Books - "history"
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Liturgy
The Illustrated History
Lg quarto, black heavy card boards, white lettering to spine, 260pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Paulist Press 2012
KEYWORDS: liturgy religion history Christianity anthropology politics illustrated
Moriori
A People Rediscovered
Quarto, green heavy card boards, gilt lettering to spine, 226pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to board extrems, slight foxing to upper page egdes, prev owners ink stamp to fep) in d/w, VG+ (light rubbing and soiling to covers)
PUBLISHER: Viking 1989
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Moriori Chatham Islands illustrated settlement Michael King
The Colonial Frontier Tamed
New Zealand Policing in Transition 1867-1886
THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo, silver gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, xiv+ 386pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to spine extrems, light foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG (light creasing & soiling to edges, adhesive label residue to front cover, light chafing to covers)
PUBLISHER: GP Books/Dept of Internal Affairs 1989
KEYWORDS: New Zealand police history policing constabulary politics demilitarisation
The Dutch Boers in South Africa - A Brief Summary of all Important Events from the Dutch Occupation of the Cape in 1652 - Together with the Intrigues to Destroy British Supremacy and the Result : Declaration of the Present War Against Great Britain
Octavo, stapled booklet (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: Cashel & Co 1900
KEYWORDS: dutch boers history south africa sa
From the Ashes of Disgrace : A Journal from Germany 1945 -1955
Super octavo, soft cover (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 Massachusetts Press 1981
KEYWORDS: history germany memoir postwar politics sociology
La Vida - A Puerto Rican Family in the Culture of Poverty - San Juan & New York
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: Panther Modern Society 1969
KEYWORDS: history anthropology new york ny san juan poverty puerto rico sex work
The Elizabethan Underworld
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: Allan Sutton 1995
KEYWORDS: history 18th century london england crime criminals
A New History of French Literature
Super octavo, soft cover (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: Harvard University Press 1994
KEYWORDS: french literature history criticism bibliography
The Norton Shakespeare - Based on the Oxford Edition
Super octavo, soft cover (VG+) in cloth slipcase (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: W. W. Norton and Company 1997
KEYWORDS: shakespeare literary history biography
Great British Comics : Celebrating A Century of Ripping Yarns and Wizard Wheezes
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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Aurum Press Ltd 2006
KEYWORDS: history British Britain comic comics book books newspaper strips magazines graphic novels illustrations colour black & white
Bomber Pilot 1916 - 1918
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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Ian Allen Ltd 1974
KEYWORDS: history aviation ww1 world war 1 one first bomber pilot pilots diary C P O Bartlett photos sepia
First Flights
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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd 1957
KEYWORDS: history aviation flying aeroplane airplane plane flight diagrams cross section photos black & white
Australia and Back
Super octavo, hardcover (VG) in d/w (TATTY); 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: A & C Black Ltd 1927
KEYWORDS: history aviation famous flight Australia England Alan J Cobham map landing places photos black & white
Tony Tuckson
FIRST EDITION, lg quarto, black heavy card boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus title page, 188pp, illus, VG+ (sl scuffing to spine extrems, inscription in ink to full title page, sl wrinkling to rear pgs) in d/w, VG (light creasing to edges, 2cm closed tear to top spine edge with discreet archival tape repair, light fading to spine, sm stain to top front cover)
PUBLISHER: Craftsman House 1989
KEYWORDS: art Tony Tuckson illustrated history Australia collection first edition
Policing the Colonial Frontier: The Theory and Practice of Coercive Social and Racial Control in New Zealand 1767-1867 (Parts 1 & 2)
TWO BOOK SET (VOL 1- PARTS 1 & 2), super octavo, blue heavy card boards, gilt lettering to spine, printed eps, part 1- xxi + pgs 0-409, part 2- xiii + pgs 410-1142, illus, VG+ (light chafing/scuffing to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & light chipping to edges, moderate scuffing/chafing & adhesive label residue to covers with some sl surface loss)
PUBLISHER: V R Ward, Gov't Printer 1986
KEYWORDS: New Zealand police justice history colonial policing race control coercive conflict signed
The Watermen of Gundagai
Quarto, illus glossy light card covers, black lettering to spine, xiv + 128pp, illus, VG+ (light curling & soiling to covers)
PUBLISHER: Old Gundagai Project Committee n/d (approx. 2002)
KEYWORDS: Australia flood flooding Gundagai history illustrated
The New Zealand Justice of the Peace, Resident Magistrate, Coroner and Constable
TWO VOL SET, THIRD EDITION, super octavo, half leather bound heavy boards, gilt lettering to title plates & raised bands to spines, vol 1- viii + 600pp + index, vol 2- iv + 660pp, VG (light to moderate scuffing to spines & board extrems, moderate discolouration to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page egdes & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to fep, paper residue to eps of vol 1, binder's label to rear pastedown of vol 2, light pencil markings to margins sporadically throughout, moderate folds to some pages)
PUBLISHER: George Didsbury 1879
KEYWORDS: law legal justice peace New Zealand evidence crime history
The Nile Reservoir Dam at Assuan and After
Imperial octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, black & gilt motif to front board, folding frontispiece, 29pp, folding plates, VG- (moderate scuffing & discolouration to spine & boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & pages throughout) binding sound
PUBLISHER: E. & F. N. Spon Ltd 1901
KEYWORDS: illustrated Egypt ancient history antiquity dam irrigation hydrology waterways
The Settler's Handbook of New Zealand
INSECT DAMAGE TO BOARDS, super octavo, grenn heavy card boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind stamp rule to spine and boards, brown eps, ix + 320pp, illus - folding maps to rear, VG- (heavy insect damage to boards, v. slight foxing to first and last few pages, title page & 299 pp to rep insect damage to 1cm border of page )
PUBLISHER: John McKay Government Printer 1902
KEYWORDS: nz new zealand history settlers handbook colonial
The New Zealand Justice of the Peace
Super octavo, blue heavy card boards, gilt stamp lettering to spine, blind stamp rule to spine and boards, yellow eps, ix + 346pp + xxx, VG (moderate chafing to boards, new repaired eps, moderate foxing to first and last few pages and page edges)
PUBLISHER: Eyre & Spottiswoode 1895
KEYWORDS: justice of the peace new zealand nz aotearoa history