Books - "history"
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Tropic Temper
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: Readers Union Collins 1963
KEYWORDS: malaya malaysia history culture travel sociology
A History of the Microbiology Department 1950-2010 [University of Otago]
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: University of Otago Microbiology Department 2010
KEYWORDS: microbiology microbiolgical department university of otago history academic dunedin kalmakoff james dunedin
The Great Game
On Secret Service in High Asia
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 will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: John Murray 1990
KEYWORDS: history great game diplomacy politics military espionage imperialism colonialism central asia tsarist russia russian empire victorian caucasus china tibet india
When I Left Home: My Story
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 will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Da Capo Press 2012
KEYWORDS: buddy guy david ritz america american blues music african american african-american black history entertainment culture memoir
A History of Latin America: c.1450 to the present
Second Edition
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 will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Blackwell 2005
KEYWORDS: blackwell history latin america new world colonization colonisation colonialism imperialism twentieth 20th century americas central south
The Mount Aspiring Region
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: New Zealand Alpine Club 1989
KEYWORDS: mt aspiring otago lakes district mountaineering climbing new zealand graham bishop mountain mountains alpine history
China Remembers
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 will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1999
KEYWORDS: china chinese oral history twentieth century 20th zhang lijia calum macleod people's republic
The Balkans since 1453
Super octavo, illus. light card covers, red & white lettering to black spine, xxxvii+970pp, illus photos & maps, VG (light creasing, rubbing & scuffing to covers, light sun-fading to spine, a few bumps/scuffs along page edges, prev. owner's stamps to inside front cover & half-title page)
PUBLISHER: C. Hurst & Co. (Publishers) Ltd. 2002
KEYWORDS: ls stavrianos traian stoianovich balkans european early modern history historiography cultural political culture politics ottoman empire imperialism
A History of Modern Lebanon
Octavo, illus. light card covers, black & white lettering to red spine, xi+306pp, illus - maps, VG+ (v. light rubbing to covers & creasing to corners, small spot of light soiling to rear cover from adhesive residue where sticker prev. removed, light foxing to page edges, prev. owner's stamp to inside front cover, top right corner of half-title page cut out)
PUBLISHER: Pluto Press 2007
KEYWORDS: fawwaz traboulsi history modern lebanon lebanese middle eastern ottoman empire twentieth 20th century civil wars warfare military conflicts politics political
Phrenology; Proved, Illustrated, and Applied; Embracing an analysis of the primary mental powers, in their various degrees of development. The phenomena produced by their combined activity, and the Location of the Phrenological Organs in the Head, to
SPINE DAMAGED WITH SIGNIFICANT SURFACE LOSS; Sm. octavo, black cloth boards, gilt lettering & decorative motif to spine, blind-stamped decorative rule to boards, vi+430pp+4pp publisher's adverts at rear, tatty VG- (spine heavily damaged with roughly two-thirds surface loss & spine coming almost entirely loose at top extrem, hinges heavily cracked, boards wobbly but still attached, light soiling & heavy rubbing, scuffing, fading & fraying to boards, heavy browning/discolouration to page edges, light-moderate foxing/soiling throughout, moreso to prelims/terminals, moderate oil? staining to top right corner of first approx. 25pp, phrenological diagram doodling in v. light pencil by prev. owner to one page at terminals)
PUBLISHER: S. R. Wells & Co. 1878
KEYWORDS: os ln fowler phrenology proved illustrated and applied science pseudoscience brains function neuroscience heads skulls scalp morphology human anatomy anatomical medicine history development practical applications of techniques technical historical phrenological 19th nineteenth century scientific methods guides mental traits illness personality
Sketch of the Early History of the Cymry, or Ancient Britons
LACKS TITLE PAGE; Octavo, brown heavy card boards, illus prelim - Hesus; From a bas relief found under the Choir of the Church of Notre Dame a Paris in 1711 (this plate appears again at p50, otherwise book is without illustrations), xvi+158pp+4pp index, scruffy VG- (moderate soiling & moderately heavy rubbing/scuffing to boards, moreso to corners, heavy fading/discolouration to boards, moderate fraying to spine extrems, v. small fragment of title label remains on spine - otherwise missing, light cracking to hinges & gutters, moderate creasing & soiling/discolouration to eps, a few light pencil marks to fep from prev. owner, title page is missing entirely, a few prelim pages starting to come loose, approx. 6cm closed tear to pp.ix-x, attempted tape repairs to pp.viii-x, a few additional small tears/light creases throughout text, moderate soiling/discolouration throughout text, moreso to page extrems/edges)
PUBLISHER: n/a c.1803
KEYWORDS: reverend peter roberts sketch early history cymry ancient britons social cultural political culture politics religion religious language traditions customs warfare conflicts military britain british isles wales welsh
Whites Pictorial Reference of New Zealand; Representative Airviews of New Zealand Cities and Boroughs
Oblong octavo, burgundy cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 312pp, illus. aerial black & white photo plates, scruffy VG- (light soiling/rubbing to boards, heavy scuffing/fraying to lower spine extrems, heavy crack to front gutter with front board almost entirely detached as a result, light soiling & moderate dampstaining throughout impacting on several aerial photo plates - moreso at top edge of pages, moderate creasing to a couple of plates, prev. owner's name in blue ink to front pastedown, light annotation in pink & blue ink to North Island map on p.9, moderate scribbling in pencil to maps on pp.309-311 plus p.312 colophon)
PUBLISHER: Whites Aviation Limited 1953
KEYWORDS: leo white whites aviation pictorial reference new zealand airviews aerial photography photos photographs photographic history reference maps
St Michael's Remuera; 60th Anniversary - 1933-1993; A Jubilee History
Draft manuscript annotated by the author; Quarto, illus. spiral bound light card covers, illus eps, frontispiece, illus prelims, 251pp, photo illus - photocopies, VG+ (light rubbing, light soiling to covers & page edges)
PUBLISHER: James Garrett FNZIA 1992
KEYWORDS: james garrett st michael's remuera jubilee history 60th sixtieth anniversary auckland north island new zealand christianity parish religion religious catholicism
The Catalpa Rescue; The gripping story of the most dramatic and successful prison break in Australian history
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: Hachette Australia 2019
KEYWORDS: peter fitzsimons catalpa rescue prison breaks fremantle western australian history incarceration clan-na-gael irish ireland independence activists activism british britain england english empire imperialism
Captain Cook's Epic Voyage
Revised edition; Super octavo softcover (VG+), prev. owner's name cut-out of top right corner of half-title page; 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 2020
KEYWORDS: geoffrey blainey captain james cook endeavour expeditions exploration travel adventure journeys australian history britain british empire english england imperialism colonialism jean de surville french france st jean-baptiste
Boys in the Trees; A Memoir
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: Flatiron Books 2015
KEYWORDS: carly simon memoirs autobiography autobiographies music history musical pop popular folk boys in the trees
Kokoda
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: HarperCollinsPublishers Pty Limited 2004
KEYWORDS: paul ham kokoda track campaign world war two 2 second wwii papua new guinea australian japanese conflicts warfare military history
The Paremata Barracks
Super 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: National Historic Places Trust New Zealand 1963
KEYWORDS: rim burnett susan davis paremata barracks early settler new zealand military history wellington north island conflicts warfare maori wars imperialism colonialism
Those Ragged Bloody Heroes; From the Kokoda Trail to Gona Beach 1942
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: Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd 1991
KEYWORDS: peter brune kokoda trail campaigns gona beach australian military history maroubra force papua new guinea japanese conflicts warfare world war two 2 second wwii
Our First Foreign War; The Impact of the South African War 1899-1902 on New Zealand
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: Massey University Press 2021
KEYWORDS: nigel robson south african boer war new zealand britain british empire military history warfare conflicts imperialism colonialism