Books on Biography
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Vernadsky.
318p original hardback with illustrated cover, cloth spine, binding a little soft, especially at ...
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Vida de Pascual Orozco, 1882 - 1915. Orozco, Guerrillero.
18p stapled booklet, portrait to cover, additional plate of children to endpaper, paper yellowing, ...
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Vospominaniia (ot krepostnogo prava do Bolshevikov)
257p original paperback with stiff grey card cover, nice fresh copy, very well preserved, ...
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Wang An Shih. A Chinese Statesman and Educationalist of the Sung Dynasty. Two Volumes.
388p 424p two volumes in original blue cloth with solar gilt decor to front, ribbed cloth quite ...
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Život Boženy Nemcové. Zivot Bozeny Nemcove: dopisy a dokumenty. 4: Dve leta persekuce (1853-1854) Ed. Miloslav Novotny.
366p hardback cloth with dustjacket present (worn), tape to dustjacket, plates in back, a very well ...
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Select Elegies of Propertius.
cxlviii 272p red cloth, small format, from a Cambridge college library, rebound with new endpapers, ...
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Jesus. In History, Legend, Scripture, and Tradition.
2 volume complete set, fresh, in excellent condition, clean and firm, new, still sealed
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Ingmar Bergman. A Critical Biography.
xi 397p large sturdy hardback, black cloth with silver lettering to spine, glossy black and lilac ...
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Philip Sidney and the Poetics of Renaissance Cosmopolitanism.
xvi 266p hardback, black cloth with black jacket, like new condition, no significant wear, binding ...
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The Golden Metwand and the Crooked Cord.
xl 355p hardback, original price label attached, name handwritten neatly in ink, otherwise a bright ...
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Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller. Portrait of a Seventeenth-Century Rabbi.
xv 302p hardback, maroon cloth with illustrated jacket, very good condition, minimal wear to jacket ...
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Al. February 22, 1915 - March 23, 1974. [Al Weisman. The Way He Was].
120p blue cloth, with silver decration to front board, many photograph illustrations in the text, ...
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George Gascoigne.
xviii 236p hardback, black cloth with yellow jacket, very good condition, light wear to jacket ...
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M R James. An Informal Portrait.
268p hardback with illustrated unclipped dustjacket, very good copy, very light foxing to edges of ...
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Madame de Staël et son Temps (1766-1817). Avec des Documents Inédits.
618p, 584p, 693p in dark blue cloth, all very good, from a Cambridge college library with the usual ...
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The Life and Selections from the Correspondence of William Whewell by Mrs Stair Douglas.
xv 591p green cloth fresh, gilt lettering to front and spine, binding expertly repaired with new ...
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Axiomata Pacis.
xxi 253p original blue cloth with gilt dove to front, small hurt to spine, engraved plate with ...
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Scienziati e Tecnologi Contemporanei. 3 Volumes Complete.
3 very large and heavy volumes, excellent condition, with dustjacket, focus on 20th century ...
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The Life of Andrew Melville. 2 Volumes.
494p + 549p 2 volumes, original half calf, marbled boards, first edition, both front boards ...
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Winston S Churchill: Companion Volume III. Part 1 and 2: August 1914 - April 1915; May 1915 - December 1916.
two thick volumes with fresh white dustjackets, 1684p hardback, no names or stamps, first edition, ...
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Gente Italiana in California.
254p large format hardback, dark cloth blind-stamped with gilt highlights now dull, spine and ...
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Hans Von Bülow. A Life and Times.
xxv 510p hardback, black cloth with glossy jacket, like new condition, no sign of use, no sign of ...
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Russkie Pisateli: Biobibliograficheskii Slovar.
728p large format, well preserved, Bibliographical Dictionary of Russian writers, first edition
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The Autobiography of Francis Place (1771 – 1854).
xl 308p large hardback, crimson cloth with illustrated brown and yellow jacket, very good ...
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Two Statesmen of Medieval Islam. Vizir Ibn Hubayra and Caliph an-Nasir li Din Allah.
146p hardback, green cloth without jacket, very good condition, minimal wear to edges, binding ...
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Winston S Churchill: Companion Volume IV. Part 1, 2 and 3. Part 1: January 1917 - June 1919, Part 2: July 1919 - March 1921; Part 3: April 1921 - November 1922.
Three solid and thick volumes, with white dustjacket, jackets fresh to front but spine dull, ...
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Memoirs of the Duke of Sully, Prime Minister of Henry the Great, with the Trial of Francis Ravalilac for the Murder of Henry the Great; and an Appendix. New Edition, Carefully Corrected.
5 volumes in half calf binding, marbled boards and edges, each volume with engraved frontispiece, ...
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Oxford Men and their Colleges. Illustrated with Portraits and Views.
xii 663p, 686p large format, thick volume, two volumes bound in one, a large and very heavy book, ...
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Piper 1911. (Yearbook of the Kitchi Gammi Literary Society)
approx 240p, A4 format, bound in full black calf with gilt lettering to front, spine degraded and ...
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Richard Wagner und die Homosexualität. Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der sexuellen Anomalien seiner Gestalten.
viii 278p original brown hardback with black lettering to front, lettering also to spine, top of ...
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Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 4, Physics and Physical Technology, Part 2: Mechanical Engineering.
lv 759p rebound in plain black cloth, well preserved, light library markings, binding still firm, ...
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Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 6, Biology and Biological Technology, Part 1: Botany.
756p original cloth, pages unmarked, binding still firm, light library markings, very slight traces ...
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Sochineniia I S Nikitina s ego portretom i biografiey, Tom 1-2. Russian Language.
approximately 900p, not continuously paginated, red hardback original cloth, decorative embossed ...
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Vita e Avventure di Giovanni Finati.
292p paperback, white card cover, Italian language edition, foxing throughout particularly to ...
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A Versatile Professor. Reminiscences of the Rev. Edward Nares, D.D.
xi 308p burgundy cloth, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece with tissue guard in place, plates, ...
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Becoming a Romanov. Grand Duchess Elena of Russia and Her World (1807- 1873)
xiii 326p hardback, a fresh copy, in excellent condition, clean and firm, new
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Sex Ed, Segregated. The Quest for Sexual Knowledge in Progressive-Era America.
xvi 212p hardback, a fresh copy, in excellent condition, clean and firm, new
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys, M A, F R S, Clerk of the Acts and Secretary to the Admiralty, transcribed from the Shorthand... by the Rev Mynors Bright M A. Edited with Additions by Henry Wheatley. Eight Volumes bound in Three.
three blue cloth volumes with gilt lettering to spines, approx 900p 900p 600p, printed n fine ...
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C.S. Lewis. Life, Works and Legacy. Volume 1 - An Examined Life.
xxvii 330p hardback, glossy cover with photograph, very good condition, minimal wear to cover ...
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C.S. Lewis. Life, Works and Legacy. Volume 2 - Fantasist, Mythmaker and Poet.
xxvii 327p hardback, glossy cover with photograph, very good condition, minimal wear to cover ...
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Maynard Keynes. Collector of Pictures, Books and Manuscripts.
112p paperback, colour artwork cover, like new condition, little to no wear, binding tight, all ...
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No One Minds Being Treated Like A Sage. Chinese Edition.
292p hardback, white cover with blue jacket, sealed plastic wrapping, completely new and unopened ...
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Boyle Studies. Aspects of the Life and Thought of Robert Boyle (1627 - 91)
xiv 244p hardback, a fresh copy, in excellent condition, clean and firm, new
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A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen. New Edition by Thomas Thomson (1870)
559p 548p 624p three large volumes in brown cloth, black title label to spine, a fresh set, tight ...
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A History of the Life and Death, Virtues and Exploits of General George Washington.
374p original blue cloth with red and gilt decor, spine tight and still fresh, no names or stamps, ...
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Annals of the Army of the Cumberland, Comprising Biographies, Descriptions of Departments, Accounts of Expeditions, Skirmishes and Battles; also its Police Record of Spies, Smugglers and Prominent Rebel Emissaries, etc, by an Officer.
671p rebound firmly in two tone cloth red and green, gilt lettering to spine, engraved title page ...
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Blue and White of the Los Angeles High School. Volume 3, 1898.
approx 200p printed on art paper throughout, many plates and portraits, includes period adverts, ...
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Downside and the War 1914 - 1919. Containing List of Old Gregorians who served in HM Forces during the War, together with Memoirs of those Killed in Action or who died on Active Service.
232p first edition hardback, half leather, 5 raised bands to spine, gilt coat of arms to maroon ...
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Estimates of Some Englishmen and Scotchmen. A Series of Articles Reprinted by Permission Principally from the National Review.
453p original brown blindstamped cloth very fresh, gilt lettering to spine bright, binding holding ...
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Hesper 1898.
176p original hardback, white boards with gilt and red lettering, spine with small hurt, plates and ...
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