Search Results: HISTORY / WORLD from Chilton Books

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+.

Harmondsworth: Pelican Books, 1948.. Rep. A survey of the origins of the Western World. Pp. 340/3(ads). 12 figs., + 6 maps. Toning to pages. P/b. G.

BCA / The Boydell Press, 2004.. The Black Death was a disaster of such magnitude that it no only shook the Old World to its economic and social foundations, but changed the course of human history. Yet astonishingly, this book is the first comprehensive history and assessment of its progress, and of the death and devastation it left in its wake, in all the countries through which it passed." Pp.xvi/433, 11 maps, 3 figure illustrations and 38 tables. Black cloth, dustwrapper. VG/VG.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1934.. 1st edition. Pp.xxii/970, 21 maps, owner's name to front free endpaper, slight toning to pages, minor spotting to endpapers but mainly affecting closed page edges, rippled creasing affecting pp.293-310. Green cloth, gilt title to spine, bleached spots (from water damage?) to rear board + top and tail of spine and edges of front board. G-.

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… Read More

London: Hutchinson, 1952.. 1st ed. "The story of Ceylon is the story of successive invasions". Pp. 168, + 1 map. Beige cloth, d/w with slight chipping to edges. G+/G.

Shannon: Irish University Press, 1972.. Unabridged facsimile of the original 1856 edition. Full title: The Chinese and Their Rebellions, Viewed in Connection with their National Philosophy, Ethics, Legislation, and Administration, to which is added, An Essay on Civilzation and its Present State in the East and West. Pp.lx/656. Green cloth, gilt title to spine. VG.** Thomas Taylor Meadows (1815-1868) "A British sinologist, an early member of the British diplomatic corps in Hong Kong and later Shanghai. A graduate of the University of Munich, he studied Chinese with Professor Karl Friedrich Neumann." (wiki).

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998.. Special edition for Sandpiper Books. "Traces the diffusion of the Greek city as a political institution throughout the lands of the Roman Empire bordering the Eastern Mediterranean over a period extending from Alexander's conquest of the East to the sixth century....Professor Jones describes the restrictive effect of centralized administrative policy on some dynasties and the growth of cities in their dominions, and various aspects of the relations between cities and central government, including the cities' role in the economic life of the Empire." Pp.xvi576/2(publisher's catalogue), 6 folding map pages incorporating 8 maps. Dark blue cloth, dustwrapper has removable clear protective wrap. VG/VG.

Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1966.. 1st edition. Volume 25 of Duke University Coomonwealth-Studies Center Publications. Pp.xx/567. Navy cloth, red and gilt title to spine. VG.

New York: Checkmark Books, 1999.. Contains detailed summaries of all notable wars from earliest recorded history to the present day, spanning more than 4,000 years. An authoritative source of information on the global conflicts, civil wars, mutinies, punitive expeditions, undeclared wars, rebellions, and revolutions that have occurred throughout the world". 23.5cms x 19cms. Pp 614, 2 owners inkstamps to verso front cover. P/b, illustrated cover. VG.

London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1891 .. First edition with an interesting provenance. 8vo. 23cm x 15cm x 4cm. pp.28/pp.469/pp.28 Original black cloth covered boards. Gilt image of a Pharaoh to the front board and gilt titles an decoration to the spine. Boards and spine lightly rubbed. Hinges and edges carefully strengthened. Loose letter signed by R. F. Bigg-Wither. Half title soiled with two gift inscriptions: " Wm. H de Vere Coles from his Grandmother Jane Cole May 5th. 1893." ; "To W. C. D. Esdaile signed H. de Vere Coles." Clean text throughout, complete with all illustrations and maps. A very good book with an interesting provenance! Loosely inserted letter reads: "M Naville has been excavating the Northern half of the temple of Der el Bahare at Luxor. He has found 2 ebony doors covered with beautiful hieroglyphs & cartouches: also the funeral chamber of Totmes I (father of Queen hatasu) and in front of the funeral chamber a great altar of limestone 13ft 2in square8 feet high with… Read More

London: Viking, 2011.. 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.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1946.. 1st ed. Originating from a series of lectures given at Cambridge in 1945. Pp.196, 13 maps, minor sptting to closed page edges. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine. VG.

London: Frank Cass, 1980.. 1st edition. "focuses attention on the 'first' British Commonwealth, whose development may be said to span the years from the turn of the (20th) century to 1947. In this period at least, distinctions between empire and commonwealth were not nearly so clear-cut as they would later be....Even in the most sensitive, nationalistic and isolationist of the dominions, something of the imperial remained". Pp.192, errata slip loosely enclosed. Red cloth, dustwrapper. VG/VG.

Chicago: The University of Chicago. 1974.. A book on the prehistoric culture of Greece........Combines a wide experience of Aegean excavation with a sensitive eye for artistic style". 24cms x 17cms. Pp 406/48, inkstamp to verso front cover, many b/w illustrations. P/b, slight creasing to spine, creasing to front cover, illustrated cover. G+.

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+.

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+.

Allahabad: Kitab Mahal, 1966.. Beginning with the ancient period when Manu's code guided the deliberations of kings and kingdoms...the author has dealt exhaustively with the mood and tendency of rulers and the ruled, noting with care all the vicissitudes through which the country passed. Signalled by the 7th century invasion of Sindh by the Arabs the religion of Mohamedans got a foothold in India, and admittedly, a precursor of Mohamedan rule in India." Pp.xxiv/698, minor ink stain to lower page edges. Blue cloth, dustwrapper spotted with small edge chips but is in a removable clear protective wrap. G+/Good.

Cambridge: University Press, 2002.. 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.

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… Read More