Books - "history"
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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 NZR Steam Locomotive
Lg quarto, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps & prelims, 336pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising to extrems, light foxing to page edges, light foxing & adhesion to some pages throughout) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, ligth fading to spine, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society, Inc. 2011
KEYWORDS: steam rail New Zealand NZR history illustrated transport trains locomotives
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
Settler Anxiety at the Outposts of Empire: Colonial Relations, Humanitarian Discourses and the Imperial Press
Super octavo, heavy boards, white lettering to spine, xii + 298pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems)
PUBLISHER: UBC Press 2016
KEYWORDS: New Zealand colonies colonialisation colonialization British empire history anthropology religion Christianity settlers
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
The Empress Wu
LACKS FEP, octavo, maroon heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xii + 263pp, VG (sl bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges, ffep missing- otherwise VG+) in d/w, VG (price clipped, light creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing & soiling to spine & covers)
PUBLISHER: F.W. Cheshire Publishing 1968
KEYWORDS: Wu Chao China Chinese rulers ancient history antiquity 7th seventh century biography
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
A Complete Book Concerning Happiness and Benevolence: Fu-Hui Ch'uan-shu: A Manual For Local Magistrates in Seventeenth-Century China
Super octavo, brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xvi + 656pp, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & staining to edges, light fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: University of Arizona Press 1984
KEYWORDS: China Chinese magistrate Huang Liu-hung 17th seventeenth century history Ch'ing period politics control
State and Court Ritual in China
Super octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, ix + 446pp, Near FINE (spine sl cocked) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1999
KEYWORDS: China Chinese ancient history essays collection prose literature politics anthropology religion rituals