Books - "history"
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Rivals: 75 Years of the Lions v. the All Blacks
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: The New Zealand Herald/Random House 2005
KEYWORDS: rugby union history sport lions all blacks English New Zealand England
The Art of the Ancient Near East
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: Thames & Hudson 1965
KEYWORDS: illustrated near east art artifacts history ancient
The Debate on The English Reformation
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: Methuen 1986
KEYWORDS: English England history reformation tudor religion
The Story of Man
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: Constable 2007
KEYWORDS: History world origins Darwin
An Edwardian Childhood
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: Little Brown and Co 1991
KEYWORDS: Edwardian social history childhood
Island on the Skyline: Great Barrier Island
Ex library (tidy), 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: A. H. Reed & A. W. Reed 1971
KEYWORDS: History Great Barrier Island New Zealand
Old Christchurch
Ex library (tidy), facsimile reprint, 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: Capper Press 1975
KEYWORDS: Christchurch New Zealand history
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
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
A History of Fireworks
Imperial octavo, purple cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 280pp, illus. VG- (moderate rubbing & bruising to boards, moderate foxing, soiling & fading to eps & page edges, both gutters slightly awry, adhesive tape residue to prelims & eps due, several articles, excepts, pictures stuck into eps, contains strip of photo negatives) in d/w, tatty (closed tears to spine, brusing, creasing, moderate foxing & dampstaining),
PUBLISHER: George G. Harrop 1949 (?)
KEYWORDS: fireworks pyrotechnics history military entertainment pyrotechny chemistry manufacture accidents tradition traditions
Enthusiasm: A Chapter in the History of Religion, with Special Reference to the XVII & XVIII Centuries
Super octavo, black cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, vi+622pp, illus title page, VG (moderate bruising, fading & bleach marks/colour loss to covers & edges; sl. fading to eps and page edges, mod. tanning on both eps; sl. cocked, deckled page edges) in d/w VG (sl. bruising, soiling & fading, partic. to spine; sl. foxing on interior)
PUBLISHER: University Press, Oxford 1951
KEYWORDS: Bible Christianity gospels history Jansenism reformation Quakers protesticism Moravian Guyon Fox Bourignon
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 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
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