Books - "history"
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A Woman of Good Character: Single Women as Immigrant Settlers in Nineteenth Century New Zealand
First edition, lacks fep, 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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Allen & Unwin/Historical Branch 1990
KEYWORDS: New Zealand women settlers settlement history social first edition
The Boy's Own Annual
Rebacked new eps, small part of front folding plate is missing, 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 will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Boy's Own Paper Office 1922-23
KEYWORDS: history boy's own annual literature children's
Captain William Bligh
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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Paul Hamlyn 1972
KEYWORDS: biography William Bligh maritime exploration nautical history hms bounty mutiny
English Eccentrics
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PUBLISHER: Penguin Books 1980
KEYWORDS: literature history archaeology biographies eccentrics
Blood & Oil: A Prince's Memoir of Iran, From the Shah to the Ayatollah
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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Random House 2005
KEYWORDS: Iran history culture opec autobiography royal family Iranian
Europe in the Eighteenth Century: Aristocracy and the Bourgeois Challenge
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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Phoenix Press 2002
KEYWORDS: Europe history politics economics military industrial revolution
The Weaker Vessel: Women's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England
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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Mandarin 1995
KEYWORDS: women history culture Europe
A Second Book of Leo Bensemann's Work: Exemplified in Twenty Drawings, in Pen & Pencil Together with Six Engravings on Wood, and Specimens of Calligraphy and Typography
Imperial octavo, purple boards with red lettering to spine, unpagenated, illus, VG (previous owner's name in ink to fep, light rubbing to boards, light tanning to spine)
PUBLISHER: Caxton Press 1952
KEYWORDS: arts Drawing New Zealand Calligraphy history
Journal Kept in New Zealand in 1820
Super octavo, grey cloth boards with black lettering to front board, patterned eps, 31pp, illus, VG+ (light tanning to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Govt. Printer 1928
KEYWORDS: autobiography New Zealand history
Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History: The Langauges of the Pacific
Super octavo, grey stapled wrappers, 17pp, VG (light rubbing & light soiling to wrapper)
PUBLISHER: Bishop Museum Press 1920
KEYWORDS: Ethnology Polynesia natural history
Oil Notes
First edition, ex library, 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: Collins 1989
KEYWORDS: oil exploration history fossil fuel
A Crack in the Edge of the World
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: Penguin Books 2005
KEYWORDS: America History earthquake
The Confidential Hope of a Miracle: The True History of The Spanish Armada
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: Doubleday 2003
KEYWORDS: history spanish armada war
The Bounty: the True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
octavo softcover (VG-) foxed: 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: Harper Perennial 2004
KEYWORDS: history Bounty Bligh mutiny maritime adventure sea
The Voyage of the Beagle: Journal of Research into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited during the Voyage of HMS Beagle Round the World, Under the Command of Captain Fitz Roy, RN.
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: Wordsworth Editions Ltd 1997
KEYWORDS: history geology natural maritime adventure sea Royal Navy Beagle Darwin journal voyage zoology evolution
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
octavo softcover (VG-) tanning: 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: Picador 2003
KEYWORDS: Rhodesia South Africa pioneers farming memoir history settlers civil war
Shipminder: the Story of Her Majesty's Coastguard
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: Pelham Books Ltd 1971
KEYWORDS: coastguard. history heroism rescue boats nautical photographs illustrated Royal Navy
Ship on Shore
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: Rowfant Books 1982
KEYWORDS: military history maritime boats
The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
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 costs
PUBLISHER: Sphere Books Ltd 1985
KEYWORDS: history commentary politics government America Britain ancient Greek Vietnam
The Battle for the Rhine 1944
Arnhem and the Ardennes: The Campaign in Europe
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 costs
PUBLISHER: Cassell Military Paperbacks 2006
KEYWORDS: military history WWII Europe campaign battle Arnhem Montgomery Eisenhower