Books - "history"
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The Windjammers
Large quarto 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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Time-Life Books 1982
KEYWORDS: maritime nautical sailing windjammers time life history
Festival of Britain: Design 1951
Super octavo hardcover (nr fine) 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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Antique Collector's Club 2007
KEYWORDS: festival of Britain design art democracy post war politics modern history
Promised Land: From Dunedin to the Dunstan GOldfields
Oblong quarto, illus light card covers with large French flaps, frontispiece, 160pp, illus, VG
PUBLISHER: Penguin 2009
KEYWORDS: New Zealand illustrated history Central Otago gold mining
Bird Life on Island and Shore
LACKS D/W, First edition, super octavo, dark green buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, xix + 195pp, illus, VG (moderate bruising to spine extrems and board corners, light rubbing and soiling to boards, binding cracked at lower front gutter, tanning to fep, light foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: WIlliam Blackwood & Sons 1925
KEYWORDS: ornithology birds New Zealand natural history
Encyclopedia of Interior Design, Volume 1 A-L, Volume 2 M-Z
Two-volume set, quarto, black illus glossy heavy card boards with white lettering, xvii + 1450pp over the two volumes, illus, VG+ (v slight rubbing to boards, small ding to board corners) VERY HEAVY SET
PUBLISHER: Fitzroy Dearborn 1997
KEYWORDS: interior design decoration interiors encyclopaedia homes houses history
New Zealanders at Home: A Cultural History of Domestic Interiors 1814-1914
Large quarto, illus light card covers, frontispiece, 172pp, illus, VG+ (slight creasing to cover edges)
PUBLISHER: University of Otago Press 2001
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history homes houses
Parma e Bruxelles: Committenza e Collezionismo Farnesiani alle due Corti
TEXT IN ITALIAN, folio, cream cloth boards with green & black lettering to spine & front board, illus eps, 254pp, illus, VG (light tanning to page & board edges) in d/w, VG (archival tape repair to spine extrems, slight creasing to edges, slight rubbing)
PUBLISHER: Amilcare Pizzi Editore 1988
KEYWORDS: art history Parma Brussels
Memoria dell'Antico nell'Arte Italiana: Tomo Primero L'Uso dei Classici
TEXT IN ITALIAN, octavo, orange boards with silver lettering to spine, xxvii + 477pp, illus, VG+ (v slight foxing to upper page edges) in d/w, nr fine, in orange slipcase
PUBLISHER: Giulio Einaudi Editore 1984
KEYWORDS: TEXT IN ITALIAN Italy Italian art history
The Life of Sir John Leake, Rear-Admiral of Great Britain Vols 1 & 2
Two-volume set, imperial octavo, cream cloth boards with gilt boat motif to front board, gilt letterin to brown cloth spines, frontispiece, clxii + 333pp (vol.1), x + 490pp + 5pp book ads (vol.2), illus, VG (moderate staining to boards, some browning to page edges, sporadic foxing, tears to some page corners & edges)
PUBLISHER: Navy Records Society 1920
KEYWORDS: Sir John Leake biography naval history
A History of Vagrants and Vagrancy and Beggars and Begging
First edition, maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, page edges mottled red, xxi + 720pp, illus, VG (possibly recased?, some wear & fading to boards, some tanning to eps)
PUBLISHER: Chapman & Hall 1887
KEYWORDS: Britain British history begging vagrancy
The Master of Frankfurt and His Shop
Small quarto, brown light card covers with black & white lettering, 192pp, illus with 43 b&w plates to rear, VG (some fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: ALLSK Paleis der Academien 1984
KEYWORDS: art history
Extracts from the St Helena Records (2nd Edition) and Chronicles of Cape COmmanders
Lacks page 241-242, octavo, grey cloth boards with gilt lettering and blind stamped decorative rule, 244pp, tatty (spine missing, rear board detached, page 241-2 missing, moderate browning to page edges, owner's label to front pastedown, staining to eps, moderate foxing throughoiut)
PUBLISHER: Benjamin Grant / Guardian 1908
KEYWORDS: St Helena history
A Historical Survey of the County of Cornwall to which is added a Complete Heraldry of the Same with Numerous Engravings
Two-volume set (usually 2 volumes bound as 3 but in this case bound as 2), large quarto, marbled brown boards with brown cloth spines, frontispiece & illus title page to vol.1, viii + 592pp + 962pp + general index to rear, illus, tatty (partly disbound, some pages loose, spine of vol.1 almost detached, heavy browning to page edges, some fraying to edges & spine extrems, moderate creasing to several pages)
PUBLISHER: J Congdon 1817 & 1820
KEYWORDS: Cornwall history heraldry
Runanga: HOme of Champions: School and Community Centenary
Quarto, illus black & white light card covers, white lettering to black spine, black lettering to white front cover, illus eps, 216pp, illus, nr fine
PUBLISHER: Grey Star James Print 2005
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Dunollie Runanga history
Themes in British Social History: The English Family, 1450-1700
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: Longman 1986
KEYWORDS: British history society family
Captain Cook's Voyages of Discovery
Super 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: Heron Books (ND)
KEYWORDS: Captain James Cook voyages history
The Turin Shroud
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: Penguin Books 1979
KEYWORDS: religion history theology turin shroud Christianity theory
Austerlitz 1805
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: Cassell 1999
KEYWORDS: military history Austerlitz Napoleon grande armee
The Medieval Centuries
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: University Paperbacks/Methuen 1965
KEYWORDS: history medieval religion culture sociology anthropology politics Europe
Israel, the Nations and the Valley of Decision
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: Christians For Israel International 2014
KEYWORDS: religion Israel Christianity Jewish bible theology history