Books - "history"
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Unnatural History: An Illustrated Bestiary
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: Abelard-Schuman 1968
KEYWORDS: history folklore lore beasts animals mythical
An Atlas of Industrial Protest in Britain 1750-1990
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Macmillan Press 1996
KEYWORDS: history Great Britain British human geography industrial protests activism
Cambridge Orations 1982-1993: A Selection
Quarto 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1994
KEYWORDS: academic history Cambridge University orations Latin speeches James Diggle
Hildegard of Bingen: The Woman of Her Age
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Review 2002
KEYWORDS: history historical biography biographies Hildegard of Bingen
Jungle Dragoon: The Memoir of an Armored Cav Platoon Leader in Vietnam
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: Presidio 1999
KEYWORDS: Vietnam war southeast Asia military history jungle warfare
Herculine Barbin; Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-Century French Hermaphrodite
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Pantheon Books 1980
KEYWORDS: biography memoir Herculine Barbin history hermaphrodites
Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
FIRST EDITION, octavo hardcover (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: Victor Gollancz 1959
KEYWORDS: first editions Martin Luther King Jr history civil rights
Irish Voices: An Informal History 1916-1966
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Pimlico 2000
KEYWORDS: Ireland Irish history Peter Somerville-Large
Wherever Green is Worn: The Story of the Irish Diaspora
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: Hutchinson 2000
KEYWORDS: Ireland Irish history emigration diaspora
Freud, Dora, and Vienna 1900
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: The Free Press 1990
KEYWORDS: hysteria psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud Vienna history
Debussy: A Painter in Sound
Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in 3/4 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: Faber & Faber 2018
KEYWORDS: classical music composers biography biographies memoir history Debussy
Ancient Faces: Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt
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PUBLISHER: British Museum Press 2000
KEYWORDS: art history portraits Roman Egypt mummies
Chopin's Piano: A Journey Through Romanticism
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PUBLISHER: Allen Lane / Penguin 2018
KEYWORDS: Frederic Chopin classical music composers preludes biography history memoir
Winston S Churchill: Volume I Companion; Part 1 1874-1896 & Part 2 1896-1900
FIRST EDITION, TWO VOLUME SET, super octavo, red buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine, upper edges dyed red, mixed pagination, VG+ (slight scuffing & rubbing to boards, spines & edges, slight bruising to spines, v slight soiling to page edges & pastedowns, vertical crease to spine of volume 1) in d/w VG (light chipping to edges, slight soiling & tanning to jackets, 1cm & 2cm closed tear to volume 1 jacket hinge)
PUBLISHER: Heinemann 1967
KEYWORDS: winston s churchill memoir biography history britain british randolph s churchill
Behold the Moon: The European Occupation of the Dunedin District 1770-1848; Revised Edition
SIGNED, REVISED EDITION, imperial octavo softcover, illus blue light card wrappers, white text to spine & wrapper, 300pp, illus, VG+ (slight rubbing to edges of spine, wrapper & hinge crease, slight tanning to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Port Daniel Press 1999
KEYWORDS: dunedin colonisation colonialism new zealand aotearoa history european pakeha maori relations otepoti otago peter entwisle signed
British Box Business: A History of OCL (Overseas Containers Limited)
Imperial octavo, navy blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to front board & spine, illus prelim, 288pp, illus, VG+ (v slight scuffing to edges of spine, light foxing & soiling to upper page edges, light soiling to pastedowns, slight tanning to page edges) in d/w VG+ (v slight creasing & rubbing to edges, v slight tanning & foxing to jacket)
PUBLISHER: Scara 2009
KEYWORDS: british shipping maritime merchant navy ocl overseas containers limited logistics history alan bott
The Art of Making a Harpsichord
Quarto, light grey heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 256pp, illus, Nr FINE (v slight bruising to spine, slight tanning to pages) in d/w VG+ (v slight creasing to edges, 3cm closed tear to front jacket hinge, v slight tanning to jacket)
PUBLISHER: Robert Hale 2012
KEYWORDS: harpsichord keyboard instrument making darryl martin musical history
China's Treaty Ports: Half Love and Half Hate
SIGNED & INSCRIBED, octavo, illus light card wrappers, green & black text to spine & wrapper, illus eps, xxviii + 258pp, illus, VG+ (light fading & warping to spine, slight tanning & foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1999
KEYWORDS: chris elder china british relations colonialism treaty ports shipping trade european american chinese history
Victory Ships and Tankers: The History of the 'Victory' Type Cargo Ships and of the Tankers Built in the United States of America during World War II
Imperial octavo, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 230pp, illus, VG (v slight bruising & rubbing to spine & edges, light to moderate foxing thoughout, damp staining to rear pastedown & rep, sporadic pen annotations throughout) in d/w VG (light fading & soiling to jacket, light to moderate chipping to spine, 1cm & 2cm closed tears to hinge of jacket, slight creasing to edges of jacket, price clipped)
PUBLISHER: David & Charles 1974
KEYWORDS: victory ships tankers world war ii two america cargo ships history
Old Peking: City of the Ruler of the World
SIGNED & INSCRIBED, octavo, illus light card wrappers, tan & black text to spine & wrapper, illus eps, ix + 302pp, illus, VG+ (light fading to spine, slight creasing to corner of wrapper, slight tanning & foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1997
KEYWORDS: chris elder china relations colonialism chinese history peking imperial china