Books - "history"
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The Queen's Orders of Chivalry
Hardcover octavo (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 will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Spring Books 1964
KEYWORDS: history chivalry brigadier sir ivan de la bere specials
Social Investigation and Rural England 1870-1914
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: The Royal Historical Society 2003
KEYWORDS: history sociology mark freeman specials
Patients and Practitioners: Lay Perceptions of Medicine in pre-Industrial Society
Octavo black buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, 356pp; near fine (owner's name in pen to eps) in near fine d/w (protective plastic attached with blue tape to preserve d/w)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1985
KEYWORDS: medicine history sociology patient doctor relations pre-industrial era essays roy porter
The Fall of Mary Stuart
Octavo blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to front and spine, gilt illus to front, frontis, xv + 368pp + 12pp adverts, illus; VG+ (foxing, light tanning) INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR
PUBLISHER: Constable & Co Ltd 1921
KEYWORDS: history mary stuart royalty frank a. mumby
Male Delivery: Reproduction, Effeminacy, and Pregnant Men in Early Modern Spain
Octavo burgundy cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xviii + 209pp, illus; near fine ( small tear to cloth at bottom front cover)
PUBLISHER: Vanderbilt University Press 2006
KEYWORDS: male pregnancy spain history sociology medical anomaly sherry velasco theatre gender studies
Worlds Within Worlds: Structures of Life in Sixteenth-Century London
Octavo red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus, xv +449pp; near fine (owner's name in pen to eps) in near fine d/w (light rubbing)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1989
KEYWORDS: history sixteenth-century london england sociology lifestyle population economics steve rappaport
Rival Jerusalems: The Geography of Victorian Religion
Octavo black cloth boards, silver lettering to printed label on spine, xvi + 499pp, illus; near fine (small discolouration to page fore-edges) in near fine d/w (v light rubbing to front cover)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2000
KEYWORDS: history religion geography sociology victorian era great britain church of england roman catholicism cultural studies k. d. m. snell paul s. ell
The Politics of Social Conflict: The Peak Country, 1520 - 1770
Octavo brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xvi + 357pp, illus; fine in fine d/w
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1999
KEYWORDS: history sociology politics early modern british studies andy wood
Northward Over the Great Ice: A Narrative of Life and Work along the Shores and upon the Interior Ice-Cap of Northern Greenland in the Years 1886 and 1891 - 1897; With a Description of the Little Tr
Two volume set, octavo red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontis, illus (1) lxxx + 521pp (2) xiv + 625pp; both VG (foxing to eps, light fading to spine, wear to cloth cover with slight fraying at spine edges, v light tanning (1) small chip to spine top)
PUBLISHER: Methuen & Co, 1898
KEYWORDS: history greenland eskimos travel adventure autobiography nineteenth-century robert e. peary
Crime in England: 1550 - 1800
Octavo rust buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xiv + 364pp; near fine (owner's name in pen to eps, pencil markings throughout text) in VG+ d/w (fading to spine and top of front cover)
PUBLISHER: Methuen & Co Ltd 1977
KEYWORDS: history criminology sociology criminal law early modern england witchcraft infanticide essays j. s. cockburn
Religion and Society in Early Modern Europe, 1500 - 1800
Scarce octavo black cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, x + 281p; near fine (owner's name in pen to eps) in near fine d/w (slight rubbing to clear protective covering)
PUBLISHER: George Allen & Unwin 1984
KEYWORDS: religion sociology history early modern europe sixteenth to nineteenth century kaspar von greyerz
Village Song & Culture
Octavo black buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, 187pp, illus; near fine (owner's name in pen to eps) in VG+ d/w (light fading and rubbing)
PUBLISHER: Croom Helm 1982
KEYWORDS: history song cultural studies historical society communications michael pickering
Buddhism and Society: A Great Tradition and its Burmese Vicissitudes
Octavo red cloth boards, xiv + 510pp; near fine (owner's name in pen to eps) in VG+ d/w (attached to boards, fading to spine and edges)
PUBLISHER: George Allen & Unwin Ltd 1971
KEYWORDS: buddhism religion burmese culture sociology history anthropology melford e. spiro
The Allotment Movement in England, 1793 - 1873
Octavo grey cloth boards, red lettering to spine, frontis, xii +287pp; fine in fine d/w
PUBLISHER: The Boydell Press 2002
KEYWORDS: history england nineteenth century sociology jeremy burchardt rural economics
Personal Recollections of Notable People At Home and Abroad, with Other Papers (Two volume set)
Two volumes, octavo green cloth boards, gilt lettering and illustrations to spine and front covers, patterned eps, frontis (1) xiv + 342pp (2) xi + 349pp + 1pp advert; both vols VG (light discolouration to spines, light tanning, v light foxing, light wear to covers)
PUBLISHER: Richard Bentley and Sons 1895
KEYWORDS: personal recollections letters essays charles k. tuckerman history
Death, Burial and the Individual in Early Modern England
Black buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, 269pp, illus; VG+ (owner's name in pen to eps) in VG+ d/w (light rubbing)
PUBLISHER: Croom Helm 1984
KEYWORDS: history culture death early modern england sociology clare gittings
English Family Life 1576-1716; An Anthology from Diaries
octavo, black buckram boards with gold lettering to spine, xiv + 269pp, near fine (small ink owner's name to prelims) in near fine d/w (v light wear to extremities)
PUBLISHER: Basil Blackwell 1989
KEYWORDS: english history sociology family life ralph houlbrooke diaries
From Courtesy to Civility: Changing Codes of Conduct in Early Modern England
first edition, octavo, black buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine, vii + 311pp, near fine (some pencil marks) in near fine d/w
PUBLISHER: Clarendon Press 1998
KEYWORDS: history sociology england anna bryson modern first edition
Praire and Rocky Mountain Adventures or Life in the West to which will be added A View of the States and Territorial Regions of our Western Empire: embracing History Statistics and Geography, and Desc
octavo, black leather boards with blind stamped pattern to front board and gilt lettering and design to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, marbled edges, 640pp, illus, VG (light wear to extremities, closed tear to spine)
PUBLISHER: H. Miller 1860
KEYWORDS: history united states rocky mountain prairie john c. van tramp
The Story of Scots
Hardcover imperial 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: Scots College 1966
KEYWORDS: education scots college wellington history new zealand l.i. plimmer specials