Books - "history"
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Marriage, A History - From Obedience to Intimacy or How Love Conquered Marriage
Super octavo, hardcover (nr FINE) 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: Viking / Penguin 2005
KEYWORDS: history marriage love
World Cinema : Diary of a Day - A Celebration of the Centenary of Cinema
Imperial 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: The Overlook Press 1995
KEYWORDS: cinema film history
New Zealand's First Airline : Hoki to Haast
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: The Kynaston Charitable Trust / Craig Printing 2009
KEYWORDS: new zealand nz aotearoa history airline air travel
Costumes of Everyday Life : An Illustrated History of Working Clothes 900 - 1910
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: Barrie & Jenkins 1977
KEYWORDS: costume clothing history work textiles
Rugby : The Pioneer Years - How Rugby Captured the Heart of a Nation
Super octavo, hardcover (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: HarperCollins 2008
KEYWORDS: sport nz new zealand aotearoa rugby union history
Paris Fashion : The Great Designers and their Creations
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: Michael Joseph 1972
KEYWORDS: fashion paris designers history
A Picture History of English Costume
Quarto, hardcover (VG) in d/w (scruffy); 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: Vista Books / Longacre Press 1960
KEYWORDS: english costume fashion history
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
Quarto, brown quarter bound boards with brown buckram spine, gilt lettering to spine, deckled page edges, teg, frontis with tissue guard, xiv + 401pp, illus/plates (not counted, presumed all present), VG- (moderate to heavy scuffing & bruising to board extrems, light to moderate chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, ex-libris plate to front pastedown)
PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin N/D (approx. 1913)
KEYWORDS: Chartres cathedral building history architecture art illustrated
Looking For Mrs Cowie: The Life and Times of a Colonial Bishop's Wife
Quarto, illus light card covers, white lettering to front, 138pp, illus, VG+ sl creasing to edges & covers)
PUBLISHER: Beverley Reeves 2005
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history colonial religion Mrs Cowie
Thomas Baines: His Life and Explorations in South Africa, Rhodesia and Australia 1820-1875
LACKS D/W, square quarto, brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt publisher's motif to front board, frontispiece, illus prelims, xx + 235pp, illus/plates (not counted, presumed all present), VG (light bruising & scuffing to board extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: A. A. Balkema 1976
KEYWORDS: exploration history travel illustrated South Africa Rhodesia Australia Thomas Baines
Heaphy
Quarto, black heavy card boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, viii + 232pp, illus, Near FINE (sl scuffing to board extrems) in d/w VG+ (light to moderate fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: Auckland University Press 2008
KEYWORDS: New Zealand exploration art collection Charles Heaphy illustrated history
Dalmatia
EX-LIBRARY, imperial octavo, black buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, xxvii + 572pp + folding map & plates to rear- not counted, presumed all present, VG (usual library markings, tape residue to boards & eps, light scuffing to board extrems, d/w attached to boards, light tanning & soiling to page edges, food residue to bottom of pgs 286-287) in d/w & plastic protective cover, VG (moderate creasing & scuffing to cover & edges, light fading to spine, sl staining to edges)
PUBLISHER: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1969
KEYWORDS: Ancient history Roman Rome Dalmatia settlements illustrated antiquity
Smale's Trail
Super octavo, illus glossy card covers, white lettering to spine, illus title page, 272pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing & curling to cover edges, light chafing to covers)
PUBLISHER: John Steele 2011
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history settlers Gideon Smales pioneers illustrated
The Reign of King Henry VI: The Exercise of Royal Authority, 1422-1461
TIDY EX-LIBRARY, imperial octavo, red heavy card boards with blue buckram spine, gilt lettering to spine, xxiv + 968pp, illus, VG (usual library markings, light scuffing to boards, d/w taped to boards, tape residue to boards & eps, light foxing to page edges, light vertical creasing to some prelims) in d/w & protective plastic cover, VG- (light creasing to cover edges, light chipping to spine extrems)
PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1981
KEYWORDS: history king Henry VI vi sixth 6th English England monarchy royal
The Circulation of the Blood : And Other Writings
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: Everyman 1990
KEYWORDS: blood circulation anantomy science biology history of medicine
Guns, Germs and Steel : A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years
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: Vintage
KEYWORDS: popular science history biology ecology linguistics geography
The Battle for North America
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: Phoenix Press 2001
KEYWORDS: history north american usa military
Main Street Amusements : Movies and Commercial Entertainment in a Southern City, 1896 - 1930
Super octavo softcover (nr 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: Smithsonian Institution Press 1995
KEYWORDS: movies media film cinema history kentucky lexington usa america
Gaudi: 1852-1926: Antoni Gaudi i Cornet - A Life Devoted to Architecture
Lg quarto, blue heavy card boards, white lettering to spine & front board, printed eps, frontispiece, 239pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to spine extrems, light chafing to boards) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Taschen 2005
KEYWORDS: architecture history buildings Antoni Gaudi Cornet illustrated
French's Cavalry Campaign
Octavo, red buckram boards, white lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, 198pp + ads to rear, illus- not counted presumed all present, VG- (moderate bruising to extrems, light to moderate discolouration & staining to spine, moderate to heavy tanning to page edges & eps, fronti & tissue guard almost fully detached but still fixed, light to moderate cracking to gutters sporadically throughout)
PUBLISHER: C. Arthur Pearson 1901
KEYWORDS: military history illustrated General French cavalry war Africa Boer