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For Good and Evil. The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization

By: Adams, Charles

Price: $18.00

Publisher: London, Madison Books: 1993

Seller ID: ID308973

ISBN: 0819186317

Binding: Hardback

Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Black & white illustrations. 530 pages
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Nostalgia Spotlight on the Fifties

By: Anglo, Michael

Price: $12.00

Publisher: London, Universal Books: 1985

Seller ID: ID251342

Binding: Hardback

Small Quarto Size. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Wear to dustjacket edges and corners. Illustrated with colour and black and white photographs and drawings. 122 pages One man's intensely personal impression of the decade of transition.
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How To Live Forever or Die Trying

By: Appleyard, Bryan

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, Simon & Schuster: 2007

Seller ID: ID311826

Binding: Trade Paperback

Very Good condition. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 307 pages.
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FRIENDSHIP'S GARLAND Being the conversations, letters and opinions of the late Arminius, Baron Von Thunder-Ten-Tronckh

By: Arnold, Matthew

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Smith Elder: 1897

Seller ID: ID99611

Binding: Hardcover

Octavo Size. VERY GOOD condition. No dustjacket. Some light marking to ivory coloured boards and spine is age-darkened. Pages starting to tan at edges. 172 pages Collected and edited with a dedicatory letter to Adolescens Leo Esq of the Daily Telegraph by Matthew Arnold. Arnold's clever and wittyy exploration of the culture and politics of the time through a series of letters with a fictitious German baron. First published in 1871.
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The Ordinary Business of Life: A History of Economics from the Ancient World to the Twenty-First Century.

By: Backhouse, Roger E.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University Press:

Seller ID: ID311821

ISBN: 0691096260

Binding: Hardback

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Fine condition in a Near Fine Dustjacket - DJ now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 369 pages.
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The Reign of Chivalry

By: Barber, Richard

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Sydney, A.H & A.W. Reed: 1980

Seller ID: ID313029

ISBN: 0589502255

Binding: Hardback

Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. DJ spine and part of front cover faded. Previous owner's details to front free end paper. Illustrated with colour and black & white plates. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 208 pages. Presents a broad picture of the chivalric world, and shows how chivalry affected or was affected by great social movements, great writers, and great events, and analyses the legacy it passed down to later ages.
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The Search Begins A History of Discovery and Exploration Series

By: Barker, Felix; Ross-Macdonald, Malcolm; Castlereagh, Duncan.

Price: $18.00

Publisher: London, Aldus Books/Jupiter Books: 1973

Seller ID: ID313562

Binding: Hardback

Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with colour and black & white plates. Colour maps. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 488 pages. In three parts: 1. The First Explorers; 2. Beyond the Horizon; 3. The Great Age of Expansion.
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Poverty, Wealth Dictatorship, Democracy. Resource Scarcity and the Origins of Dictatorship

By: Barkstrom, Jack

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Englewood, Colorado, Pericles Press: 1998

Seller ID: ID308831

ISBN: 096102240X

Binding: Softcover

Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition. Several faint stains to covers. 535 pages Examines the proposition that the amount of resources a country possesses determines whether it becomes a democracy or a dictatorship.
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The Spice of Life. Pleasures of the Victorian Age

By: Beaver, Patrick

Price: $12.00

Publisher: London, Elm Tree Books: 1979

Seller ID: ID279583

ISBN: 0241893666

Binding: Hardback

Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Dustjacket has been covered with adhesive film by previous owner and stuck to covers. vii, 132 pages Traces the history of Victorian popular entertainment from pantomime to early cinema.
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In Praise of Nepotism: A History of Family Enterprise from King David to George W. Bush

By: Bellow, Adam

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Anchor Books: 2004

Seller ID: ID311836

Binding: Softcover

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine condition. An excellent copy. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 565 pages.
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The Birth of Plenty. How the Prosperity of the Modern World was Created

By: Bernstein, William J.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, McGraw-Hill Inc: 2004

Seller ID: ID309554

ISBN: 0071421920

Binding: Hardback

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine copy in Near Fine dustjacket. DJ now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Black & white illustrations. xii, 420pp. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.
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The Shape of the World

By: Berthon, Simon & Robinson, Andrew

Price: $18.00

Publisher: London, George Philip: 1991

Seller ID: ID299936

ISBN: 0540012297

Binding: Hardback

Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with colour photographs and drawings. 192 pages "The Shape of our World" is also a history of the conquest of our planet.
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Why Wars Happen

By: Black, Jeremy

Price: $18.00

Publisher: London, Reaktion Books: 1998

Seller ID: ID313794

ISBN: 1861890176

Binding: Hardback

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. 272 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.
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A Short History of the 20th Century

By: Blainey, Geoffrey

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Melbourne, Viking: 2005

Seller ID: ID285587

ISBN: 0670042730

Binding: Hardback

Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 561 pages.
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A Short History of the World

By: Blainey, Geoffrey

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Ringwood, Viking: 2000

Seller ID: ID276866

ISBN: 0670880361

Binding: Hardback

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Black & white maps. This is a heavy book and will cost more to ship internationally. Please contact us for a precise quote for your part of the world. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. ix, 669 pages. The story of the world's people during the last four million years.
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The Illustrated Biographical Dictionary: Over 1000 Men and Women Who Have Shaped History

By: Boughton, Simon

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Blitz Editions: 1991

Seller ID: ID244360

ISBN: 1856050629

Binding: Hardback

Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs and Plates 318 pages As entertaining as it is informative.
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Old Trades and New Knowledge : Six Lectures delivered at the Royal Institution

By: Bragg, Sir William

Price: $45.00

Publisher: London, G. Bell & Sons: 1933

Seller ID: ID312130

Binding: Hardback

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Good+ Condition. has been rebound in half-leather with marbled endpapers. Gilt to top edge. Some flecking to the blue cloth with rubbing to rear edge. Bookplate of Ralph Westwood Moore A.M. (Headmast of Harrow) to front pastedown. Illustrated with Black and White plates and drawings. Colour frontispiece. viii, 266pp + plates. on of Bell's Popular Science series. The Christmas lectures of 1925 given by Nobel Laureate, Sir William Bragg. The trades examined: the Sailor, The Smith, The Weaver, The Dyer, The Potter, the Miner.
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1000 Inventions and Discoveries

By: Bridgman, Roger

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Dorling Kindersley: 2002

Seller ID: ID270682

ISBN: 0751339288

Binding: Hardback

Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Near Fine copy in Near Fine dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made plastic cover. As new condition. Laminated photographic boards. Would be Fine but for Numbers neatly inked to upper corner of front free endpaper. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs as well as colour drawings by Peter Dennis. 256 pages Showcases 1,000 groundbreaking inventions and discoveries, from the accidental to meticulously worked-out theories.
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A Book of Escapes and Hurried Journeys

By: Buchan, John

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Thomas Nelson and Sons: 1931

Seller ID: ID314452

Binding: Hardback

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. No dustjacket. Very mild rubbing to spine ends and lower corners. Bookplate to Front Pastedown. Previous owner's details to front free end paper. Illustrated with black & white maps. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 304 pages. Twelve historic escapes.
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New World and Pacific Civilizations Cultures of America, Asia, and the Pacific [The Illustrated History of Humankind Volume 4]

By: Burenhult, Goran [Editor]

Price: $40.00

Publisher: St Lucia, University of Queensland Press: 1994

Seller ID: ID143713

ISBN: 0702226793

Binding: Hardback

Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Fine condition in a Near Fine Dustjacket - DJ now protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Colour photographs. 239 pages Volume 4 of the five volume series. The volume reveals the ancient wonders of the "new world" and Pacific Islands - including the civilizations of the Maya, Aztecs, and Inka; Native North Americans from prehistoric times through AD1850; the ancient occupation of the Pacific Islands and the unique development of Japanese culture. .
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Category: History-General