Books - "history"
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City on the Rocks: Hong Kong's Uncertain Future
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 costs
PUBLISHER: Viking 1989
KEYWORDS: 20th century Hong Kong history China Britain England political politics
Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore
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 costs
PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 2005
KEYWORDS: Helen of Troy ancient classical history heroine Greek Greece North Africa Asia Minor
Land Uplifted High
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PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs 1952
KEYWORDS: John Pascoe New Zealand landscape environment travel social history
The History of H.M.A.S. Maryborough: Corvettes in World War II 1940-1946
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PUBLISHER: Brian Francis Ogle 1992
KEYWORDS: Second World War 2 WW II WW2 WWII naval navy warships military history
The Butterfly and Common Moths of New Zealand
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 costs
PUBLISHER: Whitcombe and Tombs 1966
KEYWORDS: D E Gaskin zoology butterfly butterflies moth moths natural history
Lazzi: The Comic Routines of the Commedia dell'Arte
8vo 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: Performing Arts Journal Publications 1983
KEYWORDS: Mel Gordon Commedia dell'Arte comic comedy drama theatre history
Esoteric Hollywood: Sex, Cults and Symbols in Film
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PUBLISHER: Trine Day 2016
KEYWORDS: Hollywood film culture social history criticism symbolism
Broken Hill Volume 4: 1940-1983
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PUBLISHER: The Broken Hill Historical Society 1987
KEYWORDS: Broken Hill R H B Kearns 20th century social history
Broken Hill Volume 3: 1915-1939
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PUBLISHER: The Broken Hill Historical Society 2000
KEYWORDS: Broken Hill R H B Kearns 20th century social history
Broken Hill Volume 1: 1883-1893
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PUBLISHER: The Broken Hill Historical Society 1996
KEYWORDS: Broken Hill R H B Kearns 19th century social history
Mt. Egmont Alpine Club and Dawson Falls: 50 Year History 1928-1978
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PUBLISHER: The Hawera Star Publishing Co. 1978
KEYWORDS: Mt Mount Egmont Dawson Falls alpine club mountain history 20th century
Beyond the Known: How Exploration Created the Modern World and Will Take Us to the Stars
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PUBLISHER: Scribner 2019
KEYWORDS: Andrew Rader exploration space history explorers travel
Seats in All Parts: Half a Lifetime at the Movies
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PUBLISHER: Charles Scribner's Sons 1985
KEYWORDS: Leslie Halliwell social history industry industrial Lancashire England 20th century
Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot
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PUBLISHER: Henry Holt and Company 2012
KEYWORDS: John F Fitzgerlad Kennedy murder crime 20th century history America American president
The Last Place: Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House
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PUBLISHER: Crown 2018
KEYWORDS: Eisen Norman Europe 20th century European history life lives biography biographies
The Wild West (Companion Volume to the Television Miniseries)
4to 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: Warner Books N.D.
KEYWORDS: United States of America Wild West mini series television environment landscape history
Le Grand Prix Automobile de Monaco: Story of a Legend 1929-1960
SIGNED LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION (#269/500), heavy lg quarto, beige cloth boards, no external lettering, 347pp + summary to rear, illus/photos, Near Fine, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & closed tearing to edges, light tanning & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Editions Automobilia N/D (c.1990)
KEYWORDS: automotive history grand prix Monaco motorsport racing signed limited editions
The Discovery of Tahiti: A Journal of the Second Voyage of HMS Dolphin Round the World, Under the Command of Captain Wallis, RN, in the Years 1766, 1767 and 1768
LACKS D/W, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering & blind rule to spine, gilt ship motif & blind stamp decoration to boards, folding frontipiece, illus/folding maps, lii + 292pp, illus, VG- (moderate rubbing & bruising to spine & board edges/extrems, sl chafing to front board, light tanning & soiling to page edges & eps, minor scuffing & surface loss to front pastedown, heavy crack to gutter nr front, light cracking occasionally throughout, rear index page lightly torn at top with some minor loss, some terminal pages potentially missing)
PUBLISHER: The Hakluyt Society / Cambridge University Press 1948
KEYWORDS: hakluyt society exploration voyages history historical accounts HMS Dolphin Tahiti 18th eighteenth century journals Captain Wallis
The Levant Voyage of the Blackham Galley (1696-1698): The Sea Journal of John Looker, Ship's Surgeon
Imperial octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering & blind rule to spine, gilt ship motif to front board, xvi + 248pp, illus/maps, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl soiling)
PUBLISHER: The Hakluyt Society / Routledge 2022
KEYWORDS: hakluyt society Levant voyage Blackham Galley exploration voyages John Looker 17th seventeenth century journals diaries history
The Voyages and Manifesto of William Fergusson, a Surgeon of the East India Company 1731-1739
Imperial octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering & blind rule to spine, gilt ship motif to front board, frontispiece, xviii + 185pp, illus, Near FINE, in d/w, Near FINE (sl creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: The Hakluyt Society / Routledge 2021
KEYWORDS: hakluyt society history exploration voyages East Indai Company William Fergusson ship surgeons 18th eighteenth century