Books - "history"
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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
As Directed by Train Control
Signed, oblong quarto, illus glossy heavy card boards with yellow lettering to spine & front board, 145pp, illus + printed map to rear eps, VG+
PUBLISHER: Ken & Denise Cousins (year?)
KEYWORDS: Ken Denise Cousins New Zealand transport railways trains steam engines locomotives routes photographic pictorial history passengers freight
Trains at Work in New Zealand
Re-bound in cloth boards with original paper illus covers included, octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to front board, frontispiece, 240pp, illus, nr fine
PUBLISHER: Railway Preservation & Museum 1973
KEYWORDS: GT Radcliffe JA Murphy New Zealand transport trains railways locomotives steam engines photographic pictorial history
The Aspinall Era
Super octavo, dark brown cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, iii + 270pp, illus, VG- (staining to boards, sellotape residue to boards, bookseller's label to front pastedown, two owners' inscriptions in ink to fep, tanning to fep) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, heavy foxing & tanning internally, sellotape residue stains internally)
PUBLISHER: Ian Allan 1967
KEYWORDS: HAV Bulleid Sir John Aspinall Lancashire & Yorkshire Great Southern & Western transport railways trains engineering history
The Springburn Story: The History of the Scottish Railway Metropolis
Octavo, orange cloth boards with black lettering to spine, frontispiece, 260pp + 2pp adverts, illus, VG (foxing) in d/w, VG (price clipped, fading)
PUBLISHER: David & Charles / Dawlish Macdonald 1964
KEYWORDS: John Thomas Springburn Scotland Scottish railways trains locomotives engineering history Caledonian and North British steam locomotive builders
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