Books - "history"
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The Low Countries
8vo 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: Oxford University Press 1978
KEYWORDS: Low Countries Netherlands Belgium history Europe European
English Social History: A Survey of Six Centuries: Chaucer to Queen Victoria
8vo 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: Longmans, Green and Co, 1946
KEYWORDS: G M Trevelyan England English social history Europe European
British History in the Nineteenth Century and after (1782 - 1919)
8vo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (G-); 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: Longmans, Green and Co. 1948
KEYWORDS: G M Trevelyan England English social history Europe European 18th 19th 20th century
The Struggle for Mastery in Europe 1848 - 1918
8vo 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: Oxford University Press 1965
KEYWORDS: Europe European history 19th 20th century nationalism diplomatic diplomacy economic scientific
Volume V: England Under the Stuarts [A History of England in Eight Volumes]
THIS VOL ONLY. 8vo hardcover (VG) in d/w (G+); 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: Methuen & Co. 1947
KEYWORDS: George Maculay Trevelyan Stuart England English History 17th century
Rum Rebellion: A Study of the Overthrow of Governor Bligh by John Macarthur and the New South Wales Corps
8vo 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: Lloyd O'Neil 1971
KEYWORDS: Australia Australian history New South Wales Corps Governor Bligh John Macarthur government overthrow
The Battle for Europe 1918
8vo 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: B, T. Batsford 1972
KEYWORDS: First World War 1 WW1 WW I WWI Europe European history
Europe in the Eighteenth Century 1713 - 1783
8vo 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: Longman 1987
KEYWORDS: Europe European history 18th eighteenth century
England Under Queen Anne: Blenheim
THIS VOL ONLY. 8vo hardcover (VG) lacking d/w; 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: Longmans, Green and Co. 1948
KEYWORDS: George Maculay Trevelyan England English history Queen Anne Blenheim
England Under Queen Anne: The Peace and the Protestant Succession
THIS VOL ONLY. 8vo hardcover (VG) lacking d/w; 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: Longmans, Green and Co. 1948
KEYWORDS: George Maculay Trevelyan England English history Queen Anne Protestant succession
Official History of the Xth British Commonwealth Games: Christchurch, New Zealand January 24 - February 2, 1974
Heavy Super 8vo 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: the Organising Committee of the Xth British Commonwealth Games 1974
KEYWORDS: British Commonwealth Games 10th Xth tenth New Zealand 1974 history
Air Defence
LACKS D/W, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, frontispiece with tissue guard, vii + 179pp, folding map to rear, VG (moderate soiling & discolouration to spine & boards/edges, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, light tanning & foxing to eps, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals)
PUBLISHER: Longmans, Green & Co 1929
KEYWORDS: military history aviation early 20th twentieth century ww1 first 1st world war one i 1 the great war
The Counterfeit Seal: A Tale of Otago's First Settlers
Sm octavo, blue textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, blind stamp decoration to spine & boards, red speckling to page edges, printed eps, unpaginated prelims + 298pp, VG (moderate fading & tanning to spine, light to moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems/edges, light chafing & soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, light to moderate tanning to eps, minor open tearing with sm loss to top edges of prelims, occasional light foxing throughout)
PUBLISHER: The Otago Daily Times and Witness Co 1897
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Otago early settlers pioneers
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (20 Vol Set)
HEAVY 20 VOL SET- EXTRA SHIPPING REQ'D, lg super octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spines, top page edges stained brown, mixed pagination, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems of spines, sl scuffing to board extrems, sl tanning & soiling to page edges, some gutters may be lightly cracked- otherwise a very tidy set, minor tanning to eps)
PUBLISHER: Macmillan 1989
KEYWORDS: music musicians history Grove historical composers classical
Cleopatra's Needles and Other Egyptian Obelisks
FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind stamp lettering to front board, frontispiece, xxii + 308pp, illus, VG (light rubbing & bruising to spine & boards/extrems, light soiling to front board, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name & numbering in ink to ffep- moderate scuffing & surface loss to section also, light to moderate foxing to pages throughout)
PUBLISHER: The Religious Tract Society 1926
KEYWORDS: first editions history historical artefacts ancient Egypt Egyptian needles obelisks
The Rosetta Stone in the British Museum
FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind stamp lettering to front board, frontispiece, 325pp total, illus, VG (light rubbing & bruising to spine & boards/extrems, light soiling to rear board, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name & numbering in ink to ffep- moderate scuffing & surface loss to section also, light to moderate foxing to pages throughout, moderate cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: The Religious Tract Society 1929
KEYWORDS: first editions rosetta stone history historical artefacts ancient Egypt Egyptians British Museum collections
Curiosities of Animal Life; with the Recent Discoveries of the Microscope
POSSIBLY FIRST EDITION, sm octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind rule & decoration to spine & boards, illus title page, 192pp, illus, VG (light bruising & scuffing to spine & board extrems, moderate chafing/soiling & wrinkling to spine & boards, light to moderate tanning & soiling to page edges & eps, minor damp staining & ink markings to front eps, light foxing & water staining to prelims, light smatterings of foxing throughout, some pages may remain uncut)
PUBLISHER: The Religious Tract Society N/D (c.1857)
KEYWORDS: first editions (possibly!) zoology biology animals nature natural history
The Book of Puka-Puka
Sm octavo, illus light card covers, green lettering to spine & covers, xxviii + 356pp, illus, VG- (moderate creasing & wrinkling to spine & covers, moderate fading to spine, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear cover, light tanning & moderate foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to inside front cover, light to moderate foxing throughout)
PUBLISHER: Mutual Publishing Company N/D
KEYWORDS: travel literature writing history culture Cook Islands Pacific region Robert Dean Frisbie
Willem Drost (1633-1659): A Rembrandt Pupil in Amsterdam and Venice
Lg quarto, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, unpaginated prelims + 222pp, illus, VG (light bruising & rubbing to spine & board extrems, light chafing & soiling to rear board, light tanning to page edges, pgs 55-56 & 107-108 missing) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 2005
KEYWORDS: art history criticism Willem Drost Rembrandt
Jan Smuts: An Illustrated Biography
Quarto, brown heavy boards, white lettering to spine, illus eps & prelims, frontispiece, 192pp, illus/photos, VG (moderate bruising & rubbing to spine & board corners/edges, light chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges & creases/flaps, light chafing & wrinkling, light fading to top of front cover)
PUBLISHER: Human & Rousseau 1994
KEYWORDS: biography biographies memoir Jan Smuts South Africa African history