Books - "history"
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Burra and District: A Pictorial Memoir
Imperial octavo (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: Lynton Publications 1975
KEYWORDS: specials Ian Auhl South Australia Burra Burra mine social history photographic pictorial history record
Tales from a Sunburnt Country (volume I)
this volume only, hardcover super octavo (VG+) 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: Readers Digest 2010
KEYWORDS: australian history lynn cole readers digest natural history specials
Master and Servant: Love and Labour in the English Industrial Age
Ex library, super octavo, illus light card covers, x + two frontispiece maps + 263pp, VG+ (usu library markings, archival tape reinforcement to gutters)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2007
KEYWORDS: Carolyn Steedman history 18th century England Anglicanism social thought economic history domestic service Poor law literacy education
The Antartctic
First edition, octavo, turquoise cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, top edges turquoise, illus eps, illus title page, vi + 276pp, illus, nr fine (slight stain to page fore-edges) in d/w, VG+ (slight rubbing, v slight bruising to edges)
PUBLISHER: Blandford Press 1969
KEYWORDS: HGR King Antarctica oceans islands science scientific investigation history polar research natural history
Hikoi: Forty Years of Maori Protest
Quarto, illus light card covers, 164pp, illus, VG+
PUBLISHER: Huia Publishers 2005
KEYWORDS: Aroha Harris New Zealand Maori photographic history protests marches Springbok Raglan Bastion Point Waitangi Tent Embassy Maori Land March Hikoi history pictorial record
Antarctic Revelations and Beyond: The Timeless Presence of Two Opposing Views
Ex library, imperial octavo, illus light card covers with black lettering to spine, 318pp, illus, VG (usu library markings, tape reinforcement to gutters, soiling to page corners)
PUBLISHER: First Edition Ltd 2007
KEYWORDS: Eve Linn Antarctic treaty travel consumerism ecology tourism explorers history natural history flora fauna
Antarctica: An Encyclopedia from Abbott Ice Shelf to Zooplankton
First edition, quarto, light blue boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, illus prelims, 208pp, illus, nr fine (slight fading to upper board edges), in d/w, fine
PUBLISHER: David Bateman 2002
KEYWORDS: first edition Mary Trewby Antarctica geology natural history exploration science tourism ecology conservation reference history
Foundational Fictions: The National Romances of Latin America
Super octavo, illus light card covers, xiii + 419pp, VG (fading to spine, slight bruising to cover corners & edges, owner's ex libris label to title page, foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1993
KEYWORDS: Doris Sommer Latin South America politics history literature literary criticism fiction narratology psychoanalysis social history
Waihi Borough Council Diamond Jubilee 1902-1962
Octavo, orange light card covers with black lettering to front and handwritten 'Waihi' to spine, foreword with photo, illus poem page, 196pp, illus + folding map to rear, VG (fading to spine,)
PUBLISHER: Waihi Diamond Jubilee Committee 1962
KEYWORDS: Nellie Scott Climie New Zealand Waihi diamond jubilee history local families social history
The Golden Era of Fiat Railcars in New Zealand
Oblong octavo, illus red light card covers with silver lettering to front cover, printed eps, unpaginated, illus, VG+ (reading crease to front cover)
PUBLISHER: IPL Books 1989
KEYWORDS: Geoffrey B Churchman New Zealand transport history railways rail motorcars railcars Fiat pictorial photographic history
Rome: the Augustan Age
Softcover super octavo (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: Oxford University Press 1981
KEYWORDS: specials Kitty Chisholm John Ferguson Rome history classical history roman empire Augustus
Whatiwhatihoe
The Waikato Raupatu Claim
Ex-library softcover super octavo (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: Huia Publishers 2001
KEYWORDS: ex-library specials David McCan New Zealand nonfictin Maori history Waikato settlers history tanui treaty settlements te tiriti
The Contemporary History of Latin America
Softcover super octavo (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: Duke University Press 1995
KEYWORDS: specials Tulio Halperin Donghi history Latin America South America cultural history anthropology
Roman Women: Their History and Habits
Octavo, purple heavy card boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 355pp, illus + fold-out charts, VG+ (sellotape residue stains to boards, foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (price clipped, sellotape residue stains)
PUBLISHER: Bodley Head 1977
KEYWORDS: JPVD Balsdon Roman history women gender history women's role
Studies in Ancient Society
Past and Present Series
Hardcover super octavo (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: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd 1974
KEYWORDS: specials M.I. Finley history Rome Roman Empire society anthropology cultural history ancient Rome collected essays
Rings & Curtains
Family and Personal Memoirs
Ex-library hardcover imperial octavo (VG-) in d/w (G) ; text in French ; 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 Limited 1992
KEYWORDS: ex-library specials Jack Le White Peter Ford biography memoir cicrus history popular entertainment social history cultural anthropology
From Pericles to Philip
Hardcover super octavo (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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1918
KEYWORDS: specials T.R. Glover ancient History Greek history ancient Greece
Cartmel: People and Priory
Softcover super octavo (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: Titus Wilson & Son Ltd 1995
KEYWORDS: specials Sam Taylor history biography English history religion
In Flanders Fields
The 1917 Campaign
Ex-library hardcover octavo (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: Readers Union Ltd 1960
KEYWORDS: ex-library specials Leon Wolff history military history WWI era 1917 campaign
Masada
Herod's Fortress and the Zealots' Last Stand
Hardcover imperial octavo (G) in d/w (VG-) some damp damage ; 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: Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1972
KEYWORDS: specials Yigael Yadin archaeology ancient history Israeli history Herod the Great Roman siege Zealots