Books - "history"
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The Devil's Disciples: The Lives and Times of Hitler's Inner Circle
FIRST EDITION, 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: Jonathan Cape 2003
KEYWORDS: first editions ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 history Hitler nazi regime third reich
The Form of the Church
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: Faber and Faber 1954
KEYWORDS: religion religious history church liturgical
The Way and the Light: An Illustrated Guide to the Saints and Holy Places fo Britain
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: Aurum Press 2000
KEYWORDS: religion religious history Great Britain British saints holy places locations
The Stories Behind the Labels: The History, Romance & Characters of the World of Wine and Drink
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Crawford House Publishing 1994
KEYWORDS: drink history labelling labels art design wine liquor distilling
A Journey Into Christian Art
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: Lion Publishing 1999
KEYWORDS: art history religion religious Christianity Christian theological
The British Museum Christian Art
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: The British Museum Press 2007
KEYWORDS: art history religion religious Christianity Christian theological British Museum
Dominion Archives: Archives of the New Zealand Company
Super octavo stapled light card covers (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: R E Owen, Gov't Printer 1953
KEYWORDS: dominion archives New Zealand company preliminary inventory 2 two papers history
National Archives: Archives of the Provinces of New Ulster and New Munster and of the Civil Secretary's Office
Super octavo stapled light card covers (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: R E Owen, Gov't Printer 1954
KEYWORDS: dominion archives New Zealand papers history national New Ulster Munster civil secretary's office
National Archives: Archives of the Provinces of Auckland and Taranaki
Super octavo stapled light card covers (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: R E Owen, Gov't Printer 1958
KEYWORDS: dominion archives New Zealand papers history national Auckland Taranaki
Aviation
Sm 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: Collins Clear-Type Press N/D (c.1912)
KEYWORDS: aeronautical history aviation flight flying Claude Grahame-White
A History of Russian Architecture
Heavy quarto, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, frontispiece, xxiv + 644pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl curling to cover edges, light fading & creasing to spine, light chafing & soiling to covers, minor creasing to bottom corner of rear cover, light tanning & soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: University of Washington Press 2004
KEYWORDS: Russian Russia buildings architecture historical history design appreciation
The PRS Guitar Book
NUMBERED LIMITED EDITION (#3063/6000), lg quarto, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, printed ffep, 125pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, minor creasing to folded pages/images) in d/w, VG+ (light chafing & creasing to edges & spine) in slipcase, VG+ (light bruising & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Balafon Books 1999
KEYWORDS: special limited editions guitars guitarists history music musical instruments PRS Paul Reed Smith electric design
Frida Kahlo: Portraits of an Icon
Quarto, grey cloth boards, black lettering to spine & boards, illus plate to front board, frontispiece, 149pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light fading & soiling to boards, sl tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Turner Publications / Throckmorton Fine Art 2002
KEYWORDS: Frida Kahlo portraits photos photography art history artists Mexico Mexican South America American
Ships' Deserters 1852-1900, Including Stragglers, Strays and Absentees from HM Ships
Super octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine & covers, viii + 535pp, VG (moderate curling & creasing to covers, light tanning/discolouration to spine, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. owner's sm name label to ffep, prev. owner's name in ink to prelim pgs, moderate staining to base of page block, moderate foxing to prelims)
PUBLISHER: Library of Australian History 1986
KEYWORDS: Australia Australian history maritime nautical ships deserters absentees shipmates late 19th nineteenth century notices
Red Horizon
PRESUMED FIRST EDITION, ex-library, super octavo, red buckram boards, black lettering to spine, vii + 248pp, G+ (v heavy scuffing to board edges & extrems- some surface loss, heavy fading/discolouration to spine, moderate soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, usual library markings, v heavy cracking to front & rear gutters- boards shaky, varying states of foxing & discolouration to pages throughout, more heavy cracking to gutters throughout)
PUBLISHER: Sampson Low, Marston & Co N/D (c.1930s)
KEYWORDS: first editions (presumed) military history legionnaires soldiers autobiography autobiographies memoir Reginald R Forbes 9372 French Foreign Legion
The Story of Civilization (11 Vol Set)
11 VOL SET, FULL LEATHER BINDING, super octavo, brown leather boards, gilt lettering & decoration with raised bands to spines, gilt lettering to front boards, gilt decoration to boards, aeg, iridescent patterned cloth eps, mixed pagination, illus, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: Easton Press 1992-95
KEYWORDS: full leather bindings special editions history Will Ariel Durant
Passenger to Teheran
Super octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontipsiece, 155pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges, sl foxing to front gutter) in d/w, VG+ (in plastic protective cover- easily removed if desired, light creasing to edges, light fading to spine, prev. booksellers' labels to front flap & rear cover)
PUBLISHER: Cockbird Press 1990
KEYWORDS: Vita Sackville-West travel writing literature Persia history
Port Nicholson's First Town: The Story of Britannia By the River 1840
Super octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine & front cover, 104pp, illus/photos, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: Warwick Johnston 2007
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Port Nicholson early settlers pioneers settlements
Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse
Square quarto, illus light card covers with french flaps, black lettering to spine, illus prelims, 328pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing & rubbing to spine & cover edges, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps)
PUBLISHER: Royal Academy of Arts 2015
KEYWORDS: art history paintings gardens botanical plants flowers Claude Monet
Federico Barocci: Renaissance Master of Color and Line
Quarto, light brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xv + 360pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing to rear pastedown- some adhesion loss also, sl bruising to extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, 3cm closed tear to top edge of rear cover)
PUBLISHER: Saint Louis Art Museum / Yale University Press 2012
KEYWORDS: art history renaissance Federico Barocci appreciation criticism