Books - "history"
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Jailbreak out of History - The Re-Biography of Harriet Tubman
Draft/Work in Progress - Chapter Four
Paperback (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: Benguine Press / Kersplebedeb 2000
KEYWORDS: biography harriet tubman black history american history
Congressional Women: Their Recruitment, Treatment, and Behavior
Octavo hardcover (VG, tidy ex-library); 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: Praeger 1984 [Women and Politics series]
KEYWORDS: women history politics US United States America American history government congress congressional
The Major Transitions in Evolution Revisited
Quarto illus. heavy card covers, x+319pp, nr. FINE
PUBLISHER: MIT Press 2011
KEYWORDS: Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology science natural history evolution life history fossils fossil record palentology zoology
Bibliography of Imperial, Colonial and Commonwealth History since 1600
Super octavo black cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xx+1060pp, VG+ (very tidy ex-library, save for usual stamps and markings, nr. FINE) in d/w VG+ (no stamps or markings, light scuffing and trace of sticker residue to front, otherwise nr. FINE)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2002
KEYWORDS: bibliography reference british imperial colonial colonialism commonwealth empire history world global Royal Historical Society The History of Britain, Ireland, and the British Overseas
On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature: With Occasional Remarks on the Laws, Customs, Manners, and Opinions of Various Nations (4 volume set)
4x VOLUME SET; ex-library; quarter bound super ocatvo rebind, vol. i: xi+387pp; vol. ii: VG- except vol. iii G+ (spine cracked and coming loose to vol iii., water stain to boards & fep. torn out also; otherwise, usual stamps and markings to all, labels to spines almost completely effaced,407pp; vol. iii: 388pp; vol. iv: 342pp+adverts; with moderate scuffing and rubbing to boards; moderate tanning and foxing within)
PUBLISHER: G. and W. B. Whittaker 1823 (second edition)
KEYWORDS: nature anthropology comparitive history nineteenth 19th c century charles bucke natural history laws customs manners sociology
Anglia Judaica: Or the History and Antiquities of the Jews in England
Facsimilie edition of the 1738 Oxford James Fletcher edition; super ocatavo green cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 319pp, VG (tidy ex-library, usual stamps and markings; light scuffing to boards, light tanning within)
PUBLISHER: Burt Franklin 1967
KEYWORDS: jewish history england english jews judaism british history facsimilie edition jadaica anglia
The Royal Palaces of London
Oblong quarto gold heavy card boards, white lettering to spine and front, illus., 223pp, nr. FINE (slight bump to front corner) in d/w nr. FINE
PUBLISHER: Merrell 2008
KEYWORDS: royal palaces london architecture art history interior design decoration lavish royalty british history english aristocracy
The Mystic Garden
Copy of NZ lichenologist David Galloway, w/ small cache of correspondance with author loosley enclosed (one signed typed letter from author); FIRST EDITION, octavo green cloth boards gilt lettering to spine, 150pp, illus., VG+ (light scuffing to boards, ownership signature and notes to fep.) in d/w VG+ (light scuffing & v. sl. soiling)
PUBLISHER: Halsgrove Press 1992
KEYWORDS: garden garden art design history plants botany natural history signed modern first edition
A History of the 10th (Service) Battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment (Hull Commericals) 1914 - 1919
Octavo blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine and front, gilt emblem to front, xix+204pp, illus. w/ folding maps, incl. 1x in rear pocket, VG (moderate scuffing and rubbing to boards, light tanning and foxing to edges and within)
PUBLISHER: A. Brown & Sons 1937
KEYWORDS: regimental history battalion east yorkshire english british military history great war first world ww1 one regiment hull commercials 10th tenth service
Choreography & Narrative: Ballet's Staging of Story and Desire
Quarto purple cloth boards, illus., xvii+371pp, VG+ (light tanning within, prev. owner's details twinked out to fep.) in d/w VG+ (light scuffing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Indiana University Press 1996
KEYWORDS: dance ballet history choreography stage dancing dancer narrative criticism history
London - Vanished & Vanishing
Super octavo, dark green heavy card boards, gilt tooling lettering to board and spine, dekcled page edges, frontispiece, xvi + 294pp + 6pp adverts, illus (75 plates), VG- (light chipping to spine extrems, moderate chafing to boards, heavy tanning to eps)
PUBLISHER: Adam & Charles Black 1905
KEYWORDS: Philip Norman history london illustrated history england uk great britain
The 7th (Queen's Own) Hussars Vol. 1, Vol 2.
2 volume set. Imperial octavo, navy blue heavy card boards, half bound in leather, gilt tool lettering, rule and decoration to spine and boards. black eps, frontispiece, illus title page, vol 1: xvi + 407pp, vol 2: viii + 452pp, illus - plates in both vols, both vols VG (unsteady binding sporadic cracking to gutters, light/moderate chafing throughout, light/moderate foxing to pages)
PUBLISHER: Spottiswoode & Co 1914
KEYWORDS: C R B Barrett history military history waterloo campaign dragoons hussars
The Battle Of The Bulge - Hitler's Last Desperate Game To Win The War
paperback (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: Ballantine Books 1978
KEYWORDS: history ww2 wwii history
Our Dealings With Maori Lands; Or, Comments on European Dealings for the Purchase and Lease of Native Lands, and the Legislation Thereon
FIRST EDITION, octavo green light card stapled wrappers, 60pp, VG- (heavy soiling & staining to front, moderate to heavy scuffing & chipping to covers, heavy tanning and moderate foxing soiling within, rust stains to staples)
PUBLISHER: Kidd & Wildman 1887
KEYWORDS: new zealand maori history land native court raupatu whenua history colonialism imperialism legal law legislation
Swine Fever in New Zealand
Super octavo staple wrapped (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: John Mackay, Government Printer,1899
KEYWORDS: agriculture history science medical pig bacteriologist new zealand history
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