Books - "history"
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The Royal Palaces of London
Oblong quarto gold heavy card boards, white lettering to spine and front, illus., 223pp, nr. FINE (slight bump to front corner) in d/w nr. FINE
PUBLISHER: Merrell 2008
KEYWORDS: royal palaces london architecture art history interior design decoration lavish royalty british history english aristocracy
The Mystic Garden
Copy of NZ lichenologist David Galloway, w/ small cache of correspondance with author loosley enclosed (one signed typed letter from author); FIRST EDITION, octavo green cloth boards gilt lettering to spine, 150pp, illus., VG+ (light scuffing to boards, ownership signature and notes to fep.) in d/w VG+ (light scuffing & v. sl. soiling)
PUBLISHER: Halsgrove Press 1992
KEYWORDS: garden garden art design history plants botany natural history signed modern first edition
A History of the 10th (Service) Battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment (Hull Commericals) 1914 - 1919
Octavo blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine and front, gilt emblem to front, xix+204pp, illus. w/ folding maps, incl. 1x in rear pocket, VG (moderate scuffing and rubbing to boards, light tanning and foxing to edges and within)
PUBLISHER: A. Brown & Sons 1937
KEYWORDS: regimental history battalion east yorkshire english british military history great war first world ww1 one regiment hull commercials 10th tenth service
Economics of the New Zealand Maori
Super octavo brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 519pp, VG+ (light foxing to edges) in d/w VG+ (staining to upper and lower cover edges, light foxing)
PUBLISHER: A. R. Shearer, Government Printer 1972 (second edition, reprint)
KEYWORDS: maori history economics new zealand history
Choreography & Narrative: Ballet's Staging of Story and Desire
Quarto purple cloth boards, illus., xvii+371pp, VG+ (light tanning within, prev. owner's details twinked out to fep.) in d/w VG+ (light scuffing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Indiana University Press 1996
KEYWORDS: dance ballet history choreography stage dancing dancer narrative criticism history
Tiger of Mysore: The Life and Death of Tipu Sultan
Octavo brown cloth boards, gilt lettering & illus. to spine, xii+388pp, folding map to rear, VG (tidy ex-library, usual stamps and markings; tape stains to boards; moderate foxing and soiling to edges, light within) in d/w VG- (usual stamps and markings, light scuffing and soiling, rear flap removed and tipped in to fep., sl. fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 1970
KEYWORDS: mysore tipu sultan india indian biography history southern british empire colonialism seringapatam lord cornwallis duke of wellington wars military history
London - Vanished & Vanishing
Super octavo, dark green heavy card boards, gilt tooling lettering to board and spine, dekcled page edges, frontispiece, xvi + 294pp + 6pp adverts, illus (75 plates), VG- (light chipping to spine extrems, moderate chafing to boards, heavy tanning to eps)
PUBLISHER: Adam & Charles Black 1905
KEYWORDS: Philip Norman history london illustrated history england uk great britain
The 7th (Queen's Own) Hussars Vol. 1, Vol 2.
2 volume set. Imperial octavo, navy blue heavy card boards, half bound in leather, gilt tool lettering, rule and decoration to spine and boards. black eps, frontispiece, illus title page, vol 1: xvi + 407pp, vol 2: viii + 452pp, illus - plates in both vols, both vols VG (unsteady binding sporadic cracking to gutters, light/moderate chafing throughout, light/moderate foxing to pages)
PUBLISHER: Spottiswoode & Co 1914
KEYWORDS: C R B Barrett history military history waterloo campaign dragoons hussars
The Battle Of The Bulge - Hitler's Last Desperate Game To Win The War
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: Ballantine Books 1978
KEYWORDS: history ww2 wwii history
Our Dealings With Maori Lands; Or, Comments on European Dealings for the Purchase and Lease of Native Lands, and the Legislation Thereon
FIRST EDITION, octavo green light card stapled wrappers, 60pp, VG- (heavy soiling & staining to front, moderate to heavy scuffing & chipping to covers, heavy tanning and moderate foxing soiling within, rust stains to staples)
PUBLISHER: Kidd & Wildman 1887
KEYWORDS: new zealand maori history land native court raupatu whenua history colonialism imperialism legal law legislation
Swine Fever in New Zealand
Super octavo staple wrapped (G+); 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: John Mackay, Government Printer,1899
KEYWORDS: agriculture history science medical pig bacteriologist new zealand history
The Essex Regiment: 1st Battalion (44th)
THIS VOL ONLY, Super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt lettering and shield to front, frontispiece, xxxi + 293pp, illus with four fold-outs to rear, VG (light bruising to spine and board extrems, light foxing to prelims and terminals, minor tanning throughout)
PUBLISHER: John H Burrows & Sons 1931
KEYWORDS: Military history British Essex regiment 1st Battalion Great War formation 1740 regimental history blizzard Ypres Cambrai Sambre etc
Cultures of Natural History
FIRST EDITION, SCARCE IN HARDCOVER; small quarto maroon cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxi+501pp, illus., VG+ (occasional light foxing within) in d/w VG+ (light scuffing. light fading to spine, moderate foxing confined to reverse only)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1996
KEYWORDS: natural history history philosophy of science biology ecology art collecting gardening colonial gender economics
Cassell's Picturesque Australasia Vol. II
This volume only (volume 2); quarto red coth boards, gilt lettering to front and spine, blind stamp emblem to rear board, vii+308pp+maps of Australia at rear., G+ (text block partially detached; moderate soiling scuffing and rubbing to boards, moderate fading to spine, light waterstaining within, moderate tanning and foxing)
PUBLISHER: Cassell & Company 1889
KEYWORDS: travel history geography cassell cassell's picturesque australasia new zealand australia mount cook goldfields south sydney perth maori military history govenor george grey illustrated
The Wives of Henry VIII
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: Viking 1992
KEYWORDS: History Henry VIII wives ascent decline politics court King heir history
The Thirties: An Intimate History
Super octavo hardcover (NF) 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: Harper Press, 2010
KEYWORDS: interwar years thirties 1930's decade british history housing boom unemployment intimate history diaries memoirs letters newspapers interviews
Bentley: Cricklewood to Crewe
Annotations and underscoring by automotive historian Maurice Hendry, Imperial octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (G+): 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 Publishing, 1980
KEYWORDS: automotive cars cricklewood crewe history motoring engineering bentley car history
The Marian Exhiles: A study of the Origins of Elizabethan Puritanism 1553- 1559
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: University of Cambridge Press, 1966
KEYWORDS: 1553 1559 religious settlement christian european history elizabethan christianity european history
White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812
Octavo black cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xx+651pp, illus., VG- (tidy ex-library, usual stamps and markings; light soiling & tanning to edges and within, light scuffing and tape stains to boards) in d/w VG- (usual markings, plastic covered with adhesive strips top & bottom, light soiling scuffing)
PUBLISHER: Institute of Early American History and Culture / University of North Carolina Press 1968
KEYWORDS: african american black history institutional racism white supremacy united states america us usa history colonial sociology
Family
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: HarperPerennial 1995
KEYWORDS: Ian Frazier family history chronicle american history