DAILY NEWS.

The Year 1914 Illustrated. A Record of Notable Achievements and Events. November 1913 - November 1914.

London: Headley Brothers, 1914. . Sixth year of issue. "To the ordinary mortal the course of the world seemed normal until the last days of July. The Balkan fires had been quenched and the danger zone was apparently removed to torrid Mexico, where internal troubles were causing anxiety to the United States. Then Europe woke with a start to find that the assassination of a Royal Austrian Duke was to be the pretext for pitting the armed millions of Europe one against another.." 25cms x 19cms x 2cms. Pp.224, colour frontispiece + many two-tone illustrations throughout, map to rear inside board, light spotting to preliminaries, closed edge tear to margins of illustration of pp.105/106 and pp.129/130. Cream illustrated cloth has slight toning to edges. G+.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Daily News 1914 Illustrated Record Notable Events Achievements Grey Wallace Tagore Zabern Botha Shackleton Panama Great War Invasion Germans Naval Russian Japan Marne Antwerp Lille Wells Europe 48136 History: : World

NIXON, C.E.V. AND SAYLOR RODGERS, BARBARA.

In Praise of Later Roman Emperors. The Panegyrici Latini.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. 0520083261. Introduction, Translation, and Historical Commentary with the Latin Text of R.A.B.Mynors. "Panegyrics are topical speeches or poems delivered in praise of rulers and other public figures, both living and deceased..'In Praise of Later Roman Emperors' provides..an annotated English translation of the eleven later panegyrics in the corpus, as well as the original Latin text prepared by R.A.B.Mynors..Nixon and Rodgers have managed to render the very difficult Latin of the panegyrics into graceful English, while at the same time remaining faithful to the original." Pp.xii/735. cracking to inner hinge at rear. Black cloth, dustwrapper has removable clear protective wrap. VG/VG.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Nixon Saylor Rodgers Praise Later Roman Emperors Panegyric Latini Translation Mynors Latin Maximian Genethliacus Augustus Constantinius Eumenius Constantine Nazarius Claudius Mamertinus Pacatus 48352 History: : World

PAXMAN, JEREMY.

Empire. What Ruling the World Did to the British. (Signed).

London: Viking, 2011. 9780670919574. Exclusive signed edition. "Paxman brings brilliantly to life the tragedy and comedy of empire and reveals its profound and lasting effect on our nation and on ourselves." Pp.x/356, signed by the author to inner front endpaper (No.415 of a 1000), map of the British Empire in 1815 to prelimaries + 14 further black & white illustrations, colour illustrated endpapers. Red cloth, dustwrapper has 'signed by the author' sticker to front and rubbed mark to top front corner. VG/VG.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Jeremy Paxman Signed Empire What Ruling the World Did to the British History India East India Company South Africa Suez 46881 History: : World

PEIS, GUNTER.

The Mirror of Deception. How Britain turned the Nazi Spy Machine Against Itself.

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1977. 0297773437. "There have been accounts of the British Double-Cross System by those who were involved at the top, but this book is the first to examine the situation from the point of view of the agents involved..Both sides, British and German, attributed success to their inside knowledge. Such was their confidence that the massacre of Allied forces at Dieppe in 1942 was considered a victory by Germans and British alike: the Germans because, forewarned by their agents, they had been prepared; and the British because their plan of deception had made this one of the most successful decoy operations of the war." Pp.x/190, 8 pages black & white photo illustrations. Dark grey cloth, dustwrapper has rubbing to edges with 1cm loss to rear cover. VG/G+.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Gunter Peis Mirror Deception Britain Nazi Spy Machine Double Cross German Masterspy Major Ritter Prussian Wartime 39318 History: : World

PEISSEL, MICHEL.

Cavaliers of Kham. The Secret War in Tibet. (Signed).

London; Heinemann, 1972. 1st edition. "Tells the story of how, out in the nameless wilds of Tibet..a bitter guerrilla war againt China has been fought by a race of nomadic warriors, the Khambas - men formerly branded by Peking, Britain and the Dalai Lama himself as "cavaliers, wild and accustomed to living by loot"..Michel Peissel reports on the great Khamba war both from documents and personal contact with the guerrillas and some of his Tibetan friends - Betty-la, a young princess of the spoiled Lhasean aristocracy who eventually gives up everything to side with the Khambas; Osher, a reckless young rebel who dies after a raid in 1964; and Tsering, a leader of men, who, broken by misfortune, falls into despair." Pp.xiv/258, inscribed by the author "To Douglas Stuart who saw it all begin. Cordially Michel Peissel" to title page, 4 maps + 12 pages of black & white photos, spotting to closed page edges. Brown cloth, dustwrapper has sunning to spine and rear cover but now in a removable clear protective wrap. G+/G+.**Association copy of Douglas Stuart, journalist, BBC broadcaster and foreign correspondent.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Michel Peissel Signed Cavaliers Kham Secret War Tibet Khambas China Tibetan History Politics Lhasa Nehru Dalai Lama 42180 History: : World

PURCELL, VICTOR.

Malaya. Outline of a Colony.

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1946. 1st edition. Pp.viii/151, black & white photo frontispiece with 10 further photos and maps, ownership details to front free endpaper. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine, slightly rubbed. G+.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Victor Purcell Malaya Colony History Portuguese Dutch Tin Rubber Trade Agriculture Finance Singapore World War II Japan Malayan 46419 History: : World

RANSFORD, OLIVER.

The Slave Trade. The Story of Transatlantic Slavery.

Newton Abbot: Readers Union,1972. "Dr Oliver Ransford begins by describing the discovery of Guinea from where most of the slaves were taken and then considers the impact of the European slavers on African traditional societies. After telling the terrible story of the Middle Passage across the Atlantic, Dr Ransford re-creates the atmosphere of the slave plantations in the Caribbean, North America and Brazil." Pp.10/292,20 b/w plates, 4 maps. Orange cloth, illustrated d/w slightly rubbed. VG/G+.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Ransford Slave Trade History Transatlantic Slavery Caribbean North America Brazil Illustrated Africa Guinea Abolition 18686 History: : World

RAWLINSON, GEORGE.

History of Phoenicia.

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1889. 1st edition. Contents: I. The Land; II.Climate and Productions; III.The People - Origin and Characteristics; IV.The Cities; V.The Colonies; VI.Architecture; VII.Aesthetic Art; VIII.Industrial Art and Manufactures; IX.Ships, Navigation, and Commerce; X.Mining; XI.Religion; XII.Dress, Ornaments, and Social Habits; XIII.Writing, Language and Literature; XIV.Political History: 1.Phoenicia Before the Establishment of the Hegemony of Tyre; 2.Phoenicia Under the Hegemony of Tyre; 3.Phoenicia During the Period of its Subjection to Assyria; 4.Phoenicia During the Struggles with Babylon and Egypt; 5.Phoenicia Under the Persians; 6.Phoenicia in the Time of Alexander the Great; 7.Phoenicia Under the Greeks; 8.Phoenicia Under the Romans. Pp.xxii/583/24(publisher's catalogue), colour map frontispiece +colour folding map to end, 10 black & white plates, 122 woodcuts in the text, date + owner's name (scribbled out) in red ink to title page, occasional light spotting. Brown pebbled cloth, gilt title to spine, wear to top and tail of spine and corner tips. Scarce. G+.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Rawlinson History Phoenicia PhœNicia Phoenicians Land Climate People Semitic Origin Assyria Babylon Tyre Colonies Architecture Aesthetic Art Ships Navigation Mining Religion Language Politics 47646 History: : World

RUSTON, ROGER.

A Say in the End of the World. Morals and British Nuclear Weapons Policy 1941-1987.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. 019827565X. 1st edition. "Is Britain prepared to defend itself, or only to a play a part in Armageddon?..the country's security has depended on a willingness to begin a nuclear exchange which would destroy it along with the rest of Europe, and to obliterate Russian cities i a final act of retaliation. Meanwhile econmic and political decline have made it difficult for Britain to maintain adequate defence forces round its own shores.." Ex Priory library. Pp.x/272, ownership details to front free endpaper. Dark blue cloth, dustwrapper, scuffing to spine. G+/G+.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Ruston End World Morals British Nuclear Weapons Policy Politics History Bomb Deterrent Soviet Threat Ethics Polaris Detente Test Ban Macmillan 44437 History: : World

STONE, LAWRENCE.

The Past and the Present.

Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981. 0710006284. 1st ed. "The first three chapters trace three major developments in historiography: the relation of history to the social sciences, the use of the technique of group biography, and the recent(c.1981) reaction to quantification and the revival of narrative. In the second section..Stone explores some of the ideas advanced by the leading English, American and French historians for the transition from the traditional to the modern world, from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries." Pp.12/274. Brown cloth, dustwrapper. VG/VG.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Stone Past Present History Historiography Narrative 49598 History: : World

STONEHOUSE, FREDERICK.

Went Missing Redux. Unsolved Great Lakes Shipwrecks.

Gwinn, Michigan: Avery Color Studios Inc, 2008. 9781892384454. 1st edition. "Tells the exciting tales of ships lost on the Great Lakes with all hands and still missing. Their dead hulls till rest somewhere out in the stormy waters, undiscovered by searchers, past and present..Went Missing Redux takes a detailed look at nine of these "went missing" ships and tries to piece together rational explanations for their loss and offer suggestions for the locations of the wrecks." Pp.197, occasional black & white photo illustrations. Paperback. VG.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Stonehouse Went Missing Redux Unsolved Great Lakes Shipwrecks Alpena Manistee Gilcher Hudson Bannockburn Adella Shores Henry Smith Inkermann Cerisoles Lambton Michigan Superior Huron 46712 History: : World

SWANCOTT, CHARLES.

Highlights of Central Coast History.

Gosford, Australia: Central Coast Printery, nd. (c.1984). Charles Swancott - Fellow Brisbane Water Historical Society. Snippets of local Australian history. Sixty-Five of these highlights of Central Coast History were broadcast over Radio Station 2GO Gosford during 1972 taken from: "Gosford and the Kendall Country"; "Good Old Woy Woy; " Enchanted Waters;" and "Blue Gum Flat to Budgewoi". Pp.iv/47. Orange card covers have lower rear corner absent. Scarce. G+.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Swancott Highlights Central Coast History Gosford Brisbane Kendall Country Woy Woy Enchanted Waters Blue Gum Budgewoi 46376 History: : World

TACITUS.

The Histories (New Translation by Kenneth Wellesley).

Harmondsworth: Penguin. 1964. "In the surviving books of The Histories, the great Roman historian, Tacitus, writing some thirty years after the events, reconstructs the anarchy of A.D. 69, 'that long but single year', during which the Emperors Galba, Otho, and Vitellius briefly held power and the Emperor Vespasian established a new dynasty". Pp 316, slight toning to pages, old tape marks to endpapers, owner's name to inside cover, some sketch maps. Paperback, slight creasing to spine, illustrated cover. G+.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Tacitus Histories Wellesley World Galba Otho Vitellius 25869 History: : World

THOMSON, DAVID.

The Aims of History. Values of the historical attitude.

London: Thames & Hudson, 1970. rep. "One of a series in 'The General Studies Library to help the general education of students in Sixth Forms, Colleges of Education, Further Education,. Technical Colleges and Universities." Pp112, owner's name to fep. P/b. G+.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Thomson Aims History Values Historical Attitude General Studies Library Series Sixth Forms Colleges of Education Further Education Technical Colleges Universities History A10223 History: : World

TRIPP, CHARLES.

A History of Iraq. (Second edition).

Cambridge: University Press, 2002. 052152900X. 2nd edition. "This updated edition of Charles Tripp's 'A History of Iraq' covers events since 1998, and looks at ..developments right up to mid-2002..Tripp traces Iraq's political history from its nineteenth century roots in the Ottoman empire, to the development of the state, its transformation from monarchy to republic and the rise of the Ba'th party and the ascendancy of Saddam Hussein." Pp.22/324, 21 b/w photo illustrations, 3 maps. Pbk. VG.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Tripp History Iraq Saddam Hussein Ba'Th Party Politics Dictatorship Ottoman Empire Britain Hashemite Monarchy Republic Kurds Kuwait War 30119 History: : World