Books - "history"
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Proverbs; A Handbook
octavo, illus heavy card boards, xvi + 305pp, illus, near fine, lacks d/w
PUBLISHER: Greenwood Press 2004
KEYWORDS: folklore proverbs religion wolfgang mieder history sociology anthropology
No Struggle, No Progress Frederick Douglass and His Proverbial Rhetoric for Civil Rights
octavo, illus heavy card boards, vii + 532pp, near fine, lacks d/w
PUBLISHER: Peter Lang 2001
KEYWORDS: biography proverbs history civil rights sociology wolfgang mieder frederick douglass
The Truth of Life as disclosed in half a century of the National Life of New Zealand
first edition, SCARCE, octavo, green cloth boards with black lettering to front board and spine, iii + 219pp, VG+ (light wear, faint stain to front board, light tanning), lacks d/w
PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs 1919
KEYWORDS: first edition new zealand history f.g. dalziell autobiography
Sorbian Proverbs: Serbske Prislowa
Octavo, light card covers with green lettering & drawing, 149pp, illus, VG+ (slight fault or rub mark to left hand side of front cover - would be fine without this)
PUBLISHER: University of Vermont 2004
KEYWORDS: Susanne Hose Wolfgang Mieder proverbs history English German Sorbian languages literature anthropology Germany
Memorable Men of the Nineteenth Century: The Stephensons and other Railway Pioneers
Octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and black rule to spine and boards, aeg, frontispiece, 304pp, VG- (fading, staining and spotting to boards, particularly front board, bruising to board edges, particularly spine extrems, 2cm black stain to front edge of front board, Brighton Public Library rules pasted on front paste down, gutter broken at rear and cracked at front, fading to prelims, fading & staining to rear eps, light foxing, fingerprint marks to some pages)
PUBLISHER: National Publishing Company (date ??)
KEYWORDS: J F Layson science railways steam engines George Stephenson Isambard Kingdom Brunel engineering Richard Trevithick William Hedley Timothy Hackworth railroads history
The Progress of New Zealand in the Century
octavo, brown cloth boards with leather spine & leather board edges, gilt lettering to spine VG tidy copy
PUBLISHER: W & R Chambers Ltd 1902
KEYWORDS: RF Irvine OTJ Alpers New Zealand history Maori European arrival wars Waitangi
A Sketch of Otago, from the initiation of the settlement, to the abolition of the province with a record of all the important events in its history, chronologically arranged, together with statistical
octavo, marbled boards, 8pp adverts + 152pp, illus including folding diagrams (VG), good (heavy wear, both gutters cracked, closed tears to spine, discolouration to pages, ink markings to prelims and throughout text, occasional foxing)
PUBLISHER: R.T. Wheeler 1878
KEYWORDS: new zealand history otago jas. Mcindoe
The History of Scotland
From Agricola's Invasion to the Extinction of the Last Jacobite Insurrection
eight volumes + index volume, duodecimo, brown boards with gilt lettering to spine, gilt device to front board, black decorative rule to front board and spine, all volumes VG (tidy condition, light wear to extremities, light tanning, small ink mark to prelims of volume I, corner of fep of volume vii missing)
PUBLISHER: William Blackwood and Sons 1876
KEYWORDS: history scotland john hill burton agricola jacobite insurrection
Doing Proverbs And Other Kinds of Folklore; Philological and Historical Studies
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: The University of Vermont 2012
KEYWORDS: proverbs history languages charles clay doyle specials
International Bibliography of Paremiography; Collections of Proverbs, Proverbial Expressions and Comparisons, Quotations, Graffiti, Slang, and Wellerisms
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: The University of Vermont 2011
KEYWORDS: proverbs languages history wolfgang mieder linguistics specials
Night Sky
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
KEYWORDS: specials clare francis thriller history fiction
Kilcaraig
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
KEYWORDS: specials annabel carothers history literature fiction
Voices on the Wind
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: arrow books
KEYWORDS: specials evelyn anthony history fiction
South with Scott
hardback octavo, folding maps at rear, with d/w, chipped spine, bumped corners (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: collins
KEYWORDS: specials travel antarctica explorers adventure robert falcon scott expedition admiral evans south history
The Day That Shook The World: Understanding September 11th
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: abc books
KEYWORDS: specials history america disaster journalism 9/11 politics bbc trade center
Branch Lines to Enfield Town and Palace Gates
first edition, hardback quarto (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: middleton press
KEYWORDS: specials vic mitchell trains railways travel history stations transport britain england jim connor
The Way We Were: Pictorial Memories of Early New Zealand - Dunedin / Coastal Otago
Oblong 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: moa beckett
KEYWORDS: specials new zealand history dunedin coastal otago photography valerie davies
Destination Mecca
First edition, octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 192pp, illus, VG+ (owner's name ink stamped to fep, faded strip to front & rear eps, foxing to page edges) in VG- d/w (edges taped reinforcement, bruising to edges, soiling to rear)
PUBLISHER: Rider and Company 1957
KEYWORDS: Sayed Idries Shah travel Arab Tangier Kabul Saudi Arabia Mecca history Jordan
Seabirds; A Natural History
hardcover imperial octavo (near fine) d/w (near fine)
PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 2004
KEYWORDS: natural history ornithology sea birds anthony j. gaston specials
Fergus: A Memoir of Fergus Blair McLaren by His Friends
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: AH & AW Reed 1951
KEYWORDS: specials Fergus Blair McLaren biography New Zealand memoir essays history scouts religion