Books - "history"
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The Orpheus Disaster
SIGNED BY AUTHOR; quarto illus. red light card covers, illus., 243pp, VG- (binding delicate but intact, moderate creasing and light fading to covers, occassional soiling & foxing within)
PUBLISHER: Western Publishing Company / Carters Crafts & Books 1987
KEYWORDS: New Zealand maritime nautical history shipwreck wrecks ships shipping wreck Orpheus signed
The Art of Zandra Rhodes
Oblong quarto sofctover (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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1984
KEYWORDS: Zandra Rhodes fashion art history textiles shawls knitting silks fabric design
Australia's Heritage Sketchbook
Oblong 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Books for Pleasure / Paul Hamlyn 1976
KEYWORDS: Australia Australian architecture heritage buildings art Keith Norris history settler pioneer colonial
Rocky Shore Ecology of the Leigh Area North Auckland
Oblong octavo stapled covers (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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: University of Auckland 1968
KEYWORDS: rocky shore ecology maritime marine biology science natural history Leigh North Auckland New Zealand
Black Studies: A Bibliography
Super octavo yellow cloth boards, black lettering to front & spine, viii+122pp, VG (very tidy ex-library (unread?), usual stamps and markings thus; v. light tanning within)
PUBLISHER: McKinley Publishing Co 1973
KEYWORDS: black african american studies bibliography american US USA united states history
S. P. G. Papers in the Lambeth Palace Library: Calendars and Indexes
Octavo hardcover (VG, tidy ex-library) 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Oxford / Clarendon Press 1974
KEYWORDS: S. P. G. SPG religious history missionary genealogy special collections Lambeth Palace calendar calendars indexes indices
Poor Carolina: Politics and Society in Colonial North Carolina, 1729-1776
Octavo hardcover (VG, tidy ex-library) 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: University of North Carolina Press 1981
KEYWORDS: North Carolina colonial history US USA united states america american
Carleton Beals: A Radical Journalist in Latin America
Octavo hardcover (VG, very tidy ex-library (unread?) 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: University of New Mexico Press 1987
KEYWORDS: Carleton Beals journalist journalism biography Latin South Central America American history Mexico Mexican revolution revolutionary
Emancipation in the West Indies
Octavo hardcover (VG, tidy ex-libray); 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: Arno Press / New York Times 1969
KEYWORDS: slavery British history imperial slave trade West Indies Atlantic abolition abolitionism empancipation politics
The Battles of the Somme
Octavo hardcover (VG, with folding maps); 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: William Heinemann 1917
KEYWORDS: military history maps world war first one ww1 battle battles Some France French Western Front
Country Life in Classical Times
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Paul Elek 1977
KEYWORDS: Ancient Greek Greece Rome Roman Empire classics classical studies agriculture rural farming country sociology culture history
The Weald
FIRST EDITION, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Collins 1953
KEYWORDS: New Naturalist series British natural history biology ecology weald modern first edition geology soil
New Zealand Parlimentary Debates: Second Parliment: Legislative Council and House of Representatives 1858 to 1860
VERY SCRUFFY reading copy (spine and rear board coming loose, lacks fep., index page loose), super octavo hardcover (G, ex-library); 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: G. Didsbury, Government Printer 1886
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history politics legal parliment parlimentary debate debates papers house representatives legislative council government colonial
Life in Lakes and Rivers
FIRST EDITION, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Collins 1951
KEYWORDS: New Naturalist series British natural history biology science marine lakes rivers hydrology water fresh freshwater ecology
The Broads
FIRST EDITION; Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (G, very tatty: large segements missing, photograph of boat on front of jacket); 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: Collins 1965
KEYWORDS: The New Naturalist series British natural history biology science Norfolk Broads wetlands maritime ecology
The Art of Grahame Sydney
Oblong quarto blue cloth boarts, gilt lettering to spine, illus., 191pp, Near Fine in d/w VG (light fading and v. sl. soiling)
PUBLISHER: Longacre Press 2003
KEYWORDS: New Zealand art history criticism Grahame Sydney painting Brain Turner Otago landscape
Aircraft of the Royal Air Force 1918-58
Octavo hardcover (VG, lacks d/w); 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: Putnam 1958 (revised edition)
KEYWORDS: royal air force military history aviation air combat Battle Britain British planes RAF
Man and Birds
FIRST EDITION, green cloth boards gilt lettering to spine, xx+364pp, illus., VG+ (light fading and soiling to boards, light tanning to pages) in d/w VG (front bright and vibrant, hint of fading to spine, light scuffing, small (less 1cm) closed tears to corner/top of spine, light tanning and soiling to rear & reverse)
PUBLISHER: Collins 1971
KEYWORDS: New Naturalist series British natural history biology ornithology science birds avian modern first edition
The Entwining Branches: A History of the Branches of O'Brien, Hall and Curlewis Families
Super octavo green illus. laminated heavy card boards, viii+134pp, illus., VG+ (light foxing to edges and occassionally within)
PUBLISHER: Jenny Priestley 1993
KEYWORDS: family history genealogy O'Brien Hall Curlewis families Jenny Priestley Australia Australian NSW New South Wales Illawarra Brisbane Syndey Thomas Ormond Desmond
Edward Lear in Corsica: The Journal of a Landscape Painter
First edition thus; Super octavo yellow cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus., 256pp, VG (light to moderate foxing within, light tanning) in d/w VG (light scuffing, light soiling, light foxing)
PUBLISHER: William Kimber 1966
KEYWORDS: Edward Lear art artist history landscape Corsica travel journal diary diaries biography