Books - "history"
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New Zealand in the Mid-Victorian Era: An ALbum of Contemporary Engravings
Quarto softcover (VG-, worn wrappers); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: John McIndoe Ltd 1977
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history victorian engravings art
The Suter: One Hundred Years in Nelson
Signed & dated by author, large quarto, blue boards with gilt lettering to spine, 200pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w, nr fine
PUBLISHER: Nikau Press 1999
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Nelson Bishop Suter art gallery history
An Old-Time Fishing Town: Eyemouth, Its History, Romance & Tragedy with an Account of The East Coast Disaster October 1881
Octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, xiv + 356pp, illus, VG- (some fraying to spine extrems & board corners, light scuffing to boards, some browning to page edges, front hinge cracking, moderate foxing to eps)
PUBLISHER: James McKelvie & Sons 1906
KEYWORDS: Eyemouth history East Coast shipping disaster
The Jew as Ally of the Muslim: Medieval Roots of Anti-Semitism
Super octavo, grey cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, x + 577pp, VG (small ding to front board lower edge, 1cm front board upper corner missing, light tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing and some nicks to edges, orange label to lower spine)
PUBLISHER: University of Notre Dame Press 1986
KEYWORDS: Jews Judaism antisemitism Muslim Christianity Islam history
Picturesque Palestine Sinai and Egypt Volume III
This volume only, small folio, brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt lettering outlined in black to front board, gilt & black decorative rule front board, blindd-stamped decorative rule to rear board, aeg, frontispiece with tissueguard, illus title page, vi + double-page map + 240pp, illus with engravings on steel & wood, VG (some light scratching to boards, some bruising & fraying to spine extrems, lighter to board edges & corners, 4cm closed tear to cloth of spine head, 2cm split to cloth of spine side, YMCA stamps to many pages, moderately heavy browning to prelims & terminals)
PUBLISHER: JS Virtue & Co (n/d)
KEYWORDS: Palestine Sinai Egypt history scenery
An Artist in Egypt
Quarto, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, elaborate gilt & black decorative rule to front board, illus eps, tipped-in frontispiece with tissueguard, vi + 286pp, illus with tipped-in plates each with tissueguard, VG (moderately heavy fading to spine and less so to boards, ding to board upper corners, some bruising & fraying to spine extrems & board corners, light browning to page edges & eps, bookseller's label to front pastedown)
PUBLISHER: HOdder & Stoughton1912
KEYWORDS: Egyptian history Egypt travel art paintings Walter Tyndale biography memoir travel
Handbook of the New Zealand Flora: A Systematic Description of the Native Plants of New Zealand and the Chatham, Kermadecs, Lord Auckland, Campbell & Macquarrie Islands
Super octavo, dark grey cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & gilt publisher's motif to front board, 15pp + lxviii + 798pp + 24pp Reeve & Co's publications in botany, conchology & entomology, VG (light bruising to spine extrems, light fraying to board corners, some tanning & foxing to page edges& eps, owner's name in ink to fep)
PUBLISHER: Reeve & Co 1867
KEYWORDS: New Zealand flora reference native plants natural history
Egypt Old & New: A Popular Account of the Land of the Pharaohs from the Traveller's and Economist's Point of View with many engravings, nearly 50 coloured plates & a map
SMall quarto, dark blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, gilt building motif to front board, frontispiece, 224pp, illus, VG (some staining to boards, some bruising to spine extrems & board corners, small nick to cloth of spine side, moderate browning to page edges, occasional foxing, light creasing to occasional page fore-edge, some wear to rear eps - possibly where a label was removed)
PUBLISHER: George Allen & Unwin 1923
KEYWORDS: Egypt Egyptian history culture
Romania at the Moment of Truth
ASSOCIATION COPY - inscribed by the author, former Presidentn of Romania, to a former Prime Minister of New Zealand, imperial octavo, brown cloth boards with white lettering to spine & front board, illus eps, 271pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w, VG+ (small soiling spot to rear)
PUBLISHER: Henri Berger Editions 1994
KEYWORDS: Romania Romanian politics history revolution
Army Manual of Hygiene and Sanitation 1934
Paperback (tatty); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: His Majesty's Stationery Office 1942
KEYWORDS: military history manual handbook British army
The Tartan Pimpernel
First edition 3rd impression, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Oldbourne Book Co Ltd 1958
KEYWORDS: biography Dr Donald Caskie history world war two WW2
Tempestuous Journey: Lloyd George His Life and Times
First edition, super octavo hardcover(VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Hutchinson & Co (Publishers) Ltd 1954
KEYWORDS: biography Lloyd George politics history
George Washington Wilson and the Scottish Railways
Oblong quarto, stapled light card covers (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Kennedy Brothers Publishing Ltd 1983
KEYWORDS: british scottish railway transport history
The Cambridge History of Islam Volume 2a: The Indian Sub-Continent, South-East Asia, Africa and the Muslim West
This volume only, super octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Syndics of the Cambridge University Press 1978(?)
KEYWORDS: islam religion history muslim India Asia Africa
Centenary Sketches of New Zealand Methodism
Octavo, hardcover (VG) no d/w; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Lyttleton Times Co Ltd (no date) approx. 1923
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history religion
Illustrated Biography: Eugene De Mazenod
Imperial octavo hardcover (VG+) with clear cellophane wrapper; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Joseph Chaudier 1961
KEYWORDS: biography eugene de mazenod history
Armed Settlers: The Story of the Founding of Hamilton, New Zealand 1864-1874
Octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Paul's Book Arcade 1963
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history settlers
The Arnolds: Thomas Arnold and His Family
Octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: The Bodley Head 1973
KEYWORDS: history England Thomas Arnold biography
Berlin - Moskau - Sosswa: Stationen Einer Emigration
TEXT IN GERMAN, octavo hardcover (VG+) no d/w; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Pahl-Rugenstein Verlag 2003 (?)
KEYWORDS: german history TEXT IN GERMAN
The Railway Book
First edition, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Rupert Hart-Davis 1952
KEYWORDS: transport rail British history