Search Results: Authors starting with W from Lems Bookshop

The author defines folly as the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests, despite the availability of feasible alternatives and gives in detail four turning points in history illustrating the very heights of folly. 447 pages with 37 illustrations, 12 in colour. Book in good condition with previous owners name on first page, minor foxing and some tanning.

An invaluable survey of implements and materials, the groundwork of anatomical drawing, plant structure, architectural drawings and landscape composition, still life, abstract art, and more. A practical guide with hundreds of examples. 400 pages with 450 illustrations, 300 in colour. Book (previous owners name on first three pages and minor reader wear) and dust jacket (in clear wrapper and minor wear) in very good condition.

Until the late 1800's the Hittites were only known by the name being mentioned in the Bible. In 1880 Archibald Sayce announced that various monuments and sculptures found in Anatolia and North Syria must be ascribed to the Hittites. How scholars contrived by excavation, research and reasoning brought this Empire to light is the subject of this book. 284 pages with 48 plates, 64 line drawings and maps. Book in good+ condition with foxing to edges and tanning and small sticker on front page. Dust jacket in good condition with some chips (see photo) and price clipped.

The book is divided into four main headings; The Book of the Statues; The Book of the Pyramids; The Book of the Towers; The Book of the Temples and the discoveries and acheivements of the archaeolologists. 433 pages with 32 black and white Plates and some other illustrations. Book in very good+ condition with previous owners name inside front cover and some wear to cover (see photos).

In little more than a century a people of whom nothing was known but a name became an integral part of the history of our civilization. For around 500 years (1700-1200 BC) the Hittite Empire became the leading great power of the Near East even threatening the power of the Egyptian pharaohs. 284 pages with 48 black and white plates and 64 line drawings in the text. Book in very good condition with front endpaper torn out, small booksellers sticker inside front cover, cover has some fading to spine and some marks.

July 1942, a large Japanese force landed along the north-eastern coastline of Papua - the story of three weeks of battle by a small Australian militia supported by Papuan soldiers and constabulary outnumbered three to one who fought to hold the Kokoda Plateau and keep the kokoda airstrips out of enemy control. Also the story of two groups of Anglican missionaries trying to reach the Australians. 417 pages with 8 pages of photographs and 5 maps. Book in very good+ condition.

The author meets Rommel in Africa in 1941 and is with him for 2 years until Rommel now known as The Desert Fox leaves for Europe. 240 pages with 10 pages of illustrations and 5 maps. Book in good condition with foxing and cover shows wear.

An illustrated dictionary of words used in Art and Archaeology originally published in 1883. 350 pages including 707 line engravings. Book in very good condition with some tanning.

The book represents the first ever attempt to explore the role of the movie stills photographer in all its different guises. Loosely chronological in structure the story covers the period from the 1910s to the 1960s and features the photographers, the stars and the studio men of those times. 192 pages with hundreds of black and white photographs. Book in very good condition ex library with stamp and sticker on last page and name and number top inside back cover, Cover has stickers on spine and back.

A collection of the writings of the Historian of the British Army for thirty year before his death in 1933. 320 pages. Book in very good condition with sellers sticker inside front cover and some foxing to edges. Dust jacket in good+ condition with knocks and chips to corners and edges, three small tears, some wear and sellers sticker on spine.

The 1840,s was an age of contradictions - paradoxes - for the English. There was at least an awareness they were making, or at the least participating in making, history. 509 pages with 192 black and white illustrations. Book in very good condition with light foxing top edge, and some wear to cover (see photos).

Commissioned by the Methodist Branch of the Laymen's Missionary Movement in Victoria the author, a Methodist minister, undertakes a comparative survey of what the Protestant missionaries had accomplished in the Islands of the Sea, for an estimate of the present position, and the work that lay before the Christian Church. Ten island native groups (including Australia and New Zealand) are surveyed. 286 pages with 48 black and white photographs and a colour fold out map. Book in very good condition with foxing to endpapers and leading edges, and some wear to cover.

The story of the Japanese Raid on Broome, 3rd March 1942. 45 pages with black and white photographs on 13 pages and 2 maps. Book in very good condition with minor tanning. This is a small book and postage can be reduced in Australia but without tracking.

Since 1867 (to 1986) there have been over fifty official royal visits to Australia, prior to 1954 there had been only six royal tours. 262 pages with illustrations on nearly every page and front endpaper fold out House of Windsor family tree. Book in near fine condition. Dust jacket in very good condition with minor knocks. tears and wear. This is a large book but no increase in postage in Australia.

The best china covering, oriental, continental, earthenware, English, Welsh and American porcelains. 95 pages with magnificent colour photographs on all pages and endpapers. Book in very good+ condition with some small wear to back cover. No dust jacket.

A survey of a century of the progress of geographers with short biographies of the leading geographers and explorers of the period. 335 pages. Book in very good condition with previous owners stamp and signature on first page and fading. Dust jacket in good condition with some chips and tears (see photo).

A history of music making and musical instruments and an encyclopedia of musical instruments. 256 pages with colour illustrations throughout. Book and dust jacket in near fine condition.

Man's evolution from the earliest remains to the primitives of today's world - how they lived and how so much has been discovered about them. 96 pages with numerous colour illustrations. Book in very good+ condition with top corner first page cut out (a date still present), Dust jacket in very good+ condition with some minor knocks.

The story of early man origins and development and progress in tool making and art. 150 pages with illustrations on most pages mostly in colour. Book in near fine condition, Dust jacket in very good+ condition with bottom corner inside flap cut off, small booksellers sticker on back and some minor wear. This is a large book but no increase in postage in Australia.

A portrait of Raleigh, a complicated, versatile and gifted hero shown against the background of his Elizabethan age and judged by the criteria of greatness in all ages. 255 pages with 6 black and white illustrations and endpaper maps. Book in good+ condition with previous owners sticker on first page, minor foxing and light tanning. Cover has fading to spine (see photo). No dust jacket