Books - "history"
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Tracks Across the Isthmus: A Centennial History of the Buildings of Auckland's First Railway
Octavo stapled 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: The Lodestar Press (n/d)
KEYWORDS: trains new zealand history
Coromandel in the Golden Days
Octavo stapled 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: Times Commercial Printers (n/d)
KEYWORDS: history coromandel gold rush sam chapman
A Very Long Weekend: The Army National Guard in Korea 1950 - 1953
Tidy 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: White Mane 1996
KEYWORDS: Military history United States National Guard Korea
Besieged in Kut and After
First edition, octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus eps, frontispiece, 344pp, illus, VG (light soiling to boards, light tanning & light foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: William Blackwood 1917
KEYWORDS: World War One WW1 history autobiography English Charles Barber
In the Uttermost East: Being an Account of Investigations Among the Natives and Russian Convicts of the Island of Sakhalin, with Notes of Travel in Korea, Siberia and Manchuria
First edition, folding map just before index, super octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine extrems & board corners, frontispiece, xxx + 478pp, illus, VG (light cracking to gutters, previous owner's name in ink to fep, light bruising to spine extrems, light rubbing to boards, light tanning & light foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Harpers & Brothers 1903
KEYWORDS: Exiles Russia Federation Siberia Charles Hawes history travels autobiography
Hongos: Especies Alucinogenas
Text in Spanish, super octavo, illus light card covers, 120pp, illus, VG (light rubbing to covers, light foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Diana 1995
KEYWORDS: text in Spanish mushrooms natural history culture
Jung and the Making of Modern Psychology: The Dream of a Science
Super octavo, illus light card covers, xvi + 387, Nr Fine
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2003
KEYWORDS: history biography psychology C G Jung science
Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes & Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians
8 of 12 volumes, present volumes are i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, ix, xii, ex library, some folding maps, small octavo, half leather bound, gilt lettering to spine, viii + 388pp (vol1), iii + 353pp, (vol2), iii + 356pp (vol3), iv + 391pp (vol4), iv + 320pp (vol5), 359pp (vol6), ii+ 362pp (vol9), 322pp (vol12), VG- (previous owner's name in ink to fep (vol i, vi, v, xii), moderate library markings, moderate bruising to spine extrems & board corners, moderate rubbing to boards, moderate tanning to page edges, light sporadic foxing & light tanning to pages, vol ii rear board lost majority of leather covering with bare cardboard showing, vol ix lost majority of rear board with several of the last pages ripped and in tatters, first few pages lost in vol vi)
PUBLISHER: Chalmers, Ray & Co. 1804
KEYWORDS: ancient history civilisation culture Carthaginians Assyrians Babylonians Medes Persians Macedonians Grecians
Lucas's Nelson, Blenheim and West Coast Almanac and Year-Book for 1892
Rebound as a hardcover utilising original cover, new eps, Brown cloth boards, 273pp + 32pp adverts, illus, VG (light tanning to page edges, light sporadic foxing to pages)
PUBLISHER: Lucas & Sons 1982
KEYWORDS: South Island Periodicals Almanacs New Zealand History Nelson Blenheim West Coast
The Kea: A New Zealand Problem
Ex-library, Super octavo, green cloth boards with green lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, 151pp, illus, VG (light library markings, moderate tanning to boards, moderate bruising to spine extrems, light rubbing to boards, light foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Marriner Bros & Co. 1908
KEYWORDS: ornithology Kea New Zealand natural history birds
Passage to Tobruk
Association copy, first edition, first copy off the press (authenticated on fep, by Pat Lawlor who has also signed the book), inscribed by author to Pat Lawlor & Signed, octavo, orange cloth boards with brown lettering to spine, 143pp, illus, VG (d/w cellotaped to pastedowns, light foxing to page edges, light library markings) in d/w VG (light fading, light soiling, light bruising to spine extrems)
PUBLISHER: Reed 1943
KEYWORDS: signed World War Two Campaigns Greece Francis Jackson autobiography New Zealand military history
The Story of Hawke's Bay
First edition, ex library & signed, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, 312pp, illus, VG (d/w cellotaped to pastedowns leaving light residue stains, light tanning & light foxing to page edges, light library markings) in d/w VG- (9cm tear with loss to lower front cover & spine, heavy bruising to spine extrems, light rubbing, 11cm tear with loss to upper rear cover)
PUBLISHER: Reed 1958
KEYWORDS: signed New Zealand history Hawkes bay
Wanderings in Westland: Trips Down Memory Lane
Octavo softcover (Near FINE); 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: Grwey Star James Print 2007
KEYWORDS: Westland Hokitika history autobiography
Michelangelo and the Sistene Chapel
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: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2008
KEYWORDS: art history michelangelo sistene chapel renaissance
Woodrow Wilson and the World War: A Chronicle of our Times
The Chronicles of America Series. Vol.48
Charles B. Warren ownership details and signature - American diplomat & ambassador to Mexico1924, 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: Oxford University Press 1921
KEYWORDS: american history world war 1 ww1 wwi woodrow wilson
The World's Land Speed Record
Ex library, duo decimo 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: Pheonix House 1964
KEYWORDS: motor racing history land speed
The Disinherited: The Exiles who Created Spanish Culture
FIRST EDITION UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY, 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: Allen Lane 2007
KEYWORDS: spain history biography
New Zealand's First World War History
Imperial octavo hardcover (Nr Fine) in d/w (Nr Fine); 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: Exisle Publishing 2015
KEYWORDS: new Zealand history world war one ww1 wwi anzacs
Across the Sea to War: Australia and New Zealand Troop Convoys from 1865 through Two World Wars to Korea and Vietnam
Ex library, 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: Rosenberg 2003
KEYWORDS: new zealand history war troops
The Midland in the 1930's
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: Ian Akllen Ltd 1982
KEYWORDS: trains rail railway england history steam