Books - "history"
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Life in Nelson's Navy
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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Naval Institute Press / Bluejacket Books 1996
KEYWORDS: Admiral Lord Nelson naval history Royal Navy 18th century
Good Luck to All the Lads: The Wartime Story of Brian Cox 1939-43
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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: J. J. Angerstein & Associates 2008
KEYWORDS: Bran Cox biography military history world war two New Zealand
The Structure of Evil: An Essay on the Unification of the Science of Man
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: The Free Press 1976
KEYWORDS: psychology sociology psychiatry history philosophy
Guadalcanal: An American Story
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: Naval Institute Press 1999
KEYWORDS: American military history world war two battle of Guadalcanal Pacific island U.S. First Marine Division
Through Darkness to Light
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: Images Publishing (Malvern) 1994
KEYWORDS: RAF 205 night-bomber group Mediterranean Strategic Air Force world war two militray history
Paths of Development in Capitalist Agriculture: Readings from German Social Democracy, 1891-99
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: Macmillan 1984
KEYWORDS: German social democracy history capitalism agriculture development socialism
We Were Soldiers Once... And Young: Ia Drang: The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam
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: Airlife Publishing 1994
KEYWORDS: leutenant general Harold G. Hal Moore American military memoir Vietnam war history battle of Ia Drang
The Struggle for Guadalcanal August 1942-February 1943 [History of United States Naval Operations in World War II Volume V]
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: Castle Books 2001
KEYWORDS: United States navy military history world war two Guadalcanal Pacific
The Battle for Berlin
Ex-library 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: B. T. Batsford 1974
KEYWORDS: battle for Berlin world war two military history
The Birth and Development of the Geological Sciences
Octavo softcover (VG) minor pencil annotations; 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: Dover 1954
KEYWORDS: history of science geology b&w illustrations
The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion [Abridged Edition]
ABRIDGED 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: Macmillan 1963
KEYWORDS: magic religion history
The Pacific Journal of Louis-Antoine de Bougainville 1767-1768
Super octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt ship motif to front board, map/illus to eps, lxxvii + 322pp, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light fading/tanning to spine, light creasing & chipping to edges, minor soiling)
PUBLISHER: Hakluyt Society / Map Library 2002
KEYWORDS: hakluyt society series exploration history maritime Pacific journals Louis-Antoine de Bougainville 17th seventeenth century
Essay on the Theory of the Earth (Fifth Edition)
FIFTH EDITION, FRONTIS LOOSE, super octavo, dark blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to leather title plate on spine, deckled page edges, frontispiece, 16pp + xxiv + 550pp, VG- (leather title plate on spine heavily cracked, moderate creasing/wrinkling to spine, moderate chafing to boards, light to moderate scuffing to extrems, moderate soiling to page edges, light tanning & moderate soiling to eps, prev. owners' names/details in ink to ffep, moderate soiling to prelims, ffep detached but present, moderate foxing & age appropriate staining to pages throughout, occasional cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and T Cadell, Strand, London MDCCCXXVII (1827)
KEYWORDS: natural history literature essays Baron Georges G Cuvier
The Age of Illumination: Byzantine Art and Civilisation ; Gothic Art and Civilisation ; Early Medieval Art and Civilisation (3 Vol Boxed Set)
3 VOL SET, IN SLIPCASE, imperial octavo, gold buckram boards, black lettering to spines, black illus to front boards, teg, iridescent eps, frontispieces, mixed pagination, illus, Near FINE, in slipcase, VG+ (minor chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 2004
KEYWORDS: folio society byzantine gothic early medieval art civilisation civilization history illumination
An Account of a Voyage to the North West Coast of America in 1785 & 1786
Octavo, black heavy boards, black lettering to beige spine, 319pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, sl soiling & discolouration to boards/edges, light soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG- (moderate to heavy loss to top edge of spine & rear, otherwise only minor creasing & soiling, in plastic protective cover- easily removed if desired)
PUBLISHER: Douglas & McIntyre / University of Washington Press 1982
KEYWORDS: North West coast US America history exploration voyages 18th eighteenth century maritime Alexander Walker
The Wild West of New Zealand: A Summer Cruise in the Rosa
Octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering & black decoration to front board, frontispiece, viii + 121pp, G+ (bottom half of spine partially detached & flapping loose, moderate to heavy chipping/scuffing to extrems, moderate tanning & soiling to spine, light soiling to boards, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges, prev. ownership embossed to ffep, heavy cracking to front & rear gutters- tape reinforcement to front gutter, prev. owners' names in ink to verso of half title page, top corner of title page missing [text affected] with repairs, numerous tears with tape repairs to pages throughout, prev. owner's minor ink markings sporadically throughout, heavy cracking to some gutters, large crack to rear gutter- binding exposed & rear board shaky)
PUBLISHER: Thoburn & Co 1889
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history historical travel literature Robert Paulin south west
A Yankee Botanist in the Carolinas: The Reverend Moses Ashley Curtis (1808-1872)
Octavo, light blue/grey light card wrappers, black lettering to spine & front cover, printed inside covers, frontispiece, 242pp, VG+ (light fading to spine, prev. bookseller's label to front cover)
PUBLISHER: J Cramer 1986
KEYWORDS: US America American history nature plants botany botanists Reverend Moses Ashley Curtis
Monkey Puzzle Man: Archibald Menzies, Plant Hunter
Super octavo, illus light card wrappers, grey & white lettering to spine, xiii + 223pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing to spine & cover edges, prev. owner's name [David Galloway] in ink to inside front cover, sl soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Whittles Publishing 2008
KEYWORDS: botany plants Archibald Menzies history naturalists
History, Heritage and Colonialism: Historical Consciousness, Britishness and Cultural Identity in New Zealand 1870-1940
Super octavo, illus heavy boards, black lettering to spine, xv + 272pp, illus, VG+ (minor bruising to extrems, minor soiling & creasing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Manchester University Press 2015
KEYWORDS: imperialism history colonialism New Zealand Great Britain British
New China Eye Witness: Roger Duff, Rewi Alley and the Art of Museum Diplomacy
Super octavo, black heavy boards, blind stamp lettering to spine & front board, 176pp, illus/photos, Near FINE, in d/w, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: Canterbury University Press 2017
KEYWORDS: culture cultural history China Chinese Roger Duff Rewi Alley museums heritage New Zealand