FINE (sl soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Fraser Books 2013
KEYWORDS: New Zealand rural history Hawke's Bay Sir Donald McLean
Von Daguerre bis Heute (4 Vol Set)
4 VOL SET, TEXT IN GERMAN, quarto, vols 2-4 illus heavy boards, vol 1 illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, mixed pagination, illus/photos, VG+ (light scuffing & bruising to board & cover edges, light chafing & soiling to boards & covers, light tanning to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Herausgeber 1977-97
KEYWORDS: TEXT IN GERMAN art photography history cameras design development
The Washington Papers: Basic Selections from the Public and Private Writings of George Washington
FULL LEATHER BINDING, octavo, brown full leather boards, gilt lettering & raised bands to spine, gilt decoration to spine & boards, aeg, printed eps, unpaginated prelims, 430pp, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: The Easton Press 1989
KEYWORDS: full leather bindings the library of the presidents series George Washington former US leaders politics political history papers writings
Balzac's Lives
8vo 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: New York Review Books 2020
KEYWORDS: 19th century Balzac novel novelist criticism literature biography social history comedy manners
We Have Won the Land: The Story of the Purchase by the Assynt Crofters' Trust of the North Lochinver Estate
SIGNED. 8vo 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: Acair 1999
KEYWORDS: North Lochinver Estate 20th century 1990s history politics Assynt land purchase crofter
Tales of a Chinese Grandmother
8vo hardcover (VG) lacking 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: George G. Harrap & Company 1938
KEYWORDS: tales stories story China Chinese history folk lore folk-lore myth legend
Barra
Super 8vo 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: Canongate 1984
KEYWORDS: Scotland Island photgraphs photos photography social history culture custom pictorial
A Churchill Family Album
Super 8vo 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: Penguin Books 1985
KEYWORDS: Winston Churchill family history biography war conflict Prime Minister England
The Fishing Here is Great! A Light-Hearted Discourse on the Social Historu of Angling as Depicted on Old Postcards
8vo illus 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: Willow Books 1985
KEYWORDS: fishing fish angling angler fisherman fishermen river stream literature fly social history postcards
Reading Herodotus: A Guided Tour through the Wild Boars, Dancing Suitors, and Crazy Tyrants of The History
8vo 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: The Johns Hopkins University Press 2012
KEYWORDS: Herodotus Greece Rome Greek Roman classical history ancient antiquity criticism