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POMPEII
Written by W.M. Mackenzie.
Illustrated by Alberto Pisa.
Stock no. 2137054
Published by A. & C. Black.
Circa
1913.
Almost very good condition.
Blue cloth with gilt title to spine and dark yellow title to front cover. 20 colour plates with tissue guards plus a few b/w plates. 179 pages plus fold-out map and publication list to rear. A & C Black 7/6 Series. Reprint. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Browning to spine. Marks to covers. Top corner tips are creased (where book bumped). Hinge cracked at page 129. Sketch plan a bit foxed. Light foxing in other places.
MEDIEVAL SOUTH YORKSHIRE
Written by David Hey.
Stock no. 2136879
Published by Landmark Publishing.
1ST
2003.
Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
Landmark Collector's Library Series. Larger format. Red boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 1843060809. Light edge-creasing to wrapper.
- Categorised in:
- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- NORTH EAST UK
- YORKSHIRE
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
BRITISH BATTLES AND MEDALS
Written by L.L. Gordon; Edward C. Joslin.
Stock no. 2136874
Published by Spink & Son Ltd..
5th
1979.
Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.
5th edition, revised by Joslin. Foreword by Spink. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. Bumping to spine; some fading along cover edges. Small splits/nicks to top and tail of spine. Name to front endpaper. Foxing and marks to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is browned with some edge-tears and chips; a few nicks of loss.
- Categorised in:
- MILITARY
- MEDALS AND BADGES
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
SKYSCRAPER: THE SEARCH FOR AN AMERICAN STYLE 1891-1941
Written by Roger Shepherd.
Stock no. 2136791
Published by McGraw-Hill.
1st USA
2003.
Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
Black boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and illustrations. Annotated extracts from the first 50 years of 'Architectural Record'. ISBN: 0071369708.
- Categorised in:
- ARCHITECTURE
- BUILDINGS
- AMERICA
- HISTORY
- HISTORY GENERAL
CATHAYS, MAINDY, GABALFA AND MYNACHDY: THE SECOND SELECTION
Written by Brian Lee.
Stock no. 2136757
Published by Tempus.
1ST
2000.
Slightly better than very good condition.
Images of Wales series. Pictorial card wraps. B/w photos. ISBN: 0752418890.
- Categorised in:
- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- WALES
- HISTORY
- GLAMORGAN
- CARDIFF
- IMAGES OF WALES
THE WHITE PASS AND YUKON ROUTE RAILWAY
Written by Graham Wilson.
Stock no. 2136726
Published by Wolf Creek Books Inc.
3rd
2001.
Slightly better than very good condition.
Card wraps. 3rd edition. B/w photos. Ride the "Railway Built of Gold" and step back in time to the days of the Klondike Gold Rush. ISBN: 0968195520.
- Categorised in:
- TRANSPORT
- RAILWAYS
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (FOREIGN)
- HISTORY (AMERICAN)
- CANADA
FLINT MINES IN NEOLITHIC BRITAIN
Written by Miles Russell.
Stock no. 1823516
Published by Tempus.
1st
2000.
Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.
Bringing the Neolithic flint mines of Britain centre stage, the author addresses a number of important questions: What were the mine sites? What did they mean to the people who created them? How did they relate to other monuments being built at the same time? Where were they originally dug? What form did they take? And many more... Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos & illustrations, a few colour photos. ISBN: 075241481X. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- NEOLITHIC
- MINING
- ARCHAEOLOGY
LONDON SURVEY'D: THE WORK OF THE SURVEY OF LONDON 1894-1994
Written by Hermione Hobhouse.
Stock no. 1823499
Published by Royal Commission On The Historical Monuments Of England.
1st
1994.
Slightly better than very good condition.
The survey of London traces its origins to the campaigning zeal of the 1890s when C R Ashbee and a group of like-minded conservationists set up the Watch Committee to campaign against the demolition of historic buildings. Out of this grew 'the great enterprise' of creating an inventory of all London's historic buildings as an aid to their protection and is still ongoing. Red pictorial cardwraps. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 1873592191. Base of spine bumped. Contents clean.
- Categorised in:
- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- LONDON
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- BUILDINGS
- ARCHITECTURE
THE ORIGIN OF HUMAN SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS
Written by W.G. Runciman.
Stock no. 1322648
Published by Oxford University Press.
1st
2001.
Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.
These papers bring an interdisciplinary approach to bear on what is arguable the central question in the study of human social evolution. Burgundy boards, gilt title to spine. 259 pages. B/w diagrams. Published for The British Adademy, this is Proceedings of the British Academy 110. ISBN: 0197262503.
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY GENERAL
- PREHISTORIC
- ARCHAEOLOGY
- SOCIOLOGY
- BIOLOGY
- SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
IN SEARCH OF THE INDO-EUROPEANS
Written by J.P. Mallory.
Stock no. 1322647
Published by Thames and Hudson.
1st
1989.
Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.
Language, Archaeology and Myth. Blue boards, gilt title to spine and vignette to front cover. 288 pages. B/w photos and maps. ISBN: 050005052X. Spine slightly bumped. A few foxspots to textblock. Dustwrapper is slightly edge worn with laminate lifting at lower front edge, small tear to base of spine and a tape repair to top corner of front panel.
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (FOREIGN)
- HISTORY (EUROPEAN)
- ASIA
- EUROPE
ROAD TO POWER
Written by Steven G. Marks.
Stock no. 1322645
Published by I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd..
1st
1991.
Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.
The Trans-Siberian Railroad and the Colonization of Asian Russia, 1850-1917. The story of one of the most difficult and expensive peaceful undertakings in modern history and the most ambitious initiative of the last two Russian tsars. Light grey cloth, black title to spine. 240 pages. B/w photos. ISBN: 1850433453. Minimal bumping/rubbing to spine of book and wrapper.
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (EUROPEAN)
- RUSSIA
- RAILWAYS
GEOLOGY OF THE U.S.S.R.
Written by D.V. Nalivkin; N. Rast.
Stock no. 1322641
Published by Oliver & Boyd.
1st
1973.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
The first complete comprehensive general account of the geology of the U.S.S.R. Red cloth, gilt title to spine. 855 pages. B/w photos, pull-out maps and diagrams. ISBN: 0050021974. Spine slightly bumped. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is a little faded to spine and slightly creased at edges.
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (EUROPEAN)
- TOPOGRAPHY (FOREIGN)
- RUSSIA
- GEOLOGY