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$18.50
xxpai157588

Spanish Texas 1519 - 1821


CHIPMAN, DONALD E. & JOSEPH, HARRIETT DENISE

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

$12.50
xxpac157630

Bossworth Field and the Wars of the Roses


ROWSE, A. L.

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

$14.00
xxpae157639

German cultural history of the last hundred years


JOHANN, ERNST & JUNKER, JORG

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

$24.50
ak3/1/354

Auckland Waterfront: The Port in Edwardian Times


MORRIS, ROGER D.

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

$95.00
ak3/2/364

Footprints: The Story of the Settlement and Development of the Nelson Back Country Districts


NEWPORT, J. N. W.

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

$65.00
ak3/2/369

Memoirs of Major-General Sir Henry Havelock, K.C.B.


MARSHMAN, JOHN CLARK

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

$47.50
ak3/4/372

From the Center: Femisist Essays on Women's Art


LIPPARD, LUCY R.

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

$110.00
ak3/4/384

The Jubilee History of Nelson: From 1842 to 1892


BROAD, LOWTHER

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

$285.00
ak3/5/385

Early History of Wairarapa


BANNISTER, CHARLES [CHAS]

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

$50.00
ak3/5/387

Saint Dominic and His Times


VICAIRE, M. -H. & POND, KATHLEEN (transl.)

Large octavo speckled grey hard card boards, gilt lettering to spine, xi+548pp, illus. VG (very light underlining in pen to introduction only, light scuffing to boards, prev. owner's details in pen to fep., lacks d/w)

PUBLISHER: Darton, Longman & Todd 1964

KEYWORDS: Saints history saint Dominic european christian christianity religion religious Dominican dominicans Catholic catholicsm inquisition council Latrean

$55.00
ak3/5/388

Nelson: A History of Early Settlement


ALLAN, RUTH M.; TAYLOR, NANCY M. (additional chapters) & BEAGLEHOLE, J. C. (intro)

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

$95.00
ak3/5/392

Footprints: The Story of the Settlement and Development of the Nelson Back Country Districts


NEWPORT, J. N. W.

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

$40.00
ak3/5/393

History of New Zealand: From the Arrival of Tasman in Golden Bay in 1642, To The Second Arrival of Sir George Grey in 1861


SAUNDERS, ALFRED

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

$75.00
ak3/5/395

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


GRACE, A. A. (preface & postscript)

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

$80.00
ak3/6/410

The Eve of Catholic Emancipation: Being the History of the English Catholics During the First Thirty Years of the Nineteenth Century (3 volume set)


WARD, BERNARD

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

$9.00
xxpig157679

The Roaring Nineties: Why we're paying the Price for the Greddiest Decade in History


STIGLITZ, JOSEPH E.

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

$20.00
xxpjb157696

Mary: A History of Doctrine and Devotion


GRAEF, HILDA

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

$20.00
xxpjb157699

Stanley Kubrick: A Biography


BAXTER, JOHN

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

$17.50
xxpjc157702

Beyond Belief: Modern Art and the Religious Imagination


CRUMLIN, ROSEMARY

Tidy 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: National Gallery of Victoria 1998

KEYWORDS: art religion gallery museum artists history theology philosophy

$14.00
xxpjc157705

Homer and the Heroic Age: With 136 Illustrations,14 in Colour


LUCE, J.V.

Ex library 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: Thames and Hudson 1975

KEYWORDS: literary archeological greek history religion

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