Browse by Subject Category—History
The Ismailis, An Illustrated History (2008, first edition)
2008, a very good copy of this important study
Farhad Daftary, and Zulfikar Hirji
Azimuth / The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, 2008
£40.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
Persian Fire (2005, signed first edition)
Signed by Tom Holland
Tom Holland
Little, Brown & Company, London, 2005
£30.00
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Les Bas-fonds de Constantinople (1892, first edition)
Paul de Regla expose of the underworld of Constantinople
Paul de Regla
Tresse & Stock, Paris, 1892
£40.00
History | Hard Cover | First Editions
English Book-Plates, Ancient and Modern (1893)
The second enlarged edition of Egerton Castle's history of bookplates
Egerton Castle
George Bell & Sons, London, 1893
£40.00
History | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | Illustrated
The Countries and Tribes of the Persian Gulf
A 1994 facsimile of S B Miles' 1920 two volume edition
Colonel S B MIles, introduction by Robin Bidewell
Garnet Publishing, Reading, 1994
£30.00
History | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | First thus
Gold Coast Chiefs List, Revised to 30th June, 1941
A list of the African head chiefs, and chiefs of towns and villages throughout the colony
Not stated
The Native Affairs Office, Accra, 1941
Sold
History | Soft Cover
The Kitchener Mystery (1926, first edition)
Sensationalist conspiracy theories about the death of Lord Kitchener...
Frank Power, pseudonym of A V Freeman
The Rotary Press, London, 1926
£20.00
History | Soft Cover | First Editions
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
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
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
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
£50.00
History | Soft Cover | First Editions
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
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
New Peace County (Signed copy)
Signed by Peter Ng & Hugh Baker, a Chinese Gazetteer of the Hong Kong Region
Peter Y L Ng, with additional material by Hugh D R Baker
Hong Kong University Press, 1983
£40.00
History | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
