Books - "history"
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Saint Joan of Arc
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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Quartet Books 1973
KEYWORDS: history Joan of Arc France religion war politics heresy saint biography
Locomotives of the South African Railways: A Concise Guide
Slim 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 costs.
PUBLISHER: C. Struik 1985
KEYWORDS: railway rail steam locomotives South Africa history illustrated
A History of the Cinema From its Origins to 1970
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: Pelican/Penguin 1978
KEYWORDS: entertainment history film cinema silver screen movies cinematic art applied arts
Mary, Queen of Scots
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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Panther 1972
KEYWORDS: history biography Mary Queen of Scots royalty
Veteran Ships of Australia and New Zealand
Oblong imperial 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 costs.
PUBLISHER: A. H. & A. W. Reed 1976
KEYWORDS: shipping ships boats New Zealand Australia history maritime nautical
English Writers: An Attempt Towards A History of English Literature Volume XI
This volume only, 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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Cassell & Company 1895
KEYWORDS: literature English writers history literary criticism
Break Down These Bars
Square 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: Penguin Books 1987
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history riots queen street autobiography memoir Jim Edwards
The Origins of Love and Hate
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: Penguin Books/Peregrine 1963
KEYWORDS: social history psychology
The Greenpeace Chronicle
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: Picador/Pan 1980
KEYWORDS: Greenpeace history social conscience nuclear environment
The Farthest Promised Land: English Villages, New Zealand Immigrants of the 1870s
Super octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, xiii + 408pp, illus, VG+ in d/w VG-
PUBLISHER: Victoria University Press 1981
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history settlers pioneers immigrants
A Manual of the Grasses and Forage-Plants Useful to New Zealand: Part 1
Ex general assembly library, Super octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, vii + 164pp, illus, VG (light rubbing to boards, light bruising to spine extrems, light sporadic foxing to pages, front gutter heavily cracked, ligth library markings)
PUBLISHER: Government Printer, 1887
KEYWORDS: New Zealand natural history grasses plants flora
Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Third Series: Volume Seven
First edition, original binding, lovely copy, octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, t.e.g., clxxxviii + 410pp + folding maps, VG (light rubbing to boards)
PUBLISHER: The Academy House 1901
KEYWORDS: Ireland history Royal Irish Academy Science Ireland Learned institutions societies
New Zealand the Britain of the South
Octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, xv + 519pp, VG (board gutters heavily cracked, light rubbing to boards, heavy bruising to spine extrems, light tanning to page edges, previous onwer's name in ink to half title page)
PUBLISHER: Edward Standford 1861
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history agriculture travel
Letters From Canterbury, New Zealand
First edition replaced with new eps, folding map & tables, octavo, brown cloth boards, frontispiece, viii + 160pp, VG (light fading to boards, light tanning to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Rivingtons 1857
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Canterbury travel pioneer life frontier
Flora and Vegetation of the Wadden Sea Islands and Coastal Areas
Includes appendix in report 9 (landscape & vegetation maps), Super octavo, illus light card covers, 413pp, illus, VG (light rubbing to cover)
PUBLISHER: A.A. Balkema 1983
KEYWORDS: botany natural history flora vegetations plants Wadden Sea islands
The Marauding Maroons: The Rise of Queensland Rugby
Octavo, illus boards, 117pp, illus, VG+ (light foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Horwitz Grahame 1982
KEYWORDS: history sports rugby Australia Queensland
Target: Dresden
Super octavo, purple cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 256pp, illus, Nr Fine in d/w Nr Fine
PUBLISHER: Independent Books 1995
KEYWORDS: World War Two WW2 Aerial operations British Dresden Germany History Great Britain Royal Air Force Bomber Command aviation military
The Peaks and Passes of J.R.D.
Octavo, borwn cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, 264pp, illus, Nr Fien in d/w VG+ (light bruising to spine extrems)
PUBLISHER: JRD publications 1999
KEYWORDS: history autobiography New Zealand climbing mountaineering
Flight Path Dunedin: A History of Aviation in Otago
Super octavo, illus light card covers, 393pp, illus, VG+ (light soilling to cover)
PUBLISHER: Dunedin Int. Airport 2012
KEYWORDS: Dunedin otago aviation history
'Above the City': A History of Otago Boy's High School 1863-2013
Super octavo, black cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, silver motif to front board, illus eps, 440pp, illus, Nr Fine in d/w Nr Fine
PUBLISHER: Otago Boy's High School Foundation 2013
KEYWORDS: Otago Boys High School Dunedin eductaion history New Zealand