Books - "history"
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1st Battalion: Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment 1957-2007
Imperial octavo, green heavy boards, red gilt lettering to spine & front board, 344pp, illus/photo, VG+ (light bruising to spine & extrems, light tanning & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, in mylar protective cover- minor chafing)
PUBLISHER: Willson Scott Publishing 2007
KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history 1st first battalion royal new zealand infantry regiment late 20th twentieth century
Four Generations at Oreti
DATED & SIGNED BY AUTHORS, octavo, illus stapled card covers, white lettering to front cover, 77pp, illus/photos, VG (moderate chafing/surface loss & soiling/wrinkling to covers & inside covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Wene Margaret McMillin N/D (c.1980s)
KEYWORDS: signed New Zealand family history Wene Margaret McMillin settlers pioneers Oreti genealogy
Touching on Deaths: A Medical History of Early Auckland Based on the First 384 Inquests
INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY EDITOR, super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, black lettering to spine, 358pp, VG (light to moderate creasing/wrinkling to spine & covers with light chafing also, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps)
PUBLISHER: Doppelganger 2000
KEYWORDS: New Zealand medical history Auckland inquests
The Life and Music of John Field 1782-1837: Creator of the Nocturne
Super octavo, grey cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xvi + 287pp, illus, VG (light bruising to extrems, light foxing & discolouration to spine & boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, minor foxing to pages throughout) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing, moderate foxing to flaps & rear cover)
PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1973
KEYWORDS: music history John Field biographies memoir composers classical
A Favoured Few: Regular Force Cadet School 1948-1991
Quarto, red faux leather boards, silver gilt lettering to spoine & front board, 196pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to spine & extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Cosmos Publications 1998
KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history army cadet school
Jewellery 1789-1910 The International Era (2 Vol Set)
2 VOL SET, quarto, grey cloth boards, gilt lettering to spines & front boards, illus eps, frontispieces, 863pp total, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, minor water staining to base of spines, sl foxing to board edges, light tanning & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, light fading to spines, light chafing & wrinkling, sm label residue to rear covers)
PUBLISHER: Antique Collector's Club 1991
KEYWORDS: jewellery jewelry antiques history fashion international era art crafts
The Journal of the First Battalion Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment: Southeast Asia 1957-1989
TYPED LETTER LOOSELY ENCLOSED, quarto, green heavy boards, gilt lettering & military insignia to front board, frontispiece, 218pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising to spine & extrems, light to moderate chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, occasional light cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: 1 RNZIR Dieppe Barracks 1989
KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history royal infantry regiment journal southeast asia late 20th twentieth century first 1st battalion
Classic Myth and Legend
Octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering & coloured illus to spine & front board, teg, frontispiece with tissue guard, xvi + 443pp, illus- not counted presumed all present, G+ (spine heavily cracked & flapping, moderate chafing & soiling ot boards, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, heavy cracking to gutters- boards shaky, varying degrees of foxing & pencil markings throughout)
PUBLISHER: The Gresham Publishing Company N/D
KEYWORDS: ancient history myths legends Greek Rome Greece Roman mythology
Costume of the Ancients, in Two Volumes: Volume II
THIS VOL ONLY, SPINE MISSING OTHERWISE BINDING SOUND, super octavo, brown heavy leather boards, gilt rule to boards, gilt stamp illus/motif to front board, marbled page edges & eps, unpaginated, illus/plates- uncounted presumed all present, G+ (spine missing, boards heavily chafed & soiled/stained, moderate cracking to som egutters, varying degrees of tanning & foxing throughout)
PUBLISHER: Henry G Bohn 1841
KEYWORDS: ancient costumes clothing attire history historical Rome Greece roman greek
A History of the First Battalion Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment
Quarto, brown stapled light card covers, mixed pagination, illus/photos, VG- (moderate tanning & staining to covers, prev. owner's name in ink to front cover, moderate rusting & staining to staples at spine, 2x photos tipped in to inside front cover, moderate discolouration to front & rear eps)
PUBLISHER: Capt. C E Brock 1971
KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history 1st first battalion royal new zealand infantry regiment
Time Remembered
SCARCE FIRST EDITION, super octavo, illus buckram boards, maroon & cream lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, xvi + 237pp, illus, VG- (light bruising to extrems, heavy rubbing & soiling to spine & boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, heavy cracking to gutters- some pgs loose, prev. owner's name in ink to front & rear eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear pastedown, varying degrees of foxing throughout- mostly quite moderate)
PUBLISHER: William Heinemann 1933
KEYWORDS: scarce first editions Frances Horner English nobility history
The Chronicle of the English Augustinian Canonesses Regular of the Lateran, at St Monica's in Louvain (Now at St Augustine's Priory, Newton Abbot, Devon) 1548-1644
2 VOLS, super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to cream buckram spines, teg, deckled page edges, frontispieces with tissue guards, vol 1- xx + 277pp, vol 2- xx + 219pp, folding charts/diagrams to rear of both vols, VG (moderate bruising to extrems, moderate tanning to spines, light to moderate chafing/fading to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to eps, ffep of vol 2 partially detached, varying degrees of foxing throughout)
PUBLISHER: Sands & Co 1904-06
KEYWORDS: history family tree St Monica canoness English augustinian religion religious
Promoting Prosperity: The Art of Early New Zealand Advertising
SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS, heavy quarto, illus heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, illus eps & prelims, frontispiece, 439pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems & front board, sl tanning & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling, sl fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: Craig Potton Publishing 2013
KEYWORDS: New Zealand signed history advertising media posters artwork business art
Before the Storm
FIRST EDITION, SCARCE, super octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xiv + 331pp, VG- (moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems, heavy cracking to rear hinge, moderate tanning to spine, moderate chafing & staining to boards- moderate surface loss to rear board, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to front & rear eps, moderate foxing to pages throughout)
PUBLISHER: Macmillan & Co 1938
KEYWORDS: first editions biographies memoir Alexandra Feodorovna Russia Russian history
Political Posters in Ethiopia and Mozambique: Visual Imagery in a Revolutionary Context
Imperial octavo, illus heavy boards, black lettering to spine, x + 179pp, illus, VG (light bruising & moderate scuffing to spine & board extrems, light soiling to board edges, light chafing & soiling ot boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps)
PUBLISHER: Uppsala 1990
KEYWORDS: politics political artwork posters propaganda Africa African Ethiopia Mozambique campaigns art history
Noble Savages: The Savage Club and The Great War 1914-1918
Super octavo, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxvi + 495pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl scuffing to board edges/extrems, light soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges, light fading to spine & edges, minor chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: JH Productions 2018
KEYWORDS: British armed forces army military history ww1 first 1st world war one i 1 the great war savage club
Death Squads in Morocco
Super octavo, red buckram boards, black lettering to spine, frontispiece, vii + 246pp, illus/photos, G+ (heavy scuffing & fraying/surface loss to spine & board corners, moderate to heavy cracking to spine hinges, moderate fading & foxing to spine, moderate staining to front board, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, varying degrees of foxing throughout, sm ink 'tick' to ffep)
PUBLISHER: Sampson Low, Marston & Co 1937
KEYWORDS: history death squads literature ejercito legion women combat
New Zealand One Hundred Years Ago; Journal of a Ten Months' Visit
Octavo, maroon cloth boards, white lettering to spine & front board, 162pp, illus, VG- (moderate cracking to gutters - boards moderately shaky, moderately heavy fading to boards incl. lettering, light rubbing & soiling to boards, light tanning/soiling to pages, prev. owner's stamp to eps, prelims & several pages throughout)
PUBLISHER: Brett Printing and Publishing Co. Ltd. 1921
KEYWORDS: new zealand journals diaries diary memoirs travel writing exploration maritime ocean journeys voyages ships early history colonialism hms dromedary richard a cruise
With the Incomparable 29th
Octavo, brown cloth boards, black lettering to spine, black rule to front board, 206pp, VG (light soiling & scuffing to boards, light-moderate tanning & foxing to pages)
PUBLISHER: W. & R. Chambers, Limited 1919
KEYWORDS: memoirs autobiography autobiographies military narrative history world war one first wwi gallipoli the royal scots warfare conflicts combat battles major ah mure
The Nelson Police
Super octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to blue spine, illus advert in prelims, viii + 144pp, photo illus, VG (moderate sun-fading to top left corner of covers, light rubbing & soiling to covers)
PUBLISHER: New Zealand Police - Nelson District 1986
KEYWORDS: new zealand south island nelson police district history early colonial nineteenth 19th twentieth 20th century illustrated law enforcement