Books - "history"
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English Costume 1066-1820
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: A & C Black 1950
KEYWORDS: England English history fashion costumes attire historical styles
People of the Book: The Forgotten History of Islam and the West
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: John Murray 2007
KEYWORDS: history religion religious theology Islam western culture crusades
Wig and Gown: The Story of the Temple: Gray's and Lincoln's Inn
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PUBLISHER: Sampson Low, Marston & Co N/D (c.1930s?)
KEYWORDS: common law of England barristers law legal history Robert J Blackham
Popular History of Thailand
Sm 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: Chalermnit 2000
KEYWORDS: Asian Asian history Thailand culture heritage
The History of the German Resistance 1933-945
Super 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: The MIT Press 1977
KEYWORDS: military history nazi Germany resistance assassination attempts ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2
Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery
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: Vintage 1980
KEYWORDS: slavery history slave trade African American southern states US America ethnicity race relations civil rights
A Great and Glorious Adventure: A Military History of the Hundred Years War
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PUBLISHER: Atlantic Books 2014
KEYWORDS: military history wars 100 hundred years year war
Alan Moorehead
Super 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: The Bodley Head 1990
KEYWORDS: literary biographies biography memoir Alan Moorehead history
Pipe Clay and Drill: John J Pershing: The Classic American Soldier
Super 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: Reader's Digest Press 1977
KEYWORDS: John J Pershing military history biography biographies memoir US American soldiers
Scotch Whiskey: A Liquid History
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: Cassell 2003
KEYWORDS: alcohol drinks whiskey whisky scotch history culture
This is Gaudi
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: Laurence King Publishing 2017
KEYWORDS: Antoni Gaudi architecture architectural history buildings
An Eighteenth Century Industrialist: Peter Stubs of Warrington 1756-1806
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: Manchester University Press 1961
KEYWORDS: history biography biographies memoir Peter Stubs trade business industry
Cadogan's Crimea
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: Hamish Hamilton 1979
KEYWORDS: war art military Crimea Crimean war history Colonel the Hon George Cadogan
The Syrian Desert: Caravans, Travel and Exploration
First edition. Super 8vo, pp. xv + 410; brown buckram boards, spine lettered in gilt; frontis., plates, foldout maps; VG (moderate scuffing & soiling to boards; light to mdoerate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges; moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; prev ownership inscription in blue ink to ffep).
PUBLISHER: A. & C. Black 1937
KEYWORDS: Christina Phelps Grant Middle East Syria Syrian desert life lives culture social history
The Giant Cities of Bashan and Syria's Holy Places
8vo, pp. 371; brown buckram boards, spine & front board lettered in gilt, front board decorated in black; title vignette & frontis., plates; chapter initals; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to boards; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light to moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; prev ownership inscription in black ink to ffep; prev bookseller's sticker to front pastedown; ht torn in half; moderate cracking to central & rear gutters; light to moderate foxing & soiling throughout).
PUBLISHER: T. Nelson and Sons 1886
KEYWORDS: Rev J L Porter Middle East Syria history social geographical ancient religious scripture biblical literature
New Towns of the Middle Ages: Town Plantation in England, Wales and Gascony
Super 8vo, pp. xx + 670; black buckram boards, spine lettered in gilt; illus. eps, frontis., plates. foldout maps, illus.; VG (light scuffing & soiling to boards; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & soiling to eps, prelims & terminals; prev bookseller's sticker to ffep); in d/w, VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling; moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with light to moderate chipping; light tanning; price clipped to front flap).
PUBLISHER: Lutterworth Press 1967
KEYWORDS: England social history towns Middle Ages medieval mediaeval Wales Gascony plantation
The Bar Books: Manuscripts Illuminated for Renaud de Bar, Bishop of Metz (1303-1316)
Post-it-note signed by author enclosed. Imp. 8vo, pp. 728; black cl boards, spine lettered in gilt; photos, illus.; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to boards; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light soiling to pg edges; sl soiling to eps, prelims & terminals; pgs to rear sl creased at tail extrem); in d/w, VG+ (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light to moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems;
PUBLISHER: Brepols 2017
KEYWORDS: Renaud de Bar Bishop of Metz illuminated manuscripts book arts design medieval mediaeval middle ages history
Hebrew Captives of the Kings of Assyria
Super 8vo, pp. viii + 344 + viii; blue cl boards, spine & front board lettered in gilt; fore & bottom edges deckled, chapter initals; VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling to boards; moderate to heavy bruising to spine & board edges & extrems with moderate to heavy chipping esp to spine extrems; moderate to heavy tanning & soiling to pg edges; moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; moderate to heavy cracking to front & rear hinges, bdg sloppy; gift inscription in black ink to tp; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling throughout).
PUBLISHER: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co, 1890
KEYWORDS: ancient history Hebrew Assyria Kings Mesopotamia social
Vinland Saga: Book Five
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PUBLISHER: Kodansha Comics 2014
KEYWORDS: manga graphic novels Vinland series saga history historical Vikings literature Makoto Yukimura book five v 5
Vinland Saga: Book Six
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PUBLISHER: Kodansha Comics 2015
KEYWORDS: manga graphic novels Vinland series saga history historical Vikings literature Makoto Yukimura book six vi 6