Browse by Subject Category—History
Les Chinois pendant une période de 4458 années (1854, second edition)
A French study of Chinese civilization, with three engraved plates
Hippolyte de Chavannes de la Giraudière
Alfred Mame et Cie, Tours, 1854
£45.00
History | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | Illustrated
Histoire des Révolutions arrivées dans le Gouvernement de la République Romaine
1727, volume one of L’Abbé de Vertot's history of the political shifts of Rome
L’Abbé de Vertot
Chez Barois, Paris, 1727
£25.00
History | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
Le Tribunal Révolutionnaire (1793–1795)
Lenotre's history of the French Revolution court, and this copy with D Y Cameron's engraved bookplate for W D S Catalani
G Lenotre, pseudonym of Théodore Gosselin
Librairie Académique Perrin et Cie, Paris, 1912
£35.00
History | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | Illustrated | Bookplate
Epitome Rerum Germanicarum ab Anno MDCXVII ad XLIII Gestarum
1644, vellum, A Summary of German Affairs, regarding the events from the year 1617 to 1643, including the Thirty Years War
Leonhard Pappus
Not stated, [Lugdunum Batavorum, Leiden], 1644
£200.00
History | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings
An Inventory of Archaeological Sites in Northamptonshire
four volumes: North-East, Central, North-West, and South West
Royal Commission on Historical
HMSO, London, 1975
Sold
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
The Siege of Plevna (1958, first edition)
with a curious letter from a Bulgarian Communist newspaper editor...
Rupert Furneaux
Anthony Blond, London, 1958
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Decembrists (Dekabristite)
A Bulgarian history of the Decembrist Revolt of 1825 in Imperial Russia
Brigita Yosifova
Publishing House of the Fatherland Front, Sofia, 1979
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Sunward by Yeoward (Signed limited edition)
The Story of Yeoward of Liverpool, the First 100 Years
Theodore W S Barry
Granta Editions, Cambridge, 1994
£40.00
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated | Slipcase
The Rock Paintings of the Upper Brandberg (Namibia)
Part IV Umuab and Karoab Gorges (Volume 2 only), with 10 large fold out plates
Harald Pager
Heinrich-Barth-Institut, Koln, 1998
£30.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
Caesar's Conquest of Gaul, An Historical Narrative
1903, the second edition of T Rice Holmes' history
T Rice Holmes
Macmillan, London, 1903
£20.00
History | Hard Cover
Memory Landscapes of the Inka Carved Outcrops
A comprehensive analysis of the carved rocks the Inka created in the Andean highlands
Jessica Joyce Christie, with a foreword by frank Meddens
Lexington Books, Lanham, Maryland, 2016
£25.00
History | Soft Cover | First Editions
When Britain Invaded Soviet Russia
1979, Andrew Rothstein's account of Douglas Young, "the Consul who rebelled"
Andrew Rothstein
The Journeyman Press, London, 1979
£20.00
History | Soft Cover | First Editions
Milk and Peace, Drought and War (Signed copy)
Somali Culture, Society and Politics, signed by Professor I M Lewis
Markus V Hoehne, and Virginia Luling (editors)
Hurst and Company, London, 2010
£35.00
History | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Greek History for Young Readers
1903, in a full leather prize binding from the Mary Datchelor Girl's School in Camberwell
Alice Zimmern
Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1903
£25.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Leather Bound | Illustrated
Le Livre Noir des Médecins Grecs (1920, first edition)
"Une Page de la Persecution de L'Hellenisme en Turquie", a rare protest document detailing the treatment of the ethnic Greeks in the Ottoman Empire.
Not stated
P Thevoz, Paris, 1920
£80.00
History | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Megalithic European (Signed first edition, 2004)
Signed by Julian Cope, his study of European standing stones and temples
Julian Cope
Element, London, 2004
£80.00
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Illustrated | Slipcase
The Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland, & Brittany
The first revised edition of Aubrey Burl's classic study
Aubrey Burl
Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2000
£40.00
History | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
Durchläuchtige Welt (Signed first edition)
Signed by Franz Prinz Zu Sayn-Wittgenstein to Jacquemine Charrott Lodwidge
Franz Prinz Zu Sayn-Wittgenstein
Prestel Verlag, Munchen, 1959
£30.00
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
An Act Relating to the Relief of the Poor (Scotland) 1845
Rebound hardback in plain blue cloth
Not stated
William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh, 1848
£15.00
History | Hard Cover
G.P.U. Justice (1938)
A first edition hardback describing the workings of the Russian secret police in the late 1930s
Maurice Edelman
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1938
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Secret Valley
1929, A Picture of the Great Events which Took Place in Unconquered Lakeland during Norman Times
Nicholas Size
Titus Wilson & Son, Kendal, 1929
£20.00
History | Soft Cover | First Editions
History of the Second World War
1971, the second printing of Liddell Hart's authoritative history
Basil H Liddell Hart
Cassell, London, 1971
£15.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Step by Step 1936–1939
1939 (3rd printing), Winston Churchill's newspaper writings in the years before the outbreak of war
Winston S Churchill
Thornton Butterworth, London, 1939
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions
A.B.C. of Stamp Collecting
1904, first edition, a wealth of information on postage stamps
F J Melville
Henry J Drane, London, 1904
£20.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
Fragmentia Regalia (1630)
by Sir Robert Naunton, his observations on Elizabeth I, bound with Thomas Watson's poems
Sir Robert Naunton, and Thomas Watson, edited by Edward Arber
Printed for the Author(s), London, 1870
£40.00
History | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | First thus
