Search Results: history-general from Adelaide Booksellers

London: Guild Publishing. 1985. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Some mild scattered foxing to fore edge. Illustrated with Black and White plates. 534 pages. From the earliest recorded history until the break-up of the Roman Empire. Rulers and Warriors, Writers and Sculptors, Reformers, Women of Power and Influence, Men of Science, Philosophers and Religious Leaders. Includes an Index. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Book Club Edition. Hardback.

London: Dorling Kindersley. 2002. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Near Fine copy in Near Fine dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. 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. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Washington: National Geographic Society. 1969. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Colour photographs & plates. Includes a large fold-out of the complete Bayeux Tapestry. 11 maps. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 378 pages. Contributions by a number of eminent scholars guide the reader from the dawn of the middle ages to world of Jacques Coeur. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 2011. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Black & white maps. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. xi, 283 pages. Tells the story of the battles between economic systems that defined the last century and created today's worl . 1st Edition. Hardback.

London: Profile Books. 2010. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine copy in Near Fine dustjacket. DJ now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 275 pages. Our lives will be infinitely richer if we take the time to look at what the Greeks and Romans have given us in politics and law, religion and philosophy and education, and to learn how people really lived in Athens, Rome, Sparta and Alexandria. . 1st thus. Hardback.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1968. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Some mild age-toning and light edgewear to upper edge of DJ. Very faint whiff of mothballs. Illustrated with Black and White plates. 312pages.. From the world of the Minoans and Mykeneans, moving on to the great epochs of Greece and Rome and closes with the twilight of Byzantium. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

London: Doubleday. 2010. 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. 536 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

New York and London: Sterling Publishing Co.. 2008. Square Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 26cm]. 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. Foreword by Dennis Reinhartz. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 468 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

New York: Facts on File, Inc. 1989. 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. Small remainder mark to base. A very nice copy. Illustrated with many colour and black & white plates and 39 full-page colour maps. Introduction by Professor Norman Stone. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 256 pages. Charts the rise and fall of British dominance in world affairs and maps the evolution of the states and peoples of the modern world as they interacted, traded, and fought the British over four hundred years. . 1st thus. Hardback.

New York: Henry Holt & Company. 2016. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Near Fine copy in a Very Good dustjacket. DJ now protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Illustrated with colour and black & white plates. 693 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st US Edition. Hardback.

New York: G.P. Putnam and Sons. 1974. 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. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 332 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. 1994. 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. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 364 pages. Spanning the globe and centuries looks at 16 men and women who served as interpreters and guides to conquerors, missionaries, explorers, soldiers and anthropologists. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st US Edition. Hardback.

New York: McGraw-Hill Inc. 2004. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine copy in Near Fine dustjacket. DJ now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Black & white illustrations. xii, 420pp. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

London: John Lane The Bodley Head. 1915. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good Condition. Some mild scattered foxing to endpapers and fore edge with offset to the half-title page. Gift inscription to front free endpaper. Light rubbing to spine edges. Hinge reinforced professionally between free endpaper and flyleaf. Full page colour plates (all present) and in-text black & white drawings.. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. xiv, 414 pages. A beautifully illustrated history of bridges with 2 Appendices - Chinese Gabled Bridges and Steep Roman Bridges. Ideal for the enthusiastic Pontist. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

London: Cassell. 2005. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. 288 pages. The stories behind the endings that changed the world. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st UK Edition. Hardback.

London: Macmillan. 2003. Very Good condition. 280 pages. An examination of Robert Mugabe dictatorship and the nature of modern tyranny. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Trade Paperback.

London: Equinox. 2005. Very Good condition. Illustrated with diagrams and several maps. x, 478 pages. A comprehensive guided tour of the ways human beings have constructed order and meaning about the world, and their place in it. Examines how various cultures, from early Sumerians, Egyptians and Greeks to contemporary Western society, have looked at the same phenomena and devised totally worldviews. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Paperback Edition. Trade Paperback.

New York: TV Books. 2000. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 160 pages. More than two million children died in wars in the decade 1990-2000. This is their story. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

London: Book Club Associates. 1975. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in Good Dustjacket - now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. DJ is chipped at corners and spine ends with some loss to top of spine. Illustrated with colour and black & white plates. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 251 pages. . Book Club Edition. Hardback.

London: The Folio Society. 2003. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Near fine condition in a Near Fine slipcase. A very nice copy. Illustrated with colour and black & white plates. Preface by the author. 279 pages. Abridged version of the 1987 Weidenfeld and Nicolson edition. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st thus. Hardback.