Books - "history"
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The Age of Empathy; Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society
Hardcover octavo (near fine) d/w (near fine); 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: Souvenir Press 2010
KEYWORDS: natural history sociology anthropology Frans de Waal specials
Caen; Anvil of Victory
Softcover octavo (near fine); 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: Souvenir Press 2000
KEYWORDS: history WWII France Caen Alexander McKee specials
A Tree Without Roots; The Guide to Tracing British, African and Asian Caribbean Ancestry
Softcover octavo (near fine); 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: Arcadia 2008
KEYWORDS: history sociology anthropology genealogy ancestry Paul Crooks specials
Outwitting History: How a Young Man Rescued a Million Books and Saved a Vanishing Civilisation
First British edition hardcover octavo (fine) d/w (fine); 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: Souvenir Press 2005
KEYWORDS: history yiddish jewish cultural studies autobiography aaron lansky specials
The Gaoler
first edition octavo speckled yellow/orange boards, illus eps, 233pp, illus, VG+ (sl cocked, light owners signature to half-title) in VG d/w (light soiling, fading and rubbing) UNCOMMON
PUBLISHER: dunmore press 1978
KEYWORDS: new zealand history elsie locke dunedin
Crime, Gender and Social Order in Early Modern England
Hardcover octavo (fine) 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: Cambridge University Press 2003
KEYWORDS: england history gender studies sociology criminology garthine walker specials
Power in the Blood: Popular Culture & Village Discourse in Early Modern Germany
Hardcover octavo (near fine) 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: Cambridge University Press 1984
KEYWORDS: germany history sociology david warren sabean specials
Women in Stuart England and America: A Comparative Study
Softcover 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: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1978
KEYWORDS: women's studies stuart england america history sociology roger thompson specials
Popular Disturbances in England 1700 - 1870
Softcover 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: Longman 1979
KEYWORDS: england history sociology specials john stevenson
Gentility and the Comic Theatre of Late Stuart London
Hardcover octavo (fine) d/w (near fine); 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: Cambridge University Press 2005
KEYWORDS: history stuart england london theatre drama specials mark s. dawson
Wingless Victory: The Story of Sir Basil Embry's Escape from Occupied France in the Summer of 1940
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: Pan Books 1956
KEYWORDS: second world war military history sir basil embry france anthony richardson specials
Engines of War; Or Historical and experimental Observations on Ancient and Modern Warlike Machines and Implements, Including the Manufacture of Guns, Gunpowder and Swords
first edition octavo green cloth boards with blindrule and gilt lettering to spine, viii + 268pp + 16pp adverts, VG (rebacked using original binding, new eps with bookseller label and owner bookplate to front pastedown, light tanning and wrinkling)
PUBLISHER: longamn orme brown green and longmans 1841
KEYWORDS: military history weapons antiques guns swords henry wilkinson
The Pursuivant of Arms, or, Heraldry Founded Upon Facts
new edition octavo brown cloth boards with black rule and gilt lettering to spine and cover, a.e.g, xi + 220pp, illus in text and colour frontis, VG ( sl fraying to spine edges with minor seperation, sl tanning)
PUBLISHER: robert hardwicke (1884)
KEYWORDS: history heraldry art j r planche
British Field Sports Embracing Practical Instructions in Shooting Hunting Coursing Racing Cocking Fishing & c, With Observations on the Breaking and Training of Dogs and Horses; Also the Management of
octavo marbled boards in three quarter brown leather with gilt lettering and rule, 615pp + 1pp advert, illus incl scarce engravers title page (33 plates + frontis + engravers title). VG (lmoderate tanning/foxing, previous owner name to engraving page, new eps) A lovingly and tastefully rebound copy
PUBLISHER: sherwood neely and jones 1818
KEYWORDS: sport hunting weapons antiques history fishing william henry scott guns
Nuclear Weapons
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: Pan Books Ltd 1966
KEYWORDS: nuclear weaponry history protection civil defence otto berzin specials
The Hunting Grounds of the Old World; First series
first edition octavo green cloth boards with blindstamping and gilt lettering and tiger motif, xii + 520pp + 8pp adverts, illus, VG- ( rubbing and wear particularly to head and tail of spine, gutters weak, binding a little sloppy, light foxing to prelims) ASSOCIATION COPY inscribed and SIGNED by author to Ben Holladay (the stagecoach king)
PUBLISHER: saunders otley 1860
KEYWORDS: history travel hunting sport h a leveson ben holladay signed
Sport in England; Past and Present
first edition octavo green buckram with silver lettering and black and red printed bands, patterned eps, vii + 190pp, illus, VG (light wear and rubbing, heavy tanning to eps, bookplate of Thomas Parkin to front pastedwon and his signature and address to ep)
PUBLISHER: horace cox 1894
KEYWORDS: history sport hunting england colonel e c c hartopp
Hostages at Colditz
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: sphere
KEYWORDS: specials history warfare military
Revolutions: A Comparative Study - From Cromwell to Castro
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: vintage
KEYWORDS: specials revolution politics communism sociology history
The Revolver 1889-1914
first edition octavo red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 324pp, illus VG+ in VG+ d/w
PUBLISHER: crown publishing 1971
KEYWORDS: history antiques revolvers guns pistols military firearms a w f taylerson