Books - "history"
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On the Road to Kut: A Soldier's Story of the Mesopotamian Campaign
First edition, ex-library, super octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 304pp, illus, VG (moderate soiling & moderate rubbing to boards, moderate bruising to spine extrems & board corners, library label to fep & top of front board, light foxing to first few pages, ligth tanning & light foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Hutchinson 1917
KEYWORDS: World War One WW1 Campaigns Iraq Al Kut History Siege British military history autobiography
Mussolini
Super octavo, black cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, xv + 584pp, illus, VG+ (light foxing to page edges) in d/w VG+ (light rubbing, light soiling)
PUBLISHER: Arnold 2002
KEYWORDS: biography history World War Two military Dictators politics Italy Fascism History
Crescent Moon: Islamic Art & Civilisation in Southeast Asia
Imperial octavo, illus boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, Nr Fine in d/w VG+ (light rubbing)
PUBLISHER: National Gallery of Australia 2005
KEYWORDS: arts Islam history history civilisation Southeast Asia exhibition
The History Today: Who's Who in British 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 will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Collins & Brown 2000
KEYWORDS: history biographies who's who Britain ancient history politics royal family monarchy
Industrial Democracy
2 volume set, First edition, super octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, xxii + 452pp (vol 1), vii + 477pp + 6pp adverts (vol 2), VG (moderate bruising to spine extrems & board corners, light rubbing & soiling to boards, ex library label to fep, NZ labour party label stuck on to fep with cellotape, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Longmans, Green, & Co. 1897
KEYWORDS: Labor unions history Great Britain History
Macquarie Island
Small quarto, green cloth boards with gilt lettering in darker green decorative panel to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, xii + 380pp, illus, VG+ (light tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG- (some tanning to spine & flap folds, light creasing to spine extrems, archival tape repair to spine head & 3cm tear to front upper edge)
PUBLISHER: Antarctic Division Dept of Internal Affairs Australia 1968
KEYWORDS: Macquarie Island history natural history exploration Antarctic
Frontier of Dreams: The Story of New Zealand
Large quarto hardcover (nr fine) in d/w (VG+), in slip case (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 cost
PUBLISHER: Hodder Moa/Hachette Livre 2005
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history tvnz pictorial prehistory culture colonisation Depression rogernomics modern history
New Zealand and Japan 1900-1941
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 cost
PUBLISHER: A. R. Shearer 1972
KEYWORDS: history New Zealand Japan military history politics war alliance
Merchant Ships 1942
Oblong, Quarto, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, unpagenated, illus, VG (light rubbing to boards, light bruising to spine extrems & board corners)
PUBLISHER: Sampson Low, Marston & Co, 1942
KEYWORDS: Merchant ships marine nautical history reference boats history
The RAF and Aircraft Design 1923-1939: Air Staff Operational Requirements
Super octavo, blue heavy card boards with silver lettering to spine, xiii + 249pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w, nr fine
PUBLISHER: Frank Cass 2001
KEYWORDS: Royal Air Force aviation history RAF history aircraft production design
An Account of New Zealand and of the Formation and Progress of the Church Missionary Society's Mission in the North Island
Rebacked with new eps and spine, complete with maps and plates, piece of original spine with title mounted to spine, octavo, green cloth boards, black cloth spine, frontispiece, xii + 320pp, illus plates, VG- ( moderate rubbing to boards, moderate brusing & fraying to board corners & edges, light tanning to page edges, heavy foxing to prelims & plates, sporadic foxing to pages)
PUBLISHER: R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside1835 second edition
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history missionary church history
The New Zealand Country Journal Vol.II: A Record of Information conected with Agricultural, Pastorial and Horticultural Pursuits and Rural SPorts in New Zealand
Second year of issue (first year was 1877), octavo, textured dark blue cloth boards with gilt lettering in red panel to spine, page edges stained red, 410pp + xxvii pages of adverts throughout, VG (some scuffing to spine title panel, light foxing to page edges & eps, nick to lower edge of fep)
PUBLISHER: COmmittee of Canterbury Agricultural & Pastoral Assn 1878
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history agriculture sport history
Russian Embassies to the Georgian Kings (1589-1605)
Hakluyt Second Series No. cxxxix
Two volume set, octavo blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind rule & gilt ship motif to front board, frontispiece, xxxii + 640pp accross two volumes, illus plates, 6 folding maps, VG+ ( light foing to upper page edges) in d/w VG+ ( light bruising to spine extrems, v.slight soiling)
PUBLISHER: Hakluty Society / The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press 1970
KEYWORDS: history russia georgian kings 1589-1605 Kakheti politics military history georgia caucasus
Georgian Summer: Bath in the Eighteenth Century
Octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable co6ndition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Adams & Dart 1971
KEYWORDS: British history 18th century eighteenth Bath culture social history
Adolf Hitler: The Man and the Myth
Paperback (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 cost
PUBLISHER: Panther/Granada 1978
KEYWORDS: history biography memoir Adolf Hitler politics military history third reich nazism Germany
The Development of Piston Aero Engines: From the Wrights to Microlights: A Century of Evolution and Still a Power to be Reckoned With
Ex-library, some highlighting & annotation, 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 cost
PUBLISHER: Patrick Stephens 1994
KEYWORDS: aviation history evolution air planes transport engines engineering history
Birds, Beasts & Fishes: THe First Hundred Years of the North Canturbury Acclimatisation Society
Octavo, blue cloth boards, black lettering to soine, frontispiece, 184pp, illus plates, VG+ ( Light tanning to upper page edges, previous overners name & ink stamp to fep) in d/w VG- ( light fading to spine, tape repair to upper spine extrems, light soiling & rubbing)
PUBLISHER: North Canturbury Acclimatisation Society 1964
KEYWORDS: Acclimatisation Society New Zealand history social history canturbury biology zoology
Original Rolls-Royce and Bently 1946-65
significant highlighting, Imperial octavo, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, green eps, 160pp, illus, VG+ (ligth foxing to page edges) in d/w VG+ (light rubbing)
PUBLISHER: Bay View Books 1999
KEYWORDS: cars automobiles history Rolls royce bently history
Out of Harm's Way: The Wartime Evacuation of Children From Britain
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: Headline 2006
KEYWORDS: history ww2 second world war military evacuation social history
A Brief History of Henderson Creek
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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: West Auckland Historical Society 2003
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Henderson Creek culture social history