Books - "history"
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People of the Lake: Mankind & Its Beginnings
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: Avon Printing 1979
KEYWORDS: anthropology antiquity ancient history natural science
Beyond the Frontier: The Politics of a Failed Mission; Bulgaria 1944
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: The Merlin Press 1997
KEYWORDS: military history politics Bulgaria ww2 world war two 2 second 2nd special operations
Womanhood in America: From Colonial Times to the Present.
Third edition. 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: Franklin Watts 1983
KEYWORDS: america cultural studies women gender feminism womenhood american history women's
The Victory of Greenwood
Super octavo hardcover (N. FINE) in d/w (N. 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: Jenkin Lloyd Jones 2021
KEYWORDS: greenwood black american history tulsa race massacre
Campfires at the Cross: An Account of the Bunting Dale Aboriginal Mission at Birregurra, near Colac, Victoria
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: Arcadia 2006
KEYWORDS: bunting dale aboriginal mission birregurra colac victoria australia australian history settler aboriginal-settler relationships colonial
Field Guide to the Kokoda Track: An Historical Guide to the Lost Battlefield
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: Kokoda Press 2006
KEYWORDS: kokoda track battlefields world war two wwii australia territory of papua new guinea guinean history
Garbo on Garbo
Imperial 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: Bloomsbury 1992
KEYWORDS: greta garbo biography swedish actress film hollywood history
Pop Surrealism: The Rise of Underground Art
Oblong 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: Ignition Publishing / Last Gasp 2004
KEYWORDS: pop surrealism lowbrow art history illustrated mark ryden
Surrealism: Revolution by Night
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: National Gallery of Australia 1993
KEYWORDS: surrealism visual art history paintings exhibition
The Critical Historians of Art
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: Yale 1983
KEYWORDS: art history critique german philosophers nineteenth century semper riegl wolfflin warburg panofsky aesthetics philosophy
The Foveaux Whaling Yarns of Yankee Jack: Burr Osborn's Adventures in Southern New Zealand, 1845
SIGNED, octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine, 152pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing & chafing to spine, prev. owner's names in ink to prelims covered with white adhesive label)
PUBLISHER: Otago Heritage Books 1995
KEYWORDS: New Zealand maritime nautical whaling hunting Burr Osborn history
Rambles in New Zealand 1839
LACKS D/W, LIMITED EDITION, octavo, blue buckram boards, black lettering to title plates to spine & front board, illus title page, 128pp, VG (light fading to spine & board edges, light bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, notation glued in to ffep, publication inscription in ink to half title page, prev. owner's name in ink to title pages with white adhesive label)
PUBLISHER: The Pegasus Press 1952
KEYWORDS: New Zealand exploration John Carne Bidwill nature botany plants literature history
A Year Amongst the Persians; Impressions as to the Life, Character & Thought of the People of Persia; Received During Twelve Months' Residence in That Country in the Years 1887-1888
FOLDING MAP TO REAR, super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, gilt motif & rule to front board, teg, deckled page edges, frontispiece, xxii + 650pp, VG (light to moderate bruising to extrems, moderate fading to spine & board edges, moderate staining to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges, sl water staining to edges of eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1926
KEYWORDS: history exploration Persia autobiography memoir Edward Granville Browne culture travel
Climbs in the New Zealand Alps; Being an Account of Travel and Discovery
HEAVY STAINING, ALL PLATES PRESENT BUT SOME LOOSE, imperial octavo, brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to leather title plates to spine, teg, frontispiece with tissue guard, xvi + 363pp, illus/plates, folding map to rear pocket, scruffy (heavy bruising & scuffing to board extrems/edges, heavy cracking & loss to title plates, heavy staining to boards, spine & pg corners, vv heavy staining to some middle pages & plates, v heavy cracking to gutters, heavy staining & closed tearing to folding map)
PUBLISHER: T. Fisher Unwin 1896
KEYWORDS: New Zealand exploration climbing Alps history travel E A Fitzgerald
A Trenchard Brat: A Life in Aviation
SIGNED, LETTER FROM AUTHOR TIPPED TO FFEP, imperial octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, x + 299pp, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, errata slip tipped in to pg214) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Brewin Books 1999
KEYWORDS: aviation history autobiography memoir Frederick Weston military raf air force British
Edinburgh: The Golden Age
Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, x + 1105pp, illus/photos, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling to covers)
PUBLISHER: John Donaldson Publishers 2003
KEYWORDS: history Scotland Edinburgh illustrated social 18th 19th century
Isaac & Mary Ann Giibbs and Their Related Families (Vol 3)
THIS VOL ONLY, quarto, illus glossy light card covers, black lettering to spine, iii + 209pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing to spine & covers)
PUBLISHER: Maurie Earl n/d
KEYWORDS: New Zealand family history Isaac Mary Gibbs genealogy Bromwell Cole Quinney Hodgkinson Elvines Trower Fenemor Stringer Ilton Mead Nelson regional pioneers settlers
Isaac & Mary Ann Gibbs and Their Related Families (Vol 4)
THIS VOL ONLY, quarto, illus stapled glossy light card covers, 170pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light fading to spine, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Maurie Earl n/d
KEYWORDS: New Zealand family history genealogy isaac Mary Gibbs Bromell Cole Quinney Hodgkinson Elvines Trower Fenemor Stringer Ilton Mead settlers pioneers
The First Railway in Otago and the Lewis Coal Mine Near Coal Point Molyneux
Lg quarto, yellow & white stapled light card covers, black lettering to front cover, v + 72pp, VG (light creasing & soiling to covers, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep with white adhesive label)
PUBLISHER: J A Dangerfield 1991
KEYWORDS: New Zealand transport history rail Otago railway Lewis Coal Mine Molyneux Coal Point trains
John and Charles Enys: Castle Hill Runholders, 1864-1891
Square imperial octavo, illus light card covers with french flaps, white lettering to spine, 239pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl chafing to covers)
PUBLISHER: Wily Publications 2017
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Castle Hill sheep station farming agriculture Canterbury provincial John Charles Enys photos paintings art collection