Books - "history"
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Eleanor of Aquitane: A Biography
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: Penguin 1991
KEYWORDS: Eleanor of Aquitane biography biographies memoir history historical
Coaching Days and Accomodating Ways (Canterbury's Old West Coast Road)
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 Hilton Press N/D (c.1960s?)
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Canterbury history Christchurch pioneers early settlers
Toil and Trouble: The Struggle for a Better Life in New Zealand
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Methuen 1981
KEYWORDS: New Zealand settlers emigration history pioneers
Bush Carpenters: Pioneer Homes in New Zealand
SIGNED BY AUTHOR, quarto 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: John McIndoe 1979
KEYWORDS: signed New Zealand Janny Hammond history pioneer homes houses photos photography Alexander Turnbull library collections
Where Did They Come From? The Polynesians
Oblong 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: Price Milburn N/D
KEYWORDS: history culture Polynesians travel exploration geography New Zealand
Historiography: Ancient, Medieval & Modern (Third Edition)
THIRD EDITION, 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: University of Chicago Press 2007
KEYWORDS: history historiography records recording data research
The French Book: Religion, Absolutism, and Readership 1585-1715
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: John Hopkins University Press 1996
KEYWORDS: Europe European France French history
The Social Life of Money in the English Past
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: Cambridge University Press 2006
KEYWORDS: money England English history finance economics 17th seventeenth 18th eighteenth century
Politics in French Polynesia 1945-1975
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: D N Adams Ltd (Printer) 1976
KEYWORDS: politics political government French Polynesia history 20th twentieth century
Friends in Deed: 50 Years of Quaker Service Australia
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: Australia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) Inc 2009
KEYWORDS: religious groups religion Quakers Australia service history
Christian Spirituality in the Catholic Tradition
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: Sheed & Ward / Ignatius Press 1985
KEYWORDS: religion religious history Christianity catholicism spirituality theology
New Zealand: The Dear Old Maori Land
OWNERSHIP OF RELATIVE OF C F GOLDIE, octavo hardcover (VG) insect damage to front eps; 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 Brett Printing & Publishing Co 1915
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori history culture Frances Brewer Lysnar
Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales
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: Angus and Robertson 1962
KEYWORDS: Australia Australian voyages history maritime nautical exploration NSW New South Wales journals diaries
Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture: Volume 1: Archaic Greece The Mind of Athens (Second Edition)
THIS VOL ONLY, 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: Oxford University Press 1986 ?
KEYWORDS: ancient Greek history antiquity Paideia culture Hellenism
Faberge's Eggs: The Extraordinary Story of the Masterpieces That Outlived an Empire
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: Macmillan 2008
KEYWORDS: antiques Carl Faberge eggs art Russia Russian jewels history
Menus of Empress Elisabeth and Her Love for Lake Starnberg
TEXT IN GERMAN & ENGLISH, 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: Point-Art Verlag 2003
KEYWORDS: cookbooks history historical Empress Elisabeth recipes food Lake Starnberg aristocracy
The Iron Ships: A Maritime History of BHP 1885-1992
Square quarto, blue buckram boards, silver gilt lettering to spine & front board, silver gilt shipping illus to front board, illus title page with textured tissue guard, 252pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, boards sl warped, sl tanning & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (light creasing to edges, moderate fading to spine & edges, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: BHP Transport 1992
KEYWORDS: Australia Australian cargo ships shipping history trade maritime nautical BHP Transport
The Works of Antonio Canova, in Sculpture and Modelling, Engraved in Outline; With Descriptions from the Italian of the Countess Albrizzi, and a Biographical Memoir: Volume I
THIS VOL ONLY, ex-library, folio, half green leather bound green buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine, aeg, marbled eps, frontispiece, (xx) + xl + unnumbered plates, VG (moderate rubbing & scuffing/surface loss to leatherwork on spine & board corners, sl loosening/wrinkling of buckram/material to boards, minimal library markings, light to moderate tanning & foxing to prelims & terminals, prev. owner's name in pencil to prelims, moderate foxing to plates)
PUBLISHER: Septimus Prowett 1824
KEYWORDS: Antonio Canova history historical art sculptures Italy Italian antiquarian books
Caterpillar: Seventy-Five Years
DUAL ENGLISH & GERMAN TEXT, quarto, illus glossy heavy boards, white & blue lettering to spine, 287pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light chafing to boards, prev. owner's name & inscription in ink to half title page)
PUBLISHER: Podszun 2003
KEYWORDS: heavy plant machinery machines construction Caterpillar manufacturers history
Euclid: Earth-Moving Equipment 1924-1968
Quarto, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, 222pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing/curling to spine & cover edges, light chafing to covers, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear cover, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Iconografix 2004
KEYWORDS: heavy plant machinery earth-moving equipment construction history Euclid manufacturers