Books - "history"
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Swift and Sure: A History of the Royal New Zealand Corps of Signals and Army Signalling in New Zealand
Super octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xvi + 296pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, light occasional cracking to gutters) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling, sl fading)
PUBLISHER: New Zealand Signals Incorporated 1996
KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history royal corps of signals army signalling communications
Narrative of a Voyage to New Zealand, Performed in the Years 1814 and 1815, in Company With the Rev. Samuel Marsden (2 Vol Set)
2 VOL SET, TASTEFULLY REBOUND, half leather biund marbled heavy boards, gilt lettering to spines with gilt rule/decoration & raised bands, frontispieces, vol 1- xx + 431pp, vol 2- xii + 397pp, folding map to vol 1, VG+ (sl scuffing & bruising to extrems, light fading to spines, moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, light to moderate foxing to pages throughout, moderate creasing & minor closed tearing to folding map with light to moderate foxing)
PUBLISHER: James Black and Son 1817
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history maritime travel literature exploration nautical Samuel Marsden John Liddiard Nicholas
Otago Early Photographs (Third Series From the Hardwicke Knight Collection)
SIGNED & NUMBERED (#180/200), oblong quarto, illus light card covers, black spiral bound, unpaginated, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing & curling to cover edges)
PUBLISHER: Hardwicke Knight 1987
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Hardwicke Knight art photos photography collection Otago Dunedin history historical signed Port Chalmers
People and Buildings in Early Photographs of Dunedin (Fourth Series from the Hardwicke Knight Collection)
Oblong quarto, illus light card covers, red spiral bound, unpaginated, illus/photos, VG (light to moderate creasing & curling/scuffing to cover edges, light soiling & foxing to covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Hardwicke Knight 1992
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Hardwicke Knight art photos photography collection Otago Dunedin history historical buildings
Sculptura; or, the History and Art of Chalcography, and Engraving in Copper: With an Ample Enumeration of the Most Renowned Masters and Their Works.
SECOND EDITION, ONLY ONE PLATE PRESENT, OWNERSHIP OF A DESCENDANT OF THE AUTHOR! Sm octavo, brown full leather boards, gilt lettering to title plate on spine with gilt rule & raised bands, gilt rule to boards, red speckling to page edges, xxxvi + 140pp, VG- (heavy scuffing & surface loss to spine & board edges, moderate scuffing & bruising to boards, 4cm crack to lower front hinge, moderate tanning to page edges, heavy cracking to some gutters throughout, ex-libris plate & prev. seller's sm label to front pastedown, heavy tanning & light foxing to edges of eps & prelims/terminals, age appropriate discolouration to pages throughout)
PUBLISHER: J. Payne 1755
KEYWORDS: chalcography craft hobbies John Evelyn copper brass engraving masters history
Bridging: The Work of the Royal Engineers in the European War, 1914-19
ALL MAPS & PLATES PRESENT, super octavo, blue textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, 87pp, maps & plates/illus, VG (moderate fading to spine & board edges with some light soiling, light tanning to page edges, light foxing to eps, minor soiling & creasing to folding maps & illus/plates)
PUBLISHER: W. & J. Mackay & Co 1921
KEYWORDS: military history ww1 first 1st world war 1 one i the Great War Royal Engineers bridges construction building
Yellow River, Mules and Mountains: A New Zealand Nurse in China 1947-1950
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: Puriri Press 2002
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history nurses nursing Isobel Easton-Thompson China medical staff CORSO autobiography memoir
Russia's 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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Penguin Books 1998
KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two 2 ii Russia Russian
The Brotherhood: Inside the Secret World of the Freemasons
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Viking / Penguin 2006
KEYWORDS: secret societies freemasons freemasonry masonic history
Roaring Boys: Playwrights and Players in Elizabethan and Jacobean England
Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG+) some adhesion to pages; 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: Sutton Publishing 2004
KEYWORDS: history theatre theater playwrights Elizabethan Jacobean period England English actors
West Auckland Remembers: Volume 2
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: West Auckland Historical Society 1992
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history west Auckland settlers pioneers
The Tao of Deception: Unorthodox Warfare in Historic and Modern China
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Basic Books 2007
KEYWORDS: philosophy warfare China ancient Chinese history
After the Flood: What the Dambusters Did Next
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: William Collins 2015
KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two 2 ii dambusters 617 squadron Lancaster bombers war heroes
Voicing Scotland: Folk, Culture, Nation
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Luath Press Ltd 2013
KEYWORDS: Scotland Scottish history culture music tradition traditional
The First Ladies of Rome: The Women Behind the Caesars
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 2010
KEYWORDS: ancient Rome Roman history women antiquity
Women's Words: A Guide to Manuscripts and Archives in the Alexander Turnbull Library Relating to Women in the Nineteenth Century
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Alexander Turnbull Library 1988
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history settlers women manuscripts archives Alexander Turnbull Library collections 19th nineteenth century
Maori and European (Extract from Vol 61, Nos 1 and 2, March, June 1952)
Octavo stapled light card covers (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: The Polynesian Society 1952
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori European pakeha I L G Sutherland history culture
The Blessed Plot: Britain and Europe from Churchill to Blair
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Macmillan 1998
KEYWORDS: British politics political leaders history 20th twentieth century government Europe
An Outline of Australian Naval History
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Australian Government Publishing Service 1976
KEYWORDS: military naval navy history Australia Australian maritime
History of the Royal Canadian Air Force
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Bison Books 1989
KEYWORDS: military history aviation Canada Canadian air force air planes fighter jets
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