Books - "history"
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The Mini Story
Square octavo, orange boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xvi + 176pp. illus, VG (slight ding to board lower corners, v slight warp to boards, some foxing to page edges & eps, crease to fore-edge of several pages) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, moderate creasing to edges & corners, some repairs to closed tears, light soiling)
PUBLISHER: Temple Press Books 1964
KEYWORDS: cars Mini automobiles automotive industry transport history
Automobile Design: Great Designers and their Work
Signed correspondence between Ronald Barker (two typed pages) between Ronald Barker & Author Maurice Hendry loosely enclosed, also a cache of lettering between Hendry & publishers as he was a contributor to the book (this is his copy), super octavo, brown boards with gilt lettering to spine, upper page edges stained red, 374pp, illus, VG- (some annotation in ink & pencil, moderate tanning to page edges, some foxing) in d/w, tatty (archival tape repairs to spine extrems & corners & flap folds, moderate soiling, creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: David & Charles 1970
KEYWORDS: cars automobile design automotive engineering industry transport history
Roll of Early Settlers and Descendants in the Auckland Province Prior to the End of 1852
Oblong imperial octavo, brown cloth boards iwth gilt lettering to spine & front board, iv + 260pp, VG+ (inscription in ink to fep, some tanning to page edges, light foxing to eps)
PUBLISHER: Centennial Memorial Publication 1940
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Auckland settlers history reference
Mirror of the Earth: The World Landscape in Sixteenth-Century Flemish Painting
Oblong quarto, green cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, xxiii + 156pp, illus with section of B&W plates at rear, VG+ (v slight soiling to spine extrems), in d/w, nr fine
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 1989
KEYWORDS: art history
Britain, Southeast Asia and the Onset of the Pacific War
Inscribed & signed by author, super octavo, red boards, gilt lettering to sipne, xii + 434pp, nr fine, in d/w, VG (light fading to spine, some slight scratching)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1996
KEYWORDS: Britain Pacific Southeast Asia military history war politics
Britain's China Policy and the Opium Crisis: Balancing Drugs, Violence and National Honour 1833-1840
Octavo, navy blue boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, 158pp, nr fine
PUBLISHER: Ashgate Publishing 2003
KEYWORDS: Britain China Opium trade politics history
The Renaissance Print 1470-1550
Large quarto, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, xii + 433pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 1994
KEYWORDS: pirnting pirntmaking art history
Gli Arazzi del Cardinale: Bernardo Cles e il Ciclo della Passione di Pieter van Aelst
Ex library, folio, dark blue boards with blind-stamped lettering to spine & front board, ,illus eps, 320pp, illus, VG (usu library markings) in d/w, VG+ TEXT IN ITALIAN
PUBLISHER: Temii Editrice 1990
KEYWORDS: TEXT IN ITALIAN art history tapestries Italty
The Stewart Islanders
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: A.H. Reed & A.W. Reed 1970
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history
The Escapes of Captain O'Brien R.N., 1804-1808
Octavo hardcover (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: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd 1932
KEYWORDS: autobiography military history Captain O'Brien
Locks, Bolts, and Bars: Stories of Prisoners in the French Wars, 1759-1814
First edition, octavo hardcover (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: Frederick Muller Ltd 1945
KEYWORDS: History France
Homelands of the Clans
Quarto 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: Collins 1980
KEYWORDS: Scottish history Scotland
Prisoners-Of-War Work, 1756-1815
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: The Golden Head Press 1965
KEYWORDS: military history English England
Leisure Yesterday / New Zealand Yesterday Series, Vol. 1,
Octavo stapled wrapper (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: John McIndoe 1980
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history
Coaching Yesterday / New Zealand Yesterday Series, Volume 2
Octavo stapled wrapper (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: John McIndoe Limited 1980
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history
Fallout: Hedley Marston and the British Bomb Tests in Australia
Ex library, 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: Wakefield Press 2001
KEYWORDS: history science
The Keen Countryman's Miscellany
Tidy ex library, 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 2012
KEYWORDS: history sport ephemera popular fiction
Uncertain Roads: Searching for the Gypsies
Ex library quarto 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: Four Winds Press 1993
KEYWORDS: history Roma gypsies
The Turning Point : With New Zealand Engineers at El Alamein
Octavo hardcover (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: Collins N/D
KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history EL Alamein 1942
In Search of Cultural History: The Philip Maurice Deneke Lecture 1967
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: Clarendon/Oxford University Press 1978
KEYWORDS: culture lecture notes history Philip Maurice Deneke