Books - "history"
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Catherine de Medici
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: Phoenix 2005
KEYWORDS: history catherine de medici europe biography leonie frieda specials
Automobile Year No. 25, 1977/1978
Quarto red boards, gilt lettering to front and spine, 230pp, illus; VG (foxing) d/w (VG+, light wear)
PUBLISHER: Edita Lausanne 1977
KEYWORDS: automobiles cars motor sports history edita lausanne
Adventure in Oil: The Story of British Petroleum
foreword by the Rt. Hon. Sir Winston Churchill
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: Sidgwick and Jackson 1959
KEYWORDS: history british petroleum oil henry longhurst specials
Skyward
Man's mastery of the air as shown by the brilliant flights of America's leading air explorer. His life, his thrilling adventures, his North Pole and Trans-Atlantic Flights, together with his plans for
first edition (only edition with author's photo as frontispiece), octavo, blue boards with gilt lettering to front board and spine, illus eps, frontispiece, xv + 359pp, illus, VG+ (faded ink owner's name to fep, some wear to extremities and discolouration to spine), lacks d/w
PUBLISHER: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1928
KEYWORDS: aviation history autobiography richard evelyn byrd air explorer
Harvest of Messerschmitts: The Chronicle of a Village at War - 1940
based on the diary of Mary Smith of Elham
hardcover imperial 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: Frederick Warne 1981
KEYWORDS: history world war II WWII elham village kent england battle of britain aviation military dennis knight mary smith specials
Animals of the Rocky Shore of New Zealand
hardcover imperial 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: A.H. & A.W. Reed 1968
KEYWORDS: natural history new zealand shore animals margaret a. leslie specials
Mohammedanism; A historical survey (second edition)
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: Oxford University Press 1962
KEYWORDS: religion history mohammed islam h.a.r. gibb specials
Battle of Britain
first edition, imperial 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: Jonathan Cape 1980
KEYWORDS: history battle of britain world war two WWII military aviation len deighton specials
Portrait of a Peninsula: The Wildlife of Torndirrup
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: Wallace Smith 1991
KEYWORDS: australia torndirrup national park natural history ecology botany vic smith michael bamford specials
The Japanese Today: Change and Continuity
paperback (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: Charles E. Tuttle Company 1994
KEYWORDS: japan history sociology culture anthropology edwin o. reischauer specials
Samuel H. Walker's Account of the Mier Expedition
imperial octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, vii + 109pp, illus, near fine (some pen marks in text) in VG+ (wear to extremities including large closed tear)
PUBLISHER: The Texas State Historical Association 1978
KEYWORDS: american texan history mier expedition texas ranger samuel h. walker biography marilyn mcadams sibley
Animal Life in Africa
with a foreword by Theodore Roosevelt
octavo, red cloth boards with silver lettering to spine and front board and silver design to front board, frontispiece, xvii + 539pp, illus including folding maps (VG+), VG+ (cup stains to front board and some soiling, foxing and discolouration throughout), lacks d/w
PUBLISHER: E.P. Dutton and Company 1912
KEYWORDS: natural history africa animal life major j. stevenson-hamilton
Anecdotes of Big Cats and Other Beasts
duodecimo, pink cloth boards with gilt lettering to front board and spine, viii + 312pp, VG+ (some foxing and discolouration, pencil marks to eps), lacks d/w
PUBLISHER: Metheun & Co. 1910
KEYWORDS: natural history africa big cats david wilson
British Regiments in Napier 1858-1867
scarce, stapled illus light card covers, frontispiece, ii + 20pp, VG+ (light wear)
PUBLISHER: Hawke's Bay Art Gallery and Museum 1970
KEYWORDS: new zealand history british regiments napier military alice woodhouse
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
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: Oxford University Press 1980
KEYWORDS: history reference dictionary christianity church religion elizabeth a. livingstone specials
Religion in the Reich: The Nazi Persecution of Christianity, An Eye-Witness Report
First edition Octavo red cloth boards with black lettering to spine, viii + 240pp; VG (foxing, owner's stamp to fep) d/w (VG-, discolouration, pencil markings to back cover, small chip to back cover) RARE IN D/W
PUBLISHER: Longmans Green & Co 1939
KEYWORDS: germany religion history nazi reich christianity michael power
Wellington: A Pictorial History
Quarto black boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontis, 114pp, illus; near fine (light foxing) in VG+ d/w (light wear)
PUBLISHER: Grantham House 1995
KEYWORDS: wellington photography history new zealand david johnson
A History of the Modern Church from 1500 to the Present Day
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Methuen 1957
KEYWORDS: j. w. c. wand history religion specials
A History of the Early Church to A.D. 500
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Methuen 1957
KEYWORDS: j. w. c. wand history religion specials
Wellington
Hardcover imperial 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Millwood Press 1976
KEYWORDS: wellington new zealand history culture pat lawlor specials