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$35.00
xxacd226226

The Camel and the Wheel


BULLIET, RICHARD W

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 cost

PUBLISHER: Columbia University Press 1990

KEYWORDS: academia history technology anthropology zoology transport Middle East

$20.00
xxacd226227

Lord Lister: His Life and Doctrine


GUTHRIE, DOUGLAS

First Edition. 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 cost

PUBLISHER: E & S Livingstone 1949

KEYWORDS: first edition Lord Joseph Lister Douglas Guthrie history surgery medicine medical biography

$22.50
xxacf226229

Doctors By Themselves: An Anthology


GRIFFITH, EDWARD F & HORDER, LORD (foreword)

Super octavo 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 will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: Cassell & co 1951

KEYWORDS: medical history Edward Griffith Lord Horder doctor medicine science war disease

$30.00
xxacf226230

Aequanimitas


OSLER, SIR WILLIAM

Super octavo 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 will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: H. K. Lewis & Co 1946

KEYWORDS: Aequanimitas William Osler medicine medical history hospital army war military

$15.00
xxacf226231

A Surgeon's World: An Autobiography


THOREK, MAX

Super octavo hardcover (VG) lacks d/w; 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 cost

PUBLISHER: J. B. Lippincott 1943

KEYWORDS: medical history surgery medicine autobiography Max Thorek surgeon

$15.00
xxace226232

Dawson of Penn


WATSON, FRANCIS

Super octavo hardcover (G+) front gutter cracked, binding sound; 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 cost

PUBLISHER: Chatto and Windus 1950

KEYWORDS: medical history biography Bertrand Dawson of Penn Francis Watson

$15.00
xxace226236

Simple Custom: Cheerfully Illustrated


MONCREIFFE, IAIN & POTTINGER, DON

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 will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: Thomas Nelson & Sons 1954

KEYWORDS: history social customs rites culture illustrated chivalry

$32.50
xxace226237

The Europeans in Australia: A History Volume One, The Beginning


ATKINSON, ALAN

First Edition. Imperial 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 cost

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1997

KEYWORDS: academia history Australian settlers Europe colonialism British empire

$18.50
xxace226238

The Reinterpretation of the American Revolution 1763 - 1789


GREENE, JACK P (editor/intro)

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 cost

PUBLISHER: Harper & Row 1968

KEYWORDS: America USA American history revolution British empire essay academia politics war military rebellion

$100.00
3s7/18

Portraits and Autographs [Lacks title page]


STEAD, W T (WILLIAM)

LACKS TITLE/COPYRIGHT PAGE, ALBUM OF PORTRAITS AND SIGNATURE REPRODUCTIONS, imperial octavo, half leatherbound black buckram boards, no lettering to spine or boards, red speckling to page edges, 160pp, illus/photos, VG- (moderate to heavy scuffing to spine & boards with some minor surface loss & soiling, minor tanning to page edges, moderate discolouration to front & rear eps, dark & somewhat humourous pencil annotations [dead - historical & could probably do with an update!] to some portraits, minor pencil markings & annotation to index pages also, moderate creasing & soiling/foxing throughout, some page edges have paper reinforcement either to fore-edge or at gutter)

PUBLISHER: Unavailable c.1891

KEYWORDS: historical portraits signatures collections figures history William W T Stead

$65.00
3s7/24

Featherston Military Training Camp


LAWSON, WILL et al

THIRD EDITION, TIDILY RECASED RETAINING ORIGINAL COVERS, BOTH FOLDING PLATES PRESENT, octavo, red buckram soft boards, white lettering to front board only [spine blank], frontispiece, 112pp, illus, 2x folding plates to rear, VG (moderate scuffing & fading to spine, light bruising to extrems, sl soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges, moderate tanning to eps, occasional minor cracking to gutters, sl water staining to head of front gutter, sl tanning & foxing to prelims, light creasing & chipping to edges of folding plates)

PUBLISHER: NZEF / New Zealand Expeditionary Force N/D (c.1917?)

KEYWORDS: NZEF New Zealand NZ military history Featherston Military Camp early 20th twentieth century

$245.00
3s7/27

Raghbah: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia


AL-JERAISY, KHALED

Quarto, brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt lettering & illus to boards, 247pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to spine extrems, sl foxing to page edges, ink stamp 'cancelled duplicate' to eps) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing) in slipcase, VG+ (minor chafing & soiling, light bruising to extrems)

PUBLISHER: Impact/BBDO N/D

KEYWORDS: Saudi Arabia culture history Islam muslim Raghbah

$100.00
3s7/29

Winter in Egypt: Illustrated Guide of the Egyptian State Railways


N/A

Slim octavo, illus light card wrappers, red lettering & brown illus to front wrapper, lovely folding map of Egypt railway system to verso of beginning of chapter 1, 101pp, illus, G+ (heavy scuffing & archival repair to spine, moderate to heavy soiling to wrappers, bottom 1cm of spine base missing, moderate creasing & tearing/chipping to wrapper edges, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, v heavy cracking at front gutter- binding partially exposed, moderate staining & tape repair to inside front wrapper, moderate tanning & soiling to prelims, light to moderate foxing to folding map, 4cm closed tear to left side of folding map, moderate cracking to gutter of pgs88/89)

PUBLISHER: J Barreau N/D (c.1912)

KEYWORDS: travel history exploration Egypt rail trains railways guides

$95.00
3s7/30

James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual for 1886


ALCOCK, CHARLES W (Ed)

Sm octavo, orange stiff card wrappers, black lettering to wrappers, inside wrappers printed, unpaginated prelims, 275pp, VG- (heavy discolouration to spine, ink '86' to spine, moderate fading to text on wrappers, moderate creasing & soiling to wrappers, heavy tanning & soiling to page edges, moderate glue/scuffing marks to front gutter- some minor loss, verso of full title page missing, prev. owner's name in ink to title & contents page, other ink markings throughout- historic)

PUBLISHER: James Lillywhite, Frowd & Co / Wright & Co (The Cricket Press) 1886

KEYWORDS: cricketers' almanacks James Lillywhite history past years 19th nineteenth century

$15.00
xxadb226239

Red, White, and Black: The Early Peoples of America


NASH, GARY B

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: Prentice-Hall Inc 1982

KEYWORDS: Europe America Native American history academia civilization colonisation settler culture anthropology colonial slavery

$30.00
xxadb226240

The Frontier Camp Meeting: Religion's Harvest Time


JOHNSON, CHARLES A

Super 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: Southern Methodist University Press 1955

KEYWORDS: academia history religion frontier America USA United States settler theology church culture

$22.50
xxadb226241

Money & Power


ELLUL, JACQUES & GILL, DAVID W (foreword) & NEFF, LAVONNE

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: Inter-varsity Press 1984

KEYWORDS: religion economy academia ideology history Jacques Ellul Christianity

$15.00
xxadb226245

Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir 1964 to 2006


VIDAL, GORE

First Edition. 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: Little Brown 2007

KEYWORDS: first edition literature Gore Vidal gay queer lgbt memoir history

$22.50
xxadb226246

Palimpsest: A Memoir


VIDAL, GORE

First Edition. 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: Random House 1995

KEYWORDS: first edition literature Gore Vidal gay queer lgbt memoir history

$25.00
xxadb226247

Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal


PARINI, JAY

First Edition. 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: Doubleday 2015

KEYWORDS: first edition literature Gore Vidal gay queer lgbt biography history Jay Parini

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