Books - "history"
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The Presocratic Philosophers: Volume 2: Empedocles to Democritus
FIRST EDITION, THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, x + 353pp, VG+ (light to moderate bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to front & rear eps) in d/w, VG (price clipped, light creasing & chipping to edges, moderate fading to spine & edges of front cover, sl tanning & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1979
KEYWORDS: first editions ancient philosophy philosophers history historical classical literature
Percussion Instruments and Their History
FIRST EDITION, imperial octavo, beige buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, 509pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light tanning to board edges, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, sm adhesive residue to ffep) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, light to moderate chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1970
KEYWORDS: first editions music history percussion instruments culture
The Heptarchia Mystica of John Dee
Octavo, illus light card covers, green lettering to spine, frontispiece, 126pp, illus/diagrams, VG (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, light chafing & soiling to covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. booksellers' ink stamps to half title page, moderate pencil annotations)
PUBLISHER: The Aquarian Press 1986
KEYWORDS: esoteric Enochian magic magick occult occultism John Dee Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn history historical
Magic in History: Ritual Magic
Super octavo, purple illus light card covers, yellow lettering to spine, frontispiece, viii + 329pp, illus, VG+ (light chafing & soiling to covers, light tanning & soiling to page edges, light soiling to half title page)
PUBLISHER: Sutton Publishing 1998
KEYWORDS: occult occultism magic magick esoteric history rituals religion
The New Official Guide: Japan
FIRST EDITION, sm octavo, red stiff buckram boards/covers, gilt lettering to spine & front cover, maps/illus to eps, addenda loosely enclosed to rear, xv + 1102pp, folding maps throughout- not counted presumed all present, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, sl tanning to page edges, prev. owner's inscription in ink to verso of title page) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, moderate fading to spine) in slipcase, VG (moderate bruising & tanning/foxing)
PUBLISHER: Japan Travel Bureau, Inc 1966
KEYWORDS: first editions travel guides Japan Japanese maps tourist tourism history historical 60s sixties
Treaty to Treaty: A History of Early New Zealand from the Treaty of Tordesillas 1494 to the Treaty of Waitangi 1840: Volume 1: Background Topics
THIS VOL ONLY, quarto, black light card covers, orange lettering to spine & front cover, xii + 211pp, VG+ (light creasing/peeling & curling to cover egdes, light chafing & soiling to covers, light creasing to fore-edges of prelim pages)
PUBLISHER: None Stated (c.2000s)
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history treaty of Tordesillas Waitangi te tiriti o Waitangi sovereignty British colonialism Spain Portugal
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