Handsome decorative edition of Scott's lively somewhat apocryphal History of Scotland. Gilt design to cover. With engraved title page and tissue guarded frontispiece. Mild rubbing and bumping to edges. Light foxing and tanning to page edges. Else clean an [more...]
Later reprint of the 1899 study of Egyptian views on the afterlife. With b/w illustrations. Almost a grangerised volume, with a chapter from Sex and the Occult by Gordon Wellesley, titled The Pagan Heritage of Sex: Egypt" [more...]
First english language edition of Nowarra's detailed history of the development and deployment of the Focke-Wulf Fw190. With b/w diagrams and images. 4to. 159pp. Dust jacket has some light shelfwear. Very faint foxing to page edge. Contents clean and brig [more...]
Fascinating evaluation of various scientific theories and the effects they had on religion and faith, including chapters on Darwin, Freud and Eugenics. Tanning to top edge. Contents clean and binding tight. Good. [more...]
A children's novel intending to recount life in 12th century Britain as well as give a portrait of Robin Hood as a key figure in the creation of the Magna Carta and for freedom in England. With frontispiece. Spine is sunned. Mild foxing to page edges but co [more...]
An account of slavery in Cape Town from the first imports of slaves to abolition in 1834. Told in a narrative style. Dust jacket is price-clipped and has rubbing to edges and small closed tear to spine. Foxing to page edges. Contents clean and tight. Good [more...]
Facsimile of Fearon's 1818 account of his journey to America to scout for suitably habitable land for various London families. An unvarnished, oft negative, report with a wealth of factual data and observations. Foxing to page edges. Mild shelf-wear. Conte [more...]
Volume IV of the Conosci L'Italia series. With numerous b/w and colour images and fold-out maps. Some toning to covers. Contents clean and tight. Good. [more...]
Terrific volume featuring 165 b/w images of photographs of Billingsgate Fish market. With descriptions of the buildings, the trade and history. Dj is price-clipped. Clean and bright. Very good. [more...]
From the Handbook of European National Dances series. With a history of the dances, diagrams of their steps and music, plus full page colour illustrations of the dancers. Complete with DJ. Toning to spine and edges of DJ. Contents clean and sound. Good. [more...]
History of the Simi valley of california. With numerous b/w images. Signed and with a poem/inspirational quote by the author. Some shelf-wear and toning to cover. Contents clean and sound. Good. [more...]
Photographic history of the ship, with b/w images by Bale with notes but Blake. Rubbing and bumping to edges. Light foxing to end-papers. Contents clean and sound. Good. [more...]
Collection of anecdotes and facts about the various months. With colour illustrations. No DJ. Oblong 8vo. Toning to spine and covers. Tanning within, else clean and sound. Good overall. [more...]
From the Britain in Pictures series. With colour plates and b/w illustrations. Rubbing to edges of DJ. Very faint foxing to page edges. Previous owner's name cut out from ffep. Good. [more...]
Fascinating volume featuring various forms of literature, including excerpts from novels, poetry, short stories, Newspaper articles, surveys and more, that tell the story of Hungary's political development from Nazi occupation up to 1965. With numerous b/w im [more...]
To commemorate his son's death in the Great War, Kipling set about writing a regimental history of the Irish Guards in WW1. A humble, serious piece, this is said to be Kipling's great forgotten masterpiece. This volume concerns the second Battalion. Infinit [more...]
'The Annals of London chronicles the events which have changed the face of London and engaged, diverted or outraged its inhabitants in the years since the Romans first settled on the banks of the Thames, through to the dawn of the third millennium.' Charming [more...]
A pictorial history of the first 125 years of Malvern College, the private school in Worcestershire. With 100 b/w photographs and images. Tight and clean. Very good condition. [more...]
'Illustrated military and political history of the world's mightiest power: From the rise of the republic and the dominance of the Empire to the fall of the west'. Lavishly illustrated with colour images. 4to. Some light foxing to bottom edge. Contents cl [more...]
