Books - "history"
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South Pacific Images
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: South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies 1978
KEYWORDS: specials Chris Tiffen South Pacific history sociology literature essays
Poverty in Sicily
A Study of the Province of Palermo
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: Penguin Books Ltd 1966
KEYWORDS: ex-library specials Danilo Dolci history sociology poverty
Lasseter's Last Ride
An Epic in Central Australian Gold Discovery
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 costs
PUBLISHER: Angus & Robertson Ltd 1952
KEYWORDS: specials Ion L Idriess biography Lasseter Austraia history Gold Rush
Trade Winds and Turtles
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 costs
PUBLISHER: Putnam & Company Ltd 1960
KEYWORDS: first edition specials Dan Mulville autobiography memoir sailing history
Sisters of Delilah
Stories of Famous Women Spies
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 costs
PUBLISHER: Oldbourne Book Co. Ltd 1959
KEYWORDS: ex-library specials E H Cookridge history espionage women spies
The Identification of Trees and Shrubs
How to name any wild or garden tree or shrub likely to be met with in the British Isles with 2,500 diagrams made by the author
Hardcover imperial octavo (VG) in d/w (VG) reprinted with corrections ; 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: J.M. Dent & Sons Limited 1961
KEYWORDS: specials F K Makins gardening natural history botany trees shrubs
James Cook
Maritime Scientist
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: Caedmon of Whitby Press 1976
KEYWORDS: ex-library specials Tom Stamp Coredlia Stamp biography history James Cook
Mud and Mosaics
An African missionary journey from the Niger to the Copper Belt
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 costs
PUBLISHER: Samuel Walker, Ltd. 1960
KEYWORDS: ex-library specials Gerard Rathe religion religious literature missionary journey Africa history
Constitutional Documents of the Reign of James I
A.D. 1603-1625 with an historical commentary
Ex-library softcover 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 costs
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1960
KEYWORDS: ex-library specials J R Tanner history English monarchy politics constitutional documents
The Life of St. Louis
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: Sheed and Ward Ltd 1955
KEYWORDS: ex-library specials John of Joinville religion religious history biography warfare in the Holy Land
An Atlas of the Life of Christ
Softcover string bound 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: George Philip & Son, Ltd. Undated
KEYWORDS: specials John F Stirling religion religious literature Jesus Christ history
Richard Meinertzhagen
Soldier, Scientist & Spy
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 costs
PUBLISHER: Mandarin Paperbacks 1990
KEYWORDS: specials Mark Cocker biography history espionage
Guide to Human Thought
Ideas that shaped the world
Softcover 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 costs
PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury Publishing Limited 1993
KEYWORDS: specials Kenneth McLeish philosophy history of ideas psychology
The Homeland Handbooks Volume 30: Littlehampton Arundel and Amberley with their Surroundings
With Town Plans of Littlehampton and Arundel and Many illustrations from Photographs
Duodecimo, yellow & red light card covers with black lettering, illus eps, xxiv pp adverts + folding map + frontispiece + 88pp + 22pp adverts, illus, VG (rubbing to spine & wear to spine edges, slight soiling to covers, v slight foxing)
PUBLISHER: Homeland Association 1925
KEYWORDS: W Goodliffe Homeland Association Britain Littlehampton Arundel Amberley history maps geography travel
The Page of James the Fifth of Scotland
Ex library, first edition, octavo, red cloth boards with silver lettering to spine & gilt motif to front board, 258pp, VG (usu library markings, plastic-covered boards, browning to eps, foxing to page edges, occasional foxing to pages)
PUBLISHER: R & T Washbourne 1900
KEYWORDS: James V Fifth Scotland Scottish history regency biography
Plutarch: Alexander: A Commentary
super octavo, dark blue boards with gilt lettering to spine, lxix + 231pp, VG+ (small stain spot to rear board, v.slight tanning to eps) in d/w, VG- (tanning to spine, soiling spots to front & rear, sellotape stains to inside, foxing to flaps)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1969
KEYWORDS: JR Hamilson Plutarch Alexander Macedonia biography history classics
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