Books - "history"
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The Mad Motorists: The Great Peking-Paris Race of '07
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: Harrap 1980
KEYWORDS: motorsport motor sport Asia Europe race racing history
Aston Martin V8s: DBS V8, V8, Vantage, Volante; Lagonda; Bulldog
FIRST EDITION. 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: Osprey 1981
KEYWORDS: Aston Martin automobiles car cars history first edition
Replicar! A Century of Motoring in North Otago and Beyond
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: Square One Press 2002
KEYWORDS: motorsports motor sports car cars automobile New Zealand history Otago
Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens
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: Windmill Books 2013
KEYWORDS: Andrea Wulf 18th century science history
African Experience
Signed & inscribed by author. 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: R. Trevor Howells 1994
KEYWORDS: life lives biography military history New Zealand
Change and Tradition: Mount Albert Grammar School, 100 Years
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: Mount Albert Grammar School 2022
KEYWORDS: New Zealand local history education schools
Lotus 70 72 77 78 79 81 95T 107B Ultimate Guide
Quarto, blue/white light card wrappers, black lettering to spine, 124pp, illus diagrams/photos, VG+ (light soiling to spine and covers, light foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: cppress UK ND
KEYWORDS: Lotus cars automobile racing sports mechanics engineering history automotive
General Alphabetical Index: To the Townlands and Towns, Parishes and Baronies of Ireland: Based on the Census of Ireland for the Year 1851
Super octavo, black buckram board, gilt lettering to front board and spine, 12pp + 968pp, VG (lmoderate soiling to page edges, light soiling to boards, previous owners' personal inscription and previous booksellers label in front pastedown, light foxing to page edges and eps, light bruising to rear board extrems and spine, head of spine lightly warped)
PUBLISHER: Genealogical Publishing Co 1986
KEYWORDS: Ireland towns parishes religion communities indexes history statistics census
My Early Life: A Roving Commission
First edition, second state (12 works by the same author listed, front board blank). Octavo, red cl boards, spine lettered in gilt; frontis., plates; 392 pp.; VG (light soiling to boards; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; light to moderate soiling & foxing to pg edges, eps, prelims & terminals; prev ownership inscr to fr pastedown & ffep; some tanning & foxing throughout).
PUBLISHER: Thornton Butterworth 1930
KEYWORDS: life lives biography autobiography memoir Winston Churchill social history 19th 20th century
Beyong the Boundaries of time: Histories that Influenced Me
First edition. Super octavo, illus. light card covers, french flaps; illus., photos; 472 pp.; VG+ (light soiling to covers; light bruising to edges & extrems; light soiling to pg edges).
PUBLISHER: StonePrint 2019
KEYWORDS: New Zealand philosophy history short stories
Buried Ideas: Legends of Abdication and Ideal Government in Early Chinese Bamboo-Slip Manuscripts
Super octavo, illus. light card covers; illus., photos; xiv + 372 pp.; VG+ (light soiling to boards; light bruising to edges & extrems; light cracking to fr gutters; light soiling to pg edges; prev ownership inscr to ht).
PUBLISHER: State University of New York Press 2015
KEYWORDS: China Chinese political history politics government
Food, Sacrifice, and Sagehood in Early China
Super octavo, illus. card boards; illus., photos; x + 235 pp.; VG+ (sl soiling to boards; sl bruising to edges & extrems).
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2012
KEYWORDS: Early China Chinese history rituals food religion religious sacrifice Confucianism
Indochina: An Ambiguous Colonization, 1858-1954
Octavo, illus. light card covers; xvi + 490 pp.; VG (light soiling to boards; light bruising to edges & extrems; spine lightly cocked; light soiling to pg edges).
PUBLISHER: University of California Press 2009
KEYWORDS: India China Indochina history 19th century 19th 20th century
Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings
Super octavo, tan card boards, blue card spine lettered in gilt, device to front board lettered in gilt; frontis., illus.; xlii + 886 pp.; VG+ (light soiling to boards; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; light soiling to pg edges & eps); in d/w VG (light soiling & rubbing; moderate bruising to edges & extrems w curling & sl chipping; sl foxing).
PUBLISHER: Viking 2006
KEYWORDS: Persia Persian history king kings Islam Islamic empire literature
In Quest of Clocks
FIRST EDITION. Octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (VG-), archival repairs to d/w; 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: Salisbury Square 1950
KEYWORDS: clocks timepiece timepieces collecting collector watchmaker history
Watch & Clock Encyclopedia
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: N. A. G. Press 1976
KEYWORDS: watch watches watchmaker encyclopedia history antiquarian collecting collector
M113 APC 1960-75: US, ARVN, and Australian variants in Vietnam
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: Osprey 2017
KEYWORDS: 20th century military history tanks vehicles
The Archaeology of Ethnogenesis: Race and Sexuality in Colonial San Francisco (Revised Edition)
Super octavo, illus light card wrappers, white & black lettering to spine, xlv + 400pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to base of spine, sl creasing/curling to cover corners, light soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to full title page)
PUBLISHER: University Press of Florida 2015
KEYWORDS: archaeology archeology anthropology US America US San Francisco colonial history
Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels
Super octavo, illus light card wrappers, white lettering to spine, 443pp, VG+ (light creasing & soiling to front wrapper, sl chafing to wrappers, sl soiling & creasing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: IVP Academic / InterVarsity Press 2007
KEYWORDS: religion history gospels Middle East Christianity Jesus cultural cultural studies
The Sense of the Past: Essays in the History of Philosophy
Super octavo, grey cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxii + 393pp, VG+ (spine sl cocked, sl soiling to page edges, occasional light pencil markings throughout) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, 1cm closed tear to head of spine, sl fading to spine, sl chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 2006
KEYWORDS: history philosophy essays prose Bernard Williams literature
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