Books - "history"
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Conflicting Counsels to Confuse the Age: A Documentary Study of Political Economy in Qing China, 1644-1840
Super 8vo, red buckram bds, spine & front board lettered in gil, VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to bds; sl bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges).
PUBLISHER: The University of Michigan 1996
KEYWORDS: Helen Dunstan China 17th 18th 19th century politics political economy economic policy government history
Imre Lakatos and Theories of Scientific Change
8vo, xi + 465 pp.; blue heavy card bds, spine lettered in gilt, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges; light to moderate tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG (moderate tanning, scuffing & moderate to heavy soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with sl chipping).
PUBLISHER: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1989
KEYWORDS: philosophy of science 20th century Imre Lakatos Greek Greece history knowledge scientific change
Peter Schoeffer of Gernsheim and Mainz with a list of his surviving books and broadsides
Super 8vo, xv + 146 pp.; blue buckram bds, spine lettered in gilt; frontis., plates, illus.; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning & foxing).
PUBLISHER: The Leo Hart Co. 1950
KEYWORDS: Peter Schoeffer incunabula printer printing history 15th century
Type: A Visual History of Typefaces and Graphic Styles 1628-1900 (2 vols)
2 VOL SET. Fol. 360 pp., 360 pp.; illus. heavy card bds, black & gilt lettering to spine bds; red eps, frontis., photos, illus.; VG+ (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; sl soiling to eps, prelims & terminals).
PUBLISHER: Taschen 2009
KEYWORDS: type typography printing publishing history book arts design
Samuel Richardson of London: Printer
4to, blue heavy card bds, spine & front board lettered in gilt, VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; sl tanning & soiling to pg edges; sl soiling to eps, prelims & terminals).
PUBLISHER: University of Otago Press 2001
KEYWORDS: Keith Maslen Samuel Richardson printing publishing history printer 18th century ornaments printing
Fleuron Anthology
4to, xv + 359 pp.; blue buckram bds, spine lettered in silver gilt; grey eps, illus.; VG+ (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light soiling to eps); in d/w, VG- (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with moderate chipping; sm open tear to front cover & front upper right extrem; moderate tanning & foxing).
PUBLISHER: Ernest Benn 1973
KEYWORDS: Feuron magazine journal periodical fine printing publishing history type typography typographical technique
Letters Written During the Indian Mutiny
Post 8vo, xxiii + 169 pp.; blue buckram bds, spine lettered in gilt, front board decorated with emblem in gilt enclosed by roll-tooled border in blind; frontis., plates, map foldouts; VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems with light chipping; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light to moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; bookplate to front pastedown, prev owner's sticker to ht; ffep torn out; moderate cracking to front gutters).
PUBLISHER: Macmillan and Co. 1924
KEYWORDS: Indian Mutiny England English British history India letters correspondence
Hitler's Scientist: Science, War and the Devil's Pact
Super 8vo 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 costs
PUBLISHER: Viking 2003
KEYWORDS: Nazi Germany German history science 20th century war warfare Second World War 2 WW2 WWII WW II
Thermopylae: The Battle that Changed the World
Super 8vo 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 costs
PUBLISHER: Macmillan 2006
KEYWORDS: Paul Cartledge ancient classical history Thermopylae battle war Persian Greek Greece
The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800
Super 8vo 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 costs
PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster 2008
KEYWORDS: Jay Winik America United States 18th century modern history New World
Bedlam: London and Its Mad
8vo 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 costs
PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster 2008
KEYWORDS: Catharine Arnold England English history London
Churchill: The Power of Words: His remarkable life recounted through his writing and speeches
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 will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Bantam Press 2012
KEYWORDS: Winston Churchill life lives biography writing speeches speech 20th century England English history
Facades: Edith, Osbert, and Sacheverell Sitwell
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PUBLISHER: Macmillan 1978
KEYWORDS: 20th century literary history Edith Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell
The Third Advent
8vo 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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Daisyamerica 2003
KEYWORDS: politics economics philosophy history spiritual spirituality enlightenment
Equal to the Task: The History of the Royal Australian Army Service Corps
8vo 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 costs
PUBLISHER: F. W. Cheshire 1962
KEYWORDS: Australia Australian army military history
The Science of Secrecy: The History of Codes and Codebreaking
Imperial 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: Fourth Estate 2000
KEYWORDS: codes code breaking history communication
First Airborne
FIRST EDITION, 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: Secker and Warburg 1948
KEYWORDS: military history aviation Michael Packe aerial combat warfare ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 first editions
The Degaev Affair: Terror and Treason in Tasrist Russia
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: Yale University Press 2003
KEYWORDS: Russia Russian history politics political Degaev affair late 19th nineteenth century
The Shadow of War Russia and the USSR, 1941 to the Present
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PUBLISHER: Wiley-Blackwell 2010
KEYWORDS: Russia Russian history 20th twentieth century post-war soviet USSR
The Royal River: The Thames, From Source to Sea
Imperial 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: Bloomsbury Books 1985
KEYWORDS: England Great Britain English British cities London waterways rivers Thames history