Books - "history"
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The High Alps of New Zealand, or, A Trip to the Glaciers of the Antipodes with an Ascent of Mount Cook
LACKS FEP, octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, black rule to spine & front board, frontispiece, xiv + 350pp, VG (spine cocked, moderate fading to spine, light to moderate bruising to extrems, light soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing & moderate soiling to page edges, ffep missing, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, occasional cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: Macmillan & Co 1883
KEYWORDS: history New Zealand alpine alps Mount Cook glaciers travel writing literature William Spotswood Green
Corrupting the Youth: A History of Philosophy in Australia
Super octavo, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 465pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG (in fully adhesive protective wrapper- fully affixed, light creasing/wrinkling, prev. bookseller's label to rear cover)
PUBLISHER: Macleay Press 2003
KEYWORDS: history philosophy Australia
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1958 (95th Year)
LACKS D/W, sm octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus eps & title page, frontispiece, xxxvi + 1035pp, VG (light bruising to extrems, light fading to spine, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, top corners of pgs961-982 creased)
PUBLISHER: Sporting Handbooks 1958
KEYWORDS: sport history Wisden past issues 1958 almanacks cricket statistics results
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1949 (86th Year)
LACKS D/W, sm octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board (heavily rubbed), printed eps, viii + 935pp, illus, VG- (heavy rubbing & cracking to spine & hinges, light rubbing to board edges, moderate chafing & soiling, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, heavy cracking to front gutter- binding sloppy, light cracking & foxing to gutters & pages throughout)
PUBLISHER: Sporting Handbooks 1949
KEYWORDS: sport history Wisden past issues 1949 almanacks cricket statistics results
The West Coast Sounds of New Zealand
Square octavo, illus string bound covers, red lettering to front cover, aeg, unpaginated, illus with tissue guards, VG- (heavy tearing to spine/covers, moderate to heavy tanning & foxing to covers with sm ink stains also, light to moderate tanning & foxing throughout, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)
PUBLISHER: J Wilkie & Co N/D (c.1900s)
KEYWORDS: New Zealand illustrated west coast sounds historic history historical
The History of Oamaru and North Otago, New Zealand, From 1853 to the End of 1889
Octavo, black buckram boards, lettering to title plate on spine- heavilt rubbed, printed eps, 502pp, VG (moderate rubbing to spine, light bruising to board extrems, moderate chafing & soiling to boards, light cracking to spine/hinges, moderate tanning & foxing/staining to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to verso of preface page, light cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: Andrew Fraser 1890
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history north Otago Oamaru 19th nineteenth century early settlers pioneers
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1950 (87th Year)
LACKS D/W & OTHER SM BLOCKS OF PAGES, sm octavo, maroon buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, printed/illus eps & prelims/terminals, viii + 1003pp, illus, G+ (moderate rubbing to spine & board edges/extrems, moderate staining & discolouration to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, light tanning to eps, v heavy cracking to gutters throughout- binding loose & sloppy, some sm blocks of pages missing)
PUBLISHER: Sporting Handbooks 1950
KEYWORDS: sport history Wisden past years issues 1950 almanacks statistics results
Schlegelmilch Sportscar Racing 1962-1973
Oblong quarto, blue heavy boards, white lettering to spine, 539pp, illus/photos, Near FINE, in d/w, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: Konemann 2012
KEYWORDS: automotive motorsports motor racing cars history photography Rainer W Schlegelmilch art
Subantarctic Campbell Island
Super 8vo 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 costs
PUBLISHER: Denver Museum of Natural History 1962
KEYWORDS: Campbell Island natural history subantarctic New Zealand
Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornfish fishing town
Super 8vo 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 costs
PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury 2020
KEYWORDS: Lamorna Ash fish cornfish fishing town community social history
Chaslands: Pioneering Days in Southern New Zealand
8vo hardcover (VG-), lacking ffep; 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: A. H. & A. W. Reed 1953
KEYWORDS: New Zealand South Southern pioneering pioneer 19th century history
Maori Fortifications
8vo 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: Osprey 2017
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori military history fortifications war warfare
Sheep May Safely Graze: The Story of Morven Hills Station and the Tarras District
Ex-library. 8vo 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: Geoffrey P. Duff 1978
KEYWORDS: New Zealand South Island history Tarras Central Otago
Mesopotamia Station: A survey of the first hundred years
Provenance of Peter Chandler. 8vo 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: The Timaru Herald Co. 1960
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Mesopotamia Station social history Canterbury
The New Zealand Apline Journal Vol. III, No. 10, March 1921
8vo 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: Warnes & Stephenson 1921
KEYWORDS: New Zealand alpine journal mountain mountaineering adventure climbing mountains history
The New Zealand Apline Journal Vol. III, No. 11, December 1921
8vo 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: Warnes & Stephenson 1921
KEYWORDS: New Zealand alpine journal mountain mountaineering adventure climbing mountains history
The Otago Survey: The Future Site of Dunedin: Frederick Tuckett's Diary, March 28th to June 1st 1844
8vo 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: The Frenchay Tuckett Society 2005
KEYWORDS: Frederick Tuckett Frenchay Tuckett New Zealand 19th century Otago history
Borough of Lawrence Otago, N.Z.: Jubilee of the Civic Government 1866-1916
8vo 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: Tuapeka Times 1916
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Otago Lawrence history borough jubilee
Lawrence Waitahuna Presbyterian Church 1948-1961
8vo 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: Otago Daily Times [1961]
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Otago Lawrence history Waitahuna Presbyterian Church 20th century
Lawrence Peace Garden: In Memory of Gallant Men who fell in the Great War, 1914-1918
8vo 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: Tuapeka Times n/d
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Otago Lawrence history 20th century