Books - "history"
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19 Battalion and Armoured Regiment: Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-1945
Octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xvi + 559pp + folding maps, illus, VG (light soiling to boards, light fading to spine, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, slight rubbing to boards & soine extrems)
PUBLISHER: War History Branch 1954
KEYWORDS: military history New Zealand World War Two WW2 19 Battalion
The Anatomy of Puck: An Examination of Fairy Beliefs Among Shakespeare's Contemporaries and Successors
First edition, Scarce, ex library, octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xi + 284pp, illus, VG (light soiling to boards, light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, light tanning to page edges, light usual library markings, d/w suck down to rear board) in d/w VG- (light rubbing, light soiling, several massive pieces of cover missing, 8cm closed tear to front cover repaired with cellotape, 9cm tear to rear cover repaired with cellotape)
PUBLISHER: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1959
KEYWORDS: Fairies English literature History critics modern first edition
Air Power in the Next War
First edition, octavo, red cloth boards with black lettering to spine, viii + 181pp, VG (light soiling & light rubbing to boards, light tanning & light foxing to page edges, moderate stamp to fep)
PUBLISHER: Geoffrey Bles 1938
KEYWORDS: Aeronautics Military Air power History War aviation
Medical Units of 2 NZEF in Middle East and Italy
Octavo, red cloth boards with black lettering to spine, frontispiece, xv + 462pp, illus, VG+ (light tanning & light foxing to page edges) in d/w VG (moderate bruising to spine extrems & cover corners, light soiling, light rubbing, several small closed tears to cover edges)
PUBLISHER: War History Branch 1952
KEYWORDS: New Zealand military Army World War Two history Medical care Campaigns Middle East
No Star at the Pole: A History of Navigation From Stone Age to the 20th Century for All Who Enjoy the Sea
Octavo, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, x + 230pp, illus, Nr Fine in d/w VG (light rubbing, few small nicks to cover edges)
PUBLISHER: Charles Knight & Co. 1972
KEYWORDS: Navigation History
Armies and Warfare in Europe 1648-1789
Octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 216pp, illus, Nr Fine (bookseller's label to fep) in d/w VG+ (light rubbing, covered in clear contact)
PUBLISHER: Manchester University Press 1982
KEYWORDS: Europe History Military art science Armies
Day After Day
First UK Edition, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 600pp, illus, VG (light rubbing & moderate soiling to boards, light bruising to spine extrems, light tanning & light soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Putnam & Co. 1947
KEYWORDS: Prisoners prisons concentration camps World War Two WW2 autobiography Norwegian history
Rails to Nowhere: The History of the Nelson Railway
Octavo, green cloth boards, frontispiece, 344pp, illus, VG (a touch of foxing and slightly cocked) in d/w VG+ (light rubbing, light soiling, bookplate to fep)
PUBLISHER: Nikau Press 1991
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Railways trains history Nelson locomotion
Paradoxes of War: On the Art of National Self-Entrapment
Super octavo, grey cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, xiii + 367pp, VG (light soiling to boards, light tanning & light foxing to page edges) in d/w VG (light bruising to spine extrems & cover corners, light rubbing),
PUBLISHER: Unwin Hyman 1990
KEYWORDS: Paradoxes War Politics history
Tamihana the Kingmaker
Ex library, octavo, green cloth boards with black lettering to spine, 200pp, illus, VG- (usual library markings, light tanning to page edges, d/w stuck down to pastedowns with cellotape) in d/w VG- (light rubbing, light soiling)
PUBLISHER: Reed 1963
KEYWORDS: Wiremu Tamihana biography New Zealand History
The Astronomical and Mathematical Foundations of Geography
First edition, octavo, grey cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, red colouring to top page edges, ix + 244pp, illus, VG+ (light foxing to page edges) in d/w VG (light foxing, light soiling, light rubbing)
PUBLISHER: Hollis & Carter 1966
KEYWORDS: Mathematical Astronomical geography science history
Napoleon: 1812
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 cost
PUBLISHER: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1985
KEYWORDS: history military biography memoir Napoleon Bonaparte Russia
Napoleon in Russia
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 cost
PUBLISHER: Andre Deutsch 1967
KEYWORDS: first edition military history war biography memoir Napoleon Bonaparte Russia politics
Bataan and Beyond: Memories of an American POW
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 cost
PUBLISHER: Texas A&M University Press 1978
KEYWORDS: military Japan war history ww2 second world war prisoner of war America US autobiography memoir John S. Coleman Jr
Napoleon: The Myth of the Saviour
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 cost
PUBLISHER: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1984
KEYWORDS: military history Napoleon Bonaparte politics biography memoir
The Defeat of John Hawkins: A Biography of his Third Slaving Voyage
Paperback (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 cost
PUBLISHER: Pelican Books 1962
KEYWORDS: biography memoir John Hawkins exploration travel history slavery slave trade merchant shipping maritime nautical
Henderson: A History of the Life of Alexander Henderson First Lord Farringdon and of Henderson Administration
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 cost
PUBLISHER: Quiller Press 1986
KEYWORDS: biography memoir Alexander Henderson business history entrepreneur
The Battlement Garden: Britain From the Wars of the Roses to the Age of Shakespeare
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 cost
PUBLISHER: Andre Deutsch 1979
KEYWORDS: history Great Britain tudors civilization battlement garden politics religion state
The Origins of the Second World War Reconsidered: The A. J. P. Taylor After Twenty-Five Years
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 cost
PUBLISHER: Allen & Unwin 1986
KEYWORDS: military history war second world war ww2 essays literature Germany
Opening the Manifest on Otago's Infant Years: Shipping Arrivals and Departures, Otago Harbour and Coast 1770-1860
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 cost
PUBLISHER: Otago Heritage Books 2002
KEYWORDS: New Zealand shipping history port Otago trade merchant harbour Dunedin