Books - "history"
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True Tales of Great Barrier Island 2016
Quarto, illus glossy light card covers, black lettering to spine, illus prelims, 198pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl creasing to extrems, light sticker residue to rear cover)
PUBLISHER: Don Armitage 2016
KEYWORDS: Great Barrier Island Auckland New Zealand Aotea Don Armitage history anecdotes
Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 1884 Vol. XVII
Super octavo, salmon heavy boards with brown cloth spine, black lettering to title plate on spine, lxv + 471pp, maps/illus, VG (prev. owner's name in ink to front board, moderate tanning & scuffing to board & spine edges, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, some pages uncut, light cracking to some gutters)
PUBLISHER: Lyon & Blair 1885
KEYWORDS: New Zealand natural history nature
Venice and the Veneto: Artistic Centers of the Italian Renaissance
Lg quarto, blue heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, xvii + 354pp, illus, VG+ (slight bruising to extrems, boards sl warped) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2007
KEYWORDS: art Venice renaissance Italian Italy history
The Origins of Pottery and Agriculture
Lg quarto, illus heavy boards, yellow & white lettering to spine, illus prelims, 400pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light soiling to board & page edges, light tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges)
PUBLISHER: Roli Books/Lustre Press 2002
KEYWORDS: pottery ancient history antiquity east west cultures civilisation civilization Japan archaeology archeology
Automobile Year 1957-1958
DAMAGE TO PGS 139/140- ARCHIVAL TAPE REPAIRS, lg quarto, grey heavy boards, white lettering to spine, illus eps & prelims, 224pp, illus/photos, VG- (moderate to heavy scuffing to spine & board edges, light bruising to board extrems, moderate tanning & soiling to boards, moderate foxing to pages throughout, light folding to some lower pg corners)
PUBLISHER: Edita S.A. 1957
KEYWORDS: cars transport automobiles history 50s fifties racing car engineering mechanics engines
Turkey Crossroads of Civilisations
Lg quarto, black heavy boards, blind stamp lettering to front board, 320pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to spine extrems, lg gift inscription in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG (light creasing, chipping & soiling to spine & edges) in slipcase, VG (moderate chafing & scuffing)
PUBLISHER: Marmara Bank/Creative Publishing Ltd 1993
KEYWORDS: Turkey Anatolia architecture ancient history antiquity anthropology Ottoman empire
Green, White and Black: The Story of Oxford Rugby Football Club: The First Fifty Years 1909 to 1959
LENGTHY SIGNED & DATED LETTER FROM AUTHOR LOOSELY ENCLOSED, imperial octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, iv + 244pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing & curling to covers, sl foxing to ffep)
PUBLISHER: Stray Cat Publishing 2007
KEYWORDS: sport rugby union Richard Tubby Tyrrell Oxford history autobiography memoir
Mud, Men & Memories: The Continuing Story of Oxford Rugby Football Club: The Middle Years: 1960 to 1987
UNCOMMON, imperial octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, 268pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light scuffing to cover edges)
PUBLISHER: Stray Cat Publishing 2017
KEYWORDS: sport rugby union Richard Tubby Tyrrell Oxford history autobiography memoir
The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan
Octavo, light brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xi + 381pp, folding maps, VG (moderate scuffing & bruising to extrems, light staining to boards, light to moderate tanning & staining to page edges, ex-libris plate to front pastedown, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, light to moderate tanning & foxing to eps, moderate cracking to some gutters)
PUBLISHER: Eyre & Spottiswoode 1951
KEYWORDS: war history military Churchill Sudan Africa
The Biblical Flood and the Ice Epoch: A Study in Scientific History
Super octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine, printed eps, xvi + 336pp, illus, VG- (moderate creasing & scuffing to spine & covers, moderate staining & fading to covers, light soiling & staining to page egdes)
PUBLISHER: Pacific Meridian Publishing 1966
KEYWORDS: theology religion flood ancient history biblical natural disasters catastrophes cosmology
Peter McLeavey: The Life and Times of a New Zealand Art Dealer
Imperial octavo, illus soft boards, grey, white & black lettering to spine, frontispiece, 493pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing to boards, light fading to edges) in d/w, VG (light to moderate fading to spine, ligth creasing & soiling to edges)
PUBLISHER: Te Papa Press 2013
KEYWORDS: signed New Zealand art history dealers Peter McLeavey autobiography memoir
The Great White Wonders: A History of Rock Bootlegs
Square super octavo, light card covers, black & red lettering to spine, 441pp, illus/photos, VG- (moderate scuffing & creasing to spine & covers with some soiling, prev. bookseller's label to rear cover, moderate foxing to page edges & eps)
PUBLISHER: Penguin Books 1995
KEYWORDS: music history rock bootleg
Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute Vol. 54
Super octavo, grey heavy boards, black lettering to title plate on spine, xxxi + 920pp, illus/photos, VG- (moderate to heavy scuffing to spine & board edges, heavy tanning to page edges, moderate tanning & foxing to eps, light cracking to rear gutter)
PUBLISHER: W. A. G. Skinner 1923
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history transactions proceedings nature zoology anthropology botany plants geology
The Life and Times of James Walter Chapman-Taylor
Folio, brown faux leather boards, blind stamp lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, illus prelims, xvi + 440pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light to moderate bruising & scuffing to spine extrems, light bruising to board corners) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping to spine extrems with some sl loss, light fading to spine, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: Millwood Heritage Productions 2007
KEYWORDS: James Walter Chapman-Taylor New Zealand architects architecture buildings biography memoir history
Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 1891 Vol XXIV
Super octavo, grey light card covers, black lettering to spine, xix + 748pp, illus, VG (moderate creasing & soiling to spine & covers, light foxing to covers & page edges, some pages still uncut, light tanning & foxing to pages sporadically throughout, 3cm closed tear to ffep, moderate cracking to some gutters)
PUBLISHER: George Didsbury 1892
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history transactions nature botany zoology philosophical societies nature
The Fall of the House of Habsburg
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: Cardinal 1974
KEYWORDS: Habsburg monarchy history 1848 1918 Empire personalities dynasty
History in Our Time
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: Penguin 2000
KEYWORDS: History Windsor royals Victorians divorce suicide Empire class essays radical
Pagan Celtic Britain: Studies in Iconography and Tradition
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: Cardinal/Sphere Books 1974
KEYWORDS: pagan celtic iconography traditions British Britain ancient history religion
Tickle the Public: One Hundred Years of the Popular Press
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: Indigo 1997
KEYWORDS: fleet street journalism news history Matthew Engel British press
The Quest For Merlin
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: Sceptre 1988
KEYWORDS: Merlin fantasy legend wizards magic ancient history prohecies Nikolai Tolstoy