Books - "history"
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My Reminiscences of East Africa
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, blue cl boards, spine lettered in gilt; frontis., illus., plates; xiv + 336 pp.; VG (light to moderate soiling & scuffing to boards; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems w light chipping; light to moderate soiling & foxing to pg edges; moderate tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; some foxing throughout).
PUBLISHER: Hurst and Blackett 1920
KEYWORDS: military history South East Africa war wartime memoir life lives first edition
Reputations
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, red cl boards, spine lettered in black; illus., maps; 327 pp.; VG (light to moderate soiling to boards; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems w light to moderate chipping; light to moderate soiling & foxing to pg edges, esp & prelims/terminals; prev ownership inscr to ffep; some foxing & pencil annotation throughout).
PUBLISHER: John Murray 1928
KEYWORDS: First World War One I 1 life lives biography autobiography memoir history 20th century milirary
Japanese Cruisers of the Pacific War
US FIRST EDITION. Imp. octavo, black cl boards, spine lettered in silver gilt; illus., photos; xvi + 882 pp.; VG+ (light soiling to boards; light to moderate creasing to spine; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; light to moderate soiling to pg edges); in d/w VG+ (light soiling & rubbing; light to moderate fading to spinel; light bruising to edges & extrems).
PUBLISHER: Naval Institute Press 1997
KEYWORDS: Second World War II 2 Two Japan Japanese navy naval history
Silk Amidst the Coal
Signed by author. Octavo, illus. light card covers; photos; 147 pp.; VG (light to moderate soiling to covers; light bruising to edges & extrems; light soiling to page edges).
PUBLISHER: Buller Print 1994
KEYWORDS: early New Zealand history local family
The Male Figure in the Art of John Z. Robinson
Signed by artist. Octavo, illus. light card covers; photos; 176 pp.; VG+ (sl soiling to covers; light bruising to edges & extrems).
PUBLISHER: Brent Coutts 2009
KEYWORDS: New Zealand art artist artists criticism history
Dark Laughter: War in Song and Popular Culture
Ex-library. Octavo, grey cl boards, spine & front board lettered in black; photos; xvi + 178 pp.; VG (light soiling to boards; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; light to moderate soiling & foxing to pg edges).
PUBLISHER: Praeger 1994
KEYWORDS: war folk songs history criticism music
Norfolk Island and its Third Settlement: The First Hundred Years
Super octavo, illus. light card covers; frontis., plates; xiv + 242 pp.; VG+ (light soiling to covers; sl bruising to edges & extrems; sl soiling to page edges).
PUBLISHER: Library of Australian History 2006
KEYWORDS: Australia Australian history Norfolk Island settlement colonial
Thomas Potts of Canterbury: Colonist and Conservationist
Super octavo, illus. light card covers; illus., photos, plates; 328 pp.; VG+ (light soiling to covers; light bruising to edges & extrems; sl soiling to page edges; bookseller's sticker to rear cover)
PUBLISHER: Otago University Press 2020
KEYWORDS: early New Zealand history Canterbury Thomas Potts colonial colonisation colonization life lives biography
The Women of Royaumont: A Scottish Women's Hospital on the Western Front
Super octavo, illus. light card covers; photos; xx + 347 pp.; VG (light tp moderate soiling to covers; moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems; sl tanning & soiling to page edges; sl cracking to front gutters).
PUBLISHER: Tuckwell Press 1999
KEYWORDS: First World War One I 1 woman women history women's hosopital
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