Marozzi, Justin

Tamerlane Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World.

HarperCollinsPublisher, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Very clean & tightly bound hardback book with a name of front endpaper in a bright unclipped dustjacket. Appears little used. xxiv + 450 pages, photos on plates, appendices, bibliography, index. Good in Very Good dust jacket.

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Book number: 68645

Catalogue: History:: World

Keywords: 14th century Asia Samarkand

McNelly, Theodore; Charles L. Kades and Hugh Cortazzi et al.

The transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan: third series volume 17, October 1982.

Japan: Asiatic Society of Japan, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in red quarter cloth with gilt titles, cloth has minor rubbing at corners, no inscriptions. iv + 200 pages, illustrations in the text, notes, bibliography. Articles include MacArthur & the disarmament of Japan, Old maps, The second Englishman in Japan, and The transit of Venus 1874. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued.

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Book number: 51768

Catalogue: History:: World

Keywords: General Douglas MacArthur Japanese History

Palmer, Robert R.

The age of the democratic revolution: a political history of Europe and America, 1760-1800. The challenge.

U. S. A.: Princeton University Press, 1974. Reprint. Softcover. Clean and tightly bound paperback, spine creased and sunned, edges rubbed, page edges lightly foxed, name on front endpaper. x + 534 pages, appendices, index. Good.

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Book number: 66441

Catalogue: History:: World

Keywords: Edmund Burke John Adams Political & economic history The social contract

Payne, Robert

The holy sword.

Robert Hale, 1961. First British Edition. Hardcover. Very clean & tightly bound hardback book with a neat name on the endpaper, else no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket. Appears little used. 288 pages, 21 photos on plates, 2 maps, glossary, chronology, bibliography, index. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.

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Book number: 62307

Catalogue: History:: World

Keywords: Islam Muhammad Arabs Islamic history

Polo, Marco & Rossabi, Morris (ed)

The travels of Marco Polo, The illustrated edition.

U. S. A.: Sterling Signature, 2012. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in a bright price clipped dustjacket. Appears little used. xxii + 378 pages, illustrations in the text, bibliography, index. Heavy book so additional postage may be requested. Fine in Very Good dust jacket.

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Book number: 68994

Catalogue: History:: World

Keywords: Explorers Middle East history Samarkand Khubilai Khan

Prusek, Jaroslav

Chinese statelets and the northern barbarians in the period 1400-300 B.C..

Holland: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Very clean, tightly bound hardback book,no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket which is creased and chipped at the edges. 312 pages, bibliography, index. Good in Fair dust jacket.

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Book number: 47729

Catalogue: History:: World

Keywords: Chinese history Archaeology Ti people

Sakamoto, Taro

Japanese history.

Japan: International Society for Educational Information Press, 1971. First Edition. Softcover. Clean, tightly bound paperback with dustjacket attached at the spine, corners creased, 1" loss at head of spine, slight damp marking to one corner of first few leaves, but a decent reading copy. 124 pages, 73 photos & a couple of maps in the text, map endpapers. Fair.

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Book number: 63800

Catalogue: History:: World

Keywords: Japan

Schwartz, Vanessa R. & Przyblyski, Jeannene M.

The Nineteenth-Century visual culture reader.

Routledge, 2004. First Edition. Softcover. Clean and tightly bound paperback, no inscriptions, spine uncreased, appears little used. xxiv + 406 pages, illustrations in the text, notes, index.. Fine.

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Book number: 60324

Catalogue: History:: World

Keywords: Social History

Simpson, John (ed)

The Oxford book of exile.

USA: Oxford University Press, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Very clean, tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket which is rubbed at the edges but otherwise appears little used. xii + 358 pages, index. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.

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Book number: 50527

Catalogue: History:: World

Keywords: Anthology Daniel Defoe James Joyce Solzhenitsyn

Stoneman, Richard

Alexander the Great A life in legend.

U. S. A.: Yale University Press, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Very clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket. Appears little used. xviii + 314 pages, photos on plates, illustrations in the text, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.

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Book number: 68633

Catalogue: History:: World

Keywords: Greek history Persian empire Myths & legends

Various

The Listener: Vol XIII nos. 314 - 322 (16 January 1935 - 13 March 1935).

British Broadcasting Corporation, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean, large format hardback tightly bound in quarter blue cloth over marbled boards, cloth has minor rubbing at corners and spine ends, no inscriptions. 380 pages, photos & illustrations in the text. Writers include Lord Dunsany (The return), Winifred Holtby, Edwin Muir, Vivian Fuchs, W.H. Auden, Rose Macauley and Winston Churchill. Heavy set, usual shipping rates may not apply to some overseas destinations. Very Good with no dust jacket.

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Book number: 58389

Catalogue: History:: World

Keywords: Harry Price Appleby horse fair Mining disasters G. K. Chesterton Book reviews Winston Churchill Wystan Auden Lord Dunsany

Vernede, R. E.

An ignorant in India.

William Blackwood and Sons, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in dark blue cloth with gilt titles and decoration, endpapers tanned, page edges foxed, no inscriptions. vi + 260 pages + 64 pages of publisher's adverts. Good with no dust jacket.

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Book number: 65910

Catalogue: History:: World

Keywords: Colonial India Bengal British Empire

Wheeler, Harold

This thing called history.

Macdonald, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Very clean, tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in an unclipped dustjacket which is sunned at the spine and has minor edge wear. 156 pages. No printed date, but the British Library confirms a publication date of 1945. Very Good in Good dust jacket.

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Book number: 47364

Catalogue: History:: World

Keywords: Historiography Historians

Wilson, Geoffrey

Linkwater: a history.

Linkwater Settlers' Association, 1989. Reprint. Softcover. Clean and tightly bound paperback original, spine uncreased, gift inscription on title page. 160 pages, photos in the text. Good.

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Book number: 68320

Catalogue: History:: World

Keywords: New Zealand Maori people Colonial History Anakiwa