Books - "history"
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Colossus: The Secrets of Bletchley Park's Codebreaking Computers
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: Oxford University Press 2010
KEYWORDS: war history espionage Bletchley Park codebreaking Colossus computers
The Kurt Tucholsky Reader: Germany? Germany!
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: Carcanet Press 1990
KEYWORDS: literature history Kurt Tucholsky
The Return of Little Big Man
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PUBLISHER: The Harvill Press 2000
KEYWORDS: Jack Crabb Wild West US America American history novels fiction literature Thomas Berger
The Blood Never Dried: A People's History of the British Empire
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PUBLISHER: Bookmarks Publications 2006
KEYWORDS: British empire history
Reform or Revolution
Octavo softcover (VG-) ink underlining to text; 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: Pathfinder Press 196
KEYWORDS: politics political history Rosa Luxemburg
John G Paton: Missionary to the New Hebrides
SINGLE VOLUME POPULAR EDITION, octavo hardcover (G+) scruffy copy; 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: Hodder and Stoughton 1896
KEYWORDS: autobiography memoir history John G Paton
The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell
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: Faber and Faber 2006
KEYWORDS: perfume history perfumery appreciation scent smell
The Artist and the Mathematician: The Story of Nicolas Bourbaki, the Genius Mathematician Who Never Existed
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: Thunder's Mouth Press 2006
KEYWORDS: Nicolas Bourbaki history mathematics mathematicians
The Emperor of Scent: A Story of Perfume, Obsession, and the Last Mystery of the Senses
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: William Heinemann 2003
KEYWORDS: perfume scent smell history Luca Turin
A History of Religious Ideas: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries; From Gautama Buddha to the Triumph of Christianity; and From Muhammad to the Age of Reforms
THREE VOLUME SET, super octavo light card wrappers, white & black lettering to spines & covers, mixed pagination, VG+ (v slight scuffing to wrapper edges, slight soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press 1981-1988
KEYWORDS: religion religious ideas history ancient mircea eliade
Royal Air Force Moreton-in-Marsh a History
SIGNED BY AUTHOR, super octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 169pp, illus/photo, Nr FINE (v slight scuffing to board corners & soiling to page edges) in d/w VG+ (slight creasing to edges, v slight chafing & soiling to jacket)
PUBLISHER: Gerry V Tyack 1995
KEYWORDS: moreton-in-marsh moreton in marsh royal air force raf history aviation united kingdom john hamlin gerry v tyack
Ships Employed in the South Seas Trade 1775 - 1861 (Parts I & II) & Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen Transcripts of Registers of Shipping 1787 - 1862 (Part III)
Super octavo illus light card wrappers, blue text to wrapper & spine, illus inside wrappers, frontispiece, 276pp + 104pp, illus/maps, VG+ (v slight scuffing to edges of wrapper, light foxing to page edges, slight soiling & tanning to wrapper and page edges)
PUBLISHER: A Roebuck Book 1986
KEYWORDS: south seas trade lloyds list maritime nautical pacific ocean shipping seamen eighteenth nineteenth century history a g e jones
Companion to the Medieval World
Super octavo white illus light card wrappers, black text to spine & wrapper, xii + 584pp, VG+ (v slight soiling to wrapper & page edges, v slight scuffing to wrapper corners & edges)
PUBLISHER: Wiley & Blackwell 2013
KEYWORDS: carol lansing edward d english medieval world history europe european
Pandemonium or Paradise? Kath and Bob Paul in the New Hebrides 1946-1980
Octavo, illus light card wrappers, white text to wrapper & spine, frontispiece, viii + 313pp, illus, Nr FINE (slight soiling to wrapper & page edges, v slight creasing & scuffing to wrapper corners & edges)
PUBLISHER: Crawford House Publishing 1997
KEYWORDS: new hebrides kath paul bob paul marney dunn vanuatu history polynesia pacific pasefika pacifica memoir
Cathedrals of Science: The Development of Colonial Natural History Museums during the Late Nineteenth Century
Super octavo red buckram boards, black text to spine, xii + 144pp, illus, Nr FINE (v slight scuffing to board corners, v slight foxing to upper page edges) in d/w VG+ (v slight creasing to edges & v slight soiling to jacket)
PUBLISHER: McGill-Queens University Press 1988
KEYWORDS: science natural history museum museology colonial late nineteenth century
The French Reconnaissance: Baudin in Australia 1801-1803
Super octavo, burgundy heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xvii + 461pp, illus/maps, VG+ (v slight bruising to board corners, slight foxing & tanning to page edges) in d/w VG+ (light creasing to edges, slight tanning, fading & soiling to jacket)
PUBLISHER: Melbourne University 1987
KEYWORDS: australia australian colonisation french reconnaissance baudin history terra nullius
Auckland at Full Stretch: Issues of the Seventies
SIGNED BY BOTH EDITORS, octavo illus brown light card wrappers, 304pp, illus, VG (light creasing, soiling & foxing to wrapper, light to moderate foxing & soiling to page edges & prelims, light tanning to pages)
PUBLISHER: The Auckland City Council & The Board of Urban Studies University of Auckland 1977
KEYWORDS: auckland new zealand tamaki makaurau urbanism history civil engineering housing 1970s seventies essays urban design council local government policy
Memoires pour servir a l'histoire de Magareva ere chretienne 1834-1871
TEXT IN FRENCH, imperial octavo, grey light card wrappers, black text to spine & wrapper, deckled edges, some remain uncut, frontispiece, cxxviii + 672pp, illus, VG (light creasing to wrapper edges, moderate bruising to spine, light to moderate soiling & tanning to wrapper & page edges, light foxing to page edges, light to moderate foxing to prelims, plates & folding maps)
PUBLISHER: Publications de la Societe des Oceanistes, No 15 Musee de l'Homme 1968
KEYWORDS: text in french memoir honore laval mangareva history catholic mission polynesia pacific christian
Un Siecle et demi de Contacts Culturels a Tanna: Nouvelles-Hebrides
TEXT IN FRENCH, imperial octavo, grey light card wrappers, black text to spine & wrapper, x + 426pp, illus/plates/maps, VG (moderate tanning to wrapper, moderate scuffing & creasing to spine & wrapper corners, light tanning to pages)
PUBLISHER: Publications de la Societe des Oceanistes, No 5 Musee de l'Homme 1956
KEYWORDS: text in french memoir honore laval mangareva history catholic mission polynesia pacific christian new hebrides vanuatu
Rakiura: A History of Stewart Island New Zealand
Ex-Library, octavo blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xx + 415pp, VG (board edges lightly scuffed, front gutter cracked, light to moderate soiling & tanning to page edges, sporadic moderate soiling to pages, lightly cocked) in d/w VG- (dust jacket in clear cover adhered to pastedowns, moderate creasing & chipping to jacket)
PUBLISHER: A H & A W Reed 1974
KEYWORDS: rakiura stewart island south island middle island new zealand history basil howard