Books - "history"
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Wisden Cricketer's Almanack 1963 100th Edition
Octavo, yellow illus, light card wrappers, black & green text to wrapper, black text to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, illus title page, xlviii + 1131pp, illus, VG- (spine heavily warped, moderate soiling to wrapper, light to moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to page edges, previous owner's name in ink)
PUBLISHER: Sporting Handbooks Ltd 1963
KEYWORDS: wisden cricket history 1963 sport sporting
Wisden Cricketer's Almanack 1962 99th Edition
Octavo, yellow illus, light card wrappers, black & green text to wrapper, black text to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, illus title page, iv + 1063pp, illus, VG- (spine moderately warped, moderate soiling to wrapper, light to moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to page edges, somegutters lightly cracked, previous owner's name in ink)
PUBLISHER: Unwin Brothers Ltd 1962
KEYWORDS: wisden cricket history 1963 sport sporting
The Maori As He Was: A Brief Account of Maori Life as it was in Pre-European Days
TASTEFULLY REBACKED, octavo, brown buckram boards, small sections of text pasted to front board, frontispiece, xv + 280pp, illus, VG (slight bruising & warping to boards, light soiling to boards, spine & page edges, light tanning to page edges, light rust soiling from binding staples, previous owners name in ink to reverse side of frontispiece)
PUBLISHER: New Zealand Board of Science & Art Manual No. 4, 1934 Second Issue
KEYWORDS: elsdon best pre colonial te ao maori history pre european life anthropology new zealand aotearoa
Twelve Pioneer Missionaries with Portraits
Tidy ex-library, octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt decoration to front board, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, upper edges gilt, viii + 306pp, illus/plates (all present), VG (light chafing, fading & soiling to boards & spine, light to moderate bruising to board corners, light soiling & tanning to page edges, spine lightly cocked, sporadic light cracking to gutters, minimal library markings none external)
PUBLISHER: Thomas Nelson & Sons 1900
KEYWORDS: pioneer missionaries raymund lulli william carey hannah marshman james wilson peter greig john vanderkemp alexander duff alphonse francois lacroix robert caldwell ion g n falconer nilakantha shastri goreh dhanjibhai nauroji william ewart gladstone mission christian christianity history
African Wastes Reclaimed: Illustrated in the Story of the Lovedale Mission
FIRST EDITION, octavo, burgundy heavy boards, black illus to front cover, black lettering to front cover & spine, deckled edges, frontispiece, x + 268pp, illus, VG ( light chafing & brusing to boards, moderate fading to spine, slightly cocked, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, light to moderate soiling to pages)
PUBLISHER: J M Dent & Co 1902
KEYWORDS: robert young lovedale mission africa african missionaries christian colonisation history john love
The Life of Alexander Duff in Two Volumes
TWO VOLUME SET, tidy ex-library, super octavo brown buckram boards, black rule to border of front boards, blind rule to border of rear boards, gilt lettering to spines, frontispiece, mixed pagination, illus + maps (present), VG- (moderate scuffing to edges of boards & spines, slightly cocked, boards & spines lightly soiled & faded, moderate soiling to page edges, minimal library markings none external, prelims loose in Volume One, front gutter fully cracked, spine & rear board loose to Volume Two, folding map torn but present in Volume Two)
PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton 1879
KEYWORDS: alexander duff free church of scotland mission missionaries christian christianity india colonisation history
Sanskriti-Yatra Rabindra-Bhavna: A Tribute from Indian Railways on 150th Birth Anniversary of Rabindranath Thakur
DUAL HINDI (?) ENGLISH TEXT, square 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: Committee on Heritage & Culture, Ministry of Railway N/D
KEYWORDS: DUAL HINDI (?) ENGLISH TEXT Rabindronth Tagore family history
The Longest Siege: Tobruk: The Battle That Saved North Africa
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: Pan Macmillan 2009
KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 North Africa battles campaigns Tobruk
Anus Mundi: Five Years in Auschwitz
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: Allen Lane / Penguin 1981
KEYWORDS: war history pows prisoners of war concentration camps Nazi Germany Poland Auschwitz Wieslaw Kielar
William the Conqueror
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: Yale University Press 2018
KEYWORDS: English history William the Conqueror Normans England invasions biography
The Medieval Siege
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: The Boydell Press 2002
KEYWORDS: medieval warfare war history sieges Europe European middle ages
The Jail Busters: The Secret Story of MI6, the French Resistance and Operation Jericho, 1944
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: Quercus 2014
KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 MI6 French Resistance Operation Jericho secret operations espionage
God's Gentlemen: A History of the Melanesian Mission, 1849-1942
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 Queensland Press N/D (c.2000s?)
KEYWORDS: religion religious history Melanesia Melanesian missionaries Christianity
Flash Art XXI Years: Two Decades of History
Quarto 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: Giancarlo Politi Editore 1989
KEYWORDS: art history Flash Art contemporary
The Collectible Barbie Doll
LACKS D/W, quarto 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: Apple Press 1996
KEYWORDS: hobbies collectables collectibles Barbie dolls barbies history toys
Contribution to Victory: An Account of Some of the Special Work of the Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company Limited in the Second World War
Quarto 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: Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company 1947
KEYWORDS: Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company history engineering companies
The History of Trek
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: Pioneer Books 1991
KEYWORDS: Star Trek scifi science fiction tv shows television history
Rockin' : The Rockabilly Scene
Quarto 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: Merrell 2011
KEYWORDS: rockabilly rock n and & roll music hobbies history
Carolingian Painting
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: George Brazillier 1976
KEYWORDS: art painting carolingian history
Mongols, Huns and Vikings: Nomads at War
Quarto 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: Cassell & Co 2002
KEYWORDS: history Mongols Huns Vikings war warfare combat