Books - "history"
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The Cities of Spain (Fifth Edition)
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: Methuen & Co 1917
KEYWORDS: Spain travel writing literature history culture Edward Hutton
Stone's Otago & Southland Directory 1952 (Sixty-Ninth Year of Publication)
Super octavo hardcover (scruffy); 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: Stone, Son & Co 1952
KEYWORDS: New Zealand directories Otago Southland past previous years 1952 history
The House of Lords 1911-2011: A Century of Non-Reform
LACKS D/W, 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: Hart Publishing 2012
KEYWORDS: British house of Lords government history reform
Cabers and Ceilidhs: 150 Years of the Caledonian Society of Otago
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: Caledonian Society of Otago 2012
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Otago Scottish Caledonian society history highland
Keith Douglas 1920-1944: A Biography
SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR, 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: Oxford University Press 1988
KEYWORDS: Keith Douglas biographies memoir history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2
London: A Short History
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: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2004
KEYWORDS: history English England cities London
Meaning and Power in a Southeast Asian Realm
Super octavo, maroon buckram boards, white lettering to spine, xiv + 322pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl scuffing to extrems, light foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 1989
KEYWORDS: southeast asia history ethnology Indonesia Luwu geography
Muslim Spain and Portugal: A Political History of al-Andalus
Octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, xvi + 342pp, VG+ (light creasing/curling to spine & cover edges, light chafing & rubbing to covers, light soiling & tanning to page edges, light foxing & tanning to inside covers)
PUBLISHER: Longman / Pearson Education 1996
KEYWORDS: history Spain Portugal Spanish Portugese muslim muslims Islam religion politics
Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce 1450-1680 (2 Vol Set)
2 VOL SET, super octavo, illus light card covers, white & cream lettering to spines, vol 1- xvi + 275pp, vol 2- xv + 390pp, illus, VG+ (light curling to cover edges, light bruising/creasing to top edge of front cover of vol 2, light chafing to covers, light soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 1988-93
KEYWORDS: Southeast Asia history commerce business trade politics
The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness and Fall 1477-1806
Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, xxx + 1231pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing/curling to cover edges, light chafing to covers, light soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1998
KEYWORDS: history Holland Dutch republic Europe European
Looking at Lovemaking: Constructions of Sexuality in Roman Art 100 B.C. - A.D. 250
Imperial octavo, maroon cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus title page, xvii + 372pp, illus, VG+ (sl bruising & discolouration to extrems, light soiling & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl fading to front cover, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1998
KEYWORDS: ancient history Rome Roman artefacts sex erotica art sexuality antiquity
History of Limehills 125th Celebration
INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY EDITOR, super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white & brown lettering to spine, frontispiece, 300pp, illus/photos, VG- (heavy creasing/curling to front cover, light fading to spine, light chafing & soiling to covers, light tanning & soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Limehills School 125 Year Jubilee Celebrations Committee 1996
KEYWORDS: signed New Zealand Limehills school district settlers pioneers history
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: An Account of Travels in the Interior Including Visits to the Aborigines of Yezo and the Shrine of Nikko
SECOND EDITION, octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind stamp illus & rule to front board, frontispiece, xxiv + 336pp, illus, VG (tracks mis-spelled on spine, sl bruising to extrems, moderate fading to spine, moderate staining & discolouration to boards, light tanning & soiling to page edges, light tanning/foxing to eps, modern ex-libris label to front pastedown, light cracking to some gutters, light smatterings of foxing to pages sporadically thorughout)
PUBLISHER: John Murray 1911
KEYWORDS: Japan Japanese travel writing literature adventure exploration history
Cairo: 1001 Years of The City Victorious
Quarto, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus title page, xiv + 284pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light foxing & soiling to page edges, gift inscription in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG (price clipped, moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light tanning & foxing/soiling)
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 1971
KEYWORDS: Egypt Cairo ancient history antiquity sociology anthropology
Esau's Tears: Modern Anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews
Super octavo, illus light card covers, brown lettering to spine, xxiv + 568pp, VG+ (light creasing to coevr edges, light chafing & soiling to covers, prev. bookseller's label to rear cover, light soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2000
KEYWORDS: history Jews Jewish anti-semitism contemporary
A Garland from Quatt
SIGNED BY AUTHOR, super octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine, 333pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, light chafing to covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges, light tanning to photographic pages)
PUBLISHER: Marjory F E Adams 2001
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history sutobiography memoir signed Marjory Adams pioneers
The Hawaiian Kingdom 1778-1874 (2 Vol Set)
2 VOL SET, super octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spines, frontispiece to vol 1, illus eps, vol 1- xiii + 453pp, vol 2- x + 310pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light to moderate foxing to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffeps of both vols, sm numbers in ink to prelims of vol 1) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spines, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: University of Hawaii Press 1980-82
KEYWORDS: history Hawaii Hawai'i politics political government
Ross in the Antarctic: The Voyages of James Clark Ross in Her Majesty's Ships Erebus & Terror 1839-1843
Octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 276pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising/scuffing to board edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light tanning & foxing to first 16 pages, foxing to loosely enclosed ephemera) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light discolouration to front, light to moderate chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Caedmon of Whitby 1982
KEYWORDS: exploration history maritime nautical James Clark Ross voyages pioneers
Pubs o' the South
INSCRIBED, DATED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, oblong quarto, illus light card covers, black & green lettering to spine, 144pp, illus, VG+ (sl curling to cover edges, sl chafing & creasing to covers, sl tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Craig Printing 2007
KEYWORDS: signed New Zealand Otago Southland pubs public houses paintings drawings historic buildings history
Freed to Care, Proud to Nurse: 100 Years of the New Zealand Nurses Organisations
Imperial octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, patterned eps, 310pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light to moderate bruising to extrems, sl tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: Steele Roberts 2010
KEYWORDS: New Zealand nursing history healthcare nurses organisation organization