Browse by Subject Category—History

"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.

P Thevoz, Paris, 1920

Signed by Julian Cope, his study of European standing stones and temples

Element, London, 2004

Julian Cope's gazetteer to Megalithic Britain (1998, the sixth printing)

Thorsons, London, 1998

The first revised edition of Aubrey Burl's classic study

Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2000

Signed by Franz Prinz Zu Sayn-Wittgenstein to Jacquemine Charrott Lodwidge

Prestel Verlag, Munchen, 1959

Rebound hardback in plain blue cloth

William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh, 1848

A first edition hardback describing the workings of the Russian secret police in the late 1930s

George Allen & Unwin, London, 1938

1929, A Picture of the Great Events which Took Place in Unconquered Lakeland during Norman Times

Titus Wilson & Son, Kendal, 1929

1971, the second printing of Liddell Hart's authoritative history

Cassell, London, 1971

1991, in an attractive half-leather binding

Vintage, London, 1991

1934, the story of The Young Pretender, Charles Edward, the Last of the Stuarts

George Bell & Sons, London, 1934

1939 (3rd printing), Winston Churchill's newspaper writings in the years before the outbreak of war

Thornton Butterworth, London, 1939

1904, first edition, a wealth of information on postage stamps

Henry J Drane, London, 1904

by Sir Robert Naunton, his observations on Elizabeth I, bound with Thomas Watson's poems

Printed for the Author, London, 1870

1977, first edition. The efforts to convert the British to Socialism...

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1977

The Impact of the McColvin Report, signed by Philip Whiteman

Clive Bingley, London, 1986

Signed by Peter Ng & Hugh Baker, a Chinese Gazetteer of the Hong Kong Region

Hong Kong University Press, 1983

1978, first edition, a remarkable illustrated record

Canongate, Edinburgh, 1978

A collection of writings on the experience of the Scottish farm worker

John Donald, Edinburgh, 1984

1911, first edition, 'A Study in the Development of Travel as a Means of Education'

Constable, London, 1911

Volumes 2 & 3 of Baron Baude's 1841 study of Algeria

Meline, Cans et Compagnie, Bruxelles et Leipzig, 1841

First edition, with appendices

South Tyneside Borough Council, 1979

Cassell's 1886 collection of engravings from history

Cassell, London, 1886

Hardback, signed by Virginia Nicholson, How Two Million Women Survived Without Men after the First World War

Penguin / Viking, London, 2007

1968, a first hardback edition of Jeff Nuttall's exploration of 1960s alternative society and counterculture

MacGibbon & Kee, London, 1968