Books - "history"
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Tom's Letters: The Private World of Thomas King, Victorian Gentleman
Super 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: Victoria University Press 2001
KEYWORDS: Thomas KingNew Zealand biography autobiography memoirs correspondence letters history
Captain Fraser's Voyages
Ex library, octavo hardcover (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: Stanford Maritime Ltd 1979
KEYWORDS: Thomas Garry Fraser nautical maritime biography history
Atlantic Kingdom: America's Contest with Cunard in the Age of Sail and Steam
Octavo softcover (FINE); 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: Brassey's Inc 2001
KEYWORDS: America American transport maritime nautical shipping Cunard history
The Cree Journals: The Voyages of Edward H. Cree, Surgeon R. . aas Related in His Private Journals 1837-1856
Small quarto hardcover (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: Webb & Bower 1981
KEYWORDS: Edward H Cree autobiography memoirs journals nautical maritime history Royal Navy surgeon
The Odyssey: Rendered into English Prose
Ex library, Superoctavo 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: John Murray (n/d)
KEYWORDS: literature history religion
The Isles of Scilly
Superoctavo hardcover (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: George Ronald 1960
KEYWORDS: travel history Scilly
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900
Superoctavo hardcover (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: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2006
KEYWORDS: language history english
El Mueble Espanol
Text in Spanish, Quarto 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: Ediciones Polígrafa, (1969)
KEYWORDS: spanish history reference
Flowers in History
Imperial octavo hardcover (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: Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1970
KEYWORDS: gardening plants flowers natural history
The Doukhobors
Imperial octavo hardcover (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: Faber and Faber Ltd 1968
KEYWORDS: history Canada Doukhobors
Hong Kong
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: Penguin Books 1990
KEYWORDS: travel british history
Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Lacks title page. Softcover 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: Pelican Books ND
KEYWORDS: non fiction history
Cries for Peace: Experiences of Japanese Victims of World War II
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: The Japan Times Ltd. 1978
KEYWORDS: history war japanese japan memoirs wwII
Al-Jazeera: The Story of the Network that is Rattling Goverments and Redefining Modern Journalism
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: Westview 2003
KEYWORDS: al jazeera journalism history aljazeera
Pharos and Pharillion
Foxing. 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: The Hogarth press 1961
KEYWORDS: travel history alexandria
The Companion to Latin American Studies
Super octavo, illuw white heavy card boards with black & red lettering, xi + map + 260pp, VG+ (label residue staining to front board upper corner
PUBLISHER: Arnold / Hodder Headline 2003
KEYWORDS: Latin South America American studies Latino culture race gender sexuality history politics essays articles
Back to Sunny Seas
First edition, octavo, royal blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & gilt motif to front board, black coated eps, frontispiece with tissue guard, xiii + 287pp, illus, VG- (moderate browning to spine, moderately heavy browning & foxing to page edges, moderately heavy tanning & foxing to prelims & terminals, occasional foxing elsewhere)
PUBLISHER: Smith, Elder & Co 1905
KEYWORDS: travel history West Indies Spanish Main Royal Mail Steam Packet Company
Missiles for the Fatherland: Peenemunde, National Socialism, and the V-2 Missile
Scarce in hardcover, super octavo, black glossy heavy card boards with red lettering to spine, frontispiece, 276pp, illus, nr fine (tiny stain to upper page edges) in d/w, nr fine
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2009
KEYWORDS: aviation military history V-2 missile development Nazi Germany war Peenemunde
Embroidery: A History
Small quarto, blue heavy card boards with gilt lettering to spine, 208pp, illus, VG (sellotape-residue staining to boards & eps) in d/w, VG (light fading to spine, slight staining to edges)
PUBLISHER: BT Batsford Ltd 1991
KEYWORDS: arts crafts sewing embroidery needlework hobby craft history
What Darwin Saw in his Voyage round the World in the Ship Beagle
Octavo hardcover (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: Weathervane Books n/d
KEYWORDS: chidlren's educational natural history animals travel Charles Darwin geography