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$145.00
1j37/8

The Naval and Military Heroes of Great Britain or Calendar of Victory being a Record of British Valour and Conquest by Sea and Land on Every Day in the Year


JOHNS, major r.m & NICOLAS, P.H lieut r.m

duodecimo, green cloth boards with design and gilt lettering and design to spine, frontispiece, xxiii + 660pp + 13pp adverts, VG (wearing to boards and extremities, light soiling to prelims, v light foxing), 3 fold out maps loosely enclosed

PUBLISHER: Bell & Daldy 1872

KEYWORDS: navy military history great britain nautical major johns p.h. nicolas

$20.00
1j37/12

Pride, Passion and Parochialism: a Hisstory of FMG 1905-2005


STANDING, RUSSELL A.J

quarto, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to front board and spine, illus eps, frontispiece, 375pp, illus, fine in near fine d/w (light wear to extremities)

PUBLISHER: Dunmore Press Ltd 2005

KEYWORDS: history new zealand FMG farmers' mutual group russell a.j. standing

$22.50
xxbkg30308

The India-China Relationship: What the United States Needs to Know


FRANKEL, FRANCINE R. & HARDING, HARRY (eds.)

paperback octavo (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: columbia university press

KEYWORDS: specials india china international relations america history economics culture

$120.00
1j37/44

the Farming and Memorandum Books of Henry Best of Elmswell, 1642


WOODWARD, DONALD (ed)

Octavo green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, lxxiv + 347pp, illus; fine, d/w (near fine, fading to spine, rubbing to edges)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1984

KEYWORDS: history henry best elmswell farming practices seventeenth century economics sociology

$47.50
1j38/4

Down the Bay: The History of the Ferries on Otago Harbour


MCCLUSKEY, F. H.

Quarto illus light card covers, 151pp, illus; VG+ (light tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: New Zealand Ship & Marine Society 1995

KEYWORDS: otago harbour ferry maritime history new zealand dunedin f. h. mccluskey

$55.00
1j38/5

Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgement: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England


HALL, DAVID D.

Scarce first edition octavo green cloth boards with french blue card covers, gilt lettering to cover and spine, 316pp; near fine (Owner's name in pen on fep) d/w (near fine, light rubbing)

PUBLISHER: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989

KEYWORDS: history new england religion sociology cultural studies david hall

$50.00
1j38/6

The Writings of William Walwyn


MCMICHAEL, JACK R. (ed) & TAFT, BARBARA (ed)

Octavo grey cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontis, xvi + 584pp, illus; near fine (owner's name to fep, small discolouration to page top edge) d/w (VG, small holes along corners and edges)

PUBLISHER: University of Georgia Press 1989

KEYWORDS: english revolution 1640's history william walwyn democracy politics autobiography letters

$100.00
1j38/9

Metropolis London: Histories and Representations since 1800


FELDMAN, DAVID & JONES, GARETH STEDMAN (eds)

octavo, illus light card covers, ix + 330pp, illus, near fine (small ink owner's name to fep)

PUBLISHER: Routledge 1989

KEYWORDS: history london sociology david feldman gareth stedman jones

$90.00
1j38/11

The Rise of Nationalism in Vietnam, 1900-1941


DUIKER, WILLIAM J

octavo, light green cloth boards with red lettering to spine, frontispiece, 313pp, VG+ in VG d/w (light rubbing, several chips and closed tears to extremities)

PUBLISHER: Cornell University Press 1976

KEYWORDS: history nationalism vietnam william j duiker

$35.00
1j38/19

By Batons and Barbed Wire: A Response to the 1981 Springbok Tour of New Zealand


NEWNHAM, TOM

Square super octavo illus light card covers, frontis, 96pp, illus; VG+ (light rubbing and creasing to covers, sl foxing to upper page edges) tidy copy of delicate book

PUBLISHER: Graphic Publications 2003

KEYWORDS: new zealand springbok tour 1981 social history anti-apartheid movement south africa racism rugby tom newnham

$75.00
1j38/26

Class, Conflict and Protest in the English Countryside, 1700 - 1880


REED, MICK (ed) & WELLS, ROGER (ed)

Octavo brown buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine, 236pp; VG+ (owner's pencilled annotations throughout book, owner's name in pen to inner back board) d/w (VG+, rubbing and slight tanning)

PUBLISHER: Frank Cass 1990

KEYWORDS: history sociology english countryside protest conflict eighteenth nineteenth century mick reed roger wells

$120.00
1j38/29

Madagascar or Robert Drury's Journal, During Fifteen Years' Captivity on that Island: And a further descrition of Madagascar by the Abbe Alexia Rochon


DRURY, ROBERT (OLIVER, S. P. (ed))

Octavo red cloth boards, gilt lettering to front board and spine, black illus to front board, frontis, 399pp, illus + folding map, VG- (3cm portionn of upper spine missing, heavy fraying with loss to spine base, moderately heavy browning to spine & less so to boards, some browning & soiling to page edges, light foxing to eps, one plate loose, owner's ex libris label to front pastedown)

PUBLISHER: T. Fisher Unwin 1890

KEYWORDS: history autobiography robert drury madagascar personal account nineteenth century

$45.00
1j38/34

Reading and Writing: Literacy in France from Calvin to Jules Ferry


FURET, FRANCOIS & OZOUF, JACQUES

Octavo illus light card covers, ix + 369pp, illus; near fine (owner's name to fep)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1982

KEYWORDS: cambridge studies in oral literate culture france history sociology education francois furet jacques ozouf

$60.00
1j38/38

Harvesters and Harvesting, 1840 - 1900: A Study of the Rural Proletariat


MORGAN, DAVID HOSEASON

Octavo black buckram boards, silver lettering to spine, 224pp; near fine (owner's name to fep in pen, owner's pencillings throughout body) d/w (VG+, rubbing and fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: Croom Helm 1982

KEYWORDS: history agriculture harvest technology rural lifestyle nineteenth century england david hoseason morgan

$110.00
1j38/40

George III and the American Revolution: The Beginnings


MUMBY, FRANK A.

Octavo royal blue buckram boards with gilt lettering and illus to front and spine, xvi + 432pp, frontis, illus; VG (tanning, moderate foxing, light rubbing), INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR

PUBLISHER: Contstable 1924

KEYWORDS: King George III american revolution history politics frank a. mumby

$42.50
1j38/43

Victorian Village: The Diaries of the Reverend John Coker Egerton of Burwash, 1857 - 1888


EGERTON, JOHN COKER (WELLS, ROGER (ed))

Octavo illus light card covers, frontis, 369pp, illus; near fine (light fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: Alan Sutton, 1992

KEYWORDS: diaries autobiography john coker egerton burwash nineteenth century history england

$45.00
1j38/44

The Demography of Victorian England and Wales


WOODS, ROBERT

Octavo red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxv + 449pp, illus; near fine (owner's name to fep) d/w (fine)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2000

KEYWORDS: victorian england wales deomgraphy history population economy society sociology robert woods

$55.00
1j39/5

English Masculinities, 1660 - 1800


HITCHCOCK, TIM (ed) & COHEN, MICHELE (ed)

Octavo illus light card covers, x + 268pp; near fine (owner's name to fep in pen)

PUBLISHER: Longman 1999

KEYWORDS: english history gender studies sociology essays tim hitchcock michele cohen

$125.00
1j39/7

Sport and the English Middle Classes, 1870 - 1914


LOWERSON, JOHN

Scarce octavo brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, ix + 310pp; fine in fine d/w

PUBLISHER: Manchester University Press 1993

KEYWORDS: history john lowerson sport english middle class sociology nineteenth century

$65.00
1j39/12

The Religion of Fools? Superstition Past and Present


SMITH, S. A. (ed) & KNIGHT, ALAN (ed)

Scarce octavo illus light card covers, 350pp; fine

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2008

KEYWORDS: religion susperstition history past and present supplement s. a. smith alan knight

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