Books - "history"
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Poussin's Humour
Super octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xlv + 222pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light foxing & soiling to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG+ (light to moderate creasing to edges, sl chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Paravail 2009
KEYWORDS: art history criticism appreciation Nicolas Poussin paintings humour humor
Captain Joseph Nias and the Treaty of Waitangi
OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF HISTORIAN JOHANNES ANDERSON, octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 96pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light chafing to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light foxing to prelims, aforementioned ownership signature to half title page)
PUBLISHER: L. T. Watkins 1938
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori pakeha treaty of Waitangi Captain Joseph Nias history
Waitangi: Ninety-Four Years After
Super octavo, brown textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, xi + 122pp, illus/photos, VG (sl bruising to spine extrems, moderate soiling to board edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light tanning to spine, sl soiling & foxing)
PUBLISHER: Thomas Avery and Sons 1934
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Waitangi history treaty Maori pakeha T Lindsay Buick
Courbet's Realism
Imperial octavo, illus glossy light card covers, black & red lettering to spine, xviii + 378pp, illus, VG (moderate curling to covers, light bruising & scuffing to spine extrems, light chafing & soiling to covers, light soiling & foxing to page edges, some occasional annotation throughout)
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press 1992
KEYWORDS: art history criticism appreciation interpretation realism Custave Courbet
The Story of Gate Pa: April 29th, 1864
Duodecimo, green light card covers, black lettering to front cover, 88pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light tanning & fading to spine & front cover, light tanning & foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: The Bay of Plenty Times 1964
KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history Gate Pa battles
The Treaty of Waitangi: How New Zealand Became a British Colony
SCARCE IN D/W, Super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering & blind rule to spine & boards, frontispiece with tissue guard, xvii + 393pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, sl soiling to rear board, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, sl foxing to prelims, occasional sl cracking to some gutters) in d/w, VG (light creasing to edges, moderate tanning to spine, light tanning & foxing to covers & flaps, sl soiling)
PUBLISHER: Thomas Avery and Sons 1933
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Aotearoa history treaty of Waitangi Captain William Hobson British colonisation colonies T Lindsay Buick
Only Connect.....: Art and the Spectator in the Italian Renaissance: The A. W. Mellion Lectures in the Fine Arts 1988
Imperial octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, frontispiece, xvii + 281pp, illus, VG (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear cover, light foxing to page edges & eps, moderate cracking to some gutters, light to moderate annotations to margins in pencil throughout)
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 1992
KEYWORDS: art history criticism appreciation renaissance Italy Italian lectures A W Mellon
The Origin of Perspective
Quarto, cream heavy boards, gilt lettering to brown cloth spine, xxiv + 477pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising & soiling to board edges/extrems, sl soiling to spine, light foxing & soiling to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown, occasional pencil underlining & annotations) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing to edges, light fading to spine, moderate chafing & soiling, sm red label to rear)
PUBLISHER: The MIT Press 1994
KEYWORDS: philosophy perspective criticism appreciation history Hubert Damisch
The Writing of the Walls: Architectural Theory in the Late Enlightenment
Quarto, black cloth boards, green lettering to spine, vii + 230pp, illus, VG (light bruising to extrems, moderate staining to spine & boards, sl foxing & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, light fading & scuffing to spine & edges, sl soiling)
PUBLISHER: Princeton Architectural Press 1986
KEYWORDS: architecture buildings philosophy neoclassicism history France French enlightenment
The History and Function of the Auckland City Art Gallery in Constructing a Canon of Modernist New Zealand Art
UNPUBLISHED THESIS, quarto, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xi + 258pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light soiling to boards & page edges, occasional underlining & annotation in pencil & ink)
PUBLISHER: Maria E. Brown 1999
KEYWORDS: art history New Zealand thesis theses Maria E Brown Auckland City Art Gallery galleries acquisitions exhibitions modernism
Gondola Days: Isabella Stewart Gardner and the Palazzo Barbaro Circle
Quarto, burnt orange cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt illus to front board, illus eps & prelims, frontispiece, xviii + 297pp, illus, VG+ (spine sl cocked, boards v sl warped, light foxing & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges, light fading to spine/cover edges)
PUBLISHER: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum 2004
KEYWORDS: art history collections Isabella Stewart Gardner Palazzo Barbaro
The 9 Lungs - Success Beyond 3 Generations: The Confucian Enduring Leadership Par Excellence
Octavo, illus glossy light card covers, blue & black lettering to spine, xxxi + 456pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing & scuffing to spine & cover edges with light fading to also, prev. bookseller's label to rear cover)
PUBLISHER: Eastern Dragon Press 1996
KEYWORDS: 9 lungs ancient Chinese wisdom philosophy China culture ancient history antuiquity principles
Women Photographers: From Julia Margaret Cameron to Cindy Sherman
Quarto, illus heavy boards, purple & white lettering to spine, frontispiece, 239pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to spine extrems, light soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Prestel Publishing 2014
KEYWORDS: art photography photos collections women female photgraphers history
The Land of Midian
FIRST EDITION, octavo, teal cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine- blackened, frontispiece, xi + 286pp, illus/photos, VG (light fading to board edges, light soiling, tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. bookseller's ink stamp to front pastedown) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, moderate creasing & chipping to edges with some minor loss, light fading to spine, light to moderate soiling, moderate wrinkling
PUBLISHER: Ernest Benn 1957
KEYWORDS: first editions Midian travel literature exploration middle east ancient history antiquity
Studies in Maori Rites and Myths
Super octavo, grey light card covers, black lettering to spine & covers, deckled/rough cut page edges- some remain uncut, 201pp, VG (light creasing & tanning/staining to spine & cover edges, light chipping to spine extrems, light tanning to page edges, sl cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: Kobenhavn 1958
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori rites myths mythology religion history
Authorship & Publication: A Concise Guide For Authors in Matters Relating to Printing and Publishing ; Including the Law of Copyright, and a Bibliographical Appendix
Super octavo, mottled green buckram boards, gilt lettering to title plate on spine, frontispiece, viii + 480pp, illus, VG (moderate bruising & soiling to spine & boards, lg red lettering to spine, heavy tanning & light foxing to page edges & eps & prelims, occasional markings in ink to margins)
PUBLISHER: Wyman & Sons 1883
KEYWORDS: writing publishing printing literature law copyright history guide
The Great War: Volume One
THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine, gilt lettering & blind stamp decoration to front board, red speckling to page edges, frontispiece, 512pp + iv contents pgs to rear, illus, VG (moderate soiling to boards- heavy to rear, light scuffing & bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light foxing to prelims, moderate creasing to pgs at gutters)
PUBLISHER: George Newnes N/D (c.1933)
KEYWORDS: military history Winston Churchill ww1 first 1st world war one 1 i the great war politics
Leif's House in Vineland / Graves of the Northmen
Quarto, brown textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, teg, folding map, 40pp, illus, VG- (light scuffing to extrems, moderate to heavy chafing & scuffing to spine & boards- minor soiling, 1cm scuff to rear board, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, ex-libris plate to front pastedown, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, considerable cracking to some gutters, occasional markings to margins)
PUBLISHER: Damrell and Upham 1893
KEYWORDS: history literature Eben Norton Horsford Cornelia
The Great War
THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine, gilt lettering & blind stamp decoration to front board, red speckling to page edges, frontispiece, pgs 513-1024 + iv contents to rear, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light to moderate chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, occasional creasing to gutters)
PUBLISHER: George Newnes Ltd N/D (c.1930s)
KEYWORDS: military history ww1 first 1st world war one 1 i the great war Winston Churchill
Whaling in the Dominion of New Zealand: Discovery Reports Vol VII, pp. 239-252, Plates XI-XIII, December 1933
Quarto, blue light card covers, black lettering to covers, pgs 239-252, illus/plates, VG (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges with moderate tanning, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1933
KEYWORDS: New Zealand whaling discovery reports history maritime marine life nautical