Books - "history"
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Introduction to the Sacred Scriptures In Two Parts
Ex library, super octavo, maroon buckram boards with gilt lettering to front board & gilt rule to spine extrems, yellow eps, iv + 271pp, VG- (bruising to spine extrems & board edges, slight fading to spine, owner's name & address in ink to fep, heavy browning to eps, light tanning & foxing)
PUBLISHER: Sealy, Bryers & Walker / Benziger Brothers 1889
KEYWORDS: ex library Rev John MacDevitt religion theology scriptures ecclesiastical history Bible old new testament
South to the Pole: The Early History of the Ross Sea Sector Antarctica
Imperial octavo, yellow cloth boards with gilt lettering in blue decorative panel to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, xx + 481pp + folding map to rear, illus, VG+ (inscription in ink to half-title page, v slight foxing to page fore-edges) in d/w, VG- (bruising & nicks to spine extrems & corners, moderate tanning to interior, creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1967
KEYWORDS: first edition LB Quartermain Antarctic Ross Sea South Pole Bellingshausen Cook Borchgrevink Shackleton Scott Amundsen whalers David Mawson Mackay Campbell history diaries expeditions exploration
Land, Sea, and Air: Reminiscences of Mark Kerr
First UK edition, super octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece with tissue guard, x + 406pp, illus + folding chart, VG (heavy fading to spine, moderate fading to boards, light bruising to spine extrems, inscription in ink to fep, heavy tanning to some pages esp prelims, moderate foxing elsewhere)
PUBLISHER: Longmans, Green & Co 1927
KEYWORDS: Mark Kerr memoir reminiscence history biography travel nautical air exploration expedition
Aphrodisiacs: An Encyclopedia of Erotic Wisdom
EXPLICIT CONTENT, quarto, red boards with white lettering to spine, patterned eps, illus half-title & titles pages, 160pp, illus, VG+ (v slight bruising to spine extrems) in d/w, VG (tape repair to 2cm closed tear to lower spine extrem, v slight fading to spine, foxing to interior)
PUBLISHER: Hamlyn Publishing Group 1990
KEYWORDS: Encyclopaedia reference aphrodisiacs sex sexual behaviour intercourse sexual history
Making and Thinking
Ex-library Hardcover 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 costs
PUBLISHER: Hollis and Carter, undated
KEYWORDS: ex-library specials Walter Shewring history literature art philosophy essays
The People of Aristophanes
A Sociology of Old Attic Comedy
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 costs
PUBLISHER: Basil Blackwell, 1943
KEYWORDS: ex-library specials Victor Ehrenberg classical studies history comedy theatre sociology society
Maria Theresa
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 costs
PUBLISHER: Longmans, Green and Co, Ltd 1969
KEYWORDS: ex-library specials Edward Crankshaw biography history Maria Theresa Habsburg Empire
St. Francis and The Song of the Brotherhood
Ex-library 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 costs
PUBLISHER: The Seabury Press 1981
KEYWORDS: ex-library specials Eric Doyle biography history Francis of Assisi religion theology
Commando
Ex-library 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: Tandem Publishing Ltd 1975
KEYWORDS: ex-library specials Brigadier John Durnford-Slater military history special forces commandos World War Two
Father McShane of Maryknoll
Missioner in South China
Ex-library hardcover 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 costs
PUBLISHER: Dial Press Inc., 1932
KEYWORDS: ex-library specials James Edward Walsh religion religious history biography missionary journeys China
The Ern Malley Affair
hardcover octavo in d/w first edition copy of sebastian black (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: University of Queensland 1993
KEYWORDS: specials Michael Heyward first edition literary criticism hoax history
The Face of War: New Zealand's Great War Photography
Super octavo, illus light card covers with black & red lettering to spine, frontispiece, vii + 150pp, illus, VG+
PUBLISHER: Auckland University Press 2008
KEYWORDS: Sandy Callister New Zealand First World War One WWI military photography photographs history soldiers medics journalists
The Pioneer Craftsmen of New Zealand
Quarto, black boards with gilt lettering to spine, 256pp, illus, VG+ (slight bruising to spine extrems) in d/w, VG- (light rubbing and soiling to covers, ruising and chipping to upper edge, archival tape repairs to upper front cover)
PUBLISHER: Wiliams Collins Publishers 1982
KEYWORDS: Gilbert L Pearce New Zealand artisan craftsmen craftsmanship history stone timber woodwork shipbuilders brick iron bridges dams wharves shoes clothing watchmaking engraving
Hitler and the Christians
first edition, ex library, octavo, black cloth boards with red lettering to spine, top edges stained red, ii + 175pp, VG (usu library markings, owner's stamp to fep)
PUBLISHER: London Sheed & Ward 1936
KEYWORDS: first edition ex library waldemar gurian adolf hilter christianity germany history
Sydney's Jewish Community
Materials for a Post-War (II) History
Super octavo hardcover (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: Australian Jewish Communities Series 1953
KEYWORDS: specials Joseph Staedter Hans Kimmel Australia Sydney Jews Jewish community history
Africa Explored: Europeans in the Dark Continent 1769-1889
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: Penguin 1984
KEYWORDS: specials Christopher Hibbert Africa history exploration expeditions travel
The Missionary Period in the History of Te Awamutu District
Te Awamutu Historical Society Bulletin No. 4
Quarto, light card stapled wrappers with black lettering to front, 2 hand-drawn maps + 43 pp, text typed on manual typewriter, VG (light tanning to cover edges & page lower edges)
PUBLISHER: Te Awamutu Historical Society Incorporated (nd)
KEYWORDS: Eric J Laird New Zealand Te Awamutu Maori missionaries settlers history
Sacred Soil: Images and Stories of the New Zealand Wars
Quarto, illus light card covers, 160pp, illus, VG+ (owner's name to fep)
PUBLISHER: Random House 1998
KEYWORDS: Neil Finlay New Zealand Photography photographs photographic pictorial history wars memorials sites
Nubians in Egypt: Peaceful People
Foreword by Laila Shukry El Hamamsy
Quarto, red faux leather boards with gilt lettering in black decorative panel, frontispiece, xiii + 146pp, illus, fine, in d/w, VG+ (price clipped)
PUBLISHER: University of Texas Press 1973
KEYWORDS: ethnology nubia Egypt customs anthropology Robert Fernea Georg Gerster Horst Jaritz photographic history
Leo XIII Italy and France
First edition, ex library, super octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and blind lettering to front board, frontispiece, v + 280pp, VG (usu library markings, bookseller's label to front pastedown, 3 library stamps to fep, v light foxing)
PUBLISHER: Burns Oates & Washbourne 1935
KEYWORDS: first edition ex library Eduardo Soderini Leo XIII religion theology religious French Italian history Catholicism papacy pope