Books - "history"
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The Lighthouse Stevensons: The extraordinary story of the building of the Scottish lighthouses by the ancestors of Robert Louis Stevenson
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: Harper Perennial 2007
KEYWORDS: lighthouses history Scotland
The Mozart Companion
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: Rocklif 1956
KEYWORDS: music history biography classic reference
Tamil Tigress: My Story as a Chils Soldier in Sri Lanka's Bloody Civil War
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 & Unwin 2011
KEYWORDS: war autobiography memoir history politics historical
Spanish Texas 1519 - 1821
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 costs.
PUBLISHER: University of Texas Press 2010
KEYWORDS: history texas spanish america
Bossworth Field and the Wars of the Roses
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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Wordsworth Editions 1998
KEYWORDS: history england
German cultural history of the last hundred years
Square 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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Nymphenburger Verlagshandlung 1970
KEYWORDS: german history culture
Auckland Waterfront: The Port in Edwardian Times
Quarto hardcover (VG+) 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Captain Tach Press / Boat Books Limited 2014
KEYWORDS: Auckland maritime history port waterfront harbour boats shipping Edwardian
Footprints: The Story of the Settlement and Development of the Nelson Back Country Districts
FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR Octavo light blue cloth boards, black lettering to spine, illus., 428pp, VG+ (tidy ex-lbrary: internal marking to fep. only, light fading, soiling, and scuffing to boards, light tanning to edges), lacks d/w
PUBLISHER: Whitcombe and Tombs 1962
KEYWORDS: Nelson New Zealand history regional local back country Wairau Roundell Lake Rotoiti Buller Howard Valley Tarndale sheep runs Motueka Tapawera Motupiko Baton Wangapeka Karamea Crow River Sherry Tadmor Glenhope
Memoirs of Major-General Sir Henry Havelock, K.C.B.
FIRST EDITION, DELIGHTFUL BINDING octavo full leather binding with gilt embossed emblem to front board, gilt tooling, lettering & raised bands to spines, marbled edges, 456pp., VG+ (presentation school prize note from 1908 to pastedown, library cartalogue numbers in pen to interior, light scuffing and soiling to boards & spines, light rubbing to boards, binding sound but small crack to front/spine, light foxing within)
PUBLISHER: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1890 (New Edition)
KEYWORDS: Memoir biography British history Empire imperial military India Afghanistan colonial wars Jellalabad
From the Center: Femisist Essays on Women's Art
Octavo illus. light card covers, 314pp., VG- (light cracking to binding, moderate creasing and scuffing to covers, light soiling also, bookseller's stamp to fep., moderate soiling and tanning to pages)
PUBLISHER: E. P. Dutton 1976
KEYWORDS: Feminism feminist art crticism theory history women's movement womens Changin 1971
The Jubilee History of Nelson: From 1842 to 1892
Octavo blue pebbled leather boards, gilt lettering to front (none to spine), decorative endpapers, illus., 205pp, VG- (tidy ex-library (stamp to fep. only), prev. owner's details in pen to front pastdown, lone pen annotation to endpapers (unobtrusive), light scuffing and soiling to boards, v. slight beginning of a split to spine appearing (easy to miss), moderate discolouration to spine (perhaps from removal of library stickers, tan-lines and residue suggestive of this), light foxing within)
PUBLISHER: Bond, FInney, and Co. 'Colonist' Office, Nelson 1892
KEYWORDS: Nelson New Zealand regional history local Tasman gold provincial Wairau politics
Early History of Wairarapa
SCARCE, green light card stappled covers, black lettering to spine, illus.,, 152pp, VG (rusted staples, light soiling scuffing and creasing to covers, v. light surface loss to front covers (probable sticker removal), light tanning to pages, prev. owner's name in pen to foreward page (1st page)
PUBLISHER: not stated, n.d [c. 1940]
KEYWORDS: Wairarapa regional New Zealand history local Masterton pioneers colonial
Nelson: A History of Early Settlement
Octavo brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xvii+458pp, VG+ (tidy ex-library, stamps to fep., light scuffing and soiling to boards) in d/w (VG, usual markings, plastic covered with adhesive strips)
PUBLISHER: A. H. & A. W. Reed 1965
KEYWORDS: Nelson New Zealand regional history local Tasman provincial politics
Footprints: The Story of the Settlement and Development of the Nelson Back Country Districts
FIRST EDITION; octavo light blue cloth boards, black lettering to spine, illus., 428pp, VG+ (tidy ex-lbrary, prev. owner's stamp to front pastedown and fep., light fading, soiling, and scuffing to boards, light tanning to edges), in d/w VG- (light scuffing and soiling, stickers to front and spine, tape along top and bottom edges)
PUBLISHER: Whitcombe and Tombs 1962
KEYWORDS: Nelson New Zealand history regional local back country Wairau Roundell Lake Rotoiti Buller Howard Valley Tarndale sheep runs Motueka Tapawera Motupiko Baton Wangapeka Karamea Crow River Sherry Tadmor Glenhope
History of New Zealand: From the Arrival of Tasman in Golden Bay in 1642, To The Second Arrival of Sir George Grey in 1861
Octavo green cloth boards, black lettering and decorative borders to front and spines, decorative floral endpapers, ix+467+adverts., VG (tidy ex-library, stamps and markings to fep. & title, light scuffing and soiling to boards, slightly cocked, light tanning and foxing to pages)
PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs [n/d., c. late 1890's]
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history colonial pioneer exploration Tasman George Grey Govenor
The Maungatapu Mountain Murders: A Narrative of the Murder of Five Men Between the Wakamarina River and Nelson by Burgess, Levy, Kelly and Sullivan in 1866
Nice copy of a fragile book: octavo paper wrappers with title ornament & portraits x4 to front cover, illus, 158pp, VG+ (tanning to covers & contents, v. small closed tears to covers, moderate soiling to covers most pronounced at position of staples, contains errata slip attatched to title wrt. page 19)
PUBLISHER: R. W. Stiles & Co. 1924
KEYWORDS: new zealand history true crime murder criminology journalism mangatapu nelson wakamarina south island
The Eve of Catholic Emancipation: Being the History of the English Catholics During the First Thirty Years of the Nineteenth Century (3 volume set)
3x VOLUME SET, octavo blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spines, illus., xxii+277pp / viii+363pp / viii+390pp, VG+ (tidy ex-library, usual stamps and markings within but not to exterior (although sticker residue and staining to boards present where these presumably once sat), light soiling and scuffing to boards, light tanning and v. light foxing within)
PUBLISHER: Longmans, Green and Co. 1912
KEYWORDS: Catholic empancipation English British history catholicism religion UK Britain Reestablishment Re-establishment church christian christianity
The Roaring Nineties: Why we're paying the Price for the Greddiest Decade in History
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: Penguin 2004
KEYWORDS: economics history politics business finance society culture
Mary: A History of Doctrine and Devotion
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: Sheed & Ward1985
KEYWORDS: religion theology history
Stanley Kubrick: A Biography
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: Harper Collins1997
KEYWORDS: biography history media film culture 2