Books - "history"
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The Writings of Salvian, The Presbyter [The Fathers of the Church series]
Octavo hardcover (VG+, tidy 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: Cima Publishing 1947
KEYWORDS: Salvian presbyter church fathers history christian christianity theology
The Story of the Wreck of the 'Maria' Mail Boat: With a Memoir of Mrs. Hincksman, the Only Survivor
Duodecimo illus. cloth boards, 96p, VG- (heavy soiling scuffing & rubbing to boards, fraying and chips to spine, binding slighlty cocked, moderate tanning & light foxing to pages, prev. owner's details in pen to fep.)
PUBLISHER: Charles H. Kelly, n/d [c. 1900's]
KEYWORDS: shipwreck shipwrecks maritime nautical history Maria Mail boat Hincksman Antigua West Indies
Leightons Auckland Provincial Directory 1940
Super octavo red cloth boards, 2320pp+adverts, G+ (spine completely covered with grey gaffer/masking tape repair, binding sound though, one page of adverts loose, moderate scuffing to boards and tanning to contents, business advertisment stamped to edges as usual with these directories)
PUBLISHER: Leightons 1940
KEYWORDS: New Zealand reference Auckland directory business history ephemera listings advertising advetisments Leighton Leightons Leighton's
The Chinese Theory of Art: Translations from the Masters of Chinese Art
Octavo black cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 244pp., ilus., VG- (heavy soiling to boards, moderate to heavy tanning and soiling within and to edges (heaviest at prelims)) in d/w VG (price-clipped, light scuffing chipping and tanning, moderate soiling & foxing to reverse)
PUBLISHER: Heinemann 1967
KEYWORDS: Lin Yutang Chinese China art theory history criticism classical Confucius Shih-t'ao Shen Tsung-chi'en
Eye for Colour
Oblong octavo oatmeal cloth boards, gilt lettering to front & spine, illus. endpapers, illus., 136pp, VG- (heavy water stain to boards, affects contents mostly at prelims only, with sl. crinkling to other pages, light tanning to edges) in d/w VG (plastic covered, light scuffing soiling & curling)
PUBLISHER: Collins 1965
KEYWORDS: color colour theory optics art history theory criticisim science perception design
Manual of Universal Church History (4 volume set)
4x VOLUME SET, super octavo green cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xvi+547pp / xi+600pp / viii+529pp / vii+444pp, VG (tidy ex-library, usual stamps and markings (but exteriors clean, only interior), moderate tanning, v. sl. scuffing to boards, rough edges to vol 3.)
PUBLISHER: M. H. Gill and Son 1900
KEYWORDS: church history christian christianity theology theological
Vegetation Map of Tongariro National Park North Island New Zealand
Oblong octavo softcover stapled wrappers, map in pocket at rear, 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: New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research 1981
KEYWORDS: New Zealand botany plants flora natural history science biology map maps Tongariro National Park Central North Island vegetation soils Taupo
Official Souvenir of the New Zealand & South Seas International Exhibition Dunedin, N.Z. 1925 - 26
Oblong octavo stapled wrappers, VG- (some pages loose but present); 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: Hugh & G. K. Neill [n/d, c. 1926]
KEYWORDS: Dunedin New Zealand local regional history Official Souvenir South Seas International Exhibition 1920s photography
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