Books - "history"
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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
Australia Circumnavigated: The Voyage of Matthew Flinders in HMS Investigator, 1801-1803; Volumes I & II
2 volume set, super octavo, dark blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, gilt motif to front board, frontispiece,xxiv + 416 (vol 1), xiv + 560 (vol 2), NR FINE in NR FINE d/w
PUBLISHER: The Hakluyt Society / Ashgate 2015
KEYWORDS: Australia Australian history Matthew Flinders HMS Investigator exploration history travel
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
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
The Retreat from Mons: By One who Shared it.
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: Cassell and Company 1917
KEYWORDS: war airforce military history aviation ww1 wwI world war one Britan UK history
Churchill Roosevelt Stalin: the War they Waged and the Peace they Sought
super octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (scruffy, some foxing): 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: Princetown University Press 1957
KEYWORDS: history WWII Yalta war peace settlement grand alliance post-war Europe military history Winston Churchill Theodore Roosevelt Joseph Stalin
The Compleat Imbiber: An Entertainment: Volume 7
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 will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Vista Books 1964
KEYWORDS: wine alcohol humour wit history anecdotes history stories
The Compleat Imbiber: An Entertainment: Volume 10
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 will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Hutchinson 1969
KEYWORDS: wine alcohol humour wit history anecdotes history stories
The Lives of the English Rakes
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: Portrait 2006
KEYWORDS: History England social history Rochester Buckingham rakes
Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors: A Guide to Ancestry Research in the Scottish Records Office
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 costs
PUBLISHER: The Stationary Office 1997
KEYWORDS: geneology family history scotland history ancestry
The Astronauts: Pioneers in Space
Imperial octavo, blue cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, illus eps, illus title page, 111pp, illus, VG (light soiling to boards, light tanning to page edges) in d/w VG (light bruising to spine extrems & cover corners, light rubbing, light soiling, price clipped)
PUBLISHER: Cassell 1961
KEYWORDS: Astronauts history Space flight project Mercury history NASA
Illustrated London
Quarto 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: Chatto and Windus 2003
KEYWORDS: Uk History London pictorial history
The Little World of Stewart Island
Signed 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: A.H & A.W.Reed 1964
KEYWORDS: Biography history natural history Stewart Island New Zealand