Books - "history"
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John Buchan
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: Oxford University Press 1985
KEYWORDS: specials Janet Adam Smith John Buchan biography politics history
The Conservative Party from Peel to Thatcher
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: Fontana 1985
KEYWORDS: specials Robert Blake politics sociology history
Politics is for People
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 1981
KEYWORDS: specials Shirley Williams politics political science current events history
To the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History
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: Fontana / Collins
KEYWORDS: specials Edmund Wilson history sociology Marxism economics
Mao Tse-Tung: Political Leaders of the Twentieth Century
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: Pelican 1969
KEYWORDS: specials Stuart Schram Mao Tse-Tung politics history biography
England in the Twentieth Century 1914-63
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 1965
KEYWORDS: specials David Thompson British history England
The Fall of Paris
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: Pan 1968
KEYWORDS: specials Alistair Horne 19th-century France military war Siege history
Stone Implements of the Maori
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: A.R. Sharer Government 1974
KEYWORDS: specials Elsdon Best Maori culture New Zealand history
Botany of the Manawtu District New Zealand
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: E.C. Keating Government 1978
KEYWORDS: specials A.E. Elser botany New Zealand natural history
A Chronological Taxonomy of Conus 1758-1840
Imperial 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: Smithsonian Institution 1992
KEYWORDS: specials Alan J. Kohn taxonomy natural history conus
Marine Molluscan Genera of Western North America: An Illustrated Key
Quarto hardcover (VG+) 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: Stanford University Press 1974
KEYWORDS: specials Myra Keen Eugene Coan natural history marine life molluscs North America
Marine Molluscs of Victoria
Super octavo hardcover (VG+) 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: Cambridge 1972
KEYWORDS: specials Hope J Macpherson & C.J. Gabriel marine molluscs natural history
Galloway Gossip of the Southern Albanich 80 Years ago
Small quarto, beige cloth bobards with gilt lettering & brown+ gilt shield motif to front board, gilt lettering to brown cloth spine, teg, 478pp, headpiece to each section, illus, VG (light bruising to spine extrems, some staining to spine & boards, owner's name in ink to fep, moderate browning to page edges, some tanning)
PUBLISHER: The Stewartry Courier & Herald 1901
KEYWORDS: R de Bruce Trotter Scotland Scottish Galloway Albanich Kirkcudbrightshire language literature history folklore
Exploration of Air: Out of the World North of Nigeria
First edition, re-bound utilising parts of the original illustrated cloth cover, super octavo, green cloth boards with darker green spine, frontispiece, xxiii + 258pp + 2pp adverts, illus, VG- (moderately heavy browning to page edges, moderate foxing to prelims)
PUBLISHER: John Murray 1921
KEYWORDS: first edition Angus Buchanan Nigeria Air Asben Tuaregs history travel geography
The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians: Poems, Narratives, and Manuals of Instruction, from the Third & Second Milennia BC
First edition, imperial octavo, blue buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine, xliv + 318pp + 8pp book ads, VG- (slight bruising to spine extrems, heavy foxing to page edges, owner's name & date in ink to fep, some annotation in pencil to fep, some foxing throughout) in d/w, VG- (heavy browning to spine & less so elsewhere, archival tape repairs to spine extrems, spine sides & all corners)
PUBLISHER: Methuen & Co 1927
KEYWORDS: first edition Adolf Erman ancient Egypt Egyptian literature poetry poems songs hymns prayers history religion
Ignca Rock Art Series 2: Dear in Rock Art of India and Europe
Large quarto, beige cloth boards with red lettering to spine, illus & patterned eps, xvi + 150pp, illus, VG+ (v small stain to front board, slight tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG (light fading to spine, slight creasing to upper edges)
PUBLISHER: Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts 1993
KEYWORDS: Giacomo Camuri Angelo Fossati Yashodhar Mathpal Indian European rock art history palaeo-art
Six Weeks and the Mediterranean (with illustrations and charts
Oblong octavo, illus brown cloth boards with black lettering to spine & black sphynx motif to front board, patterned eps, frontispiece, 186pp, illus, VG (some browning & staining to boards, light tanning to eps, slight foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: George Philip & Son (n/d) circa 1906?
KEYWORDS: mediterranean travel photography Europe history
The Maidservants Scandal: A Page from Otago's Early History
Quarto, illus light card stapled wrappers, 54pp, illus, VG+ (fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: University of Otago 1993
KEYWORDS: Olive Trotter New Zealand Otago history
The Wonder Book of Taranaki
Quarto, illus paper wrappers, 104pp, illus, VG- (moderate soiling to covers, small tears & chips to cover edges, some creasing to covers, slight tanning, v light foxing to eps & page edges)
PUBLISHER: Thomas Avery & Sons Ltd 1926 (?)
KEYWORDS: Newton King OJ Jawken New Zealand Taranaki local history
Exotic Conchology, or Drawings and Descriptions of Rare, Beautiful or Undescribed Shells
Drawn on Stone from the Most Select Specimens; the Descriptions Systematically Arranged on the Principles of the Natural System
1968 facsimile reprint, large quarto, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, a.e.g., marbled eps, xxiv + 48pp + 48 plates, illus, VG (some soiling & rubbing to boards, light foxing, some soiling to rear ep)
PUBLISHER: D. Van Nostrand Company / Delaware Museum of Natural History 1968
KEYWORDS: William Swainsom Sylvanus Hanley conchology shells shell collecting marine biology science zoology natural history