Books - "history"
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Early Days in the Waikato: A Centennial Volume
Ex library, small quarto 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: Paul's Book Arcade 1974
KEYWORDS: History settlers pioneers Waikato New Zealand
Old Wellington Hotels: Some History, Personalities and Anecdotes
Ex library (tidy), small 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 cost
PUBLISHER: Millwood Press 1974
KEYWORDS: Wellington hotels history New Zealand
Wellington, Wellington: A History
Ex library, signed by author, small 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 cost
PUBLISHER: Mallinson Rendel 1981
KEYWORDS: History Wellington New Zealand
Costly Gold: Clutha riches and their human toll
Ex library, quarto 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: A.H. & A.W Reed 1978
KEYWORDS: Clutha gold New Zealand history
On the Edge of Our City: A Pictorial History
quarto 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: Colonial Associates 1984
KEYWORDS: Island Bay Newtown Berhampore Lyall Bay Kilbirnie Seatoun Miramar Worser Bay Karaka Melrose pictorial history New Zealand
Historic Kelburn
Ex library, oblong light card cover booklet (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: Kelburn Playcentre 1975
KEYWORDS: Kelburn pictorial history Wellington New Zealand
Reminiscences of a Wanderer
First edition, super octavo, brown cardboard covers, handwritten lettering in marker pen to spine, 372pp, VG- (brown tape binding on spine sl. frayed & edges chipped; sl. rubbing & small marks on covers; fep sl. foxed, rep mod. foxed; tiny pencil crosses throughout on page margins, fep has had extensive pencil notes erased leaving light indentations, former owner's details embossed on fep)
PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs 1914
KEYWORDS: sailing merchant navy history biography yarns England America
Pictorial History of The RAF: Volume 1: 1918-1939; Volume 2: 1939-1945; Volume 3: 1945-1969.
Three volume set, super octavo, blue cloth boards; silver lettering to spines, illus; vol 1: 202pp, vol 2: 240pp, vol 3: 208pp; illus, VG+ (all three vols in nice condition: sl. rubbing & bruising to boards, v. sl. foxing to top of page edges) in d/ws: vol 1 VG+ (v. sl. rubbing & bruising to edges, light foxing to eps, slight sunning to exterior), vols 2&3 VG (mod. tanning to exteriors, particularly spine; edges v. sl. rubbing & bruising to edges, with a little staining at extrems, light foxing to eps. Vol 3 is price clipped).
PUBLISHER: Ian Allan vols 1&2: 1969, vol 3: 1970
KEYWORDS: RAF Royal Air Force flying airplanes Britain England Flying Corps Naval Air Service history
Blood Cries Afar: the Forgotten Invasion of England 1216
Super octavo, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 287pp, illus, Near FINE in d/w Near FINE.
PUBLISHER: Spellmount 2011
KEYWORDS: history England Angevin Magna Carta King John Bouvines Normandy
The Struggle for Mastery: Britain 1066-1284
Super octavo, bright blue cloth boards, silver lettering to spine, frontispiece, xxiv+614pp, illus, Near FINE in d/w Near FINE.
PUBLISHER: Allen Lane 2003
KEYWORDS: England history medieval Norman conquest King William Henry John Edward Wales Llewelyn
Plantagenet England 1225-1360
Super octavo, black cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xxiv+614pp, illus, Near FINE in d/w Near FINE.
PUBLISHER: Clarendon Press Oxford 2005
KEYWORDS: history England Scotland Wales France King Henry John Edward Matilda land culture war Plantagenet church society farming law development Crecy Angevin Poitiers
The Australian Imperial Force in Sinai and Palestine: 1914-1918
Super octavo, burgundy cloth boards, gilt lettering on spine, xxiv+844pp, illus, tatty (boards rather battered with bruising, rubbing, surface loss, staining, adhesive tape, and a 4cm tear on front board; loss of surface on corners; eps & page edges mod. browned; inscribed in ink to the editor on fep; sl. cocked; odour of naphthalene)
PUBLISHER: Angus and Robertson 1923
KEYWORDS: ANZAC ANZACS Australia history Sinai Turkey Romani Egypt Gaza Beersheeba Bin Al Abd Katia
Wrecked on a Reef or Twenty Months in the Auckland Isles. A True Story of Shipwreck, Adventure, and Suffering.
Translation of the 1880 text.
Super octavo, red cloth boards, white lettering on spine & front cover, frontispiece, 260pp, illus, Near FINE, in d/w Near FINE.
PUBLISHER: Steele Roberts 2003
KEYWORDS: autobiography 1880's history shipwreck survival
The New Zealand People at War: Political and External Affairs
Ex-library, 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: Dept of Internal Affairs 1958
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history militry politics ww2 second world war
Freemasonry in Manawatu: History of the Lodge United Manawatu No. 1721, E. C. and of Other Masonic Lodges of the District From 1877 to 1922
Octavo, navy blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to front board, 72pp, VG- (moderate scuffing & creasing to spine & extrems, moderate bruising & scuffing to board corners & edges, light/moderate tanning to page edges & eps)
PUBLISHER: Keeling & Mundy (Printer) 1923
KEYWORDS: New Zealand freemasons freemasonry history Manawatu
Seventy-Five Years History of Mount Egmont Lodge of Freemasons, New Plymouth, New Zealand, No. 670 on the Register of the United Grand Lodge of England
Octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to front board, frontispiece, 118pp, illus, VG- (moderate scuffing & creasing to spine extrems, spine sl cocked, light/moderate scuffing to boards & corners, light tanning to page edges & eps, light soiling to eps)
PUBLISHER: McLeod & Slade (Printer) 1929
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history freemasonry illustrated freemasons Mount Egmont New Plymouth grand lodge
La Austrialia Del Espiritu Santo: The Journal of Fray Martin de Munilla O. F. M. and Other Documents Relating to the Voyage of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros to the South Sea (1605-1606) and the Franciscan Missionary Plan (1617-1627)
2 vol set, octavo, blue cloth boards, blind stamp lines to boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt ship motif to front boards, vol 1- xvii + 270pp, vol 2- xv + 176pp, illus, VG (sl staining to spines, vol 2- light creasing to base spine extrem, light/moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, vol 2- light foxing throughout, previous owner's name in pencil to front pastedowns) in d/w, VG (moderate tanning to spines, light foxing & tanning to edges, moderate chipping to edges)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press/Hakluyt Society 1966
KEYWORDS: exploration Fray Martin de Munilla Pedro Fernandez de Quiros nautical shipping marine sailing history travel
The Evolution of the Idea of God
Octavo, black cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt religious motif to front board, ix + 447pp, VG- (in clear contact secured with tape to pastedowns, 6cm wide loss to spine extrems, light crack to full length of spine, old tape residue to spine from previous protective cover, repair tape to rear hinge, moderate foxing & tanning to page edges & eps, crack to full length of board gutters, sporadic & passionate underlining & annotations to text in red ink, crack to full length of gutter pgs 208-209)
PUBLISHER: Grant Richards 1897
KEYWORDS: religion theology Israel Palestine ancient history Christianity Judaism
Golden Days of Lake County
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: Whitcombe and Tombs 1962
KEYWORDS: Central Otago history Lake County
Documenting America 1935-1943
Quarto 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 1988
KEYWORDS: Essays photographic history America social culture