Search Results: History, Culture from Lawrence Jones

Washington D.C.: University Publications of America, 1979. 2 volumes. xxvii, 360; xxvii, pp361-697; index, appendices, tables. Light spotting to cloth, occasional light foxing. Originally published in 1904. All aspects of Japan in the Meiji period.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/None, as Issued.. 8vo.

Melbourne: Thames & Hudson / the Conversation, 2020. xii, 212pp. Paperback. Near new. Fifty essays from leading thinkers and contributors to The Conversation examine what will be one of the most significant and punishing years of the 21st century- pandemic, political upheaval, international human rights movement, global recession and localised emergencies.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972. 3 volumes (complete). 884pp (total) + prelims/bibliographies. Black cloth in jackets. Ex-library with usual stamps etc (inc withdrawn stamps). Slight fading to spines, light foxing. A nice set. Vol 1: Early Times to te Late Seventeenth Century; Vol 2:Peter the great to Nicholas I; Vol 3 Alexander II to the february Revolution.Include selections representing about 700 primary sources dealing with political, legal, and administrative history (including central and local government, armed forces, revolutionary movements); economic history; social, cultural and intellectual history (including literature, science, education, religion, the press); history of the Lithuanian Russian state, the Ukraine, Belorussia, Siberia, the Cossacks, history of Russion expansion, history of non-Russian nationalities; diplomatic history and the history of Russian foreign relations. Approx 75% of the items have not previously been published in English. Important reference.. First… Read More

London: The Folio Society, 2001. VERY HEAVY-will require additional postage if mailed outside Australia. 5 volumes complete in slipcase. xxvi, 364; xvii, 330; xviii, 342; xxxi, 321; xv, 486pp; indexes, references, bw& col ills, maps. Or decorative cloth in slipcase. All volumes have some foxing to page edges, some have some tiny dark spots-otherwise very nice. . Second Folio Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Slipcase. Small 4to.

Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1905. xxvi, 569pp + 32pp catalogue at rear, index. Or red cloth. Cloth faded and edge and spine, cloth splitting at spine, minor dark stain on front board, small bookseller stamp on front free endpaper, prev owner name on first page of text, occasional pencil notation.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good Plus. 8vo.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1980. 304pp, index, map. Or card. Near new. From the 15th to the 19th century perhaps 50 million men, women and children were captured, bought or kidnapped from Africa by European slave traders to labour in mines and plantations of the western hemisphere. . Revised & Expanded Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. xx, 444pp, references, notes/commentary, bw ills. Or pictorial card. Slightest of edge wear. In the early 18th century 700 Europeans lived of the labour of 7000 anslaved Africans. In the forests just beyond the plantation rim, hundreds of escaped slaves, the Saramaka Maroons, were building a new society based on resistance and liberty.. First Paperback. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Orlando: Harcourt, Inc, 2006. xxiv, 374pp, index, bibliography, endnotes, bw ills. Or boards in jacket. Near new. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

New York: Metro Books, 2001. 208pp, index, glossary, num col ills (including several folding). Ot black cloth in jacket. Light rubbing to bottom edge-near new. . First US Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

New York: Negro Universities Press., 1970. 223pp. Or brown cloth. Near new. Originally published in 1883. The anti-slavery movement in antibellum America.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

Brisbane: The Author, 2000. xv, 268pp, index, bibliography, appendices, num bw ills. Or pictorial cardVery light edge wear. History of the Boy Scouts in the Brisbane suburb of Indooroopilly.. Signed by Authors. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Nedlands, WA: University of Western Australia, 1988. xvi, 464pp, few bw ills, maps, endpaper maps, glossaries. Or red glossy boards titled in gold. As new. Includes sections on Chinese, Japanese, Afghan and Indian, Filipino and Malay immigrants to colonial Western Australia as well as South Sea Islanders and West Indians.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/None, as Issued.. 8vo.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970. 385pp, index, glossary, references, appendices, bw ills, endpaper maps. Or cloth in jacket. Light edge wear to jacket, prev owner bookplate. This edition has an additional chapter on the Faeroes Today by Einar Kallsberg.. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

London: Peerage Books, 1985. HEAVY. 256pp, index, chronology, maps, num bw & col ills. Or boards in jacket. Some foxing to page edges, jacket price clipped. An overview of the world spanning 500 years from 1000-1500 AD.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

Sydney: Halstead Press, 1997. 416pp, index, notes, appendices, bw ills, maps, endpaper maps. Or blue cloth in jacket. Near new with the slightest of edge wear to jacket. Greeks in the Australian community from the onset of WWI to the onset of WWII. Extensively researched.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Small 4to.

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1998. xiii, 381pp, index, notes, bw ills. Or boards in jacket. Near new. A social and cultural history of Christmas that shows how it was transformed from an unruly carnival season into the quintessential American family holiday.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

New York: The Vendome Press, 1991. HEAVY. 240pp, index, bibliography, num bw photographs. Or black cloth in jacket. Red title on spine faded, minor foxing to page edges. Photographs giving a complete portrait of Berlin during the Weimar Republic, between the end of the Empire and birth of the Third Reich along with an evocative text and detailed captions.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

Sydney: David Ell Press, 1991. 383pp, index, references, bw & col ills, endpaper maps. Or brown cloth in jacket. Light foxing to page edges otherwise excellent. The first half of the book examines the organization and conduct of the Burke & Wills expedition. Ther second half considers the changing place of the explorers in Australian culture, and the presentation of Burke and Wills in paintings and scuplptures, poems and plays, films and children's books. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

London: Philip Allan & Co., 1931. ix, 292pp, index, bw ills. or blue cloth lacking jacket. Spine darkened, endpapers toned, small bookseller label on front pastedown. Old time punishments including hanging, drawing and quartering, hanging, pillory, scold's bridle and many more.. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

London: George G Harrap, 1963. Foreword by Field-Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck. 8vo (220 x 145 mm), 214 pp, 16 pp of b&w plates, maps, including one large folding map of the Valley of the Assassins, ground-plans, three appendices. Prelims, end pages and page edges lightly foxed. Navy boards in price-clipped and lightly rubbed and edge-worn dust-wrapper. This story of the Alamut Valley Expedition to Northern Persia combines the experiences of three expeditions: the Oxford Expedition of 1959 and the expeditions that followed in 1960 and 1961.. First edition.. Hardcover. Very Good/very good.