Books - "history"
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The Essex Regiment: 1st Battalion (44th)
THIS VOL ONLY, Super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt lettering and shield to front, frontispiece, xxxi + 293pp, illus with four fold-outs to rear, VG (light bruising to spine and board extrems, light foxing to prelims and terminals, minor tanning throughout)
PUBLISHER: John H Burrows & Sons 1931
KEYWORDS: Military history British Essex regiment 1st Battalion Great War formation 1740 regimental history blizzard Ypres Cambrai Sambre etc
Cultures of Natural History
FIRST EDITION, SCARCE IN HARDCOVER; small quarto maroon cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxi+501pp, illus., VG+ (occasional light foxing within) in d/w VG+ (light scuffing. light fading to spine, moderate foxing confined to reverse only)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1996
KEYWORDS: natural history history philosophy of science biology ecology art collecting gardening colonial gender economics
Cassell's Picturesque Australasia Vol. II
This volume only (volume 2); quarto red coth boards, gilt lettering to front and spine, blind stamp emblem to rear board, vii+308pp+maps of Australia at rear., G+ (text block partially detached; moderate soiling scuffing and rubbing to boards, moderate fading to spine, light waterstaining within, moderate tanning and foxing)
PUBLISHER: Cassell & Company 1889
KEYWORDS: travel history geography cassell cassell's picturesque australasia new zealand australia mount cook goldfields south sydney perth maori military history govenor george grey illustrated
The Wives of Henry VIII
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 will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Viking 1992
KEYWORDS: History Henry VIII wives ascent decline politics court King heir history
The Thirties: An Intimate History
Super octavo hardcover (NF) 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: Harper Press, 2010
KEYWORDS: interwar years thirties 1930's decade british history housing boom unemployment intimate history diaries memoirs letters newspapers interviews
Bentley: Cricklewood to Crewe
Annotations and underscoring by automotive historian Maurice Hendry, Imperial octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (G+): 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, 1980
KEYWORDS: automotive cars cricklewood crewe history motoring engineering bentley car history
The Marian Exhiles: A study of the Origins of Elizabethan Puritanism 1553- 1559
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: University of Cambridge Press, 1966
KEYWORDS: 1553 1559 religious settlement christian european history elizabethan christianity european history
White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812
Octavo black cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xx+651pp, illus., VG- (tidy ex-library, usual stamps and markings; light soiling & tanning to edges and within, light scuffing and tape stains to boards) in d/w VG- (usual markings, plastic covered with adhesive strips top & bottom, light soiling scuffing)
PUBLISHER: Institute of Early American History and Culture / University of North Carolina Press 1968
KEYWORDS: african american black history institutional racism white supremacy united states america us usa history colonial sociology
Studies in Dutch Books with Coloured Plates Published 1662-1875
Very tidy ex-library; quarto green cloth boards, gilt lettering and emblem, ix+605pp, illus., VG (light soiling and tape stains to eps. and boards, usual stamps and markings; otherwise nr. FINE) in d/w VG (usual markings; plastic covered with adhesive strips top and bottom, light soiling)
PUBLISHER: Dr. W. Junk B. V. 1976
KEYWORDS: dutch book books art history coloured plates natural history topography travel costumes uniforms
The Church and the Black Man
Tidy ex-library quarto hardcover (rebacked library binding incorporating original covers, 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: Pflaum Press 1969
KEYWORDS: african american black history civil rights movement politics racism white supremacy church christian christianity us usa united states america history black like me
The Mechanical Baby - A Popular History of the Theory and Practice of Child Raising
Super octavo, hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at east 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: Dobson Books 1979
KEYWORDS: child raising parenting children family history social history
Thames Sacred River
Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in half height decorative 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: Chatto & Windus 2007
KEYWORDS: history geography natural history thames travel nature
The American Leonardo - A Tale of Obsession, Art and Money
Super octavo, hardcover (Near FINE) 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: Oxford 2009
KEYWORDS: biography history art history
Law in War - Freedom and Restriction iin Australia During the Great War
Super octavo, softcover (Near FINE); 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: Newsouth 2020
KEYWORDS: australia history war legal history military political
Pathfinders - A history of Aboriginal trackers in NSW
Super octavo, softcover (Near FINE); 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: NewSouth 2020
KEYWORDS: australia aus history trackers tracking aboriginals nsw new south wales indigenous history
The Lyalldale Waltz - A light-hearted look at rural life about South Canterbury over the past seventy years
Lacks fep, 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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Kopje 1975
KEYWORDS: south canterbury history nz new zealand local history pareora estate farming
The True Story of the Novel
Super octavo softcover (VG): all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, com plete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Fontana/HarperCollins 1998
KEYWORDS: literature history novels evolution antiquity ancient history
A Theatre in the House - The Carey's Globe
Super octavo softcover (nr FINE); 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: University of Otago Press 1999
KEYWORDS: nz history otago dunedin globe theatre history carey family
A Series of Thirty Engravings in Outline, From the Elgin Marbles
Oblong quarto, blue light card wrappers, black lettering to front cover, unpaginated, illus, VG-/scruffy (heavy creasing & scuffing to cover edges & spine, light staining, heavy loss to bottom corners of rear pages - 13cm x 3cm sections - engravings still good, light to moderate tanning & foxing to pages throughout)
PUBLISHER: W. T. Robinson 1826
KEYWORDS: British Museum Elgin marbles engravings Stewart Haydon history antiquity ancient history Greece Greek drawings art
The Flight of the Emu : A Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901- 2001
Imperial octavo, hardcover (nr FINE) in d/w (nr FINE); 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: Melbourne University Press 2001
KEYWORDS: aus australia ornithology birds history zoology natural history