Books - "history"
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The Rediscovery of the Holy Land in the Nineteenth Century
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Wayne State University Press 1979
KEYWORDS: Jerusalem Israel holy land 19th nineteenth century exploration expeditions history
Economic History of the Jews in England
Tidy ex-library, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Associated University Presses 1982
KEYWORDS: Jewish culture Jews England history economics
Born Sober: Prohibition in Oklahoma 1907-1959
Tidy 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: University of Oklahoma Press 1971
KEYWORDS: US America American history prohibition illegal alcohol Oklahoma liquour bootleggers
Imprint of the Raj
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Pan Books 2004
KEYWORDS: colonial India fingerprinting fingerprints forensics crime criminal history
Tane: The Journal of the Auckland University Field Club: Volume 29, 1983
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: TANE 1983
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Auckland tane natural history zoology
The University Reform of Tsar Alexander I 1802-1835
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: The Catholic University of America Press 1988
KEYWORDS: Russia Russian Soviet higher education university history early 19th nineteenth century
The Internationalists, and Their Plan to Outlaw War
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Allen Lane / Penguin 2017
KEYWORDS: Paris Peace Pact 1928 politics political war conflict history warfare
The Kremlin's Scholar: A Memoir of Soviet Politics Under Stalin and Khrushchev
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 2007
KEYWORDS: Russia Russian Soviet politics political Kremlin government history
Castles of Ireland
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Thames and Hudson 1985
KEYWORDS: Ireland Irish castles history historical heritage
Historic Cunard Liners
INSCRIBED, DATED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, square 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Atlantic Transport Publishers 1986
KEYWORDS: maritime history nautical Cunard Liners Philip Rentell signed luxury passenger ships vessels
Crossing & Cruising: From the Golden Era of Ocean Liners to the Luxury Cruise Ships of Today
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Charles Scribner's Sons 1992
KEYWORDS: maritime history ocean liners luxury cruise ships nautical travel
The Provincial Book Trade Eighteenth-Century England
Very tidy ex-library, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1985
KEYWORDS: history 18th eighteenth century book trade literature industries
The Rebels
Octavo, illus grey glossy stapled light card covers, red lettering to front cover, 36pp, illus, VG (light chafing, creasing & soiling/foxing to covers, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear cover, light tanning & foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: The New Zealand-China Society / The Progressive Book Society 1973
KEYWORDS: New Zealand literature Rewi Alley China Chinese history
Le Livre d'Or de Jeanne d'Arc: Bibliographie Raisonne et Analytique des Ouvrages Relatif's a Jeanne d'Arc
TEXT IN FRENCH, tidy ex-library, super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, xx + 1007p, illus, VG+ (minimal library markings, light fading to spine, light bruising to extrems, light soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Verlag B R Gruner 1970
KEYWORDS: TEXT IN FRENCH bibliography bibliographies catalogues Joan of Arc history historical
The Chatham Islands: Their Plants, Birds and People
FIRST EDITION, octavo, grey cloth boards, black lettering to spine, ix + 177pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light fading to board edges, sl fading to spine, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, ex-libris plate to ffep, sl foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges- minor archival tape repairs, light soiling & foxing)
PUBLISHER: Simpson and Williams 1952
KEYWORDS: first editions New Zealand Chatham Islands rural nature natural history people nature plants wildlife botany anthropology
RNZAF: The First Decade 1937-1946
DAMP STAINING & WRINKLING TO REAR, quarto, blue heavy boards, white lettering to spine, 119pp, illus/photos, VG (minor damp staining to rear board, light soiling to page edges, sm ink numerals to top of ffep, moderate damp staining & wrinkling to base of page block & rear eps) in d/w, VG (light creasing & moderate damp staining to edges, light fading to spine, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: Kookaburra Technical Publications 1978
KEYWORDS: New Zealand armed defence defense forces military aviation RNZAF history fighter planes aircraft design
RFK Funeral Train
Oblong quarto, illus light card coevrs, yellow & white lettering to spine, unpaginated, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing to cover edges, sl chafing to covers, light tanning to page edges, gift inscription in ink to half title page)
PUBLISHER: Umbrage Editions Inc 2000
KEYWORDS: US America American statesmen RFK Robert F Kennedy assassinations funeral trains modern history aftermath
Architectural Monographs: John Soane
FIRST EDITION, quarto, illus stiff card covers, red & black lettering to spine- faded, frontispiece, 123pp, illus/folding plates- not counted presumed all present, VG (moderate fading to spine & cover edges with minor curling also, light chafing & soiling to covers, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear cover, sl tanning & soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Academy Editions 1983
KEYWORDS: first editions John Soane architecture buildings history historical design
Italian Printmaking: Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries: An Annotated Bibliography
Very tidy ex-library- possibly unread? Super octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus prelims, xxv + 305pp, VG+ (minimal library markings, minor soiling to front board, light bruising to board corners, light soiling to page edges, minor creasing to some page fore-edges)
PUBLISHER: G K Hall & Co 1987
KEYWORDS: bibliography bibliographies catalogues Italian printmaking 15th 16th fifteenth sixteenth century history historical
Political Anti-Semitism in England 1918-1939
Very tidy ex-library, octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, top page edges stained blue, ix + 222pp, VG+ (minimal library markings, sl creasing to some prelims) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing, sl fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: Macmillan 1978
KEYWORDS: England English history early 20th twentieth century anti-semitism politics political Jews Jewish persecution