Books - "history"
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The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape and the Making of Modern Germany
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: Jonathan Cape 2006
KEYWORDS: german history germany water engineering nature landscape prussia prussian nazi
Hysteric New Zealand
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: A. H. & A. W. Reed 1949
KEYWORDS: new zealand history humour comic
A History of the Vikings
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: Oxford 1968
KEYWORDS: history vikings scandinavian norse greenland nordic
The Dreyfus Affair and the Crisis of French Manhood
Super octavo hardcover (N. 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: John Hopkins 2004
KEYWORDS: crisis of masculinity gender history french gendered body image dreyfus affair
Cathedral: The Story of its Construction
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
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KEYWORDS: cathedral architecture history church
City
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: Collins 1982
KEYWORDS: city architecture roman history
There's Gold in Rocky
Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to front cover, 109pp, illus, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: Jack Boyer 2000
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history illustrated autobiography memoir Jack Boyer gold hunting prospecting
Rugby in the Bays: A History of Rugby in Golden Bay, Motueka and Murchison to 1970
Oblong quarto, illus glossy light card covers, beige & white lettering to spine, 313pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl cracking to front gutter)
PUBLISHER: Mike Parkinson/Paturau Press 2013
KEYWORDS: New Zealand rugby sport history Golden Bay Motueka Murchison the bays statistics
Nelson: A Regional History
Quarto, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, xv + 261pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light scuffing to board edges, light occasional pencil annotations) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: Cape Catley 1997
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history regional Nelson illustrated photos
To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America
Square quarto, black cloth boards, silver gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, 153pp, illus, VG+ (sl foxing to page edges, sl staining to base of eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing/soiling, 2cm closed tear to top spine extrem)
PUBLISHER: Smithsonian American Art Museum/Yale University Press 2011
KEYWORDS: George Ault art American illustrated history
Pioneer Work in the Alps of New Zealand: A Record of the First Exploration of the Chief Glaciers and Ranges of the Southern Alps
FOLDING MAP TORN, octavo, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, xvi + 336pp, folding map, illus, VG- (heavy scuffing with surface loss to board extrems, heavy chafing & discolouration to spine, spine cocked, moderate chafing/soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown, aforementioned heavy tearing to folding map)
PUBLISHER: T. Fisher Unwin 1896
KEYWORDS: New Zealand exploration pioneers illustrated southern alps south island history
The Melancholy Art
Super octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxv + 194pp, illus/photos, Near FINE, in d/w, Near FINE (sl creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 2013
KEYWORDS: art history sadness melancholy criticism renaissance philosophy
The Story of the Dunedin Botanic Garden: New Zealand's First
Imperial octavo, blue heavy boards, white lettering to spine, 284pp, illus/photo, VG+ (light scuffing & fading to board edges) in d/w, VG (light creasing to edges, moderate fading to spine & front cover)
PUBLISHER: Friends of the Dunedin Botanic Garden Inc. n/d (c.2002)
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Dunedin history botanical garden botanic plants nature gardens
Mount Cook and its Surrounding Glaciers
Oblong quarto, stapled light card covers, unpaginated, illus/photos, VG- (light to moderate foxing & creasing to covers, light rusting & separation at staples, 2cm open tearing to lower spine extrem, closed tear to front)
PUBLISHER: Whitcombe and Tombs n/d
KEYWORDS: New Zealand photography photos Mount Cook glaciers travel history
Harvest of Grace: Essays in Celebration of 150 Years of Mission in the Anglican Diocese of Nelson
Square octavo, illus card covers, white lettering to spine, xii + 388pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl chafing to covers)
PUBLISHER: Standing Committee of the Diocese of Nelson 2010
KEYWORDS: New Zealand regional history Nelson anglican church religion essays prose literature collection illustrated
Old South: Life and Times in the Nineteenth-century Mainland
Super octavo, illus light card covers with french flaps, green lettering to spine, 344pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising & creasing to spine & extrems, sl chafing, light tanning to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Penguin Books 2009
KEYWORDS: New Zealand south island history illustrated trade industry business pioneers settlers
Faith and Toil: The Story of Tokomairiro
Octavo, brown buckram boards, black lettering to spine & front board, 194pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl scuffing to spine extrems, sl tanning & foxing to page egdes & eps) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate to heavy tanning to spine & edges, sl scuffing)
PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs 1949
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Tokomairiro Otago south island settlers pioneers trade business industry commerce infrastructure
New Zealand Prepares For War: Defence Policy 1919-39
Octavo, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, 287pp, illus/photos, VG (v sl wear to boards, light foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG (light scuffing to covers, moderate sunning to spine, light foxing)
PUBLISHER: University of Canterbury Press 1988
KEYWORDS: New Zealand military politics war defence policy history early 20th twentieth century government
Traditional Lifeways of the Southern Maori: The Otago University Museum Ethnological Project, 1920
SOUGHT AFTER, super octavo, illus glossy card covers, white & blue lettering to spine, 636pp, illus/photos, Nr. FINE
PUBLISHER: Otago University Press 2009
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori south southern illustrated traditions lifestyle culture history
Footprints Too: Further Glimpses into the History of Nelson Province
SIGNED, octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 200pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to spine extrems, light tanning/discolouration to board edges, sl foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping to spine & edges, moderate closed tearing to spine & covers with some attempts at subtle tape repairs made, rear flap completely removed & neatly re-attached, reinforcement to internal side of spine- discreet)
PUBLISHER: Express Printing Works (Printer) 1978
KEYWORDS: signed New Zealand history Nelson provincial regional south island