Books - "history"
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State Museum: Memoir 15: Wild Flowers of New York: 2 Volumes
2 vol set, Quarto, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 185pp (vol1), 177(vol2), illus, VG (light rubbing to boards, light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, light tanning & light foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: University of the State of New York 1923
KEYWORDS: botany New York natural history plants wild flowers biology
The Aloes of South Africa
Super octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, xviii + 534pp, illus, VG+ (light tanning to page edges) in d/w VG (moderate bruising to spine extrems, light rubbing, light fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: A.A. Balkema 1974
KEYWORDS: botany natural history plants Aloe South Africa biology
An Almanack: For the Year of Our Lord: 1880
Octavo, green boards with red spine, gilt lettering to spine, 384pp + lxxiv, illus, VG (previous owner's name in ink to fep, light rubbing & light soiling to boards, light bruising to spine extrems, light tanning to page edges)
PUBLISHER: J. Whitaker 1880(?)
KEYWORDS: history reference almanack
Bishop Harper and the Canterbury Settlement
Octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, x + 253pp, illus, VG (light bruising to spine extrems, moderate rubbing to boards, light tanning to page edges, previous owner's name in ink to fep)
PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs 1909
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Canterbury Settlers Bishop Harper
Notes on the Progress of New Zealand 1864-1884
Octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to front board, patterned eps, 39pp + fold out diagrams at the back, VG (previous owner's name in ink to fep, light cellotape residue to eps, light bruising to spine extrems,
PUBLISHER: George Didsbury 1886
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Business economics sociology
Colonial Memories
First edition, octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, xxii + 301pp, VG (previous owner's name in pencil to fep and their label, ligth tanning & light foxing to page edges, light rubbing & light soiling to boards, light bruising to spine extrems)
PUBLISHER: Smith Elder 1904
KEYWORDS: Great Britain Colonies biography Sociology history
Pioneers of Canterbury: Deans Letters 1840-1854
First edition, Octavo, brown cloth boards, brown lettering to spine, frontispiece, 312pp, illus, VG (previous owner's name & date in ink to fep, light bruising to spine extrems, light foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Reed (n/d)
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Canterbury autobiography letters John Dean
The Otago Medical School: Under the First Three Deans
Super octavo, brown boards with gilt lettering to spine, viii + 381pp, illus, VG (light tanning to page edges) in d/w VG (light bruising to spine extrems, light tanning, light rubbing, light soiling)
PUBLISHER: E. & S. Livingstone 1964
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Dunedin medicine school Otago
Jackets of Green: A Study of the History, Philosophy, and Character of the Rifle Brigade
Super octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (Scruffy); 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 1973
KEYWORDS: history war rifle brigade
American Sensations: Class, Empire and the Production of Popular Culture
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: University of California Press 2002
KEYWORDS: class empire sociology popular culture American studies literature history
Medieval Religion
Imperial 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: Routledge 2007
KEYWORDS: religion theology medieval history antiquities
The Shock of Medievalism
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: Duke University Press 1998
KEYWORDS: history cultural studies medieval
British Ballads: Old and New: Vol 1
This vol only, imperial 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: Cassell and Company 1897
KEYWORDS: literature poems verse poetry collection anthology history
Her-Bak Pois Chiche: Visage Vivant de L'Ancienne Egypte
TEXT IN FRENCH, 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: Flammarion 1955
KEYWORDS: text in French ancient Egypt culture illustrated history
Fairburn and Friends
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: Cape Catley 2004
KEYWORDS: New Zealand ARD Rex Fairburn biography social political literary history anecdotes
Eternal Man
First edition, 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: Souvenir Press 1972
KEYWORDS: first edition civilisation ancient history anthropology archaeology antiquities theory
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War
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: Hawthorn Books 1956
KEYWORDS: Military history American Civil War biography accounts
From New York to New Zealand; or, the New Century Trip
Large folding map at front, octavo, orange cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, patterned eps, vii + 150pp, illus, VG (moderate soiling to boards, moderate browning to spine, slight bruising to spine extrems & board corners, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, map clean & tidy with light foxing to margins only)
PUBLISHER: John Mackay Government Printing Office 1904
KEYWORDS: New Zealand travel history CW McMurran
The Art of Blitzkrieg
Octavo hardcover (VG-), lacks d/w; 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: Ian Allan 1976
KEYWORDS: War military history tactics Blitzkrieg
British Queer History
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: Manchester University Press 2013
KEYWORDS: history gay homosexual sexuality essays collection anthology culture