Books - "history"
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Norway
Black's Popular Series of Colour Books
First edition, octavo, light blue boards with gilt lettering to spine & blind lettering & blind tooling to front board, frontispiece, vii + map + 196pp + 2pp adverts, illus, VG- (heavy damp staining to boards & spine, inscription in ink to fep, foxing & browning throughout) in VG- d/w (bruising & nicks to spine extrems & adges & corners, crease to full length of rear, tanning & soiling)
PUBLISHER: A & C Black Ltd 1928
KEYWORDS: first edition SC Hammer A Heaton Cooper Norway travel tourism history landscape
The Travels of Ibn Battuta AD 1325-1354 Volume III (Volume 3)
Hakluyt Society Second Series, Volume 141
This volume only, octavo, light blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & gilt stamped design & blind rule to front board, xi + 539-771pp, illus, nr fine, in VG+ d/w (rubbing & tanning, small ding to front edge, tanning to interior)
PUBLISHER: Hakluyt Society / Cambridge University Press 1971
KEYWORDS: Sir Hamilton Gibb Ibn Battuta history travel biography North Africa Asia Minor Mecca Central Asia India China Muslim countries
Dickens
First edition, super octavo, black boards with gilt lettering to spine, patterned eps, xvi + 1195pp. Illus, nr fine, in VG+ d/w (slight rubbing to front, sticker residue to front)
PUBLISHER: Sinclair Stevenson 1990
KEYWORDS: first edition Peter Ackroyd Charles Dickens biography history literary criticism
The Devil Soldier: The American Soldier of Fortune Who Became a God in China
Paperback octavo (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 cost
PUBLISHER: Random House 1992
KEYWORDS: biography frederick townsend ward military history caleb carr specials
Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind
Paperback super 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 cost
PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1996
KEYWORDS: henry thoreau biography literary history robert d. richardson jr specials
The Collector: David Douglas and The Natural History of the Northwest
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 cost
PUBLISHER: Sasquatch Books 2009
KEYWORDS: specials jack nisbet david douglas natural history biography scotland nature pacific northwest
Nothing Like a Dame: A Biography of Dame Daphne Purves
Super 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 cost
PUBLISHER: Hazard Press Publishers 1988
KEYWORDS: specials dame daphne purves biography molly anderson education dunedin otago new zealand history
Journal of Ensign Best 1837-1843
Super octavo hardcover (VG) in 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: RE Own Government Printer 1966
KEYWORDS: specials Nancy Taylor Ensign Best history diary journal Norfolk Island Australia New Zealand sailor sea voyage
The Banjo of the Bush: The Work, Life and Times of A. B. Paterson
Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in plastic-covered 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: Lansdowne Press 1975
KEYWORDS: specials Clement Semmler Banjo Paterson biography Australia history literary criticism
Christianity in a Revolutionary Age: A History of Christianity in the Nineteenth & Twentieth Centuries
Volume 1 The Nineteenth Century in Europe: Background and the Roman Catholic Phase
This volume only, super octavo, royal blue buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine, top edges red, xiv + 498pp, VG+ (v slight bruising to spine extrems, tanning to front & rear eps, date stamp to front pastedown) in VG d/w (bruising to spine extrems, soiling to front & rear, price clipped, foxing)
PUBLISHER: Eyre & Spottiswoode 1959
KEYWORDS: Kenneth Scott Latourette religion theology history Christianity Roman Catholicism
Christianity in a Revolutionary Age: A History of Christianity in the Nineteenth & Twentieth Centuries
Volume II The Nineteenth Century in Europe: The Protestant and Eastern Churches
This volume only, super octavo, royal blue buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine, top edges red, ix + 532pp, VG+ (tanning to front & rear eps, date stamp & bookroom stamp to fep) in VG d/w (bruising to spine extrems, soiling to front & rear)
PUBLISHER: Eyre & Spottiswoode 1960
KEYWORDS: Kenneth Scott Latourette religion theology history Christianity Protestant Eastern churches
Christianity in a Revolutionary Age: A History of Christianity in the Nineteenth & Twentieth Centuries
Volume III The Nineteenth Century outside Europe 1815-1914: The Americas, Pacific, Asia and Africa
This volume only, super octavo, royal blue buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine, top edges red, viii + 527pp, VG+ (slight bruising to spine extrems, tanning to front & rear eps) in VG d/w (bruising to spine extrems, soiling to front & rear, tanning to spine)
PUBLISHER: Eyre & Spottiswoode 1961
KEYWORDS: Kenneth Scott Latourette religion theology history Christianity church Americas Pacific Asia Africa
Towards Aotearoa: A Short History of 20th Century New Zealand Art
Oblong imperial octavo, duck egg blue cloth boards with red lettering to spine, red eps, 280pp, illus (101 artworks), fine, in fine d/w
PUBLISHER: Reed Publishing 2007
KEYWORDS: David Eggleton New Zealand art history painting sculpture
The Art of War: New Zealand War Artists in the Field 1939-1945
Peter McIntyre, Austen Deans, Allan Barns-Graham, Russell Clark, John McIndoe
Oblong imperial octavo, illus light card covers with French flaps, frontispiece, 224pp, illus, VG+
PUBLISHER: Wily Publications 2008
KEYWORDS: Jennifer Haworth New Zealand art artists war warfare history paintings biography Peter McIntyre Austen Deans Allan Barns Graham Russell Clark John McIndoe
Beautiful Ireland - Ulster
hardback octavo with 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: Blackie & Son, Ltd.
KEYWORDS: specials beautiful ireland history paintings ulster
One of the Radziwills
hardback octavo with 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: John Murray Ltd.
KEYWORDS: specials poland history radziwill ww2
From Beads to Banknotes: The Story of Money in New Zealand
hardback octavo with 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: John McIndoe 1972
KEYWORDS: specials hargreaves new zealand history money economy finance
Gills & Jeanne
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 cost
PUBLISHER: Minerva 1989
KEYWORDS: specials michel tournier fables literature history
The Dustbin of History
first edition, uncorrected proof copy, 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 cost
PUBLISHER: Picador 1996
KEYWORDS: specials greil marcus history art culture criticism literature essays
London: The Glamour Years 1919-39
Quarto (VG+) in 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: Bison Books 1985
KEYWORDS: specials Susanne Everett London England 1920s 1930s society history art culture literature