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By: Adkins, Lesley
Price: $12.00
Publisher: London, Harper Collins: 2003
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: ID289490
Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs and Illustrations. 424 pages Lesley Adkins relates in a compelling and authoritive way the entaining story of Rawlinson's life and how he triumped in deciphering the lost languages of Persia and Babylonia. View more info
Price: $16.00
Publisher: London, Heinemann: 1971
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: ID274050
Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve. Light wear to dustjacket edges and corners. DJ has 'grubby'appearance with marks to front and slightly age-darkened spine. 332 pages Selected and with an Introduction by the Editor, this is an anthology of the findings and observations of some forty travellers between the two countries. View more info
By: Anglo, Michael
Price: $10.00
Publisher: London, Universal Books: 1985
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: ID251342
Small Quarto Size. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in 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. View more info
By: Arnold, Matthew
Price: $15.00
Publisher: London, Smith Elder: 1897
Edition: 2nd Edition
Seller ID: ID99611
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. View more info
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Princeton, Princeton University Press: 2007
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: ID281745
Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. xi, 194 pages Traces the odyssey of a fascinating group of German-speaking Zionists among them Martin Buber, Hans Kohn, Hannah Arendt, Theodor Arorno, Franz Rosenzweig etc. View more info
By: Bates, Brian
Price: $18.00
Publisher: London, Sidgwick & Jackson: 2002
Edition: 1st UK Edition
Seller ID: ID300860
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. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. 292 pages View more info
By: Batterberry, Michael and Ariane
Price: $28.00
Publisher: London, Columbus Books: 1982
Edition: 2nd Edition
Seller ID: ID303669
Folio Size [38x28cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Front cover of dustjacket a little faded. Spine and front cover of book faded. Illustrated with colour and black & white plates and photographs. 400 pages View more info
By: Bayley, Stephen
Price: $18.00
Publisher: London, Faber & Faber: 1991
Seller ID: ID258077
Small Quarto Size. Very Good condition - Card Covers. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Drawings. Light wear to edges and corners. 237 pages The author has drawn on a huge and varied range of sources to create the first synopsis of a subject which is notoriously ilusive and naggingly present. Fully illustrated with carefully chosen images which are tart interrruptions of a well-informed but witty text. View more info
By: Beaver, Patrick
Price: $12.00
Publisher: London, Elm Tree Books: 1979
Edition: 1st thus
Seller ID: ID279583
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. View more info
By: Berthon, Simon & Robinson, Andrew
Price: $18.00
Publisher: London, George Philip: 1991
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: ID299936
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. View more info
Price: $22.00
Publisher: Melbourne, Viking: 2005
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: ID285587
Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Light wear to dustjacket edges and corners. Gift inscription to front free endpaper. 561 pages View more info
Price: $18.00
Publisher: Ringwood, Viking: 2000
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: ID276866
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. ix, 669 pages The story of the world's people during the last four million years. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Random House: 1983
Seller ID: ID281089
Very Good condition. Covered in clear plastic by previous owner. xv, 745 pages A history of man's search to know his world and himself. This is the first in the Knowledge Trilogy that also includes The Creators and The Seekers. View more info
By: Booth, Martin
Price: $10.00
Publisher: London, Pocket Books: 1997
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: ID303711
Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 381 pages In the first full-length history of opium, acclaimed author Martin Booth uncovers the multifaceted nature of this remarkable narcotic and the bittersweet effects of a simple poppy with a pernicious legacy. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd.: 1960
Edition: 1st UK Edition
Seller ID: ID196131
Octavo Size. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Black and White plates. 224 pages A history of the Jews from the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in the year 70 to Hadrian's suppression of Simeon's insurrection in 135. View more info
By: Boughton, Simon
Price: $15.00
Publisher: London, Blitz Editions: 1991
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: ID244360
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. View more info
By: Bradshaw, Percy
Price: $16.00
Publisher: London, Chapman & Hall: 1946
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: ID237271
Octavo Size. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in plastic cover. Gift inscription to front free endpaper (flyleaf). Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Printed on war economy paper. 219 pages View more info
By: Breverton, Terry
Price: $15.00
Publisher: London, Quercus: 2010
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: ID305908
Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in pictorial laminated boards. Nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 383 pages View more info
By: Bridgman, Roger
Price: $20.00
Publisher: London, Dorling Kindersley: 2002
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: ID270682
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... View more info
By: Brusendorff, Ove and Henningsen, Poul
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Secaucus, New Jersey, Castle:
Edition: 1st thus
Seller ID: ID303324
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. White Dj is a little marked with some very mild foxing to inside. Fore and top edges also mildly foxed. Illustrated with black and white plates and drawings. 816 pages Originally published in 6 volumes in the 1960s. View more info
