History from Birkitt's Books

Jesse Stuart Foundation, 2001-03-01. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x1x9. Jacket has minor shelf wear, binding tight, front endpage has a name written on the top, else pages clean and unmarked. This is a definitive book on the Westward Expansion of the United States from 1700 to 1900. Surprisingly readable, it is arranged by date with each setting nicely… Read more about this item

Taj Hotels/Arabian Heritage, 2003. Hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. VG/VG. Jacket has Minor shelf wear, jacket has a small ding by the spine, light scratches, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. 145 pages illustrated with color. photographs.

Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2003. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x0x9. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. Totaling approximately 40,000 objects, the University Museum's ethnographic holdings represent native peoples from ten North American culture areas—the Arctic, Subarctic, Northwest Coast, California, Plateau, Great Basin, Southwest, Great Plains, Northeast, and the Southeast.This… Read more about this item

University Press of Florida, 1990-10-01. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8x5x0. Jacket has light wear, binding sound, internally clean. As full of drama as an Indiana Jones adventure, Vlaud's story will fascinate everyone from historians to high school students. Fabel does a superior job of proving the story was indeed true." William S. Coker, University of West Virginia.… Read more about this item

Les Loges-en-Josas, France: JDG, 2002-01-01. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Good/Missing. 11x0x9. Beige cloth boards have light wear and soiling, binding sound, internally clean. Contains a history of the planning and construction of the fountains. Beautifully illustrated with color photographs, black and white illustrations, and maps. Includes a chronology, notes, a concise bibliography, and photographic acknowledgements. … Read more about this item

Playboy Press, 1973. hardcover. Very Good/Good. 9x6x1. Jacket edges are tattered, binding tight, internally clean, pages bright. The Sex Revolution is over - and we won!Sure, there are a few isolated pockets of propriety still to be mopped up, but most of the wholesome, clean-living people have taken to the hills. Tomorrow belongs to us, the Dirty-Minded Americans,… Read more about this item

University of Alabama Press, 1977-01-01. hardcover. Good/Good. 9x6x0. Jacket has light soiling, binding sound, internally clean. Tales of the Early Franks Translated from Recits aes Merovingiens---- by M. F -0 Jenkins Thierry's subject is the so-called Dark Ages — specifically, the second half of the sixth century — in France. He claimed that his work was "scientific as… Read more about this item

Golden Valley Press, 2002-01-01. 2nd. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 11x8x1. Signed by Author. Please note faults described in the text. Signed by authors on half-title page. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, inside cover has tape remnants stuck to it, front end- page appears to have been removed from the book. Internally clean, pages unmarked. On the… Read more about this item

Southern Heritage Pr, 1988. paperback. Good. 8x5x0. Moderate wear and soiling to wraps, binding sound, pages lightly age-toned. Supporters of the British Crown found life in the colonies rigorous in the years prior to, during, and after the Revolutionary War. The hazards of war and the inequities of peace forced many American Loyalists into Bahamian exile. … Read more about this item

Cambridge University Press, 1994-03-25. paperback. Very Good. 5x1x8. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. Captain Bligh and the mutiny on the Bounty have become proverbial in their capacity to evoke the extravagant and violent abuse of power. But William Bligh was one of the least violent disciplinarians in the British navy. It is this paradox… Read more about this item

Pen and Sword, 2007-04-16. Paperback. Acceptable. 8x5x0. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages underlining and bracketing. On 14 April 1471 the forces of Lancaster under the Earl of Warwick and those of York under Edward IV clashed at Barnet in Hertfordshire in one of the decisive battles of the Wars of the Roses. In a bloody encounter the… Read more about this item

Nimbus Pub, 2002-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. 6x0x9. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. Homeport revisits the remarkable events that for more than two centuries have shaped the distinctive Saint John region in the southern New Brunswick. Abundant land, fish, and timber and a prime Bay of Fundy location have attracted Mi'kmaq hunters, European… Read more about this item

Atlantic Little Brown, 1965-01-01. hardcover. Good/Good. 9x6x2. Dust jacket is tattered and rubbed, binding sound, internally clean. Reconstructs voyages of exploration and piracy that led to settlements on Greenland, Iceland, Newfoundland and Vinland, from 960 to 1010 A.D.

Bourbon, Missouri: Bourbon Beacon, 1985. Paperback. Very Good. Light wear to wraps, stapled binding, internally clean

Stanford University Press, 2013-03-27. paperback. Very Good. 6x0x9. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked.

Tuttle, 1979-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x6x1. Jacket has light wear, now enclosed in a protective mylar jacket, binding sound, internally clean. "The Narrative of English missionary William Ellis is particularly important, as it was the first book written about the Hawaiian Islands and the first serious notice of the Islands since Captain Cook's discovery of them… Read more about this item

2012-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 10x9x1. Jacket has have minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. Winner of an exceptional two Gold Publisher's Medals, AT THEIR DOORSTEP is lush with 157 exclusive private, vintage, photographic fairground postcards from early 1900s Paris saved through carnival generations and captioned with family memories and entertaining anecdotes. Hundreds… Read more about this item

Washington State Univ Pr, 1996-08-01. Paperback. Very Good. 8x6x0. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. Barbara Oakley's riveting portrayal of espionage, lust, comic adventure, hard work - and harder drinking - brings to life a little-known episode of American history when two cold-warring nations got together to fish the north Pacific. The joint fishing venture… Read more about this item

Routledge, 1997-01-28. Product Bundle. Very Good. 9x6x2. 2 volumes, no jackets, blue cloth boards have minor wear, binding sound, internally clean. The Purchas Handbook follows the model of the Society's earlier Hakluyt Handbook in providing a reference guide to the works of the Reverend Samuel Purchas (1577-1626) and a critical evaluation of his achievements as collector, editor, and… Read more about this item

Routledge, 1998-10-28. Hardcover. Very Good. 8x5x1. No dust jacket, Blue cloth boards have minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. In the mid-nineteenth century the eyes of western European explorers were firmly fixed on advancing inland from former maritime colonies in the Americas, Africa, the Indian sub-continent and Australasia, their motives often being inextricably bound up… Read more about this item