Books - "history"
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Almost a Century: Educational Studies at the University of Canterbury 1904-1999
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: University of Canterbury Printery (Printer) 2000
KEYWORDS: New Zealand university further tertiary education academic academia universities Canterbury 20th twentieth century history
Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape
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: Melbourne University Press 2008
KEYWORDS: Australia Australian war memorials history military servicemen soldiers anzacs
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
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: 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
A Voyage Round the World in His Majesty's Frigate Pandora
Octavo, quarter leather bound marbled boards, gilt lettering to leather title plate on spine with gilt rule also, frontispiece, 37pp + 164pp, illus, VG+ (sl fading & scuffing to spine, light bruising to board corners)
PUBLISHER: Hordern House Rare Books 1998
KEYWORDS: maritime exploration voyages history historical journeys Pandora Bounty Oceania
The Journal of Jacob Roggeveen
Octavo, blue buckram boards, copper gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 193pp, folding map to rear, VG+ (sl rubbing to extrems, sl chafing to rear board, light to moderate foxing to top page edges, neatly handwritten dates of subject to full title page) in d/w, VG (price clipped, light tanning & rubbing to spine, light tanning, minor scuff to rear)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1970
KEYWORDS: journals diaries Jacob Roggeveen maritime exploration voyages 18th eighteenth century history historical
With Captain James Cook in the Antarctic and Pacific: The Private Journal of James Burney Second Lieutenant of the Adventure on Cook's Second Voyage 1772-1773
Super octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt nautical illus to boards, illus eps, xi + 112pp, illus/maps, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, minor soilng to front board, sl foxing to top page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light soiling)
PUBLISHER: National Library of Australia 1975
KEYWORDS: history historical voyages exploration maritime nautical journeys Pacific Antarctic 18th eighteenth century journals diaries James Burney James Cook
SAS: A Pictorial History of the Australian Special Air Service 1957-1997
Super octavo, illus glossy heavy boards, white lettering to spine, illus eps, unpaginated prelims, 416pp, illus/photos, VG+ (spine cocked & sl faded, light bruising/rubbing to spine & board corners, light chafing to boards, sl tanning & soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Access Press 1997
KEYWORDS: Australia Australian military history sas special air service illustrated special forces
Farthest North
Super octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xii + maps + 508pp, illus/photos, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl tanning & chafing)
PUBLISHER: Gerald Duckworth & Co 2000
KEYWORDS: history historical journeys maritime exploration nautical voyages north North Pole Fram Fridtjof Nansen
John Quincey Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy / John Quincey Adams and the Union (2 Vol Set)
2 VOL SET, FULL LEATHER BINDING, super octavo, maroon full leather binding, gilt lettering & rasied bands to spine, gilt decoration to spine & boards, aeg, printed eps, frontispiece to vol 1, vol 1- xix + 588pp + xv index & folding map to rear, vol 2- xv + 546pp + xix index to rear, illus, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: The Easton Press 1987
KEYWORDS: full leather bindings the library of the presidents series John Quincey Adams former US leaders politics political leaders foreign policy history government
Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea
FULL LEATHER BINDING, super octavo, blue full leather boards, gilt lettering & raised bands to spine, gilt decoration to spine & boards, aeg, pink iridescent patterned eps, frontispiece, xx + 346pp, illus, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: The Easton Press N/D
KEYWORDS: full leather bindings autobiography autobiographies memoir Richard Henry Dana Jr history maritime nautical voyages
The Book of Government or Rules for Kings: The Siyasat-nama or Siyar al-Muluk
Octavo, grey buckram boards, gilt lettering with red & gilt decoration to spine, xi + 259pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light fading to spine extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, ink stamp to ffep) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, heavy creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges with some minor loss, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling)
PUBLISHER: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1960
KEYWORDS: ancient Persian literature English translations history historical philosophy antiquity Nizam al-Mulk
An Ambassador's Memoirs 1914-1917
LACKS D/W, super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt & red lettering to spine, gilt decoration/illus to front board, top page edges stained red, frontispiece, illus/photos, VG (light rubbing & fading to spine, light tanning & staining to page edges, ex-libris plate & label to half title page, moderate cracking & light staining to prelims)
PUBLISHER: Hutchinson & Co 1973
KEYWORDS: journals diaries autobiography autobiographies memoir Maurice Paleologue Russia Russian history France French politics political
With the Cameliers in Palestine
FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue buckram boards, black lettering to spine, blind lettering & rule to front board, frontispiece, 244pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising & rubbing to spine & board extrems, light fading/tanning to spine, light soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing/soilinng to page edges & eps, light foxing to prelims & terminals)
PUBLISHER: A H & A W Reed 1938
KEYWORDS: first editions New Zealand Palestine military war history cameliers ww1 first 1st world war one i 1 the great war
A Lady's Diary of the Siege of Lucknow, Written for the Perusal of Friends at Home
Sm octavo, red textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind rule to boards, vii + 211pp + 32pp to rear, VG (moderate tanning/fading to spine & board edges, moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, light cracking to gutters, light soiling to eps, light foxing sporadically throughout, binder's sm label to rear pastedown)
PUBLISHER: John Murray 1858
KEYWORDS: diary journal diaries journals G Mrs James P Harris Lucknow sieges history
No Front Line: Inside Stories of New Zealand's Vietnam War
Imperial octavo, illus light card covers with french flaps, 303pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl bruising to extrems)
PUBLISHER: Penguin 2014
KEYWORDS: New Zealand military war history soldiers Vietnam