Category: HISTORY

The study of history has sometimes been classified as part of the humanities and at other times as part of the social sciences. It can also be seen as a bridge between those two broad areas, incorporating methodologies from both. Some individual historians strongly support one or the other classification. In the 20th century, French historian Fernand Braudel revolutionized the study of history, by using such outside disciplines as economics, anthropology, and geography in the study of global history.

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Journey into America

By: Peattie, Donald Culross

Price: $45.95

Publisher: Boston - London, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1943

Seller ID: 008851

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First Edition, First Printing. [Ref: McBride] 8vo; 276 pages ; 21 cm. Color frontispiece, title page, dust jacket and endpages by Lynn Ward. Rarely did the honored illustrator work in color. A series of short stories exploring vignettes of American history.

Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate handling wear. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve has no flaws but mild aging.

"..adventuring into America, historically, geographically, biographically. It is fragmentary, but it blends into a whole. George Washington, and his mother; K...
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A Residence of Eight Years in Persia Among the Nestorian Christians with Notices of the Muhammedans

By: Perkins, Justin (1805-1869)

Price: $1,200.00

Publisher: Andover, Allen, Morrill & Wardwell: 1843

Seller ID: 011309

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Justin Perkins was an American Presbyterian missionary and linguist. He was the first citizen of the United States to reside in Iran, and he became known for his work among the people there as an apostle to Persia.

An eminent Syriac scholar the author spent the years from 1833 to 1841 in northwestern Persia. The author describes his voyage to Malta Constantinople to Trebizond Erzroom to Erivan Tabreez Oroomiah etc. with much of the book based on his journals on the spot over many years.

Having learned the local vernacular from the Nestorian clergy, Perkins developed an alphabet for the ...
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Route 66 A.D. : On the Trail of Ancient Roman Tourists

By: Perrottet, Tony

Price: $14.95

Publisher: New York, NY, Random House: 2002

Seller ID: 007519

ISBN: 037550432X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

First Edition, First Printing. No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal retail handling; Still Gift Quality. Dust Jacket is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve.

Illustrated in B/W throughout.

Travel writer Perrottet retraced the ancient Grand Tour route, attempting to model the experience of an early Roman traveler along the way. A lively blend of fascinating historical anecdotes and hilarious personal encounters, interspersed with irreverent and often eerily prescient quotes from the ancients, Route 66 A.D. vividly recaptures the magic of the Roman Empire in all its complexity and...
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Notes on Cavalry Weapons of the American Civil War, 1861-1865

By: Peterson, Harold L .

Price: $13.95

Publisher: Washington, DC, The American Ordnance Association,: 1961

Seller ID: 007664

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

First Printing, with comprehensive tables and authentic drawings. Carefully handled, text clean. Light handling wear to outer edge of wraps. Stiff stapled wraps.
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Notes on Ammunition of the American Civil War, 1861-1865

By: Peterson, Harold L .

Price: $13.95

Publisher: Washington, DC, The American Ordnance Association,: 1959

Seller ID: 007665

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

First Printing, with comprehensive tables and authentic drawings. Stiff stapled wraps. Carefully handled, text clean. Light handling wear to outer edge of wraps. Some sun-fading to lower part of front board
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Image for [Native Americans, Pseudo-science] Traditions of De-Coo-Dah, and Antiquarian Researches: Comprising Extensive Explorations, Surveys, And Excavations Of The Wonderful And Mysterious Earthen Remains Of The Mound-Builders In America; The Traditions Of The Last Prophet Of The Elk Nation Relative To Their Origin And Use; and the evidences of an ancient population more numerous than the present aborigines.

[Native Americans, Pseudo-science] Traditions of De-Coo-Dah, and Antiquarian Researches: Comprising Extensive Explorations, Surveys, And Excavations Of The Wonderful And Mysterious Earthen Remains Of The Mound-Builders In America; The Traditions Of The Last Prophet Of The Elk Nation Relative To Their Origin And Use; and the evidences of an ancient population more numerous than the present aborigines.

By: Pidgeon, William

Price: $225.00

Publisher: New York, Horace Thayer: 1858

Seller ID: 013426

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

William Pidgeon was an antiquarian and archaeologist his most famous work, Traditions of Dee-Coo-Dah, a history about lost tribes of the Upper Mississippi and the mounds they left behind.

The book was eventually revealed to be partly a hoax, and partly embellishment of actual research. Combining elaborate sketches and maps of mound groups in Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, and Minnesota, Pidgeon claimed to have discovered an elaborate network of coded earthen symbols used by an ancient race that predated Native Americans; one of the last survivors of this putative race, "Dee-Coo-Dah", was i...
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Forgotten Books of Eden: Lost Books of the Old Testament

By: Platt, R H

Price: $14.95

Publisher: USA, Bell Publishing Company: 1980

Seller ID: 013302

ISBN: 051730886X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Fine in a Fine Dust Jacket. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, Minimal shelf handling wear. First Edition, First Printing.

Collects the lost writings and omissions from the traditional Bible, from the vivid sequel to Adam and Eve's expulsion from Paradise to the beautiful songs of peace and joy from the 'Odes of Solomon.'
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Development of the Modern State: A Sociological Introduction

By: Poggi, Gianfranco

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Stanford, California, Stanford Univ Pr: 1978

Seller ID: 006347

ISBN: 0804709599

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal retail handling; Still Gift Quality. --- Gianfranco Poggi reviews the main phases in the institutional history of the modern state, discusses the nineteenth-century constitutional state, points out the major developments which have occurred since the end of the last century in the relationship between the state and society, and identifies the threat these pose to the persistence of Western political values.

No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal retail handling; Still Gift Quality.
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Broken: The Troubled Past and Uncertain Future of the FBI

By: Powers, Richard Gid

Price: $19.95

Publisher: New York, Free Press: 2004

Seller ID: 013153

ISBN: 0684833719

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; Still Gift Quality. First Edition, First Printing.

A history of failures within the FBI describes the scandals that have marked the bureau since its inception in 1908, drawing on years of research and interviews to explain why the September 11 attacks were unforeseen.
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Biographical and Critical Miscellanies

By: Prescott, William H. (1796 - 1859)

Price: $24.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott: 1882

Seller ID: 013312

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Full thin Leather with stamped gilt spine titles. 12mo; 7.5 inches tall; 682 pages; New Edition; Tissue guarded frontispiece of Prescott; all edges gilt. Faint sun-fading on the spine, partial fold 1.5 inches from the front edge of front cover. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear.

All of the essays except the first were originally contributed to the North American review.
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History of the Conquest of Peru With a Preliminary View of the Civilization of the Incas. Two Volumes

By: Prescott, William H.; Edited by John Foster Dick

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & CO.: 1882

Seller ID: 012487

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Originally published in 1847, History of the Conquest of Peru, a companion volume to William H. Prescott's masterly History of the Conquest of Mexico, continues his vivid chronicle of Spanish exploits in the New World. The book's commanding vision of Pizarro's tumultuous overthrow of the Inca empire has secured its reputation as a classic in the literature of Latin American history.

Although Peru lacks a noble protagonist . . . it is still an immensely readable history. The description of the Inca civilization, particularly its wealth, the precise explanation of the cause of the confli...
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History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella The Catholic

By: Prescott, William; Edited by John Foster Kirk

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & CO.: 1880

Seller ID: 012435

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

New and Revised Edition Complete in Three Uniform Volumes. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear with rubs on the corners and the spine tips. 8vo; 7.5 inches tall; 504, 508,574, Index; with tissue guarded frontispieces and plates. Unused bookplates on endpage of each volume.

Prescott produced graceful, authoritative narratives of Spanish military, diplomatic, and political history that had no equal in their time.

The appearance in 1838 of his three-volume History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic, the pro...
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Trails I Rode

By: Price, Con

Price: $165.00

Publisher: Pasadena, CA, Trails End Publishing Co., Inc.: 1947

Seller ID: 012562

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Memories of Old Cowboy Days and Charles Russell.

First Edition, First Printing. Fine in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Minimal shelf handling wear. The Dust jacket has mild toning with a touch of wear on the corners and spine tips. 8vo; 8.5 inches tall; 262 pages with index. Chapter headers by Charles Russell and photographic plates. Three plates by Russell; one in color.
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Patton's Third Army: A Chronology of the Third Army Advance, August, 1944 to May, 1945

By: Province, Charles M.

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Hippocrene Books: 1990

Seller ID: 012924

ISBN: 0870529730

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

Unread, No flaws but a wrinkle on the top edge of the first two pages. First Edition, First Printing.

Charles M. Province is the president and founder of the George S. Patton, Jr. Historical Society. He owns the largest personal collection of Patton material and memorabilia in the world and has studied the life, career, and philosophy of General Patton for decades.
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The Discoverie of Guiana, 1596 and The Discoveries of the World by Antonio Galvao.

By: Raleigh, Sir Walter & Galvao, Antonio

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Cleveland, Ohio, The World Publishing Co.: 1966

Seller ID: 011793

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Facsimile of the original, imprinted at London by Robert Robinson, 1596, 1601. Introduction by A.L. Rowse and Bibliographical Notes by Robert O. Dougan. Librarian at the Henry E. Huntington Library. [20 pp.]

Vellum, yapp edges, with ties, by Legatoria Editoriale Giovanni Olivotto, with the Coat of Arms of Elizabeth I. Enclosed within a clamshell box, lined in red felt, with printed labels to the boards and spine. Included is the 20-page booklet of historical information and bibliography. Illustrated. cvi, 182 pp. 1 vols. 8vo.

Book is fine without flaw. Box has a scuff on the ce...
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Barbarians and Romans

By: Randers-Pehrson, Justine Davis

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Beckenham, Kent, England, Croom Helm Ltd.: 1983

Seller ID: 006685

ISBN: 0806118180

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

This book offers a forest of info on the many groups of so-called barbarians, who transformed to the Roman Empire into Medieval Europe. To counter simplistic stereotypes of these people, Randers-Pehrson goes in for almost overwhelming detail on the particular histories and cultural contributions of many groups. She shows they were civilized in their own ways, and were more hungry for culture than destroyers of it.

Unused; Book has no flaws; DJ light shelf wear; Dust Jacket in new clear protective Mylar sleeve. Illustrated with color and B/W photos. ---
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Century Girl: 100 Years in the Life of Doris Eaton Travis, Last Living Star of the Ziegfeld Follies

By: Redniss, Lauren

Price: $21.95

Publisher: New York, Regan/HarperCollins: 2006

Seller ID: 008454

ISBN: 0060853336

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

"Lauren Redniss takes a graphically provocative approach in telling [Doris Eaton Travis's] story." (Daily News). Similar in approach to a graphic novel, this biography-in-collage tackles the life of Ziegfeld Follies star Doris Eaton. Each page offers a wild mix of illustrations, doodles, photos and memorabilia from Eaton's archives, accompanied by handwritten text outlining her fascinating life.

No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality; But a discrete remainder mark on lower edge.
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The Lamps Went Out In Europe. Fate or Folly the Blundering that Led to World War 1

By: Reiners, Ludwig [Translated from the German by Richard and CLara Winston]

Price: $14.95

Publisher: New York, Pantheon: 1955

Seller ID: 013390

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve has sun-toned with minor shelf handling.
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Disquiet, Please!: More Humor Writing from the New Yorker

By: Remnick, David ; , FinderHenry

Price: $19.95

Publisher: New York, Random House: 2009

Seller ID: 010690

ISBN: 1400068010

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal retail shelf handling; Still Gift Quality. ---------- From the 1920s onward-but with a special focus on the latest generation-here are the humorists who set the pace and stirred the pot, pulled the leg and pinched the behind of America.
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The Kennedys at War: 1937-1945

By: Renehan Jr., Edward J.

Price: $12.95

Publisher: New York, Doubleday: 2002

Seller ID: 012217

ISBN: 038550165X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

A dramatic, fascinating and revisionist narrative detailing how America's first family was changed utterly during World War II. First-rate history grounded in scholarship and brought to life by a critically acclaimed author.

Fine in a Fine Dust Jacket. No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality.
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