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Conflicting Counsels to Confuse the Age: A Documentary Study of Political Economy in Qing China, 1644-1840


DUNSTAN, HELEN

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

$75.00
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Imre Lakatos and Theories of Scientific Change


GAVROGLU, KOSTAS & GOUDAROULIS, YORGOS & NICOLACOPOULOS, PANTELIS (eds)

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

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Peter Schoeffer of Gernsheim and Mainz with a list of his surviving books and broadsides


LEHMANN-HAUPT, HELLMUT

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

$125.00
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Type: A Visual History of Typefaces and Graphic Styles 1628-1900 (2 vols)


DE JONG, CEES W (ed); THOLENAAR, JAN

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

$100.00
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Samuel Richardson of London: Printer


MASLEN, KEITH

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

$75.00
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Fleuron Anthology


MAYNELL, FRANCIS & SIMON, HERBERT (eds)

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

$45.00
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Letters Written During the Indian Mutiny


ROBERTS, FRED; ROBERTS, Field-Marshall EARL (after); ROBERT, Countess (pref)

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

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Hitler's Scientist: Science, War and the Devil's Pact


CORNWELL, JOHN

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

$22.50
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Thermopylae: The Battle that Changed the World


CARTLEDGE, PAUL

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

$22.50
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The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800


WINIK, JAY

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PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster 2008

KEYWORDS: Jay Winik America United States 18th century modern history New World

$17.50
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Bedlam: London and Its Mad


ARNOLD, CATHARINE

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

$19.50
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Churchill: The Power of Words: His remarkable life recounted through his writing and speeches


GILBERT, MARTIN

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

$15.00
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Facades: Edith, Osbert, and Sacheverell Sitwell


PEARSON, JOHN

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 1978

KEYWORDS: 20th century literary history Edith Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell

$35.00
xx129pol205816

The Third Advent


DE KALBERMATTEN, GREGOIRE

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

$35.00
xx127pol205908

Equal to the Task: The History of the Royal Australian Army Service Corps


FAIRCLOUGH, Colonel H

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

$16.50
xx126pol206009

The Science of Secrecy: The History of Codes and Codebreaking


SINGH, SIMON

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

$18.50
xx126pol206015

First Airborne


PACKE, MICHAEL

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

$18.00
xx126pol206017

The Degaev Affair: Terror and Treason in Tasrist Russia


PIPES, RICHARD

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

$20.00
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The Shadow of War Russia and the USSR, 1941 to the Present


LOVELL, STEPHEN

Super 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: Wiley-Blackwell 2010

KEYWORDS: Russia Russian history 20th twentieth century post-war soviet USSR

$25.00
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The Royal River: The Thames, From Source to Sea


N/A

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

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