Austin's Antiquarian Books: World History
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Soldiers and Others I Have Known; a Volume of Recollections
London, Herbert Jenkins, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 318, index; frontispiece portrait and eleven photographs; green cloth, ruled and lettered in black; a tight, clean copy. Memoirs of Artillery officer in Afghanistan 1878-79, Egypt 1882, Sudan 1884-5, Boer War & WW1 Salonika & Palestine. Very good .
Austin's Antiquarian BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 16187
USD 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 60.75 | £UK 52.25 | JP„ 10286]
Catalogue: World History
Keywords: World War I; World History; Military; British Military; Middle East; World War I
Noyon & la Region Apres the Depart Des Boches
Paris, Neurdein Et Cie, 1918. Wraps. (circa 1918). Postcard Album. Original printed wrappers. Twenty-four postcards of the ruins of the area caused by the war. Twenty three cards present. Lacks the last card and the rear wrapper. Cover has several chips. Good .
Austin's Antiquarian BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 12175
USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 | £UK 16.25 | JP„ 3165]
Catalogue: World History
Keywords: World War I; Ephemera; Postcards; War Ruins; War Destruction World War I
Cromwell's Generals
New York, St. Martin's Press, 1955. First American Edition, English Sheets. Hardcover. Octavo; pp. 256, index; eleven portraits; terra-cotta cloth lettered in gilt in a dust jacket; dust jacket rubbed. The English Civil War. Ashley "traces, for the first time in one volume, the military and diplomatic success and the governmental failure of Cromwell's generals. Very good/a good or better.
Austin's Antiquarian BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 16190
USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 17 | £UK 14.5 | JP„ 2849]
Catalogue: World History
Keywords: English CIVIL War; Cromwell; Great Britain; England;
A History of Egypt. .
New York, Macmillan, 1929. First American edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp. I; xii, (ii), 3-426; II; viii, (ii), 3-403 with index; Illustrated, frontispieces plus forty-eight plates, photographs, two folding color maps; black cloth, English sheets; Very good, minor edge wear. An impressive work, quite scarce today. Very Good .
Austin's Antiquarian BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 12399
USD 95.00 [Appr.: EURO 88.75 | £UK 76.25 | JP„ 15034]
Catalogue: World History
Keywords: World History; Egypt; Ancient World Ancient World
The Drama of 365 Days
Philadelphia, J. Lippincott Company, 1915. Second edition. Hardcover. Octavo, burgundy cloth, gilt, in a dust jacket. 176pp. plus 16pp. book ads. Very good in a good jacket, chipped and soiled. Very Good/good.
Austin's Antiquarian BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 12204
USD 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 42.25 | £UK 36.25 | JP„ 7121]
Catalogue: World History
Keywords: World War I; World War I
Revolutionary Days Including Passages from, My Life Here and There 1876-1917
Chicago, The Lakeside Press, 1999. First Edition, thus. Hardcover. 16mo; pp; 449, (i), with index, Series List, colophon; illustrated with fifty-six plates including a portrait frontispiece and maps, many plates in color; decorated brown cloth covered boards with a gilt top edge and lettering. The author, originally an American, married a Russian Prince in 1899 then moved to that country for the next 18 years to raise her family. This is her account of the Russian Revolution. Very good .
Austin's Antiquarian BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 18001
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 | £UK 8.25 | JP„ 1583]
Catalogue: World History
Caste System in India
Banaras India, Privately Printed, 1964. First Edition. Wraps. Duodecimo; pp; vi, 60; printed paper covered stiff wrappers; wear to the paper spine else very good. Inscribed and dated 1964 by the author. Caste in Hindu Society. Very good .
Austin's Antiquarian BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 15652
USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 | £UK 16.25 | JP„ 3165]
Catalogue: World History
Keywords: India; Religion
View of the History and Actual State of the Military Force of Great Britain; Translated, with Notes by an Officer
London, John Murray, 1822. Only Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes; Octavo; pp; I;3xii, 63; II; iv, 365; rebound in modern brown cloth, gilt, and tan boards, with half titles; Institutional call numbers on the verso of the title pages with no other indications of institutional ownership. Volume I discusses the Constitution of the Army and Volume II, Studies and Works of the Army. Scarce, Dupin was a French Artillery Officer. Very scarce. Very good .
Austin's Antiquarian BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 13529
USD 175.00 [Appr.: EURO 163.5 | £UK 140.25 | JP„ 27694]
Catalogue: World History
Keywords: Napoleon; Great Britain; Military; Napoleonic Wars; British Military; French History & Napoleon
A Brief History of Southern Alberta "the Short Grass Area
np, np, nd. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, red cloth. 123pp. Including place names. A dark streak runs down the cover, top to bottom. Missionaries, Mounties, Cowboys and Cops of "The Great Lone Land. Good or better .
Austin's Antiquarian BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 12853
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.5 | £UK 20.25 | JP„ 3956]
Catalogue: World History
Keywords: World History; Canada; Alberta; Southern Alberta Canada
Eminent Asians; Six Great Personalities of the New East
New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp. (x), (2), 3-511 plus 2pp. ads; Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait plus five additional portraits; black cloth, with a label on the front board and another on the spine, illustrated map endpapers; previous owner's name on a preliminary. Prince Ito, Sun Yat-Sen, Yamagata, Mustapha Kemal, Josef Stalin, and Mahatma Gandhi. Very good .
Austin's Antiquarian BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 13368
USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 | £UK 16.25 | JP„ 3165]
Catalogue: World History
Keywords: Prince Ito; Sun Yat-Sen; Yamagata; Mustapha Kemal; Josef Stalin; Mahatma Gandhi;
War Days in Brittany
Detroit, Saturday Night Press, 1920. First edition, limited. Hardcover. Octavo, blue cloth, gilt. (viii), 151pp. Illustrated. Frontispiece portrait plus twenty-two plates including seven in color of French War Posters. Uncommon. Covers faded; the frront cover in a striped pattern. The back coverirregularly with some dampstain and spotting. Minor edgewear. Good .
Austin's Antiquarian BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 12226
USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 32.75 | £UK 28.25 | JP„ 5539]
Catalogue: World History
Keywords: World War I; War; Military; Brittany; Great War; World History World War I
Edward VI, the Young King; the Protectorship of the Duke of Somerset
Cambridge, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. English sheets; Octavo; pp. 544 with index; red cloth, top edge stained red in a dust jacket; Jacket rear panel has some spotting. A full scale study of the Reign of Edward VI 1547-1553. Very good/very good.
Austin's Antiquarian BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 12916
USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 | £UK 16.25 | JP„ 3165]
Catalogue: World History
Keywords: English History
La Tragedie D'Un Peuple Histoire Du Peuple Acadien de Ses Origines a Nos Jours; the Tragedy of a People. History of the Acadian People, Origins and Days
Paris, Editions Bossard, 1923. Second Edition. Wraps. Two volumes; Octavo; pp; I; xvi, (5), 6-518, tables; II; (5), 6-597, tables; Illustrated, eighty-eight text illustrations, sixty-six photogravures, twenty-two maps, seven special designs, (dessinees); original publisher's printed paper wrappers; To avoid any confusion, this edition is in french; Some minor edge wear, overall a very good or better copy. Émile-Joseph Lauvričre was a French historian of Acadia. Emile Lauvričre started his studies in Paris and completed them in London. Upon studying Evangeline, Longfellow's poem which follows an Acadian girl during the time of the Expulsion of the Acadians. Lauvričre discovered, on this occasion, the history of the Acadian people, and reoriented his scholarly interest. This new research subject led him to publish La Tragédie d'un peuple; histoire du peuple acadien de ses origines ą nos jours (Paris: Bossard, 1922). Lauvričre was to spend the next three decades studying Acadian history, but he would go beyond academic research by founding the Comité France-Acadie dedicated to providing grants to Acadians wishing to complete their studies in France, as well as sending French-language books to Acadia. Very good + .
Austin's Antiquarian BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 14286
USD 125.00 [Appr.: EURO 117 | £UK 100.25 | JP„ 19782]
Catalogue: World History
Keywords: French Canadians; Acadians; Nova Scotia; Quebec; Canada; St. Lawrence River; Canada
The Riddle of the Rhine: Chemical Strategy in Peace and War
New York, The Chemical Foundation, 1923. First printing. Hardcover. (1923). Octavo, red cloth, gilt in dust jacket. 282pp. with index. Frontispiece portrait plus four black and white plates. With an Preface by Marshal Foch. Introduction by Field-Marshall Sir Henry Wilson. Gas. Very good. Very Good .
Austin's Antiquarian BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 12227
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.5 | £UK 20.25 | JP„ 3956]
Catalogue: World History
Keywords: World War I; World History; Military; Rhine; War; Marshal Foch; Field-Marshall Sir Henry Wilson World War I
The War and After
New York, George H. Doran Company, 1918. First edition. Hardcover. (1918). Octavo, green cloth, gilt, in a dust jacket. xiv, 252pp. with index. Very good in a fair jacket. Very Good/fair.
Austin's Antiquarian BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 12203
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.5 | £UK 20.25 | JP„ 3956]
Catalogue: World History
Keywords: World War I; Military; World History; War World War I