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$245.00
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The Essex Regiment: 1st Battalion (44th)


BURROWS, JOHN Wm.

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

$175.00
ak4/10/2427

Cultures of Natural History


JARDINE, N; SECORD, J. A.; & SPARY, E. C. (ed.'s)

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

$50.00
ak4/11/2450

Cassell's Picturesque Australasia Vol. II


Morris, E. E. (ed.)

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

$15.00
xxrnj164324

The Wives of Henry VIII


FRASER, ANTONIA

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

$27.50
ak4/23/2860

The Thirties: An Intimate History


GARDINER, JULIET

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

$40.00
ak4/24/2933

Bentley: Cricklewood to Crewe


FROSTICK, MICHAEL

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

$30.00
ak1/24/3293

The Marian Exhiles: A study of the Origins of Elizabethan Puritanism 1553- 1559


GARRETT, CHRISTINA HALLOWELL

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

$40.00
ak1/24/3318

White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812


JORDAN, WINTHROP D.

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

$100.00
ak2/19/3407

Studies in Dutch Books with Coloured Plates Published 1662-1875


LANDWEHR, JOHN

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

$25.00
ak2/25/3696

The Church and the Black Man


GRIFFIN, JOHN HOWARD

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

$18.50
xxsgc166488

The Mechanical Baby - A Popular History of the Theory and Practice of Child Raising


BEEKMAN, DANIEL

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

$19.50
xxskk166916

Thames Sacred River


ACKROYD, PETER

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

$20.00
xxkze167838

The American Leonardo - A Tale of Obsession, Art and Money


BREWER, JOHN

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

$20.00
xxhlc168509

Law in War - Freedom and Restriction iin Australia During the Great War


BOND, CATHERINE

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

$25.00
xxhgd168523

Pathfinders - A history of Aboriginal trackers in NSW


BENNETT, MICHAEL

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

$35.00
xxhcd168544

The Lyalldale Waltz - A light-hearted look at rural life about South Canterbury over the past seventy years


THOMPSON, ISAAC M.

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

$12.00
xxfdk168810

The True Story of the Novel


DOODY, MARGARET ANNE

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

$14.00
xxded169791

A Theatre in the House - The Carey's Globe


CAREY, ROSALIE

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

$350.00
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A Series of Thirty Engravings in Outline, From the Elgin Marbles


STEWART & HAYDON

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

$25.00
xxkt28lava170727

The Flight of the Emu : A Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901- 2001


ROBIN, LIBBY

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

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