Books - "history"
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Disarming HItler's V-Weapons: Bomb Disposal: The V1 and V2 Rockets
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: Pen & Sword 2013
KEYWORDS: Second World War Two WW2 military history V1 V2 rocket bomb disposal
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
All of Turkey
Quarto 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: Editric Bonechi 1993
KEYWORDS: Turkey travel tourism Turkish history
Straphangers & Grippers: The Ups and Downs of the Mornington Cable-Car System 1883-1957
Small quarto 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: Otago Heritage Books 1994
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Dunedin Morning cablecar transport history
Squatters and the Roots of Mau Mau 1905-63
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: James Currey / Heinemann 1987
KEYWORDS: Kenya Mau Mau political history
History of the Rebellion in Ireland in the Year 1798 etc containing an Impartial Account of the Proceedings of The Irish Revolutionists from 1782 till the Suppression of the Rebellion with an Appendix to Illustrate some Facts
Second edition with considerable additions and a preface containing a reply to the observations of Sir Richard Musgrave, octavo, full bound with brown leather boards & spine, xl + 453pp + 3pp book ads, VG (heavy staining & chaffing to boards & spine, loss of surface & any title lettering to spine, bruising with loss to spine extrems, 4cm splits to upper & lower spine sides, heavy browning to page edges & prelims & terminals, moderate foxing)
PUBLISHER: T Hurst & J Cooke 1803 (2nd Edition)
KEYWORDS: Ireland Irish history revolution rebellion
Wanaka and Surrounding Districts: A Sequel to Wanaka Story
First edition thus, octavo, teal boards with gilt lettering to spine, v + 232pp, illus, VG+, in d/w VG (moderate creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Publication Subcommittee Upper Clutha 1990
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Wanaka local history
More Footprints: Still Further Glimpses into the History of Nelson Province
Signed by author, small quarto, illus green light card covers with black lettering, vi + 121pp, illus, VG (fading to spine, some dampstaining & wrinkling to lower part of last 40 pages & rear cover, slight rubbing to rear cover)
PUBLISHER: JNW Newport 1987
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Nelson local history
Art and Power: Europe under the Dictators 1930-45
Very large quarto, illus light card covers, frontispiece, 360pp, illus, VG+ (owner's name & date in ink to fep)
PUBLISHER: Hayward Gallery 1996
KEYWORDS: Europe European art architecture history politics dictators Paris Berlin Rome Moscow
The Historiography of the British Empire-Commonwealth: Trends, Interpretations, and Resources with 21 essays
Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w - insect damage (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: Duke University Press 1966
KEYWORDS: historiographical essays British Empire Commonwealth politics history
Worksop, The Dukery and Sherwood Forest
Octavo, dark green buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, black decorative rule & gilt floral motif to front board, blind decorative rule to rear board, frontispiece, illus half-title page, vii + large folding map + 338pp, illus plus folding charts, VG- (heavy browning to page edges, some bruising & fraying to spine extrems & board corners, some scuffing to boards, inscription in ink & owner's name & address in ink to front pastedown, some creasing browning & foxing to folding map, some foxing throughout, newspaper articles glued to fep & to rear ep)
PUBLISHER: Simpkin Marshall & Co 1875
KEYWORDS: Nottingham Workshop Sherwood Forest history priory zoology geology flora
The Dalton Journal: Two Whaling Voyages to the South Seas 1823-1929
Quarto hardcover (VG+), signed by editor; 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: National Library of Australia 1990
KEYWORDS: australian seafaring history memoir journal william dalton diary maritime
Much Sounding of Bugles: The Seige of Chitral, 1985
First edition, 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Hutchinson & Co Ltd 1975
KEYWORDS: imperialism british empire india colonialism history seige of chitral
A Tale of Tahiti
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: Angus & Robertson 1958
KEYWORDS: tahiti tahitian history culture
The American Record: Images of the Nation's Past: Volume I: To 1877
Square imperial octavo softcover (VG+), THIS VOLUME ONLY, fifth edition; 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: McGraw Hill 2006
KEYWORDS: american history before 1877 1800s 1700s 1600s
Deception: Pakistan, the United Sates and the Global Nuclear Weapons Conspiracy
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Atlantic Books 2007
KEYWORDS: nuclear weapons conspiracy global military history