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Naval War of 1812: A Documentary History, Vol 2: 1813
by Dudley, William S. (ed)
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good+
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- First Edition
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- 1992
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- Hardcover
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- 9780945274063
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- 1
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SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, USA
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£54.57
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: United States Government Printing Office, 1992. 779pp/numerous illus/maps. Has some highlighting pgs ii-xxvi. Text otherwise clean DJ has light wear. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good+. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Item Price
£54.57
Cloak & Gown : Scholars in the Secret War, 1939-1961
by Winks, Robin W.
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- Used - Very Good+
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- Very Good+
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- 1987
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780688073008
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SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, USA
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£64.27
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London: Collins, 1987. 607 pages with some illustrations. DJ has light wear to edge and price is clipped. Previous owner name/address sticker in front endpaper. This book began as a casual conversation on the campus of Yale University. It ended as the fullest and best investigative account by an accredited historian into hwo the OSS was established, by whom and… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Naval War of 1812: A Documentary History (Volume 3) 1814-1815
by Crawford, Michael J. (ed)
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition
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- 2002
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780160512247
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SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, USA
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£76.39
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Washington, D. C: United States Government Printing Office, 2002. 874 Pages with maps/illus. The documents arranged chronologically with explanatory introduction taken from a wide variety of sources including British & American plans & reports, letters, logs & newspaper items. The single ship actions and activities in the Chesapeke Bay, Northern Lakes, & Pacific Ocean. Clean. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very… Read more about this item Item Price
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Roman Military Equipment: From the Punic Wars to the Fall of Rome
by Bishop, M. C.; Coulston, J. C. N.
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Near Fine
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- 1st Printing
- Published
- 1993
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- Hardcover
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- 9780713466379
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SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, USA
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£100.65
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London, England: B T Batsford Ltd, 1993. 256pp/illus and sveral color plates. Clean with no marks. 1st Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Item Price
£100.65
The Army in Brazilian History-Used
by Salvador Odebrecht
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Near Fine
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- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1998
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9788570112132
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- 1
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SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, USA
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£238.48
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Rio De Janeiro, Brazil: Biblioteca do Exercito, 1998. Three Volume set. vol 1 - Colonial Period, Vol 2 - United Kingdom, Vol 3 - Republic. All clean and near fine. No marks. . 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall (oblong). Item Price
£238.48
Fame * Fortune * Frustration: American Mercenaries and Soldiers of Fortune 1788-2014
by Jay Mallin Sr.; Robert L. Scheina
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- New
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- No Jacket - Issued
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- 1st Printing
- Published
- 2015
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780981610283
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- 1
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SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, USA
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£26.27
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Sprinfield, VA: DBM Press, LC, 2015. 416pp/illus. First book of its kind. A comprehensive encyclopedia of American citizens who fought as mercenaries or soldiers of fortune. Clean New. 1st Printing. Illustrated Boards. New/No Jacket - Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Item Price
£26.27
A History of the British Army. 20 Vol. Set
by Fortescue The Hon.J.W
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- Used - Very Good+
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- No Jacket - Issued
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- 1st American Edition
- Published
- 1910
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- Hardcover
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SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, USA
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£2,223.10
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London: MacMillan, 1910. Complete 20 volume set. 1910 and later (14 text with 6 map volumes) All maps (most color folding maps) present and in vg condition. Red cloth. Some spines faded. Text clean and unmarked.. 1st American Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket - Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Item Price
£2,223.10
The Peloponnesian War
by Kagan, Donald
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
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- 1st Printing
- Published
- 2003
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780670032112
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- 1
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SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, USA
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£38.40
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Viking Press, 2003. 544pp. concentrates on the human cost of this cataclysmic clash of two great empires, its unprecedented cruelty and the utter destruction of Athenian civilisation. Clean. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Item Price
£38.40
Always among Us: Images of the Poor in Zwingli's Zurich
by Lee Palmer Wandel
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Near Fine
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- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1990
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- Hardcover
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- 9780521390965
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SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, USA
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£89.33
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. 199pp/illus. Lee Wandel discusses the relationship between the reform of poor relief and the Protestant Reformation in early sixteenth-century Zurich. In the introduction she traces the various ways that poverty has been evaluated, and its social and religious connotations, up to the sixteenth century. After providing a portrait of sixteenth-century Zurich, the author goes on… Read more about this item Item Price
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The History of Liddesdale, Eskdale, Ewesdale, Wauchopedale and the Debatable Land
by Armstrong, Robert Bruce
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- Used - Very Good+
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- No Jacket - Issued
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- 1st Printing
- Published
- 1883
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- Hardcover
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SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, USA
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£707.35
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Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1883. 280pp/illus + 116pp Appendix. #33 of 105 large paper edition. Col. illuminated title page + 20 plates on stiff card (5 coloured) + 2 fold-out maps + 12 other illus. (3 coloured). Great Scottish history. Has colored coat of arms illustrations. Small tape repair at bottom of spine. Top quarter of cover sunned. Text clean… Read more about this item Item Price
£707.35
Taken at the Flood: The Roman Conquest of Greece (Ancient Warfare and Civilization)
by Robin Waterfield
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- As New
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- As New
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- 1st Printing
- Published
- 2014
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- Hardcover
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- 9780199916894
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SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, USA
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£23.85
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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. 287pp/illus. The 53-year period Polybius had in mind stretched from the start of the Second Punic War in 219 BCE until 167, when Rome overthrew the Macedonian monarchy and divided the country into four independent republics. This was the crucial half-century of Rome's spectacular rise to imperial status, but Roman interest in its eastern… Read more about this item Item Price
£23.85
A Historical Tour Through Pembrokeshire
by Fenton, Richard
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- Used - Near Fine
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- No Jacket - Issued
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- 1st Edition
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- 1811
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- Hardcover
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SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, USA
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£198.06
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London: Longman Hurst Rees & Orme, 1811. First Edition 1st Ed. 4to. [xii] + 587pp. + 75pp. + [viii] Index + [ii]. With 8pp. Port. frontis., engraved title page., 30 engraved plates, folding map. Some light browning, contemporary brown cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine. Richard Fenton (1746-1821), topographical writer and poet was born at St. David's Pembrokeshire. A… Read more about this item Item Price
£198.06
History of Chemung County New York 1826-1876 with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches
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- As New
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- No Jacket - Issued
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- Reprint Edition
- Published
- 1981
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- Hardcover
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SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, USA
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£109.13
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Ovid, NY: W.E. Morrison & Co, 1981. 286pp/illus. Detailed history of the county. Clean. Reprint Edition. Cloth. As New/No Jacket - Issued. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Item Price
£109.13
Peter Freuchen's Book of the Eskimos
by Peter Freuchens (ed)
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- Used - Near Fine
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- No Jacket
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- 2nd Printing
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- 1961
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- Hardcover
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SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, USA
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£35.97
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Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Co., 1961. 441pp/illus and end-paper maps. Text clean. 2nd Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Item Price
£35.97
The Shipbuilders of Essex (autographed)
by Dana A. Story
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Very Good+
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- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1995
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780938459095
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- 1
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SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, USA
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£78.82
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Gloucester, MA: Ten Pound Island, 1995. 369pp/maps. Signed by author on title page. The shipbuilders of Essex, Massachusetts, have a 300-year history, from the rise of the trade in 1634 to its glory days in the final decades of the nineteenth century, and its decline in the first four decades of this century. detailed appendix lists vessels, with… Read more about this item Item Price
£78.82
The Late Roman Army
by Pat Southern; Karen Ramsey Dixon
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Near Fine
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- 1st Printing
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- 1996
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780300068436
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SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, USA
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£78.82
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New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A.: Yale University Press, 1996. 206pp/illus. A stimulating overview of the historical period, the critical changes in the army, and the way these changes affected the morale of the soldiers. Clean. 1st Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Item Price
£78.82
Blennerville: Gateway to Tralee's past
by Liam Kelly
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- Used - Very Good+
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- Very Good+
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- 1st Edition
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- 1989
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780951362709
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- 1
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SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, USA
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£100.65
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Kerry, Ireland: Foras Aiseanna Saothair, Training and Employment Authority, Community Response Programme, 1989. 463pp/illus/maps incl fold-out chart. A superb social and cultural history of Blennerville, fully illustrated throughout, which reveals how this small Irish coastal village helped to shape the nearby port of Tralee. Light wear to dj. Text clean.. 1st Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good+. 4to -… Read more about this item Item Price
£100.65
LIVES OF BOULTON AND WATT. Principally from the Original Soho Mss. Comprising Also a History of the Invention and Introduction of the Steam- Engine.
by Smiles, Samuel
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- Used - Very Good+
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- No Jacket - Issued
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- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1865
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- Hardcover
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SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, USA
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£141.07
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Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott, 1865. 521pp/illus. Steel engraved portraits. Publisher's burgundy cloth, spine faded to light brown, gilt titles, blind tooling to boards, A history of the invention and introduction of the steam-engine. Light shelfwear. Text clean.. 1st Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket - Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Item Price
£141.07
The Roman Port and Fishery of Cosa: A Center of Ancient Trade (Princeton Legacy Library) (autographed)
by Anna Marguerite McCann
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- As New
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- As New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 2017
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780691628837
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SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, USA
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£158.04
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Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2017. 354pp/14 maps/and plate section in rear. Inscribed by author on ffep. The excavation of the earliest Roman port and fishery known establishes Cosa as the center for the flourishing commercial activities of the powerful Sestius family and extends.Text clean.. Inscribed By Author. 1st Edition. Cloth. As New/As New. 4to - over 9¾"… Read more about this item Item Price
£158.04
Atlas of Ancient Archaeology
by Jacquetta Hopkins Hawkes
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- Used - Very Good+
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- Very Good+
- Edition
- 2nd Printing
- Published
- 1975
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780070272934
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SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, USA
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£30.32
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New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975. 272pp/maps. Traces the patterns of cultures and civilizations down to the beginning of the classical world. Many pages are devoted to the rich and diverse remains of Anatolia and Persia, of the river valley civilizations of Nile, Tigris-Euphrates and Indus, of Mycenaean Greece and Minoan Crete. Pre-Columbian Meso and South America receive equally full coverage.… Read more about this item Item Price
£30.32