Books - "history"
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The First Great Civilizations
paperback (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: Pelican 1977
KEYWORDS: specials history mesopotamia indus valley egypt jacquetta hawkes history
Ned Kelly: Man and Myth
One section celotaped into book, 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Cassell Australia 1980
KEYWORDS: specials colin cave ned kelly australia history criminal history
Narrative of a Residence in Various Parts of New Zealand. Together with a Description of the Present State of the Company's Settlements
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: Capper Press 1972
KEYWORDS: specials Charles Heaphy New Zealand artisit travel autobiography memoir natural history politics history
The Epic of Flight: The Carrier War
Quarto 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: Time Life Books 1983
KEYWORDS: specials Clark G Reynolds Time-Life books military history Second World War Two naval airforce history
Dance of the Peacocks: New Zealanders in Exile in the Time of Hitler and Mao Tse-Tung
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 cost
PUBLISHER: Vintage 2004
KEYWORDS: specials James McNeish New Zealand James Bertram Geoffrey Cox Dan Davin Ian Milner John Mulgan biography biographies memoirs letters diaries interviews history Hitler Mao Tse-Tung war military history Rhodes scholars
Bateman New Zealand Historical Atlas / Ko Papatuanuku e Takoto Nei
Folio, grey boards with silver lettering to spine, illus eps, 290pp, illus, VG+ in d/w VG
PUBLISHER: David Bateman / Dept of Internal Affairs 1998
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history historical atlas maps diagrams history cartography geography
Mao Zedong's Art of War
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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Hai Feng 1993
KEYWORDS: specials liu jikun china history miltary war history
The South of the North: Manawatu and Its Neighbours
softcover quarto, (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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Massey University 2000
KEYWORDS: specials B G R Saunders new zealand local history manawatu pictorial history
The Scallop: Studies of a Shell and Its Influences on Humankind
Quarto hardcover (VG) illus; 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Shell Transport and Trading 1957
KEYWORDS: specials Ian Cox art history science natural history
Zealandia's Brave: The Royal Humane Societies in New Zealand 1850 to 1998
Ex Library, Quarto, blue cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, illus eps, 641pp, illus, VG (usual library markings, front hinge shaky, light soiling to upper page edges) in d/w, VG+, dust wrapper covered in clear mylar protective cover and taped to boards.
PUBLISHER: The Royal Humane Society of New Zealand 2001
KEYWORDS: John D Wills New Zealand The Royal Humane Society Societies history award medal recipients biographies biography social history
Continental Circus, 1949 - 2000
Text in English German and French, folio, illus black heavy card boards, 588pp, illus, VG+ (owner's address abel to f.e.p., v slight soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light rubbing)
PUBLISHER: Chronosports S.A. 2001
KEYWORDS: Maurice Bula Jean-Claude Schertenleib motorbikes motorcycle racing history statistics history Text in English French German
The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims, in all TImes and Countries, especially in England and in France, in Two Volumes
Two-volume set, scarce, imperial octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spines & blind-stamped decorative rule to boards, coated eps, xi + 436pp (vol.1), 444pp (vol.2), VG- (6cm portion of vol 2 lower spine missing, rear board vol.1 detached, heavy bruising & fraying to spine extrems & boards corners, browning to spines, staining to boards, bookseller's labels to front pastedowns, owner's ex libris labels to frotn pastedowns, heavy browning to page edges, hinges cracked, pencil drawing to last page vol.1, sporadic light foxing, slight damage to v. occasional page edges)
PUBLISHER: Tinsely Brother 1870
KEYWORDS: Andrew Steinmetz gambling history gaming tables history ancient Rome Egypt Europe lotteries entertainment
Australia & New Zealand Warships 1914-1945
Square quarto hardcover (VG) (lacks d/w) illus; 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 cost
PUBLISHER: Doubleday Australia Pty.1983
KEYWORDS: specials Ross Gillett military history warships WW1 WW2 battleships naval history
Angels & Aristocrats: Early European Art in New Zealand Public Collections
Inscribed & signed by author, quarto, illus heavy card boards, ribbon bookmark, black eps, 400pp, illus, fine
PUBLISHER: Godwit / Random House 2010
KEYWORDS: Mary Kisler New Zealand European art history public gallery collections history signed
Easter Island Studies: Contributions to the History of Rapanui in Memory of William T Mulloy
Oxbow Monograph 32
Folio, illus light card covers with white lettering to black spine, frontispiece, xiii + 247pp, illus, nr fine
PUBLISHER: Oxbow Books 1993
KEYWORDS: Easter Island Rapanui history archaeology anthropology natural history Rapanui language arts crafts academic papers articles
The Imperial Services Library Volume 2: The Uniforms & History of the Scottish Regiments: Britain-Canada-Australia- New Zealand-South Africa 1625 to the Present Day
This volume only (complete in itself), imperial octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering in black panel to spine, upper page edges stained red, frontispiece, 351pp, illus, VG- (moderate staining to spine & front board, light bruising & fraying to spine extrems, light tanning to page edges, prelims & terminals)
PUBLISHER: Seeley Service & Co 1960
KEYWORDS: Major R Money Barnes C Kennedy Allen Scottish regiments Britain New Zealand Australia South Africa Canada military history uniforms regimental history weaponry decoration ornaments
Riccarton Bush: Putaringamotu: Natural History and Management
Limited numbered edition, small quarto, illus glossy heavy card boards, frontispiece, xiv + 330pp, illus, VG+ (nick to spine base, owner's name & address stamped blacked out to fep)
PUBLISHER: Riccarton Bush Trust 1995
KEYWORDS: Brian Molloy New Zealand Christchurch Riccarton Bush Putaringamotu history environment natural history plants animals
The History of Policing in New Zealand Volume Four: A Policeman's Paradise? Policing a Stable Society 1918-1945
This volume only, association copy dated, inscribed & signed by Graeme Dunstall and given to the Hon. Judith Tizard who launched the book, imperial octavo, blue boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, xii + 528pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w, nr fine
PUBLISHER: The Dunmore Press / Dept of Internal Affairs 1999
KEYWORDS: Graeme Dunstall New Zealand Police FOrce history policing social history
The War in Iraq: A Photo History
Quarto 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Regan Books/ Harper Collins 2003
KEYWORDS: war military history American British Iraqi invasion photography photographs photographic history Saddam Hussein
Memoirs of the Indian Museum
Slim, quarto 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Manager of publications 1956
KEYWORDS: history indian museum natural history