ALLAN, J / WOLSELEY HAIG, SIR T AND DODWELL, H.H.

The Cambridge Shorter History of India.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1934. 1st edition. Pp.xxii/970, 21 maps, owner's name to front free endpaper, slight toning to pages, minor spotting to endpapers but mainly affecting closed page edges, rippled creasing affecting pp.293-310. Green cloth, gilt title to spine, bleached spots (from water damage?) to rear board + top and tail of spine and edges of front board. G-.

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Book number: 45708

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Keywords: Allan Wolselley Haig Dodwell Cambridge Shorter History India Ancient Mauryas Asoka Muslim Conquest Delhi Jaunpur Aurangzib British East India Company Hastings Mutiny Burma Morley Minto Reforms 47253 History: : World

ALLEN, LOUIS.

Japan: The Years of Triumph. From Feudal Isolation to Pacific Empire.

London: BPC, 1971. 1st ed. "Explores with a wealth of illustration the major events, movements, and personalities which have shaped our century". Pp 126. Some colour and b/w illustrations. Pbk, sunning to spine. G+.

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Book number: 19720

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Keywords: Allen Japan Years Triumph Feudal Pacific Empire World History A15178 History: : World

BAILEY, SYDNEY D.

Ceylon.

London: Hutchinson, 1952. 1st ed. "The story of Ceylon is the story of successive invasions". Pp. 168, + 1 map. Beige cloth, d/w with slight chipping to edges. G+/G.

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Book number: 11068

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Keywords: Bailey Ceylon History A4013 History: : World

BECKLES, HILARY AND SHEPHERD, VERENE.

Caribbean Freedom. Economy and Society from Emancipation to the Present.

London: James Currey, 1996. 0852557116. "This reader of nearly sixty articles covers major events in the Caribbean struggle for freedom.. Calling attention to the variety of post-slavery experiences in the Spanish, Dutch, English and French Caribbean..Among the areas covered are popular revolts and aborted revolutions; the sugar industry and economic diversification; peasants and planters; immigration from Europe, India and China; the role of women; labour movements; independence and nationhood." Pp.xiv/581, owner's name to rear free endpaper. Paperback. VG.

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Book number: 48661

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Keywords: Beckles Shepherd Caribbean Freedom Economy Society Emancipation Toussaint Black Former Slaves Creolization Haitian Revolution Jamaica British West Indies Sugar Windward Martinique Guadeloupe 50093 History: : World: : West Indies

BENEDICTO, OLE.

The Black Death 1346-1353. A Complete History.

BCA / The Boydell Press, 2004. The Black Death was a disaster of such magnitude that it no only shook the Old World to its economic and social foundations, but changed the course of human history. Yet astonishingly, this book is the first comprehensive history and assessment of its progress, and of the death and devastation it left in its wake, in all the countries through which it passed." Pp.xvi/433, 11 maps, 3 figure illustrations and 38 tables. Black cloth, dustwrapper. VG/VG.

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Book number: 49327

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Keywords: Benedictow Black Death History Killer Disease Bubonic Plague Mortality Spain Italy France Belgium England Russia Europe Balkans Hungary Norway Denmark Sweden 51070 History: : World

BOUCARD, ROBERT.

Revelations from the Secret Service. The Spy on Two Fronts. (Translated by Captain Raglan Somerset).

London:Hutchinson & Co.Ltd, nd.(c.1930). Contents: Part One: State Secrets. I. How the Germans had Planned to Invade the United States; II. How the English Deciphered Enemy Telegrams; III. The Denouement of the Plot within Mexico; IV. "Not to be Opened for Twenty Years"; V. How the Secret Diplomatic Code of Germany was Delivered to England; VI. A Man who Vanished into Thin Air. Part Two. Tricks of the Trade: I. At the Headquarters of the Big Five; II. In the German Service; III. Dressing for the Part; IV. A Prize of a Hundred Thousand Pesetas; V. The Escape of a Prince; VI. On Board an Enemy Submarine; VII. The Key to the Riddle. Pp.173, erratum slip, minor toning to endpapers, a couple of spots to final two pages. Red cloth with black line border, slight sunning to spine. G+.

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Book number: 40926

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Keywords: Robert Boucard Revelations Secret Service Spy Spying French English German World War One History Politics 42064 History: : World

BRUGSCH-BEY, HEINRICH / BRODRICK, M.

Egypt Under The Pharaohs. A History Derived Entiely from The Monuments By Heinrich Brugsch-Bey. A New Edition Condensed And Thoroughly Revised By M. Brodrick. with Maps, Plans, And Illustrations.

London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1891 . 0. First edition with an interesting provenance. 8vo. 23cm x 15cm x 4cm. pp.28/pp.469/pp.28 Original black cloth covered boards. Gilt image of a Pharaoh to the front board and gilt titles an decoration to the spine. Boards and spine lightly rubbed. Hinges and edges carefully strengthened. Loose letter signed by R. F. Bigg-Wither. Half title soiled with two gift inscriptions: " Wm. H de Vere Coles from his Grandmother Jane Cole May 5th. 1893." ; "To W. C. D. Esdaile signed H. de Vere Coles." Clean text throughout, complete with all illustrations and maps. A very good book with an interesting provenance! Loosely inserted letter reads: "M Naville has been excavating the Northern half of the temple of Der el Bahare at Luxor. He has found 2 ebony doors covered with beautiful hieroglyphs & cartouches: also the funeral chamber of Totmes I (father of Queen hatasu) and in front of the funeral chamber a great altar of limestone 13ft 2in square8 feet high with steps leading up to it. - NB The doors & the altar are unique finds. - He expects to find the mummy of Totmes I & possiby of Queen Hatasu. R. F. Bigg-Wither" ** "Henri Édouard Naville (14 June 1844 – 17 October 1926) was a Swiss archaeologist, Egyptologist and Biblical scholar.The first excavator of the Egypt Exploration Fund. In the 1890s he excavated at the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahri where he was assisted by David George Hogarth, Somers Clarke and Howard Carter. In 1903-06 he returned to Deir el-Bahri to excavate the Mortuary Temple of Mentuhotep II, assisted by Henry Hall. In 1910 he worked in the royal necropolis at Abydos and his last excavation work was in the Osireion at Abydos which was left incomplete at the start of World War I." - See Wikipedia *** "William Clement Drake Esdaile, English barrister and founding secretary of conservationist group The New Forest Association. Esdaile's sister-in-law was Eliza Ianthe Esdaile, née Shelley, daughter of Percy Bysshe Shelley and his first wife, Harriet. To H. Buxton Forman, bibliographer and forger." - See: New York Library Manuscripts and archives. **** "William Horace de Vere Cole (5 May 1881, Ballincurrig, Co. Cork, Ireland – 25 February 1936, Paris, France) was an eccentric prankster and poet born in Ireland, which was then part of the United Kingdom. His best known trick was the Dreadnought Hoax on 7 February 1910 when he fooled the captain of the Royal Navy warship HMS Dreadnought into taking Cole and a group of his friends, including Virginia Woolf, for an Abyssinian delegation. As an undergraduate at Cambridge University, Cole had posed as the Sultan of Zanzibar — who was visiting London at the time — to make an official visit to his own college accompanied by his friend Adrian Stephen (the brother of Virginia Woolf). With his mane of hair and bristling moustache, Cole was often confused with British prime minister Ramsay Macdonald, causing dismay in public when he launched into a fierce attack on Labour Party policy. His own sister Annie married Neville Chamberlain. Following the Sultan of Zanzibar prank, Cole executed a series of bold jokes and escapades principally aimed at deflating pompous figures of authority. His targets included members of parliament, city businessmen and naval officers. On one occasion he directed a group of like minded friends dressed as workmen as they dug a trench across Piccadilly. On another, Cole dared an old schoolfriend from Eton, the newly elected Member of Parliament for Ramsey in Huntingdonshire, Oliver Locker-Lampson, to dash before him on a London street to the nearest corner with a 10-yard head start — having already slipped his gold watch into the MP's pocket. As soon as Locker-Lampson began to pull ahead, Cole yelled "Stop thief!" and a policeman promptly detained Locker-Lampson. Cole then explained that it was all a joke and both men were told to proceed on their way quietly. Unfortunately, Cole then began waving his stick around in a dangerous manner as though conducting an imaginary band and both men were then arrested and taken into custody. While no charge was brought against Locker-Lampson, Cole was found guilty of a breach of the peace and fined £5. According to legend, Cole once hosted a party in which the attendees discovered that they all had the word "bottom" in their surnames. On his honeymoon in Italy in 1919, Cole dropped horse manure onto Venice's Piazza San Marco — a city with no horses that could be reached only by boat. Once heir to a great fortune, Cole married twice and died in poverty in France.2 - See Wikipedia . ***** "Heinrich Karl Brugsch (also Brugsch-Pasha or Brugsch-Bey) (18 February 1827 – 9 September 1894) was a German Egyptologist. He was associated with Auguste Mariette in his excavations at Memphis. He became director of the School of Egyptology at Cairo, producing numerous very valuable works and pioneering the decipherment of Demotic, the simplified script of the later Egyptian periods. " - See Wikipedia. ****** "Dr. Mary (May) Brodrick F.R.G.S. (1858 – 13 July 1933) was a British archaeologist and Egyptologist who was one of the first female excavators in Egypt. She persisted in her studies despite the initial opposition of her tutors and fellow students and achieved distinction in her field. The Daily Mail described her in 1906 as "perhaps the greatest lady Egyptologist of the day" - See wikipedia ******* "Reginald Fitzhugh Bigg-Wither (1842-1929) Rector of Worting 1879-1898; Rural Dean of Basingstoke, 1890-1893; Rector of Wonston, 1898.

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Book number: 42572

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Keywords: John Murray W.C. D. Esdaile William H. De Vere Coles Brugsch-Bey, Heinrich Brodrick, M. Egypt Under the Pharaohs. A History Derived Entiely from the Monuments by Heinrich Brugsch-Bey. 43920 History: : World

CARTER, DAVID J.

POW - Behind Canadian Barbed Wire. Alien, Refugee and Prisoner of War Camps in Canada 1914-1946.

Elkwater: Eagle Butte Press Co.Ltd, 1998. 096841110X. Originally published in 1980. Pp.253, 12 pages of black & white photographs, signed by the author to title page. Paperback with minor edge wear. Scarce. VG.

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Book number: 43121

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Keywords: Carter Pow Prisoner of War Behind Canadian Barbed Wire Alien Refugee Prisoner of War Camps Canada World War I II Twentieth Century History 44464 World History

CRANKSHAW, EDWARD.

Russia and the Russians.

London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1947. 1st ed. Mr. Crankshaw has set out to evoke an image of contemporary Russia arising naturally from the past. Pp. 256. Red cloth, gilt title to spine, d/w has slight tears and chipping. G+/G.

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Book number: 13436

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Keywords: Crankshaw Russia Russians History A7468 History: : World

DUDLEY, DONALD.

Roman Society.

Harmondsworth: Penguin 1978. "Provides an introduction to the art and architecture, law and literature, religion and philosophy, trade and commerce, and to the military and civil administratiion, as well as the history". Pp 330, slight toning to pages, inkstamp to verso front cover, old tape marks to endpapers, some b/w illustrations. P/b, illustrated cover. G+.

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Book number: 28488

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Keywords: Dudley Roman Society History Architecture Law Philosophy 25853 History: : World

ELPHINSTONE, HON. MOUNTSTUART.

The History of India. The Hindu and Mahometan Periods.

Allahabad: Kitab Mahal, 1966. "Beginning with the ancient period when Manu's code guided the deliberations of kings and kingdoms..the author has dealt exhaustively with the mood and tendency of rulers and the ruled, noting with care all the vicissitudes through which the country passed. Signalled by the 7th century invasion of Sindh by the Arabs the religion of Mohamedans got a foothold in India, and admittedly, a precursor of Mohamedan rule in India." Pp.xxiv/698, minor ink stain to lower page edges. Blue cloth, dustwrapper spotted with small edge chips but is in a removable clear protective wrap. G+/Good.

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Book number: 46003

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Keywords: Elphinstone History India Hindu Mahometan Manu Arab Conquests Kings Delhi Teimur Baber Akber Jehanoir Shar Jehan Aurangzib Chronology 47563 History: : World

GLOVER, T.R.

The Ancient World.

Harmondsworth: Pelican Books, 1948. Rep. A survey of the origins of the Western World. Pp. 340/3(ads). 12 figs, + 6 maps. Toning to pages. P/b. G.

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Book number: 9510

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Keywords: Glover Ancient World Survey Origins Western World History A2027 History: : World

GRANT, ALFRED.

Our American Brethren.

Jefferson: McFarland & Company, 1995. 1st edition. A History of Letters in the British Press During the American Revolution, 1775-1781. "This narrative is grounded on letters to the printer which appeared in the British press from the outbreak of the American War for Independence at Lexington and Concord to the surrender of the British army at Yorktown." Pp.212. Navy cloth. VG.

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Book number: 49388

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Keywords: Grant Our American Brethren History Letters British Press American Revolution French Henry Woodfall Newgate Olive Branch Petition Spanish Relations Politics War Independence 51132 History: : World

GRAVES, CHARLES.

War Over Peace.

London: Hutchinson & Co.Ltd,1940. 0. 1st edition. Describes a series of four journeys across the Channel to Marrakech and Fez; the French-Spanish frontier; South of France; and finally to the British zone G.H.Q and B.E.F. The book concludes with a visit to aerodromes in England and Scotland to see how they are coping with the War on the Home Front. Pp.256/24(ads), black & white photo portrait frontispiece, owner's name to front free endpaper, toning to endpapers and occasional light spotting mainly affecting closed page edges. Blue cloth, spine sunned and boards have uneven sunning. G+.

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Book number: 37719

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Keywords: Charles Graves War over Peace Travel Politics French Morocco Marrakech Fez Spanish Frontier Italian Frontier Ghq Bef France 38435 History: : World

GWYNN, J.T.

Indian Politics. A Survey.

London: Nisbet & Co, 1924. 0. 1st ed. "In his letters we have no rodomontade or propaganda; we have only the talk of the plain man - the busy merchant in the town, the village worthies over their evening piple, the doctor and the schoolmaster, the petty official and the student, Hindu, Moslem and Sikh. Mr Gwynn also takes us up and down the country, through the vastly diverse racial areas, and shows how the popular attitude to our administration varies with local conditions." (Introduction by Lord Meston). Pp.xii/344, minor toning to endpapers. Green cloth with blind-stamped title to front, gilt title to spine, d/w rubbed with edge tears. VG/G+.

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Book number: 34915

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Keywords: Gwynn Indian Politics British Empire Raj India Bombay Gandhi Mahratta Brahmins Parsi Deccan Bardoli Ryot Swaraj Mohammedan Gujerat Delhi Lloyd George Punjab Amritsar Sikhs Guru Ka Bagh Bengal 35179 History: : World