Books - "history"
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Hacks and Dunces: Pope, Swift and Grub Street
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: Methuen 1980
KEYWORDS: English literature literary studies history biography social history
Wealth & Poverty: An Economic History of The Twentieth Century
Quarto hardcover (VG+) 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: Oxford University Press 1990
KEYWORDS: economy history social history 20th Century Twentieth
Airlines of Asia: Since 1920
Super octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xiii+572pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light chaffing to spine extrems, light soiling to boards, light soiling & tanning to page edges) in d/w VG (minor fading to spine, light creasing to extrems/edges, light chaffing, light tanning & soiling to interior extrems, previous booksellers sticker on flap).
PUBLISHER: Paladwr Press 1997
KEYWORDS: aviation aeronautics aeroplane civilian commercial airline history Asia history transport
Tannenberg: The First Thirty Days in East Prussia
FOLDING MAPS AT REAR. Super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, x + 306pp, VG ( moderate tanning & soiling to spine, minor scuffing to spine & board extrems, minor crease & soiling on front board, moderate foxing & soiling to page edges & eps, foxing throughout, signed with previous owners name in ink with moderate pencil notes and underscoring throughout, occasional sm closed tears to folding maps at rear- all maps present).
PUBLISHER: William Blackwood & Sons 1925
KEYWORDS: Tannenberg Prussia military history Sir Edmund Ironside history tactics Russia UK England Germany Europe campaigns
Song of the Old Tides
Signed by author. Numbered FIRST EDITION (#59). Prev owner's pre-publication receipt loosely enclosed. Quarto, grey card boards, spine & front board lettered in gilt; illus., photos; 320 pp.; VG+ (light soiling to boards; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems, w some sl chiping; light soiling to pg edges); in d/w VG+ (light to moderate soiling & rubbing; light to moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).
PUBLISHER: StonePrint Press 2004
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori history songs folklore poetry history
The Emergence of the Delhi Sultanate: 1192 - 1286
Ownership signature of Brian Moloughney. 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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Permanent Black 2020
KEYWORDS: Delhi sultanate history India kingdom history muslim hindu culture Asia
Astrological Roots: The Hellenistic Legacy
Super octavo, illus. light card covers; illus.; xx + 314 pp.; VG (light to moderate soiling & rubbing to covers, moderate bruising to edges & extrems w some chiiping; moderate soiling & tanning to page edges & prelims/terminals);
PUBLISHER: The Wessex Astrologer 2007
KEYWORDS: Astrology astrological history ancient history Greek Greece
Hellenistic Astrology: The Study of Fate and Fortune
Imp. octavo, illus. light card covers; illus., photos, xxvi + 670 pp.; VG (light to moderate soiling & rubbing to covers, light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; light soiling to page edges).
PUBLISHER: Amor Fati 2017
KEYWORDS: Astrology astrological history ancient history Greek Greece
Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America
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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Twelve 2012
KEYWORDS: literature gay queer lgbt Tuman Capote Allen Ginsberg Gore Vidal America USA history civil rights social history
Art in China
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 will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1997
KEYWORDS: China Chinese art history academia history culture modern ancient painting sculpture
Scottish Hazard
2 VOL SET. Octavo, red/blue card boards, spine lettered in gilt; illus.; 191, 155 pp.; VG+ (light soiling to boards; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; light soiling to pg edges; bookplate to fr pastedown; map tipped in as frontis., adhesive reside to ht (vol. 1)); in d/w VG (light to moderate soiling & rubbing, light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems w some curling to edges).
PUBLISHER: Proctor Press 1985
KEYWORDS: Scotland Scottish Flanders Flemish local history family families history
Daily Life in China: On the Eve of the Mongol Invasion, 1250-1276
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: Stanford University Press 1970
KEYWORDS: China Chinese history Mongolia Mongol 13th century history
Alexander the Great: The Anabasis and the Indica
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 2013
KEYWORDS: Arrian Alexander the Great classical ancient history Greece Greek military history
Chinese Writing
Super octavo, red card boards, spine & front board lettered in gilt, VG+ (light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems) (photos available on request).
PUBLISHER: The Society for the Study of Early China 2000
KEYWORDS: China Chinese history writing script palaeography history
A Diplomat in Japan
Small octavo softcover (VG+); Photos available on request. 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: ICG Muse 2000
KEYWORDS: history Japan Japanese history Meiji restoration British Diplomacy culture memoir
Memories of The Burma - Thai Railway
Super octavo, stapled green light card wrappers, white lettering to front wrapper, map to inside front wrapper, 23pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light scuffing to spine and minimal creasing & fading)
PUBLISHER: N/D (c.1998)
KEYWORDS: history Thai Thailand biography Burma trains railways military war Japan history
The Origins of the Second Republic in Spain
Very tidy Ex Library, octavo, burgundy red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xii + 356pp, VG+ (minimal library markings, sl bruising to spine extrems) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & scuffing/chipping to edges, moderate fading to spine, single library label)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1978
KEYWORDS: Spain second republic history dictatorship politics history
The Canadian Encyclopedia (3 Vol Boxed Set)
3 VOL SET IN SLIPCASE, quarto, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spines, illus, VG+ in VG slipcase (minor soiling to slipcase- photos available on request)
PUBLISHER: Hurtig Publishers 1985
KEYWORDS: encyclopaedias encyclopedia Canada Canadian history social history
Shaping the Nation: England, 1360-1461
THIS VOL. ONLY. Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); Photos available on request. 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 2005
KEYWORDS: England English history 14th 15th century politics political economics nation state Oxford History of England
A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People? England, 1783-1846
THIS VOL. ONLY. Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG-); Photos available on request. 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 2006
KEYWORDS: England English history 18th 19th century politics political economics nation state Oxford History of England