Books - "history"
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Manganui: A History of the Stratford Mountain Club: Seventy-One Years of Progress February 4th 1929 to the Year 2000
Square imperial octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white & cream lettering to spine, 240pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing to spine & cover edges, sl tanning to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Stratford Mountain Club (Inc.) 2001
KEYWORDS: New Zealand mountains mountaineering Stratford Mountain Club history biography skiing ski fields
Dentistry: An Illustrated History
Lg quarto, grey cloth boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, blind stamp dentistry motif to front board, frontispiece, illus prelims, xii + 319pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light fading to board edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing & chipping to edges, moderate fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: Harry N. Abrams 1985
KEYWORDS: history oral health healthcare dentists dentistry medical practices illustrated humour humor
Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires
Super octavo, blue gilt illus heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine & boards, printed eps, illus/maps to prelims, xxvi + 630pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, sl soiling to page edges, sm adhesive label to rear board)
PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 2019
KEYWORDS: Arab history anthropology ancient antiquity Arabic culture
Keeping Time: Readings in Jazz History (Second Edition)
2015 (SECOND EDITION), super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, red & black lettering to spine, xvi + 440pp, VG+ (sl creasing & curling to cover edges, prev. owner's name in black marker to front cover & ffep, sl soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2015
KEYWORDS: music history jazz readings philosophy musical criticism
Scotland's Empire 1600-1815
Super octavo, blue heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, xxviii + 474pp, illus/maps to prelims, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG (light o moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine, prev. bookseller's label to rear, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Allen Lane/Penguin 2003
KEYWORDS: Scotland ancient history antiquity political politics anthropology British empire identity
On the Edge: Ireland's Offshore Islands: A Modern History
Super octavo, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, x + 389pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl bruising to extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, prev. bookseller's label to rear)
PUBLISHER: Profile Books 2018
KEYWORDS: Ireland Irish history islands celtic
Time and Power: Visions of History in German Politics, From the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich
Octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, x + 293pp, illus, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling to covers, prev. bookseller's label to rear)
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 2019
KEYWORDS: Germany German politics history Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg-Prussia Frederick the Great Otto von Bismarck Adolf Hitler third reich nazism nazi nazis political power
The Permanent New Zealand Court of Appeal: Essays on the First 50 Years
Super octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxxii + 377pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Hart Publishing 2009
KEYWORDS: New Zealand law legal system justice court of appeal history essays prose literature collection anthology
Disaster at Cane Creek: An Unforgettable Story Especially For Those Who Lived It
Super octavo, illus light card covers, grey lettering to spine, 635pp, illus/photos, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: Dulcinea Publishing 2017
KEYWORDS: Cane Creek disaster potash mine explosion Moab Utah modern history
The First Black Boxing Champions: Essays on Fighters of the 1800s to the 1920s
Imperial octavo, illus glossy heavy boards, white lettering to spine, viii + 294pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to spine extrems, light chafing to boards, light foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: McFarland & Company 2011
KEYWORDS: sport boxing race champions 19th nineteenth century history biographies African American
The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr Richard Hooker, Mr George Herbert and Dr Robt. Sanderson
Duodecimo, blue textured buckram boards, gilt lettering & tooling to spine, gilt tooling & blind decoration to front board, aeg, frontispiece, 426pp, illus/portraits, VG (moderate scuffing & bruising to extrems, light discolouration to spine, light cracking to gutters, light sporadic foxing to pages throughout)
PUBLISHER: Society For Promoting Christian Knowledge 1857
KEYWORDS: biographies biography memoir John Donne Henry Wotton Richard Hooker George Herbert Robert Sanderson history religion theology
A Moral Truth: 150 Years of Investigative Journalism in New Zealand
Octavo, grey light card covers with french flaps, red & black lettering to spine & covers, 445pp, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: Massey University Press 2017
KEYWORDS: New Zealand journalism reporting investigative history media
The Art of Flower Arrangement in Japan: A Sketch of its History and Development
Octavo, black buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, top page edges stained red, 234pp, illus, VG (moderate scuffing & bruising to extrems, moderate chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, light tanning to eps, light pencil jottings & prev. seller's label to rear pastedown, light to moderate cracking & foxing to gutters)
PUBLISHER: Country Life 1933
KEYWORDS: Japan Japanese flower arranging history hobbies oriental seasons vases
The Death of the Artist
Super 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: Henry Holt 2020
KEYWORDS: art history contemporary business technology modern society economics economic threat to artists artistry artisan
Cavaliers & Roundheads: The English at War, 1642 - 1649
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: BCA 1999
KEYWORDS: English civil war cavaliers roundheads history 17th seventeenth century King Charles 1st first Oliver Cromwell
The Lost Fortune of the Tsars
Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in dw/ (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: Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1994
KEYWORDS: Russia Russian royal family tsars Romanoff Romanovs money wealth mystery history
Cosima Wagner
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: Julia MacRae Books 1983
KEYWORDS: Cosima Wagner biography memoir music classical history Richard
All the King's Women: Love, Sex and Politics in the Life of Charles II
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: Ted Smart / Hutchinson 2003
KEYWORDS: British English royal family history Charles ii 2nd second romance sex lives kings monarchy
Alice: Princess Andrew of Greece
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: Hamish Hamilton 2000
KEYWORDS: royalty monarchy history biography alice princess greece european english windsor prince philip
The Exploration of The Pacific
Super octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (scruffy, torn) ; 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: Adam & Charles 1947
KEYWORDS: the beaglehole pacific ocean history exploration sail british age of