Books - "history"
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Thomas Hardy: A Literary Life
Ex-library, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG) minor pencil markings; 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: St Martin's Press 1996
KEYWORDS: literature literary biography biographies memoir Thomas Hardy history
Handmade: Vanishing Cultures of Europe and the Near East
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: Harmony Books 1974
KEYWORDS: forgotten crafts history historical skills barns farms cheese making wattles spinning thatching
Victoria of England
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: Cresset / Century Hutchinson 1987
KEYWORDS: British history monarchs monarchy royal family Queen Victoria
The University of Otago: An Official Record of the Centennial Celebrations, 8-11 August 1969
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: University of Otago 1969
KEYWORDS: New Zealand University of Otago centennial centenary official records history academic
The House of Yan: A Family at the Heart of a Century in Chinese History
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: Harper 2020
KEYWORDS: history China Chinese families Yan biographies memoirs
Russia and the Russians
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: Macdonald 1970
KEYWORDS: Russia Russian culture heritage history
The Army of Alexander the Great
Ex-library, super 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: Osprey Publishing 1984
KEYWORDS: men at arms series history Alexander the Great soldiers armies children's
Origen and Greek Patristic Theology
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: T & T Clark 1901
KEYWORDS: theology Greek history William Fairweather
The Tolstoys: Twenty Generations of Russian History 1353-1983
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: Coronet / Hodder and Stoughton 1985
KEYWORDS: Russia Russian families Tolstoy history biography biographies
In the South Seas
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: Chatto & Windus 1900
KEYWORDS: history historical travel writing literature adventure exploration Robert Louis Stevenson Marquesas Paumotus Gilbert Islands south seas
A History of Printed Textiles
Ex-library. 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: Studio Vista 1969
KEYWORDS: Stuart Robinson printed textiles history
This Mortal Coil: A History of Death
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: Bloomsbury 2022
KEYWORDS: Andrew Doig history mortality death
The Glass Universe: The Hidden History of the Women who took the Measure of the Stars
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: 4th Estate 2016
KEYWORDS: Dava Sobel astronomy history of science observatory
Nagigating the Golden Compass: Religion, Science and Daemonology in His Dark Materials
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: Benbella Books 2005
KEYWORDS: His dark materials daemonology demonology science golden compass history criticism
Music to My Ears: The Billboard Essays: Profiles of Popular Music in the 90's
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: Henry Holt an Company 1996
KEYWORDS: popular music musicians history criticism Timothy White essays
Solomon Islands Christianity: A Study in Growth and Obstruction
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: Lutterworth Press 1967
KEYWORDS: Solomon Islands Christianity mission social history religion religious Church
Browns of Kyeburn Peninsula
SCARCE, octavo, illus light card covers, brown lettering to spine & front cover, illus title page, 220pp, illus/photos, VG (spine cocked & chafed/soiled, light creasing to spine & cover edges, light to moderate chafing & soiling to covers, prev. owner's sm adhesive label to front cover, light tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's details in ink to inside front cover)
PUBLISHER: Wally Brown 1991
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Moses Brown family genealogy Kyeburn Peninsula Otago south island
Complete Record of the Games Played in the First American Tourney (March 18th to 24th, 1907, at Boston Mass.)
FIRST LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION (#152/300), octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to front board, viii + 92pp, VG (light bruising & rubbing to spine & board extrems, sl chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, various minor annotation in ink to front eps, occasional cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: Angel Guardian Press 1907
KEYWORDS: hobbies games draughts checkers past games tournaments tourneys American strategy tactics history historical first editions limited numbered
The Comedy of Catherine the Great
FIRST EDITION, super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine, blind stamp lettering & decoration to front board, deckled page edges, frontispiece with tissue guard, xix + 368pp, illus/plates- not counted presumed all present, VG (light bruising to extrems, light to moderate fading/tanning to spine, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, light tanning & moderate to heavy foxing to eps & prelims/terminals, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep & last index page, smatterings of minor foxing throughout)
PUBLISHER: G Bell & Sons 1912
KEYWORDS: first editions history historical Catherine the Great Russia Russian royal family
The Petersens: A New Zealand Family
Ex-library, illus covers on library heavy boards, black & blue lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 77pp, illus/photos, VG (usual library markings, tidy adhesive covering to covers/boards, light bruising to extrems, sl tanning to page edges, minor adhesive staining to eps)
PUBLISHER: Longman Paul 1985
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history families Petersen family children's books settlers pioneers