Books - "history"
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Utopias: Papers From the Annual Symposium of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
Octavo, blue heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, 193pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light tanning to page edges & eps, residual tape to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & fading to edges & spine, heavy fold to rear flap)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1987
KEYWORDS: collection anthology papers Australia Australian utopia history philosophy
Spaces of Consumption: Leisure and Shopping in the English Town, c.1680-1830
Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, 247pp, illus/photos, VG (light scuffing & creasing/curling to cover edges, moderate fading to spine & edges)
PUBLISHER: Routledge 2007
KEYWORDS: business history shopping commerce England English towns townships shops archaeology archeology
Russia, Past and Present; Adapted From the German Lankenau and Oelnitz
Octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, yellow lettering & decoration to boards, frontispiece, viii + 434pp, illus, folding map to rear, VG- (evidence of re-binding to boards & eps, presentation plate to front pastedown, moderate foxing to pages sporadically throughout, binder's adhesive label to rear pastedown, folding map is in sound condition but quite heavily foxed)
PUBLISHER: Society For Promoting Christian Knowledge 1881
KEYWORDS: history Russia Russian empire geopolitics
The Enlightenment: Cambridge Readings in the History of Political Thought
Imperial octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, xii + 529pp, VG (light creasing & curling to covers & spine, moderate fading to spine & cover edges, black ink smudge to lower page edges)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1999
KEYWORDS: history politics political philosophy anthology writings collection
Hard Frost: Structures of Feeling in New Zealand Literature 1908-1945
Octavo, illus light card covers, white & red lettering to spine, 368pp, VG+ (light creasing to spine & cover edges, prev. bookseller's label to rear cover, sl soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Victoria University Press 2017
KEYWORDS: New Zealand literary criticism literature history early 20th twentieth century ideology
Panzer Leader
Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 528pp, illus/maps, VG (light bruising to extrems, heavy fading/discolouration to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG (price clipped, 2cm closed tear to lower front edge, light creasing & chipping to edges, moderate tanning & foxing to rear cover & edges)
PUBLISHER: Michael Joseph 1970
KEYWORDS: General Heinz Guderian Germany German nazis ww2 war military history
Men and Machines : The Brambles Story
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: Ure Smith 1970
KEYWORDS: history pioneers bramble family biographical
The Face of Britain : The Nation through its Portraits
SIGNED. Super octavo, hardcover (VG+) in 3/4 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: Viking / Peguin 2015
KEYWORDS: signed history britain potraits portraiture
The Enlightenment and Why It Still Matters
Super octavo, hardcover (nr 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: Oxford Univeristy Press 2013
KEYWORDS: history the enlightenment
Medieval People : Vivid Lives in a Distant Landscape from Charlemagne to Piero della Fancesca
Imperial octavo, hardcover (nr 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: Thames & Hudson 2014
KEYWORDS: history medieval times
Renaissance People : Lives that Shaped the Modern Age
Imperial octavo, hardcover (nr 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: Thames & Hudson 2011
KEYWORDS: history renaissance biographical
Life and Times : Images from the Otago Daily Times Collection
Oblong imperial 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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Otago Daily Times / Allied Press Ltd 2020
KEYWORDS: aotearoa nz new zealand otago dunedin otago daily times odt photography pictorial history
The Illustrated Letters and Diaries of the Pre-Raphaelites
ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Oblong imperial octavo, hardcover (nr 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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Batsford / Pavilion Books Company Ltd 2018
KEYWORDS: history pictorial illustrated pre-raphaelites
Cavaliers of Kham : The Secret War in Tibet
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: William Heinemann Ltd 1972
KEYWORDS: history war tibet khambas
Spitfire Women of World War 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: HarperPress / HarperCollins 2007
KEYWORDS: history world war two ww2 wwii spitfire women female pilots
A Paradise out of a Common Field : The Pleasures and Plenty of the Victorian Garden
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: Random Century Group Ltd 1990
KEYWORDS: victorian garden gardens plants great britain history
Dunedin's Crowning Glory : The Town Clock Tower
Quarto, stapled booklet (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: Budget Print 1994
KEYWORDS: history aotearoa nz new zealand otago dunedin clock tower clocktower landmarks
G. Methven and Company, Ltd ; Offers for Public Subscription 26th of May 1930 [prospectus]
Quarto, stapled booklet (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: 1930
KEYWORDS: methven company aotearoa nz new zealand companies history
Artists of the Renaissance : A Selection from Lives of the Artists
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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Book Club Associates 1979
KEYWORDS: art history artists renaissance
Dunedin Then
Square 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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: John McIndoe 1977
KEYWORDS: aotearoa nz new zealand otago dunedin history photography