Books - "history"
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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
A Dream of Spires:Benjamin Mountfort and the Gothic Revival
Sm quarto, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xii + 364pp, illus, Near FINE (prev. owner's name in ink to fep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light to moderate fading to spine, sl chafing)
PUBLISHER: Canterbury University Press 1999
KEYWORDS: New Zealand gothic revival illustrated Canterbury architecture history Benjamin Mountfort
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
Fields of Gold: A History of the Dominican Sisters in Western Australia
SIGNED, oblong super octavo, illus light card covers, gold & white lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, xxi + 376pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light fading to cover edges & spine, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: Dominican Sisters of Western Australia 1999
KEYWORDS: religion Dominican Sisters Australia western faith history signed
Miners in the Clouds: A Hundred Years of Scheelite Mining at Glenorchy
Super octavo, illus glossy card covers, white lettering to spine, illus eps, 106pp, illus, VG+ (light chafing & creasing to covers)
PUBLISHER: The Lakes District Museum 1997
KEYWORDS: New Zealand mining illustrated history scheelite Glenorchy south island Wakatipu
Westland Heritage (South Island, New Zealand): A Journey of Nostalgia
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: Alexander Publications 1994
KEYWORDS: new zealand westland greymouth history west coast heritage
Birds of Passage: Henrietta Clive's Travels in South India 1798-1801
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Eland 2009
KEYWORDS: travel journal travel diary south india henrietta clive history
The Story of Shanty Town
Octavo softcover 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: Pegasus 1972
KEYWORDS: shantytown west coast new zealand history goldfields gold mining gold fields prospecting
Canterbury Cathedral: Britain in Old Photography
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: The History Press 2009
KEYWORDS: canterbury catherdral catherdrals church architecture history great britain england clergy restorations restoring religion christianity
A Short History of Guernsey
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: Peter Johnson 1994
KEYWORDS: guernsey history normandybritish isles great britain
Domesday Book: Cornwall
This vol only. 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: Phillimore 1979
KEYWORDS: cornwall history british isles great britain survey statistics old english
People of the Bay: Proceedings and Miscellanous Items of the 1991 Hawke's Bay Genealogy Conference and New Zealand Society of Genealogists Annual General Meeting
Hastings, 17-19 May 1991
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: Hawke's Bay Genealogy Group 1991
KEYWORDS: hawkes bay genealogy history ancestry new zealand
Pioneering Days of the Church in North Otago
Oblong octavo stapled wrappers (VG-, covers almost seperated); 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 Diocesan Centennial Project (No Date)
KEYWORDS: church history north otago new zealand religion pioneers christianity
On Foot Through Clydesdale
Paperback (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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Birlinn 2015
KEYWORDS: lanarkshire england great britain british history travel diary folk-lore folk lore tales