Books - "history"
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Poenamo Revisited
A Facsimile of the 1898 Edition
Octavo, blue marbled boards with blue faux leather spine, gilt lettering to spine, printed eps, 315pp + 359pp facsimile of original Poenamo text, title band affixed to boards, illus, Near FINE (v sl adhesion to terminals)
PUBLISHER: Godwit/Random House 2012
KEYWORDS: New Zealand centenary Sir John Logan Campbell Poenamo literature pioneers history
Secret History: The Story of Cryptology
Super octavo, illus glossy heavy boards, white lettering to spine, xxv + 594pp, illus/photos, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: CRC Press 2013
KEYWORDS: data encryption computer science security cryptography history ciphers
Music in Ancient Greece and Rome
Super octavo, illus light card covers, yellow lettering to spine, xii + 296pp, illus, Near FINE (prev. bookseller's price label to rear cover)
PUBLISHER: Routledge 1999
KEYWORDS: music history Greece Greek Rome Roman entertainment illustrated
The Thoroughbred Among Banks in New Zealand 1872-2000 (3 Vol Set)
3 VOLUME SET, quarto, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spines, gilt pattern to front boards, xii + 225-266pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl bruising to some extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spines, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: The National Bank of New Zealand 1997-2003
KEYWORDS: New Zealand banking banks history finance economics
The Taieri Plain: Tales of the Years That Are Gone
SIGNED BY AUTHORS, FIRST EDITION, LACKS D/W, octavo, greencloth boards, black lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, 238pp, illus/plates, VG (light to moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems, light scuffing & chafing to spine & boards, spine cocked, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps)
PUBLISHER: Otago Centennial Historical Publications 1949
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Otago regional history illustrated Taieri signed
The Lumbee Indians: An American Struggle
Super octavo, cream cloth boards, blue lettering to spine, xix + 304pp, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: University of North Carolina Press 2018
KEYWORDS: Lumbee Indians US America native American tribes Indian history North Carolina
Franz Schubert: A Biography
Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xiv + 362pp, illus, Near FINE (v sl foxing to top page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, prev. bookseller's label to rear)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1996
KEYWORDS: Schubert classical composers music biography memoir history
Jane's World Railways 1969-70 (Twelfth Edition)
Lg quarto, blue cloth boards, white lettering to spine & front board, printed eps, 57pp ads + vii + 733pp, illus/photos, VG (light scuffing & bruising to extrems, sl staining/discolouration to board edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges, light read staining to lower page edges of eps) in d/w, VG (moderate staining & discolouration to edges, light creasing & chipping to edges)
PUBLISHER: Sampson Low Marston & Co 1969
KEYWORDS: Jane's railways history rail transport trains operation equipment twelfth 12th edition engineering mechanical mechanics engines illustrated
The Distinguished History of 3rd Field Regiment, Royal New Zealand Artillery 1940-1990
LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION (#99/200) quarto, bllack heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, 90pp, illus/photos, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: 3rd Field Regiment 1990
KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history 3rd third field regiment royal artillery
Labour of Love: Childbirth at Dunedin Hospital 1862-1972
SIGNED & DATED, lg quarto, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, 294pp, VG+ (light creasing to spine & corners, light soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Adelhaid Wassner 1999
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Dunedin hospital maternity children child birth childbirth obstetrics
Rails to Roxburgh: The Story of a Provincial Railway
Lg quarto, illus glossy card covers with french flaps, black lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, xii + 256pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising/creasing to edges/extrems, 1cm scuff to lower spine edge, light chafing to covers, prev. bookseller's label to rear cover, light soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: The Molyneux Press 2010
KEYWORDS: New Zealand rail Otago Roxburgh transport history trains
June Fourth: The Tiananman Protests and Beijing Massacre of 1989
Super octavo, illus light card covers, yellow lettering to spine, xxvi + 266pp, VG+ (light curling/creasing to spine & covers)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2021
KEYWORDS: China Chinese massacre Tiananmen Square protests violence oppression modern history authoritarian policy Beijing
Maoism at the Grassroots: Everyday Life in China's Era of High Socialism
Super octavo, red buckram boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, vi + 468pp, Near FINE (prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chippping to edges)
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 2015
KEYWORDS: China Chinese history Mao Maoism politics socialism socialist culture social aspects discontent communism customs
Tributary Empires in Global History
Super octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, xiii + 294pp, VG+ (light scuffing to edges, light creasing to spine)
PUBLISHER: Palgrave Macmillan 2011
KEYWORDS: sociology anthropology pre-colonial history empires
Chuan Zheng School
Super octavo, illus light card covers with french flaps, white lettering to spine, v + 363pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light fading to spine, prev. bookseller's label to rear)
PUBLISHER: China Intercontinental Press 2009
KEYWORDS: China Chinese education teaching Chuan Zheng school history
Things Seen and Unseen: Discourse and Ideology in Tokugawa Nativism
LACKS D/W, super octavo, blue cloth boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, xii + 494pp, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to edges & extrems, light foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press 1988
KEYWORDS: Tokugawa nativism Japan Japanese history kokugaku ideology philosophy 18th eighteenth century
China Unbound: Evolving Perspectives on the Chinese Past
Super octavo, illus light cardcovers, black & white lettering to spine, xii + 226pp, Near FINE (sl curling to covers)
PUBLISHER: RoutledgeCurzon 2003
KEYWORDS: China Chinese history culture historiography nationalism religion
From Philosophy to Philology: Intellectual and Social Aspects of Change in Late Imperial China
Super octavo, black heavy boards, white lettering to spine, frontispiece, xxv + 368pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light soiling to page edges, prev. owner's sm name label to ffep, sl cracking to some gutters) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping with some sl loss, moderate fading to spine, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University Press 1984
KEYWORDS: philosophy philology Chinese China late imperial history lower Yangtze region
Politics and Conservatism in Northern Song China: The Career and Thought of Sima Guang (A.D. 1019-1086)
Super octavo, green heavy boards, white lettering to spine, xi + 253pp, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to extrems & board edges, prev. bookseller's label to front pastedown) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, 7cm closed tear to base of front cover, light fading to spine, prev. seller's price label to rear)
PUBLISHER: The Chinese University Press 2005
KEYWORDS: China Chinese politics northern Song dynasty Sima Guang biography history ancient
Revolution as Restoration: Guocui xuebao and China's Path to Modernity, 1905-1911
LACKS D/W, super octavo, pink heavy boards, black lettering to spine & boards, 135pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, spine sl cocked, light chafing to boards, ffep completely missing)
PUBLISHER: Brill/Leiden 2013
KEYWORDS: China Chinese revolution restoration history philosophy Guocui xuebao