Books - "history"
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Experience and Enlightenment: Socialization for Cultural Change in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
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: Edinburgh University Press 1983
KEYWORDS: Scotland Scottish history 18th eighteenth century culture
Richelieu and His Age, Volume III: Power Politics and the Cardinal's Death
THIS VOL ONLY, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (G+) jacket scruffy; 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: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1965
KEYWORDS: politics political history Cardinal Richelieu biography biographies
Richelieu and his Age, Volume II: Assertion of Power and Cold War
THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (G+) jacket scruffy; 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: Harcourt Brace & World 1970
KEYWORDS: politics political history Cardinal Richelieu biography biographies
The Three Waves of Globalization: A History of a Developing Global Consciousness
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: Zed Books 2004
KEYWORDS: history politics political theory globalisation globalization
Heroes: Volume II of Mythos
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: Penguin 2019
KEYWORDS: classical studies history mythology Stephen Fry ancient Greece Greek
The Morioris of Chatham Islands: Memoirs of the Bernice P Bishop Museum Volume IX, Number 1, Bayard Dominick Expedition, Publication Number 4
FIRST EDITION, quarto, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to red section of spine, page edges speckled red, 140pp + plates (all present), illus, VG (moderate fading to spine, 3cm closed tear to lower front hinge, light scuffing to boards, edges & spine, light bruising to board corners, light to moderate fading & soiling to boards, light to moderate soiling to eps & prelims/terminals, light tanning & soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Honolulu, Hawaii, Published by the Museum 1923
KEYWORDS: morioris moriori chatham chathams rekohu archaeology ethnology new zealand history h d skinner otago university academic
The Sheep and Wool Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks 1781-1820
Imperial octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxx + 641pp, illus, VG+ (slight scuffing to edges & spine, slight soiling & chafing to boards, slight foxing & tanning to page edges) in d/w VG (light creasing & scuffing to edges, light foxing, soiling & chafing to jacket)
PUBLISHER: The Library Council of New South Wales in Association with the British Museum (Natural History) 1979
KEYWORDS: sheep wool joseph banks botanist colonist correspondence new zealand history
The People of the Sea: The Maritime Dimension of Pacific Island History
WARMLY INSCRIBED & SIGNED PHD THESIS, LATER PUBLISHED AS BOOK OF THE SAME TITLE, quarto, royal blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xiii + 335pp, illus, Nr FINE, (v sl foxing to page edges, v sl bruising to corners)
PUBLISHER: A Thesis Submitted for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy of The Australian National University, March 2001
KEYWORDS: phd thesis paul d'arcy pacific island history polynesia maritime marine
A Missionary Voyage to the Southern Pacific Ocean 1796-1798
FACSIMILE EDITION WITH FOLDING MAPS TO REAR, super octavo, white heavy boards, black text to spine, xix + 420pp, illus/maps (all present), VG+ (slight bruising to spine, light soiling to board edges, upper page edges moderately foxed) in d/w VG+ (slight creasing to edges, light to moderate tanning to spine, slight soiling to jacket)
PUBLISHER: Fruhe Reisen Und Seefahrten in Originalberichten Band 5, Akademische Druck Austria 1966
KEYWORDS: james wilson missionary missionaries south seas pacific polynesia christianity history colonisation
Documents on Germany Under Occupation 1945 - 1954
Imperial octavo, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxvii + 660pp, folding map to rear, VG+ (slight bruising & scuffing to spine & board corners, light to moderate foxing & tanning to page edges, boards slightly warped) in d/w VG- (light chipping & creasing to edges, light to moderate foxing & soiling to jacket)
PUBLISHER: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1955
KEYWORDS: occupied germany under occupation beate ruhm van oppen history post world war two second ii historic documents
The Eastern Schism: A Study of the Papacy and the Eastern Churches During the XIth [11th] and XIIth [12th] centuries
Super octavo, dark blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, deckled lower edges, vii + 189pp, VG+ (v slight scuffing to edges of spine, v slight foxing to upper page edges, slight tanning to page edges, moderate soiling to fep & rep) in d/w VG+ (light tanning & soiling to jacket, v slight creasing to edges of jacket)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1955
KEYWORDS: eastern great schism papacy eastern churches eleventh twelth century christian history steven runciman
The Congress of Arras 1435: A Study in Medieval Diplomacy
Super octavo, dark blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xii + 266pp, VG+ (v slight foxing to upper page edges, slight tanning to page edges, moderate soiling to fep & rep) in d/w VG+ (slight tanning & soiling to jacket, v slight creasing to edges of jacket)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1955
KEYWORDS: congress of arras joycelyne gledhill dickinson medieval diplomacy european history fifteenth century
The Journal of William Lockerby: Sandalwood Trader in the Fijian Islands During the Years 1808 - 1809 with an Introduction & Other Papers Connected with the Earliest European Visitors to the Islands
FIRST EDITION, super octavo, blue buckram boards, blind stamped border & gilt stamped ship decoration to boards, gilt lettering to spine, deckled edges, cxi + 249pp, frontispiece, 3x folding maps to rear pocket (all complete) VG+ (slight brusing & scuffing to board edges & spine, v slight foxing & tanning to page edges, moderate tanning & soiling to pastedowns, fep/rep & half title page, previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown)
PUBLISHER: The Haklyut Society Second Series No. LII Issued for 1922
KEYWORDS: first edition haklyut society william lockerby sandalwood trader trade fiji fijian islands nineteenth century polynesian history
The Crisis of the Twelth Century: Power, Lordship, and the Origins of European Government
Octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xxviii + 677pp, illus, Nr FINE (slight bruising to board edges, v slight soiling & foxing to page edges) in d/w VG+ (slight creasing to corners, light soiling tanning & fading to jacket)
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 2009
KEYWORDS: twelth century thomas n bisson european politics political history analysis power lordship
Memoir of the Life and Episcopate of George Augustus Selwyn: Bishop of New Zealand 1841-1869; Bishop of Lichfield 1867-1878 [in two volumes]
IN TWO VOLUMES, REBOUND FOR LIBRARY USE, super octavo, black leather binding, gilt ruled border to boards, gilt stamped decoration to boards, gilt decoration, leather raised bands & gilt lettering to spines, all page edges marbled, marbled eps, frontispieces, mixed pagination, varied illustration maps/lithographs/charts/facsimile journal pages, VG- (moderate to heavy scuffing to boards, edges & spines, moderate scuffing and cracking to hinges (secure), light soiling & fading to boards, edges & spines, sporadic slight foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: William Wells Gardner 1879
KEYWORDS: archbishop bishop of new zealand george augustus selwyn anglican new zealand history
Our New Zealand Cousins
INSCRIBED WITH THE AUTHOR'S COMPLIMENTS, small octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to boards & spine, gilt bands to spine, illus eps, xii + 311pp + 32ads, VG (light brusing to boards & spine, v slight scuffing to edges of boards, light to moderate foxing to page edges & ads to rear, heavy tanning to fep & half title page, previous owner's name in ink to pastedown & fep, previous bookseller's label to pastedown)
PUBLISHER: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington 1887
KEYWORDS: james inglis travelogue new zealand aotearoa travel writing colonial history
Festivals of the Athenians
Octavo, burgundy heavy boards, gilt publishers stamp to front board, gilt lettering to spine, 208pp, illus, VG (light scuffing to edges of boards & spine, light to moderate tanning & soiling to pastedowns, prelims/terminals & page edges) in d/w VG- (moderate to heavy tanning & fading to jacket, 2cm open tear to front corner of jacket, slight scuffing to edges of jacket)
PUBLISHER: Thames & Hudson 1977
KEYWORDS: ancient greek athenian athens religion religious history classical h w parke
The Saga of Themistocles
Octavo, burgundy heavy boards, gilt publishers stamp to front board, gilt lettering to spine, 248pp, illus, VG (light to moderate scuffing to edges of boards & spine, light to moderate tanning & soiling to pastedowns, prelims/terminals & page edges, diagonal section cut from fep with remnant of previous owner's name in ink) in d/w VG (moderate tanning & fading to jacket, light soiling to jacket, slight scuffing to edges of jacket)
PUBLISHER: Thames & Hudson 1978
KEYWORDS: ancient greek themistocles robert j lenardon grecian history classical
Greek and Roman Voting and Elections
Octavo, red heavy boards, gilt publishers stamp to front board, gilt lettering to spine, 271pp, illus, VG (light scuffing to edges of boards & spine, light tanning & soiling to pastedowns, prelims/terminals & page edges) in d/w VG (light tanning & fading to jacket, light soiling to jacket, slight scuffing to edges of jacket)
PUBLISHER: Thames & Hudson 1982
KEYWORDS: ancient greek history classical grecian political politics voting elections
The Nuremberg Chronicle: A Facsimile of Hartmann Schedel's Buch der Chroniken
Folio, green faux leather boards, gilt lettering to black section on front board & spine, unpaginated prelims + 289pp, extensively illus/maps/diagrams, VG+ (v slight scuffing to board corners & spine, light to moderate foxing & tanning to page edges, v slight chafing to boards)
PUBLISHER: Landmark Press 1979
KEYWORDS: nuremberg chronicles german european history fifteenth century hartmann schedel anton koeberger