Books - "history"
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The Waning of the Middle Ages
A Study on the Forms of Life, Thought, and Art in France and the Netherlands in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
Ex-library 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Penguin Books 1990
KEYWORDS: ex-library specials J. Huizinga history Middle Ages Europe philosophy art
The Wreck of the H.M.S. Orpheus
New Zealand's Worst Sea Disaster
Ex-library Hardcover super octavo (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: Cassell New Zealand 1975
KEYWORDS: ex-library specials Roy M. Hetherington New Zealand maritime history chronicle shipwreck
The Western Invasions of the Pacific and its Continents
A Study of Moving Frontiers and Changing Landscapes 1513-1958
Ex-library Hardcover super octavo (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: Oxford University Press 1963
KEYWORDS: ex-library A. Grenfell Price history Pacific Islands geology anthropology politics security colonization
Beneath the House Flag of the P&O
Ex-library Hardcover super octavo (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: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd 1981
KEYWORDS: ex-library specials Peter Padfield maritime history seafarers Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company
Tchaikovsky: The Final Years 1885-1893
Ex-library Hardcover imperial octavo (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: Victor Gollancz Ltd 1991
KEYWORDS: ex-library specials David Brown biograhy Tchaikovsky classical music history
The Underground Press in America
Ex-library Hardcover super octavo (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: Indiana University Press 1970
KEYWORDS: ex-library specials Robert J. Glessing American history underground publication social role politics
Mediterranean Island Railways
Railway Histories of the World
Ex-library Hardcover super octavo (VG-) in d/w (G) ; 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: David & Charles (Publishers) Limited 1970
KEYWORDS: ex-library specials P.M. Kalla-Bishop transport trains locomotives Mediterranean Island railways history
Greek Art
Hardcover super octavo (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: Thames and Hudson 1965
KEYWORDS: specials John Boardman Greek art history Greece Egypt architecture sculpture trends
The Settle to Carlisle
A Tribute
Hardcover 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: Bloomsbury Books 1988
KEYWORDS: specials Roger Siviter transport railways train locomotives history Carlisle
British Railway History
An Outline from the Accession of William IV to the Nationalisation of Railways: 1877-1947
Ex-library hardcover imperial octavo (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: George Allen & Unwin Ltd 1959
KEYWORDS: ex-library Hamilton Ellis transport locomotive trains British Railway history
Thou Art Peter
A History of Roman Catholic Doctrine and Practice
First edition Hardcover super octavo (VG-) lacks d/w ; 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: C.A. Watts & Co., Limited 1950
KEYWORDS: first editions specials A.D. Howell Smith religion religious history Roman Catholic Catholicism
The European Peasantry
The Final Phase
Hardcover super octavo (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: Methuen & Co, Ltd 1969
KEYWORDS: specials S.H. Franklin European history peasantry Germany France Italy Poland Yugoslavia
Towns in Roman Britain
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Shire Publications Ltd 1988
KEYWORDS: specials Julian Bennett archaeology Roman Empire Roman Britain ancient history societal development cultural impact
The Persian Empire
Hardcover imperial octavo (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: Book Club Associates 1983
KEYWORDS: specials J.M. Cook ancient history Persia Persian Empire
The Zealots of Masada
First edition Hardcover super octavo (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: Hamish Hamilton Ltd 1969
KEYWORDS: first edition specials Moshe Pearlman ancient history Zeaot Masada mass suicide Roman siege Herod the Great archaeology
The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire
Super octavo, green buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine & blind lettering to front board, iii + 359pp, VG- (bruising & rubbing to spine extrems & board corners, light rubbing to boards, paper to gutters split but intact, binding sloppy, heavy browning to eps, booksellers' label to front pastedown & stamp to fep, two owners' names in ink & crossed out to fep, foxing & tanning to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Methuen & Co1919
KEYWORDS: TR Glover religion history Roman empire stoics plutarch Jesus Christianity Judaism Jews Celsus Tertullian
Steam in Europe
Quarto, brown cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, frontispiece, 198pp, illus, VG+ (slight staining to boards edges, soiling to eps, bookseller's stamp to fep) in d/w, VG- (damage & staining from black tape to plastic cover, foxing internally)
PUBLISHER: Ian Allan Ltd 1966
KEYWORDS: PB Whitehouse Europe railways transport steam engines locomotioves trains photographic pictorial history Ireland Britain Denmark Norway Sweden Finland Poland Russia Turkey Greece Bulgaria Yugoslovia Rumania Czechoslovakia Austria Italy Switzerland Germany
Straphangers and Grippers: The Ups and Downs of the Mornington Cable-car System 1883 to 1957
Signed by both authors, imperial octavo, illus yellow light card covers, 120pp, illus, VG+
PUBLISHER: Otago Heritage Books 1994
KEYWORDS: Bill Campbell Ray Hargreaves New Zealand Dunedin Mornington passenger transport cable cars cablecars engineering construction history
Over the Garden Wall The Story of the Otago Central Railway
Second Edition
Octavo, illus light card stapled wrappers, printed eps, 60pp, illus, VG (slight rubbing to covers, crease to rear cover lower corner)
PUBLISHER: New Zealand Railway & Locomotive Society 1967
KEYWORDS: JA Dangerfield GW Emerson New Zealand Central Otago railways trains locomotives steam engines history Wingatui Middlemarch Ranfurly Omakau Alexandra Cromwell Taeri Gorge
British Steam Railways
First edition, signed & dated by author, super octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xii + 326pp, illus with 8 colour plates & 94 photographs, VG+ (browning to eps, bookseller's stamp to fep, foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, bruising & staining to edges)
PUBLISHER: Adam & Charles Black 1961
KEYWORDS: first edition OS Nock Britain British railways trains transport steam engines locomotives enineering carriages stations architecture signals history