Books - "history"
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Milford Sound: An Illustrated History of the Sound, the Track and the ROad
Oblong quarto, glossy illus heavy card boards with blue & black lettering, illus eps, 147pp, illus, VG+ (some fading to spine and extrems)
PUBLISHER: Craig Printing 2000
KEYWORDS: New Zealand MIlford SOund fiordland history
83 Squadron 1917-1969
Inscribed & signed by author Frank Harper to NZ Aviation Author Rex Cording, two-page holograph signed letter from author to Cording loosely enclosed, quarto, blue heavy card boards with gilt lettering to spine, 333pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w, VG+ (v slight creasing to edges, light fading)
PUBLISHER: RG LOw 1992
KEYWORDS: aviation 83 squadron history
Freyberg's 2nd New Zealand Division in Italy 1943-46
Signed by author, signed typed note from the author to MIlitary HIstorian R Cording loosely enclosed, quarto, blue light card covers with black lettering to front cover & black taped spine, vi + 244pp + 2pp biography, illus, VG+ (light taning to page edges, v slight creasing to some edges)
PUBLISHER: Ray Munro 1989
KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history Italy Second WOrld War Two WW2 Freyberg 2nd New Zealand Division
The Third Republic from its Origins to the Great War 1871-1914
Octavo, green heavy card boards with gilt lettering to spine, xxi + 392pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w, VG+ (price clipped)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University PRess 1984
KEYWORDS: France French history
Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig BUrchard Part II: The Eucharist Series Volumes 1 and 2
Two-volume set in slipcases, imperial octavo, black cloth boards with gilt lettering in red decorative title panel to spine, 510pp across two vols, illus with 230 b&w illus, VG+ (v v slight foxing, owner's ex libris label to front pastedowns) in d/w, nr fine, in red light card slipcases
PUBLISHER: Harvey Miller / Hayden & Son 1978
KEYWORDS: art history tapestry painting
The BIrth of Independent Air Power: British Air Policy in the FIrst WOrld War
Super octavo, blue heavy card boards with gilt lettering to spine, xix + 169pp, illus, VG+ (v small stain to page fore-edges) in d/w, VG+ (v slight creasing to lower spine)
PUBLISHER: Allen & Unwin 1986
KEYWORDS: Brtish Britain aviation history First World War One WW1
Luther und die Folgen fur die Kunst
TEXT IN GERMAN, quarto, purple cloth boards with gilt lettering in black title panel to spine, illus prelims, 689pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w, VG (4cm tatty crease & small nick to front upper edge)
PUBLISHER: Prestel Verlag 1983
KEYWORDS: TEXT IN GERMAN LUther art history
Duties and Dreams: Images of Women's Lives in and around Bairnsdale during the Twentieth Century
Limited numbered (89/100) signed edition, large quarto, illus black & white light card covers, 280pp, illus, VG+ (v slight rubbing to covers)
PUBLISHER: Mary Ann WIllis 1999
KEYWORDS: Australia Australian history Bairnsdale women
German Prisoners in Great Britain
Nice tidy copy, quarto, beige light card covers with red lettering to front cover, frontispiece with tissueguard, 62pp of b&w photographs, VG (light tanning to covers, some staining to rear cover, 1cm square cut off fep upper corner, moderate browning to tissueguard)
PUBLISHER: Tillotson & SOn 1916
KEYWORDS: German POWs prisoners of war Britain British military history Donnington Hall ALexandra Palace DOrchester Handforth Lofthouse Park Eastcote
Abbott Sugar on the Abbey Church of St.-Denis and its Art Treasures
Super octavo, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, xix + 285pp + plates at rear, VG (light rubbing to boards, light foxing to page edges & eps, small owner's ex libris label to front pastedown) in d/w, VG (slight fading to spine, moderate creasing to edges, moderate foxing inside)
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 1979 (second edition)
KEYWORDS: Abbey church St Denis art history stained glass windows architecture sculpture paintings
The Book of the Huia
Super octavo, blue/grey cloth boards with white lettering to spine, 159pp, illus, VG (boards covered in brown paper cover, spine sl cocked, light foxing to eps) in d/w, VG- (moderate chipping and small closed tears to edges, light rubbing and soiling to covers)
PUBLISHER: Whitcombe and Tombs Limited 1963
KEYWORDS: NEw Zealand huia ornithology birds natural history
History of the Nelson Institute
First edition, octavo, red cloth boards, black lettering to spine, frontispiece, 111pp, illus plates, VG+ ( light foxing to page edges, v.light tanning to pages,) in d/w VG ( light fading to outer, light soiling , light brusing to edges)
PUBLISHER: A. H. & A. W. Reed 1948
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Nelson Institute museum
A STudy of Fifteenth Century Netherlandish Triptychs (Unpublished PhD thesis)
Unpublished thesis, ex-uni library, quarto, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, patterned eps, 507pp, VG (relatively light library markings, some tanning to page edges & page peripherals, light fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: By the author 1964
KEYWORDS: Netherlands Dutch tryptichs art history
Les Marques de Collections de Dessins & D'Estampes avec des Notices Historiques sur Les Collectionneurs, Les Collections, Les Ventes, Les Marchands et Editeurs plus separate Volume Supplement
Two-volume set, quarto, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front boards, xi + 595pp, xi + 463pp (main vol & supplement vol respectively), illus, nr fine TEXT IN FRENCH
PUBLISHER: ALan WOfsy FIne Arts 1975 & 1988 (Supplenent volume)
KEYWORDS: TEXT IN FRENCH reference collecting collectibles collectors marks stamps art history
Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard Part IX: The Decoration of the Torre de la Parada
THis volume only, small quarto, black buckram boards with gilt lettering in red decorative panel to spine, x + 386pp plus illus with 200 b&w plates at rear, VG (some tanning & foxing to page edges, light patch of soiling to lower page edges) in d/w, VG (some fading, some foxing, archival tape repair to small closed tears, some soiling)
PUBLISHER: Phaidon 1971
KEYWORDS: art history Torre de la Parada paintings sketches drawings RUbens
Douglas Aircraft Company Engineering Division: Preliminary Design of an Experimental World-Circling SPaceship REport No. SM11827
Quarto, black & white light card covers with white lettering, printed eps, x + 236pp + aprox 50pp appendices, illus, VG (light creasing & rubbing to covers, slight foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Rand 1998 (Rreprint of 1948 issue)
KEYWORDS: aircraft aviation history industry space aeronautical engineering spaceships satellite design
Le Peinture dans la Peinture
Small quarto, cream light card covers with black lettering to spine & front cover, xv + 293pp, illus, VG (moderate foxing to covers & page edges & prelims & terminals) TEXT IN FRENCH
PUBLISHER: Musee des Beaux Arts Dijon 1982
KEYWORDS: art history painting TEXT IN FRENCH
La Decourverte de la Domus Aurea et La Formation des Grotesques a la Renaissance
TEXT IN FRENCH, large quarto, mottled grey cloth boards with brown lettering to spine & front board, xx + 203pp, illus with 183 b&w plates at rear, VG (owner's ex libris label to front pastedown, slight foxing & tanning, small ding to rear board lower edges)
PUBLISHER: Warburg Institute University of London 1969
KEYWORDS: art history paintings sculptures Renaissance TEXT IN FRENCH
Forty Years in Constantinople: The Recollections of SIr Edwin Pears 1873-1915
Octavo, grey cloth boards with title lettering to spine, page edges stained black, frontispiece with tissue guard, xiii + 390pp, illus, very tatty (heavy staining to boards, bookseller's label to front pastedown, lacks fep, owner's name & date in ink to half-titleage, moderately heavy foxing & some staining to feps, heavy tanning & staining to rear eps, occasional soiling to pages)
PUBLISHER: Herbert Jenkins Ltd 1916 (2nd edition)
KEYWORDS: Constantinople travel SIr Edwin Pears autobiography history
Delving into the Past of Auckland's Eastern Suburbs Section 3 Meadowbank - St Johns's
Signed by author, large quarto, illus blue light card covers with black lettering to front & black taped spine, 170pp, illus, VG+ (v light staining to covers, light tanning)
PUBLISHER: Elizabeth Jackson 1976
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Auckland local history Meadowbank St Johns