Books - "history"
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Letters from the Steppe, Written in the Years 1886-1887
Octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, blind stamp lettering & rule to front board, teg, base of page block deckled, illus/map to front eps, frontispiece, xvi + 222, VG (light fading to spine, sl scuffing to extrems, light to moderate staining to front board, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, minor foxing to eps, moderate foxing to prelims, occasional light cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: Methuen & Co 1928
KEYWORDS: travel exploration Steppe William Bateson letters correspondence history historical
Scorched Earth (2 Vol Set)
2 VOL SET, sm octavo, red heavy boards, black lettering to spines & front boards, 396pp total, VG (minor fading to spines, light bruising to extrems, light to moderate soiling to boards, minor fading to board edges, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges & throughout, light tanning & foxing to eps)
PUBLISHER: Victor Gollancz 1941
KEYWORDS: Sino-Japanese war history Edgar Snow aftermath Nanking massacre China Chinese
Pioneer Plant Geography: The Phytogeographical Researches of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
Super octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, top page edges stained grey, frontispiece, x + 267pp, illus, VG+ (light rubbing & bruising to extrems, light tanning to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name [David Galloway] in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping/tearing to edges- minor loss, light tanning & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Martinus Nijhoff 1953
KEYWORDS: botany plants history historical research Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker geography
The Desert Ibex: Life History, Ecology and Behaviour of the Nubian Ibex in Saudi Arabia
Super octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 192pp, illus, VG+ (light rubbing & bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light chafing & soiling, sl creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Immel Publishing 1994
KEYWORDS: nature desert nubian ibex natural history Saudi Arabia
Sir William Jardine: A Life in Natural History
Super octavo, illus heavy boards, green & black lettering to spine, frontispiece, xii + 244pp, illus, VG (moderate fading to board edges, minor chafing & soiling to boards & spine, light bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Leicester University Press 2001
KEYWORDS: natural history historians biography biographies memoir Sir William Jardine
The First Russian Voyage Around the World: The Journal of Hermann Ludwig von Lowenstern (1803-1806)
Super octavo, cream cloth boards, black lettering to spine & front board, xxx + 482pp, illus, VG+ (light fading & bruising to spine & board edges/extrems, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, gift inscription in ink to half title page, minor pencil annotation to opp. pg482) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping/tearing to edges, light fading to spine, minor chafing, prev. bookseller's label to rear)
PUBLISHER: Univesity of Alaska Press 2003
KEYWORDS: exploration history Russian voyages journals diaries Hermann Ludwig von Lowenstern 19th nineteenth century
The Duab of Turkestan: A Physiographic Sketch and Account of Some Travels
Quarto, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, teg, base of page block deckled, frontispiece, xv + 563pp, illus, folding maps, VG (light to moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems, moderate tanning to spine, light chafing & fading to boards, light tanning & moderate foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's initials in ink to base of ffep, moderate foxing to prelims, sl adhesion to base of pages, occasional cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1913
KEYWORDS: travel history historical exploration landscapes geography duab Turkestan
A Talent to Survive: The Wartime Exploits of Lt-Col Richard Lowther Broad, MC, Legion d'Honneur, Croix de Guerre
Super octavo, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 205pp, illus/photos, VG+ (spine sl rubbed/bruised, sl tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, prev. owner's fully adhesive covering to covers- tidy application)
PUBLISHER: William Kimber & Co 1982
KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 pows prisoners of war escape stories biography biographies memoir Richard Lowther Broad Seaforth Highlanders
Colditz Recaptured
Octavo, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, 240pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (prev. owner's fully adhesive covering to covers- tidy application, sl creasing & chipping to edges, sl tanning & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Robert Hale & Company 1974
KEYWORDS: military history Colditz ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 pows prisoners of war camps prisoner
Safer Than a Known Way: An Escape Story of World War II
Super octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 207pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to board & spine edges/extrems, minor soiling to half title page) in d/w, VG+ (prev. owner's fully adhesive covering to covers- tidy application, light creasing to edges, light tanning to flaps)
PUBLISHER: William Kimber & Co 1983
KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 pows prisoners of war camps prisoner
Camp II, Block 211: Daily Life in an Internment Camp
Oblong super octavo, illus light card wrappers with french flaps, black lettering to spine, xiii + 190pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing & chafing to covers, prev. bookseller's sm label to front cover, sl tanning & soiling to page edges, minor creasing to rear flap)
PUBLISHER: Japan Publications 1974
KEYWORDS: military history pows prisoners of war internment camps detention camp ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 war relocation authority assembly centres centers Jack Matsuoka
Hans Krebs: Architect of Intermediary Metabolism 1933-1937, Volume II
THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xvi + 481pp, illus, VG+ (sl chafing to boards, prev. owner's name [David Galloway] in ink to ffep with inscription) in d/w, VG (moderate fading to spine, light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling, minor general wrinkling)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1993
KEYWORDS: medical Hans Kreb biography memoir biochemistry history
Escape from Colditz
Octavo, illus light card wrappers, white lettering to spine, 189pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing to spine & cover edges, light soiling to page edges, sl bruising to spine extrems)
PUBLISHER: Robert Hale 1991
KEYWORDS: military history ww2 2nd second world war two ii 2 pows prisoners of war escape stories escapees Colditz
From Colditz in Code
Octavo, dark brown heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, top page edges stained yellow, 192pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl tanning & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (prev. owner's fully adhesive covering to covers- tidy application, price clipped, light creasing & chipping to edges, light tanning to rear & flaps)
PUBLISHER: Robert Hale & Company 1971
KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 pows prisoners of war Colditz J M Green
Flak and Ferrets: One Way to Colditz
SIGNED & INSCRIBED, octavo, illus light card wrappers, black lettering to spine, frontispiece, ix + 196pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing to spine, sl fading to spine, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear cover, sl chafing to covers, sl soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Sentinel Publishing 1995
KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 pows prisoners of war Colditz signed Walter Morison
My Testament
FIRST EDITION, octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 288pp, illus, VG (moderate staining to board edges, moderate tanning to page edges, light to moderate tanning & foxing to eps & prelims/terminals) in d/w, VG- (moderate to heavy creasing & chipping/tearing to edges, minor chafing)
PUBLISHER: John Calder 1955
KEYWORDS: first editions autobiography autobiographies memoir Captain Peter Baker politics war history politicians
Call Me Coward
Tired, scruffy ex-library, octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 201pp, G+ (usual library markings, heavy fading to spine extrems, moderate scuffing to board edges, moderate tanning to page edges, heavy wrinkling/damage to ffep, yellowing tape repairs sporadically throughout with heavy cracking to gutters, heavy creasing & chipipng to fore-edges of pg33) in d/w, G+ (heavy loss to spine, other heavy creasing & chipping/tearing to edges, yellowing tape staining to flap edges, moderate general soiling & chafing, remnants of plastic cover to edges)
PUBLISHER: William Kimber & Co 1956
KEYWORDS: military history autobiography autobiographies memoir Colonel Eugen Dollmann Germans