Books - "history"
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London's First Railway - The London & Greenwich
Octavo, maroon heavy card boards with gilt lettering to spine, 270pp, illus, VG+ (ding to front board lower edge, slight soiling to page fore-edges) in d/w, VG+ (slight soiling to edges)
PUBLISHER: B.T. Batsford Ltd 1972
KEYWORDS: Ronald HG Thomas London Bridge Greenwich transport trains railways construction history viaduct
Register of New Zealand Railways Steam Locomotives 1863-1971
Imperial octavo, blue boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, vi + 129pp, illus, VG+ (v slight staining to boards) in d/w, VG+ (slight rubbing)
PUBLISHER: NZ Railway & Locomotive Society (Otago Branch) Dunedin 1974
KEYWORDS: WILLIAM G Lloyd New Zealand railways transport trains steam engines locomotives history
Nelson: A History of Early Settlement
Super octavo, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, xvii + 458pp, illus, VG (light bruising to spine extrems and board corners, light foxing to eps) in VG- (light chipping to upper spine extrems, light soiling)
PUBLISHER: AH & AW Reed 1965
KEYWORDS: Ruth M Allan New Zealand Nelson Maori Tasman Cook D'urville Wairau massacre history settlement
The NZR Garratt Story
Imperial octavo, turquoise boards with black lettering to spine, frontispiece, 100pp, illus, VG+ (owner's name in ink to front pastedown) in d/w, VG+ (slight rubbing)
PUBLISHER: New Zealand railway and Locomotive Society Inc 1978
KEYWORDS: EJ Mcclare New Zealand Garratt locomotives railways trains transport steam engines history
The Fall of the Roman Empire: A Reappraisal
Imperial octavo, light blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to dark blue cloth spine & gilt motif to front board, illus eps, frontispiece, 336pp, illus, VG+ (slight tanning to lower board edges, ding to rear board lower edge) in d/w, vg (bruising to spine extrems, corners & edges, rubbing, nick to upper spine right side)
PUBLISHER: The Annenberg School Press 1976
KEYWORDS: Michael Grant Roman Empire ancient history
A Journey Through Ancient Pompeii
Guide to the Excavations
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: Viedopulsar 1992
KEYWORDS: specials Sergio Troiano archaeology ancient history Italy Pompeii excavations society classical studies
A History of the Roman World From 30 B.C. to A.D. 138
Softcover 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: Methuen & Co. Ltd 1970
KEYWORDS: specials E.T. Salmon ancient history classical studies ancient Rome Roman society development
A Time to Leave the Ploughshares
A Gunner Remembers 1917-18
Ex-library 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: Chivers Press 1986
KEYWORDS: ex-library specials William Carr biography history WWI era memoir Great War military nonfiction
The Bottom of the Barrel
Ex-library 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: Chivers Press 1986
KEYWORDS: ex-library specials F.A.J. Taylor biography history WWI era memoir Great War military nonfiction
Studies in Greek Scenery, Legend and History
Selected from his Commentary on Pausanias' Description of Greece
Octavo, maroon buckram boards with gil lettering to spine, x + 419pp, VG (owner's ex libris label to front pastedown, bruising to spine extrems, ding to central spine, foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Macmillan & Co 1919
KEYWORDS: Sir James George Frazer Greek literature literary criticism myth legend history Pausanias classics
Illustrated Encyclopaedia of the Classical World
Imperial octavo, brown boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, 510pp, illus, VG+ (tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG (bruising to upper edges, creasing to lower edges, tanning & foxing internally)
PUBLISHER: Sampson Low1976
KEYWORDS: Michael Avi Yonah Israel Shatzman encyclopaedia reference Greece Rome Graeco-Roan history law literature mythology philosophy religion art
Middle English Lyrics
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: W W Norton & Company 1974
KEYWORDS: specials Maxwell S Luria Richard L Hoffman middle english poetry critical literature history
Bureaucracy, Aristocracy and Autocracy
The Prussian Experience 1660-1815
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: Beacon Press 1966
KEYWORDS: specials Hans Rosenberg modern history politics class systems society prussia
Postmarks, Cards and Covers: Collecting Postal History
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: Peter Lowe / Eurobooks 1973
KEYWORDS: specials Prince Dimitry Kandaouroff Willima Finlay stamps philately post office postal system history postmarks postage stamps
The Forgotten People of the Pacific
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 cost
PUBLISHER: Cassel & Co 1977
KEYWORDS: specials Phillippe Diole pacific culture history antropology sociology
The 100 Year Flood - 1978
softcover stapled imperial oblong 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: Craig Printing Co. 1978
KEYWORDS: specials C A Lind flood new zealand flooding otago southland invercargill photographic history maps
Mesopotamian Myths
softcover 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: British Museum Press 1995
KEYWORDS: specials Henrietta McCall myths mythology mesopotamia literary criticism classical literature history
Roman Myths
softcover 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: British Museum Press 1993
KEYWORDS: specials Jane F Gardner myths mythology rome roman classical literature literary criticism history
The Medieval Archer
hardcover super octavo (VG-) in d/w (VG-) ex library; 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: The Boydell Press 1985
KEYWORDS: specials Jim Bradbury ex library medieval period history archer arching norman conquest wars of the roses robin hood
MI9: Escape and Evasion 1939-1945
hardcover octavo (VG+) in d/w (VG) ex library; 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: The Bodley Head 1979
KEYWORDS: specials M R D Foot J M Langley ex library british secret service MI 9 prisoner of war concentration camp nazi europe history military