Books - "history"
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Musical Instruments and Their Symbolism in Western Art
FIRST EDITION, imperial octavo, grey buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, 240pp, illus, VG+ (light rubbing to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, sl foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, light creasing & moderate chipping to edges, light to moderate rubbing & surface loss, light foxing to flaps)
PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1967
KEYWORDS: first editions music musical instruments history historic symbolism western art criticism intepretation appreciation
The Harpsichord and Clavichord: An Introductory Study (Second Edition)
REVISED EDITION, imperial octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, top page edges stained yellow, unpaginated prelims + 208pp + 103 plates to rear- not counted presumed all present, VG+ (light rubbing & discolouration to board edges & extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to apge edges & eps, occasional sl foxing to pages throughout) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, moderate fading to spine, moderate tanning, chafing & foxing, moderate foxing to flaps)
PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1973
KEYWORDS: revised edtion music history harpsichords clavichords early keyboards instruments classical
Beyond Metaphysics? The Hermeneutic Circle in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
Super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xvii + 238pp, VG+ (boards sl warped, light foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to front & rear eps) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing & chipping to edges, light tanning & fading to spine, light chafing to covers, light tanning to rear)
PUBLISHER: Humanities Press / Macmillan 1985
KEYWORDS: philosophy metaphysics history hermeneutic existentialism ontology phenomenology
The Art of the Intelligible: An Elementary Survey of Mathematics in its Conceptual Development
MISBOUND: pages 229 onwards not included, comprising Appendix 4, bibliography and indices, main text present); Super octavo, white glossy light card covers, black lettering to spine, xi + 228pp, illus/diagrams, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, sl chafing & soiling & tanning to covers, sl tanning to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Kluwer Academic Publishers 2001
KEYWORDS: mathematics algebra geometry history calculus philosophy theorems
History, Imagination and the Performance of Music
Super octavo, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, xiv + 184pp, Near Fine (sl staining/soiling to top edges of page block) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & tanning to edges)
PUBLISHER: The Boydell Press 2003
KEYWORDS: music history performance entertainment
The Land, the Bible and History: Toward the Land That I Will Show You
Super octavo, grey heavy boards, red gilt lettering to black cloth spine, xiii + 239pp, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: Fordham University Press 2007
KEYWORDS: religion ancient religious history biblical lands Israel antiquity contemporary church Palestine geography geopolitics
Ignacy Jan Paderewski: A Pianist Amongst the Geysers
Octavo, grey heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine & front board, xiv + 186pp, illus/photos, Near FINE, in d/w, Near FINE (sl creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Quo Vadis 2018
KEYWORDS: New Zealand music musical history Ignacy Jan Paderewski musicians piano pianists
Resisting the Bomb: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1954-1970
INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, super octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, xiv + 641pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing to spine & cover edges, sl chafing & soiling to covers, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Stanford University Press 1997
KEYWORDS: signed Lawrence S Wittner nuclear bombs peace history disarmament antinuclear movement politics political
Encyclopaedia of Papua and New Guinea (3 Vol Set)
3 VOL SET, imperial octavo, green faux leather boards, gilt lettering to spines, gilt cultural motif to front boards, mixed pagination, folding map to rear pocket of vol 3, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising & scuffing to extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, light fading to edges of eps, light foxing & soiling to prelims, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear ep of vol 3, prev. owner's name in ink to half title page of vol 2)
PUBLISHER: Melbourne University Press / University of Papua and New Guinea 1972
KEYWORDS: encyclopedia encyclopaedia Papua New Guinea history culture heritage antiquity geopolitics
Eighty Years On: A Further Memoir
INSCRIBED, DATED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo, illus light card covers, white & brown lettering to spine, 375pp, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, sl chafing to covers, light soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Dunmore Publishing 2010
KEYWORDS: signed Nicholas Tarling New Zealand history autobiography autobiogarphies memoir
The Future of Jazz
Octavo, illus lgossy light card covers, white lettering to spine & covers, ix + 241pp, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & covers/edges, sl soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: A Cappella Books 2002
KEYWORDS: music jazz theory philosophy history criticism
Propertius I
WARMLY INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, super octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine & covers, ix + 241pp, VG+ (light creasing to spine & cover edges, sl chafing & soiling to covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: University of New England 1990
KEYWORDS: signed latin texts Robert J Baker ancient history literature Sextus Propertius Rome Roman antiquity elegies
Cezanne's Composition: Analysis of His Form with Diagrams and Photographs of His Motifs
Lg quarto, grey buckram boards, black lettering to red buckram spine, black lettering & illus to front board, unpaginated prelims + 143pp, illus, VG (light bruising & rubbing to spine & extrems, light soiling to board edges, light tanning & soiling to page edges & eps, gift inscription in ink to ffep, moderate but light/unobtrusive pencil underlining & annotation, minor wrinkling to pages throughout)
PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1963
KEYWORDS: Cezanne art history criticism appreciation interpretation
Central Asian Music: Essays in the History of the Music of the Peoples of the USSR
Imperial octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xv + 340pp, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light foxing & soiling to page edges & eps, light to moderate foxing to prelims & terminals)
PUBLISHER: Wesleyan University Press 1975
KEYWORDS: music history criticism soviet Russia Russian Asia
Italy: Handbook for Travellers
Sm octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, blind rule/decoration to spine & boards, marbled page edges, printed front eps, illus/map to rear eps, folding maps throughout, lxii + 464pp, illus/maps, VG- (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, light fading to spine, moderate tanning/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, heavy cracking to front & rear gutters- rear board shaky, minor closed tearing to folding maps)
PUBLISHER: Karl Baedeker 1892
KEYWORDS: travel literature writing Italy maps historical historic history travelling guides
Central Africa: Adventures and Missionary Labors in Several Countries in the Interior of Africa, from 1849 to 1856
LACKS FEP, octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind rule & decoration to boards, 359pp + 7pp to rear, VG- (moderate scuffing & chipping to board & spine edges/extrems, sl chafing to boards, heavy tanning & moderate soiling to page edges, light to moderate tanning & foxing to eps, prev. owner's name -historic- to front pastedown, ffep missing & top half of prelim pg missing, sm pink pencil cross to top corner of title page, minor foxing throughout, moderate cracking to some gutters)
PUBLISHER: Southern Baptist Publication Society 1857
KEYWORDS: travel writing literature central Africa 19th nineteenth century history historical accounts missionaries T J Bowen
From Pop to Punk to Postmodernism: Popular Music and Australian Culture from the 1960s to the 1990s
Octavo, illus light card covers, blue lettering to spine, xi + 188pp, VG+ (light creasing to spine & cover edges, light fading to spine, light chafing & soiling to covers, light soiling & foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Allen & Unwin 1992
KEYWORDS: Australia Australian popular culture music history late 20th twentieth century
A Medical Emergency: Major-General Ginger Burston and the Army Medical Service in World War II
INSCRIBED, DATED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, LOOSELY ENCLOSED PRINTED SIGNED LETTER FROM THE AUTHOR, super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xii + 487pp, illus, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: Big Sky Publishing 2012
KEYWORDS: signed Ian Howie-Willis medical officers military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 Major-General Ginger Burston biography biographies memoir
The Oxford Companion to Australian Music
Imperial octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, xvi + 608pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine & cover edges, sl chafing & wrinkling)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1997
KEYWORDS: music history Australia Australian musical heritage companion performers entertainment dictionary
Endless Sotry: Being an Account of the Work of the Destroyers, Flotilla-leaders, Torpedo-Boats and Patrol Boats in the Great War
Demy 8vo, pp. 450; white/blue cl bds, spine & front board lettered in blue, front board bordered in blue; frontis., plates, illus.; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling; moderate to heavy bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with moderate chipping & moderate to heavy archival repairs; hole to back; moderate tanning & foxing).
PUBLISHER: Hodder and Stoughton 1933
KEYWORDS: First World War 1 I WW WW1 WWI war warfare ships navy naval boat 20th century Europe military history