Category :: History ::

A3472. PATTEN, John .... Editor. - Pre-Industrial England Geographical Essays.
Wm. Dawson & Sons Ltd: Folkestone 1979
Notes: 245 pages. Illustrated throughout text. Original green cloth slight fading on top and bottom edges of upper and lower cover gilt lettering on spine very bright.
Condition: Very Good
Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall

A11848. PEACOCK, Mabel G. W ... compiler. - An Index on the Names of the Royalists Whose Estates Were Confiscated During the Commonwealth ..... etc.
The Index Society: London 1879
Notes: HARDBACK. xi; 111 pages. Original decorated cloth slight frayed base of the spine otherwise a nice copy. FIRST EDITION
Condition: Very Good
Size: 4to.

A12340. PERCIVAL, Alicia C. - The English Miss To-Day & Yesterday ideals methods and personalities in the education and upbringing of girls during the last hundred years.
George G. Harrap & Co Ltd: London 1939
Notes: 336 pages. Illustrated. Light foxing mainly affecting the page edges. Original green cloth in price-clipped and edge worn dust wrapper now protected in a clear loose plastic sleeve
Condition: Very Good
Size: 8vo.

A9732. PICKARD-CAMBRIDGE, Sir Arthur. - The Dramatic Festivals of Athens.
Clarendon Press: Oxford 1973
Notes: xxiv; 358 pages. 141 illustrations. Original red cloth in near perfect dust wrapper. HARDBACK. Reprint of the second edition revised by John Gould and D. M. Lewis. for this edition in the light of new archaeological evidence etc. large parts were rewritten. A VERY FRESH COPY
Condition: Near Fine
Size: Tall 8vo

A11749. PIGGOTT, Stuart. - Ancient Europe from the beginnings of agriculture to classical antiquity.
Edinburgh University Press: 1967
Notes: xxiii; 343 pages. Well illustrated. Original cloth in price clipped dust wrapper
Condition: Fine
Size: 4to.

A11187. PODLECKI, Anthony J. - The Early Greek Poets and their Times.
University of British Columbia Press: Vancouver 1984
Notes: xiv; 282 pages. Map. Very light spotting to page edges only. Original black cloth in complete but slightly discoloured dust wrapper, HARDBACK
Condition: Fine
Size: 8vo.

A9964. POLIAKOFF, Michael B. - Combat Sports in the Ancient World Competition, Violence, and Culture.
Yale University Press: London 1987
Notes: FIRST EDITION. xviii; 202 pages. 97 text illustrations. In original orange cloth with gilt lettering on spine in complete dustwrapper. "A major contribution to the history of ancient sport, offering a new perspective to our understanding of classical civilizations." HARDBACK
Condition: Fine
Size: 8vo

A9456. PRIBICHEVICH, Stoyan. - Macedonia Its People and History.
The Pennsylvania State University Press: London 1982
Notes: (vi); 270 pages. Illustrated with 41 coloured plates. Some light spotting to boards. In original blue cloth in complete pictorial dust wrapper. "An introduction to one of the significant peoples of the Balkan peninsula, this book presents the achievements and problems of the Macedonians from ancient times to the present." HARDBACK
Condition: Good
Size: 8vo

A9914. RADCLIFFE, William. - Fishing From the Earliest Times.
Ares Publishers Inc.: Chicago 1974
Notes: xvii; 478 pages. 19 plates and numerous text-figures. In original green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. A study of fishing from the earliest times. "The craft of fishing possesses an ancestry so ancient, that for those who have their business on the waters, deep or shallow, it is but seemly, it is certainly of interest, to essay the tracing of its pedigree, and the linking of the generations of its far-flung lineage." HARDBACK
Condition: Fine
Size: Stout 8vo

A10147. RAWLINGS, Hunter R. - The Structure of Thucydides' History.
Princeton University Press: Princeton 1981
Notes: FIRST EDITION. xiv; 278 pages. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine in complete dustwrapper which is very lightly faded to spine. "In a new and controversial interpretation of the literary structure of Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian War, Hunter Rawlings contends that Thucydides consciously divided the war into two parallel ten-year conflicts with a period of nominal peace in the middle; his interpretation illuminates many of Thucydides' historiographical perspectives." HARDBACK
Condition: Fine
Size: 8vo