Books - "history"
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Festivals and Songs of Ancient China
Super octavo, red card boards, spine & front board lettered in gilt; 281 pp.; VG+ (light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; sl soiling to pg edges).
PUBLISHER: Gordon Press 1975
KEYWORDS: Shih ching China Chinese poetry poems history criticism festivals
Transforming History: The Making of a Modern Academic Discipline in Twentieth-Century China
Signed by Brian Molougney. Super octavo, grey card boards, spine lettered in white; xii + 429 pp.; VG+ (light soiling to boards; sl bruising to edges & extrems); in d/w VG+ (light soiling & rubbing; light bruising to edges & extrems).
PUBLISHER: The Chinese University Press 2011
KEYWORDS: China Chinese history academia academic study research 20th century
China and the Vocation of History in the Twentieth Century: A Personal Memoir
Provenance of Brian Moloughney. Super octavo, blue cl boards, spine lettered in silver gilt, character to front board in blind; plates; xxxviii + 270 pp.; VG+ (light soiling to boards; light bruising to edges & extrems; light soiling to pg edges)
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 2010
KEYWORDS: China Chinese 20th century intellectual history life lives memoir biography autobiography sinologists historiography
More than Real: A History of the Imagination in South India
Super octavo, red cl boards, spine lettered in gilt; xiv + 333 pp.; VG+ (sl soiling to boards; light bruising to edges & extrems); in d/w VG+ (light soiling & rubbing; light to moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 2012
KEYWORDS: imagination intellectual history culture cultural diffusion India
Pattern and Person: Ornament, Society, and Self in Classical China
Super octavo, black cl boards, spine lettered in gilt; illus., photos; xviii + 374 + [11 (advts)] pp.; VG+ (light soiling to boards; spine sl cocked; light bruising to edges & extrems); in d/w VG (light soiling & rubbing; light to moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems; moderate curling to edges, esp to flaps).
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 2006
KEYWORDS: China Chinese classical decoration ornament history
Incense at the Altar: Pioneering Sinologists and the Development of Classical Chinese Philology
Provenance of Brian Moloughney. Super octavo, red cl boards, spine & front board lettered in gilt, gilt panel to front board; xxvi + 359 pp.; VG+ (light soiling to boards; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems w some chipping, esp to spine at head; light soiling to pg edges).
PUBLISHER: American Oriental Society 2001
KEYWORDS: China Chinese philology classical history scholarship
Ten Thousand Things: Module and Mass Production in Chinese Art
Provenance of Brian Moloughney. Imp. octavo, brown cl boards, spine lettered in silver gilt, characters to front board in blind; frontis., illus., photos; vi + 265 pp.; VG+ (sl soiling to boards; light bruising to edges & extrems; sl soiling to pg edges, eps & prelims); in d/w VG (light to moderate soiling & rubbing; moderate bruising to edges & extrems w some chipping, esp to spine at head w sm tear).
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 2000
KEYWORDS: China Chinese art history lecture lectures
Writing & Literacy in Early China
Provenance of Brian Moloughney. Super octavo, cream cl boards, spine lettered in black; illus., photos, plates; x + 494 pp.; VG+ (light bruising to edges & extrems; light soiling to pg edges); in d/w VG+ (light to moderate soiling & rubbing; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems).
PUBLISHER: University of Washington Press 2011
KEYWORDS: China Chinese language literacy books reading history
Russia's Last Gasp: The Eastern Front 1916-17
FIRST EDITION. Ex-library. Super octavo, black card boards, spine lettered in silver gilt; illus. tp, illus., plates; 472 pp.; VG (light soiling to boards; light bruising to edges & extrems; adhesion from tape to boards; light soiling to pg edges & eps); in d/w VG (light soiling & rubbing; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; some peeling from tape; some tanning).
PUBLISHER: Osprey 2016
KEYWORDS: First World War One I 1 Russia Russian military history first edition
The Flood Myths of Early China
Octavo, illus. card boards; illus., photos; x + 100 pp.; VG+ (light soiling & rubbing to boards; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; sl soiling to pg edges).
PUBLISHER: State University of New York Press 2006
KEYWORDS: flood myths myth China Chinese history religious religion folklore
Wombs with a View: Illustrations of the Gravid Uterus from the Renaissance through the Nineteenth Century
Imp. octavo, illus. card boards; frontis., photos; xvi + 380 pp.; VG+ (light soiling & rubbing to boards; light bruising to edges & extrems).
PUBLISHER: Springer 2016
KEYWORDS: art history womb uterus women woman
Iran: A Modern History
Provenance of Brian Moloughney. Super octavo, blue card boards, spine lettered in gilt; plates, photos; xvi + 979 pp.; VG+ (light soiling to boards; light creasing to spine; light bruising to edges & extrems); in d/w VG+ (light soiling & rubbing; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; creasing to rear flap).
PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 2017
KEYWORDS: Persia Persian Iran Iranian history modern Islamic Republic
In Search of the Southern Serpent
Limited numbered FIRST EDITION. Signed by authors. Signed typed letter to prev owner loosely enclosed. Super octavo, black card boards, spine lettered in gilt; illus., photos; [6] + 234 pp.; VG+ (sl soiling to boards; light bruising to edges & extrems; some rubbing & soiling to prelims; sl soiling to pg edges); in d/w VG+ (light soiling & rubbing; light to moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).
PUBLISHER: StonePrint Press 2006
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori history sacred spiritual religion religious
Song of the Stone
FIRST EDITION. Typed & signed letter and autographed bookmark loosely enclosed. Super octavo, illus. card boards, spine & front boardlettered in gilt; illus.; 192 pp.; VG+ (moderate soiling & rubbing to boards; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges & eps).
PUBLISHER: StonePrint Press 1995
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori folklore history songs poems poetry
Montaillou: Cathars and Catholics in a French Village, 1294-1324
Super octavo, illus. red card boards, spine lettered in black; top edge stained red, frontis., plates; xxviii + 414 pp.; VG+ (sl bruising to edges & extrems; sl soiling to pg edges); in slipcase VG (moderate soiling & rubbing; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems).
PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 2005
KEYWORDS: France French religious history 13th 14th century religion Cathar Cathars Catholic
A Literary History of Persia Volume IV: Modern Times (1500-1924)
This vol. only. Octavo, illus. light card covers; xvi + 530 pp.; VG+ (sl soiling to covers; light bruising to edges & extrems).
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2009
KEYWORDS: Persia Persian literary history criticism modern
East Coast Pioneers: A Williams Family Portrait: A Legacy of Land, Love and Partnership
Quarto, black card boards, spine & front board lettered in gilt; illus., photos; xviii + 421 pp.; VG+ (light soiling & rubbing to boards; light bruising to edges & extrems); in d/w VG+ (light soiling & rubbing; light bruising to edges & extrems).
PUBLISHER: The Gisborne Herald Co. [1998]
KEYWORDS: early New Zealand local family history
Allard
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 cost
PUBLISHER: Haynes 1977
KEYWORDS: cars automotive high performance Sydney Allard history vintage classic
Music and Narrative Since 1900
Tidy ex-library, super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+) usual library markings- otherwise a tidy copy; 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 cost
PUBLISHER: Indiana University Press 2013
KEYWORDS: music history 20th twentieth century
Broker of Death: An Insider's Story of the Iranian Arms Deals
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 cost
PUBLISHER: Macmillan 1988
KEYWORDS: Iran Iranian weapons weaponry munitions deals arms war US America modern history