Books - "history"
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A New History of Italian Renaissance Art
Lg quarto, grey heavy card boards, gilt lettering to spine, publisher's blind stamp motif to front board, frontispiece, 680pp, illus, VG (light bruising to board edges/extrems, light scuffing to boards, prev. owner's name in ink to fep, heavy crack to gutter of pgs 80-81) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing to covers)
PUBLISHER: Thames & Hudson 2013
KEYWORDS: art history renaissance Italian Italy illustrated
Mataura: City of the Falls
Imperial octavo, green faux leather boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus front eps, 504pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light tanning & staining to page egdes, prev. owner's name in ink to fep, light creasing to prelims, light cracking to some gutters) in d/w, VG- (moderate to heavy creasing & chippping to edges, heavy fading to spine, 2cm loss to base of rear cover, light scuffing, 2cm dent/closed tear to spine- boards beneath undamaged)
PUBLISHER: Mataura Historical Society 1991
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history illustrated Mataura deep south southland
New Zealand School of Dance: 50 Years 1967-2017
Square imperial octavo, grey light card covers, white lettering to spine, 128pp, illus, VG+ (sl creasing & scuffing to edges, light cracking to gutters) in d/w, VG+ (light soiling & chafing to covers, prev. bookseller's label to rear)
PUBLISHER: New Zealand School of Dance 2017
KEYWORDS: stage theatre dance ballet National School of Ballet New Zealand School of Dance illustrated history
Art Galleries and Museums in New Zealand
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Reed 1981
KEYWORDS: art galleries museum museums new zealand history
Letters from America: Letters from America: A selection from his world-famous radio programme; Talk About America: 1951-1968; The Americans: Letters from America 1969-1979
3x BOOK BOXED SET paperbacks (VG) in box (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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Penguin 1981
KEYWORDS: America American journalism letters correspondence radio broadcasting history
A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages and Renascence (650-1660); Modern Times (1660-1950)
octavo hardcover (VG-) lacks d/w, lacks fep ; 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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: J.M. Dent & Sons 1957
KEYWORDS: literature history english literary criticism language
Art Treasures of the Vatican: Architecture, Painting, Sculpture
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Prentice-Hall 1975
KEYWORDS: art history vatican architecture painting sculpture catholicism religion
The Oriental Adventure: Explorers of the East
imperial octavo hardback (VG+) lacks d/w; 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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Little, Brown and Co. 1976
KEYWORDS: exploration explorers east asia surveying cartography colonialism science history
Taieri Buildings
super octavo stapled wrappers (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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: John McIndoe 1970
KEYWORDS: duendin taieri buildings architecture new zealand local regional history
Escape!: Kiwi POWs on the run in World War II
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Random House New Zealand 2006
KEYWORDS: new zealand POWs world war two wwii ww2 prisoners of war military history memoir
Westland
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: A.H. and A.W. Reed 1975
KEYWORDS: westland new zealand west coat geography history landscape painting
A History Almost Lost: A Story of Worthingtons in New Zealand and Australia
Quarto, spiral bound white light card covers, unpaginated- approx. 200pp, illus, VG+ (light chafing & soiling to covers)
PUBLISHER: David Hill n/d (c.1986)
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Australia family tree research genealogy Worthington family illustrated history
The Manifesta Decade: Debates on Contemporary Art Exhibitions and Biennials in Post-Wall Europe
Imperial octavo, illus heavy boards, red lettering to spine, illus prelims, 337pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, sl chafing & soiling to boards, spine sl cocked)
PUBLISHER: MIT Press/Roomade 2005
KEYWORDS: art exhibitions history 20th twentieth century European globalization globalisation politics
Hocken: Prince of Collectors
SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR, super octavo, grey heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus prelims, 424pp, illus/photos, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & scuffing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Otago University Press 2015
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Thomas Hocken collections illustrated history signed Dunedin
Where Ghosts Walked: Munich's Road to the Third Reich
Super octavo, mauve heavy boards with black spine, red lettering to spine, xxv + 406pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light foxing & creasing to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to fep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, price clipped)
PUBLISHER: W. W. Norton & Company 1997
KEYWORDS: history Germany nazi nazism third reich politics military illustrated national socialism Munich conservatism social conditions
Centennial History of Hawera and the Waimate Plains
Super octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, 395pp, illus, VG/VG- (moderate bruising & scuffing to boards/spine & extrems, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page egdes & eps, moderate cracking to gutters throughout)
PUBLISHER: Hawera Star Publishing Company N/D (c.1939)
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Hawera Waimate Plains illustrated
Elizabethan Treasures: Miniatures by Hilliard and Oliver
Imperial octavo, illus heavy boards, gilt & cream lettering to spine & front board, illus eps, 231pp, illus, Near FINE (v sl scuffing to extrems)
PUBLISHER: Natioanl Portrait Gallery 2019
KEYWORDS: miniature portraits Elizabethan history art Nicholas Hilliard Isaac Oliver illustrated Jacobean England English
Wonderland: The New Zealand Photographs of Whites Aviation
Imperial octavo, illus soft card boards, green lettering to spine, illus prelims, 175pp, illus, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: Potton & Burton 2020
KEYWORDS: New Zealand whites aviation photography photos landscapes scenery history collection
Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture
Quarto, grey heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind stamp lettering to front board, frontispiece, 295pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: Smithsonian Books 2010
KEYWORDS: art American portraits history sexuality visual gender sexual identity gay illustrated
Whistler: A Retrospective
Folio, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, 378pp, illus, colour plates- not counted presumed all present, VG+ (sl bruising & discolouration to board edges, light soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing, light fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: Bay Books 1989
KEYWORDS: art James Whistler illustrated history biography memoir