Books - "history"
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Unfinished Business: The Second Fifty Years of the Nelson City Council
SIGNED IN 1983 BY DEPUTY MAYOR & CITY MANAGER, octavo, blue faux boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt crest to front board, printed front ep, mayoral plate & blind embossed office stamp to fep, frontispiece, x + 150pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light soiling to front board) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing to spine & covers, 4cm closed tear to front cover with subtle tape repair)
PUBLISHER: Nelson City Council 1978
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Nelson south island history city council illustrated signed
Sounds of Brass: History of the Takaka Citizens Band
Octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine, vi + 156pp + unpaginated appendices, illus, VG+ (light creasing & scuffing to spine with some light discolouration, light chafing to covers)
PUBLISHER: Stiles Printing (Printer) circa 1990
KEYWORDS: New Zealand music history Takaka brass band illustrated
Marvels of Ant Life
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: S.W. Patridge & Co 1898
KEYWORDS: ants natural history illustrated
Ordance Survey Memoirs of Ireland Volume Thirty-Eight: Parishes of County Donegal I 1833-5, North-East Donegal
This volume only, imperial 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 Institute of Irish Studies 1999
KEYWORDS: Ireland history memoirs society culture
Battle for Egypt: The Second New Zealand Division at El Alamein
Stapled light card covers, 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: Army Board: Wellington 1945
KEYWORDS: world war 2 ww2 New Zealand NZ battle warfare reports history memoirs illustrated photography Egypt maps
Roads to Rome: With the Second New Zealand Division from Maadi to Florence
Stapled light card covers, 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: Army Board: Wellington 1946
KEYWORDS: world war 2 ww2 New Zealand NZ battle warfare reports history memoirs illustrated photography Italy maps
The Diamond Track: From Egypt to Tunisia with the Second New Zealand Division 1942-1943
Stapled light card covers, 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: Army Board: Wellington 1945
KEYWORDS: world war 2 ww2 New Zealand NZ battle warfare reports history memoirs illustrated photography maps
East of Malta West of Suez: The Admiralty Account of the Naval War in the Eastern Mediterranean September 1939 to March 1941
Stapled light card covers, super octavo softcover (scruffy); 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: His Majesty's Stationary Office 1943
KEYWORDS: ww2 world war 2 mediterranean navy warfare reports photography maps history
Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland, Volume Thirty-Nine: Parishes of County Donegal II 1835-6, Mid, West and South Donegal
This volume only, 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 Institute of Irish Studies 2006
KEYWORDS: Ireland history memoirs society
Kiwi Battlefields
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: Hatchette NZ 2011
KEYWORDS: war New Zealand battle history memoirs
The Drawings of Leonardo Da Vinci
Super 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: The Reprint Society London 1954
KEYWORDS: Da Vinci history art illustrated mechanics nature life drawings
British Botanical and Horticultural Literature Before 1800: Comprising a History and Bibliography of Botanical and Horticultural Books Printed in England, Scotland and Ireland From the Earliest Times Until 1800
3 VOLUME SET, quarto, dark grey heavy card boards, gilt lettering to spines, frontispieces, xvi-xxvi + 142pp-748pp, illus, Near FINE (possible author's signature in ink to full title page of vol 1) in slipcase, VG (moderate scuffing to boards
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1975
KEYWORDS: British botany horticulture plants history books bibliography literature collection
The Full Story of the Great Earthquake Disaster at Hawke's Bay, New Zealand on 3rd February, 1931
Quarto, red stapled light card covers, black lettering to covers, adverts to eps, unpaginated, illus, VG- (heavy creasing & scuffing to covers with moderate soiling, moderate creasing & staining to page egdes, heavy rusting to staples with staining, central pgs completely detached but present)
PUBLISHER: The Weekender 1931
KEYWORDS: New Zealand natural disasters media journalism history earthquakes illustrated pictorial Hawke's Bay north island
Zealandia: Our Continent Revealed
Quarto, light blue heavy card boards, blind lettering & map to boards, illus eps & prelims, 271pp, illus, VG+ in d/w VG+
PUBLISHER: Penguin Books 2014
KEYWORDS: New Zealand west Pacific Zealandia antiquity history anthropology illustrated
Paul Klee and His Illness: Bowed But Not Broken by Suffering and Adversity
Quarto, black cloth boards, white lettering to spine, white illus to front board, frontispiece, 272pp, illus, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling to covers)
PUBLISHER: Karger 2010
KEYWORDS: Paul Klee biography memoir illness medical dermatology artist art history illustrated skin disease
Anatoki Settlers: The Story of Two Pioneering Families: Spittal and Gooch and Their Involvement in the Area Known as Anatoki
SIGNED BY AUTHOR, quarto, illus glossy card covers, 186pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing to spine)
PUBLISHER: Sally Gaffney 2017
KEYWORDS: New Zealand pioneers settlers illustrated family history geneaology Spittal Gooch signed
Born in the GDR: Living in the Shadow of the Wall
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: Oxford University Press 2014
KEYWORDS: Berlin wall history Germany communism capitalism memoirs society
Israel at Sixty: A Pictorial and Oral History of a Nation Reborn
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: Wiley 2008
KEYWORDS: Israel history culture photography
Sovereign Butter: Seventy Five Years of Production
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: The Golden Bay Dairy Factory Company Limited 1977
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Golden Bay dairy butter Sovereign
1893 Onwards...Reminiscences of Golden Bay A. & P. Shows
Signed by author, 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: Golden Bay A. & P. Association ?1980
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Golden Bay photography