Books - "history"
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Better Eyesight: The Complete Magazines of William H Bates
Imperial octavo, illus light card wrappers, brown & blue lettering to spine, xxv + 708pp, Near FINE (minor bruising to top corner of rear)
PUBLISHER: North Atlantic Books 2000
KEYWORDS: William H Bates opthamology vision eyesight works orthoptics history medical
Civilization and Capitalism 15th - 18th Century [3 Vol Set]: The Structures of Everyday Life ; The Wheels of Commerce ; The Perspective of the World
3 VOL SET, super octavo, illus light card wrappers, white lettering to sipnes, mixed pagination, illus, VG+ (minor creasing & soiling to spines & covers, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, light chafing & soiling to covers)
PUBLISHER: Phoenix Press 2002
KEYWORDS: history capitalism finance financial wealth business economics commerce
The Monkey and the Inkpot: Natural History and its Transformations in Early Modern China
Super octavo, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xii + (4) + 234pp, illus, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl tanning & soiling to spine, label residue to rear, light general soiling)
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 2009
KEYWORDS: China Chinese natural history bencao gangmu systematic materia medica herbal medicine
Buffon: A Life in Natural History
Super octavo, red heavy boards, black lettering to spine, frontispiece, xvii + 492pp, illus, VG+ (sl rubbing & bruising to extrems, sl foxing & soiling to top page edges) in d/w, VG (moderate fading to spine & rear cover, light wrinkling at spine area, sl chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Cornell University Press 1997
KEYWORDS: natural history Georges Buffon naturalists biography nature
Place-Names of Banks Peninsula: A Topographical History
Octavo, illus light card wrappers, black lettering to spine & covers, printed inside covers, 332pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing to spine/hinges, sl soiling to page edges, sl foxing to title page)
PUBLISHER: Cadsonbury Publications 2001
KEYWORDS: New Zealand topography topographical history place names Banks Peninsula
A Photographer's Life With Disneyland Under Construction (Third Edition)
Oblong quarto, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine, unpaginated, illus/photos, VG- (light creasing/curling & soiling to spine & covers/edges, prev. bookseller's label to rear cover, sl tanning & soiling to page edges, heavy crack to central gutter- some pages detached)
PUBLISHER: Ape Pen Publishing Company 2002
KEYWORDS: photography photos history Disneyland construction Mell Kilpatrick
The Mediterranean in the Ancient World
Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxiv + 408pp, VG+ (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, sl soiling to boards, light tanning & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light cerasing & chipping to edges, minor chafing & soiling, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear)
PUBLISHER: Allen Lane / Penguin 2001
KEYWORDS: ancient history Mediterranean antiquity Fernand Braudel
Wanderings in the Western Highlands and Islands, Recounting Highland and Clan History, Traditions, Ecclesiology, Archaeology, Romance Literature, Humour, Folk-Lore &c
Super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering & illus to spine & front board, deckled page edges, frontispiece with tissue guard, 511pp, illus/plates with tissue guards- not counted presumed all present, folding map to rear, VG (moderate rubbing & bruising to spine & board extrems, light tanning to spine, light to moderate chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light cracking to front gutter, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, prev. owner's details in ink to half title page)
PUBLISHER: Alexander Gardner N/D (c.1920)
KEYWORDS: travel writing literature historical history Scotland Scottish highlands west western highland clan clans
Motorcycle Road Racing in the Fifties: An Illustrated Review - 1949 to 1959
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: Osprey 1982
KEYWORDS: motorsport history motorcycle road racing 1950s balck and white photographs
V-Twin: The Classic Motorcycle 1903 to the Present
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: Blandford Press 1985
KEYWORDS: V-Twin classic motorcycles 1903-1980s motorcycling photos in colour and black and white design history
Great British Motor Cycles of the Thirties
Ex-library 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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Hamlyn / Reed 1981
KEYWORDS: British motorcycle design history 1930s vintage motorbikes motorcycling b&w photos
The Devil's Own Brigade: A History of the Lyttelton Gaol 1860-1920
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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Millwood Press 1975
KEYWORDS: New Zealand prison history Lyttelton gaol Canterbury
L'Archeologie et les Manuscrits de la Mer Morte: The Schweich Lectures of the British Academy
TEXT IN FRENCH, FOLDING MAP TO REAR 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: The British Academy 1961
KEYWORDS: text in French archaeology manuscripts Dead Sea ancient texts history
The Doughboys: America and the First World War
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: Allen Lane / Penguin 2000
KEYWORDS: America World War One military history WW1
The Life of Webern
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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1998
KEYWORDS: Anton Webern composer biography music history
Making it New: Essays, Interviews and Talks
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: Turtle Point Press 1994
KEYWORDS: Henry Geldzahler essays interviews lectures Metropolitain Museum of Art director 20th Century art history
Images of Man and Death
Ex-library quarto 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: Harvard University Press 1985
KEYWORDS: Art history death paintings graves gravestones churches balck and white photographs
History in the Making
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: Yale University Press 2012
KEYWORDS: J H Elliott historian Spain Europe Americas history
Vienna: Legend and Reality
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: Secker & Warburg 1966
KEYWORDS: Vienna Viennese history politics culture
Speedway Panorama
Imperial 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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Haynes 1979
KEYWORDS: motorsport motorcycle speedway motorbike racing history black and white photographs