Books - "history"
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Not Just Weighing Babies: Plunket in AUckland 1908-1998
Imperial octavo, illus blue light card covers with black lettering, printed eps, x + 119pp, illus, VG+ (v slight soiling to covers)
PUBLISHER: Pyramid Press 1998
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Plunket Auckland history
Last Port to Antarctica: Dunedin and Port Chalmers: 100 Years of Polar Service
Small quarto, illus light card covers with white lettering to spine, 136pp, illus, VG+ (v slight creasing)
PUBLISHER: Otago Heritage Books 1997
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Antarctic Dunedin POrt Chalmers maritime history
Tall Spars, Steamers & Gum: A History of the Kaipara from Early European Settlement 1854-1947
Quarto, illus light card covers with French flaps, illus eps, 248pp, illus, VG
PUBLISHER: Kaipara Publications 2000
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Kaipara history
A Shred of Autobiography or The Progress of a Convict
Limited numbered edition (321/375), tall slim quarto, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus title page, 96pp, VG+ (v. v. slight tanning to page edges) in d/w, nr fine
PUBLISHER: Sullivan's Cove 1981
KEYWORDS: Jorgen Jorgenson autobiography Australia convict history
The Hejaz Railway
Large quarto, brown boards wtih gilt lettering to spine & front board, black eps, illus title page, xiii + 193pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w, nr fine
PUBLISHER: Stacey International & Al Turath 2005
KEYWORDS: travel railways trains Hejaz Railway transport history
History of the Fleet Marriages; with some account of The Wardens of the Prison, the Parsons, and Their Registers; to which are added Notices of the May Fair, Mint, and Savoy Chapels
Octavo, black cloth boards with title label mounted to spine, 155pp + 1pp book ads, VG (moderate damage to spine plus lower three-quarters semi-detached, heavy browning to title label, bruising to spine extrems, rear hinge cracked, moderately heavy browning to page edges, some tanning & foxing to eps, owner's name in ink & owner's address stamp to fep)
PUBLISHER: Rivingtons 1834 (Second edition)
KEYWORDS: England Fleet history
Rewi's Last Stand
Octavo, beige & red light card covers, frontispiece map, 150pp + 1pp Raupo book ads, illus, VG- (moderately heavy tanning & tanning to covers, page edges and eps, staining to cover upper edges, light tanning)
PUBLISHER: AH & AW Reed 1944
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history
Auckland's Historical Background: Its Relation to Central City Planning
Large quarto, black & white light card covers with white lettering, 66 pp plus 33pages of illustrations, VG (surface damage to spine, moderate tanning)
PUBLISHER: Auckland City Council 1969
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Auckland history town planning
The Sorrow and the Pride: New Zealand War Memorials
Very tidy ex-library; Large quarto, illus light card covers with black lettering, 177pp, illus, VG (light creasing & sun-fading to covers, light soiling to page edges, usual library markings)
PUBLISHER: GP Books 1990
KEYWORDS: ex library New Zealand military history war memorials
The New Zealanders in Sinai and Palestine
Octavo, brown cloth boards with black lettering to spine & front board, brown decorative rule to front board, frontispiece, xv + 284pp, illus plus folding maps, VG+ (some browning to eps, v slight tanning to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs 1922
KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history Sinai Palestine
Aircraft and Commerce in War
First edition, octavo, green cloth boards, green lettering in white title label to spine, viii + 111pp, VG (heavy foxing to page edges, moderate tanning to prelims & terminals, three owners' signatures in ink to front pastedown and fep)
PUBLISHER: Longmans, Green & Co 1926
KEYWORDS: First World War One WW1 aviation military history commerce trade
Legacy of Daedalus
Octavo, blue light card covers, black lettering to spine, illus tile page, ii + 94pp, illus, nr fine
PUBLISHER: Magick Mirror Communications 1995
KEYWORDS: Daedalus lectures history archaeology philosophy
Faulkland Islands Freshwater Fishes: A Natural History
Octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine, 102pp, illus, nr fine (v. slight soiling to covers)
PUBLISHER: Faulklands Conservation 2005
KEYWORDS: natural history freshwater fishes Faulklands ecology biology zoology ichthyology
My Campaign in Mesopotamia
First edition, ex library, super octavo, red cloth boards, black lettering to spine, blind decoration & rule to front board corner, lacks fep, frontispiece, 400pp, 8 folding maps, VG- ( heavy fraying to spine, 2cm tear to lower spine extrems, heavy brusing to board corners & edges, moderate soiling & heavy rubbing to boards, front gutter cracked, heavy foxing to page edges, library stamps throughout,)
PUBLISHER: Thornton Butterworth Ltd. 1920
KEYWORDS: autobiography Sir Charles Townsend military history mesopotamia
My Zeppelins
First edition, black cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 216pp, illus plates, VG ( light to boards, light bruising to spine and board extrems, light foxing to page edges & pages, book seller's stamp to front pastedown) in d/w VG ( moderate rubbing to covers, creasing and chipping to edges, light soiling)
PUBLISHER: Putnam & Co. Ltd. 1958
KEYWORDS: Hugo Eckner airships zeppelin blimp aviation history
The Founders of Canterbury: Volume 1 Being Letters from the Late Edward Gibbon Wakefield to the Late John Robert Godley and to Other Well-Known Helpers in the Settlement of Canterbury in New Zealand
This volume only (this volume was the only volume to be published), rebound, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, speckled page edges, xvi + 352pp, VG (light browning to page edges & eps, heavy foxing to prelims, light fading & brusing to spine, v.slight soiling to boards)
PUBLISHER: Stevens and Co. 1868
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Canterbury settlers pioneers letters
On the Radar: The Story of Piha's World War 2 Radar Station
SIGNED BY AUTHOR, oblong octavo, illus light card covers, 206pp, illus, VG+
PUBLISHER: Keyhole Press & PPH 2013
KEYWORDS: Radar defense networks New Zealand Piha History World War Two Radar military
Twelve Years in Canterbury, New Zealand, with Visits to the Other Provinces, and Reminiscences of the Route Home Through Australia
First edition, very tidy copy in original binding, green cloth boards with gilt decoration to spine, xiv + 226pp + 16pp adverts, VG (light rubbing & light soiling to boards, light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, light tanning to page edges, previous owner's name in ink to fep)
PUBLISHER: Sampson Low, Son & Marston 1867
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Canterbury travel Charles Thomson
The Dardanelles
First edition, all maps present, lieutenants 1924 examination forms loosely enclosed, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 361pp + 6pp adverts, VG (occasional pencil line to margins, light sporadic foxing to pages, moderate fading to spine, light fraying to spine extrems, light rubbing to boards, previous owner's name in ink to fep, light tanning & light foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Constable & Co. 1919
KEYWORDS: World War One Campaigns Turkey Gallipoli Peninsula history military
The Ten Islands and Ireland
Super octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 352pp, illus, VG (light tanning to page edges, light rubbing & light soiling to boards, moderate bruising to spine extrems & board corners, light sporadic foxing to pages, library label to upper fep)
PUBLISHER: Maunsel & Co. 1919
KEYWORDS: traffic islands Atlantic Ireland history