Books - "history"
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Jazz Giants: A Visual Retrospective
Quarto, blue cloth boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, illus prelims, 280pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine, sl chafing)
PUBLISHER: Columbus Books 1988
KEYWORDS: music musicians jazz history
Printing and the Book Trade in Early Nelson
Super octavo, blue light card covers, white lettering to spine, viii + 117pp, VG+ (sl creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, sl chafing & soiling to covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Elibank Press 1996
KEYWORDS: New Zealand printing history Charles Elliott newspapers journalism
Historical Essays
FIRST EDITION, octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, viii + 298pp, VG (light bruising to extrems, moderate chafing & surface loss to board edges, sl tanning to spine, sl soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name to ffep, light to moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, occasional markings)
PUBLISHER: Macmillan & Co 1957
KEYWORDS: literature history historical H R Trevor-Roper essays collection anthologies first editions
Realm of the Black Mountain: A History of Montenegro
FIRST EDITION, tidy ex-library, octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xix + 521pp, VG (usual library markings, light rubbing to spine & board edges/extrems, minor tape staining to board edges, light tanning/soiling & moderate foxing to page edges, sm brown smudges to some prelim pages (chocolate?) - still a tidy copy) in d/w, VG (in plastic cover- easily removed if desired, some library lables, light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling- possibly just to plastc cover)
PUBLISHER: Cornell University Press 2007
KEYWORDS: Montenegro history geopolitics Europe first editions
No Simple Passage: The Journey of the London to New Zealand, 1842 - A Ship of Hope (Large Print)
LARGE PRINT, imperial octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, vi + 596pp, illus, VG (light creasing to spine & covers/edges, light chafing & wrinkling to covers, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Random House 2011
KEYWORDS: large print New Zealand history pioneers early settlers London
Universal Business Directory, for Otago - Southland 1957
Octavo, illus/printed light card covers, blue & red lettering to spine, single punched hole to top of page block, printed eps, x + 801pp, illus, VG- (moderate creasing/bruising to spine & covers/edges, moderate tanning & soiling to spine & covers, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges, light tanning/foxing/soiling throughout)
PUBLISHER: Arnold D Baldwin / Universal Business Directories Ltd 1957
KEYWORDS: New Zealand old business directories Otago Southland provincial businesses history historical
Supplement to the Genealogical History of the Families of Ogston
FIRST EDITION, PRIVATELY PRINTED, octavo, brown full leather boards, gilt lettering & raised bands to spine, blind rule to board edges, aeg, gilt edging to pastedowns/inside board edges, xvi + 175pp, illus, VG (light to moderate rubbing & surface loss to spine & boards, sm chip to gilt at base of page block, light cracking to front gutter, prev. owner's name in ink to prelims, minor occasional soiling to some pages) in home-made protective sleeve
PUBLISHER: Privately Printed 1897
KEYWORDS: first editions private printings genealogy Ogston family history families Scotland Scottish heritage research
Old and New London: A Narrative of its History, its People, and its Places: Vol VI The Southern Suburbs
THIS VOL ONLY, imperial octavo, half leather bound maroon buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration with raised bands to spine, gilt trim to leatherwork on boards, marbled page edges, vignettes to prelims, xii + 636pp, illus, VG- (heavy cracking to front hinge- front board sl shaky, moderate scuffing to leatherwork, moderate chafing & fading/soiling to boards, light tanning to page edges, prev. bookseller's sm ink stamp to front pastedown, light tanning & foxing to eps with minor water staining also, binding still sound)
PUBLISHER: Cassell Petter & Galpin N/D
KEYWORDS: England English cities London City south southern suburbs history culture buildings heritage Edward Walford
Lexicon Pentaglotton, Hebraicum, Chaldaicum, Syriacum, Talmudico-Rabbinicum & Arabicum
Lg quarto, half leather bound beige buckram reasonably modern boards- contemporary eps also, gilt lettering to green leather title plate to spine, spine also has raised bands with gilt roman numerals, red speckling to page edges, string binding- somewhat exposed at front & rear gutters, (8) + 1992 individually numbered columns + unpaginated Rasche Theboth + unpaginated Index to rear, VG (light to moderate rubbing & scuffing/soiling to spine & boards, moderate to heavy tanning to page edges, prev. owner's details in ink to front pastedown, sm historic annotation in ink to full title page, minor water staining to base of page block & some fore-edges, heavy creasing & moderate foxing to title page, light chipping to page edges, varying degrees of foxing throughout- some quite heavy, string binding exposed at front & rear gutters- only minor cracking to gutters themselves)
PUBLISHER: Francofurti ad Moenum, Typis Joannis Jacobi Hennai. MDCXII (1612)
KEYWORDS: Valentin Schindler Valentino Schindlero Oederano theology theological commentaries lexicons lexicon pentaglotton religion religious history Hebrew semitic languages Latin texts antiquarian books
The Year of the Flying Machine: 1903
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: Charles Scribner's Sons 1977
KEYWORDS: modern history 20th century juvenline children's literature flying airplane aircraft
An Empire of Plants: People and Plants that Changed the World
Super 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: Cassell Illustrated 2002
KEYWORDS: Toby Will Musgrave plants plantlife world history tea tobacco opium cotton
Windows on the Past
4to 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: South Street residents, Nelson 1995
KEYWORDS: 19th century New Zealand local history Nelson
Qui e Li: Here and There: A photo essay on the life and hometowns of Italian Australians
Obl 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: Red Egg Publishing 2006
KEYWORDS: Jane Burton Taylor Italy Italian Australia Australian social history photography migration
No Surrender: Greymouth's battle to Beat the Floods
4to 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 Greymouth Evening Star 1990
KEYWORDS: Kit Carson New Zealand history natural disaster flood floods flooding Greymouth
The Great Drought of 1976
Ex-library. 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: Hutchinson & Co. 1978
KEYWORDS: Evelyn Cox 20th century history natural disaster drought
Nero: The Man and the Legend
Ex-library. 8vo hardcover (VG-), lacking ffep, 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: Robert Hale 1964
KEYWORDS: John Bishop classical ancient history Rome Roman Empire emperor Nero
Caviar: The Strange History and Uncertain Future of the World's Most Coveted Delicacy
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: Broadway Books 2002
KEYWORDS: Inga Saffron caviar food delicacy history
The Last Days
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: Anthony Blond 1958
KEYWORDS: Anthony Hunter human affairs social history future prophecy prophecies
Torbruk
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: B. T. Batsford 1964
KEYWORDS: Michael Carver 20th century military history Tobruk Second World War 2 WW2 II WWII WW Egypt
Mons: The Retreat to Victory
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: B. T. Batsford 1960
KEYWORDS: John Terraine 20th century First World War 1 WW WW1 WWI I English British military history