Books - "history"
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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
Nigeria Magazine: A SHort History of HMS Nigeria and Other Contributions
Scarce, octavo, cream illus light card covers with black lettering to front, frontispiece, 64pp, illus, very tatty G+ (heavy staining to covers, wear & damage to spine with some loss of surface, browning & foxing to page edges & eps, some light foxing elsewhere, rusting to staples)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge 1946
KEYWORDS: HMS Nigeria World War Two WW2 Royal Navy East Indies Fleet magazine history literature contributions
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
The Neo-Pagans: Friendship and Love in the Rupert Brooke Circle
Super 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: Macmillan 1987
KEYWORDS: literary criticism Ruper Brooke biography neo-pagans history
A History of the English Agriculture Labourer
Ex library, 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: PS King & Son 1920
KEYWORDS: English agricultural history political science economy economics
The Condition of the Working-Class in England
Paperback - scruffy (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: Panther 1969
KEYWORDS: English history working class politics economics
The Price of Valour
Ex library, 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: Macmillan 2012
KEYWORDS: Hugo Throsswell First World War One WW1 Australian military history biography
Bathgate Expeditions from New Zealand's Commercial Capital of the Sixties
Limited numbered signed edition, 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: AH & AW Reed1952
KEYWORDS: John Bathgate New Zealand autobiography memoir Dunedin history Invercargill Lake Wakatipu signed
Birkenhead: A History of the Development from the earliest Days to 1968
Imperial octavo, illus light card covers (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: Birkenhead Borough Council 1969
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Birkenhead North Shore local history
A History of the British and Foreign Bible Society with Portraits & Illustrations, Volumes 1 to 5
Complete five-volume set, super octavo, brown cloth boards with maroon decorative rule to boards, gilt lettering in blue decorative panels to spine & front board, t.e.g, frontispiece with tissue guard, x + 512pp, x + 496pp, x + 486pp, x + 477pp, x + 455pp, illus, VG (usu library markings, some browning & soiling to page edges, some bruising & fraying to spine extrems, light chaffing to board edges & corners, corner of blue title labels on vol.1 lifting slightly, some browning to spines & tissue guards) VERY HEAVY SET
PUBLISHER: John Murray 1904
KEYWORDS: VERY HEAVY SET William Canton religion theology British Foreign Bible Society history
Biographical Dictionary of Japanese Art
Ex library, octavo, green cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, pale yellow eps, 825pp, VG (usual library markings, tape residue staining to boards, binding slightly sloppy but sound,creasing to p724) in d/w, VG (slight creasing to edges, price slipped, sticker residue to spine & front)
PUBLISHER: Kodansha International Ltd 1981
KEYWORDS: Japanese art history artists biography reference
The Passing of War: A Study in Things that Make for Peace
New and Revised Edition
Ex library, 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Macmillan and Co. Limited 1912
KEYWORDS: war peace sociology politics philosophy history
A History of the English Agricultural Labourer
Ex library, hardcover 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: P. S. King & Son 1908
KEYWORDS: English England agriculture agricultural labourer farming history
Winter of the Eagle
First edition, 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: George Allen & Unwin Ltd 1980
KEYWORDS: history war Moscow
The Frontier Scouts
First edition, super 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1985
KEYWORDS: indian army frontier corps history military
Flashing Blades Over te Sea: The Development & History of Helicopters in the Royal Navy
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Martime Books (n/d)
KEYWORDS: aviation military navy helicopters history