Books - "history"
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Victory Rode the Rails: The Strategic Place of the Railroads in the Civil War
Imperial 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: University of Nebraska Press / Bison Books 1992
KEYWORDS: american civil war rail trains locomotive steam train railroad railroads military history
Between 'Race' and Culture: Representations of 'the Jew' in English and American literature
Imperial 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: Stanford University Press 1996
KEYWORDS: jew jewish history media culture discrimination oppression representation critical literaray analysis
The Legends of Genesis: The Biblical Saga and History
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: Schocken Books 1970
KEYWORDS: archaeology anthropology religion old testament biblical history
Banned! A Review of Theatrical Censorship in Britain
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: MacGibbon & Kee Ltd 1968
KEYWORDS: theatre censorship british uk britain history
The Trafalgar Companion
Quarto hardcover (Nr Fine) 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: Osprey Publishing 2005
KEYWORDS: battle of trafalgar napoleonic wars europe european military naval history guide companion
The Ways of Jewish Martyrdom
Super octavo, illus maroon heavy card boards wityh yellow lettering, xiv + 399pp, VG (ding to front board lower edge & rear board upper edge, some annotation in pencil)
PUBLISHER: Brepols Publishers 2008
KEYWORDS: Judaism Jewish martyrdom Middle Ages history religion
Jewish Identity in Early Modern Germany: Memory, Power and Community
Super octavo, illus heavy card boards with white lettering to spine & black lettering to front board, xii + 188pp, VG+ (some underlining / annotation in red & blue pencil)
PUBLISHER: Ashgate Publishing 2007
KEYWORDS: Germany German Jewish Judaism identify history religion
Foxton 1888-1988: The First 100 Years
Imperial octavo, illus light card covers with black lettering, 270pp, illus, VG+
PUBLISHER: Foxton Borough Council 1987
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Foxton local history
The Jews of Eastern Europe 1772-1881
First edition, octavo, beige cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 203pp, illus, VG+ (some annotation in pencil) in d/w, VG+
PUBLISHER: University of Pennsylvania Press 2005
KEYWORDS: Eastern Europe Jews Jewish Judaism history
The New Zealand Official Year-Book 1902
Octavo, brown buckram boards with gilt lettering & black decorative rule to spine & front board, patterned eps, frontispiece map, vi + 699pp, illus plus 2 folding tables to rear, VG (some browning to page edges, some staining to boards, owner's name address & date in ink to front pastedown, front & rear hinge paper torn, occasional foxing, 3cm closed tear to large folding chart at rear)
PUBLISHER: John Mackay GOvt. Printer 1902
KEYWORDS: New Zealand year book history statistics industry agriculture politics shipping transport
New Zealand Illustrated: The Story of New Zealand and Descriptions of its Cities and Towns also The Natural WOnders of New Zealand
Oblong elephant folio, illus cream heavy card boards with cream cloth spine, brown lettering to front board, VG+ (v. slight soiling to boards)
PUBLISHER: Price Milburn & Co 1981 (Facsimile reprint of AD Willis 1889)
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history cities towns scenery portraits prints art
The Jewish Jesus: Revelation, Reflection, Reclamation
Super octavo, illus light card covers with white lettering to spine, 405pp, VG+ (v slight creasing)
PUBLISHER: Purdue University Press 2011
KEYWORDS: Judaism Jewish studies religion Jesus theology history essays
Souls in Dispute: Converso Identities in Iberia and the Jewish Diaspora, 1580-1700
Super octavo, dark grey cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 261pp, VG+ (owner's stamp to fep, moderate underlining & annotation in pencil) in d/w, VG+ (crease to front flap lower corner)
PUBLISHER: University of Pennsylvania Press 2004
KEYWORDS: Iberian peninsula religion religious history Jews Jewish diaspora Spanish Portuguese Christian converts
The Beauties of the Bosphorus
Eight-volume complete set, original bindings, quarto, red cloth boards with blind stamped decorative rule & gilt motif to front & rear boards & gilt lettering to spine, a.e.g, frontispiece with tissue guard + illus title page (vol.1), unpaginated but aprox 23 full-page plates each with tissue guard in each volume, xii + 236pp over the eight volumes, 16pp to rear of vol.8, each volume has 4pp adverts to rear, VG- (moderate tanning to spines, loss of 2cm of surface to aprox 5 spine heads, moderate brusing & fraying to spine extrems & board corners, small gouge to rear board lower corner of vol.1, some fading & staining to boards, owner's name & year in ink to front pastedown & one prelim in each volume, moderate foxing)
PUBLISHER: George Virtue n/d but circa 1840
KEYWORDS: Bosphorus Danube Turkey history art travel
Crossing the Jabbok: Illness and Death in Ashkenazi Judaism in Sixteenth- through Nineteenth-Century Prague
Super octavo, yellow boards with gilt lettering to black cloth spine, xviii + frontispiece + 303pp, illus, VG (some light foxing & soiling to page edges, owner's name & address stamp to fep, sporadic annotation in ink) in d/w, VG (1cm closed tear to upper spine, slight creasing)
PUBLISHER: University Of California Press 1996
KEYWORDS: Prague Jews Jewish Judaism Ashkenazi history
Rats' Tales: The Staffordshire REgiment at War in the Gulf
Super octavo hardcover (nr fine) in d/w (nr 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Brasseys 1993
KEYWORDS: military history Staffordshire Regiment Desert Storm
Storm from the Sea
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: William Kimber 1958
KEYWORDS: World War Two WW2 military naval history
A Man From The Ministry: Tales of a New Zealand Architect
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Caxton Press 1996
KEYWORDS: South Pacific New Zealand Ministry of Works W Frank Ponder architecture design history biography Antarctic
Sub-Antarctic Sanctuary: Summertime on Macquarie Island
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 Reed 1967
KEYWORDS: Sub-Antarctic Islands Macquarie Island natural history ornithology flora fauna botany
The Mystery of Lord Kitchener's Death
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: Putnam & Co 1959
KEYWORDS: Lord Kitchener First World War One WWI HMS Hampshire naval military history