Books - "history"
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Hakluyt Society: Sir Thomas Roe: Eyewitness to a Changing World: Annual Lecture 2017
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 Hakluyt Society c/o Map Library 2018
KEYWORDS: hakluyt society annual lectures 2017 history historical exploration Sir Thomas Roe
Hakluyt Society Annual Lecture 2016: Experiments in Reading Richard Hakluyt's 'Principal Navigations'
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 Hakluyt Society c/o Map Library 2017
KEYWORDS: hakluyt society annual lectures 2016 history historical exploration Richard Hakluyt principal navigations
Hakluyt Society Annual Lecture 2014: Geographies of the Prime Meridian
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PUBLISHER: The Hakluyt Society c/o Map Library 2015
KEYWORDS: hakluyt society annual lectures 2014 history historical exploration navigation prime meridian measurements
Hakluyt Society Annual Talk 1996: Richard Hakluyt and His Books
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PUBLISHER: The Hakluyt Society 1997
KEYWORDS: hakluyt society annual lectures talks 1996 history historical exploration Richard Hakluyt literature books maritime voyages
A Brief History of Otahuhu
Ex-library, quarto 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: Otahuhu Borough Council 1982
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Otahuhu boroughs towns
Ancient Chinese Pottery - A Crystallization of Life and Wisdom
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: Chen Kuei-miao 1989
KEYWORDS: ancient Chinese pottery art crafts artefacts history
City of Birmingham Official Handbook 1938
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PUBLISHER: General Purposes Committee 1938
KEYWORDS: English British cities history official guides 1938 culture activities
Post-War Laos: The Politics of Culture, History and Identity
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PUBLISHER: ISEAS 2006
KEYWORDS: Laos politics political history ideology ethnography anthropology
Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life & Sudden Death
Octavo hardcover (Near FINE) in d/w (Near 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 2023
KEYWORDS: art history criticism philosophy biographies Laura Cumming
An Introductory Guide to the Corporation of London Records Office
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PUBLISHER: Corporation of London 1994
KEYWORDS: London records office administration history historical
Plain Tales from the Raj: Images of British India in the Twentieth Century
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PUBLISHER: Andre Deutsch 1976
KEYWORDS: British India colonies colonial history 20th twentieth century
Letters from Madame la Marquise de Sevigne
Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (G+) jacket 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: Harcourt, Brace and Company 1956
KEYWORDS: letters correspondence Madame la Marquise de Sevigne French aristocracy history royal family
A Lifetime Revisited - The First 92 Years
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PUBLISHER: W J (Jack) Lundie 2009
KEYWORDS: autobiography autobiographies memoir W J Jack Lundie New Zealand Zealanders pioneers rural life living family history good bastards
Almost a Century: Educational Studies at the University of Canterbury 1904-1999
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PUBLISHER: University of Canterbury Printery (Printer) 2000
KEYWORDS: New Zealand university further tertiary education academic academia universities Canterbury 20th twentieth century history
The Moral Arc
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: Henry Holt 2015
KEYWORDS: philosophy history morality ethics science
Blue Stocking in Patagonia
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PUBLISHER: Profile Books 2003
KEYWORDS: Mary Gilmore biography biographies memoir history
Random Recollections: Notes on a Lifetime at the Bar
FIRST 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: Otago Daily Times and Witness Newspapers 1939
KEYWORDS: A C Hanlon New Zealand Zealanders law history legal autobiography autobiographies memoir first editions
Leica 1925-1975: Ein Handbuch fur den Sammler
TEXT IN GERMAN, 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: Edita Lausanne 1978
KEYWORDS: TEXT IN GERMAN cameras photos photography technology Leica design history
The Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages at the University of California, San Diego (Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged)
Super octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xxiii + 792pp, VG+ (v sl bruising to spine extrems, light soiling to boards, sl soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: William Reese Company / Hordern House Ltd 2004
KEYWORDS: antiquarian books book collections collectors Dorothy Kenneth Hill collection catalogue catalogues Pacific exploration voyages maritime nautical history historical
Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in The Tweed; with a Short Account of the Natural History and Habits of the Salmon, Instructions to Sportsmen, Anecdotes, etc
Super octavo, black half leather bound boards, gilt lettering & raised bands to spine, teg, frontispiece, xvii + 298pp, plates/illus with loosely enclosed tissue guards, VG+ (light bruising & rubbing to spine & board extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges, sl chafing to boards, ex-libris plate to front pastedown, minor tanning & foxing to plates although largely still very tidy)
PUBLISHER: John Murray 1843
KEYWORDS: angling fly fishing flyfishing salmon hobbies historical natural history fish tweed