Books - "history"
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The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn From Traditional Societies?
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 2013
KEYWORDS: anthropology philosophy culture history Jared Diamond
Clyde on the Dunstan
SIGNED & INSCRIBED, 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 McIndoe 1976
KEYWORDS: signed Betty Veitch New Zealand Central Otago history Clyde Dunstan
White Trash: The 400-Year Old Untold History of Class in America
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: Atlantic Books 2017
KEYWORDS: politics social class economics inequality stratification history US America
Allenby of Arabia: Lawrence's General
Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (G+) jacket scruffy; 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: Coward-McCann Inc 1966
KEYWORDS: T E Lawrence of Arabia military history Allenby British Army
My Life in the Royal Navy
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PUBLISHER: Holos Books 2010
KEYWORDS: military history autobiography autobiographies memoir Rear Admiral W N Ash Royal Navy
Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop
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PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 2013
KEYWORDS: pop music history entertainment
C F A Voysey: Architect and Designer 1857-1941
Square 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: Lund Humphries 1978
KEYWORDS: Charles F A Voysey history historical architecture architects design buildings
Larnach Castle: New Zealand's Castle in Pictures
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PUBLISHER: Larnach Castle Ltd 2010
KEYWORDS: New Zealand heritage buildings Larnach Castle history Barker family estate William Larnach
New Zealand Soccer Annual 1974
Octavo softcover, stapled (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: Express Printing Works (Printer) 1974
KEYWORDS: New Zealand sport history annuals past years soccer football 1974
Rothmans Soccer League: Ten Year History 1970-1979
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: Kerslake Billens and Humphrey (Printer) 1979
KEYWORDS: New Zealand sport history soccer football rothmans league 70s seventies
A History of Urban America (Second Edition)
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PUBLISHER: Macmillan Publishing 1976
KEYWORDS: US America urban history towns cities
Ibn Khaldun's Philosophy of History
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PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press 1964
KEYWORDS: Ibn Khaldun history philosophy historiography language
The Dilemma of Style: Architectural Ideas From the Picturesque to the Post-Modern
Imperial octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+) occasional pencil annotation; 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 Murray 1987
KEYWORDS: architecture design buildings history historical style
Taste: The Secret Meaning of Things
Imperial 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: Faber and Faber 1991
KEYWORDS: art design philosophy history culture
Tourists: How the British Went Abroad to Find Themselves
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PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury 2022
KEYWORDS: travel history tourism British
The Spirit of the Past: Essays on Christianity in New Zealand History
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PUBLISHER: Victoria University Press 2011
KEYWORDS: essays prose literature New Zealand religion religious history Christianity
Foedera, Conventiones, Literae, et Cujuscunque Generis Acta Publica, Inter Reges Angliae (20 Vol Set)
HEAVY 20 VOL SET- EXTRA SHIPPING REQ'D, TEXT IN LATIN, elephant folio, full brown leather binding, gilt lettering to coloured leather plates to spines, raised bands & gilt tooling/decoration to spines, page edges stained yellow, marbled eps, mixed pagination, G+ (vols 1 & 20 have been sensitively rebound incorporating original binding & have contemporary eps, vol 2 has front board & some prelim pages detached but present, all vols have sustained age appropriate scuffing & bruising to their spines & boards/extrems to a moderate level, most vols have heavy cracking to hinges making boards shaky & delicately hanging on, vols have a singular library ink stamp to their title pages- no other library markings detected, occasional page has creasing & expected level of tanning to other pages, some pages may have archival tape repairs) please feel free to contact us for photos
PUBLISHER: Londini: Per J. Tonson MDCCXXVII (1727) (Vol 20 1735)
KEYWORDS: TEXT IN LATIN full leather bindings antiquarian books public records agreements conventions history historical Thomas Thoma Rymer letters 12th twelfth century records Foedera
Domesday Book: Seu Liber Censualis Willelmi Primi Regis Angliae, Inter Archivos Regni in Domo Capitulari Westmonasterii Asservatus.
4 VOL SET, TEXT IN LATIN, (Vols 1 & 2 are 1783, vol 3 [Additamenta ex codic. Antiquiss] is 1816, vol 4 [Indices] is 1816), tidy ex-library with no external markings, elephant folio, half leather bound marbled boards, gilt lettering & raised bands to spines, marbled page edges & eps, rebound incorporating original binding, mixed pagination, VG- (minimal library ink stamps/markings, v heavy scuffing to to boards & leatherwork with some surface loss, moderate tanning to page edges, occasional but v heavy cracking to gutters sporadically throughout, each vol has front & rear gutter reinforcement, age appropriate tanning & foxing throughout, some pages have considerable cracking/creasing/closed tearing with extensive but tidy archival repairs) please feel free to ask for photos
PUBLISHER: Not Stated (1783-1816)
KEYWORDS: TEXT IN LATIN antiquarian books domesday book doomsday history historical census data research
New Zealand: Its History, Commerce and Industrial Resources
Quarto, brown leather boards, gilt lettering/decoration & raised bands to spine, gilt rule & Aotearoa outline to front board, aeg, marbled eps, 699pp, illus/photos, VG (minor discolouration & rubbing to spine & boards/edges, sl scuffing/chafing to boards, prev. owner's name in ink to prelims, 3cm closed tear to base of prelims at gutter, heavy creasing & closed tearing with archival repairs to edges of pgs 11-14, occasional minor closed tearing to other page edges, sl occasional cracking to gutters, lg closed tear to pg683/684)
PUBLISHER: The Foreign and Colonial Compiling and Publishing Co 1912-13
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history leather bindings commerce industry resources landscape climate
Jacka's Mob (Second Edition)
SECOND EDITION, LACKS D/W, octavo, orange buckram boards, black lettering to spine & front board, xii + 346pp + catalogue to rear, VG- (moderate fading & soiling to spine, moderate cracking to hinges, light bruising & fading to board corners/edges, moderate soiling to boards, moderate tanning & light foxing & soiling to page edges & eps, light to moderate cracking to gutters sporadically throughout, minor soiling to pages throughout)
PUBLISHER: Angus & Robertson 1933
KEYWORDS: second editions military history E J Rule autobiography memoir