Books - "history"
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Tristes Tropiques
An Anthropological Study of Primitive Societies in Brazil
paperback (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: Atheneum 1971
KEYWORDS: specials Claude Levi-Strauss anthropology primitivism brazil history ancient history culture amerindian tribes
In Search of Ancient Italy
Ex-library Hardcover super octavo (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 costs
PUBLISHER: Evans Brothers Limited 1964
KEYWORDS: ex-library specials Pierre Grimal archaeology history ancient history Italy
Letters of Cicero
softcover octavo (G+), 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: Hutchinson & co 1966
KEYWORDS: specials L P Wilkinson caeser classical history literature rome roman ancient history
The New Zealand Journal of History
Index Volumes 1-30
Softcover super octavo (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: The University of Auckland undated
KEYWORDS: specials Judith Binney history reference journal index New Zealand Journal of History
Myself with Others
Selected Essays
Softcover octavo (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: Picador, Pan Books Ltd 1989
KEYWORDS: specials Carlos Fuentes nonfiction autobiography memoir essays history arts literature cinema politics diplomacy history
Mountjoy 1563 - 1606: The Last Elizabethan Deputy
Ex library, scarce, octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 232pp, illus, VG (usu library markings)
PUBLISHER: Clonmore & Reynolds/ Burns Oates & Washbourne 1958
KEYWORDS: Frederick M Jones Lord Mountjoy Lord Deputy biography history Essex Cecil Hugh O'Neill Christopher Blount Charles Blount religion religious history
The Van Gogh File
The Myth and the Man
Softcover super octavo (NF) ; 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: Souvenir Press Ltd 2004
KEYWORDS: specials Ken Wilkie art art history Van Gogh biography investigative history
Country
Softcover imperial octavo (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 Text Publishing Company 2004
KEYWORDS: specials Tim Flannery Australia travel history palaeontology kangaroos natural history
The Fighting Parade - Letters from the Trenches 1915-1918 of Pat Leonard DSO
first edition hardback octavo with d/w (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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Pen & Sword Military 2010
KEYWORDS: specials history pat leonard DSO john leonard philip leonard-johnson history ww1 correspondence letters soldiers biography
Pierce-Arrow
First edition, quarto, black glossy faux-leather boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xii + 236pp, illus, nr fine (slight ding to lower spine extrem) in d/w, VG+ (light tanning to front upper edges, light bruising to rear upper edge, 1cm closed tear to rear lower edge, bruising to lower spine extrem)
PUBLISHER: AS Barnes & Co/ Tantivy Press 1980
KEYWORDS: first edition Marc Ralston motorcars automobiles vehicles marque Pierce-Arrow automotive George Pierce Company history transport photographic pictorial history
New Zealand: The Brighter Britain of the South:
An Illustrated Description of the Natural Wealth, Conditions of Life, Industries, Trade, and Opportunities for Advancement
Super octavo, brown light card stapled wrappers with NZ map & blue lettering to front cover, 120pp, illus, VG- (patch of damage to lower spine extrem, moderate creasing to cover edges, some discolouration & staining to covers, owner's name & date in ink to title page, creasing to some page corners)
PUBLISHER: British Empire Exhibition/ WAG Skinner Govt. Printer 1924
KEYWORDS: LS Fanning British Empire Exhibition New Zealand travel history industry culture natural history
Steam in the Southern Pacific
The Story of Merchant Steam Navigation in the Australian Coastal and Intercolonial Trades, and on the Ocean Lines of the Southern Pacific
Re-bound with new eps & boards, small octavo, maroon faux-leather boards with gilt lettering to spine, 150pp + 2pp adverts, illus with 54illus, VG (2cm stain to title page, sporadic foxing, moderate tanning to pages, 1cm black stain to upper corner page 148/149, last two pages loose)
PUBLISHER: Gordon & Gotch 1909
KEYWORDS: Will Lawson New Zealand Pacific Ocean nautical maritime history steam merchant navy naval history navigation coastal shipping trade routes boats steamers
Seasoned by Salt
A Historical Album of the Outer Banks
Softcover square super octavo (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: University of North Carolina Press 1995
KEYWORDS: specials Rodney Barfield American history Outer Banks North Carolina pictorial history
A History of Young People in the West: Volume Two Stormy Evolution to Modern Times
This volume only, 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: Harvard University Press 1997
KEYWORDS: specials Giovanni Levi Jean-Claude Schmitt history youth young people social history
The Harbour Board Collection Wellington 1880-1980
softcover oblong quarto (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: Wellington Harbour Board 1980
KEYWORDS: specials Jack Churchouse new zealand wellington harbour history ship maritime port photography pictorial history
British Civil Aircraft 1919-1959: Volume One
Super octavo hardcover (VG-) large patch of dampstaining to front board lower corner with damage carrying over to lower edges of first 40 pages. Without that fault, book would be 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: Putnam 1959
KEYWORDS: specials AJ Jackson civil aviation history British aircraft aeronautical history aeroplanes
Unearthing New Zealand
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 will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Government Printing Office 1989
KEYWORDS: specials Michael Trotter Beverley McCulloch New Zealand archaeology pre-history anthropology history
Cadillac Standard of the World: Compete History
With the Editors of Automobile Quarterly
Oblong imperial octavo, maroon textured boards with gilt lettering to spine, 447pp, illus, VG+ (slight rubbing to boards) in d/w, VG (light creasing to edges, several 1cm closed tears to upper spine extrem, small chaffing patch to rear upper edge, light rubbing)
PUBLISHER: Princeton Publishing 1977
KEYWORDS: Maurice D Hendry cars transport automobiles cadillac American motorcar history photographic pictorial history
Paddle Steamers of Australasia
large quarto/small folio, cream light card stapled covers with black lettering to front cover, v + frontispiece maps + 196pp, VG- (light tanning & soiling to covers, light tanning to page edges, reading crease to rear cover)
PUBLISHER: RH Parsons 1967
KEYWORDS: RH Parsons JC Tolley transport Australia New Zealand paddle wheel steamers Murray Darling Rivers steamers tugs vessels ships shipping history Tasmania reference history specications
Naval Camouflage 1914-1945: A Complete Visual Reference
Large quarto, navy blue buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 256pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w, VG+ (price clipped, 3cm closed tear to front upper corner/flap fold)
PUBLISHER: Chatham Publishing 2001
KEYWORDS: David Williams nautical maritime naval history camouflage patterns colours schemes function illustrated photographic history warships