Books - "history"
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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
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: Bloomsbury 2022
KEYWORDS: travel history tourism British
The Spirit of the Past: Essays on Christianity in New Zealand History
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: 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
Two Years in the Jungle: The Experiences of a Hunter and Naturalist, in India, Ceylon, the Malay Peninsula and Borneo
2x FOLDING MAPS, octavo, yellow buckram boards, gilt & black lettering with black illus to spine & front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, xxii + 512pp, illus, VG- (moderate to heavy chipping to spine extrems- minor losss, moderate scuffing with loss to board corners, moderate soiling to spine, light to moderate chafing & soiling to boards, heavy tanning to page edges, moderate to heavy cracking to gutters, light creasing & closed tearing to edges of ffep, prev. bookseller's ink stamp to prelims, minor soiling to prelims, pgs 289-320 partially detached)
PUBLISHER: Charles Scribner's Sons 1885
KEYWORDS: travel writing literature William T Hornaday jungle India Ceylon Malay peninsula Borneo history historical
Born of the Desert
Octavo, blue cloth boards, white lettering to spine, frontispiece, 320pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising to extrems, moderate fading/discolouration to spine & board edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. owners' names in ink to front eps, prev. bookseller's ink stamp & ink smudges to ffep, occasional minor cracking to gutters, 2cm closed tear to base of pgs 305-308) in d/w, G+ (price clipped, bottom half of spine missing, moderate tanning & scuffing to spine, moderate general tanning)
PUBLISHER: Collins Clear-Type Press 1945
KEYWORDS: military history Special Air Service SAS regiment Malcolm James
With the 10th Essex in France (Second Edition)
SECOND EDITION, LACKS FEP, octavo, blue buckram boards, black lettering to white title plate on spine, frontispiece, 334pp, illus, VG (light tanning to spine, sm chip to title plate on spine, minor scuffing to spine extrems, minor soiling to boards, moderate tanning & light soiling to page edges, moderate foxing to eps, ffep missing, modern ex-libris plate to front pastedown, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, occasional light foxing throughout)
PUBLISHER: Gay & Hancock 1924
KEYWORDS: military history 10th tenth Essex regiment France British Army armed forces ww1 first 1st world war one i 1 the great war
Poor People Poor Us: Poveri Gen'-Poveri Noi
LACKS D/W, octavo, light brown heavy boards, black lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 277pp, VG (spine sl cocked, light bruising to extrems, light to moderate soiling to spine & boards, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges, light foxing to eps, prev. owner's name in ink to front pastedown, ex-libris plate to ffep, sl foxing to prelims, sm label tipped in to dedication page)
PUBLISHER: Harry H Tombs (Printer) N/D (c.1946)
KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history war stories John E Broad
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War
Super octavo softcover (VG) minor underlining in ink & soiling; 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: Viking / Penguin Random House 2020
KEYWORDS: military war history ww2 2nd second world war two ii 2 Adolf Hitler Josef Stalin biography biographies
Going Public: The Changing Face of New Zealand History
Ex-library, octavo softcover (VG) minor annotation & highlighting; 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: Auckland University Press 2001
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history essays literature prose historiography
Voyages of the Pioneers to New Zealand 1839-85
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: Winter Productions 2015
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history pioneers early settlers 19th nineteenth century maritime voyages
Pacific: An Ocean of Wonders
Oblong quarto 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: David Bateman Ltd. 2019
KEYWORDS: Pacific islands ocean human geography history anthropology
Mauser Military Rifles
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: Osprey Publishing 2023
KEYWORDS: Mauser military rifles arms guns weaponry firearms German history
Men-at-Arms 118: The Jacobite Rebellions 1689-1745
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: Osprey Publishing 2014
KEYWORDS: Osprey men at arms series 118 Jacobite Rebellions military history campaigns Jacobites Stuarts Scotland Highland clans uniforms regalia
Faces in the Firelight: New Zealand Folk Song & Story
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: Steele Roberts Ltd. 2009
KEYWORDS: Phil Garland New Zealand folk music song history criticism
The Killing Fields of Scotland: AD83 to 1746
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: Pen & Sword Military 2013
KEYWORDS: Scottish military history battles scotland warfare