Books - "history"
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A Brief History of Otahuhu
A4 journal format stapled booklet light card cover (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: Otahuhu Borough Council 1982
KEYWORDS: History New Zealand Otahuhu
Hordern House: Rare Books: Manuscripts: Paintings: Prints: Discovery and Exploration
A4 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: Hordern House 1988
KEYWORDS: Hordern House catalogue museum inventory listing history antiques
Gulf
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: Coromandel Press (?)
KEYWORDS: Hauraki Gulf Auckland Thames Coromandel New Zealand history
Forms and Meanings: Texts, Performances and Audiences From Codex to Computer
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 Pennsylvania Press 1995
KEYWORDS: communication history transmission text authors patrons literature society books reading education
Around Auckland Yesterday and Today
Ex library, oblong light card wrapper (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: Lodestar Press (?)
KEYWORDS: Auckland history heritage architecture New Zealand
Journal Kept in New Zealand in 1820 by Ensign Alexander McCrae of the 84th Regiment, together with relevant documents
Tidy ex library, no external markings, super octavo booklet heavy card cover (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: Alexander Turnbull Library 1928
KEYWORDS: History journal military New Zealand 1820 McCrae
Cultivating Paradise: Aspects of Napier's Botanical History
Oblong 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: Napier City Council Parks and Reserves 2002
KEYWORDS: Napier botanical history Marine Parade Clive Square Botanics New Zealand
Hitler's War Detectives 1939 - 1945
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 cost
PUBLISHER: Pan 1966
KEYWORDS: Military history Hitler World War 2 command strategy
Blitz on Britain: The Bomber Attacks on the United Kingdom 1939 - 1945
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: Ian Allan 1977
KEYWORDS: Military history world war two Blitz air raids Britain
The Zulus and Matabele: Warrior Nations
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 cost
PUBLISHER: Arms and Armour 1998
KEYWORDS: Military history Zulu Matabele Africa Shaka Rorke's Drift
The Battle for the Mediterranean
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: B T Batsford 1964
KEYWORDS: Military history world war two Mediterranean
Omar the Great (The Second Caliph of Islam)
2 volume set, octavo, Brown board with grey cloth spines, xxiv + 295pp (vol1), 350pp (vol2), VG (moderate water damage to boards, light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, light tanning to boards, light foxing to page edges) in d/w VG- (light rubbing, light soiling, moderate bruising to spine extrems, 7.5cm tear with loss to front cover of vol 1, 3cm tear with loss to spine on vol 1, spine extrems & tears with loss repaired with archival tape, light foxing)
PUBLISHER: Sh. M. Ashraf 1976
KEYWORDS: Islam religion Caliph religion history biography
Prejudices: Second Series
First edition, yellow cloth boards with black lettering to spine & front board, upper edges stained yellow, 254pp, VG (moderate fading to boards, light bruising to spine extrems, light tanning & light foxing to page edges, light soiling to boards, previous owner's name in ink to fep)
PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1921
KEYWORDS: Literature History criticism American modern first edition
Abbett: Masters of the Wid
Quarto, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, brown eps, illus title page, 191pp, illus, VG+ (light soiling to boards, light foxing to page edges) in d/w VG (light rubbing, light bruising to spine extrems)
PUBLISHER: Briar Patch Press 1989
KEYWORDS: arts paintings biography history animals landscapes
V. I. Lenin on Youth
First edition thus, Octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, 298pp, VG (light foxing to page edges) in d/w VG (light rubbing, light soiling, light bruising to spine extrems & cover corners)
PUBLISHER: Progress Publishers 1967
KEYWORDS: youth children history politics
The Mentality of Apes
Very Early primatology, super octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontipiece, viii + 336pp, illus, VG (light soiling & light rubbing to boards, light bruising to spine extrems, light foxing to page edges, bookseller's label to front pastedown)
PUBLISHER: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & co. 1931
KEYWORDS: apes primatology natural history primates animals
1917: Great October Brief History, Documents, Photographs. (text in russian)
TEXT IN RUSSIAN, imperial octavo, illus heavy card boards, red eps, illus, 240pp, VG (v.slightly cocked, moderate bruising to spine, light rubbing and scratching to front board)
PUBLISHER: Moscow Publishing House of Political Literature 1977
KEYWORDS: russia history 1917 revolution tsar
The Story of Mangatu: The Forest which Healed the Land.
New Zealand Forest Service Information Series No. 62
Imperial octavo, illus cloth boards, black lettering to spine, blue eps, frontispiece, illus title page, 100pp, illus, VG (bruising and wear to board corners, light soiling to spine and boards, occasional pencil markings within)
PUBLISHER: A. R. Shearer, Government Printer 1973
KEYWORDS: new zealand history forest mangatu nature
Waimakariri: Canterbury's River of Cold Rushing Water: An Illustrated History
Folio, blue heavy card boards with gilt lettering to spine,188pp, illus, VG+ (light soiling to boards, slightly musty) in d/w, VG+ (heavy tanning, light rubbing, in clear plastic wrap)
PUBLISHER: Robert Logan 1987
KEYWORDS: Waimakariri river Canterbury New Zealand history
Old Marlborough, or The Story of a Province
Ex library, first edition, octavo, patterned blue boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, small gilt illus to front board, patterned eps, frontispiece with tissue guard, xi + 478pp + 8pp ads, illus, scruffy (light soiling & tape staining to boards, moderate bruising to spine extrems, surface loss to board edges, a couple of small closed tears to cloth of spine, usual libriary markings, moderate tanning to page edges, 8cm tear with loss to paper of rear pastedown, boards shaky but text block sound)
PUBLISHER: Hart and Keeling 1900
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Marlborough history