Books - "history"
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The Peninsula Veterans
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: Macdonald and Jane's 1975
KEYWORDS: Iberian Peninsula military history British army soldiers
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)
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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
A Short History of the Sudan
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: Oxford University Press 1965
KEYWORDS: sudan africa history sudanese
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
Hellfire: Evelyn Waugh and the Hypocrites Club
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: The History Press 2022
KEYWORDS: evelyn waugh history hypocrites club
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
Caught in the Web of Words: James A H Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary
EX LIBRARY, 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: Oxford University Press 1979
KEYWORDS: oxford english dictionary james a h murray words etymology history
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
Journal of the Waterloo Campaign, Kept Throughout the Campaign of 1815 (2 Vol Set)
2 VOL SET, FIRST EDITION, octavo, half leather bound marbled boards, gilt lettering & rule/decoration to spines, marbled page edges, vol 1- xii + 369pp, vol 2- viii + 347pp, VG+ (minor bruising & rubbing to extrems, minor scuffing to spine extrems- sl surface loss, light tanning to page edges light to moderate foxing to eps & prelims/terminals, prev. owner's name in ink to front pastedown of vol 1, occasional light smattering of foxing throughout)
PUBLISHER: William Blackwood and Sons 1870
KEYWORDS: journals diaries war waterloo battles history military Napoleon Bonaparte General Cavalie Mercer campaigns 1815 first editions
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