Books - "history"
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Studies in Dutch Books with Coloured Plates Published 1662-1875
Very tidy ex-library; quarto green cloth boards, gilt lettering and emblem, ix+605pp, illus., VG (light soiling and tape stains to eps. and boards, usual stamps and markings; otherwise nr. FINE) in d/w VG (usual markings; plastic covered with adhesive strips top and bottom, light soiling)
PUBLISHER: Dr. W. Junk B. V. 1976
KEYWORDS: dutch book books art history coloured plates natural history topography travel costumes uniforms
The Church and the Black Man
Tidy ex-library quarto hardcover (rebacked library binding incorporating original covers, 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: Pflaum Press 1969
KEYWORDS: african american black history civil rights movement politics racism white supremacy church christian christianity us usa united states america history black like me
The People Called Shakers
Ex Library, 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: Oxford University Press New York 1953
KEYWORDS: shaker history shakers mother ann albany new york new england american colonial history settler pioneer united states america us usa millenial laws
Over Her Dead Body: Death, Femininity and the Aesthetic
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: Routledge 1992
KEYWORDS: art history aesthetics femininity women's history women literary criticism
The Mechanical Baby - A Popular History of the Theory and Practice of Child Raising
Super octavo, hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at east 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: Dobson Books 1979
KEYWORDS: child raising parenting children family history social history
Thames Sacred River
Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in half height decorative 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: Chatto & Windus 2007
KEYWORDS: history geography natural history thames travel nature
The Story of the Sri Lankans (A Small People With a Great History of Over 2500 Years From the Tiny Island in the Indian Ocean)
Imperial octavo, cream heavy card boards, brown title patch to spine, illus prelims, xxix + 576pp, illus, VG (light bruising to extrems, prev. bookseller's price ink stamp to fep, some subtle personal ink & white-out corrections by prev. owner to text sporadically throughout- mostly to correct typos) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & sun fading to spine & edges, light soiling to covers)
PUBLISHER: Sridevi Publication 1998
KEYWORDS: Sri Lanka history illustrated Indian Ocean islands anthropology culture antiquity ancient history
The American Leonardo - A Tale of Obsession, Art and Money
Super octavo, hardcover (Near FINE) 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: Oxford 2009
KEYWORDS: biography history art history
Law in War - Freedom and Restriction iin Australia During the Great War
Super octavo, softcover (Near FINE); 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: Newsouth 2020
KEYWORDS: australia history war legal history military political
Pathfinders - A history of Aboriginal trackers in NSW
Super octavo, softcover (Near FINE); 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: NewSouth 2020
KEYWORDS: australia aus history trackers tracking aboriginals nsw new south wales indigenous history
The True Story of the Novel
Super octavo softcover (VG): all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, com plete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Fontana/HarperCollins 1998
KEYWORDS: literature history novels evolution antiquity ancient history
A Theatre in the House - The Carey's Globe
Super octavo softcover (nr FINE); 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: University of Otago Press 1999
KEYWORDS: nz history otago dunedin globe theatre history carey family
A Series of Thirty Engravings in Outline, From the Elgin Marbles
Oblong quarto, blue light card wrappers, black lettering to front cover, unpaginated, illus, VG-/scruffy (heavy creasing & scuffing to cover edges & spine, light staining, heavy loss to bottom corners of rear pages - 13cm x 3cm sections - engravings still good, light to moderate tanning & foxing to pages throughout)
PUBLISHER: W. T. Robinson 1826
KEYWORDS: British Museum Elgin marbles engravings Stewart Haydon history antiquity ancient history Greece Greek drawings art
The Flight of the Emu : A Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901- 2001
Imperial octavo, hardcover (nr FINE) in d/w (nr FINE); 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: Melbourne University Press 2001
KEYWORDS: aus australia ornithology birds history zoology natural history
Provand's Lordship and Old Glasgow
Glasgow Museums
oblong 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: Glasgow City Council 2004
KEYWORDS: glasgow scotland scottish history city history provand's lordship
F1 Retro 1980
Quarto, green cloth boards, green & silver gilt lettering to spine, silver gilt 80 to front board, 280pp, illus/photos, Near FINE, in d/w, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: Motor Sport Magazine 2017
KEYWORDS: formula one 1 f1 history 1980s eighties illustrated history photos motorsport motor car racing
Before Orientalism: London's Theatre of the East 1576-1626
Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xii + 238pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, v sl foxing to page edges & rear eps) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2003
KEYWORDS: trade history India England Indian English illustrated business drama theatre history
The Tomb of St Peter: The New Discoveries in the Sacred Grottoes of the Vatican
EX-LIBRARY, super octavo, purple cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 198pp, illus, VG+ (usual but minimal library markings, light discolouration to board edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges with hefty tape reinforcements, light chafing with sl surface loss)
PUBLISHER: George G. Harrap 1960
KEYWORDS: religion Saint Peter vatican Rome history Christianity biblical history ancient antiquity archaeology archeology illustrated
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (18 Vol Set)
HEAVY 18 VOLUME SET- EXTRA SHIPPING REQ'D, quarto, blue plastic boards (folders), silver gilt lettering to spines, approx. 12x illus individual issues to each folder, VG (moderate chafing & soiling to boards, spines heavily cocked, light soiling & foxing to some issues)
PUBLISHER: Orbis N/D
KEYWORDS: aviation history military international engineering aircraft history encyclopedia encyclopaedia periodicals
The Gringo in Latin America
EX-LIBRARY, sm 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: Jonathan Cape 1967
KEYWORDS: latin America politics geopolitics history anthropology history culture
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